US10785060B2
A communication system that minimizes the transmission of pilot symbols while ensuring real-time channel tracking and symbol detection. The system employs a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmitter-receiver pair where there are many more receive antennas than transmit antennas. Communication occurs over a wide band RF channel via orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) that employs a large number of sub-carriers.
US10785059B2
Techniques are disclosed to reduce latency of processing for access points using a central controller. For example, an example method of wireless communication includes receiving, at an access point, a signal wirelessly. The method further includes filtering the signal using a first passband filter having a first bandwidth to generate a first filtered signal. The method further includes filtering the signal using a second passband filter having a second bandwidth to generate a second filtered signal, wherein the first bandwidth is less than the second bandwidth. The method further includes determining whether the signal includes a packet based on the first filtered signal and generating a control signal indicative of the determination. The method further includes transmitting the control signal and the second filtered signal to a central controller.
US10785052B2
A remote control system detects a directional signal at an alerting sensor package; activates an appliance to accept a control signal in response to the directional signal; accepts the control signal at the appliance from a muscle sensor package; and adjusts operation of the appliance in response to the control signal.
US10785049B2
A common automation system controller configured using a graphical approach for use in a building automation system is provided. There is an increasing demand for flexible and adaptable room or building automation applications with an easy and intuitive way for application configuration. In pre-engineering as well as during installation and commissioning, the application configuration for preloaded or loadable device needs to be easily changeable and can be used for operating and/or monitoring.
US10785045B2
A method includes establishing parameters and objectives for a digital communication session (DCS) regarding a topic, where computing devices are targeted to participate in the DCS. The method further includes determining whether a blockchain exists for the topic and, if so, affiliating the DCS with the blockchain. The method further includes obtaining data pertaining to the DCS from one or more of the computing devices. The method further includes generating a summarization of the DCS based on the data and in accordance with the parameters and objectives. The method further includes sending a request to at least some of the computing devices to validate the summarization. When a desired number of the at least some of the computing devices have validated the summarization, a data block regarding the DCS and the summarization is generated and the blockchain is updated to include the data block.
US10785044B1
Described are systems to manage the rate of energy delivery to computing devices. The computing devices may connect to a shared data and power distribution system. Techniques are described for distributing energy to the computing devices directly or via an energy and data delivery device using limits determined for the computing devices. Once the energy transfer to the computing devices is complete, the limits on the rate of energy delivery may be rescinded.
US10785039B2
This specification describes techniques for performing blockchain consensus. An example method performed by a first node in a blockchain includes: receiving first service data; determining a corresponding handling time of the first service data; storing the first service data including the corresponding handling time at a cache, in which the cache stores multiple pieces of additional service data, and in which each piece of additional service data is associated with a respective handling time; determining whether a consensus needs to be performed on at least two pieces of service data; in response to determining that the consensus needs to be performed, selecting the at least two pieces of service data according to a sequence that is based on handling times associated with the at least two pieces of service data; and performing the consensus on the more than one pieces of service data according to the sequence.
US10785038B2
A method for processing account information in a block chain is provided. A computer device receives identity information and a transfer request, the transfer request requesting to transfer a resource in an account to a target account, the target account being generated by a certificate center. The computer device obtains owner information of the account from the certificate center according to the transfer request. The computer device compares the identity information and the owner information. The computer device transmits an authentication request to the block chain in response to determining that the identity information and the owner information are consistent, the authentication request requesting the block chain to transfer the resource in the account to the target account.
US10785033B2
A method for storing an object on storage nodes includes encrypting an object to be stored with a key. One or more hash values are computed for the object. The encrypted object is stored on the storage nodes. Storage location data is provided for the stored object. A transaction is computed for a blockchain, wherein information is encoded in the transaction, the encoded information representing the storage location data, the computed o hash values and key data. The transaction is stored in the blockchain provided by one or more blockchain nodes hosting the blockchain. A number of confirmations is provided for the transaction. The number of confirmations is compared with a predefined threshold confirmation number, wherein the predefined threshold confirmation number is computed such that with a pregiven certainty the encoded information in the transaction stored in the blockchain cannot be modified.
US10785032B1
The methods and system allow for the generation of a biometric electronic signature token using a subsequent biometric sample after an enrollment of a biometric reference value in a biometric system. The biometric electronic signature token is such that the data would be signed data, cryptographic message type, to package this signature, providing two authentication factors: the possession of the private key associated with the public/private key pair used to sign the signed data and the biometric sample of the user that could be matched against the template. The process allows a signing party to enroll in a biometric service, sign a piece of data or content using a public key, that may be tied to a trusted anchor certificate authority, and submit a biometric sample. Subsequently, the relying party may validate the information on that piece of data or content to confirm the identity of the signing party.
US10785031B2
A method for encrypting data stored in a memory area is proposed, wherein the data are encrypted on the basis of a key identification for the data and on the basis of a one-time key.
US10785013B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described that provide for priority-based carrier selection in a system using multiple component carriers (CCs). A mapping may be provided that maps different applications that may be present at a user equipment (UE) to one or more CCs. Each application may have an associated application priority, and each carrier associated with an application may also have an associated CC priority. A UE may select a subset of CCs for a transmission based on the mapping between an application providing a packet for the transmission and the priority associated with each CC. A UE, when receiving transmissions, may identify one or more applications running at the UE and use the mapping to determine a subset of CCs to monitor for transmissions.
US10785012B2
Techniques for efficient downlink control with a large number of carriers and/or TTIs are described. Techniques for blind decoding reduction may include making the search space and/or aggregation level of candidates for a first PDCCH/E-PDCCH associated with the characteristics of a second received PDCCH/E-PDCCH. Techniques may include embedding DCI for a set of serving cells and/or TTIs in a PDSCH. DCI for a set of serving cells and/or TTIs may be included in single PDCCH/E-PDCCH. To reduce overhead, carrier indicator field interpretation may be associated with the serving cell or TTI from which the PDCCH/E-PDCCH containing the downlink control information is received, or the group of cells or TTIs to which the PDCCH/E-PDCCH containing the downlink control information belongs.
US10785010B2
A wireless communication method is provided. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device, a first coefficient, where the first coefficient belongs to a first coefficient set corresponding to a first transmission time interval TTI, the first coefficient set includes N coefficients, N≥2, and the N coefficients include at least two coefficients used for uplink transmission in the first TTI, or at least two coefficients used for downlink transmission in the first TTI; determining, by the terminal device, a first transport block size TBS based on the first coefficient; and performing, by the terminal device, wireless communication based on the first TBS in the first TTI. Reliability and accuracy of wireless communication can be improved.
US10785003B2
An embodiment method of network node operation includes indicating, by a first network node, to a first UE, a first number of REs in a first set of RBs for a first reference signal, transmitting, by the first network node, to the first UE, the first reference signal in accordance with the first number of REs and a first precoding in a first subframe, receiving, by the first network node, from the first UE, a report indicating a first MCS in accordance with a level of signal and interference measured by the first UE, wherein the measurement is restricted to the first reference signal, and transmitting, by the first network node, a first data with the indicated first MCS and the first precoding in a second subframe, the first data being transmitted on a second number of REs in the first set of RBs in the second subframe.
US10785000B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to a flexible connectivity framework. A first device may send a trigger frame to a second device. The first device may then receive an uplink bandwidth resource request from the second device. The first device may detect a high efficiency-long training field (HE-LTF) in the uplink bandwidth resource request. The first device may send an uplink multiuser trigger frame, and the first device may receive an uplink frame from the second device.
US10784991B2
A transmitter may select a control message format of a set of possible control message formats, each of the possible control message formats corresponding to a different number of information bits. The transmitter may polar encode a payload in the selected control message format to generate and transmit a polar-encoded codeword, the payload having a same number of bits for any of the set of possible control message formats. A receiver may determine the set of possible control message formats for the polar-encoded codeword, and may decode the polar-encoded codeword to identify a candidate control message. The receiver may identify a control message format in the set of possible control message formats for the candidate control message based on multiple hypotheses corresponding to the different number of information bits, and may obtain control information from the candidate control message based on the identified control message format.
US10784983B2
An assembly of a standard RFID/NFC element and a scrambling element for outputting wireless noise in response to a wireless request signal from a terminal, such as NFC, RFID or the like. The scrambling element has a noise generating circuit and an antenna for receiving the request signal and outputting a voltage. The scrambling element further comprises a voltage increasing element receiving the voltage from the antenna and feeding a higher voltage to the circuit to have the circuit start operation faster than the circuit of the standard RFID/NFC element.
US10784981B2
A system for loading a fiber optic transport system includes a wavelength selective switch (WSS) having inputs and an output connected to an optical fiber, wherein the inputs are connected to one or more lines having data-bearing channels thereon; and an amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) generator connected to one of the inputs of the WSS, wherein the WSS is configured to perform a channel addition through substitution of an ASE channel from the ASE generator for a data-bearing channel, and a channel deletion through substitution of a data-bearing channel for an ASE channel from the ASE generator, and wherein, to limit perturbations on the optical fiber due to channel additions and deletions, the WSS is configured to limit a number of channels that are switched at a same time for a set of channel additions or deletions.
US10784978B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and particularly to a method and a device therefor, the method comprising the steps of: monitoring control channel candidates in a common search space and a UE-specific search space on subframe #n so as to receive downlink control information; and transmitting, in subframe #n+k, an uplink signal associated with the downlink control information, wherein the value of k is determined based on the search space in which the downlink control information is detected, and the common and UE-specific search spaces correspond to different values of k.
US10784973B2
Implementations of the disclosure provide for to remotely testing operational components of a mobile device. In one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes providing, by a server processing device, instructions to a mobile device for a user to interact with a component of the mobile device. Data associated with an operation of the component in view of the instructions is received. The received data is compared to a model input characterizing a functional level associated with the operation of the component. Thereupon, it is determined whether there is a depleted operation of the component in view of the comparison.
US10784972B2
A method and apparatus for performing TRP measurements of an antenna system uses a sampling grid that takes into account the spherical geometry and the directivity of the antenna under test, while considering test time. The optimization of the sampling grid balances the trade-off between reducing the number of samples to reduce test time, and ensuring accuracy of the TRP estimates.
US10784960B2
A packaged integrated white light source configured for illumination and communication or sensing comprises one or more laser diode devices. An output facet configured on the laser diode device outputs a laser beam of first electromagnetic radiation with a first peak wavelength. The first wavelength from the laser diode provides at least a first carrier channel for a data or sensing signal.
US10784955B2
An optical device having an amplifier and a controller is described. The amplifier is configured to amplify an optical signal in at least one of the C-Band or the L-Band. The controller includes a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium. The non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable code that when executed by the processor causes the processor to: select a target tilt and gain setting from a plurality of target tilt and gain settings stored in the non-transitory computer readable medium based on the type of fault event message responsive to a fault event message affecting the C-band or the L-Band. The selected and pre-calculated target tilt and gain settings are applied to the amplifier.
US10784953B2
Radio communications systems use 100 to 200 satellites in random low-earth orbits distributed over a predetermined range of north and south latitudes. The satellites themselves create a radio route between ground stations via radio links between multiple satellites by virtue of onboard global navigation satellite system circuitry for determining the location of the satellite and route creation circuitry for calculating in real time the direction from the satellite's location at a particular instant to a destination ground station. Directional antennas in the satellites transmit routing radio signals to enhance the probability of reception by other satellites. One embodiment facilitates the creation of satellite-to-satellite links by assigning each satellite a unique identifier, storing orbital information defining the locations of all of the orbiting satellites in the system at any particular time, and including in the radio signal the unique identifier associated with the transmitting satellite.
US10784951B2
An active repeater device includes a primary sector and one or more secondary sectors, receives a first beam of input RF signals. A first set of analog baseband signals, are generated based on received first beam of input RF signals. The first set of analog baseband signals are converted to a first set of coded data signals and control information is extracted from the first set of coded data signals by decoding only a header portion of the first set of coded data signals without demodulation of data portion of the first set of coded data signals. Based on the extracted control information, the first set of coded data signals are transmitted as beams of output RF signals to remote user equipment. The transmission is independent of demodulation of the data portion within the active repeater device to reduce latency for transmission of the first set of coded data signals.
US10784940B2
A 5G platform-oriented node discovery method and system, and an electronic apparatus are provided. A macro eNB sends a measurement configuration parameter to a user equipment, determines a cooperation set and a main transmission point base on a measurement report, schedules resource in real-time through the cooperation set and the main transmission point; when the user equipment moves, transmits a modified measurement configuration parameter, and determines a new cooperation set and a target transmission point of the new cooperation set base on the measurement report, schedules resources in real-time through the new cooperation set and the target transmission point.
US10784938B2
Disclosed are a data processing method and apparatus. The method includes: a first receiving end determines a range of a data demodulation reference signal (DMRS) ports occupied by one or more second receiving ends by using at least one of the following information: a usage state of a joint encoding table corresponding to a DMRS port group, the number of layers corresponding to a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) of the first receiving end, and the number of codewords corresponding to the PDSCH of the first receiving end; and the first receiving end processes data according to the range of the DMRS ports occupied by one or more second receiving ends.
US10784931B2
Systems, methods, and devices for grouping client devices based on sensor data in an assisted wireless communication system are provided. Sensor data may include device mobility, device type, and device application data usage, among other characteristics. An assisted wireless communication system may include client devices sending data to an access point. The clients may send conventional protocol data over a channel and, concurrently, send sensor data over an alternative channel. In some cases, client devices may exchange their protocol data, modify their own protocol data based on the exchanged data, and send the modified protocol data to the access point. This may allow the clients to adjust their grouping.
US10784927B2
An RFID tag is provided that transmits and receives a communication signal. The RFID tag includes a base material, antenna patterns provided on the base material, an RFIC package that is a feeding circuit connected to the antenna patterns, and an ignition protection member provided on the base material or the antenna patterns. Moreover, the ignition protection member contains moisture, such that ignition and combustion can be prevented even in a situation where the RFID tag is subjected to high-frequency power for heating a food item while attached to the food item or the like.
US10784909B2
A receiver and a program capable of, when they have received a pulse noise together with a reception signal, improving quality of the reception signal are provided. A receiver according to the present disclosure includes a received-signal amplification circuit configured to amplify a monitoring received signal branched from a received signal, a gain control circuit configured to set a gain setting value for an AGC operation in the received-signal amplification circuit, the AGC operation being an operation for making an amplitude of an amplified monitoring received signal fall within a predetermined range, a pulse detection circuit configured to monitor a change in the gain setting value and detect whether or not a pulse noise is contained in the received signal based on whether or not the change in the gain setting value meets a predetermined condition.
US10784905B2
To provide a communication device that can suppress radio wave interference in communication using a plurality of frequency signals in a simply method, a communication device includes a first communication unit that communicates with a first external device by using a first frequency signal, a second communication unit that communicates with a second external device by using a second frequency signal, and a control unit that controls, when one of the first and second communication units transmits data to a corresponding one of the first and second external devices, the other of the first and second communication units not to receive data.
US10784904B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described for transceiver architecture for millimeter wave wireless communications. A device may include two transceiver chip modules configured to communicate in different frequency ranges. The first transceiver chip module may include a baseband sub-module, a first radio frequency front end (RFFE) component and associated antenna array. The second transceiver chip module may include a second RFFE component and associated antenna array. The second transceiver chip module may be separate from the first transceiver chip module. The second transceiver chip module may be electrically coupled to the baseband sub-module of the first transceiver chip module.
US10784903B2
Phase control for carrier aggregation. In some embodiments, a carrier aggregation circuit can include a first filter configured to allow operation in a first frequency band, and a second filter configured to allow operation in a second frequency band. The circuit can further include a first path implemented between the first filter and a common node, with the first path being configured to provide a substantially matched impedance for the first frequency band and a substantially open-circuit impedance for the second frequency band. The circuit can further include a second path implemented between the second filter and the common node, with the second path being configured to provide a substantially matched impedance for the second frequency band and a substantially open-circuit impedance for the first frequency band.
US10784892B1
An apparatus includes a first memory interface circuit and a decompression circuit coupled to the first memory interface circuit. The decompression circuit may be configured to (i) receive a reduced size representation of a coding block of data comprising a first bit map, a second bit map, and zero or more non-zero values from an external memory via the first memory interface circuit, (ii) losslessly restore the coding block of data from the reduced size representation of the coding block using the first bit map, the second bit map, and the zero or more non-zero values, and (iii) transfer the restored coding block of data to a processing circuit.
US10784891B2
Various embodiments relate to delta-sigma loop filters with input feedforward. A delta-sigma loop filter may include a first integrator and a quantizer having an input coupled to an output of the first integrator. The delta-sigma loop filter may further include a first summing node having an output coupled to an input of the first integrator. Further, the delta-sigma loop filter may include a feedforward path from an input of the delta-sigma loop filter to a first input of the first summing node. The delta-sigma loop filter may also include a first feedback path from an output of the quantizer to a second input of the first summing node.
US10784889B2
An electric control device includes a first delta sigma modulator having a clock input connection, a second delta sigma modulator having a clock input connection, and an evaluation unit. The evaluation unit includes a first clock output connection which is connected to the clock input connection of the first delta sigma modulator by a first electrical cable, and a second clock output connection which is connected to the clock input connection of the second delta sigma modulator by a second electrical cable. The evaluation unit is designed to generate a clock signal (CLK1) at the first clock output connection (7) in phase opposition to a clock signal (CLK2) at the second clock output connection (9).
US10784874B1
An all-digital voltage monitor (ADVM) generates a multi-bit output code that changes in proportion to a voltage being monitored, by leveraging the voltage impact on a gate delay. ADVM utilizes a simple delay chain, which receives a clock-cycle-long pulse every clock cycle, such that the monitored supply voltage is sampled for one full cycle every cycle. The outputs of all delay cells of the delay chain collectively represents a current voltage state as a digital thermometer code. In AVDM, a voltage droop event thus results in a decrease in the output code from a nominal value, while an overshoot results in an increase in the output code.
US10784873B1
A circuit includes a bandpass filter and a self-tracking circuit. The bandpass filter has a first input node configured to receive an input square wave signal and an output node configured to provide an output sine wave signal. The bandpass filter includes a first binary-weighted programmable resistor array. The self-tracking circuit includes a second input node coupled to the output node. The self-tracking circuit includes a counter, and the counter includes an output node coupled to the first binary weighted programmable resistor array.
US10784868B1
A combinational logic circuit includes input circuitry to receive a first input signal that transitions between upper and lower voltages of a first voltage domain, and to generate, in response to the transitions of the first input signal, a first localized signal that transitions between upper and lower voltages of a second voltage domain. The combinational logic circuit additionally includes output circuitry to generate a first output signal that transitions between the upper and lower supply voltages of the first voltage domain based at least in part on the transitions of the first localized signal.
US10784863B2
A self-powered wireless switch includes at least one micro generator and a control panel for transmitting wireless control signals. The micro generator includes a magnet assembly and a coil assembly which are arranged to be moved relatively to one another to generate an induced current within the coil assembly; the coil assembly including an iron core and a wire winding around the outside of the iron core to form a magnetic coil; the magnet assembly including a permanent magnet and magnet conductive plates arranged at two sides of the opposite magnetic poles of the permanent magnet. The self-powered wireless switch enables the magnetic assembly and the coil assembly to move relatively to one another and converts the mechanical energy to electricity, thereby achieving self-power generation and providing electricity to the control panel for transmission of the wireless control signals.
US10784856B2
A semiconductor device includes a first drive circuit and a bootstrap control circuit. When a voltage VB is equal to or smaller than a power supply voltage VCC, the boost control circuit turns on a MOSFET by controlling a gate signal input to a gate terminal, and a back gate control circuit makes a voltage applied to a back gate terminal smaller than the voltage VB.
US10784854B1
Disclosed is a power control device suitably applied to the field of driving a microelectronic element like MOSFET. Based on Miller plateau voltage of the microelectronic element such as MOSFET, the power control device can dynamically adjust driving capability and set a driving voltage so as to control and balance turn-on loss and switch loss, and further achieve an optimal average efficiency, particularly, for selecting or replacing the microelectronic element like MOSFET. Also, an electronic system provided with the power control device effectively solves the problem of Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) imposed on peripheral devices.
US10784850B2
A power device includes a first transistor circuit configured to operate in response to a first control signal, a control circuit configured to generate a second control signal in response to the first control signal, and a second transistor circuit configured to operate in response to the second control signal. The second transistor circuit has an active area that is larger than an active area of the first transistor circuit.
US10784848B2
Van der Waals heterojunctions are extended to semiconducting p-type single-walled carbon nanotube (s-SWCNT) and n-type film that can be solution-processed with high spatial uniformity at the wafer scale. The resulting large-area, low-voltage p-n heterojunctions can exhibit anti-ambipolar transfer characteristics with high on/off ratios. The charge transport can be efficiently utilized in analog circuits such as frequency doublers and keying circuits that are widely used, for example, in telecommunication and wireless data transmission technologies.
US10784846B1
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a differential clock duty cycle correction (DCC) circuit, including: a hybrid current injector including current sources for generating a correction current, wherein the correction current is added to a clock signal of a first polarity at a first correction node and subtracted from a clock signal of an opposite polarity at a second correction node, and wherein a plurality of the current sources in the hybrid current injector are controlled by a first portion of a n-bit DAC code to generate the correction current; and a current DAC for receiving a second, different portion of the n-bit DAC code and for outputting a corresponding reference current to the current sources in the hybrid current injector, wherein the current sources generate the correction current in response to the reference current output by the current DAC for the second portion of the n-bit DAC code.
US10784842B2
Various implementations described herein refer to an integrated circuit having a first stage and a second stage. The first stage has first transistors arranged as a diode, a first latch and feedback assist to facilitate shifting an input voltage in a first voltage domain to an output voltage in a second voltage domain. The first stage uses the diode and the first latch to reduce contention between the first latch and input transistors. The diode, the first latch and the feedback assist enable activation of the input transistors with the input voltage. The second stage has second transistors arranged as a second latch followed by output buffers that provide a buffered output voltage as feedback to the feedback assist of the first stage.
US10784840B2
The present invention provides tunable film bulk acoustic resonators (FBARs) with the resonant frequency of the acoustic wave to be excited and to be transmitted tuned by digital to analog converters which convert an input digital signal to an output DC voltage and provide DC bias voltages to the FBARs through integrated thin film biasing resistors. The polarity and the value of the output DC voltage are controlled by the input digital signal to achieve selection and tuning of the resonant frequency of the FBARs. A plurality of the tunable FBARs are connected to form microwave filters with tunable bandpass frequencies and oscillators with selectable resonating frequencies by varying the input digital signals applied to the digital to analog converters.
US10784834B2
A multilayer LC filter array includes an element body of a rectangular parallelepiped shape, a first filter including a first inductor and a first capacitor, a second filter including a second inductor and a second capacitor, a first input terminal electrode and a first output terminal electrode that are connected to the first inductor, a second input terminal electrode and a second output terminal electrode that are connected to the second inductor, and a ground terminal electrode that is connected to the first capacitor and the second capacitor. The element body includes a principal surface. The ground terminal electrode is disposed at a center of the principal surface. The first input terminal electrode, the first output terminal electrode, the second input terminal electrode, and the second output terminal electrode are disposed at respective different corner portions of the element body when viewed from a direction orthogonal to the principal surface.
US10784822B2
The embodiments described herein provide radio frequency (RF) amplifiers, and in some embodiments provide amplifiers that can be used in high power RF applications. Specifically, the amplifiers described herein may be implemented with multiple resonant circuits to provide class F and inverse class F amplifiers and methods of operation. In general, the resonant circuits are implemented inside a device package with a transistor die to provide high efficiency amplification for a variety of applications.
US10784812B2
Distributed energy storage within the distribution network of an electric power network at least partially supplied by time varying and unpredictable generation sources provides smoothing of energy flow within the distribution network. The distributed energy storage may include a plurality of distributed energy storage units operating under the control of a single controller or regional controllers. The distributed energy storage units may operate as groups of units or as separate units.
US10784808B2
In a variable speed generator-motor apparatus, a power converter includes six two-terminal arms each formed by serially connecting k unit converters that can output arbitrary voltage, an AC rotating electric machine includes an armature winding with 60-degree phase zone formed from a double layer coil, the armature winding being divided into first and second pole sides to form double star connection by binding neutral points and to be drawn out as two sets of three-phase terminals; three-phase terminals on the first pole side are connected to first terminals of three arms, and second terminals of the three arms are star-connected to a first terminal of a DC power supply; three-phase terminals on the second pole side are connected to second terminals of remaining three arms, and first terminals of the three arms are star-connected to a second terminal of the DC power supply.
US10784806B2
An electric motor driving apparatus controls driving of an electric motor having two or more phase windings whose ends are open by using first and second inverters. A control unit includes a first inverter control circuit and a second inverter control circuit. The first inverter control circuit generates a first voltage command as an output voltage command to the first inverter based on a torque command. The second inverter control circuit generates a second voltage command as an output voltage command to the second inverter. The control unit determines a composite voltage command based on a first voltage command vector and a second voltage command including a case, in which a pure phase difference between the first voltage command vector on a dq coordinate corresponding to the first voltage command and the second voltage command vector on the dq coordinate corresponding to the second voltage command is other than 180°.
US10784803B2
A position control device includes a subtracter for subtracting a q-axis current detection value iq from a q-axis current command value iq* to output a q-axis current error Δiq, an adder for adding a q-axis current compensation amount iqc* for compensating for response timing of q-axis current to the q-axis current error Δiq, a q-axis current controller for amplifying an output of the adder by I-P control to calculate a q-axis voltage error Δvq and calculating a q-axis voltage command value vq* on the basis of the q-axis voltage error Δvq, and a second adder for adding a q-axis voltage feedforward amount vqf corresponding to a time derivative value s·iq of the q-axis current to the q-axis voltage command value vq* to calculate a final q-axis voltage command value.
US10784802B2
A generator starter of a turbomachine, including an asynchronous electric machine configured so as to operate in motor mode during a starting phase of the turbomachine while being supplied by an electrical source, and so as to operate in generator mode after the starting phase of the turbomachine in order to supply an electrical load. An inverter is arranged between the electrical source and the asynchronous machine with at least two alternating current terminals coupled to the asynchronous machine, and a control unit for the inverter configured to supply the asynchronous machine with a starting current in motor mode and a magnetisation current in generator mode. The asynchronous machine includes at least one first stator winding connected to the alternating current terminals to be supplied with the starting current in motor mode and with the magnetisation current in generator mode, and at least one second stator winding connected to the electrical load in generator mode.
US10784793B2
Provided herein are power converter of a drive unit for an electric vehicle. The power converter includes an inverter having a first transistor, a second transistor, and a capacitor, and a laminated bus-bar having a positive bus-bar segment, a negative bus-bar segment and a phase bus-bar segment. The positive bus-bar segment, the negative bus-bar segment, and the phase bus-bar segment can be disposed about the capacitor to form a lead frame coupled with the capacitor. The lead frame can include a first lead coupled with the first transistor. The first lead can include portions of the positive bus-bar segment and the phase bus-bar segment. The lead frame can include a second lead coupled with the second transistor. The second lead can include portions of the negative bus-bar segment and the phase bus-bar segment.
US10784788B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a small-sized and highly heat-dissipative reactor and a DC-DC converter using the reactor. A reactor according to the present invention includes a plate bus bar, a core, and a heat sink. The core includes a middle leg portion. The heat sink cools the plate bus bar. The plate bus bar is formed such that a winding axis of a winding including the plate bus bar passes through the middle leg portion. A main surface of the plate bus bar is disposed in parallel with a direction of the winding axis and thermally connected to the heat sink via an insulating layer.
US10784784B2
A power supply includes a controller integrated circuit that controls a switching operation of a primary switch based on a feedback voltage indicative of an output voltage of the power supply. The controller integrated circuit starts the switching of the primary switch when the feedback voltage reaches a first threshold voltage and stops the switching of the primary switch when the feedback voltage reaches a second threshold voltage. The controller integrated circuit adjusts the feedback voltage relative to the first threshold voltage to reduce the delay time to start switching the primary switch to increase the output voltage in response to changing load conditions.
US10784779B2
A voltage charge pump circuit with boost capacitor segments and boost delay chain structures are provided. The voltage charge pump circuit comprising a plurality of boost capacitor segments each of which is individually controlled by a respective signal line of a boost delay chain structure.
US10784773B1
A power conversion apparatus and a short circuit protection circuit and method of capacitor thereof are provided. A rectifier circuit rectifies an AC signal into a DC signal. An electrical energy storage circuit is coupled to the rectifier circuit, and the electrical energy storage circuit includes a plurality of capacitors connected in series. A detection circuit is coupled to the electrical energy storage circuit to detect cross voltages of the capacitors. A control circuit is coupled to the rectifier circuit and the detection circuit. When the cross voltage of any of the plurality of capacitors is greater than a preset voltage, the rectifier circuit is disabled by the control circuit.
US10784772B2
A switching power supply that has a reduced conduction loss, when a direct current power supply is connected as an input power supply, by changing a part of a circuit for alternating current-to-direct current conversion, is provided. The switching power supply includes power input terminals to which the direct current power supply or an alternating current power supply is connected; power output terminals configured to output electric power; a smoothing capacitor connected between the power output terminals; a first non-insulated chopper circuit connected between the power output terminals; a second non-insulated chopper circuit connected between the power output terminals; and a switching circuit configured to switch a connection circuit provided between the first non-insulated chopper circuit and the second non-insulated chopper circuit, and the power input terminals.
US10784762B1
An example apparatus includes a first disk that is rotatable and has a plurality of electro-permanent magnets disposed in a radial array on a surface of the first disk; and a second disk rotatably mounted adjacent to the first disk such that a gap separates the second disk from the first disk, where the second disk has a plurality of ferromagnetic elements disposed in respective radial array on a respective surface of the second disk. Applying an electric pulse to at least one electro-permanent magnet of the plurality of electro-permanent magnets changes a magnetic state of the electro-permanent magnet, thereby (i) generating an external magnetic field that traverses the gap between the first disk and the second disk and interacts with a corresponding ferromagnetic element of the plurality of ferromagnetic elements, and (ii) causing the second disk to rotate as the first disk rotates.
US10784749B2
A cooling structure of a rotary electric machine for power generation which includes a rotor and a stator includes a stator core which is formed in an annular shape to surround the rotor and has a plurality of slots arranged in a circumferential direction and extending from one end to another end in a center axis direction, a conductor disposed in the slots, and a cooling unit which cools the conductor. Opening portions of the slots are formed in an inner peripheral surface of the stator core, the opening portions extend toward a downstream side in a rotation direction of the rotor at a time of regeneration from at least one end portions to intermediate portions in the center axis direction, and the cooling unit cools portions of the conductor which are located at the same positions as the intermediate portions of the opening portions in the center axis direction.
US10784744B2
A power generation system for the production of electric power or the accomplishment of other work objectives utilizes kinetic energy derived from the action of the force of gravity on a vehicle that is allowed to move along a power generation path having a downward grade. A tether cable connects the vehicle to a tether member that moves along a downhill line in response to the movement of the vehicle along the path, and the movement of the tether member operates a gearing mechanism that operates a machine to accomplish the work objective.
US10784740B2
A drive including a commutator motor having a motor housing, an end shield secured to the housing, feedthroughs defined in the end shield, brushes mounted in the feedthroughs; and at least one stranded conductor forming a direct electrical and mechanical connection between a brush and the terminal contact arranged outside the motor housing.
US10784731B2
A rotor structure includes a rotor core and magnetic steel sheets. A shaft hole fixedly connected to a rotary shaft and an even number of magnetic steel grooves are formed on the rotor core along a rotation axis thereof. The magnetic steel grooves are symmetrically distributed around a periphery of the shaft hole in the rotor core, and the magnetic steel sheets are correspondingly installed in the magnetic steel grooves on a one-to-one basis. First through grooves extending axially and depressed radially are symmetrically distributed and formed around an inner surface of the shaft hole of the rotor core. First circulation holes are enclosed between the first through grooves and an outer surface of the rotary shaft. A motor includes a stator and the rotor structure arranged in an inner hole of the stator. A compressor includes the motor.
US10784727B2
A rotor for a salient pole, wound field, synchronous machine includes a rotor core, a plurality of pole bodies, and a field winding. Each pole body of the plurality of pole bodies includes a pole core, a pole shoe, and a single flux barrier. The single flux barrier forms an enclosed space filled with a material having a magnetic permeability between zero and 1000 relative to a magnetic permeability of a vacuum. The single flux barrier includes a top wall, a shaft mounting wall configured to mount adjacent a shaft when the rotor is mounted to the shaft, and a plurality of interior walls connected between the top wall and the shaft mounting wall. The plurality of interior walls extend parallel to and centered between a first pole core face and a second pole core face of the pole core that extend from the rotor core.
US10784721B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, regulating an alternating magnetic flux in a magnetic core having a first portion separable from a second portion of the magnetic core. The regulation of the alternating magnetic flux causes a coupling force between the first portion of the magnetic core and the second portion of the magnetic core. Responsive to detecting a signal, modifying the regulation of the alternating magnetic flux to reduce the coupling force between the first portion of the magnetic core and the second portion of the magnetic core. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10784717B2
A method for controlling a power supply includes: acquiring working state information of the power supply in a current operation; determining whether a state value of the power supply in the current operation satisfies a preset condition according to the working state information; setting a first control strategy for controlling the current operation of the power supply as a second control strategy when the preset condition is satisfied; storing the state value in the current operation and the first control strategy of the power supply in the current operation when the preset condition is not satisfied, and modifying the first control strategy to obtain the second control strategy according to an adjustment strategy; and loading the second control strategy from the machine-learning control circuitry in next operation, and controlling the next operation of the power supply according to the second control strategy.
US10784714B2
According to one aspect, embodiments of the invention provide a UPS comprising a plurality of inputs, a PFC converter configured to convert 3-phase input power into DC power, an inverter coupled to a positive DC bus and a negative DC bus and configured to convert the DC power received from the positive DC bus and the negative DC bus into output AC power, a first output configured to provide a first portion of the output AC power from the inverter to a load, a second output configured to provide a second portion of the output AC power from the inverter to the load, a third output configured to be selectively coupled to a neutral line via the inverter, and a controller configured to operate the inverter to generate current between the load and the neutral line via the third output and the inverter.
US10784712B2
A power supply unit (PSU) dynamically limits total recovery current. The PSU includes at least a power input, a power output, a historic maximum power draw memory, an update logic, and a recovery current limiting logic. Some implementations include a latest power measurement register, an hourly max power register, and a rolling max register, and controlling firmware. The update logic monitors a power level. The update logic updates the historic maximum power draw memory to match the monitored level. After a power interruption, the recovery current permitted to flow into the PSU is limited based on the historic usage. The recovery current may be limited in a constant, stepped, or ramped manner. The PSU may also provide power distribution. Multiple PSUs may be treated as a group, allowing an individual PSU to exceed its historic usage while the group's recovery currents are limited to the sum of historic usage levels.
US10784704B2
Disclosed is an on-board charging system in which, when a plurality of charging circuits is connected in parallel between input and output terminals, operation timings of switching circuits in the respective charging circuits are interlocked to minimize ripples of an input alternating current. The on-board charging system includes: a plurality of charging circuits configured to each have a power factor correction circuit portion for correcting a power factor of alternating current input power by pulse width modulation control of a switching element and to be connected in parallel with each other between an input terminal of the AC input power and an output terminal connected to an object to be charged; and a controller configured to interlock the switching elements to generate a PWM control signal for performing PWM control.
US10784701B2
An electrical power system for regenerative loads may include a DC bus and an electrical actuator load, where back-driving the electrical actuator load generates regenerative electrical energy, and where the electrical actuator load is configured to transmit the regenerative electrical energy to the DC bus. The system may also include at least one additional load, where at least a portion of the regenerative electrical energy is transmitted to the at least one additional load.
US10784699B2
The present application discloses systems and methods of powering a solenoid circuit and other circuits with batteries that are at (or near) the end of their functional life.
US10784698B2
A method for improving the modulation index using an intelligent battery pack, in which method a battery pack includes a plurality of freely interconnectable energy modules. An energy module has at least one energy cell and at least two switches, and in which method series or parallel interconnection of a respective energy module with at least one adjacent energy module of the battery pack is implemented by a controller. A terminal voltage of the battery pack, which terminal voltage results from the respective interconnection, is adjusted in accordance with a respectively prespecified load demand on at least one N-phase electrical machine. The terminal voltage is connected as an input voltage to at least one multi-stage inverter, and an N-phase alternating current for supplying a respective N-phase electrical machine is formed by the at least one multi-stage inverter on the basis of a level of the input voltage.
US10784685B2
An electrical power subsystem includes a generator comprising a generator stator and a generator rotor, and a power converter electrically coupled to the generator. The power converter includes a plurality of rotor-side converters electrically coupled in parallel, a line-side converter, and a regulated DC link electrically coupling the plurality of rotor-side converters and the line-side converter. The electrical power subsystem further includes a stator power path for providing power from the generator stator to the power grid, and a converter power path for providing power from the generator rotor through the power converter to the power grid.
US10784680B2
The present invention includes self-contained, rechargeable power systems for areas having unreliable electrical grids or no electrical grid at all, and methods related thereto. The system may include one or more solar panels of various sizes to provide an off-grid power generation source, battery receivers for receiving batteries of various chemistries, and a control circuitry that is operable to detect the voltage and/or current output of the batteries that are installed in the system to determine their specific battery chemistry and then adjust the charge algorithm of the batteries to optimize both the charge capacity and the cycle life of the batteries. The control circuitry may also be operable to switch configurations of the solar panels and/or the batteries to optimize performance of the system. The system may be operable to power one or more light emitters and/or external electronic devices connected through the system by a charge port.
US10784663B2
An apparatus for removing an inner sheathing of electrical conductors of a preferably multi-core cable comprises at least one holding arrangement/clamping device for axial and rotational clamping of the cable and a cutter assembly (1, 21) that can be rotated about the cable longitudinal axis, to the cutters of which a force can be applied in the direction of the cable axis. The at least one cutter (24, 26) comprises a contact surface (26) provided for placing on the surface of the inner sheathing and directly adjacent thereto a cutting edge (24), which protrudes beyond this contact surface (26).
US10784657B2
A safety device is configured to be attached to components in an electrical substation to provide a physical and visual barrier between de-energized components and energized components in the electrical substation. The safety may include a safety barrier board formed from an electrically insulating material and configured to be attached to fastening devices that attach the safety barrier board to components in the substation. Each fastening device may be an inverted-J-hook configured to be attached to a surface of the safety barrier board or a coupling link attached to a variable length fastening component and an attachment hook.
US10784655B2
A corona igniter including a hermetic combustion seal between an insulator and center electrode is provided. The combustion seal includes a metallic coating, such as a nickel-based layer applied to a layer of molybdenum-manganese, and the metallic coating is disposed on the insulator inner surface. Optionally, a shot of copper-based powder can be disposed on a head of the center electrode. The center electrode and/or the copper-based powder is then brazed to the metallic coating on the inner surface of the insulator. The process can include applying the metallic coating to the inner surface while applying a metal coating to an outer surface of the insulator. The method further includes brazing the center electrode and/or the copper-based powder to the metallic coating on the inner surface while brazing the metal coating on the outer surface to a metal shell.
US10784646B2
A laser system having a multi-pass amplifier system which includes at least one seed source configured to output at least one seed signal having a seed signal wavelength, at least one pump source configured to output at least one pump signal, at least one multi-pass amplifier system in communication with the seed source and having at least one gain media, a first mirror, and at least a second mirror therein, the gain media device positioned between the first mirror and second mirror and configured to output at least one amplifier output signal having an output wavelength range, the first mirror and second mirror may be configured to reflect the amplifier output signal within the output wavelength range, and at least one optical system may be in communication with the amplifier system and configured to receive the amplifier output signal and output an output signal within the output wavelength range.
US10784645B2
Some embodiments may include a fiber laser, comprising: a variably wound optical fiber, wherein the variably wound optical fiber includes: a first length arranged in a plurality of first loops with a first separation distance between successive ones of the first loops; and a second length arranged in a plurality of second loops with a second separation distance between successive ones of the second loops; wherein the first separation distance between successive ones of the first loops is greater than the second separation distance between successive ones of the second loops; and packaging to remove heat generated by the optical fiber of the fiber laser during operation of the fiber laser, wherein the variably wound optical fiber is fixably mounted to a surface of a heat conductor of the packaging.
US10784638B2
An adaptor plug assembly includes an adaptor plug and a mobile device which has a receiving unit. The adaptor plug includes a housing having a first connection end from which two terminals extends, and a second connection end in which three receptacle holes are defined. The two terminals are connected to the second connection end. A coil is mounted to one of the two terminals and electrically connected to a micro controller which includes a calculating unit, a transforming unit and a wire-less transmitting unit. The transforming unit receives current inducted by the coil and transforms the current into a first signal which is sent to and calculated by the calculating unit to be a second signal which is transmitted by the wire-less transmitting unit to the receiving unit of the mobile device. A power unit is installed in the housing provides power to the micro controller.
US10784637B2
The present invention relates to a travel plug adapter, which will also be referred to herein as a travel adapter, for short. Using such an adapter it is possible to insert power plugs of a certain (domestic) standard into the outlets present at the travel destination. The present invention relates in particular to a travel plug adapter (10), which has a housing, a plug receptacle (16), and at least a first plug (38, 84) of a first standard and a second plug (28, 86) of a second standard, wherein each plug is assigned an actuation slider (22, 24), which is guided outwardly through a slide slot (42) of the housing and is designed to displace the plug between a standby position, in which the plug is disposed substantially inside the housing, and a usage position, in which the plug is usably disposed outside the housing, and wherein the first plug (38, 84) is assigned a first blocking element (106A), such that displacement of the first plug (38, 84) between the standby position and the usage position is blocked when the movement of the first blocking element (106A) is blocked, and wherein the second plug (28, 86) is assigned a second blocking element (106B), such that the displacement of the second plug (28, 86) between the standby position and the usage position is blocked when the movement of the second blocking element (106B) is blocked, characterised in that at least one blocking slide (100A) is also provided, which in a first position releases the path of the first blocking element (106A) and in a second position blocks the path of the first blocking element (106A), wherein the second blocking element (106B) acts on the position of the blocking slide (100A).
US10784633B2
An RF signal processing system including multiple drop-in modular circuit blocks is disclosed. The drop-in modular circuit blocks include input and output launches exhibiting the same launch geometry. The RF system may include a conductive plate with a grid of holes disposed on the conductive plate. Multiple modular blocks may be installed on the conductive plate to form a cascade of modular blocks that exhibit common launch geometries. The cascade may include an RF probe with a projection and conductive pin that overhang a portion of a launch of a modular block at an end of the cascade. Flex connects may be disposed on, and held in position by, anchors to connect adjacent modular blocks together in a prototype system. A production RF system may exhibit the same overall geometry as a prototype RF system to speed up the transition from prototype design to production design.
US10784632B2
An exemplary method of verifying that a service disconnect is seated includes indicating that the service disconnect is seated using a position indicator that selectively engages a handle of the service disconnect. The position indicator is separate and distinct from all portions of the service disconnect.
US10784624B2
Disclosed is a protective separator for a rectangle plug connection, which is appropriate for cost-effective and uncomplex retrofitting to existing rectangle plug connections, and permits the deliberate and reversible separation of the plug connection in response to increased mechanical loading, in order to prevent mechanical damage and, optionally, to permit the most rapid resumption of operation possible. This disclosure includes a protective separator for a rectangle plug connection, having a bulkhead mounted housing having a first region and a second region, wherein the first region is directly attachable to a surface and/or to a surface mounted housing, and wherein the second region can be locked onto a mating plug housing, wherein the first region and the second region can be mutually separated in a reversible manner by the action of a predefined tensile force.
US10784623B2
A connector for connecting together rigid structures. The connector includes a stack of coupling contacts pivotably disposed within a housing. Each coupling contact is generally H-shaped and defines opposing first and second spaces. The first and second spaces are aligned to form first and second receiving grooves in the stack, respectively. The connector may also include one or more mounting contacts partially disposed within the housing. Each mounting contact has one or more fastening structures joined to a bar section. The fastening structures are adapted for securement to the substrate and the bar section is disposed in the second receiving groove of the stack of coupling contacts.
US10784621B1
An electrical connector includes a connector housing having a first end and an opposed second end, a pair of release stops extending generally radially outward and adjacent to the first end, and a pair of deflection buttons extending longitudinally cantilevered from a pivot base having a lateral axis and having free ends extending toward the first end and located adjacent to and radially outward from respective ones of the release stops when in an unflexed state. The electrical connector also includes a latch arm extending longitudinally cantilevered from the pivot base toward the second end, with a free end of the latch arm including a latch lock configured to selectively engage a barb on a mating connector.
US10784611B2
An electrical connector assembly includes a plug, having a body and multiple pins positioned on the body, and a socket connector including an insulating body. Each pin has an insertion portion extending downward out of the body. The insertion portion has a guide surface, and two contact regions located above the guide surface. The guide surface passes through a vertical center line of the insertion portion. Multiple accommodating holes run through the insulating body vertically. Multiple terminals are respectively accommodated in the accommodating holes. Each terminal is provided with two clamping portions. The guide surfaces guide the pins to be inserted downward into the accommodating holes. When each pin is inserted downward to a final position, the insertion portion is located between the two clamping portions, the two clamping portions are correspondingly in contact with the two contact regions, and the guide surface is located below the two clamping portions.
US10784607B2
A connector assembly is disclosed to reduce discontinuity impedance between golden finger connectors and components on a circuit board. The assembly includes a circuit board including a connector edge. A plurality of connectors is formed on the connector edge on a first surface of the circuit board. A ground plane is formed on part of the circuit board on a second opposite surface of the first surface. The ground plane leaves the second opposite surface under the connector edge exposed. A ground loop is formed on the second opposite surface under at least two of the plurality of connectors.
US10784606B2
An electrical connector is mounted downward on a circuit board to mate with a mating member. The electrical connector includes an insulating body having a front end surface, where the front end surface is backward concavely provided with a mating slot for the mating member to be inserted therein, and at least one ground terminal. Each ground terminal has a main body provided on the insulating body. A first elastic arm and a second elastic arm extend forward from the main body. The first elastic arm has a first contact portion in downward contact with an upper shielding member. The second elastic arm has a second contact portion in downward contact with the mating member. The first contact portion is located in front of the second contact portion. An acting force by the first elastic arm counteracts a supporting force by the circuit board, preventing the insulating body from deformation.
US10784602B2
A module mount interposer may include one or more fastener receivers configured to mechanically couple with one or more fasteners so as to mechanically and electrically couple a module to the interposer. The module mount interposer may also include a core configured to electrically couple with the module, wherein each of the fastener receivers are mechanically coupled to the core. The module mount interposer may additionally include a solder layer electrically coupled to the core and configured to electrically couple with a printed circuit board (PCB) so as to provide an electrical signal from the module to the PCB and to provide an electrical signal from the PCB to the module.
US10784597B2
A multi-tap device for a cable television (CATV) system includes a tap housing and a first circuit board positioned within and removably connected to the tap housing. A directional coupler is connected to the first circuit board. A faceplate is integral with the tap housing. One or more subscriber tap ports are connected to the faceplate. An access cover is connected to the tap housing. The access cover is configured to be opened to provide access to an interior of the tap housing for a user to disconnect the first circuit board from the tap housing.
US10784595B2
A power terminal includes a terminal body having a mating portion including plates with a mating space therebetween. A spring clip is coupled to the mating portion and includes inner spring plates extending along the plates in the mating space with a slot therebetween. The inner spring plates directly engage and electrically connect to the terminal body and to a tab terminal received in the slot. The spring clip includes at least one cantilevered contact spring configured to be spring biased against and electrically connected to the tab terminal. The spring clip includes at least one stabilization contact spring spring biased against and electrically connected to the corresponding plate and configured to be spring biased against and electrically connected to the tab terminal. The stabilization contact spring provides a greater contact normal force against the tab terminal than the cantilevered contact spring.
US10784592B2
A wireless device including multiple counterpoises or ground planes is provided. The wireless device may provide improved multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication capability through the use of the multiple counterpoises. Multiple counterpoises of the wireless device may be galvanically isolated from one another. Multiple counterpoises may each be coupled to separate antenna elements.
US10784584B1
A coaxial cable may include a center conductor having a first resistance, and dielectric material may be formed around the center conductor. An outer conductor may be coaxially formed around the center conductor and the dielectric material. The outer conductor may have a second resistance substantially equal to the first resistance, and at least one slot may be formed through the outer conductor. A jacket may be formed around the outer conductor.
US10784575B2
A method of thinning a phased antenna array including defining a performance characteristic for the phased antenna array, partitioning the phased antenna array to define a plurality of sectors that each include an equal number of radiating element locations, wherein each radiating element location is either an active radiating element location or an inactive radiating element location. The method also includes determining a number of active radiating element locations to be included in a first sector of the plurality of sectors, and determining, based on the number of active radiating element locations, at least one arrangement of active and inactive radiating element locations in the first sector configured to achieve the performance characteristic. The method further includes applying the at least one arrangement to each remaining sector of the plurality of sectors such that the phased antenna array has rotational symmetry.
US10784565B2
A mobile device includes a host upper cover, a host lower cover, a metal cavity structure, a protruding radiation element, a nonconductive connection element, and a feeding element. The metal cavity structure is coupled between the host upper cover and the host lower cover. The metal cavity structure includes a first metal partition and a second metal partition. The first metal partition has an opening. The nonconductive connection element is connected to the edge of the opening of the first metal partition. The nonconductive connection element is configured to support and surround the protruding radiation element. The feeding element is coupled to a signal source and is disposed adjacent to the protruding radiation element. An antenna structure is formed by the feeding element and the protruding radiation element.
US10784560B1
An after-market antenna for a vehicle includes an elongated body having a top end, a bottom end, and at least one peripheral side. The bottom end terminates with an axial bore extending partially through the body and adapted to receive an antenna wire within. The axial bore includes threads at the bottom end of the body that extend upward at least partially through the axial bore for receiving a conductive threaded shaft that projects out of the axial bore and that is adapted for screwing into a threaded antenna aperture of the vehicle. A first groove is formed around the body and has a back wall that is substantially circular in cross-section except for two opposing parallel sides adapted for contacting two opposing sides of a wrench that has a thickness that is smaller than a width of the first groove.
US10784559B2
Provided is a rail-type portable satellite communication antenna including an antenna communication module, a supporting module, a rail base and a driving module for driving the supporting module to rotate horizontally and to regulate its pitch angle; the rail base, the supporting module and driving module are located at bottom of the antenna communication module, the driving modules are located at each corner of the supporting module, the supporting module is connected slidably to the rail base. The rail-type portable satellite communication antenna features light weight, compact size, easy to carry and manufacture.
US10784558B2
An indoor Yagi antenna includes an antenna body, a PCB substrate and an antenna bracket. The antenna body includes an upper shell and a lower shell which form an inner cavity containing the PCB substrate including an end connected to a signal director, an end connected to a signal reflector, a middle section connected to a main antenna oscillator, the portions of the three which are electrically contacted with the PCB substrate respectively, are wrapped by the upper shell and the lower shell, the bottom surface of the lower shell is provided with a feed line terminal block connected to the PCB substrate; the antenna bracket includes a bracket rod that can be flexibly bent, the top end of the bracket rod is provided with a universal adjusting mechanism connected to the lower shell, and the bottom end of the bracket rod is provided with a bracket base.
US10784557B2
In one example, a signal processing circuit including a directional coupler and a termination part is disclosed. The directional coupler includes a main line as a transmission path of an RF signal and a sub-line constituting a coupled line together with the main line. The termination part includes devices connectable between ground and a first port at an end of the sub-line. The signal processing circuit switches, depending on a frequency of the RF signal, the devices of the termination part to be connected to the first port. The phase of a return signal of a signal input as a coupling signal to the termination part via the first port is opposite to the phase of an isolation signal supplied to a second port at the other end of the sub-line and connected to an output port of the coupling signal.
US10784542B2
A processor-implemented battery management method includes iteratively determining fractions of components in an electrode of a battery; calculating a composite state of charge (SoC) of the battery by applying the iteratively determined fractions of the components to a composite cathode model used to predict a state of the battery; and predicting the state of the battery based on the calculated composite SoC.
US10784535B2
Provided are a slurry for a solid electrolyte, which can reduce the usage of a polymer binder, a method for producing a solid electrolyte layer, and a method for producing an all-solid-state battery. Disclosed is a slurry for a solid electrolyte, the slurry comprising a solvent, a lithium compound, and crystal particles of a garnet-type ion-conducting oxide represented by a general formula (Lix−3y−z,Ey,Hz)LαMβOγ (where E is at least one kind of element selected from the group consisting of Al, Ga, Fe and Si; L is at least one kind of element selected from an alkaline-earth metal and a lanthanoid element; M is at least one kind of element selected from a transition element that can be six-coordinated with oxygen and typical elements in groups 12 to 15 of the periodic table; 3≤x−3y−z≤7; 0≤y≤0.25; 0
US10784532B2
Chemical additives are disclosed to increase solubility of salts in liquefied gas electrolytes.
US10784531B2
A composite body includes a positive electrode active material composed of a lithium composite metal oxide containing Li and at least one type of transition metal, and an electrolyte, wherein the positive electrode active material is present on one surface of the composite body, the one type of transition metal is Co, and the molar ratio of Co (cobalt) in the positive electrode active material (lithium cobalt oxide) present on the one surface is equal to or more than the molar ratio of O (oxygen).
US10784527B2
A controller-executed method for conditioning a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) in a fuel cell for use in a fuel cell stack includes humidifying a fuel inlet to the stack to a threshold relative humidity level, and maintaining a current density and cell voltage of the fuel cell at a calibrated current density level and hold voltage level, respectively, via the controller in at least one voltage recovery stage. The recovery stage has a predetermined voltage recovery duration. The method includes measuring the cell voltage after completing the predetermined voltage recovery duration, and executing a control action with respect to the fuel cell or fuel cell stack responsive to the measured cell voltage exceeding a target voltage, including recording a diagnostic code via the controller indicative of successful conditioning of the MEA. A fuel cell system includes the fuel cell stack and controller.
US10784526B2
A fuel cell vehicle is configured such that at least a part of an underfloor of a vehicle body is formed to have a shape causing a downforce to the vehicle body by wind passing below the underfloor, and an exhaust port via which exhaust gas from a cathode-side passage of a fuel cell is discharged is disposed in a negative pressure region where a negative pressure is caused by the shape causing the downforce. A magnitude of the negative pressure to be caused by the shape is detected or estimated, so that a driving amount of an air supply configured to supply air to the fuel cell is controlled according to the magnitude of the negative pressure thus detected or estimated.
US10784520B2
A battery cell housing and control system enables the use of liquid battery power systems in various applications, including downhole environments. The cell housing includes a plurality of conductive terminals spaced there-around to provide conductivity between the electrochemical solution and the load. Sensors provide orientation data to the control system to thereby determine which terminals should be activated to provide power to a load.
US10784518B2
The invention provides a nitrogen-functionalized platinum-transition metal catalyst having the formula Pt-M-NX/C (where M is a transition element such as Fe, Co, Ni, Nb, Ta, Ir, Rh, or Ru) for use at the hydrogen electrode of a hydrogen/bromine redox flow battery. The new catalyst possesses excellent activity and durability in the HBr/Br2 environment, showing superior resistance to halide poisoning than conventional Pt/C or Pt-M/C catalysts.
US10784511B1
Nanoporous carbon provides a binderless, three-dimensional form of graphene as an anode material for lithium-ion batteries.
US10784510B2
The present invention relates to an active material for a lithium secondary battery, which includes a secondary particle formed by agglomeration of primary particles which include a lithium titanium composite oxide represented by Formula 1 or Formula 2, wherein a pore volume is in a range of 0.001 cm3/g to 0.05 cm3/g, and a method of preparing the same, wherein the active material for a lithium secondary battery according to the present invention may maintain an adequate pore volume even during rolling, because strength of the secondary particle is improved by controlling a particle diameter of the primary particle by introducing a metallic element.
US10784503B2
A protected lithium electrode structure for a lithium-air battery includes a negative electrode current collector, a negative electrode active material layer, which is made of a lithium metal, an alloy or a compound mainly containing lithium, which is stacked on the negative electrode current collector, and a separator stacked on the negative electrode active material layer. The negative electrode active material layer is sealed by the separator and the negative electrode current collector. A fine powder capturing layer for fine powder lithium metal produced during charging and discharging is provided between the negative electrode active material layer and the separator.
US10784499B2
A positive active material for a rechargeable lithium battery includes a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1, LiaNixCoyMezM1kM2pO2 wherein, 0.9≤a≤1.1, 0.7≤x≤0.93, 0
US10784496B2
An electrical bypass device has two electrical conductors electrically insulated from one another and arranged such that two surface regions of the conductors are spaced apart from one another by a gap. Above the surface regions is a bypass element having at least one electrically conductive layer in the form of or connected to a mechanical energy store. The mechanical energy store is transferable by thermal triggering from a first mechanical state to a stable second mechanical state in which the electrically conductive layer of the bypass element makes electrical contact with the surface regions and shorts the two electrical conductors. Above the surface regions is a reactive element where an exothermic reaction can be triggered, resulting in the mechanical energy store transferring to the stable second mechanical state.
US10784494B2
Disclosed is a secondary battery including a current blocking device. According to the present invention, the secondary battery in which when the secondary battery increases in volume due to overcharging, current flowing to the secondary battery is interrupted by using expansion force due to the increase in volume to improve safety and reliability may be manufactured.
US10784493B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field for charging an electrical appliance and provides a charger. The charger includes a base plate; and a first charge terminal and a control circuit disposed on the base plate. When the first charge terminal is connected with a charge plug, the first charge terminal switches from an extension position to a retraction position. The control circuit is configured to control the first charge terminal to be on-state when the first charge terminal is in the retraction position.
US10784489B2
Provided is an electrode assembly. According to the present invention, a separator or an electrode may be prevented from being damaged by an electrode tab when an external impact is applied to a secondary battery or the electrode assembly to prevent short circuit from occurring in the secondary battery. To achieve the above object, the electrode assembly according to the present invention may include at least one electrode tab, and the electrode tab may include a conductive part and a non-conductive part (or a ductile part).
US10784488B2
A battery assembly for a vehicle or other equipment including at least one battery module having a pair of battery terminals with a distance therebetween, and a housing assembly including a receiver defining a receptacle for receiving the battery module and a pair of battery terminals. The distance between the battery terminals of the housing assembly is greater than the distance between the battery terminals of the battery module. The distance between the battery terminals of the housing assembly may be the same as the distance between the battery terminals of a standard battery. The exterior dimensions of the housing assembly may be the same as the exterior dimensions of a standard battery. The said at least one battery module may be multiple battery modules where they may be connected to each other in parallel or in series or, a combination of both.
US10784472B2
An ink printing process employs per-nozzle droplet volume measurement and processing software that plans droplet combinations to reach specific aggregate ink fills per target region, guaranteeing compliance with minimum and maximum ink fills set by specification. In various embodiments, different droplet combinations are produced through different print head/substrate scan offsets, offsets between print heads, the use of different nozzle drive waveforms, and/or other techniques. Optionally, patterns of fill variation can be introduced so as to mitigate observable line effects in a finished display device. The disclosed techniques have many other possible applications.
US10784467B2
The present disclosure relates to a thin film packaging structure, which includes at least one first composite film layer. The first composite film layer includes at least one first organic film layer and at least one mesh cushioning layer. A surface of at least part of the first organic film layers is provided with the mesh cushioning layer, and/or at least part of the first organic film layers is embedded with the mesh cushioning layer. According to applying the thin film packaging structure of the present disclosure, the mesh cushioning layer has better flexibility. During cutting process or under the influence of external forces, the mesh cushioning layer can effectively cushion stress acting on a display screen, and reduce stress propagation along a direction perpendicular to a thickness direction of the display screen, thereby avoiding cracking of the display screen effectively. The present disclosure further relates to a display device.
US10784452B2
The present disclosure provides a flexible substrate, a method for manufacturing the same, a method for manufacturing a display panel and a display device. The flexible substrate has sub-pixel regions and an inter-subpixel region between adjacent sub-pixel regions. The flexible substrate includes a support layer including a plurality of micro-grooves, and the plurality of micro-grooves are on one side of the support layer and in the inter-subpixel region.
US10784451B2
A flexible laminate, in which it is possible to achieve both flexibility and durability, is disclosed. A flexible display using the flexible laminate is also disclosed. The flexible laminate includes one or more units of a laminate structure in which two hard layers interposing one or more intermediate layers therebetween are bonded together as one unit. The intermediate layer has viscoelasticity. When the flexible laminate is bent, a neutral plane is formed in each inner portion of the hard layers that are bonded together to interpose the intermediate layer therebetween.
US10784447B2
The present invention relates to: an organic compound represented by Chemical Formula 1; a composition for an organic optoelectronic diode containing the organic compound; and an organic optoelectronic diode to which the organic compound or the composition is applied. In Chemical Formula 1, Z, R1 to R11, and n1 to n4 are the same as those defined in the specification.
US10784443B2
A metal mask plate and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. A metal mask plate for evaporation comprises: a frame including a first side bar and a second side bar which are opposite and parallel to each other, and a support for supporting the first side bar and the second side bar; and a plurality of metal masks disposed on a first side of the frame, each of the metal masks extending in a direction which is perpendicular to a direction in which the first side bar extends, and both ends of each of the metal masks being fixed to the first side bar and the second side bar respectively, so that the support is deformed by a surface tension of the plurality of metal masks to form a planar structure.
US10784438B2
A magnetoresistive effect element according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer, and a spacer layer. The spacer layer is provided between the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer. The spacer layer includes an Mn alloy represented by General Formula (1). MnγX1-γ (1) (in the Formula, X is at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Al, V, Cr, Cu, Zn, Ag, Au, an NiAl alloy, an AgMg alloy, and an AgZn alloy, and γ is 0<γ<0.5.)
US10784423B2
A light emitting device including a first light emitting unit, a second light emitting unit, a heat dissipation substrate, a plurality of first bumps and a plurality of second bumps is provided. The heat dissipation substrate is disposed between the first light emitting unit and the second light emitting unit. The first bumps are connected between the first light emitting unit and the heat dissipation substrate. The second bumps are connected between the second light emitting unit and the heat dissipation substrate.
US10784416B2
Provided is a light source device including: at least one light emitting element of at least one type; at least one far-red phosphor that, when excited by output light from the light emitting element, emits light having a peak in a wavelength range of 680 nm or more to less than 780 nm; and at least one phosphor that, when excited by the output light from the light emitting element, emits light having a peak in a wavelength range different from the wavelength range of the light emitted from the far-red phosphor. The spectrum of light emitted from the light source device has characteristic A below. This light source device has sufficient emission intensity over the entire visible range, i.e., over a wavelength range of from 400 nm to 750 nm inclusive.Characteristic A: The ratio of a minimum emission intensity to a maximum emission intensity in a wavelength range of from 400 nm to 750 nm inclusive is 20% or more.
US10784415B2
Disclosed are a light-emitting device package, a manufacturing method therefor, and a vehicle lamp and a backlight unit including the same. The light-emitting device package includes: a light-emitting chip having electrode pads positioned at a lower part thereof; a wavelength conversion unit for covering at least an upper surface and lateral surfaces of the light-emitting chip; and a reflective part which covers the lateral surfaces of the light-emitting chip. Accordingly, the light-emitting device package can be miniaturized and a separate substrate for forming a lens is not required.
US10784412B2
The present invention provides a package support structure and a light emitting device including same. The package support structure includes: a housing which comprises a light emitting surface, a backlight surface, a bottom surface and a groove; a conductive support which is partially covered by the housing and includes a first lead and a second lead that are separated from each other, where each of the first lead and the second lead includes an electrode portion and a bent portion, the electrode portion is exposed from the housing through the groove, and the bent portion extends outward from the electrode portion beyond the housing and bends toward the bottom surface of the housing; where one of the first lead and the second lead further includes a heat radiation portion, the heat radiation portion extend outward from the electrode portion and is exposed from the backlight surface of the housing. The package support structure provided in the present invention achieves the effect of reducing an upper piece error and the purpose of effectively removing the heat energy.
US10784410B2
Gallium nitride based semiconductors are provided having one or more passivated surfaces. The surfaces can have a plurality of thiol compounds attached thereto for enhancement of optoelectronic properties and/or solar water splitting properties. The surfaces can also include wherein the surface has been treated with chemical solution for native oxide removal and/or wherein the surface has attached thereto a plurality of nitrides, oxides, insulating compounds, thiol compounds, or a combination thereof to create a treated surface for enhancement of optoelectronic properties and/or solar water splitting properties. Methods of making the gallium nitride based semiconductors are also provided. Methods can include cleaning a native surface of a gallium nitride semiconductor to produce a cleaned surface, etching the cleaned surface to remove oxide layers on the surface, and applying single or multiple coatings of nitrides, oxides, insulating compounds, thiol compounds, or a combination thereof attached to the surface.
US10784397B2
Embodiments of a photovoltaic device are provided herein. The photovoltaic device can include a layer stack and an absorber layer disposed on the layer stack. The absorber layer can include a first region and a second region. Each of the first region of the absorber layer and the second region of the absorber layer can include a compound comprising cadmium, selenium, and tellurium. An atomic concentration of selenium can vary across the absorber layer. The first region of the absorber layer can have a thickness between 100 nanometers to 3000 nanometers. The second region of the absorber layer can have a thickness between 100 nanometers to 3000 nanometers. A ratio of an average atomic concentration of selenium in the first region of the absorber layer to an average atomic concentration of selenium in the second region of the absorber layer can be greater than 10.
US10784387B2
A method is for making an optical detector device. The method may include forming a reflector layer carried by a substrate, forming a first dielectric layer over the reflector layer, and forming a graphene layer over the first dielectric layer and having a perforated pattern therein.
US10784385B2
A solar cell is disclosed. The solar cell includes a substrate of a first conductive type; a plurality of emitter layers having a second conductive type opposite the first conductive type, the plurality of emitter layers positioned in a first surface of the substrate and extended in a first direction in the first surface of the substrate; a plurality of surface field layers having the first conductive type more heavily doped than the substrate, the plurality of surface field layers positioned in the first surface of the substrate and extended in the first direction in the first surface of the substrate; a passivation layer positioned on the first surface of the substrate and including a plurality of first openings exposing portions of each of the plurality of surface field layers and a plurality of second openings exposing portions of each of the plurality of emitter layers; a plurality of first electrodes positioned in the plurality of first openings and contacting the plurality of surface field layers; a plurality of second electrodes positioned in the plurality of second openings and contacting the plurality of emitter layers; a plurality of first conductive members positioned on the plurality of first electrodes; and a plurality of second conductive members positioned on the plurality of second electrodes.
US10784382B2
A PIN diode has an anode spaced away from a central region of a top surface of a substrate, such that the anode is in a corner or at a side edge of the top surface. Alternatively, the PIN diode has an anode surrounded by a shield layer. The PIN diode reduces unwanted parasitic capacitance to increase the reverse isolation of RF switches and to reduce the diffusion capacitance to increase the f3dB frequency specification of amplifier circuits. The PIN diode dramatically reduces the values of both parasitic and diffusion capacitances, which enables its application in switches and amplifiers under a wide variety of bias conditions including reverse, low-moderate forward, and large forward-bias; which enables bonding to a much larger metal area than the active electrode, with negligible increase in the parasitic capacitance; and which enables reliable wire-bonding by presenting a highly planar metal surface.
US10784364B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a stacked configuration of a plurality of silicon germanium layers and a plurality of silicon layers on a semiconductor substrate, wherein the stacked configuration comprises a repeating arrangement of a silicon layer stacked on a silicon germanium layer, patterning the stacked configuration into a plurality of patterned stacks spaced apart from each other, and etching exposed sides of the plurality of silicon germanium layers to remove portions of the silicon germanium layers from lateral sides of each of the plurality of silicon germanium layers, wherein a concentration of germanium is varied between each of the plurality of silicon germanium layers to compensate for variations in etching rates between the plurality of silicon germanium layers to result in remaining portions of each of the plurality of silicon germanium layers having the same or substantially the same width as each other.
US10784363B2
Various methods and structures for fabricating a contact for a semiconductor FET or FinFET device. A semiconductor FET structure includes a substrate, a source/drain region layer and source/drain contact. First and second gate spacers are adjacent respective first and second opposing sides of the source/drain contact. The source/drain contact is disposed directly on and contacting the entire source/drain region layer, and at a vertical level thereabove, the source/drain contact being recessed to a limited horizontal area continuing vertically upwards from the vertical level. The limited horizontal area horizontally extending along less than a full horizontal length of a vertical sidewall of the first and second gate spacers, and less than fully covering the source/drain region layer. A method uses a reverse contact mask to form a shape of the source/drain contact into an inverted “T” shape.
US10784358B2
An apparatus including a circuit structure including a device stratum including a plurality of devices including a first side and an opposite second side; and a metal interconnect coupled to at least one of the plurality of devices from the second side of the device stratum. A method including forming a transistor device including a channel between a source region and a drain region and a gate electrode on the channel defining a first side of the device; and forming an interconnect to one of the source region and the drain region from a second side of the device.
US10784357B2
A method of forming a gate structure, including forming one or more vertical fins on a substrate; forming a bottom spacer on the substrate surface adjacent to the one or more vertical fins; forming a gate structure on at least a portion of the sidewalls of the one or more vertical fins; forming a gauge layer on at least a portion of the bottom spacer, wherein the gauge layer covers at least a portion of the gate structure on the sidewalls of the one or more vertical fins; and removing a portion of the gauge layer on the bottom spacer.
US10784353B2
A device comprising: at least one first layer, such as a graphene layer, at least one second layer of transition metal dichalcogenide, wherein the at least one first layer and the at least one second layer of transition metal dichalcogenide form at least one heterojunction. The first and second layers are laterally displaced but may overlap over a length of 0 nm to 500 nm. A low-resistance contact is formed. The device can be a transistor including a field effect transistor. The layers can be formed by chemical vapor deposition. The graphene can be heavily p-doped. Transistor performance data are described.
US10784346B2
A method includes forming a base layer on a top surface of a substrate. A dielectric layer is formed on exposed surfaces of the base layer. A hardmask layer is formed on the base layer and the dielectric layer. A pattern is formed from the hardmask with a first opening and a second opening. Portions of a dielectric layer are removed from the top surface of the base layer at positions consistent with the pattern of the first opening and the second opening to form exposed surfaces defined as a first window and a second window in the dielectric layer. Deposits of a dopant-containing layer are limited on the exposed surfaces of: a first portion on the top surface of the base layer inside of the first window, and a second portion on the top surface of the base layer inside of the second window.
US10784338B2
A method of forming a transistor device includes providing a drift layer having a first conductivity type, forming a first region in the drift layer, the first region having a second conductivity type that is opposite the first conductivity type, forming a body layer on the drift layer including the first region, forming a source layer on the body layer, forming a trench in the source layer and the body layer above the first region and extending into the first region, forming a gate insulator on the inner sidewall of the trench, and forming a gate contact on the gate insulator.
US10784313B1
A method is presented for forming a cell structure. The method includes constructing a resistive random access memory (RRAM) device, constructing a phase change memory (PCM) device in series with the RRAM device such that one of the electrodes of the PCM device is connected to a reactive electrode of the RRAM device, and connecting a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) inverter to the RRAM and PCM devices to individually control switching behaviors of the RRAM and PCM devices.
US10784312B1
A semiconductor memory device includes a first wiring extending in a first direction, a second wiring extending in a second direction, a variable resistance film provided between these, a third wiring extending in a third direction, a first semiconductor section connected to the first wiring and the third wiring, a first gate electrode facing the first semiconductor section, a contact connected to the second wiring, a fourth wiring further from the substrate than the contact is, a second semiconductor section connected to the contact and the fourth wiring, and a second gate electrode facing the second semiconductor section. The first semiconductor section, the first gate electrode, the second semiconductor section, and the second gate electrode respectively include a portion included in a cross section extending in the second direction and the third direction.
US10784301B2
Image sensors are provided. An image sensor includes a substrate including a plurality of pixel areas. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface that is opposite the first surface. The image sensor includes a deep pixel isolation region extending from the second surface of the substrate toward the first surface of the substrate and separating the plurality of pixel areas from each other. The image sensor includes an amorphous region adjacent a sidewall of the deep pixel isolation region. Moreover, the image sensor includes an electron suppression region between the amorphous region and the sidewall of the deep pixel isolation region.
US10784298B2
Embodiments of the present application, pertaining to the technical field of optical devices, provide an optical module and a fabrication method thereof, and a terminal device using the same. The optical module includes a lens and a sensor package. The lens is positioned at an uppermost position of the optical module and attached to a lower position of a terminal screen, and is configured to transmit light passing through the screen; the sensor package includes an optical sensor, where a photosensitive region is arranged on an upper surface of the optical sensor, and the photosensitive region is configured to receive light passing through the lens; and the sensor package further includes an air gap, and the photosensitive region of the optical sensor is configured to receive the light passing through the screen via the air gap.
US10784291B2
A pixel array substrate including a substrate, a first signal line, a second signal line, a third signal line, a first active element and a conductive pattern is provided. The first signal line and the second signal line are disposed on the substrate and intersect with each other. The third signal line is disposed on the substrate and overlapped with the second signal line. The extending direction of the third signal line is parallel to the extending direction of the second signal line. The first active element is electrically connected to the first signal line. The first active element includes a semiconductor pattern, a first gate and a second gate. The semiconductor pattern is located between the first gate and the second gate. The first gate is overlapped with the second gate and connected to the third signal line. The second gate is connected to the first gate via the conductive pattern.
US10784281B2
A 3D semiconductor memory device includes an electrode structure on a substrate, the electrode structure including gate electrodes stacked in a first direction perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate, a vertical semiconductor pattern penetrating the electrode structure and connected to the substrate, and a data storage pattern between the electrode structure and the vertical semiconductor pattern. The data storage pattern includes first, second and third insulating patterns sequentially stacked. Each of the first to third insulating patterns includes a horizontal portion extending in a second direction parallel to the top surface of the substrate. The horizontal portions of the first, second and third insulating patterns are sequentially stacked in the first direction. At least one of the horizontal portions of the first and third insulating patterns protrudes beyond a sidewall of the horizontal portion of the second insulating pattern in the second direction.
US10784277B2
A memory device that includes a non-volatile memory (NVM) transistor disposed in a first region of a substrate. The NVM transistor includes a first gate including a first type of conductor material. The memory device further includes a first type of low voltage field-effect transistor (LV FET) and an input/out field-effect transistor (I/O FET) disposed in a second region of the substrate. The LV FET includes a second gate comprising a second type of conductor material, the I/O FET includes a third gate comprising a second type of conductor material, and the first and second conductor materials are different. Other embodiments are also described.
US10784262B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor device comprising a substrate, a plurality of active patterns that protrude from the substrate, a device isolation layer between the active patterns, and a passivation layer that covers a top surface of the device isolation layer and exposes upper portions of the active patterns. The device isolation layer includes a plurality of first isolation parts adjacent to facing sidewalls of the active patterns, and a second isolation part between the first isolation parts. A top surface of the second isolation part is located at a lower level than that of top surfaces of the first isolation parts.
US10784253B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a source metal formed on the substrate. A gate pad is formed on the substrate adjacent to the source metal. A gate metal is formed on the substrate and surrounds the gate pad and the source metal. A first diode is formed between the gate metal and the source metal.
US10784252B2
An ESD protection circuit, which protects a subject NMOS transistor coupled between an I/O pad and a ground, includes a first discharge device arranged between the I/O pad and the ground, having a trigger-on voltage that is lower than a breakdown voltage of the subject NMOS transistor; and a gate voltage control device, including a discharge NMOS transistor coupled to the ground and a gate of the subject NMOS transistor; a first PMOS transistor connected to the gate of the subject NMOS transistor and a connection node; and a first NMOS transistor connected to the connection node and the ground. The connection node is connected to the gate of the discharge NMOS transistor, and the gate of the first PMOS transistor and the gate of the first NMOS transistor are connected to each other.
US10784248B2
A package includes a first device die, and a first encapsulating material encapsulating the first device die therein. A bottom surface of the first device die is coplanar with a bottom surface of the first encapsulating material. First dielectric layers are underlying the first device die. First redistribution lines are in the first dielectric layers and electrically coupling to the first device die. Second dielectric layers are overlying the first device die. Second redistribution lines are in the second dielectric layers and electrically coupling to the first redistribution lines. A second device die is overlying and electrically coupling to the second redistribution lines. No solder region connects the second device die to the second redistribution lines. A second encapsulating material encapsulates the second device die therein. A third device die is electrically coupled to the second redistribution lines. A third encapsulating material encapsulates the third device die therein.
US10784247B2
A method includes bonding a first and a second device die to a third device die, forming a plurality of gap-filling layers extending between the first and the second device dies, and performing a first etching process to etch a first dielectric layer in the plurality of gap-filling layers to form an opening. A first etch stop layer in the plurality of gap-filling layers is used to stop the first etching process. The opening is then extended through the first etch stop layer. A second etching process is performed to extend the opening through a second dielectric layer underlying the first etch stop layer. The second etching process stops on a second etch stop layer in the plurality of gap-filling layers. The method further includes extending the opening through the second etch stop layer, and filling the opening with a conductive material to form a through-via.
US10784246B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing a ultra-small light-emitting diode (LED) electrode assembly, the method including preparing a base substrate, forming an electrode line including a first electrode and a second electrode on the base substrate, positioning a guide member having a plurality of slit portions therein on the base substrate, and inserting ultra-small LED devices into the plurality of slit portions of the guide member.
US10784242B2
The present disclosure provides display substrate and a fabrication method thereof, a display panel and a display device. The display substrate has a plurality of pixel regions, and includes an anode, a light-emitting layer and a cathode in each pixel region. In each pixel region, the light-emitting layer includes a plurality of light-emitting units spaced apart from each other, both the anode and the cathode are conductive layers each having an integral structure, and the plurality of light-emitting units are connected to the anode and the cathode, respectively.
US10784241B2
Micro-LED array display devices are disclosed. One of the micro-LED display devices includes: a micro-LED panel including a plurality of micro-LED pixels; a CMOS backplane including a plurality of CMOS cells corresponding to the micro-LED pixels to individually drive the micro-LED pixels; and bumps electrically connecting the micro-LED pixels to the corresponding CMOS cells in a state in which the micro-LED pixels are arranged to face the CMOS cells. The micro-LED pixels are flip-chip bonded to the corresponding CMOS cells formed on the CMOS backplane through the bumps so that the micro-LED pixels are individually controlled.
US10784237B1
In a method for fabricating an emissive display, a package substrate with a top thereof having a plurality of wells is firstly provided. The well has a first electrode region and a second electrode region at different heights. The package substrate sinks in a suspension. Then, a plurality of light-emitting diodes sinks in the suspension. The light-emitting diode has a plane and a curved surface. Finally, the suspension horizontally jets such that the suspension flows across the plane and the curved surface of the light-emitting diode at different velocities. According to the different velocities, the suspension respectively embeds all the light-emitting diodes into all the wells. Each of the plurality of light-emitting diodes are respectively electrically connected to the first electrode region and the second electrode region of a corresponding one of the plurality of wells, thereby forming an emissive display.
US10784236B2
Reflective bank structures for light emitting devices are described. The reflective bank structure may include a substrate, an insulating layer on the substrate, and an array of bank openings in the insulating layer with each bank opening including a bottom surface and sidewalls. A reflective layer spans sidewalls of each of the bank openings in the insulating layer.
US10784225B2
Embodiments of bonded semiconductor structures and fabrication methods thereof are disclosed. In an example, a semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor structure, a second semiconductor structure, and a bonding interface between the first semiconductor structure and the second semiconductor structure. The first semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a first device layer disposed on the substrate, and a first bonding layer disposed above the first device layer and including a first bonding contact. The second semiconductor structure includes a second device layer and a second bonding layer disposed below the second device layer and including a second bonding contact. The first bonding contact is in contact with the second bonding contact at the bonding interface. At least one of the first bonding contact or the second bonding contact is made of an indiffusible conductive material.
US10784224B2
Semiconductor devices with underfill control features, and associated systems and methods. A representative system includes a substrate having a substrate surface and a cavity in the substrate surface, and a semiconductor device having a device surface facing toward the substrate surface. The semiconductor device further includes at least one circuit element electrically coupled to a conductive structure. The conductive structure is electrically connected to the substrate, and the semiconductor device further has a non-conductive material positioned adjacent the conductive structure and aligned with the cavity of the substrate. An underfill material is positioned between the substrate and the semiconductor device. In other embodiments, in addition to or in lieu of the con-conductive material, a first conductive structure is connected within the cavity, and a second conductive structure connected outside the cavity. The first conductive structure extends away from the device surface a greater distance than does the second conductive structure.
US10784219B2
A semiconductor device including a first die and a second die bonded to one another. The first die includes a first passivation layer over a substrate, and first bond pads in the first passivation layer. The second die includes a second passivation layer, which may be bonded to the first passivation layer, and second bond pads in the second passivation layer, which may be bonded to the first bond pads. The second bond pads include inner bond pads and outer bond pads. The outer bond pads may have a greater diameter than the inner bond pads as well as the first bond pads.
US10784218B2
The present disclosure provides a display apparatus and a manufacturing method thereof. The display apparatus includes a silicon substrate, a plurality of metal data interfaces disposed on the silicon substrate, and a plurality of conductive patterns covering upper surfaces of the metal data interfaces respectively. The plurality of the conductive patterns is formed by enabling a semiconductor material to be conductive and the plurality of conductive patterns are not contacted with each other.
US10784216B2
Provided are a semiconductor device and a semiconductor package including the same. The semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor chip body including a first chip pad on a top surface, a passivation film disposed on the semiconductor chip body and a first redistribution layer that is disposed between the passivation film and the semiconductor chip body with an opening to expose a first chip center pad region at least partially overlapping the first chip pad, a first redistribution center pad region connected to the first chip center pad region, and a first edge pad region spaced apart from the first redistribution center pad region, through the passivation film, wherein a top surface of the first chip center pad region and a top surface of the first redistribution center pad region are not disposed on the same plane.
US10784209B2
The present invention relates to an electrical component. The present invention further relates to an electrical device comprising such an electrical component and to a flat no-lead package.According to the invention, the flat no-lead package comprises a semiconductor die comprising electrical circuitry that has a plurality of terminals for inputting and outputting one or more signals, a thermal pad on which the semiconductor die is mounted, a plurality of leads arranged spaced apart from the thermal pad, and a plurality of further leads that are integrally connected to the thermal pad. One or more terminals among the plurality of terminals are each connected to a respective lead, and one or more terminals among the plurality of terminals are each connected to a respective further lead.
US10784208B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor package device and a method for manufacturing the same. In embodiments of the present disclosure, a semiconductor package device includes a carrier, a first antenna, a second antenna, a package body and a first shield. The carrier includes an antenna area and a component area. The first antenna is formed on the antenna area. The second antenna extends from the antenna area and over the first antenna. The second antenna is electrically connected to the first antenna. The package body includes a first portion covering the component area and a second portion covering the antenna area. The first shield is conformally formed on the first portion of the package body and exposes the second portion of package body.
US10784207B2
A multi-stacked package-on-package structure includes a method. The method includes: adhering a first die and a plurality of second dies to a substrate, the first die having a different function from each of the plurality of second dies; attaching a passive device over the first die; encapsulating the first die, the plurality of second dies, and the passive device; and forming a first redistribution structure over the passive device, the first die, and the plurality of second dies, the passive device connecting the first die to the first redistribution structure.
US10784203B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a back-side redistribution structure including: a metallization pattern on a first dielectric layer; and a second dielectric layer on the metallization pattern; a through via extending through the first dielectric layer to contact the metallization pattern; an integrated circuit die adjacent the through via on the first dielectric layer; a molding compound on the first dielectric layer, the molding compound encapsulating the through via and the integrated circuit die; a conductive connector extending through the second dielectric layer to contact the metallization pattern, the conductive connector being electrically connected to the through via; and an intermetallic compound at the interface of the conductive connector and the metallization pattern, the intermetallic compound extending only partially into the metallization pattern.
US10784195B2
Interconnect structures and methods of fabricating an interconnect structure. A first interconnect and a second interconnect extend in a first direction in a interlayer dielectric layer and are spaced apart from each other. A third interconnect is arranged in the interlayer dielectric layer to connect the first interconnect with the second interconnect. The first interconnect and the second interconnect have a first width, and the third interconnect has a second width that is less than the first width.
US10784189B2
A mounting rack with circuit includes a leadframe, a molding seat and a circuit layer. The leadframe comprises a plurality of electrodes. The molding seat is arranged on the leadframe and has a cup body to expose backsides of the electrodes and a cup opening to expose front sides of the electrodes. The circuit layer is arranged on the cup body and at least comprises two conductive parts, two electrical-connection parts and two soldering pads, wherein the two electrical-connection parts are arranged on the cup opening, one end of each of the two electrical-connection parts is electrically connected to one end of a respective one of the two conductive parts, the two soldering pads are arranged on bottom of the cup body, each of the two soldering pads is electrically connected to the other end of a respective one of the two conductive parts.
US10784180B2
An electronics device with at least one component to be cooled, a cooling element for cooling the component to be cooled, at least one power supply line, and a respective current sensor for recording a current strength of a current flowing through the respective power supply line, wherein the cooling element has a recess, in which the current sensor engages or in which the current sensor is arranged.
US10784171B2
A device is disclosed that includes a first transistor device of a first type and a second transistor device of a second type positioned vertically above the first transistor, wherein the first type and second type of transistors are opposite types. The device also includes a gate structure for the first transistor and the second transistor, wherein the gate structure comprises a first gate electrode for the first transistor and a second gate electrode for the second transistor and a gate stack spacer positioned vertically between the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode so as to electrically isolate the first gate electrode from the second gate electrode.
US10784162B2
A method of making a semiconductor component includes etching a substrate to define an opening. The method further includes depositing a first dielectric liner in the opening, wherein the first dielectric liner has a first stress. The method further includes depositing a second dielectric liner over the first dielectric liner, wherein the second dielectric liner has a second stress, and a direction of the first stress is opposite a direction of the second stress. The method further includes depositing a conductive material over the second dielectric liner.
US10784161B2
Semiconductor chip including self-aligned, back-side conductive layer and method for making the same
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: partially dicing a substrate wafer arrangement having a plurality of semiconductor chips, wherein the partial dicing forms trenches around the semiconductor chips on a front-side of the substrate wafer arrangement, the depth being greater than a target thickness of a semiconductor chip; filling the trenches with a polymer material to form a polymer structure; first thinning of the back-side to expose portions of the polymer structure; forming a conductive layer on the back-side of the substrate wafer arrangement so that the exposed portions of the polymer structure are covered; second thinning of the back-side to form insular islands of conductive material, the insular islands separated from each other by the polymer structure, each insular island corresponding to a respective one of the semiconductor chips; and dicing the substrate wafer arrangement along the polymer structure.
US10784153B2
A method for fabricating metal interconnect structure includes the steps of: forming a first metal interconnection in a first inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer on a substrate; forming a cap layer on the first metal interconnection; forming a second IMD layer on the cap layer; performing a first etching process to remove part of the second IMD layer for forming an opening; performing a plasma treatment process; and performing a second etching process to remove polymers from bottom of the opening.
US10784150B2
A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductive substrate including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a shallow trench isolation (STI) including a first portion at least partially disposed within the semiconductive substrate and tapered from the first surface towards the second surface, and a second portion disposed inside the semiconductive substrate, coupled with the first portion and extended from the first portion towards the second surface, and a void enclosed by the STI, wherein the void is at least partially disposed within the second portion of the STI.
US10784149B2
The present disclosure relates to an air-cavity module having a thinned semiconductor die and a mold compound. The thinned semiconductor die includes a back-end-of-line (BEOL) layer, an epitaxial layer over the BEOL layer, and a buried oxide (BOX) layer with discrete holes over the epitaxial layer. The epitaxial layer includes an air-cavity, a first device section, and a second device section. Herein, the air-cavity is in between the first device section and the second device section and directly in connection with each discrete hole in the BOX layer. The mold compound resides directly over at least a portion of the BOX layer, within which the discrete holes are located. The mold compound does not enter into the air-cavity through the discrete holes.
US10784148B2
Techniques for forming uniform fin height on oxide substrates for finFET devices is provided. In one aspect, a method for forming a finFET device includes: patterning fins in a wafer; burying the fins in an oxide material; recessing the oxide material to form a recessed oxide material in between the fins; selectively forming sidewall spacers, above the recessed oxide material, alongside top portions of one or more of the fins that serve as active fins of the finFET device; converting bottom portions of the one or more fins beneath the sidewall spacers to an oxide, such that the active fins are present on the oxide; and forming gates over the active fins. A finFET device is also provided.
US10784143B2
Structures that include a field effect-transistor and methods of forming a structure that includes a field-effect transistor. A semiconductor fin has an upper portion and a lower portion, and a trench isolation region surrounds the lower portion of the semiconductor fin. The trench isolation region has a top surface arranged above the lower portion of the semiconductor fin and arranged below the upper portion of the semiconductor fin. A dielectric layer arranged over the top surface of the trench isolation region. The dielectric layer is composed of a low-k dielectric material.
US10784140B2
An electronic device can include a semiconductor material and a semiconductor layer overlying the semiconductor material, wherein the semiconductor layer has a greater bandgap energy as compared to the semiconductor material. The electronic device can include a component having a high electrical field region and a low electrical field region. Within the high electrical field region, the semiconductor material is not present. In another embodiment, the component may not be present. In another aspect, a process can include providing a substrate and a semiconductor layer overlying the substrate; removing a first portion of the substrate to define a first trench; forming a first insulating layer within the first trench; removing a second portion of the substrate adjacent to first insulating layer to define second trench; and forming a second insulating layer within the second trench.
US10784126B2
A substrate processing method includes a substrate holding step of holding a substrate horizontally, a hydrophobic agent supplying step of supplying to an upper surface of the substrate a hydrophobic agent which is a liquid for hydrophobizing the upper surface of the substrate, a low surface-tension liquid supplying step of supplying the low surface-tension liquid to the upper surface of the substrate in order to replace the hydrophobic agent on the substrate by a low surface-tension liquid lower in surface tension than water, and a humidity adjusting step of adjusting humidity of the atmosphere in contact with a liquid film on the substrate such that the humidity of the atmosphere in contact with a liquid film on the substrate in the hydrophobic agent supplying step reaches a first humidity and the humidity of the atmosphere in contact with a liquid film on the substrate in the low surface-tension liquid supplying step reaches a second humidity which is humidity lower than the first humidity.
US10784125B2
Disclosed is a substrate treating apparatus including a first liquid treatment chamber that performs a liquid treatment to a substrate, a second liquid treatment chamber that is disposed below the first liquid treatment chamber and performs a liquid treatment to a substrate, a first feed channel that supplies gases to the first liquid treatment chamber, and a second feed channel that supplies gases to the second liquid treatment chamber. The first feed channel includes a first vertical member that extends substantially vertically. The second feed channel includes a second vertical member that extends substantially vertically. The first vertical member and the second vertical member both extend to a position lower in level than the second liquid treatment chamber.
US10784123B2
An integrated circuit package and a method of forming the same are provided. A method includes forming a conductive column over a carrier. An integrated circuit die is attached to the carrier, the integrated circuit die being disposed adjacent the conductive column. An encapsulant is formed around the conductive column and the integrated circuit die. The carrier is removed to expose a first surface of the conductive column and a second surface of the encapsulant. A polymer material is formed over the first surface and the second surface. The polymer material is cured to form an annular-shaped structure. An inner edge of the annular-shaped structure overlaps the first surface in a plan view. An outer edge of the annular-shaped structure overlaps the second surface in the plan view.
US10784120B2
A laminate by using a paste or solution containing aliphatic polycarbonates having an etching mask function is provided. A method of producing a laminate of the present invention includes a pattern forming step of forming a pattern 80 of a first oxide precursor layer in which a compound of metal to be oxidized into a metal oxide is dispersed in a solution containing a binder (possibly including inevitable impurities) made of aliphatic polycarbonates on an oxide layer 44 or on the second oxide precursor layer to be oxidized into the oxide layer 44; an etching step of, after the pattern forming step, etching the oxide layer 44 or the second oxide precursor layer that is not protected by the pattern 80; and a heating step of, after the etching step, heating the oxide layer 44 or the second oxide precursor layer, and the first oxide precursor layer to a temperature at which the binder is decomposed or higher.
US10784110B2
A tungsten film forming method in which a substrate having a TiN film formed thereon is disposed in a processing container and a tungsten film is formed above a surface of the substrate while heating the substrate in a reduced pressure atmosphere, includes forming a first film of an aluminum-containing material on the substrate and forming the tungsten film on the first film.
US10784109B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer and a metal electrode. The metal electrode is provided on the semiconductor layer. The metal electrode includes first to third metal regions. The first metal region contacts the semiconductor layer and includes a first metal element as a main component. The second metal region is provided on the first metal region and includes a second metal element as a main component. The third metal region is provided on the second metal region. The third metal region has a thickness in a first direction directed from the semiconductor layer toward the second metal region. The thickness of the third metal region is larger than a total thickness in the first direction of the first metal region and the second metal region. The second metal element has a standard free energy of oxide generation larger than that of the first metal element.
US10784070B2
A charged particle beam device is described, which includes: a beam source configured to generate a charged particle beam propagating along an optical axis (A); an aperture device with a plurality of apertures configured to create a plurality of beamlets from the charged particle beam; and a field curvature corrector. The field curvature corrector includes: a first multi-aperture electrode with a first plurality of openings having diameters that vary as a function of a distance from the optical axis (A); a second multi-aperture electrode with a second plurality of openings; and an adjustment device configured to adjust at least one of a first electrical potential (U1) of the first multi-aperture electrode and a second electrical potential (U2) of the second multi-aperture electrode. Further, a field curvature corrector and methods of operating a charged particle beam device are described.
US10784067B2
An electronic assembly contains a circuit board having a current-conducting current path with two mutually spaced-apart current path ends that form an interruption point and a contact clip bridging the interruption point. The contact clip is manufactured without a preload, as a thermal fuse. The contact clip has a multiple bent, open clip loop and a contact limb making contact with both mutually spaced-apart current path ends using solder. The contact clip further has a fixing limb with a limb end seated in a circuit board opening. The limb end of the fixing limb is oversized relative to a circuit board opening, and a deformation being imparted to the contact clip, with an internal preload being generated.
US10784060B2
The present invention discloses a dual-power overlapped closing operation mechanism, relating to the field of dual-power switches. The dual-power overlapped closing operation mechanism comprises a first contact, a second contact, a first connecting rod, a second connecting rod, a third connecting rod, a fourth connecting rod, a fifth connecting rod, a sixth connecting rod, a seventh connecting rod, a first auxiliary shaft, a second auxiliary shaft and a third auxiliary shaft. The fourth connecting rod rotates anticlockwise to push, via the fifth connecting rod and the seventh connecting rod, the second contact to make electrical contact with the second fixed contact, and at the same time the first contact is first tightly pressed via the second connecting rod and the third connecting rod until the dead point is passed, and then the first contact is gradually opened clockwise. The result of the fourth connecting rod rotating clockwise is similar, in which the second contact is first tightly pressed until the dead point is passed, and then the second contact is gradually opened clockwise. With the present invention, the neutral line overlapping has an extended duration and is maintained by means of a mechanical structure so as to effectively avoid the occurrence of a zero line break.
US10784057B2
A safety switch (1) having an input/output structure and means for generating a switching signal. Depending on the switching signal, the operation of the system can be released. The input/output structure forms means of connection for connecting a start button (5). By manually actuating the start button (5), an acknowledgment signal for releasing the system is generated. The means of connection are detected automatically in the safety switch (1).
US10784052B2
An electric storage module includes an electric storage cell and an enclosure, wherein the electric storage cell includes an electric storage element and an exterior body in which the electric storage element is sealed; the enclosure has a housing space in which the electric storage cell is housed; the enclosure has a through hole that connects the housing space and the exterior space; and the through hole is formed at a position corresponding to the part of the electric storage cell where the electric storage element does not exist.
US10784038B2
Disclosed herein is a common mode filter that includes a winding core part including first to third winding areas and first and second wires wound in a same direction around the winding core part and crossing each other in the third winding area. The first wire is aligned and wound in the first and second winding areas, and the second wire is aligned and wound on the first wire in the first and second winding areas, whereby a plurality of winding blocks are formed. The winding blocks include a first winding block positioned in the first winding area and second and third winding blocks positioned in the second winding area. The second wire constituting the second winding block and the second wire constituting the third winding block are separated from each other.
US10784035B2
A coil device according to an aspect of this disclosure includes a coil portion including a conductive wire and a holding member that holds the conductive wire, and a cooling flow path through which a cooling fluid flows is provided in the holding member.
US10784032B2
The bistable electromechanical actuator comprises an actuator shaft (7) arranged in a house (1), said shaft being movable along its longitudinal direction, a base member (11) attached to the actuator shaft (7), said base member being slidably attached to a guiding element (3, 3′,3″) through a stud (15), said guiding element being secured to the house and having two locking notches (2a, 2b) with a predetermined distance therebetween and further having a straight or substantially straight guiding section (2c) formed between said two locking notches in a plane parallel to the longitudinal direction of said shaft (7), wherein at least one permanent magnet is fixed to the base member (11) so that the magnetic axis of each permanent magnet is perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of said shaft (7), and wherein at least one electromagnetic coil (13) is arranged within said house (1) so that in an idle state of the actuator, one end of each coil (13) is arranged to be adjacent to one of the at least one permanent magnet (12) in such a manner that the position of said end of the respective coil (13) is slightly offset, along the longitudinal direction of said shaft (7), with respect to the position of the permanent magnet (12) adjacent thereto.
US10784025B2
One embodiment relates to a method for producing cable. The method includes applying an insulative coating to each of a plurality of conductors to form a plurality of insulated conductors. The method further includes taking up the plurality of insulated conductors in a twisting system to twist the plurality of insulated conductors together and apply a first portion of a desired twist to the plurality of insulated conductors. The method further includes paying off the plurality of insulated conductors from the twisting system to further twist the plurality of insulated conductors together and apply a second portion of a desired twist to the plurality of insulated conductors to form a twisted plurality of insulated conductors.
US10784023B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing a downhole cable, the method including, forming a helical shape in an outer circumferential surface of a metal tube, the metal tube having a fiber element housed therein, and stranding a copper element in a helical space formed by the metallic tube. Also provided is a downhole cable including, a metallic tube having a helical space in an outer circumferential surface thereof, wherein the metallic tube has a fiber element housed therein, and a copper element disposed in a helical space formed by the steel tube. Double-tube and multi-tube configurations of the downhole cable are also provided.
US10784021B2
A shielded electrical cable includes conductor sets extending along a length of the cable and spaced apart from each other along a width of the cable. First and second shielding films are disposed on opposite sides of the cable and include cover portions and pinched portions arranged such that, in transverse cross section, the cover portions of the films in combination substantially surround each conductor set. An adhesive layer bonds the shielding films together in the pinched portions of the cable. A transverse bending of the cable at a cable location of no more than 180 degrees over an inner radius of at most 2 mm causes a cable impedance of the selected insulated conductor proximate the cable location to vary by no more than 2 percent from an initial cable impedance measured at the cable location in an unbent configuration.
US10784019B2
A cable includes: a linear conductor; a plurality of resin hollow tubes which are disposed around the conductor so that an air layer is formed around the conductor and which extend in a longitudinal direction of the conductor; and an insulating protective member configured to protect the conductor and the plurality of hollow tubes.
US10784017B2
A line-shaped assembly includes a heat source that includes a heat source main body extending straightly and a heat source cover member covering the heat source main body, and a tubular-shaped heat source protective member that accommodates and protects the heat source. The heat source protective member is made of resin, and includes a first tube body portion with an inner surface that has a small area per unit length in an axial direction of the heat source protective member in contact with the heat source, and a second tube body portion with an inner surface that has a contact area larger than that of the first tube body portion.
US10784015B2
Disclosed herein is a bus bar connected or fastened to a terminal part of a battery pack and fixedly mounted to a battery pack case, the bus bar including a power input part located at one end of the bus bar such that the power input part is connected or fastened to an output terminal part of the battery pack, a power output part located at the other end of the bus bar such that the power output part is connected or fastened to an input terminal part of the battery pack, a plate-shaped main body connected between the power input part and the power output part, the plate-shaped main body including a vapor chamber, and a fastening part formed at the power input part to fix the bus bar to the battery pack case.
US10784008B2
The present disclosure relates to a shield cover for a radiation source machine and a security inspection apparatus. The shield cover for a radiation source machine comprises: a frame body provided with a receiving chamber for receiving the radiation source machine, an end opening and an ray exit through which rays are emitted out from the radiation source machine; an end cover disposed at the end opening of the frame body and provided with a sealed chamber communicating with the receiving chamber; and a connecting member disposed between the end cover and the frame body and provided with an opening for communicating the sealed chamber of the end cover with the receiving chamber of the frame body, and the end cover being movably connected to the frame body by the connecting member such that a distance of the end cover from the end opening of the frame body is adjustable.
US10783998B1
In some examples, unstructured data is evaluated using a natural language processing model to output a set of subjective indicators. These subjective indicators are scored using a predictive model to determine whether a dependent user has or is likely to develop a particular condition such as a cellular abnormality.
US10783988B1
An apparatus for obtaining and transmitting medical test data, comprising a housing containing a processor, memory, and a power source; a display; a wireless transceiver configured to send data of the medical test to a remote location to be recorded in a central database, using at least one of a plurality of wireless communication services; an A1c detector, wherein the medical test is the detection of an A1c value by the A1c detector.
US10783987B2
A system, apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving medical test data is provided having memory that stores computer-executable instructions; processor, communicatively coupled to the memory that facilitates execution of the computer-executable instructions; and having: a transmission means operatively associated with a device, a receiver adapted and configured to receive data from the transmission means; a central database adapted and configured to compile the data; wherein the data is transformed into an output comprised of an aggregate of medical test data from at least one medical test. The computer implemented method for transmitting and receiving medical test data comprises the steps of transmitting means operatively associated with a device, receiving data from the transmission means; compiling the data into a central database; and transforming the data from the database into an output comprised of an aggregate of medical test data from at least one medical tests.
US10783986B2
Systems and methods are provided for drug development under a fully transparent development model. The model is configured to provide transparency to the patients, the researchers, clinicians, physicians, and any other registered users of the system who wish to contribute. According to various embodiments, the system and model enable drug development that leverage the combined wisdom and insight of the user population eliminating many of the drawbacks of conventional development approaches. In one embodiment, the system includes drug development engine configured to manage execution of parameters of a clinical trial, including collection of health and treatment information from a patient population. The development engine can publish collected execution data for review and analysis.
US10783984B2
Exemplary embodiments provide methods and systems for diploid genome assembly and haplotype sequence reconstruction. Aspects of the exemplary embodiment include generating a fused assembly graph from reads of both haplotypes, the fused assembly graph including identified primary contigs and associated contigs; generating haplotype-specific assembly graphs using phased reads and haplotype aware overlapping of the phased reads; merging the fused assembly graph and haplotype-specific assembly graphs to generate a merged assembly haplotype graph; removing cross-phasing edges from the merged assembly haplotype graph to generate a final haplotype-resolved assembly graph; and reconstructing haplotype-specific contigs from the final haplotype-resolved assembly graph resulting in haplotype-specific contigs.
US10783981B1
An electronic device includes a semiconductor memory. The semiconductor memory includes a plurality of first lines; a plurality of second lines; a plurality of memory cells disposed in respective intersection regions between the first lines and the second lines and coupled between the first lines and the second lines, the plurality of memory cells having a first turn-on voltage; and a test circuit block suitable for applying a stress pulse having a voltage level equal to or higher than the first turn-on voltage to one or more first lines selected from the first lines in a test mode.
US10783980B2
Systems and methods providing for a parity error synchronization based on a programmed parity latency value by delaying an activation of a command disable signal to disable internal commands such that the command disable signal activates just prior to the parity error command.
US10783973B1
The disclosure provides a memory device including: a connection interface; a memory array associated with a parameter; and a memory control circuit configured at least to: receive operations, each of the operations being a read operation or a write operation, through the connection interface to perform the operations on the memory array; detect, based on performing the operations on the memory array, a read error which is either a binary 0 read error or a binary 1 read error; update the error counter by incrementing an counter value of the error counter in response to the read error being the binary 1 read error and decreasing the counter value in response to the read error being the binary 0 read error; and adjust the parameter in response to the counter value having reached a positive predetermined threshold or a negative predetermined threshold.
US10783971B2
According to one embodiment, a first well of the first conductivity type which is formed in a substrate. a second well of a second conductivity type which is formed in the first well. The plurality of memory cells, the plurality of first bit line select transistors, and the plurality of second bit line select transistors are formed in the second well, and the plurality of first bit line select transistors and the plurality of second bit line select transistors are arranged on a side of the sense amplifier with respect to the plurality of memory cells of the plurality of bit lines.
US10783966B2
Phase change material can be set with a multistage set process. Set control logic can heat a phase change semiconductor material (PM) to a first temperature for a first period of time. The first temperature is configured to promote nucleation of a crystalline state of the PM. The control logic can increase the temperature to a second temperature for a second period of time. The second temperature is configured to promote crystal growth within the PM. The nucleation and growth of the crystal set the PM to the crystalline state. The multistage ramping up of the temperature can improve the efficiency of the set process relative to traditional approaches.
US10783963B1
An in-memory computation device is described that comprises a memory with a plurality of blocks B(n) of cells, where n ranges from 0 to N−1. A page output circuit PO(n) and page input circuit PI(n) are operatively coupled to block B(n) in the plurality of sets. A data bus system for providing an external source of input data and a destination for output data is provided. Data circuits are configurable connect page input circuit PI(n) to one or more of page output circuit PO(n), page output circuit PO(n−1), and the data bus system to source the page input data in a sensing cycle. This configuration can be done between each sensing cycle, or in longer intervals, in order to support a variety of neural network configurations and operations.
US10783959B2
A method of compensating charge loss and source line bias in programing of non-volatile memory device including the steps of reading a previous program page with a low reference voltage to make an original previous program pattern, merging the original previous program pattern and a current program pattern to make a merged program pattern, reading the previous program page with a high reference voltage to make a verified previous program pattern, and merging the verified previous program pattern and the merged program pattern to make a compensated current program pattern.
US10783948B2
Apparatuses and methods are disclosed that include ferroelectric memory cells. An example ferroelectric memory cell includes two transistors and two capacitors. Another example ferroelectric memory cell includes three transistors and two capacitors. Another example ferroelectric memory cell includes four transistors and two capacitors.
US10783947B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes a first member, a first memory cell, and a controller. The first member includes first, second, and third regions. The first memory cell includes first and second magnetic layers, and a first nonmagnetic layer. The second magnetic layer is provided between the third region and the first magnetic layer. The first nonmagnetic layer is provided between the first and second magnetic layers. The controller is electrically connected to the first and second regions, and the first magnetic layer. The controller programs first information to the first memory cell by setting the first magnetic layer to a first electric potential. The controller programs second information to the first memory cell by setting the first magnetic layer to a second electric potential. The second electric potential is different from the first electric potential. The second information is different from the first information.
US10783944B2
In example embodiments, a SOT magnetic memory and operation method are provided that utilize SOT driven domain wall motion to achieve subsequent switching without the need for an external assist magnetic field. The magnetic memory includes a magnetic tunnel junction having a reference layer, a tunnel barrier layer and a free layer, where the tunnel barrier layer is positioned between the reference layer and free layer. A spin-orbit torque layer is disposed adjacent to the free layer. A pair of pinning site are positioned at a longitudinal end of the free layer and each has an opposite magnetization direction from the other. The SOT layer is configured to exert SOT and switch a magnetization direction of the free layer via domain wall motion in a direction of current flow when an electric current is passed through a length of the SOT layer.
US10783941B1
A memory device includes a conductive line coupled to access addressable storage locations of the memory device. The memory device includes a circuit with a line driver with an access device for the conductive line. A control circuit sets a gate of the access device to an initial overdrive bias voltage to drive a drain of the access device to an initial voltage while the access device control circuit is not connected to the conductive line via another conductive line. The control circuit floats the gate voltage of the access device and connects the control circuit to the conductive line via the other conductive line. The floating initial overdrive voltage does not drop when the initial voltage of the control circuit drops to a final voltage under load conditions. The overdrive can result in a steeper program slope, and a controllable program pulse width or programming time (tPROG).
US10783940B2
Apparatuses and methods for setting a duty cycler adjuster for improving clock duty cycle are disclosed. The duty cycle adjuster may be adjusted by different amounts, at least one smaller than another. Determining when to use the smaller adjustment may be based on duty cycle results. A duty cycle monitor may have an offset. A duty cycle code for the duty cycle adjuster may be set to an intermediate value of a duty cycle monitor offset. The duty cycle monitor offset may be determined by identifying duty cycle codes for an upper and for a lower boundary of the duty cycle monitor offset.
US10783937B2
A device includes a signal input to receive a data input as part of a bit stream. The device also includes a reference input to receive a reference signal. The device further includes push circuitry to receive a first weight value, receive a first correction value, and generate a push signal based on the first weight value and the first correction value to selectively modify the data input as well as pull circuitry to receive a second weight value, receive a second correction value, and generate a pull signal based on the second weight value and the second correction value to selectively modify the data input.
US10783936B2
In reading of a memory unit, an read failure operation due to variation in characteristic of a transistor in a dynamic load is reduced. A read circuit that reads a voltage obtained by a voltage division of a dynamic load unit and the memory unit as an output of the memory unit includes the dynamic load unit having one end connected to a side of a power supply and the other end connected to a side of the memory unit, and a feedback unit that, by a feedback of the voltage obtained by the voltage division that is divided between the dynamic load unit and the memory unit, holds the voltage obtained by the voltage division. The dynamic load unit has an array structure in which a plurality of resistive memory elements are connected in series, in parallel, or in series-parallel. The dynamic load unit has the array structure of the resistive memory elements and this structure can suppress the read failure operation due to the variation in dynamic load.
US10783927B1
A system is provided that presents video content on an electronic device such that, when a user swipes to dismiss the video content, non-video summary information or contextual material about the video content is automatically displayed in place of the video content. The non-video summary information is presented on a summary card dragged on-screen responsive to user swipe input. If, for example, the user swipes to dismiss a video advertisement before an informational payload of the video advertisement has been delivered, the informational payload can automatically be displayed in text format on a summary card dragged by the user in replacement of the dismissed video advertisement.
US10783925B2
Systems and processes associated with an augmented film crew. For example, a computer-implemented method may include receiving, at a display of a user media device, an indication that a user of the media device intends to generate a user video in an environment; generating, by the user media device, data associated with the environment using a sensor of the user media device; determining, by the user media device, a purpose for the user video using the data associated with the environment; presenting, at the display, a set of screenplays for the user video, wherein the set of screenplays is determined based on the duration, the purpose, and the data associated with the environment; receiving, at the display, an input from the user indicating a selected screenplay from the set of screenplays, wherein the selected screenplay is associated with a set of storyboards; displaying, at the user media device, a first storyboard of the set of storyboards, wherein the first storyboard is overlaid onto a user video stream generated by the user media device; receiving, at the user media device, an additional video stream generated by an additional network device; and generating, by the user media device, the user video using the user video stream or the additional video stream. The above steps may be implemented as instructions stored in a computer-readable medium, computer program product, or device such as a television receiver, or in other types of embodiments.
US10783924B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to tape drives used for magnetic recording on tapes, and more specifically to tape heads including servo and data head structures. A tape head includes a plurality of servo head structures and one or more piezoelectric devices. The one or more piezoelectric devices are utilized to control the spacing and dimensions between the plurality of servo head and data head structures. The one or more piezoelectric devices further allow the tape head to receive active feedback from the tape drive, allowing the one or more piezoelectric devices to correct any errors during operation.
US10783912B1
A data storage device is disclosed comprising an elevator actuator configured to actuate a head along an axial dimension, and a position sensor configured to generate a sinusoidal sensor signal representing a position of the head along the axial dimension, wherein the position sensor comprises a sensor element and an encoder strip comprising a pattern having at least one region that causes a disturbance in the sinusoidal sensor signal. The elevator actuator is controlled to move the head in a first direction along the axial dimension to detect the disturbance in the sinusoidal sensor signal, and when the disturbance in the sinusoidal signal is detected, the elevator actuator is controlled to move the head in a second direction along the axial dimension opposite the first direction in order to measure a zero crossing of the sinusoidal sensor signal.
US10783910B2
A recording surface of a magnetic disk is divided into first and second zones. A first head of a first actuator arm assembly reads from and/or writes to the first zone exclusively. A second head of a second actuator arm assembly reads from and/or writes to the second zone exclusively. The first and second head are capable of simultaneously reading from and writing to the recording surface.
US10783902B1
Systems and methods involving integrating camera and acoustic sensor data, and automatically capturing the acoustic sensor heatmap for the holistic sensing systems in Internet of Things (IoT) systems. In particular, example implementations described herein capture the local sound noise environment or localized noise profiles (e.g., noise fingerprint) adaptively to the change of noise profiles and automatically apply captured noise profiles to the streaming noise reduction in signal processing for industrial IoT areas.
US10783899B2
Systems and methods are introduced to perform noise suppression of an audio signal. The audio signal includes foreground speech components and background noise. The foreground speech components correspond to speech from a user's speaking into an audio receiving device. The background noise includes babble noise that includes speech from one or more interfering speakers. A soft speech detector determines, dynamically, a speech detection result indicating a likelihood of a presence of the foreground speech components in the audio signal. The speech detection result is employed to control, dynamically, an amount of attenuation of the noise suppression to reduce the babble noise in the audio signal. Further processing achieves a more stationary background and reduction of musical tones in the audio signal.
US10783896B2
A method, apparatus and computer program wherein the method comprises: obtaining a beamforming signal using respective signals from a first microphone and a second microphone; reducing the data size of the beamforming signal by grouping the beamforming signal into frequency bands and obtaining a data value for each of the frequency bands; and forming a bit stream comprising at least the reduced size beamforming signal and the signal from the first microphone wherein the bit stream enables parameters of a beamed audio channel to be controlled.
US10783888B2
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for determining which controllable device an audible command is directed towards, the method comprising: receiving at each of two or more controlling devices the audible command signal, the audible command being directed to control at least one of two or more controllable devices controlled by a respective one of the two or more controlling devices; digitizing each of the received audible command signals; attaching a unique identifier to each digitized audible command so as to uniquely correlate it to a respective controlling device; determining a magnitude of each of the digitized audible command; determining a digitized audible command with the greatest magnitude, and further determining to which controlling device the audible command is directed to on the basis of the unique identifier associated with the digitized audible command with the greatest magnitude; performing speech recognition on the digitized audible command with the greatest magnitude; and forwarding a command to the controlling device corresponding to the digitized audible command with the greatest magnitude, the command corresponding to the audible command that can be implemented on the controllable device controlled by the controlling device.
US10783886B2
A method, computer program product, and a system where a processor(s) continuously obtains, from devices in a group of devices within a defined geographic proximity to each other, processing requests. Each request is a result of a device in the group of devices receiving and interpreting a voice command issued within a geographic area comprising the group of devices. The processor(s) buffers, in a memory resource, a portion of the processing requests obtained within a defined time interval. The processor(s) determines there are duplicate processing requests in the portion. Based on determining there are duplicates, the processor(s) rejects the duplicates. The processor(s) selects a specific device to execute each processing request from the devices where the request and the duplicates of that request originated. The processor(s) utilize the specific device to execute the processing request.
US10783885B2
An image display device, a method for driving the same, and a computer readable recording medium are provided. The image display device includes a speech acquirer configured to acquire a speech query associated with a query created by a user, a display configured to display a query list composed of candidate queries having the same as or similar semantic as the acquired speech query, and an operation performer configured to perform an operation related to the query selected from the displayed query list.
US10783881B2
A method for processing a recognition result of an automatic online speech recognizer for a mobile end device by a communication exchange device, wherein the recognition result for a phrase spoken by a user is received from the online speech recognizer as a text. A language model of permitted phrases is received from the mobile end device. A specification of meaning relating to a meaning of the phrase is assigned to each permitted phrase by the language model, and, through a decision-making logic of the communication exchange device, the text of the recognition result is compared with the permitted phrases defined by the language model and, for a matching permitted phrase in accordance with a predetermined matching criterion, the specification of meaning thereof is determined and the specification of meaning is provided to the mobile end device.
US10783863B2
Apparatus, methods, and systems that operate to provide interactive streaming content identification and processing are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a classifier to determine an audio characteristic value representative of an characteristic; a transition detector to detect a transition between a music category and a talk category by comparing the audio characteristic value to a threshold value among a set of threshold values, the set of threshold values corresponding to the music category and the talk category; and a context manager to control a device to initiate extraction of fingerprints, responsive to the detected transition between the music category and the talk category.
US10783862B1
Provided is a guitar case that can include a body for placement of a guitar; a translucent or transparent window where a portion of the guitar is visible from outside of the case; and a speaker; wherein the guitar placed inside of the case is configured to play over the speaker with a wired or wireless connection. The guitar case can further include a panel or a screen. The screen can be a touch-screen. The panel can be configured to move to allow access to electronics inside of the case. The panel can pivot out. The guitar case can further include a door, the door having the window. The guitar case can further include a camera or a microphone. The case can be configured so that a guitar is placed at an angle of less than vertical.
US10783856B2
A vehicle includes: a position-adjustable steering wheel, a position-adjustable driver's seat, a display extending on the dashboard from one side facing the driver's seat to another side in which a center fascia is disposed, at least one image sensor configured to capture a vehicle interior image to obtain the vehicle interior image, a storage configured to store driver's seat positioning information of the driver's seat and steering wheel positioning information of the steering wheel, and a controller configured to obtain eye position information indicating a position of each of eyes of the driver with respect to the steering wheel based on at least one of the driver's seat positioning information or the vehicle interior image, determine a covered area on the display, covered by the steering wheel, based on the eye position information and the steering wheel positioning information, and adjust an output position of an image output on the display based on the covered area.
US10783852B2
The present disclosure provides a flexible display module and a manufacturing method thereof. The flexible display module comprises a flexible display panel and a sensing module arranged on the flexible display panel. The sensing module is used for sensing a degree of bending of said flexible display panel. In this way, the flexible display module can perform corresponding operations according to the sensed degree of bending of the display panel, as a result, practicability of the flexible display module can be enhanced, and the operation modes and application scenarios of the flexible screen can be expanded.
US10783850B2
A display driver includes gamma curve control circuitry and a converter controller. The gamma curve control circuitry is configured to generate a first gamma curve for a first display brightness value (DBV), and a second gamma curve for a second DBV lower than the first DBV. The converter controller is configured to control a digital-analog converter (DAC) configured to perform digital-analog conversion of an input image data. Further, the converter controller is configured to adjust an analog signal voltage amplitude of the DAC based on a range of an output voltage associated with the second gamma curve.
US10783840B2
A display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, and a display medium located between the first substrate and the second substrate is provided. The display panel further includes a plurality of pixel structures, a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines electrically connected to the pixel structures, a first driving unit located at a peripheral area, at least one test line, and at least one first pad located at the peripheral area. Each of the data lines has a first end and a second end opposite to each other. The first driving unit is electrically connected to the first ends of the data lines. The at least one test line is electrically connected to the second ends of at least part of the data lines. The at least one test line is grounded through the at least one first pad.
US10783833B2
A display device includes a plurality of pixels disposed in an display area, and a pixel driver connected to at least two of the pixels, wherein the pixel driver drives the at least two pixels, where a portion of the pixel driver is disposed in the display area, and the display device includes the display area, on which an image is displayed, and a non-display area, on which no image is displayed.
US10783830B1
A pixel circuit has enhanced performance by minimizing noise effects from the data and reference voltage lines. To prevent data line noise from interfering with the drive transistor gate voltage during emission, a triple gate isolation is used between the data voltage line and the gate of the drive transistor by which three transistors are connected between the data voltage line and the gate of the drive transistor. To further improve the isolation, one of the middle nodes of the triple gate farthest from the data voltage line is connected to one floating node that is connectable to a reference voltage during the threshold compensation phase. A first capacitor is used for the threshold compensation, and a second capacitor is used to scale the data voltage during programming. The threshold compensation and data programming operations are thereby independent of each other to minimize programming time.
US10783828B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device includes a display panel including a plurality of OLED pixels arranged in a matrix form to display an image, and the plurality of OLED pixels each includes a switching thin film transistor (TFT) to switch a data voltage pass supplied from a data line in response to a scan signal input through a gate line, a driving TFT turned on in accordance with a magnitude of a data voltage supplied from the switching TFT to control an amount of light emitted from an OLED, and a variable storage capacitor connected in parallel to a gate electrode of the driving TFT and having a capacitance varying in accordance with a magnitude of a voltage applied to the gate electrode of the driving TFT may increase a charging speed and a charging rate of a data voltage of the OLED pixel. As a result, it is possible to improve threshold voltage compensation efficiency and solve a problem such as non-uniform luminance and an afterimage.
US10783813B1
A flag display device (1) used for fully displaying a flag regardless of the presence of wind and/or in the dark. The flag display device supports a preferably interchangeable display panel (3) extending between a top horizontal support arm (7) and a bottom horizontal support arm (8) that each extend perpendicularly from a vertical mast (4). At least one display light source (22) illuminates the display panel at night.
US10783800B1
An apparatus is disclosed for developing routine and specific task competencies of an individual having an environmental anxiety disorder. The subject is tasked with an executive function wherein the subject is fully or partially immersed in a computer-simulated environment for a time-limited session. Real-time monitoring of the human subject is performed for a change in a sensor-derived, quantified anxiety level. Responsive to an increase in anxiety level, the computer-simulated environment modulates the sensory complexity of one or more features of the simulation wherein the human subject therapeutically develops proficiency in executive functions in increasingly complex environments.
US10783793B2
An Aerial Robotics Network (ARN) Management Infrastructure (MI) (also referred to as ARNMI) that provides a mechanism for the management of aerobots.
US10783792B1
Aspects described herein may facilitate an automated vehicle tracking for readiness with limited human interaction. One method comprises: receiving vehicle-specific identifying information of a vehicle requested for a test drive, a rental use, or a lease; prompt the placement of the vehicle within a first predetermined area; determining that the vehicle is entering the first predetermined area to begin the test drive, the rental use, or the lease; generating, using one or more image sensors associated with the first predetermined area, first multimedia content showing an aspect of the vehicle; determining that the vehicle is entering a second predetermined area to end the test drive, the rental use, or the lease; generating, using the one or more image sensors, second multimedia content showing the aspect of the vehicle; analyzing the first multimedia content and the second multimedia content to determine a difference in the aspect of the vehicle; generating, based on the difference, an assessment of the vehicle; and generating an indication prompting attention to the vehicle.
US10783790B2
A system and method is described in which vehicles are configured to collect driver and vehicle event data, selectively compress and encode the collected driver and vehicle event data, and communicate the compressed and encoded data wirelessly to one or more telematics service providers. Servers poll this driver event data periodically, process it, and present multiple methods to end users by which they are able to view and analyze it. The present system permits fleet managers to use this driver event data, received through a report or notification, or pulled directly from a web-based portal, to monitor, correct or reward driver behavior, and to implement driver education and training programs.
US10783777B2
Systems and methods are provided for increasing the geospatial resolution of traffic information by dividing known location intervals into a fixed number of sub-segments not tied to any one map providers format, efficient coding of the traffic information, and distribution of the traffic information to end-user consuming devices over one or more of a satellite based broadcast transport medium and a data communications network. Exemplary embodiments of the present invention detail a nationwide traffic service which can be encoded and distributed through a single broadcast service, such as, for example, an SDARS service, or a broadcast over a data network. Exemplary embodiments include aggregating the traffic data from segments of multiple location intervals, into predefined and predetermined flow vectors, and sending the flow vectors within a data stream to users. Confidence levels obtained from raw traffic data can both (I) be disclosed to drivers/users to supplement a very low signal (or no signal) speed and congestion report, and (ii) can also be used in various system algorithms that decide what local anomalies or aberrations to filter out as noise, or to disclose as accurate information and thus more granularly depict the roadway in question (and use additional bits to do so) as an actual highly localized traffic condition.
US10783765B2
A falling detection method and an electronic system using the same are provided. The falling detection method includes: obtaining a video stream, and performing recognition on a person in an image of the video stream to obtain at least one human body feature; calculating based on the human body feature to obtain at least one falling related feature; calculating at least one movement trend in a plurality of directions of the person in the video stream by using an optical flow algorithm; inputting the falling related feature and the movement trend to a falling classifier, such that the falling classifier generates an output result indicating whether a falling event happens to the person; and sending an alarm according to the output result.
US10783764B2
An impact detection methodology is disclosed. Systems and methods can be utilized to detect impacts of concern such as collisions, falls, or other incidents. Systems and methods can be utilized to monitor an area and detect falls or collisions of an individual, for instance, as may require intervention to aid the subject. A system can include two or more accelerometers and a controller. The accelerometers can be in communication with the structure (e.g., within or on the walls or floor of a structure) and can monitor the structure for vibrations. The accelerometers can be coupled to a controller that is configured to process data obtained from the accelerometers and provide output with regard to the force and/or location of an impact within the structure.
US10783760B2
A surveillance apparatus, a corresponding method, surveillance radar apparatus, computer program, and non-transitory computer-readable recordable recording medium, the surveillance apparatus including an optical camera that captures images based on received light, the optical camera having a first field of view, a radar sensor that emits and receives electromagnetic radiation, the radar sensor having a second field of view, and wherein the first field of view is variable with respect to the second field of view.
US10783758B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to a tower light assembly having an output indicator responsive to an onboard sensor in accordance with a predetermined environmental parameter threshold. In an illustrative example, an augmented sensing tower light assembly (ASTLA) may include a light tower assembly having a controller configured to receive status data from monitored equipment. The controller may further receive environmental data from the onboard sensor. In response to the received status data and the received environmental data, the controller may actuate the output indicator in accordance with one or more predetermined criteria. Advantageously, the ASTLA may provide supplemental low-cost sensing capability.
US10783757B2
A communication device that may be removably coupled to a USB port, the device having a processor and non-volatile memory and configured to execute code, including code for receiving a wireless transmission including an alert signal from a second device, where the second device is a wireless doorbell, code for sounding an alarm via an audio or visual indicator on the communication device in response to the alert signal, code for receiving input from a user and transmitting a response signal to the second device, and code for allowing two-way audio communication between the communication device and the wireless doorbell.
US10783755B2
Systems and methods for associating automated teller machine (ATM) transaction information with photos and/or videos captured by cameras are provided. In some embodiments, an ATM communicates with a financial institution system via a first network. A video annotation device is communicatively coupled to the first network to receive copies of communications transmitted by the financial institution system to the ATM. The video annotation device extracts annotation information from the communications, and causes the annotation information to be associated with photos and/or videos captured by cameras. In some embodiments, the video annotation device is also communicatively coupled to a second network, and transmits the annotation information to an IP camera for use as on-screen display text. In some embodiments, the video annotation device receives a video signal from a camera, adds an annotation to the video signal, and provides the annotated video signal to a recording device.
US10783749B2
Systems and methods for providing a secondary contest involving a plurality of players playing a primary award wagering game. The players enter wagers in the primary game, and the results from the primary wagering game determine the outcome of a secondary pari-mutuel contest in which players compete against each other. The results from the primary wagering game resolve the secondary contest where the highest ranking results will win the wagers placed in the secondary contest on a tiered basis.
US10783739B2
A push-button for a game machine which is mounted on the game machine includes an operation key configured to accept a press, a side surface portion having translucency and provided in a direction vertical to a pressing direction of the operation key as viewed from the operation key, a light source configured to apply light in a direction parallel to the pressing direction, and a light guiding portion configured to guide light applied from the light source. The light guiding portion includes a first reflective structure configured to reflect at least a part of the light applied from the light source, and a second reflective structure configured to reflect at least a part of the light reflected by the first reflective structure toward the side surface portion.
US10783737B2
An automatic beverage dispensing machine (1) provided with: a controller (2); a human-machine interface module—HMI (4), for acquiring the selection made by a user of recipes for the preparation of beverages; and an actuator module (6), to cause the dispensing of a beverage into a receptacle (25), prepared according to a recipe selected via the human-machine interface module (4). The human-machine interface module is provided with: a display unit (10); and a control unit (12), to cause the display of a graphical user interface—GUI (22), and to cause the display, in an area (22c) of the GUI, of a recipe time bar (34) having a number of portions (35), each associated with a respective ingredient and with a respective preparation step of the recipe. The human-machine interface module enables the creation or modification of a recipe by a user through the insertion of a number of ingredients on the recipe time bar, each one in a respective portion, the position of which determines the temporal positioning of the respective preparation step within the preparation steps of the recipe.
US10783729B2
Methods, systems and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, are provided for managing a parking facility. A host processor associated with a parking facility may receive identification information relating to a vehicle entering, exiting and/or parked in the parking facility. The host processor may determine an account associated with the vehicle, based on the identification information and on account information associated with the account. The host processor may determine that the vehicle is authorized to park in the parking facility, based on the account information. And host processor transmits permission information to a user device to thereby allow the vehicle to enter, exit and/or remain parked in the parking facility.
US10783725B1
A system and computer-implemented method detect and act upon operator reliance to vehicle alerts. The system and method include receiving user profile data of an operator that includes a baseline of at least one driving activity aided by activation of an alert from a feature of an Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS). The system and method may include receiving historical ADAS alert frequency data including a history of at least one driving activity aided by activation of the alert from the ADAS feature. The system and method may compare the user profile data with the historical ADAS alert frequency data, determine a reliance level based upon the comparing, and set at least a portion of an operator profile associated with the operator with the reliance level. As a result, a risk averse driver, and/or proper responsiveness to vehicle alerts may be rewarded with insurance-cost savings, such as increased discounts.
US10783722B2
There is provided systems and methods for short range communications for specific device identification during multi-device proximity. A user may utilize a device to request a service at a specific location, such as a transportation service or ride sharing service. When arriving at the location, short range wireless communications between the user's device and the service provider's device may be used to detect the proximity of the devices to each other and exchange tokens that are used for identification of the other party. The communications may further be used to determine when the device are within communication range, and when the communication range ends indicating that the parties have moved outside the proximity range for the communications and the service has ended. At the end of the connection, a transaction for the service may automatically be generated and processed without requiring additional user input.
US10783718B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for removing details from three dimensional (3D) objects, such as cavities and holes. Complexity reduction via hole filling reduces storage, transfer, and rendering costs without adversely impacting quality and is implemented in an automated manner. In some examples, a 3D object is dilated and eroded, and undesirable webbing is removed to preserve a higher percentage of exterior detail. Holes and cavities, which are obscured in many viewing angles, are filled in (e.g., removed), thereby reducing the burden of storing and processing hidden interior surfaces. Various approaches, leveraging distance fields, may be combined for improved benefit.
US10783717B2
A method for processing a three-dimensional (3D) image includes acquiring a frame of a color image and a frame of a depth image, and generating a frame by combining the acquired frame of the color image with the acquired frame of the depth image. The generating of the frame includes combining a line of the color image with a corresponding line of the depth image.
US10783700B2
A Progressive Lens Simulator comprises an Eye Tracker, for tracking an eye axis direction to determine a gaze distance, an Off-Axis Progressive Lens Simulator, for generating an Off-Axis progressive lens simulation; and an Axial Power-Distance Simulator, for simulating a progressive lens power in the eye axis direction. The Progressive Lens Simulator can alternatively include an Integrated Progressive Lens Simulator, for creating a Comprehensive Progressive Lens Simulation. The Progressive Lens Simulator can be Head-mounted. A Guided Lens Design Exploration System for the Progressive Lens Simulator can include a Progressive Lens Simulator, a Feedback-Control Interface, and a Progressive Lens Design processor, to generate a modified progressive lens simulation for the patient after a guided modification of the progressive lens design. A Deep Learning Method for an Artificial Intelligence Engine can be used for a Progressive Lens Design Processor. Embodiments include a multi-station system of Progressive Lens Simulators and a Central Supervision Station.
US10783699B2
The current document is directed to methods and systems that refine anatomical models to sub-voxel resolution. In certain implementations, sophisticated, composite, digital anatomical atlases provide detailed three-dimensional models of the contents of three-dimensional medical images. However, three-dimensional medical images have limited resolutions characterized by a smallest volume, referred to as a voxel, to which an intensity is assigned by the imaging process. The currently disclosed methods employ computed percentages of different types of tissue within voxel volumes to adjust a three-dimensional model of the contents of the voxel volumes to more accurately model the contents of the voxel volumes.
US10783698B2
Embodiments described herein provide an apparatus comprising a processor to separate a three-dimensional (3D) scene in a point cloud data set comprising a plurality of voxels into a 3D grid of cells, each cell in the 3D grid of cells comprising a plurality of faces, execute a 3D clustering algorithm to create a plurality of 3D clusters, define a transparency level for each face of each cell in the plurality of cells, detect a surface layer of cells for the plurality of clusters in the 3D scene, and delete, from the plurality of clusters, cells which are not in the surface layer of cells. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US10783694B2
A pipeline is configured to access a memory that stores a texture block and metadata that encodes compression parameters of the texture block and a residency status of the texture block. A processor requests access to the metadata in conjunction with requesting data in the texture block to perform a shading operation. The pipeline selectively returns the data in the texture block to the processor depending on whether the metadata indicates that the texture block is resident in the memory. A cache can also be included to store a copy of the metadata that encodes the compression parameters of the texture block. The residency status and the metadata stored in the cache can be modified in response to requests to access the metadata stored in the cache.
US10783692B2
This invention relates to as animation authoring system and an animation authoring method, to enable beginners to produce a three-dimensional animation easily and to solve input ambiguity problem in the three-dimensional environment. The animation authoring method according to the invention comprises the steps of: (a) receiving a plane route of an object on a predetermined reference plane from a user; (b) creating a motion window formed along the plane route and having a predetermined angle to the reference plane to receive motion information of the object on the motion window from the user; and (c) implementing an animation according to the received motion information.
US10783675B2
A wearable electronic device displays an impact location that shows where a projectile fired from a weapon will hit a target and displays a bullseye location that shows a desired location where to hit the target. The wearable electronic device indicates firing the weapon when the impact location overlaps with the bullseye location.
US10783666B2
The present disclosure relates to mobile electronic devices including at least one transparent display screen for comparing and accurately determining the color of a predetermined object for color and texture application. In addition, the present disclosure provides color analysis and control using an electronic mobile device transparent display screen, for a wide variety of applications, including, but not limited to color, shade and coating defect identification applications, as well as augmented reality applications. Color data for a perceived color stores in a memory and displays images as perceived through the transparent display screen. Image difference values are determined between a first set of optical processing data and a second set of optical processing data. The transparent display screen indicates image difference values from including differences in color, texture, transparency, lighting, etc., especially for augmented reality applications. The optical lens captures an image of an object for display on the transparent display screen. The transparent portion of the transparent display screen of the mobile electronic device displays the object, as well as a 3D camera and/or 3D for further enhancing the transparent display screen through collection of various information for feedback.
US10783659B1
A hole location target includes a self-centering insert having a centerline and an optical target attached to the self-centering insert at a fixed position relative to the centerline of the self-centering insert. The optical target includes a light-emitting display. The light-emitting display includes a two-dimensional pattern thereon.
US10783640B2
Systems and methods for image segmentation using a scalable and compact convolutional neural network
Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for segmenting a medical image. An exemplary system includes a communication interface configured to receive the medical image acquired by an image acquisition device. The system further includes a memory configured to store a multi-level learning network including at least a first convolution block and a second convolution block. The second convolution block has at least one convolution layer. The system also includes a processor. The processor is configured to determine a first feature map by applying the first convolution block to the medical image, and determine a second feature map by applying the second convolution block to the first feature map. The processor is further configured to determine a first level feature map by concatenating the first feature map and the second feature map. The processor is also configured to obtain a first level segmented image based on the first level feature map.
US10783639B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for image segmentation using convolutional networks. Image data comprising an image hypervolume can be received. The image hypervolume can be provided to a trained convolutional neural network (CNN). The CNN can output a segmentation of the image hypervolume.
US10783637B2
Extraction means analyzes a character string of an interpretation report to extract lesion portion information recorded in the interpretation report and a first lesion feature recorded in the interpretation report, and analysis means performs an image analysis process corresponding to the lesion portion information with respect to the image data corresponding to the interpretation report to acquire a second lesion feature based on a result of the image analysis process. Determination means determines whether the first lesion feature matches the second lesion feature, and registration means registers the image data corresponding to the interpretation report as learning correct answer data in a case where it is determined that the first lesion feature matches the second lesion feature.
US10783633B2
Methods and systems for automatically linking entries in a medical image report to an image of a medical image study. One method includes identifying a first plurality of image features referenced in text included in the medical image report using natural language processing, identifying a second plurality of image features in images included in the medical image study, and comparing the first plurality of image features and the second plurality of image features. In response to a first image feature included in the first plurality of image features and a second image feature included in the second plurality of image features matching, the method includes creating a data link between the medical image report and an image included in the medical image study including the second image feature, and automatically inserting the data link into the medical image report, the data link selectable by a user to display the image.
US10783622B2
The present disclosure relates to training and utilizing an image exposure transformation network to generate a long-exposure image from a single short-exposure image (e.g., still image). In various embodiments, the image exposure transformation network is trained using adversarial learning, long-exposure ground truth images, and a multi-term loss function. In some embodiments, the image exposure transformation network includes an optical flow prediction network and/or an appearance guided attention network. Trained embodiments of the image exposure transformation network generate realistic long-exposure images from single short-exposure images without additional information.
US10783621B2
A method and an apparatus for processing a high dynamic range (HDR) image, and a terminal device to improve quantization quality, where the method includes obtaining brightness information of an image, processing the brightness information to obtain processed image information, quantizing the processed image information to obtain quantized image information, and encoding the quantized image information to obtain encoded image information.
US10783611B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods to increase resolution of imagery. In one example embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining a current low-resolution image frame. The method includes obtaining a previous estimated high-resolution image frame, the previous estimated high-resolution frame being a high-resolution estimate of a previous low-resolution image frame. The method includes warping the previous estimated high-resolution image frame based on the current low-resolution image frame. The method includes inputting the warped previous estimated high-resolution image frame and the current low-resolution image frame into a machine-learned frame estimation model. The method includes receiving a current estimated high-resolution image frame as an output of the machine-learned frame estimation model, the current estimated high-resolution image frame being a high-resolution estimate of the current low-resolution image frame.
US10783610B2
A method and apparatus for processing an image of fragmented material to identify fragmented material portions within the image is disclosed. The method involves receiving pixel data associated with an input plurality of pixels representing the image of the fragmented material. The method also involves processing the pixel data using a convolutional neural network, the convolutional neural network having a plurality of layers and producing a pixel classification output indicating whether pixels in the input plurality of pixels are located at one of an edge of a fragmented material portion, inwardly from the edge, and at interstices between fragmented material portions. The convolutional neural network includes at least one convolution layer configured to produce a convolution of the input plurality of pixels, the convolutional neural network having been previously trained using a plurality of training images including previously identified fragmented material portions. The method further involves processing the pixel classification output to associate identified edges with fragmented material portions.
US10783609B2
There are disclosed various methods, apparatuses and computer programs for processing video information. In an embodiment of the method for encoding video information an image having a first edge and a second edge is obtained and a location suitable for a division boundary for dividing the image into a first part and a second part is searched. The image is rearranged by exchanging the order of the first part and the second part to obtain a reconstructed original image; and an indication of a location of the division boundary is provided. In an embodiment of the method for decoding video information an image obtained from an original image is received. The image has a first edge and a second edge. Also information indicative of a location of a division boundary is received. The division boundary divides the image into a first part and a second part. The image is rearranged by exchanging the order of the first part and the second part to obtain a reconstructed original image.
US10783604B2
An image processing apparatus that executes image processing using an object group in which plural objects that perform image processing with respect to input image data stored in a storage region and output output image data are connected to each other is provided. The apparatus includes: a determination section that determines whether performing overwriting on the input image data using the output image data is possible according to each piece of processing content of the image processing; a controller that performs a setting for setting a storage region of the output image data of the image processing as a region including a storage region in which the input image data on which the overwriting is possible is stored, and performs a control for executing the image processing using the object group, with respect to the image processing for which it is determined that the overwriting is possible.
US10783591B1
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with cash pooling. According to one embodiment, a system includes an account logic configured to receive at least one change selected by a user and make the at least one change to a pool. The pool includes a plurality of accounts. The system further includes a settlement logic configured to calculate a balance for one or more accounts in the pool. The settlement logic is further configured to identify at least one settlement options for the one or more accounts based at least in part on the balance.
US10783590B1
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for implementing a mutual aid network. One of the methods includes maintaining a particular blockchain specifically for handling requests for aid from a group of members; receiving transaction data encoding user responses to queries from the blockchain network for requesting the user responses regarding a particular request for aid; executing the smart contract using the particular blockchain to process the transaction data; in response to response results indicating that sufficient user responses have been received from the members of the subset of the group, and that a sufficient percentage of the subset of the group have agreed to the particular request for aid, computing an amount of contribution due to each member of the group; and instructing a gateway to trigger the amount of contribution to originate from each member of the group.
US10783586B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for generating vehicle insurance rates based on driver-independent variables and/or driver-dependent variables. Vehicle insurance rates may additionally or alternatively be based on changes in the level of autonomy of vehicles. In some embodiments, a density of vehicles near a target vehicle may be tracked. Vehicle insurance rates may be determined based on the vehicle density. Furthermore, systems and methods are disclosed for analyzing a driver's use of autonomous vehicle features and/or the driver's maintenance of the autonomous vehicle. The driver may also be taught certain driving skills by enabling vehicle teaching features. The driver's response to these teaching features may be monitored, and a reward or recommendation may be generated and provided to the driver based on the driver's response.
US10783577B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for providing enhanced information relating to terms for financing a purchase, such as a real estate purchase. According to disclosed embodiments, a financial service system collects financial information associated with the prospective buyer. The financial service system also configures a secure software object, or token, comprising the buyer's financial information. The financial service system transmits the token to various inventory listing sites. By utilizing graphical user interfaces on the inventory listing sites that integrate the transmitted token information, the prospective buyer is provided enhanced information for shopping and researching their purchase, including how the purchase and its financing fit into their overall financial profile.
US10783571B2
The present subject matter relates generally to systems and methods for adding interactive functionality to a website, other digital media objects, and computer processor applications. Systems and methods for adding functionality to content served by a first server, may include receiving, at a second server, a request from a client-computer for code to add purchase functionality to the content. The code may be sent to the client-computer based on the request. A further request may be received from the client-computer containing information about objects identified in the content as relating to the purchase functionality and a request for information about the objects. Information about the objects may be sent to the client-computer based on the further request. An instruction to complete the purchase may be received from the client-computer, and a confirmation of the completion of the purchase may be sent to the client-computer. The content may be an HTML document and the objects may be objects according to the HTML Document Object Model.
US10783568B1
Users are matched to items and recommended friends in a social merchandising system. During registration, a user profile is created for a user among a plurality of users in the peer-to-peer marketplace. To calculate a compatibility score, a social genome is determined for the user based on social networking characteristics associated with the user. Also, a merchandise genome is determined for the user based on item characteristics associated with the user. Results are organized into a feed for the user based on the compatibility score and time. Feeds display items of friends, or as influenced by social connections and interactions.
US10783560B2
Systems and methods disclosed herein generate a segment of tracked entities from a collection of profiles merged from different sources. Individuals and other entities use multiple electronic device and online accounts. Options for merging authentication-based profiles and device-based profiles of tracked entities are presented on a user interface accessible to a tracking entity. Systems and methods receive a selection of the options, the selection specifying criteria for merging authentication-based profiles with device-based profiles. Upon generating a collection of profiles by merging the authentication-based and device-based profiles based on the received options, a targeted segment of tracked entities is generated by applying defined segment rules to the collection of profiles.
US10783559B1
An advertising system, comprising: a two-wheeled vehicle; a display mounted on the vehicle to show advertisements; and a processor coupled to the display, wherein the processor captures data associated with showing an advertisement on the display, wherein the data includes one or more of the following: advertising parameters from the advertiser; mobile location; mobile distance from a landmark; advertising categories; mobile location demographics; pricing of advertised goods or services; time and date; speed and direction of the advertising display; traffic characteristics associated with the display; views of the display and advertising budget characteristics.
US10783556B2
A product pushing method and a product promotion system are provided. The method includes the following steps: recording an area as the user's current position when the time period of the user staying in the area is longer than a first threshold; obtaining at least one current product corresponding to the current position from a regional product database; obtaining at least one recorded product corresponding to at least one recorded position from the regional product database; obtaining at least one promotion portfolio from the product portfolio database according to the current product and the at least one record product; and sending the at least one promotion portfolio to the user.
US10783555B2
A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, operations including determining a representative trajectory of a number of mobile devices relative to a media presentation device, such as a digital billboard. An audience of the number of mobile devices is identified and user characteristics are obtained of the audience. A representative interest of the audience is determined from the user characteristics of the audience, and a media content item is selected according to the representative interest and the representative trajectory. The media content item is presented at the media presentation device to expose the audience to the media content item. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10783551B2
A method for representing and managing an inventory of overlapping multi-dimensional items such as advertising or ad impressions. The method uses an inventory management module to generate unique segment identifiers for sets of inventory items by processing descriptions of the sets of impressions including defining criteria. The method includes processing the unique segment identifiers to create a representation of the inventory as a plurality of inventory regions, which may include non-overlapping regions that correspond to inventory items in a single set of the inventory and also include overlapping regions that correspond to inventory items in two or more of the sets (e.g., items that match two or more sets of defining criteria or attributes). Availability and selection of inventory is determined using the information on inventory regions to control effects of cannibalization, such as by implementing logically necessary allocation to only cannibalize a region on a limited or forced basis.
US10783548B1
Various approaches enable the detection of “viewed” content. For example, in digital advertising, when a user visits a web page, the web page can be rendered with an advertisement. Content is considered viewable when a user is given enough opportunity to view the content. Approaches described herein attempt to determine whether a user was given an opportunity to view such of such content by determining and using at least one of a viewability metric, performance activity level metric, snapshot of the content, or combination thereof.
US10783539B2
An instant operation may include one or more of creating a smart contract identifying content and review requirements for performing a review of the content, signing and validating the smart contract, storing the smart contract in a blockchain, receiving content review feedback from one or more reviewers of the content, and amending the blockchain to include the content review feedback.
US10783537B1
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for improved promotion targeting. An example apparatus includes a processor configured to cause retrieval of historical information regarding transactions associated with a plurality of identifier entities. The example apparatus further includes modeling circuitry configured to train a statistical model using the retrieved historical information, and estimate, using the statistical model, values for expected identifier entity transaction requests associated with each of the plurality of identifier entities. The processor of the example apparatus may further be configured to select, based on the estimated values, a subset of identifier entities to receive impressions of the promotion, and the apparatus may further include communications circuitry configured to transmit an impression of the promotion to each identifier entity in the subset.
US10783536B2
A computer-implemented method for prescriptive time-series forecasting, which combines both what-if analysis and goal-seeking analysis. The method comprises building a model for a target metric with a set of predictors, based on historical time-series data, and computing, using the model, a set of forecast values. Using the set of forecast values with respect to a forecasting period, both a set of goals for the target metric and a set of constraints for the predictors are analyzed. A set of updated forecasts based on the analyses with respect to the forecasting period is determined to meet the goals within the set of constraints. The updated set of forecasts is presented with respect to the forecasting period, e.g., using a table, a visualization, and/or an interactive user interface.
US10783531B2
Techniques directed to performing a cardless payment transaction based on a geographical location of a mobile device are described. The techniques may include displaying a user interface with a list of merchants that are proximate to the mobile device. User input may be received to enable automatic check-in with a merchant. The techniques may further include determining that the mobile device is within a particular distance to the merchant and sending an indication to carry out a cardless payment transaction with the merchant.
US10783530B1
A system for third party email parsing comprises an input interface and a processor. The input interface is configured to receive an email. The processor is configured to: 1) determine whether the email is from a lead generating system; and 2) in the event that the email is from a lead generating system: a) extract real estate lead information from the email based at least in part on the lead generating system; b) determine whether the real estate lead information is sufficient for a real estate related customer relations management database entry; and c) in the event that the real estate lead information is sufficient for a real estate related customer relations management database entry, add the real estate lead information to a real estate related customer relations management database.
US10783517B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a third-party payment application integrated with a native wallet application executing on a mobile device, a payment request and a near-field communication code received from a payment terminal associated with a merchant. The mobile device includes secure elements accessible by the third-party payment application based on a processor of the mobile device being in a secure mode. The method includes authenticating a user through a secure subsystem executing on the mobile device. The method includes facilitating payment between the user and the merchant through a third-party payment server based on the authenticating the user and identifying a loyalty program status associated with the merchant. The method includes updating the payment request with the loyalty program to generate an updated loyalty program status. The method includes displaying a user computing device, comprising the updated loyalty program status.
US10783500B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include identifying a personal mobility vehicle that is available to reserve for a trip, determining that at least one metric for a level of maintenance for the personal mobility vehicle indicates a need for performing the maintenance on the personal mobility vehicle, determining at least one metric for an operations effort for performing the maintenance at a current location of the personal mobility vehicle, and blocking use of the personal mobility vehicle, to facilitate the operations effort for the performing of the maintenance, based at least in part on the metric for the level of maintenance and at least in part on the metric for the operations effort indicating an advantage to performing the maintenance at the current location. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10783487B2
A depository operates to accept and make available deposit items to authorized users responsive at least in part to data read from data bearing records. The depository (10) includes a body (12) that bounds and interior area (14). The depository includes a door (18) that is controlled by a lock (24) so that only authorized users can access the interior area. The depository includes at least one input device (20) operative to receive data usable to identify users authorized to access the depository. At least one reading device (26) is operative to read indicia included on depository items so that depository items placed in or removed from the interior area can be tracked. The depository is in operative connection with a network (50) that enables the transport and tracking of deposit items.
US10783471B2
An operating procedure generation support apparatus according to embodiments of the present invention includes a property acquirer, an additional operating procedure candidate generator, and an output device. The property acquirer acquires non-associated properties, according to product description specifications including a product family and properties of the product family, standard operating procedures pre-associated with the product family and the properties, and a basic operating procedure specified from among the standard operating procedures, the non-associated properties being the properties of the product family and having values not updated by the basic operating procedure. The additional operating procedure candidate generator generates standard operating procedures as additional operating procedure candidates, according to the product description specifications, the standard operating procedures, and properties specified from among the non-associated properties, the generated standard operating procedures being capable of updating values of the specified properties. The output device outputs the additional operating procedure candidates.
US10783470B2
A schedule management system 1 having isolators 3 (production facilities) and a main control device 4 for managing a production schedules of all the isolators 3. The production process of each isolator constituting the production schedule has a plurality of sub-processes, the production status being determined in the sub-process. The main control device 4 adds a new separating operation to the passage process and performs an update when the main control device 4 obtains a determination result that the separation of cells in a separation state confirmation operation (sub-process) in the passage process is insufficient while a passage process for cells A is being carried out in the isolators. The main control device 4 alters the start time of a culture medium exchange process for other cells B different from the updated passage operation, and updates the production schedule.
US10783457B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining risk preference are provided. One of the methods includes: obtaining user data generated during a risk-related transaction of a user; determining a characteristic value of the user under each variable in a plurality of variables according to the user data, the plurality of variables comprising at least one variable affecting a risk preference of the user; and inputting the characteristic value of the user under each variable into a risk preference model to determine an output of the risk preference model as a risk preference index indicating a level of the risk preference of the user.
US10783455B2
One embodiment provides a method comprising answering one or more incoming phone calls received at one or more pre-specified phone numbers utilizing a bot. The bot is configured to engage in a conversation with a caller initiating an incoming phone call utilizing a voice recording that impersonates a human being. The method further comprises recording each conversation the bot engages in, and classifying each recorded conversation as one of poison data or truthful training data based on content of the recorded conversation and one or more learned detection models for detecting poisoned data.
US10783438B2
A method for on-device continual learning of a neural network which analyzes input data is provided to be used for smartphones, drones, vessels, or a military purpose. The method includes steps of: a learning device, (a) sampling new data to have a preset first volume, instructing an original data generator network, which has been learned, to repeat outputting synthetic previous data corresponding to a k-dimension random vector and previous data having been used for learning the original data generator network, such that the synthetic previous data has a second volume, and generating a batch for a current-learning; and (b) instructing the neural network to generate output information corresponding to the batch. The method can be performed by generative adversarial networks (GANs), online learning, and the like. Also, the present disclosure has effects of saving resources such as storage, preventing catastrophic forgetting, and securing privacy.
US10783436B2
In one embodiment, a method includes training a deep neural network using a first set of network characteristics corresponding to a first time and a second set of network characteristics corresponding to a second time, generating, using the deep neural network, a predictive set of network characteristics corresponding to a future time, and assigning a task of a distributed application to a processing unit based on the predictive set of network characteristics.
US10783416B2
A game token tray system includes a game token tray having a dual tray structure in which a game token is stored. The game token tray system includes a double tray including a lower tray and an upper tray stacked on the lower tray to store a game token provided with an RF tag in which tag information is stored, a camera that acquires tray image data by imaging the game token stored in the upper tray, an RIFD reading device that reads the tag information from the RF tag of the game token stored in the lower tray, and a game recording device that records the tray image data and/or an image analysis result of the tray image data about the game token stored in the upper tray and records the tag information read by the RFID reading device about the game token stored in the upper tray.
US10783415B2
A method for manufacturing a portable data carrier by means of a continuous manufacturing method, comprises the steps: providing at least one foil as a rolled good, unrolling at least one first foil, with at least a first foil being coated at least partly with an adhesive on at least one side, with at least the first foil being scored on at least one side along at least one creasing edge, with at least the first foil being folded up in precise fit along at least one creasing edge and bonded, with the foil being folded up in the direction of the side which is coated with adhesive, with the side coated with adhesive being arranged on the opposite side of the foil which has at least one scored creasing edge along which it is folded.
US10783408B2
Systems and techniques for identification of fonts include receiving a selection of an area of an image including text, where the selection is received from within an application. The selected area of the image is input to a font matching module within the application. The font matching module identifies one or more fonts similar to the text in the selected area using a convolutional neural network. The one or more fonts similar to the text are displayed within the application and the selection and use of the one or more fonts is enabled within the application.
US10783401B1
A method for generating black-box adversarial attacks on video recognition models is provided, comprising a) passing input video frames into a public image model, to obtain pixel-wise tentative perturbations; b) partitioning the tentative perturbations into tentative perturbation patches; c) estimating the rectification weight required for each patch, via querying the target video model; d) applying the patch-wise rectification weight on the patches, to obtain the rectified pixel-wise perturbations; e) applying one step projected gradient descent (PGD) perturbation on the input video, according to the rectified pixel-wise perturbations; and f) iteratively performing steps a)-e) until an attack succeeds or a query limit is reached. Systems and networks therefor are also provided.
US10783397B2
Methods, systems, and storage media for image thresholding at a network edge device are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a network edge device may include a camera to be operated by at least one of the one or more processors to capture a monitoring image of a condition proximal to the device at a location. An image threshold module may be operated by at least one of the one or more processors to determine if the monitoring image exceeds a threshold relating to the condition at the location. A communication module may communicate to a remote network location an indication if the monitoring image exceeds the threshold relating to the condition.
US10783396B2
The present disclosure includes systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media that efficiently and accurately identify matching designs and sub-shapes across one or more digital canvases in order to provide one or more development tools for rapid and efficient editing of the digital canvases. In particular, one or more embodiments utilize a transformation-agnostic method of identifying matching designs and sub-shapes between multiple digital canvases. Furthermore, in response to identifying a set of matching designs or sub-shapes, one or more embodiments generate a mapping between the matching designs or sub-shapes. Utilizing this mapping, one or more embodiments provide various tools that enable rapid and efficient development of robust digital canvases, while minimizing system storage burdens.
US10783392B1
Motion compensation in a systems for transmission of images via channels of communication with a limited capacity by means of application of compression of the images. A technical result consists in an increase of the compression degree upon encoding such that a high degree of compression is provided without an increase in the computational power of the encoding device and without additional distortion upon decoding. The result is obtained in part by the usage of a more effective method of interpolation of restored subsamples, employing an adaptive and applicative set of samples, which are used to restore a quantized signal. Use of this set of samples facilitates an improvement in an accuracy of the interpolation.
US10783386B1
Systems and methods for using image analysis techniques to assess abnormal vehicle operating conditions are disclosed. According to aspects, a computing device may access and analyze image data depicting an individual(s) within a vehicle. Based on the depicted individuals(s) and optionally on other data, the computing device may determine that an abnormal condition exists. In response, the computing device may generate a notification and transmit the notification to an electronic device of an individual associated with the vehicle.
US10783383B2
A detection of a boundary in an environment. For this purpose, information of an occupancy grid is used, wherein the occupancy grid provides information about the probability of occupancy in the environment. Upon detecting a starting transition point between a free and an occupied grid cell in the occupancy grid, a region of interest window surrounding the starting transition point is analyzed to identify further transition points. The identified transition points are combined to one or more polygon chain. After the analysis of the boundary is performed within the region of interest, successive regions of interest may be analyzed. For this purpose, the successive regions of interest are determined based on the transition points and/or the boundary information of a current region of interest window.
US10783381B2
A system and method for vehicle occlusion detection is disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: receiving training image data from a training image data collection system; obtaining ground truth data corresponding to the training image data; performing a training phase to train a plurality of classifiers, a first classifier being trained for processing static images of the training image data, a second classifier being trained for processing image sequences of the training image data; receiving image data from an image data collection system associated with an autonomous vehicle; and performing an operational phase including performing feature extraction on the image data, determining a presence of an extracted feature instance in multiple image frames of the image data by tracing the extracted feature instance back to a previous plurality of N frames relative to a current frame, applying the first trained classifier to the extracted feature instance if the extracted feature instance cannot be determined to be present in multiple image frames of the image data, and applying the second trained classifier to the extracted feature instance if the extracted feature instance can be determined to be present in multiple image frames of the image data.
US10783372B2
Method for imaging a corn ear having an outer surface, the method implementing an imaging module having a field of view that enables an image of the outer surface of the corn ear to be acquired, the method comprising the step consisting in dropping the corn ear within the field of view of the imaging module and acquiring an image of the outer surface of the corn ear while the corn ear drops within the field of view of the imaging module.
US10783367B2
Some implementations of the disclosure are directed to: extracting metadata from textual data representations of a plurality of document images, and contextualizing the extracted metadata; storing the extracted metadata and the textual data representations in a full text index database; and transferring the extracted metadata and the textual data representations from the full text index database to a search engine platform, the search engine platform indexing and storing the transferred extracted metadata to allow for searching of the indexed, extracted metadata, the indexed, extracted metadata having been correlated to the textual data representations, where the search engine platform allows for the selection of extracted metadata stored in full text index database that is transferred to the search engine platform.
US10783364B2
A method for waking up a voice interaction function based on a gesture includes: acquiring an image of a user's gesture; determining whether the acquired image matches a preset image; and waking up a voice interaction function in response to the acquired image matching the preset image.
US10783361B2
Systems and methods provide for generating predictive models that are useful in predicting next-user-actions. User-specific navigation sequences are obtained, the navigation sequences representing temporally-related series of actions performed by users during navigation sessions. To each navigation sequence, a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) is applied to encode the navigation sequences into user embeddings that reflect time-based, sequential navigation patterns for the user. Once a set of navigation sequences is encoded to a set of user embeddings, a variety of classifiers (prediction models) may be applied to the user embeddings to predict what a probable next-user-action may be and/or the likelihood that the next-user-action will be a desired target action.
US10783356B2
Aspects differentially drive the graphic display of links overlaid between people in a group photograph as a function of associated relationship type. Individuals are distinguished within the photograph and relationships are identified among the individuals that differ from one another with respect to type of relationship, by extracting relationship data via natural language processing relative to social network data of one or more of the identified individuals. Thus, a graphic display device is driven to display the identified relationships via each of different overlay elements that are depicted directly on the photograph, link respective ones of the identified individuals, and use different graphic elements to convey differences in respective types of the relationships that are determined among the identified individuals.
US10783354B2
A method for image processing, an apparatus having a processing circuitry and non-transitory computer readable medium are described. For example, the processing circuitry extracts, from a first image of a face, first values of feature points of a facial organ on the face. The feature points of the facial organ are indicative of characteristics of the facial organ. Then, the processing circuitry calculates first distances between the feature points of the facial organ based on the first values of the feature points. Further, the processing circuitry calculates feature parameters of the facial organ according to the first distances between the feature points. Then, the processing circuitry detects a facial action of the face when the feature parameters satisfy a preset condition associated with the facial action.
US10783348B2
Disclosed herein is a methodology, including the method and system to enable the same, for detection and classification of microscopic particles by an image analysis approach employing grayscale pixel intensity contour data generated from microphotographs, identifying discrete particles therein by applying user-defined filters, and outputting a statistically-processed report of the outcome thereof.
US10783342B2
A graphic code processing method is provided. The method includes capturing an environment containing a graphic code, determining continuous distribution regions of pixels of a captured image in different reference directions, and identifying an overlapping region of the continuous distribution regions as a potential distribution region of the graphic code. The method also includes identifying a scanning step length from a partial image corresponding to the potential distribution region, and scanning the partial image based on the scanning step length to obtain a graphic code image. Further, the method includes performing decoding processing based on the graphic code image, until decoding succeeds and information modulated in the graphic code is obtained from the graphic code image.
US10783341B2
A multi-level distribution and tracking method is described. Processing equipment processes multi-level distribution items, the multi-level distribution items being associated with first, second, and third level entities. The multi-level distribution items include a computer readable code thereon. The processing equipment captures an image of the multi-level distribution item, reads a computer readable code associated with the first level entity, sender information for the second level entity, and destination address information for the third level entity. The distribution system delivers the item to the destination address for the third level entity. The processing equipment generates scan information based on the processing of the multi-level distribution item, and can send the tracking information to the first level entity.
US10783334B2
Systems, methods, and electronic circuits facilitating embedded sensor chips in polymer-based coatings are provided. In one example, a method comprises fabricating an electronic circuit, the electronic circuit comprising one or more semiconductor devices, one or more sensors, and a communication element; encapsulating the electronic circuit within an insulator, resulting in an encapsulated circuit; and dispersing the encapsulated circuit into a lacquer solution comprising a polymer carrier and a solvent.
US10783333B2
A magnetic jammer for a card reader and structured to generate a magnetic field for jamming illegal reading of magnetic data stored on a card may include a core including magnetic material; a coil wound around the core and structured to generate a jamming magnetic field; a case accommodating the core and the coil; and a resin sealant filling the inside of the case and covering the core and the coil. The core and the coil may be disposed apart from an inner face of the case such that the core and the coil do not come into contact with the inner face of the case. A portion of the resin sealant may be disposed between the core and the inner face of the case and between the coil and the inner face of the case.
US10783332B2
A foldable circuit board that includes OLED display technology is provided. Apparatus may include embedded card reading technology (e.g., EMV, magnetic stripe, QR-Reader Technology) into a foldable OLEO-based mobile device. The mobile device may fold, to create a channel for swiping a purchasing instrument. Such a device may provide portable card reading technology and an ability to seamlessly transmit the captured information to a remote server/network for authorization. Such devices may avoid use of an external plug-in device to capture payment instrument information. Also, such devices may revive use of magnetically encoded information which is typically less-expensive-to-manufacture and provides a faster “swipe” time to read the magnetically encoded information as compared to other technology such as EMV chips.
US10783322B2
Techniques are presented for enhanced erasing of digital ink. The ink erasing feature of a content creation application can preserve the complex shapes that can result from partial erasure of ink strokes. The ink erasing feature can receive ink stroke data from an ink stroke and display the ink stroke. The ink erasing feature can then receive and display an eraser stroke that contacts the ink stroke. Once the eraser stroke is received, the ink erasing feature can determine whether any eraser segment of the eraser stroke contacts the ink stroke. If an eraser segment does not contact the ink stroke, the ink erasing feature discards the eraser segment. If an eraser segment does contact the ink stroke, the ink erasing feature can update the ink stroke data based on amount of overlap and location of contact between the eraser stroke and the ink stroke.
US10783321B2
A document creation support device that supports work when a new document is created on the basis of a first document that includes at least one first reported matter, includes a hardware processor that: extracts a second reported matter related to the first reported matter from a second document that differs from the first document; and presents support information on the basis of the extracted second reported matter.
US10783320B2
An electronic device: while displaying content, detect a screenshot capture input; and, in response to detecting the screenshot capture input: capture a screenshot image of the displayed content; and display a thumbnail representation of the screenshot image overlaid on the displayed content. The electronic device also: detects a respective input directed to the thumbnail representation of the screenshot image; and, in response to detecting the respective input, and in accordance with a determination that the respective input corresponds to a selection input, displays a screenshot editing interface provided to edit the screenshot image, where the screenshot editing interface includes the screenshot image.
US10783313B2
A method of preparing an integrated circuit device design including analyzing a preliminary device layout to identify a vertical abutment between a first cell and a second cell, the locations of, and spacing between, internal metal cuts within the first and second cells, indexing the second cell relative to the first cell by N CPP to define one or more intermediate device layouts to define a modified device layout with improved internal metal cut spacing in order to suppress BGE and LE.
US10783302B2
A circuit module includes a model circuit and a look-up table (LUT). The model circuit generates an output signal based on one or more input signals, and corresponds to a digital circuit. The LUT stores one or more control signals and one or more operation parameters that are to be used to implement the model circuit. The one or more control signals and the one or more operation parameters correspond to an index determined by a combination of the one or more input signals and the output signal.
US10783301B2
A system receives a circuit description and measures of intrinsic delay, intrinsic delay variation, transition time and transition time variation for each stage and determines stage delay variation of each stage. The system receives a circuit description and derate factors and determines an intrinsic delay standard deviation and a correlation coefficient. The system determines a stage delay variation of each stage based on the determined factors. The system receives parameters describing an asymmetric distribution of delay values and generates a normal distribution of delay values. The system receives measures of nominal transition time at an output and input of a wire, and transition time variation at the input of the wire and determines a transition time variation at the output of the wire. The system receives measures of an Elmore delay and a nominal delay of the wire and determines a delay variation at the output of the wire.
US10783300B1
The present disclosure relates to a system for performing static timing analysis in an electronic design. Embodiments may include providing, using at least one processor, an electronic design and extracting hierarchical crossing path exception information from a hierarchical design view associated with the electronic design. Embodiments may further include transferring the hierarchical crossing path exception information to a block view associated with the electronic design and extracting a timing model based upon, at least in part, the hierarchical crossing path exception information. Embodiments may also include implementing the timing model at a top-level view associated with the electronic design.
US10783299B1
An exemplary system, method, and computer-accessible medium may be provided, which may include, for example, receiving a design a memory including a plurality MBIST logic paths and a plurality of non-MBIST logic paths, determining particular non-MBIST logic path(s) of the non-MBIST logic paths to deactivate, and deactivating only the particular non-MBIST logic path(s). The particular non-MBIST logic path(s) may be deactivated using a clock signal. A simulation on the memory may be performed while the particular non-MBIST logic path(s) may be deactivated. The particular non-MBIST logic path(s) may be reactivated after the simulation has been performed. The deactivating the particular non-MBIST logic path(s) may include forcing all flip flops in the particular non-MBIST logic path(s) to a known state.
US10783292B1
An automated analog layout tool creates not just one, but many electrically correct layouts from an input schematic. Designers can explore multiple layout options in a fraction of the time needed to produce just a single layout by hand. Because the tool produces layout results so quickly, parasitics are available for simulation early in the design process, further speeding the entire design cycle. The tool considers place and route concurrently.
US10783276B2
Techniques to allow for ease of navigation within a photo browsing interface of a social networking system. In one embodiment, a designation of a first image for sharing is received from within at least one of a single-image view and a camera view. Based on the designation, the first image is added to a communication. The designation may be based on a user selection of an option provided by an interface of a mobile device. The first image may be received from within a social networking application or from within a dedicated camera application. In another embodiment, the privacy level of the communication and the designated images is based on the privacy setting of a user. The communication and the designated images may contain tag data identifying one or more people on a social networking system. In an alternative embodiment, the privacy level of the communication and designated images is adjusted according to the one or more people identified in the tag data.
US10783273B2
A method for controlling personal content on a media device includes establishing, at the media device, a wireless connection with a mobile user device using a wireless communication circuit of the media device; receiving, from the mobile user device, account information for an account associated with personal content, the personal content of the account accessible by the media device from a server computer over a communication network or from a memory of the media device; receiving, from the mobile user device, a usage term for accessing or using the personal content of the account; and controlling access to or usage of the personal content of the account by the media device based on the received account information and the usage term.
US10783272B2
A method of preserving privacy for usage of a lightweight blockchain client in a blockchain network includes using, in a full blockchain node of the blockchain network, a secure software guard extensions (SGX) enclave. A request is received from the lightweight blockchain client for a setup of a secure network connection. A client unique ID is received from the lightweight blockchain client, and is acknowledged following a successful attestation by the lightweight blockchain client. A request is received from the lightweight blockchain client for transaction(s)/address(es) of the lightweight blockchain client. The SGX enclave loads and searches unspent transaction outputs (UTXO) from a memory of the full blockchain node and sends a response to the request from the lightweight blockchain client for the transaction(s)/address(es) based on a match from the searching the UTXO. The secure communication is then terminated with the lightweight blockchain client.
US10783266B2
A system and method includes: ingesting the computing resource ingestion group at a remote access control service by generating a replica computing resource ingestion group, wherein ingesting the computing resource ingestion group includes replicating each of the plurality of computing resources of the computer network to a remote storage of the remote access control service; applying different permissioning indicia to disparate subsets of the plurality of computing resources of the replica computing resource ingestion group; generating permissioning nexus between each of the one or more accessor groups and the disparate subsets of the plurality of computing resources of the replica computing resource ingestion group, wherein generating the one or more permissioning nexus includes applying one of the different permissioning indicia to each of the one or more accessor groups; disabling access to the computing resource ingestion group at the computer network based on generating the permissioning nexus.
US10783259B2
A method and apparatus for tokenization of user-traceable data are described. User traceable data is data that is not directly personal data but can be traced back to the identity or an activity of the user. A first raw value is encrypted into a first token using a symmetric key encryption mechanism based on a combination of a second raw value including personal data of a user and a second token resulting from the tokenization of the second raw value where the first token is an anonymized representation of the first raw value.
US10783258B2
A device mountable on a pistol holster configured for detecting when a pistol is removed from the holster and, when removed, for activating a controller to receive, process, and record in memory audio signals from a microphone and to receive, process, and record in memory motion and compass direction signals. A connector is provided for transferring signal data to an external device configured with software for analyzing the acoustical characteristic of gunshots.
US10783249B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a method and apparatus for removing a root-privileged virus and an electronic device. The method includes: scanning the smart device to find a root-privileged virus file; obtaining a root-privileged removing process according to the virus file; and removing the root-privileged virus file according to a preset removing strategy by using the root-privileged removing process. As a root-privileged process is directly obtained in this embodiment by using a found virus file, the smart device can obtain the root privileges more quickly, improving the speed of killing the root-privileged virus.
US10783242B2
The disclosure relates to a method for protecting an operating system of a security system, which is stored in a working memory of a control device of a vehicle, against irregular modification.
US10783237B2
The present teaching relates to generating an identifier for a person. In one example, an actual name of the person is received. The identity of the person that is associated with the actual name of the person is proved at a pre-determined level of assurance (LOA) required by an identity management system. When the identity of the person has been proved, a peripheral name is solicited from the person. An identifier that includes the actual name and the peripheral name of the person is created. Whether the identifier is unique is determined. The steps of soliciting, creating, and determining are repeated until the identifier is unique. The peripheral name is associated with the person. The identifier is associated with the person.
US10783223B2
An implantable medical device and method are provided for comprising a sensing circuit that is configured to sense and output physiologic data indicative of a physiologic characteristic of a patient and at least one processor. A memory is coupled to the at least one processor. The memory stores program instructions and processed data. The program instructions are executable by the at least one processor to execute general operational functions within the IMD. A hybrid signal processing (HSP) circuit is coupled to the at least one processor and the sensing circuit. The HSP circuit is adapted to filter the physiologic data. The HSP circuit comprises a plurality of first order filters, a plurality of higher order filters, and a switch matrix that is configured to interconnect a combination of the first and higher order filters to form a hybrid digital filter having a select composite frequency response that utilizes no more than a select power demand.
US10783218B2
The present disclosure is applied to a variable group calculation apparatus for calculating an undetermined variable group that simultaneously minimizes a difference value and a data value. The difference value is a difference between an added composite value, which is obtained by adding and combining the undetermined variable group and a dictionary data group, and an observation data group. The data value includes the difference value and a regularization term of the undetermined variable group. The variable group calculation apparatus of the present disclosure includes a convolution unit configured to convert the regularization term to a convolution value for an L1 norm using the undetermined variable group and a mollifier function, and a calculation unit configured to perform the calculation using the regularization term, which is converted to the convolution value by the convolution unit.
US10783208B1
A service provider may determine that an electronic message sent from a first user device of a first user to a second user device of a second user includes a URL. The service provider may cause the URL to be unfurled, resulting in a preview of the URL, using a combination of a server-based process and a client-based process and one or more policies. Based on the policies, a cloud-based unfurling service may attempt to obtain metadata associated with the URL in order to unfurl the URL. If the server-based unfurling process is unable to unfurl the URL, the first device and/or the second device may obtain the metadata and unfurl the URL. As a result, the recipient of the message (e.g., the second user) may view an unfurled URL that includes a preview of a website corresponding to the URL (e.g., a title/headline, representative text, images, videos, etc.).
US10783206B2
A method for information recommendation is described. Processing circuitry obtains a first text content associated with which a recommendation is to be provided, segments the first text content into multiple words, and predicts a distribution of the first text content in a multi-dimensional topic space based on the multiple words. Further, the processing circuitry calculates a correlation between the first text content and a second text content in an information pool according to the distribution of the first text content in the multi-dimensional topic space. Then, the processing circuitry determines whether to output the second text content as the recommendation associated with the first text content according to the correlation.
US10783203B2
A data processing method is provided, wherein the method includes for each region in multiple regions, generating, according to a correspondence between location information of a user in a user group and the region, a user appearing information bit set corresponding to the region, where a bit value of each bit in the user appearing information bit set indicates whether a corresponding user in the user group appears in the region; receiving a request message carrying a region indication parameter; querying, according to the region indication parameter, for a user appearing information bit set corresponding to a region indicated by the region indication parameter, and performing data processing according to the found user appearing information bit set. Thus, a user appearing information bit set corresponding to a region is generated, thereby reducing data storage space, and increasing computing efficiency and a computing speed when performing data processing.
US10783198B2
A database management system provides row based filtering of data at a database level by evaluating content of at least one record of a write data request received from an application for a particular table from among at least one table of a database, against at least one filter rule specified for the particular table. The database management system selects, for the at least one record, whether to store the at least one record of the write data request as a separate row in the particular table based on a separate action triggered for the at least one record when evaluated against the at least one filter rule specified for the particular table, each record not selected for storage being silently discarded.
US10783195B2
Methods and Systems to display the results of a search operation are provided. More particularly the invention relates to a method to display search results comprising of key/value pairs.
US10783179B2
A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for article summarization. The mechanism analyzes an article to identify entities and relationships within the article. The article is an item of unstructured content. The mechanism performs information augmentation based on the identified entities and relationships using one or more cognitive services to collect augmented information from a corpus of information. The mechanism generates one or more visualization components based on the identified entities and relationships and the augmented information. The mechanism presents a summarization comprising the one or more visualization components to a user.
US10783178B2
Some implementations are directed to generating a personal database entry for a user based on free-form natural language input formulated by the user via one or more user interface input devices of a computing device of the user. The generated personal database entry may include one or more terms of the natural language input and descriptive metadata determined based on one or more terms of the natural language input and/or based on contextual features associated with receiving the natural language input. Some implementations are directed to generating, based on one or more personal database entries of a user, output that is responsive to further free-form natural language input of the user. For example, one or more entries that are responsive to further natural language input of the user can be identified based on matching content of those entries to one or more search parameters determined based on the further input.
US10783177B2
A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes receiving from a remote device a search query, generating a plurality of different category-directed result sets for the search query, determining an order for the plurality of category-directed result sets based on the search query, and transmitting the plurality of category-directed result sets to the remote device, in a manner that the result sets are to be displayed in the remote device in the determined order.
US10783172B2
Provided is a process of obtaining a plurality of location data sets from different providers of user geolocation history, each location data set including a plurality of user-activity records, each user-activity records being associated with a user identifier and including geolocations of the corresponding user and times that the corresponding user was at the geolocations, the different providers having different user identifiers for a given corresponding user; matching, by one or more processors, the user identifiers between the location data sets based on geolocations of the corresponding user and times that the corresponding user was at the geolocations; and storing the matched user identifiers in association with one another in corresponding user profiles.
US10783167B1
Described are techniques for modifying or creating classification data used to automatically classify items in an online marketplace or catalog, based on user interaction data. For one or more classification labels that may be applied to an item, user interaction data indicative of a count of instances that the label was accessed, a length of time during which the label was accessed, counts of instances that parent and child labels were accessed, and counts of instances that the label was accessed via a search query may be determined. Based on the user interaction data, an importance score for the label may be determined. Labels having an importance score greater than or equal to a threshold value may be included in classification data and used for subsequent classification of items. Labels having an importance score less than a threshold may be excluded from the classification data.
US10783164B2
Importation and exportation allows software services in blockchain environments. Blockchains may import data and export data, thus allowing blockchains to offer software services to clients (such as other blockchains). Individual users, businesses, and governments may create their own blockchains and subcontract or outsource operations to other blockchains. Moreover, the software services provided by blockchains may be publically ledgered by still other blockchains, thus providing two-way blockchain interactions and two-way ledgering for improved record keeping.
US10783163B2
The present application discloses an instance-based distributed data recovery method. A specific implementation of the method includes: detecting a non-master down node; allocating multiple secondary storage units corresponding to the down node to at least one online node; performing hash grouping on instances stored on logs and allocating the instances to multiple threads; and recovering data of multiple primary storage units in parallel inside the online node. Embodiments of the present invention recover data of a down node in a distributed database in parallel in nodes.
US10783159B2
Techniques for question answering involve receiving, from a user, a text input expressing a question in natural language. In response to the question, a text output expressing an answer to the question may be generated. A plurality of documents comprising natural language text may be analyzed, involving mapping the question to one or more hypotheses, analyzing at least one passage of text in at least one of the documents to determine whether the passage entails at least one of the hypotheses, and in response to determining that the passage entails at least one of the hypotheses, identifying the passage as providing supporting evidence for the answer to the question. The answer and the at least one passage identified as providing supporting evidence for the answer may be presented to the user in response to the text input.
US10783157B1
An online system provides a continuous feed of content items to a client device. The online system maintains an ordered set of ranked content items for sending to the client device. The online system receives requests from the client device for content items and selects a subset from an ordered set of ranked content items in response to each request. The number of content items in the subset may be based on factors such as the network connection strength of the client device. The client device re-ranks content items received from the online system based on information received during a given session. The session information may indicate the types of content items viewed during the given session, or the speed at which the user is viewing content items during the given session.
US10783149B2
An efficient blend of home/personal and work/productivity related content based on a user's intent is provided, wherein the user's intent can be determined based on context information, learned user interaction patterns, and historical work and home characteristics and patterns. The system is individualized to the user and operative to generate a user experience that provides a blend of relevant home/personal and work/productivity related information to the user based on the user's current work and life characteristics. From determined user intent, various aspects provide personalized computing experiences tailored to the user and, in some examples, incorporation of the user's patterns into an efficient blend of personal and productivity workflows. In further examples, the blend of home/personal and work/productivity related content and workflows are selectively displayed to the user such that screen resources are efficiently and advantageously allocated based on a determined relevance to the user's current work and life characteristics.
US10783145B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for block similarity based block level deduplication of data. An exemplary method comprises obtaining a deduplicated dataset comprising a plurality of unique data chunks; determining a number of differences between two of the unique data chunks; evaluating whether the number of differences satisfies a predefined similarity criteria (e.g., that the number of bit differences cannot exceed a specified limit); and storing metadata for a first one of the two unique data chunks if the predefined similarity criteria is satisfied for the two unique data chunks, wherein the metadata comprises a pointer to a second one of the two unique data chunks and bit differences between the two unique data chunks. The bit differences comprise an executable code and/or a bit mask. The predefined similarity threshold is optionally a tunable parameter. The first one of the two unique data chunks can be restored by processing the metadata.
US10783143B2
Techniques are described herein for computing columnar information during join enumeration in a database system. The computation occurs in two phases: the first phase involves a pre-computational phase that is only run once per query block to initialize and prepare a set of data structures. The second phase is an incremental approach that takes place for every query sub-plan. Upon completion of the second phase, the generated projected attributes of a query sub-plan are associated as columnar information associated with the query sub-plan, and used to compute the query execution cost. Subsequently, based on the computed query execution cost, the query sub-plan may be executed as part of the query execution plan.
US10783137B2
An identity management method includes comparing person-to-person relationship data of at least two identifiers of individuals to determine if the at least two identifiers have a relationship with a common third party identifier. The person-to-person relationship data is obtained from one or more sources and the at least two identifiers are the same or similar. When it is determined that the at least two identifiers have a relationship with a common third party identifier, the method further includes generating an output indicating that the at least two identifiers actually identify the same individual. The output can alternatively, or further, include a confidence level indicative of the confidence that the at least two identities do indeed identify the same individual. The person-to-person relationship analysis can be combined with other forms of identity matching, e.g., demographics.
US10783136B1
Method for writing objects into an object storage. Performing, on a protocol end point: receiving a client request for inserting an object into the object storage, wherein the object has a name and object data; generating a unique ID (UID) for the object; sending, to a name server (NS), a request for creating a guard entry (GE). The GE has a lifetime that defines when the name-object pair is inserted into the object storage. A request to an object server (OS) atomically creates a Garbage Collection Entry and assigns space for the object data. The GCE has a lifetime that defines when the object data is inserted into the object storage; sending, to the OS, object data for writing to storage; sending, to the NS, a request for writing the name; and sending response to the client, to report success after requests to the NS and the OS are successful.
US10783135B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that achieve eventual consistency of interrelated data in a computing system based on a relationship between the interrelated data (e.g., dependencies between interrelated data) and a configuration of an application programmed to consume the interrelated data. Exemplary embodiments can utilize one or more implicit or explicit dependency graphs, such as an implied or explicit directed acyclic graph corresponding to the interrelated data and the dependencies between the interrelated data. Subsets of the interrelated data can be associated with one or more groups or boundaries in the dependency graphs based on a configuration of applications programmed to consume the interrelated data and/or based on the dependencies between the interrelated data.
US10783118B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and devices for testing deduplication repositories. Methods may include identifying a storage location based on a request for one or more data values associated with a read-only file system, where the read-only file system is a simulated file system, and where the storage location is identified based on a plurality of request parameters included in the request. The methods may also include generating, using a processor and responsive to the request, the one or more data values based on the plurality of request parameters and a plurality of configuration parameters, where the plurality of configuration parameters enable deterministic generation of all data values stored in the tile system. The methods may further include returning the one or more data values as a result of the request.
US10783113B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a data retention framework that enforces archive eligibility criteria beyond a simple retention period are described. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a record that has been stored in a primary data store for at least a retention period prescribed for the record and evaluating the record to determine if archive eligibility criteria for the record are met. When the archive eligibility criteria is met, the record is marked as eligible for archiving. When the archive eligibility criteria is not met, the record is marked as not eligible for archiving.
US10783105B2
This communication network (18) extends between a plurality of input blocks (E1, . . . , EN1) comprising a predetermined number P1 of input ports and a plurality of output blocks (S1, . . . , SN2) comprising at least the same number P2 of output ports as the predetermined number P1. In this network, when the result of the multiplication of the number of input ports P1 by the number of input blocks N1 is even, the number N3 of switches is equal to: N 3 = N 1 × P 1 2 , and when the result of said multiplication is odd, the number N3 of switches is equal to: N 3 = N 1 × P 1 - 1 2 , and, for each switch, the first (30) and second (32) input terminals are each connected to different input blocks (E1, . . . , EN1) and the first (34) and second (36) output terminals are each connected to different output blocks (S1, . . . , SN2).
US10783099B2
The present disclosure relates to a framework application for device access software. The framework application can be installed on a host. At least one driver can be integrated into the framework application, said driver being designed for access to an associated field bus component of a field bus network. For each integrated driver, the framework application has a standard interface, via which data can be exchanged between the driver and the framework application. For at least some of the integrated drivers, the framework application has one or more proprietary interfaces in addition to the standard interface, via which proprietary interfaces data can be exchanged between the respective drivers and the framework application. Information regarding additional functionalities that are supported by the driver or by an associated field bus component can be transferred from the driver to the framework application via at least one of the proprietary interfaces.
US10783093B2
An example system for driver-to-driver communication can include a first driver located on a first network device and including a transmit data mover (XDM) to send a preformatted message over a fabric interconnect to a second driver located on a second network device. The example system can also include the second driver located on the second network device and including a receive data mover (RDM) to receive the preformatted message, generate an interrupt responsive to receipt of the preformatted message, and route the interrupt to the second driver. The second driver can read the preformatted message responsive to receipt of the interrupt.
US10783088B2
Methods, systems, and computer devices are included for data backup. An example method includes receiving an activation signal from a hardware input of a data storage device that is operating in a read-only mode. In response to receiving the activation signal, a backup application is provided from the data storage device to a computing device that is communicatively coupled to the data storage device. An authenticated session is established between the data storage device and the backup application that is executed on the computing device. Backup data from the computing device is received via the authenticated session. The authenticated session causes the data storage device to operate in at least a write mode with respect to the received backup data during the authenticated session. The received backup data is written to the data storage device. If the authenticated session is terminated, the data storage device returns to a read-only mode.
US10783087B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for using a machine learning module to select one of multiple cache eviction algorithms to use to evict a track from the cache. A first cache eviction algorithm determines tracks to evict from the cache. A second cache eviction algorithm determines tracks to evict from the cache, wherein the first and second cache eviction algorithms use different eviction schemes. At least one machine learning module is executed to produce output indicating one of the first cache eviction algorithm and the second cache eviction algorithm to use to select a track to evict from the cache. A track is evicted that is selected by one of the first and second cache eviction algorithms indicated in the output from the at least one machine learning module.
US10783085B1
Techniques are disclosed relating to filtering cache accesses. In some embodiments, a control unit is configured to, in response to a request to process a set of data, determine a size of a portion of the set of data to be handled using a cache. In some embodiments, the control unit is configured to determine filtering parameters indicative of a set of addresses corresponding to the determined size. In some embodiments, the control unit is configured to process one or more access requests for the set of data based on the determined filter parameters, including: using the cache to process one or more access requests having addresses in the set of addresses and bypassing the cache to access a backing memory directly, for access requests having addresses that are not in the set of addresses. The disclosed techniques may reduce average memory bandwidth or peak memory bandwidth.
US10783082B2
Implementations of the present specification provide a method for deploying a smart contract. According to the method in the implementations, in a phase of deploying a smart contract, a bytecode included in a contract module corresponding to the contract is obtained; and then the bytecode is parsed into executable instruction codes, and the executable instruction codes are stored in a cache memory. Further, a function index table is determined for import and export functions in the bytecode, where the function index table is used to indicate a memory address of an instruction code corresponding to each of the import and export functions; and the function index table is stored in the cache memory.
US10783074B2
A controller includes a memory device storing data and including a memory interface a processor; and a memory, wherein, when data is stored in all pages of an open block of a memory device, the processor determines a number of valid pages in the open block and performs a garbage collection on the open block when the number of valid page(s) is determined to be less than or equal to a threshold value, wherein the number ranges from zero to the total number of pages in the open block.
US10783072B2
According to one embodiment, a write instructing unit instructs a data access unit to write, in a storage area of a data storage unit indicated by a first physical address, write object data, instructs a management information access unit to update address conversion information, and instructs a first access unit to update the first physical address. A compaction unit extracts a physical address of compaction object data, instructs the data access unit to read the compaction object data stored in a storage area of the data storage unit indicated by the physical address, instructs the data access unit to write the compaction object data in a storage area of the data storage unit indicated by a second physical address, instructs the management information access unit to update the address conversion information, and instructs a second access unit to update the second physical address.
US10783068B2
A bias detection method, system, and computer program product to evaluate bias in an artificial intelligence service include selecting a bias context, the bias context having a bias specification associated with the bias context, generating test data for determining the bias in the artificial intelligence service based on the bias specification and the bias context, and testing the artificial intelligence service for the bias with the generated test data.
US10783062B2
A system may include a performance analytics database defining key performance indicators (KPIs) associated with the managed network and defining dashboards that are configured to specify, on a performance analytics graphical user interface (GUI) within a managed network, graphical representations of the KPIs. The system may also include a diagnostic database containing representations of a plurality of tests configured to determine whether the KPIs and the dashboards comply with pre-defined rules. The system may also include a computing device operational to execute a diagnostic software program configured to: obtain a representation of a particular test that includes a plurality of rules; apply each of the rules to the KPIs and the dashboards stored in the performance analytics database; and write, when applying at least one of the rules indicates a problem, an associated severity, problem description, and solution description to the diagnostic database as output of the particular test.
US10783061B2
A method for testing a user interface includes determining states and state transitions associated with the user interface. A first plurality of states and a first plurality of state transitions of the user interface may be explored. A subset of a second plurality of states and a second plurality of state transitions of the user interface may also be explored. Paths that lead to cycles within the subset of the second plurality of states and the second plurality of state transitions may be penalized.
US10783060B2
An example embodiment may involve receiving, from a client device, a request to access a web-based resource of a computational instance. One or more server devices disposed within the instance may be configured to be able to execute a plurality of program code units. A software application may be configured to identify one or more of the program code units that, since a previous software release for the instance or in a subsequent software release for the instance, have been modified or added, and store a corresponding change indication for each identified program code unit. The embodiment may also involve, as part of carrying out the request, executing a subset of the program code units, and may further involve generating and providing for display a representation of the web-based resource including a region specifying each of the subset of program code units for which there is a stored change indication.
US10783056B2
A novel and useful system and method of time traveling source code debugging including several advanced capabilities that significantly improve the source code debugging process. Upon hitting a breakpoint or opening a dump file, the debugger travels to the future which can be altered by a user by modifying code on the fly (live coding) and receiving immediate feedback to validate bug fixes. Visual annotations including values of variables and expressions are provided as a heads up display effectively flattening time and space. A pivoting capability allows a user to switch the execution context of the code at any time. Point in time links that store the state of the debugging session can be created and activated. An asynchronous collaboration and messaging system enables multiple participants to share a debugging session. An optional redaction capability is also provided for obscuring or replacing sensitive private information.
US10783055B2
A novel and useful system and method of time traveling source code debugging including several advanced capabilities that significantly improve the source code debugging process. Upon hitting a breakpoint or opening a dump file, the debugger travels to the future which can be altered by a user by modifying code on the fly (live coding) and receiving immediate feedback to validate bug fixes. Visual annotations including values of variables and expressions are provided as a heads up display effectively flattening time and space. A pivoting capability allows a user to switch the execution context of the code at any time. Point in time links that store the state of the debugging session can be created and activated. An asynchronous collaboration and messaging system enables multiple participants to share a debugging session. An optional redaction capability is also provided for obscuring or replacing sensitive private information.
US10783052B2
Systems for dynamically controlling data transmissions are provided. In some examples, a system may receive data from one or more computer systems. Data associated with an event may be extracted and the extracted data may be compared to one or more machine learning datasets to determine a likelihood that an issue associated with a computer system may occur. The system may determine whether the likelihood is greater than a predetermined threshold. If so, a modification to avoid the potential issue or mitigate an impact may be identified. The modification may be transmitted to and executed by the computer system to modify one or more aspects of the computer system. In some examples, one or more efficiency modifications may be identified based on the comparison of the extracted data to the machine learning datasets. The identified efficiency modification may be transmitted to and executed by the computer system to modify one or more aspects of the computer system.
US10783048B2
Embodiments are generally directed to high capacity energy backed memory with off device storage. A memory device includes a circuit board; multiple memory chips that are installed on the circuit board; a controller to provide for backing up contents of the memory chips when a power loss condition is detected; a connection to a backup energy source; and a connection to a backup data storage that is separate from the memory device.
US10783043B2
In the face of ransomware attacks, which can be increasingly difficult to effectively prevent, a solution can be considered to be the minimization of the cost and time taken to recover data and, hence business activities. Embodiments perform a restore operation that include automatically identifying the most recent healthy backup, from which data should be restored, and the prioritizing of the order in which data should be restored.
US10783042B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for preserving of data saved on a data storage device. An assessment is made as to the degradation of the data storage device, during which a determination is made of the rate of degradation and the probability of failure of the data storage device. When the probability is greater than a given threshold, the damaged sectors of the data storage device are identified by scanning of the surface of the data storage device. A worth grade (i.e., the value of the saved data to the user) is determined at least for data in sectors close to the damaged sectors on the basis of an analysis of at least the meta-data of the data. A decision is made as to the possible loss of data, and a backup copy is created based on the worth grade of the data and the rate of degradation of the data storage device.
US10783041B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to perform backup and recovery of data files using hard links are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include determining whether a first operation to be performed on a target file by a thread of a process is a file deletion operation, wherein the target file is referenced by a first hard link. Disclosed example methods also include creating, in response to the first operation being a file deletion operation, a second hard link to the target file, where the creation of the target hard link occurs while the thread of the process performing the deletion is blocked. Disclosed example methods further include returning control to the thread of the process performing the deletion after the second hard link is created to enable the operation to be performed on the target file.
US10783037B2
A data storage device with fault-tolerant design. The data storage device has a RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) engine that generates RAID checking code for user data requested in a write command. The user data is programmed to a non-volatile memory according to a target physical address indicated in the write command. The RAID checking code is programmed to the non-volatile memory according to a reserved physical address. The user data and the RAID checking code are programmed to a stripe of pages within a stripe of blocks.
US10783027B2
Techniques for implementing preemptive crash data capture are provided. According to one set of embodiments, a computer system can determine that a failure has occurred with respect to an application running on the computer system and, in response to the failure, collect context information pertaining to the application's state at the time of the failure. If the failure subsequently causes the application to crash, the computer system can generate a crash dump that includes the collected context information.
US10783026B2
An apparatus includes an interface configured to obtain data associated with multiple cables coupled to or forming a part of a redundant token bus control network. The apparatus also includes a traffic detector configured to determine whether valid data traffic is being received over the cables from the redundant token bus control network based on the data. The apparatus further includes at least one processing device configured to determine whether one or more of the cables has experienced a network fault or a return from a network fault based on the determination of whether valid data traffic is being received over the cables. The at least one processing device is also configured, in response to determining that one or more of the cables has experienced a network fault or a return from a network fault, to generate a notification that identifies the apparatus and the one or more cables and output the notification.
US10783011B2
Systems and methods are directed to efficient management of processor resources, particularly General Purpose Registers (GPRs), for example to minimize pipeline flushes prevent deadlocks by counting GPRs instead of allocating them to specific blocks of code. Blocks of code are allowed to execute if the Free GPRs count is adequate. The method contemplates counting the number of Register Writers in blocks of code which will write to GPRs which are in process of executing, and counting the GPRs which are available instead of merely allocating them to dedicated use by a block of code, or an instruction in a block of code. Because blocks do not run if there is not enough GPRs available for the block, deadlocks and pipeline flushes due to lack of resources can be minimized.
US10783006B2
A method for supporting stream processing framework functionality in a stream processing system, the stream processing system including one or more input modules, a stream processing platform, and computing nodes, includes deploying, by the stream processing platform using the input modules, tasks of at least one stream processing topology on the computing nodes based on both stream processing topology-related information and stream processing topology-external information. The method additionally includes preparing and executing, by the stream processing platform, the tasks of the at least one stream processing topology on the computing nodes.
US10783001B2
An information processing device configured to create an operation flow including a plurality of operation steps and specified with an order of execution of the operation steps includes an input unit configured to accept entries, a display unit, and a controller configured to cause a display to display a work region, arrange, onto the work region, objects indicative of the operation steps in accordance with the entries accepted by the input unit, and create an operation flow based on the arrangement of the objects on the work region.
US10782993B2
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a memory subsystem and a processor subsystem communicatively coupled to the memory subsystem and configured to execute a hypervisor, wherein the hypervisor is configured to host a plurality of virtual machines and host an interface to the memory subsystem, wherein the interface is configured to dynamically modify sizes of namespaces instantiated within the memory subsystem by maintaining super metadata associated with each of a plurality of memory modules of the memory subsystem, wherein the super metadata for a particular memory module of the memory subsystem includes one or more entries for the particular memory module, each entry defining a namespace of the particular memory module and recording an offset of the latest written data in the namespace.
US10782984B2
Interactive event creation control consoles are provided to facilitate the creation of events from a plurality of different content sources. In some instances, the event creation control consoles include two different frames, a content source frame for selecting content for corresponding content tiles and an event creation frame for identifying the content tiles to be published in an event canvas associated with a particular event and which is published differently on different end user systems based on the contextual event role of the end user and/or the different end user system configurations.
US10782976B2
A processor may include reservation stations to host instructions waiting to be issued to the execution units. Instructions in reservation stations comprise wrap bits and indexes, assigned by modulo counters. If wrap bits of two instructions are equal, then instruction with smaller index is older. If wrap bits of two instructions are different, then instruction with larger index is older. Responsive to exception event, wrap bit and index of an instruction executed with exception is compared with wrap bits and indexes of instructions in reservation stations to determine relative age. Instructions younger than the instruction executed with exception may be flushed from the reservation stations. Instructions in reservation stations may be grouped in pairs. In each pair, older ready instruction is selected using ready-to-issue bits, wrap bits, and indexes. Grouping and selecting instructions is repeated until one instruction remains. The remaining instruction is referred to as the oldest ready instruction.
US10782974B2
A VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) interface device includes a memory configured to store instructions and data, and a processor configured to process the instructions and the data, wherein the processor includes an instruction fetcher configured to output an instruction fetch request to load the instruction from the memory, a decoder configured to decode the instruction loaded on the instruction fetcher, an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) configured to perform an operation function if the decoded instruction is an operation instruction, a memory interface scheduler configured to schedule the instruction fetch request or a data fetch request that is input from the arithmetic logic unit, and a memory operator configured to perform a memory access operation in accordance with the scheduled instruction fetch request or data fetch request.
US10782973B2
A method includes a computer device receiving a branch instruction; the computer device managing two tables, where a first table relates to application blocks and a second table relates to available address slots; and the computer device calculating a target of the branch instruction using a branch-to-link register, the computer device optimizes re-wiring in a cache using the calculation and the managed two tables.
US10782951B2
A device which runs software applications includes a network interface, a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and at least one processor. The device identifies that a link for installation of a new software application is selected by user interaction with a software application that is running on the device. In response to the identification, an installation client is invoked to run in the background on the device without exiting the currently-running software application. The installation client is instructed to automatically download an installation file of the new software application over the network using the network interface. The new software application is installed on the device using the downloaded installation file.
US10782939B2
A computer program predictor is described which has a processor configured to access a program attribute predictor; and a memory storing a search component configured to search a space of possible programs, to find a program which, given an input data instance and an output data instance, will compute the output data instance from the input data instance, the search being guided by attributes predicted by the attribute predictor given the input data instance and the output data instance.
US10782935B2
A method and apparatus for generating an application flow logic are disclosed which include performing an initialization process based on storage of at least one software toolbox in a toolbox list of a computer memory device; parsing an application description into a series of module descriptors; creating a module primitive defined in a dictionary as a data string representing a name of a tool in the software toolbox, and a data string for least one of: an input, an output, or a data string; producing a module for each module primitive, an input to each tool being produced as an output of another tool; assembling an application flow logic as a combination of produced modules; and providing access to the application flow logic for execution as a combination of calls to the produced modules stored in the computer memory device.
US10782933B2
Implementations of this specification provide a method and apparatus for computer data processing for large number operations. An example method performed by a computing device includes splitting a multiplier and a multiplicand into respective four 64-bit numbers from most significant bits to least significant bits; reading the split multipliers and the split multiplicands into a register; and obtaining a multiplication processing result for the multiplier and the multiplicand by performing operations including: classifying the split multipliers and the split multiplicands into groups of data pairs, calculating multiplication results of the groups of data pairs one by one, performing accumulation on multiplication results of data pairs in each group, and storing an accumulation result corresponding to the data pairs in memory as the multiplication processing result for the multiplier and the multiplicand.
US10782931B2
A control system includes a data access circuit and a control circuit. The system coordinates an asynchronous FIFO process between a write circuit operating according to a first clock and a read circuit operating according to a second clock. The data access circuit controls the write circuit to write data into a memory buffer and controls the read circuit to read the data from the memory buffer. The control circuit generates a write index according to the first clock and a read index according to the second clock. The control circuit calculates multiple water levels according to the write index and the read index and obtains a median water level. The control circuit controls the access circuit to execute the asynchronous FIFO process at a time point corresponding to the median water level, so that a data exchange is performed via the memory buffer.
US10782929B2
Systems, devices, apparatuses, components, methods, and techniques for cadence and media content phase alignment are provided. An example media-playback device includes a content output device that operates to output media content, a cadence-acquiring device, a phase-delay calibration engine, a cadence-based media content selection engine, and a phase-aligned media playback engine. The cadence-acquiring device includes a movement-determining device and a cadence-determination engine configured to determine a cadence based on movement data captured by the movement-determining device. The phase-delay calibration engine configured to determine phase delay values for at least one cadence value. The cadence-based media content selection engine configured to identify a media content item based on the cadence determined by the cadence-acquiring device. The phase-aligned media playback engine configured to align the identified media content item to the repetitive-motion activity and cause the media-output device to output the aligned media content item.
US10782928B2
An apparatus and method for providing various audio environments in a multimedia content playback system are disclosed. The content processing terminal of the multimedia content playback system includes an audio signal processor for processing the audio source of multimedia content to produce a voice source and a background source, a controller for controlling the audio signal processor to adjust at least one of the voice source and the background source in accordance with a volume control signal, a GUI processor for acquiring a graphical user interface (GUI) component corresponding to the volume control signal, and a display processor for processing the GUI component and providing the processed GUI component to a display device.
US10782919B2
A command processing method and a storage controller are provided. The command processing method includes performing a command merging process on commands sequentially received by a command queue. The command merging process includes an initialization step and multiple iterations. The initialization step includes transmitting the commands from the command queue to a continuity checking pool (CCP), transmitting an initial command of the commands from the CCP to a continuity list (CL) and setting a range of the CL. Each of the iterations includes transmitting the commands from the command queue to the CCP; determining whether the commands in the CCP and the range of the CL conform to a continuity condition; and when the commands in the CCP and the range conform to the continuity condition, appending the first command to the CL and resetting the range of the CL according to the first command.
US10782914B2
A buffer system may include a buffer configured to receive input data having an assigned priority level, store the input data within a memory stack regardless of the priority level assigned to the input data, and sequentially output the input data stored in the memory stack in order of the priority levels assigned to the input data.
US10782906B1
A memory subsystem obtains commands from a host system to relate data items. Relationship data stored in a memory of the memory subsystem is updated to include relations between data items stored in a media of the memory subsystem. The memory subsystem obtains commands from the host system to read data items related to a specified data item. Based on the relationship data, the memory subsystem determines or identifies data items related to the specified data item and locates the related data items based on mapping data stored in the memory that includes physical addresses of the related data items on the media. The memory subsystem sends the related data items to the host system.
US10782902B2
A method includes providing a device with transmitter parameters set to default factory values. The method also includes receiving, in the device, one or more write commands with test data patterns, and executing, in the device, the one or more write commands to store the test data patterns on a non-transitory data storage medium of the device. The method further includes receiving, in the device, one or more read commands for the test data patterns, and reading the test data patterns from the non-transitory data storage medium. The read test data patterns are communicated by a signal that is sent via the device transmitter. A command instructing the device to update the transmitter parameters values is received, in the device, when a device transmitter signal integrity for the signal communication is below a predetermined threshold.
US10782893B2
A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes receiving a first command to inhibit one or more tracks within a volume of a storage system, in response to the first command, identifying the one or more tracks within the volume of the storage system, utilizing the first command or a previous command, and inhibiting the one or more tracks within the volume of the storage system, receiving a second command to copy data to the one or more tracks within the volume of the storage system, identifying the one or more tracks within the volume of the storage system as inhibited, and rejecting the second command, in response to the identifying.
US10782883B1
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for the assessing of data reduction potential of a source repository of a source module, by a central module, the generation of data savings potential statistics of the source repository by the central module, and the subsequent generation of visual representation of the statistics, and displaying of the visual representation of data reduction potential information.
US10782879B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory including physical blocks, and a controller. The controller manages namespaces. The namespaces include at least a first namespace for storing a first type of data, and a second namespace for storing a second type of data having a lower update frequency than the first type of data. The controller allocates a first number of physical blocks as a physical resource for the first namespace, and allocates a second number of physical blocks as a physical resource for the second namespace, based on a request from a host device specifying an amount of physical resources to be secured for each of the namespaces.
US10782878B2
An electronic device and a display processing method where the device includes a first body having a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other; a connecting body having a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other; a second body having a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other, which is connected to the first body through the connecting body. The electronic device has a first outer surface and a second outer surface; a first display arranged on at least a part of region on the first outer surface of the display having at least two modes of a second mode and a third mode; and a processor operative to control a third interface having at least a first sub interface and a second sub interface to be displayed on the third region in the third mode.
US10782875B2
A method for taking medically precise measurements with a multi-touch input surface 206 having the steps of displaying, by a graphical user interface: a first point 101 on an ultrasound image 103, wherein the first point 101 is configured to translate with two dimensions of translational freedom upon actuation by a user, and a floating magnification window 102, wherein displaying the floating magnification window 102 comprises calculating a square frame based on the first point 101, a size of an area of magnification, a width of the multi-touch input surface 206, and a height of the multi-touch input surface 206, wherein the square frame is configured to crop a copy 104 of the ultrasound image 103.
US10782874B2
The simple gesture control of the user interface can be used by visually impaired or blind people in order to enter telephone numbers or account numbers for example. The user interface and the method constitute a shift from the current paradigm of guiding a user on touchscreens, which has precisely the advantage of the handeye coordination allowed by the touchscreen, wherein a user touches the exact location on the touchscreen where a corresponding selection surface is visualized. Instead, a swiping gesture is supported which can be carried out in any region on the touch-sensitive surface and shifts the focus from one selection surface or virtual button to the next. The swiping gesture can be carried out not just in the horizontal and vertical direction but also in a diagonal direction. Diagonal swiping gestures allow a particularly quick selection of the corresponding virtual buttons.
US10782870B1
A method for reviewing a document using a computing device, the computing device comprising a display for displaying the document in a user interface (UI) and one or more processors, the processor for executing a plurality of computer readable instructions, the computer readable instruction for implementing the method, the method includes displaying to a user within a document one or more pinned indicators, each of the one or more pinned indicators associated with respective certain information in the document, detecting the selection of one of the one or more pinned indicators, directing the user to the certain information associated with the selected pinned indicator, and receiving a confirmation that the user has reviewed the certain information associated with the selected pinned indication.
US10782869B2
An information processing device includes an operating unit, and a control unit for switching, when dragging is performed which is an operation to change a predetermined value via the operating unit, between changing the value by an amount equivalent to the amount of dragging, and setting a change speed of the value according to the dragging and continue to change the value at the change speed, according to the position of an ending point as to a starting point of the dragging.
US10782868B2
A method comprising: enabling display at a first target location in a display image of a first portion of an image; and enabling, in response to a defined user action, non-linear image-content-dependent navigation to a second portion of the image to change the display image to include at a second target location in the display image the second portion of the image, wherein the second portion of the image is dependent upon a content of the image.
US10782867B2
An instruction associated with a first sliding control is received, where the first sliding control is located on a first side of a second sliding control, and where the received instruction instructs the first sliding control to be slid to a second side of the second sliding control. The first sliding control is slid to the second side of the second sliding control in response to receiving the instruction.
US10782865B2
A parameterized sensory system uses interactions with a graphical user interface to reduce a disturbance level associated with information particular to a user. Parameters indicative of a reminder phrase related to the information and an initial rating for the disturbance level are received. The graphical user interface is operated. Input indicative of interaction with the graphical element during the operation of the graphical user interface is received. Another parameter indicative of a new rating for the disturbance level is received thereafter. The user interaction causes a reduction to the disturbance level such that the new rating is lower than the initial rating. The user interaction is without active processing by the user as to the reminder phrase or the information such that the cause of the reduction to the disturbance level is related to the user interaction with the input interface without the active processing.
US10782862B2
For certain medical images, it is important and/or required that a user view all of a medical image at full resolution so that minute, but important, indicia in the medical image are not missed. A computing systems monitor the portions of the medical image that are displayed on the display device, notates those portions that have been displayed at full resolution (or other user-defined display parameters), and provides the user with information indicating portions that have not been viewed at full resolution and/or provides information indicating for which images of a multiple image examination full pixel display has been accomplished. The process reduces the possibility of missing an abnormality in a medical image due to the viewer not viewing a portion of the image at full resolution or using other user defined display parameters.
US10782859B2
Disclosed herein is a system comprising a user interface comprising an edit region in operative communication with a processor; where the processor is in operative communication with one or more modules; where the processor is operative to receive from the user interface a selection of words in the form of a sentence; use a grammar test to determine if the sentence is grammatically accurate; to parse the sentence and offer a user a choice of words to improve an accuracy of the sentence; where the choice of words is based upon a weighted probability of several possible words that can improve the accuracy of the sentence; and permitting the user to install his/her word choice in the sentence by performing an action involving one or more of swiping, tilting, steering or tapping of the user interface.
US10782852B1
A graphical user interface (GUI) for a messaging or chat application on a mobile electronic device launches, responsive to user-selection of a particular message cell in the GUI, a contextual message overlaid on an underlying scrollable message board or list. The action menu comprises a preview area displaying a preview of message content of the selected message cell, and further comprises one or more user-selectable action items for executing respective corresponding user actions with respect to the selected message. The preview area is automatically scaled and positioned dependent on one or more attributes of the selected message cell.
US10782832B2
Disclosed is a touch screen, comprising a touch area, provided with a plurality of first conductive lines extending along a first direction and a plurality of second conductive lines extending along a second direction, and the second conductive line is insulated from and overlapped with the first conductive line, and each of the first conductive lines comprises a plurality of first sensing electrodes arranged at intervals and connecting strips, and each of the second conductive lines comprises a plurality of second sensing electrodes arranged at intervals and connecting bridges; a U-shaped notch area is disposed in the touch area, and the U-shaped notch area intercepts at least one first conductive line or/and at least one second conductive line; the first conductive line intercepted by and located at two sides of the U-shaped notch area is connected electrically to achieve connection to the bonding area of the touch screen.
US10782824B2
A main control board is disposed in an accommodation space, is connected to an interactive display portion, and controls at least the interactive display portion. A power supply board is disposed in an accommodation space, is connected to the interactive display portion and the main control board, and supplies power to the interactive display portion and the main control board. A plug receiving portion is provided on a left plate which is one of a plurality of side plates, is connected to the power supply board, and has connected thereto by the attraction force of a magnet, a magnet-type plug of a magnetic cord that can be connected to an external power supply.
US10782822B2
Described in detail herein are systems and methods for an augmented touch-sensitive display system. A portable electronic device can render on the touch-sensitive display a physical scene within the field of view of the image capturing device. The portable electronic device, can parse the physical scene rendered on the touch-sensitive display into discrete elements based on dimensions of items in the physical scene. The portable electronic device can superimpose a selectable link on the at least one of the discrete elements on the touch-sensitive display. In response to a first user gesture on the touch-sensitive display, corresponding with selection of the selectable link, augmenting, via portable electronic device, the physical scene rendered on the touch-sensitive display to superimpose physical object information associated with string of alphanumeric characters corresponding to the selectable link and one or more additional dynamically generated selectable links on the physical scene rendered on the display.
US10782809B2
A display and detection system including an image sensor, a display screen and an antireflection system covering the display screen and the image sensor, such an antireflection system including an electrically-controllable rectilinear polarizer.
US10782807B2
The purpose of the present invention is to realize a flexible display device with a touch sensor that flexibility is maintained in a normal operation as a display; however, rigidity is added to the display device when the touch sensor is used. The representative structure of the invention is, a display device comprising: a touch sensor and a display panel, wherein a laminated body of a first actuator and a second actuator is adhered to the rear surface of the display panel, the first actuator itself can bend when voltage is applied, the second actuator itself can bend when voltage is applied.
US10782806B2
The present exemplary embodiments relate to a touch display device and a driving method thereof. A touch sensing time period is divided into a period when the touch is sensed by a self capacitive sensing manner and a period when the touch is sensed by a mutual capacitive sensing manner and a ground signal modulated to be the same as the touch driving signal is output to the display panel during the time period when the touch is sensed by the self capacitive sensing manner. By doing this, the parasitic capacitance in the display panel is reduced, sensitivity of touch sensing is improved, and various touch functions are provided.
US10782802B2
Examples are disclosed herein that relate to user input. One example provides a method comprising receiving user inputs from a user input device, monitoring a touch-sensitive display device for detection of a presence of the user input device via the touch-sensitive display device, when the user input device is detected by the touch-sensitive display device, utilizing a first user input mode in which a first user interface is displayed on the touch-sensitive display device at a location based upon a location of the input device on the touch-sensitive display device, and when the user input device is not detected by the touch-sensitive display device, utilizing a second user input mode in which a second user interface is displayed at a location on the touch-sensitive display device not based upon a location of the input device.
US10782801B1
An input device includes a digital pad and a digital pen. When a color picking switch of the digital pen is pressed by the user, the color picking switch generates a color picking signal. The color picking signal is transmitted to the digital pad or a computer through a wireless transmission module of the digital pen. According to the color picking signal, a color pointed through the digital pen is picked.
US10782795B2
A mechanical button that is adjacent to a touch screen that allows for the forceful activation of a computer touch screen by a user without such force of activation of the disclosed button by the user causing damage to the touch screen. This disclosed button is comprised of at least 2 sections that can be caused to compress relative to one another along their common linier axis and the disclosed button is supported by a structure other than the face of the touch screen. The disclosed button, unlike a lighted area on a flat touch screen, provides the user with tactile feedback when the button is activated and the disclosed button further creates a three dimensional visual target that facilitates the user's ability to see the button in their peripheral field of vision, rather than seeing only a lighted area on a flat touch screen.
US10782788B2
A processing device, server, and method are provided. According to some illustrative embodiments, the device and method are implemented by detecting a face region of an image, setting at least one action region according to the position of the face region, comparing image data corresponding to the at least one action region to detection information for purposes of determining whether or not a predetermined action has been performed, and executing predetermined processing based on cooperation control information when it is determined that the predetermined action has been performed and the cooperation control information is received.
US10782781B2
A computer input device system that includes a finger-wearable input unit that is capable of providing inputs in a two-dimensional plane or in three-dimensional space. The inventive subject matter also includes a mouse frame that receives the finger-wearable unit, allowing a user to quickly transition from the finger-wearable unit to the mouse frame for traditional table-top mouse operation and back. The mouse frame includes features that allow for simple, easy and precise docking and undocking of the finger-wearable unit. The finger-wearable unit can be made up of separable modules and links that allow for reconfiguration of the finger-wearable unit according to a users needs.
US10782769B2
A communication device includes a communication circuit and circuitry. The communication circuit executes a function related to communication. The circuitry detects an input signal input to the communication circuit, transitions the communication device between a first power state, and a second power state in which the communication device consumes less power than in the first power state, and changes a clock frequency of the communication circuit. When the input signal is detected in the second power state of the communication device, the circuitry changes the clock frequency of the communication circuit while maintaining the second power state.
US10782750B1
The present disclosure describes an intake system for a fan module within a computer system. The intake system includes a cowling positioned in line with an intake path of the fan module. The cowling is configured to direct air into the fan module. The system further includes a remote intake that has a remote inlet, a remote outlet, and a remote conduit. The remote inlet is configured to intake air from around an element that is within the computer system and outside of the intake path of the fan module. The remote outlet is configured to discharge the air from the remote inlet into the intake path of the fan module. The remote conduit is configured to transport the air from the remote inlet to the remote outlet.
US10782749B2
A circuit assembly is provided which makes efficient us of space provided on a main board having a CPU and a supporting board which is designed to have a network interface chip (NIC). The circuit assembly further has a cooling plate situated between the two boards, which is optimized to provide efficient cooling operations. The circuit assembly is part of a blade, which includes a housing to contain and support all necessary components. The space within the blade housing is efficiently used, so that processing, communication and cooling operations are all optimized.
US10782747B2
A solid state drive (SSD) storage bay includes storage trays and connector cards. A storage tray has a an interposer and an SSD module. A connector of the interposer is connected to a connector of the SSD module, and another connector of the interposer is connected to a connector of a connector card. The connector card includes terminals that connect to a bus of a computer system. The interposer includes wirings that allow electrical signals to propagate between the two connectors of the interposer. The interposer includes circuitry that allow for voltage regulation of supply voltage, level shifting, and hot-swapping.
US10782744B2
Provided is a flexible hinge system for a laptop computer. The flexible hinge system includes a base that is removably secured to a monitor via an elongated flexible member. The elongated flexible member includes a plurality of rotatable hinge segments, wherein a first distal end of the elongated flexible member is removably secured to the base, and a second distal end of the elongated flexible member is removably secured to the monitor. The monitor is adjustable relative to the base, such that once positioned, the monitor remains in a stationary position when supported by elongated flexible member and the base.
US10782743B2
A keyboard device is provided. The keyboard device includes a baseplate, a set of keytops, a frame, and a set of plate members. The set of keytops is supported in a vertically movable manner on an upper surface side of the baseplate. The frame mounted on the upper surface side of the baseplate, and the frame includes a set of openings in which the keytops are inserted in a vertically movable manner. The set of plate members arranged along a longer direction within the baseplate, and bridges that connect adjacent plate members. The adjacent plate members are arranged with a gap provided between end surfaces thereof that oppose each other and are relatively movable through at least the bridges in a direction in which the plate members are arranged.
US10782734B2
A dynamically flexible, attachable article, such as a wristband or an armband, includes a flexible electronic component coupled to a flexible support in a manner that is bendable or conformable to a user's wrist or other curved surface in a manner that makes the flexible electronic component easily viewable to the user. The attachable article also includes a connection mechanism disposed proximate to one or both of first and second ends of the attachable article to connect two different portions of the article together.
US10782730B2
A first device operates synchronously with a second device, and includes a hardware clock having an adjustable clock frequency and a software clock configured to derive time in dependence on the hardware clock. A controller determines a synchronisation error between the software clock and a clock of the second device, and adjusts the clock frequency of the hardware clock in dependence on the synchronisation error so as to synchronise the hardware clock to a hardware clock of the second device.
US10782726B2
In one embodiment, a computer program product for optimizing core utilization in a neurosynaptic network includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, where the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, and where the program instructions are executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method including identifying, by the processor, one or more unused portions of a neurosynaptic network, and for each of the one or more unused portions of the neurosynaptic network, disconnecting, by the processor, the unused portion from the neurosynaptic network.
US10782718B2
A method for automatically testing a voltage regulator, including: providing an auto-test setting to a test master, wherein the auto-test setting specifies an auto-sweep setting and a loop comprising an ordered set of serial command frames; producing, in the test master, a test suite comprising a plurality of serial command frames by executing the loop multiple times according to the auto-sweep setting until an array of a preset variable corresponding to the auto-sweep setting is traversed, wherein the preset variable is changed in each iteration of the loop; sequentially transmitting every serial command frame to the voltage regulator; and receiving every resulting behavior of the voltage regulator when operated in accordance with the every serial command frame.
US10782714B2
A heat dissipation system for a smart piano may include a heat dissipation driver, a heat dissipation device, a sensor, a protection circuit and a hardware processor. The sensor may be configured to detect a thermal parameter of an execution device of the smart piano. The protection circuit may be configured to analyze the thermal parameter to generate a protection signal. The hardware processor may be configured to determine a preset algorithm, generate a control signal according to the protection signal and the preset algorithm, and control a heat dissipation condition of the smart piano. The controlling the heat dissipation condition of the smart piano may include control an operation condition of the execution device and/or the heat dissipation device. The controlling may include controlling an output power of the execution device and/or the heat dissipation device.
US10782693B2
A prediction-based system and method for trajectory planning of autonomous vehicles are disclosed. A particular embodiment is configured to: receive training data and ground truth data from a training data collection system, the training data including perception data and context data corresponding to human driving behaviors; perform a training phase for training a trajectory prediction module using the training data; receive perception data associated with a host vehicle; and perform an operational phase for extracting host vehicle feature data and proximate vehicle context data from the perception data, using the trained trajectory prediction module to generate predicted trajectories for each of one or more proximate vehicles near the host vehicle, generating a proposed trajectory for the host vehicle, determining if the proposed trajectory for the host vehicle will conflict with any of the predicted trajectories of the proximate vehicles, and modifying the proposed trajectory for the host vehicle until conflicts are eliminated.
US10782692B2
A ship handling device capable of executing dynamic positioning control. While the dynamic positioning control is being active, if a distance deviation from a target position exceeds a predetermined value and a first condition that a state where a moving amount of the ship per unit time is not more than a predetermined amount has continued for a predetermined period is satisfied, or if an orientation deviation from a target orientation exceeds a predetermined value and a second condition that a state where a turning amount of the ship per unit time is not more than a predetermined amount has continued for a predetermined period is satisfied, a thrust setting value resulting from the dynamic positioning control at a determination on the first or second condition is stored as a reference value, and the reference value is added to a thrust setting value subsequently resulting from the dynamic positioning control.
US10782687B2
The present disclosure relates to a driving control apparatus, a driving control method, and a program that can resolve a conflict between a deliberate action and a reflex action during determination of a next action in autonomous driving.During autonomous driving, a reflex action is determined as a simplified action on the basis of detection results detected by a variety of sensors provided in a vehicle, and a deliberate action ranked higher than a reflex action is determined through elaborate processing. A plurality of resolution modes are made available to deal with a possible conflict between the reflex action and the deliberate action, and by which of the resolution modes the conflict is resolved is specified in advance so that the conflict is resolved by the specified resolution mode. The present disclosure is applicable to motor vehicles that drive autonomously.
US10782680B2
Distress models can be generated to model current or future deterioration of components. By correlating distress models with maintenance costs and material consumption, cumulative cost models and cumulative material models can be developed to optimize engine removal timing in order to maximize asset and portfolio value.
US10782676B2
A modular work cell for a production robot includes a base module, on which at least one production robot is arranged, disposed inside the modular work cell. The modular work cell further includes wall elements, a control cabinet, an access, and a feed unit for workpieces which is arranged between the access and the production robot. The base module, the control cabinet, the feed unit and the access form a mechanically and electrically interconnected transport assembly configured for transport. The wall elements can be transported separate from the transport assembly.
US10782672B2
A method performed by a control system for a work machine includes receiving machine data indicative of operating parameters on the work machine, receiving a set of performance scores indicative of relative machine performance in a set of different performance categories, each performance score being generated by a different performance score generator based on sensor data associated with the work machine, accessing a set of rules that each map one or more triggering conditions to a corresponding adjustment action on the work machine, identifying a set of potential adjustment actions by evaluating fulfillment of the set of rules based on the operating parameters and performance scores, and correlating each potential adjustment action to one or more of the performance categories, selecting a particular adjustment action, from the set of potential adjustment actions, based on an indication of a selected target performance category, and outputting a control instruction based on the particular adjustment action.
US10782664B2
A production system includes a cell control apparatus that is connected to a machine control apparatus and an inspection control apparatus. The cell control apparatus includes a storage part that stores data on a state of the manufacturing machine, data on an environment state, and data on an inspection result of a product. The cell control apparatus includes a correlation analysis part that selects a variable relating to an abnormality based on a correlation between the inspection result of the product, and the data on the state of the manufacturing machine and the data on the environment state when the abnormality occurs in the inspection result, and a determination value setting part that sets a determination value of the variable relating to the abnormality.
US10782643B2
A toner cartridge according to one example embodiment includes a housing having a reservoir for holding toner. A first latch-receiving shelf is positioned on a first longitudinal end of the housing and a second latch-receiving shelf is positioned on a second longitudinal end of the housing. Contact surfaces on top portions of the first and second latch-receiving shelves are positioned to contact corresponding first and second latches in an image forming device. The contact surface of the first latch-receiving shelf is positioned lower than a first rotational axis of a first drive coupler of the toner cartridge and higher than a second drive coupler of the toner cartridge. The contact surface of the second latch-receiving shelf is positioned lower than at least a portion of a first electrical contact of the toner cartridge and higher than at least a portion of a second electrical contact of the toner cartridge.
US10782639B2
A measurement apparatus includes a sheet stacking portion provided above a first conveyance path and on which a second sheet discharged out of a second conveyance path is stacked. The sheet stacking portion includes an extension tray configured to support the sheet discharged out of the second conveyance path and to be movable between a first position and a second position, the first position being a position where the extension tray is located inside a width of the measurement apparatus in the horizontal direction, and the second position being a position where the extension tray is located above an upstream apparatus and is overlapped with the upstream apparatus when viewed in a gravity direction.
US10782638B2
A heater of an embodiment includes a substrate, a resistance heating element, and a thermistor. The substrate includes a first surface and a second surface located on the side opposite to the first surface. The resistance heating element is disposed on the first surface. The thermistor is disposed on the second surface and does not contain lead.
US10782635B2
An intermediate transfer body includes: a base layer made of a resin; and a surface layer disposed on the base layer, wherein the surface layer is an integral object of inorganic oxide and contains a black titanium compound dispersed in the surface layer.
US10782633B2
A printing apparatus and method are disclosed for printing on three-dimensional objects. The apparatus employs an offset printing process in which an ink image is deposited onto an intermediate transfer member (ITM) having the form of a flexible endless belt. After drying of the ink image on the ITM, the ITM transports the dried ink image to an impression station having a nip at which the ITM is compressed between an object and an impression surface, so that the dried ink image is transferred from the ITM to the object. The impression surface may form part of a stationary anvil, the ITM sliding relative to the impression surface during passage through the impression station. To optimize throughput, the velocity of the ITM relative to the surface of the object at the impression station may be greater than the velocity of the ITM relative to the imaging station.
US10782626B2
An image forming apparatus includes a transfer belt, a plurality of endless rotational bodies, an image forming device, a pattern sensor, and processing circuitry. The image forming device forms correction patterns including a first pattern as a straight line pattern orthogonal to a conveyance direction of the correction patterns and a second pattern as one of a straight line pattern orthogonal to and an oblique line pattern inclined with respect to the conveyance direction. The processing circuitry causes the image forming device to form the correction patterns using a correction value such that the second pattern included in one correction pattern on the transfer belt is same in color and shape as the second pattern included in at least one correction pattern of a preceding correction pattern and a following correction pattern in the conveyance direction with respect to the one correction pattern.
US10782622B2
A photoreceptor for electrophotography, a method for manufacturing the photoreceptor, and an electrophotographic device including the photoreceptor are disclosed. The photoreceptor for electrophotography includes a conductive substrate; and a photosensitive layer that is provided on the conductive substrate and that has an outermost surface layer containing at least a resin binder and an electron transport material. The resin binder is composed of a polyarylate resin having a structural unit represented by a Chemical Structural Formula 1, and the electron transport material is composed of a compound having a structure represented by a Structural Formula (ET2-3). The photoreceptor has high sensitivity, low residual electric potential, no light fatigue and sufficient stain resistance.
US10782619B2
A movable body apparatus is provided with: a substrate holder which holds a substrate and which can move in the X- and Y-axis directions; a Y coarse movement stage which can move in the Y-axis direction; a first measurement system which acquires position information on substrate holder by means of heads provided on substrate holder and a scale provided on Y coarse movement stage; a second measurement system which acquires position information on Y coarse movement stage by means of heads provided on Y coarse movement stage and a scale; and a control system which controls the position of substrate holder based on position information acquired by first and second measurement systems. The first measurement system irradiates a measurement beam while moving heads in X-axis direction with respect to the scale, and second measurement system irradiates a measurement beam while moving heads in Y-axis direction with respect to the scale.
US10782610B2
Stabilized precursor solutions can be used to form radiation inorganic coating materials. The precursor solutions generally comprise metal suboxide cations, peroxide-based ligands and polyatomic anions. Design of the precursor solutions can be performed to achieve a high level of stability of the precursor solutions. The resulting coating materials can be designed for patterning with a selected radiation, such as ultraviolet light, x-ray radiation or electron beam radiation. The radiation patterned coating material can have a high contrast with respect to material properties, such that development of a latent image can be successful to form lines with very low line-width roughness and adjacent structures with a very small pitch.
US10782598B2
An interchangeable lens assembly includes a plurality of lens-side claw portions and a lock pin concave portion. Furthermore, internal angles of a quadrangle formed by connecting a center of a first lens-side claw portion, a center of a second lens-side claw portion, a center of a third lens-side claw portion, and a center of the lock pin concave portion satisfies a predetermined condition.
US10782597B2
There are provided a plurality of terminals disposed in a circumferential direction of a second mount of an image capturing apparatus. The plurality of terminals correspond to a plurality of terminals disposed in a circumferential direction of a first mount of an accessory. The plurality of terminals of the image capturing apparatus include a first terminal used to supply power for driving an internal component of the accessory, and a second terminal used to supply power for controlling communication with the accessory. The first and second terminals are disposed further in a mount direction of the accessory than the other terminals of the image capturing apparatus on a predetermined stage of the terminal holder. An inter-terminal pitch between the first and second terminals is wider than at least one pitch among inter-terminal pitches of the other terminals.
US10782596B2
A rotation activated quick-release mount. A rack and pinion system converts rotation of a housing into linear expansion and contraction of the housing. A modular plate may be removably coupled with the housing. A biasing device may urge the housing into a base position. The plate may be installed when the housing is in the base position.
US10782591B2
An optical unit may include an optical module; a supporting member; a rotation supporting mechanism to support the supporting member; a fixing member supporting the supporting member; and a rolling magnetic driving mechanism. The rotation supporting mechanism may include a rolling bearing. The rolling magnetic driving mechanism may include a magnet and a coil. The fixing member may include a main body; a spring member; and a movable holder. The movable holder may oppose the supporting member. The supporting member may include a supporting member side opposing part. The rolling bearing may include an inner ring; an outer ring; and a ball that rolls between the inner ring and the outer ring. The movable holder may hold either one of the magnet and the coil, and the supporting member side opposing part holds the other. The spring member may bias the movable holder toward the supporting member side opposing part.
US10782589B2
A wavelength conversion apparatus includes a multiplexer-demultiplexer configured to include a first port, a second port, and a third port, a looped non-linear optical medium including one end that is optically connected to the second port of the multiplexer-demultiplexer, another end that is optically connected to the third port of the multiplexer-demultiplexer, and a main axis that rotates by 90 degrees between the second port and the third port, a first filter configured to be inserted into the non-linear optical medium, and remove stimulated Brillouin backscattered light that is bidirectionally generated in the non-linear optical medium, and a second filter configured to take out, from output light that is multiplexed in the multiplexer-demultiplexer after propagating through the non-linear optical medium and is outputted from the first port, conversion light having a third frequency different from the frequencies of a signal light and an excitation light.
US10782580B2
An array substrate includes a first substrate, a source electrode disposed on the first substrate, a semiconductor pattern layer disposed on the source electrode, a drain electrode disposed on the semiconductor pattern layer, a pixel electrode disposed on the drain electrode and a gate electrode disposed on at least one side surface of the semiconductor pattern layer. A method of making the solar panel is provided. A method of making the array substrate is provided.
US10782577B2
This application provides a display panel includes: a first substrate; a first conducting layer formed on the first substrate; a first passivation layer formed on the first conducting layer, and covering the first substrate; a second passivation layer formed on the first passivation layer; and a first electrode layer formed on the second passivation layer, and covering a part of the first conducting layer and the first passivation layer; a second substrate, disposed opposite to the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer, located between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a second electrode layer formed on the second substrate, where a conductive bridge hole is formed on a wire of the first conducting layer, and the first electrode layer is covered on the first conducting layer; and a voltage signal is transmitted to the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer through the conductive bridge hole.
US10782572B2
A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate, a gate line disposed on the first substrate and extending parallel to a major horizontal reference line of the display, and a plurality of pixel unit cells disposed on and tesslating a display area of the first substrate where each unit cell includes a first field generating electrode and a second field generating electrode with an insulating layer interposed therebetween, wherein a first one of the first and second field generating electrodes has a plurality of cutouts defined therein for producing corresponding liquid crystal domains, the plurality of cutouts each including a first inclined edge portion forming a first angle with the vertical reference line and a second inclined edge portion forming a second angle with the vertical reference line that is different from the first angle.
US10782571B2
The disclosure provides the COA-type array substrate, which is realized by all or part of the outer edge of the color-resisting units are located on the first metal layer and/or the second metal layer, which is used for padding to reduce the topography difference at the outer edge position of the color-resisting units, so that the thickness of the photoresist coated on which is reduced to be easily removed by the exposure and development when the transparent conductive layer is patterned; in addition, both the first metal layer and the second metal layer have a reflective property, so that the exposure effect can be enhanced and the photoresist coated on which; the COA-type array substrate of the disclosure can eliminate or reduce the metal oxide residue at which through the above two effects and prevent the electrical signal of the pixel electrode from being uncontrollable.
US10782568B2
The invention discloses an alignment method of a liquid crystal display panel including the following steps: assembling a color filter substrate, an array substrate and a liquid crystal layer into a liquid crystal display panel; applying a first alignment voltage to a common electrode line layer of the array substrate, applying a second alignment voltage to a common electrode layer of the color filter substrate, and a predetermined voltage difference existed between the first alignment voltage and the second alignment voltage; performing alignment to the liquid crystal layer of the liquid crystal display panel by the predetermined voltage difference, to make liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer arranged with a preset tilt angle; and irradiating the liquid crystal layer with an ultraviolet ray. The effect of alignment can be improved, the dependence of liquid crystal alignment on the data line can be reduced, and improves the product yield.
US10782565B2
A display device with less light leakage and excellent contrast is provided. A display device having a high aperture ratio and including a large-capacitance capacitor is provided. A display device in which wiring delay due to parasitic capacitance is reduced is provided. A display device includes a transistor over a substrate, a pixel electrode connected to the transistor, a signal line electrically connected to the transistor, a scan line electrically connected to the transistor and intersecting with the signal line, and a common electrode overlapping with the pixel electrode and the signal line with an insulating film provided therebetween. The common electrode includes stripe regions extending in a direction intersecting with the signal line.
US10782558B2
A display device according to one aspect of the present invention includes a first substrate including at least a pixel electrode and a pixel switching circuit portion, a second substrate arranged to face the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, and configured to modulate light, the light being propagated while reflected between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a reflecting layer arranged over a liquid crystal layer side of the pixel switching circuit portion, partially superimposed with the pixel switching circuit portion, and electrically coupled with the pixel electrode, the reflecting layer having higher reflectance of the light than any members included in the pixel switching circuit portion.
US10782556B2
A display device in which ambient light reflections, for example, from IPS or FFS type displays are reduced by a circular polariser (e.g., linear polariser combined with external quarter waveplate) to make the light circular polarized, as it traverses the multiple reflective layers between the polariser and LC layer, and then an internal quarter waveplate converts the light back to linear polarisation before it enters the LC, so the display can operate as normal, while the circular polariser absorbs unwanted reflections of ambient light from within the display.
US10782553B2
A display device includes a first pixel region (FPR), a second pixel region (SPR), a color conversion pattern (CCP), a first overcoat layer (FOL), a barrier layer (BL), a second overcoat layer (SOL), a liquid crystal layer (LCL), and a switching element (SE). The FPR is configured to display a first color (FC). The SPR is adjacent the FPR, and is configured to display a second color (SC) of a shorter peak wavelength than the FC. The CCP is disposed in the FPR, and is configured to: convert a color of incident light into the FC; and output converted light of the FC. The FOL is disposed on the CCP. The BL is of an inorganic material, and is disposed on the FOL. The SOL is of an organic material, and is disposed on the BL. The LCL is disposed on the SOL. The SE is disposed on the LCL.
US10782549B2
A display apparatus including a display panel having a display surface on which an image is displayed, and a light condensing member disposed on an upper portion of the display surface. The light condensing member includes a lower condensing layer having a plurality of protrusions protruding upward, and an upper condensing layer having a higher refractive index than the lower condensing layer and disposed on an upper portion of the lower condensing layer to cover the top surface of the lower condensing layer. The protrusions include an upper surface having a planar shape, and a side surface extending downward from an edge of the upper surface and having a curved shape.
US10782533B2
A wearable device includes a wearable element mounted on a head of a wearer, a display that displays an image in a part of a field of view of the wearer, an arm that holds the display, and a coupling element that couples the arm and the wearable element to each other. The coupling element includes a first rotation mechanism capable of rotating the arm around a first axis, and a second rotation mechanism that is provided closer to the wearable element than the first rotation mechanism is, and is capable of rotating the arm with a degree of freedom including rotation around a second axis and a third axis, the second axis being orthogonal to the first axis, the third axis being orthogonal to the second axis and intersecting with the first axis.
US10782527B2
Methods and apparatus to identify lenses of head-wearable apparatus are disclosed. Example glasses disclosed herein include a frame and an image generator coupled to the frame. A first lens is removably carriable by the frame. The first lens has a first identifier to provide a first code representative of a first optical characteristic of the first lens. The image generator is to project an image toward the first lens when the first lens is carried by the frame. A reader is to read the first code when the first lens is carried by the frame.
US10782519B2
A viewing method and apparatus are provided for inspecting a cleaned pipeline. The method comprises providing the viewing apparatus of a cleaned pipeline and pushing the viewing apparatus to an outlet end of the pipeline. During traverse of the pipeline a camera captures pictures of the interior of the pipeline and stores the pictures on an onboard memory. The captured pictures can be viewed on a screen to show the interior of the pipeline to provide a reference for cleaning, replacement or repair of the pipeline.
US10782508B2
An imaging apparatus and a method for producing the same are provided. The imaging apparatus includes a display panel, including a first face and a second face arranged opposite to each other; an imaging device on the second face of the display panel; and an optical assembly in an optical path where ambient lights pass through the first face and the second face in sequence and enter the imaging device, the optical assembly being configured to refract at least part of the ambient lights so that the refracted lights bypass shielding members in the display panel and are incident on the imaging device.
US10782488B2
A connector-attached optical fiber cord includes: an optical fiber cord including a coated optical fiber and a sheath surrounding a circumference of the coated optical fiber; a ferrule attached to a front end of the coated optical fiber; a housing that houses the ferrule and the optical fiber cord such that the ferrule is exposed to an exterior of the housing at a front end of the housing while the optical fiber cord extends out of a rear end of the housing; a protective tube attached to a portion of the optical fiber cord in which the coated optical fiber is exposed; and a boot attached to the rear end of the housing and that allows the portion of the optical fiber cord to be inserted through the boot.
US10782486B2
A fiber optic connector includes a plug-in unit, a connecting unit, and a sleeving unit. The plug-in unit includes a switch member that is operable to move between a locking position and an adjusting position. The connecting unit includes a surrounding body that is formed with two through grooves. When the switch member is at the adjusting position, the switch member is moved away from of the through grooves and the connecting unit is operable to be separated from the plug-in unit. When the switch member is at the locking position, the switch member is moved into one of the through grooves to prevent separation of the connecting unit from the plug-in unit.
US10782476B2
The present disclosure relates to a splice-on connector configuration having connector body defining a forward fiber buckling region and a rearward splice encapsulation region. The splice encapsulation region can be filled with curable adhesive. The splice encapsulation region can also function to anchor a fiber optic cable.
US10782469B2
The present disclosure relates to a light guide plate and its fabricating method, as well as a backlight module. The light guide plate comprises a light-transmitting plate body provided with a plurality of light guide dots on a light-exiting surface thereof, and further provided with a plurality of dimming pits, wherein a plurality of light guide dots are provided around each of the dimming pits; an inner wall of each of the dimming pits sequentially includes multiple levels of dimming surfaces along a depth direction of the dimming pits, for reflecting light incident thereon to the light guide dots. The backlight module comprises the light guide plate provided in the above-described technical solution.
US10782466B2
A backlight module includes a light guide plate, a light source, a prism sheet and a reflective structure. The light guide plate includes a light emitting surface, a bottom surface opposite to the light emitting surface, a light incident surface connected with the light emitting surface and the bottom surface and a plurality of micro structures located on the bottom surface or the light emitting surface. The light source is disposed beside the light incident surface of the light guide plate. The prism sheet is disposed above the light emitting surface of the light guide plate, and includes a plurality of prisms facing the light emitting surface. The reflective structure is disposed under the bottom surface of the light guide plate. The reflective structure has a characteristic of changing its reflectivity according to a control signal applied thereto.
US10782460B2
An optical filter may include a substrate. The optical filter may include a first mirror and a second mirror. Each of the first mirror and the second mirror may include a plurality of quarterwave stacks. The plurality of quarterwave stacks may include a plurality of layers comprising a first material, a second material, and a third material. The optical filter may include a spacer disposed between the first mirror and the second mirror.
US10782445B2
Logging-while-drilling (LWD) tools may include multiple instruments interleaved into a compact configuration in a single drill string section that may be capable of nuclear magnetic resonance, resistivity, porosity, gamma density measurements, or any combination thereof. For example, a LWD tool may include a drill collar section containing: a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) electronics module and an NMR sensor module interleaved with a nuclear source and at least one nuclear detector.
US10782444B2
A light projector and a light receiver each includes a case body, a light transmission plate closing an opening in a front face of the case body, and a pair of caps closing openings in end faces of the case body. The case body includes first supports supporting side edges of the light transmission plate, the caps respectively include second supports supporting ends of the light transmission plate, the light transmission plate is supported by the first supports and the second supports with an elastic member interposed between the light transmission plate and the first and second supports, and the cap is fixed to the case body while the seal member abutting on the end face of the case body is interposed between the cap and the case body. A cured liquid sealing agent is interposed between leading ends of the seal member and the elastic member.
US10782441B2
An X-ray inspection system includes at least one display monitor and a console. The console includes at least two different visualization algorithms and a processor. The processor is configured to process volumetric image data with a first of the at least two different visualization algorithms and produce a first processed volumetric image. The processor is further configured to process the volumetric image data with a second of the at least two different visualization algorithms and produce a second processed volumetric image. The processor is further configured to concurrently display the first and second processed volumetric image data via the display monitor. The volumetric image data is indicative of a scanned object and items therein.
US10782436B2
A system for ranging between a target well and a ranging well using unbalanced magnetic fields. The system comprises a current injection path associated with a target well casing. The current injection path is configured to generate a first magnetic field. A return path is coupled to the current injection path. The return path is configured to generate a second magnetic field such that the first and second magnetic fields are unbalanced with respect to each other. The unbalanced magnetic fields can be measured and used to range with the target well.
US10782431B2
The present disclosure describes methods and systems, including computer-implemented methods, computer program products, and computer systems, for smoothing seismic data. One computer-implemented method includes obtaining, by a hardware data processing apparatus, a plurality of seismic data samples; forming, by the hardware data processing apparatus, guiding vectors using the plurality of seismic data samples and a plurality of guiding structure attributes; generating, by the hardware data processing apparatus, a structure guided directional weighted vector filter using the guiding vectors and a plurality of weighting factors; filtering, by the hardware data processing apparatus, the seismic data samples using the structure guided directional weighted vector filter to generate smoothed seismic data; and initiating output of the smoothed seismic data.
US10782430B2
A method for exploring a geological formation estimates a multiple-inclusive source wavelet and a reflectivity model by performing an inversion minimizing the difference between the shot records and modeled shots. The modeled shots, that include primaries and multiples, are obtained by propagating up-going and down-going wavefields through an input velocity model, which is not updated during the inversion. The shot records are converted into a geological product suitable for hydrocarbon exploration in the geological formation using the multiple-inclusive source wavelet and the reflectivity model.
US10782414B2
The invention discloses a receiver of GNSS positioning signals which has embedded computer logic to select between a first operating mode, which uses all available frequencies, and a second operating mode, which uses only part of the available frequencies but in combination with available correction data. The selection is based on a comparison of an index of quality of reception at the receiver and a computed or predicted precision/confidence level of the corrections. A plurality of corrections types are possible, including a type using a local model and a type using collaborative corrections. In some embodiments, a selection and/or a combination of a plurality of local models may be made to optimize the accuracy of the corrections.
US10782412B2
A sensor apparatus includes an upper chamber, a lower chamber adjacent the upper chamber, a sensor contacting and below the lower chamber, and a valve in communication with the upper and lower chambers and openable in response to a temperature at the valve being above a threshold. The upper chamber may include a dome-shaped upper panel.
US10782411B2
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for determining a pose of a vehicle. A first localizer may generate a first pose estimate for the vehicle based at least in part on a comparison of first remote sensor data to a first reference data. A second localizer may generate a second pose estimate for the vehicle based at least in part on a comparison of second remote sensor data to a second reference data. A pose state estimator may generate a vehicle pose for the vehicle based at least in part on a first previous pose of the vehicle, the first pose estimate, and the second pose estimate.
US10782404B2
The present invention presents a flexible, stepped frequency, radar based, imaging inspection system. The imaging inspection system can be used in airports, seaport sites, borders, postal processing centres, and sensitive sites. It comprises a millimetre-wave Stepped Frequency Continuous Wave (SFCW) radar module (2) connected to a transmitting channel and a receiving channel. The transmitting channel may comprise a frequency upconvertor (8) and the receiving channel may comprise a frequency downconvertor (10). A digital signal processing unit (14) reconstructs a conductivity profile and a permittivity profile of an object under test (OUT) from measurement data collected via a phase-array antenna or a translational stage (18) based on synthetic aperture focusing (SAF).
US10782403B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method of determining underground liquid (e.g., water) content. Embodiments of the method may include: receiving a scan of an area at a first polarization, the scan scans including reflections from the area. Embodiments of the invention may include receiving an additional data. Embodiments of the method may further include filtering electromagnetic noise from the scan using the additional data. Embodiments of the method may further include creating a water roughness map based on typical roughness values of various types of water sources and the filtered scan, identifying a first type of water sources using the water roughness map and the filtered scan and calculating the water content at locations in the area based on the identified first type of water sources.
