US10827136B2
A thermal imaging camera includes a fastening device, which is configured to be mechanically coupled with a fastening element of protective clothing of a user, to detachably fasten the thermal imaging camera to the protective clothing. The thermal imaging camera further includes a first interface as well as a second interface, which are each configured to output data of a thermal image. The thermal imaging camera further includes a control circuit, which is configured to detect a mechanical coupling of the second interface with a third interface of a display device and to output the data of the thermal image exclusively via the second interface as a result of the detection of the mechanical coupling. The control circuit is further configured to output the data of the thermal image via the first interface when the second interface is not coupled mechanically with the third interface.
US10827134B2
A subtitle encoding device for transmitting a bitmap subtitle for insertion in an image using a progressive type scan including a controller configured to: indicate, in an interlace subtitle system, that a top field block length is zero; and provide the bitmap subtitle in a bottom field of the interlace subtitle system.
US10827126B2
An electronic device and method are provided guiding image capturing based on property information of an external light source. The electronic device includes a camera, a display, and a processor. The processor is configured to obtain an image using the camera; identify a face included in the image; determine a first brightness value for a first region of the identified face and a second brightness value for a second region of the identified face; determine property information of an external light source for the identified face, based on the first brightness value and the second brightness value; and provide, through the display, guide information corresponding to the property information of the external light source for the identified face.
US10827116B1
The present invention describes a system for calibrating a plurality of cameras in an area. The system functions by using moving objects to calibrate, in particular using people.In addition, the system implements automatic re-calibration in a specific way to reduce human intervention, cost and time.
US10827115B2
The present invention provides a mobile terminal and a method of capturing an image using the same. The mobile terminal controls a camera conveniently and efficiently to capture an image and performs focusing in various manners to capture an image. Accordingly, a user can obtain a desired image easily and conveniently.
US10827113B2
A phase-detection auto focus method includes: dividing a focus region into a plurality of sub-regions, and respectively calculating a phase difference and a confidence level of each sub-region; performing dynamic matching in a corresponding weight table according to the phase difference and the confidence level of each sub-region, and performing a table lookup to obtain a corresponding weight value; calculating a phase difference and a confidence level of the focus region in conjunction with the weight value; and performing auto focusing according to the phase difference and the confidence level of the focus region.
US10827106B2
A camera module including a lens holder, a lens barrel, a first lens set, a second lens set, and an image sensing device is provided. The lens holder includes a limiting portion. The lens barrel is disposed in the limiting portion. The image sensing device has a common optical axis, and enables the second lens set to be located between the first lens set and the image sensing device. A position of the lens barrel is adjustable in the limiting portion when assembling the camera module, and the lens barrel is disposed on the lens holder enabling the limiting portion to be located on a periphery of the lens barrel, and a gap is arranged between the limiting portion and the lens barrel such that the position of the lens barrel is adjustable along a direction perpendicular to the optical axis.
US10827104B2
A multi-lens camera module comprises at least two lens modules located side-by-side. Each lens module can be a voice coil motor (VCM) lens module having an auto-focusing (AF) or/and an optical image stabilizer (OIS) functions. The surface where two lens modules are adjacent with is called the neighbouring surface. A projection view on the neighbouring surface of a plurality of secondary driving magnets of these lens modules located at two sides of the neighbouring surface includes at least one secondary driving magnet which has two opposite edges with unequal length; in addition, shapes of these two opposite edges include at least one of the following: slope, arc and straight line. These secondary driving magnets are arranged across the neighbouring surface in a staggered manner.
US10827099B2
An image processing apparatus includes a processor for acquiring an input image, calculating a fluctuation range of a gradation value of a pixel within a region corresponding to a document backing in the input image, determining a threshold, based on the fluctuation range, extracting an edge pixel corresponding to a boundary between a document and the document backing from the input image using the threshold, detecting a document region from the edge pixel, and an output device for outputting an image obtained by cutting a region corresponding to the document region from the input image.
US10827090B1
A sensor device includes a data line, a current source connected to the data line, a current sink connected to the data line, and a charge integrator connected to the data line, receiving a sensing current from the data line and outputting a sensing voltage. The sensing current is a summation of a current from the current source to the charge integrator and a current from the current sink to the charge integrator.
US10827084B2
An image forming apparatus includes an operation display movably mounted on a mount face and a linkage defining a movement range of the operation display. The linkage includes a first arm coupling a part of the mount face with a part of the operation display and a second arm coupling another part of the mount face with another part of the operation display. The operation display moves in the movement range in which the operation display does not enter the opening, does not protrude outward beyond the mount face when the first arm and the second arm support the operation display perpendicularly to an installation face of the image forming apparatus where the image forming apparatus is placed, and does not protrude upward beyond a scanner when the first arm and the second arm support the operation display parallel to the installation face of the image forming apparatus.
US10827080B2
An electronic apparatus is configured to generate a variety of vibrations corresponding to a variety of different situations without excessively high power consumption. The electronic apparatus has first and second vibration motors having respective eccentric weights different in weight from each other for generating different first and second vibrations. An input/output section enables a user to select from a list of events stored in a storage section first events and second events. A controller drives the first vibration motor having a heavier weight with a strong vibration upon occurrence of the user-selected first events and drives the second vibration motor having a lighter weight with a weak vibration upon occurrence of the user-selected second events. The first events include an incoming phone call or email, a present alarm time, and a dynamic or important action, motion, and so on in a computer game. The second events include confirming input operations by the user, and a minute action, motion, and so on occurring in a computer game. The correspondence between the vibration motors and the events is selectable by the user.
US10827073B2
Techniques for benchmarking pairing strategies in a contact center system are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for benchmarking pairing strategies in a contact center system including determining results for a first plurality of contact-agent interactions, determining results for a second plurality of contact-agent interactions, and determining combined results across the first and second pluralities of contact-agent interactions corrected for a Yule-Simpson effect.
US10827071B1
Methods to reduce agent effort and improve customer experience quality through artificial intelligence. The Agent Assist tool provides contact centers with an innovative tool designed to reduce agent effort, improve quality and reduce costs by minimizing search and data entry tasks The Agent Assist tool is natively built and fully unified within the agent interface while keeping all data internally protected from third-party sharing.
US10827060B2
The present disclosure describes a system, method, and computer readable medium for providing information to a receiving party in a communications network. The method includes receiving a message from a sending party and performing a lookup of information relating to the sending party in a database via an Internet Protocol connection. The lookup is based on an identifier of at least one of the sending party and the receiving party. Subsequently, the information is provided to the receiving party based on the availability of the information in the database.
US10827058B2
The present disclosure provides a control method of an electronic device. The electronic device includes a touch display screen and a proximity sensor. The proximity sensor is disposed under a display area of the touch display screen. The control method includes: keeping the proximity sensor deactivated; determining whether the touch display screen is shielded according to a signal output by the touch display screen; controlling the touch display screen to enter a black-out state and activating the proximity sensor when the touch display screen is shielded; and controlling a display state of the touch display screen according to detection data of the proximity sensor. The present disclosure also provides a control device, an electronic device, a storage medium and a computer device.
US10827055B2
This application provides a mobile terminal and a method for obtaining event information on a mobile terminal, so as to automatically add a plurality of pieces of classifiable information in an event notification message to an application, thereby improving addition efficiency. The method includes: receiving, by a mobile terminal, an event notification message of a first application; obtaining, by the mobile terminal, n pieces of classifiable information in the event notification message based on a predefined class template; determining, by the mobile terminal, a second application based on the n class attributes according to a preset rule; and adding, by the mobile terminal, m pieces of classifiable information that are in the event notification message to the m class attributes in the second application.
US10827047B2
A housing for a mobile terminal, a method for manufacturing the housing, and a mobile terminal having the housing are provided. The housing includes a substrate, at least one slot penetrating through the substrate in a thickness direction of the substrate, and a filling layer received in the at least one slot. The filling layer includes an insulating sub-layer and a printed sub-layer located on the insulating sub-layer.
US10827042B2
Example methods are provided for a host to perform traffic optimization for a multi-node application in a virtualized computing environment. The method may comprise: detecting, from the first virtualized computing instance supported by the host, a packet that includes header information identifying the second virtualized computing instance as a destination; and identifying that the first virtualized computing instance and second virtualized computing instance are configured to perform respective first role and second role to implement the multi-node application. The method may also comprise: based on one or more optimization factors, selecting the third virtualized computing instance that is also configured to perform the second role to replace the second virtualized computing instance; modifying the header information of the packet to identify the third virtualized computing instance as the destination; and sending the packet with modified header information to the third virtualized computing instance.
US10827041B2
Various example embodiments for supporting control over fragmentation of packets in communication networks are described. Various example embodiments for supporting control over fragmentation of packets in communication networks may be configured to support control over fragmentation of Internet Protocol (IP) packets. Various example embodiments for supporting control over fragmentation of IP packets in communication networks may be configured to support control over fragmentation of an IP packet based on inclusion of an IP fragmentability header, including information indicative as to whether the IP packet is permitted to be fragmented, within the IP packet. The IP packet may include a header and a payload, where the header includes an IP packet header and the IP fragmentability header including the information indicative as to whether the IP packet is permitted to be fragmented and, optionally, additional information.
US10827038B2
Systems and methods for receiving, at a server computer, an indication that a user is exiting an application on a client device displaying a first document, causing a footprint of the first document to be stored, receiving, at the server computer, a request for a second document from the client device operated by the user, determining that the user is enrolled in a footprint services, retrieving a footprint associated with the user including information related to a document previously accessed by the user, causing information related to the footprint to be displayed to the user on the client device, receiving, from the client device operated by the user, a response to the information related to the footprint displayed to the user on the client device, determining, from the response, a request to display the document associated with the footprint, and causing the document associated with the footprint to be displayed to the user instead of the second document requested by the user.
US10827037B2
Techniques are provided for server-to-server interaction for content item selection. A system receives a request for one or more content items from a client device. In response to receiving the request, the system generates multiple content requests. Each content request is sent to a different content provider of multiple content providers. At least one of the content requests is transmitted over a network to a content provider that is remote relative to the system. The system receives multiple responses, each of which is from a different content provider of the multiple content providers. Each response identifies a different content item. The system makes a determination that at least one content item is associated with a particular web domain. The system selects, based on the determination, a particular content item of the plurality of content items and causes the particular content item to be transmitted to the client device.
US10827035B2
Pieces of an entity's data set can be related with each other using a canonical Uniform Resource Locator (URL). If a server returns pieces of an entity's data record to a client within multiple separate REST-based responses, the client can discern from the canonical URL that those pieces relate to the same entity. In response to each REST-based request from a client, a server returns, with the client-requested data, a canonical URL that uniquely identifies that data's entity. A client can receive the canonical URL with the data that the server returns. If the canonical URLs returned along with data items in separate requests match, then the client determines that those data items pertain to the same entity. If the client determines that separately received data items pertain to the same entity, then the client can merge those data items together into a unified record that the client stores locally.
US10827025B2
Example implementations related to hyperconverged loads. In an example, a set of system characteristics is defined for a hyperconverged system. A plurality of components of an arbitrary workload running on a computing system are then separately modeled. The modeling converts the plurality of components into a plurality of respective hyperconverged loads. The plurality of respective hyperconverged loads are then allocated among a set of hyperconverged nodes that satisfies the set of system characteristics.
US10827024B1
In one embodiment, a method includes, by one or more computing systems of a communication network, receiving, from a first client system associated with a first user during a communication session between the first client system and a second client system associated with a second user, a first user communication in a first modality, wherein the first user communication is to be sent via the network to the second client system. The method further includes determining an available bandwidth of the network with respect to the second client system, determining a second modality to send the first user communication to the second client system based on the available bandwidth, generating a second user communication in the second modality by converting the first user communication to the second modality, and sending, to the second client system the second user communication for presentation to the second user.
US10827022B2
An M2M entity may retrieve data such that the representation of the data may consistently be returned in a form that can be dynamically specified in order to reduce complexity and overhead required by a requestor or consumer of the data. The semantic descriptions of the data that exist in the service layer may be used in order to provide desired results to the requestor or consumer of the data.
US10827018B2
The automatic transmission of communications between a mobile device and a social networking system is regulated based on the communication mode of the mobile device. A communication for transmission between the mobile device and the social networking system is detected. A communication switch setting, such as a switch position, is determined for the mobile device. A communication mode for the mobile device is determined based on the communication switch setting. For example, if the switch is in a first position, the mobile device is determined to be in a social mode. Likewise, if the switch is in a second position, the mobile device is determined to be a manual mode. If the mobile device is in the social mode, the communication is automatically transmitted. If the mobile device is in the manual mode, the communication is transmitted only in response to authorization from the user of the mobile device.
US10827013B2
Users of client devices can take any number of actions using applications of an application system to achieve an outcome. A monitoring system aggregates the interactions into a user interaction path. Over time, the monitoring system generates a large number of user interaction paths. The monitoring system analyzes the user interaction paths for correlation between interactions and outcomes. The monitoring system can correlate user interaction paths to generated interactions of a system interaction path. The monitoring system determines a correlation between interactions and outcomes by calculating a success factor based on an efficiency score and a prevalence score. The success factor is a measure correlation between a particular interaction of the application system and an outcome, the prevalence score is a measure of how often a particular interaction occurs, and the efficiency score is a measure of the application system performance for a particular interaction.
US10827010B2
In an implementation, providing service information is described. Current scenario information of a client device is obtained by a server and from a client device. Service information matching the current scenario information of the client device is obtained by the server, where the service information is associated with a plurality of services. The service information is returned by the server and to the client device, where the client device displays the service information in a specified interface using a visualization template, and where the service information includes at least one of access information or an interface of an application.
US10827004B2
In one embodiment, a method includes establishing a session to a remote desktop determined for a user of a client device. The session allows the client device to remotely access the remote desktop to have one or more services performed for the user of the client device using resources of the remote desktop. The client device sends a request for a service in the one or more services to be performed on the remote desktop in the session and receives a result set determined from the service being performed by the remote desktop. A native viewer for the client device is determined based on a type of the result set. The native viewer is then invoked to display the result set.
US10827003B2
Embodiments of this application provide an application data migration method, including: obtaining, by a network device, a first, second, and third parameter, where the first parameter includes a delay in communication between a terminal device and a first server through a first connection, the second parameter includes a delay in communication between the terminal device and a second server through a second connection, and the third parameter includes a time for synchronizing a context between the first server and the second server; and if the first parameter is greater than a sum of the second parameter and the third parameter, determining, by the network device, that application data on the terminal device needs to be migrated from the first connection to the second connection; otherwise, determining, by the network device, that application data does not need to be migrated from the first connection to the second connection.
US10826995B2
An electronic device monitoring system includes a server, a first electronic device, and a first power feature identifying device. The first electronic device is electrically connected to a grid. A first voltage and a first current are variable. The first power feature identifying device communicates with the server by a first communication protocol. The first power feature identifying device is disposed between the first electronic device and the grid. The first power feature identifying device extracts a plurality of voltage-time features, a plurality of current-time features, and a plurality of voltage-current features of the first electronic device in a first predetermined time, and the first power feature identifying device transmits those features to the server to generate a first power profile based thereon. The server monitors whether the first electronic device is in normal operation based on the first power profile.
US10826989B2
A data storage system, and a method of operation thereof, includes: a host initialization module for initializing a data storage unit; a command process module, coupled to the host initialization module, for processing a read command or a write command performed on the data storage unit; and a status scheduler module, coupled to the command process module, for generating a check status request to inquire a storage unit status of the data storage unit, wherein the check status request occurs without interrupting a host.
US10826985B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for enabling content tethering for a content management system. A content tethering component can receive an indication to link (tether) content items of a content management system to one another, and associates the content items in a hierarchical structure according to the linking. Content items can exist and evolve independently, can be placed under different folder hierarchies, and can be managed by the same or different users. The hierarchical structure can indicate relationships between linked content items, and notify users associated with linked items in response to events (e.g., modifications or deletions) affecting those documents. A security data can be used to determine permissions and privileges for particular users with respect to particular items. In an embodiment, the content tethering component can be provided as a pluggable module for use with existing content management systems.
US10826982B2
A packet processing architecture includes a plurality of packet processing stages, wherein at least one of the packet processing stages includes multiple next processing stage modules that are operably coupled to respective further processing stages, wherein the multiple next processing stage modules are dynamically configurable.
US10826980B2
A command process load balancing system performs load balancing of received commands among a number of server processes to resolve access contention for virtual software resources. These contentions are resolved through a history recording unit that records a history including contents of a processed command and a response time of a process for the command into a history database. A prediction unit predicts, in a case where a set of commands to be processed is assigned to a server process, whether or not a load that is equal to or higher than a reference value is applied, on the basis of the history recorded in the history database. An assigning unit assigns at least one command included in the set of commands to be processed to a different server process, in accordance with prediction that a load that is equal to or higher than the reference.
US10826979B2
The present invention relates to technology that allows a logical grouping of client nodes using client identifiers in an Internet of things environment. An apparatus for grouping client nodes according to an embodiment of the invention can include: a manager unit configured that receives a connection request from a client node and assigns a particular MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) broker to the client node in response to the connection request; an MQTT brokerage unit that includes at least one or more MQTT brokers and receives from the client node the identifier information and subscribed topic information of the client node by way of the particular MQTT from among the at least one or more MQTT brokers; and a load processing unit that stores the received identifier information and the topic information in a database to newly connect the client node.
US10826978B1
A computer-implemented method for server load control may include: (a) receiving a request of a first type or a second type; (b) transmitting a response of a form that will not be processed by the second computer, thereby reducing the load on a third computer, when the request is of the first type, and that will be processed by the second computer when the request is of the second type; and (c) when the request is of the second type and the response is processed by the second computer, receiving a message from the second computer that results from the processed response and indicates that the request is not of the first type. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10826975B2
A system and method for providing JAVA cloud services for use with a cloud computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a cloud environment, such as ORACLE Public Cloud (OPC), can include a JAVA cloud services (JCS) infrastructure, which allows a suite of software applications, middleware, and database offerings to be delivered to customers in a self-service, elastically scalable manner. In accordance with an embodiment, the JCS infrastructure can orchestrate, in combination with other cloud environment components, the creating and/or updating of a platform instance of a JAVA cloud service, including provisioning and deployment of the platform instance and/or deployment of software applications, and one or more personality injection or application deployment processing. Additional resources and/or services, such as a database service, can be wired to or otherwise associated with the JAVA cloud service, for use by customer applications that are deployed to the cloud.
US10826966B2
A computing system may be configured to store a master session context of a HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) session, and a queue of HTTP transactions. A middleware module of the computing system may be executable by the processor to: (i) select a first HTTP transaction from the queue, (ii) execute an exclusive phase of the first HTTP transaction, including copying the master session context into a first local session context, (iii) cause a web server to execute a non-exclusive phase of the first HTTP transaction using a first thread and the first local session context, (iv) select a second HTTP transaction from the queue, and (v) execute an exclusive phase of the second HTTP transaction, including copying the master session context into a second local session context. Execution of the exclusive phase of the second HTTP transaction and the execution of the non-exclusive phase of the first HTTP transaction occur concurrently.
US10826965B2
Various embodiments of systems, computer program products, and methods to monitor a network to identify network issues are described herein. In an aspect, requests are routed to access a sample application at predetermined time intervals via different defined network paths between a monitoring application unit and the sample application in a network. Response codes associated with execution of the requests are received from the sample application via the corresponding defined network paths. Execution results of the requests to include the response codes and execution time of the requests corresponding to the different defined network paths are recorded. Further, the execution results for a time period are analyzed to identify network issues in the network. Identifying the network issues includes identifying problematic network paths based on the analysis of the execution results, and identifying problematic network components in the problematic network paths by analyzing the problematic network paths.
US10826959B2
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for selection of video segments for adaptive streaming. An embodiment operates by receiving one or more variant segments, the one or more variant segments including an old bitrate variant segment having an old bitrate and a new bitrate variant segment having a new bitrate for decoding and playback. The embodiment further operates by generating an old bitrate packetized elementary stream (PES) collection based on the old bitrate variant segment and a new bitrate PES collection based on the new bitrate variant segment and determining a first in-tolerance splicing location between the old bitrate PES collection and the new bitrate PES collection based on a maximum tolerance offset. The embodiment still further operates by splicing the old bitrate PES collection and the new bitrate PES collection based on the first in-tolerance splicing location.
US10826954B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving streaming data using multiple paths, in which the streaming data is smoothly reproduced without being interrupted, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving streaming data using multiple paths, in which exchange of the streaming data is performed in real-time using the multiple paths regardless of obstacles. The method for transmitting streaming data using multiple paths includes managing and maintaining a path list including sequence information about a transmission path capable of transmitting data, framing the streaming data, and transmitting the framed streaming data via the transmission path according to the sequence information.
US10826946B2
In a communication system comprising a first network operatively coupled to a second network, wherein the first network comprises a first security edge protection proxy element operatively coupled to a second security edge protection proxy element of the second network, a method comprises provisioning at least a given one of the first and second security edge protection proxy elements with configuration information that enables the given security edge protection proxy element to identify at least one security operation to be applied to at least one information element in a received message before sending the message to the other one of the first and second security edge protection proxy elements.
US10826944B1
Enhanced electronic security systems and methods are provided. A whitelist, blacklist, or both of resource access sources that are allowed to use a particular resource access account are obtained. Upon detecting an access attempt to a particular resource on a computer network, a source of the access attempt and a resource access account used in the access attempt is identified. The whitelist, blacklist, or both are referenced to determine if the source of the access attempt is allowed to use the resource access account used in the access attempt. When the source of the access attempt is not allowed to use the resource access account used in the access attempt, one or more mitigation tasks may be performed.
US10826941B2
A method for protecting an enterprise network includes, at a system that is remote from the enterprise network: controlling communications to and from the enterprise network according to a set of security policies; controlling endpoint to endpoint connections within the enterprise network according to the set of security policies; receiving a request for modifications to the set of policies; automatically generating a policy digest formatted according to a predefined format, the policy digest comprising the modifications, and storing the policy digest in the memory; retrieving the policy digest from the memory; generating one or more calls to one or more system components that control the communications to and from the enterprise network and the endpoint to endpoint connections based on the policy digest; and modifying control of the communications and the endpoint to endpoint connections based on the one or more calls.
US10826940B2
The technology disclosed relates to enforcing multi-part policies on data-deficient transactions of independent data stores. In particular, it relates to combining active analysis of access requests for the independent object stores with inspection of objects in the independent object stores, each of the analysis and inspection generating and persisting object metadata in a supplemental data store, actively processing data-deficient transactions that apply to the objects by accessing the supplemental data store to retrieve object metadata not available in transaction streams of the data-deficient transactions, and actively enforcing the multi-part policies using the retrieved object metadata.
US10826927B1
Systems and methods for detecting anomalous data traffic over proxy servers in a data communications network. The method includes receiving, by a server computing device, network log data corresponding to data traffic during a timeframe. The method further includes normalizing the network log data using at least one of timestamp data of the network log data or IP address data of the network log data. The method also includes extracting risk-based data features from the network log data. The method further includes calculating using an isolation forest algorithm, anomaly scores for the normalized network log data based on the extracted risk-based features. The method also includes determining at least one anomaly event based on the calculated anomaly scores. The method further includes identifying at least one host device and at least one timestamp corresponding to the at least one anomaly event.
US10826916B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses enable agent-less network traffic interception using an overlay network. The system creates an inspection namespace on a server computer and clones namespace properties of a default namespace on the server computer to the inspection namespace. The system creates an overlay network in the inspection namespace connecting the server computer to a security service. The system creates a namespace bridge between the default namespace and the inspection namespace to pass server traffic between the namespaces. The system then transmits server traffic to the security service using the overlay network and an encapsulation protocol.
US10826914B2
Apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods for improving anti-malware scan responsiveness and effectiveness using user symptoms feedback. An example method includes detecting a performance issue on a computing device, presenting a user interface on a display of the computing device requesting user feedback regarding the performance issue, and synthesizing user input related to the performance issue to identify, on the computing device, a scan parameter associated with the performance issue. The example method further includes, in response to failing to identify the scan parameter on the computing device, transmitting the user input to a symptom analysis server to identify the scan parameter based on anti-malware scans from other computing devices, and, in response to determining the scan parameter, performing a targeted anti-malware scan on the computing device.
US10826913B2
An apparatus and a method for providing a security service in a communication system are provided. The security device includes a receiver configured to receive validation information used for validating data received by a receiving apparatus from the receiving apparatus, at least one processor configured to determine whether the validation information matches set validation related information, and a transmitter configured to transmit information indicating the determined result to the receiving apparatus.
US10826898B2
An account management system establishes an account for a user. The user enters user account information into the account and the account management system establishes a facial template for the user based on an image of the face of the user. The user requests to change user account information at a merchant POS (POS) device. The merchant POS device captures a facial image of the user and transmits the image the account management system, which generates a facial template and compares the generated facial template against the existing facial template associated with user account. If the generated facial template is less than a threshold difference from the existing facial template, the user may update user account information at the merchant POS device, which communicates the updated user account information to the account management system. The account management system associates the updated user account information with the user account.
US10826889B2
A server receives a certificate signing request and onboarding information for an applicant device, and identifies a customer associated with the applicant device based on an applicant device identifier and a database identifiers associated with customers. The device determines a registered device associated with the customer is a trusted device, a location trust value for the applicant device based on a geolocation proximity between the applicant device and the trusted device, and an environment trust value for the applicant device based on a proximity in a network topology between the applicant device and the trusted device. The device further determines a trust score for the applicant device based on the location trust value and the environment trust value, and sends a signed certificate to the applicant device over the network when the trust score for the applicant device exceeds a threshold.
US10826887B2
An apparatus for providing controlled access to a plurality of devices in a computer network (104), wherein the plurality of devices are accessible by users external to the computer network (102) by logging in to a privileged account, to which access is controlled by an authentication server (106); the apparatus comprises a receiver configured to receive user password data from a user requesting access to the privileged account via a device, a password determiner configured to determine account password data based on user password data, and to control a transmitter to transmit to the device account password data for allowing the user to access the privileged account, the receiver also configured to receive a request from the device to update account password data, and a password manager configured to update account password data and store updated account password data associated with the privileged account.
US10826885B2
An access device is provided for use in an access control system. The access device includes a processor having control of a door lock, and a communication module connected to the processor. The processor is able to receive a reservation certificate presented by a portable terminal through the communication module. The processor activates the door lock when the current reservation certificate has been presented and disables an alarm system when the current reservation certificate has been presented.
US10826884B2
An information processing apparatus is communicably connected to a server and performs authentication without inconvenience to a user. An information processing system includes an information processing terminal, a server, and an information processing apparatus. The information processing terminal is defined as a central device, and the server and the information processing apparatus are defined as peripheral devices in the information processing system. The information processing terminal and the server are connected to each other, and the information processing terminal and the information processing apparatus are connected to each other. The information processing terminal performs authentication of the information processing apparatus with the server.
US10826882B2
A method includes executing a mobile threat detection function to determine whether an electronic device is corrupt. The method also includes when determining that the electronic device is not corrupt, identifying whether an encrypted user key (UKc-Enc) is stored in the electronic device. The method further includes when the UKc-Enc is not stored in the electronic device, decrypting an application key (AKc) and transmitting the AKc and a unique universal identifier (UUID) that is associated with the application to a gateway for establishing a secure application specific communication channel between the electronic device and the gateway. In addition, the method includes when the UKc-Enc is stored in the electronic device, decrypting the UKc-Enc to form a user key (UKc), extracting a UUID from the UKc, and transmitting the UUID from the UKc to the gateway for establishing the secure application specific communication channel between the electronic device and the gateway.
US10826881B2
A location-reporting request is sent by a processor to at least one remote server. The location-reporting request (i) requests processing of data away from a geo-location-aware client device and (ii) includes an instruction that instructs any available server to respond with a reported geographic location. An asserted geographic location is received from a remote server available to process the data responsive to the instruction in the location-reporting request. In response to determining that the asserted geographic location of the available remote server satisfies location-based data processing restrictions that regulate remote processing of the data away from the geo-location-aware client device, the asserted geographic location is verified using a geo-location assertion server. In response to a successful verification of the asserted geographic location of the available remote server, the data is sent to the available remote server to process.
US10826877B2
There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus to broker purchase of an item or service between a consumer and seller, including: a hardware platform including a processor; and a memory, including executable instructions to instruct the hardware platform to: receive an encrypted payload including a request from a consumer to purchase the item or service, the encrypted payload including information about the consumer; without exposing the information about the consumer to the seller, determine, based on the seller's availability to sell the item or service and the seller's preferences for selling the item or service, that the request matches the seller's availability and preferences; and send a notification that the seller will sell the item or service.
US10826866B2
Provided herein is a method of preparing a route for a new message through a plurality of networked nodes in an Internet Protocol-based network including calculating a recipient quality score based on a message engagement event with a past message, applying at least one model to determine a probability of the recipient engaging with the new message, based on at least one of the recipient quality score or the determined probability, determining a quality metric, and selecting the route from among a plurality of quality-specific tranches of available routes based on a prediction of the probability of engagement for the new message by applying a machine learning system to determine which route produces a greater likelihood of engagement for parameters of the new message than other routes. New messages for recipients with a first quality metric are sent using a different route than recipients with a second quality metric.
US10826863B2
A system for eliminating redundant notifications to SIP/SIMPLE subscribers, the system including a notification fingerprinter configured to generate a fingerprint from the contents of a SIP/SIMPLE subscriber notification using a predefined fingerprinting method, a fingerprint comparator configured to compare a fingerprint of a previously-sent notification with a fingerprint of a waiting-to-be-sent notification, and a server configured to send the waiting-to-be-sent notification to the subscriber only if the fingerprints do not match.
US10826857B2
Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a program. The program receives a message from a client device. The program further determines a language from a plurality of languages associated with the message. The program also determines a model from a plurality of models that corresponds to the determined language. Based on the determined model, the program further determines a function from a plurality of functions provided by a computing device that is associated with the message. The program also sends the computing device a request to perform the function.
US10826840B1
Some embodiments provide a method for a packet processing pipeline of a network forwarding integrated circuit. The method stores two copies of a stateful table used by the packet processing pipeline. The stateful table is modified according to data processed by the packet processing pipeline. Upon receiving data to write to the stateful table, the method generates (i) a first copy of the received data along with an indicator for a first one of the copies of the stateful table and (ii) a second copy of the received data along with an indicator for a second one of the copies of the stateful table. The method sends the first copy of the received data into the packet processing pipeline before sending the second copy of the received data into the packet processing pipeline.
US10826838B2
Techniques are described for managing synchronized jitter buffers for streaming data (e.g., for real-time audio and/or video communications). A separate jitter buffer can be maintained for each codec. For example, as data is received in network packets, the data is added to the jitter buffer corresponding to the codec that is associated with the received data. When data needs to be read, the same amount of data is read from each of the jitter buffers. In other words, at each instance where data needs to be obtained (e.g., for decoding and playback), the same amount of data is obtained from each of the jitter buffers. In addition, the multiple jitter buffers use the same playout timestamp that is synchronized across the multiple of jitter buffers.
US10826833B1
A computerized method performed by logic processing on a first network device is disclosed. The computerized method includes operations performed by a logic of a first network device includes detecting movement of the first network at a speed above a predetermined threshold and presence of a wireless transceiver, transmitting a message to the wireless transceiver that includes instructions for the wireless transceiver to perform a plurality of scans for additional network devices, receiving a set of lists corresponding to scans performed by the wireless transceiver, each of the set of lists indicating a first group of network devices detected by the wireless transceiver, determining a subset of the first set of the detected network devices present on each list of the set of lists, and responsive to the subset of the first set of the detected network devices exceeding a policy threshold limit, transmitting an alert.
US10826816B2
In one embodiment, a method according to the present disclosure includes receiving a topology change message at a core edge node and performing a network address information removal operation. The core edge node participates in network communications with one or more access network nodes of an access network using an access network protocol. The topology change message indicates that a topology change has occurred in the access network, and the topology change message conforms to the access network protocol. The network address information removal operation removes network address information stored by the core edge node, and the network address information is used by the core edge node in participating in the network communications.
US10826800B2
A packet generation and inspection system for monitoring the performance of one or more flows on a packet network comprises a processor and memory coupled to each other and to a network bus. The memory stores instructions to be executed by the processor and data to be modified by the execution of the instructions. A processor-controlled arbiter is coupled with the processor and the network bus, and upon reception of a packet on the bus or prior to transmission of a packet on the bus for one of said flows, the arbiter requests execution by the processor of selected instructions stored in the memory by providing the processor with the address of the selected instructions in the memory. The memory provides the processor with data associated with the selected instructions, and the processor modifies the data upon execution of the selected instructions.
US10826797B2
A system and method for processing network packets based on NFV for ensuring high availability are disclosed. The disclosed system may include: at least one server, where a multiple number of VNF's for performing particular service functions are formed in the at least one server, each of the VNF's including at least one VNF instance; and a control apparatus that sequentially selects an M number of VNF's and selects one VNF instance from each of the selected M number of VNF's to configure an SFC, where the control apparatus may calculate an availability cost ratio value associated with each of the at least one VNF instance within VNF i+1 with respect to a VNF instance selected from VNF i (i being an integer from 1 to M) and may select a VNF instance within the VNF i+1 corresponding to the maximum value among the availability cost ratio values.
US10826781B2
A method for extracting structure from networks includes receiving an edge list, where the edge list defines a network including nodes and edges connecting the nodes to each other, where the edges define a strength of a relationship between connected nodes and filtering nodes from the edge list based on a predetermined filter parameter, thereby forming a filtered network. The method further includes identifying distinct connected components within the filtered network, analyzing each of the distinct connected components of the filtered network for the presence of additional structures within the distinct connected components, where the additional structures are decomposed into additional distinct connected components. The method further includes performing a tree traversal of each of the distinct connected components, where a resulting hierarchical structure from the tree traversal is merged to determine a local modularity optimum and generating, in response to the local modularity optimum, structural components within the network.
US10826774B2
Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for custom-defined network routing. In one implementation, a set of custom defined network flow rules is received at an edge router of a primary network, which is in communication with a customer network. The set of custom defined network flow rules correspond to network traffic associated with the customer network. The set of custom defined network flow rules is stored in a forwarding table on the edge router. A packet of data is received at the edge router. The packet of data is attributed to the customer network. The set of custom defined network flow rules is applied to the pack of data using the forwarding table.
US10826772B2
In one embodiment, a device classification service assigns a set of endpoint devices to a context group. The device classification service forms a context summary feature vector for the context group that summarizes telemetry feature vectors for the endpoint devices assigned to the context group. Each telemetry feature vector is indicative of a plurality of traffic features observed for the endpoint devices. The device classification service normalizes a telemetry feature vector for a particular endpoint device using the context summary feature vector. The device classification service classifies, using the normalized telemetry feature vector for the particular endpoint device as input to a device type classifier, the particular endpoint device as being of a particular device type.
US10826770B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for determining a deployment model for deploying rules in a network environment in response to deployment of a contract into the network environment. In some embodiments, a method can include deploying a contract into a network environment. One or more candidate deployment configuration variables can be selected and policy configurations for deploying rules in the network environment as part of implementing policies using the contract can be determined based on the one or more candidate deployment configuration variables. Rule configuration states corresponding to the policy configuration states in the network environment can be identified based on deployment of the one or more contracts in the network environment. Subsequently, a deployment model for implementing the one or more policies in the network environment can be formed based on the policy configurations and the rule configuration states corresponding to the policy configurations.
US10826761B2
Methods and systems for an ubiquitous collaboration feature in a managed application environment are described herein. The collaboration service and/or server may store session information and one or more configuration files for use in rendering the collaboration features in combination with managed applications executing on a user's computing device.
US10826758B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed. The method includes the UE (User Equipment) being configured with a first CORESET (Control Resource Set). The method also includes the UE being configured with a second CORESET. The method further includes the UE transmitting a preamble for beam failure recovery in response to the UE detecting that beam failure occurs. And the method includes the UE monitoring and/or receiving a DCI scrambled by C-RNTI in the second CORESET in the second slot in response to transmitting the preamble for beam failure recovery. Furthermore, the method includes the UE prioritizing to receive and/or demodulate the DCI scrambled by C-RNTI in the second CORESET in the second slot, if the first number plus the third number exceeds the first maximum number or the second number plus the fourth number exceeds the second maximum number in the second slot.
US10826752B2
A method for determining degradation in performance of an electronic device connected to a communication network for an aerial vehicle includes monitoring, by one or more computing device(s), communications on the communication network during a validation period. The method further includes generating, by the computing device(s), a baseline operating profile of the electronic device based, at least in part, on the communications monitored during the validation period. In addition, the method includes monitoring, by the computing device(s), communications on the communication network during a post-validation period. The method further includes determining, by the computing device(s), a present operating profile of the electronic device based, at least in part, on the communications monitored during the post-validation period. In addition, the method includes determining, by the computing device(s), degradation in performance of the electronic device when the present operating profile deviates from the baseline operating profile.
US10826750B2
A method for use in a Simple Network Management Protocol (“SNMP”) computing environment, including: constructing a Patricia trie from an ASCII code representation of a plurality of Object Identifiers for a plurality of respective objects stored in a Management Information Base; searching the Patricia trie using a request Object Identifier; and accessing a requested object associated with the request Object Identifier from the Management Information Base.
US10826747B2
A low voltage drive circuit (LVDC) includes a digital to digital converter that converts transmit digital data into a digital input signal, wherein the transmit digital data is synchronized to a clock rate of a host device and the digital input signal is synchronized to a clock rate of a bus to which the LVDC is coupled. An output limited digital to analog is converter converts the digital input signal into analog outbound data by generating a DC component and converting the digital input signal into an oscillating component at a first frequency, wherein magnitude of the oscillating component is limited to a range that is less than a difference between magnitudes of power supply rails of the LVDS, and wherein the oscillating component and the DC component are combined to produce the analog outbound data. A drive sense circuit conveys the analog outbound data as variances in loading of the bus at the first frequency and wherein analog inbound data is represented within an analog receive signal as variances in loading of the bus at a second frequency.
US10826745B2
Embodiments are provided for guard band utilization for synchronous and asynchronous communications in wireless networks. A user equipment (UE) or a network component transmits symbols on data bands assigned for primary communications. The data bands are separated by a guard band having smaller bandwidth than the data bands. The UE or network component further modulates symbols for secondary communications with a spectrally contained wave form, which has a smaller bandwidth than the guard band. The spectrally contained wave form is achieved with orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation or with joint OFDM and Offset Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (OQAM) modulation. The modulated symbols for the secondary communications are transmitted within the guard band.
US10826728B2
A wireless communication method for receiving an orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulated signal includes receiving the OTFS signal over a wireless communication channel, dividing the receiving OTFS signal along a delay-dimension into a plurality of segments, performing, for each segment, channel estimation independent of channel estimation for other segments to generate a plurality of channel estimates, performing, for each segment, channel equalization using a corresponding channel estimate from the plurality of channel estimates to generate a channel-equalized symbol stream, and generating information bits from the channel-equalized symbol stream.
US10826724B2
A cloud service provider's enterprise edge device and network interface are configured to establish a single tunnel connection with a remote server for delivering data packets to multiple distinct virtual machines on the remote server. The provider's enterprise edge device stores the network address information for each virtual machine and remote server to attach the destination network addresses to the data packet for transmission to the appropriate virtual machine on the remote server. Utilizing a single tunnel to transmit data packets to multiple virtual machines increases scalability at the provider's enterprise edge device and reduces system resources compared to other implementations in which the provider uses a tunnel for each virtual machine on a remote server.
US10826719B2
The present application relates to a node for conducting measurements and signal analyses on a bus supporting multi-master access of a plurality of nodes or a transceiver of the node. The transceiver is configured to detect bus signals and to convert the detected bus signals into a bit stream. A protocol engine is arranged to receive the bit stream. The protocol engine transitions between states, which are indicative of at least an exclusive access phase, during which only one of the plurality of nodes is allowed to assert signals on the bus. A detector is configured to assert an enable indication for a period of time on detecting that the protocol engine is in a state indicative of the exclusive access phase. A diagnosis module is configured to conduct measurements in response to the asserted enable indication.
US10826717B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for cloud-based monitoring and control of physical environments. A system comprises a computing cloud with at least one processor configured to execute one or more application modules and a data analytics module for analyzing diagnostic and environmental metric data. The system further comprises a building server communicatively coupled with the computing cloud, at least one gateway communicatively coupled with the building server, and at least one system device communicatively coupled with the at least one gateway. The at least one system device generates environmental metric data for further analysis and display, and the data is communicated to the computing cloud by way of the at least one gateway and the at least one building server.
US10826714B2
The present invention is directed to device and method for monitoring power input to a networked device The device includes a housing; an optional power converter configured for AC to DC, AC to AC or DC to DC conversion; a controller enclosed in the housing and configured to send one or more notifications and receive one or more instructions from a remote server; a relay operably coupled to the controller; a first circuit electrically connecting the power converter to power mains; a second circuit electrically connecting the power converter to the relay; and a third circuit electrically connecting the relay to the networked device, wherein the controller is configured to determine alternating current status on the first circuit and a direct current status on the second circuit or the third circuit.
US10826707B2
A privacy preserving tag and methods for reading the same are disclosed. An authentication and tracking method and system for the privacy preserving tag is also disclosed. The method includes storing information in memory of a tag, receiving a read response at the tag from a reading device, and responding to the read request by generating a response at the tag that includes a combination of a base resource identifier as well as a privacy identifier. The privacy identifier is provided to support privacy characteristics of the tag while enabling establishment of a personalized portal at a remote system.
US10826701B2
A method and system for providing unencrypted access to encrypted data that may be stored on a device, sent as a message, or sent as a real-time communications stream. The method may include using public key cryptography to securely enable accessing the encrypted data stored on a device or communicated by a device. For instance, the method may include using a device vendor's public key to securely enable that vendor to enable only authorized parties to themselves decrypt previously-encrypted device storage, messages, or real-time communications streams.
US10826696B2
The invention relates to a cryptographic method on a binary Edwards curve (BEC) by a binary extension field 2m, the domain parameters of which are selected to enable an implementation adapted to a 32-bit or 64-bit hardware architecture to reduce the number of calculations and to guarantee a high security level against attacks. A list of binary extension fields is provided with associated primitive polynomials. For each of these binary extension fields, at least one optimum parameter of the BEC curve is disclosed with an optimum generating point.
US10826691B2
A system and method for encrypting portions of data for storage in a remote network have been provided. The system comprises a memory with instructions executable by a processor to receive data for forwarding to a server device, wherein the received data comprises an indication of one or more portions of the received data to be encrypted; identify a portion comprising the one or more portions of the received data based at least in part on the indication; encrypt the identified portion of the data; generate a payload that comprises the encrypted portion and one or more unencrypted portions of the received data; and transmit, to the server device, the payload.
US10826689B2
A data file is encrypted with a file-specific encryption key and sent to a remote data storage system. The file-specific encryption key is encrypted with a master key. The encrypted file-specific encryption key and the master key are both stored remotely from the encrypted file and they are stored remotely from one another.
US10826686B1
Described is a system for biometric based security. The system applies a reusable fuzzy vault (RFV) process to protect secret information. The RFV process comprises a locking algorithm and an unlocking algorithm. The locking algorithm takes as input a fuzzy string m generated from readings of biometrics and secret information sk to be protected, The locking algorithm outputs a public string vault and a hash value h of sk. The unlocking algorithm takes as input a public string vault and a fuzzy string m′, and outputs a string sk′ if fuzzy string m′ is sufficiently close to fuzzy string m. The unlocking algorithm further computes a hash value h′ of sk′ and compares it with h. The system allows access to the secret information sk when h′ is equivalent to h.
US10826685B1
One or more systems implement a plurality of blockchains to track event data. The plurality of blockchains are arranged in tiered form, and the content and/or integrity of blockchains in higher tiers depends on, or at least derives from, the content and/or integrity of the blockchains in lower tiers. Depending on the specific structure and implementation, assurances, verifications, and the like may be provided for services and other resources using such blockchains in a repeatable manner.
US10826678B1
A method for recovering a clock signal from an input signal is disclosed. The method comprises the following steps: An input signal that comprises a symbol sequence having symbol edges is received. Edge timings of the symbol edges are determined, thereby generating an edge signal, the edge signal comprising information on the edge timings. The edge signal is processed via a filter module comprising a time variant filter, thereby generating the clock signal, the clock signal comprising information on at least one clock timing parameter. Further, a clock recovery module and a computer program are disclosed.
US10826674B2
In a data transmission method, a terminal device obtains configuration information of a subframe n for transmitting at least one of a downlink data channel, an uplink data channel, a downlink control channel, an uplink control channel, a downlink reference signal, and an uplink reference signal. The terminal device performs data transmission between the terminal device and a network device on the subframe n according to the configuration information.
US10826665B2
The disclosure discloses a method and apparatus in UE and base station supporting narrowband communication. In one embodiment, a UE receiving a first signaling in step 1, and searching for a second signaling on M searched resources in step 2, the second signaling comprising scheduling information of a target data, the target data being distributed in G time units in time domain; wherein the first signaling indicates a first time unit set, time units occupied by the M searched resources all belong to the first time unit set, the second signaling is a physical layer signaling, the searched resource is distributed in N time units in time domain, the bandwidth occupied by the searched resource in each time unit is not greater than the bandwidth of one PRB, the duration of the time unit is 1 millisecond.
US10826663B2
A method of configuring a pilot signal includes defining a first pilot signal arrangement and defining a second pilot signal arrangement. Also, the method includes determining, by a communications controller, a first determined pilot signal arrangement in accordance with the first defined pilot signal arrangement, the second defined pilot signal arrangement, and a set of characteristics and transmitting, by the communications controller, the pilot signal having the first determined pilot signal arrangement.
US10826655B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for performing hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) for grant-free uplink transmissions. Some of the systems and methods disclosed herein may address problems such as how to perform acknowledgement (ACK) and/or negative acknowledgement (NACK), how to determine and signal retransmission timing, how to determine the transmission/retransmission attempt and the redundancy version (RV), and/or how to perform the HARQ combining.
US10826652B2
The described technology is generally directed towards adaptive interleaving in network communications systems based on one or more conditions with respect to user equipment. When conditions such as the speed of the user equipment indicate that performance can be increased by interleaving the data traffic, data is transmitted to the user equipment using an adaptive interleaver in the coding chain of MIMO systems. The adaptive interleaver is not used when conditions indicate performance is unlikely to improve. Adaptive interleaving may be performed in the frequency domain, in the frequency and time domain, or the frequency time and space domain. Multiple interleavers with different interleaving patterns may be used in the frequency domain and in the frequency and time domain. Adaptive interleaving may be based on one or more various criteria corresponding to the condition data received from the user equipment.
US10826648B2
Methods (C) for converting a data signal (U), comprising processes of (i) providing an input symbol stream (IB) of input symbols (IBj), the input symbol stream (IB) being representative for the underlying data signal (U) to be converted, and (ii) applying a distribution matching process to consecutive partial input symbol sequences (IBk) of a number of k consecutive input symbols (IBj) covering said input symbol stream (IB). The distribution matching process (DM) generates and outputs a final output symbol stream (OB) of consecutive output symbols (OBj) or a preform thereof, wherein the distribution matching process (DM) is based on and/or comprises a family ((ƒi)i∈{0, 1, . . . , n-1}) of a number (n) of distribution matching functions (ƒi), the action of the distribution matching process (DM) is achieved by acting with one of said distribution matching functions (ƒi) selected from said family ((ƒi)i∈{0, 1, . . . , n-1}) on said partial input symbol sequences (IBk), and wherein selecting a distribution matching function (ƒi) from said family ((ƒi)i∈{0, 1, . . . , n-1}) is based on a set of rules comprising at least one selection rule.
US10826643B2
Embodiments of the invention describe apparatuses, optical systems, and methods for utilizing a dynamically reconfigurable optical transmitter. A laser array outputs a plurality of laser signals (which may further be modulated based on electrical signals), each of the plurality of laser signals having a wavelength, wherein the wavelength of each of the plurality of laser signals is tunable based on other electrical signals. An optical router receives the plurality of (modulated) laser signals at input ports and outputs the plurality of received (modulated) laser signals to one or more output ports based on the tuned wavelength of each of the plurality of received laser signals. This reconfigurable transmitter enables dynamic bandwidth allocation for multiple destinations via the tuning of the laser wavelengths.
US10826629B1
Embodiment of the present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for generating human pose images based on Wi-Fi signals. The method for generating human pose images based on Wi-Fi signals comprises: receiving Wi-Fi signals through one or more antennas; obtaining channel state information from the Wi-Fi signals; extracting channel state information components related to human pose changes from the channel state information; constructing a mapping model between the Wi-Fi signals and the human poses to map the channel state information components related to the human pose changes to a human pose image sequence.
US10826623B2
A disclosed device is configured to generate and transmit a sonic signal that encodes a symbol sequence, representing a data message, for delivery as audio content. The device includes an audio transmitter and a processor circuit. The processor circuit is configured to encode the data message as a sequence of symbols, with each symbol encoding a data value that is associated with respective phase characteristics of a transmitted audio carrier. The processor is further configured to generate audio samples of a digitized version of the sequence of symbols using the phase characteristics of the audio carrier associated with the symbols, and to control the audio transmitter to generate and transmit the sonic signal, based on the audio samples. A further disclosed device is configured to receive the sonic signal and to decode a symbol sequence by identifying symbols corresponding to determined phases of the sonic signal.
US10826615B2
An optical transmission method (10) comprising steps of receiving (12) a communication signal comprising symbols for transmission. The method comprises performing (16) linear amplitude modulation of an optical carrier with the communication signal to generate an amplitude modulated optical carrier. The method comprises performing low-pass filtering (14) to reduce a bandwidth of the symbols to less than a Nyquist bandwidth of the symbols. The method comprises transmitting (18) the amplitude modulated optical carrier. The method further comprises receiving (20) the amplitude modulated optical carrier following transmission and performing direct detection of the received amplitude modulated optical carrier to generate a received electrical signal; and determining (22) received symbols from the received electrical signal using an indication of a nonlinear impulse response of the direct detection.
US10826611B2
The systems, apparatuses and methods of the present invention set forth improvements to the problems of the current pairing or duplex paradigm, resulting in a dramatic increase in fiber transmission efficiency, accomplished explicitly by restructuring presently-aligned C-Band wavelengths into innovative DWDM transmit and receive formats, and through implementing photonic-wave changes, which directs Ethernet data flow onto new path adaptations. These improvements could reduce line haul expenses significantly, believed to reach a projected 50% less requirement/deployment of fiber strands. This saving would offer owner-operators substantial fiber strand cost reductions, affecting transportation rates of high-bandwidth digital payloads traversing over DWDM networks, and lower usage rates of cross-connections amid multiple equipment inter-exchanging throughout large data centers.
US10826609B2
A beam steering system for a free-space laser communication system in a satellite includes a laser that emits a laser beam, a liquid lens assembly with at least one liquid lens to change the direction of the laser beam, and an amplifying optic to amplify the change in direction of the laser beam. The beam steering system may be used to steer a laser beam transmitted to another satellite or received from another satellite. In one example, a satellite may include two beam steering systems, disposed at opposing ends of a frame, where each steering system is configured to cover a hemisphere such that together, the steering systems can transmit and/or receive a laser beam over a 4π steradian sphere. The beam steering system may include a transmit feedback system and a reception system to monitor the direction and signal of the transmitted beam and the received beam, respectively.
US10826608B2
Various embodiments may relate to a light emitting diode (LED) communication device including a communication interface configured to couple with an electronic device. The LED communication device may also include an electrical interface electrically coupled to the communication interface. The LED communication device may further include a light emitting diode electrically coupled to the electrical interface. The electrical interface may be configured to convert data signals received from the electronic device into driving signals transmitted to the light emitting diode during uplink, and to convert sensing signals received from the light emitting diode into data signals transmitted to the electronic device during downlink. The light emitting diode may be configured to convert the driving signals received from the electrical interface into a plurality of light pulses during uplink, and to convert a plurality of light pulses received by the light emitting diode into the sensing signals during downlink.
US10826601B2
An Optical Protection Switch (OPS) includes a splitter connected to a transmitted input and a path continuity monitor transmitter and configured to output the transmitted input with a path continuity monitor signal to two paths; a switch connected to a receiver output and configured to provide one of two receiver inputs each from one of the two paths based on a setting of the switch; and one or more path continuity monitor receivers connected to the two receiver inputs and configured to detect a corresponding path continuity monitor signal from a complementary OPS, wherein the setting of the switch is set based upon the received path continuity monitor signals. The one or more path continuity monitor receivers each have a narrow optical bandwidth relative to an overall optical bandwidth of the transmitted input.
US10826599B1
A system comprises a modulator, a time synchronization system, a satellite gateway computer, and a traffic gateway. The modulator is configured to transmit a first and a second carrier on a feeder uplink frequency to a beam-hopping-capable satellite according to a time schedule. The timing synchronization system is configured to synchronize a satellite gateway computer, the modulator, and the beam hopping capable satellite, based on the transmit time schedule and a propagation delay. The satellite gateway computer is programmed to determine transmit time schedule for the modulator, format and relay packets destined to the first and second downlink beam to the modulator to be transmitted on the first and second carrier during the first and second dwell time slot.
US10826598B1
A satellite communication system may include a terrestrial station and a satellite having a communication link therebetween. The terrestrial station may include a controller and a transceiver cooperating therewith and configured to determine a degradation of the communication link, obtain satellite-derived, rainfall rate and rainfall height data, and determine a rain fade for the communication link based upon the satellite-derived, rainfall rate and rainfall height data. When the degradation of the communication link is caused by the rain fade, the controller determines a mitigation action for the satellite and communicates the mitigation action to the satellite.
US10826595B2
The disclosure concerns systems and methods for providing fifth generation or later (5G+) wireless communication, for in-flight and other applications, by way of integrating global navigation satellite system (GNSS) data among other features and aspects. In various embodiments, systems and methods are disclosed embodying one or more of: GNSS-assisted Doppler estimation and tracking; GNSS-assisted cell acquisition, measurement, and handover target cell selection; GNSS-assisted timing advance estimation and tracking; GNSS-assisted power control; and/or GNSS-assisted beam identification and tracking. Each of these, when considered individually or in any combination, provides GNSS-assisted wireless communication.
US10826594B2
A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) capable system is contemplated. The communication system may include a signal processor configured to separate an input stream into multiple signal paths to facilitate simultaneous transport through a communication medium. The capability to simultaneously transmit multiples signal paths may be beneficial in order to maximize throughput and/or minimize expense.
US10826576B1
A method and system for controlling application of MU-MIMO. The disclosure provides for considering a device's rate of change of RF conditions as a basis to decide whether to provide the device with MU-MIMO service. For instance, a base station could determine which of the base station's served devices each have threshold low rate of change of RF conditions. And on at least that basis, the base station could select each such device to receive MU-MIMO service. Or faced with a choice between devices to receive MU-MIMO service, the base station could compare the devices' rates of change of RF conditions and could select the devices that have lower rate of change of RF conditions to receive MU-MIMO service.
US10826575B2
The present invention relates to methods for transmitting a frame by grouping a plurality of wireless terminals in a multiuser based wireless communication system. The present invention includes a method for transmitting a frame by including information about multiple receiver terminals in a MAC frame, another method for transmitting a frame by allocating group addresses and then using a corresponding group address for frame transmission, and yet another method for transmitting a frame by using a unique group sequence number that is allocated to each group and group control information that contains bitmap information. The group control information is included in a destination address field of a MAC layer, or in a signal field of a physical layer, or in both the MAC layer and the physical layer.
US10826573B2
Methods, apparatus and systems are disclosed. One representative method implemented by a wireless transmit/receive unit includes determining a first beamforming matrix; sending, to a network entity, an indication of the first beamforming matrix; and receiving, from the network entity, an indication of a second beamforming matrix determined by the network entity from at least the first beamforming matrix for beamforming data for transmission.
US10826567B2
An illustrative embodiment disclosed herein is a method including determining, by a location server, a satellite constellation, a location of a target endpoint, and a next available time of the target endpoint. The method further includes determining, by the location server, a plurality of candidate satellites based on the satellite constellation, the location of the target endpoint, and the next available time of the target endpoint. The method further includes instructing, by the location server, a ground station to broadcast a downlink signal to the plurality of candidate satellites.
US10826565B2
A full duplex, low latency, near field data link controls a resonant induction, wireless power transfer system for recharging electric vehicles. An assembly of a vehicle is aligned with respect to a ground assembly to receive a charging signal. The vehicle assembly includes one or more coils, each coil having a full duplex inductively coupled data communication system that communicates with a ground assembly including one or more coils, with each coil also having a full duplex inductively coupled data communications system. The coils of the ground assembly and the vehicle assembly are selectively enabled based on geometric positioning of the vehicle assembly relative to the ground assembly for charging. As appropriate, the transmit/receive system of the ground assembly and/or the vehicle assembly are adjusted to be of the same type to enable communication of charging management and control data between the ground assembly and the vehicle assembly during charging.
US10826558B2
According to various embodiments, a receiver device may be provided. The receiver device may include: a receiver circuit configured to receive a data packet according to a data format on a pre-determined radio frequency, wherein the data format comprises a parameter indicating a number of retries of transmission of the data packet; a determination circuit configured to determine whether the parameter is higher than a pre-determined threshold; and a frequency changer circuit configured to change a frequency on which the receiver receives data based on the determination.
US10826554B2
Provided is a mobile phone case having a hidden camera detection function. The mobile phone case includes a case body whose one surface is formed to enclose portions, except for a display of a mobile phone and having an opening formed at a position corresponding to a light emitting diode (LED) light source and a camera of the mobile phone; a detector including a red filter for passing through light of a red wavelength of a wavelength range of 600 nm to 700 nm; and an operation unit whose one end is coupled to the detector and whose the other end is protruded to the other surface of the case body and for enabling the detector to move in a vertical or horizontal direction, wherein the detector covers or opens the opening by the operating unit.
US10826549B2
Disclosed herein are techniques to enable remote discovery of connectivity capabilities and remote connection of devices in a power efficient manner. In particular, discovery and connection requests for connectivity capabilities utilizing a first radio may be communicated using a second radio, the second radio utilizing a lower amount of power relative to the first radio. For example, connectivity capabilities such as Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Direct, WiGig, Zigbee can be discovered and connection request communicated using a Bluetooth radio.
US10826548B2
In accordance with one or more embodiments, a MIMO transceiver generates first electromagnetic signals convey first data in accordance with one or more MIMO techniques. The MIMO transceiver generates, responsive to the first electromagnetic signals, first electromagnetic waves on a plurality of transmission lines, wherein the first electromagnetic waves are guided by a plurality of surfaces of the plurality of transmission lines, wherein the first electromagnetic waves propagate along the plurality of transmission lines without requiring an electrical return path, wherein the first electromagnetic waves convey the first data.
US10826546B2
Switchless 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 signal path implemented between the first filter and an output node, with the first signal path including a plurality of amplification stages configured to amplify a first signal. The first signal path can be substantially free of switches. The circuit can further include a second signal path implemented between the second filter and the output node, with the second signal path including a plurality of amplification stages configured to amplify a second signal. The second signal path can be substantially free of switches.
US10826538B1
A decoder for decoding a binary symmetry-invariant product code includes a data array having orthogonal first and second dimensions. The data array is configured to access a binary symmetry-invariant product code buffered therein along only the first dimension. The decoder also includes an error storage array for storing error locations and a first correction circuit configured to detect and correct errors in data accessed from the data array along the first dimension and to store error locations along the second dimension in the error storage array. The first correction circuit determines the error locations based on data symmetry of the symmetry-invariant product code. The decoder also includes a second correction circuit that, prior to receipt by the first correction circuit of data accessed from the data array along the first dimension, corrects the data accessed from the data array based on the error locations stored in the error storage array.
US10826529B2
Systems and methods providing low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoder configurations capable of decoding multiple code blocks in parallel are described. Parallel LDPC decoders of embodiments can be reconfigured to simultaneously decode multiple codewords with reconfigurable size. In operation of embodiments of a parallel LDPC decoder, a plurality of active portions of the decoder logic are configured for parallel processing of a plurality of code blocks, wherein each active region processes a respective code block. The decoder logic active portions of embodiments are provided using a reconfigurable segmented scalable cyclic shifter supporting multiple instruction, multiple data (MIMD), wherein multiple individual different data shifts are implemented with respect to a plurality of code blocks in an instance of data shifting operation. Multiple data shift commands may be utilized such that the plurality of code blocks have an individual shifting command to thereby implement different data shifting with respect to each code block.
US10826527B2
A method for data compression includes acquiring compensation data, comparing the compensation data with preset base value data to obtain a compensation data deviation, and performing an encoding compression on the compensation data deviation to obtain compressed data.
US10826526B2
A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory, an interface circuit, and a controller configured to upon receipt of a plurality of write commands for storing write data in the nonvolatile memory via the interface circuit, acquire compression-ratio information about the write data associated with each write command, determine a compression ratio of each write data based on the acquired compression-ratio information, and determine an execution order of the write commands based on the determined compression ratio.
US10826516B2
A gain calibration device for an ADC residue amplifier includes a DAC and a flash ADC. The DAC is configured to convert the digital signal to an analog signal, and the DAC includes a calibration module used in the gain calibration of the ADC residual amplifier. The flash ADC is configured to generate a digital signal, the flash ADC includes a plurality of comparators, the total number of the plurality of comparators is equal to the number of output bits of the flash ADC, and the comparators are configured to be unevenly distributed in an input range.
US10826507B1
A clock product includes a phase-locked loop configured to generate an output clock signal based on an input digital value and a feedback digital value. The input digital value corresponds to a first clock edge of a frequency-divided input clock signal and the feedback digital value corresponds to a second clock edge of a feedback clock signal. The clock product includes an input fractional divider configured to generate the input digital value based on an input clock signal, a divider value, and an input clock period digital code corresponding to a period of the input clock signal.
US10826504B2
A time-to-digital converter and a phase difference detection method are disclosed. The time-to-digital converter includes a detection unit and a digital control circuit. The detection unit comprising: a phase detection circuit, a first and a second clock signal are respectively coupled to an identical input terminal of the phase detection circuit and a reference signal is coupled to another input terminal of the phase detection circuit; the phase detection circuit is configured to output a pulse width corresponding to a phase difference between the first or the second clock signal and the reference signal; a filter circuit, coupled to an output terminal of the phase detection circuit; a ring oscillator circuit, coupled to an output terminal of the filter circuit and configured to output an oscillation clock signal corresponding to the pulse width. The digital control circuit is configured to provide the reference signal and receive the oscillation clock signal.
US10826494B2
A high frequency switch (1) includes a first input/output terminal (30); at least three second input/output terminals (40a to 40e); a first switch (10) including a first common terminal (11) and at least two first selection terminals (12a to 12c) selectively connected to the first common terminal (11); and a second switch (20) including a second common terminal (21) connected to the first selection terminal (12c) with a matching circuit (50) interposed therebetween and at least two second selection terminals (22a to 22c) selectively connected to the second common terminal (21), in which the first common terminal (11) is connected to the first input/output terminal (30), the first selection terminals (12a and 12b) are connected to the second input/output terminals (40a and 40b), and the second selection terminals (22a to 22c) are connected to the second input/output terminals (40c to 40e).
US10826490B2
A switch circuit includes FETs including a first FET group including m FETs, a second FET group including n FETs at a position away from the input terminal than the first FET group, and an intermediate FET between the first FET group and the second FET group, and capacitive elements including m capacitive elements, n capacitive elements, and an intermediate capacitive element, the capacitive element (C1i) (i is an integer between 1 and m inclusive) is connected in parallel to i consecutive FETs of the first FET group starting from a top closer to the input terminal, the capacitive element (C2j) (j is an integer between 1 and n inclusive) is connected in parallel to j consecutive FETs of the second FET group starting from a top closer to the input terminal, and the intermediate capacitive element is connected in parallel to the intermediate FET.
US10826487B2
One example relates to a circuit that includes a first integrated circuit die and a second integrated circuit die. The first integrated circuit die has a power field effect transistor (FET) and a pull-down FET coupled to the power FET. The second integrated circuit die has a pull-up FET coupled to the power FET.
US10826479B2
A waveform conversion circuit for converting a control signal of a control node ranging from a high voltage level to a low voltage level of a reference node into a driving signal of a first node is provided. The waveform conversion circuit includes a first resistor, a first capacitor, a unidirectional conducting device, and a voltage clamp unit. The first resistor and the first capacitor are in parallel and coupled between the control node and the first node. The unidirectional conducting device unidirectionally discharges the first node to the control node. The voltage clamp unit is coupled between the first node and the reference node and configured to clamp a driving signal.
US10826478B2
This application relates to digital PWM modulation. A PWM modulator (400, 1100) has a PWM generator (402) configured to receive pulse width data (PWidth) and to output a PWM signal (SPWM) comprising a plurality of repeating PWM cycle periods, in which the duration of any pulse of the PWM signal in each PWM cycle period is based on the pulse width data. The PWM generator is configured to synchronise the PWM cycle periods, and the start and end of any PWM pulse, to a received first clock signal. The PWM generator is operable to generate pulses that have a positional error from a centred position within the PWM cycle period and a pulse position controller (403) is configured to control the position of a pulse in a PWM cycle period so as to at least partly compensate for the positional error of one or more preceding pulses.
US10826477B2
A monitoring circuit is implemented for comparing a sampled voltage taken from a selected sampling capacitor and a reference voltage from a voltage buffer (150). The voltage buffer (150) is configurable according to programming provided to a programmable logic controller, PLC, (570). Comparisons may be made on a periodic basis, such as a time-division multiplexed basis, in connection with register settings in the PLC (570).
US10826476B1
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.
US10826473B2
A PVT-independent fixed delay circuit includes a circuit structure that has a current generator and a multi-level inverter-based time delay unit. The inverter-based time delay unit has at least two NMOS transistors M5, M6, and at least two PMOS transistors M7, M8. The current generator has a circuit structure including at least two NMOS transistors M1, M2, at least two PMOS transistors M3, M4 and a resistor RS.
US10826463B2
An example of a signal switch includes a first transistor coupled between first and second nodes, a plurality of second transistors coupled in series between the first and second nodes, in parallel with the first transistor, a third transistor coupled between the first node and a third node, and a plurality of fourth transistors coupled in series between the first and third nodes, in parallel with the third transistor. The signal switch further includes a first shunt path including a first shunt transistor and a first inductor connected in series between a reference node and a first connection point between two of the plurality of second transistors, and a second shunt path including a second shunt transistor and a second inductor connected in series between the reference node and a second connection point between two of the plurality of fourth transistors.
US10826444B2
Disclosed is a method for producing a stage for amplifying the power of a variable envelope signal including at least one amplifier. For each amplifier, a form of ideal variation in average power POUTL is selected. For each value of each setting parameter and for each average input power value, a value of an optimisation criterion is calculated on the basis of the mathematical expectation of at least one optimisation parameter. An optimum value of each setting parameter is determined and the amplification stage is produced with a number of amplifiers in parallel determined on the basis of an average output power value and with, for each amplifier, matching circuits providing the optimum values of the setting parameters. The invention also relates to an amplification stage produced in this manner.
US10826427B2
Disclosed are a de-icing device for a solar panel and a method of operating the same. The de-icing device for the solar panel and the method of operating the same include a sensor unit, a power supply unit, a switching unit, and a control unit, so that it is possible to provide a high-efficiency de-icing device for the solar panel in which snow deposited on the solar penal may be dissolved by applying a reverse current to the solar panel. In addition, it is possible to provide a high-efficiency and high-precision de-icing device for the solar panel in which solar power generation and de-icing may be simultaneously performed and the amount of the reverse current may be controlled.
US10826423B2
A motor driving apparatus includes a first driving control circuit (an MCU, a driving circuit, an input circuit, a power management IC) and a second driving control circuit (an MCU, a driving circuit, an input circuit, a power management IC). The first driving control circuit and the second driving control circuit are configured to drive a corresponding winding group of winding groups of a motor, and have a master mode for outputting a synchronous trigger signal in synchronization with driving of the corresponding winding group and a slave mode for synchronizing the driving of the corresponding winding group with an input synchronous trigger signal. When an error has occurred in an operation of the first driving control circuit in the master mode, the second driving control circuit switches an operation mode of the second driving control circuit from the slave mode to the master mode.
US10826410B2
An object of the present invention is to reduce output voltage errors of an inverter circuit and stably control a motor until the motor reaches high speed rotation. An inverter device includes a PWM controller that generates a PWM pulse for converting DC voltage to AC voltage in accordance with an output request of a motor, and an inverter circuit that converts the DC voltage to the AC voltage with the PWM pulse generated by the PWM controller and drives a motor. The PWM controller changes the pulse width of the PWM pulse at predetermined timing on the upper side of the trapezoidal wave when the trapezoidal wave modulation using the trapezoidal wave is performed in the overmodulation region.
US10826407B2
A load control device is configured to generate a control signal having a desired magnitude for controlling a load regulation device adapted to control the power delivered to an electrical load. The load control device may comprise a control terminal arranged to provide the control signal to the load regulation device, a communication circuit for generating the control signal, and a control circuit configured to generate an output signal that is provided to the communication circuit. The communication circuit may be characterized by non-linear operation. The control circuit may adjust the magnitude of the output signal in response to the difference between the magnitude of the control signal and the desired magnitude to adjust the magnitude of the control signal towards the desired magnitude. The control circuit may also be configured to determine if an incompatible load regulation device is coupled to the load control device.
US10826405B1
According to an aspect of this disclosure, a circuit includes a voltage source and an output load, first and second resonant modules disposed between the voltage source and the output load, and first and second transformers. The circuit is further arranged such that the first transformer is disposed between the first resonant module and the output load, and the second transformer is disposed between the second resonant module and the output load. The circuit also includes a plurality of half-bridges coupled between the first and second resonant modules and the voltage source. The circuit further includes a voltage divider disposed between the voltage source and the plurality of half-bridges.
US10826402B1
Controlling switching frequency of LLC resonant power converters. At least one example embodiment is a method of operating LLC converter, including: measuring values indicative of current through a primary winding of a transformer of an LLC converter, the measuring during a first on-time of a first switching period of an electrically controlled switch coupled to the primary winding, and the measuring creates a current waveform; calculating a slope of the current waveform; and controlling frequency of switching the electrically controlled switch based on the slope.
US10826398B2
Apparatus and methods for sensing a variable amplitude switching signal from a secondary winding in a power conversion system are disclosed herein. By using a comparator with an adaptable reference, variable amplitude secondary winding signals in phase with primary winding signals may be detected in the presence of ringing. Detection of the in phase secondary winding signals, in turn, allows for secondary side control with power factor correction and discontinuous mode operation.
US10826387B2
Embodiments of a method for operating a charge pump and a charge pump are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for operating a charge pump involves during a first operating phase of the charge pump, setting a first current source of the charge pump according to a second current source of the charge pump, and, during a second operating phase of the charge pump that is subsequent to the first operating phase, providing current from the first current source to a load of the charge pump.
US10826386B2
A multi-stage charge pump including a first stage configured to generate a first output voltage, a last stage configured to receive the first output voltage from the first stage and output a second output voltage, a switch configured to receive the second output voltage from the last stage, and a voltage regulator circuit configured to control the second output voltage of the last stage to maintain a substantially constant on-resistance of the switch.
US10826379B2
A converter arrangement includes a converter which can be switched between an AC voltage supply system and a DC voltage circuit and which has converter valves that extend between AC voltage connections and DC voltage connections. Each converter valve has a series connection of bipolar submodules that include power semiconductor devices. The converter arrangement further includes a star point reactor which is located on the AC voltage side of the converter and which has impedance coils that are interconnected to form a grounded neutral point. A suppression filter is connected between the neutral point and a ground connection. The suppression filter is configured to suppress a harmonic of an alternating voltage in the AC voltage supply system.
US10826357B2
Disclosed are an electric motor and a simplified variable speed drive system which renders the use of filtering components in a motor drive circuit unnecessary and increases torque transfer from permanent magnets of the rotor to the output shaft. The motor includes a fluid gap between the rotor and the stator configured to receive a cooling fluid, such a refrigerant. A plurality of radially-abutting, bread loaf-shaped magnets having a flat base are respectively fixed to a plurality of longitudinally oriented mounting facets provided on the shaft to provide maximum torque transfer from the magnets to the shaft. An eddy shield disposed between the faceted shaft and the magnets thermally shunts high frequency harmonics from the magnets to the shaft and cooling fluid. The rotor components are mechanically secured by a sleeve disposed around the rotor.
US10826356B2
A cooling air filter for an electric motor, includes a filter with a planar shape and minimum dimension so as to cover the area of the slits of a covering casing of a fan for an electric motor for which it is intended; and the filter is housed in a support which is fixed in a steady and removable way on the surface of the casing; the support having a frame-like structure from which at least two arms extend, which are diametrically opposite in the frame-like structure, and which are provided at their end with fixing and gripping means of the arms on the casing itself; the fixing means being configured for the fast detachment from and hooking onto said casing.
US10826353B2
An embodiment of a liquid cooled electric machine is provided with an enclosed stator and includes a cooling assembly so configured as to allow cooling liquid to flow in the coil receiving slots of the enclosed stator to thereby cool the coils positioned therein.
US10826349B2
The disclosure provides a wind turbine generator and a control method thereof. The wind turbine generator comprises at least two power transmission systems connected each other in parallel and a control system comprising an upper controller and control subsystems corresponding to the power transmission systems and comprising bottom controllers. The bottom controllers monitor operating state parameters of functional units in corresponding power transmission systems, and when determining corresponding functional units meet abnormal conditions according to operating state parameters, send operating state parameters of corresponding functional units to the upper controller; the upper controller generates operating instructions when determining faults of the corresponding functional units occur according to operating state parameters of corresponding functional units, to control power transmission systems to work according to operation instructions. The wind turbine generator is fully used, and the energy production thereof is further increased.
US10826344B2
An electric machine is provided which includes a rotor disk extending along a radial direction and a having a rotor magnet embedded within the rotor disk. The electric machine further includes a stator assembly in axial or radial magnetic flux communication with the rotor magnets to generate a torque.
US10826341B2
A rotor of a motor apparatus may include: a shaft; a first core part including a first press-fit ring into which the shaft is press-fitted and a plurality of first cores arranged along the circumferential direction of the first press-fit ring so as to support magnets; a second core part including a plurality of second cores arranged along the circumferential direction of the shaft so as to face the first cores; and a third core arranged inside the second cores, and installed to support the first press-fit ring.
US10826338B2
An axial flux machine is described. The machine has a stator comprising a stator housing enclosing a plurality of stator bars disposed circumferentially at intervals around an axis of the machine, and a rotor comprising a set of permanent magnets and mounted for rotation about the axis of the machine. The rotor is spaced apart from the stator along the axis of the machine to define a gap between the stator and rotor and in which magnetic flux in the machine is generally in an axial direction. The machine also comprises a hub assembly comprising a rotating hub and a mount separated by a bearing to permit the hub to rotate relative to the mount, the rotating hub comprising a hub flange and the mount comprising a mount flange, each of the flanges being spaced axially apart from one another. The machine further comprises a bulkhead for mounting the hub assembly and stator, wherein the bulkhead is mounted to the mount flange of the hub assembly and the stator housing is mounted to the bulkhead. The rotor comprises first and second rotors disposed either side of the stator, the first rotor being mounted to the hub flange and the second rotor being mounted only to the first rotor, the first and second rotors together forming a U-shaped rotor extending across and either side of the stator and being rotatable relative to the stator about the axis of the machine.
US10826337B2
A collar is provided on the outer periphery of a rotor shaft and is integrated with a cylindrical member through apertures penetrating the outer wall of the rotor shaft.
US10826332B2
A wireless power transmitting device is provided. The wireless power transmitting device includes a patch antenna, and a transmission/reception processing circuit configured to output a first signal to the patch antenna during a first period, and process a second signal output from the patch antenna during a second period, wherein the patch antenna is configured to transmit a transmission wave using the first signal, and output the second signal to the transmission/reception processing circuit using a reception wave.
US10826329B2
A wireless power transfer (“WPT”) pad apparatus includes a ferrite structure and four windings adjacent to the ferrite structure. A horizontal surface of the ferrite structure is adjacent to each of the four windings and each of the four windings are wound in a horizontal pattern that is planar to the horizontal surface. The four windings are arranged in a two-by-two square pattern in a north-south-north-south polarity arrangement.
US10826316B2
An electricity management method of wireless charging includes: detecting a charging request signal sent by a receiver device; selecting a transmitter device according to a location of the receiver device; detecting the location of the receiver device and a plurality of micro-electrometric wave charging environmental parameters thereof; collecting a strength distribution of a micro-electrometric wave signal frequency band in an area where the transmitter device is located, and transmitting area charging performance information based on the strength distribution of the micro-electrometric wave signal frequency band and area information of the area where the transmitter device is located; selecting one of the plurality of charging modes based on the charging request signal and the micro-electrometric wave charging environmental parameters; and based on the selected charging mode, controlling the transmitter device to turn on a charging function corresponding to the receiver device to charge the receiver device.
US10826315B2
In some embodiments, a wireless power charging circuit includes a wireless power receiver configured to receive wireless power from a receive coil and to produce a first voltage; an open loop capacitor divider coupled to receive the first voltage from the wireless power receiver and configured to provide a second voltage, the second voltage being reduced from the first voltage; and a linear battery charger coupled to receive the second voltage from the open loop capacitor and configured to provide a charging voltage to provide to a battery coupled to the system.
US10826312B2
A charger control circuit (CC) comprises a first charger terminal (CT1) and a system terminal (ST) and is configured to assign a voltage applied at the first charger terminal (CT1) to one of at least three voltage ranges by performing at least one voltage comparison. The charger control circuit (CC) is configured to determine and distinguish, based on the assignment, whether an external charger (EXC1) or a secondary battery (SBAT) is connected to the first charger terminal (CT1). Furthermore, the charger control circuit (CC) is configured to, depending on a predetermined operating state of the first charger terminal (CT1), supply power from the secondary battery (SBAT) or the external charger (EXC1) to a portable electronic device via the system terminal (ST) when the secondary battery (SBAT) or the external charger, respectively, is connected to the first charger terminal (CT1).
US10826300B2
A multi-mode wireless power transmitter includes a first drive circuit of a first type and a second drive circuit of a second type. The first drive circuit is configured to drive a first transmit coil at a first frequency. The second drive circuit is configured to drive a second transmit coil at a second frequency higher than the first frequency.
US10826295B2
A method and an apparatus for determining the distributed power supply capacity to be accessed by a feed line of a power distribution network, and a storage medium, the method comprising: determining feed line loss on the basis of load information of power distribution network feed line access nodes and circuit parameters; on the basis of the feed line loss, determining three-phase voltage change values of the feed line circuit; using a single phase having the greatest voltage change amongst the voltage change values, determining a maximum active power for distributed power supply access under voltage constraints; comparing the current of the feed line corresponding to the maximum active power with a circuit current limit, and determining the distributed power supply capacity to be accessed by the feed line; the apparatus comprises a feed line information collection unit, a voltage drop unit, a quantitative calculation unit, and a results analysis unit. The present method can be used for dispatching operation control of a distributed power supply in a power grid, and can ensure safe access to the distributed power supply and safe operation of the power grid, improving the access capacity of the power distribution network to the distributed power supply.
US10826294B2
Systems and methods for controlling power distribution are provided. More particularly, in one embodiment, a method can include monitoring a first plurality of electrical characteristics for each power source of a plurality of power sources. The plurality of power sources can include a first generator, a second generator, an auxiliary power source, and an external power source. The method can include monitoring a second plurality of electrical characteristics for each bus of a plurality of buses. The plurality of buses can include a first electrical bus, a second electrical bus, and an electrical tie bus. The method can further include selectively controlling a power distribution of the plurality of power sources among the plurality of buses based, at least in part, on the first and second pluralities of electrical characteristics.
US10826293B1
A power supply system includes a plurality of UPSs configured to provide output power to one or more loads using AC power drawn from a supply bus and energy stored at respective energy modules of the plurality of UPSs. Each UPS of the plurality of UPSs comprises a corresponding frequency sensor configured to generate an indication of a frequency of the AC power at the supply bus. The plurality of UPSs comprises a first UPS configured to draw the AC power from the supply bus when the indication of the frequency output by the corresponding frequency sensor for the first UPS satisfies a first frequency priority threshold and a second UPS configured to draw the AC power from the supply bus when the indication of the frequency output by the corresponding frequency sensor for the second UPS satisfies a second frequency priority threshold.
US10826285B2
A circuit to protect a USB connector from corrosion on its CC pins includes a first node coupled to a first power source or a first pull-down resistor, a second node coupled to the CC pins and a second power source, and a second pull-down resister coupled to the second node. A detection circuit compares the voltage at the first node with a first reference voltage. The detection circuit also compares the voltage at the second node with second and third reference voltages. A control logic circuit generates a corrosion detection signal in response to the voltage at the second node being less than the third reference voltage and greater than the second reference voltage when the voltage at the first node is greater than the first reference voltage.
US10826282B2
A copper bar component for switching an input/output mode of an uninterruptible power supply (UPS), and a power system includes an enclosure of the UPS, at least one bracket and a plurality of copper bars. The plurality of copper bars are fastened to each of the at least one bracket, and the plurality of copper bars are connected to an input or output wiring terminal on the enclosure of the UPS. Each of the at least one bracket is made of an insulating material. The plurality of copper bars are arranged on each of the at least one bracket according to one input mode or output mode of the UPS, and the plurality of copper bars are arranged on the at least one bracket in a one-to-one correspondence to at least one of an input mode or an output mode of the UPS.
US10826281B2
A ground bus subassembly provided at a top (e.g., top front) of a power distribution cabinet section. The ground bus subassembly includes a first upper front frame plate, and a first ground bus section adjacent to the first upper front frame plate. A splice can attach to the first ground bus section. A ground cover covering the first ground bus section can function as a hoist rail. Ground bus subassemblies with first and second cabinet sections and first and second ground bus sections are provided, as are methods of assembly of ground bus subassemblies.
US10826279B1
A spark plug having a shell with a ground electrode recess. A ground electrode having an insertion end, a firing end, and a round cross-sectional profile toward the insertion end is inserted into the ground electrode recess of the shell. An attachment portion surrounds at least a portion of the ground electrode and includes a solidified bonding material at a connection interface between the ground electrode and the shell. In some implementations, the ground electrode can have a copper core that extends further into the shell, past the distal end of the insulator. In some embodiments, the ground electrode has a sheath surrounding the copper core that has aluminum and a high weight percentage of nickel.
US10826277B2
An optoelectronic component includes a carrier with at least two radiation sources that generate electromagnetic radiation, including a housing consisting of a material non-transmissive to the electromagnetic radiation from the radiation sources, wherein at least two openings are provided in the housing, each opening is closed with a plate, the plate consists of a material transmissive to the electromagnetic radiation from the respective radiation source, and a radiation source is respectively assigned to an opening.
US10826266B2
Disclosed herein is a cooler of a semiconductor laser. The cooler includes a heat sink comprising a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer, disposed on the first surface and not short-circuited to each other; and a conductive connector comprising a first end part, a second end part, and a first connection part connecting the first end part and the second end part. The first end part is on the first conductive layer. The second end part is on the second surface of the heat sink and insulated from the heat sink. The first connection part is disposed at a first non-opposite end of the first conductive layer on the heat sink.
US10826265B2
A frequency stabilizer includes: a delay line interferometer that receives an optical signal corresponding to one frequency mode of a pulsed laser, divides and transmits the received optical signal to a reference arm and a delay arm including an optical fiber delay line, and then outputs an interference signal between signals passing through the reference arm and the delay arm; a photoelectric converter that converts the interference signal into an electrical signal; a mixer that generates a baseband signal of the electrical signal by mixing a carrier frequency signal; and a feedback controller that transmits a control signal generated based on the baseband signal to the pulsed laser. The optical signal passing through the delay arm is weighted with a delay time caused by the optical fiber delay line compared to the optical signal passing through the reference arm, and the optical signal passing through the delay arm is frequency shifted to a carrier frequency of an oscillator. A carrier-envelope offset frequency of the pulsed laser is stabilized by an offset frequency stabilizer.
US10826264B2
A supercontinuum optical pulse source provides a combined supercontinuum, and can comprise one or more seed pulse sources; first and second optical amplifiers arranged along first and second respective optical paths, wherein the first and second optical amplifiers are configured to amplify one or more optical signals generated by the one or more seed pulse sources; a first microstructured light-guiding member arranged along the first optical path and configured to generate supercontinuum light responsive to an optical signal propagating along the first optical path; a second microstructured light-guiding member arranged along the second optical path and configured to generate supercontinuum light responsive to an optical signal propagating along the second optical path; a supercontinuum-combining member to combine supercontinuum generated in at least the first and second microstructured light-guiding members to form a combined supercontinuum; wherein the supercontinuum-combining member comprises an output fibre, wherein the output fibre comprises a silica-based multimode optical fibre supporting a plurality of spatial modes at one or more wavelengths of the combined supercontinuum; wherein the supercontinuum-combining member has one or more input fibres which support no more than four spatial modes at any wavelength within the combined supercontinuum; and wherein the output fibre of the supercontinuum-combining member supports no more than four spatial modes at any wavelength within the combined supercontinuum.
US10826258B2
A combined multipath charger comprises charger main bodies and adapters. An inwards-recessed first female plug is disposed at the upper end of each charger main body. An outwards-raised first male plug matching the first female plug is disposed on the lower end of each adapter, and a second male plug and a second female plug matching with each other are disposed on opposite two side surfaces of each adapter. The adapter is inserted in the first female plug of the charger main body by means of the first male plug. The second male plug and the second female plug matching with each other are disposed on the opposite two side surfaces of the adapter and multiple adapters can be connected together in an abutting manner, accordingly, multiple main bodies in which the adapters are inserted can be placed together side by side.
US10826254B2
An electrical connector includes: a plastic seat; a tongue connected to and disposed on a front end of the plastic seat; and two rows of terminals. Each of the terminals is provided with an electrical connection point. The electrical connection points of the two rows of terminals are respectively arranged on top and bottom surfaces of the tongue. A front section of the tongue is a thinner flat plate body, top and bottom surfaces of the thinner flat plate body are two low surfaces, a rear section of the tongue is a thicker flat plate body, top and bottom surfaces of the thicker flat plate body are two high surfaces, and a side view of the tongue has a convex shape. A combination of the bidirectional duplex electrical connector and a docking electrical connector is also provided.
US10826250B2
A power cord is described that includes “in-line” power control functionality. The power control functionality may selectively enable or disable a flow of electrical current through the power cord and/or selectively control an amount of electrical current that is permitted to flow through the power cord. The power control functionality may be activated and/or controlled through the receipt of control signals from an external device. The power cord may be configured to monitor the state of an electronic device to which it is connected and selectively activate and/or modify the operation of the power control functionality in response to the detection of a particular state of the electronic device. The power cord may also be configured to receive and analyze sensor data, and based at least on the analysis, selectively activate and/or modify the operation of the power control functionality.
US10826248B2
A sliding power contact and method includes a mobile load device connector and a socket. The mobile load device connector includes a non-current power pin having a first length, a current power pin having a second length less than the first length, a neutral pin, and a ground pin. The socket includes a non-current power contact configured to electrically couple with the non-current power pin, a current power contact configured to electrically couple with the current power pin, a neutral contact configured to electrically couple with the neutral pin, and a ground pin configured to electrically couple with the ground pin. An arc suppressor is directly coupled to at least one of the non-current power pin and the non-current power contact, wherein the arc suppressor, the non-current power pin and the non-current power contact form a current path between the current power pin and the current power contact.
US10826247B1
An electromagnetic shielding system is configured to shield one or more electrical connections between one or more first electrical cables and one or more second electrical cables. The electromagnetic shielding system includes a base. A first cable coupler is frangibly coupled to the base. The first cable coupler is configured to electrically couple to the first electrical cable(s). A second cable coupler is frangibly coupled to the base. The second cable coupler is configured to electrically couple to the second electrical cable(s). A covering lid is frangibly coupled to the first cable coupler, the second cable coupler, and the base. An electrical connection chamber is defined between the base, the first cable coupler, the second cable coupler, and the covering lid. The first electrical cable(s) are configured to electrically connect to the second electrical cable(s) within the electrical connection chamber.
US10826246B2
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and a plurality of contacts retained within the housing as a contact module. The housing includes a base and a mating tongue forwardly extending from the base. The contacts are arranged with two rows contacting sections respectively exposed upon two opposite surfaces of the mating tongue, and one row mounting sections for mounting to a same plane of a printed circuit board. Each contact has a linking section between the contacting section and the mounting section. The contacts are grouped by one grounding contact associated with a pair of neighboring differential pair signal contacts in an isosceles triangular configuration wherein the grounding contact is located at the top apex. The linking section of grounding contact of the outermost group is widened compared with those of the remaining contacts for lowering the corresponding impedance.
US10826243B2
An electric connector terminal configuration structure includes an insulating body, a terminal set disposed inside a base of the insulating body and including conductive terminals arranged in upper and lower rows, and a circuit board connected to terminal set and including a first contact set and a second ground set. The first contact set is electrically connected to the terminal set, to transmit differential pair signals, ground signals and non-differential pair signals. The second contact set is electrically connected to the first contact set and has the same signal transmission configuration as the first contact set, and in the second contact set, an interval of contacts for transmitting differential pair signals is lower than the interval of a contact for transmitting a ground signal and an adjacent contact for transmitting the differential pair signal, to solve the high frequency impedance matching problem, thereby matching the HDMI 2.1 specification.
US10826242B2
A card tray includes: an insulative frame having a side recess and a protrusion in front of the side recess; and a metallic plate molded with the insulative frame, the metallic plate having a reinforcing portion embedded in the insulative frame; wherein the protrusion has an end face at a lateral side thereof, and the reinforcing portion has an upper and lower edges buried in the protrusion and an exposed end face flush with the end face of the protrusion.
US10826239B1
A pop-up plug having a modularized plug separation mechanism, includes a plug housing and a plug separation mechanism. The plug separation mechanism includes a sleeve, an ejector pin arranged in the sleeve in a penetrating manner, an ejector pin control mechanism and a first spring for driving the ejector pin to extend out of the plug housing from the side where the insertion sheet is located; the ejector pin control mechanism includes an engaging part arranged at the ejector pin, an engaging head matched with the engaging part to keep the ejector pin in a contracted state, a second spring for driving the engaging head to be engaged with the engaging part, and a button for driving the engaging head to be separated from the engaging part. The sleeve is provided with a holding part connected to an inner cover.
US10826233B1
An electrical connector having a latch which extends from the first housing surface of the housing. A mounting portion extends from the latch arm to the first housing surface. A first mounting surface of the mounting portion extends at a first angle from the first housing surface in a direction toward the mating connector latching end. The first mounting surface extends from the first latch arm surface at a second angle. The length of the mounting portion as measured between a vertex of the first angle and a vertex of the second angle along the first housing surface is greater than the distance that the first latch arm surface is spaced from the first housing surface. The latch arm is pivotable about the mounting portion. The latch and the mounting portion have low stress concentrations when the latch arm is pivoted about the mounting portion.
US10826224B2
An elastic member and a waterproof connector are provided and are capable of maintaining water proofing properties even though a wire is shaken. The elastic member (20) is to be fit on a rear surface of a housing (10) capable of housing terminal metal pieces (T) fixed to end portions of wires (W). Seal holes (21) penetrate the elastic member (20) in forward and backward directions and are capable of being in tight contact with the wires (W). Lips (22) are formed to be aligned in the forward and backward directions in the seal holes (21). Grooves (30) open in the front surface and are formed around the seal holes (21). The grooves (30) have a depth enough to reach backward of the lip (22A) located on at least the front surface.
US10826223B2
A connection support cover is proposed that fits over the connecting end of the cable. The connection support cover is generally U-shaped and includes an aperture at the bottom of the U to allow for the actual connector portion of the cable to protrude through the cover. The connector support cover provides a larger, easier to grip surface and allows an individual to quickly and easily remove a cable from a device without harming either the cable or the embedded connector within the device.
US10826222B2
A moving plate (14) is movable in a fitting space (28) of a receptacle (25) between a protecting position and a retracted position. A sealing member (16) is closer to an opening than the moving plate (14) and closely contacts the inner surface of the receptacle (25). The moving plate (14) has arms (64) including inward projecting locking projections (66). A female housing (102) fits into the fitting space (28) of the receptacle (25) and includes a sealing surface (116) and recesses (112) on an outer surface. The sealing surface (116) contacts the inner surface of the sealing member (16) during connection to a male connector (10). The recesses (112) are recessed on a more forward side than the sealing surface (116) in a fitting direction into the fitting space (28), and locking projections (66) are locked to side surfaces of the recesses during separation from the male connector.
US10826217B2
An electrical contact assembly having a pair of contacts mirroring each other, each contact coupled with an elastomer positioned in a recess formed near a lower end of the contact. Each elastomer has a cylindrical shape with the axis of the cylinder running in a front to rear direction. Each elastomer is secured at its front and rear ends by a lower cavity formed within a housing. The contacts are able to rock sideways around their lower ends between uncompressed and compressed states.
US10826201B2
A conductive member that includes a flexible conductor in which a plurality of strands are bundled together and that has flexibility; a rigid conductor that has a shape retaining property; a body that is formed at an end portion of the rigid conductor and that surrounds the flexible conductor and is fixed to the flexible conductor; and a sliding contact that has a form protruding from an inner circumference of the body and with which the strands can make sliding contact, wherein the sliding contact has a bent shape.
US10826193B2
An antenna module includes an integrated circuit (IC) that is configured to generate an RF signal, a substrate providing a first surface on which one or more first antenna is arranged, a second surface on which the IC is arranged, and an electrical connection path to the one or more first antenna and the IC, and a flexible substrate connected to the substrate to provide a third surface on which one or more second antenna is arranged and to provide an electrical connection path to the one or more second antenna and the IC.
US10826191B2
An antenna feeding network for a multi-radiator base station antenna and an antenna arrangement comprising such a feeding network is provided. The feeding network comprises substantially air filled feeding lines and a coaxial connector for an antenna feeder cable, the connector being connected to at least one of the coaxial lines. The substantially air filled feeding lines each have a central inner conductor and an elongated outer conductor surrounding the central inner conductor. The coaxial connector comprises a body having an attachment portion, the attachment portion being attached to, and arranged in abutment with, a portion of at least one outer conductor such that the body connects electrically and mechanically with the outer conductors of the feeding lines.
US10826185B2
An antenna may include a tower extending vertically upward from a ground location, a first set of elongate antenna elements extending outwardly from the tower at a first height above the ground location, and a second set of elongate antenna elements extending outwardly from the tower at a second height above the ground location and below the first height. In some embodiments, at least one elongate antenna element of the first and second sets of elongate antenna elements may be electrically coupled to the ground location. A radio frequency (RF) feed may be electrically coupled to the first and second sets of elongate antenna elements.
US10826183B2
An antenna includes a dielectric substrate, a circular patch overlying the dielectric substrate, and a metamaterial ground plane. One or more antenna feeds are coupled to the circular patch. The antenna feeds may include impedance transformers. The metamaterial ground plane includes a plurality of conductive patches and a ground plane. The conductive patches are arranged along a first plane below the circular patch and are separated from the circular patch by at least the dielectric substrate. The conductive patches are arranged in a pattern that provides circular symmetry with respect to a center of the circularly polarized antenna. The ground plane is arranged along a second plane and is electrically coupled to at least a first portion of the conductive patches. One or more of the conductive patches and the ground plane are coupled to ground.
US10826179B2
Short, dual-driven groundless antennas are provided. One of the antennas includes a tubular outer conductor, a tubular inner conductor, and an electrical connector that electrically connects an opposite end of the outer conductor to the exterior of the inner conductor. The inner conductor is longitudinally disposed within the hollow axial interior of the outer conductor such that an axial gap exists between the radially inner surface of the outer conductor and the radially outer surface of the inner conductor, and the inner conductor runs at least to the opposite end of the outer conductor. Electrical signals are connected to a driven end of both the outer and inner conductors, where these signals supply power to/from the antenna whenever it is used as a transmitter/receiver, and neither of these signals needs to be connected to an electrical ground.
US10826174B2
Disclosed herein is an antenna device that includes an antenna layer having a radiation conductor, a first ground pattern having a first slot, a feed layer stacked on the antenna layer through the first ground pattern and having a first feed pattern electromagnetically coupled to the radiation conductor through the first slot, and a first coupler pattern electromagnetically coupled to the first feed pattern or radiation conductor.
US10826173B2
An aperture feed network includes a substrate having a first surface and a parallel second surface, first and second conductive traces on the first surface of the substrate, a third conductive trace on the second surface of the substrate, a conductive via extending through a thickness of the substrate, and one or more ground plane structures on the second surface of the substrate. The substrate comprises a dielectric material. The first and second conductive traces together form a differential signal line. The third conductive trace comprises a first branch and a second branch. The conductive via contacts the first branch of the third conductive trace on the second surface of the substrate and the second conductive trace on the first surface of the substrate. The one or more ground plane structures have irregular shapes.
US10826172B2
An antenna apparatus provides a feed line through which an RF signal passes, a feed via which has a first end electrically connected to the feed line, a feed antenna pattern which is electrically connected to the second end of the feed via and which extends from the second end of the feed via in a first extending direction, a mirroring antenna pattern spaced apart from the feed antenna pattern and extending in a second direction opposite to the extending direction of the feed antenna pattern, a ground line electrically separated from the feed line, and a mirroring core pattern which electrically connects the ground line and the mirroring antenna pattern and is disposed to bypass the feed via.
US10826169B2
Techniques for implementing and/or operating a radio frequency system, which includes a logic board that outputs an analog electrical signal indicative of data to be wirelessly transmitted from the radio frequency system and a remote head. The remote head includes an antenna that generates an electromagnetic wave to facilitate wirelessly transmitting the data, an antenna integrated circuit implemented using a first semiconductor manufacturing technique, in which the antenna integrated circuit amplifies the analog electrical signal to generate a first amplified analog electrical signal, and a remote front-end integrated circuit coupled between the antenna integrated circuit and the antenna. The remote front-end integrated circuit is implemented using a second semiconductor manufacturing technique different from the first semiconductor manufacturing technique and amplifies the first amplified analog electrical signal based on a target output power of the antenna to generate a second amplified analog electrical signal indicative of the data.
US10826157B2
The invention is directed to deployable reflectarray antenna structure. In one embodiment, the deployable reflectarray antenna structure includes a pair of flexible electrical elements, a feed antenna, and a deployment mechanism that employs a plurality of tapes to respectively transition the pair of flexible electrical elements from an undeployed state in which the elements are folded towards a deployed state in which the deployment mechanism and electrical elements cooperate to form a reflectarray and a subreflector of a reflectarray antenna structure. Further, the deployment mechanism also operates to position the reflectarray and subreflector relative to one another and to the feed antenna so as to realize a reflectarray antenna structure.
US10826154B2
A concealed communication antenna and lighting feature comprises a mount having base configured to be mounted to a structure and having a circumferentially disposed side wall adjacent the circumference of the base. The outer side wall defining a seat extending a radial distance from the outer side wall to the edge of the base circumference, and an inner wall disposed concentrically within the outer side wall. A plurality of solid state lighting elements adapted to direct light away from the base. A communications antenna is mounted to the inner side wall and a radome is disposed about the antenna and extends above the inner side wall. The radome is closed at an upper end and a lighting feature lens mounted to the outer wall. The lighting feature lens being closed at a top end such that the solid state lighting elements direct light intermediate the radome and the lighting feature lens.
US10826145B2
An electrochemical cell includes a bifunctional air cathode, an anode, and a ceramic electrolyte separator disposed substantially between the bifunctional air cathode and the anode. The anode includes a solid metal and an electrolyte configured to transition to a liquid phase in an operating temperature range. The electrolyte includes at least one of an alkali oxide, boron oxide, a carbonate, a phosphate, and a group III-X transition metal oxide.
US10826132B2
An aspect of the present disclosure is an electrochemical device that includes a first electrode, an ion reservoir electronically connected to the electrode by a first circuit, an electrolyte positioned between the first electrode and the ion reservoir and ionically connecting the first electrode and the ion reservoir, and a regulating element, where the regulating element is positioned between the first electrode and the ion reservoir, the regulating element electronically and/or ionically connects the ion reservoir and the first electrode, and the regulating element limits the transfer of at least one of electrons and/or ions between the ion reservoir and the first electrode.
US10826130B2
The present application discloses a negative active material and a preparation method thereof and a secondary battery. The negative active material comprises: lithium pre-intercalated silicon-containing materials; and a polymer coating layer coated on an outer surface of each particle of the lithium pre-intercalated silicon-containing materials. The negative active material can improve the first coulombic efficiency of the secondary battery, inhibit the volume expansion of the secondary battery and improve the cycle performance of the secondary battery. The preparation method of the negative electrode plate is simple, environment-friendly, and suitable for mass production.
US10826127B2
A thin film coating with inorganic/organic composite materials for application on a porous separator of a rechargeable metal battery cell is disclosed. The composite material, which is comprised of ion conductive ceramic particles mixed with, or embedded within a matrix of, at least one polymer comprising at least one anionic functional group and at least one metallic cation. The composite coating layer enhances the overall electrochemical performance of rechargeable metal batteries by preventing the formation of metal dendrites on the metallic anode of a metal battery cell.
US10826118B2
The invention relates to a process for preparing unipolar cation-conducting ionomers from fluoro ionic monomers, to said unipolar cation-conducting ionomers, to the uses thereof, to an electrolytic composition comprising at least one of said unipolar cation-conducting ionomers and to an electrochemical device comprising at least one of said unipolar cation-conducting ionomers, especially as electrolyte.
US10826112B2
A negative electrode active material includes a carbon material; a plurality of first particles including a first silicon oxide particle and a carbon layer and a plurality of second particles including a carbon particle and a second silicon oxide particle, and when a first mass of the first silicon oxide particle per gram of the negative electrode active material is referred to as M1 gram, and a second mass of the second silicon oxide particle per gram of the negative electrode active material is referred to as M2 grams, 0.40≤M1/(M1+M2)≤0.85 is satisfied, and when a first discharge capacity associated with the carbon material and the carbon particle is referred to as CpC, and a second discharge capacity associated with the first silicon oxide particle and the second silicon oxide particle is referred to as CpSO, 0.15≤CpSO/(CpC+CpSO)≤0.5 is satisfied.
US10826109B2
Novel non-planar non-contiguous graphene structures and novel methods for forming the same. According to some embodiments the novel methods result in three-dimensional graphene structures. According to a further embodiment these three-dimensional graphene structures have a specific, controlled morphology. According to a still further method the novel method results in decoratable graphene sheets or three-dimensional graphene structures.
US10826096B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a fuel cell system for preventing carbon deposition in a fuel cell stack to be supplied with reformed gas. A fuel cell system 10A of the present invention includes a partial oxidation reformer 22 for partially oxidizing raw fuel to produce carbon monoxide and hydrogen, a shift reactor 23 for shift reacting the carbon monoxide with steam to produce carbon dioxide and hydrogen, a fuel cell stack 20 for generating electric power by electrochemical reaction between oxidant gas and the hydrogen which is produced in at least one of the partial oxidation reformer 22 and the shift reactor 23, and an exhaust gas recirculation pipe P6 for supplying steam contained in exhaust gas of the fuel cell stack 20 to the shift reactor 23.
US10826093B2
A method for addressing electrical grid frequency changes by a fuel cell system includes measuring, by a frequency sensor, a frequency of an electrical grid, determining that the frequency of the electrical grid differs from a normal frequency of the electrical grid by a threshold, determining, based at least in part on the measured frequency, an AC power setpoint bias, applying a magnitude limit, a rate-of-change limit, and a duration limit to the determined AC power setpoint bias to generate a limited power setpoint bias, generating a frequency adjusted power setpoint based on the limited power setpoint bias, and providing the frequency adjusted power setpoint to one or more control modules of the fuel cell system such that the fuel cell system adjusts a power output based on a difference between the measured frequency and the normal frequency.
US10826089B2
The invention relates to a measuring method for determining the recirculation rate (RR) in the anode gas circuit (50) of a fuel cell system (1) with fuel cell (10), wherein an anode gas (52) from an anode chamber (13) is supplied to the fuel cell (10) by means of a gas conveying device (70) via an anode gas recirculation line (51) and thermostated in an anode gas heat exchanger (60) arranged in the anode gas recirculation line (51). The following method steps are carried out for this purpose: measuring a first differential pressure loss (ΔP1_2) along a first line section (101) of the anode gas recirculation line (51) through which a first mass flow (M1_2) flows in the operating state of the fuel cell system (1); measuring a second differential pressure loss (ΔP3_4; ΔP2_3) along a second line section (102; 103) of the anode gas recirculation line (51), which is being flowed through in the operating state by a second mass flow (M3_4; M2_3) of different size than the first mass flow (M1_2); calculating the differential pressure loss ratio (RΔP) by quotient formation from second (ΔP3_4; ΔP2_3) to first measured differential pressure loss (ΔP1_2); determination of the recirculation rate (RR) in the anode gas circuit (50) using a characteristic system curve (S) as a function of the respective calculated differential pressure loss ratio (RΔP).
US10826088B2
Systems and methods for transitioning a fuel cell system between operating modes. The fuel cell system may be a SOFC system comprising Ni-containing anodes. The transitions may be from a shutdown mode to a hot standby mode, from a hot standby mode to a power ready hot standby mode, from a power ready hot standby mode to an operating mode, from an operating mode to a power ready hot standby mode, from a power ready hot standby mode to a hot standby mode, from a hot standby mode to a shutdown mode, and from an operating mode to a shutdown mode.
US10826073B2
A separator layer of the all-solid-state battery disclosed herein has a protruding portion protruding outward beyond end portions of opposed portions of a positive electrode and a negative electrode, and at least a part of the protruding portion layer is formed of a dense structure portion that is dense enough to prevent contact between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The dense structure portion is formed at a position satisfying A
US10826069B2
A carbon nanocomposite includes a polymer nanowire comprising a plurality of carbon nanostructures, wherein the plurality of carbon nanostructures are electrically connected to each other within the polymer nanowire, and a portion of the plurality of carbon nanostructures protrude from a surface of the polymer nanowire.
US10826059B2
A positive active material for a rechargeable lithium battery includes a first oxide particle having a layered structure and a second oxide layer located in a surface of the first oxide particle and including a second oxide represented by the following Chemical Formula 1: MaLbOc, wherein in Chemical Formula 1, 0
US10826045B2
A battery wiring module that can improve workability when covers are to be opened. A cover includes a cover body portion coupled to a housing so as to be pivotable between a closed position and an open position, and a cover lock portion locked to a housing lock portion when the cover body portion is at the closed position. The housing lock portion includes an elastic piece located so as to face an outer surface of a fourth wall portion of the wiring housing portion, and is elastically deformable in a direction away from and a direction toward the fourth wall portion, and a lock protrusion that protrudes from the elastic piece in the direction toward the fourth wall portion. The cover lock portion is locked to the lock protrusion in the state of being inserted between the fourth wall portion and the elastic piece.
US10826044B2
The housing member includes a housing body that houses first and second conductive members, a lid body that closes an opening of a second housing chamber of the second conductive member in the housing body, a hinge body as a living hinge therebetween, and a holding mechanism that holds the lid body in the housing body at a closing position, the holding mechanism includes a first engagement holder having an inserted portion, and a second engagement holder having a claw portion.
US10826043B2
Provided is a cell connection unit for a battery module. The cell connection unit includes: a substrate accommodating electrode terminals of the battery module; an electronic unit; a connector connected to the electronic unit; and an electronic circuit electrically connecting at least one of the electrode terminals of the battery module to the electronic unit via the connector. The connector includes a fixed electrical connector and a plurality of fixation connectors.
US10826038B2
A secondary battery includes: a cathode and an anode opposed to each other with a separator in between; an electrolyte layer provided between the anode and the separator; and an adhesion layer provided between the anode and the electrolyte layer, wherein the anode includes an active material and a first polymer compound, the electrolyte layer includes an electrolytic solution and a second polymer compound, the adhesion layer includes a third polymer compound, the first polymer compound includes a polar group, the second polymer compound includes a polymer chain, and the third polymer compound includes a polar group and a polymer chain same as the polymer chain of the second polymer compound.
US10826034B2
A battery pack includes an enclosure assembly, a battery assembly housed within the enclosure assembly, a mounting structure secured to the enclosure assembly, and a mounting clamp that includes a first section mounted to the mounting structure and a second section contacting the battery assembly.
US10826022B2
[Object] To make it possible to improve light extraction efficiency while realizing a desired viewing angle characteristic for each pixel.[Solution] Provided is a display device, including: a plurality of light emitting sections formed on a substrate; and reflectors provided above the light emitting sections with respect to the plurality of light emitting sections positioned in at least a partial region of a display surface, lower surfaces of the reflectors reflecting part of emission light from the light emitting sections. The light emitting sections and the reflectors are arranged in a state in which centers of the reflectors are shifted from centers of luminescence surfaces of the light emitting sections in a plane perpendicular to a stacking direction so that light emitted in a direction other than a desired direction among the emission light from the light emitting sections is reflected.
US10826020B2
A light-emitting device for use in a display device has enhanced directional light emission, and enhanced on-axis light emission in particular. A light-emitting device includes a layer structure that includes from a non-emitting side: a first electrode layer; a first charge transport layer; an emissive layer; a second charge transport layer; a second electrode layer; an optically transparent layer; and a partially transmitting reflector layer. The light-emitting device comprises a plurality of regions and each region emits light of a different wavelength, such as for example red, green, and blue light-emitting regions. The optically transparent layer is present in at least one of the plurality of regions. The optically transparent layer may be present in more than one of the plurality of regions, and a thickness of the optically transparent layer may differ in different regions to optimize light emission at different wavelengths. The light-emitting device may include a scattering layer that scatters the emitted light, which may be switchable to permit different viewing angle display modes.
US10826011B1
A light-emitting device includes a combined charge transport and emissive layer (CCTEL). The light-emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, and a CCTEL disposed between the anode and the cathode, the CCTEL comprising a crosslinked charge transport material and quantum dots. The quantum dots are distributed unevenly within the crosslinked charge transport material. The quantum dots may be phase separated from the crosslinked charge transport material whereby the quantum dots form a layer at least partially within the CCTEL at or adjacent to an outer surface of the CCTEL closest to the cathode or the anode. The quantum dots may phase separate from the crosslinked material at least in part during the deposition of a mixture including the crosslinked material and quantum dots in a solvent, as the solvent component of the mixture evaporates. The quantum dots may phase separate from the crosslinked material at least in part in response to an activation stimulus, such as exposure to UV light.
US10826007B2
A thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) material and an application thereof are provided. The blue TADF material has an electron acceptor which exhibits good structural rigidity so as to improve thermal stability of molecules, and three blue TADF materials with good light-emitting properties are designed and synthesized by selecting different raw material-derived functional groups. Furthermore, the blue TADF material provided by the present invention is used as a luminescent material and is applied to an electroluminescent device that has good luminosity and an excellent effect.
US10826006B2
The present invention relates to a photovoltaic yarn and production method wherein electrical conduction is enabled by the photovoltaic yarn comprising a texturized yarn (2) with a cathode layer (4), an active layer (6) and an anode layer (8) coating thereon, the photovoltaic yarn can generate electricity utilizing the solar light, and which is developed especially to be used in textile industry.
US10826002B2
A display device including: a plurality of unit portions repeatedly arranged in a first direction and a second direction, wherein the second direction is different from the first direction; a plurality of display units respectively arranged above the plurality of unit portions; and a plurality of encapsulation layers respectively encapsulating the plurality of display units, wherein each of the plurality of unit portions includes an island where a display unit and an encapsulation layer are located, and at least one connection unit connected to the island, and islands of two unit portions adjacent to each other are spaced apart from each other, and connection units of the two unit portions adjacent to each other are connected to each other.
US10826001B2
An Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) array substrate and a display apparatus. The OLED array substrate includes a base substrate, a pixel driving circuit and an OLED display element layer which are arranged on the base substrate. The OLED array substrate further includes a solar cell, the solar cell is arranged on a side of the pixel driving circuit which faces an incident ambient light, the solar cell and the pixel driving circuit are insulated from each other, and the solar cell and the OLED display element layer are insulated from each other.
US10825999B2
An organometallic compound represented by Formula 1: wherein, in Formula 1, groups and variables are the same as described in the specification.
US10825991B2
A composition is provided containing a phosphorescent compound and a polymer compound having a constitutional unit represented by the formula (Y): ArY1 (Y) wherein ArY1 represents an arylene group, a divalent heterocyclic group or the like; and at least one constitutional unit selected from the constitutional units represented by the formulas (Ia) to (Id): wherein m represents an integer of 0 to 4, n represents an integer of 0 to 3, RT1 represents an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group, a monovalent heterocyclic group or the like, Rx represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group, a monovalent heterocyclic group or the like, Ar represents an aromatic hydrocarbon group or a heterocyclic group, nA and nB represent an integer of 0 to 3, and LA and LB represent an alkylene group, a cycloalkylene group, an arylene group or a divalent heterocyclic group.
US10825986B2
A semiconductor device includes a stacked structure of cell structures, an electrode structure, and a heating electrode. Each cell structure includes a capping layer, a selection layer, a buffer layer, a variable resistance layer, and a upper electrode layer sequentially stacked. The electrode structure is in an opening passing through the stacked structure, is electrically isolated from the buffer layer, the variable resistance layer, and the upper electrode layer, and is electrically connected to the selection layer. The heating electrode is between the variable resistance layer and the upper electrode layer and operates to transfer heat to the variable resistance layer.
US10825983B2
A magnetoelectric energy harvester having excellent power generation performance and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The magnetoelectric energy harvester includes a magnetostrictive material portion including a magnetostrictive material which generates a mechanical deformation when being magnetized. The magnetoelectric energy harvester also includes a piezoelectric material portion which has a bending vibration mode and includes a piezoelectric material which produces power by receiving a mechanical deformation force from the magnetostrictive material portion.
US10825980B2
A vibrating device includes a diaphragm, a piezoelectric element, and a wiring board. The piezoelectric element and the wiring board are bonded to a first principal plane of the diaphragm. The wiring board is electrically connected with the piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric element includes a piezoelectric element body, a plurality of internal electrodes, and a plurality of external electrodes. The piezoelectric element body has a second principal plane, a third principal plane, and a side surface. The third principal plane and the side surface are bonded to the first principal plane. The wiring board has a resin film, a plurality of conductors, and a coating film. The coating film is disposed on the plurality of conductors in such a way as to cover the plurality of conductors. One end portions of the plurality of conductors are exposed from the coating film and electrically connected with corresponding external electrodes.
US10825979B2
A piezoelectric element includes: a substrate; a first electrode which is disposed on the substrate; a piezoelectric body layer which is disposed on the first electrode, which has a plurality of layers configured to contain a piezoelectric body material, and in which the total thickness of the plurality of layers is within a range of 1.6 μm to 10 μm; and an intermediate layer which is disposed on an interlayer of the piezoelectric body layer, and which is configured to contain titanium.
US10825968B2
A method of manufacturing a light-emitting device includes applying a light-guiding member to a light-emitting element. A light-transmissive member is mounted on the light-guiding member, and the light-guiding member is cured. A width of the light-transmissive member is narrowed. Lateral surfaces of the light-transmissive member and lateral surfaces of the light-guiding member are covered.
US10825965B2
A two-stage singulation process is used in the fabrication of phosphor coated light emitting elements. Prior to the application of the phosphor coating, the individual light emitting elements are singulated using a laser dicing process; after application of the phosphor coating, the phosphor coated light emitting elements are singulated using a mechanical dicing process. Before laser dicing of the light emitting elements, the wafer is positioned on a piece of dicing- or die-attach-tape held by a frame; after laser dicing, the tape is stretched to provide space between the individual light emitting elements that allows for the wider kerf width of the subsequent mechanical dicing after application of the phosphor coating.
US10825962B2
A light emitting device can include a light emitting structure including a p-GaN based semiconductor layer, an active layer having multiple quantum wells, and an n-GaN based semiconductor layer; a p-electrode and an n-electrode electrically connecting with the light emitting structure, respectively, wherein the n-electrode has a plurality of layers; a first passivation layer including a first portion contacting a portion of the n-electrode, a second portion vertically overlapped with the p-electrode, and a third portion that extends outside of outermost side surfaces of the light emitting structure; a phosphor layer disposed on a top surface of the light emitting structure; and a second passivation layer including a first portion disposed between the phosphor layer and the top surface of the light emitting structure, and a second portion disposed on the outermost side surfaces of the light emitting structure, in which the phosphor layer includes a pattern to bond a wire with a p-pad on a portion of the p-electrode, the second portion of the second passivation layer extends toward the third portion of the first passivation and contacts the third portion of the first passivation layer, and the first passivation layer includes an opening on the n-GaN based semiconductor layer such that the opening accommodates at least a portion of the n-electrode.
US10825960B2
Provided are a single-sided light-emitting LED chip and a fabrication method thereof. The single-sided light-emitting LED chip includes a highly reflective dielectric film and an LED including a substrate layer, an epitaxial layer, a cathode, and an anode. The LED has a substrate side, that is one surface of the substrate layer, and an electrode side opposite to each other, and the four sidewalls that respectively contacts the substrate side and the electrode side. The epitaxial layer is located on the other surface of the substrate layer; the cathode and the anode are located on a side of the epitaxial layer away from the substrate layer; and the four sidewalls of the LED are covered with the highly reflective dielectric film. The present invention simplifies the packaging process and improves the luminous efficiency of the packaged chip.
US10825959B2
A display device is disclosed, wherein the display device includes a light emitting unit, including: a first semiconductor layer; an active layer disposed on the first semiconductor layer; a second semiconductor layer disposed on the active layer; and a protecting layer disposed on the second semiconductor layer, wherein the protecting layer includes a first position and a second position, and the first position in the protection layer is closer to the second semiconductor layer than the second position in the protection layer, wherein a first oxygen atomic percentage at the first position is less than a second oxygen atomic percentage at the second position.
US10825947B2
A radiation detector comprises an antenna structure; and a field effect transistor structure having a source region, a gate region, and a drain region, arranged on a substrate and forming mutually independent electrically conductive electrode structures through metallization, wherein the gate electrode structure completely encloses the source electrode structure or the drain electrode structure in a first plane; the enclosed electrode structure extends up to above the gate electrode structure and there overlaps the enclosure in a second plane above the first plane at least in sections in a planar manner; wherein an electrically insulating region for forming a capacitor with a metal-insulator-metal structure is arranged between the regions of the gate electrode structure overlapped by the enclosed electrode structure.
US10825946B2
The disclosure discloses a photoelectric detector and a photoelectric detection device, the photoelectric detector includes: a photosensitive active layer (100) including a first surface (1) and a second surface (2) opposite to each other; a first electrode (200) and a second electrode (300) located on the first surface (1) of the photosensitive active layer (100), and arranged spaced apart from each other; and a third electrode (400) located on the second surface (2) of the photosensitive active layer (100); where the first electrode (200) and the second electrode (300) respectively contact directly with the first surface (1) of the photosensitive active layer (100), and the third electrode (400) contacts directly with the second surface (2) of the photosensitive active layer (100). The photoelectric detector can improve the contrast between light current and dark current.
US10825942B2
A solar cell hermetic package structure includes a lower-cover plate, a conductive layer, a photovoltaic layer, a lower-electrode lead, an upper-electrode lead, an upper-cover plate, a border and dividers. The conductive layer and the photovoltaic layer are orderly arranged on one side of the lower-cover plate. The upper-electrode lead and the lower-electrode lead are arranged on the lower-cover plate and electrically connected to the photovoltaic layer and the conductive layer. The border is arranged on corresponding side edges of the lower-cover plate and the upper-cover plate. After the upper-cover plate and the lower-cover plate are combined, the photovoltaic layer is arranged in a hermetic package structure between the upper-cover plate and the lower-cover plate. A hermetic area accommodating the photovoltaic layer is formed by the border. The dividers are arranged in gaps of photovoltaic components and used as supports between the upper-cover plate and the lower-cover plate.
US10825935B2
A trench MOS-type Schottky diode includes a first semiconductor layer including a Ga2O3-based single crystal, a second semiconductor layer that is a layer laminated on the first semiconductor layer and that includes a Ga2O3-based single crystal and a trench opened on a surface thereof opposite to the first semiconductor layer, an anode electrode formed on the surface of the second semiconductor layer opposite to the first semiconductor layer, a cathode electrode formed on a surface of the first semiconductor layer opposite to the second semiconductor layer, an insulating film covering the inner surface of the trench of the second semiconductor layer, and a trench MOS gate that is embedded in the trench of the second semiconductor layer so as to be covered with the insulating film and is in contact with the anode electrode.
US10825933B2
Present disclosure provides gate-all-around structure including a semiconductor fin having a top surface, a first nanowire over the top surface, a first space between the top surface and the first nanowire, an Nth nanowire and an (N+1)th nanowire over the first nanowire, and a second space between the Nth nanowire and the (N+1)th nanowire. The first space is greater than the second space. Present disclosure also provides a method for manufacturing the gate-all-around structure described herein.
US10825918B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a first fin structure and a second fin structure extending above an isolation structure. The semiconductor device structure includes a dummy fin structure formed over the isolation structure, and the dummy fin structure is between the first fin structure and the second fin structure. The semiconductor device structure includes a capping layer formed over the dummy fin structure, and the top surface of the capping layer is higher than the top surface of the first fin structure and the top surface of the second fin structure. The semiconductor device structure includes a first gate structure formed over first fin structure, and a second gate structure formed over the second fin structure. The first gate structure and the second gate structure are separated by the dummy fin structure and the capping layer.
US10825914B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes following steps. The substrate has a dummy region and a memory cell region. A plurality of first stack structures are formed over the substrate in the memory cell region. At least one second stack structure is formed over the substrate in the dummy region. A conductive layer is formed over the substrate to cover the first stack structures and the at least one second stack structure. A planarization process is performed on the conductive layer to expose top surfaces of the first stack structures and the at least one second stack structure. The conductive layer is patterned to form an erase gate between adjacent two first stack structures, and to form first and second select gates outside the adjacent two first stack structures.
US10825901B1
A semiconductor device may include a substrate and a hyper-abrupt junction region carried by the substrate. The hyper-abrupt junction region may include a first semiconductor layer having a first conductivity type, a superlattice layer on the first semiconductor layer, and a second semiconductor layer on the superlattice layer and having a second conductivity type different than the first conductivity type. The first, second, and the superlattice layers may be U-shaped. The semiconductor device may further include a gate dielectric layer on the second semiconductor layer of the hyper-abrupt junction region, a gate electrode on the gate dielectric layer, and spaced apart source and drain regions adjacent the hyper-abrupt junction region.
US10825898B2
The semiconductor layout structure includes an active region surrounded by an isolation structure, at least one first gate structure disposed over the active region and the isolation structure, at least one second gate structure disposed over the active region and the isolation structure, and a plurality of source/drain regions disposed in the active region. The active region includes two first regions, a second region disposed between the two first regions, a third region disposed between one of the first region and the second region, and a fourth region disposed between the other first region and the second region.
US10825891B2
The disclosure is directed to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to Metal-Insulator-Metal (MIM) capacitor structures and methods of manufacture. The method includes: forming at least one gate structure; removing material from the at least one gate structure to form a trench; depositing capacitor material within the trench and at an edge or outside of the trench; and forming a first contact in contact with a first conductive material of the capacitor material and a second contact in contact with a second conductive material of the capacitor material.
US10825888B2
Integrated circuits (ICs) and method for forming IC devices are presented. In one embodiment, a method of forming a device with an integrated magnetic component using 3-dimensional (3-D) printing is disclosed. The method includes providing a substrate with a base dielectric layer, the base dielectric layer serves as a base for the integrated magnetic component. A first metal layer is formed on the substrate by spray coating metal powder over the substrate and performing selective laser melting on the metal powder. A magnetic core is formed on the substrate by spray coating magnet powder over the substrate and performing selective laser sintering on the magnet powder. A second metal layer is formed on the substrate by spray coating metal powder over the substrate and performing selective laser melting on the metal powder. A patterned dielectric layer separates the first and second metal layers and the magnetic core.
US10825882B2
A display unit includes a substrate that includes an organic insulating material and a plurality of micro conductors dispersed in the organic insulating material; a semiconductor element provided on the substrate; and a display element layer that is provided on a side opposite to the substrate with respect to the semiconductor element. The display element layer includes a display surface and a plurality of display element that is driven to perform image displaying on the display surface by the semiconductor element.
US10825875B2
An OLED display panel and a display device are disclosed. The OLED display panel includes a light shielding layer, a planarization layer, and an anode layer which are arranged on a substrate in this order. The anode layer includes a plurality of sub-electrodes independently disposed. The OLED display panel includes a display area including a fingerprint imaging area and a non-imaging area. The OLED display panel further includes a light blocking portion on a side of the planarization layer away from the substrate. An orthographic projection of the light blocking portion on the substrate is within an orthographic projection of a gap between two sub-electrodes on the substrate which lies in the non-imaging area.
US10825870B2
A pixel structure and a display device are provided. The pixel structure includes: a plurality of elements in an array, wherein each of the elements includes at least one pixel unit, and each of the pixel unit includes four sub-pixels in array, the four sub-pixels including one first sub-pixel in a first color, one second sub-pixel in a second color, and two third sub-pixels in a third color, wherein the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel are at diagonal positions in the pixel unit, and the two third sub-pixels are at the other diagonal positions in the pixel unit; and a plurality of the sub-pixels in two adjacent pixel units include at least one sub-pixel group, the sub-pixel group including two adjacent sub-pixels in the same color.
US10825865B2
A three-dimensional semiconductor device is provided as follows. A substrate includes a contact region, a dummy region, and a cell array region. A stack structure includes electrodes vertically stacked on the substrate. The electrodes are stacked to have a first stepwise structure on the contact region and a second stepwise structure in the dummy region. Ends of at least two adjacent electrodes in the second stepwise structure have first sidewalls vertically aligned so that horizontal positions of the first sidewalls are substantially the same.
US10825864B2
A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a first single crystal layer; first transistors overlaying the first single crystal layer; second transistors overlaying the first transistors; and a second level including a second single crystal layer, the second level overlays the second transistors, where the first transistors and the second transistors each includes a polysilicon channel.
US10825859B2
Solid state transducer devices with independently controlled regions, and associated systems and methods are disclosed. A solid state transducer device in accordance with a particular embodiment includes a transducer structure having a first semiconductor material, a second semiconductor material and an active region between the first and second semiconductor materials, the active region including a continuous portion having a first region and a second region. A first contact is electrically connected to the first semiconductor material to direct a first electrical input to the first region along a first path, and a second contact electrically spaced apart from the first contact and connected to the first semiconductor material to direct a second electrical input to the second region along a second path different than the first path. A third electrical contact is electrically connected to the second semiconductor material.
US10825854B2
Embodiments relate to a stacked photo sensor assembly where two substrates that are stacked vertically. The two substrates are connected via interconnects at a pixel level to provide a signal from a photodiode at a first substrate to circuitry on a second substrate. The circuitry on the second substrate performs operations that were conventionally performed on first substrate. By stacking the first and second substrates, the photo sensor assembly can be made more compact while increasing or at least retaining the photodiode fill factor of the photo sensor assembly.
US10825852B2
According to one embodiment, an edge of the second opening is recessed further than an edge of the first opening away from a center of the first opening. The recess has an opening and a concave surface and is disposed in a region inward from the edge of the second opening. The opening has a circular configuration. The concave surface has a curvature.
US10825847B2
A solid-state imaging element includes a plurality of shallow light receivers that are arrayed two-dimensionally in the vicinity of the surface of a semiconductor substrate and a plurality of deep light receivers that are arrayed two-dimensionally below the shallow light receivers. The shallow light receivers include visible light image light receivers that photoelectrically convert visible light and infrared light and output signals, and infrared light receivers that photoelectrically convert the infrared light. The infrared light receivers include a first infrared light receiver that is used to correct the signals output from the visible light image light receivers to provide signals of visible light components in the visible light image light receivers and a second infrared light receiver that is connected to the deep light receivers to form a multilayer light receiver.
US10825845B2
A display panel including a first substrate, an active element layer, a pixel electrode layer, an auxiliary conductive layer, a first spacer and a second spacer is provided. The active element layer is disposed on the first substrate. The pixel electrode layer is disposed on the first substrate and electrically connected with the active element layer. The auxiliary conductive layer is disposed on the active element layer. The first spacer is disposed on the auxiliary conductive layer. The first spacer overlaps the auxiliary conductive layer in a normal projection direction. The second spacer is disposed on the active element layer. The second spacer does not overlap the auxiliary conductive layer in the normal projection direction. A distance between an apex of the first spacer and the first substrate is longer than a distance between an apex of the second spacer and the first substrate.
US10825843B2
Provided is an active matrix substrate (100A) including: a gate metal layer (15) that has a two-layer structure composed of a Cu layer (15b) and a Ti layer (15a); a first insulating layer (16) on the gate metal layer (15); a source metal layer (18) that is formed on the first insulating layer (16) and has a two-layer structure composed of a Cu layer (18b) and a Ti layer (18a); a second insulating layer (19) on the source metal layer (18); a conductive layer (25) that is formed on the second insulating layer (19), and is in contact with the gate metal layer (15) within a first opening (16a1) formed in the first insulating layer (16) and is in contact with the source metal layer (18) within a second opening (19a2) formed in the second insulating layer (19); and a first transparent conductive layer (21) that is formed on the conductive layer (25) and includes any of a pixel electrode, a common electrode and an auxiliary capacitor electrode. The conductive layer (25) does not include any of the pixel electrode, the common electrode, and the auxiliary capacitor electrode, and does not have a Ti layer being in contact with the Cu layer (15b) of the gate metal layer (15).
US10825842B2
The present disclosure provides a display panel, a manufacturing method of a display panel, and a display device including the display panel. The display panel includes: an array substrate, including a display region, a non-display region around the display region, and data lines extending into the non-display region; a planarization layer, covering the data lines; and a metal wiring layer, disposed on the planarization layer in the non-display region, and including a plurality of metal wirings spaced apart from each other and corresponding to the data lines.
US10825840B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a thin-film transistor (TFT) panel structured to prevent the deterioration of image quality due to the luminance change of backlight. According to an embodiment, the TFT panel includes: an insulating substrate; a first gate line and a first data line which are formed on the insulating substrate to be insulated from each other and cross each other; a first subpixel electrode which is formed on the insulating substrate and connected to the first gate line and the first data line by a first TFT; a second subpixel electrode which is formed on the insulating substrate and separated from the first subpixel electrode; a connecting electrode which is directly connected to any one of the first and second subpixel electrodes and capacitively coupled to the other one of the first and second subpixel electrodes; a semiconductor pattern which is formed between the connecting electrode and the insulating substrate; and a light-shielding pattern which is formed between the semiconductor pattern and the insulating substrate, is overlapped by the connecting electrode, and blocks light.
US10825838B2
The present disclosure provides an array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display. By forming a source pattern layer on the base substrate in the present disclosure, the source pattern layer crossing the gate pattern layer maybe mutually insulated from the gate pattern layer through the insulating buffer layer, thus eliminating the dielectric layer in the prior art which is formed to insulate the source pattern layer and the gate pattern layer, further simplifying the structure of the array substrate, and reducing the process steps and process costs.
US10825832B2
A semiconductor device includes first gate electrodes including a first lower electrode, a first upper electrode disposed above the first lower electrode and including a first pad region, and one or more first intermediate electrodes disposed between the first lower electrode and the first upper electrode. Second gate electrodes include a second lower electrode, a second upper electrode disposed above the second lower electrode, and one or more second intermediate electrodes disposed between the second lower electrode and the second upper electrode. The second gate electrodes are sequentially stacked above the first upper electrode, while exposing the first pad region. The first lower electrode extends by a first length, further than the first upper electrode, in a first direction. The second lower electrode extends by a second length, different from the first length, further than the second upper electrode, in the first direction.
US10825825B2
Semiconductor structures are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate and a first gate electrode formed over the substrate. The semiconductor structure further includes a dielectric layer formed on a sidewall of the first gate electrode and a second gate electrode formed over the substrate and separated from the first gate electrode by the dielectric layer. The semiconductor structure further includes a contact formed over the second gate electrode. In addition, the contact has a first extending portion and a second extending portion extending along opposite sidewalls of the second gate electrode.
US10825815B2
A memory array comprises vertically-alternating tiers of insulative material and memory cells. The memory cells individually comprise a transistor and a capacitor. One of (a) a channel region of e transistor, or (b) a pair of electrodes of the capacitor, is directly above the other of (a) and (b). Additional embodiments and aspects are disclosed.
US10825806B2
The disclosed technology relates to a semiconductor integrated circuit that comprises a semiconductor device which has a port to be protected from Plasma-Induced Damage due to electric charge that may accumulate at the port during a plasma-processing step, and a protection circuit that is provided to the integrated circuit. In one aspect, the protection circuit comprises a discharge path, a control terminal, and a plasma pick-up antenna connected to the control terminal. The protection circuit further comprises a bipolar transistor which has a base connected to the control terminal. Such protection circuit is much more efficient in allowing charge transfer from the device port to a reference voltage terminal.
US10825803B2
A light emitting device includes a substrate, light emitting elements, light transmissive members, an underfill, and a cover member. The light emitting elements are mounted on the substrate. The light transmissive members are each disposed on an upper surface of each of the light emitting elements. The underfill covers an upper surface of the substrate, lateral surfaces of the light emitting elements, and lateral surfaces of the light transmissive members between the light transmissive members. The cover member covers an upper surface of the underfill and has a hardness greater than a hardness of the underfill.
US10825801B2
A display device includes a substrate, a first pixel circuit, a second pixel circuit, a third pixel circuit, a protective layer, a first conductive structure, a second conductive structure, a third conductive structure, first light emitting diodes (LEDs), second LEDs and third LEDs. The first pixel circuit, the second pixel circuit and the third pixel circuit are located on the substrate. The second pixel circuit is located between the first pixel circuit and the third pixel circuit. The protective layer covers the first pixel circuit, the second pixel circuit and the third pixel circuit. The first conductive structure is electrically connected to the first pixel circuit through the first opening of the protective layer. The first LEDs are overlapped with the first pixel circuit and the second pixel circuit. The first LEDs are electrically connected to the first conductive structure.
US10825798B2
A method includes bonding a first plurality of device dies onto a wafer, wherein the wafer includes a second plurality of device dies, with each of the first plurality of device dies bonded to one of the second plurality of device dies. The wafer is then sawed to form a die stack, wherein the die stack includes a first device die from the first plurality of device dies and a second device die from the second plurality of device dies. The method further includes bonding the die stack over a package substrate.
US10825795B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device may include forming an adhesive film on a surface of a semiconductor chip, mounting the semiconductor chip on a substrate such that the adhesive film contacts an upper surface of the substrate, and bonding the semiconductor chip and the substrate curing the adhesive film by simultaneously performing a thermo-compression process and an ultraviolet irradiation process on the adhesive film disposed between the substrate and the semiconductor chip.
US10825788B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing compliant bumps, the method including preparing an electronic device including at least one conductive pad, forming an elastic resin layer on the electronic device, forming a photoresist layer on the elastic resin layer, forming a first photoresist pattern on a region spaced apart from a region where the conductive pad is located, forming a second photoresist pattern having a lower cross-sectional area greater than an upper cross-sectional area, forming an elastic resin pattern having a lower cross-sectional area greater than an upper cross-sectional area, on a region spaced apart from a region where the conductive pad is located, and forming a conductive wiring pattern covering at least a part of the elastic resin pattern and extending to the conductive pad.
US10825784B2
The discharging brush 1 includes a conductive brush unit 11 and a grounding wire 15 connecting the brush unit 11 with a grounding point via a resistor 14. In a discharging device 100, the discharging brush 1 is installed at a conveyance path for conveying a display panel 2, in such a manner that the brush unit 11 is in sliding contact with a terminal 24 formed on a peripheral region of the display panel 2 conveyed along the conveyance path. For example, the resistor 14 has a resistance value equal to or greater than 1 MΩ and equal to or less than 10 MΩ.
US10825768B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a resistor region, a plurality of lower patterns in the resistor region, and a resistor line pattern on the plurality of lower patterns and the substrate of the resistor region. The plurality of lower patterns extend in a first direction parallel to a surface of the substrate and are spaced apart from each other in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and parallel to the surface of the substrate. The resistor line pattern extends in the second direction. The resistor line pattern on the lower patterns has an upper surface and a lower surface protruding in a third direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate.
US10825765B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate; a first dielectric layer disposed over the substrate; a conductive member surrounded by the first dielectric layer; a second dielectric layer disposed over the substrate, the first dielectric layer and the conductive member; a capacitor disposed over the conductive member and the second dielectric layer; a third dielectric layer disposed over the second dielectric layer and the capacitor; a conductive via disposed over and contacted with the conductive member, and extended through the second dielectric layer, the capacitor and the third dielectric layer; a conductive pad disposed over and contacted with the conductive via; a fourth dielectric layer disposed over the third dielectric layer and surrounding the conductive pad; and a conductive bump disposed over and electrically connected to the conductive pad, wherein the third dielectric layer includes an oxide layer and a nitride layer.
US10825761B2
An electronic device includes a substrate, a structure over the substrate having an edge wall defining at least a portion of an opening exposing a surface of the substrate, and a dielectric material adjacent and in contact with the edge wall and an adjacent portion of the surface of the substrate. The dielectric material has a profile tapering downward from adjacent the edge wall toward the substrate. Other electronic devices include a substrate and a solder mask over the substrate. The solder mask defines an opening therethrough. A supplemental mask is within the opening of the solder mask, and has a sidewall that slopes away from the solder mask. A conductive structure is adjacent and in contact with at least one of the solder mask or the supplemental mask.
US10825760B2
A semiconductor chip having a core region and an I/O region which surrounds the core region is provided with a plurality of external connection pads connected to I/O cells. The plurality of external connection pads include a first pad group comprised of the external connection pads connected to the same node, and a second pad group comprised of the external connection pads connected to respective different nodes. In first and second pad groups, the external connection pads are arranged in an X direction along an external side of the semiconductor chip, and a pad arrangement pitch in the first pad group is smaller than that in the second pad group.
US10825755B2
A packaged electronic device includes a substrate having a lead. The lead includes an outward facing side surface having a first height, and an inward facing side surface having a second height that is less than the first height. An electronic device is electrically connected to the lead. A package body encapsulates the electronic device and portions of the lead. The outward facing side surface is exposed through a side surface of the package body, and the inward facing side surface is encapsulated by the package body. A conductive layer is disposed on the outward facing side surface to provide the packaged electronic device with an enhanced wettable flank. In one embodiment, the electronic device is electrically connected to a thick terminal portion having the outward facing side surface. In another embodiment, the electronic device is electrically connected to a thin terminal portion having the inward facing side surface.
US10825749B2
The present disclosure relates to a display panel and a display apparatus. The display panel comprises a back plate and a cover plate which are oppositely arranged, and at least a portion of a side formed by the back plate and the cover plate is attached with a protective film to seal a corresponding portion of a gap between the back plate and the cover plate.
US10825746B2
The present invention includes: a plurality of semiconductor modules on a metal base (conductor base); a first insulating bus bar and a second insulating bus bar connecting the semiconductor modules; a box-like insulating resin frame around the semiconductor modules; a first insulating layer that seals the semiconductor modules, the first insulating layer having an upper surface at a position that is lower than upper ends of terminals extending from an insulating circuit substrate of the semiconductor module inside the insulating resin frame; and second insulating layers on the first insulating layer inside the insulating resin frame, the upper ends of the terminals being buried inside the second insulating layers. Interfaces formed by the first insulating layer, second insulating layers, and sidewall parts (third insulating layer) of the insulating resin frame are arranged between the terminals and ground positions formed at the lower ends of the sidewall parts.
US10825744B2
A method includes forming a transistor over a substrate; forming a conductive structure over the substrate, such that a first end of the conductive structure is electrically coupled to a gate of the transistor, and a second end of the conductive structure is electrically coupled to the substrate; applying biases to the gate of the transistor and source/drain structures of the transistor; determining whether the first end and the second end of the conductive structure are electrically connected; generating, based on the determination, a first result indicating that the first end and the second end of the conductive structure are electrically connected; and qualifying the conductive structure as an antenna in response to the first result.
US10825743B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a substrate and an electronic unit disposed on the substrate. The electronic unit includes a light-emitting diode, a conductive structure, a first driving circuit, and a second driving circuit. The conductive structure is disposed between the light-emitting diode and the substrate. The first driving circuit includes a first output wire. The second driving circuit includes a second output wire. The first driving circuit is electrically connected to the light-emitting diode by the conductive structure. The second driving circuit is electrically insulated from the light-emitting diode. In addition, the conductive structure at least partially overlaps the first output wire and the second output wire in a normal direction of the substrate.
US10825731B2
Implementations of a method for aligning a semiconductor wafer for singulation may include: providing a semiconductor wafer having a first side and a second side. The first side of the wafer may include a plurality of die and the plurality of die may be separated by streets. The semiconductor wafer may include an edge ring around a perimeter of the wafer on the second side of the wafer. The wafer may also include a metal layer on the second side of the wafer. The metal layer may substantially cover the edge ring. The method may include grinding the edge ring to create an edge exclusion area and aligning the semiconductor wafer with a saw using a camera positioned in the edge exclusion area on the second side of the wafer. Aligning the wafer may include using three or more alignment features included in the edge exclusion area.
US10825730B2
A method for manufacturing a solid-state imaging device comprises a first step of preparing an imaging element having a second principal surface having an electrode arranged thereon, and a photoelectric converter part configured to photoelectrically convert the incident energy line so as to generate a signal charge; a second step of preparing a support substrate, provided with a through hole extending in a thickness direction thereof, having a third principal surface; a third step of aligning the imaging element and the support substrate with each other so that the electrode is exposed out of the through hole while the second and third principal surfaces oppose each other and joining the imaging element and the support substrate to each other; and a fourth step of arranging a conductive ball-shaped member in the through hole and electrically connecting the ball-shaped member to the electrode after the third step.
US10825720B2
Techniques for single trench damascene interconnect formation using TiN HMO are provided. In one aspect, a method for forming interconnects on a substrate includes: forming an underlayer on the substrate; forming a hardmask on the underlayer; patterning trenches in the hardmask that extend down to the underlayer; forming the interconnects in the trenches; removing the hardmask; and burying the interconnects in an ILD. The trenches can be patterned in the hardmask using a process such as sidewall image transfer. An interconnect structure is also provided.
US10825710B2
Disclosed are support substrates, methods of fabricating semiconductor packages using the same, and methods of fabricating electronic devices using the same. The support substrate comprises a main body, and a plurality of first protrusions finely protruding from an upper surface of the main body. The main body and the first protrusions include the same material and are formed as a unitary structure. The first protrusions are spaced apart from each other in first and second directions intersecting each other, when viewed in plan.
US10825694B2
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing an electronic component having an electromagnetic shield, comprising: a bonding step of bonding a temporary protective material on a workpiece with unevenness on the surface thereof; a photocuring step of curing the temporary protective material by light irradiation; a icing step of singulating the workpiece and the temporary protective material; a shielding step of forming a metal film on the portion of the singulated workpiece, the portion having no temporary protective material bonded thereon; and a peeling step of peeling the temporary protective material from the workpiece having the metal film formed, wherein the temporary protective material is formed from a resin composition for temporary protection with an elastic modulus at 25° C. of 3 MPa or less and an elastic modulus at 25° C. of 40 MPa or more after light irradiation with an exposure dose of 500 mJ/cm2 or more.
US10825686B2
An example of forming semiconductor devices can include forming a silicon-hydrogen (Si—H) terminated surface on a silicon structure that includes patterned features by exposing the silicon structure to a hydrogen fluoride (HF) containing solution and performing a surface modification via hydrosilylation by exposing the Si—H terminated surface to an alkene and/or an alkyne.
US10825674B2
An apparatus for mass spectrometry includes a plate on which a semiconductor wafer including an organic matter is disposed. A hybrid provider provides a ZnO-graphene hybrid to a predetermined region on the semiconductor wafer. A mass analyzer detects the organic matter in the predetermined region using laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (LDI-MS).
US10825669B2
A metabolized product ion spectrum is produced for a metabolized version of a known compound using tandem mass spectrometry. Metabolized structures are inferred from the metabolized product ion spectrum. An unmetabolized product ion spectrum is received for an unmetabolized version of the known compound and unmetabolized structures are inferred from the unmetabolized product ion spectrum. Each of the metabolized structures is compared to the unmetabolized structures, producing matched and unmatched structures. For each unmatched structure, a biotransformation repository is searched for modifications and each unmatched structure and the modifications found are again compared to the unmetabolized structures, producing modified matched structures. For each atomic index of the known compound, an unmodified specificity is calculated from the matched structures, a modified intensity specificity is calculated from the modified matched structures, and a score is calculated from the specificities. Atomic indices with the highest score are identified as sites of modification.
US10825668B2
One or more known compounds of a sample are ionized using an ion source, producing an ion beam of precursor ions. A tandem mass spectrometer receives the ion beam from the ion source, selects one or more precursor ions from the ion beam using a precursor ion mass selection window, fragments precursor ions within the precursor ion mass selection window, and mass analyzes the resulting product ions, producing an unknown product ion mass spectrum. A library product ion mass spectrum for a known compound is retrieved from a memory. Each peak of the unknown spectrum is analyzed for a potential non-halogen isotopic peak using a processor, and if a potential non-halogen isotopic peak is found, it is removed if it does not have a corresponding peak in the library spectrum.
US10825658B2
In an antenna including a dielectric window and a slot plate provided on one surface of the dielectric window, in a case where a reference position g is a center position in a width direction of each slot S and a center position in a length direction in the slot plate, the reference position g of each slot is located on a virtual circle centered on a center of gravity G0, and line segments connecting the reference positions g of the slots S and virtual point G1 to which the slots belong are located radially from a virtual point G1, angles (β1 to β4) between adjacent line segments are equal to each other, and angles (θ1 to θ4) formed by the length directions of the slots S at the reference positions g and the line segments to which the slots belong are equal to each other.
US10825656B2
Systems and methods for controlling directionality of ion flux at an edge region within a plasma chamber are described. One of the systems includes a radio frequency (RF) generator that is configured to generate an RF signal, an impedance matching circuit coupled to the RF generator for receiving the RF signal to generate a modified RF signal, and a plasma chamber. The plasma chamber includes an edge ring and a coupling ring located below the edge ring and coupled to the first impedance matching circuit to receive the modified RF signal. The coupling ring includes an electrode that generates a capacitance between the electrode and the edge ring to control the directionality of the ion flux upon receiving the modified RF signal.
US10825653B2
A method for improving the ion beam quality in an ion implanter is disclosed. In some ion implantation systems, contaminants from the ion source are extracted with the desired ions, introducing contaminants to the workpiece. These contaminants may be impurities in the ion source chamber. This problem is exacerbated when mass analysis of the extracted ion beam is not performed, and is further exaggerated when the desired feedgas includes a halogen. The introduction of a diluent gas in the ion chamber may reduce the deleterious effects of the halogen on the inner surfaces of the chamber, reducing contaminants in the extracted ion beam. In some embodiments, the diluent gas may be germane or silane.
US10825639B2
An x-ray device is for creation of high-energy x-ray radiation. In an embodiment, the x-ray device includes a linear accelerator. The linear accelerator, for creation of x-ray radiation, is embodied so as to create an electron beam directed onto a target, of which the kinetic energy per electron amounts to at least 1 MeV. In an embodiment, the x-ray device further includes a beam limiting device, arranged in the beam path of the electron beam between linear accelerator and the target, including an edge region surrounding a beam limiting device opening. A material thickness of the edge region, in a propagation direction of the accelerated electron beam emerging from the linear accelerator, amounting to less than 10% of the average reach of electrons of the created kinetic energy in the material of the edge region.
US10825638B2
An X-ray tube includes a rod-shaped anode which includes a target receiving electrons and generating X-rays and has a main body portion extending in a direction of a tube axis; a vacuum housing which accommodates a distal end side of the anode having the target disposed therein and in which a proximal end side of the anode is fixed by a housing coupling portion; and a cover electrode which is disposed inside the vacuum housing, is coupled to the anode by a cover coupling portion, and surrounds the housing coupling portion. The anode has a third diameter increasing portion protruding from a front surface of the main body portion in a direction intersecting the tube axis. The cover coupling portion is disposed closer to the proximal end side of the anode than the third diameter increasing portion.
US10825634B2
An emitter for a closed x-ray tube includes an emitter body formed of a low work function emitter material, the emitter body having a major surface and a secondary surface. The major surface is adapted for emission of electrons from the low work function material. The emitter assembly is adapted to reduce an emission current density emitted from the secondary surface of the emitter body, as compared to the major surface.
US10825631B2
A solenoid assembly includes the solenoid armature assembly having a flux tube or magnetic bearing having an opposed first end and a second end. The armature assembly additionally includes an armature having an opposed third end and a fourth end and movable within the flux tube or magnetic bearing along a mutual axis. The fourth end of the armature is slidably movable beyond the second end of the flux tube or magnetic bearing. A top plate facing the fourth end of the armature, the top plate having an opening for slidably receiving the central core. A slot is included in at least one of the flux tube or magnetic bearing, the armature, and the top plate to improve or decrease release time between the movable contacts and the stationary contacts.
US10825627B2
A controllable electric current switchgear includes a bistable relay including separable electrical contacts and an excitation coil for switching the contacts between open and closed states when the coil receives an amount of energy that is higher than a predefined excitation energy threshold with an electrical power that is higher than a predefined power threshold; and a control circuit including a power stage and a logic stage for triggering the switching of the relay. The power stage includes a power converter, a first set of capacitors connected at the input of the converter and a second set of capacitors connected at the output of the converter, the nominal power of the converter being strictly lower than the power threshold, the sets of capacitors being capable of storing an amount of energy that is higher than or equal to 50% of the excitation energy threshold.
US10825621B2
A keyboard key structure includes a plurality of keycaps. Each keycap has a keycap body and an outward layer. The keycap body has an appearance with a first color. The outward layer has an appearance with a second color different from the first color. The outward layer is formed above the keycap body. The outward layer is formed with an engraving portion. The first color is exposed in the engraving portion. The present invention also provides a method of manufacturing a keycap of a keyboard key.
US10825611B1
To improve a mounting reliability while maintaining a thickness of the external electrode at a side face of a multilayer electronic component thin. The multilayer electronic component includes ceramic body in which ceramic layers and an external electrode formed to an end face of the ceramic body. The upper electrode layer includes an element having higher standard electrode potential than Cu. The external electrode includes an external electrode end part and an external electrode extension part which is integrally formed with the external electrode end part. 1.20≤t2/t1≤4.50 is satisfied in which t1 is a total thickness of a thickness of the intermediate electrode layer thickness and t2 is a length from an end of the base electrode layer to an end of the upper electrode layer along the first axis of the external electrode extension part connected by the conductive adhesive.
US10825608B2
A method for manufacturing a magnetic coil in a wireless charging system is disclosed. The coil may comprise a wire with a rectangular cross section. The method may include feeding a wire into a routing device which includes three winding wheels; routing the wire into a magnetic coil by changing positions of the winding wheels; and assembling the magnetic coil by pressing and attaching the magnetic coil to a coil holder.
US10825602B2
A structure includes a first encapsulating layer, and a first coil in the first encapsulating layer. A top surface of the first encapsulating layer is coplanar with a top surface of the first coil, and a bottom surface of the first encapsulating layer is coplanar with a bottom surface of the first coil. A second encapsulating layer is over the first encapsulating layer. A conductive via is in the second encapsulating layer, and the first conductive via is electrically coupled to the first coil. A third encapsulating layer is over the second encapsulating layer. A second coil is in the third encapsulating layer. A top surface of the third encapsulating layer is coplanar with a top surface of the second coil, and a bottom surface of the third encapsulating layer is coplanar with a bottom surface of the second coil.
US10825600B2
A coil component includes: a first coil layer; and a second coil layer disposed on the first coil layer, wherein the first coil layer includes a first insulating layer and a first coil conductor embedded in the first insulating layer, the second coil layer includes a second insulating layer and a second coil conductor embedded in the second insulating layer, the first and second coil conductors are electrically connected to each other by a through-conductor formed in the first insulating layer, and cavities vertically penetrating through the first and second coil layers are provided in core regions of the first and second coil layers, respectively.
US10825595B2
An electro-mechanical system has a solenoid with a plunger received in a housing chamber. A plunger portion extends outwardly of the housing. There is at least one coil, and a control for the at least one coil. The control selectively applies a first higher level current to the coil to move the plunger to an actuated position relative to the housing. The control is operable to stop the supply of first high level current to the at least one coil and allow the plunger to move to an un-actuated position. The control is operable to supply a partial power current to the at least one coil when in said un-actuated position to resist movement of the plunger. A method is also disclosed.
US10825594B2
A system for generating a magnetic field orientable in three dimensions configured to be integrated in a test vessel in which an ultra-high vacuum medium reigns, the system for generating a vector magnetic field being including superconducting coils, a cooling system making it possible to cool the superconducting coils to a superconducting temperature; a leaktight case, leaktight to the ultra-high vacuum and compatible with the ultra-high vacuum, the leaktight case enclosing the superconducting coils and being cooled by the cooling system; a heat shield compatible with the ultra-high vacuum surrounding the leaktight case.
US10825592B2
It is an object of the present disclosure to produce a soft magnetic material having high saturation magnetization by heat-treating a Fe-based amorphous alloy, without needing the control of the atmosphere. The present disclosure provides a method for producing a soft magnetic material, including heat treating a Fe-based amorphous alloy in a state in which the alloy is wrapped with a sheet comprising one or more substances having a standard Gibbs energy of formation of an oxide thereof that is larger in a negative direction than Fe, to form a crystal phase.
US10825587B2
Polyamide compositions for use in forming wire or cable jacket compositions. The polyamide compositions include a component of polyamide 6/66 copolymer formed from substantially randomly distributed caprolactam monomers and hexamethylenediamine monomers. The polyamide 6/66 copolymer component may form the entirety of the polyamide composition or alternatively, the polyamide composition may include an amount of polyamide 6 homopolymer blended with the polyamide 6/66 copolymer component. The composition also includes one or more additives, such as at least one UV mitigation component, and the polyamide composition further has at least one of a measured transmittance of at least 70% and a measured haze of less than 60%, as determined by ASTM D1003.
US10825579B2
A cable includes a plurality of wires, an wrapping tape covering the outside of the wires, a shielding layer coated on the outside of the wrapping tape and an insulating cover coated on the outside of the shielding layer, the shielding layer includes a plurality of conductors, wherein the shielding layer includes fibers mixed with the conductors.
US10825578B1
Example embodiments provide a device that includes a main cable jacket including one or more sub-cable jackets, and each of the sub-cable jackets includes a number of conduits.
US10825574B2
The present invention provides a manufacturing method suitable for manufacturing, in large amounts, an ionic conductor that is superior in terms of various properties such as ion conductivity. According to one embodiment of the present invention, provided is a method for manufacturing an ionic conductor, said method including: mixing, using a solvent, LiBH4 and a lithium halide represented by formula (1), LiX (1) (in formula (1), X represents one selected from the group consisting of halogen atoms); and removing the solvent at 60-280° C. Ionic conductors obtained with this manufacturing method can be used as, for example, solid electrolytes for all-solid-state batteries.
US10825573B2
A scintillation crystal can include a sodium halide that is co-doped with thallium and another element. In an embodiment, the scintillation crystal can include NaX:Tl, Me, wherein X represents a halogen, and Me represents a Group 1 element, a Group 2 element, a rare earth element, or any combination thereof. In a particular embodiment, the scintillation crystal has a property including, for radiation in a range of 300 nm to 700 nm, an emission maximum at a wavelength no greater than 430 nm; or an energy resolution less than 6.4% when measured at 662 keV, 22° C., and an integration time of 1 microsecond. In another embodiment, the co-dopant can be Sr or Ca. The scintillation crystal can have lower energy resolution, better proportionality, a shorter pulse decay time, or any combination thereof as compared to the sodium halide that is doped with only thallium.
US10825568B2
An alarm notification system can enable a clinician to respond to an alarm notification received via a computing device, which may have more advanced functionality than a pager. The clinician's device can include a notification client which can respond to alarm notifications. The notification client can also provide one or more user interfaces that enable the clinician to view information about an alarm, such as information about a patient's status, physiological parameter values, trend data, audio/video of the patient, combinations of the same, or the like. Further, the notification client can provide functionality for a clinician to respond to an alarm, annotate an alarm, and/or indicate that the clinician can or cannot respond to the alarm, among other features. In addition, the clinician device can also (or instead) include an admit module that provides for automatic association of a patient to a device or location.
US10825563B2
Aligning image data of a patient with actual views of the patient using an optical code affixed to the patient. In some embodiments, a method may include affixing an optical code to a patient, affixing a pattern of markers to the patient, capturing image data of the patient, sensing the optical code affixed to the patient and a position of the optical code in a 3D space, accessing the image data, calculating the position of the pattern of markers in the 3D space, registering the position of the inner layer of the patient in the 3D space by aligning the calculated position of the pattern of markers in the 3D space with the position of the pattern of markers in the image data, and displaying in real-time, in an alternate reality (AR) headset, the inner layer of the patient from the image data projected onto actual views of the patient.
US10825562B2
According to one embodiment, a medical image display apparatus comprising a memory and processing circuitry. The memory configured to store a task management table associating a processing task executed for a medical image with state information representing whether or not the processing task has been executed. The processing circuitry configured to extract, from the task management table, state information that is associated with a processing task for a medical image requested to be displayed, and display, based on the extracted state information, information indicative of whether or not a processing task has been executed for the requested medical image.
US10825560B1
An infusion monitoring device (IMD) for facilitating infusion pump medication treatment compliance. The IMD having at least one sensor to monitor data on a tube extending from an infusion pump. The IMD may be part of a compliance system. The IMD able to collect data and communicate data to a network for remote compliance analysis. The system provides compliance feedback to support the patient and improve compliance with the treatment process.
US10825555B2
Systems and methods are provided for managing a database. The systems and methods described maybe used to efficiently utilize computing resources, including at a handheld device, to provide questions and recommendations during a medical examination.
US10825533B2
A semiconductor memory device and an operation method thereof that can accurately read setting information from a memory cell array when a power supply is turned on are provided. The flash memory includes a memory cell array, a detecting portion, a ROM and a control portion. The detecting portion detects that the power supply is turned on. The ROM stores at least a code for performing a reading operation of the memory cell array and stores a special code in a specific address. The control portion controls the reading of the ROM. When the detecting portion detects the power-on of the power supply, the control portion reads the special code from the ROM and determines whether the read special code is correct or not, reads the code if the determination is correct and again reads the special code if the determination is incorrect.
US10825532B2
A method of operating a memory device includes performing a data read operation on at least one victim sub-block within a memory block containing a plurality of sub-blocks therein, in response to an erase command directed to a selected sub-block within the plurality of sub-blocks. Next, a soft program operation is performed on the at least one victim sub-block. This soft programming operation is then followed by an operation to erase the selected sub-block within the plurality of sub-blocks. This operation to erase the selected sub-block may include providing an erase voltage to a bulk region of a substrate on which the memory block extends, and the at least one victim sub-block may be disposed between the selected sub-block and the substrate.
US10825531B1
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array; and a page buffer circuit coupled to the memory cell array through a plurality of bit lines which extend in a second direction intersecting with a first direction. The page buffer circuit includes a plurality of bit line select transistors coupled to the plurality of bit lines; a plurality of latches coupled to the plurality of bit line select transistors, respectively; and a plurality of erase bias pass transistors coupled to the plurality of bit lines, and configured to transfer an erase voltage to the bit lines. The plurality of erase bias pass transistors and the plurality of bit line select transistors are disposed in different regions, and are not adjacent to each other.
US10825529B2
A method for an erase operation on a nonvolatile memory array with low-latency erase suspend is described. The nonvolatile memory array includes a plurality of blocks of memory cells, each block including a plurality of sectors of memory cells. The method includes, in response to an erase command identifying a block in the plurality of blocks in the array, erasing the plurality of sectors in the identified block, and determining whether there are over-erased cells in each sector. The method includes recording the over-erased cells for the sector. The method also includes responsive to suspend before a soft program pulse for the sector, applying a correction pulse to the recorded cells.
US10825520B2
Semiconductor memory having both volatile and non-volatile modes and methods of operation. A semiconductor storage device includes a plurality of memory cells each having a floating body for storing, reading and writing data as volatile memory. The device includes a floating gate or trapping layer for storing data as non-volatile memory, the device operating as volatile memory when power is applied to the device, and the device storing data from the volatile memory as non-volatile memory when power to the device is interrupted.
US10825519B1
An electronic device includes a semiconductor memory. The semiconductor memory includes a word line, a bit line, and a memory cell coupled to and disposed between the word line and the bit line, the memory cell including a variable resistance layer that remains in an amorphous state regardless of a value of data stored in the memory cell. In a reset operation, the memory cell is programmed to a high-resistance amorphous state by applying, to the memory cell, a sub-threshold voltage that is greater than 0.7 time of a threshold voltage of the memory cell and is smaller than 0.95 time of the threshold voltage.
US10825511B2
Techniques and mechanisms for changing a consistency with which a cell circuit (“cell”) settles into a given state. In one embodiment, a cell settles into a preferred state based on a relative polarity between respective voltages of a first rail and a second rail. Based on the preferred state, a hot carrier injection (HCI) stress is applied to change a likelihood of the cell settling into the preferred state. Applying the HCI stress includes driving off-currents of two PMOS transistors of the cell while the relative polarity is reversed. In another embodiment, a cell array comprises multiple cells which are each classified as being a respective one of a physically unclonable function (PUF) type or a random number generator (RNG) type. A cell is selected for biasing, and a stress is applied, based on each of: that cell's preferred state, that cell's classification, and another cell's classification.
US10825504B2
A semiconductor device according to an aspect of the present invention has: a plurality of memory cells MC; a plurality of word lines WL each coupled to a corresponding one of the plurality of memory cells MC; and a control circuit that intermittently monitors accesses to the plurality of word lines WL, stores/erases some captured row-addresses in a first number of registers, and detects, by comparison with stored addresses, in response to a first number of accesses to one of the word lines WL in a first period of time. According to the present invention, access histories can be precisely analyzed by a small-scale circuit configuration, and measures against, for example, the Row Hammer problem, etc. can be taken.
US10825501B2
Methods, systems, and devices for operating a memory cell or memory cells are described. Cells of a memory array may be pre-written, which may include writing the cells to one state while a sense component is isolated from digit lines of the array. Read or write operations may be executed at the sense component while the sense component is isolated, and the cell may be de-isolated (e.g., connected to the digit lines) when write operations are completed. The techniques may include techniques accessing a memory cell of a memory array, isolating a sense amplifier from a digit line of the memory array based at least in part on the accessing of the cell, firing the sense amplifier, and pre-writing the memory cell of the memory array to a second data state while the sense amplifier is isolated. In some examples, the memory cell may include a ferroelectric memory cell.
US10825496B2
A system includes a plurality of host processors and a plurality of HMC devices configured as a distributed shared memory for the host processors. An HMC device includes a plurality of integrated circuit memory die including at least a first memory die arranged on top of a second memory die and at least a portion of the memory of the memory die is mapped to include at least a portion of a memory coherence directory; and a logic base die including at least one memory controller configured to manage three-dimensional (3D) access to memory of the plurality of memory die by at least one second device, and logic circuitry configured to determine memory coherence state information for data stored in the memory of the plurality of memory die, communicate information regarding the access to memory, and include the memory coherence information in the communicated information.
US10825494B2
Methods and devices include an input buffer configured to receive data. Decision feedback equalizer (DFE) circuitry includes a DFE configured to interpret levels of the data from the input buffer and a DFE buffer that stores previous values to control the DFE based on the previous values. Moreover, the DFE circuitry also includes reset circuitry configured to reset the DFE buffer to an initial state. Furthermore, the DFE circuitry includes suppression circuitry configured to suppress resets using the reset circuitry for an interval between write operations to the memory device.
US10825491B2
A memory device may include a memory array, which may also include, multiple memory cells. The memory device may also include one or more counters designed to generate internal memory addresses to sequentially access the memory cells and facilitate writing logical zeros to all of the memory cells.
US10825484B2
A method of forming an integrated assembly includes providing a construction having laterally-spaced digit-line-contact-regions and having intervening regions between the laterally-spaced digit-line-contact-regions; forming an expanse of non-conductive-semiconductor-material which extends across the digit-line-contact-regions and the intervening regions; a lower surface of the non-conductive-semiconductor-material being vertically-spaced from upper surfaces of the digit-line-contact-regions; forming openings extending through the non-conductive-semiconductor-material to the digit-line-contact-regions; forming conductive-semiconductor-material-interconnects within the openings and coupled with the digit-line-contact-regions, upper surfaces of the conductive-semiconductor-material-interconnects being beneath the lower surface of the non-conductive-semiconductor-material; and forming metal-containing-digit-lines over the non-conductive-semiconductor-material.
US10825481B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that includes a processing system with a processor, and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations such as receiving user input comprising a keyword identifying an object, monitoring a video recording during a generation of the video recording by a camera, wherein the monitoring includes detecting the object being captured by the camera, creating a video clip from the video recording, wherein the video clip comprises a start point and a stop point in the video recording determined by a machine learning algorithm, and sending a notification of the creating of the video clip. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10825477B2
Example redundant array of independent disks (RAID) storage systems and methods provide rebuild of logical data groups in priority order. Storage devices are configured as a storage array for storing logical data groups distributed among the storage devices. The logical data groups are written in a configuration of RAID stripes in the storage devices. A logical group index includes a logical group map for each logical data group and identifies corresponding logical blocks. When a storage device fails, the rebuild queue is ordered based on the priority of the logical data groups and rebuild to the replacement storage device is completed in the priority order.
US10825462B1
Methods and systems are provided for optimizing call quality and improving network efficiency by reducing bandwidth requirements at the individual-voice-call level. Embodiments provided herein build vocal fingerprints that correspond to the frequency range of the human voice, as well as the frequency range of the voice of individual users. The vocal fingerprints are used minimize and reduce the transmission of background noise and ambient sound captured using HD voice while retaining the frequency range of a user's voice in HD voice. This filtered HD voice frequency range is then transmitted to recipients over the network. The reduced frequency range lowers bandwidth usage and conserves network resources, all while optimizing the call quality for individual users.
US10825454B1
Techniques for naming devices via voice commands are described herein. For instance, a user may issue a voice command to a voice-controlled device stating, “you are the kitchen device”. Thereafter, the device may respond to voice commands directed, by name, to this device. For instance, the user may issue a voice command requesting to “play music on my kitchen device”. Given that the user has configured the device to respond to this name, the device may respond to the command by outputting the requested music.
US10825440B2
A method for calibrating an ANC-enabled portable audio device having microphones plays continuously a calibration sound by a calibrated speaker of a test station separate from the device. For each microphone of all the microphones, a microphone calibration value is computed using a comparison of a predetermined level and a measured level of an audio signal transduced by the microphone in response to the continuously-played calibration sound. The calibration is done without using a microphone of the test station. A processing element of the device may be programmed to make the comparison and computation. The processing element also causes a speaker of the device to generate a second calibration sound, measures a second level while the computed calibration value is applied to one of microphones (e.g., error microphone), and computes a calibration value for the device speaker using a comparison of a predetermined level and the second level.
US10825437B2
The disclosure seeks to describe a system and method for transmitting acoustic energy to a listener. The system includes a flexible pick-up, at least one acoustic energy transmisson member and at least one audio output. The flexible pick-up has an interior, at least one opening, and is configured for compression against strings of a stringed instrument for direct energizing by the strings. The at least one acoustic energy transmission member has a first end coupled to the interior of the pick-up through the opening. The at least one audio output is mounted on a second end of the energy transmission member and is configured to transmit acoustic energy therefrom to a listener.
US10825434B2
An electronic musical instrument in one aspect of the disclosure includes a keyboard, a processor and a memory that stores musical piece data that includes data of a vocal part, the vocal part including at least first and second notes together with associated first and second lyric parts that are to be successively played at the first and second timings, respectively, wherein if while a digitally synthesized first signing voice corresponding to the first note is being output, a user specifies, via keyboard, a third pitch that is different from the first and second notes prior to the arrival of the second timing, the at least one processor synthesizes a modified first singing voice having the third pitch in accordance with the data of the first lyric part, and causes the digitally synthesized modified first singing voice to be audibly output at the third timing.
US10825433B2
An electronic musical instrument includes: a memory that stores a trained acoustic model obtained by performing machine learning on training musical score data and training singing voice data of a singer; and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor: in accordance with a user operation on an operation element in a plurality of operation elements, inputs prescribed lyric data and pitch data corresponding to the user operation of the operation element to the trained acoustic model so as to cause the trained acoustic model to output the acoustic feature data in response to the inputted prescribed lyric data and the inputted pitch data, and digitally synthesizes and outputs inferred singing voice data that infers a singing voice of the singer on the basis of the acoustic feature data output by the trained acoustic model.
US10825426B2
A method of generating a high dynamic range (HDR) image is provided that includes capturing a long exposure image and a short exposure image of a scene, computing a merging weight for each pixel location of the long exposure image based on a pixel value of the pixel location and a saturation threshold, and computing a pixel value for each pixel location of the HDR image as a weighted sum of corresponding pixel values in the long exposure image and the short exposure image, wherein a weight applied to a pixel value of the pixel location of the short exposure image and a weight applied to a pixel value of the pixel location in the pixel long exposure image are determined based on the merging weight computed for the pixel location and responsive to motion in a scene of the long exposure image and the short exposure image.
US10825407B2
Disclosed are a gamma reference voltage generator, a method for generating a gamma reference voltage and a liquid crystal display device comprising the gamma reference voltage generator. The gamma reference voltage generator includes a timing control module; a programmable gamma chip, which is electrically connected to the timing control module; and a multiplexing module, which is electrically connected to the timing control module and the programmable gamma chip. Independent control of gamma reference voltages of sub-pixel units of the liquid crystal display device can be achieved, by means of which display quality of images can be improved.
US10825405B2
A thin film transistor (TFT) backplane comprising a plurality of electrodes. Each of the plurality of electrodes is coupled to circuitry comprising: a first thin film transistor (TFT) coupled to the electrode for transmitting waveforms to the electrode, and a second TFT coupled to the electrode for discharging remnant charges from the electrode, wherein the second TFT is activated subsequent to the first TFT being deactivated.
US10825398B2
A display device includes a display panel including scan lines, data lines, and a plurality of pixels coupled to the scan lines and the data lines, a voltage generator configured to generate an on-voltage and an off-voltage, a scan controller configured to generate a scan start signal based on the on-voltage, the off-voltage, and a vertical start signal, and a scan driver configured to generate a scan signal based on the scan start signal and to provide the scan signal to a scan line of the scan lines. The scan controller is configured to detect a voltage level of the scan start signal and to output a shutdown signal based on the voltage level of the scan start signal during an over current detecting period.
US10825397B2
The present disclosure relates to a shift register unit. The shift register unit includes a first input circuit configured to transmit a first voltage signal to a pull-up node, a pull-up circuit configured to transmit a first clock signal to a signal output terminal, a first pull-down control circuit configured to transmit a second clock signal to a pull-down node, a second pull-down control circuit configured to transmit a second voltage signal to the pull-down node, a pull-up control circuit configured to transmit the second voltage signal to the pull-up node, a pull-down circuit configured to transmit the second voltage signal to the signal output terminal, and a holding circuit configured to maintain the pull-up node at a low level and/or maintain the pull-down node at a high level under control of a second input.
US10825392B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data signal compensation method for a pixel circuit, including: inputting a test signal to the data signal line, and detecting a real-time voltage at the first node after a first preset time elapses; comparing the real-time voltage with a preset voltage, and in response to the real-time voltage being deviated from the preset voltage, adjusting an initial compensation value for a mobility, so as to make the real-time voltage be consistent with the preset voltage, wherein the preset voltage is set by obtaining an initial threshold voltage for the driving transistor; generating a compensation test signal and inputting the compensation test signal to the data signal line; and generating a test signal, inputting the generated test signal to the data signal line, and sensing a first voltage at the first node after a first preset time elapses as the preset voltage.
US10825391B2
A pixel of an organic light emitting display device and an organic light emitting display device having the same includes an organic light emitting diode, a first switching transistor configured to transfer a data signal, a storage capacitor configured to store the data signal, a driving transistor configured to generate a driving current of the organic light emitting diode, a first initialization transistor and a second initialization transistor configured to simultaneously provide an initialization signal to the organic light emitting diode and the driving transistor, a second switching transistor configured to be turned on in response to a second scan signal and transfer the data signal or the initialization signal, a first emission control transistor configured to transfer a high power voltage to the driving transistor, and a second emission control transistor configured to transfer the driving current to the organic light emitting diode.
US10825383B2
A display device including a first substrate, pixel structures, a second substrate, first signal lines, and second signal lines is provided. The pixel structures are disposed on a first surface of the first substrate. Each of the pixel structures includes a switch element and a pixel electrode. The switch element has a first terminal, a second terminal, and a control terminal. The pixel electrode is electrically connected to the second terminal of the switch element. The second substrate is disposed under a second surface of the first substrate. The first signal lines and the second signal lines are disposed on the second substrate. The first terminals and the control terminals of the switch elements of the pixel structures are respectively electrically connected to the first signal lines and the second signal lines, wherein the first signal lines are substantially parallel to the second signal lines.
US10825382B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel and a power voltage generator. The display panel includes pixel circuits including a first light emitting element and a second light emitting element. The power voltage generator applies a high power voltage to first electrodes of the first light emitting element and the second light emitting element, a first low power voltage to a second electrode of the first light emitting element and a second low power voltage to a second electrode of the second light emitting element. The high power voltage has high level, the first low power voltage has low level and the second low power voltage has high level during an emission duration of a first frame. The high power voltage has the high level, the first low power voltage has high level and the second low power voltage has low level during an emission duration of a second frame.
US10825381B2
A display system includes: a display device that transits from a power-off state to a power-on state; and a brightness calculation device that calculates a brightness setting sequence based on a humidity amount over a first period in which the display device is in the power-off state, the brightness setting sequence being a sequence of a setting value of a brightness of the display device during a second period, the second period starting from when the display device transits to the power-on state, the setting value changing in time series. The display device displays an image signal at a brightness according to the brightness setting sequence.
US10825375B1
The present disclosure provides a method for determining a grayscale mapping correlation in a display panel. The method includes the following operations. First, a target first luminance value of the display panel is determined. A first set of start pixel values of a first attribute of a first grayscale value is determined based on the first grayscale value and the target first luminance value of the display panel. A first set of mapped pixel values of the first attribute mapped to the first grayscale value, and a first mapped luminance value are then determined based on the first set of start pixel values of the first attribute and a set of first target values of a second attribute. The set of first target values of the second attribute include a plurality of target chrominance values and the target first luminance value.
US10825374B2
A liquid crystal driver circuit may include a screen including a plurality of liquid crystal units distributed as an array. The array may include m rows of liquid crystal units along a row direction, and n columns of liquid crystal units along a column direction, wherein m is an integer and n is an integer. The screen may also include n data lines, respectively connected to the n columns of liquid crystal units along the column direction; and at least one data line switch, each connected to a corresponding data line of the n data lines.
US10825369B2
An electro-optical device includes a pre-charge circuit configured to supply a pre-charge signal to a first and second signal line at different timings based on a pre-charge control signal, and an inspection circuit configured to output, to the pre-charge circuit, an inspection control signal indicating whether a target is to be inspected in an inspection operation. The pre-charge circuit includes a first switch, an electrical coupling state between the first signal line and a pre-charge power supply line based on a first coupling control signal, a second switch, an electrical coupling state between the second signal line and the pre-charge power supply line based on a second coupling control signal, a first signal to output the first coupling control signal to the first switch, and a second signal to output the second coupling control signal to the second switch based on the inspection control signal and the pre-charge control signal.
US10825365B2
An extension arm connected to a panel of a safety sign is moveable between a first position extending laterally of the panel a distance at least equal to the maximum width of the panel and a second position. In one embodiment the arm is an assembly held to a handhold of the safety sign. In some embodiments the arm is hinged for folding in the manner of a carpenter's rule. In some embodiments the arm is rotatable between an operative laterally extending, generally horizontal, position and a stowed position. In other embodiments, an A-frame safety sign has a removable arm attached to it, the removable arm when attached being movable to a position extending outward a distance at least equal to the maximum width of the panel.
US10825347B2
An unmanned aircraft navigation system includes a master navigation device, a slave navigation device, and a controller. The master navigation device includes at least one measurement component. The slave navigation device includes at least one measurement component configured to provide a redundancy support for the at least one measurement component of the master navigation device. The controller is configured to effect a navigation using the at least one measurement component of the master navigation device and the at least one measurement component of the slave navigation device.
US10825345B2
Embodiments described herein include an electronic beacon system mounted to an unmanned aerial system (UAS) broadcasting identification and sensor data including a UAS identification code, global positioning system data and other telemetry information. In certain embodiments, identification and global positioning system data of the unmanned aerial system is transmitted to and displayed upon a mobile handheld device. Other embodiments include using the identification data to ascertain the identity of the owner/operator of an unmanned aerial system. Related systems, hardware, firmware, and software are disclosed.
US10825340B1
Systems and methods are provided that may to cause autonomous navigation of autonomous vehicles in the case of non-standard traffic flows such as police stops, emergency vehicle passing, construction sites, vehicle collision sites, and other non-standard road conditions. An entity associated with the non-standard traffic flow (e.g., an emergency vehicle, road sign, barrier, etc.) may transmit or broadcast a control signal to be received (or otherwise detected) at one or more autonomous vehicles. Each autonomous vehicle, upon receiving the control signal, may autonomously navigate in accordance with the control signal, thus mitigating or eliminating dangers associated with non-standard traffic flows.
US10825335B2
The invention relates to a system (20) for determining a verified fire status, having: an unmanned vehicle (2) comprising a vehicle sensor unit (6) for capturing a fire parameter KF, a central unit (22) for transmitting an instruction signal SI to the vehicle, and a stationary fire detector (14) comprising a fire detector sensor unit (28) for capturing a reference fire parameter KR of a fire detector monitoring area (12), wherein the fire detector (14) is designed for determining a reference fire status ZR and for transmitting a corresponding fire detector signal SB to the central unit (22), wherein the vehicle (2) is designed for navigating to the target location (16) on the basis of the transmitted instruction signal SI, for capturing the fire parameter KF as a verification fire parameter KV of the fire detector monitoring area (12) at the target location (16), and for determining a corresponding verification fire status ZV, and wherein the vehicle (2) is designed for transmitting a corresponding verification signal SV to the central unit (22), which can determine the reference fire status ZR as verified reference fire status ZVR, if the reference fire status ZR and the verification fire status ZV correspond. The invention furthermore relates to a vehicle, a method, and a central unit, each corresponding to the system (20).
US10825333B2
A detector for detecting a hazardous safety condition. The detector includes a housing, an electrochromic material disposed within the housing, and a power source in operative electrical communication with the electrochromic material, the electrochromic material providing a visual display to indicate a condition of the detector.
US10825328B2
A communication system (100) provides a body wearable garment (102) having a single transmission line (104) for interfacing a main control device (110) to a variety of supplemental devices (108). The single transmission line (104) provides a series of couplers (106) integrated along the line to wirelessly couple the plurality of supplemental devices (108) with the main control device (110). The plurality of supplemental devices (108) are insertable and removable to pouches (114) within the garment, the pouches providing alignment of each supplemental device with a corresponding coupler of the single transmission line (104). Near field wireless power transfer coupling and/or RF signaling are provided. A wide variety of devices can be optimally located along the single transmission line (104) within the garment allowing for considerable improvement of in hands-free portability.
US10825326B1
In system and methods for loss mitigation, accident data associated with a vehicle accident involving a driver may be collected. The accident data may be analyzed, and a likely severity of the vehicle accident may be determined based upon the analysis of the accident data. A communication related to emergency assistance or an emergency assistance recommendation may be generated based upon the determined likely severity of the vehicle accident, and transmitted, via wireless communication, from one or more remote servers to a mobile device associated with the driver. A wireless communication from the driver indicating approval or modification of the emergency assistance or emergency assistance recommendation may be received. A third party may be notified, via a communication sent from the remote server(s), of requested emergency assistance as approved or modified by the driver. An estimated insurance claim may also be generated based upon vehicle accident likely severity.
US10825325B2
A method for maintaining possession of a firearm includes the steps of transmitting a signal between a first transceiver coupled to a firearm and a second transceiver of a secondary carry implement. The secondary carry implement has an alert component. The alert component is activated when a predetermined proximity between the firearm and the secondary carry component is exceeded. The predetermined proximity is inferred from signal strength from the first transceiver that is detected by the second transceiver.
US10825322B2
A system for monitoring a model in a wind tunnel is provided. The system includes a plurality of sensors attached to a model in a wind tunnel. Each sensor of the plurality of sensors is configured to measure an attribute of the model. The system also includes a computing device in communication with the plurality of sensors. The computing device is programmed to receive a plurality of signals from the plurality of sensors, store a first threshold and a second threshold based on normalized alarm limits associated with at least one of the plurality of sensors, analyze the plurality of signals based, at least in part, on the first threshold and the second threshold, determine that a potentially negative condition is occurring based on the analysis, and alert a user to the potentially negative condition.
US10825320B1
A computer-implemented method for generating an automated response to a catastrophic event, that includes (1) analyzing a sample set of data generated in association with a catastrophic event to determine a threshold pattern; (2) receiving, with customer permission or affirmative consent, home sensor data from a smart home controller via wireless communication or data transmission, the home sensor data including data regarding at least one of (i) structural status; (ii) wind speed; (iii) availability of electricity; (iv) presence of water; (v) temperature; (vi) pressure; and/or (vii) presence of pollutants in the air and/or water; (3) determining, based upon or from computer analysis of the home sensor data, whether the home sensor data indicates a match to the threshold pattern; and (4) automatically generating a response if the home sensor data indicates a match to the threshold pattern. As a result, catastrophic events and responses thereto may be improved through usage of a remote network of home sensors.
US10825317B2
The disclosure is related to a method for avoiding misjudgment when detecting a human fall, and an apparatus thereof. When the apparatus worn on a person generates a collision signal, it determines if the apparatus was in a proper status in the past period of time before the collision according to the acceleration data. The apparatus was in the proper status if a specific axial direction of an accelerometer of the apparatus is substantially parallel with the direction of gravity, and the method goes on detecting the human fall; otherwise, the process is terminated. The acceleration data before and after the collision is compared with fall conditions set by a fall detection program. A fall event is determined if the acceleration data meets the fall conditions.
US10825313B2
A life safety device including a housing, a detector associated with the housing for detecting one or more conditions, and an actuatable mechanism coupled to the housing. The actuatable mechanism is movable in response to a force to engage a switch. The actuatable mechanism includes a light assembly operable in response to detection of at least one of the one or more conditions by the detector.
US10825312B2
A modular multi-sensor fire detector (300) that has an evaluation unit and a plurality of sensor heads (100) which are arranged locally at a distance from the evaluation unit and are connected to the evaluation unit in a signal-conducting manner, wherein the evaluation unit (200) can be connected in a signal-conducting manner to an alarm signal receiving device (301) which is locally at a distance.
US10825307B1
Aspects of the present invention disclose a method for determining and providing notifications regarding ATMs that can fulfill a transaction plan of a user. The method includes one or more processors determining a transaction plan for a user, the transaction plan including a schedule of future transactions of the user based on historical user data and user-provided information, wherein the determined transaction plan includes a forecast future withdrawal amount and corresponding time. The method further includes one or more processors identifying an automated teller machine (ATM) preferred by the user. The method further includes one or more processors determining whether the ATM preferred by the user can fulfill the determined transaction plan. In response to determining that the ATM preferred by the user cannot fulfill the determined transaction plan, the method further includes determining one or more alternate ATMs that can fulfill the determined transaction plan.
US10825305B2
A game apparatus includes: a moving image acquirer configured to acquire a movement image of an operation result generation device that generates an operation result used in a game; a movable display device having a transformable display surface; a game related information acquirer configured to acquire game related information including at least one of information on the operation result generation device and information on the game; and a form determiner configured to determine a form of the display surface based on the game related information, and the movable display device displays the movement image acquired by the moving image acquirer in the form determined by the form determiner.
US10825303B2
The invention is a system, process, and method that allows players to bet on sports or esports events from their mobile device in a way that is easy-to-understand, simple and fast-paced. Through the use of artificial intelligence, it allows the operator to offer bets only to certain registered members of the system rather than the public at-large thereby automating the balancing of their books through a dynamic offering. It also allows the operator to effectively and automatically generate more bets placed and automatically comply with taxation, laws and regulations of any jurisdiction in the world.
US10825299B2
In various embodiments, the present disclosure relates generally to gaming systems and methods for providing zero, one or more awards in association with zero, one or more game outcomes modified via a skill-based game.
US10825296B2
In various embodiments, the present disclosure relates generally to gaming systems and methods for providing an award based on adding layers of symbol display positions to a symbol display position matrix.
US10825292B2
A transaction is facilitated at a business's touchpoint by transmitting from a wireless device (e.g., a patron's cell phone) to a transaction server operated by a transaction-funding business: patron-identifying information for the patron and a touchpoint ID associated with the touchpoint read using the wireless device. The transaction server authorizes the transaction, transmits that authorization to the cell phone and/or the touchpoint business, and the touchpoint business provides goods/services to the patron. In some implementations, the transaction-funding business transfers outgoing funds for the transaction to the touchpoint business and receives incoming funds for the transaction from the patron. In a casino, a patron can use his/her cell phone to purchase gaming credit at a gaming machine without using a paper voucher or currency. The transaction-funding business funds the purchase for the patron without any funds ever residing on or passing through the patron's cell phone.
US10825286B2
A gaming machine includes a cabinet defining an upper cabinet volume and a cabinet front opening to the upper cabinet volume. A video monitor is mounted on the gaming machine cabinet so that in an operating position, the video monitor registers with and covers an upper portion of a base area of a cabinet front opening. A panel is also mounted on the gaming machine cabinet so that in a panel operating position, the panel component registers with and covers a lower portion of the base area, that is, a portion of the base area immediately below the portion covered by the video monitor in its operating position. Assemblies are included which allow the video monitor to be moved to an open position vacating the base area of the cabinet front opening and allow the panel to traverse the vacated area to an open position for the panel.
US10825285B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a gaming system and method providing a slot game including a symbol generator modification event. In various embodiments, the gaming system is configured to provide a slot game, each play of which employs a subset of a plurality of symbol generators. If a symbol generator modification event occurs in association with a first play that employs a first subset of the symbol generators, the gaming system removes one of the symbol generators from the first subset and adds another one of the plurality of symbol generators to the first subset to form a second subset, and employs the second subset for a second play. The gaming system removes and adds the symbol generators to form the second subset such that the average expected payback percentage of the second play is greater than the average expected payback percentage of the first play.
US10825284B2
Automatic dispenser (10) of portable terminals (100), comprising a vertical body (11) having a fully closed storage area (20) including a plurality of compartments (50) for storing a corresponding plurality of portable terminals (100) to be taken by authorised users. At least one access door (25) is arranged on said vertical body (11) at said storage area (20) to provide for a selective access within the storage area (20). The dispenser (10) comprises a wireless charging unit arranged within said storage area (20) at each compartment (50) and an air conditioning system (200) configured to control temperature and humidity of each compartment (50).
US10825282B2
A coin selector holder for a commercial home appliance is provided. The coin selector holder includes a body mounted on a control panel of the commercial home appliance and provided with a mounting groove opening, a first supporting arm arranged on a first side of the mounting groove opening and fastened to the control panel in a bending manner, and a second supporting arm, arranged on a second side of the mounting groove opening. After the first supporting arm is fastened on the control panel, the second supporting arm is clamped to the control panel, and is slideable along the control panel during the clamping process. A commercial appliance including the coin selector holder for the commercial home appliance is provided.
US10825278B2
Methods and apparatus for determining an Authenticated Location of a GRL Device using a Smart Gateway. The GRL Device may include a Miniature Atomic Clock along with other components that can receive process and communicate information to enable locating, identifying, and tracking physical Assets and data contained within the Assets. More specifically, the present disclosure presents methods and apparatus of deploying a Global Resource Locating (GRL) device adhered to or inserted into packaging for an Asset. The Smart Gateway, either as stand-alone architecture or as a Smart Phone app, may be used to transmit and receive UUIDs from a GRL-enabled asset.
US10825277B2
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for facilitating the exchange of an item. For example, a containment component is configured to receive one or more items. A locking component is configured to selectively restrict or allow access to the item. A code generation component is configured to generate and provide an unlocking code to a requestor (e.g., based upon payment by the requestor that requests access to the item). A code entry component is configured to receive user input of a code. The code entry component either retains the locking component in a locked state if the code is not validated as the unlocking code or transitions the locking component into an unlocked state if the code is validated as the unlocking code.
US10825256B2
In one embodiment, a plurality of 3D digital assets that can be associated with scripts to transmit user interaction, when displayed within a 3D environment in a client machine. The system includes a 3D digital asset processing system configured to receive user interaction data related to the 3D digital asset from the client machine and generate metrics related to user interaction with the 3D digital asset. In one embodiment, the metrics are generated by determining whether the 3D digital asset, comprising a collidable mesh, is drawn on a culling mask of a camera, and further using ray casting, drawing a line between the camera and the 3D digital asset. When the line collides with the collidable mesh of the 3D digital asset, using a screen bounding function of a 3D engine of the virtual environment, a proportion of the 3D digital asset on a user interface is determined to obtain a percentage of the user interface that is covered by the 3D digital asset. Thereafter, data related to user interaction with the 3D digital asset in the 3D environment is determined using the percentage.
US10825248B2
An augmented reality display system comprises a passable world model data comprises a set of map points corresponding to one or more objects of the real world. The augmented reality system also comprises a processor to communicate with one or more individual augmented reality display systems to pass a portion of the passable world model data to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems, wherein the piece of the passable world model data is passed based at least in part on respective locations corresponding to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems.
US10825245B1
A three dimensional user experience for mobile applications includes adjusting display of simulated three dimensional objects in real time and providing tactile feedback based on user interaction. A mobile application identifies a user viewing angle of a user and an orientation of the mobile device. An image analyze calibrates coordinates of the user with respect to the mobile device position and calculates pitch and roll elements of the simulated three dimensional objects with respect to a mobile device coordinate system. Based on rotational element, images are selected and/or rendered for display in real time. The mobile application analyzes an area of contact with a touchscreen and identify an edge of a selected simulated three dimensional object based on a color or color gradient. Based on a type of object and an edge type, tactile feedback is generated by triggering a vibration motor to execute a particular vibration pattern.
US10825240B2
A method that includes monitoring, by a processor of a mobile device, a stream of magnetic field measurements generated by a first sensor as the mobile device is manipulated by a user, with each magnetic field measurement representing an orientation of the mobile device relative to a reference frame. The method also includes a processor that determines a point on the surface of a magnetometer calibration sphere associated with the orientation of the mobile device, and storing the magnetic field measurement to a corresponding data bin, each data bin associated with the corresponding point on the surface of the sphere. The method continues with when the processor determining that the number of data bins containing magnetic field measurements exceeds a specified threshold, the processor triggers a magnetometer calibration process for an attached magnetometer.
US10825233B2
An image processing apparatus acquires volume data including a negative voxel value and derived from a photoacoustic wave produced by irradiating a subject with light, generates compressed volume data by compressing the volume data to selectively reduce a data amount of voxel data having a voxel value whose absolute value is less than a threshold, and saves the compressed volume data.
US10825231B2
A data processor renders a new frame of a sequence of frames by, for each one of a subset of set of a plurality of regions of the new frame, newly generating output data for data elements in the region in respect of the new frame using a ray tracing process, and by deriving output data for data elements in each remaining region of the set of a plurality of regions of the frame based on data generated previously in respect of a preceding frame.
US10825216B2
An apparatus reads a value measured with an analog measuring tool. The apparatus includes an imaging unit for obtaining a captured image of the analog measuring tool that is indicating a measured value, a retaining unit for retaining a 3D model of the analog measuring tool, a matching unit for specifying a 3D model matching the captured image, a guidance unit for outputting guidance information for correcting orientation of the analog measuring tool based on the matched 3D model, a reading unit for reading the measured value from the captured image to generate a measurement result, and an output unit for outputting the measurement result.
US10825215B2
A method and an apparatus for generating an output image from a volume data set that includes a plurality of voxels are provided. In the method, a rendered 2D image is generated from the volume data set by volume rendering. In order to generate an output image with adjusted brightness, which makes a manual readjustment of the brightness superfluous, an adjustment factor is determined based on a brightness value of pixels in the rendered 2D image. By multiplying a respective voxel brightness value of the voxels in the volume data set by the adjustment factor, a brightness-adjusted volume data set is generated. By volume rendering from the brightness-adjusted volume data set, the brightness-adjusted output image is generated.
US10825214B2
Priority based automatic placement of labels on charts is provided. Display of data labels on a chart in a legible manner such that the data labels do not overlap and are placed in areas that may be more relevant to a user. In some examples, data associated with the chart may be prioritized for labeling (for example, prioritizing maximum, minimum, high rate of change, etc.), data labels may be disabled or hidden for low priority data points, overlapping of data labels may be avoided, and labeling may be automatically adjusted based on scaling and/or rescaling of the chart (for example, higher number of labels for bigger chart display).
US10825209B2
Systems and methods for tomographic reconstruction of an image include systems and methods for producing images from k-space data. A k-space data set of an imaged object is acquired using know k-space data acquisition systems and methods. A portion of the k-space data set is sampled so as to collect some portion of the k-space data. An image is then reconstructed from the collected portion of the k-space data set according to a convex optimization model.
US10825206B2
Provided is an artificial intelligence (AI) decoding apparatus includes: a memory storing one or more instructions; and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory, the processor is configured to: obtain AI data related to AI down-scaling an original image to a first image; obtain image data corresponding to an encoding result on the first image; obtain a second image corresponding to the first image by performing a decoding on the image data; obtain deep neural network (DNN) setting information among a plurality of DNN setting information from the AI data; and obtain, by an up-scaling DNN, a third image by performing the AI up-scaling on the second image, the up-scaling DNN being configured with the obtained DNN setting information, wherein the plurality of DNN setting information comprises a parameter used in the up-scaling DNN, the parameter being obtained through joint training of the up-scaling DNN and a down-scaling DNN, and wherein the down-scaling DNN is used to obtain the first image from the original image.
US10825203B2
Provided is an artificial intelligence (AI) decoding apparatus includes: a memory storing one or more instructions; and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory, the processor is configured to: obtain AI data related to AI down-scaling an original image to a first image; obtain image data corresponding to an encoding result on the first image; obtain a second image corresponding to the first image by performing a decoding on the image data; obtain deep neural network (DNN) setting information among a plurality of DNN setting information from the AI data; and obtain, by an up-scaling DNN, a third image by performing the AI up-scaling on the second image, the up-scaling DNN being configured with the obtained DNN setting information, wherein the plurality of DNN setting information comprises a parameter used in the up-scaling DNN, the parameter being obtained through joint training of the up-scaling DNN and a down-scaling DNN, and wherein the down-scaling DNN is used to obtain the first image from the original image.
US10825200B2
Methods, systems, and techniques are disclosed to determine a pixel count of an object of interest in a multidimensional digital environment, based on the texture of the multidimensional object considered as an object of interest. In one embodiment, a first pass in a rendering pipeline is performed to render the objects of interest. Depth information of each pixel of the objects of interest is determined. A second pass in the rendering pipeline is performed that renders the entire scene. Each object of interest is rendered in a first predetermined color and a second depth information of each pixel within the scene is determined. The first and second depth information for each pixel is compared. When the depth information is different, the pixel is rendered with a second predetermined color. A total number of pixels having the first predetermined color is determined as a pixel count of the object of interest.
US10825199B2
The techniques described herein relate to methods, apparatus, and computer readable media configured to test a pose of a model to image data. Image data of an object is received, the image data comprising a set of data entries. A set of regions of the image data are determined, wherein each region in the set of regions comprises an associated set of neighboring data entries in the set of data entries. Processed image data is generated, wherein the processed image data comprises a set of cells that each have an associated value, and generating the processed image data comprises, for each region in the set of regions, determining a maximum possible score of each data entry in the associated set of neighboring data entries from the image data, setting one or more values of the set of values based on the determined maximum possible score, and testing the pose of the model using the processed image data.
US10825193B2
Provided is an environment for providing information for supporting adjustment of the respective parts for positioning. A position detecting apparatus includes: an image processing unit that detects, through image processing, a position of a feature portion from image data imaged and acquired when the feature portion of an object is positioned at the respective target positions by a moving mechanism; a position storage unit that stores the detected positions detected at the target positions in association with the respective target positions; and a display data generation unit that generates data for displaying information related to the detected positions on a display unit. The display data generation unit generates data for displaying the respective target positions and the respective detected positions, which are stored in association with the target positions, in the same coordinate space.
US10825191B2
An assessment device generates, based on a captured image captured by an image capturing device mounted on a moving object, shape information on subjects included in the captured image. The assessment device acquires, by referring to a storage, shape information on a static object associated with the image capturing location. The assessment device specifies, based on the generated shape information and the acquired shape information, a dynamic object that is moving from among the subjects included in the captured image and conducts an assessment related to the dynamic object based on the location in the captured image.
US10825188B1
A machine-learning (ML) architecture may comprise a first ML model and/or an optical flow model that receive, as input, a first image and a second image. The first ML model may output a first feature map corresponding to the first image and a second feature map corresponding to the second image. The optical flow model may output an estimated optical flow. A deformation component may modify the second feature map, as a deformed feature map, based at least in part on the estimated optical flow. The deformed feature map and the first feature map may be concatenated together as a concatenated feature map, which may be provided to a second ML model. The second ML model may be trained to output an output ROI and/or a track in association with an object represented in the first image.
US10825185B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for performing object segmentation in an image. More particularly, the present invention divides a screen of an input image into at least two sub-images, and generates one image by combining the at least two sub-images to which an image segmentation algorithm is respectively applied.
US10825167B2
Machine learning is used to assess data for a patient in an emergency, providing rapid diagnosis based on a large amount of information. Assistance in triage may be provided. Given the large variety of patients and conditions that may occur, the machine learning may rely on synthetically generated images for more accurate prediction. The machine learning may accurately predict even with missing information and may be used to determine what missing information for a given patient is more or less important to obtain.
US10825161B1
Methods and systems for analyzing an integrity of a roof covering are presented. One or more roof sections of a structure may be identified with one or more processors. An airflow may then be directed over one or more shingles or other discontinuous roof covering materials of the roof section by an airflow unit. A respective lift for each of the shingles may then be observed by an imaging unit. An adhesion score may then be determined for each of the one or more shingles using the one or more processors. This adhesion score may be based on the respective lift. An overall roof integrity rating may then be generated by the one or more processors, based on the one or more adhesion scores. The overall roof integrity rating may then be provided by the one or more processors to a user of a computing device.
US10825160B2
A system and method of processing an image is provided in which an input image output by an imaging sensor is received. For each location of a plurality of locations of a reference point of a moving window in the input image, a first image quality metric is determined as a function of quality of first image content included in a region covered by the moving window, wherein the window is sized to include at least a significant portion of a target of interest. An enhancement process is applied to the input image and generates a resulting enhanced image that is spatially registered with the input image. For each location of the plurality of locations of the reference point of the moving window in the enhanced image, a second image quality metric is determined as a function of quality of second image content included in the region covered by the moving window. For each location of the plurality of locations, first fused content is determined by a first fusing of the first image content with the second image content, the first fusing being a function of the first image content, the first image quality metric, the second image content, and the second image quality metric associated with the location. A fused image is generated that includes the first fused content determined for each of the locations of the plurality of locations.
US10825159B2
A method and apparatus for segmenting an image are provided. The method may include the steps of clustering pixels from one of a plurality of images into one or more segments, determining one or more unstable segments changing by more than a predetermined threshold from a prior of the plurality of images, determining one or more segments transitioning from an unstable to a stable segment, determining depth for one or more of the one or more segments that have changed by more than the predetermined threshold, determining depth for one or more of the one or more transitioning segments, and combining the determined depth for the one or more unstable segments and the one or more transitioning segments with a predetermined depth of all segments changing less than the predetermined threshold from the prior of the plurality of images.
US10825154B2
Embodiments relate to a bilateral filter circuit for directional filtering of an image. The directional bilateral filter circuit determines an edge direction and a weight for the edge direction by processing differences between pixel values of pixels in a first block of pixels in the image. The bilateral filter circuit determines non-directional taps for pixels in a second block by processing pixel locations, and determines directional taps by processing differences between pixel values, gradient information for the second block and the edge direction. The bilateral filter circuit determines final filter taps for pixels in the second block by blending corresponding non-directional taps and directional taps using the weight. The bilateral filter circuit obtains a pixel value of a filtered image by multiplying the final filter taps to corresponding pixel values of the pixels in the second block and adding the multiplied values.
US10825146B2
A method for image processing includes the following actions. After n frames of first images shot by a main camera are acquired and an auxiliary image shot by an auxiliary camera is acquired, synthetic noise reduction is performed on the n frames of first images to obtain a frame of main image. Depth information of the main image is further calculated according to the main image and the auxiliary image. Therefore, blurring processing is performed on the main image according to the depth information of the main image to obtain a required second image.
US10825140B1
Provided are methods and apparatus related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) downscaling and upscaling and techniques related to reducing artifact problems. Some embodiments include down-scaling an original image through a Deep Neural Network (DNN); generating, from the original image and based on frequency transform coefficients, artifact information representing a region in the first image including an artifact in the first image. Post-processing may be performed based on the artifact information to change pixels in the first image, thus reducing the effect of artifacts.
US10825136B2
An image processing apparatus comprises: first and generation units that generate color signal components for luminance and color signal components for color difference, respectively, in a first color space from an input image signal; an integration unit that integrates the color signal components for luminance and color difference to generate color signal components common for luminance and color difference; a processing unit that performs nonlinear processing on the color signal components common for luminance and color difference; a separation unit that generates luminance and color difference signals in a second color space from the signal that has undergone the nonlinear processing; and a band limiting unit that performs band limitation processing on the color difference signals. A characteristic of the band limitation processing is set on the basis of frequency characteristics of the luminance color difference signals.
US10825131B2
Techniques related to image rectification for fisheye images are discussed. Such techniques may include iteratively determining warpings for equirectangular images corresponding to the fisheye images using alternating feature mappings between neighboring ones of the equirectangular images until mean vertical disparities between the features are reduced below a threshold, and warping the equirectangular images to rectified equirectangular images.
US10825118B2
A computerized property management system enables users to input a service request by placing a problem-type icon on a floor plan and designating a priority or urgency for the service request. The user can select a problem type note and/or input text describing the problem. Additionally, the user can add photographs, voice notes or video. After the service request is submitted, a contractor is notified of the request by email or text, which includes a link to the service request page with the information entered by the user. After the service request task is completed, the contractor can add notes describing what was fixed and indicating that the task has been completed. Subsequently, an email or other communication may be sent to the property manager and the requestor to indicate that the task has been completed.
US10825114B2
A method for processing services can include receiving a request for a service; sending the result of the service in which at least one data item is tagged; in response to a selection of the tagged data item, determining other services associated with the service based on a service template of the service; and providing the other services associated with the service as options, wherein the other services take the at least one data item as inputs to provide outputs thereof.
US10825112B2
A method of predicting the operation reliability of a distribution network, the method being based on an ARIMA model. By establishing an ARIMA model predict a user monthly power outage count; convert a non-smooth element outage count time series to a smooth time series; perform regression on only lagged values of a dependent variable, and on current values and lagged values of a stochastic error term, so as to establish a user monthly power outage count model; according to a prediction result sample an outage point, and at the same time, taking into account a real time load operating state, establish a failure mode effects table based on TLOC criteria and PLOC criteria; and calculate a system recovery time for each instance of device outage, and finally obtain a whole-year reliability index.
US10825109B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs, for predicting a likely outcome for an entity. A method includes obtaining a first data structure that includes data that represents a transaction, determining a similarity level of the transaction to each of a plurality of categories, determining a transaction category based on the determined similarity level, generating an input data structure that includes data representing (i) at least a portion of the data representing the transaction, and (ii) data describing the determined category, providing the input data structure to a predictive algorithm trained to determine a value that represents a likely outcome for an entity that initiated a transaction, obtaining output generated by the predictive algorithm based on the predictive algorithm's processing of the input data structure, the output including a value that represents a likely outcome for the entity, and determining a likely outcome for the entity based on the obtained output.
US10825107B2
Provided are systems and methods for determining a materiality threshold of a local data value for a group data value. In one example, a method includes receiving a group data file and a local data file, identifying a local data value from the local data file and a corresponding confidential group data value from the group data file, determining whether an error or an omission in combining the local data value with the confidential group data value impacts a materiality threshold of the confidential group data value, and generating and displaying a materiality indicator that visually indicates whether the local data value is going to impact a materiality threshold of the confidential group data value. According to various aspects, a user can quickly identify whether a coding process is doing to affect a materiality of a data value from a larger group.
US10825101B1
One or more devices in a life insurance clearinghouse system may be configured to store and maintain life insurance customer data and policy data in one or more life insurance databases. A life insurance clearinghouse may store, for example, customer information, policy types and terms, and coverage amounts for life insurance policies associated with multiple different life insurance providers. Various systems and devices, such as insurance provider computer hardware memory and processor systems, insurance clearinghouse computer memory and processor devices, and customer terminals, may retrieve life insurance customer data and/or policy data associated with multiple different life insurance providers, from one or more databases in a life insurance clearinghouse. The retrieved life insurance customer data and/or policy data may be analyzed and used in various life insurance determinations and functions, such as processing a life insurance application or a requested change to the coverage amount or terms of an existing policy, or determining maximum combined coverage amounts for customers.
US10825098B1
A system includes one or more sensors configured to acquire data indicative of a condition of one or more components of a vehicle. The system also includes one or more processors configured to receive the data, determine a risk profile for the vehicle based on the data, and determine an insurance cost for the vehicle based on the risk profile.
US10825087B2
A system and method for performing a purchase transaction using rewards points by receiving a purchase request using a financial account with associated account information, determining based on the account information that the financial account is associated with a rewards program with rewards points, and providing the option to pay for the purchase using the financial account or at least a portion of the rewards points. The purchase may be paid for using rewards points from multiple rewards programs and/or multiple financial accounts.
US10825075B2
A method of and system for purchasing an item using contributions from multiple people enables multiple users to contribute towards a gift. Typically the gift is one that each user would not purchase individually, but as a group, each user is able to contribute a portion of the total payment. Preferably, a gift host selects the gift, provides desired information and invited contributors are informed of the gift by email. The invited contributors then provide the necessary information to contribute before a deadline is reached. If the contributions are enough to purchase the gift, the gift is purchased and is given to a gift receiver.
US10825067B2
A method and a system segmenting a user viewing listings in online publications to render the listing according to a rule received from a seller. For example, the system receives one or more listings submitted by a seller. The listing comprises one or more modifiable parameters. The system also receives a rule from the seller, the rule associated with a first listing of the one or more listings. A profile is associated with a user based on data collected about the user. The first listing is rendered to the user based on the profile associated with the user and the rule by modifying the one or more parameters.
US10825064B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for preventing duplicate content selection for digital presentation. In one embodiment, an example method may include determining a first bid request for a first content delivery slot at a first time, the first bid request having a first user identifier, determining a ranking of candidate product identifiers for which the first user identifier is eligible at the first time, and determining a second bid request for a second content delivery slot at a second time, the second bid request having the first user identifier, where the second time is within a predetermined time interval of the first time. Example methods may include determining an impression counter value for the first user identifier at the second time, selecting a product identifier from the candidate product identifiers using the impression counter value, and determining a first bid amount using the product identifier.
US10825063B2
A system, method and computer program product for interfacing a decision engine and a marketing engine in order to provide vendor-related data in response to decision-related data is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the system and method may include providing a decision engine on a user-accessible network, interfacing a marketing engine with the decision engine on the network; receiving a plurality of user inputs with the decision engine; processing decision-related data with the decision engine in accordance with the plurality of user inputs; sharing the decision-related data with the marketing engine; processing the decision-related data with the marketing engine; and transmitting vendor-related data via the network.
US10825059B2
Facilitating highly targeted advertising to identified audience members across social media channels
The disclosed subject matter is directed to systems, computer-implemented methods, apparatus and/or computer program products that facilitate highly targeted advertising to identified audience members across social media channels. In one embodiment, a method is provided that comprises extracting, by a system comprising a processor, target audience information from one or more non-social media data sources based on one or more target audience criteria, the target audience information identifying individuals included in the target audience group. The method further comprises matching, by the system, the individuals with their respective social media profiles at the one or more social media systems based on the target audience information, and facilitating, by the system, directing the targeted advertisements to the individuals via their respective social media profiles.
US10825058B1
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for presenting intelligent interactive content. The methods may include receiving user input on a first device from a first user to present content to a second user on a second device. The method may include providing the second device with content data, presenting the content to the second user, monitoring the second user's reaction to the content using eye-tracking sensor, and generating feedback data. The method may include providing the feedback data to the first device and presenting feedback to the first user.
US10825046B2
In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for a predictive recommendation system based on an analysis of previous consumer behavior. One aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving data representing a user, the data including user identification and historical data; receiving a set of promotions recommended for the user; assigning the user to a consumer lifecycle model state based in part on the historical data and the user identification; selecting a ranking algorithm associated with the consumer lifecycle model state; and ranking the received set of promotions based on a predicted promotion relevance value associated with each promotion, the predicted promotion value being calculated using the ranking algorithm.
US10825041B1
The invention features a system and method for finely tuning the rate at which ad impressions are delivered to users based on various metrics used to characterize the quality of the ad opportunities. With the present invention, more relevant ads can be selected and delivered to a wide range of recipients while still compensating for the variations in the volume of Internet traffic and usage over the course of the day. The system and method of the present invention employ a plurality of bid boundaries corresponding to different volumes of ad opportunities, thereby enabling the invention to adjust the number of ad opportunities sought over the course of day while consistently targeting the mix of ad opportunities yielding the highest response rates and margin. The bid boundaries are selected in real-time based on the behavior of prior ad recipients. The behavior may include click-through rates or entry into a geo-fence, for example.
US10825035B2
A point calculation device includes an actual movement route calculation unit configured to calculate an actual movement route of a vehicle from departure to arrival, and a point calculation unit configured to calculate use points according to a difference between the actual movement route and a preset movement route from a departure location to an arrival location.
US10825032B2
A system that provides a fulfillment action (or “action”) is provided. The system defines an action specification including a pattern of a structured request to perform work on a subject. The system further defines data for the action specification, where the data includes an action code template that references action codes, and a parameter list template that references parameters. The system further defines the subject for the action specification, where the subject includes a subject template that references entity specifications. The system further defines a target for the action specification, where the target includes a target template that references resource specifications. The system further generates an instance of the action based on the action specification, where the pattern of the structured request to perform work is transformed into process logic configured to perform the work on the subject.
US10825031B2
A system for observing and analyzing customer opinions is disclosed. The system includes one or more cameras, a focus tracking module, an observation module, an interpretation module, and a rating module. The focus tracking module uses the one or more cameras to determine a product having a focus of a person, the product having a plurality of characteristics. The observation module uses the one or more cameras to monitor one or more physical, physiological, or behavioral characteristics of the person with respect to the product. The interpretation module determines an opinion of the person regarding the product. The rating module adjusts one or more ratings of the product in response to the interpretation module determining the opinion of the person regarding the product.
US10825030B2
Methods and apparatus to solve for a minimum variance solution for a constrained weight problem in a scalable and memory efficient manner are disclosed. An example method includes storing a constraint matrix and a population matrix into a memory, the constraint matrix representing demographics associated with a plurality of panelists in a population, the population matrix representing second demographics of the population; determining, by executing an instruction with a processor, a linear system based on a set of constraints including the constraint matrix and the population matrix; determining, by executing an instruction with the processor, a solution to the linear system by determining an inverse of a first matrix of the linear system, the determination of the inverse including breaking down the first matrix into blocks, dimensions of the blocks being no larger than dimensions of the constraint matrix and outputting a set of weights based on the inverse of the linear system, the set of weights satisfying the set of constraints.
US10825022B1
Systems and methods for completing a permissioned payment are described herein. The system includes a network interface structured to facilitate data communication via a network, an accounts database structured to store information associated with one or more accounts held by a financial institution, including a payment account associated with a customer and a customer identifier, and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to receive a purchase approval request including a purchase amount and the customer identifier and generate a notification in response to determining that the purchase amount exceeds a threshold payment amount, the notification indicating that the purchase approval request requires voting approval via a voting approval process, transmit the notification to a customer device, conduct the voting approval process including receiving votes from a plurality of social connections of the customer, and authorize or decline the purchase approval request based on the voting approval process.
US10825013B2
Methods and arrangements for processing face-to-face mobile phone transactions. An agreed-upon price for a product is accepted from a buyer mobile phone and a seller mobile phone. Distinct random numbers are assigned to each of the buyer and seller mobile phones. The random number assigned to the seller mobile phone is received from the buyer mobile phone, and the random number assigned to the buyer mobile phone is received from the seller mobile phone. A match is ascertained between the buyer and seller mobile phones based on receipt from the buyer mobile phone the random number assigned to the seller mobile phone and receipt from the seller mobile phone the random number assigned to the buyer mobile phone.
US10825010B2
Systems and methods for providing self-checkout systems that utilize a scanning imager or camera which includes a selectively steerable field of view. A tracking subsystem may include a targeting imager or camera that captures data (e.g., 3-dimensional data) that characterizes objects in an environment, for instance a retail environment. Images captured by one or more targeting imagers may be used to determine characteristics of objects. The characteristics may be used to generate an object model, which is a collection of properties about an object in the field of view. The tracking subsystem directs the field of view of the relatively higher resolution scanning imager with a relatively narrow field of view to track one or more objects so that images of the objects may be captured. The images are processed to identify the identification of the objects so that the objects may be added to a transaction list to complete a purchase process.
US10825003B2
Embodiments disclosed herein generally related to a system and method for authenticating a transfer request. A computing system receives a transfer request from a client device. The computing system determines that the monetary amount specified in the transfer request exceeds a threshold. The computing system identifies an automated teller machine (ATM) based on at least location information associated with a user of the client device. The computing system prompts the user to authenticate the transfer request at the identified ATM by transferring a message to the client device to be displayed thereon. The computing system receives an authentication attempt of the user from the ATM. The computing system compares authentication information in the authentication attempt to personal identification information associated with the user. The computing system determines that the authentication information at least partially matches personal identification information associated with the user. The computing system processes the transfer request.
US10825002B2
In an example embodiment, there is described herein an automated banking machine with a user interface that enables a customer perform a financial transaction. The automated banking machine also comprises a first interface for communicating with a remote service provide and a second interface that can communicate with a customer service device. Upon receiving an input from the customer requesting assistance, the automated banking machine establishes a communication link between the remote service provider and the customer device. The communication link enables audio, video, or a combination of audio and video data to be sent between the customer device and the remote service provider.
US10824998B2
Payment platforms such as point of sale terminals can send test transactions to an acquirer processor certification and analytics system for certification of the payment platform's readiness to perform financial transaction processing with payment networks. A payment platform sends a test transaction to an acquirer processor and receives a unique request identifier. The request identifier and a test identifier associated with the test transaction are sent to an analytics engine that retrieves data associated with the test transaction from the acquirer processor, and expected values based on the test identifier. The analytics engine performs a comparison and determines a certification result for the payment platform based on the comparison. Based on certification results, authorization or licenses can be granted to payment platforms to use payment networks of the acquirer processor.
US10824995B2
One embodiment provides a method for use within an organization having a plurality of groups dedicated to providing assistance with requests, including: obtaining a communication comprising a request for assistance from a user; identifying, using information contained within the obtained communication, a group that is able to provide assistance in resolving the request, each group having a corresponding model identifying information needed by that group; determining, based upon a model corresponding to the identified group, information needed by the identified group to resolve the request; identifying at least one modification that needs to be made to the communication based upon the determined information, wherein the identifying at least one modification comprises determining a difference between the determined information and the information contained within the obtained communication; and sending a modified communication to the identified group, wherein the modified communication comprises the obtained communication having at least one incorporated identified modification.
US10824992B1
The present invention is a computer method a computer method for calculating and arranging sheathing material for a floor space of a building, comprising: analyzing a building model, wherein floor frame members are identified and isolated; processing a surface of the floor frame members; calculating an area of the surface; selectin, a sheathing material for the surface, wherein the sheathing material has a predetermined panel size; generating a graphical illustration on the model of the sheathing material panel layout; manipulating the sheathing material panels to substantially cover the area of the surface, wherein excess sheathing material panels are removed from the model; arranging the sheathing material based on an analyzed installation process; and formulating a bundle, wherein the bundle is comprised of the pieces of the sheathing material required to substantially cover the area of the surface of the floor.
US10824988B2
Various embodiments each include at least one of systems, methods, software, and data structures for automated inventory management including blockchain smart contracting. One such embodiment in the form of a method includes maintaining a database of products available for purchase from vendors, receiving a data representation of a purchase request for a desired product from a buying entity, and finding a match between the purchase request and vendor of the desired product. This method may then generate a data representation of a contract between the buying entity and the vendor of the match followed by generating a hash of the data representation of the contract and adding the data representation of the contract and the generated hash to a blockchain data structure. A copy of the block chain data structure may then be stored and forwarded to at least each of the contracting parties.
US10824977B2
An electronic resource tracking and storage computer system communicates with computing systems operated by different participants. Computing systems store copies of a blockchain and have associated computing devices with sensors. A programmed rule set includes conditions to be met when cooperating to complete, in connection with a resource tracked via the blockchain, a modeled process including modeled tasks. A transceiver receives, from the computing devices, signed electronic data messages including identifiers and values from their respective sensors. Blockchain transactions including identifiers and value(s) in the respective messages are generated. Generated blockchain transactions are published for inclusion in blockchain's copies. Value(s) in the respective electronic data messages are validated against the set of programmed rules. Based on the validations' results, events are emitted to an event bus monitored by a management system. These events selectively trigger the management system to automatically implement modeled tasks in dependence on the validations' results.
US10824967B1
A system comprises one or more modules to access a business rule, deconstruct the business rule into a condition and an associated action, determine a set of questions relevant to the condition, place the set of questions into a question queue, order the question queue, and present the question queue to a user. A system comprises one or more modules to determine a subject of the request received from a user, use the subject to obtain a set of relevant questions, examiner each question and determine whether an answer to a current question is available in a storage area, and present the current question when the answer is not available. A system comprises one or more modules to access a decision tree, determine a current node, determine an estimated number of nodes between the current node and a leaf node, and present a representation using the estimated number of nodes.
US10824966B2
Methods and corresponding system are provided herewith that, in at least one embodiment, include the act or acts of: receiving a request to reserve a service that is provided by a restaurant. The request to reserve is for a particular time and a particular date and the service comprises at least one of: (i) preparing a consumable good that is consumed at the restaurant's location; (ii) preparing a consumable good that is received at the restaurant's location; or (iii) preparing a consumable good that is delivered to a location external to the restaurant's location. The methods and system also include comparing the particular time requested with a schedule associated with the restaurant. The schedule comprises a list of times that are available for reservation. The methods and system also include determining an availability of the request to reserve; and outputting an indicia that the request to reserve the service has been accepted or denied.
US10824963B2
An alarm handling system in plant process automation with a data processing device includes: at least one interface for accessing and/or processing one or more process signals and for determining corresponding process variables; an alarm configuration device for accessing and/or providing alarm configuration information including at least one setpoint for one or more determined process variables; and a prediction device for determining and processing a current rate of change of at least one process variable to predict how long it will take and/or a period until and/or predict at which date and/or time a provided setpoint and/or threshold is reached and/or crossed, and/or for determining whether and/or when at least one of the monitored and/or determined process variable values will cross the respective setpoint.
US10824959B1
A transformed data set corresponding to a machine learning classifier's training data set is generated. Each transformed record contains a modified version of a corresponding training record, as well as the prediction made for the training record by the classifier. A set of explanatory rules is minded from the transformed data set, with each rule indicating a relationship between the prediction and one or more features corresponding to the training records. From among the rule set, a particular matching rule is selected to provide an easy-to-understand explanation for a prediction made by the classifier for an observation record which is not part of the training set.
US10824958B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining a global model for a particular activity, the global model derived based on input data representing multiple observations associated with the particular activity performed by a collection of users; determining, using the global model, expected data representing an expected observation associated with the particular activity performed by a particular user; receiving, by a computing device operated by the particular user, particular data representing an actual observation associated with the particular activity performed by the particular user; determining, by the computing device and using (i) the expected data and (ii) the particular data, residual data of the particular user; and deriving a local model of the particular user based on the residual data.
US10824953B2
Various implementations of a method, system, and computer program product for pattern matching using a reconfigurable array processor are disclosed. In one embodiment, a processor array manager of the reconfigurable array processor receives an input data stream for pattern matching and generates a tokenized input data stream from the input data stream. A different portion of the tokenized input data stream is provided to each of a plurality of processing elements of the reconfigurable array processor. Each processing element can compare the received portion of the tokenized input data stream against one or more reference patterns to generate an intermediate result that indicates whether the portion of the tokenized input data stream matches a reference pattern. The processor array manager can combine the intermediate results received from each processing element to yield a final result that indicates whether the input data stream includes a reference pattern.
US10824951B2
A computer-implemented method is disclosed that operates in conjunction with machine learning binary classification of an event. The method generates a rule relating to whether or not the event will occur. In one embodiment, the method includes obtaining foreground sequences corresponding to the event happening and background sequences corresponding to the event not happening. For each foreground sequence of a number of foreground sequences, the computer computes a plurality of difference values. The rule may be determined based on a largest difference value for one of the plurality of foreground sequences. A corresponding system is also disclosed.
US10824948B2
A trigger element of a design-time flow plan is set so that the trigger element activates in response computing conditions being satisfied. A decision action element of the design-time flow plan executed at run-time in response to activation of the trigger element is set. The decision action element is implemented by a decision table that includes decision inputs and respective condition logic based on the decision inputs for each of a plurality of decision answers associated with the decision table. The decision table is external to the design-time flow plan. First and second decision answer action elements are defined to execute at run-time respectively when a decision answer served-up by the decision table corresponds to first and second decision answer paths in the design-time flow plan that are associated with a first and second one of the plurality of decision answers, respectively. The design-time flow plan is published.
US10824939B2
The present disclosure relates to a processor for implementing artificial neural networks, for example, convolutional neural networks. The processor includes a memory controller group, an on-chip bus and a processor core, wherein the processor core further includes a register map, an instruction module, a data transferring controller, a data writing scheduling unit, a buffer pool, a data reading scheduling unit and a computation module. The processor of the present disclosure may be used for implementing various neural networks with increased computation efficiency.
US10824938B2
One embodiment provides for a compute apparatus to perform machine learning operations, the apparatus comprising a decode unit to decode a single instruction into a decoded instruction, the decoded instruction to perform one or more machine learning operations, wherein the decode unit, based on parameters of the one or more machine learning operations, is to request a scheduler to schedule the one or more machine learning operations to one of an array of programmable compute units and a fixed function compute unit.
US10824937B2
An electronic neuromorphic core processor circuit and related method include a processor, an electronic memory, and a dendrite circuit comprising an input circuit that receives an input spike message having an associated input identifier that identifies a distribution set of dendrite compartments. A synapse map table provides a mapping of the received identifier to a synapse configuration in the memory. A synapse configuration circuit comprises a routing list that is a set of synaptic connections related to the set of dendrite compartments, each being n-tuple information comprising a dendriteID and a weight stored in the memory. The synapse configuration circuit associates the identifier with the set of synaptic connections, a dendrite accumulator comprising a weighting array. It accumulates weight values within a dendritic compartment identified by the dendriteID and based on the n-tuple information associated with the set of synaptic connections associated with the identifier.
US10824930B2
An RFID tag to be used, for example, for tagging livestock. The RFID tag has a high resistance to mechanical and thermal stress due to a physical separation of a main antenna and an integrated circuit forming an RFID circuit. The RFID tag may comprise an inlay with the main antenna and a chip module with the integrated circuit and a loop antenna inductively coupled to the main antenna. The inlay and the chip module are safely embedded in a tag housing. The compact chip module with electrical connections between the loop antenna and the integrated circuit can be reliably protected.
US10824925B2
Implantable transponders comprising no ferromagnetic parts for use in medical implants are disclosed herein. Such transponders may assist in preventing interference of transponders with medical imaging technologies. Such transponders may optionally be of a small size, and may assist in collecting and transmitting data and information regarding implanted medical devices. Methods of using such transponders, readers for detecting such transponders, and methods for using such readers are also described.
US10824924B2
The present disclosure relates to an electronic label, an electronic label system and a data processing method. The electronic label includes an electronic label body and a proximity sensing module. The proximity sensing module is disposed in the electronic label body and configured to detect whether there is a human body within a certain range from the electronic label. In response, the proximity sensing module is configured to generate a corresponding detection signal when a human body is detected. The detection signal is used to obtain a duration of stay of the human body before the electronic label.
US10824916B2
Systems and methods for improving the accuracy of a computer system for object identification/classification through the use of weakly supervised learning are provided herein. In some embodiments, the method includes (a) receiving at least one set of curated data, wherein the curated data includes labeled images, (b) using the curated data to train a deep network model for identifying objects within images, wherein the trained deep network model has a first accuracy level for identifying objects, receiving a first target accuracy level for object identification of the deep network model, determining, automatically via the computer system, an amount of weakly labeled data needed to train the deep network model to achieve the first target accuracy level, and augmenting the deep network model using weakly supervised learning and the weakly labeled data to achieve the first target accuracy level for object identification by the deep network model.
US10824914B2
An apparatus for generating data based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) is provided. The apparatus includes a first generator configured to receive input data and generate a first fake image, a first discriminator configured to receive the first fake image generated by the first generator and a first real image and verify whether an image is fake or real, a second generator configured to receive the first fake image and generate a second fake image; and a second discriminator configured to receive the second fake image and a second real image and verify whether an image received by the second discriminator is fake or real. The apparatus improves an object recognition performance as compared with a typical object recognition algorithm by generating an image of a class of which a sufficient database is not secured so as to reduce an object misrecognition caused by an insufficient amount of data.
US10824910B2
Image processing method, non-transitory computer readable storage medium and image processing system
An image processing training method includes the following steps. A template label image is obtained, in which the template label image comprises a label corresponding to a target. A plurality of first reference images are obtained, in which each of the first reference images comprises object image data corresponding to the target. A target image according to the template label image and the first reference images is generated, in which the target image comprises a generated object, a contour of the generated object is generated according to the template label image, and a color or a texture of the target image is generated according to the first reference images.
US10824897B1
An online system receives an image associated with a set of pixel values and provides the set of pixel values to a deep learning or machine-learned model that is trained to assign a set of regions of interest within the image to one or more classes. The model is structured to identify the set of regions of interest based on the pixel values, in which each region of interest is associated with an embedding corresponding to a vector representation of the region of interest. The online system compares each embedding to a database of embeddings associated with multiple labeled images, in which the labels indicate an identity of a brand and/or an obfuscated identity of the brand. The online system then determines whether the identity of the brand and/or the obfuscated identity of the brand is/are detected within each region of interest based on the comparison.
US10824891B2
A method of recognizing a biological feature is provided. In an example, the method includes: first biological feature data is obtained; a first recognition operation is performed according to the first biological feature data and biological feature template data to obtain a first recognition result; when the first recognition result indicates a match failure, second biological feature data is obtained; and a re-recognition operation is performed according to the second biological feature data and the biological feature template data to obtain a second recognition result. The second biological feature data and the first biological feature data are collected by a same biological feature collector at different moments in a same biological feature recognition process.
US10824887B2
The image processing system acquires a first image which includes a target object illuminated by both of a first light and a second light, the second light being generated by a light source that emit light in a specific wavelength band, and an external object illuminated by the first light but not illuminated by the second light. The system acquires a second image generated by photographing a range same as a range of the first image through a filter causing wavelength distribution of observed light for the second image to be different from wavelength distribution of observed light for the first image. The system generates a third image in which intensity of a figure of the external object is raised as compared to the first image; and a fourth image in which intensity of a figure of the external object is reduced as compared to the first image.
US10824884B2
A device provides improved obstacle identification. A first camera acquires first vehicle image data and provides it to a processing unit. A second camera acquires and provides second vehicle image data. An image overlap region has at least a portion of the first vehicle image data and at least a portion of the second vehicle image data. The first and second vehicle image data extend over a ground plane and the image overlap region extends over an overlap region of the ground plane. The processing unit extracts first image features from the first vehicle image data and extracts second image features from the second vehicle image data. The processing unit projects the first and the second image features onto the ground plane. The processing unit produces at least one image of the surroundings, having either at least a portion of the first vehicle image data associated with the overlap region, or at least a portion of the second vehicle image data associated with the overlap region, based in part on the determination of first image features whose projections lie in the overlap region of the ground plane, and on second image features whose projections lie in the overlap region of the ground plane.
US10824880B2
A system for detecting a surrounding object may receive, from a camera, a first image including a plurality of pixels relating to one or more objects and receive, from one or more LiDARs, a first point set including a plurality of points corresponding to the plurality of pixels. The system may also, based on the first point set, determine 3D coordinates and reflection intensities of the plurality of points, based on which the system may generate a segment result by classifying the plurality of points. The system may further transform the 3D coordinates of the plurality of points into 2D coordinates and determine an object type of the one or more objects based on the 2D coordinates, the 3D coordinates, the segment result, and the first image.
US10824877B2
A computer vision system is provided that includes an image generation device configured to capture consecutive two dimensional (2D) images of a scene, a first memory configured to store the consecutive 2D images, a second memory configured to store a growing window of consecutive rows of a reference image and a growing window of consecutive rows of a current image, wherein the reference image and the current image are a pair of consecutive 2D images stored in the first memory, a third memory configured to store a sliding window of pixels fetched from the growing window of the reference image, wherein the pixels in the sliding window are stored in tiles, and a dense optical flow engine (DOFE) configured to determine a dense optical flow map for the pair of consecutive 2D images, wherein the DOFE uses the sliding window as a search window for pixel correspondence searches.
US10824873B2
A product registration apparatus (20) includes a comparison unit (22) and a registration unit (24). The comparison unit (22) compares a first frame and a second frame of a video. The second frame is generated at a time later than the first frame. The comparison unit (22) determines a product that is not included in the first frame but included in the second frame. Then, the registration unit (24) registers the determined product (product that is not included in the first frame but included in the second frame) as a payment target.
US10824871B1
Described is a system and method for generating a unique signature for a space. During operation, the system causes a mobile platform to make one or more passes through the space along a repeatable path. While moving through the space, the system captures an image of the space around the mobile platform. A filter is applied to the image to generate vertical bins, the vertical bins being one-dimensional vectors of the space around the mobile platform. The one-dimensional vectors are combined over time to create a two-dimensional trace, with the two-dimensional trace being a unique signature for the space.
US10824868B2
Cameras capture time-stamped images of predefined areas. The images are processed to make decisions as to when a person depicted in the images takes possession of or is disposed of an item depicted in the images. Possessed items are added to a shopping cart maintained for the person and dispossessed items are removed from the shopping cart.
US10824867B1
A method and system for improving damage assessment by automatic measurement of virtual objects within an augmented reality (AR) representation of a physical environment are disclosed. A user interacts with a mobile computing device to position and resize virtual objects within a virtual space corresponding to a physical environment, which is presented to the user as an AR environment generated by the mobile computing device. The virtual objects are positioned and sized to match damaged physical objects within the physical environment. The sizes of the physical objects are automatically determined using the virtual sizes of the virtual objects, which physical sizes are further used to determine the extent of damage.
US10824862B2
Provided herein are methods and systems for implementing three-dimensional perception in an autonomous robotic system comprising an end-to-end neural network architecture that directly consumes large-scale raw sparse point cloud data and performs such tasks as object localization, boundary estimation, object classification, and segmentation of individual shapes or fused complete point cloud shapes.
US10824851B2
Approaches presented herein enable enhancing user engagement during a video conference. A user introduces (e.g., creates) a graphical notation during the video conference. If a correlation exists between the graphical notation and the video conference, then the graphical notation can be dynamically shared with any participants found to be disinterested or confused as a motivation to understand a concept or to act as a catalyst for additional graphical notations.
US10824850B2
A body information analysis apparatus capable of indicating shading-areas includes: an image capturing module (12) for capturing an external image; a processor (10) electrically connected to the imager capturing module (12), stored multiple face types and multiple indicating processes respectively corresponding to each of the face types, wherein the processor (10) determines a face type of a face when the face is recognized in the external image, and executes one of the multiple indicating processes corresponding to the determined face type, so as to indicate shading-areas on the face; a mirror screen (11) for reflecting the face of a user; and, a display module (111) electrically connected to the processor (10) and arranged inside the mirror screen (11), for displaying the indicated shading-areas and the displayed shading-areas are overlapped with the face.
US10824846B1
A sensing method for a nanostructure pixel sensor includes shining light from an incident angle onto a nanostructure pixel sensor; capturing an image of nanostructure pixels of the nanostructure pixel sensor; obtaining brightness values of the nanostructure pixels from the image; and determining a presence and/or amount of an analyte based on an image pattern. The nanostructure pixel sensor includes a plurality of the nanostructure pixels. Each of the nanostructure pixels includes periodic nanostructures. At least two nanostructure pixels have different periodic spacings, and the analyte is applied on the nanostructure pixel sensor before capturing the image.
US10824834B2
Described in detail herein are systems and methods for an electronic label system. Electronic labels display on a display first sets of information associated with sets of like physical objects disposed in a facility. The first computing system can encode a hyperlink into a machine-readable element in response to determining that the quantity is below the threshold. In response to receiving the machine readable element, the electronic label can automatically change the display to render machine-readable element. A portable electronic device can initiate a first session with a second computing system in response to executing an application. The portable electronic device can scan and decode the machine-readable element. The portable electronic device can navigate to a domain hosted by the second computing system. The second computing system initiates a second session. The second computing system merges the first and second session.
US10824831B2
A method includes sending, by a reader, a radio frequency (RF) signal to a wireless sensor that includes an antenna having a tail section and a head section. The tail section is for placement in an RF limited area for sensing moisture in a first location of a vehicle under test and wherein the head section is for placement in a non-RF limited area. The method further includes receiving, by the reader, an RF response to the RF signal from the wireless sensor. The first RF response includes an indication of adjustment of one or more RF characteristics of the wireless sensor, which corresponds to a variance of the one or more RF characteristics from a desired value, which, in turn, corresponds to a level of moisture at the first location. The method further includes outputting, by the reader, a message regarding the level of moisture at the first location.
US10824810B2
A method includes obtaining, from an event log, first text of an alarm associated with an industrial process in a process control system, and processing the first text to obtain first key terms. The method also includes obtaining, from the event log, second text of an operator response, and processing the second text to obtain second key terms. The method further includes filtering and segmenting at least one of the first key terms and the second key terms. The method also includes performing text matching on the first key terms and the second key terms to identify a correlation between the first text and the second text. In addition, the method includes storing the first text, the second text, and the correlation between the first text and the second text in a data store.
US10824809B2
A computer-implemented method for matching user inputted text to stored text. The user inputted text is compared to each of the text strings stored in a database using a Levenshtein distance algorithm. For each comparison, the Levenshtein distance is analyzed to determine exact matches, non-matches, and probable matches. Probable matches are further analyzed using a keyboard distance algorithm to differentiate between matches and non-matches.
US10824806B2
A system and method for providing counter intuitive recommendations to a user. A user profile is obtained for the user. A determination is made that a trigger condition has occurred for the user. The duration of the trigger condition is also determined. The trigger condition is associated with the user's profile. A request for a recommendation is received, and a list of recommendations is obtained. The recommendations are compared against the trigger condition to determine if the recommendation is compatible with the trigger condition. Those recommendations determined not to be compatible with the trigger condition are removed from the set of recommendations.
US10824803B2
A method and system for logical comparison of different versions of a spreadsheet are provided. The method includes identifying, in each of a first version and a second version of the spreadsheet, data and metadata associated with their respective headers; comparing between the first version and the second version of the spreadsheet to identify at least one structural difference, wherein the comparison is based on the identified headers data and metadata; comparing between the first version and the second version of the spreadsheet to identify at least one content value difference, wherein the comparison is based, in part, on the at least one identified structural difference; and saving the at least one identified structural difference and the at least one identified content value difference in a differences (Diff) dataset.
US10824800B2
A method of updating a declarative description of a form in which the declarative description includes a hierarchy of declarations of form elements. The form is displayed by rendering each of the form elements based on the declarative description. The position of each rendered form element relative to the other rendered form elements is based on the position of the declaration of that form element in the hierarchy. An indication of a further element to add to the form and a location where that element is to be inserted into the form are received. The form is updated by inserting a declaration of the further element into the description at a position in the hierarchy determined based on the position, and the updated form displayed.
US10824799B2
Technologies are described herein for summary data autofill. A device executes an application program configured to receive data input. The application program may determine a portion of the data may be aggregated or conducive to being summarized. Upon the detection of a user input of additional data into a document having data contained therein, the application program may display a suggested complete summary of the data. An input may be received to accept the suggested complete summary, whereby the manner in which the suggested complete summary is displayed may be changed to indicate the acceptance of the suggested complete summary. A confidence level that the suggested complete summary is a correct summary of the data may be determined. The confidence level may be adjusted based on further input of data or additional data.
US10824798B2
A data collection system is based on a general set of dialogue acts which are derived from a database schema. Crowd workers perform two types of tasks: (i) identification of sensical dialogue paths and (ii) performing context-dependent paraphrasing of these dialogue paths into real dialogues. The end output of the system is a set of training examples of real dialogues which have been annotated with their logical forms. This data can be used to train all three components of the dialogue system: (i) the semantic parser for understanding context-dependent utterances, (ii) the dialogue policy for generating new dialogue acts given the current state, and (iii) the generation system for both deciding what to say and how to render it in natural language.
US10824796B2
While receiving a user input of content of a first document, a computer system, dynamically and in real time, identifies relevant information items from a plurality of information feeds. Specifically, one or more other documents is obtained in a collection of documents that are relevant to the first document being entered by a user. When it is determined that changes in member documents of the set of one or other documents satisfies a stabilization criterion while receiving the user input, related terms are extracted from the content of the first document and the one or more other documents and used to identify the relevant information items including the related terms from the plurality of information feeds that is distinct from the collection of documents. The relevant information items are then presented on a display for the user.
US10824793B2
A website building system including a visual editor to support user editing of a website page of the website building system; the page having regular components and overlapped and hidden components and an editor overlap handler to determine display instructions for the visual editor for the overlapped and hidden components according to activation conditions, the activation conditions based on a user selected point on the page, activation rules and information on components of the page, the information including component proximity to or component interaction with said user selected point, z-order and at least one of: general relationships between the components on said page, information on the user and information on the system.
US10824783B2
Systems and methods for generating an RTL description based on logical signal groupings are described. Logical interfaces are declared in a compressed form, and logical signal grouping is defined in a markup document. The definitions from the markup document are used by expansion scripts to populate RTL modules and encapsulate block connectivity and functionality. Multiple interfaces can be created instantly, and interface definitions for common interfaces may be easily re-defined. Default values may be assigned to module outputs for testing purposes, allowing for multi-module simulations where certain modules are shelled-out.
US10824779B2
A system comprises a model generation system and an analyzer. The model generation system is configured to modify a model of a laminated composite structure to meet a user defined objective and to meet at least one of user defined performance constraints or user defined manufacturing constraints by changing at least one ply characteristic of at least one ply of the model while maintaining ply boundary geometry constraints for each ply of the model. The ply boundary geometry constraints of the model generation system include a number of defined ply boundary geometries each described by a respective mathematical function. The analyzer is configured to return objective values or constraint function values for at least one ply of the model.
US10824769B2
Methods that can protect sensitive data are provided. One method includes determining, by a processor, whether a user is focusing on an obscured set of sensitive data displayed on a computing device, clarifying the obscurity of a portion of the displayed set of sensitive data in response to determining that the user focusing on the portion of the displayed set of sensitive data, and maintaining the obscurity of one or more other portions of the displayed set of sensitive data in response to determining that the user not focusing on the one or more other portions of the displayed set of sensitive data. Apparatus and computer program products that can include, perform, and/or implement the methods are also provided.
US10824768B2
Disclosed is a security device for preventing leakage of data information in solid-state drive. The present invention provides the security device for preventing leakage of data information in solid-state drive (SSD), the device enabling a user to electrically destroy flash memory personally to prevent leakage of data stored in the SSD, which is used and is to be waste-processed.
US10824761B2
Systems and techniques for facilitating digital data prognostics are presented. A system can processes a corpus of stored data, generate respective digital signatures representing respective subsets of the corpus of the stored data, and tag the respective digital signatures with tags corresponding to extrinsic events. The digital signatures can be stored and indexed in a digital signature library. The system can also compare a new digital signature to learned digital signatures in order to identify one or more matches, and prognose an upcoming event associated with the new digital signature based on the matches and generated inferences for the learned digital signatures.
US10824760B2
A method and/or system receiving original confidential or sensitive user personal identifiable information data, displaying a number of empty character boxes or spaces, receiving data representing a first number of empty character boxes or spaces selected to correspond to a first cluster of empty character boxes or spaces, allocating a second number of empty character boxes or spaces corresponding to a second cluster of empty character boxes or spaces, and replacing at least one of said first cluster of empty character boxes or spaces or said second cluster of empty character boxes or spaces with a human recognizable and human readable visual cue such as a hand drawn scribble, hand drawn drawing, doodle or glyph, text in a second language or script, a photograph or a camera taken picture, or voice or sound recording.
US10824757B2
Social media and data sharing controls may be provided. Upon receiving a request to transmit an element of data to a recipient, a determination may be made as to whether the recipient is appropriate to receive the element of data. In response to determining that the recipient is appropriate to receive the element of data, the element of data may be transmitted. In response to determining that the recipient is not appropriate to receive the element of data, at least one remedial action may be performed.
US10824747B1
Methods and systems for managing and/or processing a blockchain to maintain data security for confidential and/or personal data are provided. According to certain aspects, the disclosed data security techniques may enable access sharing functionality utilizing the blockchain. For example, access sharing may be utilized to share policy information. The policy information may be associated with a smart contract. Accordingly, the policy information may be encrypted using a public key for the smart contract and compiled into a block of the blockchain. In response to a request to provide access to the information to a particular node, the private key for the smart contract may be encrypted using the public key for the particular node and compiled into a block of the blockchain.
US10824746B1
Methods and systems for managing and/or processing a blockchain to maintain data security for confidential and/or personal data are provided. According to certain aspects, the disclosed data security techniques may enable access sharing functionality utilizing the blockchain. For example, access sharing may be utilized to file documents, share policy information, and/or comply with an audit. The data security techniques disclosed herein also enable the use of smart contracts to transfer funds associated with payment obligations and/or other forms of blockchain based payments, comply with anti-money laundering requirements, report industry data, validate interest payments and/or maintain agent sales data. Data security may be achieved through the use of public key/private key encryption techniques.
US10824741B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for securing device data in response to an event. A method includes receiving an instruction to initiate execution of a user device data protection protocol after a determination by a monitoring unit that an event has occurred at a property, determining whether the user device is located at the property, and in response to a determination that the user device is located at the first location, displaying a prompt that asks if the user device data protection protocol should be canceled. The method also include actions of determining whether user feedback responsive to the prompt has been received by the user device within a predetermined amount of time, and in response to a determination that the predetermined amount of has expired without receiving user feedback, performing one or more data protection operations to protect user device data.
US10824737B1
Securely storing data includes encrypting the data using a random key to provide obfuscated data, scrambling the obfuscated data to provide scrambled obfuscated data, generating a scramble schema indicating how to unscramble the scrambled obfuscated data, encrypting the scrambled obfuscated data to provide encrypted scrambled obfuscated data, splitting the scramble schema, and distributing separate portions of the scramble schema and separate portions of the encrypted scrambled obfuscated data to separate entities. The data may be private key data. Securely storing data may also include concatenating the random key on to the obfuscated data prior to scrambling the obfuscated data, wherein the random key is scrambled together with the obfuscated data. Scrambling the obfuscated data may use a Fisher Yates Shuffle mechanism. Securely storing data may also include generating and distributing a symmetric authentication key that is used to authenticate a first entity to a second entity.
US10824736B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for facilitating communication in an industrial control network. A system includes an industrial control network, one or more controller devices, one or more emulators, and an encryption relay processor. Each controller device can be operable to control one or more operational devices connected to the industrial control network. Each emulator can be configured to communicate with a respective controller device, and each emulator can be configured to reference a respective profile that includes information about security capabilities of the respective controller device. The encryption relay processor can be operable to facilitate communication to and from each emulator over the industrial control network. The encryption relay processor can execute a cryptographic function for a communication between the emulator and a node on the industrial control network when the respective controller device is incapable of performing the cryptographic function.
US10824732B1
A system and method for protecting firmware of baseboard management controller (BMC) includes a serial peripheral interface read only memory device (SPI ROM) and a logic controlling unit. The SPI ROM includes first and second blocks, the first block stores a main program, and the second block stores backup program. The logic controlling unit includes a protecting module, a determining module, and a controlling module. The protecting module write-protects the main program and the backup program of the SPI ROM. The determining module determines whether the main program of the first block is altered or damaged when the main program is obtained by the BMC. If so, the controlling module invokes the backup program from the second block, and writes the backup program to the first block. A firmware protecting method is also provided.
US10824731B2
A secure Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) attribute system includes a secure server system coupled to a computing device through a network. The computing device receives a first BIOS attribute modification request, and authenticates the first BIOS attribute modification request using a first certificate that was previously stored in the computing device in response to validating the first certificate based on a key provided by the secure server system. In response to authenticating the first BIOS attribute modification request using the first certificate, the computing device modifies at least one BIOS attribute stored in the computing device.
US10824729B2
A local environment verification method, performed by a server of a computer network, includes injecting, into a linear communication orbit, a bundle of information items regarding deployment of a respective local environment verification framework at each of a first subset of nodes in the computer network. The bundle of information items is distributed to a respective node of the first subset of nodes through the linear communication orbit, and used to establish the respective local environment verification framework at the respective node of the first subset of nodes. The respective node of the first subset of nodes is configured to perform a set of local environment verifications using the respective local environment verification framework. The method further includes injecting, into the linear communication orbit, a query message to collect respective local results of the set of local environment verifications from the first subset of nodes.
US10824727B2
Systems and methods to detect remote access malware activities, via: detecting, in a computing device, first input events in an operating system of the computing device; detecting, in the computing device, second input events received in an application running in the computing device; detecting, in the computing device, a mismatch between the first input events detected in the operating system and the second input events received in the application running in the computing device; and in response to the mismatch being detected, generating an alert indicating a threat of the application being attached by remote access malware.
US10824726B1
Methods, apparatus and computer program products are provided for detection of anomalies in containers using corresponding container profiles. An exemplary method comprises: obtaining at least one container and a corresponding container profile from a container registry, wherein the container profile characterizes an expected normal operation of an application executing in the container; comparing a behavior of the application executing in the container to the expected normal operation in the corresponding container profile to determine if the container exhibits anomalous behavior; and providing a notification of the anomalous behavior when the container exhibits the anomalous behavior. The container profile is obtained, for example, by monitoring a behavior of (i) a plurality of versions of the at least one container, and/or (ii) the at least one application executing in the at least one container on a plurality of different container host devices.
US10824725B2
Automatic detection of software that performs unauthorized privilege escalation is disclosed. The techniques cause a programmable device to obtain a trace event of a program from an event logger, parse the trace event to determine a privilege level for an event, compare the privilege level for the event to an expected privilege level, and block execution of the program based on the comparison.
US10824717B2
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a binary translator can perform address shifting on the binary code of an executing application. Address shifting serves to shift the addresses of memory operations that can access locations in the kernel address space into address locations in the user space, thus avoiding speculative access into the kernel address space.
US10824707B2
A method, performed by a device, of providing security content includes receiving a touch and drag input indicating that a user drags a visual representation of a first application displayed on a touch screen of the device to a fingerprint recognition area while the user touches the visual representation of the first application with a finger; performing authentication on a fingerprint of the finger detected on the touch screen using a fingerprint sensor included in the fingerprint recognition area; and when the performing authentication on the fingerprint is successful, displaying the security content associated with the first application on an execution window of the first application.
US10824706B2
The present disclosure relates to a portable electronic device for authenticating a user through a management device and a system and method associated therewith. The portable electronic device includes a collector, an authentication information generator and a communication interface. The collector is configured to collect biometric data of a user. The authentication information generator is configured to generate authentication information according to whether the portable electronic device is within an area pre-set by the management device and based on the biometric data collected by the collector in real time. The communication interface is configured to send the generated authentication information to the management device so as to authenticate whether the user is a registered user of the management device. By collecting relevant data in a distributed manner during the user authentication process, user authentication efficiency is improved, and risk of damage to data collection equipment is reduced.
US10824696B1
Authentication translation is disclosed. A request to access a resource is received at an authentication translator, as is an authentication input. The authentication input corresponds to at least one stored record. The stored record is associated at least with the resource. In response to the receiving, a previously stored credential associated with the resource is accessed. The credential is provided to the resource.
US10824694B1
A computing system defines transformed variable values for training a machine learning model. A data description is determined for each variable of a plurality of variables from observation vectors. A number of rare-levels is determined for any variable of the plurality of variables that has a nominal variable type. Bins that describe a cumulative distribution function are defined for each variable based on the data description determined for each variable and based on the number of rare-levels determined for any variable of the plurality of variables identified as the nominal variable type. A transformed value is determined for each variable and for each observation vector of the observation vectors using the bins defined for a respective variable of the plurality of variables. Each determined transformed value is written to a transformed dataset with a respective observation vector of the observation vectors.
US10824691B2
This application relates to a page rendering method, applied to a terminal. The terminal obtains an updated current node tree, searches the current node tree for a current subtree set, and obtains an identifier corresponding to the current subtree set. The terminal then determines whether the identifier is the same as an identifier of an original subtree set of an original node tree, and reserves an original view node corresponding to the original subtree set on a current page if the identifiers are the same; or generates an updated view node corresponding to the current subtree set if the two identifiers are not the same. Finally the terminal generates an updated page through rendering according to the original view node and the updated view node, and displays the updated page on a graphical user interface of the terminal.
US10824690B2
A computer-based method and system for automatically distributing digital content includes displaying selectable content items, receiving data from a user a selection of at least one of the content items, displaying selectable distribution channel options for at least the selected content items, receiving from a user a selection of certain of the distribution channel options, and distributing the selected content items to the selected distribution channels. The system may also include a content management system configured to be operated by an administrator, which sets the “look and feel” data and user permissions for a user platform system which receives the user input selections and automatically distributes selected content items to selected distribution channels based on selected schedules, and also measures and ranks results of content items and channels, provides alerts, and can optimize results autonomously or by the user.
US10824689B2
A server device can receive, from a first device related to a first subscriber of a navigation service, data relating to a point of interest (POI), and an indication to share the data. The data can include on-site information associated with the POI. The on-site information can include one or more instructions regarding arrival at or departure from the POI. The device can store the data to permit the data to be accessible to other subscribers of the navigation service. The device can receive a location search request from a second device related to a second subscriber of the navigation service. The second subscriber can be different than the first subscriber. The device can determine that the location search request corresponds to the POI. The device can perform one or more actions to cause the data relating to the POI to be provided to the second device.
US10824687B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus including an experience extracting unit extracting experience information including information related to a time or a place from text information input by a user, and a user extracting unit extracting a user group in which the experience information of one or more users extracted by the experience extracting unit is compared to find a commonality in the experience information.
US10824683B2
In a method of searching for cases, a list of topics is presented by a computer for selection of one of the topics by a user. The one selected topic relates to a first object and is associated with a goal. At least one second object is determined by the computer. The at least one second object differs from the first object but includes a same attribute as the first object. The computer searches for cases that teach solutions for achieving the goal for the at least one second object. Cases that resulted from the searching are presented by the computer to the user.
