US10911928B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for network function data layer determination. One apparatus (200) includes a receiver (212) that receives (902) a request message at a second network function. The request message includes identification data corresponding to a first network function. The apparatus (200) also includes a processor (202) that determines (904) whether the first network function includes a data layer based on the request message.
US10911921B2
A first client device or system performs a method that includes retaining in memory registration information for a respective application indicating the respective application is registered for sharing application state with other client devices or systems. The method further includes storing an application state of a respective application, and detecting a transfer triggering condition. The transfer triggering condition includes presence of a second client device or system within a predefined proximity of the first client device or system, and the predefined proximity is a predefined proximity for near field communication. Furthermore, upon detecting the triggering condition, the first client device or system determines, in accordance with the stored registration information, that the respective application is registered for application state sharing, and transmits the application state of the respective application to the second client device or system.
US10911914B2
A method for estimating transmitted signals transmitted from a plurality of transmitters, the method comprising: simultaneously receiving at each of a plurality of receivers a respective received signal resulting from the transmitted signals; determining for each receiver a set of equation coefficients; forming for each received signal a characterisation of that received signal composed of elements weighted in accordance with the equation coefficients determined for the receiver at which that received signal was received; and processing the characterisations to estimate the transmitted signals; wherein the equation coefficients are determined such that the characterisations are substantially linearly independent.
US10911909B1
Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses provide a system for controlling access to text messaging capabilities of a mobile computing device of a user while the user is driving. The mobile computing device may be configured to restrict a user from sending or receiving text messages while the user is driving depending on a current driving situation. Whether a user can send or receive text messages may further depend on a priority of the text message or a priority level of a sender or intended recipient of the text message. The system may include devices for collecting information regarding the vehicle and its surroundings and for determining the current driving situation based on the collected information. Further, the system may include devices for maintaining records of the restrictions placed on text messaging and of rewards earned for agreeing to be subject to such restrictions.
US10911904B1
A tracking system determines a location of a tracking device associated with a user using one or more access points at the location. Each access point at the location is configured to detect and couple with the tracking device when the tracking device is within a communicative range of the access point. An access point provides updates on the tracking device's presence, as well as the tracking device's arrival to and departure from the communicative range of the access point, to a tracking server. The tracking server determines, from these updates, whether the tracking device is at the location. The user may be notified, via a mobile device, of the tracking device's location.
US10911896B2
A method includes: receiving, by a first RRU, a first reference signal sent by a second RRU, where the first RRU is a to-be-positioned RRU, and the second RRU is an RRU at a known location; determining, by the first RRU, a first delay value based on the first reference signal; and reporting, by the first RRU, the first delay value to an upper-layer network element, so that the upper-layer network element performs location resolving processing based on the first delay value, to obtain location.
US10911889B2
Tracking devices can be associated with safe zones, smart zones, and high risk zones. Safe zones correspond to regions where a likelihood that a tracking device is lost within the safe zone is lower than outside the safe zone. High risk zones correspond to regions where a likelihood that a tracking device is lost within the high risk zone is higher than outside the high risk zone. Smart zones correspond to an expected tracking device, mobile device, or user behavior. Home areas are geographic regions in which a user resides, and travel areas are geographic regions in which a user does not reside. A tracking device can be configured to operate in a mode selected based on a presence of the tracking device within a safe zone, a smart zone, a high risk zone, a home area, or a travel area.
US10911888B1
A method of determining presence of mobile communication devices at points-of-interest. The method comprises analyzing location data of a mobile communication device by a clustering application executing on a computer system, determining clusters of the location data by the clustering application, determining cluster centroids by the clustering application, determining a plurality of routes traveled by the device by a routing application based on the centroids, analyzing the centroids and the routes by a patterning application, determining a pattern of association between the centroids and the routes by the patterning application, observing a previously determined pattern of centroids by the patterning application, and based on observing the previously determined pattern of centroids, determining a route traveled by the device by the patterning application, whereby an instance of determining the route traveled by the device by the routing application is avoided.
US10911887B2
This sound system includes a first sound device including a plurality of first speakers and a plurality of first microphones, and a second sound device including a plurality of second speakers and a plurality of second microphones. The first sound device includes: a device detector that detects the second sound device connected to a network; a test audio transmitter/receiver that acquires, via the plurality of first microphones, test audio output from the plurality of second speakers; a speaker sound source localizer that performs sound source localization with respect to the plurality of second speakers based on the test audio acquired by the test audio transmitter/receiver; a position calculator that calculates positions of the plurality of second speakers relative to the first sound device; and a position notifier that notifies the second sound device of position information representing the positions calculated by the position calculator.
US10911864B2
A head-mounted display apparatus and an acoustic device disposed in the head-mounted display apparatus are provided. The acoustic device includes a speaker, a resonance box, and a waveguide. The resonance box is connected to the speaker. The waveguide is connected to the resonance box. The volume of the waveguide is greater than twice the volume of the speaker, and the length of the waveguide is greater than 5 times the thickness of the speaker.
US10911860B2
Various techniques for performing automated detection and control of audio-based conditions for headsets and like wearable audio devices are disclosed herein. In an example, an audio headset device includes at least one sensor to collect sensor data and processing circuitry to detect an applicable audio control condition, based on the sensor data, to cause control of the audio to be output from the headset device. Also in an example, a computing device includes an audio control processing component to receive and process sensor data collected from a headset audio device and identify a control action in a software application, to cause control of audio to be output to the headset. Further examples to enable simplified, dynamic audio controls for the operation of a headset device and a connected computing device are also disclosed.
US10911845B1
A system and method for a tunable optical delay line. The tunable optical delay line comprises a coarse delay portion that provides a coarse delay amount, the coarse delay portion including a coarse delay selection element in conjunction with a coarse delay element, the coarse delay selection element incorporated on-chip into a photonic integrated circuit (IC) component, the coarse delay element being disposed off-chip of the photonic IC component and interconnected with the coarse delay selection element; and a fine delay element that provides a fine delay amount, the fine delay element interconnected in series with the coarse delay selection element, the optical delay line being tunable to a target delay amount by agglomerating the coarse and fine delay amounts.
US10911838B2
The disclosed examples encompass a media sending device, a media receiving device or a method of sending and reproducing media. For example, a media sending device may store media content and a meta-data file which includes media customization information to facilitate reproduction of the media content and an identifier that identifies a type of the information in the meta-data file. The media sending device then transmits an indication to the receiving device indicating that reproduction of the media content would be facilitated by use of the information in the meta-data file. The media sending device then transfers the media content and the meta-data file to the receiving device, in response to receiving a request for the media content from the receiving device. Then, the media receiving device reproduces the media content based at least in part on information extracted from the meta-data file, in a manner indicated by the identifier.
US10911835B2
Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed enabling smart search functionalities utilizing key scene changes appearing in video content. In various embodiments, the method includes the step or process of, while engaged in playback of the video content, receiving a user command at a playback device to shift a current playback position of the video content to a default search playback position (PPDS). In response to receipt of the user command, the playback device searches a time window encompassing the default search playback position (PPDS) for a key scene change in the video content. If locating a key scene change within the time window, the playback device shifts playback of the video content to a playback position corresponding to the key scene change (PPST). Otherwise, the playback device shifts playback of the video content to the default search playback position (PPDS).
US10911834B2
A method for allowing user selection of interactive video software components in a television STB operatively coupled to a video content network includes the steps of: affording the user a selection of interactive video software components to run on the set-top box; and loading selected interactive video software components onto the set-top box. The selected interactive video software components are delivered from a remote node over the video content network to which the STB is coupled.
US10911826B1
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from an uploading client system, a video; calculating an overall quality score for one or more encodings for the video, wherein the overall quality score of a respective encoding is based on a playback-quality score, the playback-quality score being based on a video quality or bit rate of the respective encoding; receiving, from a requesting client system, a request for the video and information associated with the request, wherein the information associated with the request comprises information about the requesting client system; determining, for the requesting client system, a first encoding based on the overall quality score of the encoding and the information associated with the request; and sending, to the requesting client system, the first encoding for display.
US10911813B1
Techniques are described for providing metadata corresponding to primary content of live media streams that include secondary content inserted into the streams.
US10911812B2
A system and method for delivery of near-term real-time recorded video includes a byte stream server to provide streaming video from a server platform for video that is being simultaneously recorded to files. The video can be delivered at programmable rates, including faster than real-time, real-time, and slower than real-time. The delivered video can include all video frames, or only I-frames/Keyframes.
US10911800B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for supporting hybrid broadcasting in a digital broadcasting system. The present invention provides an apparatus for receiving a broadcast content via one or more networks. The apparatus comprises a broadcast network interface for receiving a broadcast stream including a first portion of the broadcast content via a broadcast network; a heterogeneous network interface for receiving a heterogeneous stream including a second portion of the broadcast content via a heterogeneous network; and wherein the broadcast stream further includes timeline reference signaling information containing metadata for synchronizing streams transmitted via the one or more networks, and wherein the timeline reference signaling information includes at least one timeline reference information reconstituting timeline of at least one of the broadcast stream and the heterogeneous stream, a processor for configuring the broadcast content using the broadcast stream and the heterogeneous stream based on the timeline reference signaling information. The present invention is effective in easily synchronizing transport streams transmitted through each of heterogeneous networks.
US10911799B2
An apparatus to facilitate processing video bit stream data is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to decode point cloud data, reconstruct the decoded point cloud data and fill one or more holes in reconstructed point cloud frame data using patch metadata included in the decoded point cloud data and a memory communicatively coupled to the one or more processors.
US10911798B2
Methods and systems for providing files of variable sizes based on device and/or network conditions are described herein. The system may determine a plurality of bandwidth ranges. The system may also determine a plurality of file classes, and each different file class may be associated with a different bandwidth range. In some scenarios, the system may convert a file into a plurality of modified files. Each modified file may have a different file size and correspond to a different file class. The file and/or modified files may be provided to other devices based on various factors, such as bandwidth, available storage space, and/or display capabilities of user devices.
US10911797B2
A method of adjusting video image data to reduce photosensitive epilepsy (“PSE”) triggers, the method including evaluating a sequence of video images to determine if the number of changes in brightness exceeding a predetermined threshold between contiguous images is greater than a predetermined value over a predetermined time or predetermined number of video images; and if the determined number exceeds the predetermined value then applying a correction procedure to the sequence of images. The correction procedure includes: for each image, applying a plurality of candidate brightness changes to the image and subsequently determining which of the applied changes result in the number of changes in brightness between contiguous images exceeding the predetermined threshold being reduced to below the predetermined value; and selecting the determined applied change having the smallest brightness change.
US10911793B2
Prior to receiving a request from a client device for information from a content distribution network (CDN), a Reductive Edging device requests the information from the CDN and stores it in memory. The Reductive Edging device is thus configured to respond to the request from the client device for information from the CDN with the information stored in the memory prior to receiving the request.
US10911783B2
Disclosed is a method allowing enhanced prediction of a video signal, the method comprising the steps of: entropy-decoding a neighboring block adjacent to a target block; inverse-quantizing the entropy-decoded neighboring block; acquiring the modified neighboring block by carrying out a modified inverse transform on an inverse-quantized transform coefficient vector of the neighboring block; and generating a prediction block for the target block based on the modified neighboring block, wherein the modified inverse transform applies a different scaling matrix for each pixel location reconstructed for the inverse-quantized transform coefficient vector of the neighboring block.
US10911779B2
A moving image encoding/decoding apparatus that performs encoding/decoding while predicting a multiview moving image including moving images of a plurality of different views includes: a corresponding region setting unit that sets a corresponding region on a depth map for an encoding/decoding target region; a region dividing unit that sets a prediction region that is one of regions obtained by dividing the encoding/decoding target region; a disparity vector generation unit that generates, for the prediction region, a disparity vector for a reference view using depth information for a region within the corresponding region that corresponds to the prediction region; a motion information generation unit that generates motion information in the prediction region from the reference view motion information based on the disparity vector for the reference view; and a prediction image generation unit that generates a prediction image for the prediction region using the motion information in the prediction region.
US10911778B2
The multi sample prediction method of the present invention comprises the steps of: determining a sample group consisting of a plurality of samples inside a decoding target block; determining a representative position corresponding to the sample group, inside the decoding target block; determining a representative prediction value for the sample group, on the basis of the determined representative position; and determining the determined representative prediction value as the final prediction value for each of the plurality of samples making up the sample group. The present invention enhances efficiency in encoding/decoding and reduces complexity thereof.
US10911773B2
There are provided mechanisms for encoding a motion vector, wherein the motion vector is represented by a sum of a motion vector prediction (MVP) and a motion vector difference (MVD) between the motion vector and the MVP. The MVD comprises a first MVD component y and a second MVD component x. The method comprises encoding the first MVD component y. The method comprises encoding a representation {circumflex over (x)} of the second MVD component x. The method comprises sending information to a video decoder on how reconstruct the second MVD component x from the representation {circumflex over (x)} of the second MVD component x and at least one of: the first MVD component y, MVP index MVPindex, reference picture index RefIdx, reference picture list flag, block partition size PartSize and block partition type. There are provided mechanisms for reconstructing a motion vector from a motion vector prediction (MVP) and a motion vector difference (MVD). The MVD comprises a first MVD component y and a second MVD component x. The method comprises receiving information from a video encoder on how to reconstruct the second MVD component x from a representation x of the second MVD component x and at least one of: the first MVD component y, MVP index MVPindex, reference picture index RefIdx, reference picture list flag, block partition size PartSize and block partition type. The method comprises decoding the first MVD component y. The method comprises decoding the representation x of the second MVD component x. The method comprises reconstructing the second MVD component x in accordance with the received information.
US10911770B2
A decoder that decodes a current block using a motion vector includes: a processor; and memory. Using the memory, the processor: derives a first candidate vector from one or more candidate vectors of one or more neighboring blocks that neighbor the current block; determines, in a first reference picture for the current block, a first adjacent region that includes a position indicated by the first candidate vector; calculates evaluation values of a plurality of candidate regions included in the first adjacent region; and determines a first motion vector of the current block, based on a first candidate region having a smallest evaluation value among the evaluation values. The first adjacent region is included in a first motion estimation region determined based on the position indicated by the first candidate vector.
US10911763B2
In a method for transmitting video for a display panel between a transmitter in electronic communication with a receiver over a wireless communication channel, the method includes: receiving, by a transmitter, a data signal from a data source; receiving, by the transmitter, a return signal from a receiver; encoding, by the transmitter based on the return signal, the data signal utilizing a plurality of encoder blocks to generate a layered encoded data stream, wherein a first encoder block encodes the data signal and each subsequent encoder block encodes a difference between an input of a preceding encoder block and an output of a quantizer of a preceding encoder block; and transmitting, by the transmitter, the layered encoded data stream to the receiver for decoding and display on the display panel.
US10911749B2
Display device ON/OFF detection methods and apparatus are disclosed. Example display activity detectors disclosed herein are to extract regions from respective ones of captured video frames, the regions corresponding to a depiction of a display of a monitored media device Disclosed example display activity detectors are also to compute a distance metric that is to represent an amount a first one of the regions of a first one of the captured video frames differs from a corresponding second one of the regions of a second one of the captured video frames. Disclosed example display activity detectors are further to compare the distance metric to a threshold to determine whether the monitored media device is ON or OFF.
US10911745B2
A method for automatic generation of calibration parameters for a surround view (SV) camera system is provided that includes capturing a video stream from each camera comprised in the SV camera system, wherein each video stream captures two calibration charts in a field of view of the camera generating the video stream; displaying the video streams in a calibration screen on a display device coupled to the SV camera system, wherein a bounding box is overlaid on each calibration chart, detecting feature points of the calibration charts, displaying the video streams in the calibration screen with the bounding box overlaid on each calibration chart and detected features points overlaid on respective calibration charts, computing calibration parameters based on the feature points and platform dependent parameters comprising data regarding size and placement of the calibration charts, and storing the calibration parameters in the SV camera system.
US10911742B2
An electronic device includes one or more processors and a display that is flexible. A louvered filter, which can be optionally configured in an electronic device attachment, as a first louvered filter and a second louvered filter, or otherwise, is then disposed along the flexible display. When the flexible display is deformed by one or more bends, the one or more processors can present a first image through a first portion of the louvered filter and a second image through a second portion of the louvered filter to present stereoscopic content without the need of special glasses.
US10911735B2
A system and methods for a CODEC driving a real-time light field display for multi-dimensional video streaming, interactive gaming and other light field display applications is provided applying a layered scene decomposition strategy. Multi-dimensional scene data is divided into a plurality of data layers of increasing depths as the distance between a given layer and the display surface increases. Data layers which are sampled using an effective resolution function to determine a suitable sampling rate and rendered using hybrid rendering, such as perspective and oblique rendering, to encode light fields corresponding to each data layer. The resulting compressed, (layered) core representation of the multi-dimensional scene data is produced at predictable rates, reconstructed and merged at the light field display in real-time by applying view synthesis protocols, including edge adaptive interpolation, to reconstruct pixel arrays in stages (e.g. columns then rows) from reference elemental images.
US10911729B2
An imaging system includes an image combiner, at least one reflecting mirror, an image generating device, a communication module and a distance sensor. The at least one reflecting mirror is disposed with respect to the image combiner. The image generating device is disposed with respect to the at least one reflecting mirror. When the image generating device displays an image, a light projected by the image generating device is reflected by the at least one reflecting mirror to the image combiner, so as to form a virtual image through the image combiner. The distance sensor senses a distance between an object and the imaging system and transmits the distance to the image generating device through the communication module. When the image generating device determines that the distance is larger than a predetermined threshold, the image generating device adjusts a display size of the image according to the distance.
US10911727B2
A mobile device includes an image sensor separated from a processing component by an open space. The image sensor includes one or more light source modules and the processing component includes one or more light sensors aligned with the one or more light source modules. Image data from the image sensor may be transmitted to the processing component via light signals exchanged between the one or more light source modules and the one or more light sensors. In some embodiments, light signals transmitted between one or more light source modules of an image sensor and one or more light sensors of the processing component are used to determine positional and angular data about the image sensor.
US10911723B2
An enhanced broadcast data service with reports locations of traffic enforcement camera locations (e.g., red light cameras and speed cameras) to users. Traffic enforcement camera information is aggregated, verified (e.g., particularly as to traffic enforcement camera type) and stored (e.g., at a server). A broadcast signal comprising program channels and at least one data channel having traffic enforcement camera information is transmitted to a plurality of receivers. Receivers store at least a subset of the traffic enforcement camera information available from the server and synchronize to it using periodic transmitted updates. Receivers compare receiver location data with stored camera location data, and display or generate audible alerts when the receiver is within a selected geographic range of a traffic enforcement camera. Alerts can be filtered as to camera type. A alerts can employ different color camera icons superimposed on a screen map depending on camera type or whether the camera is newly added.
US10911721B2
A vehicular vision system for a vehicle includes a camera and an image processor operable to process image data captured by the camera. During a maneuver of the vehicle, the vehicular vision system, responsive at least in part to an output of a radar sensor, detects an object that is located within the radar sensor's field of sensing and outside of the camera's field of view and determines movement of the object relative to the vehicle. During the maneuver of the equipped vehicle, information pertaining to movement of the detected object toward an area within the field of view of said camera is provided to said vehicular vision system. During the maneuver of the equipped vehicle, and responsive to the provided information and with the detected object present within the camera's field of view, the vehicular vision system determines that the detected object is an object of interest.
US10911717B2
Provided is a method and system for providing a video stream for a video conference. A video stream providing method may include managing class information in which a resolution range for the video conference is classified into a plurality of classes; determining at least two classes in which a resolution providable from a source providing client that participates in the video conference is included among the plurality of classes, based on the class information; encoding a video stream for the video conference as a plurality of layers using a resolution set for each of the determined at least two classes; and controlling an electronic device of the source providing client to transmit the video stream encoded as the plurality of layers to a server for the video conference over a network.
US10911716B2
Respectively customizable interactive audio/video content is provided to each of a plurality of computing devices during a networked communication session. At least some of the computing devices capture audio video content via a microphone and camera respectively operable with each of the at least some of the computing devices. Further, the at least one processor is configured to receive, from each of the at least some of the computing devices, the respective audio and video content. The at least one processor is configured to generate a composited interactive audio/video feed including at least one of the audio and video content received from each of the at least some computing devices during the networked communication session. Moreover, the at least one processor is configured to transmit to each of the plurality of computing devices during the networked communication session the composited interactive audio/video feed.
US10911708B2
An endoscope system includes: an endoscope including an image pickup device provided in an insertion portion, and configured to pick up an image of a subject to output a binary image signal; a multilevel modulation unit configured to output, through a predetermined transmission path, a multilevel signal obtained by performing multilevel modulation on the binary image signal; and a memory configured to store endoscope information on signal transmission; and a processor including a multilevel demodulation unit configured to receive the multilevel signal through the predetermined transmission path, and obtain and output the binary image signal by multilevel demodulation; and a controller configured to read the endoscope information from the memory, and determine a multilevel number in the multilevel modulation by the multilevel modulation unit based on the endoscope information read to control the multilevel modulation unit.
US10911702B2
An imaging device according to the present invention includes multiple pixels arranged in a row direction and a column direction, which are orthogonal to each other. The multiple pixels include distance measurement pixels each including multiple photo-electric converters arranged so as to be adjacent to each other in the row direction. When M and N denote integers not smaller than one, the pixels are arranged at positions shifted in the row direction for every M-number rows by an amount corresponding to a half of the pixel, color filters are arranged in the row direction in an array of N-number columns per cycle, and the color filters are arranged in the column direction in an array of 2MN-number rows per cycle.
US10911701B2
An image pickup apparatus includes: a pixel portion where pixels of a plurality of colors are arranged in a first direction and a second direction as repetition of a basic array, and an arbitrary pixel is divided into a plurality of divided pixels in the first direction; a mixing portion configured to generate processed pixel signals from image data generated by all divided pixels existing in the pixel portion by performing pixel reduction of a plurality of divided pixel signals related to a same color and a same division position; and a managing/instructing portion configured to, in a case of prioritizing phase difference detection, control the pixel reduction by the mixing portion so that the processed pixel signals are not arranged at regular intervals in the second direction.
US10911696B2
The system and method for using morpho photonic structures to form small, lightweight imagers for use with SWIR, MWIR and LWIR. In some cases, the morpho photonic structure imagers are used in googles. The morpho photonic structure imagers have a frame rate ranging from 100 Hz to 200 Hz. In some cases, using a cluster of short wave infrared, mid wave infrared, and long wave infrared sensors to form a multi-spectral image is used to scan for chemical fingerprints.
US10911673B2
In an embodiment, an electronic device may be configured to capture still frames during video capture but may capture the still frames in the 4×3 aspect ratio and at higher resolution than the 16×9 aspect ratio video frames. The device may interleave high resolution, 4×3 frames and lower resolution 16×9 frames in the video sequence, and may capture the nearest higher resolution, 4×3 frame when the user indicates the capture of a still frame. Alternatively, the device may display 16×9 frames in the video sequence, and then expand to 4×3 frames when a shutter button is pressed. The device may capture the still frame and return to the 16×9 video frames responsive to a release of the shutter button.
US10911672B2
A highly efficient three-dimensional image acquisition method based on multi-mode composite encoding and epipolar constraint, respectively using a fast imaging mode or a high-precision imaging mode, wherein in the fast imaging mode, two phase maps having different frequencies are obtained by four stripe gratings, and a high-frequency absolute phase is obtained by means of the epipolar constraint and a left-right consistency check, and the three-dimensional image is obtained by means of a mapping relationship between the phase and three-dimensional coordinates; and in the high precision imaging mode, two phases having different frequencies are obtained by means of N+2 stripe gratings, a low-frequency absolute phase is obtained by the epipolar constraint, and the unwrapping of a high-frequency phase is assisted by means of the low-frequency absolute phase, so as to obtain the high-frequency absolute phase, and finally, the three-dimensional image is obtained by the mapping relationship between the phase and the three-dimensional coordinates. In this way, the imaging efficiency is ensured, and the imaging precision is improved.
US10911651B2
A camera body includes a DCL terminal, a DLC terminal, and a LCLK terminal, that perform communication with a lens apparatus by a first voltage, or a second voltage that differs from the first voltage. The camera body also includes a DLC2 terminal that is only used when communication using the DCL terminal, DLC terminal, and LCLK terminal is performed by the first voltage. The DLC2 terminal is disposed adjacent to the LCLK terminal.
US10911650B2
The present technology relates to a conversion apparatus, an imaging apparatus, an electronic apparatus, and a conversion method that are capable of reducing the scale of a circuit. The conversion apparatus includes: a comparison unit that compares an input voltage of an input signal and a ramp voltage of a ramp signal that varies with time; and a storage unit that holds a code value when a comparison result from the comparison unit is inverted, the holding of the code value by the storage unit being repeated a plurality of times, to generate a digital signal having a predetermined bit number. The predetermined bit number is divided into high-order bits and low-order bits, the low-order bits are acquired earlier than the high-order bits, and the acquired low-order bits and the high-order bits are combined with each other, to generate the digital signal having the predetermined bit number. The present technology can be applied to a portion of an image sensor, in which AD conversion is performed.
US10911647B2
A vehicular camera is configured to be disposed at a vehicle so as to have a field of view exterior of the vehicle. The camera includes a lens holder having a lens barrel accommodating a lens, a circuit board, and an imager disposed at a first side of a circuit board substrate. The circuit board substrate has a CTE that is different from the CTE of the lens holder. The circuit board substrate is attached at support posts extending from the support structure, with the support posts configured to flex in a radial direction toward or away from the longitudinal axis of the lens barrel. With the vehicular camera disposed at the vehicle, radial flexing of the support posts accommodates temperature-driven expansion or contraction of the lens holder relative to the circuit board substrate without flexing the circuit board substrate
US10911643B2
An image sensor has a plurality of pixels arranged in an array on an imaging surface and converts a captured optical image into an image signal. A modulator is provided on a light receiving surface of the image sensor and modulates the light intensity using a grating pattern. An image processor performs image processing of the image signal output from the image sensor. The modulator has a grating substrate and a first grating pattern is formed on a first side of the grating substrate adjacent to a light receiving side of the image sensor. The grating pattern is composed of a plurality of concentric circle patterns. Each concentric circle pattern has concentric circles having a pitch which becomes smaller in inverse proportion to the distance from the center thereof. The plurality of concentric circle patterns do not overlap with each other in the grating pattern.
US10911639B2
A recording apparatus includes a recording unit configured to form an ink image on a transfer body, a conveying unit configured to convey a recording medium, a transfer unit figured to transfer the ink image from the transfer body to the recording medium conveyed by the conveying unit, a reading unit configured to read the recording medium having the ink image transferred thereto, and a post-processing unit configured to apply a pressure to the recording medium having the ink image transferred thereto to perform post-processing for improving a gloss of the ink image on the recording medium. The post-processing unit applies a pressure to a recording medium not to be read by the reading unit, and applies to a recording medium to be read by the reading unit no pressure or a lower pressure than the pressure applied to the recording medium not to be read.
US10911632B2
An image scanning device includes a linear light source to illuminate a linear illumination position of a scan target with light, a lens body, and a sensor. The linear light source includes a light guide, a scatterer, an emitter, a stepped portion, and a light-shielding member. The stepped portion is formed, from the end surface of the transparent body along the main scan direction, on a side of the light guide that is opposite to the illumination position side of the light guide. The light-shielding member covers a portion of the emitter of the light guide, the portion including the end surface of the transparent body, and extends beyond the stepped portion in the main scan direction and has an end portion that is located out of a scan range of the sensor in the main scan direction.
US10911625B2
An image reading apparatus, including a feed tray, a conveyance guide, a conveyor, a reading sensor, a first housing, a first driving source, a first driving train, a second driving source, and a second driving train, is provided. The first housing accommodates at least the conveyance guide and the conveyor and has a first outer face and a second outer face facing opposite to each other in a widthwise direction. The first driving source and the first driving train are accommodated in the first housing on a side toward the first outer face. The first driving train transmits a driving force from the first driving source to the conveyor. The second driving source and the second driving train are accommodated in the first housing on a side toward the second outer face. The second driving train transmits a driving force from the second driving source to the movable plate.
US10911612B2
An image transmitting apparatus includes a scanner that reads an original, a memory that stores programs, and a processor that executes the programs. The programs are executed to identify destination information of a user for the image transmitting apparatus, and transmit image data corresponding to the read original using the identified destination information in a case where the user does not designate a destination.
US10911602B2
A method for selection of a digital subscriber line (DSL) technology for use by a first DSL transceiver in transferring data over a communications line between the first DSL transceiver and a second DSL transceiver. For the selection, an indication of attenuation in the communications line between the DSL transceivers is obtained and a DSL technology for use by the first DSL transceiver is selected from a plurality of DSL technologies supported by the first DSL transceiver. Selection of the DSL technology is determined on the basis of the indication of attenuation. Optionally, selection of the DSL technology may, in addition, be based on other parameters comprising an indication of the power spectral density mask limiting the power output onto the line by the DSL transceiver; an indication of the noise environment of the communications line; an indication of the highest discrete multitone modulation tone transmitted by the first DSL transceiver over the communications line.
US10911588B2
A mobile terminal protection sleeve (100), comprising a sleeve body (120), communication terminals (140), an internal lead, a flexible data line (160), and a flexible connector (180). The sleeve body (120) can surround the edge of the mobile terminal, and is provided with a plurality of terminal accommodating holes and an opening, and the opening corresponds to the communication interface of the mobile terminal. A plurality of communication terminals (140) is provided for communicationally connected to an external device (200). The plurality of communication terminals (140) are embedded in the plurality of terminal accommodating holes in one-to-one correspondence. The internal lead is wrapped in the sleeve body (120), and one end of the internal lead is electrically connected with the communication terminals (140). One end of the flexible data line (160) is connected with the sleeve body (120), and the other end of the internal lead is electrically connected with the flexible data line (160). The flexible connector (180) is connected with the other end of the flexible data line (160), and the flexible connector (180) can be inserted in the opening, and is in a butt joint with the communication interface.
US10911586B2
A mobile terminal is disclosed. The mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention can comprise: a display unit for displaying an image; a pen mountable on or detachable from the mobile terminal, and making contact with a screen of the display unit so as to provide an input to the mobile terminal; a sensing unit for sensing the mounting or the detachment of the pen; and a control unit for controlling the display unit such that an execution image of a memo application to be controlled according to the mounting or the detachment of the pen is displayed.
US10911582B2
Embodiments of an access point (AP) may comprise memory and processing circuitry coupled to the memory, and transceiver circuitry coupled to the processing circuitry. The processing circuitry of the AP may be configured to encode a trigger frame to allocate a center 26 tone RU of an 80 MHz channel for an HE-trigger-based PPDU, the center 26 tone RU having an adjacent upper 20 MHz subchannel and an adjacent lower 20 MHz subchannel. In an embodiment, the center 26 tone RU is for a station (STA) and wherein the trigger frame indicates to the STA to transmit a pre-HE-STF preamble on one of the adjacent upper 20 MHz subchannel, the adjacent lower 20 MHz subchannel, or both the adjacent upper and lower 20 MHz subchannels, and configure the wireless device to transmit the trigger frame to the station.
US10911566B2
The system is a self-serve platform, which delivers user uploaded media and multimedia files, of varying playback durations, to a client computer connected to a digital display; which is set to receive executions for a scheduled playlist and punctually presents the playback of media and/or multimedia files in said playlist record. The system's included functions for schedule generation, schedule selection, and playlist creation contain unique, and embedded automatic functions, provide the capacity for making scheduling and delivery of media and multimedia files reliable, accessible, and cost efficient.
US10911562B2
A method performed by a computing system includes, with the computing system, caching, within a cache module of the computing system, a resource request result from a web service, storing, by the computing system, metadata associated with the resource request result, the metadata including a set of entities used to produce the resource request result, wherein the metadata further includes a version of each entity associated with the resource request result, with the computing system, in response to determining that an entity from the set of entities has changed since the resource request result was cached, invalidating the cached resource request result, wherein determining that the entity from the set of entities has changed comprises determining that a version of the entity has changed.
US10911561B2
A method of caching web content, performed by a network node such as a caching proxy, is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, from a client, a Domain Name System (DNS) resolution request comprising a hostname. The DNS resolution request is forwarded to a DNS server. A DNS resolution response comprising an Internet Protocol (IP) address corresponding to the hostname is received from the DNS server. The DNS resolution response is forwarded to the client. The method further comprises determining if the DNS resolution request relates to a web session, and if so, retrieving an index page from a web server associated with the received IP address, and caching the retrieved index page. Thereby, a subsequent initial Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request from the client for that index page can be accelerated.
US10911560B2
Some embodiments provide partitioned serialized caching and delivery of large sized content and files. Some embodiments partition requests for large sized content into segment requests with each segment request identifying a different byte range of the requested content. Each segment request is hashed to identify a particular server from a set of servers tasked with caching and delivering a different segment of the requested content. In this manner, no single server caches or delivers the entirety of large sized content. The segment requests are distributed serially across the set of servers so that the segments are passed in order, wherein the serial distribution involves handing-off the requesting user's connection serially to each server of the set of server in the order with which the set of servers deliver the content segments.
US10911554B2
A method and system for tracking web link usage is provided. An example system includes a request detector, a click history module, a link presentation generator, and a serving module. The request detector may be configured to receive a request for a web page comprising a web link. The click history module may be configured to access click history associated with the user account. The link presentation generator may be configured to modify the web page, utilizing the click history. The serving module may be configured to serve the modified web page in response to the request for the web page.
US10911553B2
Various embodiments describe techniques for dynamically customizing structured interactive content for a particular user within a session of an interactive computing environment. Machine-learning techniques are used to establish a behavioral class of each individual user based on user interactions with a diagnostic set of interactive content items during the session. The identified behavioral class is used to customize interactive content presented later during the session using various machine-learning techniques. In some embodiments, the user progress during the session is determined based on user interactions with the customized interactive content, and a content customization is performed if the user progress is below a threshold value.
US10911550B2
On a client computer a request is sent to a server computer to open a first portion of a document. The document is stored at the server computer. The first portion of the document is smaller than the entire document. The request includes information used by the server computer to determine a size of the first portion of the document. The first portion of the document is received from the server computer. A second portion of the document is rendered on a display screen on the client computer. The second portion of the document is a subset of the first portion of the document. When the client computer determines that the user has scrolled a third portion of the document and that more of the document is available at the server computer, a second request is sent to the server computer to open an additional portion of the document.
US10911548B2
Methods and apparatus of managing a community site. Upon execution of processor-executable instructions by a processing unit, the processing unit manages the community site in accordance with management data so as to permit access to the community site by a plurality of terminal apparatuses based at least in part on terminal data from each of the plurality of terminal apparatuses. The terminal data indicates at least one of a time or a location associated with the terminal apparatus. The processing unit further stores content uploaded from at least one of the plurality of terminal apparatuses to at least one storage device, the content being accessible via the community site. In response to at least one predetermined condition relating to the usage of the community site being satisfied, the processing unit sends a signal to delete the content from the at least one storage device.
US10911544B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing Internet of Things (“IoT”) functionality. In some embodiments, a first IoT-capable device might receive beacon data from each of one or more other IoT-capable devices in a self-organizing network (“SON”) of IoT devices, might compare the received beacon data with stored beacon data, and might send at least one first data to a computing system to update the computing system of any changes in the SON (indicating, without limitation, new devices, failed devices, disabled devices, devices that have moved out of range, etc.). The computing system might receive and analyze the at least one first data to determine a status of each IoT-capable device in the SON, might generate control instructions, and might autonomously send the control instructions to at least one of the IoT-capable devices in the SON to improve the functionality of the SON.
US10911540B1
An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to identify a snapshot lineage comprising snapshots of a given set of storage volumes, the snapshot lineage comprising (i) a local snapshot lineage stored on a storage system and (ii) a cloud snapshot lineage stored on cloud storage of a cloud external to the storage system. The processing device is also configured to select a snapshot to recover from the cloud snapshot lineage to the storage system, to create a set of new storage volumes on the storage system, to generate a recovery map linking each of a set of cloud storage volumes on the cloud storage that comprises data of the selected snapshot to at least one of the new storage volumes, and to recover the selected snapshot from the cloud snapshot lineage by copying data from the set of cloud storage volumes to corresponding linked ones of the new storage volumes.
US10911536B2
Real-time synchronization of data between disparate cloud data sources; local database receives data from various sources then supplies data to various destinations. A steady state database synchronization software module monitors local database for changes to data, reconciles any local change with changes to the same data in remote database, forwards reconciled data to a destination database, and monitors messages announcing that data in remote database has changed. Finally, the failsafe database synchronization software module polls the remote database periodically for changes, compares changes made to remote data and local data, outstanding changes are applied to local and remote databases as determined.
US10911533B2
In one embodiment, an Internet of Things (IoT) device in a network establishes connections with a plurality of peers. The device identifies an event involving the IoT device. The device generates a GOAWAY message that includes metadata regarding the event within a metadata field of the message. The GOAWAY message indicates that the IoT device is not accepting new connections. The device sends the GOAWAY message to one or more of the peers.
US10911531B2
A network includes a first tier of servers, a second tier of servers and a third tier of servers. The first tier of servers comprises a plurality of primary servers capable of responding to requests. The plurality of primary servers includes at least one dynamic server having a load share characteristic that is dynamically altered during a first period in time and at least one static server having a constant load share characteristic during the first period in time. The second tier of servers includes at least two first layer overflow servers. Each of the first layer overflow servers is configured to provide response duties in the event that one or more of the primary servers is unavailable or overloaded. The third tier of servers comprising at least two second layer overflow servers. Each of the second layer overflow servers is configured to provide response duties in the event that one or more of the primary servers is unavailable or overloaded and one or more of the first layer overflow servers is unavailable or overloaded.
US10911527B2
N nodes are assigned to a first layer of nodes having a first domain name server (DNS) anycast Internet Protocol (IP) address and a first fully qualified domain name (FQDN). M nodes are assigned to a second layer of nodes having a second DNS anycast IP address and a second FQDN. When a request to resolve the first FQDN for the first layer of nodes is received by a DNS of a node of the first layer and a load on the ES of the node is less than a threshold, the DNS handles the request by returning an edge server (ES) anycast IP address for the ES of the node. When the load on the ES is greater than the threshold, the DNS offloads the request by returning the second FQDN so that the second FQDN of the second layer is resolved to the second DNS anycast IP address.
US10911520B2
The present solution provides a variety of techniques for accelerating and optimizing network traffic, such as HTTP based network traffic. The solution described herein provides techniques in the areas of proxy caching, protocol acceleration, domain name resolution acceleration as well as compression improvements. In some cases, the present solution provides various prefetching and/or prefreshening techniques to improve intermediary or proxy caching, such as HTTP proxy caching. In other cases, the present solution provides techniques for accelerating a protocol by improving the efficiency of obtaining and servicing data from an originating server to server to clients. In another cases, the present solution accelerates domain name resolution more quickly. As every HTTP access starts with a URL that includes a hostname that must be resolved via domain name resolution into an IP address, the present solution helps accelerate HTTP access. In some cases, the present solution improves compression techniques by prefetching non-cacheable and cacheable content to use for compressing network traffic, such as HTTP. The acceleration and optimization techniques described herein may be deployed on the client as a client agent or as part of a browser, as well as on any type and form of intermediary device, such as an appliance, proxying device or any type of interception caching and/or proxying device.
US10911511B2
A method of media streaming implemented by a network device, the method comprising encapsulating a message box into one or more packets in a segment, and sending the segment directly or indirectly to a streaming client.
US10911508B2
There is provided a client device arranged to receive a live adaptive bitrate stream, the client device further arranged to: request a manifest file; and request a manifest update hint. The client device further arranged to receive a manifest update hint, the manifest update hint including an indication of when the manifest will be updated; and request an updated manifest file at a time indicated by the manifest update hint.
US10911503B2
Systems, devices, and methods for streaming video data being recorded once an operator user equipment (110,115,120,315) is in the location specified by a requester user equipment (140,310) based on selecting the operator user equipment from a determined set of one or more user equipment (110, 115, 120) that may be based on a received acknowledgement message from the operator user equipment that the request was accepted (steps 440,660) and a set of criteria. In some embodiments, determining the set of one or more user equipment to send the request to may be based on a received request (steps 410, 710) and connectivity status. Additionally, the streaming (steps 450,580,680) may be based on a request (steps 410,719) from the requester user equipment (140,310) being sent to a computing device (145,360) for dispatching the operator user equipment (110,115,120,315).
US10911502B2
Social network information may be shared across online service providers. Thus, one online service provider M that maintains a membership separate from a second online service provider N may nevertheless use the social network maintained by the second online service provider N to tailor content and/or services based on such social network information.
US10911501B2
Certain examples described herein provide a method for providing a collaborative session over a network. In these examples, a collaborative session is a series of geographically-separated temporally-coordinated events, such as a performance or concert. In examples, a global latency is set for the collaborative session. The global latency is set to a value greater than a longest latency for a plurality of client devices engaging in the collaborative session, and is defined as a function of a temporal rate for the series of temporally-coordinated events. During the collaborative session data streams are received from the plurality of client devices and presentation of the received data streams on the plurality of client devices is synchronised to enforce the global latency.
US10911496B2
Technologies for privacy-safe security policy evaluation are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes at least one processor, and memory including instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to curry a security policy function to generate a privacy-safe curried function set, the security policy function to generate a security policy as a function of a plurality of policy parameters, the privacy-safe curried function set including a non-sensitive function that receives a non-sensitive parameter of the plurality of policy parameters as an argument, the privacy-safe curried function set further including a sensitive function that receives a sensitive parameter of the plurality of policy parameters as an argument; access unencrypted parameter data corresponding to the non-sensitive parameter of the plurality of policy parameters; evaluate the non-sensitive function of the privacy-safe curried function set to generate the sensitive function; and provide the sensitive function to a client computing device.
US10911495B2
In some examples, a system creates a requirement including EPG selectors representing EPG pairs, a traffic selector, and a communication operator; determines that EPGs in distinct pairs are associated with different network contexts and, for each pair, which network context(s) contains associated policies; creates first data representing the pair, operator, and traffic selector; when only one network context contains the associated policies, creates second data representing a network model portion associated with the only network context and determines whether the first data is contained in the second data to yield a first check; when both network contexts contain the associated policies, also creates third data representing a network model portion associated with a second network context, and determines whether the first data is contained in the second and/or third data to yield a second check; and determines whether policies for the pairs comply with the requirement based on the checks.
US10911493B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses enable a microservice to identify server-to-server communication paths between servers in a networked environment. The system identifies a server connected to a security microservice managed by a management microservice. The system deploys a security policy on the identified server, and identifies the server-to-server communication paths between the identified server and one or more of a plurality of servers. The system identifies the active communication paths from the identified server to one or more of a plurality of servers, or a subset of communication paths determined based on search criteria. When the system identifies servers of the one or more of the plurality of servers without an existing security policy, the system processes the identified server. In one embodiment, processing the identified servers includes applying a security policy to the identified servers.
US10911491B2
An aspect includes a computer system with a network encryption device and a trusted container within firmware or hardware and/or within a virtual machine running on the computer system. The network encryption device includes a key store for storing secret encryption keys and a network traffic encryption engine for negotiating and/or storing encryption keys in the key store and/or for encrypting and/or decrypting network traffic using the encryption keys from the key store. The trusted container includes a flow analyzer for analyzing network traffic received from the network encryption device.
US10911489B1
Introduced here are threat detection platforms designed to discover possible instances of email account compromise in order to identify threats to an enterprise. In particular, a threat detection platform can examine the digital activities performed with the email accounts associated with employees of the enterprise to determine whether any email accounts are exhibiting abnormal behavior. Examples of digital activities include the reception of an incoming email, transmission of an outgoing email, creation of a mail filter, and occurrence of a sign-in event (also referred to as a “login event”). Thus, the threat detection platform can monitor the digital activities performed with a given email account to determine the likelihood that the given email account has been compromised.
US10911488B2
Methods and systems for mitigating a spoofing-based attack include calculating a travel distance between a source Internet Protocol (IP) address and a target IP address from a received packet based on time-to-live information from the received packet. An expected travel distance between the source IP address and the target IP address is estimated based on a sparse set of known source/target distances. It is determined that the received packet has a spoofed source IP address based on a comparison between the calculated travel distance and the expected travel distance. A security action is performed responsive to the determination that the received packet has a spoofed source IP address.
US10911487B2
Methods performed by a system on a computer device, such as a smart phone, i.e., locally, for protecting against network-based attacks. These methods inspect all traffic to every application and web browser on the device.
US10911472B2
A botnet identification module identifies members of one or more botnets based upon network traffic destined to one or more servers over time, and provides sets of botnet sources to a traffic monitoring module. Each set of botnet sources includes a plurality of source identifiers of end stations acting as part of a corresponding botnet. A traffic monitoring module receives the sets of botnet sources from the botnet identification module, and upon a receipt of traffic identified as malicious that was sent by a source identified within one of the sets of botnet sources, activates a protection mechanism with regard to all traffic from all of the sources identified by the one of the sets of botnet sources for an amount of time.
US10911469B1
Various embodiments are generally directed to detecting fraudulent activity on a user account based at least in part on a dynamic fraudulent user blacklist. The fraudulent activity may be identified based on a similarity of forensic profiling across multiple user accounts, for example, fraudulent activity occurring by the same fraudster or perpetrator may have a similar or identical fraudulent pattern across the multiple user accounts. By identifying the fraudulent user patterns associated the same fraudster and dynamically updating a blacklist to include these fraudulent user patterns, the same types of attacks may be prevented on the other existing user accounts.
US10911467B2
Provided herein are systems and methods for targeted attack protection using predictive sandboxing. In exemplary embodiments, a method includes retrieving a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) from a message of a user and performing a preliminary determination to see if the URL can be discarded if it is not a candidate for sandboxing. The exemplary method includes computing a plurality of selection criteria factors for the URL if the URL passes the preliminary determination, each selection criteria factor having a respective factor threshold. The method can further include determining if any of the selection criteria factors for the URL exceeds the respective factor threshold for the respective selection criteria factor. Based on the determining, if any of the selection criteria factors exceeds the factor threshold for the selection criteria factor, the exemplary method includes automatically placing the URL in a sandbox for analysis.
US10911460B2
A network device obtains information, associated with blacklisted domains, that includes blacklisted domain identifiers, and sinkhole server identifiers associated with the blacklisted domain identifiers. The network device obtains a set of rules that specify match criteria, associated with the blacklisted domains, that include source network addresses and/or destination network addresses for comparison to packet source network addresses and/or packet destination network addresses associated with incoming packets. The set of rules specify actions to perform based on a result of comparing the match criteria and the packet source network addresses and/or the packet destination network addresses for the incoming packets. The network device receives packets, examines a packet source network address and/or a packet destination network address associated with the packets, compares the packet source network address and/or the packet destination network address to the match criteria, and performs an action based on a result of the comparison.
US10911454B2
Hierarchical case model access roles and permissions are described. A system creates, for a child node associated with a parent node in a case model, a reference to a case role associated with the parent node. The system assigns another set of access permissions to the reference. The system determines access to the child node based on the set of access permissions in response to a request associated with the case role to access the child node.
US10911445B2
A communication method for an information capturing system includes the steps of: detecting for a communication link between a host device and an information capturing device, the host device having a high-power-consumption network-connection unit, the information capturing device having a low-power-consumption network-connection unit and a SIM card, and the SIM card storing an identity authentication information; and creating, upon affirmative detection of the communication link, a network connection to a base station by the high-power-consumption network-connection unit, using the identity authentication information.
US10911443B2
A method, implemented by a computer-implemented authentication system, for authenticating a user attempting to access a target component of a computer system, the method comprising: a) receiving, from a first user system via a computer network, user authentication information and a network address identifying the first user system within the computer network; b) obtaining at least one data item of contextual information indicative of a property of an environment of a wireless communications device associated with the user authentication information; c) authenticating the user based on at least the user authentication information; and d) subject to successful authentication, granting access to the target component and storing a data record comprising the received network address and the received contextual information.
US10911437B2
Computerized systems and methods facilitate detection of anomalous activity during the authentication of login attempts. When a login attempt is made, credentials (e.g., a username and password) are provided. A function call is made to check for anomalous activity. A count of unique usernames attempted during a given time period is compared against a unique username threshold. In some embodiments, a count of login attempts for the current username is also compared against a login attempt threshold. If either (or both) threshold is met or exceeded, an abnormal state is returned, and one or more enhanced authentication requirements are invoked. Alternatively, a normal state is returned, and the credentials are validated. If the login attempt is successful, the username is removed from consideration for anomalous activities checks for other login attempts.
US10911423B2
Described herein is a platform and method for providing multi-level authentication by an onboard system in relation to a transaction. In response to receiving information related to a transaction, one or more authentication policies may be identified and provided to an onboard system associated with the transaction. The authentication policies may be executed by the onboard system to generate a result set indicating a pass/fail for each authentication policy. Once the result set has been generated, success actions and/or failure actions associated with each authentication policy may be executed in accordance with the generated result set.
US10911416B2
In various embodiments, a method of transferring data between datacenters may be performed. The method may include running a first plurality of host programs and a first plurality of encryption units at a first datacenter. The method may further include establishing, between the first datacenter and a second datacenter, secure communication connections between each of the first plurality of encryption units and a corresponding one of a second plurality of encryption units running at the second datacenter. The method may further include transferring, by the first datacenter, data from the first plurality of host programs to a second plurality of host programs running at the second datacenter.
US10911414B2
A node enables sharing data connectivity between a consumer device and a broker device, and receives from a first packet routing node a request for a consumer authorization certificate. The request includes a subscriber identity. Based on the subscriber identity authorizing the subscriber for sharing data connectivity; a consumer authorization certificate is generated using a private encryption key associated with the node. The consumer authorization certificate includes the subscriber identity of the subscriber. The consumer authorization certificate is returned to the first packet routing node. A request for a data connectivity service for the subscriber is received from a second packet routing node. The request includes a consumer agreement certificate and a broker identity. The consumer agreement certificate is signed using a private key associated with the subscriber and includes the subscriber identity. The consumer agreement certificate is valued. A confirmation message is sent to the second packet routing node.
US10911410B1
A system and method for content request monitoring and filtering for a plurality of managed devices in a managed network uses a smart PAC file that is uniquely associated with a particular user using a particular managed device and a DNS look up to perform both the logging/monitoring of the content request and the filtering without a hardware appliance or partial proxying.
US10911409B2
Techniques are presented herein for engagement and disengagement of Transport Layer Security proxy services with encrypted handshaking. In one embodiment, a first initial message of a first encrypted handshaking procedure for a first secure communication session between a first device and a second device is intercepted at a proxy device. The first initial message includes first key exchange information for encrypting the first encrypted handshaking procedure. A copy of the first initial message is stored at the proxy device. A second initial message of a second encrypted handshaking procedure for a second secure communication session between the proxy device and the second device is sent from the proxy device to the second device. The second initial message includes second key exchange information for encrypting the second encrypted handshaking procedure. The proxy device determines, based on the second encrypted handshaking procedure, whether to remain engaged or to disengage.
US10911400B2
In one embodiment, a tracking device detects a first device connecting to a computer network, and forces an install of fake routing information on the first device that is unique to the first device. Upon detecting a second device connecting to the computer network, the second device having at least one identifying property in common with the first device and at least one identifying property differing from the first device, the tracking device may then query the second device to determine if the second device knows the fake routing information unique to the first device. As such, the tracking device may then determine that the second device is the first device in response to the second device knowing the fake routing information unique to the first device.
US10911394B2
Provided herein is an electronic message management platform that enables calculating a size of a sample of a message recipient list that delivers a confidence level greater than threshold for the entire message recipient list by applying a predicted bounce percent for the list to a sample size selection algorithm, selecting a total of recipients in the message recipient list that is consistent with the sample size, processing messages to each of the recipients in the sample, monitoring message life cycle events for the recipients in the sample set over a period of time, and based on the monitoring taking an action with the message recipient list selected from a list of recipient list actions consisting of processing remaining recipients in the message recipient list and halting processing of the message recipient list.
US10911390B2
Methods, systems, and media for presenting comments based on correlation with content are provided. In some implementations, a method for presenting ranked comments is provided, the method comprising: receiving, using a hardware processor, content data related to an item of content; receiving, using the hardware processor, comment data related to a comment associated with the item of content; determining, using the hardware processor, a degree of correlation between at least a portion of the comment data and one or more portions of the content data; determining, using the hardware processor, a priority for the comment based on the degree of correlation; and presenting, using the hardware processor, the comment based on the priority.
US10911389B2
Non-limiting examples describe automated management of rich content previews associated with bundled content of an application/service. As an example, a bundle of content may be a bundle of emails created within an email service. Email content associated with a bundle of emails may be accessed. The email content may be evaluated based on application of machine learning model that: determines an entity type associated with the bundle of emails based on the tag, identifies a state associated with the bundle of emails, and determines relevancy of specific email content in association with a determined entity type and the identified state associated with the bundle of emails. A rich content preview for the bundle of emails may be generated based on an evaluation of the email content.
US10911380B2
A network-based solution for automatically processing large email attachments or other files during migration between email platforms or other platforms, as may be embodied by various systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media, may involve downloading mailboxes from a source email platform and inspecting the mailboxes for emails containing attachment files. The solution may involve determining a file size of any detected attachment, comparing the file size of the detected attachment file to a predetermined attachment size limit, and uploading a copy of the detected attachment to a storage server for storage when the comparison determines that the file size of the detected attachment file exceeds the predetermined attachment size limit. The solution may further include modifying the email by replacing the detected attachment with a link to the copy of the detected attachment stored at the storage server and then migrating the modified email to the target email platform.
US10911366B2
Technologies for balancing throughput across input ports include a network switch. The network switch is to generate, for an arbiter unit in a first stage of a hierarchy of stages of arbiter units, turn data indicative of a set of turns in which to transfer packet data from devices connected to input ports of the arbiter unit. The network switch is also to transfer, with the arbiter unit, the packet data from the devices in the set of turns. Additionally, the network switch is to determine weight data indicative of the number of turns represented in the set and provide the weight data from the arbiter unit in the first stage to another arbiter unit in a subsequent stage to cause the arbiter unit in the subsequent stage to allocate a number of turns for the transfer of the packet data from the arbiter unit in the first stage.
US10911364B2
Embodiments of the application describe a packet processing method and a router. The method includes: receiving, by an input line card, at least one packet; obtaining, by the input line card, information about an available first buffer block in a third buffer module, where the third buffer module is a first buffer module that includes an available first buffer block; allocating, by the input line card, a third buffer block to each of the at least one packet based on at least one buffer information block stored in the input line card and the information about an available first buffer block; and buffering, by the input line card, each packet into the third buffer block. Distributed packet buffering can be implemented by using the method.
US10911363B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including identifying, by a processing system including a processor, performance indicators for a flow on a communication network. The system determines a size criterion for the flow, and a flow shaping criterion based on the data type and including a threshold value of a performance indicator. If the size criterion is met, the system monitors the performance indicators and initiates a flow shaping procedure responsive to the flow shaping criterion being met. The system also detects a change in the performance indicators due to the flow shaping procedure, and discontinues the procedure during the flow, responsive to the changed performance indicators not meeting the flow shaping criterion. The system may also resume the flow shaping procedure during the flow if the performance indicators subsequently meet the flow shaping criterion. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10911361B2
A method includes intercepting a first data packet being transmitted from a domain name system (DNS) server to a first client device, the first data packet being a DNS response, extracting a first internet protocol (IP) address and a first hostname from the first data packet, and storing the first IP address and the first hostname in a first entry of an identification table.
US10911352B2
A system and method for multicast delivery of messages using a configurable directional 2D router for Networks on Chips (NOCs) is disclosed. The router is well suited for implementation in programmable logic in FPGAs and achieves theoretical lower bounds on FPGA resource consumption. A NOC comprising a plurality of routers may be configured as a directional 2D torus, or in diverse ways, network sizes and topologies, data widths, routing functions, performance-energy tradeoffs, and other options. The NOC may transmit a unicast message from one source client core to one destination client core, or a multicast message from one source client core to a plurality of destination client cores, or an arbitrary mix of unicast and multicast messages, simultaneously. A multicast message destination may include all client cores of routers with a particular first or second dimension coordinate, or all client cores, or some arbitrary subsets of client cores.
US10911350B2
A method for processing data packets in a communication network includes establishing a path for a flow of the data packets through the communication network. At a node along the path having a plurality of aggregated ports, a port is selected from among the plurality to serve as part of the path. A label is chosen responsively to the selected port. The label is attached to the data packets in the flow at a point on the path upstream from the node. Upon receiving the data packets at the node, the data packets are switched through the selected port responsively to the label.
US10911333B2
This application provides a network service life cycle management grant method, including: receiving, by a first NFVO, an NS LCM operation request from a sender, where the NS LCM operation request carries an identifier of a first NS instance and a type of an NS LCM operation; sending, by the first NFVO, a grant request to a second NFVO based on the NS LCM operation request, to request the second NFVO to permit the first NFVO to perform virtual resource management for the NS LCM operation performed for the first NS instance. Accordingly, a grant management mechanism is used between the first NFVO and the second NFVO, to implement target consistency.
US10911323B2
An architecture-specific web-based executable specification tool maintains specification information and metadata for chip and system on a chip (SoC) design. Metadata available in the development ecosystem may be leveraged to improve the specification-to-design process. A unified, integrated environment for subsystem creation, SoC integration, and SoC specification teams is presented using a tool that comprehends SoC constructs. A modern web-based framework (not stand-alone tool) provides collaboration capabilities and allows visual representation and manipulation of data. Connection fabrics (e.g., network on a chip (NoC)) and other project-specific infrastructure can be configured and synthesized on demand and brought in to the design using the common environment. Netlists and other connectivity data can be fed into automated RTL generation processes directly, or used as a reference for implementation design teams. Reports and automated software generation satisfy the needs of the design verification and software teams. Functional and performance testing feedback loops are also provided.
US10911321B2
A device may be configured to receive a text file including network information for an optical network. The network information may include information for an optical route in the optical network. The device may generate a user interface based on the text file. The user interface may display a representation of the optical route. The device may provide the user interface for display and receive a user input via the user interface. The device may change the representation of the optical route displayed by the user interface based on the user input and the network information included in the text file.
US10911308B2
A system and method to auto-determine and install missing components to a to a to-be-managed device by a single execution of unique device setup command has been described. Initially based on a received request, a unique device setup command is generated to on board a device on cloud device management system. Next the unique device setup command is executed that executes several operations including: auto-determining whether the device has required Operating System (OS), system architecture, and one or more software components including a control panel slave to allow retrieval of device monitoring data from the device. The execution of unique device address also execute the operation of installing a control plane slave on the device in communication with a control plane master at the cloud device management system to manage the plurality of devices, when the device has the required OS, architecture, and the one or more software components.
US10911305B2
Various examples for performing rule processing for device management data evaluation are described. According to some examples, one or more computing devices can receive new device data from a client device indicative of a current configuration of the client device and identify a change of a device configuration value from a past device configuration value by comparing the new device data to historic device data. The computing devices can send the new device data to a rule evaluation service to identify one or more rules associated with the device configuration value a rule action service to perform an action specified in the rules. The rule action service can determine the action to perform based on the device configuration value.
US10911302B2
An operator node is configured to enable the management of nodes communicatively coupled to the operator node via a network. A selection of node objects is received by the operator node, the selected node objects including software components for inclusion within a node configuration. A configuration policy is generated based on the selected objects, the configuration policy including a set of tests (such as scripts or executables) that, when run, test for the presence of one or more of the selected node objects. A target node is scanned to determine the configuration of the target node, and the set of tests are applied to identify a set of objects identified by the policy but not installed at the target node. The target node is then re-configured to install the identified set of objects at the target node.
US10911300B2
Examples pertaining to optimization for device provisioning protocol (DPP) onboarding in wireless networks are described. An apparatus acting as a controller of a wireless network receives, from a smart device, information related to a unconfigured device as an enrollee not yet onboarded into the wireless network. The apparatus then causes a plurality of configured agents in the wireless network to participate simultaneously in attempting to onboard the unconfigured device via a DPP mechanism responsive to receiving the information related to the unconfigured device.
US10911293B2
A terminal that performs wireless communication with an external apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires wireless communication information about the external apparatus, a transmission unit that transmits a wireless communication connection request to the external apparatus based on the external apparatus' wireless communication information in a case where the external apparatus' wireless communication information matches wireless communication information about the terminal, and a notification unit that notifies of a mismatch of the external apparatus' wireless communication information and the terminal's wireless communication information in a case where the external apparatus' wireless communication information does not match the terminal's wireless communication information.
US10911290B2
A securely pre-coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (SP-OFDM) system includes a transmitter configured to transmit a secure transmit signal through a dynamic constellation and a receiver configured to recover the original signal from the received secure transmit signal. It is aimed to reinforce the physical layer security of wireless communications under hostile interference. Potential applications include 4G and 5G communication systems, ASTC3.0 HDTV systems, WiFi systems, and any future wireless systems that utilize OFDM.
US10911285B2
This application relates to the field of wireless communications technologies, and discloses a signal sending method. The method includes: mapping, onto a time frequency resource, a first signal that is in frequency domain and that corresponds to a subcarrier spacing parameter in a subcarrier spacing system parameter group, and generating a second signal that is in time domain and that corresponds to the first signal; and sending the second signal to a second network device. First signals corresponding to the different subcarrier spacing system parameters occupy a same quantity of subcarriers, and second signals corresponding to the different subcarrier spacing system parameters occupy a same time length T.
US10911284B1
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, and machine-readable mediums which optimize one or more metrics of a communication system by intentionally changing symbols in a bitstream after encoding by an error correction coder, but prior to transmission. The symbols may be changed to meet a communication metric optimization goal, such as decreasing a high PAPR, reducing an error rate, reducing an average power level (to save battery), or altering some other communication metric. The symbol that is intentionally changed is then detected by the receiver as an error and corrected by the receiver utilizing the error correction coding.
US10911278B2
A transmission method includes mapping processing, phase change processing, and transmission processing. In the mapping processing, a plurality of first modulation signals and a plurality of second modulation signals are generated using a first mapping scheme, and a plurality of third modulation signals and a plurality of fourth modulation signals are generated using a second mapping scheme. In the phase change processing, a phase change is performed on the plurality of second modulation signals and the plurality of fourth modulation signals using all N kinds of phases. In the transmission processing, the first modulation signals and the second modulation signals are respectively transmitted at a same frequency and a same time from different antennas, and the third modulation signals and the fourth modulation signals are respectively transmitted at a same frequency and a same time from the different antennas.
US10911273B2
A vehicle communication system includes a lead communication device wirelessly communicating command messages to remote communication devices onboard a vehicle system during a messaging cycle. The lead device receives reply messages from the remote devices during the messaging cycle in response to the command messages. The lead device receives a status signal from at least one of the remote devices during a guard interval that follows completion of the messaging cycle. The lead device communicates the command message and receives the reply messages using analog modulation or digital modulation. The lead communication device also receives the status signal using the other of the analog modulation or the digital modulation. The command messages, the reply messages, and the status signal are communicated using a designated frequency channel.
US10911271B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station may generate a sequence for use in scrambling a PBCH. The base station may then partition the sequence into sub-sequences based on a number of SS blocks in a SS block group. The base station may then apply each sub-sequence of the sequence as a scrambling code for the bits associated with the PBCH of a different SS block within a SS block group and transmit at least one SS block scrambled with one of the sub-sequences. A user equipment may decode the PBCH based on the sequence.
US10911265B2
The invention generally relates to a gateway device (102) that operates as a hub or base station to provide for remote monitoring and control of a barrier operator (104,106) such as is used to operate a powered garage door. The device (102) includes a processor; a data storage device; a network interface for connecting the gateway device to a computer network (114); an operator interface for communicating with the barrier operator; and a computer program, which when executed on the processor: permits access to the gateway device over the computer network by way of a mobile application installed on a mobile device (108); transmits control signals received over the computer network to the barrier operator (104,106); and receives monitoring signals from the barrier operator (104,106).
US10911260B2
A link control circuit (10) includes a plurality of hardware processing units serving as an uplink parser unit (11) configured to output, as an event, the contents of link control notified by an uplink control frame, a timer unit (12) configured to start/stop a timer and output a link event in accordance with expiration of the timer, a frame generation unit (13) configured to generate a downlink control frame containing the contents of link control, and a state management unit (15) configured to manage the state of the link in accordance with these events, and instruct the timer unit to start/stop the timer and the frame generation unit to generate the downlink control frame in accordance with the state of the link, thereby controlling connection establishment, maintenance, and disconnection of the link. Each of the hardware processing units includes a memory configured to store an externally changeable internal program describing a corresponding processing operation, and a processor configured to execute the corresponding processing operation in accordance with the internal program.
US10911249B2
A first communication request including a digital certificate of a first node sent from the first node in a blockchain is received at a second node in the blockchain, where the digital certificate of the first node is stored in the blockchain. Certificate validity information stored in the blockchain and associated with the nodes in the blockchain is accessed by the second node based on the first communication request, where the certificate validity information reflects the validity status information of digital certificates of the nodes in the blockchain. A verification of whether the digital certificate of the first node is valid is performed by the second node based on the first communication request and the accessed certificate validity information. A communication connection to the first node is established by the second node in response to verifying that the digital certificate of the first node is valid.
US10911247B2
The present application provides a photon-based CA authentication method, including: receiving, by a photon-based CA authentication terminal, an optical signal from a photon terminal, where the optical signal includes a user ID; verifying the user ID included in the optical signal; and providing, in response to successful user ID verification, a user certificate to a client to perform CA certificate authentication.
US10911237B2
A means of using a virally connected network of friends to assist each other to recover encrypted data should any single person lose their encryption key, without noticeably risking the security of the encrypted data to any persons with access to the encrypted data or to the Internet, including the virally connected network of friends.
US10911230B2
A method begins or continues with deleting a security code from random access memory (RAM) of a computing device when the computing device is inactive. The security code is required for functionality of the computing device and is stored in the RAM. The method continues with detecting a reactivation request. In response to the reactivation request, the method continues with obtaining authentication data from an activation requester, generating a set of blinded random numbers, and requesting a plurality of encoded data slices from a plurality of other devices. The method continues with performing a sequence of operations on the plurality of encoded data slices using the authentication data and the set of blinded random numbers to produce a recovered security code. When the recovered security code is verified, the method continues with storing the recovered security code as the security code in RAM and activating operation of the computing device.
US10911229B2
A device which can be implemented on a single packaged integrated circuit or a multichip module comprises a plurality of non-volatile memory cells, and logic to use a physical unclonable function to produce a key and to store the key in a set of non-volatile memory cells in the plurality of non-volatile memory cells. The physical unclonable function can use entropy derived from non-volatile memory cells in the plurality of non-volatile memory cells to produce a key. Logic is described to disable changes to data in the set of non-volatile memory cells, and thereby freeze the key after it is stored in the set.
US10911227B2
A method for facilitating the broadcast of encrypted data includes: storing a content encryption key and a server private key of a first cryptographic key pair; storing a recipient profile, the profile being related to a recipient computing device including a recipient public key of a second cryptographic key pair; receiving a broadcast request from a broadcast computing device including an broadcast message encrypted using the content encryption key; identifying a unique identifier; transmitting a data message including the encrypted broadcast message and the unique identifier; receiving a key request from the recipient computing device including the unique identifier; verifying that the unique identifier included in the key request is equivalent to the identified unique identifier; encrypting the content encryption key using the recipient public key; and transmitting the encrypted content encryption key to the recipient computing device.
US10911223B2
A method and system of creating and managing encryption keys that facilitates sharing of encrypted content. The system may include an information management system with a key management server and a computing device having an encryption service module. The encryption service module detects operations at the computing device and encrypts a document with an encryption key created using user information and a secret.
US10911217B1
Encryption of communications includes receiving plain text from a computing device and encrypting the plain text with knight's tour encryption. The knight's tour encryption includes generating a knight's tour table based upon a starting position, generating a cipher template by mapping Unicode characters of a standard state table to the knight's tour table, and mapping the plain text to indices of a first cipher template. The knight's tour encryption further includes generating a silent password, mapping the silent password to indices of a second cipher template, and adding the password indices of the first cipher template to the silent password indices of the second cipher template resulting in cipher indices. The knight's tour encryption further includes mapping the cipher indices to the first cipher template, and generating a cipher text string from the Unicode characters associated with the cipher indices mapped to the first cipher template.
US10911215B2
Exploiting the wealth of information in the intricate structure of a network where vertices are interconnected through edges—to insure data integrity between communication partners, where the partners gauge the projected security through the size and complexity of the deployed shared network.
US10911210B2
A system to support Time Division Duplex (TDD) Full Duplex (FDX) with a remote Duty Cycle (DS) framer may be provided. The system may comprise a core and a Remote PHY Device (RPD). The core may comprise a Downstream (DS) Quality-of-Service (QoS) scheduler and a DS duty cycle rate regulator. The DS duty cycle rate regulator may comprise a plurality of token buckets and a plurality of data framing queues. The RPD may comprise a plurality of TG queue blocks and switching logic.
US10911205B2
Disclosed in the present application are a method and device for feeding back downlink data. When a processing duration of an UE is shortened, feedback timing information for feeding back downlink data may be adaptively changed. The method comprises: determining a processing capability of an UE, the processing capability referring to a processing duration that the UE takes to process the received downlink data to determine whether said downlink data needs to be retransmitted; according to the determined processing capability, determining the feedback timing information of the UE feeding back the downlink data.
US10911204B2
A first set of control decoding candidates corresponding to a first transmit time interval length in a subframe can be monitored when a device is not configured to communicate using a second transmit time interval length in the subframe. The second transmit time interval length can be shorter than the first transmit time interval length. A second set of control decoding candidates corresponding to the first transmit time interval length in the subframe can be monitored when the device is configured to communicate using the second transmit time interval length in the subframe. The first and the second sets can be different. A number of candidates in the second set can be less than a number of candidates in the first set.
US10911202B2
Disclosed are an uplink and downlink transmission resource allocation method and device. In this application, a first channel is transmitted on a specified time-frequency resource within a first channel transmitting period according to the first channel transmitting period. The first channel is at least used for notifying allocation information of an uplink transmission resource and a downlink transmission resource within the first channel transmitting period or an effective time period of the first channel, so that dynamic partitioning and notification of the uplink transmission resource and the downlink transmission resource are achieved.
US10911200B2
A method and system for operating a user equipment (UE) wherein a first set of radio access procedures are supported when the UE is in a first operating state, and a second set of radio access procedures are supported when the UE is in a second operating state.
US10911195B2
Method for uplink transmission and reception in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor
Disclosed is a method for uplink transmission and reception in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. Particularly, a method for performing uplink transmission by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes: receiving sounding reference signal (SRS) resource configuration information form a base station, in which the SRS resource configuration information includes SRS resource information and association configuration information between a first SRS and a second SRS that is a target of the SRS resource configuration information; and transmitting precoded the second SRS to the base station on an SRS resource indicated by the SRS resource information, and the second SRS may be transmitted based on the precoding applied to the first SRS indicated by the association configuration information.
US10911190B2
During operation, an interface circuit in an electronic device may receive, from a second electronic device (such as an access point in a WLAN), an uplink trigger frame that may specify an access category. In response to the uplink trigger frame, the electronic device may first include data associated with the specified access category in one or more frames, and then may transmit the one or more frames to the second electronic device. Moreover, when all the data associated with the specified access category has been transmitted or when there is no data associated with the specified access category, and when there is leftover time in an allocation associated with the uplink trigger frame, the interface circuit may transmit the one or more frames to the second electronic device with additional data associated with another access category that is different from the specified access category.
US10911189B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus relating to transmitting uplink control information (UCI) in a short duration. In certain aspects a method includes identifying resources, within an uplink short burst (ULSB) region within a transmission time interval (TTI), for transmitting at least a portion of uplink control information (UCI), the UCI including at least one of one scheduling request (SR) bit and one or more acknowledgment (ACK) bits for acknowledging or negatively acknowledging downlink transmissions. In certain aspects, the method also includes transmitting the UCI using the identified resources.
US10911185B2
A wireless communication device includes a receiver and a transmitter. The receiver is configured to receive a plurality of first frames. The plurality of first frames are multiplexed and transmitted. The transmitter is configured to multiplex and transmit a second frame and a third frame. The second frame includes acknowledgement responses that indicate reception success or failure for at least two of the plurality of first frames.
US10911184B2
A first device may establish, with a second device, a logical link associated with short-range communications. The first device may receive a first packet carried on the logical link. When the first PDU data fails the decoding check, the first device may determine, based on the logical link, a first operational mode from a plurality of operational modes for error correction, the first device may receive a set of retransmission packets on the logical link, each of the set of retransmission packets including respective PDU data that is a retransmission of the first PDU data, and the first device may apply, based on the first PDU data included in the first packet and the respective PDU data included in each of the set of retransmission packets, the first operational mode for error correction.
US10911182B2
An information processing method performed by an information processing system including a storage device to process a plurality of data frames flowing in an in-vehicle network including at least one electronic control unit includes a receiving step of sequentially receiving a plurality of data frames flowing in the in-vehicle network, a frame collection step of recording, in a reception log held in the storage device, reception interval information indicating reception intervals between the plurality of data frames as frame information, a feature acquisition step of acquiring, from the reception interval information, a feature relating to distribution of the reception intervals between the plurality of data frames, and an unauthorized data presence determination step of determining the presence/absence of an unauthorized data frame among the plurality of data frames.
US10911169B2
There is provided a bounce rate measuring apparatus for measuring a bounce rate of a broadcasting service using service provision information generated based on a viewer's behavior of selecting a channel and leaving the channel. For example, the bounce rate related to a specific channel of the broadcasting service may be measured, the bounce rate related to a specific receiver may be measured, or the bounce rate related to a specific content provided through the broadcasting service may be measured. In addition, it is possible to more efficiently evaluate the quality of the broadcasting service or understand a viewer's interest based on the measured bounce rates of the broadcasting service.
US10911163B2
A method for locating the source of a passive intermodulation (PIM) fault in a radio frequency (RF) system, the method comprising: a) generating a PIM fault fingerprint database by: modelling an RF network; defining a plurality of PIM fault patterns for the modelled RF network by defining PIM faults at one or more sources; simulating a received RF signal for each respective PIM fault pattern; generating the PIM fault fingerprint database in dependence on the simulated received RF signals for each defined PIM fault pattern; b) measuring an RF signal for a real network having a PIM fault and abstracting the measured RF signal to define a given signal; c) searching and matching the given signal using the fingerprint database to determine the PIM fault pattern; and d) locating the source of the PIM fault, or giving a further measuring guideline in dependence on the determined PIM fault pattern.
US10911161B2
A transmitter for an RF communications system, that includes an auxiliary receiver for capturing transmit signal data for use in compensating/correcting transmit signal impairments (such as for DPD, QMC, LOL). The transmitter (such as Zero IF) includes analog chain elements that introduce transmit signal impairments (such as PA nonlinearities). The auxiliary receiver is configured to receive loopback transmit RF signals, and includes an RF direct sampling ADC to convert the loopback transmit RF signals to digital transmit RF signals. Digital down conversion circuitry is configured to downconvert the digital transmit RF signals to captured digital transmit baseband signals, and data capture circuitry is configured to generate the transmit signal data based on the captured digital transmit baseband signals.
US10911144B2
An LED light and communication system is in communication with a broadband over power line communications system. The LED light and communication system includes at least one optical transceiver. The optical transceiver includes a light support having a plurality of light emitting diodes and at least one photodetector attached thereto, and a processor. The processor is in communication with the light emitting diodes and the at least one photodetector. The processor is constructed and arranged to generate a communication signal.
US10911129B1
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: an antenna switch to receive a first radio frequency (RF) signal from a first antenna and a second RF signal from a second antenna and controllable to output a selected one of the first and second RF signals; an RF circuit to receive and process the first and second RF signals; at least one mixer to downconvert the first and second RF signals to first and second baseband signals; and an antenna diversity control circuit to receive sub-symbol portions of a first plurality of symbols of the first baseband signal and sub-symbol portions of a second plurality of symbols of the second baseband signal, and control the antenna switch to output one of the first and second RF signals, based at least in part on one or more of the sub-symbol portions of the first and second pluralities of symbols.
US10911123B2
For Type-II codebook compression, methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed. One apparatus includes a transceiver that receives a reference signal and a processor that identifies a set of beams based on the reference signal. The processor generates a set of coefficients associated with each beam in the set of beams based on the reference signal and identifies a set of tap indices, where the set of tap indices is a common subset of coefficient indices that is the same over the set of beams. The processor generates a combinatorial codeword representing the set of tap indices and reports the combinatorial codeword for the set of tap indices as part of a CSI feedback report.
US10911121B2
A communication system includes a transmitter and remote receivers having each a set of receive elements. The transmitter includes a preprocessor and a set of transmit elements which radiate shaped beams including probing signals through a multipath communication channel. The preprocessor computes channel state information based on received responses to the probing signals, generate composited transfer functions based on the channel state information, generate the shaped beams based on the composited transfer functions, and process a plurality of input signals to be transmitted via the shaped beams to the remote receivers. The channel state information includes transfer functions, each characterizing at least one propagation path from one transmit element to one receive element. Each composited transfer function is a linear combination of the transfer functions. Each receive element is identified by a user element identification index in the transfer functions. Each remote receiver is identified by a user identification index.
US10911118B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of communicating a Physical Layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU). For example, an Enhanced Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) (EDMG) station (STA) may be configured to generate a Physical Layer (PHY) PPDU; generate one or more PPDU waveforms corresponding to one or more respective transmit chains for digital beamforming transmission of the PPDU; and transmit the PPDU via the one or more transmit chains over a channel bandwidth of at least 2.16 Gigahertz (GHz) in a frequency band above 45 GHz.
US10911116B2
A wireless communication apparatus transmits a beacon frame during a beacon transmission interval (BTI), receives a transmission sector sweep (SSW) frame from another wireless communication apparatus, during a beamforming training (BFT) period following the BTI, extracts, in a case where information relating to a discovery request is included in the transmission SSW frame, information relating to a first transmission sector that is selected by the other wireless communication apparatus from among the transmission SSW frames, selects a second transmission sector from transmission sectors used by the other wireless communication apparatus, the transmission sectors being included in the transmission SSW frames, transmits a feedback frame including information regarding the selected second transmission sector, using the first transmission sector during the BFT period, and transmits a probe response frame including information regarding the selected second transmission sector, using the first transmission sector, during a data transmission period following the BFT period.
US10911111B2
A method of a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system is provided, The method comprises: receiving, from a user equipment (UE), a 1st layer sounding reference signal (SRS); arranging the 1st layer SRS based on two antenna polarizations of an antenna system of the BS; identifying a dominant direction of a channel based on the 1st layer SRS; identifying a coefficient between two antenna polarizations based on the 1st layer SRS; constructing a 2-layer channel matrix based on the identified dominant direction and the identified coefficient; and transmitting, to the UE, a downlink signal via the antenna system based on the constructed 2-layer channel matrix.
US10911109B2
This application disclose a method for indicating and determining a precoding vector related to precoding technologies to increase an overall system performance gain. The method may include: generating indication information, and sending the indication information. The indication information is used to indicate a plurality of component vectors of a precoding vector and a combination coefficient of each component vector. The combination coefficient of the component vector includes at least one of the following types: a wideband amplitude coefficient, a narrowband amplitude coefficient, and a narrowband phase coefficient.
US10911107B2
A beam refinement method and a communications device, where the method includes determining, by a first device, a format of an enhanced Beam Refinement Protocol (eBRP) packet, where the eBRP packet includes a training field, the training field includes an eBRP channel estimation (eBRP-CE) sub-field and an eBRP training (eBRP-TRN) sub-field, and a ratio of a quantity of Gray codes composing the eBRP-CE sub-field in the training field to a quantity of Gray codes composing the eBRP-TRN sub-field in the training field is less than 9:20, and sending, by the first device, the eBRP packet to a second device based on the determined format of the eBRP packet. Hence, an effective proportion of the eBRP-TRN sub-field in the training field can be increased such that more Antenna Weight Vector (AWV) configurations can be attempted within a same period of time.
US10911096B1
A method and system for providing sub-band whitening are herein provided. According to one embodiment, a method estimating an interference whitening (IW) factor based on a legacy-long training field (LLTF) signal, updating the estimated IW factor during transmission of a data symbol, and scaling the data symbol based on the updated IW factor and the estimated IW factor.
US10911095B2
A correlation apparatus including a sequence generator configured to generate a non-repeating preamble sequence which changes during each of a plurality of time epochs. The correlation apparatus includes a fallthrough correlator having a tapped delay line for receiving a set of complex-valued samples of a received signal. Each of a plurality of complex multipliers of the correlator is coupled to one of the delay line taps. Each multiplier multiplies, during one of the plurality of time epochs, one of the complex-valued samples of the received signal by one of a plurality of matched filter coefficients corresponding to the preamble sequence. A summation module includes a plurality of adders where a last of the plurality of adders outputs a correlation signal. A peak value of the correlation signals exceeds a threshold value when a sufficient correlation exists between the received signal and the values of the preamble sequence.
US10911092B2
A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and a method for operating the DAC are disclosed. The DAC receives, over a first channel, a control signal that is transmitted in accordance with a binary protocol. The DAC also receives, over a second channel different than the first channel, data that is transmitted in accordance with a multilevel communication protocol that is different than the binary protocol. The DAC determines a plurality of first and second voltages based on the received data and identifies, based on the control signal, a time when data transmission or reception is switched between first and second antennas. In response to identifying, based on the control signal, the time when data transmission or reception is switched, the DAC outputs the determined plurality of first voltages to a first antenna tuning circuit or the determined plurality of second voltages to a second antenna tuning circuit.
US10911086B2
A receiver according to an embodiment includes a receiver circuit to receive a transition in a first direction, a second transition after the first transition in a second direction, and a third transition after the second transition in the first direction and a fourth transition in the second direction of a signal. The receiver circuit is adapted to determine a first time period between the first and third transitions and to determine a second time period between the second and fourth transitions. The receiver circuit is adapted to determine a datum based on at least one of the first time period and the second time period. Furthermore, the receiver is adapted to indicate an error, if the determined first and second time periods do not fulfil a predetermined verification relationship.
US10911084B2
The present disclosure discloses a multichannel PIM digital cancellation circuit, including a first frequency-shift variable rate module, a second frequency-shift variable rate module, a first conversion circuit, a second conversion circuit, a duplexer, a second transmission duplexer, a channel combiner, a third conversion circuit, a cascaded filter circuit, a PIM canceller, a feedback circuit, and a first adder. The cascaded filter circuit compensates for channel responses such as a delay difference or a phase difference generated after a transmit signal passes through a digital domain downlink, a digital-to-analog converter, and an analog domain downlink; the cascaded filter circuit simulates a group delay unevenness characteristic of the duplexer in the multichannel PIM digital cancellation circuit; a cascaded filter fits an S parameter of the channel combiner in the multichannel PIM digital cancellation circuit, and precisely fits a combining process of the channel combiner in a digital domain, so that a signal capable of canceling a PIM interference signal of a multi-transmission and multi-reception inter-mediate radio frequency system that includes the channel combiner is finally generated in the present disclosure.
US10911076B2
An antenna device, including an antenna element constituted by a conductor, having a tubular shape, and including a long notch section formed to extend in an axial direction in at least a part of a side surface, a capacitor formed to bridge end portions of the notch section in a short direction, substantially at a center of the notch section in a longitudinal direction, and a power feed point formed at a position which is apart from the capacitor to a side of one end portion of the notch section in the longitudinal direction and corresponds to a side of one end portion of the notch section in the short direction.
US10911072B2
Systems and methods for enabling a WLAN client to communicate simultaneously over more than one band at a time are described, where each client has at least one radio that is operational in each supported band. Load balancing based on traffic requirements optimizes the use of the multiple bands.
US10911071B2
Apparatus, method and system to support codes with variable codeword lengths and information lengths
The present disclosure includes systems and methods for supporting polar codewords with variable polar codeword lengths. Variable codeword length codewords are communicated using an n-bit encoder/n-bit decoder having n inputs and n corresponding outputs. Each input and each corresponding output is associated with a bit index. A set of bit indices to be shortened are selected. The encoder encodes n input bits to obtain n output bits. Each output bit that is associated with a bit index from the set of bit indices to be shortened is ignored. A codeword is generated from all of the remaining output bits.
US10911067B2
Provided is a quantum error correction code generating method using a graph state. According to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a quantum error correction code generating method using a graph state: includes: generating a graph state representing an adjacency relationship between a plurality of qubits including at least one entangled qubit (ebit); generating a first stabilizer generator which corresponds to the graph state and is configured by a plurality of stabilizers for detecting errors of the plurality of qubits; and generating at least one logical Z operator used for a phase flip operation of a codeword, at least one logical X operator used for a bit flip operation of a codeword, and a second stabilizer generator which is a sub set of the first stabilizer generator, based on the first stabilizer generator and the at least one entangled qubit.
US10911066B2
The present disclosure describes methods and systems that provide for content based dynamic data compression. During a training stage a plurality of training sets are compressed using multiple data compression techniques, and each training data set is associated with a most effective compression technique. Statistical features can be extracted from each of the training data sets with consideration of the most effective compression techniques and are saved as a compression parameters file. During a working stage, individual data blocks within a telemetry data set are compressed using a data compression technique selected for the data block in light of the statistical feature presented in the compression parameters file, and the compressed data blocks are written to a compressed data set, along with encoding tags that identify the compression technique used on each data block. During a consumption stage, the compressed data blocks are decompressed using techniques identified by the encoding tags.
US10911061B2
Demodulation circuitry includes an input terminal configured to be coupled to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and configured to receive a plurality of ADC outputs. The plurality of ADC outputs are generated based on resolver outputs. The demodulation circuitry also includes a rectifier configured to rectify the plurality of ADC outputs. Rectifying the plurality of ADC outputs preserves a phase of the plurality of ADC outputs. The demodulation circuitry includes amplitude determination circuitry configured to determine, based on the rectified plurality of ADC outputs, demodulated amplitude values corresponding to the resolver outputs. The demodulation circuitry further includes angle computation circuitry configured to generate position outputs based on the demodulated amplitude values.
US10911060B1
Apparatus and associated methods relate to a time-interleaved integrating sampling front-end circuit using integrating buffers. In an illustrative example, a circuit may include N sampling layers of circuits, an ith sampling layer of circuits of the N sampling layers of circuits may include: (a) Xi buffers configured to receive an analog signal, Xi≥1, and, (b) Yi track-and-hold circuits, each track-and-hold circuit of the Yi track-and-hold circuits is coupled to an output of a corresponding buffer of the X buffers, Yi≥1, at least one buffer of the Xi buffers may include an integrating buffer, N≥i≥1. By implementing integrating buffers, a faster linear type of step settling response may be obtained as opposed to a slower exponential type of settling response.
US10911053B2
A PLL includes a phase frequency detector (PFD) receiving an input signal and feedback signal, and producing a control signal. A charge pump receives the control signal and produces an initial VCO control. A loop filter generates a fine VCO control and intermediate output based upon the initial VCO control. A coarse control circuit includes an integrator having a first input receiving the intermediate output, a second input, and generating a coarse VCO control, a first switch coupling a reference voltage to the second input, a buffer buffering output of the integrator, and a second switch coupling output of the integrator to the second input of the integrator. A VCO receives the fine VCO control and the coarse VCO control, and generates an output signal having a frequency based thereupon. A feedback path receives the output signal and produces the feedback signal.
US10911050B2
A frequency reference oscillator device and method of providing a frequency reference signal. The oscillator device includes a first oscillator including a first resonator having first long-term stability and a first frequency-vs-temperature turnover temperature, the first oscillator being capable of providing a first frequency signal. Further, the device includes and a second oscillator including a second resonator having second long-term stability, which is inferior to the first long-term stability, and a second frequency-vs-temperature turnover temperature, the second oscillator being capable of providing a second frequency signal. There is also provided a thermostatic controller for adjusting the temperature of the first resonator essentially to said first turnover temperature and the temperature of the second resonator essentially to said second turnover temperature, and a stability control circuit configured to use the first frequency signal for adjusting the second oscillator for providing a temperature stabilized and long-term stabilized output frequency signal.
US10911046B2
A multi-channel capacitive sensor for measuring the capacitances of a plurality of sense electrodes to a system reference potential. The sensor comprises a sample capacitor having a first terminal and a second terminal, a first diode having a first terminal coupled to the second terminal of the sample capacitor and a second terminal coupled to a first sense electrode, and a second diode having a first terminal coupled to the second terminal of the sample capacitor and a second terminal coupled to a second sense electrode. The sample capacitor and diodes are coupled to a control circuit, e.g. implemented in a microcontroller. The control circuit is operable to apply a drive signal, e.g. a series of voltage pulses, to the first terminal of the sample capacitor while simultaneously applying a bias signal to the second terminal of one or other of the diodes to prevent the diode from conducting the drive signal. Thus charge transfer techniques can be used to measure multiple capacitances while sharing a common sample capacitor. This helps reduce inter-channel drift. Further measurement channels may be added by providing further diodes and corresponding sense electrodes. With three or more channels the scheme requires only one additional control circuit connection per additional channel.
US10911037B2
Embodiments described herein provide a system having phase synchronized local oscillator paths. The system includes a first circuit, which in turn includes a first counter configured to generate a first counter output signal in response to a first clock signal controlling the first counter. The first circuit also includes a first phase-locked loop coupled to the first counter. The first phase-locked loop is configured to receive the first counter output signal as a first synchronization clock for the first phase-locked loop and to generate a first output signal having rising edges aligned according to the first counter output signal.
US10911030B2
There is provided a drive circuit for turning on/off a power element which controls a main current flow between a first main electrode and a second main electrode in response to a drive signal applied to a control electrode. The drive circuit includes first and second semiconductor switch elements which are connected in series and interposed between a power supply terminal and a ground terminal, a series connection point thereof being connected to the control electrode, third and fourth semiconductor switch elements which are connected in series and interposed between the power supply terminal and the ground terminal, a series connection point thereof being connected to the second main electrode, and a control circuit which controls turn-on/off of the power element by turning on/off the first to fourth semiconductor switch elements. The first semiconductor switch element has a larger on-resistance than the second to fourth semiconductor switch elements.
US10911027B2
A filter includes: a series-arm circuit; a first parallel-arm circuit connected to a node and a ground; and a second parallel-arm circuit connected to a node and the ground. The first parallel-arm circuit includes a first parallel-arm resonator, and a first switch circuit connected in series to the first parallel-arm resonator. The second parallel-arm circuit includes a second parallel-arm resonator, and a second switch circuit connected in series to the second parallel-arm resonator. The first switch circuit includes a first switch element that includes one or more transistors. The second switch circuit includes a second switch element that includes one or more transistors. A gate width of each of the one or more transistors included in the first switch element is greater than a gate width of at least one of the one or more transistors included in the second switch element.
US10911010B2
A class-D amplifier according to an embodiment includes a PWM modulator, a first output transistor group that includes two transistors complementarily operating and includes a first connection point between the two transistors as an output terminal, a second output transistor group that includes two transistors complementarily operating and includes a second connection point between the two output transistors as an output terminal, and a selector configured to selectively provide a PWM pulse signal to one of the first output transistor group and the second output transistor group. A system that includes the second output transistor group, a low-pass filter, and a load connected to the low-pass filter configures a series resonance circuit.
US10911003B2
A Doherty amplifier includes a carrier amplifier, a peaking amplifier, and a phase compensation circuit. The carrier amplifier 11 includes a main amplifying element and a parasitic element, and the peaking amplifier includes an auxiliary amplifying element and a parasitic element. The phase compensation circuit has a negative electrical length that allows a total electrical length of a signal transmission path starting from an output source of the main amplifying element to a power combiner to become 180°×N−90° where N is a positive integer. In addition, a signal transmission path starting from an output source of the auxiliary amplifying element to the power combiner has an electrical length of 180°×M−180° where M is a positive integer.
US10911000B2
A power amplifier module includes first and second amplifiers, a first bias circuit, and an adjusting circuit. The first amplifier amplifies a first signal. The second amplifier amplifies a second signal based on an output signal from the first amplifier. The first bias circuit supplies a bias current to the first amplifier via a current path on the basis of a bias drive signal. The adjusting circuit includes an adjusting transistor having first, second, and third terminals. A first voltage based on a power supply voltage is supplied to the first terminal. A second voltage based on the bias drive signal is supplied to the second terminal. The third terminal is connected to the current path. The adjusting circuit adjusts the bias current on the basis of the power supply voltage supplied to the first amplifier.
US10910994B2
A method for detecting a fault in a photovoltaic module includes determining a matrix of temperatures of the photovoltaic module, the matrix being obtained after dividing the module into a plurality of thermal zones and assigning a temperature to each thermal zone; detecting at least one hot thermal zone from among the plurality of zones of the module; determining a surface area ratio between the surface area of the detected hot thermal zone and the total surface area of the module; performing a first comparison of the surface area ratio with a coefficient dependent on the number of bypass diodes present in the module; and determining the type of fault from the result obtained in said first comparison.
US10910986B2
A motor controller for an electric motor includes an enclosure and a processing device, memory device, and wireless transmitter disposed within the enclosure. The processing device is configured to control the electric motor and collect operating information from the electric motor during operation of the electric motor. The memory device is communicatively coupled to the processing device. The memory device is configured to receive and store the operating information collected during operation of the electric motor. The wireless transmitter is communicatively coupled to the processing device and the memory device. The wireless transmitter is configured to transmit the operating information stored on the memory device to a computing device disposed remotely from the electric motor.
US10910969B2
The present disclosure relates to a fan motor control device comprising a control signal input for applying a rotational speed control voltage as the control signal input signal and a control signal output for picking off a control signal output signal for connecting to a fan motor, where modulation means are connected downstream from the control signal input, said modulation means being designed to convert the control signal input signal into a digital and/or pulsed modulation input signal, and isolated transmission means are connected downstream therefrom, which transfer the digital and/or pulsed modulation input signal into a digital and/or pulsed modulation output signal isolated from the control signal input, which is converted into the control signal output signal that can be picked off on the control signal output by means of demodulation means connected downstream from the transmission means.
US10910968B2
The present disclosure provides a motor drive device and a motor drive system for improving a control stability despite an imbalance in zero crossing points in a sensorless motor of which position of a rotor is estimated by a counter electromotive force. The motor drive device includes: a position detector configured to detect a rotational position of a rotor of a motor by detecting a plurality of zero crossing points of a counter electromotive force induced in the motor; and a controller configured to control the motor by estimating a phase change timing based on a time interval between a current zero crossing point and a previous zero crossing point of a same state as the current zero crossing point among the plurality of zero crossing points detected by the position detector.
US10910958B2
In a control apparatus, a voltage obtainer obtains an alternating-current voltage having a polarity across first and second alternating-current terminals. An overcurrent determiner determines whether a target current flowing through the first and second alternating-current terminals is in an overcurrent state. A controller alternately turns on a first set of first and fourth switches and a second set of second and third switches in accordance with the polarity of the alternating-current voltage. The controller changes a switching operation of at least one of the first to fourth switch being in an on state to thereby reduce the target current flowing through the first and second alternating-current terminals upon determination that the target current flowing through the first and second alternating-current terminals is in the overcurrent state.
US10910957B1
The present disclosure involves a two stage inverter, a system for electrical power conversation, and a method of converting electrical power using silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs). One example implementation includes using two or more SiC MOSFETs in series with each MOSFET having a gate terminal for triggering a state switch between an on (conducting) and off (non-conducting) state of the MOSFET. An AC terminal is connected between the series SiC MOSFETS, and the series SiC MOSFETs are connected across a DC bus and in parallel with one or more capacitors.
US10910949B2
A switching regulator including a first converting stage and a second converting stage may be provided. The first converting stage may include a first output capacitor connected between a first output node and ground, the first converting stage configured to receive a first input voltage and provide an output voltage by adjusting a level of the output voltage based on a first dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) rate relating to a first load condition of a processing circuit. The second converting stage may include a second output capacitor connected between a second output node and the ground, the second converting stage configured to receive a second input voltage and provide the output voltage by adjusting the level of the output voltage based on a second DVS rate relating to a second load condition of the processing circuit, which is heavier than the first load condition of the processing circuit.
US10910946B2
An apparatus has a comparator circuitry (e.g., auto-zero comparator) with a first input, a second input, a third input; and an output; a first device (e.g., a low-side switch) coupled to the first and second inputs of the comparator; and a circuitry (e.g., a self-tuning logic) to generate a digital code which represents a comparator offset adjustment with reference to detection of current through a second device (e.g., an inductor), wherein the digital code (e.g., a multibit digital signal) is provided to the third input of the comparator circuitry.
US10910944B2
The present invention relates to interference suppression of interference signals from an inverter. To this end, a current-compensated inductor is provided at the input end of an inverter, in particular a pulse-controlled inverter. This current-compensated inductor is preferably arranged between a DC voltage source and an intermediate circuit capacitor of the inverter. Polyphase inductors at the AC voltage output of the inverter can be dispensed with in this way.
US10910930B2
A machine that forms the heads of coils made of rectangular wire so that it fits within the slots of the stator of an electric machine. The machine receives a coil having unformed first and second heads separated by first and second legs and applies controlled deformation to yield properly shaped heads. The machine comprises first and second leg support mechanisms for gripping the first and second legs and head-forming elements mounted to the first and second leg support mechanisms for contacting portions of the heads of the coil while the first and second legs are gripped by the leg support. Actuators are provided for causing sequential actuated movements of one of the first and second legs to force the head-forming elements into contact with different portions of the first and second heads while allowing selective free movements of the other leg in response to the actuated movements.
US10910927B2
A method of manufacturing a stator is provided. The method may include stamping steel into laminations each having an inner edge area defining a residual stress associated with a magnetic permeability. The method may also include exposing the laminations to a changing magnetic field such that, for each of the laminations, a density of resulting eddy currents is greatest near the inner edge area to heat the same relative to central areas of the lamination to decrease the residual stress and core loss.
US10910925B2
A circuit board for a motor unit equipped with a motor includes a substrate having a main surface being one of a pair of surfaces opposed to each other, and a back surface being another of the pair of surfaces, a magnetic detection element disposed in a predetermined region on an outer periphery side of the substrate on the main surface, and configured to output a detection signal in accordance with a position of a rotor of the motor, and a metal member formed between the outer periphery of the substrate and the magnetic detection element in the predetermined region on the main surface, and configured to receive a supplied ground voltage.
US10910921B2
The present invention provides a rotor position detection device including a sensor having a first chip and a second chip which are aligned with a first line and detect a change in magnetic flux in a sensing magnet, wherein the sensor has the first line which is inclined with respect to a second line passing through any one of the first chip and the second chip in a radial direction of the sensing magnet. Accordingly, the present invention provides an advantageous effect of detecting a rotational direction and a precise rotational angle of the motor by utilizing one sensor.
US10910918B2
A motor includes a rotor to rotate about a motor axis, and a stator radially outside of the rotor. The rotor includes a shaft extending along the motor axis, a rotor core surrounding the shaft from radially outside, a plate-shaped end plate at an axial end portion of the rotor core, and a cover portion at the axial end portion of the rotor core with the end plate intervening between the cover portion and the rotor core. The end plate includes a plate through hole extending in an axial direction, a first recessed portion extending radially inward from the plate through hole, and a second recessed portion extending radially outward from the plate through hole. The first recessed portion opens radially inward in the end plate. The first recessed portion includes an axially-facing opening covered with the rotor core. The second recessed portion includes an axially-facing opening including a covered portion covered with the cover portion, and an open portion not covered with the cover portion.
US10910916B2
An electric machine comprising a rotor, a stator, a plurality of bare conductors forming a plurality of windings in at least one of the stator and the rotor, and a fluid in direct physical contact with a plurality of outer surfaces of the plurality of bare conductors, wherein the fluid is electrically insulating and provides direct fluid cooling, to provide cooling for the plurality of bare conductors and electrical insulation between consecutive bare conductors of the plurality of bare conductors.
US10910915B2
A rotary electric machine system includes a rotary electric machine unit, a temperature adjustment unit, and a control unit. The rotary electric machine unit includes a rotary electric machine and a temperature detection unit. The rotary electric machine includes a stator core around which a coil is wound, and a rotor having a magnet. The temperature adjustment unit increases the temperature of the stator core. When a rotational speed of the rotary electric machine is in a predetermined high-speed rotation state, in a case in which the temperature detected by the temperature detection unit is less than a predetermined value, the control unit controls the temperature control unit to increase the temperature of the rotary electric machine.
US10910902B2
In a rotary electric machine, each of teeth of a stator core is provided with a covering portion. The covering portion of each of the teeth is made of a soft magnetic material having a lower iron loss factor than each steel plate. The covering portion of each of the teeth covers at least a part of a surface of the corresponding one of the teeth.
US10910901B2
A wound stator for a dynamo-electric machine comprising a stator stack having a unitary cylindrical yoke and a plurality of circumferentially spaced, radially inward extending stator teeth defining stator slots therebetween. A winding is formed by a strand of wire forming turns around each stator tooth, each winding including a first lead end extending from a stator slot on a first side of a respective stator tooth and a second lead end extending from a stator slot on a second side of the respective stator tooth. An insulation system is provided including an insulating structure septum extending through each stator slot between windings located on two adjacent stator teeth, the turns of each winding located between a respective stator tooth and a first surface of the insulating structure septum engaged with the winding.
US10910892B2
In the rotary electric machine according to the present invention, a plurality of core sheets include linked core sheets that include linking portions that protrude circumferentially from flange portions so as to link together tip portions of adjacent tooth portions, at least one sheet of the linked core sheets is formed such that a tooth tip portion shape is mirror-asymmetrical relative to a tooth central axis that passes through a circumferential center of the tooth portions, and a stator core is configured by laminating the linked core sheets such that circumferential positions of the linking portions are offset.
US10910888B2
A power transfer system comprises a patient transport apparatus and a power transfer device. The power transfer system provides convenience and ease of connection between a power source and the patient transport apparatus to provide power to one or more electrically powered devices on the patient transport apparatus or to provide energy for an energy storage device on the patient transport apparatus.
US10910881B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a signal detector and processor circuitry. The signal detector is configured to detect communication information based on a wireless signal. The processor circuitry is configured to determine at least one of (1) a first period to wait from a timing of when power transmission is ended to a timing of when power transmission is started, (2) a second period to wait from a timing of when the wireless signal is not detected to a timing of when power transmission is started, and (3) a third period for continuously performing power transmission. The processor circuitry is configured to transmit a power with electromagnetic wave according to at least one of the first period, the second period, and the third period.
US10910880B2
A power transmission circuit is connected to a power transmission coil having a coil aperture. The power transmission circuit includes a conductive or magnetic power-transmission-coil near member opposed to the coil aperture of the power transmission coil, and a repeating coil arranged on a side opposite to a side on which the power-transmission-coil near member is arranged with respect to the power transmission coil and coupled to the power transmission coil at least via a magnetic field. When a shortest distance between the power transmission coil and the power-transmission-coil near member is expressed as (dt1) and a shortest distance between the power transmission coil and the repeating coil is expressed as (dt2), dt2≤dt1.
US10910878B2
A wireless power transfer device includes an inverter configured to convert DC input to an AC waveform that drives a resonant circuit, a primary coil configured to generate a magnetic field, a shield material placed below the primary coil, a current sensor configured to monitor current in the primary coil, and a communications and control unit configured to communicate with a wireless power receiver device and control power transfer, wherein the primary coil consists of a single layer of which a number of turns is 12, and consists of 105 strands Litz wire of which the diameter is 0.08 mm, wherein the shield material is at least 1.5 mm thick and extends at least 2.5 mm beyond the outside of the primary coil, and wherein the primary coil and the shield material has a self-inductance 10.0 μH.
US10910863B2
A method of charging an energy storage device can be provided by wirelessly coupling to a rotating member contained in a housing using a coil attached to an exterior of the housing and charging an energy storage device using a current induced in the coil.
US10910858B2
Systems and methods for charging and discharging a plurality of batteries are described herein. In some embodiments, a system includes a battery module, an energy storage system electrically coupled to the battery module, a power source, and a controller. The energy storage system is operable in a first operating state in which energy is transferred from the energy storage system to the battery module to charge the battery module, and a second operating state in which energy is transferred from the battery module to the energy storage system to discharge the battery module. The power source electrically coupled to the energy storage system and is configured to transfer energy from the power source to the energy storage system based on an amount of stored energy in the energy storage system. The controller is operably coupled to the battery module and is configured to monitor and control a charging state of the battery module.
US10910856B2
A discharge apparatus is provided. A second discharge path is provided by a second discharge circuit started by a voltage across on a first discharge path provided by a first discharge circuit, so as to discharge a load capacitor.
US10910853B2
A quick charging method, a power adapter and a mobile terminal are provided. The method is applied to the power adapter, the power adapter is coupled to the mobile terminal through a USB interface, a power line in the USB interface is used by the power adapter to charge the mobile terminal, a data line in the USB interface is used by the power source adapter to conduct a bidirectional communication with the mobile terminal, and the power adapter supports a common charging mode and a quick charging mode, charging current of the quick charging mode is greater than that of the common charging mode. The method includes: conducting a bidirectional communication with the mobile terminal to determine to charge the mobile terminal in the quick charging mode; and adjusting charging current to charging current corresponding to the quick charging mode to charge the mobile terminal.
US10910852B2
The present disclosure discloses a charging system, a charging method and a power adapter. The system includes a power adapter and a terminal. The power adapter includes a first rectifier, a switch unit, a transformer, a second rectifier, a sampling unit, and a control unit. The control unit outputs a control signal to the switch unit, and adjusts a duty ratio of the control signal according to coupled sampling performed by the sampling unit at an auxiliary winding, such that a third voltage outputted by the second rectifier meets a charging requirement. The terminal includes a battery. When the power adapter is coupled to the terminal, the third voltage is applied to the battery.
US10910843B2
An electronic circuit is disclosed. The electronic circuit includes a GaN substrate, a first power supply node on the substrate, an output node, a signal node, and an output component on the substrate, where the output component is configured to generate a voltage at the output node based at least in part on a voltage at the signal node. The electronic circuit also includes a capacitor coupled to the signal node, where, the capacitor is configured to selectively cause the voltage at the signal node to be greater than the voltage of the first power supply node, such that the output component causes the voltage at the output node to be substantially equal to the voltage of the first power supply node.
US10910842B2
System for providing electrical power to wind turbine components comprising a busbar, an electrical grid, and an auxiliary power source for selectively providing electrical power to the busbar with an auxiliary power voltage, wherein the main voltage is different from the auxiliary power voltage. The system includes one or more wind turbines comprising a wind turbine generator, a main transformer for connecting the wind turbine generator to the busbar, one or more wind turbine components, and an auxiliary wind turbine transformer. The wind turbine components are arranged to be selectively connected to the main transformer and the busbar through a first path or a second path. The system is configured to select the first path if the voltage at the busbar is the main voltage and to select the second path if the voltage at the busbar is the auxiliary power voltage.
US10910841B2
A system and method for regulating a voltage at a point of common coupling (35) (PCC) of a distributed energy resource farm (1) connected to an electrical power grid (37). The distributed energy resource farm includes a plurality of connected distributed energy resources (2, 3) each supplying a terminal voltage. The system includes a component (50) for measuring a PCC voltage at the PCC, and another component (39, 41) for determining a first value based on a relationship between a scheduled voltage at the PCC and the measured PCC voltage relative to a dead band voltage region (66). A further component (39, 41) regulates the voltage at the point of common coupling by controlling the terminal voltage of each one of the plurality of distributed energy resources in response to the relationship between the scheduled voltage and the measured voltage at the PCC.
US10910840B2
The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for photovoltaic power forecast based on numerical weather prediction. The method includes: determining a historical key weather feature matrix and a prediction key weather feature matrix; determining a historical weather data matrix and a prediction weather data matrix; determining a historical input matrix and a prediction input matrix; combining the historical input matrix and the prediction input matrix; performing singular value decomposition on the combined input matrix to obtain a principal component feature matrix; determining K principal component features corresponding to K historical time periods having the nearest Manhattan distances with the prediction time period; acquiring a fitting relationship according to the K principal component features and K photovoltaic powers corresponding to the K historical time periods; inputting the principal component feature corresponding to the prediction time period to the fitting relationship to obtain a photovoltaic power.
US10910836B2
An electrical energy distribution system for a vessel or platform with at least a primary energy source comprising an AC generator. A first output of the AC generator is coupled to a first DC bus via a transformer and an AC to DC converter and a second output of the AC generator is separately coupled to a second DC bus via a rectifier. The second DC bus is operable at a first voltage level and is connected to one or more primary consumers. The first DC bus is operable at a second voltage level, lower than the first voltage level and is connected to secondary consumers. In the event of the output of the AC generator to the primary consumers on the first DC bus being insufficient, energy from electric energy storage elements is supplied to the primary consumers via the rectifier and the first DC bus.
US10910832B2
A converter apparatus includes: an AC/DC converter; a DC link capacitor connected to the converter; a voltage detection unit detecting the DC link voltage; a switching unit connecting or disconnecting between a power supply and the converter; a switching operation unit detecting an abnormality in a motor drive device including the converter apparatus and an inverter, and control the switching unit; a power supply monitoring unit detecting a voltage inputted to the converter to monitor a connection state between the power supply and the converter; a threshold value setting unit setting a threshold value to determine the presence or absence of a short circuit failure; and a short circuit failure detection unit determining that a short circuit failure has occurred, when the voltage of the DC link capacitor, immediately after the power supply is disconnected from the converter, is equal to or less than the threshold value.
US10910831B2
A monitoring system is described, to monitor the condition of an industrial wiring system provided with a multipolar electric cable with a number of electric conductors having a power and/or data transmission function and enclosed inside a protective sheath, wherein: monitoring conductors, to monitor wear of the electric cable, are arranged inside the protective sheath electrically insulated from the electric conductors; and a monitoring device is operatively coupled to the monitoring conductors so as to detect at least one electric parameter associated with the monitoring conductors to detect the wear of the electric cable and generate corresponding monitoring data. The monitoring device obtains its own power supply from, and/or transmits the monitoring data by means of, the electric conductors of the same electric cable.
US10910829B2
An interface circuit of an electronic device includes one or more pins, an internal circuit, an over-voltage protection circuit and a monitoring circuit. The pins are selectively connected to an external circuit. The over-voltage protection circuit is coupled between the internal circuit and at least one pin to prevent the internal circuit from being damaged by a voltage spike or a current surge received at the pin. The monitoring circuit is configured to monitor one or more electrical characteristics of at least one critical component in the internal circuit or the over-voltage protection circuit by monitoring the value of at least one parameter related to the electrical characteristics of the critical component. When the value of the parameter is outside of a safety range, the monitoring circuit outputs a warning signal.
US10910824B1
A DC collection system for a PV power plant contains a large number of feeders. When a fault occurs, the fault current rapidly increases, causing electronic devices to block to protect themselves. This blockage presents a challenge to the protection of the DC collection system because of extremely short data windows. To address this challenge, a protection method based on active control of DC/DC converters is disclosed. The fault current control principle is analyzed and derived so that DC/DC converters can provide an injected low-amplitude and controllable post-fault stable current signal. The disclosed protection method is designed based on identifying the direction of the injected signal. Simulation results indicate that the fault section can be accurately identified and that the disclosed protection method performs efficiently against transition resistance and noise.
US10910819B2
A system for detecting miswiring in an AC power supply for an appliance may comprise a phase sensor sensing the phase difference between the first and a second hot line powering heavy electrical loads therebetween, and a control module coupling to the phase and voltage sensors. The control module may identify a fault condition and may disconnect different electrical loads from the power supply in the fault condition.
US10910812B2
A high accuracy open phase detection system for power transformers that uses a combination of logic controllers and current transformers to recognize an open phase condition experienced by the power transformers under no load, light load, and full load conditions. A current to voltage and current to current transformer on each phase are employed to detect the excitation current and load current conditions. During an open phase condition, a microprocessor detecting device, connected to the current to voltage and current to current transformers, monitors the appropriate power system quantities to determine the existence of one or more open phase(s) with or without a ground or an open phase with line charging capacitance. Through the microprocessor monitor, the microprocessor detecting device can alert operators to the loss of phase or abnormal conditions in the power source. The data used by the microprocessors can be used to calculate the magnitude and phase angle of the current in the power source and detect abnormal system conditions. This invention also employs a unique circuitry configuration to reduce the effects of ambient noise on the open phase detection system.
US10910805B2
An adapter for a cable hanger includes: a housing having a floor, a vertical wall extending generally perpendicularly from the floor, and side walls extending generally perpendicularly from the floor and vertical wall, each of the side walls including a finger extending generally parallel to the floor, the fingers including first engagement features, the vertical wall including a mounting hole; and a plunger having a main panel and second engagement features on opposite sides of the main panel, the second engagement features configured to engage the first engagement features to restrict relative movement of the plunger relative to the housing.
US10910784B2
A plug assembly in which the insulator part can be moved from an unfolded state to a folded state. The insulator may be utilised in the unfolded state for assembly of a wiring loom, and then folded into the folded state for insertion into a connector body.
US10910783B2
An inner conductor of a coaxial cable is electrically connected to a circuit body of a circuit board by means of solder. An outer conductor is electrically connected to a ground body by means of the solder. The inner conductor has a connecting portion connected to the circuit body and a non-exposed portion inside a sheath. A thickness of the connecting portion is equal to or less than 35% of a thickness of the non-exposed portion, and the cross-sectional area of the connecting portion is the same as the cross-sectional area of the non-exposed portion.
US10910760B1
A modular connector includes a connector body and a locking part. The connector body has a surface. The locking part includes a connection portion and a retaining portion connected to the connection portion. The connection portion is rotatably connected to the surface relative to a direction. The direction is perpendicular to the surface. The locking part is rotatable to engage with a retaining structure of a mating modular connector.
US10910750B2
A connector device includes a pair of first terminals, a second terminal, and a cover body. The first terminals are arranged in parallel. The second terminal includes a pair of contact points that are electrically connected to the respective first terminals, and is biased by a spring so that the contact points collectively sandwich the first terminals. The cover body made of a resin is attached to tip parts of the first terminals. The cover body includes first guide surfaces that have the contact points of the second terminal sliding thereon and guide the contact points in a direction for separating the contact points when the first terminals are connected to the second terminal. Thus, wear of the first terminals and the second terminal can be reduced.
US10910749B2
A connector for providing both a fluidic and electrical connection is disclosed, said connector having a proximal end, a distal end and an elongated body in between, characterized in that the elongated body has an inner cavity spanning throughout its length, and the distal end comprises: a) an inner body portion comprising a first inner electrical contact and b) an outer body portion comprising a second outer electrical contact having a spring element. The connector is easily adaptable to many kind of fluidic actuators and particularly to pipette instruments usually found in laboratory practice and developed to adapt fluidic actuators and pipette instalments to work according to the Coulter principle in every working condition, in particular to adapt the electrical and fluidic connection between a sensing tip and an instrumented pipette.
US10910733B2
It is aimed to enhance efficiency in connecting operation to a shielded cable and prevent the impairment of a shielding function. A terminal fitting (T) includes an inner conductor (6) including core crimping portions (9) to be crimped to a core (1), a dielectric (7) made of an insulating material, an outer conductor (5) including a body portion (12) configured to surround the dielectric (7), a braided wire crimping portion (22) crimpable to a braided wire and a coupling portion (15) configured to connect the body portion (12) and the braided wire crimping portion (22), parts of the coupling portion corresponding to the core crimping portions (9) being vertically opened, and a cover member (8) configured to close both openings (18, 19) of the coupling portion (15).
US10910732B2
Antenna systems, devices, and methods for providing both end-fire mm-wave high-frequency signals and low-frequency RF signals from a collocated antenna array in which at least one high-frequency antenna element and a low-frequency antenna element are spaced apart from one another. Grating strips are positioned between the high-frequency antenna elements and the low-frequency antenna element, the grating strips being spaced apart from one another by a defined spacing. The grating strips are configured such that a signal wave from the high-frequency antenna element propagates through the low-frequency antenna element.
US10910728B2
ABSTRACT One example of embodiments of the present disclosure includes a structure. The structure includes first pair conductors and at least one unit structure. The first pair conductors are separated from each other in a first direction. The unit structure is positioned between the first pair conductors. The unit structure includes a second conductor and a third conductor. The unit structure includes at least one unit resonator. The third conductor extends in an xy plane including an x direction. The third conductor is electrically connected to the first pair conductors. The third conductor is configured as a reference potential of the structure. The unit resonator overlaps with the third conductor in a z direction intersecting with the xy plane. The unit resonator is configured to uses the third conductor as the reference potential.
US10910725B2
An antenna is provided having a primary helical coil (102) and a secondary helical coil (104) contra-wound relative to the primary helical coil. Switchable coupling between the coils allows the antenna response to switch from lower to higher frequency responses within the same Ultra High Frequency (UHF) band. A bandwidth of the same physical length antenna can be increased up to twice the bandwidth or for a fixed bandwidth, the antenna length can be shortened. For the high frequency band, when the secondary helix is disconnected from the primary helix, the primary coil operates as a interferer notch out to improve interference rejection, to reject unwanted signals from nearby radios transmitting in frequencies separated by duplex spacing, such as Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) and cellular Global System for Mobile (GSM) communication bands.
US10910719B2
An antenna device includes a first substrate, a first radiation part, a first grounding part, a second radiation part, a liquid crystal layer, and a feeding line. The first substrate includes a first surface and a second surface. The first radiation part is formed on the first surface. The first grounding part includes a slot, and the first radiation part is formed in a projection of the slot projected onto the first surface. The second radiation part is formed in the slot, and coupled with the first grounding part through a conductive segment. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first radiation part and the second radiation part. The feeding line is formed on the second surface, and a projection of the first radiation part projected onto the second surface is at least partially overlapping with the feeding line.
US10910708B2
An antenna device includes a ground member including a plane part and a plurality of extension parts extending from one end of the plane part in a first direction and arranged along a second direction, a plurality of patch-type radiators arranged on the plane part along the second direction and configured to radiate vertical polarization, and a plurality of straight radiators spaced apart from the ground member, respectively arranged to be adjacent to the plurality of extension parts, extending in the first direction, and configured to radiate horizontal polarization.
US10910700B2
The present invention relates to an omnidirectional antenna for a mobile communication service, comprising: a plurality of radiation elements disposed on a horizontal surface with a mutually same angle so as to respectively radiate beams; and a power supply unit for distributing and providing a power supply signal to each of the plurality of radiation elements, wherein each of the plurality of radiation elements has a structure in which a horizontal polarization dipole radiation unit having two radiation arms is coupled to a vertical polarization dipole radiation unit having two radiation arms.
US10910696B2
A mobile device includes a metal mechanism element, a feeding radiation element, a first radiation element, a second radiation element, and a dielectric substrate. The metal mechanism element has a slot. The slot has an open end and a closed end. The feeding radiation element has a feeding point. The first radiation element extends across the slot of the metal mechanism element. The feeding radiation element is coupled through the first radiation element to a ground voltage. The second radiation element is coupled to the feeding radiation element. The dielectric substrate is adjacent to the metal mechanism element. The feeding radiation element, the first radiation element, and the second radiation element are disposed on the dielectric substrate. An antenna structure is formed by the feeding radiation element, the first radiation element, the second radiation element, and the slot of the metal mechanism element.
US10910690B2
A directional coupler that achieves flattening of a coupling characteristic and size reduction or miniaturization is used in a predetermined frequency band and includes a first terminal, a second terminal, a third terminal, a fourth terminal, a main line, and a sub line. The main line is connected between the first terminal and the second terminal. The sub line is connected between the third terminal and the fourth terminal. In the sub line, a low-pass filter is provided.
US10910687B2
Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a lithium air battery including a nitrogen-doped carbon cathode, more specifically, a method for manufacturing a lithium air battery including a nitrogen-doped carbon cathode that can inhibit side reactions between a carbon cathode and an electrolyte, and thus improve battery stability by doping the carbon cathode with nitrogen by repeatedly conducting initial charge/discharge an appropriate number of times on a lithium air battery containing a first electrolyte with a low viscosity, and is eco-friendly due to using a non-destructive manner as compared to conventional methods, and can inhibit an electrolyte depletion phenomenon and improve battery lifespan by further including a second electrolyte with a high viscosity.
US10910683B2
This disclosure details exemplary battery pack designs for use in electrified vehicles or other electrified components. An exemplary battery pack may include a heat exchanger plate assembly having a metallic plate and a polymeric plate that are joined together to establish a coolant circuit therebetween. The metallic plate or the polymeric plate may include a protrusion that extends through an opening of the other of the metallic plate or the polymeric plate. The protrusion may either be crimped or heat staked to a surface surrounding the opening in order to join together the metallic plate and the polymeric plate of the heat exchanger plate assembly.
US10910674B2
A rechargeable battery can include a cathode, an anode current collector, an anode comprising zinc, and an electrolyte in ionic communication with both the cathode and the anode current collector. The electrolyte can include an organic ammonium halide. The organic ammonium halide can include an ammonium bromide in some instances.
US10910673B2
An electrode body, which includes a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate, includes a positive-electrode tab group that is composed of a plurality of positive electrode tabs. The positive-electrode tab group is disposed between a sealing plate and an electrode body, and a positive-electrode current collector includes a base portion and a tab connection portion that is folded from an end of the base portion. The base portion of the positive-electrode current collector is connected to a positive electrode terminal, and the tab connection portion of the positive-electrode current collector is connected to the positive-electrode tab group. A fuse portion is formed in the positive-electrode current collector, and a first-insulator second region of a first insulator, which is connected to an inner insulator, is disposed between the base portion and the tab connection portion.
US10910672B2
Electrochemical devices and processes for forming them include an anode having magnesium, a cathode, and an electrolyte in contact with the anode and the cathode. The electrolyte includes a carboranyl magnesium salt and a mixed ether solvent in which the carboranyl magnesium salt is dissolved. The mixed ether solvent includes a first ether solvent and a second ether solvent that is different from the first ether solvent.
US10910655B2
A method of making carbon nanotubes doped with iron, nitrogen and sulphur for an oxygen reduction reaction catalyst includes the steps of mixing an iron containing oxidising agent with a sulphur-containing dye to form a fibrous fluctuate of reactive templates and using these for in-situ polymerisation of an azo compound to form polymer-dye nanotubes, adding an alkali to precipitate magnetite, and subjecting the nanotubes to pyrolysis, acid leaching, and heat treatment.
US10910652B2
A current collector, an electrode plate, and an electrochemical device are provided in the present disclosure. The current collector includes an insulation layer and at least one conductive layer. The insulation layer is used to support the conductive layer. The at least one conductive layer is used to support an electrode active material layer and is located above at least one surface of the insulation layer. The insulation layer has a density smaller than that of the conductive layer. A metal protective layer is arranged on at least one surface of each of the at least one conductive layer.
US10910650B2
A stretchable composite electrode comprising a carbon nanotube active material composite layer is provided. The stretchable composite electrode comprises a plurality of carbon nanotube film structures and a plurality of active material layers. Each of the plurality of active material layers is located between adjacent carbon nanotube film structures. Each of the plurality of carbon nanotube film structures comprises a plurality of super-aligned carbon nanotube films stacked with each other. A surface of the carbon nanotube active material composite layer comprises a plurality of wrinkles. A stretchable composite electrode using the stretchable composite electrode is also provided.
US10910647B2
The invention is directed towards an electrochemically active cathode material for a battery. The electrochemically active cathode material includes a non-stoichiometric beta-delithiated layered nickel oxide. The non-stoichiometric beta-delithiated layered nickel oxide has a chemical formula. The chemical formula is LixAyNi1+a-zMzO2•nH2O where x is from about 0.02 to about 0.20; y is from about 0.03 to about 0.20; a is from about 0.02 to about 0.2; z is from about 0 to about 0.2; and n is from about 0 to about 1. Within the chemical formula, A is an alkali metal. The alkali metal includes potassium, rubidium, cesium, and any combination thereof. Within the chemical formula, M comprises an alkaline earth metal, a transition metal, a non-transition metal, and any combination thereof.
US10910645B2
Copper substituted compound, cathode of battery comprising same, and battery comprising such cathode
There is provided a compound for use as material in cathode of a battery. The compound has i) at least sodium or ii) sodium and lithium as a first ingredient, copper as a second ingredient, at least a first transition metal in a third ingredient (M) selected from a group including manganese, nickel, iron, copper, zinc, chromium, vanadium, titanium, molybdenum and tungsten, niobium; and oxygen as a fourth ingredient; and wherein the compound has a chemical formula of NayCuxM1-xO2, or LiaNabCuxM1-xO2.
US10910642B1
A nonaqueous electrolyte composition for use in a redox flow battery system, comprising a nonaqueous supporting electrolyte and a ligand metal complex as an electrochemically active component.
US10910639B2
A multi-layer negative electrode according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a current collector configured to transmit electrons between an outer lead and a negative electrode active material; a first negative electrode mixture layer formed on one surface or both surfaces of the current collector and including a first negative electrode active material and a first binder; and a second negative electrode mixture layer formed on the first negative electrode mixture layer and including a second negative electrode active material, wherein the first negative electrode mixture layer has an electrode density of about 0.9 to 2.0 g/cc and the second negative electrode mixture layer has an electrode density of about 0.2 to 1.7 g/cc, which is a range lower than that of the electrode density of the first negative electrode mixture layer. The multi-layer negative electrode can be included in a lithium secondary battery.
US10910632B2
A negative electrode for an electric device includes a silicon-containing alloy containing silicon and tin, a carbon cover layer including a carbon material and covering the silicon-containing alloy, and a negative electrode electric conducting additive. A ratio of an average particle diameter of the silicon-containing alloy to an average particle diameter of the carbon material is 240 or greater. The negative electrode for an electric device and an electric device using the negative electrode can improve cycle durability.
US10910624B2
A battery pack is disclosed. In one aspect, the battery pack includes a battery cell and an electrode terminal including a plate member electrically connected to the battery cell, and a bolt passing through the plate member. The bolt includes a plurality of catch jaws disposed on opposing sides of the plate member in a length direction of the bolt and a thread portion exposed from the plate member. The plate member and the bolt include different metallic materials.
US10910613B2
An exemplary retention assembly includes a plurality of battery cells, a heat exchange structure, and a strap that pulls together the heat exchange structure and the plurality of battery cells.
US10910609B2
Electrical feedthroughs for battery housings are presented. The electrical feedthroughs include a connector, a ceramic insulator, and a terminal. A first seal couples the connector to the ceramic insulator via a first braze alloy. A second seal couples the ceramic insulator to the terminal via a second braze alloy. The electrical feedthroughs can also include a spacer. A first seal couples the connector to the ceramic insulator; a second seal couples the ceramic insulator to the spacer; and the third seal couples the spacer to the terminal. The first seal, the second seal, and the third seal include, respectively, a first braze alloy, a second braze alloy, and a third braze alloy.
US10910607B2
There is provided a method for producing a surface-treated steel sheet for battery containers (1) comprising forming a dull or semi-bright nickel plating layer (12) on at least the surface to be the outside of a battery container in a steel sheet (11), wherein the nickel plating layer (12) is formed by performing plating treatment under a condition of a bath temperature of 70° C. or more.
US10910605B2
In a method of manufacturing a display device, the method includes: forming a conductive layer on a base; forming an organic layer, with a hole partially exposing the conductive layer, on the conductive layer; polishing an upper surface of the organic layer; and forming a light emitting element on the polished organic layer.
US10910602B2
A display panel and manufacturing method thereof and a display device are provided. The display panel includes: a base substrate, a light-emitting layer located on the base substrate, and a beam diffusion layer located on the side of a light-emergent surface of the light-emitting layer. The light-emitting layer includes a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array; and the beam diffusion layer includes a beam diffusion element corresponding to at least one of the pixel units, which is used to expand a light-emergent beam of the corresponding pixel unit. The beam diffusion element may expand the light-emergent beam of the corresponding pixel unit, which increases the area of the light-emergent surface of the pixel unit. Thus, the number of pixel units provided in a large-sized display panel may be reduced, the power consumption thereof may be decreased, and the occurrence of burn-in inside the display panel may be avoided.
US10910599B2
A luminescent panel includes an upper sealing layer, a lower sealing layer, and an organic electroluminescent layer. The organic electroluminescent layer is provided between the upper sealing layer and the lower sealing layer and includes one or a plurality of organic electroluminescent elements. At least one of the upper sealing layer or the lower sealing layer includes one or a plurality of inorganic sealing films each provided with a plurality of fracture control parts. The fracture control parts each include an inorganic material having relatively lower mechanical strength than parts of the one or plurality of inorganic sealing films other than the fracture control parts.
US10910596B2
In a method for manufacturing a display device, the method includes: providing a display panel divided into a cutting area and a body part surrounding the cutting area; attaching a dummy film on a bottom surface of the display panel; cutting the cutting area by irradiating laser light toward a cutting line defined as a boundary between the cutting area and the body part; irradiating the laser light to a groove line of the dummy film, which overlaps the cutting line, to define a groove in the dummy film along the groove line; and separating the dummy film from the body part.
US10910587B2
An organic light emitting diode display device includes an auxiliary electrode spaced apart from a plurality of first electrodes on a substrate. A first light emitting portion is on the first electrode. A charge generation layer is on the first light emitting portion. A second light emitting portion is on the charge generation layer. A second electrode is on the second light emitting portion and is electrically connected to the auxiliary electrode. The second electrode is insulated from the charge generation layer.
US10910585B2
Discussed is an organic light emitting diode (OLED) lighting apparatus including a substrate; an auxiliary wiring disposed on the substrate; a protective layer configured to cover the auxiliary wiring; a first electrode disposed between the auxiliary wiring and the protective layer to be in direct contact with the auxiliary wiring, the first electrode including a first layer and a second layer, the first layer having a first resistance, and the second layer being configured to cover the first layer and the protective layer and having a second resistance higher than the first resistance; an organic light emitting layer disposed on the first electrode; and a second electrode disposed on the organic light emitting layer.
US10910583B2
An organic light-emitting diode includes a first electrode and a second electrode that face each other, an organic emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, and an inorganic hole injection layer between the first electrode and the organic emission layer. The inorganic hole injection layer includes oxide of a form A-B-O, including an element A and an element B. The element A is one of molybdenum (Mo) and tungsten (W). The element B is one of vanadium (V), niobium (Nb), and tantalum (Ta). An atom content (x) of the element B is greater than 0 and no more than 15 at % (0
US10910578B2
A polycyclic compound and an organic electroluminescence, the polycyclic compound being represented by the following Formula 1:
US10910577B2
The present invention includes novel compounds containing heterocycles or azaheterocycles and tetraphenylene or azatetraphenylene, or cyano substituted variants thereof. These compounds may be useful as host materials for phosphorescent electroluminescent devices.
US10910566B2
Provided are a heterocyclic compound and an organic light-emitting device including the same, the heterocyclic compound being represented by Formula 1:
US10910565B2
An organic electroluminescence device includes an anode, an emitting layer and a cathode, in which the emitting layer includes a first compound, a second compound and a third compound. The first compound is a compound represented by a formula (1) below. The second compound has a larger singlet energy than a singlet energy of the first compound. The third compound is a fluorescent compound.
US10910564B2
Devices containing novel carbazole-containing compounds are provided. The novel compounds also contain electron donor groups, aryl linkers, and at least one nitrogen heterocycle. These novel organic compounds can exhibit delayed fluorescence in the devices.
US10910563B2
An organic light-emitting device including a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the organic layer including an emission layer, wherein the organic layer includes a first compound represented by Formula 1 and a second compound represented by Formula 2:
US10910557B2
Methods and apparatus for forming a magnetic tunnel element are provided herein. A method of forming a magnetic tunnel element includes: depositing a magnetic layer atop a cobalt-chromium seed layer; and depositing a tunnel layer atop the magnetic layer to form a magnetic tunnel element, wherein the magnetic tunnel element has a TMR greater than 100. For example, a cobalt/platinum material or one or more layers thereof may be deposited directly atop a cobalt-chromium seed layer to produce improved devices.
US10910545B2
A superconducting junction comprises: a first layer and a second layer of superconducting material; a tunneling layer of insulating material disposed between the first layer and the second layer of the superconducting material; and a layer of thermally conducting, non-superconducting material disposed between the first layer and the second layer of the superconducting material, the non-superconducting layer being in contact with either the first layer or the second layer of superconducting material.
US10910543B2
A thermoelectric device to generate electrical power at high voltages, for example 110 volts to 900 volts, using a thermopile, a temperature differential applied to the thermopile and the Seebeck Coefficient of dissimilar materials assembled in a defined manner and in conjunction with controls and batteries to power electric devices.
US10910533B2
This planar light source device has a pair of substrates, a pair of irradiation plates disposed between the pair of substrates, and a plurality of light emission devices disposed on one or both of the pair of substrates. In a cross-section of the light emission devices in a direction perpendicular to the irradiation plates through an optical axis, the luminosity of light emitted in a 7.0° direction when 0° is the optical axis direction and the luminosity of light emitted in a (tan−1(t/L))° (where t represents the gap between the irradiation plates, and L represents the gap, in a direction along the pair of irradiation plates, from the surface of a light emission device disposed on one of the substrates to an end part of the other-substrate-side irradiation plate) direction or a (tan−1(t/2L))° direction satisfy a prescribed relationship.
US10910530B2
An LED mounted method includes: providing a circuit substrate having a plurality of conductive pads; through a pick and place module, disposing a plurality of conductors on the conductive pads; disposing a plurality of LED chips on the circuit substrate, with each LED chip being disposed on at least two conductors; projecting a laser source generated by a laser generation module to each LED chip so that the laser source passes through the LED chip and is projected onto at least two conductors; and curing the conductor disposed between the LED chip and the circuit substrate by irradiation of the laser source so that the LED chip is mounted on the circuit substrate.
US10910526B2
Provided is a light emitting device including a first light emitting element having a light emission peak wavelength of 400 nm or more and 490 nm or less, a second light emitting element having a different light emission peak wavelength from the first light emitting element of 400 nm or more and 490 nm or less, a first fluorescent material that is a Ce-activated aluminate fluorescent material and excited by at least one of the first light emitting element and the second light emitting element and emits light having a light emission peak wavelength of 500 nm or more and 540 nm or less, and a second fluorescent material that is excited by at least one of the first light emitting element and the second light emitting element and emits light having a light emission peak wavelength of 600 nm or more and 680 nm or less.
US10910523B2
A light emitting device includes a wavelength conversion layer, at least one light emitting unit and a reflective protecting element. The wavelength conversion layer has an upper surface and a lower surface opposite to each other. The light emitting unit has two electrode pads located on the same side of the light emitting unit. The light emitting unit is disposed on the upper surface of the wavelength conversion layer and exposes the two electrode pads. The reflective protecting element encapsulates at least a portion of the light emitting unit and a portion of the wavelength conversion layer, and exposes the two electrode pads of the light emitting unit.
US10910522B2
In various embodiments, lighting systems include a carrier having a plurality of conductive elements disposed thereon and a light-emitting array. The light-emitting array is disposed over the carrier and includes a plurality of light-emitting diodes (LEDs), each of which has at least two electrical contacts electrically connected to conductive elements.
US10910517B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to light emitting diodes LEDs and methods of manufacturing the LEDs. The LEDs include a mesa-structure that improves light extraction of the LEDs. Furthermore, the process for forming the LEDs refrains from using physical etching to a quantum well active region of the LEDs to prevent compromising performance at the quantum well sidewall.
US10910513B2
A component includes a carrier; and a semiconductor body arranged on the carrier, wherein the semiconductor body includes a semiconductor layer facing away from the carrier, a further semiconductor layer facing the carrier and an optically active layer located therebetween, the carrier has a metallic carrier layer that is contiguous and mechanically stabilizes the component, the carrier includes a mirror layer disposed between the semiconductor body and the carrier layer, and the carrier has a compensating layer directly adjacent to the carrier layer and configured to compensate for internal mechanical strains in the component.
US10910511B2
There is provided a manufacturing method of a III-V compound crystal including a seed-crystal-formed substrate provision step of providing a seed-crystal-formed substrate in which a III-V compound seed crystal has been formed on a substrate, a seed crystal partial separation step of separating part of a portion in contact with the substrate in the III-V compound seed crystal from the substrate, and a crystal growth step of generating and growing the III-V compound crystal by reacting a group III element and a group V element with use of the III-V compound seed crystal as a nucleus after the seed crystal partial separation step.
US10910510B2
The disclosure relates to an encapsulated flexible electronic device comprising a flexible electronic device, wherein the flexible electronic device is protected by a protective coating layer, a first cover sheet and a second cover sheet being made of patterned and developed dry photoresist films. The encapsulated flexible electronic device may be used to directly realize different type of electronic devices, such as smart sensor devices.
US10910500B2
In an embodiment of the present invention, a load sensor package includes a housing having a cap, a column, a peripheral structure, and a base. The base includes a major surface configured to mount a stress sensor, while the cap includes a cap major surface configured to receive a load to be measured. The column is configured to transfer a predetermined fraction of the load to be measured to the base through the stress sensor. The peripheral structure is configured to transfer the remaining fraction of the load to be measured to the base.
US10910493B2
A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a first body region disposed in a substrate and having a first conductivity type, a second body region disposed on the first body region and having the first conductivity type and a portion protruding in a channel length direction, a source region disposed in the second body region and having a second conductivity type, a drain region spaced apart from the protruding portion of the second body region in the channel length direction and having the second conductivity type, a well region configured to electrically connect the protruding portion of the second body region and the drain region and having the second conductivity type, and a gate structure disposed on the protruding portion of the second body region.
US10910492B2
A semiconductor device which can secure a high breakdown voltage and to which a simplified manufacturing process is applicable and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device are provided. An n+ buried region has a floating potential. An n-type body region is located on a first surface side of the n+ buried region. A p+ source region is located in the first surface and forms a p-n junction with the n-type body region. A p+ drain region is located in the first surface spacedly from the p+ source region. A p-type impurity region PIR is located between the n+ buried region and the n-type body region and isolates the n+ buried region and the n-type body region from each other.
US10910473B2
Apparatuses comprising a substrate; a monolayer graphene film disposed on at least a portion of the substrate; and a single-layer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) disposed only on the substrate and lateral edges of the monolayer graphene film, methods of making the apparatuses, and devices comprising one or more of the apparatuses. The apparatuses have a one-dimensional ohmic edge contact between the monolayer graphene and monolayer semiconducting TMDs.
US10910465B2
In described examples, a method for fabricating a semiconductor device and a three dimensional structure, and packaging them together, includes: fabricating the integrated circuit on a substrate, immersing the substrate in a liquid encapsulation material, and illuminating the liquid encapsulation material to polymerize the liquid encapsulation material. Immersing the semiconductor device is performed to cover a layer of a platform in the liquid encapsulation material. The platform is a lead frame, a packaging substrate, or the substrate. The illuminating step targets locations of the liquid encapsulation material covering the layer. Illuminated encapsulation material forms solid encapsulation material that is fixedly coupled to contiguous portions of the semiconductor device and of the solid encapsulation material. The immersing and illuminating steps are repeated until a three dimensional structure is formed. The integrated circuit and the three dimensional structure are encapsulated in a single package.
US10910464B2
A display device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: on a substrate: an IC having a first and a second terminal array; a wiring layer having a first and a second electrode array, and a first organic layer having a covering part covering at least a part of a peripheral edge part of each of the first and the second electrode array; an electrically conductive film electrically connecting the first terminal array and the first electrode array, and the second terminal array and the second electrode array; a second organic layer provided in at least a part of an area between the covering part of the first electrode array and the covering part of the second electrode array, the electrically conductive film has a smaller thickness at a position above the second organic layer than at a position of the covering part of the first organic layer.
US10910459B2
A display panel is provided having a transparent region, a display area surrounding the transparent region, and a non-display area surrounding the display area, and the display panel includes: at least one binding pin; at least one signal line only located within the display area and not located within the transparent region; at least one connection line located within the non-display region; and glass cement located within the non-display region. The signal lines include a first signal line and a second signal line, and the first signal line and the at least one binding pin are respectively located at two sides of the transparent region; the first signal line is electrically connected to the at least one connection line; and at least a part of the at least one connection line overlaps with the glass cement. The display panel is used for image display.
US10910448B2
An organic light-emitting display device and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The organic light emitting display device according to an example comprises a substrate including a pixel region including a plurality of red-subpixels, a plurality of green-subpixels, and a plurality of blue-subpixels, and a dummy pixel region including a plurality of dummy subpixels; a plurality of first bank layers disposed in the pixel region in a first direction and a second direction to define a plurality of subpixels; a plurality of second bank layers disposed on the first bank layers in the first direction in the pixel region to partition boundaries between a red-subpixel column, a green-subpixel column, and a blue-subpixel column; and an organic light-emitting element formed on each of the subpixels; and wherein at least one dummy subpixel forms a first dispensing region onto which an organic light-emitting material is dispensed.
US10910444B2
The present disclosure provides a display panel. The display panel includes the plurality of unit pixels arranged in a matrix within the display region, wherein each unit pixel includes first, second, third and fourth sub-pixels which are sequentially arranged in a row in a first direction and correspond to different colors. The data-line corresponds to a vertical line including sub-pixels arranged in a line in the second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The data-line includes: a straight-shaped portion disposed along and between adjacent non-light emitting regions and extending in the second direction; and a multi angle-shaped portion disposed along and between adjacent light-emitting regions, wherein the multi angle-shaped portion includes: an inclined line inclined relative to the second direction; and a straight-shaped portion extending in the first direction. Thus, a minimum space between the light-emitting regions of the outer first and fourth sub-pixels defining the outer sub-pixels of the unit pixel may be smaller than a space between the non-light emitting regions thereof. Therefore, color mixing between the light beams as emitted from the outer first and fourth sub-pixels may be easily rendered.
US10910442B2
A display device includes: a substrate comprising a first region and a second region bent relative to the first region; a plurality of first pixels at the first region, each of the first pixels comprising a first light-emitting diode (LED), the first LED comprising a pixel electrode, an emission layer for emitting light of a first color, and a counter electrode; a plurality of second pixels at the second region, each of the second pixels comprising a second LED, the second LED comprising a pixel electrode, an emission layer configured to emit the first color, and a counter electrode; and an optical resonance layer at the second region corresponding to the second LED.
US10910438B2
Methods, systems, and devices for memory arrays having graded memory stack resistances are described. An apparatus may include a first subset of memory stacks having a first resistance based on a physical and/or electrical distance of the first subset of memory stacks from at least one of a first driver component or a second driver component. The apparatus may include a second subset of memory stacks having a second resistance that is less than the first resistance based on a physical and/or electrical distance of the second subset of memory from at least one of the first driver component or the second driver component.
US10910437B2
A method of fabricating a memory device is disclosed. In one aspect, the method comprises patterning a first conductive line extending in a first direction. The method additionally includes forming a free-standing pillar of a memory cell stack on the first conductive line after patterning the first conductive line. Forming the free-standing pillar includes depositing a memory cell stack comprising a selector material and a storage material over the conductive line and patterning the memory cell stack to form the free-standing pillar. The method further includes patterning a second conductive line on the pillar after patterning the memory cell stack, the second conductive line extending in a second direction crossing the first direction.
US10910436B2
Disclosed herein are asymmetric selectors for memory cells, and related devices and techniques. In some embodiments, a memory cell may include: a storage element; and a selector device coupled to the storage element, wherein the selector device has a positive threshold voltage and a negative threshold voltage, and a magnitude of the positive threshold voltage is different from a magnitude of the negative threshold voltage.
US10910420B2
A device including a gate structure formed over a semiconductor substrate, the gate structure having extensions, a device isolation structure formed into the semiconductor substrate adjacent the gate structure, wherein the extensions are over a portion of the device isolation structure, and source/drain regions on both sides of the gate structure, the source/drain regions being formed in a gap in the device isolation structure and being partially enclosed by the extensions of the gate structure.
US10910409B2
A display device includes a substrate that includes a display area and a pad area, and a plurality of data pads that are provided on the pad area of the substrate and arranged along a first direction and a second direction, where the plurality of data pads includes a first data pad, a second data pad that is disposed adjacent to the first data pad along the first direction, a third data pad that is disposed adjacent to the first data pad along the second direction, and a fourth data pad that is disposed adjacent to the second data pad along the second direction, and the first data pad and the second connection wire are respectively disposed in different layers.
US10910404B2
Provided is a semiconductor device which has low power consumption and can operate at high speed. The semiconductor device includes a memory element including a first transistor including crystalline silicon in a channel formation region, a capacitor for storing data of the memory element, and a second transistor which is a switching element for controlling supply, storage, and release of charge in the capacitor. The second transistor is provided over an insulating film covering the first transistor. The first and second transistors have a source electrode or a drain electrode in common.
US10910398B2
A semiconductor device may include a cell gate conductive pattern in a cell array area that extends to a step area, a cell vertical structure in the cell array area that extends through the cell gate conductive pattern, a cell gate contact structure on the cell gate conductive pattern in the step area, a cell gate contact region in the cell gate conductive pattern and aligned with the cell gate contact structure, a first peripheral contact structure spaced apart from the cell gate conductive pattern, a second peripheral contact structure spaced apart from the first peripheral contact structure, a first peripheral contact region under the first peripheral contact structure, and a second peripheral contact region under the second peripheral contact structure. The cell gate contact region may include a first element and a remainder of the cell gate conductive pattern may not substantially include the first element.
US10910397B2
Embodiments of through array contact structures of a 3D memory device and fabricating method thereof are disclosed. The 3D NAND memory device includes an alternating layer stack disposed on a substrate. The alternating layer stack includes a first region including an alternating dielectric stack, and a second region including an alternating conductor/dielectric stack. The memory device further comprises a barrier structure extending vertically through the alternating layer stack to laterally separate the first region from the second region, and multiple through array contacts in the first region each extending vertically through the alternating dielectric stack. At least one through array contact is electrically connected with a peripheral circuit.
US10910395B2
A semiconductor device structure comprises stacked tiers each comprising at least one conductive structure and at least one insulating structure longitudinally adjacent the at least one conductive structure, at least one staircase structure having steps comprising lateral ends of the stacked tiers, and at least one opening extending through the stacked tiers and continuously across an entire length of the at least one staircase structure. The at least one conductive structure of each of the stacked tiers extends continuously from at least one of the steps of the at least one staircase structure and around the at least one opening to form at least one continuous conductive path extending completely across each of the stacked tiers. Additional semiconductor device structures, methods of forming semiconductor device structures, and electronic systems are also described.
US10910388B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a first charge storage part, a first insulating part, a second charge storage part, a second insulating part, a first select transistor, and a hollow part. The first charge storage part is at a first position separated from a surface of a substrate by a first distance in a third direction. The first select transistor is at a second position separated from the surface of the substrate by a second distance in the third direction. The second distance is greater than the first distance. The hollow part is up to a third position in the third direction separated from the surface of the substrate by a third distance in the third direction. The third distance is greater than or equal to the first distance and shorter than or equal to the second distance.
US10910379B2
Some embodiments include a memory device having a buried wordline, a shield plate, and an access device. The access device includes first and second diffusion regions and a channel region. The diffusion regions and the channel region are arranged vertically so that the channel region is between the first and second diffusion regions. The wordline is adjacent to a first side surface of the channel region, and the shield plate is adjacent to a second side surface of the channel region; with the first and second side surfaces being in opposing relation to one another. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US10910373B2
Semiconductor devices are provided including a first fin-shaped pattern having first and second sidewalls facing one another and a field insulating film contacting at least a portion of the first fin-shaped pattern. The first fin-shaped pattern includes a lower portion of the first fin-shaped pattern contacting the field insulating film; an upper portion of the first fin-shaped pattern not contacting the field insulating film; a first boundary between the lower portion of the first fin-shaped pattern and the upper portion of the first fin-shaped pattern; and a first fin center line perpendicular to the first boundary and meeting the top of the upper portion of the first fin-shaped pattern. The first sidewall of the upper portion of the first fin-shaped pattern and the second sidewall of the upper portion of the first fin-shaped pattern are asymmetric with respect to the first fin center line.
US10910363B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor device comprising a substrate including a first region and a second region, a first gate pattern on the substrate of the first region, and a second gate pattern on the substrate of the second region. The first gate pattern comprises a first high-k dielectric pattern, a first N-type metal-containing pattern, and a first P-type metal-containing pattern that are sequentially stacked. The second gate pattern comprises a second high-k dielectric pattern and a second P-type metal-containing pattern that are sequentially stacked.
US10910349B2
A semiconductor package and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The semiconductor package includes a first semiconductor chip which includes a first region, a second region, and a boundary region between the first region and the second region; and a second semiconductor chip disposed on the first semiconductor chip, wherein the second semiconductor chip is overlapping the first region and a part of the boundary region, and not overlapping the second region, wherein a first circuit element is disposed in the first region and a second circuit element is disposed in the boundary region, and wherein second circuit element stress tolerance is greater than first circuit element stress tolerance.
US10910339B2
A flip chip bonding method includes obtaining a die including a first substrate and an adhesive layer on the first substrate; bonding the die to a second substrate different from the first substrate; and curing the adhesive layer. The curing the adhesive layer includes heating the second substrate to melt the adhesive layer, and providing the adhesive layer and the second substrate with air having pressure greater than atmospheric pressure.
US10910338B2
A mounting method of an electronic device includes providing an electronic device which includes a semiconductor chip body including an upper surface, a lower surface opposite to the upper surface, and side surfaces connecting the upper surface and the lower surface, a plurality of bumps disposed on the lower surface, and an under-fill element disposed on at least one side surface. The method further includes mounting the electronic device on a printed circuit board including connecting pads formed thereon. The bumps of the semiconductor chip body are connected to the connecting pads. The method additionally includes heating the under-fill element to a predetermined temperature to form an under-fill layer between the lower surface of the semiconductor chip body and the printed circuit board.
US10910329B2
The disclosure relates to a semiconductor package device. The semiconductor package device includes a substrate, a waveguide component, a package body, a first dielectric layer, an antenna pattern, and an antenna feeding layer. The waveguide component is on the substrate. The package body is on the substrate and encapsulates the waveguide component. The first dielectric layer is on the package body and has a first surface and a second surface adjacent to the package body and opposite to the first surface. The antenna pattern is on the first surface of the first dielectric layer. The antenna feeding layer is on the second surface of the first dielectric layer.
US10910324B2
A semiconductor device has a configuration in which a stacked assembly and a resin case are combined. The stacked assembly includes a semiconductor element, a stacked substrate on which the semiconductor element is mounted, and a metal substrate on which the stacked substrate is mounted. In the resin case, a notch groove is provided at a corner portion for reducing a stress. At least one of a width and a length of the notch groove is 2 mm or more.
US10910309B2
In various embodiments a method for manufacturing a metallization layer on a substrate is provided, wherein the method may include providing a structured layer of a catalyst material on the substrate, the catalyst material may include a first layer of material arranged over the substrate and a second layer of material arranged over the first layer of material, wherein the structured layer of catalyst material having a first set of regions including the catalyst material over the substrate and a second set of regions free of the catalyst material over the substrate, and forming a plurality of groups of nanotubes over the substrate, each group of the plurality of groups of nanotubes includes a plurality of nanotubes formed over a respective region in the first set of regions.
US10910301B2
Disclosed is a die. The die may include a material layer, a plurality of vias, and a plurality of metal channels. The material layer may have a top side and a backside. The top side may include a plurality of pad connections. The plurality of vias may extend through the material layer from the top side to the backside. The plurality of metal channels may be in contact with the backside. Each of the plurality of metal channels may be in electrical communication with at least one of the plurality of pad connections and at least one of the plurality of vias.
US10910300B1
A method for manufacturing an interposer to connect boards or elements with different pin or pad spacings comprises following steps. A mold with first and second plates is provided. The first plate defines a plurality of first units with a plurality of first holes, the second plate defines a plurality of second units with a plurality of second holes. Space between central lines of adjacent first holes is different from that of adjacent second holes. Conducting wires pass through the first holes and the second holes, and molding compound is injected into the mold to keep the conducting wires in place. A molded plate defining a plurality of plate units is thereby formed, and molded pieces constituting interposers are obtained by cutting the molded plate.
US10910293B1
A leadframe includes a die pad having a plurality of sides which collectively define the rectangular die pad area including at least two securing sides that include a linear portion with a cantilever interrupting the linear portion. The die pad has a top surface defining a top plane and a bottom surface defining a bottom plane. Lead terminals are beyond the die pad. The cantilevers have a fixed end and a free end opposite the fixed ends that enables flexing or bending responsive to a received force. The free ends include a distal end with an electronic component locking feature. The fixed ends are positioned beyond the die pad area, and the electronic component locking feature extends inward over the rectangular die pad area for providing mechanical support and for securing the electronic component.
US10910283B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip including a substrate having a first surface and a second surface arranged opposite to the first surface; and a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) element, including a sensitive area, disposed at the first surface of the substrate. The semiconductor device further includes at least one electrical interconnect structure electrically connected to the first surface of the substrate, and a flexible carrier electrically connected to the at least one electrical interconnect structure, where the flexible carrier wraps around the semiconductor chip and extends over the second surface of the substrate such that a folded cavity is formed around the semiconductor chip.
US10910275B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first fin-type pattern and a second fin-type pattern which are separated by a first trench between facing ends thereof, forming a first insulating layer filling the first trench, removing a portion of the first insulating layer to form a second trench on the first insulating layer, and forming a third trench by enlarging a width of the second trench.
US10910274B2
A semiconductor device includes a first substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a shallow trench isolation in the first substrate, the shallow trench isolation having a first depth, the first depth being a distance from a bottom of the shallow trench isolation to the first surface of the first substrate, a transistor on the first surface of the first substrate, a first dielectric cap layer covering the first surface of the first substrate, a first interconnect structure on the first dielectric cap layer, a carrier substrate bonded to the first substrate through the first dielectric cap layer, a second dielectric cap layer on the second surface of the first substrate; and a through silicon via extending through the second dielectric cap layer, the shallow trench isolation, and the first dielectric cap layer, and connected to the first interconnect structure.
US10910272B1
A support substrate including a plurality of channels on a front side is provided. A cover layer is formed by anisotropically depositing a sacrificial cover material over the plurality of channels. Cavities laterally extend within the plurality of channels underneath a horizontally extending portion of the cover layer. An encapsulation layer is conformally deposited. First semiconductor devices, first metal interconnect structures, and first bonding pads are formed over a top surface of the encapsulation layer. A device substrate with second bonding pads is provided. The second bonding pads are bonded with the first bonding pads to form a bonded assembly. Peripheral portions of the encapsulation layer are removes and peripheral portions of the cover layer are physically exposed. The cover layer is removed employing an isotropic etch process by propagating an isotropic etchant through the cavities to separate the support substrate from the bonded assembly.
US10910271B2
Methods of dicing semiconductor wafers, each wafer having a plurality of integrated circuits, are described. A method includes forming a mask above the semiconductor wafer, the mask including a layer covering and protecting the integrated circuits. The mask and a portion of the semiconductor wafer are patterned with a laser scribing process to provide a patterned mask and to form trenches partially into but not through the semiconductor wafer between the integrated circuits. Each of the trenches has a width. The semiconductor wafer is plasma etched through the trenches to form corresponding trench extensions and to singulate the integrated circuits. Each of the corresponding trench extensions has the width.
US10910267B2
A device includes a substrate, and an alignment mark including a conductive through-substrate via (TSV) penetrating through the substrate.
US10910265B2
Gate aligned contacts and methods of forming gate aligned contacts are described. For example, a method of fabricating a semiconductor structure includes forming a plurality of gate structures above an active region formed above a substrate. The gate structures each include a gate dielectric layer, a gate electrode, and sidewall spacers. A plurality of contact plugs is formed, each contact plug formed directly between the sidewall spacers of two adjacent gate structures of the plurality of gate structures. A plurality of contacts is formed, each contact formed directly between the sidewall spacers of two adjacent gate structures of the plurality of gate structures. The plurality of contacts and the plurality of gate structures are formed subsequent to forming the plurality of contact plugs.
US10910255B2
Some embodiments include a memory array having a first set of lines extending along a first direction, and a second set of lines over the first set of lines and extending along a second direction. Lines of the second set cross lines of the first set at cross-point locations. Memory structures are within the cross-point locations. Each memory structure includes a top electrode material, a bottom electrode material and a programmable material. Rails of insulative material extend parallel to the lines of the second set and alternate with the lines of the second set along the first direction. The programmable material has first regions within the memory structures and second regions over the rails of insulative material. A planarized surface extends across the lines of the second set and across the second regions of the programmable material. Some embodiments include methods of forming memory arrays.
US10910246B2
Disclosed herein is a hold checking method for checking whether or not a wafer is held by an electrostatic chuck in loading the wafer to the electrostatic chuck by operating a transfer unit holding the wafer. The hold checking method includes a connecting step of bringing the wafer held by a transfer pad into contact with the electrostatic chuck to thereby connect the transfer pad through the wafer to the electrostatic chuck, and a hold determining step of supplying electric power from a DC power source through first wiring to the electrostatic chuck after performing the connecting step, and next determining that the wafer is held by the electrostatic chuck when the voltage across a resistor inserted in the first wiring has reached a predetermined voltage value.
US10910242B2
A temperature controller for semiconductor fabrication comprises a lower chiller connected with a lower chamber of a processing chamber and configured to adjust a temperature of the lower chamber, an electrostatic chuck disposed in the lower chamber and an upper chiller connected with an upper chamber of the processing chamber and configured to adjust a temperature of the upper chamber, a heater disposed in the upper chamber. In the temperature controller for semiconductor fabrication, the three-way valve may be installed on the cooling fluid supplying pipe, and the bypass pipe may be installed between the three-way valve and the cooling fluid collecting pipe to reduce the degree of bypass opening of the three-way valve.
US10910235B2
A control device is provided which, at a time of upper surface treatment for treating an upper surface of a substrate with a treating device, supplies a treating liquid from a treating liquid supply source and operates a first control valve to supply a gas at a first flow rate from a gas nozzle, while operating a rotary drive device to spin the substrate at a first rotational frequency, and at a time of drying treatment, after completion of the upper surface treatment, for drying the substrate by increasing the rotational frequency of the rotary drive device to spin the substrate at a second rotational frequency, operates the first control valve and second control valve to supply the gas at a higher flow rate than the first flow rate from the gas nozzle.
US10910232B2
A copper plasma etching method according an exemplary embodiment includes: placing a substrate on a susceptor in a process chamber of a plasma etching apparatus; supplying an etching gas that include hydrogen chloride into the process chamber; plasma-etching a conductor layer that include copper in the substrate; and maintaining a temperature of the susceptor at 10° C. or less during the plasma-etching.
US10910226B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor laser including providing a substrate having a semiconductor layer sequence with an active layer that generates light during operation of the semiconductor laser, applying a continuous contact layer having at least one first partial region and at least one second partial region on a bottom side of the substrate opposite the semiconductor layer sequence, and locally annealing the contact layer only in the at least one first partial region.
US10910212B2
Materials and optical components formed thereof that are suitable for use in a lighting apparatus to impart a color filtering effect to visible light. At least a portion of such an optical component is formed of a composite material comprising a polymeric matrix material and an inorganic particulate material that contributes a color filtering effect to visible light passing through the composite material, and the particulate material comprises a neodymium compound containing Nd3+ ions.
US10910211B2
Embodiments of the present invention describe electrical potential energy to electrical kinetic energy converters, ozone generators, and light emitters. A system for energy conversion from electrical potential energy to electrical kinetic energy may include a discharge device and a power supply. The power supply can be coupled with the discharge device, and supplies energy to the discharge device to form an initial electric field. The discharge device may further include at least two electrodes that are either mesh electrodes or wire-array electrodes. Furthermore, a space between the at least two electrodes is filled with a gas medium and an electric field is created by the power supply in a normal direction relative to planes formed by the elements of electrodes.
US10910204B2
A cleanliness monitor for monitoring a cleanliness of a vacuum chamber. The cleanliness monitor may include a mass spectrometer, a molecule aggregation and release unit and an analyzer. The molecule aggregation and release unit is configured to (a) aggregate, during an aggregation period, organic molecules that are present in the vacuum chamber and (b) induce, during a release period, a release of a subset of the organic molecules towards the mass spectrometer. The mass spectrometer is configured to monitor an environment within the vacuum chamber and to generate detection signals indicative of a content of the environment; wherein a first subset of the detection signals is indicative of a presence of the subset of the organic molecules. The analyzer is configured to determine the cleanliness of the vacuum chamber based on the detection signals.
US10910202B2
A plasma monitoring system includes a plasma chamber performing plasma processes, first and second plasma sensing devices, and a controller. The first and second plasma sensing devices are respectively in a first horizontal direction and a second horizontal direction perpendicular to each other from a center point of a monitoring plasma plane in the plasma chamber. The first and second plasma sensing device generate first and second detection signals with respect to the monitoring plasma plane based on a first incident beam radiated from the monitoring plasma plane in the first horizontal direction and a second incident beam radiated from the monitoring plasma plane in the second horizontal direction. The controller detects two-dimensional plasma distribution information with respect to the monitoring plasma plane by performing a convolution operation based on the first and second detection signals, and controls the plasma processes based on the two-dimensional plasma distribution information.
US10910201B1
Described is a method for determining an endpoint of an etch process using optical emission spectroscopy (OES) data as an input. OES data is acquired by a spectrometer in a plasma etch processing chamber. The acquired time-evolving spectral data is first filtered and de-meaned, and thereafter transformed into transformed spectral data, or trends, using multivariate analysis such as principal components analysis, in which previously calculated principal component weights are used to accomplish the transform. Grouping of the principal components weights into two separate groups corresponding to positive and negative natural wavelengths, creates separate signed trends (synthetic wavelengths).
US10910200B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes a partition plate, an antenna, and a high frequency power supply. The partition plate has a plurality of holes and partitions an inside of the processing container into a plasma generation chamber and a processing chamber. The antenna generates plasma of the plasma excitation gas supplied into the plasma generation chamber. The high frequency power supply generates plasma of a precoating gas supplied into the plasma generation chamber and introduced into the processing chamber through the plurality of holes of the partition plate. The plasma processing apparatus performs a precoating on a surface of a partition plate on a side of the processing chamber by causing the high frequency power supply to generate plasma of the precoating gas before a plasma processing using the plasma of the plasma excitation gas is performed.
US10910199B2
A method of controlling a position of an adjustable nozzle includes depositing a film on a surface of a wafer. The method includes measuring a thickness profile of the surface of the wafer. The method includes comparing the measurement of the thickness profile with a reference value using a control unit. The method includes transmitting a control signal to the adjustable nozzle to alter the position of the adjustable nozzle based on the result of the comparison. The adjustable nozzle includes a base having a hollow center portion for conducting gas, the base configured for connection to a gas source. The adjust nozzle includes a tip coupled to the base and having an opening for conducting gas from the base to the exterior of the nozzle, wherein the base is configured for pivoting about a longitudinal axis of the base in response to the control signal.
US10910191B2
An X-ray tube includes: a vacuum housing configured to include an internal space which is vacuum; a target unit configured to be disposed in the internal space, and include a target that generates an X-ray by using an electron beam incident therein, and a target support unit that supports the target, the X-ray generated by the target being transmitted through the target support unit; an X-ray emission window configured to be so provided as to face the target support unit, and seal an opening of the vacuum housing, the X-rays transmitted through the target support unit being transmitted through the X-ray emission window; an elastic member configured to press the target unit in such a direction as to approach the X-ray emission window; and a target shift unit configured to shift the target unit pressed by the elastic member in a direction crossing an incidence direction of the electron beam.
US10910189B2
In embodiments, a linac electron beam excited X-ray source weighing less than 50 pounds, and having a volume less than 1 cubic foot, injects electrons from an RF-excited, diamond tip cathode into a dielectric accelerator tube of diameter less than 10 mm, where the electrons are RF-accelerated to 1-4 MeV. A focusing channel having a plurality of annular permanent magnets can surround the dielectric tube, and a vacuum can be maintained in the tube by a getter pump. The accelerating RF can be 10 GHz or higher. The X-ray source can be powered by a rechargeable battery for more than an hour. Embodiments can be transported within a case having a display attached to an interior surface of its lid. An X-ray head can be removed from the case and extended up to 10 feet while remaining interconnected with the case by a flexible conduit.
US10910184B2
In case of using multi-contacts or flat braided wires for constituting a current carrying structure of a movable part in a vacuum relay, problems tend to appear, which are enlargement of a control mechanism, complication, increased operation force and the like. The vacuum relay 1 includes an insulating cylinder 2, a first relay connecting portion 4 that is connected to one open end of the insulating cylinder 2 and has on its inner surface a first contact 3, a second relay connecting portion 5 that is arranged in the insulating cylinder 2 to face the first relay connecting portion 4, a movable member 7 that is movably arranged between the first and second relay connecting portions 4 and 5 and has a second contact that is brought into contact with the first contact when the movable member is moved toward the first relay connecting portion, and a control mechanism 8 that moves the movable member 7 in both directions to establish and break the contact between the two contacts. Between the movable member 7 and the second relay connecting portion 5, there is provided a bellows 11 through which the movable member 7 and the second relay connecting portion 5 are electrically connected.
US10910183B2
A power supply control device controls the supply of power via a switch circuit and a relay contact. If the semiconductor switches are on and the relay contact is off, when a switch temperature of the switch circuit is at least a relay ON-threshold, the relay contact is switched on, and the semiconductor switches are switched off. If the semiconductor switches are off and the relay contact is on, when a switch temperature of the switch circuit is lower than a relay OFF-threshold, the semiconductor switches are switched on, and the relay contact is switched off. The relay OFF-threshold is not more than the relay ON-threshold.
US10910175B2
The disclosure provides a key structure, including a carrier, a buffer layer, a circuit film, a balance rod and a key cap. The carrier includes a body and a positioning element protruding from the body. The positioning element has a positioning hole. The buffer layer is disposed around the positioning hole. The circuit film and the balance rod are disposed on the body. The balance rod has an opposite first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portion passes through the positioning hole and presses against the buffer layer. The key cap is connected with the second end portion, and the circuit film and the balance rod are positioned between the key cap and the body.
US10910169B1
A method is disclosed. The method includes attaching a light beam emitter to an electrical control assembly having at least one control member that is electrically connected to an electrical component, emitting a light beam from the light beam emitter across the at least one control member, moving the at least one control member between a first position in which the light beam is unblocked by the at least one control member and a second position in which the light beam is blocked by the at least one control member, and connecting the light beam emitter to a notification device via an electrical circuit. The method also includes preventing electrical current flow to the notification device when the at least one control member is in the first position.
US10910163B2
A multilayer electronic component include a multilayer capacitor including a capacitor body and first and second external electrodes disposed on ends of the capacitor body, respectively; an alumina chip including a chip body and first and second external terminals disposed on ends of the chip body, respectively, the first and second external terminals being in contact with the first and second external electrodes, respectively; a first plating layer covering the first external electrode and the first external terminal; and a second plating layer covering the second external electrode and the second external terminal. The first and second plating layers each include a nickel plating layer a tin plating layer disposed on the first external electrode and the first external terminal and on the second external electrode and the second external terminal, respectively.
US10910158B2
A capacitor and a method of fabricating the capacitor are provided. The capacitor includes a structure for forming a three-dimensional capacitor, the structure being a pillar structure or a trench structure; where when the structure is a pillar structure, the aspect ratio of the pillar structure is more than 10; when the structure is a trench structure, the capacitor further includes a substrate, the trench structure is formed by a material layer disposed on the surface of a base trench of the substrate, and the aspect ratio of the trench structure is more than 10. The aspect ratio of the pillar structure of the capacitor or the aspect ratio of the trench structure may be more than 10, so that the performance of the capacitor is better.
US10910155B2
An electronic component includes a multilayer capacitor comprising a capacitor body, and an external electrode disposed on an end of the capacitor body, and an interposer comprising an interposer body, and an external terminal disposed on an end of the interposer body. The external terminal includes a connection portion disposed on a first surface of the interposer body and connected to the external electrode, a mounting portion disposed on a second surface of the interposer body opposing the first surface, and a side connection portion disposed on the first and second surfaces and a side surface of the interposer to connect the connection portion and the mounting portion. The side connection portion includes a cutting portion.
US10910153B2
Thermally annealed superparamagnetic core shell nanoparticles of an iron-cobalt alloy core and a silicon dioxide shell having high magnetic saturation are provided. A magnetic core of high magnetic moment obtained by compression sintering the thermally annealed superparamagnetic core shell nanoparticles is also provided. The magnetic core has little core loss due to hysteresis or eddy current flow.
US10910152B2
A laminated core manufacturing device includes: an overlapping unit configured to overlap the plurality of laminated core materials conveyed along different conveyance routes; an edge position correction unit configured to align edge positions in a width direction of the plurality of laminated core materials between the plurality of laminated core materials and to correct shift of each edge position of the plurality of laminated core materials with respect to a standard edge position; an uplift prevention unit configured to prevent uplift of the plurality of laminated core materials; and a punching unit configured to punch out the plurality of laminated core materials which are overlapped by the overlapping unit and have been subjected to a process to align the edge positions and to correct shift of the edge positions performed by the edge position correction unit, and a process to prevent the uplift performed by the uplift prevention unit.
US10910147B2
A reactor including: a coil including a winding portion formed by winding a winding wire; and a magnetic core that forms a closed magnetic circuit constituted by an inner core portion located inside the winding portion and an outer core portion located outside the winding portion. The reactor further includes an inner resin portion that fills a gap between the inner circumferential surface of the winding portion and the outer circumferential surface of the inner core portion, and when a side, of the outer core portion, that faces the inner core portion is defined as an inner side, and the opposite side is defined as an outer side, the outer core portion is provided with a through hole that is open to both the inner side and the outer side, and the through hole is filled with a portion of the inner resin portion.
US10910143B2
A winding-type coil component includes a first wire and a second wire having a twisted wire portion where the first wire and the second wire are twisted together. Switching positions of the first wire and the second wire in the twisted wire portion are shifted in a circumferential direction of a winding core portion every turn.
US10910141B2
One object is to increase the filling factor of magnetic particles and increase the evenness of distribution of the magnetic particles in a magnetic main body of a coil component. A coil component includes: a magnetic main body containing a resin and magnetic particles; and a coil conductor embedded in the magnetic main body. The magnetic particles include large-sized magnetic particles, middle-sized magnetic particles, and small-sized magnetic particles. The proportion of the volume of the large-sized magnetic particles to the total volume of all the magnetic particles is 70 vol % to 85 vol %, the proportion of the volume of the middle-sized magnetic particles to the total volume is 2 vol % to 28 vol %, and the proportion of the volume of the small-sized magnetic particles to the total volume is 2 vol % to 28 vol %. The particle size distribution of the small-sized magnetic particles overlaps that of the middle-sized magnetic particles.
US10910135B2
A surge arrester and a method for manufacturing the surge arrester are disclosed. The surge arrester includes a preassembled active part extending in a longitudinal direction, and a separately produced flexible housing defining a bore in the longitudinal direction and having an opening at an end surface of the flexible housing. The flexible housing is arranged surrounding the active part via the bore and in contact with the active part. The contact causes a deformation of the flexible housing in a circumferential direction, and the deformation generates a pressure applied on the active part along a radial direction.
US10910130B2
A corrosion-resistant terminal material has a substrate made of copper or a copper alloy and a film layered on the substrate. The film has a planned core wire contact part with which a core wire of an electric wire is in contact when the material is formed to a terminal and a planned contact part. The film formed in the planned core wire contact part has a tin layer made of tin or tin alloy and a metallic zinc layer formed on the tin layer; the film formed in the planned contact part has a tin layer made of tin or tin alloy but does not have a metallic zinc layer. A corrosion-resistant terminal uses the corrosion-resistant terminal material described herein.
US10910128B1
A rodent repellent fiber optic cable includes an outer jacket, one or more optical fibers, and a repellent electrostatically bonded to at least one component of the cable. The one or more optical fibers extend longitudinally through an interior of the cable. The repellent is preferably an olfactory stimulant, such as menthol, configured to repel rodents. In various embodiments, the cable also includes one or more separators and/or a sheath. In embodiments that employ separators, at least one optical fiber is wrapped in, or otherwise surrounded by a separator. In embodiments that employ a sheath, the sheath surrounds an assembly of the cable's internal components.
US10910126B2
An aluminum alloy contains equal to or more than 0.005 mass % and equal to or less than 2.2 mass % of Fe, and a remainder of Al and an inevitable impurity. In a transverse section of the aluminum alloy wire, a surface-layer void measurement region in a shape of a rectangle having a short side length of 30 μm and a long side length of 50 μm is defined within a surface layer region extending from a surface of the aluminum alloy wire by 30 μm in a depth direction, and a total cross-sectional area of voids in the surface-layer void measurement region is equal to or less than 2 μm2.
US10910121B2
The present invention provides systems, methods and devices for storing and/or disposing of hazardous waste material. In some embodiments, the waste material includes nuclear waste such as calcined material. In certain embodiments, the device includes a container having a container body, a filling port configured to couple with a filling nozzle and a filling plug, and an evacuation port having a filter. The evacuation port is configured to couple with an evacuation nozzle and an evacuation plug. In certain embodiments, the method includes (a) adding hazardous waste material via a filling nozzle coupled to a filling port of a container, the container including an evacuation port, (b) evacuating the container during adding of the hazardous waste material via an evacuation nozzle coupled to an evacuation port of the container, (c) sealing the filling port, (d) heating the container, and (e) sealing the evacuation port.
US10910116B2
A nuclear reactor including a reactor core comprising a plurality of fuel materials and a plurality of heat pipes. The nuclear reactor further includes a heat exchanger coupled to the reactor core defining a flow path in an open volume including at least two heat pipes of the plurality of heat pipes. Methods of operating a nuclear reactor include passing fluid through an open volume in a heat exchanger including at least two heat pipes extending from a reactor core.
US10910104B2
A computer-assisted method for uniformly pricing chargeable items in a healthcare provider's chargeable item database is disclosed. The method applies uniform pricing to identical or related chargeable items. A system for uniformly pricing related chargeable items is also disclosed.
US10910102B2
A patient support system includes a patient support apparatus operable to collect biometric and/or physiological data of a patient located on the patient support apparatus, using one or more sensors that are coupled to the patient or coupled to a component of the patient support apparatus. The system can use the biometric and/or physiological data to verify the identity of a patient that is associated with the patient support apparatus or a patient room. Based on the patient verification, the system can update patient electronic medical records to include the biometric and/or physiological data, and/or perform other tasks.
US10910101B2
An image diagnosis support apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of first image data groups and a plurality of second image data groups to be subjected to comparative interpretation; an association unit that associates each of the plurality of first image data groups and each of the plurality of second image data groups with each other based on a degree of similarity between the image data groups; an image extraction unit that extracts a corresponding image corresponding to at least one target image of the first image data group from a second image data group among the plurality of second image data groups associated with a first image data group among the plurality of first image data groups; and a display controller that displays a set of images of the target image and the corresponding image on a display unit in a contrastable layout.
US10910097B2
A medical scan report labeling system is operable to transmit a medical report that includes natural language text to a first client device for display. Identified medical condition term data is received from the first client device in response. An alias mapping pair in a medical label alias database is identified by determining that a medical condition term of the alias mapping pair compares favorably to the identified medical condition term data. A medical code that corresponds to the alias mapping pair and a medical scan that corresponds to the medical report are transmitted to a second client device of an expert user for display, and accuracy data is received from the second client device in response. The medical code is mapped to the first medical scan in the medical scan database when the accuracy data indicates that the medical code compares favorably to the medical scan.
US10910089B2
A method and apparatus provide centralized encryption key management for sharing data across diverse entities. In particular, the present invention relates to a universal and regulatory compliant system and method for sharing personal data records across diverse entities while maintaining unique identifiers at each entity for protecting the identity of any particular person. The present invention enables multiple organizations to be able to share their respective disparate data in a manner in which the disparate personal data records can be aggregated and manipulated by a single entity without putting the personal data records at risk.
US10910088B2
The present invention relates to a method and a device for a nucleic acid based diagnostic approach including the determination of a deviant condition of a sample, wherein the deviant condition is preferably a health condition and/or a pathogenic condition.
US10910086B2
A computer-implemented method for determining minor variants. The method includes receiving electropherogram sequence data from a test sample, identifying any non-primary peaks in the electropherogram, and characterizing identified non-primary peaks using at least one signal feature. The method may further include analyzing the at least one signal feature across identified non-primary peaks to identify variant candidates, evaluating at least one peak characteristic of each of the identified variant candidates, and classifying variant candidates as bona fide variants based on the evaluation of peak characteristics.
US10910084B2
The present invention relates to a method for predicting the response of a structure, or a group of structures and/or a network profile, to a perturbation, in particular a perturbation caused by an agent or a combination of agents through modeling, optimizing, parameterizing, testing and/or validating of a dynamic network or of network perturbations.
US10910074B2
Circuit designs and operating techniques for a storage device that includes, in one implementation, a memory controller configured to control a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks, each including a plurality of memory cells. The memory controller may include a memory device interface configured to perform data communication with the memory device, and a soft program controller communicatively coupled to the memory device interface and configured to count a number of iterations that an erase operation on an erase target memory block, among the plurality of memory blocks, has been suspended until the erase operation is completed, and to perform a soft program operation on the erase target memory block after the erase operation has been completed, based on the number of iterations that the erase operation on the erase target memory block has been suspended.
US10910064B2
An apparatus comprising strings of non-volatile memory cells, a first set of pathways connected to the strings, and a second set of pathways connected to the strings. The first set of pathways have first impedances that depend on location of respective strings. The second set of pathways having second impedances. The apparatus also includes one or more control circuits configured to compensate for location dependent impedance mismatch between the first set of pathways and the second set of pathways during memory operations on the non-volatile memory cells.
US10910062B2
A random bit cell includes a latch and a nonvolatile memory cell. The nonvolatile memory cell includes a storage circuit, a control element, an erase element, and a read circuit. The storage circuit is coupled to a first terminal of the latch. The storage circuit includes a floating gate transistor having a first terminal, a second terminal, and a floating gate. The control element has a first terminal coupled to a control line, and a control terminal coupled to the floating gate of the floating gate transistor. The erase element has a first terminal coupled to an erase line, and a control terminal coupled to the floating gate of the floating gate transistor. The read circuit is coupled to a bit line, a select gate line, and the floating gate of the floating gate transistor.
US10910054B2
The present provision includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for charge separation for memory sensing. An embodiment includes applying a sensing voltage to a memory cell, and determining a data state of the memory cell based, at least in part, on a comparison of an amount of charge discharged by the memory cell while the sensing voltage is being applied to the memory cell before a particular reference time and an amount of charge discharged by the memory cell while the sensing voltage is being applied to the memory cell after the particular reference time.
US10910052B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for material implication operations in memory. An example apparatus may include a plurality of memory cells coupled to a first access line and a plurality of second access lines, and a controller coupled to the plurality of memory cells. The controller of the example apparatus may be configured to apply a first signal to the first access line, and while the first signal is being applied to the first access line, apply a second signal to a first of the plurality of memory cells via another respective one of the plurality of second access lines and apply a third signal to a second of the plurality of memory cells via another respective one of the plurality of second access lines. The material implication operation may be performed as a result of the signals (e.g., first, second, and third signals) applied and a result of the material implication operation is stored on the second of the plurality of memory cells subsequent to the application of the third signal.
US10910050B2
A ReRAM memory cell includes a ReRAM device including a solid electrolyte layer disposed between a first ion-source electrode and a second electrode and a select circuit including two series-connected select transistors connected in series with the ReRAM device, each of the two series-connected select transistors having a gate connected to a separate control line.
US10910043B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a memory, a controller, and a sense amplifier. The memory includes a plurality of memory cells, wherein each of the memory cells can store a multi level indicating one data. The controller writes the multi level to one cell of the memory. The sense amplifier performs unary read of data from the multi level written in the one cell. The data is data in which an error of a predetermined lower significant bit is allowed. The controller reads data indicated by the multi level stored in the one cell of the memory from the sense amplifier.
US10910038B2
An apparatus includes a plurality of main word line circuits. Each main word line circuit drives a respective global word line to one of an active state value, an intermediate voltage state, or a pre-charge state. The intermediate voltage state voltage is below the active state voltage and above the pre-charge state voltage. The memory device also includes a plurality of sub-word line drivers. Each sub-word line driver is connected to a corresponding global word line and configured to drive a respective local word line between the corresponding global word line voltage and a low voltage value. The apparatus further includes a plurality of phase drivers. Each phase driver is connected to a predetermined number of sub-word line drivers, where each of the predetermined number of sub-word line drivers connects to a different global word line.
US10910030B2
A memory device including a normal memory cell array including a first magneto-resistance memory cell that is connected to a first bit line, a first source line, and a first word line, and configured to receive a selection voltage through the first word line, a monitor memory cell array including a second magneto-resistance memory cell that is connected to a first signal line and a second signal line, a gate of a cell transistor of which is configured to receive a non-selection voltage, and a body bias generator configured to sense a leakage current flowing through the first signal line and control a body voltage provided to each of a body of a cell transistor of the first magneto-resistance memory cell and a body of the cell transistor of the second magneto-resistance memory cell based on the leakage current may be provided.
US10910022B1
A semiconductor device includes a shift control circuit and a synthesis pre-charge signal generation circuit. The shift control circuit generates a shift signal and a shift read signal based on a read command and controls a reset status of the shift read signal based on the shift signal and an auto-pre-charge command. The synthesis pre-charge signal generation circuit generates a synthesis pre-charge signal for an auto-pre-charge operation of a bank selected by an address based on the shift read signal and the address.
US10910020B1
A semiconductor structure includes a three-dimensional NAND memory array including bit lines and an array of bit line connection switches. Each of the bit line connection switches includes a series connection of a first field effect transistor and a second field effect transistor that include a common active region. A deep active portion of a first active region of the first field effect transistor is vertically coincident with a first outer sidewall of a first dielectric spacer, and a deep active portion of the common active region is laterally spaced from the first dielectric spacer to provide a compact design the each bit line connection switch.
US10910019B2
Data storage device mounting systems to provide alignment and mounting of data storage devices are provided herein. A carrier is configured to couple to a data storage device and hang the data storage device in a vertical orientation in a data storage assembly from retractable mounting pins coupled to the carrier. The carrier also includes retractable alignment features to guide the data storage device and carrier into the mounting system. Finger grips are coupled to retractable alignment features and mounting pins and configured to extend retractable alignment features beyond the carrier concurrent with retracting the mounting pins when actuated by a user squeezing the finger grips. The finger grips are configured to extend the mounting pins when de-actuated by the user.
US10910017B2
The present technology relates to a reproducing device, a reproducing method, an information processing device, an information processing method, a program, and a recording medium, which are capable of reproducing an appropriate HDR video. The reproducing device of the present technology acquires reproduction management information in which a first flag indicating whether or not encoded data of a first HDR video which is mandatory when a video of a luminance range wider than a standard luminance range is included in content is included in the content and a second flag indicating whether or not encoded data of a second HDR video that is likely to be included in the content is included in the content are described. Further, the reproducing device reproduces the encoded data of the first HDR video or the encoded data of the second HDR video on the basis of the details of the first flag and the second flag and performance of a display serving as an output destination. The present technology can be applied to a Blu-ray disc player.
US10910011B1
A data storage device is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a disk. The disk is spun at a first speed while writing first data to the disk based on a first disk format defining a first capacity for the disk. When a command is received from a host to spin the disk at a second speed different from the first speed, the disk is spun at the second speed while writing second data to the disk based on a second disk format defining a second capacity for the disk different from the first capacity.
US10910010B2
A reversible recording medium according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a reversible recording medium that includes recording layers and heat-insulating layers that are alternately stacked, in which the recording layers each include a reversible heat-sensitive color developing composition and a first light-heat converting agent. In this reversible recording medium, the recording layers are different from each other in a developing color of their respective reversible heat-sensitive color developing compositions and are different from each other in an absorption wavelength of their respective first light-heat converting agents. This reversible recording medium further includes a heat-generating layer that includes a second light-heat converting agent having an absorption wavelength that is different from the absorption wavelength of the first light-heat converting agent included in each of the recording layers.
US10910009B2
The magnetic tape has a magnetic layer containing ferromagnetic powder and binder on a nonmagnetic support, wherein the centerline average surface roughness Ra as measured on the surface on the magnetic layer side of the magnetic tape is less than or equal to 1.8 nm, and the logarithmic decrement as determined by a pendulum viscoelasticity test on the surface on the magnetic layer side of the magnetic tape is less than or equal to 0.050.
US10910005B1
Disclosed here is a ramp for receiving a lift tab of a hard disk drive. The ramp comprises a first side and a second side, where the first side is spaced apart from the second side. The ramp also comprises an inclined surface along which the lift tab slides as it moves in a first direction to remove a read/write head from a disk of the hard disk drive. The inclined surface inclines from a leading edge of the ramp to an intermediate edge of the ramp in the first direction. The inclined surface has a width that is generally perpendicular to the first direction and extends from the first side to the second side. The inclined surface has a width that is generally perpendicular to the first direction and extends from the first side to the second side. The tapered portion defines an oblique angle relative to the first direction.
US10910002B1
One or more write efficiency metrics are determined. The one or more write efficiency metrics are associated with a tape storage drive while the tape storage drive is operating on one or more tape storage media cartridges to write data sets to the one or more tape storage media cartridges. It is predicted whether the tape storage drive would be able to write an entire set of data sets to a current tape storage media cartridge based on the one or more write efficiency metrics. It is determined whether a different tape storage drive is to be utilized to complete writing of the entire set of data sets to the current tape storage media cartridge based on the prediction.
US10909997B2
According to an aspect of the present invention an encoder for encoding an audio signal has an analyzer configured for deriving prediction coefficients and a residual signal from a frame of the audio signal. The encoder has a formant information calculator configured for calculating a speech related spectral shaping information from the prediction coefficients, a gain parameter calculator configured for calculating a gain parameter from an unvoiced residual signal and the spectral shaping information and a bitstream former configured for forming an output signal based on an information related to a voiced signal frame, the gain parameter or a quantized gain parameter and the prediction coefficients.
US10909992B2
The lossless coding method includes selecting one of a first coding method and a second coding method, based on a range in which a quantization index of energy is represented, and coding the quantization index by using the selected coding method. The lossless decoding method includes determining a coding method of a differential quantization index of energy included in a bitstream and decoding the differential quantization index by using one of a first decoding method and a second decoding method based on a range in which a quantization index of energy is represented, in response to the determined coding method.
US10909982B2
An electronic apparatus includes a touch screen display, a microphone disposed at least one speaker, a wireless communication circuit, a processor, and a memory. The memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to receive a first user utterance input, to transmit first data associated with the first user utterance input to an external server, to receive a first response, to provide the first sample utterances, to receive a first user input for selecting one of the first sample utterances, to transmit second data associated with the first user input to the external server, and to perform the second task by causing the electronic apparatus to have a sequence of states. The first user utterance input includes a request for performing a first task. The first response includes first sample utterances indicating a second task.
US10909976B2
A speech recognition device includes: an acoustic model based on an End-to-End neural network responsive to an observed sequence formed of prescribed acoustic features obtained from a speech signal by feature extracting unit, for calculating probability of the observed sequence being a certain symbol sequence; and a decoder responsive to a symbol sequence candidate, for decoding a speech signal by a WFST based on a posterior probability of each of word sequences corresponding to the symbol sequence candidate, probabilities calculated by the acoustic model for symbol sequences selected based on an observed sequence, and a posterior probability of each of the plurality of symbol sequences.
US10909975B2
Systems, devices and methods are described herein for segmentation of content, and more specifically for segmentation of content in a content management system. In one aspect, a method may include receiving content associated with speech, text, or closed captioning data. The speech, the text, or the closed captioning data may be analyzed to derive at least one of a topic, subject, or event for at least a portion of the content. The content may be divided into two or more content segments based on the analyzing. At least one of the topic, the subject, or the event may be associated with at least one of the two or more content segments based on the analyzing. At least one of the two or more content segments may then be published such that each of the two or more content segments is individually accessible.
US10909973B2
Embodiments for intelligent facilitation of communication by a processor. A communication error in one or more selected portions of a communication of a user may be identified. The communication error in the one or more selected portions of the communication may be automatically translated.
US10909971B2
The present disclosure is generally related to a data processing system to detect potential exfiltration of audio data by agent applications can include a data processing system. The data processing system can identify, from an I/O record, an input received from the digital assistant application via a microphone of a client device, an output received from the agent application after the input, and a microphone status for the microphone. The data processing system can determine that the output is terminal based on the input and the output. The data processing system can identify the microphone status as in the enabled state subsequent to the input. The data processing system can determine that the agent application is unauthorized to access audio data acquired via the microphone of the client device based on determining that the output is terminal and identifying the microphone status as enabled.
US10909959B2
An electronic drum with active crosstalk detection includes a first vibration transducer configured to generate a first signal in response to a strike to the electronic drum, and a second vibration transducer configured to generate a second signal in response to vibrations in a mount coupled to the electronic drum. A circuit compares an amplitude of the first signal and an amplitude of the second signal within a predetermined time, and determines whether the signal was generated by crosstalk or an actual drum hit based on various criteria.
US10909953B2
According to an aspect, a display device includes a display panel including sub-pixels of three primary colors, and pixels having a high-luminance color having higher luminance than that of the primary colors. The three primary colors include a first primary color, a second primary color, and a third primary color. The number of the sub-pixels is smaller than twice the number of the pixels, sub-pixels of the same color are arranged at even intervals in a row direction and at even intervals in a column direction, and the sub-pixels of the same color are arranged in a staggered manner.
US10909951B2
Techniques for localized reduction of screen glare, the techniques including receiving data from a first camera and a second camera on a perimeter of a display, triangulating a first location of a first light source and a second location of a first user based on the data from the first camera and the second camera. The techniques can further include determining, based on the first location and the second location, that the first user experiences glare from the first light source when viewing the display, and generating a modified screen buffer by modifying pixel values in a glare area of the display. The techniques can further include providing the modified screen buffer to the display.
US10909937B1
A driver circuit is coupled to a dual cell panel having a first cell and a second cell superposed on each other. The driver circuit includes a second cell processor and a first cell processor. The second cell processor is configured to generate a gray scale data for the second cell. The first cell processor includes a pixel data compensation circuit and a white tracking compensation circuit. The pixel data compensation circuit is configured to compensate an image data for the first cell according to a brightness of the image data. The white tracking compensation circuit is configured to compensate the image data for the first cell according to a color temperature of the gray scale data.
US10909923B2
A pixel circuit includes first to fifth transistors, a capacitor, and a light emitting element. The first transistor is coupled between first and second power lines, and includes a gate electrode coupled to a first node and a back-gate electrode coupled to a second node. The second transistor is coupled between a data line and the first node, and includes a gate electrode coupled to a first scan line. The third transistor is coupled between a third power line and the first node, and includes a gate electrode coupled to a reference scan line. The fourth transistor is coupled between a second node and a fourth power line, and includes a gate electrode coupled to a second scan line. The fifth transistor is coupled between a first power line and the one electrode of the first transistor, and includes a gate electrode coupled to a light-emitting control line.
US10909918B2
An organic light emitting display device driven at a first driving frequency or a second driving frequency lower than the first driving frequency includes pixels coupled to first scan lines, second scan lines, and data lines, a first scan driver configured to supply scan signals to the first scan lines during a first period and a second period in one frame period, when the organic light emitting display device is driven at the second driving frequency, a second scan driver configured to supply scan signals to the second scan lines during the first period, when the organic light emitting display device is driven at the second driving frequency, and a data driver configured to supply a data signal to the data lines during the first period.
US10909916B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an OLED array substrate. The OLED array substrate comprises: a plurality of scan lines; a plurality of data lines; a plurality of OLED pixel units, each OLED pixel unit is connected to a corresponding data line and a corresponding scan line and being connected to a corresponding reset terminal; and a plurality of light detection units, each light detection unit is connected between the reset terminal of one OLED pixel unit and the corresponding data line, is configured to detect a light emitted by a detection light resource to generate a light detection signal, and output the light detection signal via the corresponding data line under a control of a reset signal from the reset terminal.
US10909914B2
A semiconductor device includes a first display unit and a second display unit. The first display unit includes a first substrate, first light-emitting units, and a first gate driver circuit. The first substrate includes a first display region. The first substrate has a first side and a second side. The first light-emitting units are disposed in the first display region. The first gate driver circuit is disposed in the first display region. The second display unit is adjacent to the first display unit. The second display unit includes a second substrate. The second substrate includes a second display region, second light-emitting units, and a second gate driver circuit. The second substrate has a third side and a fourth side. The second light-emitting units are disposed in the second display region. A second gate driver circuit is disposed in the second display region.
US10909904B2
An organic light emitting display device including a plurality of pixels is provided according to an embodiment. Each of the plurality of pixels includes three sub pixels. The plurality of pixels include a first pixel having a green sub pixel and two red sub pixels, a second pixel having a green sub pixel and two blue sub pixels, the second pixel being adjacent to the first pixel in a first direction, a third pixel having a green sub pixel and two blue sub pixels, the third pixel being adjacent to the first pixel in a second direction, and a fourth pixel having a green sub pixel and two red sub pixels, the fourth pixel being adjacent to the second pixel in the second direction. In the organic light emitting display device according to an example embodiment of the present disclosure, sub pixels are asymmetrically disposed in pixels which are disposed in at least one direction, to reduce lattice artifact by the regular arrangement of the sub pixels.
US10909903B2
A display device includes a display controller that performs a high-throughput dithering operation. The display controller performs a quantization operation with pixel values generated by a graphics processor to generate quantized pixel values and residual error values. The display controller distributes the residual error values associated with a first group of quantized pixel values to a second group of quantized pixel values based on a set of distribution weights. A given distribution weight defines what fraction of a given residual error value is distributed to a given quantized pixel value included in the second group of quantized pixel values. The distribution weights are calibrated to permit the display controller to compute different fractions of residual error values using bit shifting logic instead of complex combinatorial logic.
US10909896B2
The present disclosure provides a common voltage generation circuit, a common voltage generation method, and a display device, and belongs to the field of display technology. The common voltage generation circuit includes: an initial common voltage generation component configured to generate an initial common voltage controlled by a ground voltage and a positive power supply voltage according to a clock synchronization signal and a serial digital signal as received; and a common voltage adjustment component configured to generate a common voltage controlled by the ground voltage and a negative power supply voltage according to the initial common voltage.
US10909893B2
The present disclosure provides a shift register circuit, a GOA circuit and a display device. The shift register circuit includes a shift register sub-circuit. The shift register sub-circuit includes a pull-up node, a pull-down node and a touch potential control circuit. The touch potential control circuit is coupled to a touch potential control terminal, an output terminal of the shift register sub-circuit, the pull-up node, the pull-down node and a low level output terminal, respectively. The touch potential control circuit is configured to, under control of the touch potential control terminal in a touch phase, control each of the output terminal of the shift register sub-circuit, the pull-up node and the pull-down node to be coupled to the low level output terminal.
US10909892B2
A method of reconstructing an optical light field from a 3D animation model via a light field video using a light field display device.
US10909888B2
An electronic price tag, an electronic price tag system, and a method of updating an electronic price tag. The electronic price tag includes a reed switch sensor and a processor. The reed switch sensor is configured to sense a magnetic field adjacent to the electronic price tag to generate an output signal. The processor is configured to: receive the output signal of the reed switch sensor, convert the output signal into information indicating whether the electronic price tag is normal, and send the information indicating whether the electronic price tag is normal.
US10909880B2
A learning system and a method adapted to personalize language learning to individual users. An output device generates and presents learning related data to a user associated with a user ID. An input mechanism receives, in response to the learning related data, response data from the user indicating the users response to the learning related data. A processor associates the learning related data to the response data to couple the response from the user to the learning related data. A database including a storage space associated to the user ID is used for storing the learning related and the associated response data and generates an individualized language knowledge database for the user. The processor is adapted to issue a true (tl) or false (fl) learning related data indicators indicating whether the response data matches the learning related data presented to the user.
US10909871B2
Disclosed is a method of providing user-customized learning content. The method includes: a step a of configuring a question database including one or more multiple-choice questions having one or more choice items and collecting choice item selection data of a user for the questions; a step b of calculating a modeling vector for the user based on the choice item data and generating modeling vectors for the questions according to each choice item; and a step c of calculating choice item selection probabilities of the user based on the modeling vectors of the user and the modeling vectors of the questions.
US10909869B2
A method and system for the creation, collection, analysis and publication of educational programs, products, practices, policies, and materials, collectively education tools, suitable for describing real-time education content-learner engagement-performance pathways every learner or segments of learners take during an education process. In particular, the method and system create and select direct lessons custom tailored to the interests, needs, and profiles of a target audience with the goal of maximizing learner engagement and performance outcomes. Additionally, the direct lessons clearly explain why the content is valuable, useful today and tomorrow, and relevant to a wide range of people, yet tailored to a target learning audience of having certain characteristics. A relevancy score is created based on a level of performance and application of the information in the direct lessons to provide publishers, educators, or the like with a method and system to track the effectiveness of the education tools.
US10909868B2
This disclosure generally covers systems and methods that provide guidance to create an electronic survey. In some embodiments, the systems and methods identify and provide a suggested survey topic—with a corresponding option to create an electronic survey—based on user input. In some embodiments, the systems and methods identify and provide one or more suggested electronic survey questions based on user input. In such embodiments, the systems and methods provide, for example, components of suggested electronic survey questions, previously composed and benchmarking electronic survey questions, or suggested revisions to electronic survey questions. In addition, the systems and methods can provide entire premade electronic surveys based on receiving user input from a survey administrator.
US10909849B2
According to an embodiment, a vehicle driving assistance device mounted in a vehicle comprises: a memory for storing an identification of a vehicle; a visible light communication unit for modulating the identification stored in the memory, and outputting the modulated identification through visible light; and a processor for activating the visible light communication unit when the vehicle enters a parking lot entrance gate, and performing control such that the visible light including the identification of the vehicle is outputted according to the activation of the visible light communication unit.
US10909848B2
A driving assistance device for a vehicle includes: an assistance processing portion that executes a notification of a possibility of a host vehicle intersecting with an other vehicle based on host vehicle information including information that provides an estimation of a travelling course of the host vehicle and an other vehicle information including information that provides an estimation of a travelling course of the other vehicle and acquired by wireless communication; and a map acquisition portion that acquires map data including data that specifies a circular intersection. The host vehicle information includes a position of the host vehicle. The assistance processing portion prevents the notification based on the circular intersection, which is disposed in front of the host vehicle in the travelling course of the host vehicle, according to at least the host vehicle information and the map data acquired by the map acquisition portion.
US10909840B1
A monitoring device includes a housing enclosing electronic circuitry including a light emitter array and first and second light receivers, a band lockably attachable to the housing, the band including a first optical filament, a second optical filament, and mounting holes between the first and second optical filaments, the mounting holes being part of a locking mechanism that locks the band to the housing. Both ends of the band are attached to the housing, the first optical filament at least partially defines a first optical path between the light emitter array and the first light receiver, and the second optical filament at least partially defines a second optical path between the light emitter array and the second light receiver. Different alert levels will issue based on whether unexpected light is received on the different optical paths.
US10909839B1
A system for optimizing rescue efforts includes one or more processors, a network access device and a memory device. The network access device and the memory device are in communication with the one or more processors. The memory device includes an event detection module, a transmission module, and a reception module. The event detection module has instructions that cause the one or more processor to determine a location of an emergency event. The transmission module causes the one or more processors to transmit the location via the network access device to one or more detection systems that are within a detection range of the emergency event, wherein the one or more detection systems are one or more vehicles. The reception module causes the one or more processor to obtaining information regarding the emergency event via the one or more sensors that are within the detection range of the emergency event.
US10909838B1
Methods, devices, and systems for fire control panel interface generation are described herein. In some examples, one or more embodiments include a fire control panel comprising a memory and a processor to execute instructions stored in the memory to determine, from a plurality of geographic regions, a geographic region for the control panel, determine a set of standards corresponding to the determined geographic region, and generate a fire control panel interface using the determined set of standards, and a user interface to display the fire control panel interface.
US10909837B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for monitoring on route transportations. The method includes obtaining a driving route of a target vehicle; obtaining a reference position on the driving route away from a first current position of the target vehicle; determining a second current position of the target vehicle after a reference time; determining a distance between the second current position and the reference position is greater than a preset distance; and sending a signal to a target terminal indicating that the target vehicle is off-route.
US10909834B2
Systems and methods of (remotely) controlling aspects of pools and spas and of modifying water contained therein are detailed. Internet-enabled access to pool and spa controllers may happen without any need for users to create firewall ports or utilize static internet protocol addresses. Certain networking devices may be configured using a USB connection or SD card, avoiding any requirement for an Ethernet cable or supplying separate power to the devices during configuration. Time-varying data may be obtained in respect of one or more installations and analyzed for various information.
US10909824B2
A pulsed image capturing system includes a pulse generation circuit, a dynamic vision sensor (DVS), and a DVS scanning and readout circuit. A global reset signal is transmitted to pixels of the DVS to set a reference illumination level for the pixels, and then a pulsed light pattern is generated. A global hold signal is transmitted to the pixels, after the pulsed light pattern is generated, to hold an illumination change event indicating a change with respect to the reference illumination level. A DVS scanning and readout operation is performed on event signals received from the pixels, after the global hold signal is transmitted to the pixels. A reflection of the pulsed light pattern is extracted from the DVS output after cleaning artifacts from the DVS output without additional image processing.
US10909821B2
A system provides haptic feedback based on media content. The system processes the media content into components including a first component and a second component. The system further determines a first priority value related to the first component and a second priority value related to the second component. The system further compares the first priority value with the second priority value. The system further generates a first control signal and a second control signal based on the comparison, where the first control signal is configured to cause a first haptic feedback to be output and the second control signal is configured to cause a second haptic feedback to be output that is the same or different than the first haptic feedback.
US10909820B2
A haptic mat includes a mat surface, a plurality of haptic vibrators, and a computing device. The plurality of haptic vibrators are disposed on the mat surface within a boarder representing at least one human hand. The computing device is electrically coupled to the plurality of haptic vibrators. The computing device includes at least a processor and a memory. The processor controls the activation of each of the plurality of haptic vibrators independently of one another. The processor further controls a level of vibration of each of the plurality of haptic vibrators.
US10909810B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a bonus game that is common to a bank of electronic gaming devices. One or more pools accrue with each wager placed. A player qualifies to play the bonus game when at least one tracked player or game criterion, such as wagers made, exceeds a threshold, triggers a mystery-jackpot counter, or is selected by a weighted pay table. The bonus game includes a video display of a wheel bouncing against a brick wall with bricks being exploded by coins. After an opening is formed in the wall and the wheel escapes, a wheel spin determines the bonus game outcome. More than one player may play the bonus game in sequence until the last player spins the wheel.
US10909808B2
Methods, devices, and systems for conducting a checkless cash access settlement are provided. In one embodiment, a cash advance method includes the following: a customer initiates a cash access transaction via a cash access system; the customer receives authorization or denial; the customer provides identification and the financial card to a cashier or attendant; the cashier or attendant validates the customer's identity, retrieves the transaction information, and completes the cash advance application; the application prints a non-negotiable instrument, such as a transaction receipt; the customer signs the receipt confirming the transaction with a physical receipt or electronic capture.
US10909787B2
The present invention provides a secure storage, management and delivery device for a composition paired with a digital technology. The storage system includes a digital controller and a storage device having an access panel configured to open and close in order to control access to a cavity of the storage device and an electro-mechanical lock configured to lock and unlock the access panel. The digital controller is configured to wirelessly communicate with the storage device in order to control the electro-mechanical lock. The access panel comprises an environmental control component adapted to minimize an environmental effect when the access panel is closed.
US10909786B2
Novel techniques are described for automated physical package delivery with end-to-end package security. For example, a sender can secure contents of a physical package using an electronic lock locked using a lock code. The lock code is encrypted by applying an encryption key to generate an encrypted lock code. The encryption key is generated in accordance with a decryption key associated with the recipient, such that application of the decryption key by the recipient to the encrypted lock code can generate an unlock code to unlock the electronic lock. An intermediary automated package delivery system can provide one or more end-to-end security features, including facilitating key exchange features between the sender and recipient, applying additional sensor tag features, and directing autonomous delivery features.
US10909781B2
A method in an aircraft of using prognostic indicators for aircraft maintenance includes retrieving aircraft health data for a plurality of aircraft components wherein the aircraft health data includes at least one of mechanical systems condition indicator (CI) data, vibration spectrum data, resampled time-domain (RTD) data, and RTD spectrum data. The method includes estimating component health status information for the plurality of aircraft components using a plurality of prognostic modules wherein each prognostic module is configured to generate health status information for at least one of the aircraft components, the health status information includes at least one of a current health indicator and a prognostic indicator. The method also includes storing the component health status information for the aircraft components in a database onboard the aircraft, and causing the display of the health status information for the specific component on an aircraft display.
US10909779B2
In one aspect, a computerized method useful for three-dimensional (3D) model data rendering and information capturing during a vehicle inspection check-in process for service comprising includes the step of providing a vehicle for a check-in inspection. The computerized method includes the step of obtaining a vehicle identification number (VIN) of the vehicle. The computerized method includes the step of, based on the VIN of the vehicle, obtaining a 3D vehicle model data. The 3D vehicle model data matches a type of the vehicle. The 3D vehicle model data is generated from a manufacturer's three-dimensional (3D) computer-aided design (CAD) model data of the type of the vehicle.
US10909778B1
A computer-implemented method is provided for providing a notification that includes a traverse classification. The method includes determining, at a computing system including one or more processors, a contact region based on information indicative of a location of vehicle contact and a location of a person associated with the vehicle contact. The method also includes performing, by the one or more processors, an assessment of one or more aspects of one or more routes associated with the contact region and the contact region. The method also includes based on the assessment, determining, by the one or more processors, one or more traverse classifications corresponding to the one or more routes associated with the contact region. The method also includes providing, by the computing system, a notification that includes a traverse classification of the one or more traverse classifications to one or more vehicle operators approaching the contact region.
US10909771B2
Mechanisms for image processing are provided. A computing device comprises a memory, an input device, a display, and a processor. The processor is configured to: acquire a three-dimensional image of an anatomical structure and store it in the memory. The processor renders on the display (i) an initial volume of the three-dimensional image corresponding to an initial portion of the anatomical structure, and (ii) a moveable control element. The initial volume has an outer surface defined by a position of the control element. The processor receives input data updating the position of the control element relative to the initial volume; and renders on the display, in place of the initial volume, a further volume of the three-dimensional image, corresponding to a further portion of the anatomical structure and having a further outer surface defined by the updated position of the control element.
US10909767B1
In an approach for augmented reality, a processor captures an object, via a sensor, that has captured an attention of a user. A processor injects the object in a virtualized view into an augmented reality simulation. A processor modifies the augmented reality simulation around the object in the virtualized view in a non-intrusive way.
US10909765B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for providing various types of information to a vehicle driver. Such information can be used by the vehicle driver singularly or in conjunction with other information available to the vehicle driver in order to allow the driver to operate the vehicle in an increasingly safe manner and/or to reduce the likelihood of property damage and/or possible bodily injuries to the driver, etc. In some instances, such information is presented to the driver as an augmented reality environment such that the driver can “see through” objects that may be occluding the driver's vision.
US10909764B2
Implementations generally relate to providing augmented reality in a web browser. In one implementation, a method includes capturing images of a physical scene with a camera of a device. The method further includes determining motion of the camera using six degrees of freedom (6DoF) marker-based tracking. The method further includes determining positions of markers relative to the camera using 6DoF marker-based tracking. The method further includes overlaying virtual content onto a depicted physical scene in the images, resulting in augmented reality (AR) images. The method further includes rendering the AR images in a browser of the device.
US10909754B1
Multi-dimensional models are supported for game creation via two-dimensional (2D) visual scripting systems. Visual scripting can utilize 2D nodes on a grid, where the nodes can interact through the use of input and output ports, and can be wired together to create gameplay behavior. A 2D rendering of a three-dimensional (3D) object (e.g., a mesh) can be added to the node grid for a gaming application. A scripting interface allows rules and ports to be created for specific aspects of the mesh, such as may relate to features, skeletons, or bounding boxes. Multiple scripting nodes can be associated with the same mesh such that the mesh is not duplicated in the visual scripting view port. The functionality for the 3D object can then be incorporated into the game based at least in part upon the associated nodes without manual coding or compilation.
US10909753B2
An apparatus and method for sampling pattern generation in a ray tracing architecture. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processing apparatus comprises: a ray generation circuit to generate a ray stream from one or more image tiles; and a sample pattern generation circuit to generate samples for rays in the ray stream, the samples generated to exhibit at least some randomness across pixels of a given frame but be repeatable across multiple frames.
US10909752B2
The present invention relates to an all-around spherical light field rendering method, comprising: a preparation step, i.e., preparing to input and load related files; pre-computing a latticed depth map of positions of reference cameras which are densely covered on a sphere; moving a rendering camera, enabling the moving range of the rendering camera to be the surface of the sphere, and calculating and identifying the reference cameras surrounding the rendering camera around the rendering camera; performing back projection on pixels of the rendering camera, and performing depth test with the four reference cameras; and interpolating the reference cameras passing through the depth test, thereby obtaining a finally rendered pixel value. By means of the present invention, the rendering results can be rapidly seen in real time; an object can be observed from any angle on the spherical surface, and a real immersion feeling can be felt.
US10909750B2
A periphery monitoring device includes: an image acquisition unit acquiring an image obtained from an imaging unit imaging a situation surrounding a towing vehicle to which a towed vehicle is connectable; a projection plane acquisition unit acquiring a three-dimensional virtual projection plane onto which the image can be projected and which is provided with a side plane rising in a height direction from a grounding surface of the towing vehicle; a projection processing unit projecting the image onto the virtual projection plane; a viewpoint setting unit setting a viewpoint position and a gazing point position with respect to the virtual projection plane; an image display unit causing a display device to display an image obtained by viewing the gazing point position from the viewpoint position with respect to the virtual projection plane; and a determination unit determining whether or not the towed vehicle is connected to the towing vehicle.
US10909747B2
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (i) associating a planar element within a virtual environment with an alternate virtual environment and (ii) rendering the virtual environment such that (A) the alternate virtual environment is framed within the planar element, (B) at least one rendered element of the alternate virtual environment renders at a distal depth beyond a proximal depth of the planar element within the virtual environment, and (C) altering a viewpoint within the virtual environment relative to a position of the planar element within the virtual environment produces a parallax effect between the virtual environment and the rendered element of the alternate virtual environment due at least in part to the rendered element of the alternate virtual environment being rendered at the distal depth beyond the proximal depth of the planar element within the virtual environment. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10909746B1
Systems and methods for generating a three-dimensional reconstruction from a two-dimensional image of an asset are described. In some aspects, at least one computer hardware processor is used to perform: receiving a two-dimensional input image of an asset; encoding, using a first statistical model, the input image into a latent vector; and generating, using a second statistical model, at least one depth image from the latent vector, wherein pixel values in the at least one depth image correspond to coordinates of a point cloud.
US10909745B2
A graphics processor architecture provides for scan conversion and ray tracing approaches to visible surface determination as concurrent and separate processes. Surfaces can be identified for shading by scan conversion and ray tracing. Data produced by each can be normalized, so that instances of shaders, being executed on a unified shading computation resource, can shade surfaces originating from both ray tracing and rasterization. Such resource also may execute geometry shaders. The shaders can emit rays to be tested for intersection by the ray tracing process. Such shaders can complete, without waiting for those emitted rays to complete. Where scan conversion operates on tiles of 2-D screen pixels, the ray tracing can be tile aware, and controlled to prioritize testing of rays based on scan conversion status. Ray population can be controlled by feedback to any of scan conversion, and shading.
US10909741B2
Apparatus and method for speculative execution of hit and intersection shaders on programmable ray tracing architectures. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) or single-instruction multiple-thread (SIMT) execution units (EUs) to execute shaders; and ray tracing circuitry to execute a ray traversal thread, the ray tracing engine comprising: traversal/intersection circuitry, responsive to the traversal thread, to traverse a ray through an acceleration data structure comprising a plurality of hierarchically arranged nodes and to intersect the ray with a primitive contained within at least one of the nodes; and shader deferral circuitry to defer and aggregate multiple shader invocations resulting from the traversal thread until a particular triggering event is detected, wherein the multiple shaders are to be dispatched on the EUs in a single shader batch upon detection of the triggering event.
US10909736B2
An information processing apparatus includes an output unit. When pieces of additional information are extracted, the pieces of additional information being disposed in copies of an identical image and satisfying a predetermined condition, the output unit outputs data in which combined additional information is disposed in the image. The combined additional information is information in which the pieces of additional information are combined.
US10909732B2
Described here are systems and methods for retrospectively estimating and correcting for rigid-body motion by using a joint optimization technique to jointly solve for motion parameters and the underlying image. This method is implemented for magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”), but can also be adapted for other imaging modalities.
US10909721B2
Described herein are systems and methods of determining a pose of a camera within a vehicle scene. In one embodiment, a method includes the initial step of capturing an image of the vehicle scene from the camera. At step, reference data indicative of the vehicle scene is loaded, the reference data includes positions and orientations of known features within the vehicle scene. Next, at step, the geometric appearance of one or more of the known features is identified within the image. Finally, at step, the three dimensional position and orientation of the camera relative to the known features identified in step c) is determined from the geometric appearance, and a pose of the camera within the vehicle scene is calculated.
US10909720B2
A control device determines whether deviation between a predetermined position detected by a processor and a reference predetermined position stored in advance in a control device is within a preset allowable range.
US10909715B1
A head tracking system uses coded features, highly structured compared to the operating environment, to ensure a high-integrity correspondence map. Coded features can be used to provide a negligible probability of spurious features and probability of misidentification. Ensuring a reliable correspondence map prevents unmodeled errors that arise from an invalid correspondence map. In the case of multiple outliers, existing screening techniques, such as random sample consensus (RANSAC) or fault exclusion, may be used to eliminate excessive outliers. Mature GPS integrity techniques may then be extended to optical pose estimation to establish integrity bounds for single faults that may go undetected by fault detection.
US10909714B2
An approach is provided for rendering a distance marker in an image. The approach, for example, involves determining a plurality of camera characteristics of a camera used to capture the image. The plurality of camera characteristics, for instance, can include a camera field of view, a horizon offset, a camera mounting height, a camera mounting axis, or a combination thereof. The approach also involves determining a ground plane extending to a horizon depicted in the image, a camera position with respect to the ground plane, and an image plane based on the plurality of characteristics, wherein the image plane is orthogonal to the ground plane and intersects the ground plane at a designated distance from the camera position. The approach further involves projecting a ray from the camera position through the distance marker on the ground plane to a marker position on the image plane, and rendering the distance marker in the image based on the marker position on the image plane.
US10909712B2
Sets of drones are deployed to create an ad-hoc 5G network in a physical environment to collect sensor data and generate a map of the physical environment in real time. Master drones configured with 5G capabilities are deployed to the physical area to create the 5G ad-hoc network, and swarm drones configured with sensors are deployed to gather environmental data on the physical environment. The gathered data is transmitted to the master drones to generate a map. The deployable 5G network is leveraged to identify precise locations for the swarm drones and each instance of sensor data collected by the swarm drones in order to create an accurate and detailed map of the environment. The map can include information regarding the structural layout of the space and environmental characteristics, such as temperature, the presence of smoke or other gases, etc.
US10909710B2
A system and method for tracking and annotating products in a store shelf is disclosed. The method includes receiving a signal feed from a group of sensors including at least one depth sensor, determining an area of interest in the shelf, determining a polygonal representation of at least one product present in the area of interest, and assigning a unique polygonal profile to at least one product, and/or storing the unique profile in a database. Such The unique polygonal profile may include a unique ID obtained from a group of attributes. The unique profile may include at least a unique position and a unique centroid. The group of sensors may further include video cameras, thermal, and chemical sensors.
US10909705B2
A computer-implemented method for assessing an image sentiment. The method can include receiving an image to identify a region of interest in the image; determining an image sentiment value associated with the image based on the region of interest, or a classification of the image; and displaying an indication of the image sentiment value with a spatial (e.g. geographical) location.
US10909702B2
An imaging part 120 receives the light that is reflected from the measurement target, and a plurality of pieces of pattern image data are generated. Height data is generated on the basis of the plurality of pieces of the pattern image data. Green light, blue light, and red light are successively emitted from the light sources 111 to 113, and are reflected from the pattern generating part 118, and uniform light of the green light, uniform light of the blue light, and uniform light of the red light are successively projected onto the measurement target. The imaging part 120 receives the uniform light reflected by the measurement target, and a plurality of pieces of texture image data are successively generated. The plurality of pieces of the texture image data are synthesized, whereby color texture image data is generated.
US10909698B2
The present disclosure is directed to a software tool that engages in a pattern matching technique. In one implementation, the software tool retrieves a two-dimensional drawing and identifies walls as lines, rotates the drawing until a threshold number of lines are aligned with either the X or Y axes, discards lines that are not aligned with either the X or Y axis, identifies intersection points, identifies a subset of intersection points that have a maxima or minima coordinate, constructs a data library indicative of the relative positions of the points in the identified subset; and compares the constructed data libraries for the two-dimensional drawing to data libraries constructed for another two-dimensional drawing.
US10909697B2
Provided is an image processing apparatus (2000) including an index value calculation unit (2020) and a presentation unit (2040). The index value calculation unit (2020) acquires a plurality of images captured by a camera (3000) (captured images), and calculates an index value indicating the degree of change in the state of a monitoring target in the captured image, using the acquired captured image. The presentation unit (2040) presents an indication based on the index value calculated by the index value calculation unit (2020) on the captured image captured by the camera (3000).
US10909696B2
A system for determining occupancy includes a first luminaire having a first camera to detect a first occupant and a second luminaire having a second camera to detect a second occupant. The system further includes a processor to determine whether the first camera and the second camera have a common visual field and to determine whether the first occupant and the second occupant are the same occupant in response to determining that the first camera and the second camera have a common visual field.
US10909691B2
Systems and methods are disclosed to objectively identify sub-second behavioral modules in the three-dimensional (3D) video data that represents the motion of a subject. Defining behavioral modules based upon structure in the 3D video data itself—rather than using a priori definitions for what should constitute a measurable unit of action—identifies a previously-unexplored sub-second regularity that defines a timescale upon which behavior is organized, yields important information about the components and structure of behavior, offers insight into the nature of behavioral change in the subject, and enables objective discovery of subtle alterations in patterned action. The systems and methods of the invention can be applied to drug or gene therapy classification, drug or gene therapy screening, disease study including early detection of the onset of a disease, toxicology research, side-effect study, learning and memory process study, anxiety study, and analysis in consumer behavior.
US10909690B2
A data processing method includes reading first to-be-processed data from a first storage unit into a second storage unit, computing a processing result according to the first to-be-processed data stored in the second storage unit, and, while computing the processing result, reading second to-be-processed data from the first storage unit. The first to-be-processed data is at a first layer of one or more image pyramids having a plurality of layers, and the second to-be-processed data is at a second layer of the one or more image pyramids.
US10909676B2
A method and system for non-invasive medical image based assessment of coronary artery disease (CAD) for clinical decision support using on-site and off-site processing is disclosed. Medical image data of a patient is received. A processing strategy for assessing CAD of the patient using one of on-site processing, off-site processing, or joint on-site and off-site processing is automatically selected based on clinical requirements for a current clinical scenario. Non-invasive assessment of CAD of the patient is performed based on the medical image data of the patient using one of on-site processing, off-site-processing, or joint on-site and off-site processing according to the selected processing strategy. A final assessment of CAD of the patient is output based on the non-invasive assessment of CAD.
US10909673B2
Systems and methods for detecting the cracks in illuminated electronic device screens are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving an image of an electronic device screen and retrieving a plurality of kernels, each having values corresponding to a line region and a non-line region, with the orientation of the line region and the non-line region differing for each kernel. At least some of the kernels are applied to the image to obtain, at various locations of the image, values corresponding to the line regions and the non-line regions. Based on the values corresponding to the line regions and the non-line regions, cracks are automatically identified in the electronic device screen.
US10909670B2
Hyperspectral imaging spectrometers have applications in environmental monitoring, biomedical imaging, surveillance, biological or chemical hazard detection, agriculture, and minerology. Nevertheless, their high cost and complexity has limited the number of fielded spaceborne hyperspectral imagers. To address these challenges, the wide field-of-view (FOV) hyperspectral imaging spectrometers disclosed here use computational imaging techniques to get high performance from smaller, noisier, and less-expensive components (e.g., uncooled microbolometers). They use platform motion and spectrally coded focal-plane masks to temporally modulate the optical spectrum, enabling simultaneous measurement of multiple spectral bins. Demodulation of this coded pattern returns an optical spectrum in each pixel. As a result, these computational reconfigurable imaging spectrometers are more suitable for small space and air platforms with strict size, weight, and power constraints, as well as applications where smaller or less expensive packaging is desired.
US10909669B2
A contrast adjustment system includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores instructions. The processor is configured to access and execute the instructions to: access an image with a plurality of pixels, wherein the pixels are corresponding to a plurality of intensity values; generate a histogram based on a distribution of the intensity values in a range from an intensity lower bound to an intensity upper bound; divide the histogram into four sub-histograms based on a median value of the intensity values; enlarge the four sub-histograms based on a predetermined parameter; remap the four sub-histograms to form a gamma curve based on a cumulative distribution function; and apply the gamma curve to pixels of another image.
US10909667B1
Image data representative of an inventory location may be acquired by cameras. Described are techniques to process such image data to remove one or more perspective effects. For example, transformation data that corresponds to the inventory location may first be determined. Such transformation data is determined based on associations between points in a common plane and alternate points in a virtual camera plane. Transformed image data may then be generated by applying the transformation data to the image data that is representative of the inventory location.
US10909658B2
A Bayer-mask image is decoded by forming a decoded green array; calculating a slope at each pixel of the array, expressed as an angle; calculating an activity at each pixel; converting the slope angle and the activity into a complex number for each pixel, of modulus equal to the activity and argument equal to twice the slope angle; expressing said complex numbers in Cartesian coordinates to form a Cartesian slope signal and filtering the Cartesian slope signal with a linear spatial filter to derive a slope measure. Blue-green and red-green values are calculated and interpolated using a slope-adaptive interpolation filter steered by said slope measure.
US10909657B1
Artistic styles extracted from one or more source images may be applied to one or more target images, e.g., in the form of stylized images and/or stylized video sequences. The extracted artistic style may be stored as a plurality of layers in a neural network, which neural network may be further optimized, e.g., via the fusion of various elements of the network's architectures. An optimized network architecture may be determined for each processing environment in which the network will be applied. The artistic style may be applied to the obtained images and/or video sequence of images using various optimization methods, such as the use of scalars to control the resolution of the unstylized and stylized images, temporal consistency constraints, as well as the use of dynamically adjustable or selectable versions of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) that are responsive to system performance parameters, such as available processing resources and thermal capacity.
US10909643B1
Provided is a provided is a computer-based system, including computer processors and computer storage media, configured to display property value data over a period of time—to dynamically show changes in one or more markets via a display. The system can implement a method of dynamically displaying property price (or value) data over time. User interaction mechanisms can be provided to enable the user to interact with the display and data.
US10909639B2
A system and method for facilitating social interactions between different individuals. Information available about each of the individuals engaged in a social interaction is used to provide a “social accelerator” for an interaction between the individuals. Social interactions are improved or accelerated by aggregating available information about individuals participating in an information system. When an interaction event trigger is received, the context of context for possible social interaction between the users around the trigger event is determined. A social accelerator is selected from available interest information common to the participating user and the target user, and the social accelerator is provided to one of the individuals.
US10909635B2
The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for generating a financial summary, which comprises identifying a first set of data items derived from one or more financial documents associated with an entity and a second set of data items derived from historical data associated with the entity. The systems and methods of the present disclosure then compare one or more data items of each set of data and select selecting a pre-defined reporting pattern based on the comparison, the selected pre-defined reporting pattern indicative of a possible financial result of the entity. A third set of data items supporting the selected pre-defined reporting pattern is then generated from the first and second sets of data items and a financial summary of the one or more financial documents is computed using the selected pre-defined reporting pattern and the third set of data items.
US10909629B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for determining the efficacy of an autonomous vehicle driving system in exhibiting safe driving behavior during test track scenarios. Testing parameters eliciting autonomous vehicle driving system behavior may be chosen for the test track scenario. The autonomous vehicle driving system may be tested in the test track and autonomous vehicle driving system behavior may be observed in response to the presentations of testing parameters. A safe driving score may be calculated for the autonomous vehicle driving system based on measured autonomous vehicle performance and operational data generated responsive to the presentation of testing parameters in the test track. A benchmark insurance premium may be calculated for an autonomous vehicle driving system based on the calculated safe driving score.
US10909628B1
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) may facilitate insurance-related tasks. UAVs may actively survey an area or be dispatched to the scene of a vehicle collision or crash, such as with an insured's permission, and collect data related to the vehicle collision or crash, such as vehicle data, insurer data, images, video, audio, weather conditions, etc., and transmit this data to a computing device. The computing device may be associated with an insurer and/or utilized by an insurer to perform insurance-related tasks, such as processing the data to assign fault to one or more parties or vehicles, such as autonomous vehicles, involved in the vehicle collision or crash, using the fault assignment to open or otherwise process an insurance claim, modifying a premium price, updating qualified discounts, etc. The drone data may also assist an insurer in opening an insurance claim by prepopulating fields associated with a submitted claim form.
US10909626B2
The described technology displays, at a GUI, a graph of one or more financial curves having one or more actionable indicators indicative of one or more tradable events associated with modeling and/or trading at least one market asset or financial instrument at a financial marketplace. The one or more indicators display a current real-time market value of a tradable event associated with the market asset or financial instrument. Input is received at the GUI from a trader to perform an action associated with the financial curve. In response to receiving the input, the action is initiated and the results are displayed at the GUI.
US10909625B2
A computer system and method is provided for financial management and estate planning. The system provides data aggregation for both financial and non-financial assets to create a “virtual vault” from which the owner can view all information about his/her portfolio. In some embodiments, the system provides a tree visualization of the portfolio, which allows a structured organization that provides both a high level view and the ability to drill down to an in- depth analysis. In some cases, the system provides segmented permissions in which restricted access could be granted based on module and/or asset in the tree visualization.
US10909624B2
A method and system for computing a stable index value of fresh water based on water quality category and/or grade from current values of root commodities (i.e. freely marketed products) that either have fresh water as a constituent and/or utilize fresh water in their production, usable to develop a stable investment instrument for investing in fresh water. A processor may process associations between a root commodity and a water quality category of fresh water. A display associated with a computer may display updateable current prices of fresh water of a particular water quality category and/or grade and updateable current prices of one or more root commodities. A water measurement device may measure at least one water source of fresh water with respect to at least one of TDS, carbonate content, pH, hardness, sodium, chloride, nitrate, toxins and sodium adsorption ratio and compare against standards to categorize the fresh water.
US10909613B2
Graphical user interface for a mobile computer system accesses a data base of products. On the display screen of the mobile computer system, a central image of a product is presented in a central position of the display. A first image of another product is presented on the display to a first side of central position of the display. A second image of another product is presented on the display on the second side of central position of the display. The second side of the display is opposite the first side with respect to the central position. A product image when presented in the central position is scaled to be significantly larger than a corresponding product image when presented on the first and second sides of the central position.
US10909612B2
Systems and methods including one or more processing modules and one or more non-transitory storage modules storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform acts of receiving an order from a customer, determining an estimated collection time required for an employee of the store to collect the order at the store, receiving a mobile check-in from an electronic device indicating that a pickup is en-route to pick up the order at the store, tracking a location of the electronic device, periodically determining, at one or more time intervals, an estimated travel time for the pickup to travel to the store from the location as tracked, and, when the estimated collection time is substantially equal in duration to the estimated travel time, coordinating displaying a collection notification on a store electronic device instructing the employee of the store to begin collecting the order.
US10909603B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for providing item recommendations to a user in a virtual marketplace. A virtual persona associated with a primary account number is identified. A merchant data request message requesting merchant data identifying preferred merchants to whom transactions have been made from the first payment account using the PAN is sent to a first remote server. In response, a set of merchant data associated with preferred merchants is received from the first remote server. An item data request message requesting item data associated with the preferred merchants is sent to a second remote server. In response, a set of item data associated with items that are associated with at least one of the preferred merchants is received from the second remote server. A recommendation of at least one of the items is provided to the user.
US10909600B1
A method is disclosed that includes identifying an inventory item corresponding to a product configuration. The product configuration is defined using a feature map. The inventory item is also defined using the feature map. Each entry of the feature map corresponds to one of a number of features of a product.
US10909598B1
A system and method allows one or more users to purchase an offering of goods or services using at least three computer systems, by one user making a proposal for the two to jointly consume the offering, and the other user accepting the proposal.
US10909596B2
A device may receive user data associated with a product or service, the user data including a user identifier associated with a user. The device may identify a business application that is relevant to the product or service, the business application being designed to provide the user with a business offer related to the product or service. In addition, the device may provide the user data to the business application and receive, from the business application, business application state data and user response data, the business application state data specifying a partially completed transaction associated with the product or service, and the user response data including information associated with the partially completed transaction. The device may store the business application state data and the user response data, and perform an action based on the business application state data.
US10909587B2
A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system for preparing a proposal for a client on a CRM platform, wherein the proposal identifies a defined contribution that will be made to a social platform on behalf of the client if the client accepts the proposal; and submitting the proposal to the client.
US10909582B1
Systems and methods for providing authentication circles to pursue financial goals and/or share expenses with others are provided. One or more provider computing systems are communicatively coupled to one or more user devices. Users may join a circle and make contributions via electronic messages that may allow for acceptance in a one-click fashion. Members may, for example, plan for and share expenses for a trip and compare the expenses with budgets.
US10909580B1
Dynamic object customization is disclosed. A template associated with content to be published on behalf of one or more entities is obtained. The template includes at least one variable. For each entity in the one or more entities, a data store including information pertaining to the entity is queried based at least in part on the at least one variable included in the template. In response to the query, one or more data values corresponding to the at least one variable are obtained. An object is generated based at least in part on the template. The at least one variable is populated using the obtained one or more data values. The generated object is provided as output to be published on behalf of the entity.
US10909575B2
New account recommendations for user account sets are described. A system creates an accounts profile for a set of accounts based on multiple attributes associated with each account of the set of accounts. The system calculates an account score for an account based on comparing multiple attributes associated with the account against the accounts profile, wherein the account is not in the set of accounts. The system determines whether the account score satisfies an account score threshold. The system recommends the account to a user associated with the set of accounts if the account score satisfies the account score threshold.
US10909574B2
To promote a merchant's products on a social networking system, a promotion engine receives data from a merchant site regarding the merchant site's users' activities. The users' purchases of a promoted product are correlated with the user's activities performed in connection with a related product. An automated process running on a computer system then determines promotion criteria for the promoted product, based at least in part on the activities performed in connection with the related product. A promotion for the promoted product is generated and communicated to a social networking system, which displays the promotion to one or more users of the social networking system based on the determined promotion criteria.
US10909560B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify affinity between segment attributes and product characteristics. An example method includes identifying, with a processor, a set of product characteristics from purchase transactions that exhibit a threshold product affinity, selecting, with the processor, a set of products having at least one product characteristic from the set of product characteristics that exhibit the threshold product affinity, the set of products associated with first segments, extracting, with the processor, segment attributes from the first segments, and improving a market success of the product of interest by identifying, with the processor, target segments based on ones of the extracted segment attributes exhibiting a threshold segment affinity.
US10909554B2
A device can receive, from a set of storage devices, first information relating to one or more pilot data plans that are associated with one or more first groups of user devices. The device can receive, from the set of storage devices, second information relating to one or more live data plans that are associated with one or more second groups of user devices. The device can analyze the first information and/or the second information to identify one or more patterns of information. The one or more patterns can include a data usage pattern, a demographic information pattern, a revenue generation pattern, and/or a user interest pattern. The device can perform one or more actions, including generating a new data plan, identifying one or more user accounts as candidates for a new data plan, and/or transmitting, via a network, information relating to the new data plan.
US10909552B2
Approaches are provided for collecting and distributing topical data. An approach includes collecting topical data from one or more mobile applications on a mobile device. The topical data describes areas of interest of a user based on a way in which the one or more mobile applications are used by the user. The approach further includes normalizing the collected topical data into a list of topics of interest for the user. The approach further includes tagging each topic of interest with a non-hierarchical keyword or term. The approach further includes sending the list of tagged topics of interest to one or more remote servers.
US10909542B2
There is provided a method and system for facilitating a payment from a customer to a merchant, and a client device for facilitating a payment from a customer to a merchant. The various aspects rely on use of a merchant identifier based on a client device geolocation.
US10909540B2
A method includes receiving an alert representing that application of at least one rule to a scenario occurring with a financial account indicates that the scenario is consistent with illegal activity. The method includes, in response to the alert, using a fuzzy inference derived from activity of the financial account to determine a likelihood that the scenario is associated with illegal activity.
US10909526B2
A computer-implemented method allows initiating activation in augmented reality of an un-activated physical token. The method includes displaying an augmented reality version of an environment including the physical token. Displaying the augmented reality version of the environment includes capturing an image of a portion of the environment including the physical token; presenting a display of augmented reality corresponding to the portion of the environment by compositing the image of the portion of the environment with a graphical, interactive user interface control, the user interface control positioned in a defined position in augmented reality relative to the physical token. The method further includes, responsive to receipt of input corresponding to an interaction with the user interface control, initiating activation of the physical token. Related computer systems and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10909522B2
Systems and methods provide for communication of transaction data that is formatted according to a transaction type that is support by an access device. First transaction data may be formatted according to a first type of transaction supported by a first access device and second transaction data may be formatted according to a second type of transaction supported by a second access device. The first transaction data may be transmitted over a first communication link to the first access device and the second transaction data may be transmitted to the second access over a second communication link.
US10909521B2
Disclosed herein are a vehicle settlement system and method, and more particularly, a vehicle settlement system and method that utilize object recognition information as settlement authentication information. The vehicle settlement system according to an embodiment includes a vehicle control system, a financial settlement server, and a store system. Here, the vehicle control system includes an object recognition module that is provided to collect object information for settlement authentication, and a vehicle control system control unit that recognizes an object based on the object information collected by the object recognition module.
US10909517B2
A registration settlement apparatus comprises an acquiring module configured to acquire a commodity list from an external device; an input module configured to input designation of a commodity; a registering module configured to register a commodity displayed in the list as a purchased commodity if the list is acquired by the acquiring module and to register a designated commodity as a purchased commodity in a distinguishable manner from the commodity registered from the list if the designation is input by the input module; a granting module configured to grant mutually different privileges for purchase of the commodity registered as the purchased commodity by the registering module depending on whether the commodity registered from the list is contained in the commodity registered as the purchased commodity; and a settlement module configured to perform a processing for settling a price of a commodity registered as the purchased commodity by the registering module.
US10909515B2
Systems and methods are provided for assessing one or more fees in connection with occupancy of a user at a shared office environment. One exemplary method includes receiving, from a sensor associated with a workstation, confirmation of a presence of a user at the workstation, and receiving, from the sensor, an occupancy interval based on the presence of the user at the workstation up to a departure of the user from the workstation. The method also includes, in response to receiving the occupancy interval, determining a fee associated with occupancy of the workstation by the user, based on at least the occupancy interval, and initiating a transaction to a payment account associated with the user for the determined fee, thereby providing payment specific to the occupancy of the workstation by the user substantially upon the departure of the user from the workstation.
US10909507B1
Apparatuses, methods, and program products are disclosed for digital assistant management. One apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to receive, by use of the processor, information indicating digital assistant user preferences for a user in response to the user being within a predetermined distance from the apparatus. The code is executable by the processor to configure the apparatus based on the information. The code is executable by the processor to provide feedback to the user based on the information.
US10909499B2
Methods, systems, and devices disclosed herein may be collectively referred to as a “platform.” A platform consistent with embodiments herein may be used by individuals or companies to track an amount of liquid poured from at least one liquid container. The platform may comprise a tracking device and a computing hub in operative bi-directional communication. The device that may be configured to a liquid dispensing container such as, but not limited to, a bottle. The device may be configured to receive a liquid from the container and transfer the liquid through a chamber within the device. As the liquid is transferred through the device, a computing element and sensing component integrated within the device may be configured to track an amount of liquid dispensed through the device. A communications module may then communicate the data with the hub.
US10909490B2
A worker resource management system may include a voice-directed mobile terminal that enables a dialog between a user and the voice-directed mobile terminal. At least one computer may be in communication with the mobile terminal. The computer can include a worker resource management module that receives and records user activity from the voice-directed mobile terminal. The worker resource management module can identify user productivity patterns and provide work assessment predictions based at least in part upon the user activity that is received and recorded. Management can make worker resource decisions in response to the user productivity patterns identified or the work assessment predictions provided by the worker resource management module.
US10909485B2
A computer system receives a definition of a group that includes an indication of a hierarchal rank of group members, a plurality of content items that correspond to the group, and identifying information indicating at least one group member that corresponds to a content item. A search input by a first user is detected and an indication of a hierarchal rank for the first user is stored. Determining a weight to assign to a search result includes comparing a hierarchal rank of at least one group member that corresponds to the first content item with the hierarchal rank of the first user.
US10909482B2
Using remote image acquisition, image processing, and computational systems and methods, it has become possible to obtain actual building dimensions that can be used to generate construction estimates for repairing or maintaining buildings. For example, actual roof dimensions can be used to provide a computer-based estimate of materials and/or materials overage needed. Instead of simply applying a generic overage percentage based on roof shape, a computer-based approach can take into account cut lines as a percentage of total roof area. The resulting computer-generated estimate is shown to be more accurate, less expensive, and faster than using a human on-site estimator.
US10909470B2
An approach is provided for semantic-free traffic prediction. The approach involves dividing a travel-speed data stream into a plurality of travel-speed patterns. The travel-speed data stream represents vehicle travel speeds occurring in a road network. The approach also involves representing each of the plurality of travel-speed patterns by a respective token. The respective token is selected from a dictionary of tokens representing a plurality of travel-speed templates determined from historical travel-speed data. The approach further involves matching a sequence of the respective tokens corresponding to said each of the plurality of travel-speed patterns to a best-fit sequence of tokens determined from the historical travel-speed data. The approach further involves determining a predicted sequence of tokens based on the best-fit sequence of tokens, and generating a traffic prediction for the road network based on the predicted sequence of tokens.
US10909468B2
In one embodiment, a set of training data consisting of inliers may be obtained. A supervised classification model may be trained using the set of training data to identify outliers. The supervised classification model may be applied to generate an anomaly score for a data point. It may be determined whether the data point is an outlier based, at least in part, upon the anomaly score.
US10909467B2
An electromagnetic (EM) sensor includes a front-end module, a memory, and a microcontroller unit. The front-end module generates an electromagnetic signal using externally introduced electromagnetic waves. The memory stores a first reference signal and a second reference signal generated from multiple probability models required to recognize the electromagnetic signal. The microcontroller unit compares the electromagnetic signal with the first reference signal and the second reference signal, to determine whether the electromagnetic signal is a valid signal.
US10909463B1
A call management system of a call center retrieves from a customer database enterprise customer data associated with an identified customer in a customer call, which may include customer event data, attributions data, and activity event data. The customer database tracks prospects, leads, new business, and purchasers of an enterprise. The system retrieves customer demographic data associated with the identified customer. A predictive model is selected from a plurality of predictive models based on retrieved enterprise customer data. The selected predictive model, including a logistic regression model and tree based model, determines a value prediction signal for the identified customer, then classifies the identified customer into a first value group or a second value group. The system routes a customer call classified in the first value group to a first call queue assignment, and routes a customer call classified in the second value group to a second call queue assignment.
US10909444B2
A computer-implemented method, the method comprising: in an initial setup of weights for a floating gate including rows, columns, and a separate input line: comparing a current weight to a desired weight; performing a feedback to the input line to set a voltage to change the floating gate field effect transistor (FET) threshold voltage (VT) and the current weight; and checking that the current weight is within a predetermined tolerance of the desired weight; and performing a stochastic pulse update on the floating gate based on the checking.
US10909437B2
The disclosed technology relates generally to apparatus comprising conductive polymers and more particularly to tag and tag devices comprising a redox-active polymer film, and method of using and manufacturing the same. In one aspect, an apparatus includes a substrate and a conductive structure formed on the substrate which includes a layer of redox-active polymer film having mobile ions and electrons. The conductive structure further includes a first terminal and a second terminal configured to receive an electrical signal therebetween, where the layer of redox-active polymer is configured to conduct an electrical current generated by the mobile ions and the electrons in response to the electrical signal. The apparatus additionally includes a detection circuit operatively coupled to the conductive structure and configured to detect the electrical current flowing through the conductive structure.
US10909432B2
A two-dimensional code that is capable of suppressing unnecessary code detection processes related to detection of a code area is provided. Among outer edges of a rectangular code area, a first edge that is composed of a plurality of types of cells arrayed in a single row is configured such that a specific pattern that is composed of an array of two or more differing cells is repeated in at least an intermediate portion. A second edge composed of the plurality of types of cells arrayed in a row such as to oppose the first edge is configured such that the specific pattern is repeated in at least an intermediate portion.
US10909429B2
A system includes a computing device that includes a memory configured to store instructions. The system also includes a processor to execute the instructions to perform operations that include receiving data representing an image, the image being represented in the data by a collection of visual elements. Operations also include determining whether to select the image for presentation by one or more entities using a machine learning system, the machine learning system being trained using data representing a plurality of training images and data representing one or more attributes regarding image presentation by the one or more entities.
US10909425B1
Systems, methods, devices, media, and computer-readable instructions are described for local image tagging and processing in a resource-constrained environment such as a mobile device. In some embodiments, characteristics associated with images are used to determine whether to store content (e.g., images and video clips) as ephemeral content or non-ephemeral content. Based on the determination, the image is stored in a non-ephemeral camera roll storage of the mobile device, or an ephemeral local application storage. Additional storage operations such as encryption or backup copying may additionally be determined and performed based on the analysis of the content. In some embodiments, such images may be indexed, sorted, and searched based on the image tagging operations used to characterize the content.
US10909424B2
The present invention integrates a low power and high compression pixel-wise coded exposure (PCE) camera with advanced object detection, tracking, and classification algorithms into a real-time system. A PCE camera can control exposure time of every pixel in the camera and at the same time can compress multiple frames into a compressed frame. Consequently, it can significantly improve the dynamic range as well as reduce data storage and transmission bandwidth usage. Conventional approaches utilize PCE camera for object detection, tracking and classification, require the compressed frames to be reconstructed. These approaches are extremely time consuming and hence makes the PCE cameras unsuitable for real-time applications. The present invention presents an integrated solution that incorporates advanced algorithms into the PCE camera, saving reconstruction time and making it feasible to work in real-time applications.
US10909422B1
Techniques are described for training a learning machine. One of these methods includes tracking interactions between a customer and customer service agents. The method includes generating a training set based on the tracked interactions. The method also includes generating a trained learning machine comprising training a learning machine using the training set.
US10909416B2
A correspondence between a source image and a reference image is determined. A generative model corresponds to a prior probability distribution of deformation fields, each deformation field corresponding to a respective coordinate transformation. A conditional model generates a style transfer probability distribution of reference images, given a source image and a deformation field. The first image data is the source image, and the second image data is the reference image. An initial first deformation field is determined. An update process is iteratively performed until convergence to update the first deformation field, to generate a converged deformation field representing the correspondence between the source image and the reference image. The update process includes: determining a change in one or more characteristics of the first deformation field to increase a posterior probability density associated with the first deformation field, given the source image and reference image; and changing the one or more characteristics in accordance with the determined change.
US10909401B2
In general, the disclosure describes various aspects of techniques for attention-based explanations for artificial intelligence behavior. A device comprising a memory and a computation engine executing a processor may be configured to perform the techniques. The memory may store the artificial intelligence model and the image. The computation engine may receive a query regarding the image, and execute the artificial intelligence model to analyze the image in order to output the result to the query. The artificial intelligence model may, when analyzing the image to output the result, segment the image into hierarchically arranged semantic areas in which objects in the image are segmented into parts, determine, based on the query, an attention mask for the areas, update, based on the attention mask, the image to visually identify which of the areas formed a basis for the result, and output the updated image.
US10909395B2
An object detection apparatus is provided with: an imager configured to image surroundings of a subject vehicle and to obtain a surrounding image; an object detector configured to detect an interested-object from the surrounding image and to output first image coordinates, which indicate a position of the detected interested-object on the surrounding image; a calculator configured to associate the interested-object with one or more coordinate points out of a plurality of coordinate points, each of which indicates three-dimensional coordinates of respective one of a plurality of points on a road, on the basis of the first image coordinates and a position of the subject vehicle, and configured to calculate at least one of a position of the interested-object on a real space and a distance to the interested-object from the subject vehicle on the basis of the position of the subject vehicle and the one or more coordinate points associated.
US10909394B2
A tracking algorithm includes a tracking failure detection technique using a key points selection algorithm. As a result, the described system is able to work on an embedded device in real time, providing high quality vehicle detection and tracking, in some embodiments. A vision system detects and tracks vehicles from sequences of images taken from another moving vehicle in real-time on an embedded platform. The system can achieve real-time performance on an embedded platform in some embodiments, taking into account that modern boosting detectors are too slow for use in such a system. A tracker includes an algorithm for tracking and an algorithm for detection of tracking failures. The tracking algorithm is based on an optical flow calculation for key points selected based on the distribution of features from the last detection. The algorithm for detection of tracking failures is based on an estimation of low confidence detections.
US10909389B2
Traffic direction gesture recognition may be implemented for a vehicle in response to traffic diversion signals in the vehicles vicinity. Sensors implemented as part of a vehicle may collect data about pedestrians and other obstacles in the vicinity of the vehicle or along the vehicle's route of travel. Sensor data may be combined and analyzed to identify a traffic diversion condition, including identifying a traffic director directing traffic using gestures or signs. Gestures of a traffic director may be interpreted and understood by the vehicle as commands to perform maneuvers related to the traffic diversion, including stopping, slowing, or turning onto a detour route. The vehicle may be equipped with a command acknowledgement device for acknowledging to a traffic director the vehicle's understanding of the traffic diversion condition or maneuver commands. Information, such as traffic diversion and detour information, may be shared with other vehicles and devices, or stored in a database.
US10909386B2
An information push method includes: acquiring a monitoring image captured by a camera; identifying a target group contained in the monitoring image; performing a group relationship recognition on the target group according to attribute data of the target group to recognize a group relationship type of the target group; and pushing a recommendation information to at least one designated terminal corresponding to the target group based on the group relationship type. An information push device and an information push system are also provided.
US10909383B2
Aspects of the present disclosure aim to improve upon methods and systems for the incorporation of additional material into source video data. In particular, the method of the present disclosure may use a pre-existing corpus of source video data to produce, test and refine a prediction model for enabling the prediction of the characteristics of placement opportunities. The model may be created using video analysis techniques which obtain metadata regarding placement opportunities and also through the identification of categorical characteristics relating to the source video which may be provided as metadata with the source video, or obtaining through image processing techniques described below. Using the model, the method and system may then be used to create a prediction of insertion zone characteristics for projects for which source video is not yet available, but for which information corresponding to the identified categorical characteristics is known.
US10909381B2
Methods, systems, and media for analyzing spherical video content are provided. More particularly, methods, systems, and media for detecting two-dimensional videos placed on a sphere in abusive spherical video content are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving an identifier of a spherical video content item, wherein the spherical video content item has a plurality of views; selecting a first frame of the spherical video content item; projecting the first frame of the spherical video content item to a two-dimensional region using a projection defined by a mapping according to which neighboring points of the first frame are mapped to respective neighboring points of the region, and one or more contiguous portions of the frame are each mapped to a corresponding plurality of contiguous portions of the region; identifying an area within the region which meets a criterion indicative of the region having a likelihood above a threshold of including a particular type of content; in response to identifying the area within the region which meets the criterion, analyzing the identified area of the region using a video fingerprinting technique; and, in response to determining that content associated with the identified area of the region matches a reference content item of a plurality of reference content items using the video fingerprinting technique, generating an indication of the match in association with the identifier of the spherical video content item.
