US10924070B2
A high-frequency module (10) includes a filter unit (20) including a plurality of filters, a switch unit (30) that is connected to the filter unit (20) and that includes a switch configured to switch filters through which a high-frequency signal passes among the plurality of filters, an amplifying unit (50) configured to amplify the high-frequency signal passing through the filter unit (20), a matching unit (40) that is connected between the filter unit (20) and the amplifying unit (50) and that is configured to perform impedance matching of the amplifying unit (50), and a multilayer substrate (100) provided with the filter unit (20), the switch unit (30), the amplifying unit (50), and the matching unit (40).
US10924069B2
According to an embodiment, a method includes amplifying a signal provided by a capacitive signal source to form an amplified signal, detecting a peak voltage of the amplified signal, and adjusting a controllable impedance coupled to an output of the capacitive signal source in response to detecting the peak voltage. The controllable impedance is adjusted to a value inversely proportional to the detected peak voltage.
US10924063B2
Bias networks for amplifiers are disclosed. An example bias network includes an adaptive bias circuit, configured to generate a bias signal for an amplifier, and further includes a coupling circuit, configured to couple the adaptive bias circuit to the amplifier. The coupling circuit is made adaptive in that its' impedance depends on a power level of an input signal to be amplified by the amplifier. By configuring the coupling circuit to have a variable impedance that depends on the power level of the input signal, the coupling circuit may adapt to the input power level and, thereby, may modify the bias signal to reduce/optimize at least some of the nonlinearity that may be introduced to the bias signal by the adaptive bias circuit.
US10924061B1
A crystal oscillator includes an inverter configured to receive a first voltage at a first node and output a second voltage at a second node, a stacked-diode feedback network inserted between the first node and the second node, a waveform shaper configured to couple the second node to a third node in accordance with the first voltage, a crystal inserted between a fourth node and a fifth node, wherein the fourth node is coupled to the third node, and the fifth node is coupled to the first node, a first shunt capacitor inserted between the fourth node and a ground node, and a second shunt capacitor inserted between the fifth node to and the ground node.
US10924057B2
In snowy climates, photovoltaic panels suffer from significant losses due to snow accumulation. The present invention is a device that can be attached to a photovoltaic panel in order to promote snow sliding, increasing the power output of the panel as a result.
US10924052B1
A system is provided for driving a load such as a multi-phase motor. The system includes a motor driver that has a plurality of switches coupled to a motor to drive a current through each of a plurality of phase coils of the motor. A polarity detection circuit detects a polarity of the current in one or more of the phase coils of the motor to generate a polarity value that represents the detected current polarity. The polarity detection circuit can include at least one comparator that has a first input coupled to a node between two of the plurality of switches, a second input coupled to receive a threshold value, and an output from which the polarity value is provided. Further included is a controller that is configured to provide a plurality of pulse width modulated (PWM) output control signals to the plurality of switches to control the switches to drive the current through the plurality of phase coils of the motor. In response to the polarity value, the controller is configured to alter a duty cycle of the plurality of PWM output control signals to modify a voltage applied to the plurality of phase coils of the motor.
US10924048B2
An inverter control device including at least first and second inverters includes: a current detector that detects a current flowing through a main circuit of the first inverter; a current controller that generates a voltage command value of the first inverter on the basis of a detected current and a current command; and a voltage command predictor that generates a voltage command value of the second inverter on the basis of a variation of the voltage command value of the first inverter.
US10924037B2
A small-sized vibration motor. The vibration motor includes a vibrator having a piezoelectric element, a contact member brought into friction contact with the vibrator, and a fixing member to which the contact member is fixed. The vibrator and the contact member are moved relative to each other in a driving direction by high-frequency vibration of the piezoelectric element. The contact member includes a sliding portion brought into friction contact with the vibrator when the vibrator and the contact member are moved relative to each other in the driving direction, and fixed portions via which the contact member is fixed to the fixing member. The fixed portions are formed at respective locations alongside the sliding portion in a second predetermined direction orthogonal to the first predetermined direction, and also inward of opposite ends of the contact member in the first predetermined direction.
US10924036B2
The invention provides a power generation device comprising at least two generating arrangements, each adapted to generate a voltage output through the relative motion of two differently charged generating elements, the generating elements having some separation distance (which may be zero or non-zero). The arrangements are co-operatively configured in such a way that the separation distances between their respective elements are reciprocally related: an increase in one leads to a related decrease in the other. By combining these two signal outputs, a single voltage, current or power output may be provided in a self-regulating manner by the device whose amplitude is substantially independent of any changes or variations in the separation distance between elements of either of the two arrangements.
US10924031B2
An internal parallelization based active neutral point clamped (IP-ANPC) converter is provided having a low switching frequency (LSF) part and a plurality of high switching frequency (HSF) modules. The HSF modules are connected in parallel and the converter is modular. The converter provides the benefits of modularity, improved reliability and efficiency, interleaving operation, and reasonable utilization of wide band gap (WBG) devices. A logic based flying capacitor voltage balancing scheme is also provided. The balancing scheme includes naturally balancing the voltage of the converter with phase shift pulse width modulation and redundantly balancing the voltage of the converter with redundant switching states.
US10924025B2
For a power supply with a reduced number of semiconductor devices, a transformer receives a three-phase primary voltage and steps the three-phase primary voltage up or down to a secondary voltage with a plurality of secondary winding sets to a plurality of first phase voltages, a plurality of second phase voltages, and a plurality of third phase voltages. A plurality of power cell sets each include a plurality of power cells cascaded connected. Each power cell comprises a rectifier and an inverter. The rectifier includes two first active switches that are serially connected and receive a phase voltage at a first switch midpoint, two second active switches that are serially connected and receive another phase voltage at a second switch midpoint, and two capacitors that are serially connected and receive another phase voltage at a capacitor midpoint between the capacitors.
US10924024B2
A control unit controls an inverter circuit such that a positive voltage and a negative voltage are alternately applied to a primary winding. The control unit controls a cycloconverter so as to allow no power to be transmitted between the cycloconverter and the inverter circuit in a first period including an inversion period during which a voltage of the primary winding has its polarity inverted. The control unit also controls the cycloconverter so as to allow power to be transmitted either in a first direction from the cycloconverter toward the inverter circuit, or in a second direction opposite from the first direction, in a second period different from the first period.
US10924015B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus to facilitate current sensing for valley current-controlled power converters are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a comparator including a first terminal, a second terminal, and an output. The apparatus further includes a first transistor including a first drain coupled to the first terminal of the comparator. The apparatus further includes a second transistor including a second drain coupled to the first terminal of the comparator. The apparatus further includes a third transistor including a third drain coupled to the second terminal of the comparator.
US10924012B1
A power converter circuit that includes a switch node coupled to a regulated power supply node via an inductor may, during a charge cycle, source current to the switch node, and source a bypass current to the regulated power supply node using a regulator control signal. A control circuit may initiate the charge cycle using a first reference voltage level and a sensed inductor current, and generate the regulator control signal using a second reference voltage level and a voltage level of the regulated power supply node.
US10924009B2
A method includes converting an input signal into an output signal in response to a modulation signal, generating a timeout signal in response to the modulation signal, generating a comparison signal according to the output signal, determining whether the comparison signal is equal to or greater than a sense signal, determining whether the timeout signal has a first logic value, and causing the modulation signal to have the first logic value when the comparison signal is equal to or greater than the sense signal and the timeout signal has the first logic value. A switching power supply circuit includes a power converter, a timer circuit generating the timeout signal, and a controller causing the modulation signal to have the first logic value when the comparison signal is equal to or greater than the sense signal and the timeout signal has the first logic value.
US10923995B2
A core laminator of an adhesive laminate core manufacturing apparatus includes a heating unit heating an adhesive interposed between laminar members to integrate the laminar members to form a laminate core, a pinch unit rotatably provided at a lower side of the heating unit which applies a lateral pressure to the laminate core, a squeeze unit including a cylinder rotatably provided at an upper side of the heating unit and a squeezer fixed in the cylinder to align the laminar members in a straight line, a guide provided in the heating unit for guiding a movement of the laminar members, and a driving unit for selectively rotating the pinch unit and the squeeze unit.
US10923987B2
An electrical system includes a cycloidal electric machine having a stator and a balanced rotor. The rotor is eccentrically positioned radially within the stator, such that the rotor moves with two degrees of freedom (2DOF). The 2DOF motion includes rotating motion about the rotor axis and orbiting motion about the stator axis. A rotor constraint mechanism constrains the motion of the rotor, such that the rotor is able to generate torque on a coupled load. Part of the rotor constraint mechanism may be integrally formed with the rotor. A coupling mechanism may be coupled to the rotor and configured to translate the 2DOF into 1DOF, i.e., rotation without orbital motion. The rotor may include mutually-coupled rotors. At least one counterweight may be connected to the rotor, e.g., externally or within the airgap. Balancing of the balanced rotor may be optionally provided via the multiple rotors and/or the counterweight(s).
US10923983B2
Generator housings for generators of aircraft are provided. The generator housings include a mounting pad at a first end, the generator housing extending to a second end, and a base arranged to connect to an electronics module. The generator housing defines a generator cavity and a flow path to supply a working fluid through the generator housing, the flow path extending between an inlet formed in the mounting pad and at least one outlet formed in the mounting pad. One or more electronics flow ports enable fluid connection between the flow path within the generator housing and the electronic module when connected and one or more inductor ports enable fluid connection between the flow path within the generator housing and one or more inductors when mounted to the generator housing.
US10923976B2
The present invention relates to a rotor (1) of a rotary electric machine, comprising: a body (3) comprising a cylindrical central core (5) and a circumferential plurality of arms (B1 . . . B18) extending radially out from the cylindrical central core (5), the body (3) being intended to be mounted with the ability to move about an axis of rotation X, a coilset produced by windings of turns and forming at least one series of coils (C1 . . . C9, C1′ . . . C9′, C1″ . . . C9″, C1′″ . . . C9′″), a coil (C1 . . . C9, C1′ . . . C9′, C1″ . . . C9″, C1′″ . . . C9′″) comprising a predetermined number of turns around at least two arms (B1 . . . B18) of the body, two adjacent coils (C1 . . . C9, C1′ . . . C9′, C1″ . . . C9″, C1′″ . . . C9′″) of a series being angularly offset from one another with a partial overlap, in which the rotor (1) comprises at least one additional retaining loop (S1, S1′, S2, S2′) wound around at least two arms (B1 . . . B18) of which at least one is common to the arms (B1 . . . B18) around which is wound the last coil (C9, C9′, C9″, C9″), situated radially outermost, of at least one series and of which at least one is distinct from the arms around which the said last coil (C9, C9′, C9″, C9′″) is wound, so that the at least one additional retaining loop (S1, S1′, S2, S2′) partially overlaps the turns of the said last coil (C9, C9′, C9″, C9′″).
US10923972B2
An electric motor with a stator that is formed of a plurality of laminations. Each of the laminations has a radially inner lamination edge, which borders a rotor aperture configured to receive a rotor therein, and a radially outer lamination edge. Each of the laminations has a plurality of cooling apertures formed there through. The cooling apertures formed in a given one of the laminations are disposed radially between the radially outer lamination edge and the radially inner lamination edge. Each of the laminations is sealingly coupled to at least one other lamination. Each cooling aperture in a lamination forms part of a distinct cooling channel that extends along an axial length of the stator. At least a portion of the cooling apertures in each of the cooling channels are staggered circumferentially about a motor axis of the electric motor.
US10923963B2
A foreign object detection apparatus including a plurality of object sensing devices positioned between a transmission pad and a reception pad of a wireless charging system; and a detection circuit configured to determine whether a foreign object is present between the transmission pad and the reception pad based on data received from the plurality of object sensing devices. Further, each of the plurality of object sensing devices includes a first coil unit wound with a first coil in a first direction, and a second coil unit wound with a second coil in a second direction different from the first direction; and the first coil unit and the second coil unit overlap each other.
US10923959B2
A wireless power system has a wireless power transmitting device and a wireless power receiving device. The wireless power transmitting device may be a wireless charging mat or other device with coils for transmitting wireless power signals. The wireless power receiving device may be a cellular telephone or other device with coils for receiving the transmitted wireless power signals. The wireless power receiving device has adjustable rectifier circuitry coupled to a pair of coils. The pair of coils is coupled in series at a node. A transistor is coupled between ground and the node and is controlled by control circuitry. The state of the transistor can be changed to place the adjustable rectifier circuitry in either a first mode of operation in which the adjustable rectifier circuitry forms a full-bridge rectifier or a second mode of operation in which the adjustable rectifier circuitry forms a pair of parallel half-bridge rectifiers.
US10923956B2
An inductive power transmitter comprising: a converter configured to generate at least two object detection signals at substantially different frequencies, at least one transmitting coil configured to generate a magnetic field based on the object detection signals, and a controller configured to determine or measure circuit parameter(s) in relation to the coil to determine the inductance of the coil at each of the frequencies, and determine whether and/or what kind of object is present depending on a change in inductance between each of the frequencies.
US10923952B2
In one embodiment, a power converter includes a wireless transmitter coil and a resonant capacitor that is configured to resonate at a first frequency. The wireless transmitter coil and resonant capacitor are configured to receive an alternating current at a second frequency such that the power converter outputs a first voltage that is dependent on the second frequency. In one embodiment, the first and second frequency are substantially equal. The power converter may also include an interconnection link configured to substantially double or vary the first voltage depending on a duty cycle that is applied to the interconnection link.
US10923950B2
A power generating method for a wireless power transmission device includes the following steps. Firstly, a power transmitting circuit is switched between an enabled state and a disabled state. When the power transmitting circuit is in the enabled state, the power transmitting circuit emits a first power and the power receiving circuit converts the first power into a second power. Then, the second power is converted into an output power, and the second power is converted into an auxiliary power. If the first power is not received by a power receiving circuit, the above steps are repeated. If the first power is received by the power receiving circuit, the power transmitting circuit is continuously in the enabled state, so that the auxiliary power is continuously generated.
US10923949B2
A wireless power supply device comprising a plurality of transmitting coil assemblies mounted at a plurality of different positions of an electrical equipment, a plurality of control switches disposed at the plurality of different positions and configured to switch on and off the transmitting coil assemblies, and a single receiving coil assembly mounted on a carrier of the electrical equipment. The transmitting coil assembly mounted at one position of the plurality of different positions is disconnected by switching off the control switch provided at the one position before the carrier is mounted at one position, and is connected by switching on the control switch provided at the one position after the carrier is mounted at the one position, such that the single receiving coil assembly is electromagnetically coupled with the transmitting coil assembly at the one position.
US10923938B2
A charging device for charging an electric energy storage device includes a power supply circuit connected to a power supply, an alternating current conversion circuit configured to convert a current from the power supply connected to the power supply circuit to a first alternating current with a preset frequency value, a transformer configured to convert the first alternating current to a second alternating current, wherein a voltage value corresponding to the second alternating current being less than a voltage value corresponding to the first alternating current, and a direct current voltage conversion circuit configured to convert the second alternating current to a direct current with a waveform fluctuating in a preset range, so as to charge an electric energy storage device. The alternating current conversion circuit is connected to the power supply circuit, the transformer is connected to the alternating current conversion circuit, and the direct current voltage conversion circuit is connected to the transformer.
US10923924B2
A power supply device of a vehicle includes a negative electrode terminal connected to a first battery; a positive electrode terminal connected to a second battery; a first positive electrode side relay between a first node and the first battery; a first capacitor connected between the first node and a negative line; a first negative electrode side relay between the first battery and the negative line; a first precharge relay and a first resistive element connected in parallel with the first negative electrode side relay; a second positive electrode side relay between a third node and the second battery; a second capacitor between the third node and a second node; a second negative electrode side relay between the second battery and the second node; and a second precharge relay and a second resistive element connected in parallel with the second positive electrode side relay.
US10923915B2
An example method comprises receiving an initial topology of an electrical, receiving a selection of a region of interest, determining one or more external equivalents of the electrical network that are external to the region of interest, determining one or more internal equivalents of the region of interest, calculating a sensitivity matrix based on electrical impedances of at least one of the one or more internal equivalents and based on an amount of power exchanged when in operation, determining a subset of the sensitivity matrix as indicating highly sensitive buses, receiving historical data regarding power flows, predicting power flow for each highly sensitive buses, comparing the predicted power flow to at least one predetermined threshold to determine possible network congestion, and generating a report regarding network congestion and locations of possible network congestion in the region of interest based on the comparison.
US10923912B2
A system and method of confirming trades of financial instruments such as OTC derivatives is disclosed. The system includes a data interface which accepts data relating to a trade from both the trader and counter party. The data includes different data fields of differing importance. The system includes a matching engine which compares the submitted data and assigns the trade a status depending on which of the data fields match. The system allows a user to filter trades on their status and display the details relating to that trade. The system also allows a user to display the data fields and change the data fields in order to change the status of the trades. The system thus allows a user to electronically confirm a trade and also identify unmatched trades and the information necessary to reconcile such unmatched trades.
US10923909B2
A bidirectional switch and a method of the bidirectional switch including, a first enhancement mode n-channel metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (n-MOSFET) and a second n-MOSFET electrically connected in a common source configuration. The emitter of an insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) is further electrically connected to the common sources of the n-MOSFET. A control board regulates a first operation of the IGBT and an operation of the first field effect transistor. The control board additionally receives at least one measured characteristic, from a sensor and determines the measured characteristic is below a predetermined threshold. The control board then regulates an operation of the second field effect transistor and a second operation of the IGBT.
US10923908B2
The disclosure relates to an electronic module comprising a source terminal for receiving an input current from an electrical voltage source and comprising an electrical input capacitance which is effective with respect to the source terminal, wherein the input capacitance is connected to the source terminal via a transistor circuit. The disclosure additionally provides that the transistor circuit is configured to conduct the input current via a respective switching path of at least one transistor, and a control device is configured to switch, during the switch-on process for limiting the input current, a control voltage at a respective control terminal of the at least one transistor, in a plurality of steps, from an off value at which each switching path is switched off, to a connection value at which a contact resistance of each switching path is minimized.
US10923907B2
Electric power Fault detection, isolation and restoration (FDIR) systems using “smart switches” that autonomously coordinate operations to minimize the number of customers affected by outages and their durations, without relying on communications with a central controller or between the smart switch points. The smart switches typically operate during the substation breaker reclose cycles while the substation breakers are open, which enables the substation breakers to reclose successfully to restore service within their normal reclosing cycles. Alternatively, the smart switch may be timed to operate before the substation breakers trip to effectively remove the substation breakers from the fault isolation process. Both approaches allow the FDIR system to be installed with minimal reconfiguration of the substation protection scheme.
US10923904B2
An overvoltage protection unit, an overvoltage protection method, a sampling module, a pixel circuit and a display apparatus are provided. The overvoltage protection unit includes a comparator and an output switch, where a first input terminal of the comparator is supplied with a predetermined maximum voltage, a second input terminal of the comparator is supplied with an actual sampled voltage, an output terminal of the comparator is connected with a control terminal of the output switch and the actual sampled voltage is supplied to an input terminal of the output switch; the output switch selectively outputs the actual sampled voltage in accordance with an output signal of the comparator.
US10923897B2
A cable sealing gland and method for securing a cable to an enclosure. The cable sealing gland includes a gland connector configured to be coupled to the cable, having a cable gland body sized to fit over the cable and including a first end sized to remain outside the enclosure when the gland connector is inserted through a hole of the enclosure and a second end sized to extend into an interior of the enclosure when the gland connector is inserted through the hole. The gland connector also includes a ferrule sized to fit inside the cable gland body, and a compression bolt configured to engage the cable gland body to compress the ferrule onto the cable. The cable sealing gland also includes a locknut configured to engage the cable gland body to couple the gland connector to the enclosure.
US10923895B2
A mud ring assembly for supporting an electrical device including a base member configured to be coupled to a junction box having a first corner and a second corner. The base member has a perimeter configured to extend around the first corner and not reach the second corner so that the base member is not positioned above the second corner. The mud ring assembly also includes a movable member configured to support the electrical device. The movable member is pivotably connected to the base member and pivotable relative to the base member between a closed position in which a back of the electrical device is enclosed in the junction box and an open position permitting access to the back of the electrical device. The movable member is couplable at a second portion of the junction box to selectively secure the movable member in the closed position.
US10923887B2
A wire for an ignition coil assembly and/or a corona ignition assembly is provided. The wire comprises a wire core including a copper-based material, and a coating applied to the wire core. The coating includes at least one of a carbon-based material and magnetic nanoparticles. The carbon-based material can include graphene and/or carbon nanotubes, and the magnetic nanoparticles can include graphene and iron oxide (Fe3O4). Typically, the coating includes a plurality of layers. For example, the coating can include a layer of the graphene and/or carbon nanotubes, and/or a layer of the magnetic nanoparticles. The coating can also include a layer of insulating material, such as enamel. According to another embodiment, the coating includes iron, nickel, and/or cobalt plated onto the wire core.
US10923885B2
A surge protection component with a main body which has at least one inner electrode arranged between two ceramic layers, wherein the at least one inner electrode is set back from at least one lateral face of the main body, wherein a gas-filled cavity is provided between the at least one inner electrode and the at least one lateral face, and wherein an outer electrode is respectively arranged on two mutually opposite lateral faces of the main body. According to a further aspect, the present invention relates to a method for producing a surge protection component.
US10923882B2
A nitride semiconductor light-emitting device having high luminous efficiency is provided. A nitride semiconductor light-emitting device is provided with a nitride semiconductor substrate including a main surface having an off angle of 0.4° or larger with respect to a (0001) plane, a first semiconductor layer formed of an n-type or p-type nitride semiconductor formed on the main surface, a second semiconductor layer formed of a nitride semiconductor having In composition of 2% or higher formed on the first semiconductor layer, an active layer formed on the second semiconductor layer including a well layer formed of a nitride semiconductor having In composition higher than that of the second semiconductor layer and a barrier layer formed of a nitride semiconductor stacked therein, and a third semiconductor layer formed on the active layer having a conductivity type different from that of the first semiconductor layer.
US10923878B1
A system and method for providing laser diodes with broad spectrum is described. GaN-based laser diodes with broad or multi-peaked spectral output operating are obtained in various configurations by having a single laser diode device generating multiple-peak spectral outputs, operate in superluminescene mode, or by use of an RF source and/or a feedback signal. In some other embodiments, multi-peak outputs are achieved by having multiple laser devices output different lasers at different wavelengths.
US10923872B2
An example tool for disconnecting a connector from a circuit board includes: a first arm having first handle and a first notch, where the first notch is for engaging a first connector connected to the circuit board; and a second arm having a second handle and a second notch, where the second notch is for engaging a second connector connected to a cable. A hinge connects the first arm to the second arm. The hinge is biased so that, when the tool is not in use, the first handle and the second handle are farther apart than are the first notch and the second notch.
US10923869B2
Embodiments described herein generally relate to a connector interface assembly. The connector interface assembly includes a housing and a printed circuit board. The housing includes a first side part and a second side part. The printed circuit board includes a first end having a connector, an opposite second end having a first receiving port, and an upper surface having a second receiving port and a pair of coaxial ports extending therefrom. The second receiving port and the pair of coaxial ports of the upper surface extend in a direction perpendicular to the connector and the first receiving port. The connector is different from the first receiving port. The printed circuit board is positioned between the first side part and the second side part such that the housing at least partially surrounds the printed circuit board in a between the first and second side parts.
US10923864B2
A connector module for a modular plug connector is provided having an overvoltage protection with at least one earth connection. A connector and a modular plug connector having a connector module of the above type is also provided.
US10923859B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a connector to connect a printed circuit board (PCB) with a memory device, where the connector includes a housing couplable with the PCB; a first signal pin coupled with the housing, where the first signal pin includes a first portion that includes a first curve, and a second portion that extends from the first portion and includes a second curve; and a second signal pin coupled with the housing, where the second signal pin includes a third portion that includes a third curve, and a fourth portion that extends from the third portion and includes a fourth curve, where the first curve is curved in a first opposite direction relative to the third curve, and where the second curve is curved in a second opposite direction relative to the fourth curve.
US10923858B2
Walls are erected at both ends of an arrangement of first contacts and at locations that partition the first contacts for each signal to be transmitted, project at both ends of an arrangement of second contacts and at locations that partition the second contacts for each pair of differential signals to be transmitted, and therewith are connected to ground electrodes of a circuit board. A first shell, a second shell, and the like are mounted to a first housing and a second housing in such a manner as to be spaced apart from and cover the first contacts, the second contacts, and the walls and are connected to ground electrodes of the circuit board.
US10923857B2
A connector module comprises an insulating body, and further comprises a plurality of signal contact elements and a plurality of shield contact elements forming a connector face configured for establishing electric contact with a counterpart of the connector module. For each of the signal contact elements, there exist two or at most three shield contact elements that are closer to this signal contact element than any signal contact element of the plurality of signal contact elements. The signal contact elements are arranged along a first curve extending in the connector face of the connector module and the shield contact elements are arranged along a second curve extending in the connector face of the connector module, the first curve and the second curve being parallel curves having a predefined normal distance. Viewed along the course of the parallel curves, the signal contact elements and the shield contact elements are arranged alternatingly.
US10923855B2
A connector includes two by N contacts arranged in two columns and N rows, where N is an integer of three or more, N contacts in each column being arrayed at a predetermined pitch in a first direction parallel to each column within a corresponding one of column areas each extending in the first direction and having a predetermined width in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, a distance between two contacts in one endmost row in the first direction among the N rows being larger than a distance between two contacts in each of the other rows and different in length from the predetermined pitch, a distance between two contacts in the other endmost row in the first direction among the N rows being smaller than a distance between two contacts in each of the other rows and different in length from the predetermined pitch.
US10923842B1
As cable assembly may include a cable comprising a plurality of electrically-conductive wires and a hybrid connector that terminates an end of the cable. The hybrid connector may include a receptacle comprising a plurality of receptacle pins and configured to mechanically couple to a printed circuit board and receive an electronic device in order to mechanically couple the electronic device to the receptacle and the printed circuit board and electrically couple each of a plurality of electronic device pins of the electronic device to respective ones of the plurality of receptacle pins. The hybrid connector may also include a first section that electrically couples each of the plurality of electrically-conductive wires to respective ones of the plurality of receptacle pins and a second section that electrically couples each of a plurality of electrical conduits integral to the printed circuit board to respective ones of the plurality of receptacle pins.
US10923840B2
Provided herein is technology relating to providing power over a universal serial bus (USB) connection and particularly, but not exclusively, to devices, methods, and systems related to a (USB) technology for reducing energy consumption by a USB receptacle.
US10923836B2
A deformable shield for mitigating radio frequency interference with a male coaxial connector includes a flexible hollow body having opposed front and rear ends, a concave section of the body proximate the front end, defining an open mouth of the shield configured to receive a female coaxial port, and a bellows section of the body behind the concave section. The bellows section terminates at the rear end with another mouth configured to be fit upon the male coaxial connector.
US10923832B2
A co-construction antenna module includes a carrier, a first patch antenna group, a second patch antenna group, a first dipole antenna group, and a second dipole antenna group. The carrier includes a first surface, a second surface relative to the first surface, and a surround surrounding side connected between the first surface and the second surface. The first patch antenna group includes a plurality of first patch antennas disposed on the carrier, and the plurality of first patch antennas are disposed on at least one of the first surface and the second surface. The second patch antenna group includes a plurality of second patch antennas disposed on the carrier, and the plurality of second patch antennas are disposed on at least one of the first surface and the second surface. The first dipole antenna group and the second antenna are disposed in the carrier.
US10923830B2
A quick solder chip connector is provided that can include a body, a radio signal conductor housed in the body, and one or more grounding pins integrally formed in the body. In some embodiments, the radio signal conductor can include a first end configured to electrically connect to a first transmission line formed on a first printed circuit board and a second end configured to electrically connect to a second transmission line formed on a second printed circuit board and can provide a radio frequency signal path between the first transmission line and the second transmission line. The one or more grounding pins can extend from opposing ends of the body and can be configured to physically support the body and the radio signal conductor between the first printed circuit board and the second printed circuit board.
US10923829B2
The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses that enable a radar system to transmit radar signals into lanes on a roadway in which a vehicle may turn. For example, when a car is making a protected right turn, that is a right turn when there is another vehicle traveling in the same direction in a lane adjacent to the lane of the turning vehicle, a traditional radar may have its view of the lane in which it is turning obscured by the vehicle in the lane adjacent to the lane of the turning vehicle. By using radar deflectors strategically located near the front of the vehicle, the radar signals may be deflected at angles to avoid being obstructed by the vehicle in the lane adjacent to the lane of the turning vehicle.
US10923828B2
A lens elements array comprises at least two lens elements aligned along an alignment axis. Each lens element includes a spherical lens and a feed element. The feed elements are tilted such that the RF signals generated by the feed elements have major axes form an angle (preferably between 5° and 30°) other than a perpendicular angle with respect to the alignment axis. The combined RF signals produced collectively by these feed elements have amplitude that has minimal dips across the array. The feed elements that are farther away from the center of the array have higher levels of tilts than the feed elements that are closer to the center of the array.
US10923827B2
Embodiments of a wide band multi-polarization antenna system are described, which can be attached to the back or front of a soldier's vest or backpack. The antenna system can allow for release of pre-shaped integral radiating elements that spring into a geometric configuration suitable for circular polarization radiation or linear polarization over a desired band of frequencies. The antenna system can provide, when collapsed, linear polarized line-of sight capability over a wide band of frequencies. In a collapsed low-profile state, the antenna system can remain on the soldier, but out of the way for maneuvering.
US10923823B2
Disclosed is a patch antenna, which is formed so that the upper surface of a dielectric layer has a wider area than the lower surface thereof and is mounted on a printed circuit board to form an air gap, thus maximizing antenna performance while implementing lightweight. The disclosed patch antenna includes a dielectric layer, a radiation patch formed on the upper surface of the dielectric layer, and a lower patch formed on the lower surface of the dielectric layer; and the dielectric layer is formed so that an area of the upper surface is wider than an area of the lower surface to form an air gap between the printed circuit board and the dielectric layer.
US10923822B2
A wireless communications antenna includes: a magnetic body including one or more slits formed therein; and a coil part having solenoid form and disposed around the magnetic body, wherein the one or more slits are configured such that the magnetic body is not disconnected and a magnetic path of the magnetic body is continuous.
US10923821B2
Various embodiments of a multi-mode antenna are described. The antenna is preferably constructed having a first inductor coil and a second inductor coil. A plurality of shielding materials are positioned throughout the antenna to minimize interference of the magnetic fields that emanate from the coils from surrounding materials. The antenna comprises a coil control circuit having at least one of an electric filter and an electrical switch configured to modify the electrical impedance of either or both the first and second coils.
US10923820B2
An electronic device includes a housing including a first face, a second face oriented in a direction that is opposite the first face, and a side face between the first face and the second face. The housing also includes a first conductive coil configured to generate a magnetic flux in a first or second direction and a second conductive coil located next to the first conductive coil, and connected to the first conductive coil. The second conductive coil is configured to generate a magnetic flux in a direction opposite a direction of the magnetic flux generated by the first conductive coil. The housing also includes a magnetic guide body configured to guide a magnetic flux radiated in the first or the second direction to a third direction substantially perpendicular to the first or the second direction or to a fourth direction opposite the third direction.
US10923813B2
A signal combiner (33) specifies a weighting coefficient w for suppressing a grating lobe included in a composite signal S3 obtained when combining a digital received signal S1 and digital received signal S2 stored by a signal calculation storage (31), from the gain in a grating lobe direction in a first radiation pattern and the gain in a grating lobe direction in a second radiation pattern, and combines the digital received signal S1 and digital received signal S2 stored by the signal calculation storage (31) using the weighting coefficient w.
US10923807B2
The present invention relates to a combo type antenna module capable of maximizing performance of all antennas while minimizing a thickness of the antenna module by laminating a magnetic sheet having different thicknesses according to an antenna pattern formed on a base sheet. The combo type antenna module includes: a first antenna pattern formed on one surface and the other surface of the base sheet; a second antenna pattern formed on one surface of the base sheet; and a magnetic member laminated on the other surface of the base sheet, wherein the magnetic member is formed so that a thickness of a region corresponding to the second antenna pattern is formed thicker than that of a region corresponding to the first antenna pattern.
US10923805B2
An aircraft antenna assembly has a support element having a first and a second surface on opposite sides, an antenna element arranged on or in the support element, and a sealing device. The first surface and the sealing device are configured such that the antenna assembly is arranged on an outer skin section of an aircraft such that the first surface faces the outer skin section, the sealing device is situated between the support element and the outer skin section, and a cavity is defined by the sealing device, the outer skin section and the first surface. The support element or the sealing device y has a flow channel having a first and a second opening at opposite ends, the flow channel connecting the cavity and the environment and opening into the cavity at the first opening and opening into the environment at the second opening.
US10923800B2
A packaged electronic device includes an integrated antenna as part of a conductive leadframe. The conductive leadframe includes a die paddle have an elongated conductive beam structure configured as a transmission line, and a ground plane structure disposed surrounding the die paddle. The ground plane includes a gap where the transmission line extends to an edge of the packaged electronic device. In one embodiment, selected leads within the leadframe are configured with conductive connective structures as ground pins, source pins, and/or wave guides. In an alternate embodiment, a portion of the integrated antenna is embedded and partially exposed within the body of the packaged electronic device.
US10923799B2
An antenna structure is provided that improves performance of a Near Field Communication antenna by constructing a pattern for NFC in an inner center region of a pattern for a wireless charging pad. The structure includes a Printed Circuit Board including a first and a second substrate layer, where the first substrate layer includes a first and a second non-conductive area, one first conductive wire constructed in a shape surrounding the first non-conductive area, one second conductive wire constructed in a shape surrounding the second non-conductive area, and a first antenna corresponding to a first frequency band. The second substrate layer includes a third non-conductive area, a third wire surrounding the third non-conductive area, and connection wires electrically coupling the first and the second conductive wire forming a second winding. The first winding and the second winding are a second antenna corresponding to a second frequency band.
US10923798B2
Provided are an antenna mount and a system for controlling antenna position. The antenna mount provided by the present disclosure includes: an antenna mount body, a connecting arm connected to the antenna mount body, an adapting piece fixedly connected to the connecting arm, an antenna arranged on the adapting piece, and a non-metallic cylinder arranged on the adapting piece, wherein the non-metallic cylinder can drive the antenna to rotate in a range of 0-90°.
US10923797B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing antenna alignment, and, more particularly, to methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing antenna alignment using a gimbal. In various embodiments, a gimbal system might be provided. The gimbal system may be at least one of a passive two-axis gimbal, a passive three-axis gimbal, an active two-axis gimbal, and/or an active three-axis gimbal. At least one antenna may be coupled to the gimbal system. The gimbal system may be configured to compensate for at least one of a movement of a structure and/or a wind load on the at least one antenna. Additionally and/or alternatively, the gimbal system may be configured to align the antenna toward the position and orientation where there is the signal quality is optimized.
US10923794B2
The disclosure provides a base station. The base station includes an enclosure including at least one pole connectable part to be connected to a communication pole, and an antenna assembly including an antenna for communication and combined with the enclosure. The enclosure further includes at least one antenna assembly combinable member to be combined with the antenna assembly. The antenna assembly is rotated at a predetermined angle on the at least one antenna assembly combinable member which operates as a pivot.
US10923789B2
An energy storage and power supply device includes an energy storage unit, an output coupled to the energy storage unit, and a processing circuit. The energy storage unit is configured to store electrical energy. The output is configured to facilitate providing power from the energy storage unit to a load. The processing circuit is configured to selectively restrict a power flow provided to the output by the energy storage unit in response to an operating characteristic of the energy storage and power supply device satisfying a threshold condition.
US10923777B2
An energy storage module for a vehicle includes an energy storage enclosure adapted to accommodate an energy storage cell, the energy storage enclosure having an enclosure wall, an optical sensor including an optical fiber, an optical receiver and an optical emitter, the optical fiber attached to an inner side of a first enclosure wall along a distance of a portion of the inner side. The optical receiver is configured to detect an optical signal transmitted through the optical fiber, and the optical sensor is configured to detect an alteration of the optical signal being indicative of a deformation.
US10923765B2
A method of decontaminating a lithium conducting ceramic oxide material. The method includes soaking the lithium conducting ceramic oxide material having a first thickness of surface contaminants in a first organic solvent containing an inorganic salt at an inorganic salt concentration to obtain a soaked lithium conducting ceramic oxide material. The method further includes rinsing the soaked lithium conducting ceramic oxide material in a second organic solvent to obtain a decontaminated lithium conducting ceramic oxide material having a second thickness of surface contaminants less than the first thickness of surface contaminants.
US10923762B2
A lithium-ion battery, comprising a cathode, an anode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte; the cathode comprises a cathode active material and a metal oxide and/or metal fluoride coating which covers the surface of the cathode active material; the cathode active material is at least one of materials illustrated in general formula I or II: formula I: LixNiyM1-yO2, wherein 0.5≤x≤1.2, 0.5≤y≤1, and M is selected from at least one of Co, Mn, Al, Ti, Fe, Zn, Zr, Cr, and formula II: LikCozL1-zO2, wherein 0.5≤k≤1.2, 0.5
US10923759B2
The present invention relates to a ternary liquid electrolyte for a lithium-sulfur battery and a lithium-sulfur battery including the same. The liquid electrolyte for a lithium-sulfur battery according to the present invention exhibits an excellent sulfur utilization rate when used in a lithium-sulfur battery, and exhibits excellent stability. Accordingly, the liquid electrolyte for a lithium-sulfur battery according to the present invention is capable of enhancing a life time property while securing a capacity property of a lithium-sulfur battery.
US10923758B2
There is provided an electrode assembly including a first electrode laminate having at least one or more electrode units having a first area, stacked therein, a second electrode laminate having at least one or more electrode units having a second area smaller than the first area, stacked therein, and a step portion provided by stacking the first electrode laminate and the second electrode laminate in a direction perpendicular to a plane and having a step formed due to a difference in areas of the first and second electrode laminates, the electrode assembly being characterized in that, the electrode unit is wound by a rectangular-shaped separation film such that at least a portion of the rectangular-shaped separation film covers the step portion of the electrode assembly, and a step having a shape identical to the step portion is formed.
US10923756B2
A joining structure includes a first bonded member and a glass portion that is bonded to a surface of the first bonded member. The glass portion includes an interface region not exceeding 5 μm of the surface of the first bonded member, and an inner region more than 5 μm from the surface of the first bonded member. The interface region and inner region respectively include rod-shaped crystal particles that have three or more aspect ratios when viewed in cross section. An average orientation angle of the rod-shaped crystal particles included in the interface region is greater than or equal to 60 degrees and less than or equal to 120 degrees. A standard deviation of the orientation angle of the rod-shaped crystal particles included in the inner region is greater than a standard deviation of the orientation angle of the rod-shaped crystal particles included in the interface region.
US10923755B2
A mount structure for a fuel cell stack includes a first bracket member supporting and fixing the fuel cell stack to a first installation member, and a second bracket member supporting and fixing the fuel cell stack to a second installation member. A part of the second bracket includes a constricted portion having low strength in comparison with other portions of the second bracket member.
US10923754B2
The present invention relates to a polymer blend proton exchange membrane comprising a soluble polymer and a sulfonated polymer, wherein the soluble polymer is at least one polymer selected from the group consisting of polysulfone, polyethersulfone and polyvinylidene fluoride, the sulfonated polymer is at least one polymer selected from the group consisting of sulfonated poly(ether-ether-ketone), sulfonated poly(ether-ketone-ether-ketone-ketone), sulfonated poly(phthalazinone ether keton), sulfonated phenolphthalein poly(ether sulfone), sulfonated polyimides, sulfonated polyphosphazene and sulfonated polybenzimidazole, and wherein the degree of sulfonation of the sulfonated polymer is in the range of 96% to 118%. The present invention further relates to a method for manufacturing the polymer blend proton exchange membrane.
US10923752B2
Disclosed are a membrane-electrode assembly, a method of manufacturing the same, and a fuel cell including the membrane-electrode assembly. The membrane-electrode assembly includes a catalyst layer, an interfacial adhesive layer which is positioned on the catalyst layer and formed by permeating an interface between the interfacial adhesive layer and the catalyst layer into a partial depth of the catalyst layer, and an ion exchange membrane which is positioned on the interfacial adhesive layer and bonded to the catalyst layer by the medium of the interfacial adhesive layer, the interfacial adhesive layer including a fluorine-based ionomer having an equivalent weight (EW) of 500 to 1000 g/eq.
US10923751B2
Systems and methods are provided for a fuel cell including a fuel desulfurization system. The method includes receiving fuel from a fuel source in a first phase and depressurizing the fuel in the first phase in a vacuum system to convert at least a portion of the fuel into a second phase. The method further includes reforming the portion of the fuel in the second phase to create a hydrogen enriched fuel in the second phase, and delivering the hydrogen enriched fuel in the second phase to a fuel cell stack.
US10923740B2
A fuel gas supply passage is provided at a central position of one side of opposing sides of a separator. A fuel gas supply passage is provided close to a fuel gas flow field in comparison with any of a plurality of fluid passages provided along the one side. An identification mark of the separator is provided between the fuel gas supply passage and an outer peripheral end of the separator.
US10923719B2
A positive-electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery includes: a secondary particle in which a plurality of primary particles of a lithium composite metal oxide are aggregated, in which the secondary particle has a void formed therein, and a through-hole that connects the void to a surface of the secondary particle, and satisfies predetermined requirements (i) to (iii).
US10923718B2
A concentrated solution of a metal salt in a non-aqueous solvent system. A product of the process of making a concentrated solution of a metal salt in a non-aqueous solvent system.
US10923717B2
A secondary battery using a vanadium oxide as a positive electrode active material is provided. The secondary battery is prevented from degradation of capacity by preventing dissolution of vanadium. The vanadium oxide includes secondary particles formed by assemblage of primary particles.
US10923708B2
A sintered electrode having a sintered composite material is provided. The composite material contains (A) active-material particles, (B) solid-state electrolyte particles from an inorganic lithium ion conductor, (C) a particulate conductivity additive from an electrically conductive material and (D) a fibrous material, with weight proportions N(A) to N(D) of components (A) to (D) in the composite material satisfy the following: N (A)>N (B)>N (C), N (D). A solid-state lithium-ion battery containing such sintered electrode is also provided.
US10923707B2
A method of making an electrode for an electrochemical cell includes the step of providing an electrode composite comprising from 70-98% active material, from 0-10% conductive material additives, and from 2-20% polymer binder, based on the total weight of the electrode composite. The electrode composite is mixed and then compressed the electrode composite into an electrode composite sheet. The electrode composite sheet is applied to a current collector with pressure to form an electrode, wherein the electrode possesses positive characteristics for adhesion according to ASTM standard test D3359-09e2, entitled Standard Test Methods for Measuring Adhesion by Tape Test, and wherein the electrode composite sheet and the electrode possess positive characteristics for flexibility according to the Mandrel Test. The binder can be a single nonfluoropolymer binder. Dry process electrodes are also disclosed.
US10923705B2
A negative electrode active material, a first carbon material, a thickener, and a solvent are mixed to prepare a first dispersion solution. The first dispersion solution and a second carbon material are mixed to prepare a second dispersion solution. The second dispersion solution and a binder are mixed to prepare a negative electrode paint. The negative electrode paint is applied to a surface of a negative electrode current collector and dried to produce a negative electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery. The negative electrode active material has a BET specific surface area of 3 m2/g or more and 8 m2/g or less. The first carbon material has a BET specific surface area of 30 m2/g or more and 100 m2/g or less. The second carbon material has a BET specific surface area of 200 m2/g or more and 500 m2/g or less.
US10923699B2
A lithium-sulfur battery is provided. More specifically, a lithium-sulfur battery including a polymer non-woven fabric containing a liquid electrolyte between a positive electrode including sulfur and a separator is provided. By including a polymer non-woven fabric containing a liquid electrolyte between a positive electrode and a separator, the lithium-sulfur battery according to the present invention is capable of continuously supplying the liquid electrolyte to the positive electrode, and suppressing polysulfide elution. Accordingly, the lithium-sulfur battery has a reduced discharge overvoltage, and exhibits excellent discharge capacity and life time properties.
US10923698B2
A laminate-type power storage element includes a flat plate-shaped electrode body and an exterior body. The electrode body is configured by stacking a sheet-shaped positive electrode and a sheet-shaped negative electrode on either side of a separator. The exterior body is formed in a flattened bag-shape by thermocompression bonding peripheral edge regions of two opposing laminated films, to seal the electrode body inside the flattened bag-shape of the exterior body together with an electrolyte. The separator has a sheet-shaped substrate and at least one bonding layer formed on at least one surface of the substrate. A peripheral edge portion of the separator is sandwiched between and bonded by the two laminated films at a peripheral inside of the peripheral edge regions of the two laminated films.
US10923688B2
There are provided a quantum dot light emitting diode based on a quantum dot of which a surface is passivated with a short chain ligand, and a method of manufacturing the same.
US10923681B2
The present disclosure provides a package structure and a packaging method of OLED display device, and a display device. The packaging method of OLED display device includes providing a substrate including a package region and a bonding region around the package region, the package region being provided with a bonding electrode lead; forming a sacrificial layer on the bonding electrode lead; forming an OLED display device in the package region; forming a packaging film which covers the package region and the bonding region; and removing the sacrificial layer to separate the sacrificial layer and a part of the packaging film positioned on the sacrificial layer from the substrate. The packaging method of OLED display device provided is used for packaging OLED display devices.
US10923680B2
A method for fabricating a multifunctional composite panel is disclosed. The method can include forming a plurality of structural layers, and forming a plurality of photovoltaic layers adjacent the plurality of structural layers. Forming the plurality of structural layers can include forming alternating layers of a conductive organic material and an inorganic material. Forming the alternating layers can include forming a first layer from the conductive organic material, and forming a second layer adjacent the first layer from the inorganic material. The multifunctional composite panel can have a thickness of from about 1 mm to about 30 mm.
US10923676B2
A package structure of an organic light emitting diode display panel includes a display substrate, a glass cover plate and a package portion. The display substrate and the glass cover are arranged opposite to each other. The package portion is provided between a non-display region of the display substrate and a portion of the glass cover plate corresponding to the non-display region. The display substrate includes organic light emitting diode elements. The organic light emitting diode elements are located in a sealed cavity enclosed by the display substrate, the glass cover plate and the package portion. The package portion includes a first concavo-convex structure provided at a surface of the display substrate facing the glass cover plate; a second concavo-convex structure provided at a surface of the glass cover plate close to the display substrate; and a package material is provided between the first concavo-convex structure and the second concavo-convex structure.
US10923674B1
A color film substrate and a preparation method therefor, and a display panel and a display device comprising the color film substrate. The color film substrate comprises: an auxiliary cathode layer formed on a substrate; a black matrix layer formed on the auxiliary cathode layer, a plurality of first via holes penetrating through the black matrix layer in a direction vertical to the substrate being provided on the black matrix layer; a flat layer formed on the black matrix layer, a plurality of second via holes having one-to-one correspondence to the first via holes so as to expose the auxiliary cathode layer being provided on the flat layer; a plurality of spacers formed on the flat layer; and a transparent conductive layer formed on the spacers, the transparent conductive layer being connected to the auxiliary cathode layer by means of the second via holes.
US10923671B2
Disclosed is a nanofilm, a thin film transistor and manufacture methods thereof. The nanofilm of the present disclosure comprises a plurality of regions distributed in a film plane dimension, wherein each of the regions is composed of one kind of nanomaterial, and nanomaterials of adjacent regions are different from each other and contact with each other to form a heterojunction or a Schottky junction.
US10923670B2
A method of fabricating a rigid island pattern on a stretchable layer having a low Young's modulus and a stretchable electronic device platform using the same are disclosed. The stretchable electronic device platform, which is proposed by the present disclosure and has the rigid island pattern on the stretchable layer having a low Young's modulus, includes a stretchable substrate having a first Young's modulus, a Silbione® layer coated with a stretchable layer having a Young's modulus lower than the first Young's modulus on the stretchable substrate, and a fixed layer which is made of a photoresist such as SU-8 or a UV curable resin and has a Young's modulus higher than the first Young's modulus, and in which the rigid island pattern and the meandering stretchable interconnector pattern are formed on the stretchable layer by a photolithography process.
US10923661B2
An organic light emitting diode includes a thin film transistor substrate, a pixel electrode layer, a pixel defining layer, and a pixel layer in order from bottom to top. The pixel layer is formed by spraying pixel ink onto the pixel electrode layer in the pixel defining groove by an inkjet printing method and drying to form a film, and the pixel ink contains a hydrophobic solvent and is hydrophobic. A method for fabricating an organic light emitting diode includes the steps of: providing a thin film transistor substrate, forming a pixel electrode layer, forming a pixel defining layer, and forming a pixel layer. By adding a hydrophobic solvent to the pixel ink and making the pixel ink hydrophobic, the coffee ring effect in the inkjet printing process is reduced, and the film surface of the pixel layer is uniform, thereby improving the luminescence performance.
US10923660B2
Liquid formulation comprising a solute for fabricating an electronic device and a partially or fully deuterated solvent is disclosed. The liquid formulation can be used in the solution process of electronic devices, and can greatly enhance the device performance of solution processed OLEDs, especially lifetime. Also disclosed is a method of making an electronic device.
US10923657B2
A memory cell comprising a threshold switching material over a first electrode on a substrate. The memory cell includes a second electrode over the threshold switching material and at least one dielectric material between the threshold switching material and at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode. A memory material overlies the second electrode. The dielectric material may directly contact the threshold switching material and each of the first electrode and the second electrode. Memory cells including only one dielectric material between the threshold switching material and an electrode are disclosed. A memory device including the memory cells and methods of forming the memory cells are also described.
US10923651B2
In one embodiment, a SOT device is provided that replaces a traditional NM layer adjacent to a magnetic layer with a NM layer that is compatible with CMOS technology. The NM layer may include a CMOS-compatible composite (e.g., CuPt) alloy, a TI (e.g., Bi2Se3, BixSe1-x, Bi1-xSbx, etc.) or a TI/non-magnetic metal (e.g., Bi2Se3/Ag, BixSe1-x/Ag, Bi1-xSbx/Ag, etc.) interface, that provides efficient spin current generation. Spin current may be generated in various manners, including extrinsic SHE, TSS or Rashba effect.
US10923650B2
In one embodiment, a magneto-resistive chip package includes a circuit board; a shielding body including a shielding base part positioned on the circuit board and a shielding intermediate part extending from one side of the shielding base part; a magneto-resistive chip positioned on the shielding base part and including a magneto-resistive cell array; an internal connection part electrically connecting the magneto-resistive chip to the circuit board; an encapsulation part encapsulating the magneto-resistive chip on the circuit board, and having an upper surface that is higher than an upper surface of the magneto-resistive chip; and a shielding cover positioned on the shielding intermediate part, and on the encapsulation part.
US10923644B2
An embedded electrode substrate for a transparent light emitting device display that includes a transparent substrate; an adhesive layer provided on the transparent substrate; and a wiring electrode portion and a light emitting device mounted portion embedded in the adhesive layer, and the wiring electrode portion comprises a first metal foil pattern, and comprises a blackening layer on both an upper surface and a side surface of the first metal foil pattern, and the light emitting device mounted portion comprises a second metal foil pattern and comprises the blackening layer only on the side surface of the second metal foil pattern.
US10923643B2
A package includes a first lead including a first electrode terminal, and a second lead including a second electrode terminal and provided on the first lead in an overlapping direction such that the first electrode terminal of the first lead overlaps with the second electrode terminal of the second lead when viewed in the overlapping direction. The first electrode terminal and the second electrode terminal are electrically connected to each other without adding additional material.
US10923642B2
A light emitting diode including an n-type semiconductor layer, a mesa disposed on the n-type semiconductor layer and exposing a portion thereof, and including an active layer and a p-type semiconductor layer, first and second bonding pads electrically connected to the n-type and p-type semiconductor layers, respectively, and a first insulation layer at least partially disposed between the exposed portion of the n-type semiconductor layer exposed by the mesa and the second bonding pad, in which the exposed portion of the n-type semiconductor layer has a first portion having a shortest distance to the second bonding pad, the first insulation layer covers a portion of the p-type semiconductor layer disposed between the second bonding pad and the first portion of the n-type semiconductor layer, and the first insulation layer is disposed along an edge of the p-type semiconductor layer adjacent to the exposed portion of the n-type semiconductor layer.
US10923624B2
An imaging apparatus including a substrate, an imaging device provided on the substrate, and a light emitting device provided on the substrate and having a plurality of nano-structures.
US10923617B2
The present invention utilizes epitaxial lift-off in which a sacrificial layer is included in the epitaxial growth between the substrate and a thin film III-V compound solar cell. To provide support for the thin film III-V compound solar cell in absence of the substrate, a backing layer is applied to a surface of the thin film III-V compound solar cell before it is separated from the substrate. To separate the thin film III-V compound solar cell from the substrate, the sacrificial layer is removed as part of the epitaxial lift-off. Once the substrate is separated from the thin film III-V compound solar cell, the substrate may then be reused in the formation of another thin film III-V compound solar cell.
US10923614B2
A photodiode that multiplies a charge generated by photoelectric conversion in an avalanche region includes: a p− type semiconductor layer having interfaces; an n+ type semiconductor region located inside the p− type semiconductor layer and in contact with the interface; an n+ type semiconductor region located inside the p− type semiconductor layer and connected to the n+ type semiconductor region; and a p type semiconductor region located between the n+ type semiconductor region and the interface, wherein the n+ type semiconductor region, the n+ type semiconductor region, and the p type semiconductor region each have a higher impurity concentration than the p− type semiconductor layer, the avalanche region is a region between the n+ type semiconductor region and the p type semiconductor region inside the p− type semiconductor layer, and the n+ type semiconductor region has a smaller area than the n+ type semiconductor region in planar view.
US10923607B2
A solid state imaging apparatus includes an insulation structure formed of an insulation substance penetrating through at least a silicon layer at a light receiving surface side, the insulation structure having a forward tapered shape where a top diameter at an upper portion of the light receiving surface side of the silicon layer is greater than a bottom diameter at a bottom portion of the silicon layer. Also, there are provided a method of producing the solid state imaging apparatus and an electronic device including the solid state imaging apparatus.
US10923592B2
A high-voltage switching device that can be fabricated in a standard low-voltage process, such as CMOS, and more specifically SOI CMOS. Embodiments include integrated circuits that combine, in a unitary structure, a FET device and an integrated, co-fabricated modulated resistance region (MRR) controlled by one or more Voltage-Drop Modulation Gates (VDMGs). The VDMGs are generally biased independently of the gate of the FET device, and in such a way as to protect each VDMG from excessive and potentially destructive voltages. In a first embodiment, an integrated circuit high voltage switching device includes a transistor structure including a source, a gate, and an internal drain; an MRR connected to the internal drain of the transistor structure; at least one VDMG that controls the resistance of the MRR; and a drain electrically connected to the MRR. Each VDMG at least partially depletes the MRR upon application of a bias voltage.
US10923586B2
A high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) includes a buffer layer, a carrier transit layer, a carrier supply layer, a gate, a source electrode and a drain electrode. The buffer layer is on a substrate. The carrier transit layer is on the buffer layer. The carrier supply layer is on the carrier transit layer. The gate is on the carrier supply layer. The source electrode and the drain electrode are at two opposite sides of the gate, wherein each of the source electrode and the drain electrode includes a conductive layer and a conductive oxide layer stacked from bottom to top.
US10923583B2
The present invention relates to the technical field of power semiconductor devices, particularly to an insulated gate bipolar transistor with a MOS controllable hole path. According to the present invention, a MOS controllable gate structure formed by a gate dielectric layer, a MOS control gate electrode and a P-type MOS channel region are embedded in a P+ floating p-body region of the conventional IGBT structure. The MOS region is equivalent to a switch controlled by a gate voltage. When the device is turned on under a forward voltage, the potential of the p-body region is floated to store holes, reducing the saturation conduction voltage drop of the device. Under the condition of turn-off and short-circuit, the hole extracting path is provided and the Miller capacitance is lowered, thereby lowering the turn-off losses and enhancing the short-circuit withstand capability.
US10923572B2
A layout of a semiconductor device is stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium. The layout includes a first transistor in an active device region and a second transistor in a guard ring region. The first transistor includes a first channel region, a first gate structure across the first channel region, and a first source region and a first drain region on opposite sides of the first channel region. The second transistor includes a second channel region, a second gate structure across the second channel region, a second source region and a second drain region on opposite sides of the second channel region. The second channel region includes a semiconductor material having a higher thermal conductivity than a semiconductor material of the first channel region.
US10923569B2
A p-type oxide which is amorphous and is represented by the following compositional formula: xAO.yCu2O where x denotes a proportion by mole of AO and y denotes a proportion by mole of Cu2O and x and y satisfy the following expressions: 0≤x<100 and x+y=100, and A is any one of Mg, Ca, Sr and Ba, or a mixture containing at least one selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr and Ba.
US10923566B2
Semiconductor structures and methods of forming the same are provided. A semiconductor structure includes a substrate and an annular nanowire disposed over the substrate.
US10923557B2
An AMOLED free of TFT in the active area includes a first substrate; an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) device disposed on the first substrate; a plurality of conductive lines disposed on the first substrate; and connected to the OLED device; and a driving device having TFT functions, connected to the OLED device through the conductive lines, configured to drive the OLED device, and disposed outside of the active area.
US10923552B2
A display panel includes a substrate including a first area and a second area that are spaced apart from each other in a first direction; a plurality of display elements located in a display area, the display area being adjacent to the first area and the second area; and a plurality of lines extending in a second direction that intersects the first direction, the plurality of lines being electrically respectively connected to the plurality of display elements, wherein the plurality of lines include: a first line and a second line adjacent to each other and bypassing along an edge of the first area; and a third line and a fourth line adjacent to each other and bypassing along an edge of the second area, wherein the first area and the second area are different from each other in at least one of size or shape.
US10923541B2
A display device includes: a substrate on which a plurality of sub-pixels are arranged; a light-emitting device including a light-emitting layer in each of the plurality of sub-pixels; a thin film encapsulation layer covering the light-emitting layer in each of the plurality of sub-pixels; a black matrix around the plurality of sub-pixels; and an optical sensor on the substrate, the optical sensor including a sensing portion for sensing light emitted from a light source, wherein the black matrix has a plurality of openings, through which light emitted from the light source passes, in a path through which the light is received by the sensing portion via an input object which is in contact with the substrate.
US10923533B2
A volatile logic circuit has a storage node, and stores inputted information. A plurality of non-volatile elements are connected to the storage node of the volatile logic circuit through the same connection gate, and control lines for control for these non-volatile elements are connected to the respective non-volatile elements, every non-volatile element. A plurality of non-volatile elements are connected to the volatile logic circuit through the same connection gate in such a way, thereby enabling the yield to be enhanced.
US10923530B2
An optoelectronic device including a substrate with first and second opposite surfaces; and electrical insulation side elements extending from the first surface to the second surface and defining, within the substrate, first semi-conductive or conductive portions which are electrically insulated from each other. The optoelectronic device also includes, for each first portion a first conductive contact pad on the second surface in contact with the first portion and a set of light-emitting diodes resting on the first surface and electrically connected to the first portion. The optoelectronic device also includes a conductive, at least partially transparent electrode layer covering all the light-emitting diodes; an insulating, at least partially transparent encapsulation layer covering the electrode layer; and at least one second conductive contact pad electrically connected to the electrode layer.
US10923524B2
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a first support (100) for forming, in particular with a functionalised second support (200), an optoelectronic component (1), the first support (100) comprising a semiconductor layer (110) and an alignment mark (140) provided on said semiconductor layer (110). The manufacturing method includes in particular a step of forming an aperture (141) in a semiconductor layer (110) comprising cadmium, a step of diffusing cadmium in a second location (142) of the aperture (141) and a cadmium sensitive etching step for promoting etching of one from the second location (142) which is rich in cadmium and the rest of a surface (110B) of the semiconductor layer (110). The invention also relates to a first support (100).
US10923523B2
In one example, an apparatus comprises: a first photodiode configured to convert a first component of light to a first charge, second photodiode configured to convert a second component of the light to a second charge; and an interface circuit configured to: perform a first quantization and a second quantization of the first charge to generate, respectively, a first result and a second result, the first quantization and the second quantization being associated with different light intensity ranges; provide one of the first result or the second result to represent an intensity of the first component of a pixel; perform the first quantization and the second quantization of the second charge to generate, respectively, a third result and a fourth result; and provide one of the third result or the fourth result to represent an intensity of the second component of the pixel.
US10923513B2
A method for manufacturing an array substrate includes: forming a strip-shaped barrier wall(s) on a base substrate, wherein the width of each barrier wall is less than or equal to a distance between a first metal trace to be formed and a second metal trace to be formed; and forming a first metal trace at one side of each barrier wall located in a direction perpendicular to an extending direction of the barrier wall, and forming a second metal trace at an opposite side of the barrier wall located in the direction perpendicular to the extending direction of the barrier wall.
US10923507B2
An array substrate includes: a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array, selection lines, a reset circuit and readout circuits. Second terminals of transistors in pixel units belonging to a same column are connected to at least two of the read lines, so that a part of the pixel units are connected to a same read line, and another part of the pixel units are connected to the other one of the at least two of the read lines. For each column of the pixel units, each of the read lines is connected to one of the readout circuits corresponding to the column of the pixel units through a switching element; and for each column of the pixel units, each of the read lines is connected to the reset circuit through a switching element.
US10923504B2
A display device is disclosed, which includes: a substrate; a first metal layer, disposed on the substrate and having a first pinhole; a second metal layer, disposed on the first metal layer and having a second pinhole; a pixel electrode layer, disposed on the second metal layer; and a light detecting element for detecting a light passing through the second pinhole and the first pinhole.
US10923490B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first insulating film provided above the semiconductor substrate, a first conductive film provided above the first insulating film, a plurality of first electrode films provided above the first conductive film and stacked to be separated from each other, a semiconductor member extending in a stacking direction of the plurality of first electrode films, and a charge storage member provided between the semiconductor member and one of the plurality of first electrode films. The first conductive film includes a main portion disposed at least below the plurality of first electrode films, and a fine line portion extending from the main portion toward an end surface side of the semiconductor substrate. A width of the fine line portion is narrower than a width of the main portion.
US10923487B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a channel layer and a gate electrode. A first insulating layer is between the semiconductor layer and the gate electrode. A second insulating layer is between the first insulating layer and the gate electrode. A storage region is between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer. The storage region comprises metal or semiconductor material. A coating layer comprises silicon and nitrogen and surrounds the storage region. The coating layer is between the storage region and the second insulating layer and between the storage region and the first insulating layer.
US10923485B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a resistive random access memory cell, and a semiconductor element. The resistive random access memory cell is on the substrate. The resistive random access memory cell includes a first electrode having a U shape. The semiconductor element is adjoined with an outer sidewall of the first electrode.
US10923484B2
An integrated circuit includes a memory cell incorporating an antifuse device. The antifuse device includes a state transistor having a control gate and a second gate that is configured to be floating. A dielectric layer between the control gate and the second gate is selectively blown in order to confer a broken-down state on the antifuse device where the second gate is electrically coupled to the control gate for storing a first logic state. Otherwise, the antifuse device is in a non-broken-down state for storing a second logic state.
US10923475B2
A semiconductor device may include a substrate including an active pattern extending in a first direction, a gate electrode running across the active pattern and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a source/drain pattern on the active pattern and adjacent to a side of the gate electrode, an active contact in a contact hole exposing the source/drain pattern, an insulating pattern filling a remaining space of the contact hole in which the active contact is provided, a first via on the active contact, and a second via on the gate electrode. The active contact may include a first segment that fills a lower portion of the contact hole and a second segment that vertically protrudes from the first segment. The first via is connected to the second segment. The insulating pattern is adjacent in the first direction to the second via.
US10923474B2
An integrated circuit includes gate-all-around (GAA) nanowire transistors and GAA nanosheet transistors on the same substrate. An array of cells including GAA nanowire transistors and cells including nanosheet transistors are provided. The cells including GAA nanowire transistors can be adjacent cells including GAA nanosheet transistors with isolation structures interposing the cells.
US10923467B2
Some embodiments relate to an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes a ring-shaped drain region having an inner edge and an outer edge. A channel region surrounds the ring-shaped drain region. A source region surrounds the channel region. The channel region separates the drain region from the source region. A gate electrode is arranged over the channel region and is separated from the channel region by a gate dielectric. An inner edge of the gate electrode is proximate to the drain region. A resistor structure is arranged over and spaced apart from an upper surface of the substrate. The resistor structure has a first end and a second end which are connected by a curved or polygonal path of resistive material. The first end is coupled to the ring-shaped drain. The resistor has an outer perimeter that is surrounded by the inner edge of the ring-shaped drain region.
US10923465B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes stacking, on a package substrate, first semiconductor chips. Each of the first semiconductor chips includes a first adhesive film. The method includes stacking, respectively on the first semiconductor chips, second semiconductor chips. Each of the second semiconductor chips includes a second adhesive film. The method includes compressing the first and second adhesive films to form an adhesive structure. The adhesive structure includes an extension disposed on sidewalls of the first and second semiconductor chips. The method includes removing the extension. The method includes forming a first molding layer substantially covering the first and second semiconductor chips. The method includes performing a cutting process on the package substrate between the first and second semiconductor chips to form a plurality of semiconductor packages each including at least one of the first semiconductor chips and at least one of the second semiconductor chips.
US10923462B2
A semiconductor device is disclosed including one or more integrated memory modules. Each integrated memory module may include a pair of semiconductor die, which together, operate as a single, integrated memory. In one example, the first die may include the memory cell array and the second die may include the logic circuit such as CMOS integrated circuits. In one example, the first die may be flip-chip bonded to the second die.
US10923457B2
A multi-die module includes a first die with a first device and a second die with a second device. The multi-die module also includes a contactless coupler configured to convey signals between the first device and the second device. The multi-die module also includes a coupling loss reduction structure.
US10923449B2
A method to produce a semiconductor package or system-on-flex package comprising bonding structures for connecting IC/chips to fine pitch circuitry using a solid state diffusion bonding is disclosed. A plurality of traces is formed on a substrate, each respective trace comprising five different conductive materials having different melting points and plastic deformation properties, which are optimized for both diffusion bonding of chips and soldering of passives components.
US10923440B2
An integrated circuit and a method of securing the integrated circuit during its fabrication. The method includes delimitation of the integrated circuit into a first zone called a standard zone and a second zone called a security zone, and random degradation of an interconnection structure of the security zone thus forming a physical unclonable function modelled by random electrical continuity that can be queried by a challenge-response authentication protocol.
US10923433B2
A fan-out semiconductor package includes a connection member including an insulating layer and a redistribution layer, a semiconductor chip disposed on the connection member, an encapsulant encapsulating the semiconductor chip, and an electromagnetic wave shielding layer disposed on the semiconductor chip and including a plurality of degassing holes. The electromagnetic wave shielding layer includes a first region and a second region in which densities of the degassing holes are different from each other, the first region having a density of the degassing holes higher than a density of the degassing holes in the second region.
US10923430B2
Various multi-die arrangements and methods of manufacturing the same are disclosed. In one aspect, a semiconductor chip device is provided that includes a first molding layer and an interconnect chip at least partially encased in the first molding layer. The interconnect chip has a first side and a second side opposite the first side and a polymer layer on the first side. The polymer layer includes plural conductor traces. A redistribution layer (RDL) structure is positioned on the first molding layer and has plural conductor structures electrically connected to the plural conductor traces. The plural conductor traces provide lateral routing.
US10923420B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of main contact plugs and a plurality of dummy contact plugs which pass through an insulating layer on a substrate. A plurality of upper interconnections is on the insulating layer. The plurality of dummy contact plugs include a first dummy contact plug. The plurality of upper interconnections include a first upper interconnection overlapping the first dummy contact plug. A vertical central axis of the first dummy contact plug is located outside the first upper interconnection.
US10923416B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first conductive structure having sidewalls and a bottom surface, the first conductive structure extending through one or more isolation layers formed on a substrate; and an insulation layer disposed between at least one of the sidewalls of the first conductive structure and respective sidewalls of the one or more isolation layers, wherein the first conductive structure is electrically coupled to a second conductive structure through at least the bottom surface.
US10923410B2
A power module includes a recessed base plate having a hollow portion, at least one insulating substrate disposed in the hollow portion of the base plate, at least one semiconductor chip mounted on the at least one insulating substrate, and sealing resin for sealing a surface of the hollow portion side of the base plate, the at least one insulating substrate, and the at least one semiconductor chip.
US10923408B2
An integrated device package is disclosed. The integrated device package can include an integrated device die, an element, a cavity, and an electrical interconnect. The element can have an antenna structure. The element can be attached to a surface of the integrated device. The cavity can be disposed between the integrated device die and the antenna structure. The electrical interconnect can connect the integrated device die and the antenna structure.
US10923406B2
A plasma processing tool for fabricating a semiconductor device on a semiconductor wafer includes an optical window disposed on a plasma chamber, remotely from a plasma region. The window is thermally connected to an electrical heater element capable of maintaining the window at a temperature of at least 30° C. A heater controller provides electrical power to the heater element. During operation of the plasma processing tool, the heater controller provides power to the heater element so as to maintain the window at a temperature of at least 30° C. during at least a portion of a plasma process step in which by-products are produced in the plasma chamber.
US10923399B2
A method for making a tri-gate FinFET and a dual-gate FinFET includes providing a semiconductor on insulator (SOI) wafer having a semiconductor layer over an insulator layer. The method further includes forming a hard mask on the semiconductor layer and patterning the hard mask to form first and second cap portions. The method also includes etching the semiconductor layer to form first and second fins using the first and second cap portions as an etch mask. The method also includes removing the second cap portion to expose the top surface of the second fin and forming a gate dielectric layer on the first and second fins. The method further includes forming a conductive layer over the gate dielectric layer, selectively etching the conductive layer to form first and second gate structures, forming an interlayer dielectric layer over the gate structures, and planarizing the interlayer dielectric layer using the first cap portion as a polish stop.
US10923396B2
Electronic devices and methods to form electronic devices having a self-aligned via are described. An adhesion enhancement layer is utilized to promote adhesion between the conductive material and the sidewalls of the at least one via opening. The self-aligned vias decrease via resistance and reduce the potential to short to the wrong metal line.
US10923394B2
A method for forming a fully self-aligned via is provided. A workpiece having a pattern of features in a dielectric layer is received into a common manufacturing platform. Metal caps are deposited on the metal features, and a barrier layer is deposited on the metal caps. A first dielectric layer is added to exposed dielectric material. The barrier layer is removed and an etch stop layer is added on the exposed surfaces of the first dielectric layer and the metal caps. Additional dielectric material is added on top of the etch stop layer, then both the additional dielectric material and a portion of the etch stop layer are etched to form a feature to be filled with metal material. An integrated sequence of processing steps is executed within one or more common manufacturing platforms to provide controlled environments. Transfer modules transfer the workpiece between processing modules within and between controlled environments.
US10923391B2
A semiconductor structure includes a conductive structure over a first passivation layer. The semiconductor structure further includes a second passivation layer over the conductive structure and the first passivation layer. The second passivation layer has a first oxide film extending along a top surface of the first passivation layer, sidewalls and a top surface of the conductive structure. The second passivation layer further includes a second oxide film over a top surface of the first oxide film and a top surface of the conductive structure. The second passivation layer further includes a third oxide film extending along a top surface of the second oxide film, the sidewalls and the top surface of the conductive structure.
US10923386B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a processing chamber with a top, a bottom, and a sidewall coupled together to define an enclosure, a gas distributor around the sidewall, a substrate support disposed in the enclosure, the substrate support having a central opening and a plurality of substrate locations distributed around the central opening, a pumping port below the substrate support, and an energy source coupled to the top or the bottom. The energy source may be a radiant source, a thermal source, a UV source, or a plasma source. The substrate support may be rotated using a magnetic rotator and an air bearing. The gas distributor may have a plurality of passages distributed around a circumference of the gas distributor.
US10923385B2
A carrier plate for receiving a wafer includes a pocket defined in a middle section on a top surface of the carrier plate and has a surface diameter. The pocket defines a substrate support region. A retaining feature of the carrier plate is defined at an outer edge of the pocket. A tapered portion of the carrier plate extends from the retaining feature to an outer diameter. The tapered portion is configured to receive a focus ring. A bottom surface of the carrier plate is configured to sit over a pedestal that is used in a process chamber. A plurality of wafer supports is disposed on a top surface of the substrate support region to support the wafer, when received.
US10923370B2
A transport system includes: an image capturer included in a transport vehicle; a positional deviation detector that detects a positional deviation between a pre-correction position at a time when the article is placed on a reference transfer destination and a reference placement position; a corresponding relationship calculator that finds a pixel deviation between a pre-correction image and a post-correction image and calculates an actual deviation amount per unit pixel, the pre-correction image being captured at an initial position of the transport vehicle by the image capturer, and the post-correction image being captured by the image capturer at a position of the transport vehicle deviated by the positional deviation; and the correction amount calculator that finds a pixel deviation between the post-correction image and a transfer destination image captured of another transfer destination and calculates a correction amount from the pixel deviation and the actual deviation amount per unit pixel.
US10923362B2
A manufacturing process of an element chip comprises steps of preparing a substrate including a plurality of etching regions and element regions each containing a plurality of convex and concave portions, holding the substrate and a frame with a holding sheet, forming a protective film by applying a first mixture to form a coated film above the substrate and by drying the coated film to form the protective film along the convex and concave portions, the first mixture containing a water-soluble first resin, water and a water-soluble organic solvent and has a vapor pressure higher than water, removing the protective film by irradiating a laser beam thereon to expose the substrate in the etching regions, plasma-etching the substrate along the etching regions while maintaining the protective film in the element regions to individualize the substrate, and removing the protective film by contacting the protective film with an aqueous rinse solution.
US10923360B2
In a method of etching a film having a side wall surface and a bottom surface that defines an opening, a precursor layer is formed on the film and the film is etched by a chemical species generated from a processing gas. A protection region is formed from the precursor layer by the chemical species generated from a plasma or the processing or a separate chemical species from the plasma or processing gas while the film is being etched.
US10923356B2
A method for the dry removal of a material on a microelectronic workpiece is described. The method includes receiving a substrate having a working surface exposing a silicon-germanium alloy and at least one other material, the silicon-germanium alloy represented as SixGe1-x, wherein x is a real number ranging from 0 to 1; and selectively etching the silicon-germanium alloy relative to the other material by exposing the substrate to a controlled gas-phase environment containing an anhydrous halogen compound, such as a diatomic halogen or an interhalogen compound.
US10923354B2
An etching method in which: molten sodium hydroxide in a prescribed temperature range is used as a molten alkali, whereby an Si surface of an etching surface of an SiC substrate, in which the substrate surface is configured from the Si surface and a C surface, is removed at a higher speed than is the C surface while an oxide film is formed on the etching surface in a high-temperature environment containing oxygen.
US10923347B2
A metal oxide film and a manufacturing method thereof, a thin film transistor and an array substrate are provided. The manufacturing method of the metal oxide film includes: forming a metal oxide film on a base substrate; and supplying a negative ion to the metal oxide film for a preset time period by performing a anodization method, to convert a portion of metal ions in the metal oxide film into a metal oxide.
US10923343B2
The invention discloses a high-k dielectric layer, a fabricating method thereof and a multi-function equipment implementing such fabricating method. The high-k dielectric layer of the invention includes M atomic-layer-deposited films formed in sequence on a material layer of a semiconductor device, where M is an integer larger than 1. The material layer can be a semiconductor layer, a metal layer or another dielectric layer. Each atomic-layer-deposited film is formed of an oxide and formed by an atomic layer deposition (ALD) process. N assigned films among the M atomic-layer-deposited films are bombarded by a non-reactive gas plasma during or after the cycles of the ALD process, where N is a natural number and less than or equal to M.
US10923335B2
Systems and methods for loading microfabricated ion traps are disclosed. Photo-ablation via an ablation pulse is used to generate a flow of atoms from a source material, where the flow is predominantly populated with neutral atoms. As the neutral atoms flow toward the ion trap, two-photon photo-ionization is used to selectively ionize a specific isotope contained in the atom flow. The velocity of the liberated atoms, atom-generation rate, and/or heat load of the source material is controlled by controlling the fluence of the ablation pulse to provide high ion-trapping probability while simultaneously mitigating generation of heat in the ion-trapping system that can preclude cryogenic operation. In some embodiments, the source material is held within an ablation oven comprising an electrically conductive housing that is configured to restrict the flow of agglomerated neutral atoms generated during photo-ablation toward the ion trap.
US10923331B1
Atmospheric pressure plasma devices and methods for preparing the surfaces of fasteners, e.g. nutplates, for adhesive bonding are disclosed. A device supports a fastener to dispose a contact surface of the fastener to receive an atmospheric pressure plasma flow, thereby activating the contact surface to be bonded. A spacer is used to properly support the fastener to receive the plasma treatment. A spacer can comprise beveled edges of a grounded enclosure which electrically connects the contact surface of the fastener to the plasma generator where plasma is formed in a gas flow along the electrodes. Alternately, a spacer can comprise a plurality of standoffs on a showerhead port comprising a ground electrode of the plasma generator where plasma is formed in a gas flow across the electrodes.
US10923328B2
A plasma processing method includes a gas supply step and a film forming step. In the gas supply step, a gaseous mixture containing a compound gas containing a silicon element and a halogen element, an oxygen-containing gas, and an additional gas containing the same halogen element as the halogen element contained in the compound gas and no silicon element is supplied into a chamber. In the film forming step, a protective film is formed on a surface of a member in the chamber by plasma of the gaseous mixture supplied into the chamber.
US10923327B2
Embodiments described herein generally relate to apparatus and methods for processing a substrate utilizing a high radio frequency (RF) power. The high RF power enables deposition of films on the substrate with more desirable properties. A first plurality of insulating members is disposed on a plurality of brackets and extends laterally inward from a chamber body. A second plurality of insulating members is disposed on the chamber body and extends from the first plurality of insulating members to a support surface of the chamber body. The insulating members reduce the occurrence of arcing between the plasma and the chamber body.
US10923325B2
A method of controlling an implanter operating in plasma immersion, the method including the steps of: an implantation stage (1) during which the plasma AP is ignited and the substrate is negatively biased S; a neutralization stage (2) during which the plasma AP is ignited and the substrate has a positive or zero bias S applied thereto; a suppression stage (3) during which the plasma AP is extinguished; and an expulsion stage (4) for expelling negatively charged particles from the substrate and during which the plasma AP is extinguished. The method is remarkable in that the duration of the expulsion stage is longer than 5 μs. The invention also provides a power supply for biasing an implanter.
US10923324B2
The disclosure provides a plasma source and an excitation system for excitation of a plasma, and an optical monitoring system. In one embodiment the plasma source includes: (1) a coaxial resonant cavity body having an inner length, and including a first end, a second end, an inner electrode and an outer electrode, (2) a radio frequency signal interface electrically coupled to the inner and outer electrodes at a fixed position along the inner length and configured to provide a radio frequency signal to the coaxial resonant cavity body, (3) a window positioned at the first end of the coaxial resonant cavity body, and (4) a mounting flange positioned proximate the window at the first end of the coaxial resonant cavity body and defining a plasma cavity, wherein the window forms one side of the plasma cavity and isolates the coaxial resonant cavity body from plasma in the plasma cavity.
US10923313B1
The charged particle beam device includes a charged particle source and a beamlet-forming multiaperture plate. The device also includes a precompensator for reducing aberrations of the beamlets at a target, a scanner for scanning each of the beamlets, an objective lens for focusing each beamlet onto the target, and a controller configured to synchronize the precompensator and the scanner. The precompensator includes: at least one “radially variable” multiaperture electrode in which the diameter of each aperture thereof scales with the distance of the aperture from the optical axis, z; and at least one “cartesianally variable” multiaperture electrode in which the diameter of each aperture thereof scales with an x component of the position of the aperture.
US10923312B2
A magnetic lens is disclosed, which includes: a magnetic yoke, an exciting coil and a power supply controlling system. The magnetic yoke is at outside of the exciting coil and surrounds the coil; the exciting coil is made up of litz wires; the power supply controlling system is arranged to supply power to the exciting coil and control the flow directions and magnitudes of the currents in the exciting coil. A method for controlling the magnetic lens is also disclosed.
US10923306B2
An indirectly heated cathode ion source having an electrically isolated extraction plate is disclosed. By isolating the extraction plate, a different voltage can be applied to the extraction plate than to the body of the arc chamber. By applying a more positive voltage to the extraction plate, more efficient ion source operation with higher plasma density can be achieved. In this mode the plasma potential is increased, and the electrostatic sheath reduces losses of electrons to the chamber walls. By applying a more negative voltage, an ion rich sheath adjacent to the extraction aperture can be created. In this mode, conditioning and cleaning of the extraction plate is achieved via ion bombardment. Further, in certain embodiments, the voltage applied to the extraction plate can be pulsed to allow ion extraction and cleaning to occur simultaneously.
US10923298B1
A circuit breaker includes a compact pole unit with an encapsulated body having ring(s) and conducting terminals that each extend from the encapsulated body. The body includes a vacuum interrupter and a coupler assembly that may be integrated into the pole unit. The coupler assembly includes a contact spring positioned an end of the compact pole unit, as well as a plunger that may be biased by the contact spring. The circuit breaker also includes an actuator positioned at the end of the pole unit that is opposite the coupler assembly. The circuit breaker also may include a second actuator that is will be connected to the contact spring of the coupler assembly via the plunger, and if so the breaker may be operated via either actuator.
US10923297B2
A switch monitoring device includes a constant current source which supplies a current to an input line or extracts a current from the input line, a switch which connects the input line to a supply voltage or to a ground voltage, a comparator which compares a voltage on the input line with a reference voltage, a logic which receives an output voltage of the comparator, a base current source which generates a base current, and a bias current circuit which generates a bias current by adjusting the base current as a base in accordance with a current control signal from the logic and the output voltage of the comparator. The constant current source generates a current by adjusting the bias current as a base.
US10923295B2
An energy storage device can include a cathode, an anode, and a separator between the cathode and the anode, where the anode and/or electrode includes an electrode film having a super-fibrillized binder material and carbon. The electrode film can have a reduced quantity of the binder material while maintaining desired mechanical and/or electrical properties. A process for fabricating the electrode film may include a fibrillization process using reduced speed and/or increased process pressure such that fibrillization of the binder material can be increased. The electrode film may include an electrical conductivity promoting additive to facilitate decreased equivalent series resistance performance. Increasing fibrillization of the binder material may facilitate formation of thinner electrode films, such as dry electrode films.
US10923291B2
A capacitor and a method of processing an anode metal foil are presented. The method includes electrochemically etching the metal foil to form a plurality of tunnels. Next, the etched metal foil is disposed within a widening solution to widen the plurality of tunnels. Exposed surfaces of the etched metal foil are then oxidized. The method includes removing a section of the etched metal foil, where the section of the etched metal foil includes exposed metal along an edge. The section of the etched metal foil is placed into a bath comprising water to form a hydration layer over the exposed metal on the section of the etched metal foil. The method also includes assembling the section of the etched metal foil having the hydration layer as an anode within a capacitor.
US10923284B2
A capacitor component includes a body including dielectric layers and internal electrodes alternately arranged with the dielectric layers; and external electrodes including electrode layers disposed on the body and connected to the internal electrodes, first conductive resin layers disposed on the electrode layers, and second conductive resin layers disposed on the first conductive resin layers, wherein the first and second conductive resin layers include a metal powder and a base resin, the first conductive resin layers have a lower metal powder content than the second conductive resin layers, the metal powder includes one or more of flake-type powder particle and spherical-type powder particle, and a weight ratio of the flake-type powder particle in the metal powder contained in the first conductive resin layers is 60% or more, and a weight ratio of the spherical-type powder particle in the metal powder contained in the second conductive resin layers is 50% or more.
US10923282B2
An electronic component includes: a multilayer ceramic capacitor including a capacitor body and a pair of external electrodes, and an interposer including an interposer body having grooves and a pair of external terminals. Each of the external terminals includes a bonding portion, a mounting portion and a connection portion; and ΔL=|A-A′|/2 in which A is a distance from one end portion of the interposer in a length direction to one end portion of the multilayer ceramic capacitor in the length direction, A′ is a distance from the other end portion of the interposer in the length direction to the other end portion of the multilayer ceramic capacitor in the length direction, and ΔL is an offset between the multilayer ceramic capacitor and the interposer in the length direction, and ΔL/L≤0.100 in which L is a length of the multilayer ceramic capacitor.
US10923278B2
A multi-layer ceramic capacitor includes a multi-layer unit and a side margin. The multi-layer unit includes ceramic layers laminated in a first direction, internal electrodes disposed between the ceramic layers, a main surface oriented in the first direction, a surface layer portion in a range from the main surface to a predetermined depth, and a center portion adjacent to the surface layer portion in the first direction. The side margin covers the multi-layer unit from a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The ceramic layers have an average dimension in the first direction that is 0.4 μm or less. Each of the internal electrodes includes an oxidized region adjacent to the side margin. The oxidized region in the surface layer portion has a dimension in the second direction that is equal to or more than two times the average dimension of the ceramic layers in the first direction.
US10923274B2
A power supply device includes a current transformer module capable of adjusting a power induction ratio in order to induce a certain power even when the current of a power line is changed and the current transformer module capable of minimizing the loss in power conversion while providing a certain power even when the current of the power line is changed. The disclosed current transformer module includes a magnetic core constituting a closed loop, a plurality of unit coils wound around the magnetic core, and a switch unit connected to the plurality of unit coils, and the plurality of unit coils include a plurality of unit coils for power-generation.
US10923257B2
The present invention pertains to: a powder mixture for powder magnetic core obtained by mixing a lubricant, a solid lubricant, and a soft magnetic powder coated with an insulating coating, wherein a lubricant content is 0.1% by mass or more and 0.8% by mass and a solid lubricant content is 0.01% by mass or more and 0.2% by mass or less; and a powder magnetic core in which the powder mixture is used.
US10923239B2
An entire nuclear fuel core comprising a plurality of fuel assemblies is preassembled in a nuclear fuel cartridge having a self-supporting unitary support structure. During a refueling operation, the unitary support structure is moved into a nuclear reactor vessel. The unitary support structure may be formed by top and bottom core plates coupled together by vertically-oriented connecting rods which compress the fuel assemblies therebetween. A plurality of reflector wall segments circumscribe the core and are the coupled together between the core plates by the connecting rods which are coupled to the core plates. The connecting rods may extend through the wall segments.
US10923234B2
This disclosure describes frameworks and techniques directed to the analysis and verification of models extracted from a database. In some cases, the database can include an online database, such as clinicaltrials.gov administered by the United States National Institutes of Health. In particular, this disclosure describes implementations that utilize models derived from clinical trial data extracted from a database and analyzes the models. The analysis of the models can be used to verify the results of the clinical trials from which the models were derived. Additionally, the analysis of the models can identify a combination of models that can be used to predict health outcomes of one or more biological conditions for one or more populations.
US10923228B2
A wearable medical monitoring device includes a plurality of ECG electrodes configured to receive an ECG signal when the wearable medical monitoring device is worn by a patient, and a monitor coupled to the plurality of ECG electrodes. The monitor is configured to detect an impending cardiac event based on the received ECG signal of the patient. The device includes at least one processor configured to execute a plurality of instructions to implement an update manager configured to receive a software update corresponding to the at least one software module for the monitor, determine an event estimation of risk score for a predetermined period of time, cause an installation of the update when the event estimation of risk score indicates a low likelihood of an impending cardiac event, and cause a delay in the installation when the event estimation of risk score indicates a high likelihood of impending cardiac event.
US10923226B2
Wellness monitoring systems and methods that account for both environmental characteristics of habitable environments (e.g., hotel or motel rooms, spas, resorts, cruise boat cabins, offices, hospitals and/or homes, apartments or residences) and biometric feedback. The wellness monitoring systems collect data from a plurality of environmental sensors in one or more habitable environments and collect data from a plurality of body worn sensors. The wellness monitoring systems analyze the collected data to generate reports and/or prompt individuals to take action or complete an activity.
US10923214B2
A computer-implemented method for predicting molecule properties is disclosed. According to some embodiments, the method may include receiving an input file of a compound. The method may also include implementing a neural network to determine molecular configurations of the compound based on the input file and a plurality of molecular descriptors associated with the compound. The method may also generating, using the neural network, one or more three-dimensional (3D) models of the compound based on the determined molecular configurations of the compound. The method may also include determining, using the neural network, energy scores of the one or more 3D models when the compound is docked into a protein. The method may further include determining a property of the docked compound based on the energy scores.
US10923209B2
A semiconductor memory device that can reduce power consumption and precisely perform a power-down operation while a testing operation is underway is provided. A flash memory of the invention has a low-power voltage-detection circuit, a high-precision voltage-detection circuit, and a controller. The low-power voltage-detection circuit detects the supply voltage falling to a constant voltage. The high-precision voltage-detection circuit detects the supply voltage falling to the constant voltage. The controller selects the high-precision voltage-detection circuit when the internal circuit is being tested, and it selects the low-power voltage-detection circuit when the internal circuit is not undergoing a test. The controller responds to the detection result from the low-power voltage-detection circuit or the high-precision voltage-detection circuit by performing a power-down operation.
US10923207B2
The present disclosure discloses a shift register unit and a method for driving the same, a gate driving circuit and a display apparatus, wherein the shift register unit includes: an input sub-circuit connected to a signal input terminal and a signal control terminal, and configured to output an input signal provided at the signal input terminal under action of a control signal provided at the signal control terminal; a carry signal output sub-circuit connected to a first clock signal terminal and a first enabling signal terminal, and configured to generate a carry signal according to an input signal output by the input sub-circuit, a first clock signal provided at the first clock signal terminal and a first enabling signal provided at the first enabling signal terminal; an output sub-circuit connected to a second clock signal terminal and configured to generate an output signal according to the carry signal and a second clock signal provided at the second clock signal terminal; and a latch sub-circuit configured to latch the output signal.
US10923206B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a shift registers unit and a driving method thereof, and a gate driving device. The shift register unit includes a first and second input circuit, a pull-down control circuit, an output circuit, a pull-down circuit, and a control circuit. The first input circuit provides a first control signal to a pull-up node. The second input circuit provides a second control signal to the pull-up node. The pull-down control circuit provides the voltage of a first voltage terminal to a pull-down node, or controls the voltage of the pull-down node. The output circuit provides a second clock signal to a signal output terminal. The pull-down circuit provides the voltage of the first voltage terminal to the pull-up node and the signal output terminal. The control circuit provides the first input signal to the pull-up node.
US10923204B2
A method of testing an OTP memory is disclosed. An OTP program mechanism that uses heat accelerated electromigration can be fully tested. In one embodiment, an OTP cell's programmability can be tested if an initial OTP element resistance is less than a predetermined resistance, as such insures that sufficient heat can be generated to be programmable. A non-destructive program state, or fake reading 1, can be created by low-voltage programming a cell while reading the same cell at the same time. Accordingly, alternative 0s and 1s patterns can be generated to fully test every functional block of an OTP memory.
US10923193B2
Provided herein may be a memory device including a voltage generating circuit. The memory device may include a memory block including a channel layer formed between junctions included in a well, and a source select line, word lines, and drain select lines that are sequentially stacked on the well while enclosing the channel layer, a first voltage source configured to generate a first operating voltage to be applied to the well during a program operation or an erase operation, and a second voltage source configured to generate a second operating voltage to be applied to source lines that are coupled to the junctions during the program operation or the erase operation.
US10923188B2
Macro storage cell composed of multiple storage devices each capable of storing more than two states
An apparatus. The apparatus includes a macro storage cell having a first storage device and a second storage device. The first and second storage devices each able to store more than two states. The macro storage cell to store multiple values resulting from a combination of the respectively stored states of the first and second storage devices.
US10923173B2
A voltage generating circuit, a semiconductor memory device, and a voltage generating method are provided. The voltage generating circuit includes: an oscillation signal generating part generating an oscillation signal that alternately repeats a state of a first voltage and a state of a second voltage; a capacitor having one end receiving the oscillation signal and an other end connected to an output node; a switch element receiving a control voltage and set to an on state or an off state according to the control voltage, and applying the first voltage to the output node when set to the on state; and a switch control part supplying, as the control voltage to the switch element, the second voltage when the oscillation signal is in the state of the first voltage, and a voltage of the output node when the oscillation signal is in the state of the second voltage.
US10923172B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to apparatuses and methods for timing refresh operations in a memory device. An apparatus may include an oscillator that provides a periodic signal to one or more refresh timer circuits. Each of the refresh timer circuits is associated with a respective memory bank in the memory device. The refresh timer may include a counter block and a control logic block. The control logic block may gate the periodic signal to the counter block. The counter block may count the row active signal time and the row precharge time. The counter signals may be used by the control logic block to output a number of pumps of a refresh operation.
US10923161B2
Various implementations described herein are directed to an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit may include a bitcell and multiple straps including a first strap, a second strap, and a third strap. The first strap may couple the bitcell to ground. The second strap may couple the bitcell to a bitline. The third strap may couple the bitcell to a wordline within a boundary of the bitcell.
US10923155B2
In an example implementation, a method is described. The implementation accesses a plurality of media clips including a first video clip and a second video clip. The implementation also matches a first fingerprint of at least a part of the first video clip with a second fingerprint of at least a part of the second video clip. The implementation also determines a temporal overlap of the first video clip with the second video clip based at least in part on the match. The implementation also, based on the temporal overlap of the first video clip with the second video clip, merges the first video clip and the second video clip into a group of overlapping video clips, and transmits, to a client computing device, data identifying the group of overlapping video clips and specifying a synchronization of the first video clip with the second video clip.
US10923150B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a magnetic recording medium having a stacked structure of a seed layer including (Mg1-xTix)O and a magnetic recording layer including an L10 ordered alloy, and having improved properties. The method for producing a magnetic recording layer according to the present invention includes the steps of: (1) preparing a substrate; (2) forming a seed layer including (Mg1-xTix)O onto the substrate; (3) plasma etching the seed layer in an atmosphere including inert gas; and (4) forming a magnetic recording layer including an ordered alloy onto the seed layer which has been subjected to the step (3).
US10923145B2
A microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) write head has a spin-torque oscillator (STO) and a ferromagnetic compensation layer between the write pole and trailing shield. The compensation layer is separated from a free layer by a nonmagnetic barrier layer that prevents spin-polarized electrons from the free layer from reaching the compensation layer. The compensation layer may be located between the write pole and the free layer. Electrons become spin-polarized by the compensation layer and are reflected back from the write pole across a nonmagnetic spacer layer. This causes the magnetization of the compensation layer to flip and become antiparallel to the magnetization of the free layer. The compensation layer thus generates a DC offset field that compensates for the negative effect of the DC shunting field from the free layer.
US10923140B2
When speech of a first user includes a first word that is stored in a memory and associated with the first user, it is determined whether or not a difference between a first time and a second time is equal to or less than a predetermined time. The first time is a current time at which the first user spoke the first word. The second time is a time at which a second user last spoke a second word associated with the first word. When the difference between the first time and the second time is equal to or less than the predetermined time, a speaker outputs speech of a same content associated with the first word and the second word.
US10923137B2
A computer-implemented system and method provide an audio label for a noise signal. The computer-implemented system and method include receiving an audio input and obtaining the noise signal from the audio input. The computer-implemented system and method include extracting audio features of the noise signal. The computer-implemented system and method include determining and outputting an audio label for the extracted audio features of the noise signal based on machine learning data.
US10923130B2
An electronic device and method are disclosed, including a communication circuit, a speaker, a microphone and a processor. The processor implements the method, including receiving a first voice input through the microphone, executing first voiceprint authentication on the first voice input including determining whether the first voice input matches voice information corresponding to a user stored in the electronic device, when the first voice input does not match the voice information, transmit a request message to at least one external electronic device for execution of a second voiceprint authentication, receive a response message indicating whether the first voice input is authenticated under the second voiceprint authentication, receive a second voice input through the microphone, and transmit second data related to the second voice input to an external server through the communication circuit for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) or Natural Language Understanding (NLU) on the second data.
US10923122B1
A speech interface device is configured to process user speech by storing, in volatile memory of the speech interface device, audio data that represents user speech, and inputting first audio data, of the stored audio data, to an automatic speech recognition (ASR) component of the speech interface device, determining that a criterion is satisfied, and, based on the criterion being satisfied, maintaining second audio data in the volatile memory. The ASR component may generate text data based on the first audio data, a natural language understanding (NLU) component of the speech interface device may generate NLU data based on the text data, and, if the NLU data corresponds to a recognized intent, the second audio data may be deleted. Otherwise, speech processing can be resumed by inputting the second audio data to the ASR component.
US10923106B2
An audio synthesis method adapted to video characteristics is provided. The audio synthesis method according to an embodiment includes: extracting characteristics x from a video in a time-series way; extracting characteristics p of phonemes from a text; and generating an audio spectrum characteristic St used to generate an audio to be synthesized with a video at a time t, based on correlations between an audio spectrum characteristic St-1, which is used to generate an audio to be synthesized with a video at a time t−1, and the characteristics x. Accordingly, an audio can be synthesized according to video characteristics, and speech according to a video can be easily added.
US10923103B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for selecting units for speech synthesis. One of the methods includes determining a sequence of text units that each represent a respective portion of text for speech synthesis; and determining multiple paths of speech units that each represent the sequence of text units by selecting a first speech unit that includes speech synthesis data representing a first text unit; selecting multiple second speech units including speech synthesis data representing a second text unit based on (i) a join cost to concatenate the second speech unit with a first speech unit and (ii) a target cost indicating a degree that the second speech unit corresponds to the second text unit; and defining paths from the selected first speech unit to each of the multiple second speech units to include in the multiple paths of speech units.
US10923101B2
A system, a computer program product, and method for controlling synthesized speech output on a voice-controlled device. The voice-controlled device recognized that speech input is being received. The voice-controlled device outputs synthesized speech based on the speech input. While outputting synthesized speech based on the audio is captured. The voice-controlled device recognized the audio input as speech and pausing the outputting of synthesized speech. Otherwise, in response to the captured audio not being recognized as speech and above a settable background noise threshold, pausing the outputting of synthesized speech. The paused output of speech based on the synthesized speech input is resumed after the pausing of the output of synthesized speech being within a settable pause timeframe.
US10923096B2
Methods and apparatuses for addressing open space noise are disclosed. In one example, a method for masking open space noise includes optimizing a recorded naturally occurring sound signal. The method also includes outputting the optimized recorded naturally occurring sound signal from a plurality of speakers distributed in the open space. Further, the method includes displaying a natural system complementing the optimized recorded naturally occurring sound signal.
US10923092B1
A system for playing a multi-string instrument utilizing a device in conjunction with hardware and software that once programmed on a computer using a touchscreen, solenoids press the strings down on the frets on the neck of a multi-string instrument, requiring a user to only need to touch the touchscreen and simultaneously strum the strings by any method.
US10923081B2
A timing controller, a display apparatus, and an operation method thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel and a timing controller. The timing controller includes a refresh mark controller and a pixel controller. The refresh mark controller includes a refresh mark table, and a plurality of refresh marks in the refresh mark table correspond to a plurality of sub-regions of a display region in the display panel. The refresh mark controller determines whether the sub-regions need to be refreshed according to an image signal and responds to a specific sub-region required to be refreshed to adjust a specific refresh mark according to a mapping ratio. The pixel controller sequentially looks up whether the refresh marks in the refresh mark table are adjusted, obtains the sub-regions corresponding to the adjusted refresh marks according to the mapping ratio, and performs a pixel refresh operation to the sub-regions.
US10923073B2
In a display control apparatus, a cooperation unit capable of detaching from a meter device is prepared, and a smartphone is connected to the cooperation unit. The display control apparatus responds to changes in specification of a smartphone by cooperation function of the cooperation unit. The cooperation unit reads a cooperation pattern number stored in a memory on a meter device, and grasp an output image size, a display position, presence and absence of blank image. The cooperation unit receives an image data on a screen of the smartphone, and transmits image data in which change of display size, position adjustment and so on is performed to the meter device. The cooperation unit accepts a user input operation on an operation input device, transmits it to the smartphone so as to enable remote operation during driving.
US10923070B2
A signal transmission method and related timing controller, source driver and display device are disclosed. The method includes scrambling a signal to be transmitted by a transmitting unit to obtain a scrambled signal. Each frame of the scrambled signal includes at least one first identification signal sequentially arranged in time domain, and a number of the first identification signals in the scrambled signal is equal to a number of the first identification signals in the scrambled signals of other transmitting units in the plurality of transmitting units. The method includes transmitting the scrambled signal to a corresponding receiving unit, where the first identification signal is configured to indicate linear feedback shift registers of the transmitting unit and the corresponding receiving unit to perform a reset operation, and after each collective reset operation is completed, the corresponding receiving unit outputs a display signal to the display panel.
US10923061B2
A gate driving circuit includes a charge part which charges a charge node with a clock signal having a first high voltage for a first period, an output part which charges an output node with the first high voltage in response to a first voltage of the charge node for the first period, and outputs a second voltage of the output node as a gate signal, a first discharge part which discharges the second voltage to a first off voltage in response to a clock bar signal having a second high voltage for a second period following the first period, and a second discharge part which discharges the first voltage to the second off voltage for the second period. The second off voltage is set to one of a first level lower than a level of the first off voltage and a second level lower than the first level.
US10923055B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a pixel electrode and a memory provided in each of pixels, a common electrode, a signal line to which a digital signal is supplied, a first drive line to which a display signal is supplied, a second drive line to which a non-display signal is supplied, a storage control circuit which stores the digital signal in the memory in a storage period, and a select control circuit which selectively supplies, in a display period, to the pixel electrode, one of the display signal and the non-display signal. The second drive circuit maintains potential of the common signal of the display period in the storage period when the display period transitions to the storage period.
US10923054B2
An array substrate, a display panel, a display device, and driving methods thereof are provided. The array substrate includes a plurality of subpixels arranged in an array, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of switches. The plurality of subpixels include subpixels of a first color, subpixels of a second color, subpixels of a third color, and subpixels of a fourth color, in odd rows of subpixels, the subpixels of the first color, the subpixels of the second color, the subpixels of the third color, and the subpixels of the fourth color are sequentially arranged; in even rows of subpixels, the subpixels of the third color, the subpixels of the fourth color, the subpixels of the first color, and the subpixels of the second color are sequentially arranged; and each column of subpixels corresponds to and is connected with a data line.
US10923032B2
A pixel circuit includes a writing sub-circuit, a driving sub-circuit, a compensation sub-circuit, and a light-emitting control sub-circuit. The writing sub-circuit is configured to write a data signal to the driving sub-circuit under control of a scanning signal. The compensation sub-circuit is configured to perform voltage compensation for the driving sub-circuit under control of the scanning signal. The light-emitting control sub-circuit is configured to turn on a circuit between a first voltage terminal and a second voltage terminal under control of a light-emitting signal. The driving sub-circuit is configured to drive a light-emitting device to emit light according to a written data voltage.
US10923031B2
A pixel unit circuit includes a light emitting element, a first end being connected to a low level input end; a storage capacitor sub-circuit, a first end being connected to a DC voltage input end; a driving transistor, a gate electrode being connected to a second end of the storage capacitor sub-circuit, and a first electrode being connected to a second end of the light emitting element; a light emitting control sub-circuit, a control end being connected to a light emitting control line, the first end being connected to a high-level input end, and the second end being connected to a second electrode of the driving transistor, and configured to control whether the second electrode of the driving transistor is connected to the high level input end; and a charge compensation control sub-circuit, connected to a gate line, a data line and the gate electrode of the driving transistor.
US10923028B2
A display panel including a substrate, pixel structures, multiple first and second signal lines, signal transfer lines and a sealant pattern is provided. The substrate has a package region, a display region surrounding the package region and a transfer region positioned between the package region and the display region. The pixel structures, the first and second signal lines are disposed in the display region and each pixel structure is electrically connected to one corresponding first and second signal line. The signal transfer lines are disposed in the package region and electrically connected to the first signal lines. The coefficient of thermal expansion of the signal transfer lines is smaller than the first signal lines. The sealant pattern disposed in the package region is overlapped with the signal transfer lines. A display panel including a signal transfer line whose coefficient of thermal expansion is between 4.8(10−6/K) and 14.2(10−6/K) is also provided.
US10923020B2
The present disclosure provides a shift register unit. The shift register unit includes an input module, an output module and an output control module. The input module is connected to an input signal terminal, a first power supply signal terminal and a pull-up node, and is configured to transmit a first power supply signal to the pull-up node. The output module is connected to the pull-up node, a clock signal terminal and an output control node, and is configured to transmit a clock signal to the output control node. The output control module is connected to the output control node, the clock signal terminal and a signal output terminal, and is configured to transmit a signal of the output control node to the signal output terminal under the control of the clock signal.
US10923018B2
Disclosed is a signal processing device, method of enhancing image signal, and an image display apparatus including the same. The signal processing device and the image display apparatus comprises: an image analyzer configured to receive a first image signal corresponding to displaying at least an object and a background, identify information of the object from the first image signal, and identify information of the background from the first image signal, and an object stereoscopic effect enhancement unit for enhancing the first image signal and configured to determine a sharpness of the object using the identified information of the object, increase contrast of the object to enhance the first image signal using the identified information of the object based on the determined sharpness, decrease luminance of the background in the enhanced first image signal using the identified information of the background based on the determined sharpness, and output the enhanced first image signal. Accordingly, a stereoscopic effect of an object may be enhanced.
US10923013B2
An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels and having display control circuitry that controls the operation of the display. The display control circuitry may adaptively adjust the spectral characteristics of display light emitted from the display to achieve a desired effect on the human circadian system. For example, the display control circuitry may adjust the spectral characteristics of blue light emitted from the display based on the time of day such that a user's exposure to the display light may result in a circadian response similar to that which would be experienced in natural light. The spectral characteristics of blue light emitted from the display may be adjusted by adjusting the relative maximum power levels provided to blue pixels in the display or by shifting the peak wavelength associated with blue light emitted from the display.
US10923006B2
A driving voltage compensating method and a driving voltage compensating circuit for a display device are provided. The compensating method includes: providing a reference TFT; obtaining a driving current of the reference TFT; acquiring a compensation voltage value according to the driving current; and compensating a driving voltage for TFTs in a display area according to the compensation voltage value. By setting the reference TFT to obtain a drift behavior of I-V characteristic curve of the TFTs in the display area, obtaining the compensation voltage value according to a driving current drift value and compensating the driving voltage for the TFTs in the display area, the problem(s) of ghost and/or flicker in the display device caused by the drift of I-V characteristic curve resulting from a long-term voltage difference can be solved consequently.
US10923002B1
The present disclosure provides a flexible display device including a display panel, a first attachment frame, a second attachment frame, and a cover window structure, wherein the cover window structure is connected to the display panel through the first attachment frame. By providing a replaceable cover window structure, thinning of the cover window structure can be realized to the greatest extent, and its bending performance can be improved. As such, a wider choice of materials is available, and expensive materials can be replaced by cheaper layers, such that the production of the hardened layer can be achieved through various process routes.
US10923000B2
Disclosed is a simulator for training in environments confined and/or suspected pollution consists of a container having a base, a roof opposite the base, and short perimeter walls and long with at least one vertical manhole, a horizontal manhole and two safety exits to the outside. The two long perimeter walls delimit a plurality of internal compartments for the exercise of the personnel with equipment that create effects for the training activity, and at least one training activity control, command and management cabin with operator present. The internal compartments for the personnel training are at least partially separated by way of movable walls disposed transversely to the two long perimetral walls. The movable walls have adjustable passage openings through sliding partitions.
US10922992B2
Disclosed embodiments provide systems and methods for simulation of firearm discharge and training of armed forces and/or law enforcement personnel. A motion tracking system tracks motion of one or more users. In embodiments, the users wear one or more sensors on their bodies to allow tracking by the motion tracking system. A scenario management system utilizes position, orientation, and motion information provided by the motion tracking system to evaluate user performance during a scenario. A weapon simulator includes sensors that indicate position of the weapon and/or orientation of the weapon. The weapon simulator may further provide trigger activation indications to the scenario management system. In embodiments, the scenario management system generates, plays, reviews, and/or evaluates simulations. The evaluation can include scoring based on reaction times, posture, body position, body orientation, and/or other attributes.
US10922986B2
A system includes a first smart sensor, a second smart sensor, and at least one image processor. The first smart sensor is configured to sense light in a forward direction and to capture an image during a first time period. The second sensor is configured to sense light in the forward direction and to capture a second image during the first time period. The at least one image processor is configured to identify at least one object in the first and second image, to determine a first size of the at least one object in the first image and a second size of the at least one object in the second image, and to determine a distance of the at least one object from the aircraft based upon the first size and the second size.
US10922984B1
Techniques for verifying a location and identification of a landing marker to aid an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to deliver a payload to a location may be provided. For example, upon receiving an indication that a UAV has arrived to a delivery location, a server computer may process one or more images of an area that are provided by the UAV and/or a user interacting with a user device. A landing marker may be identified in the image and a representation of the landing marker along with instructions to guide the UAV to deliver the payload to the landing marker may be transmitted to the UAV and implemented by the UAV.
US10922982B2
An active shooter response system is disclosed. The system utilizes a system of sensors and drones which may receive data at a base station. The base station may centrally process the data from the drones and the sensors so that a coordinated attack on the active shooter can be formulated either automatically without human intervention or manually at the base station by an operator of the system.
US10922976B2
A display control device configured to control a projection device that projects an image on a windshield of a vehicle includes a circuitry. The circuitry is configured to determine a target ground object that is a ground object other than an object which a driver of the vehicle is to be warned of, the target ground object being used to provide the driver with a sense of distance to the object, and project, using the projection device, an image for indicating a presence of the object in a manner that allows the driver to perceive a sense of distance to the object on a windshield of the vehicle, such that a first part of the image and the target ground object overlap each other and a second part of the image and the target ground object do not overlap each other when viewed from the driver.
US10922967B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for determining the status of a traffic device and vehicle movement. A traffic device may have a traffic device computer, one or more traffic signals, and/or a transceiver. The traffic device may transmit, via the transceiver and to a vehicle and infrastructure computing device, information indicative of a status of the one or more traffic signals. The vehicle and infrastructure computing device may comprise a vehicle and infrastructure control computer. The vehicle and infrastructure computing device may receive, from the traffic device, the information indicative of the status of the one or more traffic signals. The computing device may determine that the information indicative of the status of the one or more traffic signals indicates that the one or more traffic signals of the traffic device switched from a red light to a green light and a time that the one or more traffic signals of the traffic device switched from the red light to the green light. In response to determining that the one or more traffic signals of the traffic device switched from the red light to the green light, the computing device may determine an amount of time between the time that the one or more traffic signals of the traffic device switched from the red light to the green light and a time that a vehicle at a location of the traffic device moved. In response to determining that the amount of time exceeds a threshold amount of time, the computing device may determine that a driver of the vehicle is distracted.
US10922964B2
A method is disclosed, performed by at least one apparatus, the method comprising: obtaining probe data comprising a plurality of probe samples of a multi-dimensional probe sample space, the probe data being representative of a potentially multi-modal traffic scenario; performing a cluster analysis for at least a part of the probe samples of the probe data, said cluster analysis comprising: associating at least a part of the probe samples with respective clusters, each cluster being representative of a mode of the potentially multi-modal traffic scenario.
US10922961B2
A remote control device may be used to wirelessly control functions of one or more dialysis machines, e.g. in a clinic environment and without requiring direct contact with the dialysis machines. Components of the remote control device may include control interfaces, e.g. buttons, for controlling and adjusting functions of a medical device, such as a dialysis machine, including, for example, volume control, blood pump control blood flow rate control and/or adjusting the level in the venous drip chamber, among other control features. Display of the remote control device may include one or more screens that may display information of one or more dialysis machines, patients undergoing dialysis treatment, and/or alarms or alerts of one or more of the dialysis machines. In an implementation, ultrasonic communication is used to wirelessly exchange information and commands between the remote control device and the one or more dialysis machines.
US10922946B2
Methods and systems are provided for detecting objects or patient safety events in a patient room. Artificial intelligence is utilized to enhance safety issue recognition capabilities by the methods and systems. Sensors collect a series of images and depth data in a room of a patient. Data (corresponding to images and depth data of an object or patent safety event) is received from the sensors and compared to stored data to identify the object or patient safety event. The images are communicated to a central video monitoring system and a user may be prompted to confirm if the object requires learning or a patient safety event occurred (or identify the object or patient safety event) or to provide additional parameters or actions. A patient safety learning system analyzes the data and incorporates the user response to enhance safety issue recognition capabilities of the system and reduce false alerts.
US10922927B2
In one aspect, an improved gaming table, such as a craps table, is disclosed herein, which combines electronic displays and wagering interfaces with traditional craps tables having physical dice and allowing players to physically throw the dice.
US10922918B2
A method of assigning a player-entry to a table so that said player-entry can participate in a hand of a particular card game at said table, wherein there is a plurality of players each having one or more respective player-entries for participating in a respective hand of said card game, wherein a player-entry that is actively participating in a hand of said card game may fold out of turn from said hand so as to no longer be actively participating in said hand, the method comprising: for a first player-entry of a first player, identifying an assignable table for said first player-entry from a plurality of tables for said card game, wherein a table is an assignable table for a particular player-entry if the assignment of said particular player-entry to said table cannot itself provide any player with further information about a hand in which an already assigned player-entry of said player is actively participating in addition to information about said hand that is available to said player only by virtue of the participation of said already assigned player-entry in said hand; and assigning the first player-entry to the identified assignable table.
US10922915B2
Various prison services are rendered more efficient by providing inmates access to portable electronic devices in a controlled and regulated manner. A dispenser is employed to control and monitor the checking out and return of portable electronic devices and to communicate with such devices during use by inmates to monitor inmate use and ensure the portable electronic devices are only used by inmates as authorized.
US10922914B2
A bill processing apparatus which is capable of reliably supplying information on a bill to the bill housing body side. The paper sheet processing apparatus has a bill housing part (100) being capable of housing a bill inserted from a bill insertion slot, and also a reader/writer (142) which wirelessly transmits information on the bill inserted from the bill insertion slot. The bill housing part (100) has a coil antenna (104c) which wirelessly receives the information transmitted from the reader/writer (142), and a storage part (104b) which stores the information on the bill received from the coil antenna (104c).
US10922902B2
There is provided a display control device including a display controller configured to place a virtual object within an augmented reality space corresponding to a real space in accordance with a recognition result of a real object shown in an image captured by an imaging part, and an operation acquisition part configured to acquire a user operation. When the user operation is a first operation, the display controller causes the virtual object to move within the augmented reality space.
US10922901B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for placing an asset on a three-dimensional model. Each asset can be associated with a pivot point and with an asset normal. A contact point on the surface of a model where an asset is to be positioned may be identified, and a surface normal that may be perpendicular to the surface at the contact point may also be identified. Then, the asset can be placed on the model such that the position of the pivot point of the asset may coincide with the position of the identified contact point on the surface of the model, and such that the orientation of the asset normal may match the orientation of the identified surface normal.
US10922897B2
A medical information processing apparatus according to an embodiment causes a display to display a three-dimensional medical image, receives an operation of rotating direction of the three-dimensional medical image on the display, creates a figure indicating, in a case the three-dimensional medical image is rotated through the rotating operation, whether a movable member of an X-ray diagnostic apparatus can reach a position corresponding to the direction of the three-dimensional medical image after the rotation, based on the direction of the three-dimensional medical image on the display before the rotation, and causes the display to further display the figure.
US10922892B1
A mobile device is fitted with a camera and an extended reality (XR) software application program executing on a processor within an XR system. Via the XR software application program, techniques are performed for manipulating virtual objects in an XR environment. In one technique, the XR software application program facilitates the movement of a virtual object from a first location to a second location, within a plane parallel to a touchscreen of a mobile device, responsive to a displacement determined based on user input detected via the touchscreen.
US10922889B2
Systems and methods for drawing attention to points of interest within inserted content are provided. For example, the inserted content may include augmented reality content that is inserted into a physical space or a representation of the physical space such as an image. An example system and method may include receiving an image and identifying content to display over the image. The system and method may also include identifying a location within the image to display the content and identifying a point of interest of the content. Additionally, the example system and method may also include triggering display of the content overlaid on the image by identifying a portion of the content based on the point of interest, rendering the portion of the content using first shading parameters; and rendering the content other than the portion using second shading parameters.
US10922872B2
Techniques for selectively removing Monte Carlo (MC) noise from a geometric buffer (G-buffer). Embodiments identify the G-buffer for rendering an image of a three-dimensional scene from a viewpoint. Embodiments determine, for each of a plurality of pixels in the image being rendered, respective world position information based on the three-dimensional scene and a position and orientation of the viewpoint. A pre-filtering operation is then performed to selectively remove the MC noise from the G-buffer, based on the determined world position information for the plurality of pixels.
US10922862B2
In one aspect, a headset includes a housing, a processor coupled to the housing, an at least partially transparent first display coupled to the housing and accessible to the processor, and storage coupled to the housing and accessible to the processor. The storage includes instructions executable by the processor to identify at least one condition and to present, based on identification of the at least one condition, content on the first display that is already presented on a second display.
US10922859B2
Vector art object deformation techniques applied to digital images by vector art rendering system of a computing device are described. The vector art rendering system is configured to deform vector art objects associated with anchor points within a digital image based solely on the movement of the anchor points. Moreover, the vector art rendering system is also configured to adjust anchor points associated with vector art objects within a digital image based solely on the movement of the vector art objects. Techniques are also described that facilitate the automatic association of path segment and vector art objects to anchor points that possess multiple preexisting vector art object associations.
US10922857B2
An electronic device and a method of controlling the electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a display and at least one processor. The at least one processor receives input information for generating at least part of a first object, recognizes the first object based on the received input information, and controls a display to display a color obtained from the first object and an image associated with the first object.
US10922854B2
Methods, devices and apparatus for CT imaging in a CT system are provided. The CT system includes a CT console, a CT scanner and an image reconstruction computer. In one aspect, a method includes detecting, by the CT console, whether a parameter adjustment instruction is received from a user during a scanning process in which a preview image is generated and displayed to the user. If the parameter adjustment instruction is received, the CT console sends adjusted scan parameters to at least one of the CT scanner or the image reconstruction computer such that the CT scanner and the image reconstruction computer generate a new preview image based on the adjusted scan parameters that are determined according to the preview image. If the parameter adjustment instruction is not received, the CT console displays to the user a CT image generated by the image reconstruction computer after finishing the scanning process.
US10922851B2
A method and apparatus for generating a virtual reality environment. Data requirements for generating the virtual reality environment are identified. The virtual reality environment includes objects that are displayed on a display system using a group of models defined by a group of standards. Discrete points for the objects are generated from the models based on the data requirements for generating the virtual reality environment for a selected point in time. At least one of color adjustments or contour adjustments is identified for a portion of the discrete points based on the group of standards and the data requirements when adjustments are needed. The discrete points are modified based on at least one of the color adjustments or the contour adjustments identified to form modified discrete points, which enable generating the virtual reality environment with a desired level of accuracy for training.
US10922849B2
Systems and methods are provided for compression of 3 dimensional (3D) geophysical (e.g., air temp, water temp, wind, current, humidity, salinity, etc.) datasets that contain regions of NaNs (IEEE standard representation for Not a Number) that represent land, i.e. geographic positions that do not have valid data. Embodiments of the present disclosure allow constraint of the error magnitude by a user specified threshold, where compression and error are inherent tradeoffs.
US10922845B2
An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided to train a feature detector to identify a respective feature from images captured by a camera. With respect to an apparatus, the apparatus causes at least one feature from one or more images that have been labelled to be projected onto a map. The apparatus is also caused to refine a representation of a path of a vehicle that carries a camera that captured the one or more images based upon registration of the at least one feature that has been projected with the map. Based upon the path of the vehicle following refinement, the apparatus projects one or more other features that have not been labelled from the map into the one or more images and then utilizes the images to train a feature detector.
US10922844B2
An image positioning method having following steps is provided. The steps include: obtaining world coordinates of two reference points and image coordinates of two projection points corresponding to the two reference points; calculating a plurality of coordinate transformation parameters relative to transformation between any image coordinates and any world coordinates corresponding to a camera according only to the world coordinates of the two reference points, the image coordinates of the two projection points, and world coordinates of the camera; obtaining an second image having an object image corresponding to an object through the camera; and positioning world coordinates of the object according to the coordinate transformation parameters.
US10922843B2
A calibration method and a calibration device of a vehicle-mounted camera, a vehicle and a storage medium are provided. The calibration method includes: obtaining an original image including a plurality of first lane lines and captured by the vehicle-mounted camera; determining a region of interest (ROI) including the plurality of first lane lines in the original image; adjusting a pitch angle of the vehicle-mounted camera by detecting a plurality of second lane lines in a first inverse perspective mapping (IPM) image corresponding to the ROI, the second lane lines corresponding to the first lane lines; and adjusting a yaw angle of the vehicle-mounted camera by detecting an IPM binary image of a second IPM image corresponding to the ROI.
US10922841B2
An image processing device to improve measurement accuracy for a measurement point includes a corresponding point adjusting unit that causes a display unit to display a measurement point peripheral image that is an image of an area in a periphery of the measurement point extracted from a reference image and a corresponding point peripheral image that is an image of an area in a periphery of a corresponding point extracted from a corresponding image, the measurement point peripheral image and the corresponding point peripheral image being displayed side by side, to adjust a position of the corresponding point found by a corresponding point searching unit.
US10922837B2
Embodiments herein describe tracking the location and orientation of a target in a digital image. In an embodiment, this tracking can be used to control navigation for a vehicle. In an embodiment, a digital image can be captured by a visual sensor is received. A first array including a plurality of binary values related to the pixel velocity of a first plurality of pixels in the digital image as compared to corresponding pixels in a first one or more prior digital images can be generated. A second array including a plurality of values related to the standard deviation of pixel intensity of the first plurality of pixels in the digital image as compared to corresponding pixels in a second one or more prior digital images can be further generated. A plurality of thresholds relating to the values in the second array can be determined. A plurality of target pixels and a plurality of background pixels can be identified in the digital image, based on the first array, the second array, and the plurality of thresholds. A binary image related to the digital image, based on the identified plurality of target pixels and the identified plurality of background pixels, and identifying at least one of a location and an orientation of the target in the digital image based on the binary image, can be generated. In an embodiment, a command can be transmitted to a navigation system for a vehicle, to assist in navigating the vehicle toward the target, based on the identified at least one of a location and an orientation of the target.
US10922836B2
A specimen of an artificial marker is arranged on an object, the position of which is to be determined. The artificial marker defines a nominal marker pattern with nominal characteristics. The specimen embodies the nominal marker pattern with individual characteristics. One or more images of the specimen are captured while the specimen is arranged on the object. An image representation of the specimen is analyzed using a data set. The data set comprises measured data values representing the individual characteristics as individually measured on the first specimen. Position values representing a 3D position of the specimen relative to a coordinate system are determined. A 3D position of the object is determined based on the position values of the specimen.
US10922823B2
An image processing device 1 selects, from among images in which an object to be sensed is captured, a representation image which is a reference for processing. In a state of the representation image being selected, the image processing device carries out a comparative analysis between the representation image and the image which differs from the image which has been selected as the representation image, and thereby computes a degree of displacement between the representation image and the image. From among the images which have been assigned as reference images, the image processing device selects the reference image which will be used in a process of analyzing the movement of the object to be sensed, on the basis of the degree of displacement which has been computed.
US10922812B2
An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment has processing circuitry configured to acquire three-dimensional medical image data; set coordinates of at least two or more elements to evaluate an evaluation target represented by the three-dimensional medical image data, on images of different positioning slices of the three-dimensional medical image data; calculate a measured value for evaluating the evaluation target based on the coordinates; and control a display to display the measured value.
US10922810B2
An automated visual inspection system for detecting the presence of particulate matter includes an empty, flexible container, a light source, a detector, and an image processor. The light source is configured to transmit light through the container towards the detector, and the detector is configured to receive the light and generate image data. The image processor is configured to analyze the image data, determine whether the empty, flexible container is defective, and generate a rejection signal if the empty, flexible container is defective.
US10922809B2
A method for detecting voids in a metal line of a semiconductor device die includes: scanning an electron beam upon a selected location on the die containing the metal line; determine gray levels in an image produced by collected electrons of the electron beam backscattered from the selected location on the die; and identifying one or more voids in the metal line based on differences between the gray levels in the image.
US10922804B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for evaluating image definition, a computer device and a storage medium, wherein the method comprises: obtaining an image to be processed; inputting the image to be processed to a pre-trained evaluation model; obtaining an comprehensive image definition score outputted by the evaluation model, the comprehensive image definition score being obtained by the evaluation model by obtaining N image definition scores based on N different scales respectively, and then integrating the N image definition scores, N being a positive integer greater than one. The solution of the present invention can be applied to improve the accuracy of the evaluation result.
US10922796B2
A method of converting a wide dynamic range (WDR) image to a low dynamic range (LDR) image have the steps of: (i) obtaining a transfer function that has a plurality of sub-functions, each sub-function corresponding to a non-overlapped input interval of the dynamic range of the WDR image; (ii) determining the intensity of each pixel of the LDR image by using the transfer function and at least the intensity value of the corresponding pixel of the WDR image; and (iii) outputting the LDR image.
US10922787B2
An imaging apparatus that starts connecting processing at a synthesizing position in an early stage is provided. The imaging apparatus includes: a first imaging element that images a first imaging range, a second imaging element that images a second imaging range of which one part overlaps with the first imaging range, and a synthesizing unit that synthesizes an image corresponding to an imaging range wider than the first imaging range or the second imaging range, based on pixel data groups output by the first imaging element and the second imaging element, wherein the first imaging element and the second imaging element output pixel data corresponding to a position at which the first imaging range and the second imaging range overlap each other, to a synthesizing unit prior to other pixel data.
US10922785B2
A processor and method for scaling an image are disclosed. A specific embodiment of the processor includes: an off-chip memory, a communication circuit, a control circuit, and an array processor, wherein: the off-chip memory is configured for storing a to-be-scaled original image; the communication circuit is configured for receiving an image scaling instruction; the control circuit is configured for executing the image scaling instruction, and sending a calculation control signal to the array processor; and the array processor is configured for calculating in parallel channel values of N channels in a target pixel using N processing elements in the array processor under the control of the calculation control signal based on a width scaling factor, a height scaling factor, and channel values of N channels in extracted pixel data. The embodiment has improved the processing speed of an image scaling operation.
US10922779B2
Techniques and apparatus for profiling graphics processing unit (GPU) processes using binary instrumentation are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may include at least one memory comprising instructions and a processor coupled to the at least one memory. The processor may execute the instructions to determine a plurality of profiling modes for profiling an operating process of a graphics processing unit (GPU) application, access original binary code for the GPU application, and generate a multi-mode instrumented binary code comprising a plurality of instrumentation modes, each of the plurality of instrumentation modes corresponding to at least one of the plurality of profiling modes. Other embodiments are described.
US10922778B2
Systems and methods for processing at least one service request for an on-demand service are provided. The systems may perform the methods to obtain a plurality of example service orders, each example service order of the plurality of example service orders may include a feature associated with a section of a plurality of sections of a measurement; cluster the plurality of example service orders into a plurality of subsets of example service orders, the feature of each example service order in a same subset of example service orders may be associated with a same section of the measurement; for each of the plurality of subsets of example service orders, train a first model of estimated time of arrival (first ETA model) using the subset of example service orders; and store structured data in the at least one storage medium encoding the plurality of first ETA models.
US10922777B2
A connected logistics platform is provided to integrate data from various logistics sources. The platform can provide rule-based messaging and/or tracking. The platform can also provide selective access to the integrated data based on user role profile. Related system, method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium are also provided.
US10922772B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a copyright authorization management method and system. The method includes: obtaining owner-of-copyright information; sending a contract determining notification to a corresponding owner-of-copyright client based on the owner-of-copyright information, where the contract determining notification carries copyright-related information of a to-be-authorized work; receiving transaction information returned by the owner-of-copyright client, where the transaction information includes contract information determined by an owner of copyright based on the copyright-related information; obtaining a valid contract transaction based on the transaction information, where the valid contract transaction includes signatures satisfying a preset-quantity rule; and implementing persistence of the valid contract transaction in a block chain. In technical solutions provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure, online contract signing and persistence of a signed contract are implemented based on the block chain. This improves copyright authorization efficiency, and ensures that the contract is unique, trustworthy, and unalterable.
US10922769B2
A system for storing data related to a transaction and for facilitating exchange of the data related thereto, the system comprises a database; an application server coupled with the database and configured to store information associated with a plurality of transactions, the information including a transaction identifier and a plurality of identifiers of parties related to the transaction, the parties registered with the application server based on the associated identifier, the application server further configured to associate identifiers of one or more parties with the transaction based in part on a transaction identifier provided by a device associated with the one or more parties, receive data representative of one or more documents from the device, store data representative of one or more documents and an association of the data related to the transaction based in part on the identifier of the party and the transaction identifier, and, in response to receiving the data representative of the one or more documents, generate and send one or more notifications to one or more of the remaining parties related to the transaction.
US10922760B2
A method comprising receiving a category of metadata from an accounting software system, receiving a plurality of metadata labels associated with the category of metadata from the accounting software, receiving a ROC, receiving an association of one of the plurality of the metadata labels with the ROC, and/or transmitting the ROC and the association of the one of the plurality of the metadata labels with the ROC to the accounting software system. The category of metadata may comprise a card member name, an image of a receipt associated with the ROC, a description, and the like.
US10922758B1
A computing system enables individuals and organizations to self-insure a benefit, e.g., a dental plan benefit. The system leverages a patient-centric data construct that evolves in a multi-dimensional manner as a patient continuously interacts with the system, its providers, participating organizations, etc. Using the patient-centric information repositories about the various participants (and their interactions), the system applies machine learning to the data to create data models that, in turn, provide valuable insights, or to otherwise enable more-efficient settlement processing. For example, a model may be used to determine an optimal patient-dentist match (by looking at utilization best provider outcomes), or a dentist over-provision of certain services (indicated by provider codes, thereby possibly indicative of fraud). Using patient-centric data modeling, the system determines if, when and how an organization can reduce expenses (e.g., by switching to other providers) or otherwise provide better care for participating employees. The data model(s) preferably evolve continuously, and the system dynamically-provisions computing resources as the patient-centric profiles evolve.
US10922753B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for configurable display of market data. In one embodiment, market data is displayed in a dimensional perspective that emphasizes important aspects of market data while deemphasizing less important aspects. In a graphical user interface (GUI), the displayed market data is presented along a first axis, and a portion of the displayed market data is centered relative to a second axis. In response to receiving a selection of one of multiple controls of the GUI, the displayed market data is configured according to a dimensional perspective associated with the selected control. In some embodiments, the dimensional perspective includes mapping display of the market data to an object, such as an angled surface, a circular object, a flat surface, or a combination of the above. In some embodiments, additional controls of the GUI enable zoomed and rotated perspectives of the displayed market data.
US10922738B2
Systems and methods for providing intelligent assistance to support agents. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: transmit audio to a voice service provider, wherein the audio is captured during a call between a customer and a support agent concerning a product; receive a text instruction from the voice service provider; retrieve support information relevant to the product based upon the text instruction; and display the support information to the support agent.
US10922732B1
Recommendations for media assets based on product similarities are provided. In some embodiments, a recommendation can be determined using asset-to-asset similarity information that can be obtained by mapping media assets to products and further mapping products to media assets based at least on the prior mapping. In addition, product similarity information can be leveraged to generate groups of media assets for different categories of similarity present in the product similarity information. Such groups can be identified, for example, by using the mapped products to media assets as applied to the different categories. Further a diverse arrangement of media assets can be generated by selecting media assets from the groups according to a defined selection rule.
US10922729B2
Methods of allowing a customer to access information related to an order of a commodity include gathering inspection information from a commodity lot, collecting grower, field, and packing information associated with the commodity lot, recording purchase orders associated with the commodity lot, assigning a trace code to each of the purchase orders, entering the inspection information; the grower, field, and packing information; the purchase orders; and the trace codes into a database maintained through online accounts. Many members of a supply chain are entitled to accounts that are linked, each account being given limited access to other accounts, thereby allowing the customer to access the inspection information, and the grower, field, and packing information, by entering one of the trace codes into the web-based application. According to one exemplary embodiment, each of the purchase orders associated with the commodity lot is linked within the web-based application.
US10922718B2
Disclosed herein are a system for content recommendation service, a content recommendation device and a method of operating the same. The system can recommend personalized content directly related with a recommendation target, irrespectively of whether the content consumption history of the recommendation target user is sufficient to analyze the purchase/use pattern or whether there are other users having similar purchase/user pattern with the recommendation target user. As a result, the recommendation reliability can be improved.
US10922712B1
Embodiments provide computer apparatuses, computer systems and computer-executable methods for generating geographic zone information associated with a consumer. A method includes receiving a first geographic location associated with the consumer, and programmatically identifying a first geographic zone associated with the first geographic location. The method also includes programmatically generating a first importance score associated with the first geographic zone and associated with the consumer. The method also includes storing, on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the first geographic zone and the first importance score associated with the consumer.
US10922704B2
An aspiration system includes an elongate tubular member having a lumen; an aspiration catheter configured to be inserted through the lumen of the elongate tubular member, and including a tubular aspiration member having a proximal end, a distal end, and a lumen, and configured to at least partially extend out of the lumen of the elongate tubular member at the distal end of the elongate tubular member; an elongate support member coupled to the tubular aspiration member and extending between a proximal end of the aspiration catheter and the proximal end of the tubular aspiration member; and an annular sealing member coupled to the tubular aspiration member and configured to create a seal against an inner surface of the elongate tubular member, when a vacuum sufficient to cause aspiration is actively applied to the lumen of the elongate tubular member.
US10922702B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for identifying. An exemplary method includes providing a plurality of identifiers from a plurality of data sources, the plurality of identifiers corresponding to a plurality of entities, and creating a plurality of tuples based on the plurality of identifiers, wherein each one of the plurality of tuples corresponds (i) a particular one of the plurality of data sources and (ii) to at least two identifiers that are linked together. The method further includes receiving an identifier, and determining whether the received identifier matches any of the plurality of tuples.
US10922692B2
Provided is a method comprising acquiring information on a branch formed on blockchain data, calculating a difference in a block height between a target block corresponding to a current block height of the blockchain data and a block in a non-branched state based on the information on the branch and calculating a transaction confirmation reliability of transaction data recorded in the target block based on the difference in the block height, wherein the transaction confirmation reliability indicates a probability that, for as k blocks are further connected after the target block, a position of the block at which the transaction data is recorded will not change, wherein k is an integer greater than zero.
US10922687B2
An automated method of employing a dynamic discount card payment program to enable a discount card-carrying consumer to pay a discount card-accepting service provider bill amount, such that a dynamic discount payment card computer system monitors modifications made, by a service provider, to a discount rate methodology and automatically calculates and applies the service provider-modified discount rate methodology to the service provider bill amount during processing of a corresponding consumer discount card-based payment of the provider bill amount.
US10922686B2
A technique for improving the security of a communication device may include storing a first account identifier and a second account identifier associated with the first account identifier, the second account identifier and the first account identifier being associated with the same account on the communication device. When the communication device is interacting with a reader device to conduct a transaction, the communication device may determine whether the transaction is a proximity transaction by sensing whether a wireless interrogation signal is being transmitted from the reader device, and determine which of the first account identifier and the second account identifier to provide to the reader device based on whether the transaction is a proximity transaction.
US10922683B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for implementing logic code within a resource disbursement limiter for integration into user mobile wallets via a third party mobile wallet system. The system provides a logic code within the presented resource disbursement limiter to the third party mobile wallet system for specific integration into a select user's mobile wallets and at selected locations within a list presented to the user via the mobile wallet. Furthermore, the system receives notification of use of the resource disbursement limiter and is pushed the acceptance for integration into the user resource storage.
US10922679B2
A method for authenticating data, implemented during a payment transaction between a merchant's communications terminal and a user device of the type including authentication by the communications terminal of at least one message generated by the user device, by using near field communications wireless data. The method includes the following acts by the user's device: obtaining an authentication code from the message, a piece of random data and a hash function; obtaining a first signature component from the message, the random piece of data, a public key of the communications terminal, a first private key of the user device and the authentication code; obtaining a second signature component from the message, the random piece of data, the public key of the communications terminal, a second private key of the user device and the authentication code; and transmitting the authentication code and of the two signature components to the communications terminal.
US10922675B2
A remote transaction processing system, method and point of sale terminal are disclosed. The system includes a first data store, which includes a user device profile for a user device, the user device profile including routing data for routing communications to the user device. Upon receiving a payment request designating a user device for a transaction with a merchant, the remote transaction processing system is arranged to retrieve a Point-of-Sale, PoS, configuration profile corresponding to the merchant and retrieve the user device profile from the first data store corresponding to the designated user device. The remote transaction processing system is arranged to communicate a PoS configuration dependent on the PoS configuration profile to the user device in dependence on the routing data, the PoS configuration being executable by the user device to cause the user device to act as a PoS terminal for the transaction with the merchant.
US10922668B2
An automated bot is customized for a Point-Of-Sale (POS) terminal and processed on the POS terminal. The bat has access to and can control peripheral devices of the POS terminal. The bat providing transactional and, in some embodiments, non-transactional assistance to a user operating the POS terminal.
US10922664B2
A web based insurance estimating system. The system includes a client computer that can launch client-side integrated processing software through a web-based application. The system also includes a server that generates information for a repair cost estimate web page. The repair cost estimate web page is displayed at the client computer. The repair cost estimate web page has properties that can be configured by a user at the client computer. The server can automatically populate fields of one or more web pages in response to a vehicle identification number entered by the user.
US10922663B2
Methods and systems recommend a mutually-agreeable location to parties invited to a meeting. A method analyzes attributes of the meeting, attributes of the invited parties, and attributes of the various potential locations to prepare a list of recommended locations. To arrive at the list of recommended locations, the method may leverage all available attributes regarding the parties, the engagement type, and the potential locations, to create a value that represents a degree that a potential location correlates with the parties' attributes and meeting attributes. The set of recommended locations is sent to the invited parties. The method then determines, from party responses that each include a list of locations that are acceptable to that party, which of the recommended locations is agreed upon.
US10922650B2
Techniques for intelligently predicting bundles of replacement parts. A plurality of maintenance events for a plurality of replacement parts are determined based on historical data related to the plurality of replacement parts. Each maintenance event of the plurality of maintenance events corresponds with one or more of the replacement parts. A plurality of clusters of replacement parts are generated based on the plurality of maintenance events. A plurality of bundles of replacement parts are predicted based on the clusters. Each bundle includes a plurality of replacement parts.
US10922643B2
A system and method that provides for the routing and delivery of services to consumers by providers is disclosed. The system enables providers to advertise and list the products and services they provide, and customers to solicit bids or to otherwise seek to engage a provider to perform a service or from whom to purchase a good. The system may store customer and provider information in databases to be searched to identify a match between customer and provider. The system transmits navigation information to the provider's device to travel to the final destination. The navigation information includes an intermediary destination the provider must reach before being presented with the final destination. The system may include a notification feature to notify a customer or third party regarding the location of the provider or the status of a requested service or delivery.
US10922637B2
Embodiments described herein generally relate to a customizable management system for various unique packaging production architectures. The customizable management system can be configurable to universally integrate with various systems within a variety of unique packaging production architectures. For example, the customizable management system can comprise one or more importer modules that receive package creation requests and translate the requests into a second format that is readable by one or more staging and selection modules. The system may also comprise staging and selection modules that are configured to identify within each translated packaging creation order one or more final packaging parameters and identify a workgroup that is capable of meeting the one or more final packaging parameters. The system may also comprise one or more machine group modules in communication with one or more packaging stations.
US10922630B2
The disclosure discloses a queuing apparatus and a queuing control method thereof. The queuing apparatus includes: a distance sensor configured to determine a position of a front queuer, a distance between the queuing apparatus and the front queuer; a queuing information processor configured to determine a movement instruction for driving the queuing apparatus to move in some direction, according to the distance; a drive circuit board configured to drive the queuing apparatus according to the movement instruction to move accordingly; a user identity recognition device configured to input information about a current user before the queuing apparatus starts queuing, and to input the information about the current user again to make the queuing apparatus stop queuing; and a display screen configured to display the information about the current user to a window when the queuing window moves to the window, and before the information about the current user is released.
US10922627B2
Described herein is a system that transmits and combines local models, that individually comprise a set of local parameters computed via stochastic gradient descent (SGD), into a global model that comprises a set of global model parameters. The local models are computed in parallel at different geographic locations along with symbolic representations. Network transmission of the local models and the symbolic representations, rather than transmission of the large training data subsets processed to compute the local models and symbolic representations, conserves resources and decreases latency. The global model can then be used as a model to determine a likelihood of a course of action being successful for an organization. For example, the course of action can be a purchase of a security or a business operation strategy. In another example, the course of action can be a type of medical treatment for a patient.
US10922626B2
Apparatus, methods, systems, and instructions stored on computer-readable medium are presented for performing classification. A hardware engine may be configurable to implement a plurality of cascade classifiers comprising at least a first cascade classifier and a second cascade classifier, each including one or more stages. The first cascade classifier may be configured to perform a classification different from a classification performed by the second cascade classifier. The hardware engine may be capable of conditionally branching from the first cascade classifier to the second cascade classifier based on an outcome condition associated with evaluating of at least one stage of the first cascade classifier.
US10922621B2
Techniques for mapping policy documents to regulatory documents to check for compliance between the policies and documents are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method determining, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, an information input, a control framework, and a document from a first group consisting of a regulatory document and a policy document, wherein the information input is a corpora from a second group consisting of a domain corpora and a global corpora. The computer-implemented method can also comprise mapping, by the system, the received regulatory document or the received policy document to the control framework using a supervised machine learning technique.
US10922615B1
Embodiments of the invention build models to predict the likelihood of entities that operate in a given identifier space also operating in a disjoined identifier space based on a source panel of entities that operate in one or both of the identifier spaces. In operation, a model building engine builds a model based on features associated with the source panel and features associated with standard populations in the given identifier space. The model is used to determine whether the target entity is more similar to those entities in the source panel that operate only in the given identifier space or those entities in the source panel that operate in both identifier spaces.
US10922612B2
[Problem] Effectively speeding up the learning using the DNN regardless of a learning technique. [Solution] An information processing apparatus is provided, which includes a learning unit that executes learning using a neural network, and the learning unit dynamically changes the value of the batch size during learning based on the gap value with the ideal state for learning output from the neural network. Furthermore, an information processing method is provided, which includes executing, by a processor, learning using a neural network, and the learning further includes dynamically changing the value of the batch size during learning based on the gap value with the ideal state for learning output from the neural network.
US10922608B2
Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present technique provide a neuron for a spiking neural network, where the neuron is formed of at least one Correlated Electron Random Access Memory (CeRAM) element or Correlated Electron Switch (CES) element.
US10922607B2
In one embodiment, a processor is to store a membrane potential of a neural unit of a neural network; and calculate, at a particular time-step of the neural network, a change to the membrane potential of the neural unit occurring over multiple time-steps that have elapsed since the last time-step at which the membrane potential was updated, wherein each of the multiple time-steps that have elapsed since the last time-step is associated with at least one input to the neural unit that affects the membrane potential of the neural unit.
US10922603B2
The present invention discloses a security device constructed from a material having a skin depth that is greater than about 10 times the normal skin depth for radio frequency identification device functioning in one of UHF, HF and LF frequencies. The security device of the present invention provides a more durable and robust security device that can be used in facilitating brand identification and awareness. In one embodiment the antenna material of the present invention may illustrate a wide variety of visual information.
US10922599B2
An example device comprising contactless circuitry to receive data about a plurality of events corresponding to an asset, and a memristor coupled to the contactless circuitry to store the data about the plurality of events. The contactless circuitry may determine that the asset has experienced an event, receive a transaction corresponding to the event from a decentralized entity, generate a hash of the transaction including a device identifier of the contactless circuitry and the transaction received from the decentralized entity, verify the hashed transaction with the decentralized entity, and store the verified hashed transaction on the memristor of the contactless circuitry, wherein the stored verified hash includes information about the event.
US10922597B1
A flexible card may include a dynamic magnetic stripe communications device having multiple layers, such as an electromagnetic generator, a magnet, and a shield. A shield may form a non-flexible layer within the stack and may bend, but the shield may not be able to stretch or compress. Flexible layers may surround and adhere to the shield such that when the card is flexed, the flexible layers may stretch and compress with the movement of the shield. The dynamic magnetic stripe communications device may include one or more coils. Each coil may contain a material that may be beveled, such that a width at an end portion of the material may be smaller than a width at a middle portion of the material.
US10922587B2
Systems and methods analyze and correct the vulnerability of individual nodes in a neural network to changes in the input data. The analysis comprises first changing the activation function of one or more nodes to make them more vulnerable. The vulnerability is then measured based on a norm on the vector of partial derivatives of the network objective evaluated on each training data item. The system is made less vulnerable by splitting the data based on the sign of the partial derivative of the network objective with respect to a vulnerable and training new ensemble members on selected subsets from the data split.
US10922583B2
An example wearable display system is capable of determining a user interface (UI) event with respect to a virtual UI device (e.g., a button) and a pointer (e.g., a finger or a stylus) using a neural network. The wearable display system can render a representation of the UI device onto an image of the pointer captured when the virtual UI device is shown to the user and the user uses the pointer to interact with the virtual UI device. The representation of the UI device can include concentric shapes (or shapes with similar or the same centers of gravity) of high contrast. The neural network can be trained using training images with representations of virtual UI devices and pointers.
US10922569B2
Embodiments may include a method and apparatus for detecting model reliability. A method may include: acquiring an infrared reflection image and a visible light reflection image of a photographed non-living body; importing the infrared reflection image and the visible light reflection image into a to-be-detected living body detection model, to obtain a detecting result corresponding to the infrared reflection image and a detecting result corresponding to the visible light reflection image; and matching a set concentration level of the infrared reflective coating on the photographed non-living body with the detecting results, and setting a reliability level of the to-be-detected living body detection model based on the matching results.
US10922567B2
Cognitive state-based vehicle manipulation uses near-infrared image processing. Images of a vehicle occupant are obtained using imaging devices within a vehicle. The images include facial data of the vehicle occupant. The images include visible light-based images and near-infrared based images. A classifier is trained based on the visible light content of the images to determine cognitive state data for the vehicle occupant. The classifier is modified based on the near-infrared image content. The modified classifier is deployed for analysis of additional images of the vehicle occupant, where the additional images are near-infrared based images. The additional images are analyzed to determine a cognitive state. The vehicle is manipulated based on the cognitive state that was analyzed. The cognitive state is rendered on a display located within the vehicle.
US10922566B2
Disclosed embodiments provide cognitive state evaluation for vehicle navigation. The cognitive state evaluation is accomplished using a computer, where the computer can perform learning using a neural network such as a deep neural network (DNN) or a convolutional neural network (CNN). Images including facial data are obtained of a first occupant of a first vehicle. The images are analyzed to determine cognitive state data. Layers and weights are learned for the deep neural network. Images of a second occupant of a second vehicle are collected and analyzed to determine additional cognitive state data. The additional cognitive state data is analyzed, and the second vehicle is manipulated. A second imaging device is used to collect images of a person outside the second vehicle to determine cognitive state data. The second vehicle can be manipulated based on the cognitive state data of the person outside the vehicle.
US10922557B2
A method for processing sensor data in a number of controllers in a controller complex. The controllers are connected to at least one sensor via at least one communication bus, wherein the sensor data of the at least one sensor are processed by at least two different controllers in stages. At least one processing stage is concordant in the two controllers or is equivalent to the other stage at least in so far as the results of the processing are converted into one another by a conversion. Provision is made for a preprocessing unit to which the sensor data of the at least one sensor are supplied, wherein the processing of the sensor data in the at least one concordant processing stage is performed in the preprocessing unit, and the processed sensor data are forwarded to the at least two different controllers for individual further processing.
US10922556B2
In an example, an apparatus comprises logic, at least partially including hardware logic, to save one or more outputs of a deep learning neural network in a storage system of an autonomous vehicle and upload the one or more outputs to a remote server. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US10922549B2
Disclosed is a method for counting and identifying moving objects, P1 to PX, at a given location, including: recording a video of moving objects at a given location, starting at time Tinitial and finishing at time Tfinal; shape recognition of the moving objects by a computer to produce a dynamic trace of each recognized shape P1 to PX; detecting, by image analysis, the maximum number of pixels associated with each recognized and traced object shape of fish P1 to PX; calibration of each trace of the object relative to the general timeline of the entire video between Tinitial and Tfinal; visual determination of the identification of each object by an expert from the image of the video including a maximum pixel number each object P1 to PX and entering the name of the object identity. The method applies in particular to the counting and determination of fish species.
US10922530B2
A display device for displaying an image and a method by which the display device operates to display an image are provided. The display device may include a display configured to output a screen image, an image sensor configured to acquire an image signal, a bending detection sensor configured to detect a bending motion or a bent state of the display device, and a control unit configured to control the display to display an image, which is generated based on the image signal, in a region according to a position at which the display is bent on the screen image if the bending detection sensor detects the bending motion or a bent state.
US10922529B2
A device receives an image-based authentication request from a specified object and performs human face authentication in a manner depending on whether the object wears glasses. Specifically, the device designates a glasses region on a daily photograph of the specified object using a glasses segmentation model. If the regions of the human face in the daily photograph labeled as glasses exceed a first threshold amount, the device modifies the daily photograph by changing pixel values of the regions that are labeled as being obscured by glasses. The device extracts features of a daily human face from the daily photograph and features of an identification human face from the identification photograph. The device approves the authentication request if a matching degree between the features of the daily human face and the features of the identification human face is greater than a second threshold amount.
US10922526B2
The present disclosure proposes a computer implemented of object recognition of an object to be identified using a method for reconstruction of a 3D point cloud. The method comprises the steps of acquiring, by a mobile device, a plurality of pictures of said object, sending the acquired pictures to a cloud server, reconstructing, by the cloud server, a 3D points cloud reconstruction of the object, performing a 3D match search in a 3D database using the 3D points cloud reconstruction, to identify the object, the 3D match search comprising a comparison of the reconstructed 3D points cloud of the object with 3D points clouds of known objects stored in the 3D database.
US10922521B2
A display device and a method for operating a display device is provided. The display device includes a display panel, a photosensitive image sensor, and a pressure sensing sensor. The display panel includes a display area and has a display side and a back side opposite to the display side. The photosensitive image sensor and the pressure sensing sensor are stacked in the display area of the display panel and are located on the back side of the display panel. The pressure sensing sensor is configured to sense a pressing action on the display side of the display panel. The photosensitive image sensor is configured to detect an image of a texture on the display side of the display panel.
US10922514B2
An authentication method selecting unit 31 automatically selects one user authentication method among predetermined plural user authentication methods on the basis of an output from at least one among an imaging device 17 built in this electronic apparatus, an acceleration sensor 15 built in this electronic apparatus and a position detecting device 14 built in this electronic apparatus. Further, a user authenticating unit 32 performs user authentication in accordance with the user authentication method selected by the authentication method selecting unit 31.
US10922513B2
An electronic component (and/or an electronic device comprising the same) according to various embodiments of the present invention comprises: a substrate having a sensing element mounted on one surface thereof; a flexible printed circuit board that is coupled to the other surface of the substrate so as to face the same and extends to a side of the substrate along a first direction; and at least one recess formed on the edge of the other surface of the substrate, wherein the recess is located in an area, on the other surface of the substrate, which faces at least the flexible printed circuit board, and may extend along a second direction intersecting with the first direction. The electronic component and/or the electronic device comprising the same as described above may be diversified according to embodiments.
US10922510B2
A method for detecting optical codes comprises an input image being provided. Optical codes in the input image are detected by generating an output image on the basis of the input image. Within generating the output image, pixels of an area of the input image comprising a part of an optical code are assigned a first intensity in the output image. Within generating the output image, pixels of an area of the input image e.g. comprising no part of an optical code are assigned a second intensity in the output image. Regions of the output image with the first intensity are provided for determining properties of the detected optical codes.
US10922509B2
A label reading system that reads labels attached to packages placed on a conveyor vehicle while the conveyor vehicle passes through a label reading area includes a guide device that guides the conveyor vehicle toward the label reading area, by indicating a traveling speed and a traveling position set in advance so as to enable reading of the labels, and an information reading device that takes images of the labels in the label reading area, and reads information on the labels.
US10922502B2
A structural unit, in particular a spindle unit, for a linear actuator which has at least one structural unit. The structural unit transmits data by way of electromagnetic radiation and/or it is configured to wirelessly absorb energy and then electrically supply at least one electrical load with wirelessly absorbed energy.
US10922500B2
A universal radio frequency identification reader and emulation handheld device and system configured to read and emulate radio frequency identification tags in the low frequency, high frequency, and ultra-high frequency spectrums (from 30 kHz to 1050 MHz). The system may include a mobile or a web application to control and interact with the handheld device. The system may allow for the saving of radio frequency identification tag information in cloud infrastructure for later emulation.
US10922499B2
A card reader may include a break-in sensing circuit and a security circuit structured to output a break-in sensing signal into the break-in sensing circuit, and receive a returned break-in sensing signal that returns from the break-in sensing circuit. The security circuit may include an output terminal to output the break-in sensing signal, and an input terminal to receive the returned break-in sensing signal. The break-in sensing signal may be input to an input section of the break-in sensing circuit, and then output from an output section of the break-in sensing circuit as the returned break-in sensing signal. The break-in sensing signal may be a pulse signal. At least either one of the output terminal and the input terminal of the security circuit may include a protection element between the terminal itself and an earth ground.
US10922490B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for authoring an electronic message. In one example, the system, method, and apparatus include receiving an electronic message; categorizing the electronic message based on a message layout type associated with the electronic message; determining, with a sentiment analyzer, a sentiment type and a sentiment score associated with the electronic message; identifying a first plurality of words in the electronic message associated with the sentiment type; and outputting one or more selected from the group consisting of the message layout type, the sentiment type, and the sentiment score associated with the electronic message.
US10922488B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for computing numeric representations of words. One of the methods includes obtaining a set of training data, wherein the set of training data comprises sequences of words; training a classifier and an embedding function on the set of training data, wherein training the embedding function comprises obtained trained values of the embedding function parameters; processing each word in the vocabulary using the embedding function in accordance with the trained values of the embedding function parameters to generate a respective numerical representation of each word in the vocabulary in the high-dimensional space; and associating each word in the vocabulary with the respective numeric representation of the word in the high-dimensional space.
US10922484B1
An audiobook quality control system may detect and flag errors in human voice recordings of manuscripts at real-time or near real-time. The system may receive a manuscript and process the manuscript to generate a comparison document. The system may receive audio data from a recording session and may use a speech-to-text transcription tool to generate transcribed audio. Based on comparing the transcribed audio to the comparison document, the system may flag differences as errors. Additionally, the system may flag common recording errors (e.g., consistency, pronunciation, spacing issue, noise, wrong words, etc.). Based on the error types and number of errors, the system may determine to re-record specific sections of the manuscript.
US10922480B2
Methods and apparatuses for place-based information processing are disclosed. The method includes receiving annotation information inputted by a user; acquiring geographical location information of a mobile terminal device; sending the annotation information and the geographical location information to a server so that the server determines place information of where the user is located according to the geographical location information, establishes and stores a correspondence between the annotation information and the place information to provide the annotation information to a querying user in the place. In the present disclosure, “traces” of the user may be kept in the place and are not subject to an actual condition in the place, which do not need real paper and pen, and do not affect the actual scenery of the place.
US10922475B2
According to aspects illustrated herein, a method for preserving one or more hyperlinks while printing a document is disclosed. The method includes receiving the document containing one or more hyper texts, wherein each hyper text is associated with a corresponding hyperlink. The document is parsed to extract the one or more hyper texts. Then information related to the one or more hyper texts is identified and extracted, the information includes a hyper text, a hyperlink corresponding to the hyper text, a page number of the hyper text and an ordinal number of occurrence of the hyper text on the page number. An index page including the information related to the one or more hyper texts is created. Finally, the index page along with the document is printed, the index page includes the one or more hyper texts and information related to the one or more hyper texts.
US10922472B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided as follows. A mask layout for forming a target pattern of a multi-height cell including a rectangular notch is generated. A preliminary rectangular mask pattern corresponding to the rectangular notch is detected from the mask layout. The multi-height cell is formed of standard cells arranged and connected to each other in a direction and the rectangular notch is disposed between two adjacent standard cells. A hexagonal mask pattern is, in response to the detecting of the preliminary rectangular mask pattern, placed on at least one short side of the preliminary rectangular mask pattern to generate a combined mask pattern. An outer boundary of the combined mask pattern remains in the mask layout and corresponds to the rectangular notch of the target pattern. A target mask and the semiconductor device are formed based on the combined mask pattern.
US10922468B1
Systems and methods for systems and methods for generating the complete set of IC design layout clips, or any part of the complete set, satisfying usefulness criteria and of a prespecified size. A method includes generating an initial set of integrated circuit (IC) design layout clips as a current set of IC design layout clips. The method includes removing any of IC design layout clips from the current set of IC design layout clips that do not meet the one or more usefulness criteria. The method includes, while a size of the IC design layout clips is less than a desired clip size, generating a new set of IC design layout clips from the current set of IC design layout clips according to every combination of pairs of the design layout clips in the current set of IC design layout clips, and repeating the removing process. The method includes, when the size of the IC design layout clips is not less than the desired clip size, storing the current set of IC design layout clips as a final set of IC design layout clips.
US10922467B2
A computer implemented method for designing a circuit is presented. The method includes forming, using the computer, a multitude of cells. Each cell is characterized by a multitude of first shapes extending along a first direction. Each first shape is spaced, along a second direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction, from a neighboring first shape in accordance with a first pitch. Each cell is further characterized by a cell origin including a first cell coordinate associated with the second direction. The first cell coordinate is assigned in accordance with an integer multiple of the first pitch when the computer is invoked to form the multitude of cells representing the circuit.
US10922460B1
A method for constructing a parameterized quantum circuit according to an embodiment includes inputting learning data to a quantum circuit, receiving output data for the learning data from the quantum circuit and calculating an error rate therefrom, and updating, based on the error rate, parameters for at least one sub-circuit block to be updated among one or more sub-circuit blocks included in the quantum circuit.
US10922451B2
The present disclosure relates to an ensemble-based reservoir characterization method using multiple Kalman gains and dynamic data selection. The method includes preparing available data; generating initial ensembles by using the prepared static data; clustering and separating the generated initial models on the basis of a distance-based method; selecting the dynamic data; dynamically simulating the selected dynamic data by using the generated ensembles; calculating multiple Kalman gains by using initial models clustered in the same group as the selected dynamic data; updating ensemble members by means of the selected dynamic data and the multiple Kalman gains; and predicting a movement of a reservoir by using the updated models, and evaluating uncertainty thereof. Therefore, multiple Kalman gains are calculated and a final model is obtained using the selected dynamic data, and a reliable uncertainty evaluation and a future movement prediction can be performed within a short time by using the final model.
US10922445B2
A security device for a local computer, said security device comprising a locked-down system environment that includes a remote-access connector and an authenticator facility. The remote-access connector initiates a remote connection request with a virtual-computer service. The authenticator facility provides first authentication-data to the remote-access connector for ensuring that the security device has permission to be allocated a virtual computer from the virtual-computer service.
US10922443B2
A system for protecting an input device. The system includes a pressurizing device and a printed circuit board having a false key. The pressurizing device includes a tube for receiving a flexible pressurizing element. A spacer of a predetermined length is disposed at a bottom of the tube.
US10922441B2
A computing device includes: a trusted execution environment with access to a memory storing a deletable root key, the memory inaccessible by a second execution environment; and at least one processor operable in the trusted execution environment, wherein when operating in the trusted execution environment, the at least one processor is configured for: based on requests from the second execution environment, performing a root key operation on an encryption key utilized by the second execution environment to secure data the second execution environment; and deleting the root key upon detection of a security event.
US10922438B2
The present disclosure is directed to a novel system that uses a dynamic scene changing element to authenticate real-time video data. In particular, the dynamic scene changing element may alter the video data stream collected a video input device according to a sequence or pattern that is unique for a given timeframe. The system may then compare the expected video stream (based on scene changes created from the unique pattern) with the current video stream. If the system detects that the dynamic scene changes are incorrect or missing, the system may determine that the real-time video data is not authentic, and subsequently take remedial measures. In this way, the dynamic scene changing element allows the system to determine whether the real-time streaming video data is reflective of the current or “true” state of the scene as captured by the video input device.
US10922427B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a method and apparatus for protecting a critical computer system from malware intrusions. An isolator containing access approval features is disclosed. The isolator requires the approval of a Supervisor which can be a person with authority or an intelligent computer before a user can have access to the critical computer system. The isolator contains features used to facilitate cascaded encryption and decryption of messages which further enhances the security of the critical computer system. The isolator can greatly improve security of infrastructure such as industrial control systems, servers and workstations. The disclosed embodiments also provide a set of software and hardware features used to provide detection, prevention and recovery from a Cyber-attack in an Internet of Things installation.
US10922421B2
Implementations of the present disclosure include obtaining, by a client node of a blockchain network, a public key of a regulator node; generating, by the client node, one or more commitment values of a confidential transaction of the client node by applying a cryptographic commitment scheme to transaction data of the confidential transaction; generating, by the client node, encrypted regulatory information of the confidential transaction by encrypting the transaction data using the public key of the regulator node; and transmitting, by the client node to a consensus node of the blockchain network, a content of the confidential transaction for execution, wherein the content of the confidential transaction includes: the one or more commitment values; the encrypted regulatory information; and one or more zero-knowledge proofs of the transaction data.
US10922418B2
A system and method for runtime detection of vulnerabilities in an application software container that is configured to execute an application. The method includes detecting the application stored in an image of the application software container; identifying, based on at least one predetermined potential location for the application, configuration data stored in the application software container for the application; determining, based on the identified configuration data, at least one intended behavior of the application when executed in the application software container; monitoring execution of the application software container, wherein the monitoring includes comparing the execution of the application software container to the at least one intended behavior; detecting an unauthorized action by the application software container when the execution of the application software container is anomalous as compared to the at least one intended behavior; and generating a detection event when the unauthorized action by the software container is detected.
US10922417B2
An information processing apparatus (10) includes a selection reception unit (110) that receives an input indicating that at least one countermeasure is selected from among a plurality of countermeasures against vulnerability, a remaining terminal identification unit (120) that reads out terminal-specific countermeasure information, indicating a countermeasure applicable for each terminal against the vulnerability, from a storage unit that stores the terminal-specific countermeasure information, and identifies a remaining terminal which is a terminal that would be left with the vulnerability on the basis of the read-out terminal-specific countermeasure information, and a remaining terminal information providing unit (130) that provides the number of identified remaining terminals.
US10922414B2
Devices, systems, methods, and computer program products for managing network access control with a build system are disclosed. The build system controls network filtering at retail stores based on identifiers of Point of Sale devices connected to the store's LAN (Local Area Network). This filtering places only authorized devices on a virtual LAN within the LAN that is reserved for POS terminals. The network access control is managed by a process built into the build system.
US10922413B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture for platform firmware resilience are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a baseboard management controller interface to access a notification from a baseboard management controller that a firmware image is available in a baseboard management memory. A host communicator is to identify, in response to the notification, an occurrence of a boot process of the host processor, the host communicator to halt the boot process. A baseboard management memory interface to access the firmware image in the baseboard management memory. An image validator to validate the firmware image. A firmware memory interface to, when the firmware image is valid, write the firmware image to a firmware memory of the host processor, the host communicator to enable the boot process using the firmware image stored in the firmware memory.
US10922412B2
A configuration manager is associated with a Networked Control System (NCS) comprising a plurality of sensors and actuators. The configuration manager automatically discovers the hardware and/or software configurations of the sensors and actuators, and analyzes that information in order to detect whether any of the sensors and actuators have been tampered with. Provided the configuration manager detects such tampering, the configuration manager indicates the tampering to a control manager of the NCS, which then functions to minimize potential damage to the NCS.
US10922406B2
A protecting method and system for malicious code, and a monitor apparatus are provided. The monitor apparatus circulates a monitor module obtained from a combination of a plurality of antivirus systems in a communication system, so as to monitor a plurality of electronic apparatuses in the communication system. When the monitor module is circulated to one of the electronic apparatuses and the malicious code is detected, a protection result is decided and one or more corresponding process actions are executed based on the protection result by the monitor module.
US10922404B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a checkout system executable code monitoring, and user account compromise determination system. The system monitors executable code initiating and executing on checkout systems, including determining hashes of the executable code. The system determines whether the executable code is malicious based on the hash, and associated information of the executable code. Additionally, the system monitors user access to checkout systems, and determines user accounts associated with being compromised. User interfaces are generated describing checkout systems associated with a risk of being compromised, and are configured for user interaction, which cause generation of updated user interfaces and access to electronic data stores to determine information relevant to the user interaction.
US10922397B2
A computer-implemented method of comparing one or more genetic traits of two users. Each user has a wearable device storing data indicative of the one or more genetic traits, the data having been obtained by an analysis of a biological sample provided by the user. The method comprises: transmitting the data indicative of the one or more genetic traits from a first of the wearable devices to a first computer device using a short-range wireless data connection; transmitting the data from the first computer device to a second computer device over a data network; transmitting the data from the second computer device to a second of the wearable devices over a short-range wireless data connection; and comparing the data from the first wearable device with the data stored on the second wearable device to determine whether there is a match between the users' one or more genetic traits.
US10922392B2
This disclosure relates generally to digital telecommunications, and more particularly to systems and methods for generating and managing composite digital identities. In one embodiment, a system and method for generating and managing digital identities is disclosed. The method includes receiving, from an identity seeker, a request having an identifier associated with an entity, the request includes a context associated with a transaction. An encrypted token corresponding to the identifier is identified from encrypted tokens stored in a database and is further decrypted to obtain context matrix on which analysis is performed with respect to the request. An activity status associated with the transaction is determined based on analysis to generate composite provisional digital identity (CPDI) specific to the transaction. Based on the determined activity status, one of is performed: (i) obtaining a verification message from the entity, wherein the verification message pertains to the transaction performed by entity, and generating a CPDI of the entity based on the verification message; or (ii) generating a composite provisional digital identity of the entity for authorizing the transaction.
US10922388B2
Methods, systems, and media are shown for session control by a proxy service of client-side applications in a client. A service request from a client is received by the proxy service and forwarded to a service provider, which sends a service response with a document. Event monitoring code is injected into the document and the response is forwarded to the client. The event monitoring code intercepts a user action and sends a query to the proxy service to determine whether the user action is permitted. The proxy service checks the user action against access data defined for the document and sends a query response to the event monitoring code indicating whether the user action is permitted. If the user action is permitted, the event monitoring code allows normal execution flow. If the user action is denied, the code blocks further execution.
US10922380B2
In one embodiment, a matrix operation associated with a plurality of input matrices may be performed. The plurality of input matrices may be partitioned into a plurality of input partitions, wherein the plurality of input matrices is partitioned based on a number of available processing elements. The plurality of input partitions may be distributed among a plurality of processing elements, wherein each input partition is distributed to a particular processing element of the plurality of processing elements. A plurality of partial matrix operations may be performed using the plurality of processing elements, and partial matrix data may be transmitted between the plurality of processing elements while performing the plurality of partial matrix operations. A result of the matrix operation may be determined based on the plurality of partial matrix operations.
US10922378B2
A change in a current flowing through a current path when a voltage applied to the path is changed is simulated in a system including the path and a member that is acted upon by the current flowing through the path and affects the current flowing through the path. First, the path and the member are represented by aggregates of a plurality of particles. Electromagnetic action from the other particles to each of the plurality of particles configuring the path is calculated based on a current value at a present time of the current flowing through the path and a voltage value of an external voltage applied to the path. The current flowing through the path is calculated based on a calculation result of the electromagnetic action to update the current value flowing through the path from the value at the present time to a value obtained by a calculation.
US10922375B2
A client computing device includes an embedded browser that includes first and second browsers, a copy file user interface (UI) control and a processor. The first browser is for a user to identify a file to be copied from a source application, and the second browser is for the user to identify a location of where the file is to be copied within a target application. The processor cooperates with the embedded browser in response to the user selecting the copy file UI control to retrieve the identified file in the source application and copy to the identified location within the target application without requiring further user input.
US10922369B2
A system and method operates on a client device and acquires a suspect list of user products based on information derived from the client device. The system normalizes the list, and the user confirms the accuracy of the product list. The user product list is sent to a server where the user product list is compared to other lists using collaborative filtering techniques. The collaborative filtering techniques determine products of interest for the use and the level of interest of the user. The system computes a similarity measure bused upon the number of similar products that match the user's product list and rankings provided by the user and others. Demographic and behavioral data may also be used in performing the comparison and the similarity measure. The system acquires editorial rankings of products from other users and provides a ranked list of recommended products based upon the editorial rankings.
US10922364B2
A web page grabbing method is provided. A target web page on a website is grabbed, the target web page including a web page corresponding to a Hypertext Markup Language 5 (H5) content and a web page corresponding to a non-H5 content. The web page corresponding to the H5 content is detected according to web page source code of the target web page. Dynamic rendering is performed on the web page corresponding to the H5 content, to obtain a rendered web page. Content details information corresponding to the H5 content is extracted from the rendered web page.
US10922361B2
Some examples include displaying a user interface that includes attributes and entities that are determined to be related to an input entity identified by a user. Further, some implementations include displaying a structured data table that identifies attribute values associated with the input entity and selected related entities.
US10922360B2
According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for ancillary speech generation is provided. The present invention may include receiving a query from a querent; interpreting the terms of the query using schema information; rewriting the initial query into a set of related queries; pruning related queries that are irrelevant based on contemporary circumstances; retrieving preferences associated with the querent, where each of the preferences is assigned a weight representing the importance of that preference to the querent; filtering out the pruned related queries that do not comport with the querent's preferences; sort the filtered related queries according to the weight of the preferences served by each query; answering the filtered related queries with a knowledge graph; returning answers to the querent; and updating the preferences based on the answers.
US10922355B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for recommending news. A specific embodiment of the method comprises: receiving a voice request for playing news; analyzing the voice request, and determining a target attribute associated with the voice request from a preset user attribute set based on an analysis result; acquiring user attribute information corresponding to the target attribute; and selecting out target news from a to-be-recommended news database for recommendation based on the analysis result of the voice request and the user attribute information corresponding to the target attribute. Such embodiment realizes news recommendation based on voice interaction and is capable of improving the pertinence of news recommendation.
US10922351B2
A media recommendation system may score media items according to user recommendations, popularity, and/or recency. The scores may be weighted to produce an overall score for each media item. Media items may be added to a pool for a specific user, from which media items are selected for playback. The contents of the pool may be modified based upon user feedback and other data. The pool may be modified dynamically and/or in real time as media items are consumed or rated by the user.
US10922329B2
Systems and methods for interest-driven business intelligence systems including geo-spatial data in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. An interest-driven business intelligence system including raw data storage and perform extract, transform, and load processes, a data mart, and an intermediate processing layer, wherein the intermediate processing layer is configured to automatically generate metadata describing the raw data, derive reporting data requirements, and compile an interest-driven data pipeline based upon the reporting data requirements, where compiling the interest-driven data pipeline includes generating ETL processing jobs to generate geo-spatial data from the raw data, determining bounding data, bounding the filtered raw data based on the bounding data, generating geo-spatial data, and storing the geo-spatial data, generating reporting data including data satisfying the reporting data requirements based on the geo-spatial data, and storing the reporting data in the data mart for exploration by an interest-driven data visualization system.
US10922322B2
According to some aspects, a method of searching for content in response to a user voice query is provided. The method may comprise receiving the user voice query, performing speech recognition to generate N best speech recognition results comprising a first speech recognition result, performing a supervised search of at least one content repository to identify one or more supervised search results using one or more classifiers that classify the first speech recognition result into at least one class that identifies previously classified content in the at least one content repository, performing an unsupervised search of the at least one content repository to identify one or more unsupervised search results, wherein performing the unsupervised search comprises performing a word search of the at least one content repository, and generating combined results from among the one or more supervised search results and the one or more unsupervised search results.
US10922311B2
Described are methods, systems and computer readable media for dynamic updating of query result displays.
US10922308B2
Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and wired and wireless network communications to interface among repositories of disparate datasets and computing machine-based entities configured to access datasets, and, more specifically, to a computing and data storage platform to implement predict data constraints to validate one or more portions of a dataset, according to at least some examples. For example, a method may include predicting a subset of constraint data to validate a graph-based data arrangement, and analyzing the graph-based data arrangement against a subset of constraint data to determine an action. At least one action may include validating data in a graph-based data arrangement. Also, the method may include integrating graph-based data arrangement into a graph data arrangement responsive to determining data representing a validation.
US10922306B2
In an illustrative embodiment, systems and methods for bulk user setup include a bulk user registration interface presented to an end user to supply user information and a custom API handler for translating the user information into individual user setup requests recognizable by a content management system (CMS). The systems and methods may additionally include an integration engine for supplying user setup requests to one or more third-party systems integrated with the CMS within a data analytics ecosystem, such as a content development system. The integration engine may be implemented as a custom web part configured to interface with the custom API handler, the CMS, and one or more third-party systems.
US10922304B1
In a cloud computing environment associated with an enterprise comprising one or more cloud platforms with one or more respective data protection ecosystems, a method maintains a distributed ledger system with a plurality of nodes, wherein a given one of the data protection ecosystems is operatively coupled to a given one of the plurality of nodes of the distributed ledger system. Further, the method manages one or more data sets processed by the one or more data protection ecosystems in association with the distributed ledger system, wherein managing comprises storing transaction data associated with the processing of the one or more data sets on the distributed ledger system to enable an environment-wide view of the stored transaction data.
US10922296B2
A system for an in-memory row storage architecture can be provided. In some implementations, the system performs operations comprising processing a database transaction affecting at least a first row in an in-memory row store and at least a second row in a persistent page store, logging changes to the second row within a page store transaction log as part of the processing and prior to committing the database transaction, logging a final aggregated result of the first row as part of committing the database transaction within a row store transaction log that is separate and distinct from the page store transaction log, and altering at least a portion of the in-memory row store based on accessing the row store transaction log. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also described.
US10922277B1
Logging changes to file system metadata using a single log hold per cached block of metadata. A metadata log including log entries is maintained in persistent storage, and each log entry in the metadata log contains metadata modified by a corresponding file system request. A single log hold is stored for each block of cached metadata. The single log hold for a given block of cached metadata indicates a file system request that modifies the metadata contained in the block, and that corresponds to a log entry located the closest, of all log entries corresponding to file system requests that modify metadata contained in the block, to a head of the metadata log.
US10922275B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium, including adding a dedicated data storage structure to a first set container, the added dedicated data storage structure to store business objects (BOs) constructed based on data foundation fragments injected into a data foundation of a semantic layer universe; generating, automatically, a BO based on a data foundation of the semantic layer universe; storing the automatically generated BO in the added storage structure and storing the added data storage structure in the first set container.
US10922266B1
One example method includes transmitting, by an application running in a host CPU, a notification to an application in a coprocessor/accelerator indicating that inbound data generated by the application is ready, receiving, by the application in the coprocessor/accelerator, the notification and delegating, by the application in the coprocessor/accelerator, an IO command to the application running in the host CPU, forwarding, by the application running in the host CPU, the IO command to an OS of the host CPU, transmitting, by the OS of the host CPU, an IO request to an IO device, initiating, by the IO device, a P2PDMA to transmit data associated with the IO request to a memory of the coprocessor/accelerator, and processing, by the application in the coprocessor/accelerator, the data.
US10922253B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for software-based interrupt remapping. A memory address for a respective interrupt request of the peripheral device is allocated. The peripheral device is then configured to write to the memory address to raise an interrupt with the processor. Later, it can be determined that the peripheral device has attempted to write to the memory address. In response, an interrupt can be raised for the respective interrupt request with the processor of the computing device on behalf of the peripheral device.
US10922248B2
A slave device is to be connected to a host device through at least one of a first interface and a second interface. The slave device includes a first terminal group used for the first interface, a second terminal group used for the second interface and a signal input and output part. The first terminal group and the second terminal group are provided at positions identical to terminal groups of another slave device to be connected through a third interface different from the second interface. The signal input and output part supplies a signal to a predetermined terminal in the first terminal group within a predetermined period from supply of power to the slave device, the signal notifying the host device whether the second terminal group is compliant with the second interface.
US10922245B2
Apparatus, methods and system relating to a vehicular telemetry environment for an intelligent Bluetooth beacon I/O expansion of the vehicular telemetry hardware system. The intelligent Bluetooth beacon I/O expansion provides a capability to receive beacon data, log beacon data, communicate beacon data and operate on beacon data to determine and further communicate a range of operational conditions, such as damage, hazardous and missing objects in the form of text messages, audio messages or compliance and management reports.
US10922243B2
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for securing a data storage device. A storage controller may receive a read request directed to the data storage device. The read request may comprise address data indicating a first address of a first storage location at the data storage device. The storage controller may request from the data storage device a first encrypted data unit stored at the first memory element and a first encrypted set of parity bits, such as Error Correction Code (ECC) bits, associated with the first storage location. An encryption system may decrypt the first encrypted set of parity bits to generate a first set of parity bits based at least in part on an a first location parity key for the first address.
US10922238B2
A method for storing content implemented by a first content reader. The first content reader includes a processor, a first memory for storing content, a virtualisation layer and a material abstraction layer. The method includes, during storage of first content in a given format, generating first standalone content, following which the first standalone content is stored in the first memory. Generating the first standalone content includes creating first container in which are stored at least the first content to be stored in the given format, and a first access processing step adapted to the given format and associated with the first content to be stored, the data stored in the first container making up the first standalone content. Thus, access to the stored content is guaranteed while the content reader is capable of implementing the access processing step stored with the content in the standalone content.
US10922229B2
Database objects are retrieved from a database and parsed into normalized cached data objects. The database objects are stored in the normalized cached data objects in a cache store, and tenant data requests are serviced from the normalized cached data objects. The normalized cached data objects include references to shared objects in a shared object pool that can be shared across different rows of the normalized cached data objects and across different tenant cache systems.
US10922227B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that detects, by a current stage of a hardware pipeline, a flush request with respect to a first resource and executes, by the current stage, one or more transactions associated with a second resource. Additionally, the current stage may conduct one or more flush operations with respect to the first resource, wherein the one or more transactions associated with the second resource are executed after detection of the flush request and before the one or more flush operations.
US10922221B2
An example method includes maintaining a first data structure comprising logical address to physical address mappings for managed units corresponding to a memory, and maintaining a second data structure whose entries correspond to respective physical managed unit addresses. Each entry of the second data structure comprises an activity counter field corresponding to the respective physical managed unit address and a number of additional fields indicating whether the respective physical managed unit address is in one or more of a number of additional data structures. The one or more additional data structures are accessed in association with performing at least one of a wear leveling operation on the respective physical managed unit address, and a neighbor disturb mitigation operation on physical managed unit addresses corresponding to neighbors of the respective physical managed unit address.
US10922220B2
Technology for a memory device operable to program memory cells in the memory device is described. The memory device can include a plurality of memory cells and a memory controller. The memory controller can receive a page of data. The memory controller can segment the page of data into a group of data segments. The memory controller can program the group of data segments to memory cells in the plurality of memory cells that are associated with an inhibit tile group (ITG). The group of data segments for the page of data can be programmed using all bits included in each of the memory cells associated with the ITG.
US10922218B2
Disclosed herein are techniques for identifying software interdependencies based on functional line-of-code behavior and relation models. Techniques include identifying a first portion of executable code associated with a first controller; accessing a functional line-of-code behavior and relation model representing functionality of the first portion of executable code and a second portion of executable code; determining, based on the functional line-of-code behavior and relation model, that the second portion of executable code is interdependent with the first portion of executable code; and generating, based on the determined interdependency, a report identifying the interdependent first portion of executable code and second portion of executable code.
US10922216B1
Techniques are included for intelligently testing a software product using a limited number of test cases that are configured to test portions of the software product that have changed since a prior testing. To determine which test cases are best used for testing the implemented changes, a test case-to-programmatic flow mapping may be generated that relates each test case available for testing the software product with each programmatic flow that is tested by the test case. In addition, a programmatic flow-to-artifact mapping may be created that relates each programmatic flow discovered in the software product to each artifact that is accessed, created, changed, or dependent on the programmatic flow. Using these mappings, specific test cases may be determined for testing only those portions of the software product that have changed since the prior testing.
US10922215B2
A remote network management platform software application containing application programming interfaces (APIs) may be configured to facilitate the use of plugin software. A particular API may be associated with logic configured to check whether a toggle variable is active or inactive. A first unit of program code may be configured to execute when the toggle variable is inactive, and a second unit of program code may be configured to execute when the toggle variable is active. First plugin software may be implemented in a scripting language. The first plugin software, whether enabled or disabled, might not affect the toggle variable. Second plugin software may also be implemented in the scripting language. The second plugin software, when enabled, is configured to set the toggle variable as active.
US10922213B2
Disclosed herein is technology to store test data and associate the test data with a change set in a version control system. An example method may include: accessing a code object in a version data store, wherein the version data store comprises a change set applied to the code object; initiating a test of the code object; accessing test data for the code object, wherein the test data comprises output of the test; storing the test data in the version data store; and associating the change set with the test data in the version data store.
US10922204B2
An in-depth behavioral analysis of time-series metric data can require time consuming and computationally expensive statistical processing. To provide a more efficient behavioral analysis of a component within an environment, an application behavioral analysis system captures time-series metric data for a component, such as an application, and generates tiles comprising metric values from sequential segments of the metric data. After generating the tiles, the system iterates through the tiles of each segment and determines whether the segment shares matching tiles with other segments of the metric data. The system generates a behavioral analysis for the component based on the segments with shared tiles. The behavioral analysis may include a matrix or graph data structure which indicates the related segments. From this behavioral analysis, the system can efficiently identify common and reoccurring behaviors for a component without performing complex statistical processing of the metric data.
US10922200B2
Provided herein may be a memory system and a method of operating the same. The memory system may include a memory controller, and a plurality of memory devices coupled to the memory controller through a channel. Each of the memory devices may include a plurality of memory blocks, including a first memory block, the plurality of memory devices may constitute different ways, respectively, and a group of the first memory blocks respectively included in the plurality of memory devices may constitute a first super block. When any one of the first memory blocks included in the first super block is determined to be a bad block, the memory controller may be configured to generate a new second super block by replacing the first memory block determined to be the bad block with a second memory block.
US10922191B2
Techniques for virtual proxy based backup of virtual machines in a cluster environment are disclosed. In some embodiments, each of a subset of virtual machines hosted by physical nodes in a cluster environment is configured as a virtual proxy dedicated to backup operations. During backup, data rollover of each virtual machine in the cluster environment that is subjected to backup is performed using a virtual proxy.
US10922186B1
A system and method of backing up an online database to a storage device is provided wherein the online database is actively changed by one or more applications. The backed up online database is then subsequently restored. The online database is backed up by copying the online database to the storage device, and during the copying of the online database, writing changes that are made to the online database to a change log for the portion of the online database that has already been copied to the storage device, and not writing changes that are made to the online database to the change log for the portion of the online database that has not yet been copied to the storage device. The online database is then restored by loading the backed up online database to a target database, and applying the changes in the change log to the target database by rolling the change log backwards, and applying only the most recent change contained in the change log for each data item in the target database.
US10922185B2
Systems and methods of error handling in a network interface card (NIC) are provided. For a data packet destined for a local virtual machine (VM), if the NIC cannot determine a valid translation memory address for a virtual memory address in a buffer descriptor from a receive queue of the VM, the NIC can retrieve a backup buffer descriptor from a hypervisor queue, and store the packet in a host memory location indicated by an address in the backup buffer descriptor. For a transmission request from a local VM, if the NIC cannot determine a valid translated address for a virtual memory address in the packet descriptor from a transmit queue of the VM, the NIC can send a message to a hypervisor backup queue, and generate and transmit a data packet based on data in a memory page reallocated by the hypervisor.
US10922177B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to method, device and computer readable storage media for rebuilding redundant array of independent disks (RAID). The method comprises: in response to detecting at least one fault disk in the RAID, adding a new disk to the RAID for rebuilding; determining, according to a mapping table, a first set of storage blocks marked as “free” in the at least one fault disk, the mapping table indicating usage state of storage space in the RAID; and writing a predetermined value into a second set of storage blocks corresponding to the first group of storage blocks in the new disk.
US10922175B2
Techniques are directed to failure recovery of a storage system. In accordance with certain techniques, in response to detecting that a disk group of a memory system failed, failure duration of the disk group is recorded. If the failure duration does not reach a predetermined ready time limit and the disk group is in a degraded state, the disk group is maintained in a degraded but not ready state. The predetermined ready time limit is shorter than a logic unit number debounce time limit to avoid a data unavailable event. With such techniques, the possibility of occurrence of a data loss event may be reduced significantly while avoiding a data unavailable event.
US10922174B2
A memory device can include three-dimensional memory entities each including a plurality of two-dimensional memory entities. A controller can read data from the memory at a first resolution and collect error rate information from the memory at a second resolution including a portion of a two-dimensional memory entity. The controller can determine a quantity of two-dimensional memory entities that have a greater error rate than a remainder of the two-dimensional memory entities based on the error rate information. The controller can determine a quantity of portions of three-dimensional memory entities that have a greater error rate than a remainder of the portions of three-dimensional memory entities based on the error rate information excluding error rate information for portions of the two-dimensional memory entities associated with the quantity of two-dimensional memory entities. The controller can cull the quantity of the two-dimensional memory entities and the quantity of the three-dimensional memory entities.
US10922173B2
Described are fountain code constructs that solve multiple problems in distributed storage systems by providing systematic encoding, reduced repair locality, reduced encoding/decoding complexity, and enhanced reliability. Embodiments are suitable for the storage of large files and exhibit performance superior to existing codes, and demonstrate reduced implementation complexity and enhanced symbol repair locality.
US10922172B2
A data storage device comprises a storage array containing first data, a buffer containing RAID units, and a controller in communication with the storage array and the buffer. The controller is configured to receive a read request from a host device for a second data stored in the storage array, and determine an identifier associated with the requested second data. The controller is also configured to determine if the requested second data contains an unrecoverable error. The controller then accumulates first data, including a parity value, contained in the storage array associated with the same identifier as the requested second data in a reconstruction buffer, if the requested second data contains an unrecoverable error.
US10922162B2
A method, an information handling system (IHS), and a system for capturing video data and serial data during an IHS failure. The method includes detecting, via a controller, an occurrence of a system event log (SEL) incident in the IHS. In response to detecting the occurrence of the SEL incident in the IHS, a data recording window is retrieved from a volatile controller memory. The data recording window contains video data and serial data for a time period up to a time of detection of the SEL incident. The method further includes storing the data recording window including the video data and the serial data for the time period to a non-volatile controller memory.
US10922161B2
Apparatus and method for scalable error reporting. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises error detection circuitry to detect an error in a component of a first tile within a tile-based hierarchy of a processing device; error classification circuitry to classify the error and record first error data based on the classification; a first tile interface to combine the first error data with second error data received from one or more other components associated with the first tile to generate first accumulated error data; and a master tile interface to combine the first accumulated error data with second accumulated error data received from at least one other tile interface to generate second accumulated error data and to provide the second accumulated error data to a host executing an application to process the second accumulated error data.
US10922151B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for detecting and managing events from data of an Internet-of-Things (IoT) network, and actions can include receiving a first call from a first application, the first call including timeseries data from one or more IoT devices in a first IoT network, retrieving a rule set for processing the timeseries data, and determining that an anomaly is represented in the timeseries data based on the rule set, and in response, generating an event, the event having a configuration that is customized by an enterprise associated with the first application, executing an event workflow to transition the event between states, and transmitting an event response to the first application.
US10922149B2
A system including a processor with a plurality of cores having the same instruction set architecture, at least one memory connected to the processor, a plurality of virtualization systems adapted to run respectively on one core, the plurality of virtualization systems including a first virtualization system adapted to run on a first core and a second virtualization system adapted to run on a second core, wherein the first virtualization system has a first characteristic with a first parameter and the second virtualization system has a second characteristic with a second parameter, wherein the parameter of the first characteristic and the parameter of the second characteristic are incompatible when implemented in a single virtualization system; and communication module for enabling the plurality of virtualization systems to communicate with each other.
US10922146B1
Systems and methods are provided for synchronizing execution of program code for an integrated circuit device having multiple concurrently operating execution engines, where the operation of one execution engine may be dependent on the operation of another execution engine. Data or resource dependencies may be accommodated with a Set instruction to cause a first execution engine to set a register value and a Wait instruction to cause a second execution engine to wait for a condition associate with the register value. Concurrently operation of the execution engines may thus be synchronized.
US10922145B2
A scheduling platform can be used for self-service automation of workflows, such as automating data mart creation or generating reports. The platform includes a scheduling model that includes configuring pre- and post-conditions for a job that defines when the task runs and its effects on other jobs when it finishes.
US10922131B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide an application function control method and a related product. The method includes: generating in response to detecting a starting instruction for a first application, a first instruction containing an application identifier of the first application; generating in response to finding out according to the first instruction that the disabled function set includes at least one first function of the first application, a second instruction containing a function identifier of the at least one first function and running according to the second instruction one or more functions, except the at least one first function, in multiple functions of the first application.
US10922124B2
Some embodiments provide a method for configuring a logical middlebox in a hosting system that includes a set of nodes. The logical middlebox is part of a logical network that includes a set of logical forwarding elements that connect a set of end machines. The method receives a set of configuration data for the logical middlebox. The method uses a stored set of tables describing physical locations of the end machines to identify a set of nodes at which to implement the logical middlebox. The method provides the logical middlebox configuration for distribution to the identified nodes.
US10922117B2
The present application discloses a virtual trusted platform module (vTPM)-based virtual machine security protection method and system. The method, executed by a physical host, includes: receiving a primary seed acquisition request sent by a virtual machine, where the primary seed acquisition request carries a UUID; sending the UUID to a KMC, so that the KMC generates a primary seed according to the UUID; and receiving the primary seed fed back by the KMC, and sending the primary seed to the virtual machine, so that the virtual machine creates a root key of a vTPM according to the primary seed, where the root key is used by the vTPM to create a key for the virtual machine to protect security of the virtual machine. As such, the same root key can be created by using the primary seed.
US10922109B2
A device configured to emulate a node in a correlithm object processing system includes a memory and a node. The memory stores a node table that links source correlithm objects to target correlithm objects. The node receives an input correlithm object and determines n-dimensional distances between it and the source correlithm objects, and determines that it is not within an n-dimensional distance threshold from any of the source correlithm objects in the node table. The node adds the input correlithm object to the node table as a new source correlithm object in response to determining that it is not within the n-dimensional distance threshold from any of the source correlithm objects in the node table. The node then links a new target correlithm object to the new source correlithm object in the node table.
US10922103B2
An electronic product transaction method at a merchant aggregator server operated by a merchant aggregator service provider, the method comprising generating and outputting an interface to a user, the interface comprising a plurality of selectable merchant options, each merchant option comprising a link to an interface for a plurality of selectable product options for a respective merchant, each product option comprising information on a product offered for sale, rent or hire by the respective merchant, wherein the interfaces are hosted by the merchant aggregator server; receiving, from the user, a selection of a plurality of merchant options and a plurality of product options for the plurality of merchants using the interfaces for the purchase of the products; and generating and outputting a merchant interface to receive product data from the merchants to generate the product options for the merchant option for each merchant, including receiving code from the merchants to generate interfaces for at least one of the merchant options and the product options on the merchant aggregator server, and modifying the code to any links and functions in the code to operate on the merchant aggregator server.
US10922098B2
Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for an FPGA architecture that may improve processing speed and efficiency in processing less complex operands. Some applications may utilize operands that are less complex, such as operands that are 1, 2, or 4 bits, for example. In some examples, the DSP architecture may skip or avoid processing all received operands or may process a common operand more frequently than other operands. An example apparatus may include a first configurable logic unit configured to receive a first operand and a second operand; a second configurable logic unit configured to receive a third operand and the first calculated operand; a first switch configured to receive the first operand and a fourth operand and to output a first selected operand; and a second switch configured to receive the second calculated operand and the first selected operand.
US10922090B1
Systems and methods for running an application program on a database host is disclosed. According to some embodiments, the system comprises an agent installed on the database host. The system further comprises an application engine installed on an application server. The application engine is configured to create and deploy the agent to the database host to be installed. The agent is configured to command a daemon installed on the database host to download a container image of the application program based on a container image name received from the application server.
US10922083B2
Determining problem dependencies in application dependency discovery, reporting, and management tool
Techniques for monitoring operating statuses of an application and its dependencies are provided. A monitoring application may collect and report the operating status of the monitored application and each dependency. Through use of existing monitoring interfaces, the monitoring application can collect operating status without requiring modification of the underlying monitored application or dependencies. The monitoring application may determine a problem service that is a root cause of an unhealthy state of the monitored application. Dependency analyzer and discovery crawler techniques may automatically configure and update the monitoring application. Machine learning techniques may be used to determine patterns of performance based on system state information associated with performance events and provide health reports relative to a baseline status of the monitored application. Also provided are techniques for testing a response of the monitored application through modifications to API calls. Such tests may be used to train the machine learning model.
US10922081B2
Establishing a conditional branch frame barrier is described. A conditional branch in a function epilogue is used to provide frame-specific control. The conditional branch evaluates a return condition to determine whether to return from a callee function to a calling function, or to execute a slow path instead. The return condition is evaluated based on a thread local value. The thread local value is set such that returns to potentially unsafe frames in a call stack are prohibited. The prohibition to return to a potentially unsafe frame may be referred to as a “frame barrier.” Additionally, the thread local value may be used to establish safepointing and/or thread local handshakes, both after execution of a function body and after execution of a loop body.
US10922079B2
Data element filter logic (“hardware accelerator”) in a processor that offloads computation for an in-memory database select/extract operation from a Central Processing Unit (CPU) core in the processor is provided. The Data element filter logic provides a balanced performance across an entire range of widths (number of bits) of data elements in a column-oriented Database Management System.
US10922075B2
Systems and methods for creating and validating software development life cycle (“SDLC”) digital artifacts are disclosed. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented system includes a processor that is configured to determine whether a template of an SDLC artifact is valid, and in response to a determination that the template of the SDLC artifact is valid, to map one or more properties to the template. In an embodiment, the processor is configured to associate software asset metadata and one or more approvers of the SDLC artifact, and to transform the SDLC artifact into a standard-compliant SDLC artifact.
US10922072B1
A disclosed method may include (1) detecting an in-service software upgrade that is to upgrade a first version of an operating system to a second version of the operating system and (2) performing the in-service software upgrade by (A) constructing a second software stack for the second version while a first software stack for the first version is active, wherein the first software stack and the second software stack (I) share one or more filesystem components in common and (II) differ from one another with respect to at least one filesystem component, (B) identifying one or more active processes that are currently managed by the first version, and (C) deactivating the first version and activating the second version such that management of the active processes is transitioned from the first version to the second version without rebooting. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US10922058B2
A method, apparatus and system for achieving visual programming of interaction workflows for customer contact centers which eliminates the need for skilled computer telephony interaction programmers to program the screen pops and workflows that are presented to live-agent customer service representatives in a contact center. Further, the disclosed method and apparatus enables integration of contact information from omni-channel systems, as well as customer relationship management (“CRM”) data, data collected from interactive voice response (“IVR”) systems, and data pulled from third-party databases, into the screen pops and workflows in a way that is agnostic as to the type or protocol of the PBX switch, the IVR system and the CRM system utilized by a particular call center, by facilitating a level of abstraction and data flow between and among these components.
US10922052B2
A method and apparatus is provided for generating pseudorandom numbers in a way that is deterministic (i.e., repeatable), that passes statistical tests, can have multiple instances of objects generating pseudorandom numbers at the same time. Also, the collection of pseudorandom numbers generated by multiple instances have the same statistical properties as numbers generated by a single instance (i.e., randomness). Embodiments described herein generate pseudorandom values by using a plurality of subsidiary linear congruential generators and combining their outputs nonlinearly. According to embodiments, after their outputs have been combined, a mixing function is applied. Embodiments include an on-demand split method in the style of the SplitMix algorithm.
US10922049B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that facilitate near real-time dynamic generation of graphical content based on audio, text, or gesture input. An example method includes receiving an input from an input device such as a microphone, a keyboard, or a camera. As such, the input may include text, speech, and/or a gesture. The method includes determining, based on the input, one or more command instructions. The method also includes determining, based on the one or more command instructions, a scene layout. Each of the one or more command instructions correspond to at least one element of the scene layout. The method also includes providing a rendered scene based on the determined scene layout.
US10922038B2
A memory control method receives a read request data set including a management ID and requesting reading of data from a memory, transmits read data that is read corresponding to the read request, stores write data temporarily in a write buffer, stores the read data read from the memory temporarily in a read buffer, stores write control data and read control data in an arbitration queue, executes an arbitration that determines a priority order of processing taking the write control data and the read control data that are stored in the arbitration queue as targets, and matches an order of transmitting a plurality of pieces of read data that are read from the memory corresponding to the read control data selected based on the determined priority order and are associated with an identical management ID to an order of receiving the read request data set.
US10922032B2
Disclosed herein are a system, non-transitory computer-readable medium, and method for printing. A plurality of unique identifiers can be generated for a printing device, each of the plurality of email addresses being associated with a unique printing configuration to handle print requests. A print request can be received from a print request source, where the print request is addressed to a specified unique identifier. The received print request can be handled in accordance with the unique printing configuration associated with the specified unique identifier.
US10922031B2
An image forming apparatus includes a print engine to form a page image on a printing sheet, a sheet conveyance unit to convey the printing sheet to the print engine in a non-stop conveyance mode, a video board to supply image data of the page image to the print engine, and a controller board to execute predetermined image processing to generate the image data and transfer the image data to the video board. The video board transmits a horizontal synchronization signal to the controller board. The controller board transfers the image data to the video board line by line in synchronization with the horizontal synchronization signal. The video board adjusts a cycle of the horizontal synchronization signal in accordance with an image width of the page image to satisfy a print productivity condition set correspondingly to a size of the printing sheet.
US10922027B2
There is disclosed techniques for use in managing data storage in storage systems. For example, in one embodiment, there is disclosed a method comprising receiving a request to store data of a data object in a storage system. The method also comprising determining that at least a portion of the data is to be stored in an uncompressed format in the storage system in response to receiving the request. The method also comprising storing at least a portion of the data in the uncompressed format in an allocation unit of a segment in the storage system such that the stored data in the uncompressed format emulates stored data in a compressed format based on the said determination.
US10922014B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for die access order variation to a memory having a multiple-die architecture. In certain embodiments, an apparatus may comprise a controller configured to assign a unique die access order to each set of multiple sets of related commands, a die access order controlling an order in which a plurality of dies of a solid state memory are accessed to perform the related commands. A first stream may be assigned a first die access order, and a second stream may be assigned a second, different die access order, thereby distributing the timing of die access collisions between the streams.
US10922009B2
A computer-implemented method, according to one approach, includes: receiving a first request to perform a write operation from a host, and performing the write operation. Metadata corresponding to the first request is sent to the secondary data storage device, and metadata corresponding to a second request to perform the write operation is received from the secondary data storage device, where the second request was received at the secondary data storage device from the host. The metadata corresponding to the first and second requests is used to determine whether the write operation has been mirrored across the primary and secondary data storage devices. In response to determining that the write operation has been mirrored across the primary and secondary data storage devices, a response is sent to the secondary data storage device which indicates that the write operation has been reconciled across the primary and secondary data storage devices.
US10922008B2
A method for performing backup operations includes identifying a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) to back up, grouping the plurality of VMs to obtain a plurality of VM groups, and initiating a configuration of a production agent on a production host associated with a first VM group of the plurality of VM groups, wherein the configured first production agent initiates a backup operation on at least the first VM group.
US10922003B1
A host-assisted data deduplication system, including: a storage device including a controller, memory, and a write cache; and a host including a data duplication module coupled to the storage device, wherein the controller of the storage device is configured to write a data sector received from the host into the write cache in the storage device and to send a write completion to the host immediately after writing the data sector to the write cache; wherein the data duplication module is configured to detect whether the data sector is identical to another data sector stored in the memory of the storage device and to asynchronously send a duplicate detection result to the controller of the storage device, and wherein the controller of the storage device is configured to perform a data deduplication process for the data sector stored in the write cache based on the duplicate detection result.
US10921992B2
One embodiment facilitates a write operation in a shingled magnetic recording device. During operation, the system receives, by the storage device, data to be written to the storage device and access-frequency information associated with the data, wherein the storage device includes a plurality of concentric tracks. The system distributes a plurality of spare sector pools among the plurality of concentric tracks. The system selects a track onto which to write the data based on the access-frequency information, wherein data with a highest access-frequency is written to an outer track. The system appends the data at a current write pointer location of the selected track, thereby facilitating an enhanced data placement for subsequent access in the storage device.
US10921990B2
Techniques involve determining a first remaining lifetime of a flash device at a first time based on a warranty period, a factor of the number of writes per unit of time, and the number of executed writes for the flash device. The techniques further involve obtaining a second remaining lifetime at a second time prior to the first time, the second remaining lifetime being determined at the second time based on the warranty period, the factor of the number of writes per unit of time, and the number of executed writes. The techniques further involve determining a first lifetime decay rate based on the first and second remaining lifetimes. In addition, the techniques may determine a first predicted remaining lifetime based on the first lifetime decay rate. Accordingly, a remaining lifetime can be predicted based on the usage trend thereof.
US10921989B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to sensing operations in memory. An example apparatus can perform sensing operations on an array of memory cells by applying a first signal to a first portion of the array of memory cells and a second signal to a second portion of the array of memory cells.
US10921988B2
A data processing system includes a host device and a memory system including a plurality of units. The host device includes a workload generation component and an analysis component. The workload generation component concurrently transmits, to the memory system, a plurality of commands for the plurality of memory units. The analysis component receives, from the memory system, command completion messages corresponding to the plurality of commands; measures latencies of the plurality of commands based on the receiving of the command completion messages; and analyze a parallelism scheme of the plurality of memory units based the measured latencies.
US10921982B2
A method for operating a device, wherein a graphical user interface is generated and displayed on a display area. The user interface has at least one operating object assigned to an application program for controlling the device. Output data are generated and displayed in the region of the assigned operating object, wherein the application program has a function having exactly two activatable program states. The first program state is activated and the output data are generated based on the activated program state. An input gesture is detected based on the user interface. The operating object has a first region and a second region and the input gesture is assigned to the first region or to the second region.
US10921978B2
To provide a shaft feeder with which an operation for setting a shaft movement amount can be performed on a touch panel and numerical values for the shaft movement amount can be accurately set. A shaft feeder is used for moving a shaft in an industrial device and includes a display device including a touch panel, an operation detector that detects a left/right swipe operation on the touch panel, a display control unit that displays coordinate values relating to the shaft on the display device and changes the displayed coordinate values on the basis of the swipe operation detected by the operation detector, and a shaft movement unit that moves the shaft to a position indicated by the coordinate values on the basis of the displayed coordinate values.
US10921976B2
User interface navigation on a personal electronics device based on movements of a crown is disclosed. The device can select an appropriate level of information arranged along a z-axis for display based on crown movement. The navigation can be based on an angular velocity of the crown.
US10921967B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a rectangular display, at least one sensor, a processor electrically connected to the display and the at least one sensor, and a memory electrically connected to the processor, wherein the memory stores an application program including a first layout to be displayed when the display is substantially oriented in a horizontal orientation and a second layout is played when the display is substantially oriented in a vertical orientation, and the memory stores instructions which, when executed by the processor, causes the process to perform operations including displaying a window including one of the first and second layouts on a part of the display, detecting a change in the orientation of the electronic device by using the at least one sensor, rotating the window about 90 degrees based on the detected orientation change, and continuously maintaining one of the first and second layout in the window.
US10921963B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that provide a mechanism with which the display location of the operation object is able to be operated with a sensation of displacing an actual object. The information processing apparatus includes: a display control unit that controls display of an operation object for a device to be operated; and a reference control unit that controls a reference of a location at which the operation object is displayed such that the operation object is able to be visually recognized, on the basis of a predetermined operation performed to the operation object by an operation subject of the device to be operated.
US10921959B2
A workspace system includes a non-transitory, machine-readable medium and one or more processors that executes instructions stored in the non-transitory, machine-readable media to perform operations. The operations include generating a list of records in a workspace, wherein the list provides the records in a card layout and a table layout. The operations also include receiving a selection of at least one record from the list. The operations further include generating at least one tab in the workspace based at least on the selection of the at least one record. The operations also include generating tab content associated with the at least one tab, wherein the tab content provides a ribbon container and includes one or more form sections configured in columns in the workspace.
US10921956B2
An example information assessment system includes communication circuitry; storage; and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to control the information assessment system to at least receive, via the communication circuitry, content from multiple users relating to a particular topic; determine, for the content from each respective user, an orientation value reflecting a sentiment of the content; store, in the storage, the content from the multiple users in association with the orientation values; and in response to receiving a request for information about the particular topic, generate a visual map reflecting the orientation values associated with the content from the multiple users.
US10921951B1
A feedback button is configured to receive a feedback expression characterizing a user experience and submit information in a user interface with a single action. When the user hovers an input cursor near the feedback button, icons/text may be displayed that indicate different types of feedback expressions that may be submitted. As the user moves the cursor back and forth over the button, the icons for the different feedback expressions may be emphasized indicating locations where the button may be clicked to submit specific feedback. When the user is satisfied with the displayed feedback expression, the user may click the feedback button at the current location to submit the feedback expression and perform the final submit action for other data in the user interface.
US10921950B1
Pointing and interaction control devices for large scale tabletop models are provided herein. An example method includes determining a frame of reference for a first display, where the first display provides a multi-dimensional representation. The method includes determining a location and a direction of a laser beam emitted by a mobile device having a laser pointing apparatus using motion signals obtained from the mobile device, and the frame of reference. The first display can include a two-dimensional display surface and a physical three-dimensional representation placed onto the two-dimensional display surface. The method can include determining an intersection of a laser beam of the laser pointing apparatus with either the physical three-dimensional representation or the two-dimensional display surface based on the location and the direction of the mobile device relative to the frame of reference.
US10921945B2
The present invention provides a resistive force touch control device. The resistive force touch control device includes a first substrate and a second substrate spaced facing one another, a plurality of first wires parallelly spaced from one another and disposed on one side of the first substrate facing the second substrate, a plurality of second wires parallelly spaced from one another and disposed on one side of the second substrate facing the first substrate, and first anisotropic conductive adhesive located between the plurality of first wires and the plurality of second wires, wherein the plurality of first wires intersects the plurality of second wires. Therefore, force touch can be realized.
US10921941B2
An electronic device has a display and has a touch sensitive bezel surrounding the display. Areas on the bezel are designated for controls used to operate the electronic device. Visual guides corresponding to the controls are displayed on the display adjacent the areas of the bezel designated for the controls. Touch data is generated by the bezel when a user touches an area of the bezel. The device determines which of the controls has been selected based on which designated area is associated with the touch data from the bezel. The device then initiates the determined control. The device can have a sensor for determining the orientation of the device. Based on the orientation, the device can alter the areas designated on the bezel for the controls and can alter the location of the visual guides for the display so that they match the altered areas on the bezel.
US10921940B2
In a touch sensor in which a touch sensor body is attached to a cover member, the cover member includes: a first member made of a glass plate and having a first surface and a second surface that is an opposite surface of the first member from the first surface; and a resin film made of polyvinyl butyral (PVB) and formed on the second surface. The resin film is located between the first member and the touch sensor body.
US10921931B2
A touch input system includes: a coordinate detector that detects a position coordinate of a touch with a pen on a board; a pen identifying part that identifies an attribute regarding the pen; a first pen-state determiner that determines whether the pen is in a state where the coordinate detector is able to detect the position coordinate; a second pen-state determiner that determines whether the pen is in a state where the pen identifying part is able to identify the attribute; and a notifier that notifies predetermined information based on determination results of the first pen-state determiner and the second pen-state determiner.
US10921919B2
According to one embodiment, a touch panel display device includes sensor electrodes, an electrode driver, and lines for connection between the electrode driver and the sensor electrodes. The sensor electrodes include first and second electrodes. The lines include first and second lines connected to the first and second electrodes. The second line includes first portions drawn in a direction opposite to terminals of the electrode driver, and a second portion drawn in a direction to the terminals. The first portions are connected to one another via a coupling line.
US10921909B2
An input touch pen includes a digitizer refill contained inside a shaft tube and including a contact tip and a stepped tip portion rearward thereof, and a knock member protruding from an opening at a rear end of the shaft tube. The contact tip can protrude and retract through an opening at a tip end of the shaft tube. The stepped tip portion has a larger diameter than the opening at the tip end. A relationship A>X>Y is satisfied, wherein X represents a knock stroke of the digitizer refill, A a distance from the stepped tip portion to an inner surface at the tip end side when the contact tip is sunken inside the opening, and Y a distance that the contact tip is moved by operation of the knock member from a state of protruding from the opening to a state of being sunken inside the opening.
US10921905B2
A keyboard module including keys, a frame, a bottom plate, and a backlight assembly is provided. The frame has a key region. Top surfaces of the keys are exposed in the key region. The frame includes a column. The bottom plate is disposed under the frame. The bottom plate includes a bending portion. The backlight assembly is disposed under the bottom plate, and sequentially includes a light shielding sheet, a light guide plate, and a reflector. The light shielding sheet has a first opening. The light guide plate has a second opening. A part of the reflector is exposed by the first opening and the second opening. The column passes through the bending portion and is located in the first opening and the second opening. A bottom surface of the column leans against the reflector.
US10921900B1
A vehicle closure panel control assembly includes, among other things, a closure panel, an actuator system that can move the closure panel back and forth between an open position and a closed position, a positional sensor that senses a position of at least part of a user to detect a user gesture, and a control module that commands the actuator system to control movement of the closure panel. The commands from the control module to the actuator system are based at least partially on the user gesture.
US10921894B2
An event managing unit (8) is provided, which, when an event detected by the event detecting unit (7) is an event accompanied by notification of haptic feedback, determines whether or not to permit the notification of haptic feedback, on the basis of a reason for the notification of haptic feedback as a result of the event detected by the event detecting unit (7), and when a determination result from the event managing unit (8) indicates permission of the notification, a feedback notifying unit (11) provides the notification of haptic feedback.
US10921893B2
A method may include accessing audio data, obtaining tactile audio data associated with the audio data, and, while reproducing the audio data, reproducing a tactile audio response according to the tactile audio data in a manner personalized to a user. The tactile audio data may be reproduced via an electroactive transducer to transfer the tactile audio response to a body of a user. Another method may include obtaining audio data, parsing the audio data to identify an audio component that includes an audio layer or an audio source, and identifying an audio attribute of the audio component. The method may also include selecting the audio component to accompany a tactile audio response, generating tactile audio data that describes the tactile audio response for the selected audio component, and coordinating the tactile audio data of the selected audio component with the audio data of the selected audio component.
US10921887B2
Methods and systems for cognitive state aware accelerated activity completion and amelioration are disclosed. A method includes: collecting data related to a cognitive state of a user and a physical state of the user; determining a type of an activity performed by the user and an amount of work for the activity; determining the cognitive state of the user and the physical state of the user based on the data related to the cognitive state of the user and the physical state of the user; determining a predicted completion time for the activity based on the type of the activity, the amount of work for the activity, the cognitive state of the user, and the physical state of the user; and displaying a progress indicator including a portion of the activity that has been completed and an estimated completion time.
US10921886B2
This invention is a wearable circumferential array of electromyographic (EMG) sensors with a plurality of rings and columns of sensors which collect electromagnetic energy data concerning neuromuscular activity and functions as a Human-to-Computer Interface (HCI). In an example, it can be incorporated into a wearable device or clothing accessory such as an arm band, wrist band, finger ring, leg band, ankle band, bracelet, or watch strap. In an example, it can be incorporated into the cuff or sleeve of an article of clothing such as a shirt or a pair of shorts.
US10921879B2
An artificial reality system is described that renders, presents, and controls user interface elements within an artificial reality environment, and performs actions in response to one or more detected gestures of the user. The artificial reality system includes an image capture device, a head-mounted display (HMD), a user interface (UI) engine, and a rendering engine. The image capture device captures image data representative of a physical environment. The HMD outputs artificial reality content, the artificial reality content including an assistant element. The gesture detector identifies, from the image data, a gesture that includes a gripping motion of two or more digits of a hand to form a gripping configuration at a location that corresponds to the assistant element, and subsequent to the gripping motion, a throwing motion of the hand with respect to the assistant element. The UI engine generates a UI element in response to identifying the gesture.
US10921878B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from the first user, a request to create a joint virtual space to use with one or more second users, determining a first area in a first room associated with the first user based at least in part on space limitations associated with the first room and locations of one or more items in the first room, retrieving information associated with one or more second rooms for each of the second users, creating, based on first area of the first room and the information associated with each of the second rooms, the joint virtual space, and providing access to the joint virtual space to the first user and each of the one or more second users.
US10921869B2
Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to include one or more heat sources, a heat pipe embedded in a chassis of the electronic device, where the heat pipe is thermally coupled to the one or more heat sources to collect heat from the one or more heat sources, and a thermal cooling device, where the thermal cooling device is thermally coupled to the heat pipe and can dissipate heat collected from the heat pipe using air from outside the chassis. In an example, the heat pipe is an oscillating heat pipe and has a thickness between about two (2) millimeters to about twelve (12) millimeters.
US10921867B2
A field device for automation technology is accommodated in a housing which is produced from a polygonal profile and, for its part, is closed by a base plate and a cover plate. A base module is connected to the base plate, the base module being provided in a manner designed in the same way in all devices of a field bus, in order to manage the tasks of voltage supply and network connection. A functional module, which is optionally connected to the cover plate, provides the field device with one or more specific functionalities, and therefore configures the field device in a specific direction. This results in a unit of modular construction which, together with other identical field devices of different configuration, can be joined in accordance with the construction kit principle to form an automation system.
US10921866B2
Techniques and devices for access to high frame-rate radar data via a circular buffer are described. In some implementations, a radar sensor collects radar data regarding objects detected by a radar field and stores the data to a circular buffer. A data manager monitors the circular buffer and processes data requests from multiple applications. Through use of the described techniques and devices, the multiple applications can efficiently access the requested radar frame data from the circular buffer, reducing both memory requirements and processor resource usage associated with providing the requested data.
US10921862B2
An electronic device including a first body, a second body and a rotating switch is provided. The second body is pivoted to the first body. The rotating switch is disposed at a side of the first body, and the rotating switch includes a rotary knob, a rotation sensor and a switch component. The rotary knob is configured to rotate around and slide along a reference axis, and the rotary knob includes a rotating portion and an actuation portion opposite to the rotating portion. The rotation sensor is sleeved on the actuation portion. The switch component is disposed at a side of the actuation portion. On the reference axis, the actuation portion is aligned to the switch component.
US10921855B1
A semiconductor assembly for a display device comprises a display driver integrated circuit (DDIC) chip and an interposer coupled to the DDIC chip. The DDIC chip comprises a plurality of output pads and a plurality of input pads. Further, the DDIC chip is configured to drive a plurality of data lines of the display device to update an active region of the display device. The interposer comprises a plurality of output pads coupled to the plurality of output pads of the DDIC chip and is configured to be coupled to the plurality of data lines of the display device. The interposer further comprises a plurality of input pads coupled to the plurality of input pads of the DDIC chip pads. Further, a width of the interposer is at least as large as a distance between outermost data lines of the plurality of data lines.
US10921852B2
A display apparatus includes: a display panel configured to display an image, one or more sound generation devices configured to vibrate the display panel to generate sound, a supporting member configured to support the display panel, a partition between the display panel and the supporting member, the partition including: a first side in a horizontal direction, and a second side in a vertical direction, one or more first pad parts on the first side of the partition, and one or more second pad parts on the second side of the partition, wherein a first of the one or more first pad parts includes a different material from a material of a first of the one or more second pad parts.
US10921849B2
A System-on-a-Chip includes a plurality of processing systems and channel circuitry servicing the plurality of processing systems. The channel circuitry includes a clock sprinkler circuit, a clock source, first direction data path circuitry and second direction data path circuitry. A clock sprinkler is a clock signal that propagates in a first direction only, from a source to all destinations. The first direction data path circuitry includes a plurality of first direction data flip flops and first direction combinational logic that service data flow in the first direction. The second direction data path circuitry includes a plurality of second direction data flip flops and second direction combinational logic that service data flow in the second direction. Clock/data skew in a second direction is greater than clock/data skew in a first direction, the first direction data flip flops are located based upon the clock/data skew in the first direction and the second direction data flip flops are located based upon the clock/data skew in the second direction.
US10921848B2
An integrated circuit includes multiple blocks of circuitry (4, 6, 8) communicating signals via an interface 10 controlled by a clock signal. A clock mesh (20, 22) is used on at least one side of the interface driven by one or more clock drivers (24, 26) that drive the clock mesh with the clock signal communicated with a further block of circuitry. A plurality of interface storage circuits (flip-flops) (12, 14, 16, 18) are coupled to the clock mesh and receive the clock signal from the clock mesh to control storage therein. The interface storage circuits (54) may be of a form controlled by multiple clock signals, CP0, CP1. A signal value D may be captured into the storage circuit upon a rising edge of a first clock signal CP0 and launched from the storage circuit upon the rising edge of a second clock signal CP1.
US10921823B2
A platoon management control uses the GPS position of the rear of a lead vehicle. The lead vehicle deceleration demand is overlaid upon the position of the rear of the lead vehicle. The following vehicle uses its own GPS position along with the radar or vision system of the following vehicle to determine the rear of the lead vehicle. When a lead vehicle's deceleration signal is subtracted from the position of the rear of the forward vehicle as determined by the following vehicle, the deceleration profile must be within an acceptable window to be valid. Also, one or more local sensors on adjacent platooning vehicles are used to communicate encoding scheme selection information and also to communicate the deceleration command signals. This permits the following vehicle to decode the deceleration command signals using a decoding scheme corresponding to the encoding scheme indicated as being used by the leading vehicle.
US10921817B1
Techniques are disclosed for filtering point cloud data associated with particulate matter (e.g., gas, exhaust, fog, etc.) which do not impact driving from data used to plan a trajectory and/or a route of a robotic platform. The filtering may be based on determining that a set of points associated with a point cloud represents a navigable space for the robotic platform. The point cloud data may be filtered based on a determination that one or more safety conditions are satisfied. Semantic segmentation may be performed on an image to determine pixel classification probability distributions associated with pixels of the image. Data associated with the set of points may be projected onto the image to identify corresponding pixels. Confidence scores associated with pixel classification probability distributions for the identified pixels may be queried. A classification probability distribution for the set of points may be determined based at least in part on the queried confidence scores.
US10921816B2
An apparatus and method for producing a map based on a hierarchical structure to produce a 3D high-precision map based on the hierarchical structure using a low-priced 2D laser scanner is provided. The apparatus and method produces the 3D high-precision map based on the hierarchical structure using the low-priced 2D laser scanner.
US10921814B2
When a transmission condition regarding a state detected by a state detection unit (vehicle sensor, operation detection sensor, external environment sensor, or internal environment sensor) is satisfied while a travel controller performs a travel control, a vehicle control system transmits attentional state information representing a travel state, an operation state, or an environment state to a travel assist server through a communication device.
US10921813B2
A vehicle control device (100) includes a recognition unit (130) that is configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a subject vehicle that is able to be automatically driven, and a control unit (120, 160) that is configured to perform a predetermined operation with respect to a cause of obstruction to traffic of a traffic participant due to a predetermined contact of the subject vehicle in a case that the recognition unit recognizes that the predetermined contact of the subject vehicle has occurred, and the control unit differentiates an operation that is executed in a case that it is recognized that an occupant is not onboard the subject vehicle from an operation that is executed in a case that it is recognized that the occupant is onboard the subject vehicle.
US10921812B2
The present invention provides a method and system for coordinating the rendezvous of an autonomous automotive vehicle with an ambulance in a fastest manner possible when an emergency medical situation occurs for a passenger in the autonomous automotive vehicle. In order to minimize time delays in providing emergency medical service to the passenger, a safe rendezvous location is selected which requires the shortest travel times for both the ambulance and the autonomous automotive vehicle to meet at a, preferably simultaneous, arrival time.
US10921806B2
A moving robot is provided. A moving robot according to an embodiment of the present invention determines the location of a preset light device within a driving area and controls the light device based on the location. A moving robot according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a control unit controlling on/off of a light device through a communication unit and determining the location of a light device while moving a main body to a location where illuminance is changed based on an image obtained by an image acquisition unit.
US10921803B2
A flight control method and device for an unmanned aerial vehicle and a remote controller are provided. The method includes that: multiple pieces of locating data obtained by a locating operation are acquired in a remote controller; multiple target positions are determined according to the multiple pieces of locating data; a flight route is calculated according to the multiple target positions; and the flight route is sent to the unmanned aerial vehicle for flight according to the flight route. According to the method, carrying of multiple sets of equipment is avoided, and hardware cost is reduced.
US10921796B2
A system display control unit causes a display unit to display a simulated system screen. A symbol selection unit receives a selection of a symbol from a user. A model display control unit causes the display unit to display a plant model in which a component model corresponding to the component represented by the selected symbol is emphasized. A model selection unit receives a selection of a component model from the user. A component information display control unit causes the display unit to display information about the component represented by the selected model.
US10921786B2
A plant network entrance device includes a change information reception unit configured to receive change information for changing a control parameter of a plant facility from a change execution device, a change information transmission unit configured to transmit the change information to the plant facility, an operation data acquisition unit configured to acquire pre-change operation data that is operation data before a time at which a change in the control parameter based on the change information is made and post-change operation data that is operation data after the time at which the change is made, an improvement rate calculation unit configured to calculate an improvement rate for operation states before and after the change on the basis of the pre-change operation data and the post-change operation data, and an improvement rate transmission unit configured to transmit the improvement rate to the change execution device.
US10921776B2
A log collecting device enabling a grasp of an actuation status based on event logs without a restriction regarding a memory, and an industrial robot and an electric-powered press including the same are provided. A log collecting device 1 is provided on, for example, an industrial robot and an electric-powered press, stores an event log 11 indicating details of an event occurred at an apparatus in a volatile memory 3, creates the collection data 12 that is a collection of the event logs 11, stores this collection data 12 in the volatile memory 3, and deletes the event logs 11 collected as the collection data 12 from the volatile memory 3.
US10921775B2
A sensor monitors a treatment status of a predetermined manufacturing device, and an abnormality detection device detects an abnormality of a sensor signal that is a monitoring result of the sensor. The sensor signal is a digital data group obtained by sampling an analog waveform at a predetermined sampling period. A management apparatus learns characteristics of a plurality of digital data groups accumulated in past times through use of artificial intelligence to generate a learned model. An abnormality detection device holds the learned model and determines whether an abnormality is present in the digital data group of a current processing target by using the learned model.
US10921773B2
A temperature control method of controlling a temperature of a semiconductor wafer mounted on a mounting table includes a supply process of supplying, in a state that a supply of a power to a heater configured to heat the mounting table is stopped or the power is maintained to be constant, a heat transfer gas into a gap between the semiconductor wafer and the mounting table; a measurement process of measuring a temperature variation of the mounting table due to heat exchange between the semiconductor wafer and the mounting table through the heat transfer gas; a calculation process of calculating a correction value based on the temperature variation of the mounting table; and a control process of starting the supply of the power and controlling the power such that the temperature of the mounting table reaches a target temperature corrected with the correction value.
US10921761B2
There is disclosed a power drop assembly which includes a housing and a reel positioned and rotatable within it. Preferably, the device determines, not only whether power is available, but how much power is available. Preferably, the power drop assembly also contains a processor and non-transitory storage medium, so that user settings and profiles as well as settings and profiles for the power drop assembly can be stored and run. Additionally, the power drop assembly preferably contains a wireless transceiver which connects to a home Wi-Fi network and then to a cloud account, user profiles and settings, and settings and profiles for the power drop assembly can be saved on the cloud account. In this way multiple users can use the power drop assembly without contradicting instructions or resetting the power drop assembly every time it is used.
US10921754B2
A device for controlling at least two electronic and/or mechanical functions of a portable object of small dimensions includes a control stem that is axially movable between at least a first and a second position. The control stem is provided at a first end with an actuation member, and is provided towards a second end with a position indexing plate arranged to cooperate with an elastic member in order to match each of the first and second positions of the control stem with one of the mechanical or electronic functions.
US10921745B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main assembly and a drawer unit. The drawer unit includes a rotatable photosensitive drum, an optical print head, a relay substrate, a first wall portion, a second wall portion and a third wall portion continuously formed between an upstream end portion of the first wall portion and an upstream end portion of the second wall portion with respect to a drawing-out direction of the drawer unit from the main assembly. The relay substrate is provided on a surface of the third wall portion on an upstream side with respect to the drawing-out direction.
US10921741B2
In an image forming apparatus of a direct transfer system, when in a region where a transfer nip portion of a photosensitive drum is formed, a region in which the toner image can be formed is defined as a first region, and a region where the recording medium does not pass while the recording medium is conveyed by the transfer nip portion is defined as a second region, in forming the toner image on the recording medium, the photosensitive drum enters the transfer nip portion in a state where the second region of the photosensitive drum includes a region in which an absolute value of a surface potential is smaller than an absolute value of a surface potential of a region in which the toner image is not formed in the first region.
US10921739B2
A nip former includes a base, an enhanced thermal conductor including an insertion hole, and a securing member including an inserting portion to be inserted into the insertion hole to attach the securing member to the enhanced thermal conductor such that the enhanced thermal conductor and the securing member sandwich the base. The inserting portion has a width that is smaller than a width of the insertion hole in a pressurization direction of an opposed rotator that presses against the nip former via a belt. The inserting portion does not contact an upstream wall and a downstream wall of the insertion hole in the pressurization direction of the opposed rotator and a direction opposite the pressurization direction of the opposed rotator in a state in which the securing member is secured to the base and the opposed rotator presses against the enhanced thermal conductor via the belt.
US10921738B1
An error proof device for restricting assembling of a specific toner cartridge into an electronic image-forming apparatus only after the toner cartridge is rotated about a rotation axis includes a guiding portion at the apparatus and a retaining portion at the toner cartridge. The guiding portion has an axial groove and a positioning groove having a circular arc section. The retaining portion has an axial post located at the rotation axis and inserted into the axial groove, and a lateral post spaced from the axial post and inserted into the positioning groove. When the toner cartridge is rotated about the rotation axis, the lateral post moves along the circular arc section of the positioning groove. With the error proof device, a user can positively install a toner cartridge into an accuracy position, thereby avoiding material waste and undesired cleaning procedure due to error installation.
US10921724B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image holding member, a charging unit that charges a surface of the image holding member, an electrostatic charge image forming unit that forms an electrostatic charge image on the charged surface of the image holding member, a developing unit that includes an electrostatic charge image developing toner and that develops the electrostatic charge image on the surface of the image holding member with the electrostatic chare image developing toner to form a toner image, an intermediate transfer body having a circumferential surface of which micro rubber hardness is in a range of 45 to 65, a first transfer unit that first transfers the toner image formed on the surface of the image holding member to a surface of the intermediate transfer body, and a second transfer unit that second transfers the toner image transferred to the surface of the intermediate transfer body to a recording medium, wherein the electrostatic charge image developing toner satisfies the following formulae (ln η(T1)−ln η(T2))/(T1−T2)≤−0.14, (ln η(T2)−ln η(T3))/(T2−T3)≥−0.15, and (ln η(T1)−ln η(T2))/(T1−T2)<(ln η(T2)−ln η(T3))/(T2−T3) wherein η(T1) represents a viscosity of the electrostatic charge image developing toner at 60° C., η(T2) represents a viscosity of the electrostatic charge image developing toner at 90° C., and η(T3) represents a viscosity of the electrostatic charge image developing toner at 130° C.
US10921708B2
Provided are a radiation-sensitive resin composition having good sensitivity and excellent temporal stability of the sensitivity, a cured film, a pattern forming method, a solid-state imaging device, and an image display device. The radiation-sensitive resin composition includes a resin, a polymerizable compound having an ethylenically unsaturated bond, a photopolymerization initiator, an organic solvent, and water, in which the photopolymerization initiator includes an oxime ester compound having at least one group selected from a branched alkyl group and a cyclic alkyl group, and the content of water is 0.1% to 2% by mass with respect to the mass of the radiation-sensitive resin composition.
US10921707B2
A process flow for shrinking a critical dimension (CD) in photoresist features and reducing CD non-uniformity across a wafer is disclosed. A photoresist pattern is treated with halogen plasma to form a passivation layer with thickness (t1) on feature sidewalls, and thickness (t2) on the photoresist top surface where t2>t1. Thereafter, an etch based on O2, or O2 with a fluorocarbon or halogen removes the passivation layer and shrinks the CD. The passivation layer slows the etch such that photoresist thickness is maintained while CD shrinks to a greater extent for features having a width (d1) than on features having width (d2) where d1>d2. Accordingly, CD non-uniformity is reduced from 2.3% to 1% when d2 is 70 nm and is shrunk to 44 nm after the aforementioned etch. After a second etch through a MTJ stack to form MTJ cells, CD non-uniformity is maintained at 1%.
US10921706B2
An apparatus, method, or platter for modifying mesa sidewalls of a template by cleaning or coating the mesa sidewalls. In which the template has a pattern area on a first surface of a mesa. Mesa sidewalls surround the first surface of the mesa. The mesa sidewalls are exposed to a gas. The gas modifies the mesa sidewalls. Resistance to the flow of gas towards the pattern area is provided.
US10921701B2
An image projection apparatus includes: a projector; a projection control apparatus; and a color tone sensor. The projector projects an image. The projection control apparatus causes the projector to perform a projection on a surface of a target serving as a projection target. The color tone sensor detects a color tone of the surface of the target on which an image is projected. The projection control apparatus adjusts a color tone of an image to be projected on a basis of a detection result of the color tone sensor such that the color tone detected by the color tone sensor has a predetermined value.
US10921698B2
A light source device according to the present disclosure includes a light source configured to emit excitation light, a first rod part including a phosphor and configured to emit fluorescence in response to incidence of the excitation light, a second rod part located in parallel to the first rod part, including a phosphor, and configured to emit fluorescence in response to incidence of the excitation light, a first reflecting film disposed so as to be opposed to a tilted surface formed in an end part of the first rod part, and a second reflecting film disposed so as to be opposed to a tilted surface formed in an end part of the second rod part.
US10921695B2
A wavelength-converting wheel includes a motor, a turntable, a pressing ring, a first balance block and an adhesive layer. The motor has a rotating shaft. The turntable has an inner ring portion and an annular irradiation portion. The inner ring portion is sleeved on the rotating shaft. The annular irradiation portion is connected to an outer edge of the inner ring portion. The pressing ring is sleeved on the rotating shaft and pressed and abutted against the inner ring portion. The pressing ring has a first surface and a second surface. The second surface faces the inner ring portion. The first balance block is disposed on the first surface. The adhesive layer is adhered between the second surface of the pressing ring and the inner ring portion. A heat insulation structure is disposed in the projection direction where the first balance block is projected on the inner ring portion.
US10921694B2
A wall controller is provided. The wall controller includes a projection screen arranged to project a digital image onto the projection screen from the projector, wherein the projector has an optical axis that is non-orthogonal to the projection screen. The wall controller includes a housing having the projection screen mounted thereto. A housing is dimensioned to fit a second end of the housing through an aperture in a first wall, fit the second end into a wall space between the first wall and a second wall, and fit a majority of the first end of the housing into the aperture until the projection screen is parallel to a surface of the first wall. The aperture dimensioned to fit the first end of the housing or the front portion of the projection screen.
US10921689B2
Various operator supported camera positioning systems are disclosed. The camera positioning systems can allow translational and rotational movement of different camera types on a camera mount. An operator interface, such as a handle bar or elongated beam, can operatively support the camera mount through a series of rotational linkages, allowing for relative rotation of the camera mount about one, two or three axes. The rotation about some or all of these axes can be controlled by drives, and control signals for these drives can be generated by one or more inertial transducers to stabilize the surface mount and associated camera orientation and pointing by reducing deviations from the inertially fixed orientation of the camera mount in response to rotational movements of the system about the one or more controlled axes of rotation.
US10921686B2
Provided is a camera module including a liquid lens including an electrode; a holder for receiving the liquid lens therein; a base disposed under the holder; a sensor board disposed under the base and including an image sensor; a connection board connected to at least a portion of the electrode of the liquid lens; and a terminal plate disposed at the base and electrically connected to the sensor board and the connection board.
US10921676B2
An electrophoretic medium comprises a plurality of charged particles disposed in a fluid. The fluid comprises at least about 75, and preferably at least about 95, percent by weight of a hydrocarbon selected from monounsaturated nonenes, nonane and methyloctane. The electrophoretic medium is especially useful in microcell electrophoretic media comprising a substrate having a plurality of cavities, and a sealing layer closing the open ends of the cavities, the cavities being filled with the electrophoretic medium.
US10921673B2
An electrochromic device includes a first flexible substrate, a first transparent electrode disposed on the first flexible substrate, an electrochromic layer disposed on the first transparent electrode, and a solid electrolyte layer disposed on the electrochromic layer. The solid electrolyte layer contains less than 20 wt % of neutral small organic molecules having a molecular weight of 3000 or less. The electrochromic device further includes an ion storage layer disposed on the solid electrolyte layer, a second transparent electrode disposed on the ion storage layer, and a second flexible substrate disposed on the second transparent electrode.
US10921670B1
An array substrate and a vehicle-mounted display device. A first transistor of the array substrate includes a source electrode connected with a pixel electrode, a drain electrode and a gate electrode, a compensation gate electrode connected with the gate electrode, the sum of an overlapping region of the source electrode and the gate electrode and an overlapping region of the source electrode and the compensation gate electrode is a first overlapping region. A second transistor includes a source electrode connected with a pixel electrode, a drain electrode and a gate electrode, a compensation gate electrode connected with the gate electrode, the sum of an overlapping region of the source electrode and the gate electrode and an overlapping region of the source electrode and the compensation gate electrode is a second overlapping region. An area of the first overlapping region is equal to an area of the second overlapping region.
US10921668B1
The invention provides a pixel unit, a pixel array, and a display panel. The pixel unit includes a first sub-pixel unit, a second sub-pixel unit, and a third sub-pixel unit, and the sub-pixel units share one data line. In the pixel unit of the present invention, which utilizes a plurality of sub-pixel units in the pixel unit sharing the same data line and simultaneously gate lines of a plurality of sub-pixel units arranging in parallel in the pixel unit, therefore, to save a wiring area, and an aperture ratio of the pixel unit is increased. Thereby increasing the light transmittance of the display panel and improving the display effect of the product.
US10921659B2
A pixel structure and a driving method thereof, a display panel and a display device are provided. The pixel structure includes a pixel electrode, a gate line, a data line, a first thin film transistor and a second thin film transistor. A gate electrode of the first thin film transistor is electrically connected with the gate line, a first electrode of the first thin film transistor is electrically connected with the data line; a gate electrode of the second thin film transistor is electrically connected with a first electrode of the second thin film transistor, the first electrode of the second thin film transistor is electrically connected with the pixel electrode, and a second electrode of the second thin film transistor is electrically connected with a second electrode of the first thin film transistor.
US10921656B2
A light control module including a light control sheet and a drive circuit that applies a voltage to a first electrode and a second electrode of the light control sheet. The light control sheet includes a light control layer switchable between a transparent state and an opaque state according to an applied voltage. The light control sheet has a feeding area for applying a voltage to the first and second electrodes. The light control sheet is formed such that when the light control sheet receives a voltage that causes a transmittance of the light control sheet to be equivalent to a Munsell value of 90% in a region closest to the feeding area, the light control sheet has a transmittance equivalent to a Munsell value of 50% in a region farthest from the feeding area, where a Munsell value of 100% is a maximum transmittance of the light control sheet.
US10921649B2
A display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a first conductive layer, a first insulating layer, a second conductive layer and a spacer. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. The first conductive layer is disposed on the first substrate and includes the first conductive line and the first dummy pad thereon. The first dummy pad and the first conductive line are disposed adjacent to each other. The first insulating layer is disposed on the first conductive layer. The second conductive layer is disposed on the first insulating layer and include a conductive pad partially overlap the first dummy pad. The spacer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and partially overlaps the first conductive line.
US10921645B2
A display module includes a backlight module, a liquid crystal layer disposed on the backlight module, and a first light-expanding layer disposed on the liquid crystal layer. The backlight module provides a surface light source. The surface light source forms an image light through the liquid crystal layer, and the first light-expanding layer increases the viewing angle range of the image light along a first direction. The first light-expanding layer substantially extends along a virtual plane, the first direction is perpendicular to the normal of the virtual plane, and a second direction is perpendicular to the first direction and the normal of the virtual plane. The light intensity at the 60-degree viewing angle of the surface light source along the first direction is lower than the light intensity at the 60-degree viewing angle of the surface light source along the second direction.
US10921636B2
A display panel and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes: a first color pixel including: a first sub-electrode disposed in a first region of the first color pixel and configured to extend in a first direction; and a second sub-electrode disposed in a second region of the first color pixel and configured to extend in a second direction, a second color pixel including a second electrode configured to extend in a third direction; and a third color pixel including a third electrode configured to extend in a fourth direction.
US10921634B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel has a display region and a peripheral region, a black matrix layer including a portion in the peripheral region; a first annular opening surrounding the display region and a second annular opening surrounding the first annular opening and on a side, away from the display region, of the first annular opening are provided in the portion of the black matrix layer; the first annular opening divides the portion of the black matrix layer into an inner part close to the display region and an outer part away from the display region; the second annular opening divides the outer part into a first part close to the display region and a second part away from the display region; both the first annular opening and the second annular opening are closed annular.
US10921633B2
A display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a light guide plate including a light incident surface and a light emergent surface; the light incident surface is one end surface of the light guide plate; an opposite substrate opposite to the light guide plate; a liquid crystal layer between light guide plate and opposite substrate; a light source located on the light incident surface of light guide plate; a light shielding layer at the side, facing liquid crystal layer, of the opposite substrate; the light shielding layer including light shielding regions, light transmitting regions; light converging elements located on light emergent surface of light guide plate, the light converging elements corresponding to one light shielding region; a transparent conductive structure between light guide plate and opposite substrate and configured to make liquid crystal layer be equivalent to a diffraction grating structure under control of electric signals.
US10921630B2
The present disclosure relates to display systems and, more particularly, to augmented reality display systems. A diffraction grating includes a plurality of different diffracting zones having a periodically repeating lateral dimension corresponding to a grating period adapted for light diffraction. The diffraction grating additionally includes a plurality of different liquid crystal layers corresponding to the different diffracting zones. The different liquid crystal layers have liquid crystal molecules that are aligned differently, such that the different diffracting zones have different optical properties associated with light diffraction.
US10921628B2
An input device includes an input member to which a touch operation is input, a touch panel pattern included in the input member and configured to detect an input position of the touch operation, a base member on which the input member is mounted, a pressure sensor disposed on the base member and detecting a pressure that acts on the input member when the input member is pressed by the touch operation, a small vibration actuator configured to apply relatively small vibration to the input member, a large vibration actuator configured to apply relatively large vibration to the input member, and a controller configured to control driving of the small vibration actuator and the large vibration actuator based on the input position detected by the touch panel pattern and the pressure detected by the pressure sensor.
US10921622B2
An anti-peeping control device includes two polarizers and a liquid crystal box disposed between the two polarizers. An included angle of 5 to 15 degrees is formed between the axial directions of the transmission axes of the two polarizers, or the axial directions of the transmission axes of the two polarizers are parallel to each other but not parallel and not perpendicular to any side edge of the polarizer. The axial directions of the transmission axes of the two polarizers are perpendicular or parallel to the alignment direction of the alignment layer of the liquid crystal box. The anti-peeping control device can use an electronic control method to switch the anti-peeping effect. A backlight module and display using the anti-peeping control device are also proposed.
US10921612B2
Presbyopia treatment and anti-myopia spectacles comprise a negative refractive element facing an object and a positive refractive element facing a patient eye. The negative refractive element has a central zone with a strong negative refractive power. The positive refractive element has a central zone with a less strong positive refractive power. The front focal point of the central zone of the positive lens does not have to overlap with the front focal point of the central zone of the negative lens. The negative refractive element and the positive refractive element are axially separated by a relatively small distance such that the combination of the two refractive elements is compact enough to be made into an easily wearable spectacle. For myopia progression control, at least one portion of the paracentral and/or peripheral zone of at least one of the two refractive elements has a relative add power with respect to that of the central zone such that the image of an off-axis distant or intermediate object is formed in front of a corresponding paracentral or peripheral retina area to create myopic defocus on the corresponding retina area.
US10921611B2
The present disclosure provides a display system that may comprise a retro-reflective screen configured to reflect incident light along a direction that is opposite to the direction of propagation of the incident light, and a projector that may project light characterizing an image or video to the retro-reflective screen. An array of optical elements or an individual optical element may be positioned between the retro-reflective screen and the projector. The array of optical elements or individual optical element may direct the light from the projector to the retro-reflective screen in a manner such that the image or video is viewable by a user at an observation angle of at least about 2 degrees.
US10921608B2
Speckle artifacts as viewed in images projected on a display surface by a projector can be reduced. At least one spatial light modulator, illuminated by one or more light sources, can be imaged to a screen by a projection lens. A deflector subsystem can be provided in image space, proximate to the lens, where the image light emerges. In this location, image light directed to any given field point on the display surface is convergent, but can appear collimated. The deflector subsystem can include a tilted optical plate that is rotated in a plane along an axis. As the deflector subsystem is temporally rotated, the image light to any given field point traverses different optical paths, varying the angular diversity to reduce perceivable speckle by changing at least the angle of incidence to the screen.
US10921602B2
A head-mounted device (HMD) whose circumference is dynamically adjustable to conform to different head sizes and shapes is disclosed herein. The HMD includes a front-end and back-end housing. The front-end housing includes a first compute unit, and the back-end housing includes a second compute unit. The HMD also includes two adjustable flex fit arms that connect the front-end housing to the back-end housing. The HMD has an enclosed rounded boundary that is placeable around a user's head. The HMD also includes a nested flexible cable ribbon, which is nested within a cavity of one of the arms and which includes both a static bend and a dynamic bend. The bend radius for the dynamic bend is larger than the bend radius of the static bend. The dynamic bend enables the nested flexible cable ribbon to expand or contract when the circumference of the enclosed rounded boundary changes.
US10921595B2
A computing device includes an interface configured to interface and communicate with augmented reality glasses associated with a user, a memory that stores operational instructions, and processing circuitry operably coupled to the interface and to the memory that is configured to execute the operational instructions to perform various operations. The computing device receives the information that is related to the position and/or movement of the augmented reality glasses with respect to the user from monitoring component(s) of the augmented reality glasses. The computing device processes that information to determine the position and/or the movement of the augmented reality glasses with respect to the user. The computing device transmits media to the reality display of the augmented reality glasses to be consumed by the user and modify at least a portion of the media based on the position and/or movement of the augmented reality glasses with respect to the user.
US10921590B1
Systems and methods disclosed provided a virtual reality experience, including: a set of motorized pads for coupling to feet of a user; a means of communication between the set of motorized pads and a computing environment operating a virtual reality headset; such that the set of motorized pads are configured to provide pressure on a user's feet as an avatar within a virtual environment traverses the environment. Systems and methods disclosed further provide a multiuser virtual reality experience. Systems and methods disclosed further provide a multiuser experience including generation of a common environment viewable in the virtual reality headsets; and recording a tour including audio data as the first user describes the common environment.
US10921588B2
A three-dimensional display apparatus includes a display panel and an optical element. The display panel includes a display surface. The display surface extends in a first direction, extends in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The first direction corresponds to a parallax direction of user's eyes seeing an image. The display surface curves around a central axis extending in the second direction. The display surface includes subpixels arranged in a grid pattern in the first direction and the second direction within the display surface. The optical element is arranged along the display surface, and the optical element includes strip-shaped regions, each of which extends in a certain direction. The optical element is configured to define a beam direction of image light emitted from the subpixels. The display surface forms an arc in a cross-section that is orthogonal to the second direction. A position of an eye box, in the first direction, is set to a position within a distance r sin θ from the center of the arc. The r represents a diameter of the arc. The θ represents an angle formed by a linear line connecting between a first direction edge of the display panel and a center of the arc and a linear line connecting between a first direction center of the display panel and the center of the arc viewed in the second direction. The eye box is an acceptable range of a position of the user's eyes when the user sees the image.
US10921586B2
An image processing method and apparatus in a virtual reality device are provided. The method includes determining, according to a visual acuity status of a user of a virtual reality device, a filtering parameter corresponding to visual acuity of the user. For an image played on the virtual reality device, an inverse filtering processing is performed on the image according to the determined filtering parameter. An image obtained after the inverse filtering processing is then displayed on a screen of the virtual reality device. Embodiments of the present invention also provide a device and a terminal for such image processing.
US10921585B2
A generally time-varying boundary surface between a plurality of flowing fluids having different refractive indices, e.g. the boundary surface between water and air with an open water surface, produces an optical disturbance. Optical flow measurement procedures that occur through the boundary surface are affected by this disturbance, which can lead to significant measurement deviations or can even completely prevent a measurement from being made. The invention contributes to solving this metrological problem by proposing arrangements and methods for instantaneous, hardware-based correction of optical disturbances caused by a fluctuating boundary surface. For this purpose, a wavefront modulator is introduced into the beam path of the optical measuring method, the modulator actively compensating for the optical disturbance by means of a control system. The invention makes it possible to perform optical flow measurements through a fluctuating boundary surface. It is not limited to a single flow measurement technique, but can be implemented in all known imaging methods. The invention can be used in a variety of technical applications. Some examples include: liquid-air boundary surfaces, e.g. in water channels with an open surface; film streams, e.g. in process techniques for cooling, purification or distillation; jets of fluid with surfaces fluctuating on all sides; measurements in levitated drops or drops adhering to an opaque base, or gas bubbles occurring in liquids. The invention is also suitable for the correction of disturbances caused by temperature gradients in combustion, pressure gradients, such as in pressure surges, or concentration gradients, such as in electrolysis processes.
US10921581B2
A scan driving device includes a waveform generator that generates a sawtooth driving waveform having a rise period in which a signal level rises, and a fall period in which the signal level falls, and a driving circuit that drives an optical scanning device, that resonates at a natural resonant frequency thereof, by a sawtooth driving voltage waveform corresponding to the sawtooth driving waveform. A time width of one of the rise period and the fall period is shorter than the other of the rise period and the fall period, and is an integer multiple of an inverse number of the natural resonant frequency.
US10921569B2
Provided is a zoom lens including, in order from an object side to an image side: a positive first lens unit; a negative second lens unit; a positive third lens unit; a positive fourth lens unit; and a rear unit including at least one lens unit. An interval between each pair of adjacent lens units is changed during zooming. The first lens unit includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a negative lens and a positive lens. A focal length f1 of the first lens unit, a focal length f2 of the second lens unit, a focal length f3 of the third lens unit, and an average value Nd1ave of refractive indices at a d-line of respective materials of the negative lens and the positive lens of the first lens unit are each appropriately set.
US10921567B2
A photographing optical lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element and an eighth lens element. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The eighth lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein the image-side surface of the eighth lens element has at least one convex shape in an off-axis region thereof, and both an object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof are aspheric. The photographing optical lens system has a total of eight lens elements. An air gap in a paraxial region is located between every two lens elements of the photographing optical lens system that are adjacent to each other.
US10921557B2
The present disclosure provides an optical imaging system of a camera lens assembly. The optical imaging system is sequentially provided with a first lens, a second lens, a third lens and a fourth lens from an object side to an imaging side along an optical axis. The first lens has a positive refractive power, an object side surface and an image side surface of the first lens are both convex surface. An object side surface of the second lens is a convex surface, and an image side surface of the second lens is a convex surface. The third lens has a negative refractive power and the fourth lens has a negative refractive power. An effective focal length of the first lens f1, an effective focal length of the fourth lens f4, and an effective focal length of the optical imaging system f satisfy: −0.8<(f1+f4)/f<0.
US10921548B2
A focusing mechanism includes: a driving source in which three or more cantilever-like piezoelectric actuators are radially arranged; and an optical lens unit that consists of an outer frame, an optical lens, a lens holder provided around the optical lens and holding the optical lens, and an elastic body connecting the lens holder to the outer frame and elongating and contracting in a radial direction of the optical lens, wherein surfaces of driving distal ends of the cantilever-like piezoelectric actuators, which are perpendicular to a direction of an optical axis of the optical lens, are in contact with the lens holder, and the cantilever-like piezoelectric actuators move the optical lens in the direction of the optical axis of the optical lens by the drive of the cantilever-like piezoelectric actuators to perform focusing.
US10921546B2
A driving mechanism is provided, including a base unit, a frame, a holder, a first driving assembly, a sensing magnet, and a magnetic field sensor. The base unit has a polygonal structure. The frame is connected to the base unit. The holder is connected to the frame for holding an optical element, wherein the optical element defines an optical axis. The first driving assembly is disposed on the base unit and the frame, close to a first side of the base unit for driving the holder and the frame to move relative to the base unit along a horizontal direction perpendicular to the optical axis. The sensing magnet is disposed on the holder and close to a second side of the base unit, opposite to the first side. The magnetic field sensor is disposed on the base unit for sensing the sensing magnet.
US10921535B1
An optical sub-assembly comprising a filtering optical module, a light emitting module having a light emitting device (LED), at least a light receiving module, at least one wavelength filter, a fibre optic connector and cable having a fiber optic, and a telescopic-shaped core cylinder module having at least two tapered diameter core portions and at least a gel coating layer over an inner surface thereof is provided. A first optical signal of the light emitting device is directed to the tapered diameter core portions, the at least one wavelength filter, and onto the fibre optic. The telescopic-shaped core cylinder module is configured to perform isolation on optical signals via the tapered diameter core portions, taperedly shrinking the area for reflected light to impinge on the LED, and the at least a gel coating layer absorbing wavelengths of the optical signals reflected in and to the tapered diameter core portions.
