US09125335B2
A ceramic circuit board for use in packaging an electronic element includes a ceramic-copper plate, and a heat-dissipating unit that is adapted for dissipating heat from the electronic element. The ceramic-copperplate includes a ceramic substrate that has opposite first and second surfaces, and a through-hole formed through the first and second surfaces, a top copper pattern that overlies the first surface of the ceramic substrate and that has at least two conducting portions spaced apart from each other, and a bottom copper layer that underlies the second surface of the ceramic substrate. The heat-dissipating unit includes a heat-dissipating layer that is disposed in the through-hole of the ceramic substrate above the bottom copper layer and that has a thermal conductivity larger than that of the ceramic substrate. A method of making the ceramic circuit board is also disclosed.
US09125323B2
A rear end of a main body of a rack body with an airflow blocking mechanism is pivotally coupled to a blocking sheet, and the blocking sheet is adjusted to be levelly or erectly disposed conveniently; the position change of the blocking sheet is relied on to control air to flow into a rack body or not to allow the rack body installed with no electronic device in the same computer housing to have an airflow blocking function to avoid decreasing air amount flowing through other rack bodies installed with an electronic device so as to elevate the electronic device cooling efficiency.
US09125322B2
An electronic system includes an electronic device of through-hole mounting type comprising an insulating body for embedding at least a chip on which electronic components are integrated, a plurality of conductive leads projecting from the insulating body for said mounting, and a dissipation plate exposed from the insulating body for transferring heat from said electronic component in operation towards the outside of the insulating body. The electronic system includes a heat sink in contact with said dissipation plate for dissipating said heat. The heat sink comprises a first dissipation element, a second dissipation element, and clamping means for clamping the first dissipation element and the second dissipation element together against the insulating body of said electronic device.
US09125317B2
A bracket may be provided. The bracket may comprise a main plate comprising a bend. In addition, the bracket may comprise a slider plate configured to movably slide against the main plate. The slider plate may further comprise an offset that may be substantially parallel with the bend. The bracket may further comprise a charging device configured create a force in a direction from the offset to the bend.
US09125313B2
An electronic circuit contains a circuit board with conducting tracks to which one or more electronic components with conducting contacts are positioned overlying portions of the conducting tracks and each such electronic component is held in place by a clamp that is in contact with the top surface of the electronic components so as to hold their conducting contacts in electrical contact with the conducting tracks of the circuit board. The clamp can include a resilient layer held between the top surface of electronic components and a rigid clamping sheet.
US09125312B2
An electrical power supply system includes a freestanding primary electrical unit, a non-freestanding accessory unit, and an accessory unit support system. The primary electrical unit includes a freestanding cabinet containing a primary electrical component. The accessory unit includes a non-freestanding accessory cabinet containing an accessory electrical component. The accessory unit support system is configured to couple the accessory cabinet to the primary cabinet such that the accessory unit is thereby structurally supported by the primary electrical unit. The accessory cabinet can be selectively decoupled from the primary cabinet and alternatively structurally supported using the accessory support system.
US09125310B2
The present disclosure relates to thermoplastic electrostatic dissipative (ESD) composites. The disclosed composites comprise a thermoplastic resin phase and a plurality of intermediate modulus carbon fibers dispersed within the thermoplastic resin phase. Also disclosed herein are methods for the manufacture and/or use of the disclosed ESD composites as well as articles formed from such composites.
US09125285B2
A target supply device may include a tank including a nozzle, a first electrode disposed within the tank, a first potential setting unit configured to set a potential at the first electrode to a first potential, a second electrode provided with a first through-hole and disposed so that a center axis of the nozzle is positioned within the first through-hole, a second potential setting unit configured to set a potential at the second electrode to a second potential that is different from the first potential, and a charge neutralization unit configured to neutralize a charge of the target material that passes through a first region located between the second electrode and the plasma generation region.
US09125283B2
A light source apparatus is adapted to be shared by excimer lamps. An IC tag is disposed at each lamp, and the IC tag stores information identifying the lamp. A storage unit of the light source apparatus stores information identifying a usable lamp (or usable lamps) for the light source apparatus, an emission wavelength of the lamp, and a sensitivity correction value of an optical sensor that corresponds to the emission wavelength. When the light source apparatus is driven to cause the lamp to light, the information stored in the IC tag and information stored in the storage unit are collated and it is determined whether the lamp is usable and the emission wavelength of the lamp is a preset emission wavelength. If it is determined that the lamp is usable and the emission wavelength is appropriate, the sensitivity of the optical sensor is corrected with the correction value.
US09125280B2
A display device with wireless power supply from power transmission means is disclosed in the disclosure. The display device comprises a display module, a system controlling module and a wireless power receiving module. The system controlling module is electrically connected to the display module. The wireless power receiving module is electrically connected to the system controlling module. The wireless power receiving module comprises a plurality of near-field coil units. The near-field coil units have individual receiving frequencies and individual output powers. The near-field coil units are configured to resonate with a transmission coil of the power transmission means. According to a transmission frequency on the transmission coil, the near-field coil unit with corresponding receiving frequency generates an electricity supply with a certain output power to the system controlling module. In addition, a wireless power transmission system is also disclosed herein.
US09125273B2
A load driving apparatus relating to light-emitting-diodes (LEDs) is provided. In the invention, a compensation voltage on a compensation pin (CMP) of a control chip does not change in response to (or with) the variation (i.e. enabling and disabling) of a pulse-width-modulation (PWM) signal for dimming. In other words, regardless of whether the PWM signal for dimming is enabled or disabled, the compensation voltage on the compensation pin of the control chip maintains unchanged. Therefore, an LED string at the current switching transient does not have the generation of over-shoot current.
US09125272B2
A lighting apparatus includes a board, a first light-emitting diode (LED) bank disposed on the board, a second LED bank disposed on the board, a light detector coupled to the first LED bank, and a driver coupled to the light detector and to each of the first and second LED banks. The first LED bank includes a plurality of first LEDs. The second LED bank includes a plurality of second LEDs, and is electrically coupled to the first LED bank. The light detector is configured to detect an output decay of light from each of the first LEDs. The second LEDs in the second LED bank are initially deactivated and are subsequently activated in response to light output decay of the first LEDs.
US09125271B2
A lamp including a lamp base having at least three electrical contacts, an optical housing with an LED light source distal from the lamp base, a capper assembly including two or more bias switches accessible by a user located between the lamp base and optical housing, electronic circuitry located within the capper assembly, the electronic circuitry electrically coupled to the three electrical contacts and the LED light source, the electronic circuitry configured to provide a drive current to the LED light source, and the two or more bias switches are user-settable to set the drive current. The electronic circuitry provides at least two different levels of drive current to the LED light source, where the two or more bias switches are configured to control multiple levels of LED light intensity to an individual level.
US09125265B2
In a control circuit for a light-emitting device, a reference voltage generation circuit detects a full-wave rectified voltage and generates a first voltage as well as generating a second voltage by converting the rectified voltage into a DC voltage. A voltage corresponding to a difference between the first voltage and the second voltage or a voltage corresponding to a ratio of the first voltage to the second voltage is generated as a reference voltage by a subtraction circuit or by a division circuit, respectively. As a result, a change in amplitude of the reference voltage can be suppressed when amplitude of the rectified voltage is varied due to a variation in an AC input voltage supplied from an AC power supply.
US09125255B2
Intelligent lighting devices, with sensors, programmed processors and communication capabilities and networked with a hierarchy of computers, to form a system to monitor one or more conditions external to the lighting devices not directly related to operational performance of the respective lighting devices, for a variety of applications separate and in addition to the lighting related functions of the networked devices.
US09125253B2
An illumination system is provided. The illumination system comprises an array of light emitting elements, an array of directional optical elements and a light deflecting means arranged to provide a fan of light cones. A position detector senses the retroreflection from an observer's eyes and a control system reduces the intensity of light directed towards the retroreflection region. Such a system achieves glare reduction for a line-of-sight illumination apparatus.
US09125243B2
A system and method for electromagnetic surface treatment of a work piece has an electromagnetic pulse generator and an electromagnetic pulse tool. The work piece has a working surface. A current pulse generated by the electromagnetic pulse generator travels through the tool producing an electromagnetic pulse. The electromagnetic pulse interacts with the working surface causing an indentation to form. A residual compressive stress layer is also formed. The indentation has a smooth and continuous topography that is described by an indentation perimeter, an indentation transition region, an indentation sidewall, an impact transition region, and an impact region. The method may also simultaneously, or subsequently, form a second indentation which overlaps with the indentation. An inter-indentation overlap region is formed when the indentations overlap. The inter-indentation overlap region is smooth and continuous. Multiple treated surfaces may easily be formed on the working surface of the work piece.
US09125242B2
An inductive power transfer system includes a number of controllable reactive components (3, 6, 12, 13, 16) that allow the resonant frequency of a primary and/or secondary resonant circuit to be controllably varied to thereby control power available to a load (10).
US09125237B2
A communication apparatus connectable to a communication network notifies the presence of the communication apparatus using a communication channel assigned to the communication apparatus, then sets one communication channel different from the assigned communication channel of those available in the communication network, and searches for a communication partner apparatus which functions as a providing apparatus that provides communication parameters using the set communication channel. The communication apparatus repetitively executes the notification processing and the search processing, and changes a communication channel used in the search processing every time the repetition is executed one or a plurality of number of times.
US09125232B2
A base station provided with an interference judging unit judging if an amount of interference which occurs between the base station and a peripheral cell in wireless resources, allocated to a mobile station, is in an allowable range, a registering unit receiving a reception operation for registering a mobile station in a storage device which the base station can access, and a resource control unit allocating wireless resources to only mobile stations which are registered at the registering unit and changing the wireless resources to be allocated to the registered mobile station, when the amount of the interference is not in the allowable range.
US09125221B2
The invention relates to a method and apparatuses for allocating radio resources in a cellular communications network including the steps of: dynamically allocating a set of radio resources for a transmission taking place at a transmission time instance and for a further transmission taking place at a further transmission time instance, the further transmission relating to a response to the transmission taking place at the transmission time instance, and broadcasting both sets of allocated radio resources in the cellular communications network.
US09125219B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for setting up a channel for communication between distributed devices in a wireless communication system. A method of selecting a communication channel in a communication device of a wireless communication system may include requesting scanning of channels between the communication device and a discovery device, receiving a channel scanning response message including a Distributed Reservation Protocol (DRP) Availability Information Element (IE) assigned for each scanned channel, and selecting a channel based on the DRP Availability IE.
US09125216B1
The present disclosure describes techniques for avoiding interference among multiple radios. In some aspects a communication channel of a first wireless interface of a device is determined to be adjacent to a frequency band in which a second wireless interface of the device is configured to communicate and channel measurement results are altered prior to transmission by the first wireless interface to a base station, effective to prevent the base station from selecting, for use by the first wireless interface, the channel adjacent to the frequency band of the second wireless interface.
US09125210B2
A data transmission method in an enhanced CELL_FACH state, a network system, and a corresponding device are provided. The method includes the following steps. A radio transceiver receives information indicating a capability category of a UE. The radio transceiver acquires the capability category of the UE according to the information indicating the capability category of the UE. The radio transceiver performs data transmission to or from the UE according to the capability category of the UE. Since the information indicating the capability category of the UE is sent to the radio transceiver during the enhanced CELL_FACH data transmission, the radio transceiver performs the data transmission based on the capability category of a target UE, instead of the lowest capability category of the UE, thereby increasing the data transmission rate in the enhanced CELL_FACH state.
US09125208B2
A method is provided for sending a Fast Dormancy (FD) indication from a User Equipment (UE) to an access device through a Media Access Control (MAC) layer. The method includes receiving an indication from an upper layer that there is no more data for a prolonged period of time and generating and sending a MAC control element to the access device.
US09125207B2
The present invention discloses a method and device for controlling channel transmission. The control method includes: an MAC module receiving a resource configuration message; the MAC module parsing influence information from the resource configuration message, wherein the influence information indicates a radio bearer (RB) resource influenced by resource configuration; and during the resource configuration, the MAC module only pausing the data transmission borne by the RB resource influenced by the resource configuration. By way of the present invention, the RB resource not influenced by the resource configuration during the resource configuration can still carry out normal data transmission, avoiding the waste of RB resources not influenced by the resource configuration during the resource configuration.
US09125205B2
The present invention discloses a method, system and device for determining a bandwidth of an uplink sounding reference signal SRS. The method for determining the bandwidth of the uplink SRS comprises the following steps: determining whether SRS is transmitted with the uplink pilot time slot if the SRS is transmitted with the largest bandwidth level; transmitting SRS with the non-extensive SRS bandwidth if SRS is determined to be transmitted with the uplink pilot time slot and the UE reaches the power limit. In the present invention, the signal-to-noise ratio detected on the bandwidth with which SRS transmitted can be maintained, and the accurate detection of the channel information is thereby realized.
US09125201B2
An HSS 140 calculates a ratio (cell search time-period distribution ratio) of a time period for searching a cell 11 configured by an LTE base station 10 to a time period for searching a cell 21 configured by a W-CDMA base station 20, and transmits a cell search time-period distribution ratio response including the cell search time-period distribution ratio, to a UE 200. When the UE 200 receives the cell search time-period distribution ratio response, the UE 200 searches the cell 11 and the cell 21 according to the cell search time-period distribution ratio included in the cell search time-period distribution ratio response.
US09125194B2
A radio communication system includes a plurality of mobile station apparatuses and a base statement apparatus. Each of the mobile station apparatuses selects the lowest number and the second lowest number of control channel elements (CCEs) in which downlink allocation information is detected, and obtains two combinations, to be applied to transmission antennas, of a physical resource block (PRB), a cyclic shift amount, and an orthogonal code sequence in the time domain, on the basis of values by adding the numbers of CCEs to an offset value broadcast by the base station apparatus. Each of the mobile station apparatuses spreads pilot signals using spread codes based on the two combinations, arranges the spread pilot signals in PRBs corresponding to the signals, and transmits the signals through the transmission antennas.
US09125190B2
Methods and systems for hybrid point to multipoint communication systems having multiple downlink channels and a single uplink channel, including the steps of centrally allocating bandwidth to, and synchronizing communications with, a first and a second wireless clients; transmitting, over a shared signal wired distribution line, a first downlink signal transported over a first frequency, a second downlink signal transported over a second frequency, and an uplink signal transported over a fifth frequency; converting the frequency of the first downlink signal to a third frequency, and bi-directionally wirelessly communicating with a first wireless client over the third frequency; converting the frequency of the second downlink signal to a fourth frequency, and bi-directionally wirelessly communicating with a second wireless client over the fourth frequency; and converting and superpositioning a first received wireless uplink signal having the third frequency and a second received wireless uplink signal having the fourth frequency to the uplink signal that is transmitted over the shared signal wired distribution line using the fifth frequency.
US09125185B2
A WiFi access point (AP) includes a receive radio frequency (RF) front end and a baseband processor that controls operation of the receive RF front end. The RF front end captures signals over a wide spectrum that includes a plurality of WiFi frequency bands (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz) and channelizes one or more WiFi channels from the captured signals. The baseband processor combines a plurality of blocks of WiFi channels to create one or more aggregated WiFi channels. The receive RF front end may be integrated on a first integrated circuit and the baseband processor may be integrated on a second integrated circuit. The first and second integrated circuits may be integrated on a single package. The RF front end and the baseband processor may be integrated on a single integrated circuit. The WiFi access point comprises a routing module that is communicatively coupled to the baseband processor.
US09125183B2
A system and method for device-to-device (D2D) communication is disclosed. A preferred embodiment comprises a frequency synthesizer configured to provide a first carrier frequency and a second carrier frequency, an up-converter coupled to the frequency synthesizer and configured to up-convert a first baseband signal into a cellular uplink signal when receiving the first carrier frequency from the frequency synthesizer, and configured to up-convert the first baseband signal into a first device-to-device signal when receiving the second carrier frequency from the frequency synthesizer, and a down-converter coupled to the frequency synthesizer and configured to down-convert a second device-to-device signal into a second baseband signal when receiving the first carrier frequency from the frequency synthesizer, and configured to down-convert a cellular downlink signal into the second baseband signal when receiving the second carrier frequency from the frequency synthesizer.
US09125181B2
A method includes assigning a flow identifier to a flow that includes a plurality of packets. The method also includes generating a head packet of the plurality of packets. The head packet includes one or more header information fields that are associated with the flow identifier. The method further includes generating at least one data packet of the plurality of packets. The at least one data packet includes packet specific information and the flow identifier instead of the one or more header information fields. The method further includes transmitting the head packet. The method further includes, in response to detecting a successful receipt of the head packet, transmitting the at least one data packet.
US09125179B2
A frame transmission method, performed by a station (STA), in a wireless local area network (LAN) system is provided. The method comprises receiving a relay request message from an access point (AP), setting up a direct link (DL) with a destination STA indicated by the relay request message, transmitting a relay response message to the AP after setting up the DL, receiving a first data frame from the AP, and transmitting the first data frame to the destination STA through the DL.
US09125175B2
A transmission method for Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) is described, which can realize the multiplexing of Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) services with different Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS)/Service Data Unit (SDU) error rates. The method comprises dividing a plurality of services to be transmitted into multiple service groups according to error rates, each service group including at least one service, and transmitting the plurality of services according to the service groups, wherein the respective services in each service group are transmitted in turn according to a predetermined sequence. In this manner, MBMS services having different MCS/SDU error rates can be multiplexed and transmitted to UEs in the MBSFN.
US09125172B2
Apparatus, and an associated method, for paging an access terminal in a radio communication system. Dynamic configuration and reconfiguration of a quick page message is provided. Its configuration is dependent upon paging load in the system. Hash values are selected and used pursuant to the configuration, and use, of the message. A first hash value is selected within a first range. And, a second hash value is selected within a second range. The second range from which the second hash value is selected does not include the first hash value.
US09125167B1
A system and method of paging a wireless device in a communication network is provided. A paging request from a first network for a first wireless device can be received at a paging node in communication with a first network and a second network. A paging message for the first wireless device can be generated at the paging node based on the paging request. The paging message can further comprise an identifier of the first network. The paging message can be broadcast to a plurality of wireless device, the plurality of wireless devices comprising the first wireless device and at least one second wireless device associated with the second network. A paging response can be received from the first wireless device based on the paging message.
US09125165B2
A technique to provide a WLAN-based positioning system to determine a location of a mobile wireless receiving device. A single access point is used to generate a plurality of beacons, in which each beacon of the plurality of beacons has a unique identifier. Each beacon is then transmitted in a different direction from other beacons. When the receiving device receives at least one of the transmitted beacons, signal strength or some other signal parameter is obtained from the at least one received beacon. The received signal parameter is used to determine the location of the mobile receiving device.
US09125162B2
A wireless device may include a first detection unit configured to detect movement of the wireless device. The wireless device may also include a controller configured to determine whether a user is holding the wireless device based on the movement of the wireless device detected by the first detection unit. The controller may also be configured to generate a power adjust signal based on a determination that the user is holding the wireless device. The wireless device may also include a wireless radio controller configured to adjust a power level of a radio signal broadcast by the wireless device based on the power adjust signal.
US09125161B2
A system and method for determining a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) power control parameter h(nCQI,nHARQ) for two Carrier Aggregated (CA) PUCCH formats—PUCCH format 3 and channel selection. The value of h(nCQI,nHARQ) may be based on only a linear function of nHARQ for both of the CA PUCCH formats. Based on the CA PUCCH format configured for the User Equipment (UE), the e-Node B (eNB) may instruct the UE to select or apply a specific linear function of nHARQ as a value for the power control parameter h(nCQI,nHARQ), so as to enable the UE to more accurately establish transmit power of its PUCCH signal. Values for another PUCCH power control parameter—ΔF—PUCCH(F)—are also provided for use with PUCCH format 3. A new offset parameter may be signaled for each PUCCH format that has transmit diversity configured.
US09125158B2
A mechanism can be implemented for reducing the power consumption of a wireless radio device in establishing a wireless connection by utilizing a wideband signal to detect a narrowband trigger signal at a potential narrowband trigger frequency. The wireless radio device may operate a wideband receiver to receive an RF signal. Being aware of the potential narrowband trigger frequencies, the wideband receiver may utilize the received RF signal to detect the presence of a narrowband trigger signal at one of the potential narrowband trigger frequencies.
US09125153B2
The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and method for wirelessly receiving a first communication from a first mobile device. A processing delay may be measured. An acknowledgement communication indicating receipt of the first communication may be generated. A measurement of the processing delay may be broadcast in a broadcast packet, for example, or by transmitting a subsequent communication including the processing delay in response to receiving a second communication having a request for the measurement of the processing delay.
US09125145B1
A mobile communications routing device. The device comprises an interface configured to receive an input, wherein the input is correlated to a customer service center telephone number, a memory, a processor, and an application stored in the memory. When executed by the processor, the application determines a parameter of the device in response to the input, identifies a mobile service provider correlated with the parameter, verifies the parameter associated mobile service provider, and routes a communication from the mobile device to the customer service center of the mobile service provider correlated with the device parameter.
US09125140B2
Background scan for 802.11 client devices allows them to keep most of its components in low power mode when certain criteria are not met. A method for changing dynamically those criteria according to the air data traffic conditions is described in the present invention. This increases the time the system remains in sleep mode and consequently improves the standby current consumption to portable 802.11 enabled media.
US09125139B2
Facilitating user terminal (UT) access to wireless networks having base stations (BSs) of disparate access types is described herein. In some aspects, BS parameterization is provided to facilitate search and/or access to distinct types of network BSs. For instance, parameters can modify a likelihood of identifying or remaining coupled to restricted access (RA) BSs in a home Node B (HNB) deployment. In other aspects of the subject disclosure, a PLMN ID reserved for HNBs is provided comprising multiple region IDs. Where a UT identifies a home region, HNBs can be given preference over macro BSs. Additionally, the UT can keep track of HNBs and HNB regions that reject access to the UT, and implement a delay time to mitigate rapid signaling to foreign HNBs in a dense HNB deployment. Accordingly, the subject disclosure provides for more efficient UT access in heterogeneous access type networks.
US09125138B2
A wireless device described herein can use information on data flow, in addition to indications from the physical network, to decide on suitable bandwidth usage for audio and video information. This data flow information is further used to determine an efficient network route to use for high-quality reception and transmission of audio and video data, as well as the appropriate time to switch between available network routes to improve bandwidth performance.
US09125127B2
A method, an equipment and a system for handing over a cell in a communication system supporting carrier aggregation. The method includes: when a terminal in the communication system moves to the edge of the currently serving cell, the terminal selects one or more neighbor cells from one or more neighbor cells as measurement objects according to the carrier aggregation manner of the one or more neighbor cells; the terminal measures the capabilities of the measurement objects, and obtains one or more measurement results; and the terminal sends a source base station which currently serving the terminal one or more measurement results as capability measurement reports of the one or more neighbor cells. Also provided are an equipment for handing over a cell in a communication system supporting carrier aggregation, a terminal including the said equipment and a communication system including the said terminal.
US09125126B2
Methods and apparatus of monitoring cells in a wireless communication system may include determining existence of a condition for performing a cell search on a frequency. In addition, the methods and apparatus may include calculating an undetected energy-related value for a hypothetical undetected cell based on a measured energy-related value of each detected cell on the frequency in response to determining the condition for performing the cell search. The methods and apparatus may further include determining whether to perform the cell search based on the undetected energy-related value and a reselection criteria.
US09125122B2
Methods, apparatuses and computer readable media are described that analyze and communicate signaling messages between a mobile wireless device and a wireless access network to realize a circuit switched fallback (CSFB) procedure when the mobile wireless device is initially in a radio resource control connected mode with the wireless network. A set of information elements of a paging message is analyzed, and based on contents of the set of information elements and an internal state of the mobile wireless device, connections between the mobile wireless device and first and second wireless access networks are changed to realize the CSFB procedure.
US09125115B2
A method for switching access points of a wireless network via sharing communications is disclosed. A host computer and a client computer are connected to a first wireless network by a first communication system. The host computer determines a communication quality to the first wireless network. If the communication quality falls below a predetermined value, the host computer connects to a second wireless network to shift to a sharing communication mode to connect the client computer to the second wireless network. The host computer that has shifted to the sharing communication mode then connects to the client computer by a second communication system to connect the client to the second wireless network.
US09125104B2
Various embodiments of symmetric transmit opportunity (TXOP) truncation (STT) systems and methods are disclosed. One method embodiment, among others, comprises receiving a frame that truncates a TXOP around a first station, and responsive to receiving the frame, sending a second frame that truncates the TXOP around a second station. Others system and method embodiments are disclosed.
US09125103B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques and configurations for handling a wait time in a wireless communication network when the network is determined to be congested. An apparatus may include computer-readable media having instructions and one or more processors coupled with the computer-readable media and configured to execute the instructions to send a radio resource control request message to a wireless network controller, receive a response message including an extended wait time value, determine upon receipt of the response message whether a back-off timer associated with the apparatus is running, and determine whether to start the backoff timer with the received extended wait time value based at least in part on the determination of whether the back-off timer is running and the received wait time value is integrity protected.
US09125102B2
Disclosed is a wireless communication system and terminal for providing a wireless communication service, and more particularly, a method of transmitting a measurement log from a terminal to a network when a RRC connected terminal has not found a RRC connectable network, although a wireless dedicated channel is not allocated between the terminal and the network, in an Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (E-UMTS) evolved from a UMTS, Long Term Evolution (LTE) System or LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) system.
US09125100B2
A first server may: receive information regarding a user device from a second server; store the information regarding the user device to form device data; determine one or more connection durations based on the device data, each one of the one or more connection durations relating to a time duration in which the user device connects to one of the one or more network devices; receive, from the second server, performance data associated with each one of the one or more network devices; receive, from a client device, a query including a request for a performance indicator of the user device; generate the performance indicator based on the performance data and based on the one or more connection durations corresponding to the each one of the one or more network devices; and provide the performance indicator to the client device based on receiving the query.
US09125094B2
A mobile communications device with a wireless module and a controller module is provided. The wireless module performs wireless transmissions and receptions to and from a first service network and a second service network. The first service network and the second service network are in compliance with a first communication protocol and a second communication protocol, respectively. The controller module performs measurements on the first service network via the wireless module, and generates a measurement log according to the measurements results. Also, the controller module receives a handover request from the second service network via the wireless module for handing over from the second service network to the first service network, and transmits a handover response indicating availability of the measurement log to the first service network via the wireless module.
US09125079B2
A technical data monitoring device for use with a wireless data monitoring network includes a wireless communications circuit, and at least one technical device/system. The technical data monitoring device establishes a wireless communication link with a programmable interface of a programmable cellular telephone. The device is also configured to send and/or receive wireless packet switched data transmissions, generate data and send data over the wireless communication link for processing by the programmable cellular telephone, and has an associated status condition. Data from the device is (1) sent to be processed and displayed by the programmable cellular telephone and/or (2) sent to be processed and forwarded by the programmable cellular telephone to an Internet website. The device forms part of the wireless data monitoring network in communication with the programmable cellular telephone. The technical device/system can be one of a number of sensors, devices, or systems.
US09125070B2
A millimeter radio wave communication system. In a method for operating a base station (BS) in an analog/digital mixed BF system, an analog BF direction is determined. A digital BF precoder is determined for the determined analog BF direction. Digital BF precoding is performed using the digital BF precoder with respect to the determined analog BF direction. A DownLink Reference Signal (DL RS) is transmitted in the analog BF direction on which the digital BF precoding has been performed.
US09125066B2
Techniques are generally described for determining locations of a plurality of communication devices in a network. In some examples, methods for creating a location discovery infrastructure (LDI) for estimating locations of one or more of a plurality of communication nodes may comprise one or more of determining a plurality of locations in the terrain to place a corresponding plurality of beacon nodes, determining a plurality of beacon node groups for the placed beacon nodes, and determining a schedule for the placed beacon nodes to be active. Additional variants and embodiments are also disclosed.
US09125062B2
A method and apparatus for sharing frequencies in an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing OFDM-based wireless communication system, wherein the OFDM-based wireless communication system comprises a base station and a mobile device that work within a radio frequency band, the method comprising: detecting an interference signal in the radio frequency band; setting by the base station, based upon the interference signal, interference indication information in a control header of a downlink frame to be sent to the mobile device, the interference indication information indicating a frequency range that is occupied by the interference signal in the radio frequency band; and sending by the base station the downlink frame to the mobile device, such that the mobile device may, based upon the interference indication information, avoid the frequency range where the interference signal is located.
US09125046B1
Connection activity between a device and service provider's network is monitored. Connection parameters calculated based on the connection activity are stored. An activity map is generated to capture and display the connection parameters which indicate activity or repeated patterns of activity over time. The activity utilizes a time grid to display a plurality of parameter regarding device status and activity. The x-axis of the time grid divides a time period into portions of time at a first time length. The y-axis of the time grid divides the portions of time at the first time length into smaller lengths of time at a second time length. Multiple layers of indicators are used in the time grid to indicate the status of several parameters during the same time period.
US09125042B2
A system and method for providing a message to a user of a device, such as a mobile cellular phone, which includes using a signal, such as a CMAS alert, to turn on one or more receivers of the device configured to receive the message, conserves battery power for the device until it is needed in order to receive and transmit the message.
US09125037B2
Methods and systems for delivering branding information to a portable electronic device based on a brand SKU. The brand SKU is assigned to a device in addition to or to replace an OEM SKU that may have been used for testing and traceability. Based on detection of a brand SKU and a determination as to what brand is associated with the brand SKU, upon power up downstream in the supply chain at the OEM, or at the distribution center, or at the point of sale, a brand payloads based on the brand SKU is sent to the portable electronic device. The brand payloads may comprise logos, configurable options, and access options for hardware and software to various network services including voice services and data services.
US09125034B1
Embodiments of the invention include a set of rules established by a third-party to control the execution of various functions offered by a device. The set of rules can block a function outright, or can specify particular combinations of days and times when the function can be executed and when it is blocked. Then, when the user of the device requests an instance of the function to be executed, the set of rules can be accessed to determine whether the requested function instance is permitted, after which the device can either block or execute the requested function instance.
US09125032B2
A method, system, and computer program product for caching data in a cellular network is provided. Information from a cellular network regarding location, speed, direction of travel, and bandwidth for a user can be used to determine how much data should be cached for the user. More specifically, the time period for how long a user will be in a cell of a cellular network can be calculated using information received from the cellular network. The calculated time period can be used to calculate how much data will be used by a user for the calculated time period with only the amount of data needed for the time period being cached.
US09125029B2
There is discussed according to an embodiment a method for receiving an incoming call with a mobile terminal includes steps of: receiving an incoming call signal; displaying a receiving delay button on a display unit; allowing a call receiver to select the receiving delay button; sending a predetermined comment to a caller; and converting the caller's voice into a text message and displaying a text message on the display unit, such that the call receiver may not run to answer the call and may delay the call for a preset time period when the call receiver receives the call received by the mobile terminal while moving.
US09125024B2
Systems and methods are provided for broadcasting internet availability at a Wireless Access Point (WAP). The system is operable to process the memory to determine whether the WAP provides free internet access to wireless devices, and to generate a management frame for the WAP. The system is further operable to insert data indicating whether the WAP provides the free internet access into the management frame, and to broadcast the management frame via the WAP for receipt by wireless devices within range of the WAP.
US09125013B1
Methods and systems for modifying a preferred roaming list (PRL) of a subscriber user equipment (UE) are provided. In a wireless communication system, a first wireless service provider is associated with a first radio access network (RAN) and maintains a subscriber account associated with a given UE. When the first RAN receives a registration request from the UE, the first RAN responsively (i) attempts to authenticate the UE, and (ii) upon a failure to authenticate the UE, the first RAN updates the PRL to then list a second RAN associated with a second wireless service provider as the highest priority network in the PRL.
US09125003B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a machine to machine service management device, a network device, a method processing service and system. An MSMC is added between an MTC server and a 3GPP network to perform service processing, and during the service processing, after a trigger receiving unit in the MSMC receives a triggering request message, a session establishing unit establishes a corresponding service session according to information of a requested group service, and a request sending and establishing unit sends a service request to a BM/SC device to establish a corresponding service session and establish a link with an MTC device. Therefore, security of a network system of the MTC application is improved.
US09125002B2
An apparatus and method operative in a portable terminal, for connecting with a Bluetooth or other short range protocol device are disclosed. The portable terminal searches for the presence of accessories such as a headset or printer within a short range. The terminal pairs with at least one discovered accessory in a pairing process and acquires and stores connection information associated with each paired accessory in the pairing process. The connection information includes at least one of a Bluetooth address, a WiFi address, a security key, and function information for the paired accessory. The connection information is then shared with at least one peer terminal to facilitate subsequent pairing between the at least one peer terminal and the accessory.
US09124995B2
A method for revision control within hearing-aid fitting software may include storing session fitting data for a plurality of fitting sessions of a hearing assistance device; displaying a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface including a list of the plurality of fitting sessions of the hearing assistance device, the graphical user interface allowing for selection of two or more fitting sessions for display; receiving a selection of a fitting session from the list; and in response to receiving the selection, updating the graphical user interface to include a response curve related to the selected fitting session.
US09124982B2
A system that records audio and stores the recording is provided. The system includes first and second monitoring assemblies mounted in an earpiece that occludes and forms an acoustic seal of an ear canal. The first monitoring assembly includes an ambient sound microphone (ASM) to monitor an ambient acoustic field and produce an ASM signal. The second monitoring assembly includes an ear canal microphone (ECM) to monitor an acoustic field within the ear canal and produce an ECM signal. The system also includes a data storage device configured to act as a circular buffer for continually storing at least one of the ECM signal or the ASM signal, a further data storage device and a record-activation system. The record-activation system activates the further data storage device to record a content of the data storage device.
US09124967B2
A microphone system and microphone mount system integrate upon and into a drum head to efficiently capture various drum sounds. An attachment ring 170 is attached to the perimeter of a void within a drum head. A slide bracket slides 160 into the attachment ring 170. The slide bracket 160 is secured to and is part of a microphone assembly 100. The microphone assembly accommodates flexible goose necks 200 that hold microphone clip adapters to secure additional microphones both interior and exterior to a drum head 300.
US09124963B2
A hearing apparatus that processes an audio signal by adaptive filtering operates efficiently. The hearing apparatus has a first stage transformation unit and at least two second stage transformation units. Each of the second stage transformation units splits the signal of one of the first stage channels through transformation onto sub-channels of the channel. A filter unit in each channel that has a second stage transformation unit filters the signal of the channel depending on weighting factors that are determined in each case for the sub-channels. The filter units are configured to exchange weighting factors among themselves, which means that only some of the weighting factors actually need to be calculated.
US09124960B2
A method of extending the control plane to a metro sub-domain for a network having a transport plane for carrying subscriber traffic within end-to-end connections, and a control plane for managing at least a portion of resources of the transport plane allocated to the connections. A first set of control-plane enabled nodes of the network is designated as core nodes, each core node being operable to route subscriber traffic between a pair of neighbor core nodes in the network. A second set of control-plane enabled nodes of the network is designated as metro nodes, each metro node being connected to a core node and operating as a sub-domain of the network. Each core node that is connected to at least one metro node is designated as a host node. The host node is controlled to advertise summary information of its connected metro nodes to other core and metro nodes in the network, thus making it possible to extend control plane function to the metro nodes that can calculate connection routes, set-up/tear-down connections and perform connection failure recovery functions.
US09124956B2
Protective containers for electronic equipment, and methods of testing and manufacture thereof, are provided. The cabinets provide a HEMP protection level to electronic equipment housed therein that meets a HEMP protection level according to MIL-STD-188-125-1.
US09124951B2
An example apparatus that processes DTVCC data has a demultiplexer that extracts DTVCC data packets from a DTV signal. A parser parses the DTVCC data packets by: passing normal DTVCC data to a CC decoder; detecting ancillary data in the DTVCC data packets; and separating the ancillary data from the DTVCC data for output to an ancillary data process. An apparatus that processes DTVCC data has an ancillary data packager that packages data ancillary to DTV data for insertion into the DTVCC data packets. A DTVCC data packager receives CC data into DTVCC data packets and packages the ancillary data together with the DTVCC data into DTVCC data packets. A multiplexer multiplexes the DTVCC data packets from the DTVCC data packager with non-CCDTV data to produce DTV signal data. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
US09124925B2
One or more circuits for use in a transceiver that is collocated with a satellite dish, may receive a satellite signal carrying media content, and remove content protection from the received media content. After removing the first content protection, the one or more circuits may apply second content protection to the media content. The content protection applied by the one or more circuits may adhere to a different protocol, utilize different keys, and/or otherwise be distinguishable from the content protection that was removed. After applying the content protection, the one or more circuits may transmit the media content onto one or more links between the satellite dish and one or more client devices. The removal of the content protection may comprise descrambling and/or decrypting the media content. The application of the content protection may comprise scrambling and/or encrypting the media content.
US09124923B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system to receive a response generated by a media processor based on an analysis of a communication exchange between a user and an avatar having characteristics that correspond to a user profile. The system can identify from the response a requirement for initiation of a communication session with a content source. An avatar profile is received from the content source, including gesture information based on gestures utilized by a character supplied by the content source. An adapted avatar is generated based on the avatar profile by adapting in part the characteristics of the avatar to have a first characteristic that duplicates a gesture of the character supplied by the content source, while retaining a second characteristic corresponding to the user profile. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09124921B2
A content playing device that displays multiple contents including scheduled-distribution contents is disclosed. Multiple player units include a moving picture player unit that, when receiving a start-to-prepare command, performs playback preparation processing based on the type of contents, moves into a wait state, and downloads at least scheduled-distribution contents from an external device that is connected through communications. The controller, according to the start of playback timing for contents, outputs a start-to-prepare command to the player units, and at the start of playback timing, outputs a start of playback command to the player units.
US09124899B2
A system utilizing motion derivation and coding for scaling video is described. The system may include an electronic device configured to receive a first layer bitstream and a second enhancement layer bitstream corresponding to the first layer bitstream. The electronic device may be configured to derive a motion vector at the second layer representation from the first layer representation.
US09124898B2
An apparatus and method for motion vector prediction for a current block in a picture are disclosed. In video coding systems, the spatial and temporal redundancy is exploited using spatial and temporal prediction to reduce the information to be transmitted. Motion Vector Prediction (MVP) has been used to further conserve the bitrate associated with motion vector. In conventional temporal MVP, the predictor is often based on a single candidate such as the co-located motion vector in the previous frame/picture. If the co-located motion vector in the previous frame/picture does not exist, the predictor for the current block is not available. A technique for improved MVP is disclosed where the MVP utilized multiple candidates based on co-located motion vectors from future and/or past reference pictures. The candidates are arranged according to priority order to provide better availability of MVP and also to provide more accurate prediction. Furthermore, the MVP technique disclosed can be operated in a closed-loop fashion so that no additional side information or minimum additional side information is required.
US09124880B2
A method and apparatus for 2D image and 3D stereoscopic image display are provided. The apparatus includes a display unit to display an image; and a controller to receive a display mode setting signal and to control the display unit according to the received display mode setting signal. The display unit is controlled to display the image in accordance with any one of a 2D display mode, a polarizing glasses 3D display mode, a shutter glasses 3D display mode, and a non-glasses 3D display mode. The method includes receiving a display mode setting signal; reading information stored in a memory, the stored information corresponding to an operation of the switching display panel according to a plurality of display modes, the read information corresponding to the display mode setting signal; and generating a control signal to operate the switching display panel in correspondence to a selected display mode.
US09124879B2
A system for proactively troubleshooting set top box issues may include a media distribution network with a remote requesting device and a programming guide server. The programming guide server may be configured to identify a guide data retrieval profile of the requesting device, compare the guide data retrieval profile to an expected profile, and flag the requesting device for troubleshooting based on a lack of correspondence between the retrieval profile and the expected profile. Additionally methods for discovering related devices, predicting that the related devices also require troubleshooting, and limiting restorative measures to only those devices that have been confirmed to be affected by a service issue may also be implemented by the system.
US09124878B2
Provided are a 3-dimensional image display apparatus and a control method thereof, the apparatus including: a video signal receiving unit which receives a video signal containing plane image data or stereoscopic image data from an external signal source; a liquid crystal module which includes a liquid crystal display panel to selectively display the plane image data and the stereoscopic image data, and a backlight unit provided in a rear portion of the liquid crystal display panel; a power supply which supplies power to the liquid crystal module; and a controller which determines whether the received video signal contains the plane image data or the stereoscopic image data, and if the video signal receiving unit contains the stereoscopic image data, the controller controls the power supply such that the backlight unit operates in a power saving mode while the stereoscopic image data is scanned to the liquid crystal display panel.
US09124876B2
In an imaging apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention, the light-shielding member performing light shielding so that the light beam passing through the second region does not enter the first light-receiving element is provided only to the first light-receiving element. That is, no light-shielding member is provided to the second light-receiving element. Therefore, the number and types of light-shielding members can be reduced, and pupil division can be performed with a simple structure. Also, various products can be easily supported.
US09124872B2
Techniques are described for a video coder (e.g., video encoder or video decoder) that is configured to select a context pattern from a plurality of context patterns that are the same for a plurality of scan types. Techniques are also described for a video coder that is configured to select a context pattern that is stored as a one-dimensional context pattern and identifies contexts for two or more scan types.
US09124866B2
An image output device comprising: a representative parallax acquisition unit; a provisional output parallax determination unit to determine a provisional output parallax for each of the stereoscopic image frames depending on an output condition of the stereoscopic video, based on the representative parallax for each of the stereoscopic image frames; an output parallax adjustment unit; and an output unit, wherein the provisional output parallax determination unit determines the provisional output parallax for a reference frame corresponding to the representative parallax for the reference frame, and determines the provisional output parallax for a target frame corresponding to the representative parallax for the target frame, in accordance with the provisional output parallax defined for each range of the representative parallax for the stereoscopic image frame, the reference frame being sequentially determined from the stereoscopic image frames, and the target frame being the stereoscopic image frame immediately after the reference frame.
US09124854B2
Provided is a method of controlling a digital photographing apparatus recording moving image data being input to a recording medium in a moving image photographing mode. The method includes creating a moving image file in the recording medium and storing the moving image data being input in the moving image file when a first signal is generated by a first button of the digital photographing apparatus pressed by a user, stopping storing of the moving image data being input when the first signal is generated by a second button of the digital photographing apparatus pressed by the user, continuing to store the moving image data being input in the moving image file when a second signal is generated by the second button pressed by the user, and stopping storing of the moving image data being input and completing the moving image file when the second signal is generated by the first button pressed by the user.
US09124853B2
An exemplary system includes a High-Definition Multimedia Interface (“HDMI”) analyzer and an HDMI router-switch having one or more input ports connected to one or more HDMI source devices and output ports connected to the HDMI analyzer and one or more HDMI sink devices. The HDMI router-switch is configured to establish and disestablish HDMI connections between the HDMI source devices and the HDMI analyzer and HDMI sink devices. The system further includes a control subsystem configured to control the HDMI analyzer, the HDMI router-switch, the HDMI source devices, and the HDMI sink devices, wherein the control subsystem is configured to direct one or more of the HDMI analyzer, the HDMI router-switch, the HDMI source devices, and the HDMI sink devices to perform one or more operations to execute one or more automated HDMI test routines. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
US09124851B2
In a video display control device, a control data generating section allocates a part of a dynamic range of a high gradation region of a video signal to a low gradation region, and a backlight controlling section controls a light emission luminance of a backlight so as to cancel an increase or decrease of a mean luminance of a video displayed on a screen in accordance with an increase or decrease of the mean luminance of a video signal after correction with respect to a mean luminance of the video signal.
US09124846B2
Systems and methods for mobile device directed multifunction peripheral scanning to cloud are disclosed. The method includes receiving a document processing request at a multifunction peripheral including instructions on performing a document processing operation, a cloud storage request identifying a document to be stored in a remote cloud storage location and credentials sufficient to authenticate a user to the cloud storage location and accessing the cloud storage location using the multifunction peripheral to confirm that the credentials are sufficient to authenticate a user to the cloud storage location before beginning the document processing request. The method further includes completing the document processing request using the multifunction peripheral to thereby generate a processed document and storing the processed document in the cloud storage location directly from the multifunction peripheral device using the credentials.
US09124840B2
An image processing apparatus includes an image region determining unit, an image color determining unit, and a change processor. The image region determining unit is configured to determine a colored region where an inside of an outline is filled with a single color from color image data. The image color determining unit is configured to determine a color of the colored region determined by the image region determining unit. The change processor is configured to change the colored region determined by the image region determining unit to a patterned region with a pattern different in each of the colors determined by the image color determining unit.
US09124838B2
A document reading device includes a document reading section, an image memory, and an image processing section. The image processing section is configured to retrieve an image of an original document from the image memory and process the image. The image processing section includes: a mark recognizing section configured to recognize an image of a predetermined mark made on the original document; a sticky note recognizing section configured to recognize an image of a sticky note placed on a predetermined position of the original document relative to the mark; a mask determining section configured to determine in which mask pattern the mark is masked with the sticky note; and an image manipulating section configured to manipulate the image of the sticky note according to the mask pattern determined by the mask determining section.
US09124835B2
After accumulating electric charges in pixels in first, second, and third rows, signals are output from the pixels in the first and second rows in a first frame, and thereafter, after accumulating electric charges in the pixels in the first row without accumulating electric charges in the pixels in the second and third rows, signals are output from the pixels in the first and third rows in a second frame following the first frame. Furthermore, the photoelectric conversion units of the pixels in the second and third rows are reset by the resetting units included in the pixels in the second and third rows in the first frame.
US09124832B2
Various technologies described herein pertain to defect pixel correction for image data collected by a pixel array of an image sensor. Neighborhood statistics for a given pixel from the image data are computed based on values of neighbor pixels of the given pixel from the image data. Whether the value of the given pixel is defective is detected based on the neighborhood statistics. The value of the given pixel is replaced when detected to be defective to output modified image data. Correction of the given pixel is a function of whether the given pixel is in a flat region or a non-flat region. When the given pixel is defective and in a non-flat region, a minimum edge across the given pixel is identified and the value of the given pixel is replaced with an average of values of neighbor pixels that belong to the minimum edge.
US09124831B2
Systems and methods for calibrating an array camera are disclosed. Systems and methods for calibrating an array camera in accordance with embodiments of this invention include the detecting of defects in the imaging components of the array camera and determining whether the detected defects may be tolerated by image processing algorithms. The calibration process also determines translation information between imaging components in the array camera for use in merging the image data from the various imaging components during image processing. Furthermore, the calibration process may include a process to improve photometric uniformity in the imaging components.
US09124825B2
A cost recovery system for a multi-functional photocopier device comprising a plurality of workstations interconnected by a communications network, and a controller adapted to control the operation of the device, the controller being connected to the network. The cost recovery system further comprises at least one broker unit operative to communicate with the controller via the network. The broker unit being responsive to requests to reserve the device received from users at the workstations to authenticate the users and to establish temporary cost recovery relationships between the controller and the workstations. Accordingly, a user can reserve the device from any one of is the plurality of workstations and then walk up to the device and perform a job on the device on a basis of a specific cost recovery relationship established by the broker unit between the controller and the respective workstation.
US09124816B2
An illumination unit includes one or more light sources each including a solid-state light-emitting device having a light emission region configured of one or more light-emission spots, one or more traveling-direction angle conversion device each converting a traveling-direction-angle of light, and an integrator including a first fly-eye lens having cells which receive light from the traveling-direction angle conversion device and a second fly-eye lens having cells which receive light from the first fly-eye lens, the integrator uniformalizing illumination distribution in a predetermined illumination area. An optical system configured with the traveling-direction angle conversion device and the first and second fly-eye lenses has an optical magnification which allows each of light source images to have a size not exceeding a size of the cell in the second fly-eye lens, the light source images being formed on the second fly-eye lens by the respective cells in the first fly-eye lens.
US09124807B2
There is provided an imaging apparatus capable of reducing a margin region required for rolling shutter distortion correction processing. The imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit employing a rolling shutter method, and a correction unit configured to perform correction processing for reducing a rolling shutter distortion on image data captured by the imaging unit. The correction unit adjusts readout positions of other lines relative to a readout position of a reference line in the image data, and sets the reference line so as to reduce a deviation amount between the readout position of the reference line and the readout positions of the other lines.
US09124806B1
An apparatus for correcting an image may include a first correction unit measuring movement of a camera module and a position of a lens in the camera module and adjusting the position of the lens in the camera module in accordance with the movement, and a second correction unit calculating error vectors using the measured movement value of the camera module and the position value of the lens and correcting an image from the camera module using the error vectors.
US09124795B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided in order to obtain an image from a remote computer with the image being associated with the current location of a mobile terminal via which a user provides input soliciting the image. In the context of a method, the user input representative of a request to obtain an image from a remote computer may be received. The method may then determine a current context including a location of a mobile terminal and may cause the current context to be transmitted to the remote computer. The method may also receive an image from the remote computer based upon the current context of the mobile terminal. In this regard, the image is associated with the location of the mobile terminal upon receiving the user input. The method may also cause the image received from the remote computer to be stored.
US09124793B2
A portable electronic device includes a shell and an image capturing assembly configured to capture images. The shell includes a front surface, a rear surface facing away from the front surface, and a top surface. The top surface is connected substantially perpendicularly between the front surface and the rear surface. The top surface defines a cutout. The cutout runs through both the front surface and the rear surface. The image capturing assembly is pivotably received in the cutout and is configured to capture images.
US09124788B2
Provided is a spherical camera, including a first shell, a second shell, and a first waterproof ring installed at the joint of the first shell and the second shell; the first shell comprises a first rotating shaft; the second shell comprises a second rotating shaft; the first rotating shaft and the second rotating shaft fit with an support bracket for installing the spherical camera, to allow the spherical camera to rotate to different areas to acquire images; the first waterproof ring is a planar closed-loop waterproof ring; the combination surface between the first shell and the second shell is a plane, and the combination plane passes through the sphere center of the spherical camera.
US09124786B1
Described herein are systems and techniques for periodically projecting content onto a display medium that is configured to display images for a finite amount of time, during which time the images decay until the image substantially or entirely disappears from the display medium. That is, the systems and techniques may project light onto the display medium, with the light energizing particles of the display medium to display a predefined image.
US09124782B2
A movie ticket vending system, a hand-held electronic device and a method thereof. The movie ticket vending system includes a server and a handheld electronic device. A plurality of pieces of picture information and a plurality of pieces of service information are stored in the server. The handheld electronic device comprises a camera module, a transmitting module, a processing module and a positioning navigation module. The camera module captures a poster image. The transmitting module uploads the poster image to the server and the server compares the poster image with the plurality of pieces of picture information. The transmission module receives information corresponding to the poster image. The processing module receives a confirm signal to generate a navigation signal corresponding to the service information received by the transmission module. The GPS module generates a navigation route to guide a user to the cinema showing the corresponding movie.
US09124766B2
An aspect of the present disclosure provides for connection to a video conference apparatus at a remote site. A method includes initiating transmission of an image of shared content to the video conference apparatus at the remote site, the image of the shared content representing data shared with the video conference apparatus; determining, when the transmission of the image is initiated, a first region and a second region in an output image; monitoring the shared content which is being transmitted; determining whether an instruction for full-screen display is issued regarding the monitored shared content; and causing the full-screen display of the image of the shared content to fit in the first region when the instruction for full-screen display is issued.
US09124762B2
A privacy camera, such as a light field camera that includes an array of cameras or an RGBZ camera(s)) is used to capture images and display images according to a selected privacy mode. The privacy mode may include a blur background mode and a background replacement mode and can be automatically selected based on the meeting type, participants, location, and device type. A region of interest and/or an object(s) of interest (e.g. one or more persons in a foreground) is determined and the privacy camera is configured to clearly show the region/object of interest and obscure or replace the background according to the selected privacy mode. The displayed image includes the region/object(s) of interest clearly shown (e.g. in focus) and any objects in a background of the combined image shown having a limited depth of field (e.g. blurry/not in focus) and/or the background replaced with another image and/or fill.
US09124756B2
A method and an apparatus for data communication using digital image processing are provided. The method for transmitting data using digital image processing includes displaying a reference image including one or more frames having preset image quality and including clock data for data synchronization in each frame, determining whether a confirmation signal indicating that transmission of data is possible is received within a preset time, and displaying a corrected reference image having image quality differing from the preset image quality when the confirmation signal is not received within the preset time. Data may thus be transmitted without a separate transceiver supporting a certain communication scheme, and data synchronization between a receiving end and a sending end is thus possible to more conveniently transmit/receive data.
US09124748B2
It aims to improve user's convenience by, while keeping a printing electricity charge low by executing a print job under a low electricity charge, executing a print job for a user aiming at certain print job execution without waiting until time of the low electricity charge. In order to do so, an image forming apparatus acquires information related to the electricity charge, and restricts execution of the input print job based on the acquired information. Thus, in case of restricting the execution of the input print job based on the information related to the electricity charge, if the input print job is a first print job configured to be executed on a priority basis, the first print job is executed, and, if the input print job is a second print job not configured to be executed on a priority basis, the execution of the second print job is restricted.
US09124745B2
An image reading apparatus includes a conveyor. The conveyor is configured to convey a first medium in a first conveyance direction along a first conveyance path and a second medium in a second conveyance direction along a second conveyance path. The image reading apparatus includes a reader. The reader is configured to read image data from the first medium and the second medium. The image reading apparatus includes a movable guide. The movable guide is disposed on a housing of the image reading apparatus. The movable guide is configured to be moved to regulate a width of the second opening defined in a direction perpendicular to the second conveyance direction.
US09124743B2
An image forming apparatus includes a sheet feeding unit, an image forming unit, a first conveyance path configured to guide the sheet fed from the sheet feeding unit, a second conveyance path configured to guide the sheet on one surface of which an image has been formed by the image forming unit to the first conveyance path again, a document feeding unit configured to feed a document to the second conveyance path, an image reading unit configured to read the document, a third conveyance path branching off from the second conveyance path and configured to guide the document, a switch back conveyance unit configured to convey the document in the third conveyance path, a fourth conveyance path configured to guide the document conveyed by the switch back conveyance unit, and a document discharge unit configured to discharge the document guided by the fourth conveyance path.
US09124733B2
A system includes plural devices and an apparatus being connected to the devices via a network and including a unit storing plural screen data in association with identification data of the plural devices. Each of the plural screen data includes components associated with a process condition and destination data. A device included in the plural devices includes a unit obtaining screen data corresponding to an identification data of the device from the plural screen data, a unit displaying a screen based on the screen data, a unit inputting image data according to the process condition associated with the components selected by way of the screen, and a unit transmitting the image data and the identification data of the device to the apparatus. The apparatus further includes a unit transferring the transmitted image data to a destination indicated in the destination data corresponding to the transmitted identification data.
US09124730B2
In some examples, a method for managing a captured image is described. The method may include receiving image data that includes image location data regarding where an image is captured. The method may also include receiving device data from a device. The device data may include device location data. The method may also include correlating the device data with the image data. The method may also include modifying the image based on the correlation of the device data and the image data.
US09124726B2
A video system, comprising includes a video reproduction device that retrieves a predetermined subset of video and audio data from a server. The video reproduction device then starts reproduction of the video and audio data based on the predetermined subset of video and audio data. The predetermined subset of video and audio data includes sufficient data to cause the video reproduction device to determine that all of the video and audio data has been received and that reproduction can be started.
US09124724B2
Roaming of mobile devices is tracked and accounted for automatically and accurately. Revenue records are received for at least one service provider due to roaming of mobile devices within a geographical area served by the at least one service provider for mobile devices that do not have a subscription for service with the service provider for the geographic area. Expense records are received for the service provider due to roaming of mobile devices within other geographical areas served by at least one other service provider and not served by the at least one service provider. Each of the revenue and expense records is associated with a mobile device and includes a code identifying a service and a geographical area. If the codes are valid, the revenue records and expense records received over a period of time are compiled and summarized.
US09124723B2
A method and a device for data processing in a digital subscriber line environment. A virtual noise level for a digital subscriber line is determined based on measurement information of at least one network element connected to the digital subscriber line.
US09124722B2
An approach for providing telephony services over a data network is disclosed. A communications system includes a location server that receives a request from a calling station to establish a call with a station associated with a called party. The location server generates a message specifying a set of addresses relating to the called party and context information. A proxy server communicates with the location server and is configured to receive the message and to attempt to establish the call based on the set of addresses. The proxy server iteratively queries the location server to obtain another set of addresses if no prior address results in establishment of the call.
US09124719B2
Devices, systems and methods are disclosed for a subscriber of services on a network to display a custom operator name or alpha tag on the subscriber mobile communications device. The custom alpha tag (or operator name) is selected or defined by the subscriber via an interface on a communications device, and a custom operator name request is submitted to a provisioning logic on the network. The provisioning logic communicates with business rule logic on the network, the business rule logic being configured to retrieve and/or update a first account associated with the subscriber with the custom operator name. A billing logic within a billing subsystem may be invoked to debit a second account associated with the subscriber. A programming logic on the network then updates one or more mobile devices with the custom alpha tag. The several logic units may be part of an Over-the-air (OTA) platform on the network.
US09124713B2
A mobile terminal equipped with first and second display modules provided at the front and the rear, respectively, and a method of controlling the mobile terminal, is provided. The method includes displaying a screen image related to a first operating mode on the first display module, if it is determined that the mobile terminal has been rotated on a predetermined axial direction, switching the mobile terminal from the first operating mode to a second operating mode; and displaying a screen image related to the second operating mode on the second display module. Therefore, it is possible to control various operations performed by the mobile terminal upon the motion of the mobile terminal using the first and second display modules.
US09124711B2
An electronic device and a method implemented in the electronic device are provided. The method includes detecting, by a device detector, whether a wired external device coupled to the electronic device and including a wired external speaker further includes a wired external microphone; providing a signal, by the device detector, indicating whether the wired external device includes the wired external microphone; detecting, by a controller, a call establishment; and operating, by the controller, a built-in microphone to receive a voice sound if the signal from the device detector indicates that the wired external device does not include the wired external microphone and providing a voice signal received from a second electronic device to the wired external device so that the wired external speaker outputs the voice signal, wherein the built-in microphone and a built-in speaker of the electronic device are coupled to the controller via a COder-DECoder (CODEC).
US09124700B1
Systems and methods for unified calling are disclosed. According to one embodiment, the method may include (1) using a soft phone application executed by a computer processor, communicating, to a telephony server, an agent status indicating a readiness of the agent to manually make a telephone call; (2) receiving, on a computer terminal, an indication of a telephone number to call; and (3) manually dialing the telephone number using a telephone. The soft phone application emulates an analog connection with the telephony server.
US09124693B2
An Off Net scenario may occur during primary communications between a first and second caller, in which the second caller is connected to a network over a data channel and receives a second call over a voice channel resulting in an interruption of the primary communications between the original callers. In the Off Net scenario, a message indicating the original communication has been interrupted is received by a carrier. The carrier substitutes another communication device in place of the second caller's communication device to establish a secondary communication between the first caller's communication device and the third communication device. The secondary communication may inform the first caller of the interruption of the primary communication and may provide options regarding the primary communication to the first caller.
US09124684B2
A signal testing system of a handheld device is described in the present invention. The signal testing system comprises a testing apparatus and a computer device. The testing apparatus is connected with the handheld device. The computer device is connected with the handheld device and the testing apparatus, and is configured to control the handheld device accessing a signal testing state and receives a power value corresponding to the signal testing state through the testing apparatus.
US09124682B2
Example embodiments of the present invention may include a method and apparatus configured determine an optimal routing path to route a call through a network. One example method may include retrieving and parsing a routing table and storing the parsed routing information in a routing database. The method may also include determining a plurality of routes that could be used to route the call through the network by applying at least one cost metric to the plurality of determined routes. The method may also include determining an order of the plurality of routes used to route the call, and create a route used to route the call based on the determined order of the plurality of routes.
US09124681B2
A portable terminal with a stylus pen includes a battery accepting recess formed on a face of the portable terminal, and a guide hole provided at a side of the battery accepting recess. The stylus pen is inserted through the guide hole such that the stylus pen is coupled within the portable terminal in a state where at least a part of the stylus pen is accommodated in the battery accepting recess. The portable terminal allows a stylus pen accommodating space to be used as a space for receiving a battery pack such that a battery pack with an expanded capacity can be coupled therein.
US09124676B2
A mobile electronic device with enhanced impact absorber is disclosed. The device can include: a housing including a front and a rear housing; and a user interface, the rear housing including an impact absorber located on an outer most portion of the rear housing. Beneficially, the impact absorber can provide enhanced impact mitigation. The impact absorber can allow a mobile electronic device to sustain an impact and mitigate damage to the housing and components therein.
US09124671B2
A system includes an application programming interface (API) configured to process a transaction request that specifies data content located at a storage medium. A request processor associated with the API can be configured to determine a delivery format for the data content in response to the transaction request. A file converter can be configured to transform the data content into the delivery format in accordance with the transaction request.
US09124662B2
Apparatus and methods relating to persistent network resource and virtual area associations for realtime collaboration include managing and displaying an object associated with a virtual area that supports establishment of respective presences of communicants operating respective client network nodes. Examples of the object include an object that has one or more user-modifiable property fields and an object that is associated with screen sharing functionality of the client network node.
US09124661B2
A facility for coordinating an online discussion is described. The facility receives an indication that a user has captured a machine-readable symbol encoding an identifier that identifies a particular online discussion. In response, the facility incorporates into an online forum that hosts this online discussion an indication that this user captured a symbol encoding an identifier that identifies this online discussion.
US09124653B2
A client on a network includes a file system that includes various non-streamable software applications. A streaming support system in the client enables a streamable software application to be located in the file system and executed in a streaming mode without being isolated from the non-streamable software applications in the file system. Non-streamable software applications can invoke the streamable software application, and vice versa. Multiple streamable software applications can be concurrently located throughout the file system and can be executed in the client in the streaming mode without restriction to any particular portion of the main file system. Streamable applications can be located anywhere in the file system that the corresponding non-streamable versions of the applications would be able to be located. The main file system does not need to contain complete copies of the required files for any streamable applications.
US09124642B2
A method, system, and computer program for adaptively streaming multimedia content is disclosed. An adaptive stream manager monitors at least one parameter of a user terminal. The adaptive stream manager monitors at least one parameter of the user terminal and predicting a future value of at least one parameter of the user terminal. The adaptive stream manager also selects a target characteristic, based on the predicted future value of the at least one parameter of the user terminal, and requests a multimedia segment having the target characteristic from a media server.
US09124618B2
The method for reliabilization of the supervision of a network comprises: acquisition of a set of events, said events comprising a time stamp corresponding with the emission time of said event; storage of the received events; storage of at least one scenario (SC) comprising a first sequence (S1) of events to be received within a time interval threshold (ΔTs) and a first condition (CD1) to be satisfied; detection of at least a part (pS2) of a received second sequence of events (S2) similar to the first sequence (S1); determination of a second emission time interval (ΔT3) of the second sequence (S2); verification that the first condition (CD1) of the scenario (SC) is satisfied in function of the determined emission time interval (ΔT3), the time interval threshold (ΔTs) of scenario (SC), and the first sequence (S1) and the second sequence (S2) received, and generation of a second status message (M2ET).
US09124616B2
The present invention efficiently displays in a tree structure form a file operation history. A file storage identifier, an operation identifier, and a count are stored as additional meta-information in an alternate data stream with respect to each file stored in a client terminal file system. The operation identifier manages a number of operations (operation generations). The count manages copy frequencies. This meta-information is also sent to a management apparatus, and used for displaying the file operation history in a tree structure form.
US09124613B2
An embodiment of this invention is an information storage system comprising a plurality of storage systems connected to be able to communicate. Each of the plurality of storage systems includes default storage system identification information which is the same to the plurality of storage systems, common volume identification information for uniquely identifying volumes provided by the plurality of storage systems to a host computer among the plurality of storage systems, and a controller configured to return the default storage system identification information to the host computer in response to a request from the host computer and to process a read or write request to a volume accompanying the common volume identification information from the host computer.
US09124610B2
The present disclosure relates to communication technologies, and particularly, to a method, apparatus and system for maintaining contact information. The embodiment of the present invention provides a method for maintaining contact information, including: acquiring address book information of a user and authorization settings of the address book information of the user and saving the acquired in an address book server, receiving a subscription request from a subscriber device, and establishing, according to confirmation information from the subscribed-for user regarding the subscription request from the subscriber device, a subscription relation list for a subscribed-for user and subscriber device and updating, by the address book server, address book information of the subscriber device according to a subscription relation and authorization in the subscription relation list when the subscribed-for user modifies the address book information of the subscribed-for user in the address book server.
US09124606B2
Methods, apparatuses and systems facilitating integration of the functionality associated with a first on-line service entity with the functionality associated with a second on-line service entity. Embodiments of the present invention allow a first on-line service entity having its own membership model to efficiently collaborate with a second on-line service entity to offer its users the services of the second on-line service entity in a seamless and consistently branded manner. One implementation obviates the need for synchronization of the membership models between the first and second on-line service entities. One implementation allows the second on-line service entity to provide services to the users associated with the first on-line service entity in a seamless manner without the first on-line service entity having to proxy the session between the second online service entity and the users.
US09124595B2
A modem device may be provided. The modem device may include: a transceiver structure configured to transmit and receive data using at least one of a plurality of communication technologies; a memory configured to store a profile, the profile including or being information specifying a configuration of the transceiver structure for each communication technology of the plurality of communication technologies; and an application processor interface, wherein the modem device is configured to receive from the application processor a command for configuring the transceiver structure through the application processor interface. The command may include or may be an instruction to the modem device to configure the transceiver structure according to the profile.
US09124592B2
A method of publishing a message includes receiving a subscription request at a first remote relay from a first client and transmitting a subscription message from the remote relay to each of a first set of central relays. The method also includes receiving a publication request at a second remote relay from a second client and transmitting a publication message from the second remote relay to a first central relay of the first set of central relays and a second central relay of a second set of central relays. The method further includes determining, at the first central relay, that a target matches at least a portion of a pattern, transmitting the message string from the first central relay to the first remote relay, determining, at the first remote relay, that the target matches at least a portion of the pattern, and transmitting the message string to the first client.
US09124590B2
Disclosed is an intelligent information providing system including: a user terminal requesting a registration of an intent for a word selected from a content recorded on a memo pad and receiving information related to the registered intent or style information on a role model in a group related to the intent; and an information management device registering the intent requested by the user terminal and providing the information related to the registered intent or the style information on the role model in the group related to the intent to the user terminal.
US09124588B2
A telecommunication system that carries out telecommunication functions between multiple parties as initiated by the user interaction with a social network application, while maintaining privacy of the device identifiers (phone numbers or static IP addresses assigned to devices) of the participating parties.
US09124587B2
A disclosed information processing system includes plural information processing apparatuses connected with a network. One of the plural information processing apparatuses includes: a first allocation unit to identify, for each subnetwork of plural subnetworks included in the network, one information processing apparatus from among information processing apparatuses included in the subnetwork, and assign to the identified one information processing apparatus, a first Reduce processing that is a processing to summarize results of a Map processing executed for data held in the information processing apparatuses included in the subnetwork; and a second allocation unit to allocate to any one of the plural information processing apparatuses, a second Reduce processing that is a processing to summarize results of the first Reduce processing executed for each subnetwork of the plural subnetworks.
US09124572B1
Methods and apparatuses are described for secure video conferencing. A server computing device receives a request to establish a video conference for a sensitive transaction from a first device associated with a user. The server authenticates the first device. The server establishes a conference between the first device and a second device of a second party to the sensitive transaction. The server transmits video images associated with cameras coupled to the first device to the second device, the images comprising a view of the user and an area surrounding the user. The server determines whether persons other than the user are present in the area surrounding the user. The server transmits an alert to the second device if persons other than the user are present, where the alert includes a prompt on the second device for the second party to confirm with the user whether the other persons are authorized.
US09124569B2
Embodiments are directed to authenticating a user to a remote application provisioning service. In one scenario, a client computer system receives authentication credentials from a user at to authenticate the user to a remote application provisioning service that provides virtual machine-hosted remote applications. The client computer system sends the received authentication credentials to an authentication service, which is configured to generate an encrypted token based on the received authentication credentials. The client computer system then receives the generated encrypted token from the authentication service, stores the received encrypted token and the received authentication credentials in a data store, and sends the encrypted token to the remote application provisioning service. The encrypted token indicates to the remote application provisioning service that the user is a valid user.
US09124529B1
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a layer-2 device operably coupled to a source device and a destination device and disposed within a data path (1) between the source device and the destination device, and (2) includes at least one layer-3 device. The layer-2 device receives a first test data unit from the source device, and defines a quality datum associated with processing the first test data unit. The layer-2 device defines a second test data unit based on the first test data unit that includes the quality datum associated with processing the first test data unit. The layer-2 device sends the second test data unit to the layer-3 device. The layer-3 device defines a quality datum associated with processing the second test data unit at the layer-3 device and defines a third test data unit based on the second test data unit.
US09124519B2
Method to assist in distribution of packets between a plurality of switch elements in a distributed switch, by monitoring an attribute of each of the plurality of switch elements including a first switch element and a first surrogate switch element, the first surrogate switch element in a first level of a hierarchy and configured using a default hierarchy configuration. The default hierarchy configuration forwards a data frame to at least one of: a destination switch element of the data frame, and a second surrogate switch element. The second surrogate switch element is in a second hierarchy level. A score is computed based on the monitored attribute for each of the switch elements. Upon determining the score of the first switch element is greater than the score of the first surrogate switch element, the first switch element is designated as the first surrogate switch element.
US09124518B2
When a proxy device is used between a transmission terminal and a reception terminal, receives final data from the transmission terminal, and fails immediately thereafter, a situation is avoided where transmission is completed in the transmission terminal, but reception is not completed in the reception terminal. There is provided a means for not returning ACK when a data packet is received in a state in which there is no data which waits for ACK and transmission of which is in progress, and there is no data which waits for arrangement and reception of which is in progress in the proxy device, for returning ACK for data received one step before when a data packet is received in a state in which there is data which waits for ACK and transmission of which is in progress, or there is data which waits for arrangement and reception of which is in progress.
US09124513B2
A method and system for multicasting Internet-protocol television (IPTV) channels is disclosed. In order to receive desired IPTV channels, a first-hop router (FHR) may send a join message to a last-hop router (LHR) establishing multiple paths across a backbone network. The join message may specify mapping at least one virtual IPTV channel to a plurality of multicast channels, along with the desired IPTV channels. The multicast channels may then be transmitted in a round-robin manner over the multiple paths from the LHR to the FHR. A number of virtual IPTV channels may be modified in response to determining a loading profile over the multiple paths to maintain a balanced load among the multiple paths.
US09124511B2
In one embodiment, a packet switching device determines backup forwarding paths based on route distinguisher correlation values. A route distinguisher correlation value is some value associated with multiple routes, which allows a packet switching device to consider routes associated with a same route distinguisher correlation value, but having different route distinguishers and a same prefix to be considered as going to a same destination. Examples of route distinguisher correlation value used in one embodiment include, but are not limited to: scalar values, a route distinguisher of a different route, a virtual private network associated with a different route; a route target associated with the a different route; or a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Next-hop address associated with a different route.
US09124509B2
The embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, an apparatus, and a system for controlling network traffic switching. The method for controlling network traffic switching includes: establishing a direct link interface, where the direct link interface has an address attribute of a peer node, and a value of the attribute is a peer node address of the direct link; and comparing a border gateway protocol (BGP) next-hop address of each route in a routing table with the peer node address of the direct link, and switching traffic on a route that matches a comparison result to the direct link. By using the preceding technical solution, after a direct link is established between nodes, a relevant node establishes a new type of interface for the direct link.
US09124508B2
To reduce a communication load among data storage devices and data processing devices, a communication device comprises node information storage means for storing identifiers of data devices and processing devices and communication costs, and search processing means for receiving a message, which includes a transfer route of message and a total cost, which is a communication cost of transfer route, and detecting and outputting a closed path, from transfer route, having a negative total cost, or transmitting to the registered data device a message including a new total cost calculated by subtracting a communication cost corresponding to data device concerned from total cost and a new transfer route made by adding communication device to transfer route, and transmitting to the registered processing device a message including a new total cost calculated by adding a communication cost corresponding to processing device concerned to total cost, and new transfer route.
US09124503B2
Technologies for managing congestion of a communication channel includes a network device for receiving a network packet from a computing device destined for another computing device, analyzing network traffic flows over a communication channel established between the network device and an upstream network device, and determining whether the communication channel is congested as a function of the network traffic flows. Such technologies may also include storing the received packet in a local storage in response to determining that the communication channel is congested, transmitting an acknowledgement packet to the computing device in response to storing the received network packet local storage, and transmitting the stored network packet to the upstream network device in response to determining that the communication channel is no longer congested.
US09124499B2
A frame transmission system includes a frame transmitter and a frame receiver. The frame transmitter includes a frame fragmentation unit and a reproduction header appending unit. The frame fragmentation unit fragments an input frame and outputs transfer frames when the length of the input frame exceeds a predetermined fragmentation reference frame length, and does not fragment the input frame and outputs the input frame as a transfer frame when the length of the input frame is less than or equal to the fragmentation reference frame length. The reproduction header appending unit appends a reproduction header to the transfer frames outputted from the frame fragmentation unit. Here, the reproduction header being required when the transfer frames are reproduced at a receiving side. The reproduction header appending unit varies the header length of the reproduction header to be appended to the transfer frame, according to the length of the input frame.
US09124497B2
A provisioning server can be configured to include a network configuration module that can set-up, configure, and manage network connections served by the provisioning server including name servers, such as Domain Name System (DNS) servers, in the network connections. The provisioning server can be configured to maintain a set of network modules, each network module corresponding to a different type of name server. Each of the network modules can be configured to include logic for generating or altering a configuration file for the corresponding type of name server.
US09124491B2
An internet protocol (IP) network device is provided including a detector adapted to detect an event in the internet protocol (IP) network device. The network device also includes a generator adapted to generate a trap message including event information having information about the detected event. The network device also includes a transmitter adapted to transmit, to an internet protocol (IP) network management device, the trap message including the event information and a first sequence indicator. The network device also includes a timer adapted to measure a time period from a time at which the transmitter transmits the trap information. If the measured time period is equal to or longer than a predetermined time, the generator generates an empty trap message and the transmitter transmits, to the network management device, the empty trap message and a second sequence indicator.
US09124487B2
A communication network apparatus and method for routing communication signals form a source device to a receiving device. The apparatus performs only local processing on communication signals to thereby increase the speed of processing the signals. A plurality of the processing nodes is combined into a plurality of sub-networks that comprise the network apparatus. Each processing node of a sub-network need only process address information pertaining to the node's current layer, one layer above it, if any, and one layer below it, if any. Additionally, each processing node has associated communication signal frequencies/wavelengths that identify the processing node as the intended recipient of the communication signal.
US09124480B2
In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention the application discloses a method and an apparatus to receive a signal (501) in a radio device on a radio channel; calculate a plurality of cyclic autocorrelations (504′, 505) for the received signal (501), wherein calculating the plurality of cyclic autocorrelations comprises selecting a cyclic frequency (503) and at least two delay values (502, 512) corresponding to the plurality of cyclic autocorrelations (504′, 505); to compensate a phase offset of at least one of the plurality of cyclic autocorrelations (504′) by at least one compensation term (506) to obtain a plurality of phase compensated autocorrelations (504), wherein the compensation term (506) is dependent on the cyclic frequency (503) and a corresponding delay value of the at least two delay values; and to combine the plurality of phase compensated autocorrelations.
US09124472B1
A client sends a file information request to a security server, where the file information request identifies a URL from which the client is attempting to download a file. Upon receiving the request, the security server determines the stability information of the identified URL and provides the requested file information for the file provided by the URL. The security server determines the stability information of a URL by analyzing the file identifiers and URLs identified in downloaded file reports received from multiple clients. The determination of the stability information of a URL may be based on a variety of factors, such as stability of a URL over time, a textual analysis of the URL, and the set of files provided by the URL. A user of the client can review the file information and decide whether to expend the resources to download the file.
US09124470B2
A reception signal demodulation device which converts a modulated reception signal into a digital signal and performs signal reconstruction includes a demodulator which demodulates the received signal, a matched filter which improves a signal-to-noise power ratio of the signal from the demodulator, a threshold value discriminator which determines a compression rate based on the signal from the matched filter, and a reconstruction circuit which compresses the signal from the matched filter, converts it into the digital signal, and performs signal reconstruction from the signal converted into the digital signal based on the compression rate.
US09124465B1
Calls which fail in the ways described above will typically result in a server (GK, MGC, RS or Ps for example) in the network issuing a failure message. This message typically provides one of two options; call forwarding to a central answering position or call clearing. The message does not allow for any more intelligent decisions to be taken and information about the reason for failure is irretrievably lost. By enhancing the message with an indication of the reason for failure and an optional recommendation for handling, the processing of such failed calls may be improved. For example, a gateway which receives the failure message may simply act in the usual way and either forward or clear the call. However with the enhanced indication, it may instead choose to carry out alternative actions such as collect more digits and retry at end of dial. If overlap signalling is being provided and the IP cloud is not fully overlap compatible, the gateway might also do an overlap to en bloc conversion. Another option is to collect at least one more digit and retry the call. This typically works well if overlap signalling is not used.
US09124464B2
A wireless receiver is configured to perform a method of channel estimation in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) network. The method includes despreading a vector of received samples to determine an average channel estimate for each of a plurality of multiplexed layers associated with the MIMO network, canceling inter-layer interference using the average channel estimates for the layers and obtaining a time-varying estimate for each layer, and estimating the channel using a two-dimensional minimum mean squared error (2D MMSE) technique.
US09124456B2
Efficient methods and apparatus for tracking decision-feedback equaliser (DFE) coefficients are described. In an embodiment, updated coefficients for a feed-forward equaliser (FFE) are generated using conventional methods and then these are used, along with an averaged updated value of channel impulse response (CIR) estimate to generate updated DFE coefficients. In an embodiment, the updated DFE coefficients are generated by multiplying the updated CIR estimate (in the frequency domain) and the updated FFE coefficients (also in the frequency domain). The resultant updated DFE coefficients in the frequency domain may then be converted into the time domain before outputting to the DFE.
US09124448B2
Described is an improved method, system, and computer program product for implementing an improved resequencer, along with related mechanisms and processes. A best efforts resequencing approach is described for determining a set of messages to process in a computing system.
US09124445B2
An apparatus for integrating device objects into a superordinated control unit for field devices in automation technology. A predetermined operating system runs on the control unit, and the control unit communicates via a fieldbus with the field devices. A communication hardware is provided, having a first communication link for connecting to the control unit and a second communication link for connecting to the fieldbus. Associated with the communication hardware is a memory element. The communication hardware is so embodied, that, upon coupling of the communication hardware to the control unit via the first communication link, the frame application is started via the operating system of the control unit and the driver for the communication hardware is installed, so that operating personnel can, via the device objects stored in the memory element and the fieldbus, service the associated field devices.
US09124440B2
A method and an apparatus for sharing content in a home network environment are provided. The method for sharing the content in the home network environment includes detecting a connection to a network; searching for at least one device connected to the network; and when the at least one is connected to the network, checking a type of the at least one device connected to the network, and determining whether to operate as a content providing server according to the type of the at least one device.
US09124432B2
A first data generation unit generates identification key information (FKey) that may be decrypted from the identification key information (IDKey) using key management information (FKB) read from an authenticatee. A decryption unit decrypts encrypted secret identification information (E-SecretID) using the identification key information (FKey) to generate secret identification information (SecretID). A second data generation unit generates a first session key (Skey) using the first key information (Hkey) and a random number. A one-way conversion unit performs a one-way conversion process on the secret identification information (SecretID) using the generated first session key (SKey) to generate first one-way conversion data (Oneway-ID).
US09124420B2
A transposition processing unit having a k-partition generalized Feistel structure transposes Yb,u into Za,t if Ya,t (t=0, 1, . . . , s−1) is transposed into Zb,u (u=0, 1, . . . , s−1, u≠t), in a case where input data entered into the transposition processing unit is Y0, Y1, . . . , Yk−1 (n bits×k); output data from the transposition processing unit is Z0, Z1, . . . , Zk−1; Yi (i=0, 1, . . . , k−1) divided into s blocks (s=2, 4, . . . , n) is Yi, 0, Yi, 1, . . . , Yi, s−1; Zi divided into s blocks is Zi, 0, Zi, 1, . . . , Zi, s−1.
US09124418B2
A method for encryption of blocks of data (201-206) is provided including the steps of: encrypting (301) a block of data using a current random number (211-216) generated for the block of data (201-206); encoding (303) the current random number using one or more of a set of previous random numbers, each of the set of previous random numbers having been used to encrypt a previously sent block of data; and transmitting (304) the encrypted block of data (241-246) with the one or more versions of the encoded current random number (272-276), each version for a different one of the previous random numbers. A method for decryption of blocks of data is provided including the steps of: receiving (401) an encrypted block of data (241-246) with the one or more versions of an encoded current random number, each version for a different one of the previous random numbers (272-276); selecting (402) one of a set of previously received blocks of data for which the random number is available (291-296); decoding (403) the current random number using the random number of the selected previously received block of data; and decrypting (404) the received encrypted block of data (241-246) using the decoded current random number.
US09124415B2
A clock generator with glitchless phase adjustment having a phase locked loop with a controlled oscillator providing an output representing a phase value. One or more output modules generate one or more output clocks from the output. One or more adjustment modules add a requested phase adjustment to an output clock. The phase adjustment modules are configured to break the requested phase adjustment into smaller increments and apply the increments to an output clock generated in said at the output modules one cycle at a time.
US09124410B2
A signaling mechanism is provided to indicate to the user equipment which mode is currently in use for uplink and/or downlink transmission in a system supporting different transmission modes of a multicarrier radio system, such as a HSPA system or another radio system. Using such signaling a particular mode can be dynamically or semi-dynamically activated according to the need, UE reported events or measurements, BS measurements, type of service, DRX cycle in use etc.
US09124403B2
Systems and methods for decoding bitstreams are described. The bitstreams may be encoded using a punctured convolution code and received from a wireless network. A puncture pattern associated with a modulation and coding scheme used to encode the bitstream is determined, and punctured log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) generated from the bitstream are ignored while decoding the bitstream. The puncture pattern may be characterized by one or more algorithms that identify punctured LLRs in a repetitive sequence of LLRs. A decoder may exclude punctured LLRs from calculations related to bitstream decoding. The decoder may comprise a Viterbi decoder or an algebraic decoder. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
US09124397B2
Wireless communication system with interference mitigation mechanism and method of operation thereof
A wireless communication system includes: a communication interface configured to receive a desired input signal and an interference input signal; and a control module, coupled to the communication interface, configured to calculate a capacity region to maximize a first R1 reference for the desired input signal by removing the interference input signal.
US09124396B2
Receivers with capability for iterative-diversity reception of COFDM digital television transmissions of repeated similarly coded data are described. Also described are receivers with capabilities for receiving COFDM digital television transmissions in which earlier transmissions of coded data are later followed by subsequent transmissions of the same data differently coded. The receivers use maximal-ratio code combining techniques for repeated components in the COFDM digital television transmissions. The receivers use turbo decoding techniques for concatenated coding of data in the COFDM digital television transmissions.
US09124389B2
An encoder for predictively encoding a signal having a sequence of signal values has a predictor for performing an adaptive prediction in dependence on the signal, and in dependence on one or more weighting values, to obtain predicted signal values, wherein the predictor is configured to reset the weighting values at times which are dependent on the signal, and wherein the predictor is configured to adapt the weighting values to the signal between subsequent resets.
US09124385B2
A method and system are disclosed in which a signaling message conforming to a GMPLS signaling protocol and associated with an optical connection is generated and transmitted by a transmit node to a receive node to change the size of a connection bandwidth in a network. The message may include information indicative of a number of spectral portions which correspond to frequencies of selected ones of the plurality of optical signals, selected ones of the plurality of optical signals being available to carry data from the transmit node to the receive node; and information indicative of a change in the number of selected ones of the plurality of optical signals. The transmit node may resize the connection while data traffic continues to be transmitted over the connection in the Optical Transport Network without service disruption to the client attached to the connection being resized.
US09124377B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus receives a configuration indicating multicast broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) subframes within a radio frame. The configuration indicates a number of symbols of an MBSFN subframe for receiving a wide area network (WAN) control signal and remaining symbols of the MBSFN subframe dedicated for peer-to-peer communication. The apparatus communicates with a peer via the symbols dedicated for peer-to-peer communication. Alternatively, the apparatus receives a configuration indicating a portion at a beginning and/or end of a guard period of a special time division duplex (TDD) subframe. The portion is reserved for an uplink timing advance and/or switching from transmission to reception and/or reception to transmission. The configuration also indicates a remaining portion of the guard period of the special TDD subframe for peer-to-peer communication. The apparatus communicates with a peer via the remaining portion.
US09124373B2
An integrated optical phased array includes an input channel receiving an optical input signal, and a multitude of signal processing channels each adapted to supply an associated optical output signal along a first axis in response to the input signal. Each signal processing channel includes, in part, a phase modulator adapted to modulate the phase of the signal travelling through the channel, thereby to control or steer the output signal of the phased array. Each channel optionally includes first and second photo detection circuits respectively generating first and second detection signals. The first and second detection signals in each channel may be used to modulate the amplitude and/or phase of the output signal of that channel thereby to control and steer the output signal of the phased array.
US09124366B2
A communication apparatus acquires a delay profile for a first transmit signal from a transmitting apparatus and determines an end time at which to end detection of a second transmit signal from the transmitting apparatus, based on the delay profile.
US09124365B2
A mobile device includes a processing device that converts a digital input signal to an analog output signal and a memory device that stores a plurality of gain tables, each including values associated with processing the digital input signal. The mobile device further includes at least one filter and at least one amplifier. The processing device is configured to select one of the plurality of gain tables based on the signal strength of the digital input signal and apply one or more values in the selected gain table to the filter, the amplifier, or both, to process the digital input signal, the analog output signal, or both. A method includes receiving a digital input signal, identifying a signal strength of the digital input signal, selecting one of a plurality of gain tables, and processing the digital input signal based on the selected gain table.
US09124361B2
Embodiments of the concepts described herein are directed toward a common RF building block in the form of a monolithic assembly for an AESA array featuring a scalable RF design based on 2n:3 combining. The monopulse network building blocks are substantially identical, enabling an interchangeable sub-array architecture that is independent of position in the AESA aperture and receive sum channel sidelobe performance. In one embodiment, a passive Monopulse Beamformer may provide the passive 2n:3 RF coupling/combining network and an active Monopulse Processor may perform amplitude and phase weighting for the combined signals from the Monopulse Beamformer.
US09124359B2
A system and method for minimizing or preventing interference between wireless networks is disclosed. A network hub broadcasts a beacon signal within repeating beacon periods. The position of the beacon signal shifts within each beacon period based upon a predetermined pseudo-random sequence. The beacon signal includes data identifying the current beacon shift sequence and the current phase of the sequence. Neighboring hubs independently or jointly determine and broadcast their own beacon shift sequences and phases for their respective networks from a predetermined list. Nodes connected with the network hubs are assigned allocation intervals having a start time that is set relative to the beacon signal. The start time and duration of the allocation interval wraps around the beacon period if the allocation-interval would otherwise start or continue in a next beacon period.
US09124358B2
A wireless switch or sensor is provided that includes a radio frequency (RF) transponder including a narrowband receiver operable to generate power from a received narrowband RF signal and an ultra wideband (UWB) transmitter operable to transmit UWB pulses using the generated power.
US09124356B2
Systems and methods are provided for a correlator system. The system includes a plurality of numerically controlled oscillators and a multiplier configured to receive an input stream representing a received signal. A carrier multiplexer is configured to select between respective outputs of at least two of the plurality of numerically controlled oscillators and provide the selected output to the multiplier. A code generator is configured to provide a replica code. A delay component is configured to provide a delayed code from the replica code. A code multiplexer is configured to selectively provide each of the delayed code and the replica code to the multiplier.
US09124352B2
A data communication terminal apparatus is disclosed that includes a printed circuit board, a ground plane formed in the printed circuit board, a connector disposed on an end portion of the printed circuit board, and an antenna configured to have a feeding portion at one end and another end, the other end being connected to the ground plane via a capacitor between the feeding portion and the connector, the antenna forming a loop with the ground plane.
US09124347B2
Systems, methods, and devices to communicate in a white space are described herein. In some aspects, wireless communication transmitted in the white space authorizes an initial transmission by a device. The wireless communication may include power information for determining a power at which to transmit the initial transmission. The initial transmission may be used to request information identifying one or more channels in the white space available for transmitting data.
US09124335B1
A radio frequency (RF) noise-cancelling receiver includes first transconductance cells configured to produce respective weighted current signals proportional to an input voltage signal. The RF receiver includes frequency conversion cells coupled to the first transconductance cells and configured to mix the weighted current signals with a plurality of non-overlapping local oscillator (LO) signals to produce downconverted current signals. The RF receiver includes transimpedance amplifiers coupled to the frequency conversion cells and configured to produce output voltage signals proportional to the downconverted current signals. The transimpedance amplifiers include second transconductance cells. Each of the first and second transconductance cells has an effective transconductance of a first magnitude for frequency components of the input voltage signal arising from a first harmonic and an effective transconductance of a second magnitude less than the first magnitude for frequency components of the input voltage signal arising from harmonics at integer multiples of the first harmonic.
US09124323B2
A method for calibrating signal transmission equipment. The equipment includes at least two signal transmission subsystems, a first subsystem implementing a first signal transmission technology and a second subsystem implementing a second signal transmission technology. The method includes transmitting, by the first subsystem, a signal at a predetermined transmission power; measuring, by the second subsystem, an amount of noise perceived on at least one channel associated with the second subsystem; and recording, in a data structure, the amount of noise for the at least one associated channel.
US09124309B2
A wireless power transmission method of a wireless power transmitter for transmitting power to a wireless power receiver, according to the embodiment includes transmitting a connection signal for identifying the wireless power receiver; identifying the wireless power receiver by receiving a response signal to the connection signal from the wireless power receiver; negotiating a power transmission condition with the identified wireless power receiver; and transmitting the power to the identified wireless power receiver according to the negotiated power transmission condition.
US09124308B2
Furniture components, such as office furniture components, are configured to include electronic components that transfer electrical power to peripheral electronic devices via wireless technologies, including conductive and inductive technologies. The articles of furniture may include grommet devices received within work surfaces, the grommet devices incorporating or housing the electronics of wireless power systems. The articles of furniture may also include the electronics of wireless power systems physically embedded or integrated within work surfaces in a manner in which the continuous surfaces of the work surfaces are maintained, and the work surfaces may optionally further include lighting or other indication features to indicate the locations of the electronics to a user.
US09124293B2
Continuous time analog/digital converter, comprising a sigma delta modulator (MSD1) configured to receive an analog input signal (x(t)) and comprising high-pass filtering means (MF) the chopping frequency of which is equal to half of the sampling frequency (Fs) of the quantization means (QTZ) of the modulator (MSD1).
US09124287B1
An apparatus comprising a scrambler having a plurality of scrambler inputs and 2N scrambler outputs, and a unary-weighted digital to analog converter (DAC) connected to scrambler to generate an analog output signal based on the 2N scrambler outputs. The scrambler has N unique scrambling stages arranged in order between the scrambler inputs and the scrambler outputs from a first scrambling stage to a last scrambling stage. Each of the N unique scrambling stages has a plurality of stage inputs and outputs, with the stage inputs of the first scrambling stage connected to the scrambler inputs, the stage outputs of each scrambling stage except the last scrambling stage connected to the stage inputs of a next scrambling stage, and the stage outputs of the last scrambling stage connected to the scrambler outputs. Each of the N unique scrambling stages is operable to pass signals at the inputs to the outputs in either an unscrambled or scrambled state under control of a control bit provided by an N-bit entropy signal. When an N+1 bit input signal is applied to the scrambler inputs and the N-bit entropy signal is randomized the analog output signal from the DAC has improved linearity compared to the analog output signal generated from a non-scrambled input, and when a test input signal is applied to the scrambler inputs and the entropy signal is swept through 2N orthogonal values the analog output signal from the DAC indicates whether a fault exists in one of the scrambler and the DAC.
US09124286B1
Systems and methods for protecting an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) are provided. The provided systems and methods utilize comparators in a circuit of a stage of the ADC to compare a reference signal to an input signal and output one or more maximum signals when the input signal exceeds the reference signal. A decoder in the stage of the ADC may output a reset signal to another circuit in the stage of the ADC when a predetermined number of the maximum signals are received. When the other circuit receives the reset signal, the ADC may enter a protection mode to protect the ADC by ensuring that the excessive input signal is not propagated to subsequent stages.
US09124283B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide a switching scheme for tri-level unit elements with ISI mitigation. A tri-level unit element may include a first and second current source and a plurality of switches arranged to form three circuit branches between the first and the second current source. The first circuit branch may include two switches connected in parallel between the first current source and a first output terminal and two switches connected in parallel between the second current source and the first output terminal. The second circuit branch may include two switches connected in parallel between the first current source and a second output terminal and two switches connected in parallel between the second current source and the second output terminal. The third circuit branch may include switches to couple the first current source and the second current source to a dump node.
US09124280B2
A time to digital converter includes: a first measurement unit measuring a time difference between a start signal and a stop signal as a first time unit by using a first delay line; a second measurement unit measuring a time difference between the stop signal and the start signal delayed by the first delay line as a second time unit by using a second delay line and a third delay line and comparing an output signal of one delay cell included in the second delay line with an output signal of at least two delay cells included in the third delay line; and an output unit outputting a final time difference between the start signal and the stop signal as a digital code on the basis of measurement results of the first measurement unit and the second measurement unit.
US09124279B2
The differential output of a Programmable Gain Amplifier (PGA) is loaded by the input differential gate capacitance of a plurality of Analog to Digital converters (ADC) comparators and the differential metal layer traces to interconnect these comparators to the PGA. The differential capacitive load presented to the PGA is quite large and reduces the bandwidth of this interconnect between the PGA and ADC. To overcome the performance degradation due to the differential capacitive load, an active negative-capacitor circuit cancels the effect of the large input capacitance of the ADC comparators. This cancellation extends the gain characteristics of the interconnect between the PGA's output and the inputs of the first stage of the comparators. The active negative-capacitance is comprised of a cross pair NMOS with a capacitor connecting their sources where each NMOS is biased by a current source.
US09124271B1
A logic device includes a low-skew network that feeds a subset of elements on the logic device. The low-skew network includes a selector that can select from a plurality of signal sources which includes a first signal source and a second signal source, wherein the second signal source can reach at least one element outside of the subset.
US09124261B2
A flip-flop circuit includes an evaluation part connected to a first node and a second node to discharge the second node according to a voltage level of the first node, a conditional delay part connected to the second node to discharge a third node to have a voltage level different from a voltage level of the second node, and a keeper logic part connected to the second node and third node to maintain a voltage level of one of the second and third nodes being not discharged.
US09124254B2
The transient response of an output voltage to a load fluctuation is improved, in a switching power source that carries out a PWM control. In a DC-DC converter wherein a switching element of an output stage is controlled by a drive signal, whose pulse width is set at a minimum value, output from a PWM signal generating circuit based on an output voltage output from an error amplifier in accordance with the difference between a feedback voltage in accordance with an output voltage of the output stage and a reference voltage, there is provided a minimum pulse width detector circuit that supplies a current to a phase compensation capacitor when the pulse width of the drive signal is at the minimum value, thus preventing the output voltage from dropping below a value corresponding to the minimum value when the load fluctuates, and improving transient response characteristics of the output voltage.
US09124252B2
Provided is a semiconductor apparatus which includes a plurality of output buffers configured to connect a plurality of power sources, and a data noise measuring unit configured to fix an output data of a selected output buffer among the plurality of output buffers to have a specific level, measure a noise of the output data using a capacitance and control a slew rate of the plurality of output buffers based on the noise.
US09124232B2
A gain controlling system, a sound playback system, and a gain controlling method thereof are disclosed. The gain controlling system includes a main gain control unit, a sub gain control unit, and a logic control unit. The main gain control unit has a first step-by-step adjusting magnitude; the sub gain control unit has a second step-by-step adjusting magnitude; wherein the second step-by-step adjusting magnitude is smaller than the first step-by-step adjusting magnitude. The logic control unit is used for controlling the main and the sub gain control unit to transform an analog signal into a converted signal according to an adjustment command signal and further determining whether an adjusting magnitude required by the adjustment command signal is larger than a maximum gain range of the sub gain control unit. If yes, the logic control unit controls the main control unit and the sub gain control unit repeatedly.
US09124223B2
An electronic device for reading at least two acquisition channels, the device including a preamplifier with an inverter for each acquisition channel, and a polarization device shared by at least two of the preamplifiers.
US09124221B2
A wide bandwidth radio frequency amplifier is disclosed. The wide bandwidth radio frequency amplifier has a first signal path having a first input and a first output along with a first dual gate field effect transistor having a first-first gate coupled to the first input and a first drain coupled to the first output. The wide bandwidth radio frequency amplifier also includes a second signal path having a second input and a second output and a second dual gate field effect transistor having a second-first gate coupled to the second input and a second drain coupled to the second output.
US09124219B2
An audio driver comprising a distortion detection unit coupled between an amplifier and a loudspeaker and configured to detect a distortion signal generated by the loudspeaker while the loudspeaker is being used to deliver an audio signal from the amplifier. A distortion compensation unit configured to compensate for the distortion signal without interfering with the audio signal.
US09124214B2
A method for spatially determining the series resistance of a semiconductor structure by generating luminescent radiation in the semiconductor structure under measurement conditions A and B, by determining a local calibration parameter CV,i for a plurality of prescribed locations of the semiconductor structure and determining local series resistances RS,i for a plurality of prescribed locations of the semiconductor structure. It is essential that the local series resistances RS,i are each determined as a function of a global series resistance RSg of the semiconductor structure that is identical for all local series resistances.
US09124213B2
A method and apparatus for cooling and capturing energy in an electronic device using photovoltaic cells is disclosed. A power supply powers electronic components inside the electronic device. The electronic components produce heat and infrared energy. The photovoltaic cells convert the infrared energy into an electric current to reduce the overall heat level of the electronic device. A power recovery circuit conditions the electric current into a conditioned power signal usable by a system power path manager of the electronic device. The system power path manager uses the converted infrared energy to power the electronic device and/or to charge an energy storage unit.
US09124205B2
There is provided an apparatus for generating a motor driving control signal, the apparatus including: an oscillating unit generating an oscillating signal having a preset duty ratio; a selecting unit including a first switch switching a first path connected between the oscillating unit and an output terminal and a second switch complementarily operated with respect to the first switch and switching a second path connected to the first path in parallel; and a duty adjusting unit installed on the second path between the second switch and the output terminal, adjusting a duty ratio of the oscillating signal according to a rotation speed signal of a motor, and outputting the signal having the adjusted duty ratio as a driving control signal through the output terminal.
US09124201B2
In a method for predefining a generator-based braking power of an electric machine in a vehicle, a motor-based propulsion power is predefined as a function of the position of a first final control element, e.g., an accelerator pedal, and the generator-based braking power is predefined as a function of the position of the first final control element, the generator-based braking power assuming values which are unequal to zero, already at an actuated position of the first final control element.
US09124199B2
A motor driver IC with auto calibration function is provided, the motor driver IC utilizes a Hall sensor of a switched sensor circuit to detect the changes in an external magnetic field. By using the compensation current which is generated by the automatic calibration circuit to correct the unexpected offset existed in the Hall sensor of the sensing unit itself to zero so that the sensing unit can sense the changes in the external magnetic field accurately and can point out the rotor position correctly, and the motor can be further driven to commutate relatively to reduce the motor rotation noise to achieve good output performance of the motor rotation and the better motor driving system stability.
US09124194B2
A device includes a full-bridge configured to convert a direct current (DC) voltage to an alternating current (AC) voltage. The full-bridge includes at least first, second, third and fourth bridge sections. Each of the first, second, third and fourth bridge sections includes a switch of a first type configured to switch in response to a first voltage level and a switch of a second type configured to switch in response to a second voltage level different than the first voltage level. The switch of the second type is configured to be driven using an inductive current of a load coupled to an output of the full-bridge.
US09124191B2
Disclosed herein is a power supply apparatus, including: a first switch configured to change over electric connection to an electric power generation section; a voltage sensor configured to acquire a magnitude of an input voltage; a control section configured to control the first switch in response to an input from the voltage sensor; and a voltage conversion circuit configured to convert an input voltage into a desired voltage and output the converted voltage, wherein, when the input voltage is lower than a voltage necessary for starting up of the voltage conversion circuit, switching on and off of the first switch are repeated until the input voltage reaches the voltage necessary for starting up of the voltage conversion circuit.
US09124184B2
An external resistor is connected to a detection terminal. A pulse modulator is configured to generate a pulse signal SPWM having a duty ratio adjusted such that the output voltage VOUT of a DC/DC converter approaches a target value. A pulse modulator is configured to switch the pulse signal SPWM to a level that corresponds to the off level of the switching transistor according to a detection voltage VS that develops at the detection terminal. A short-circuit detection circuit is configured to generate a short-circuit detection signal which is asserted when the detection voltage VS is higher than a predetermined threshold voltage VTH after a judgment time elapses after the pulse signal SPWM is switched to an on level that corresponds to the on state of the switching transistor. When the short-circuit detection signal is asserted, the pulse modulator is configured to switch the pulse signal SPWM to the off level.
US09124183B2
A power inverter includes two input terminals, two output terminals and a resonant converter that includes a high frequency transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding, at least one high frequency switched semiconductor power switch that connects one end of the primary winding of the high frequency transformer to one of the input terminals to provide a current path through the primary winding to the other one of the input terminals. The power inverter further includes a resonant series circuit having an inductance and a capacitance, and a high frequency rectifier that rectifies a current through the secondary winding, two output lines, and an output converter connected between the output lines of the high frequency rectifier and the two output terminals.
US09124163B2
A repulsive force conversion drive system for centrifugal force conversion to drive a load. A operational load to be driven by movement and provide external power due to movement of the operational load. A rotary repulsive force conversion drive connected to the operational load, such that the operational load moves in a first linear direction due to centrifugal force of rotating mass of the rotary repulsive force conversion drive. A linear repulsive force conversion drive connected to the operational load, the linear repulsive force conversion drive connected to the operational load such that the operational load moves is a second linear direction that is opposite the first linear direction on command from the linear repulsive force conversion drive.
US09124162B2
A small DC motor includes a motor frame having a cylindrical portion, the cylindrical portion having a constant thickness and having a cross section in a shape that comprises four sides and connecting portions, each of the connecting portions connecting adjacent two of the four sides and being located inward from a corresponding corner in a quadrangle comprising the four sides; and a magnet having a circumferential surface on an inside thereof and having conformable contact with the motor frame on an outside thereof.
US09124157B2
A rotor of a rotary electric machine includes a rotor core, a plurality of magnet groups, and a plurality of grooves provided between adjacent slot groups. A circumferential rib is provided at a first position on an outer circumferential surface of each of the magnets. A radial direction rib is provided at a second position on a circumferential direction surface of each of the magnets. A curved rib connects the circumferential rib and the radial direction rib, and has an inner surface and an outer surface both being curved in an circular arc shape. The circumferential rib, the curved rib, and the radial direction rib are spaced apart from the outer circumferential surface, the outer circumferential corner, and the circumferential direction surface of each of the magnets.
US09124149B2
A drive force transmission device includes a motor, a transmission, a motor case, and a seal member. The motor is disposed in a dry space within a motor housing. The transmission is disposed in a wet space within a transmission case. The motor case covers an outer periphery of the motor housing and is coupled to the transmission case. The seal member is between the motor case and the motor housing and isolates the wet space and the outer space. The motor housing is divided into a divider wall housing dividing off the wet space and an outer wall housing dividing off the outer space, the divider wall housing being a material lighter than a material of the outer wall housing and integrally coupled thereto. The divider wall housing is divided from the outer wall housing at a position nearer to the dry space than the seal member.
US09124147B2
An apparatus is disclosed for extracting electrical and mechanical energy from stored magnetic energy. The apparatus includes an axial flow turbine defined by a body having an increased magnetic density from a first exterior edge along a surface of the body to a second exterior edge. Also included is a magnetic element rotatably operable about the body of the axial flow turbine. The magnetic element is configured to cause increasingly level of the magnetic attraction from the first exterior edge to that of the second exterior edge.
US09124142B2
An inductive charging device (20) for a portable apparatus for an automobile vehicle including at least one charging antenna (70) for inductive charging of the WPC type having a cut-out at its center (62) together with one communication antenna (60) for near-field communication of the NFC type, situated around the at least one charging antenna, along the sides of the charging device (Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4) and including at least one winding, the device being such that: on at least one of the sides of the charging device, the communication antenna forms at least one loop (B) having at least one crossing point (61) on its base, the communication antenna having at least an upper part (63) surrounding the center of the cut-out of the charging antenna, the upper part of the loop of the communication antenna surrounding the center of the cut-out has at least one winding.
US09124136B1
The present invention provides for the integration of distributed renewable energy sources/storages utilizing a cascaded DC-AC inverter, thereby eliminating the need for a DC-DC converter. The ability to segment the energy sources and energy storages improves the maintenance capability and system reliability of the distributed generation system, as well as achieve wide range reactive power compensation. In the absence of a DC-DC converter, single stage energy conversion can be achieved to enhance energy conversion efficiency.
US09124133B2
A charging apparatus includes a diode, a switch, a high-voltage conversion circuit, and a controller which determines whether a charge capacity of a low-voltage battery is above a threshold and outputs a signal for supplying power of a generator to the low-voltage battery when the charge capacity is equal to or below the threshold while outputs a signal for charging the high-voltage battery when the charge capacity is above the threshold value.
US09124132B2
A system and method for reducing an electrical load in a facility or building with an automated demand response server having a hierarchical grouping of demand stages and demand groups with associated timers that control the shedding of load in order to achieve the appropriate level of load reduction and ramping up devices in a controlled manner upon the expiration of a demand response event.
US09124127B2
A method is provided for detecting islanding conditions in an electric power network which includes a plurality of sub-networks. The sub-networks include at least one power electrical unit and are separable from each other and a main grid supplying the network by switching devices. The method includes determining topological information of at least one sub-network of interest, detecting islanding conditions in at least one sub-network of interest on the basis of the topological information by using separate detecting devices for each sub-network of interest, and sending, on the basis of the islanding conditions detected by using the detecting devices, a disconnect signal to at least one power electrical unit in at least one sub-network of interest.
US09124124B2
A method is provided for reducing interference in an inductive charging system within a vehicle. The method includes inductively charging a device with an inductive charger. The method also includes detecting at least one mode of operation of a potential interfering device in proximity to the inductive charger. The method further includes adjusting at least one of a frequency band employed by the charger and an amount of power provided to the device by the charger based on at least one detected mode of operation.
US09124121B2
An inductive power receiver including a dual purpose inductor wired to an electric load, the dual purpose inductor is configured to inductively couple with a primary inductor wired to a power supply. The dual purpose inductor typically comprises a radio antenna such as a near field communication antenna. A method is described for charging electromagnetic cells via the inductive power receiver.
US09124119B2
A system for generating electrical power is described. In at least one embodiment, the system includes a turbine that is mechanically connected to a generator, wherein the generator is electrically connected via a first converter to a load. The first converter generates a first output current. A second output current is generated by a second converter and is added to the first output current. The second output current is generated such that an actual current over the load follows a desired current.
US09124113B2
A contactless power receiver is provided with a dynamically tuned pick up coil. The power transfer capacity of this power receiver is dynamically tuned using semiconductor devices that are operated in linear mode over part of their operation. The semiconductor devices are driven by a controller that is configured to implement a range of control strategies depending on system requirements. The semiconductor device may be used by itself or in conjunction with reactive elements to dynamically tune the pick up coil. In some implementations the contactless power receiver maybe configured to work with a consumer electronic or a wireless sensor device. The contactless power receiver can be integrated with the energy storage component of the device to provide a retrofit solution for existing products. The device can then be placed in vicinity of a planar magnetic field generated by a charging pad.
US09124112B2
Systems (100) and methods (600) for recharging a battery (292) of an electronic device (102) which has been placed in a cradle (106) of a charging dock (104). The methods involve: measuring a charging voltage value and a charging current value for the electronic device; determining a first value of angular orientation for a current position of the electronic device relative to a reference angular orientation of the electronic device; selecting at least one first indicator from a plurality of indicators based on the charging voltage value, the charging current value, and the first value of angular orientation; and outputting a first indicator to the user of the electronic device.
US09124110B2
An in-vehicle wireless charging system including a warning unit that generates a warning notifying a user that a vehicle is in a situation inappropriate for the user to leave the vehicle when a door opens under a situation inappropriate for the user to leave the vehicle. The warning unit is constantly supplied with power. A wireless charging device supplies power to a charged device set at a predetermined charge location in the vehicle. A first switch detects whether or not the charged device is set at the charge location. The warning unit generates the warning notifying the user that the vehicle is in a situation inappropriate for the user to leave the vehicle when the door opens under a situation in which the charged device has been determined from the detection of the first switch as being set at the charge location.
US09124106B2
In a battery charger cradle, a battery incorporated in a battery built-in device is charged by electric power induced to an induction coil. The cradle includes a primary coil for inducing electromotive force to the induction coil, a casing having a top plate atop of which the battery built-in device is placed, a movement mechanism for moving the primary coil along an inner surface of the top plate, and a position detection controller for detecting a position of the battery built-in device placed on the top plate and controlling the movement mechanism to bring the primary coil closer to the induction coil in the battery built-in device. When the battery built-in device is placed on the top plate, the position detection controller detects the position of the battery built-in device, and the movement mechanism moves the primary coil closer to the induction coil in the battery built-in device.
US09124097B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate generally to a device for correcting the polarity of electricity in a circuit. In direct current circuits, a positive voltage received from a power source will exit the device at a predetermined output regardless of which input of the device received the positive voltage. In alternating current circuits, one or more currents received from a hot output(s) of a power source will be connected to a predetermined output(s) of the device regardless of which input(s) received the current(s).
US09124080B2
A wire accommodating protector includes a protector body and a lid for covering the protector body. Lock lugs are provided on outer peripheral edges of the lid and protrude toward the protector body in a manner that allows the lock lugs to flex. Each of the lock lugs has a lock projection provided thereon. Lock lug insertion holes are formed in sidewalls of the protector body, the lock lug insertion holes extend within and down the full height of the sidewalls and are open at top surfaces of the sidewalls. Each of the lock lug insertion holes has a lock protrusion formed therein. The lid is adapted to interlock with the protector body when the plurality of lock lugs are inserted into the respective plurality of lock lug insertion holes so as to engage the lock projections with the lock protrusions.
US09124077B2
A meter socket, load center combination apparatus is disclosed. The meter socket, load center combination apparatus has an enclosure having a meter socket section with a meter socket configured to receive a utility meter, a load center section having a panelboard with a plurality of locations configured to receive circuit interface devices, and a cross-bus connection section extending between first and second sides of the enclosure, the cross bus connection section having one or more side openings configured to allow electrical connection to one or more cross bus bars, and a main circuit breaker coupled between the panelboard and the meter socket. Methods of assembling power distribution systems and electrical distribution systems including the meter socket, load center combination apparatus are disclosed, as are other aspects.
US09124076B2
A spark plug including a housing as a ground contact to an internal combustion engine, a center electrode situated in the housing along a center axis of the spark plug, an insulator between the center electrode and the housing, and a two-legged ground electrode whose legs are located on the combustion chamber side of the center electrode and angled with respect to one another in a leg plane which is perpendicular to the center axis, the two ends of the ground electrode being connected to the housing respectively by one connection point, a first gap between one end of the housing on the combustion chamber side and the leg plane being smaller than or equal to a second gap between one of the connection points and the center axis, and/or the ground electrode being tapered toward the center axis.
US09124072B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor laser includes a growth substrate; a semiconductor layer sequence that generates laser radiation; a front facet at the growth substrate and at the semiconductor layer sequence, wherein the front facet constitutes a main light exit side for the laser radiation generated in the semiconductor laser and has a light exit region at the semiconductor layer sequence; a light blocking layer for the laser radiation, which partly covers at least the growth substrate at the front facet such that the light exit region is not covered by the light blocking layer; and a bonding pad at a side of the semiconductor layer sequence facing away from the growth substrate, wherein a distance between the bonding pad and the light blocking layer at least at the light exit region is 0.1 μm to 100 μm.
US09124069B2
A VCSEL with undoped top mirror. The VCSEL is formed from an epitaxial structure deposited on a substrate, and a periodically doped conduction layer is coupled to the undoped top minor. A periodically doped spacer layer is coupled to an active region. An undoped bottom minor coupled to the periodically doped spacer layer. A first intracavity contact is coupled to the periodically doped conduction layer and a second intracavity contact is coupled to the periodically doped spacer layer.
US09124067B2
Provided is a pulse laser apparatus for generating laser light. The apparatus includes a first mirror and a second mirror which are disposed at both ends of a resonator and configured to reflect the laser light, a gain medium disposed between the first and second mirrors and configured to amplify and output light incident from an outside, an etalon configured to adjust a pulse width of the laser light, and an acousto-optic modulator disposed between the first and second mirrors and configured to form a mode-locked and Q-switched signal from the laser light, in which some of the laser light is output through either the first or second mirror to outside the resonator.
US09124061B2
A laser light source includes a thermoelectric cooling device, a composite green laser made up of an infrared wavelength pumped laser diode and a solid-state laser cavity designed for efficient nonlinear intra-cavity frequency conversion into desired wavelengths using periodically poled nonlinear crystals thermally coupled with the cooling device and a red wavelength laser diode thermally coupled with said cooling device. In this manner, the cooling device maintains a common temperature of the infrared pumped laser diode and the red laser diode over an ambient temperature range.
US09124056B1
A 360° rotatable power grommet mounted in an aperture in a work surface, three vertical copper strips, each connected to a wire which passes through a base to connect to an electrical power source. The copper strips are mounted in a vertical shaft which connects to a base. There are one or more electrical receptacles having arms which rotate horizontally and close to form a central bore, the arms having inner surfaces which are molded with horizontal copper strips, the central bore clamping to the vertical shaft to transfer power from the vertical shaft to the horizontal copper strips, the central bore allowing each electrical receptacle to separately rotate 360° around the vertical shaft.
US09124048B2
The present invention relates generally to connectors such as audio connectors and in particular to flexible audio connectors that can be used in place of standard audio connectors currently used. A portion or all of the plug connector may comprise a flexible material that allows the connector to bend with respect to an insertion axis and prevent the connector from breaking when inserted or extracted improperly. A method of assembly is provided and may be used for assembling embodiments of the plug connector. The connector is configured to mate with a corresponding receptacle connector along an insertion axis.
US09124045B2
Preparation is made of first and second contact assemblies in each of which ends of a plurality of contacts are respectively coupled to a plurality of coupling portions of a carrier. The coupling portions of at least one of the first and second contact assemblies are bent so as to offset the contacts in a thickness direction of the carrier. Then, the first and second contact assemblies are combined together in a state where the carriers overlap each other and the contacts are aligned with and spaced apart from each other in the same plane. After integrating the contacts, the coupling portions are cut off. Then, the integrated contacts are collectively inserted into a shell.
US09124032B2
A rolled terminal (50) for an electrical connector has a first portion (58) formed of a rolled sheet defining a bore for receiving an electrical wire, and a first aperture (62) in the wall of the first portion (58) for receiving a screw for clamping the wire between the screw and the wall of the first portion. Also included is a plug attached by cable to a towed vehicle, the plug associated with a magnet to enable it to be secured to the towed vehicle when the plug is not in use.
US09124028B2
A connector includes: a female terminal housing provided with a terminal receiving cavity receiving a female terminal; and a male terminal housing retaining a male terminal to be connected to the female terminal. The male and female terminal housings have first and second engagement portions. The male and female terminal housings are fitted in a first fitting position by the first engagement portion. The male and female terminal housings are fitted in a second fitting position by the second engagement portion. The first fitting position is a position in which the locking hole of the female terminal is engaged with the lance of the terminal receiving cavity, and in which the male terminal is not in sliding contact with the female terminal. The second fitting position is a position in which the male terminal is in sliding contact with the female terminal.
US09124025B2
A structurally compact connector that dissipates heat quickly and efficiently is disclosed. The connector includes a housing having a plug receiving space. An elastic member is positioned on the housing, and is displaceable outward from the housing. A protrusion is positioned on an inner surface of the elastic member and extends into the plug receiving space. A thermally conductive element is disposed on an outer surface of the elastic member and is contactable with a heat sink positioned outside of the housing.
US09124018B2
There is provided a connector and a method for making the connector preventing escape of a terminal fitting by improving latch force for the terminal fitting over a wide variety of products without inducing upsize or manufacturing cost. The connector comprises a connector housing including a terminal fitting and a terminal housing accommodating the terminal fitting, in which the connector housing includes a wall composing one inner face of the terminal housing, and a latch part latching the terminal fitting, the latch part including a latch arm having a tip extending from a base end disposed the inner face of the wall toward a back side in an insertion direction of the terminal fitting, a latch projection projecting from the latch arm in a direction intersecting the insertion direction.
US09124017B2
A terminal fitting is mounted on a terminal accommodation chamber formed in a connector housing by being engaged with an elastically deformable lance provided in the terminal accommodation chamber. The terminal fitting includes a bite resistance increasing part that is formed only at an upper portion of a hole edge engagement end face of an engaging hole to be engaged with the lance and increases a bite resistance to the lance. An lower portion of the hole edge engagement end face is flat. The bite resistance increasing part has a wave-shaped part that is formed by partially pressing the hole edge engagement end face.
US09124014B2
An audio jack connector (100) includes an insulative housing (1), a first contact (21) and a second contact (22) retained in the insulative housing. The insulative housing defines a receiving channel (14). The first contact includes a first retaining portion (211), a first soldering portion (212) bent from the first retaining portion, and a first contacting portion (213) extending from the first retaining portion. The second contact includes a second contacting portion (221) extending into the receiving channel, an upper beam (222) and a lower beam (223) forkedly extending from the contacting portion, a hook portion (224) formed at the distal end of the upper beam and secured with the insulative housing, and a second soldering portion (225) bent from the lower beam. An interspace (226) is defined between the upper beam and the lower beam. The first contacting portion protrudes into the receiving channel via the interspace.
US09123969B2
A vehicle propulsion system comprising a plurality of solid state rechargeable battery cells configured to power a drivetrain. In accordance with once aspect of the invention, a transportation system that is powered at least in part by electricity stored in the form of rechargeable electrochemical cells. According to an embodiment of the present invention, these cells are combined in series and in parallel to form a pack that is regulated by charge and discharge control circuits that are programmed with algorithms to monitor state of charge, battery lifetime, and battery health.
US09123968B2
Disclosed is a lithium ion-sulfur battery including a lithium metal used as a supply source of lithium ions, a sulfur electrode used as a positive electrode and an intercalation electrode. The intercalation electrode is (i) interposed between the lithium metal and the sulfur electrode, (ii) has a structure capable of causing an intercalation reaction, and (iii) is used as a negative electrode after the lithium ions are intercalated from the lithium metal to be charged and discharged together with the sulfur electrode. The lithium metal is used only to intercalate the lithium ions into the intercalation electrode during initial use, and the intercalation electrode, into which the lithium ions are intercalated, is used as a negative electrode during actual use. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the formation of dendrite caused when the lithium ions are used as the negative electrode, and thus the charge/discharge durability is improved.
US09123964B2
A fuel cell electrode that contains a support layer and a catalyst layer, wherein the catalyst layer does not contain a noble metal catalyst and is formed of carbon nanotubes, wherein the carbon nanotubes have pores in sidewalls thereof, and have a pore size distribution of 0.1 nm to 30 nm and a BET specific surface area of 100 to 4,000 m2/g, wherein the pores penetrate or do not penetrate the sidewalls.
US09123963B2
Disclosed are methods for fabricating a reinforced membrane electrode assembly having one or more freestanding external reinforcement layers. The method comprises providing a freestanding external reinforcement layer, and depositing a catalyst solution and membrane solution onto at least a portion of the freestanding external reinforcement layer.
US09123957B2
A rechargeable lithium battery that includes a negative electrode including a negative active material; a positive electrode including polyacrylonitrile and a positive active material which is capable of fully charging at about 4.3V or more; and a non-aqueous electrolyte.
US09123951B2
Disclosed herein is a secondary battery pack including a battery cell, and a protection circuit module (PCM) assembly, configured in a specific structure, coupled to the top of the battery cell. The secondary battery pack includes a battery cell having an electrode assembly mounted in a battery case together with an electrolyte in a sealed state, a protection circuit module (PCM) assembly including a PCM and connection members, the PCM assembly being provided with a through-hole for connection, an insulative mounting member mounted at the top of the battery cell, an insulative cap coupled to an upper end of the battery cell. One of the connection members, i.e., the connection member (A), protrudes from one end of the PCM assembly such that a region of the connection member (A) electrically connected to the battery cell is exposed upward from the PCM assembly. The other connection member, i.e., the connection member (B), is coupled to the bottom of the PCM such that at least a portion of the connection member (B) is exposed upward from the PCM assembly through the through-hole for connection. The electrical connection between the connection members and the electrode terminals of the battery cell is achieved at the top of the PCM while the insulative mounting member and the PCM assembly are loaded on the battery cell.
US09123946B2
A fuel cell of a fuel cell stack includes separators. Each of the separators includes a fuel gas supply section, a bridge, and a sandwiching section. A fuel gas supply passage extends through the center of the fuel gas supply section, and a fuel gas supply channel is formed in the bridge. A plurality of the fuel cells are stacked together to form a stack body. Side insulating members are provided in parallel with an extension line extending from the bridge, and along both of outer portions of the sandwiching section. The side insulating members suppress heat radiation from the fuel cells, and are used as a reference level for positioning the fuel cells at the time of stacking the fuel cells.
US09123944B2
An end-to-end cell connection system for a battery assembly uses a conductive interconnector with an inner portion welded to an end of one cell, a standoff portion contiguous with the ring portion, tabs extending from the standoff portion, with the tabs welded to an end of another cell. By placing an insulator between the interconnector and the one cell, an electrical short is prevented in the event that a longitudinally coupled cell group is jostled. At the cell connections, there is a recess. To hold the cell group in place, the housing has a tab extending into the recess. The tab is at the center so that any dimensional variations are accommodated on each side of the tab. The interconnector also may include a receptacle for a thermistor to obtain a measure of battery assembly temperature. Diverter ribs may be provided in the housing to distribute flow to all cells.
US09123941B2
Active metal and active metal intercalation electrode structures and battery cells having ionically conductive protective architecture including an active metal (e.g., lithium) conductive impervious layer separated from the electrode (anode) by a porous separator impregnated with a non-aqueous electrolyte (anolyte). This protective architecture prevents the active metal from deleterious reaction with the environment on the other (cathode) side of the impervious layer, which may include aqueous or non-aqueous liquid electrolytes (catholytes) and/or a variety of electrochemically active materials, including liquid, solid and gaseous oxidizers. Safety additives and designs that facilitate manufacture are also provided.
US09123940B2
This invention relates to a coating formulation, a coating formulation for manufacturing an electrode plate and an undercoating formulation, and their use. These coating formulations are all characterized by containing, in a polar solvent, a hydroxyl-containing resin and an organic acid and/or a derivative thereof. The hydroxyl-containing resin is at least one of (1) a polyvinyl acetal resin, (2) an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer, (3) a modified and/or unmodified polyvinyl alcohol, and (4) a cyanoethyl-containing polymer. According to the present invention, there is provided a coating formulation capable of forming a coating of excellent adhesion and solvent resistance on a surface of a metal material such as an aluminum material. Also provided are a coating formulation for manufacturing an electrode plate for a battery or a polarizable electrode plate for a capacitor, in which an active material layer has excellent adhesion to a collector made of an aluminum foil, copper foil or the like and is also equipped with excellent electrolyte resistance and improved contact resistance to the collector, an undercoating formulation, the electrode plate and its manufacturing process, the battery, and the capacitor.
US09123933B2
A rechargeable battery pack includes a rechargeable battery, a mount frame wrapping at least part of the rechargeable battery, an outer case wrapped around the mount frame, the outer case including a first case including a first protrusion portion protruding therefrom, and a second case having a second protrusion portion protruding therefrom, the first protrusion portion being fixed to the second protrusion portion, and a protective circuit module electrically connected to the rechargeable battery.
US09123921B2
Bipolar plates useful for fuel cell applications include a plate body having a channel-defining surface that is at least partially coated with a hydrophilic layer. This hydrophilic layer comprises residues of a silane-coupling agent in a sufficient amount such portions of the first hydrophilic layer have a contact angle less than a predetermined value.
US09123911B2
Provided is a display apparatus that is bendable. The display apparatus includes: a substrate including a display region that includes a plurality of light-emitting devices and an edge region that surrounds the display region; and a thin-film encapsulation layer on the display region and the edge region of the substrate. The thin-film encapsulation layer includes a plurality of inorganic films and at least one organic film disposed between the plurality of the inorganic films. At least one of the plurality of the inorganic films of the thin-film encapsulation layer includes inorganic patterns.
US09123898B2
The present invention provides a phosphorescent compound of following formula: wherein each of X and Y is independently selected from an aromatic group and a heterocyclic group.
US09123889B2
To provide a resistance change nonvolatile memory device performing a stable switching operation at a low cost. The resistance change nonvolatile memory device has a first wiring, an interlayer insulating layer formed thereon, a second wiring formed thereon, and a resistance change element formed between the first wiring and the second wiring. The interlayer insulating layer between the first wiring and the second wiring has a hole having a width not greater than that of the first wiring. The resistance change element is in contact with the first wiring and has a lower electrode at the bottom of the hole, a resistance change layer thereon, and an upper electrode thereon. They are formed inside the hole. The first wiring contains copper and the lower electrode contains at least one metal selected from the group consisting of ruthenium, tungsten, cobalt, platinum, gold, rhodium, iridium, and palladium.
US09123888B2
Some embodiments include memory cells. The memory cells may have a first electrode, and a trench-shaped programmable material structure over the first electrode. The trench-shape defines an opening. The programmable material may be configured to reversibly retain a conductive bridge. The memory cell may have an ion source material directly against the programmable material, and may have a second electrode within the opening defined by the trench-shaped programmable material. Some embodiments include arrays of memory cells. The arrays may have first electrically conductive lines, and trench-shaped programmable material structures over the first lines. The trench-shaped structures may define openings within them. Ion source material may be directly against the programmable material, and second electrically conductive lines may be over the ion source material and within the openings defined by the trench-shaped structures.
US09123884B2
According to embodiments of the present invention, a magnetoresistive device is provided. The magnetoresistive device includes at least two ferromagnetic soft layers, wherein the at least two ferromagnetic soft layers have different ranges of magnetization switching frequencies. Further embodiments provide a magnetoresistive device including at least two oscillating ferromagnetic structures, wherein ranges of operating current amplitudes at which oscillations are induced for the at least two oscillating ferromagnetic structures are different. According to further embodiments of the present invention, writing methods for the magnetoresistive devices are provided.
US09123882B2
There is provided an apparatus for generating vibrations including: a housing having an internal space; a direction changing member installed in the housing so as to be disposed in the internal space; a piezoelectric actuator including a piezoelectric element fixed to the direction changing member such that a horizontal deformation thereof is restrained, and deforming the direction changing member by a horizontal deformation thereof; and a vibrator fixed to the direction changing member and vertically displaced in a vertical direction according to a vertical deformation of the piezoelectric actuator.
US09123874B2
Packages containing one or more light emitting devices, such as light emitting diodes (LEDs), are disclosed. In one embodiment, LED package can include a thermal element having improved solder reliability to improve heat dissipation capacity of the LED package. LED package can include a molded plastic body having one or more LEDs attached to one or more electrical elements. The LEDs can be connected to an upper surface of the thermal element. The thermal element can include a bottom surface which can extend further away in distance from a body of the LED package than a bottom surface of the electrical element. This configuration can result in an improved connection between the LED package and an external circuitry source, thereby increasing heat transfer ability of the LED package.
US09123866B2
A light emitting device having a wide beam angle and a method of fabricating the same. The light emitting device includes a light emitting structure, a substrate disposed on the light emitting structure, and an anti-reflection layer covering side surfaces of the light emitting structure and the substrate, and at least a portion of an upper surface of the substrate is exposed.
US09123859B2
A method for module-level processing of photovoltaic cells is provided. The method includes: bonding at least one crystalline silicon photovoltaic substrate to a carrier by means of an adhesive layer, thereby leaving part of the adhesive layer uncovered; after bonding, exposing the uncovered part of the adhesive layer and the at least one crystalline silicon photovoltaic substrate to a plasma; and removing a surface portion of the at least one crystalline photovoltaic substrate. The method may further include performing an annealing step of the adhesive before bonding the at least one photovoltaic substrate to the carrier, and performing an outgassing step of the adhesive after bonding the at least one photovoltaic substrate to the carrier. The method may further include module-level rear side processing of the at least one crystalline silicon photovoltaic substrate to make a photovoltaic module.
US09123856B2
A method for increasing the ZT of a material, involves creating a reaction cell including a material in a pressure-transmitting medium, exposing the reaction cell to elevated pressure and elevated temperature for a time sufficient to increase the ZT of the material, and recovering the material with an increased ZT.
US09123853B2
A light source and method for making the same are disclosed. The light source includes a conducting substrate, and a light emitting structure that is divided into segments. The light emitting structure includes a first layer of semiconductor material of a first conductivity type deposited on the substrate, an active layer overlying the first layer, and a second layer of semiconductor material of an opposite conductivity type from the first conductivity type overlying the active layer. A barrier divides the light emitting structure into first and second segments that are electrically isolated from one another. A serial connection electrode connects the first layer in the first segment to the second layer in the second segment. A power contact is electrically connected to the second layer in the first segment, and a second power contact electrically connected to the first layer in the second segment.
US09123850B2
An electric generator is disclosed that includes a duct configured to direct hyperthermal air molecules toward a source of exothermic fuel, a fuel dispenser configured to dispense fuel into a flow of the hyperthermal air molecules to cause a hyperthermic chemical reaction between the fuel and the hyperthermal air molecules that produces highly internally excited air molecules. The excited molecules amplify a seed current. Power harvesting cells are configured to capture and convert the amplified current to electricity.
US09123847B2
The present invention is premised upon an improved photovoltaic device (“PV device”), more particularly to an improved photovoltaic device (10) with a multilayered photovoltaic cell assembly (100) and a body portion (200) joined at an interface region (410) and including an intermediate layer (500), at least one interconnecting structural member (1500), relieving feature (2500), unique component geometry, or any combination thereof.
US09123844B2
Photovoltaic structures for the conversion of solar irradiance into electrical free energy. In a particular implementation, a photovoltaic cell includes a granular semiconductor and oxide layer with nanometer-size absorber semiconductor grains surrounded by a matrix of oxide. The semiconductor and oxide layer is disposed between electron and hole conducting layers. In some implementations, multiple semiconductor and oxide layers can be deposited.
US09123842B2
A photoreceptor includes a multilayer blocking structure to reduce dark discharge of the surface voltage of the photoreceptor resulting from electron injection from an electrically conductive substrate. The multilayer blocking structure includes wide band gap semiconductor layers in alternating sequence with one or more narrow band gap blocking layers. A fabrication method of the photoreceptor includes transfer-doping of the narrow band gap blocking layers, which are deposited in alternating sequence with wide band gap semiconductor layers to form a blocking structure. Suppression of hole or electron injection can be obtained using the method.
US09123838B2
A photovoltaic device includes a substrate layer having a plurality of three-dimensional structures formed therein providing a textured profile. A first electrode is formed over the substrate layer and extends over the three-dimensional structures including non-planar surfaces. The first electrode has a thickness configured to maintain the textured profile, and the first electrode includes a transparent conductive material having a dopant metal activated within the transparent conductive material. A continuous photovoltaic stack is conformally formed over the first electrode, and a second electrode is formed on the photovoltaic stack.
US09123836B2
The solar cell sealing film according to the present invention includes ethylene-methyl methacrylate copolymer, a crosslinker and a silane coupling agent, wherein the crosslinker is contained in an amount of 0.05 to 0.7 part by weight, based on 100 parts by weight of the ethylene-methyl methacrylate copolymer, and the silane coupling agent is contained in an amount of 0.1 to 0.7 part by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the ethylene-methyl methacrylate copolymer, and wherein the ethylene-methyl methacrylate copolymer has a methyl methacrylate content of 25 to 35% by weight.
US09123832B2
A method of fabricating nanostructure for antireflection and a method of fabricating a photo device integrated with the nanostructure for antireflection are provided. The fabrication of the nanostructure for antireflection includes coating a solution containing a combination of metal ions with organic or inorganic ions on a substrate, sintering the coated solution using an annealing process to grow nanoscale metal particles, and chemically etching the substrate using the metal particles as mask or accelerator to form a subwavelength nanostructure on the surface of the substrate, thereby manufacturing the nanostructure for antireflection without an apparatus requiring a vacuum state using a simple method for a short amount of time to minimize reflection of light at an interface between a semiconductor material and the air, and producing a photo device having good luminous efficiency and performance at low cost in large quantities by applying it to the photo device.
US09123831B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a functional layer of a nitride semiconductor. The functional layer is provided on a nitride semiconductor layer including a first stacked multilayer structure provided on a substrate. The first stacked multilayer structure includes a first lower layer, a first intermediate layer, and a first upper layer. The first lower layer contains Si with a first concentration and has a first thickness. The first intermediate layer is provided on the first lower layer to be in contact with the first lower layer, contains Si with a second concentration lower than the first concentration, and has a second thickness thicker than the first thickness. The first upper layer is provided on the first intermediate layer to be in contact with the first intermediate layer, contains Si with a third concentration lower than the second concentration, and has a third thickness.
US09123824B2
A method of fabricating an integrated circuit package assembly comprises forming solder bumps over a first surface of a first integrated circuit package. The method also comprises forming at least one first support structure over the first surface of the first integrated circuit package or over a second surface of a second integrated circuit package. The method further comprises mounting the first integrated circuit package over a second integrated circuit package. The first integrated circuit package is mounted over the second integrated circuit package with the first surface facing the second surface, and the at least one first support structure is electrically isolated.
US09123822B2
A non-volatile memory cell includes a substrate of a first conductivity type with first and second spaced apart regions of a second conductivity type, forming a channel region therebetween. A select gate is insulated from and disposed over a first portion of the channel region which is adjacent to the first region. A floating gate is insulated from and disposed over a second portion of the channel region which is adjacent the second region. Metal material is formed in contact with the floating gate. A control gate is insulated from and disposed over the floating gate. An erase gate includes a first portion insulated from and disposed over the second region and is insulated from and disposed laterally adjacent to the floating gate, and a second portion insulated from and laterally adjacent to the control gate and partially extends over and vertically overlaps the floating gate.
US09123797B2
A wafer processing method for dividing a wafer into individual devices along a plurality of crossing division lines, including a frame preparing step of preparing a frame having a plurality of crossing partitions corresponding to the division lines of the wafer, a resin covering step of spreading a resin powder on the wafer and positioning the partitions of the frame in alignment with the division lines, thereby covering with the resin powder the regions of the wafer other than the regions corresponding to the division lines, a masking step of melting and curing the resin powder supplied to the wafer processed by the resin covering step and next removing the frame, thereby masking the regions other than the regions corresponding to the division lines, and an etching step of plasma-etching the wafer processed by the masking step to thereby divide the wafer into the individual devices along the division lines.
US09123790B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide contact techniques and configurations for reducing parasitic resistance in nanowire transistors. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate, an isolation layer formed on the semiconductor substrate, a channel layer including nanowire material formed on the isolation layer to provide a channel for a transistor, and a contact coupled with the channel layer, the contact being configured to surround, in at least one planar dimension, nanowire material of the channel layer and to provide a source terminal or drain terminal for the transistor.
US09123788B2
The embodiments described provide elongated bonded structures near edges of packaged structures free of solder wetting on sides of copper posts substantially facing the center of the packaged structures. Solder wetting occurs on other sides of copper posts of these bonded structures. The elongated bonded structures are arranged in different arrangements and reduce the chance of shorting between neighboring bonded structures. In addition, the elongated bonded structures improve the reliability performance.
US09123769B2
Provided is a power semiconductor device and a fabrication method thereof are provided. The power semiconductor device includes: a first epitaxial layer; a collector layer formed on one side of the first epitaxial layer; and a second epitaxial layer formed on another side of the first epitaxial layer, the first epitaxial layer having a higher doping concentration than the second epitaxial layer.
US09123768B2
A three-dimensional polycrystalline semiconductor material provides a major ingredient forming individual crystalline grains having a nominal maximum grain diameter less than or equal to 50 nm, and a minor ingredient forming boundaries between the individual crystalline grains.
US09123764B2
A method of manufacturing a component is disclosed. An embodiment of the method comprises dicing a carrier in a plurality of components, the carrier being disposed on a support carrier, after dicing, placing a connection layer on the carrier and removing the components from the support carrier.
US09123761B2
A substrate transferring device is disclosed. In one aspect, the substrate transferring device includes substrate to transfer the substrate in one direction and a plurality of side rollers. Each roller includes a side roller main body configured to rotate while contacting a side surface of the substrate to prevent the substrate from being deviated from the one direction. The roller also includes a side roller support which is coupled to a lower part of the side roller main body or a lower part of the side roller main body when the side roller main body is turned upside down in a vertical direction to vary a position of a contact line where the side surface of the substrate is in contact with the side roller main body. The roller further includes a fixing member which is coupled to the side roller support inside the side roller main body.
US09123760B2
A processing apparatus of the present invention processes for a wafer. The processing apparatus includes an XY stage which includes a wafer chuck which holds the wafer and an elevating device which rises relative to the wafer chuck to hold the wafer, and a wafer conveying robot hand which conveys the wafer from the XY stage at a wafer transfer position. The XY stage moves to change a direction at an angle between degree and degree via the wafer transfer position in a state where the elevating device rises relative to the wafer chuck. The wafer conveying robot hand has a shape which does not interfere with the XY stage which moves to change the direction at the angle when the wafer conveying hand is positioned at the wafer transfer position.
US09123755B2
A system and method is provided. The system and method calculate target setpoints for each thermal element and index through each thermal element to provide power to the thermal element, sense an electrical characteristic of the thermal element, and determine if the thermal element exceeds a target setpoint for the thermal element based on the sensed electrical characteristic.
US09123748B2
A semiconductor device includes vertical channel layers, control gates and interlayer insulating layers stacked alternately with each other on the substrate and surrounding the vertical channel layers, floating gates interposed between the vertical channel layers and the control gates and separated from each other by the interlayer insulating layers, and charge blocking layers interposed between the floating gates and the control gates.
US09123747B2
According to one embodiment, a plurality of memory cell transistors including a floating gate and a control gate and a plurality of peripheral circuit transistors including a lower electrode portion and an upper electrode portion are included. The floating gate includes a first polysilicon region, and the lower electrode includes a second polysilicon region. The first polysilicon region is a p-type semiconductor in which boron is doped, and the second polysilicon region is an n-type semiconductor in which phosphorus and boron are doped.
US09123743B2
Methods for forming a semiconductor device and a FinFET device are disclosed. A method comprises forming a dummy gate electrode layer over a substrate, the dummy gate electrode layer having a first height, forming a first etch stop layer on the dummy gate electrode layer, forming a first hard mask layer on the first etch stop layer, and patterning the first hard mask layer. The method further comprises patterning the first etch stop layer to align with the patterned first hard mask layer, and patterning the gate electrode layer to form a dummy gate electrode, the dummy gate electrode aligning with the patterned first etch stop layer, wherein after the patterning the gate electrode layer the first hard mask layer has a vertical sidewall of a second height, the second height being less than the first height, and the first hard mask layer having a rounded top surface.
US09123740B2
According to example embodiments, a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) includes a channel supply layer and a channel layer. The channel layer may include an effective channel region and a high resistivity region. The effective channel region may be between the high resistivity region and the channel supply layer. The high resistivity region may be a region into which impurities are ion-implanted. According to example embodiments, a method of forming a HEMT includes forming a device unit, including a channel layer and a channel supply layer, on a first substrate; adhering a second substrate to the device unit; removing the first substrate; and forming a high resistivity region by ion-implanting impurities into at least a portion of the channel layer.
US09123739B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first nitride semiconductor layer; a second nitride semiconductor layer formed over the first nitride semiconductor layer; and a gate electrode facing the second nitride semiconductor layer via a gate insulating film. Because the second nitride semiconductor layer is formed by stacking plural semiconductor layers with their Al composition ratios different from each other, the Al composition ratio of the second nitride semiconductor layer changes stepwise. The semiconductor layers forming the second nitride semiconductor layer are polarized in the same direction so that, among the semiconductor layers, a semiconductor layer nearer to the gate electrode has higher (or lower) intensity of polarization. In other words, the intensities of polarization of the semiconductor layers change with an inclination based on their distances from the gate electrode so that, at each interface between two semiconductor layers, the amount of negative charge becomes larger than that of positive charge.
US09123735B2
Semiconductor chips are described that combine a semiconductor device and a capacitor onto a single substrate such that the semiconductor device and the capacitor are electrically isolated from each other. In one example, a semiconductor chip includes a substrate having a first side and a second side, wherein the second side is opposite the first side. The semiconductor chip further includes a semiconductor device formed on the first side of the substrate and an electrically insulating layer formed on at least a portion of the second side of the substrate. The semiconductor chip further includes a capacitor device formed on at least a portion of the electrically insulating layer on the second side of the substrate, wherein the capacitor device is electrically insulated from the semiconductor device.
US09123729B2
Better alignment mark designs for semiconductor devices may substantially lessen the frequency of layer misalignment scanner alignment problems. Exemplary alignment mark designs substantially avoid or minimize damage during the fill-in and etching and chemical mechanical processing processes. Thus, additional processing steps to even out various layers or to address the misalignment problems may also be avoided.
US09123725B2
A semiconductor device has improved reliability by preventing a fuse cut through a repair process from being electrically reconnected by electrochemical migration. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a fuse including a first fuse pattern and a second fuse pattern formed at the same level on the substrate, the first fuse pattern and the second fuse pattern being spaced a first width apart from each other such that a gap in the fuse is disposed at a first location between the first fuse pattern and the second fuse pattern, and a first insulation layer formed on the first fuse pattern and the second fuse pattern, the first insulation layer including an opening above the first location and having a second width smaller than the first width.
US09123720B2
A semiconductor device of an embodiment includes: a substrate on which a semiconductor circuit is formed; an interlayer insulating film in which a contact hole is formed on the substrate; a catalyst metal film on a side wall of the contact hole; catalyst metal particles on a bottom of the contact hole; graphene on the catalyst metal film; and carbon nanotubes, which penetrates the contact hole, on the catalyst metal particles.
US09123719B2
A semiconductor structure may implement a metal-oxide-metal capacitor. When layer design rules change from one layer to the next, the structure may change the direction of the interleaved plates of the capacitor. For example, when the metallization width or spacing design rules change from layer M3 to layer M4, the structure may run the capacitor traces in different directions (e.g., orthogonal to one another) on M3 as compared to M4. Among the layers that adhere to the same design rules, for example layers M1, M2, and M3, the structure may run the capacitor traces in the same direction in each of the layers M1, M2, and M3. In this way, the capacitor traces overlap to large extent without misalignment on layers that have the same design rules, and the structure avoids misalignment of the capacitor traces when the design rules change.
US09123716B2
A method for bonding two silicon substrates and a corresponding system of two silicon substrates. The method includes: providing first and second silicon substrates; depositing a first bonding layer of pure aluminum or of aluminum-copper having a copper component between 0.1 and 5% on a first bonding surface of the first silicon substrate; depositing a second bonding layer of germanium above the first bonding surface or above a second bonding surface of the second silicon substrate; subsequently joining the first and second silicon substrates, so that the first and the second bonding surfaces lie opposite each other; and implementing a thermal treatment step to form an eutectic bonding layer of aluminum-germanium or containing aluminum-germanium as the main component, between the first silicon substrate and the second silicon substrate, spikes which contain aluminum as a minimum and extend into the first silicon substrate, forming at least on the first bonding surface.
US09123714B2
Air gaps are provided to reduce interference and resistance between metal bit lines in non-volatile memory structures. Metal vias can be formed that are electrically coupled with the drain region of an underlying device and extend vertically with respect to the substrate surface to provide contacts for bit lines that are elongated in a column direction above. The metal vias can be separated by a dielectric fill material. Layer stack columns extend in a column direction over the dielectric fill and metal vias. Each layer stack column includes a metal bit line over a nucleation line. Each metal via contacts one of the layer stack columns at its nucleation line. A low temperature dielectric liner extends along sidewalls of the layer stack columns. A non-conformal dielectric overlies the layer stack columns defining a plurality of air gaps between the layer stack columns.
US09123705B2
Vias (holes) are formed in a wafer or a dielectric layer. A low viscosity conductive ink, containing microscopic metal particles, is deposited over the top surface of the wafer to cover the vias. An external force is applied to urge the ink into the vias, including an electrical force, a magnetic force, a centrifugal force, a vacuum, or a suction force for outgassing the air in the vias. Any remaining ink on the surface is removed by a squeegee, spinning, an air knife, or removal of an underlying photoresist layer. The ink in the vias is heated to evaporate the liquid and sinter the remaining metal particles to form a conductive path in the vias. The resulting wafer may be bonded to one or more other wafers and singulated to form a 3-D module.
US09123704B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, an interconnection layer, and a bonding layer. The interconnection layer includes Cu. The bonding layer includes a first alloy that is an alloy of Cu and a first metal other than Cu between the semiconductor element and the interconnection layer. A melting point of the first alloy is higher than a melting point of the first metal.
US09123701B2
A semiconductor die includes a semiconductor body, a transistor device disposed in the semiconductor body and having a gate, a source and a drain, and a sense device disposed in the semiconductor body and operable to sense a parameter associated with the transistor device. The die further includes a source pad at a first side of the semiconductor body and electrically connected to the source of the transistor device, a drain pad at a second side of the semiconductor body opposing the first side and electrically connected to the drain of the transistor device, and a sense pad at the second side of the semiconductor body and spaced apart from the drain pad. The sense pad is electrically connected to the sense device. A corresponding package and method of manufacturing are also disclosed.
US09123700B2
An integrated circuit construction includes a stack of two or more integrated circuit substrates. At least one of the substrates includes through substrate vias (TSVs) individually comprising opposing ends. A conductive bond pad is adjacent one of the ends on one side of the one substrate. A conductive solder mass is adjacent the other end projecting elevationally on the other side of the one substrate. Individual of the solder masses are bonded to a respective bond pad on an immediately adjacent substrate of the stack. Epoxy flux surrounds the individual solder masses. An epoxy material different in composition from the epoxy flux surrounds the epoxy flux on the individual solder masses. Methods of forming integrated circuit constructions are also disclosed.
US09123691B2
Disclosed herein is a thin film transistor. The thin film transistor is characterized in having a source interconnect layer and a drain interconnect layer. The source electrode and the drain electrode are respectively disposed above and in contact with the source interconnect layer and the drain interconnect layer. The semiconductor layer is in contact with both the source interconnect layer and the drain interconnect layer, but is not in contact with the source electrode and the drain electrode.
US09123689B2
Disclosed is an epoxy resin composition which has excellent workability and excellent thermal resistance after curing. The epoxy resin composition contains a compound which has a specific imide structure obtained by reacting a diamine having a phenolic hydroxyl group, such as 2,2-bis(3-amino-4-hydroxyphenyl)hexafluoropropane (6FAP), with a tetracarboxylic dianhydride, and which has a number average molecular weight of 1,000 to 5,000; and a compound having at least two epoxy groups, such as a bisphenol A type epoxy resin.
US09123686B2
An electronic device including a printed circuit board (PCB) including a thermal conduction plane and at least one heat generating component mounted on the PCB and connected to the thermal conduction plane. A frame is connected to the PCB so as to define a first thermally conductive path between at least a portion of the frame and the at least one heat generating component. The electronic device further includes at least one thermally conductive layer between the frame and the at least one heat generating component so as to define a second thermally conductive path between at least a portion of the frame and the at least one heat generating component.
US09123680B2
An organic light emitting display panel is disclosed. In one embodiment, the panel includes a pad portion includes: a protection film disposed on an encapsulation layer for encapsulating a pixel portion and extending to the pad portion, wherein the protection film has conductivity in an area corresponding to the pad portion.
US09123675B2
An organic light emitting diode display device includes a first substrate including a display region, wherein a plurality of pixel regions are defined in the display region; a first electrode over the first substrate and in each of the plurality of pixel regions; a first bank on edges of the first electrode and including an insulating material blocking penetration of light; a second bank on the first bank and including an insulating material having a hydrophobic property; an organic light emitting layer on the first electrode and a portion of the first bank; and a second electrode on the organic light emitting layer and covering an entire surface of the display region.
US09123672B2
A semiconductor device in which a reduction in size and thinness are realized is provided. The semiconductor device of the present invention can realize a reduction in size by forming light emitting elements as a light source, and photodiodes as photoelectric conversion elements on the same substrate. Further, it becomes possible to control two signal lines by using one driver circuit with using an output switching circuit. As a result, it becomes possible to reduce the area occupied by the driver circuits of the semiconductor device, and the semiconductor device can be made smaller.
US09123667B2
Embodiments described herein may provide for devices comprising a power efficient RGBW display. In some embodiments, a first device may be provided. The first device may include at least one pixel. The pixel may include a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, a third sub-pixel, and a fourth sub-pixel. The first sub-pixel may include a first color filter in optical communication with a first organic light emitting device. The second sub-pixel may include a second color filter in optical communication with a second organic light emitting device. The third sub-pixel may include a third color filter in optical communication with a third organic light emitting device. The fourth sub-pixel may include a fourth organic light emitting device and emits near white light. At least one of the first sub-pixel or the second sub-pixel may include a color conversion layer in optical communication with the first or second organic light emitting device.
US09123657B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is provided. The method may include forming an interlayer insulating layer on a structure with a cell region and a peripheral circuit region, forming a first mask layer on the interlayer insulating layer, forming trenches in the first mask layer exposing the interlayer insulating layer by patterning the first mask layer on the peripheral circuit region, and forming key mask patterns in the trenches. An etch selectivity of the first mask patterns with respect to the interlayer insulating layer may be greater than that of the key mask patterns with respect to the interlayer insulating layer.
US09123653B2
A solid state imaging device that includes a substrate having oppositely facing first and second surfaces and a photoelectric conversion unit layer having a light incident side facing away from the substrate. The substrate includes a first photoelectric conversion unit and a second photoelectric conversion and the photoelectric conversion layer includes a third photoelectric conversion unit.
US09123651B2
A method of forming a dense oxide coating on an aluminum component of semiconductor processing equipment comprises cold spraying a layer of pure aluminum on a surface of the aluminum component to a predetermined thickness. A dense oxide coating is then formed on the layer of pure aluminum using a plasma electrolytic oxidation process, wherein the plasma electrolytic oxidation process causes the layer of pure aluminum to undergo microplasmic discharges, thus forming the dense oxide coating on the layer of pure aluminum on the surface of the aluminum component.
US09123650B2
Plasma confinement rings are adapted to reach sufficiently high temperatures on plasma-exposed surfaces of the rings to substantially reduce polymer deposition on those surfaces. The plasma confinement rings include an RF lossy material effective to enhance heating at portions of the rings. A low-emissivity material can be provided on a portion of the plasma confinement ring assembly to enhance heating effects.
US09123639B2
A power semiconductor module available under environments of high temperature has enhanced heat resistance of silicone gel filled up in a case. A power semiconductor module comprises a power semiconductor element, an insulating substrate mounted with the power semiconductor element, a resin case containing the power semiconductor element and the insulating substrate, a silicone gel injected into the resin case, and a sheet composed of a silicone rubber or silicone resin, disposed between the resin case and the silicone gel within the resin case.
US09123626B1
A method for packaging integrated circuit die such that each package includes die with integrated passive components mounted to either the back surface, the active surface or both the back and active surfaces of the die.
US09123625B2
The invention provides an active matrix EL display device which can perform a clear multi-gray scale color display. In particular, the invention provides a large active matrix EL display device at low cost by a manufacturing method which can selectively form a pattern. Power supply lines in a pixel portion are arranged in matrix by the manufacturing method which can selectively form a pattern. Further, capacitance between wirings is reduced by providing a longer distance between adjacent wirings by the manufacturing method which can selectively form a pattern.
US09123622B2
A back-illuminated silicon photodetector has a layer of Al2O3 deposited on a region of a silicon oxide surface that is left uncovered, while deposition is inhibited in another region by a contact shadow mask. The Al2O3 layer is an antireflection coating. In addition, the Al2O3 layer can also provide a chemically resistant separation layer between the silicon oxide surface and additional antireflection coating layers. In one embodiment, the silicon photodetector has a delta-doped layer near (within a few nanometers of) the silicon oxide surface. The Al2O3 layer is expected to provide similar antireflection properties and chemical protection for doped layers fabricated using other methods, such as MBE, ion implantation and CVD deposition.
US09123615B2
A method includes bonding a Backside Illumination (BSI) image sensor chip to a device chip, forming a first via in the BSI image sensor chip to connect to a first integrated circuit device in the BSI image sensor chip, forming a second via penetrating through the BSI image sensor chip to connect to a second integrated circuit device in the device chip, and forming a metal pad to connect the first via to the second via.
US09123612B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, an imaging pixel array disposed on a first region of the substrate, a first isolation disposed in the first region, a periphery circuitry disposed on a second region of the substrate, and a second isolation disposed in the second region. The imaging pixel array has a plurality of imaging pixels configured to capture image data. The periphery circuitry has a transistor configured to receive and process the image data. The first isolation has a first depth and a first protrusion projected from a surface of the substrate. The second isolation has a second depth and a second protrusion projected from the surface of the substrate. The first protrusion has a substantially same height as the second protrusion. The first depth is different from the second depth.
US09123609B2
A solid-state imaging device includes: a photoelectric conversion device; a wire grid polarizer provided on the photoelectric conversion device; and a conductive film electrically connecting conductive layers provided in the photoelectric conversion device to the wire grid polarizer.
US09123608B2
A backside illuminated CMOS image sensor comprises a photo active region formed over a substrate using a front side ion implantation process and an extended photo active region formed adjacent to the photo active region, wherein the extended photo active region is formed by using a backside ion implantation process. The backside illuminated CMOS image sensor may further comprise a laser annealed layer on the backside of the substrate. The extended photo active region helps to increase the number of photons converted into electrons so as to improve quantum efficiency.
US09123606B2
A method is provided for fabricating a pixel structure of a CMOS transistor. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate doped with first type doping ions; and forming a trench in the semiconductor substrate by etching the semiconductor substrate. The method also includes forming isolation layers on side surfaces of the trench to prevent dark current from laterally transferring; and forming an epitaxial layer doped with second type doping ions with a doping type opposite to a doping type of the first type doping ions in the trench. Further, the method includes forming a pinning layer on a top surface of the epitaxial layer; and forming a gate structure on a surface of the semiconductor substrate at one side of the epitaxial layer. Further, the method also includes forming a floating diffusion region in the semiconductor substrate at one side of the gate structure far from the epitaxial layer.
US09123601B2
A package on packaging structure comprising a first package and a second package provides for improved thermal conduction and mechanical strength by the introduction of a thermally conductive substrate attached to the second package. The first package has a first substrate and a first integrated circuit. The second package has a second substrate containing through vias that has a first coefficient of thermal expansion. The second package also has a second integrated circuit having a second coefficient of thermal expansion located on the second substrate. The second coefficient of thermal expansion deviates from the first coefficient of thermal expansion by less than about 10 or less than about 5 parts-per-million per degree Celsius. A first set of conductive elements couples the first substrate and the second substrate. A second set of conductive elements couples the second substrate and the second integrated circuit.
US09123599B2
A display device includes a data IC including a plurality of dummy output pads, and a plurality of signal output pads that are positioned at both sides of the plurality of dummy output pads; a plurality of dummy data pads and a plurality of signal input data pads in a non-display region of an array substrate of a display panel, the plurality of dummy data pads corresponding to the plurality of dummy output pads, and the plurality of signal input data pads corresponding to the plurality of the signal output pads; and a plurality of data link lines in the non-display region, and connected between the plurality of signal input data pads and the plurality of data lines in a display region of the display panel.
US09123595B2
The object of the invention is to provide a method for fabricating a semiconductor device having a peeled layer bonded to a base material with curvature. Particularly, the object is to provide a method for fabricating a display with curvature, more specifically, a light emitting device having an OLED bonded to a base material with curvature. An external force is applied to a support originally having curvature and elasticity, and the support is bonded to a peeled layer formed over a substrate. Then, when the substrate is peeled, the support returns into the original shape by the restoring force, and the peeled layer as well is curved along the shape of the support. Finally, a transfer object originally having curvature is bonded to the peeled layer, and then a device with a desired curvature is completed.
US09123586B2
Disclosed are an array substrate, a method for fabricating the same and a display device. The array substrate comprises: a substrate, a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer as well as an active layer, and a source/drain metal layer formed on the substrate, the source/drain metal layer is configured for forming a source electrode, a drain electrode and a channel region, wherein a region of the S/D metal layer for forming the channel region is at a lower height than other region of the S/D metal layer for forming the source electrode and the drain electrode.
US09123579B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a stack structure and a transistor. The substrate includes a first region and a second region. The stack structure is formed over the substrate in the first region. The transistor structure has a gate formed in the second region. A bottom portion of the gate structure is disposed at a height from the substrate that is less than a height between the substrate and a bottom portion of the stack structure.
US09123577B2
Electrical isolation in non-volatile memory is provided by air gaps formed using sacrificial films of differing etch rates. A high etch rate material is formed in an isolation trench. Flowable chemical vapor deposition processes are used to form high etch rate films, and curing is performed to increase their etch rate. A low etch material is formed over the high etch rate material and provides a controlled etch back between charge storage regions in a row direction. A discrete low etch rate layer can be formed or the high etch rate material can be oxidized to form an upper region with a lower etch rate. A controlled etch back enables formation of a wrap-around dielectric and control gate structure in the row direction with minimized variability in the dimensions of the structures. At least a portion of the high etch rate material is removed to form air gaps for isolation.
US09123571B2
A semiconductor device, includes a first substrate having a main surface and a rear surface opposing to the main surface, a first circuit including a plurality of transistors formed over the main surface, a first insulating film formed over the main surface to cover the first circuit, a first inductor formed in the first insulating film over the main surface, the first inductor being electrically connected to the first circuit; and a bonding pad formed over the main surface, the bonding pad being located at a first area, the first inductor being located at a second area, the first area being different from the second area in a plan view, and a second substrate having a main surface, a rear surface opposing to the main surface and a second inductor formed over the main surface.
US09123562B2
An integrated circuit with an active geometry with a wide active region and with a narrow active region with at least one jog where said wide active region transitions to said narrow active region and where a gate overlies said jog. A method of making an integrated circuit with an active geometry with a wide active region and with a narrow active region with at least one jog where said wide active region transitions to said narrow active region, where a gate overlies said jog and where a gate overlies the wide active region forming a wide transistor.
US09123554B2
This invention is to improve noise immunity to the power supply and ground of a wiring board and a second semiconductor chip in an interior of a semiconductor device. A first semiconductor chip is mounted over a wiring board, and a second semiconductor chip is mounted in a central part located over the first semiconductor chip. Bottom surface electrodes of power and ground systems in the second semiconductor chip are led to their corresponding external coupling electrodes formed in the central part of the wiring board though chip through vias formed in the central part of the first semiconductor chip. The power and ground system bottom surface electrodes, the through vias and the external coupling electrodes are respectively arranged discretely from each other between the power and ground systems.
US09123539B2
A method for manufacturing an optical semiconductor device includes a step of forming a stacked semiconductor layer on a substrate, the stacked semiconductor layer including a plurality of semiconductor layers; a step of forming a mask on a top layer of the stacked semiconductor layer, the mask covering a portion of the top layer; an exposing step of exposing the top layer of the stacked semiconductor layer to an oxygen-containing atmosphere; after the exposing step, a heating step of heating the stacked semiconductor layer to a temperature of 250° C. or more; and after the heating step, a step of forming a semiconductor mesa in the stacked semiconductor layer, the semiconductor mesa being formed by etching the stacked semiconductor layer by a dry etching method using the mask. The top layer of the plurality of semiconductor layers of the stacked semiconductor layer contains arsenic.
US09123535B2
A semiconductor device capable of ensuring a withstand voltage of a transistor and reducing a forward voltage of a Schottky barrier diode in a package with the transistor and the Schottky barrier diode formed on chip, and a semiconductor package formed by a resin package covering the semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device 1 includes a semiconductor layer 22, a transistor area D formed on the semiconductor layer 22 and constituting the transistor 11, and a diode area C formed on the semiconductor layer 22 and constituting the Schottky barrier diode 10. The semiconductor layer 22 in the diode area C is thinner than the semiconductor layer 22 in the transistor area D.
US09123528B2
A composite substrate has a carrier and a utility layer. The utility layer is attached to the carrier by means of a dielectric bonding layer and the carrier contains a radiation conversion material. Other embodiments relate to a semiconductor chip having such a composite substrate, a method for producing a composite substrate and a method for producing a semiconductor chip with a composite substrate.
US09123524B2
A bushing for a high-pressure discharge lamp, which is suitable for connecting an electrode in the interior of a ceramic discharge vessel to a supply lead in a gastight manner on the exterior of the discharge vessel, wherein the bushing is an electrically conductive ceramic composite consisting of a mixture of LaB6 and at least one second material from the group Al2O3, Dy2Al5O12, AlN, AlON and Dy2O3 is disclosed.
US09123512B2
A system and apparatus for controlled fusion in a field reversed configuration (FRC) magnetic topology and conversion of fusion product energies directly to electric power. Preferably, plasma ions are magnetically confined in the FRC while plasma electrons are electrostatically confined in a deep energy well, created by tuning an externally applied magnetic field. In this configuration, ions and electrons may have adequate density and temperature so that upon collisions ions are fused together by the nuclear force, thus forming fusion products that emerge in the form of an annular beam. Energy is removed from the fusion product ions as they spiral past electrodes of an inverse cyclotron converter. Advantageously, the fusion fuel plasmas that can be used with the present confinement and energy conversion system include advanced (aneutronic) fuels.
US09123511B2
Embodiments of the invention generally relate to a process kit for a semiconductor processing chamber, and a semiconductor processing chamber having a kit. More specifically, embodiments described herein relate to a process kit including a cover ring, a shield, and an isolator for use in a physical deposition chamber. The components of the process kit work alone and in combination to significantly reduce particle generation and stray plasmas. In comparison with existing multiple part shields, which provide an extended RF return path contributing to RF harmonics causing stray plasma outside the process cavity, the components of the process kit reduce the RF return path thus providing improved plasma containment in the interior processing region.
US09123508B2
A plasma generator includes a chamber for confining a feed gas. An anode is positioned inside the chamber. A cathode assembly is positioned adjacent to the anode inside the chamber. A pulsed power supply comprising at least two solid state switches and having an output that is electrically connected between the anode and the cathode assembly generates voltage micropulses. A pulse width and a duty cycle of the voltage micropulses are generated using a voltage waveform comprising voltage oscillation having amplitudes and frequencies that generate a strongly ionized plasma.
US09123506B2
Beam-induced etching uses a work piece maintained at a temperature near the boiling point of a precursor material, but the temperature is sufficiently high to desorb reaction byproducts. In one embodiment, NF3 is used as a precursor gas for electron-beam induced etching of silicon at a temperature below room temperature.
US09123501B2
A diffraction aberration corrector formed by the multipole of the solenoid coil ring and having a function of adjusting the degree of orthogonality or axial shift of the vector potential with respect to the beam axis. In order to cause a phase difference, the diffraction aberration corrector that induces a vector potential, which is perpendicular to the beam axis and has a symmetrical distribution within the orthogonal plane with respect to the beam axis, is provided near the objective aperture and the objective lens. A diffracted wave traveling in a state of being inclined from the beam axis passes through the ring of the magnetic flux. Since the phase difference within the beam diameter is increased by the Aharonov-Bohm effect due to the vector potential, the intensity of the electron beam on the sample is suppressed.
US09123498B2
A lamp (10) is described comprising a burner (14) fixed to a lamp base (12). The lamp base (12) comprises a metal housing part (40). The metal housing part (40) comprises a contact sheet element (82) made out of a different metal material. Electrical contacts are provided within the base (12), including an electrical ground contact (70). A contact spring (76) is provided for contacting the electrical ground contact (70) to the metal housing part (40). The contact spring (76) is arranged to press against the contact sheet element (82) to provide electrical ground connection to the metal housing part (40).
US09123494B2
An electromagnetic relay including an electromagnet block having a rod-shaped iron core, a coil wound around the rod-shaped iron core, and a spool interposed between the coil and iron core. A yoke having one end section extends to a section at a side of a magnet pole section of the iron core. An end section of the yoke is arranged so that the magnet pole section has a gap on a base side. A moving iron is pivotably supported by an elastic support of a hinge spring. The electromagnet block is magnetized wherein a section drawn in the moving iron is drawn to the magnet pole section and pivoted to drive a contact switching unit. The hinge spring includes an elastic contacting portion extending toward an opposite side to the elastic support. The moving iron is integrated with a card member that comes in contact with the elastic contacting portion.
US09123489B2
A gas insulated switchgear includes a support frame, a first fixed conductor being installed on one side of the support frame, a second fixed conductor opposing the first fixed conductor and being installed on another side of the support frame, a screw forming an axis on inner of the support frame and being spaced apart from the first and second fixed conductor, a first movable contact wherein one side of the first movable contact is bent and another side of the first movable contact moves along the axis through a rotation of the screw and a second movable contact wherein one side of the second movable contact is bent and another side of the second movable contact is move along the axis through a rotation of the screw.
US09123485B2
Embodiments of a backlit keyboard assembly are described. A keycap assembly is mounted into a case web having intersecting ribs. A flange, which can be angled, is on the bottom perimeter of the keycap and a correspondingly shaped flange is on each rib of the case web. An overlap of the keycap flange and the case web flanges prevents direct sighting of the backlight light source and also provides a more evenly distributed halo around the keycap, thereby improving both aesthetics and functionality by providing better light control and contrast.
US09123484B2
A half-automatic switch is operated in concert with a movement detecting sensor, and is also manually driven to supply power to an electric apparatus. The driving of the half-automatic switch is stopped when it is manually turned off or a signal from the movement detecting sensor is not provided. When the driving of the half-automatic switch is stopped, it is again manually driven irrespective of whether the signal from the movement detecting sensor is provided.
US09123477B2
Implementations and techniques for employing phase change materials in ultracapacitor devices or systems are generally disclosed.
US09123474B2
There is provided a multilayer ceramic capacitor including a ceramic body, first to third capacitor parts, first and second internal connection conductors, and first to fourth external electrodes, wherein the first capacitor part is connected in series with the second internal connection conductor, and the second capacitor part is connected in series with the first internal connection conductor.
US09123473B2
The present disclosure discloses a structural capacitor, a connector comprising the structural capacitor and a communication apparatus using the connector. The structural capacitor comprises a rod and a holder. The rod comprises a first section and a second section connected with the first section, and the holder comprises a through hole. The first section and the second section are fitted into the through hole to accomplish the connection between the first section and the second section in an axial direction. The connector of the present disclosure features a simple structure, a convenient manufacturing process and a low cost. The communication apparatus of the present disclosure has advantages such as a simple manufacturing process, parameters that can be easily guaranteed, a low processing cost and a stable product performance.
US09123472B2
There is disclosed a multilayer ceramic capacitor and a method of manufacturing the same. The multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body having a first side and a second side opposite to each other and having a third side and a fourth side connecting the first side to the second side, a plurality of inner electrodes formed in the multilayer body and having distal edges exposed to the first side or the second side, first and second side members formed on the first and second sides to cover the distal edges of the plurality of inner electrodes, and outer electrodes formed on the third side and the fourth side to be electrically connected to the inner electrodes. An angle between a virtual line connecting the distal edges of the plurality of inner electrodes and the first side member or the second side member is less than 90° (π/2).
US09123465B2
A laminated body is formed by stacking insulating layers to be formed into a rectangular parallelepiped shape. A linear conductor is stacked together with the insulating layers and connects end surfaces of the laminated body that are opposed to each other with respect to a first direction. Lengths of the end surfaces of the laminated body in a second direction, which is perpendicular to the stacking direction and the first direction, are equal to or smaller than the lengths of the end surfaces in the stacking direction.
US09123456B2
A high frequency cable includes: a central conductor made from aluminum or an aluminum alloy; a covering layer made from copper covering the central conductor, and having a fiber-like structure in a longitudinal direction; and an intermetallic compound layer formed between the central conductor and the covering layer and having greater volume resistivity than the covering layer, wherein a cross-sectional area of the covering layer is 15% or less of an entire cross-sectional area including the central conductor, the intermetallic compound layer and the covering layer.
US09123454B2
A method of forming an electrode is disclosed. A carbon nanotube is deposited on a substrate. A section of the carbon nanotube is removed to form at least one exposed end defining a first gap. A metal is deposited at the at least one exposed end to form the electrode that defines a second gap.
US09123445B2
A method of operation of a storage control system includes: determining a bit error rate of a page; calculating a slope based on the bit error rate; and adjusting a threshold voltage for the page based on the slope for reading a memory device.
US09123443B2
Disclosed is a memory device which receives a check command and check information from a Central Processing Unit (CPU), reads data written in a predetermined area of a memory based on the check information in response to the check command, and checks a data pattern of the data read based on the check information.
US09123441B1
A method for testing a memory device. The method can include coupling the memory device to a test apparatus and determining whether each of the memory cells in the memory device is within a first specification range. Each of the cells that fall outside of the first range can be identified. Each of the cells that meet the second specification range can be tested. The method can include selecting a tile associated with a highest number of cells that fall outside of the second range. A resource can then be used to repair each of the cells that fall outside of the second range for a tile associated with a fewer number of cells that fall outside of the second range such that a first number of tiles meets the first range and a second number of tiles meets the second range such that the first number the second number.
US09123440B2
A method of operating a semiconductor memory device, given the case where memory cells have an erase state less than a first reference voltage and a plurality of program states greater than the first reference voltage, includes performing an erase operation so that the memory cells have a soft erase state less than a second reference voltage, and performing a program operation so that each of the memory cells has the soft erase state or one program state greater than the second reference voltage.
US09123439B2
An electronic circuit and a method for driving data writes to an SRAM bit cell in an electronic circuit. The electronic circuit translates a first write signal in a lower voltage domain to a second write signal in a higher voltage domain. Based, at least in part, on the second write signal, the electronic circuit controls a discharge of a voltage of a data write line to a ground voltage level. The electronic circuit provides a negative voltage boost to the data write line after the voltage of the data write line has been discharged to reach or exceed a threshold value relative to the ground voltage level.
US09123438B2
A configurable delay circuit and a method of clock buffering. One embodiment of the configurable delay circuit includes: (1) a first delay stage electrically couplable in series to a second delay stage, the first delay stage and the second delay stage each having an input port electrically coupled to a signal source, and (2) a delay path select circuit electrically coupled between the first delay stage and the second delay stage, and operable to select between a delay path including the first delay stage and another delay path including the first delay stage and the second delay stage.
US09123431B2
A non-volatile memory device and method for programming cells using repeated pulses of program voltages, with interleaved read operations to determine the level of read current, until the desired programming state is achieved. Each successive program pulse has one or more program voltages increased by a step value relative to the previous pulse. For a single level cell type, each cell is individually removed from the programming pulses after reaching a first read current threshold, and the step value is increased for one or more kicker pulses thereafter. For a multi-level cell type, the step value drops after one of the cells reaches a first read current threshold, some cells are individually removed from the programming pulses after reaching a second read current threshold while others are individually removed from the programming pulses after reaching a third read current threshold.
US09123425B2
In a 3D stacked non-volatile memory device, multiple smaller drain-end selected gate (SGD) transistors replace one larger SGD transistor. The SGD transistors have different control gate overdrive voltages so that, during a programming operation, a discontinuous channel potential is created in an inhibited NAND string. The SGD transistor closest to the bit line has a lower control gate overdrive voltage so that the channel potential under it is lower, and the next SGD transistor has a higher control gate overdrive voltage so that the channel potential under it is higher. The different control gate overdrive voltages can be provided by programming different threshold voltages, or by providing different control gates voltages, for the SGD transistors. Undesirable reductions in a Vsgd window due to drain-induced barrier lowering can be avoided.
US09123421B2
A racetrack memory cell device include a dielectric, an electrode disposed in the dielectric, a metal strap disposed in the dielectric, a nanowire disposed in the dielectric between the electrode and the metal strap and a magnetic tunnel junction disposed in the dielectric on the metal strap, and axially with the nanowire.
US09123411B2
A memory device according to an embodiment comprises a data processing circuit that includes: a data write pre-processing circuit that processes input data to generate first intermediate data; a data write processing circuit that sequentially sets a voltage difference between a selected row line and a selected global bit line based on the first intermediate data; a data read processing circuit that detects a current flowing in the selected global bit line or a voltage of the selected global bit line and sequentially generates second intermediate data from a result of that detection; and a data read post-processing circuit that processes the second intermediate data to generate output data, the data write pre-processing circuit and the data read post-processing circuit having a correcting function that corrects a difference that may occur between the input data and the output data.
US09123402B2
A dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is selectively operable in a sleep mode and another mode. The DRAM has data storage cells that are refreshed in the refresh mode. A boosted voltage is provided for the operation of the DRAM. A boosted voltage provider includes a group of charge pump circuits that are selectively activated by a pump control circuit based on a refresh time for refreshing data in the DRAM cells in the sleep mode.
US09123401B2
A non-volatile memory device that includes N planes of non-volatile memory cells (where N is an integer greater than 1). Each plane of non-volatile memory cells includes a plurality of memory cells configured in rows and columns. Each of the N planes includes gate lines that extend across the rows of the memory cells therein but do not extend to others of the N planes of non-volatile memory cells. A controller is configured to divide each of a plurality of words of data into N fractional-words, and program each of the N fractional-words of each word of data into a different one of the N planes of non-volatile memory cells. The controller uses a programming current and a program time period for the programming, and can be configured to vary the programming current by a factor and inversely vary the program time period by the factor.
US09123400B1
In a nonvolatile memory array, power is provided to groups of memory dies by power management circuits that have different power modes. While one power management circuit is in a high-power mode supplying power for power-hungry memory operations, another power management circuit is in a low-power mode so that overall power usage is balanced.
US09123392B1
A three-dimensional array of memory elements is formed across multiple layers of planes positioned at different distances above a semiconductor substrate. The memory elements are each accessible by a word line in a plane and a local bit line. The three-dimensional array includes a two-dimensional array of pillar lines through the multiple layers of planes. The pillar lines are of a first type that act as local bit lines and a second type that provide access to the word lines by having respective memory elements preset to a permanently low resistance state for connecting second-type pillar lines for exclusive access to respective word lines. An array of metal lines on the substrate is switchably connected to the vertical bit lines to provide access to the local bit lines and the word lines.
US09123389B1
A method of refreshing a memory device includes counting the number of accesses to each of a plurality of memory blocks, comparing the counted numbers of accesses resulting from the counting with a first reference count, and performing an additional refresh operation on a corresponding memory block according to a comparison result.
US09123383B1
A data storage system identifies analog-to-digital conversion samples with amplitude below a certain threshold. Remaining samples are grouped according to phase into one or more quadrants. A multi-coordinate with overlapping quadrants is used to further differentiate sample points. The system then computes an average phase for zero phase start estimation.
US09123382B1
Operation of a Data Storage Device (DSD) including a Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory (NVSM) and at least one disk. A size value is determined corresponding to a sequence of data to be read from or stored in the DSD. If the size value is less than a threshold value, the sequence of data is stored in the NVSM. If the size value is greater than the threshold value, a first portion of the sequence of data is stored in the NVSM and at least a remaining portion of the sequence of data is stored on the at least one disk. The threshold value is based on at least a preparation time for accessing data from the at least one disk and a throughput value of the NVSM for storing data in or retrieving data from the NVSM.
US09123381B2
A sensor supported by a head transducer has a temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR) and a sensor resistance. The sensor operates at a temperature above ambient and is responsive to changes in sensor-medium spacing. Conductive contacts connected to the sensor have a contact resistance and a cross-sectional area adjacent to the sensor larger than that of the sensor, such that the contact resistance is small relative to the sensor resistance and negligibly contributes to a signal generated by the sensor. A multiplicity of head transducers each support a TCR sensor and a power source can supply bias power to each sensor of each head to maintain each sensor at a fixed temperature above an ambient temperature in the presence of heat transfer changes impacting the sensors. A TCR sensor of a head transducer can include a track-oriented TCR sensor wire for sensing one or both of asperities of the medium.
US09123376B2
A line-shaped material conveyance mechanism includes first and second support members, a guide groove, a first rotary arm, and a second rotary arm. One end of the first rotary arm is pivotally supported near the guide groove by a first rotary shaft. The other end of the first rotary arm connects one end of the second rotary arm in a state that can be rotated. A third support member is disposed on the other end of the second rotary arm. The third support member is guided and moves along the guide groove by rotating the first rotary arm around the first rotary shaft.
US09123369B2
Determining the radial position of a first read head of a storage device includes reading servo data from a storage media platter surface using the first read head, deriving from that servo data a first positron error signal representing a first estimate of the radial position of the first read head, reading the servo data from the storage media platter surface using a different read head, deriving from that servo data a second position error signal representing an estimate of the radial position of the different read head, and combining the first estimate of the radial position of the first read head and the estimate of the radial position of the different read head to obtain a revised estimate of the radial position of the first read head. The combining could include taking account of a known positional offset between the first read head and the different read head.
US09123364B1
A base plate system including a base plate with first and second opposite surfaces, a boss tower extending from the first surface of the base plate and having an outer surface, a swaging hole extending through a height of the boss tower and a height of the base plate, and a relief channel recessed in the first surface of the base plate and extending around at least a portion of the outer surface of the boss tower, wherein the relief channel comprises a shape that is different from a shape of the outer surface of the boss tower.
US09123363B2
Various methods for attaching a crystalline write pole onto an amorphous substrate and the resulting structures are described in detail herein. Further, the resulting structure may have a magnetic moment exceeding 2.4 Tesla. Still further, methods for depositing an epitaxial crystalline write pole on a crystalline seed or template material to ensure that the phase of the write pole is consistent with the high moment phase of the template material are also described in detail herein.
US09123352B2
A speech enhancement system controls the gain of an excitation signal to prevent uncontrolled gain adjustments. The system includes a first device that converts sound waves into operational signals. An ambient noise estimator is linked to the first device and an echo canceller. The ambient noise estimator estimates how loud a background noise would be near the first device before or after an echo cancellation. The system then compares the ambient noise estimate to a current ambient noise estimate near the first device to control a gain of an excitation signal.
US09123351B2
A speech segment determination device includes a frame division portion, a power spectrum calculation portion, a power spectrum operation portion, a spectral entropy calculation portion and a determination portion. The frame division portion divides an input signal in units of frames. The power spectrum calculation portion calculates, using an analysis length, a power spectrum of the input signal for each of the frames that have been divided. The power spectrum operation portion adds a value of the calculated power spectrum to a value of power spectrum in each of frequency bins. The spectral entropy calculation portion calculates spectral entropy using the power spectrum whose value has been increased. The determination portion determines, based on a value of the spectral entropy, whether the input signal is a signal in a speech segment.
US09123349B2
Methods and apparatus to provide speech privacy are disclosed. An example method includes forming a sampling block based on a first received audio sample, the sampling block representing speech of a user, creating, with a processor, a mask based on the sampling block, the mask to reduce the intelligibility of the speech of the user, wherein the mask is created by converting the sampling block from a time domain to a frequency domain to form a frequency domain sampling block, identifying a first peak within the frequency domain sampling block, demodulating the frequency domain sampling block at the first peak to form a first envelope of the sampling block, distorting the first envelope to form a first distorted envelope, and emitting an acoustic representation of the mask via a speaker.
US09123343B2
An arrangement for converting speech into text comprises a mobile device (202) and a server entity (208) configured to perform the conversion and additional optional processes in co-operation. The user of the mobile device (202) may locally edit the speech signal prior to or between the execution of the actual speech recognition tasks, by replacing an inarticulate portion of the speech signal with a new version being recording of the portion. Task sharing details can be negotiated dynamically based on a number of parameters.
US09123342B2
A method of recognizing gender or age of a speaker according to speech emotion or arousal includes the following steps of A) segmentalizing speech signals into a plurality of speech segments; B) fetching the first speech segment from the plural speech segments to further acquire at least one of emotional features or arousal degree in the speech segment; C) determining whether at least one of the emotional feature and the arousal degree conforms to some condition; if yes, proceed to the step D); if no, return to the step B) and then fetch the next speech segment; D) fetching the feature indicative of gender or age from the speech segment to further acquire at least one feature parameter; and E) recognizing the at least one feature parameter to further determine the gender or age of the speaker at the currently-processed speech segment.
US09123341B2
Embodiments of a dialog system that utilizes a multi-modal input interface for recognizing user input in human-machine interaction (HMI) systems are described. Embodiments include a component that receives user input from a plurality of different user input mechanisms (multi-modal input) and performs certain synchronization and disambiguation processes. The multi-modal input components synchronizes and integrates the information obtained from different modalities, disambiguates the input, and recovers from any errors that might be produced with respect to any of the user inputs. Such a system effectively addresses any ambiguity associated with the user input and corrects for errors in the human-machine interaction.
US09123333B2
A hypothesis space of a search graph may be determined. The hypothesis space may include n hypothesis-space transcriptions of an utterance, each selected from a search graph that includes t>n transcriptions of the utterance. An evidence space of the search graph may also be determined. The evidence space may include m evidence-space transcriptions of the utterance that are randomly selected from the search graph, where t>m. For each particular hypothesis-space transcription in the hypothesis space, an expected word error rate may be calculated by comparing the particular hypothesis-space transcription to each of the evidence-space transcriptions. Based on the expected word error rates, a lowest expected word error rate may be obtained, and the particular hypothesis-space transcription that is associated with the lowest expected word error rate may be provided.
US09123320B2
An active noise reduction (ANR) circuit includes a digital feed-forward ANR pathway coupled to a feed-forward microphone, to detect environmental sounds in an environment external to a casing, and to a first acoustic driver to output sounds within the casing. The digital feed-forward ANR pathway applies a plurality of filters using a first set of coefficients to convert signals from the feed-forward microphone to feed-forward anti-noise sounds to reduce environmental sounds within the casing. In response to a stimulus, the digital feed-forward ANR pathway applies the plurality of filters using a second set of coefficients, which reduce the degree of feed-forward ANR to enable human speech sounds in the environment external to the casing to be conveyed from the feed-forward microphone to the acoustic driver with less reduction than provided by the first plurality of filters.
US09123317B2
A method for motivating physical performance through music includes the acts of presenting a musical rendition to a user while concurrently receiving workout information. The workout information includes one or both of a current performance level of the user or a current geographical characteristic being traversed by the user. The method further includes modifying the musical rendition based on one or both of the current performance level of the user or the current geographical characteristic being traversed by the user.
US09123316B2
An audio/visual system (e.g., such as an entertainment console or other computing device) plays a base audio track, such as a portion of a pre-recorded song or notes from one or more instruments. Using a depth camera or other sensor, the system automatically detects that a user (or a portion of the user) enters a first collision volume of a plurality of collision volumes. Each collision volume of the plurality of collision volumes is associated with a different audio stem. In one example, an audio stem is a sound from a subset of instruments playing a song, a portion of a vocal track for a song, or notes from one or more instruments. In response to automatically detecting that the user (or a portion of the user) entered the first collision volume, the appropriate audio stem associated with the first collision volume is added to the base audio track or removed from the base audio track.
US09123312B2
The improved tuning mechanisms include a novel string clamp comprising a lever based clamping element oblique to the string path that utilizes an enlarged radiused underside to provide a variable clamping point to address various diameters of strings which can be integrated into either a fine-tuner or Macro-tuner arrangements; further, there, is, in addition to an improved Global-tuner, a fixed dimension multi-tier insert plate for a tremolo base plate, provided in differing sizes, to support bridge elements in a radii that matches various fingerboard radii, and improvements directed towards integrated riser posts for bearing arrangements on the pivot axis of a fulcrum tremolo provide a slotted axel recess and a separate threaded outer sleeve-like portion to allow alignment to the tremolo's bearing axis regardless of the position of riser post within body for adjustably mounting the fulcrum tremolo to the instrument, which, in the preferred embodiment, all work cooperatively together.
US09123311B2
The present invention relates to a ligature for single-reed wind instruments that comprises a main multidirectional pivot system allowing the reed to vibrate freely while providing all possibilities of clamping force both to minimal contact and to extreme fit, and which adapts to table angle thereby optimizing the relationship between fitting and sound quality.
US09123309B2
A display device, including a signal controlling unit, a data driving unit, a gate driving voltage generating unit, a gate driving unit, and a display panel. The display panel displays an image during a frame period including a blank period and a display period. The gate driving voltage generating unit receives a control signal and an analog driving voltage. The gate driving voltage generating unit generates boosting-on and boosting-off gate driving voltages based on the analog driving voltage. The gate driving voltage generating unit outputs the boosting-on gate driving voltage during a part of the frame period and the boosting-off gate driving voltage during a remaining of the frame period.
US09123303B2
A display device includes: a display screen displaying screen images; a required-brightness computation unit computing required brightnesses for each of the screen images; a brightness determination unit comparing the required brightnesses computed for each of the screen images, and determining the screen image corresponding to the required brightness having highest brightness to be a maximum-required-brightness image; and a brightness control unit performing light-source brightness control and performing image gradation control, the light-source brightness control controlling the brightness of the light source so as to make the brightness of the light source the set brightness for the maximum-required-brightness image, the image gradation control controlling a gradation of the image displayed on the liquid-crystal panel in accordance with the brightness of the light source, so as to make a brightness of each of the screen images other than the maximum-required-brightness image the set brightness specified for each of the screen images.
US09123293B2
The rate of reading from a memory for storing display irregularity correction data is lowered. At the time of display, calculation is carried out in a correction calculation section 12 using an input signal and correction data in RAM 22, and brightness inconsistency correction is carried out. The way in which correction calculation is carried out in the correction calculation section 12 is changed for every frame.
US09123291B2
Disclosed are a pixel circuit, a driving method thereof and a pixel array structure. The pixel circuit comprises a load controlling module(101), a load module(102), a gray scale selection module(103), a driving module(104) and a light-emitting device(105). The load controlling module(101) outputs an analog data signal through a first node and a second node under the control of a first scan signal (scan1). The load module(102) is connected with a first power supply terminal(VSS), the driving module(104), the first node(A1) and the second node(A2), respectively, and stores the analog data signal in the load module(102) and provides the driving module(104) with the analog data signal under the control of signals from the first node and the second node. The gray scale selection module(103) transmits a digital data signal to a third node(A3) located in the gray scale selection module(103) under the control of a second scan signal (scan2). The driving module(104) drives the light-emitting device(105) under the control of the signals from the second node and the third node. A first terminal of the light-emitting device(105) is connected with a second power supply terminal(VDD), a second terminal thereof is connected with the driving module(104). The pixel circuit is capable of reducing a charging time of an OLED pixel circuit.
US09123288B2
A display device includes pixel units. Each pixel unit includes a driving transistor, a switch transistor, a reset transistor, a light-emitting element, and a control unit. The driving transistor has a control terminal, a first terminal coupled to a first operation voltage source and a second terminal. The reset transistor is coupled to the control terminal of the driving transistor. The light-emitting element is coupled to the switch transistor in series between the second terminal of the driving transistor and a second operation voltage source. The control unit stores a threshold voltage of the driving transistor and a driving voltage of the light-emitting element according to a voltage level of the second terminal of the driving transistor. The control unit changes a voltage level of the control terminal of the driving transistor according to the stored threshold voltage, the stored driving voltage, and a corresponding data signal.
US09123266B2
A tileable display panel includes a screen layer, a display layer, and an illumination layer. The display layer includes a plurality of transmissive pixels to collectively project a unified image onto the backside of the screen layer. The transmissive pixels disposed within a perimeter region of the display layer have smaller transmission apertures than the transmissive pixels disposed within a central region of the display layer. The illumination layer generates lamp light to illuminate a backside of the display layer. The illumination layer is coupled to generate the lamp light incident on the backside of the display layer in the perimeter region with greater divergence than the lamp light incident on the backside of the display layer in the central region.
US09123259B2
Disclosed herein are techniques and systems for discovering functional groups in an area, such as an urban area. A process includes segmenting a map of the area into sections, and inferring, for each section, a distribution of functions according to a topic model framework which considers mobility patters of users and points of interest (POIs) in the section. The topic model framework regards the section as a document, each function as a topic, the mobility patterns as words, and a POI feature vector for the section as metadata. The process may further include clustering the sections based at least in part on a similarity of the distribution of functions between each of the sections to obtain functional groups, estimating a functionality intensity for each of the functional groups, and annotating each of the functional groups.
US09123253B2
Disclosed herein are a parking assistance apparatus and a parking assistance method thereof. The parking assistance apparatus includes a sensing unit sensing at least one of forward and backward access distances to a current surrounding object, a controller performing an electronic parking brake operation and including predetermined forward and backward access distance ranges to a reference surrounding object, a first judgment unit judging whether or not at least one access distance deviates from at least one access distance range, a display unit displaying the at least one access distance and the at least one access distance range, if the first judgment unit judges that the at least one access distance deviates from the at least one access distance range, and a steering driving unit driving an electronic steering driving apparatus until the at least one access distance enters the at least one access distance range.
US09123252B2
A drive assist apparatus includes: a dead zone recognition unit that recognizes a dead zone not visible to a driver in an advancement direction of a host vehicle; a moving body information setting unit that sets, as information relating to a moving body that may jump out from the dead zone, moving body information including at least an assumed speed of the moving body; a speed region calculation unit that calculates, on the basis of the moving body information set by the moving body information setting unit, a speed region of the host vehicle, the speed region being a region in which the host vehicle may contact the moving body if the host vehicle advances in the advancement direction; and a target speed calculation unit that calculates a target speed of the host vehicle on the basis of the speed region.
US09123251B2
An improved vision-based system generates object detection corresponding to different viewing areas based on vehicle speed. At lower vehicle speeds, the system covers a wider field of view and a near zone while at higher vehicle speeds the system covers a normal or narrower field of view and a far zone. The system includes a lens package having a movable lens, an image sensor and an image transformer. The movable lens is movable between a first position representing a wide angle view and a second position representing a normal angle view. Each of these views generates an image such that a wide angle view generates a wide angle image and a normal angle view generates a normal angle image. The wide angle view is associated with the vehicle's passive safety systems while the normal angle view is associated with the vehicle's active safety systems.
US09123244B2
A method for tracking an object through a system onboard a motor vehicle is provided. The method includes detecting a wireless device, determining a position of the wireless device, recognizing the position of the wireless device relative to the vehicle, analyzing the position of the wireless device with respect to a predefined conditional statement and activating an alert according to the satisfying of the predefined conditional statement.
US09123241B2
In V2V or other networks in which multiple video feeds are available to a participant, the participant's ability to select a particular video feed for display can be eased through the use of guided scanning. A guided scanning strategy is built based on operator inputs and used to select a particular set of video feeds that are initially shown as a video “slideshow” on the display used by the participant. Each video feed appears only for a limited period of time to enable easy participant review. Once the participant sees a particular video feed of interest, that video feed to can be selected for persisted presentation on the display.
US09123237B2
An electronic device for controlling a remote electronic device is described. The electronic device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The electronic device enters a control state that is not a power off state and is not a power on state. The electronic device also generates a control message for a remote electronic device while in the control state. The electronic device further transmits the control message for controlling the remote electronic device while in the control state.
US09123234B2
A mobile terminal is disclosed. The mobile terminal can transmit/receive information or a signal to/from a cooking apparatus, improve user convenience, remotely monitor a state of the cooking apparatus, and receive a control command with respect to the cooking apparatus.
US09123229B2
Techniques are described for moving asset location tracking and monitoring system technology. A system monitors for events related to a monitoring system that monitors a fixed property and the system detects an event related to the monitoring system based on the monitoring. The system performs an operation that leverages geographic location tracking of at least one mobile asset associated with the fixed property based on the detected event.
US09123221B2
An electronic device may include a smoke detector. The electronic device may use the smoke detector to monitor for the presence of smoke. In response to detecting smoke with the smoke detector, the electronic device may issue an alert or take other suitable action. The electronic device may transmit alerts to nearby electronic devices and to remote electronic devices such as electronic devices at emergency services facilities. Alerts may contain maps and graphical representations of buildings in which smoke has been detected. Motion detectors and other sensors and circuitry may be used in determining whether electronic devices are being used by users and may be used in determining where the electronic devices are located. Alerts may contain information on the location of detected smoke and building occupants.
US09123217B2
Methods of executing patching connection changes in a patching field are provided in which an electronic work order is received on a display located at the patching field, the electronic work order specifying the patching connection change. A technician may perform the patching connection change. Then, an electronic message may be sent from the patching field indicating that the patching change has been completed.
US09123216B2
An electronic glove communicates with an electronic device and has a positioning unit, a microcontroller, and an indicating component. The indicating component may be a heating component or a visual indicating component. The positioning unit detects coordinates of the electronic glove and the electronic device sends its own coordinates wirelessly to the electronic glove. The microcontroller calculates a distance between the electronic device and the electronic glove. The microcontroller controls the indicating component to generate different signals (of either heat or light) according to any change in the distance, to guide a user to move towards the precise location of the electronic device.
US09123208B2
A method of providing or receiving value from or to a participant value in a game tournament wherein a plurality of participants play a casino-style game, includes calculating an expected value for the position of each participant in the tournament, the expected value based upon the number of wagering units held by the participant at the point in time, the number of wagering units held by each other participant in the tournament at the point in time and a payout table for the tournament.
US09123207B2
A gaming system (10, 100) implementing a base game and a feature game. A game controller (101) controls play of the game. The gaming system has at least one display (14, 106) and a player interface (107). The feature game comprises at least one series of game events, in which a plurality of symbols from at least one predetermined symbol set that includes at least first and second symbols, are randomly selected and displayed on the at least one display (14, 106). The feature game is a challenge feature and during play of the feature game, the game controller (101) maintains in computer memory (103) counters for said at least first and second symbols, varies the value of said counters on the occurrence of the at least first and second symbols and causes the at least one display to show a value of the counters. The values of the counters are evaluated against predetermined competitive criteria to determine the outcome of the series of game events.
US09123201B2
Leaderboards that aggregate data from across different wagering games (e.g., online wagering games and casino based wagering games) can create a game independent spirit of competition and recognition. Wagering game data of a plurality of players across different wagering games can be aggregated together. The plurality of players are ranked based, at least in part, on the wagering game data aggregated across the different wagering games. A leaderboard is updated based, at least in part, on the ranking of the plurality of players.
US09123193B2
The invention relates to a method for determining the stock of notes of value of a drum storage (22). For at least a part of the notes of value, the current motor position is determined after winding up the note of value and stored such that it is unambiguously assigned to the respective note of value. For determining the stock of the drum storage (22), the current motor position is determined and compared with the stored motor positions. Dependent on the result of this comparison, the stock is determined. Further, the invention relates to a device (10, 22, 30) for receiving notes of value, which comprises a drum storage (22), a memory element and a control unit (26), the control unit (26) implementing the above-described method steps.
US09123182B2
Computer program products, methods, systems, etc. for generating an animated preview of a number of images are disclosed. A selection of a group of images is received. A set of digital images from the group of images are identified as being representative of the group. At least some portion of the identified set of representative digital images from the group is then used to create an animated image. The animated image serves as a preview of the group of images, such that, when a user browses the images and sees the preview associated with a corresponding folder or directory, the user is able to quickly and easily associate the images in the group with a particular event and identify contents of the folder or directory.
US09123181B2
Disclosed is a method of creating a pleasure image file comprising a plurality of images. The method comprises providing a plurality of still image files for use in creating a pleasure image file comprising a plurality of still images from the plurality of still image files and receiving an input indicative of a sequence for displaying the plurality of still images when playing the pleasure image file. Incorporating some effects for each still image in creating the image file comprises assigning a period during which each still image is to be displayed on a screen, adding a display special effect to be used while displaying the at least one still image, and creating the pleasure image file configured to display the plurality of still images on a screen in accordance with the sequence each for the assigned period, wherein the at least one still image is to be displayed with the display special effect.
US09123179B2
A surrounding image display system (1, 2) equipped for a vehicle includes a processing unit (10, 12) that is connected to a camera (20, 22) that captures an image around the vehicle. The processing unit (10, 12) processes the captured image from the camera (20, 22) to recognize an attention object, and generates a display image in which a frame border (70) that at least partially surrounds the recognized attention object is superimposed on the captured image. The frame border (70) includes a first frame border portion (72) drawn in a first color and a second frame border portion (74) drawn in a second color different from the first color.
US09123176B2
A system and method for allowing a 2D character to perform a 3D motion having x-axis, y-axis and z-axis information is provided. In the present invention, 3D human motion data entered is analyzed to obtain motion information of angles, coordinates and depths of all human body parts in the 3D motion data. By matching a sprite with the 3D motion, an image of each body part of the 2D character is capable switching to a reasonable image for a particular angle according to angle information of the 3D motion data, and adjusting a size or deforming the image of each body part of the 2D character according to the depth and angle information of the 3D motion data. Therefore, the 2D character is allowed to achieve visual performance effects of frontal performance, sideways performance, turning performance or rear performance having depth information as a 3D character.
US09123175B1
An animation rig is displayed in a plurality of reference poses. The animation rig has a pose deformation in each pose. A refinement deformation for each reference pose is received. Each refinement deformation is mapped to a respective point in n-dimensional space. A complex is built in the n-dimensional space. The complex includes a mesh of simplices, each corner of each simplex associated with one of the deformations.
US09123168B2
Systems and methods for a tessellation are described. For tessellation, a tessellation unit may divide a domain into a plurality of portions, where at least one portion is a contiguous portion. The tessellation unit may output domain coordinates of primitives along diagonal strips within the contiguous portion to increase the likelihood that patch coordinates that correspond to the domain coordinates are stored in a reuse buffer.
US09123166B2
A method of connecting three-dimensional structured meshes to form a conformal mesh, for solutions of flow problems, including: forming an interface by overlaying surfaces of two structured meshes; defining an interface set of mesh points in the interface; merging mesh points in the interface set that are within a predetermined distance of each other and projecting mesh points of one mesh in the interface that are within a predetermined distance of a line of the other mesh; generating an interface layer in the form of an unstructured mesh; and inserting a node at the center of each hexahedra, and producing an unstructured layer of cells between the two structured meshes by joining the nodes to the mesh points of the interface layer.
US09123161B2
A system and method for summarizing data corresponding to properties of interest on an unstructured grid that includes active cells and inactive cells on an output surface. An exemplary method comprises identifying an aggregation direction through a region of interest of the unstructured grid and identifying at least one active cell along the aggregation direction. The exemplary method comprises assigning an aggregated value for the at least one property of interest to a face of the output surface on a line along the aggregation direction based at least in part on the data corresponding to the at least one property of interest for the at least one active cell. The exemplary method further comprises filling the at least one data hole by identifying at least one face associated with an inactive cell on the line along the aggregation direction and assigning it an aggregated value.
US09123160B1
A mechanism for concurrently generating a plurality of meshes is disclosed. A region of a simulated environment for a simulation is determined. An area that bounds the region is determined. The area is decomposed into a plurality of polygons. Data identifying a first elevation layer at locations in the region and a second elevation layer at the locations in the region is accessed. At least some of the polygons are processed based on a first elevation layer metric associated with the first elevation layer and a second elevation layer metric associated with the second elevation layer to concurrently generate a first mesh and a second mesh that include the at least some of the polygons.
US09123154B2
A method is provided for distributed element rendering with particular application for feature films and other demanding content creation using scenes of high complexity requiring global illumination. A persistent centralized scheduler receives shading queries that are added to a request queue, determines an assignment of the request queue to hardware resources based on a resource map, and processes the request queue according to the assignment to render frames of one or more scenes. The resource map may be built by the scheduler and indicates local scene geometry cached for each of the hardware resources. By generating a full set of camera rays at each hardware resource, global illumination shading and other rendering can proceed independently against local geometry caches for high parallelism. Redundant computations are reduced through the scheduler, which may cache frequently requested rendering results including tessellation, shading, and level of detail.
US09123146B2
A 3D tablet terminal (100) which is an example of a stereoscopic image display control apparatus includes: a most projecting position determination unit (104) which determines a most projecting position at which an object projects most from a display surface and a most receding position at which the object recedes most therefrom; and a display control unit (105) which causes a display device to display the object, wherein the display control unit (105) adjusts a display position of the object so that an amount of projection at the most projecting position is equal to a proper amount of projection, and processes, by a predetermined method, a portion of the object on a far side relative to the display surface when an amount of recession at the most receding position after adjusting the display position exceeds a proper amount of recession.
US09123143B2
A system for simultaneous visual data presentation is provided having a processor and memory with instructions for execution by the processor for: receiving attended data; receiving unattended data; and generating presentation data. The presentation is suitable for simultaneous presentation of the attended data and the unattended data in a manner in which the unattended data at least partially overlaps the attended data and the unattended data does not interfere with the attended data by replacing, erasing, or suppressing the attended data, and vice versa. The presented unattended data gives cues that the user can sense and provide information to the user while attending to the presented attended data, without attending to the presented unattended data.
US09123134B2
A near-real-time tracking and integrated forecasting of marine ice bodies observable on satellite imagery.
US09123128B2
Employing a general processing unit as a programmable function unit of a graphics pipeline and a method of manufacturing a graphics processing unit are disclosed. In one embodiment, the graphics pipeline includes: (1) accelerators, (2) an input output interface coupled to each of the accelerators and (3) a general processing unit coupled to the input output interface and configured as a programmable function unit of the graphics pipeline, the general processing unit configured to issue vector instructions via the input output interface to vector data paths for the programmable function unit.
US09123115B2
This disclosure describes techniques for estimating a depth of image objects for a two-dimensional (2D) view of a video presentation. For example, an initial indication of depth (e.g., an optical flow) may be determined for a 2D view. The initial indication of depth may be used to estimate global motion, e.g., motion of an observer (e.g., camera), of the 2D view. The initial indication of depth may be modified based on the estimation of global motion to create a global motion-adjusted indication of depth. The global motion-adjusted depth indication may be used to create a depth map for the 2D view, which may be used to generate an alternative view of the video presentation that may be used to display a three-dimensional (3D) video presentation.
US09123113B2
Systems and techniques for row guidance parameterization with Hough transform are described herein. An electronic representation of a field (ERF) can be received. The ERF can include a set of feature sets including one of a set of crop row features or a set of furrow features. A first parameter space can be produced by applying a slope-intercept Hough transform (SLIHT) to members of a feature set. Peaks in the first parameter space can be identified. A second parameter space can be produced by application of the SLIHT to the peaks. A vanishing point can be calculated based on a vanishing point peak in the second parameter space. A track-angle error can be calculated from the vanishing point.
US09123106B2
Information is displayed on a device by writing data to a buffer in memory, the content of the buffer describing a screen display of the device at a particular point in time. A watermarked version of the buffer content is generated by watermarking the content of the buffer with data, such as data identifying a user of the device and/or a copy of a program (e.g., an operating system) running on the device. The watermarked version of the buffer content is then made available, such as in response to a screen capture request. The data embedded in the watermarked version of the content is undetectable (or nearly undetectable) to the human eye, but can nonetheless be extracted by other computing devices or data extraction systems.
US09123101B2
An apparatus detects asymmetry in an object, such as a brain. The apparatus includes a processor programmed to fit a three-dimensional image of the object to a preselected shape, such as a standard brain atlas. The processor projects the three-dimensional image of the object to a two-dimensional surface image. The processor compares corresponding mirror image symmetric voxel pairs on the left and right sides of the surface image. The processor generates at least one of an asymmetry map and an asymmetry index based on the deviations in the pixel pairs. The processor can also mask, before the comparison, pixels of the surface image which are asymmetric in a normal brain.
US09123099B2
Physician interactive workstations with global voxel distribution visualization may also include one or more of a 3-D color scale image of a population of voxel in target regions, organs or systems. The workstation may be configured to evaluate intensity or other measures of voxels of patient images associated with tissue for early detection of a global injury.
US09123098B2
With respect to projection data covering a plurality of sites, in order to create a medical image in which a uniform noise reduction effect is achieved for all sites within the projection data, an arithmetic device (5) determines one or more of proper subsets on the basis of scanning conditions and reconstruction conditions (step 2). Next, the arithmetic device (5) calculates a penalty-term weight for each proper subset on the basis of a detector output weight corresponding to a set element contained in the proper subset (step 3). Then, the arithmetic unit (5) performs an iterative approximation by using the penalty-term weight for each proper subset (step 4).
US09123092B2
A method of creating or updating a container file for storing images is provided. The method includes determining whether the container file already exists in a storage device, the container file having a container file metadata section. If the container file does not exist in the storage device, the method creates the container file by creating one or more empty records in the storage device. Each record of the one or more empty records includes an image file section reserved for storing an image, an image metadata section reserved for storing data about the image, a record metadata section including information about the record and having at least a record status mark indicating that the record is empty. The method further includes setting a container status mark in the container file metadata section to available, after creating the container file.
US09123090B2
A compression and decompression module provided in a display device includes: a comparison unit that, when first image data and second image data in which a gradation value of each of a plurality of pixels is expressed in m bits are input, compares gradation values of corresponding pixels of the input first and second image data; a compression unit that compresses the second image data and that, when values of predetermined n bits (where n≦m) of the gradation values match each other in a comparison result of the comparison unit, generates compressed data including identification data indicating that the values of the n bits match each other; and a control unit that performs control to output data, which indicates the gradation value of the corresponding pixel of the first image data, and the compressed data generated by the compression unit so as to correspond to each other.
US09123082B2
The subject disclosure provides systems and methods for recommending optimal consumption of a variety of resources that may be consumed by a consumer. A recommendation provided by the system may be based upon resource-consumption statistics gathered by a plurality of sensors, consumer's resource-consumption behavior, consumer-defined criteria, resource availability, and a cost of consumption. The recommendation may include a recommendation on how the consumer may lower resource consumption costs. The recommendation may further include optimal consumption considering consumption trends of a plurality of consumers living in a geographical proximity. The recommendation may include optimal usage of a consumer's vehicle such that the vehicle may consume the least amount of energy. The recommendation may further include offer(s) of credit/incentives by resource providers to consumers in exchange for less consumption of resource, alternative consumption of resources, and any combination thereof.
US09123079B2
Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to sponsored story generation from an organic activity stream in a social networking site. A user wishing to promote an entry from an organic activity stream may, using a sponsor user interface, specify the types of stories to promote to a portion of the home page displayed to a member of a social network.
US09123077B2
A medication management system (MMS) includes a medication management unit (MMU) associated with a medical device. The MMU downloads a medication order to the medical device only if information from a first input matches information from a second input. The medical device receives delivery information only from the MMU. The medication order is performed only after delivery data validation. The MMU also determines drug-drug incompatibility. The MMU can modulate (start, stop, and dynamically adjust) medication order performance. The medical device wirelessly receives a patient ID to automatically associate with the patient. During delivery, the medical device caches an updated drug library to replace an existing one. The medical device displays a patient picture for validation. The MMU evaluates the performance of medical devices and caregivers based medical device feedback. The MMU adjusts the output of medical device information conveyed to a caregiver.
US09123073B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for processing transactions and associated dated. In one exemplary implementation, there is provided a method for processing information associated with transactions involving a product, wherein the product may comprise an experience, a physical product, and/or a digital product. Moreover, illustrative methods may include performing processing associated with a plurality of subroutines, such as a first subroutine for handling an experience, a second subroutine for handling a physical and/or a digital product, and/or one more additional subroutines associated with fulfillment.
US09123072B2
An apparatus for facilitating purchases of services includes an application server providing a network service and maintaining a service offer database that comprises a plurality of service offer information records respectively associated with a plurality of service offers. The plurality of service offers include at least one service offer for a bundled set of services. Each information record comprises an indication of a primary service, a purchase price, a payment amount for a primary service, and compensation information for receiving payment for the primary service. Upon being accessed by user operating a client system, the network service is operable to receive an indication of a service offer being selected for purchase by the user, receive purchase information from the user specifying a funding source, and issue a request to the funding source for funds corresponding to the purchase price included in the information record associated with the selected service offer.
US09123060B2
A method and system for providing targeted advertisement information to consumers over a wireless communications network are provided. In one embodiment, local advertisers register to advertise on wireless communications devices that are in close proximity to the advertiser. As a consumer enters a cell site that is near the location of the advertiser, the wireless network delivers a message to the wireless device specified by the local advertiser. An acknowledgement signal is then received by the network, and the local advertiser's account is charged for transmission of the advertisement. In a further embodiment, each of the messages is associated with one or more demographic codes, and a demographic code is selected to describe an advertisement preference of a user of a wireless communications device. Messages to be transmitted to particular wireless communications devices are selected based upon both the location information and the demographic codes associated with the messages.
US09123058B2
Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure builds on integrating existing technology with new devices, methods, and systems to provide a complete vehicle ecosystem.
US09123054B1
A method for maintaining consumer privacy in behavioral scoring includes a first computing system and a second computing system. The first computing system disguises consumer characteristics and maps disguised consumer characteristics to unencrypted account identifiers, and then transmits the data to the second computing system. The second computing system encrypts the account identifiers upon receipt, and maps the encrypted account identifiers to anonymous transaction data. The second computing system uses the transaction data to calculate consumer behavioral scores, and then generates a scoring algorithm that uses disguised consumer characteristics to calculate consumer behavior scores based on the calculated consumer behavioral scores and corresponding disguised consumer characteristics. The generated algorithm is then returned to the first computing system, with the second computing system not receiving any unencrypted account identifiers, any undisguised consumer characteristics, or any personally identifiable information.
US09123050B2
An apparatus for providing content based on user's interest and a method for providing content based on user's interest are provided. The apparatus for providing content generates content differently according to the user's interest in content and outputs the generated content. Accordingly, more specialized content are provided to a user interested in the currently displayed content.
US09123049B2
Exemplary methods, systems and components enable selective control of an operational mode for a vehicle that is subject to an administrative standard. In some instances a qualified person or entity may attain a possible consequential result related to a user-selected vehicle operation mode that may involve a vehicle operation paradigm and/or a vehicle travel route and/or a vehicle travel destination. In some embodiments, implementation of the selected vehicle operation mode may modify a conformity status of the vehicle relative to the administrative standard. Various accessible records may be maintained regarding administrative compliance states and their respective benefits, as well as regarding certification of preferable consequential results available to qualified recipients based on a correlated vehicle operational mode.
US09123046B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, are described for identifying target terms, e.g., spam terms within a collection of documents. In one aspect, methods can include identifying spam terms by calculating a blacklist term frequency-inverse document frequency (BTF-IDF) score for multiple terms, and by selecting, as the spam terms, the terms that have scores above or below a threshold score. The multiple terms may be derived from documents that are associated with accounts that have been designated as spam accounts.
US09123036B2
A mobile checkout system and method for completing a purchase transaction to purchase items from an internet merchant. A user browses and selects items for purchase from the merchant through a shopping application or browser. During the processing of the transaction, a checkout application installed on a mobile communication device is launched. The checkout application receives a checkout token created by a checkout server that identifies the purchase transaction. The checkout application uses this token and communicates with the checkout server to cause the checkout server to complete the purchase transaction. When the transaction is complete, the shopping application or browser is relaunched and a results page is displayed.
US09123027B2
Methods and systems for detecting social engineering attacks comprise: extracting one or more non-semantic data items from an incoming email; determining whether the one or more non-semantic data items match information stored in a data store of previously collected information; performing behavioral analysis on the one or more non-semantic data items; analyzing semantic data associated with the email to determine whether the non-semantic data matches one or more patterns associated with malicious emails; and based on the determining, performing, and analyzing, identifying the email as potentially malicious or non-malicious. The system also includes processes for collecting relevant information for storage within the data store and processes for harvesting information from detected social engineering attacks for entry into the data store and seeding of the collection processes.
US09123024B2
A system for analyzing security compliance requirements analyzes a linked database that includes data from the Unified Compliance Framework™. The system generates a tiered question structure to obtain information about a particular business offering, wherein questions of a particular tier are based on answers to questions of a preceding tier. Based on the information, the system generates a query and submits the query to the linked database. The query results provide a list of security compliance requirements, leading practices, and/or regulations applicable to the business offering.
US09123022B2
Embodiments of the subject invention comprise a computer based system and methods to collect and compare the attributes of a group of entities using data representing topic data of the entity and interaction data between entities. Embodiments of the invention comprise using minimally invasive means to automatically collect and model both an entity's attributes such as their knowledge/work/interest as well as model the social interactions of the entity together with a means to identify opportunities to influence changes in the entity attributes. Minimally invasive means to collect and model attributes include semantic analysis and topic modeling techniques. Means to model social interactions include social network analysis techniques that can incorporate location data of the entity. Embodiments of the invention further provide a sharable index of the attributes of the entities and the group of entities.
US09123019B1
A method, web browser, and system for co-browsing online content is disclosed. Embodiments enable a co-browsing session between web browsers running on different computer systems using a respective peer proxy server on each computer system. A primary peer proxy server running on a first computer system communicates directly with a web server, while communications from other peer proxy servers running on other computer systems are directed through the primary peer proxy server. The primary peer proxy server accesses online content from the web server for presentation using a web browser running on the first computer system, where the online content is presented simultaneously with modified online content presented using web browsers running on the other computer systems. The online content and the modified online content may be synchronized based upon a web server response associated with a browser event communicated to the web server.
US09123008B2
Systems and methods for identifying unbuildable part pairs in product data management (PDM) systems. A method includes receiving a product structure having a plurality of nodes with variant conditions. The method includes building, by the client PDM system, a variant condition forest (VCF) corresponding to the product structure and selecting a pair of nodes in the product structure. The method includes determining, using the VCF, whether the variant conditions of each of the selected nodes are satisfiable both separately and at the same time, and if not, marking the selected pair of nodes as unbuildable. The method includes adding the unbuildable pair of nodes to an unbuildable pairs list. The method includes performing a clearance analysis process on the product structure, without processing unbuildable pairs on the unbuildable pairs list, and storing the results of the clearance analysis process.
US09123004B2
A method, computer program product and computer system for predicting that an event identified in an event topic map meta-model will have an effect on at least one asset identified in an asset topic map meta-model. In an exemplary embodiment, a computer receives a query input from a user. The computer obtains an input of an event from the query input. The computer identifies at least one asset mapped to the event in an asset to event topic map meta-model that maps assets in the asset topic map meta-model to events in the event topic map meta-model. In identifying the at least one asset, the computer determines that the at least one asset has greater than a threshold probability of being affected by the event.
US09122998B2
A software reconciliation engine utilizes a software rule-based catalog to produce accurate license reconciliation across a wide range of software configurations. A software offering may comprise software installables and corresponding constraints. Installed software and active hardware is discovered by a scanner, stored in an installed software database and active hardware database respectively and is mapped against entitled software offerings to determine whether the installed software is entitled to be installed on the hardware. The installed software has a base product attribute, a used-in-count attribute and a parent-child attribute that are used by the reconciliation engine to compare against the constraints to determine entitlement and report compliance.
US09122995B2
The described implementations relate to data classification. One implementation includes identifying one or more likely classifications for an incoming data item using an algorithm. The implementation can also include providing the one or more identified classifications to a user. A selection of an individual identified classification for the incoming data item can be received from the user. The algorithm can be refined to reflect the selection by the user.
US09122990B2
There are provided a method of automated managing one or more security rule-sets and a system thereof. The method comprising: obtaining data characterizing a connectivity request and an amended rule-set, the amended rule-set being derivative of an initial rule-set amended to fit the connectivity request; automated verifying each possible combination of values in the connectivity request against the initial rule-set and the amended rule-set; calculating one or more values selected from a group comprising values characterizing relative amount of extra allowed traffic and values characterizing relative amount of dissatisfied requested traffic; automated comparing the calculated values and/or derivatives thereof with a predefined threshold; and automated classifying the amended rule-set as applicable for implementation if the results of the automated comparing match a predefined verification criterion.
US09122970B2
An electronic card connector comprises a base, a cover and a limiting element. The base has an electronic card holder for holding an electronic card. The cover is pivoted on the base so that the cover is able to be operated in an open state and a close state relative to the base. When in the close state, the cover is configured for sliding relative to the base and therefore has a fastening position and a release position. The limiting element is connected to the cover and has an unstressed state and a stressed state relative to the cover. The limiting element comprises an elastic arm and at least one limiting block. The elastic arm is connected to the cover via a connecting end while the at least one limiting block is connected to an end other than the connecting end of the elastic arm.
US09122963B2
A tamper-proof barcoded quality indicator operative to provide a machine-readable indication of exceedance of time and temperature thresholds following actuation thereof, including a first barcode including a first colorable area and being machine-readable before exceedance of the time and temperature thresholds, a second barcode including a second colorable area and not being machine-readable before exceedance of the time and temperature thresholds, a coloring agent located at a first location on the indicator, a coloring agent pathway operative to allow the coloring agent to move, at a rate which is at least partially a function of time, from the first location to the first and second colorable areas simultaneously for simultaneous coloring thereof upon exceedance of the time and temperature thresholds, thereby causing the first barcode to become unreadable and at the same time causing the second barcode to become machine-readable, and a tamper-proof actuator element operative to actuate the indicator.
US09122957B2
An image processing apparatus includes a first acquiring unit that acquires an image to be processed; a setting unit that sets multiple partial image areas in the image to be processed; a second acquiring unit that acquires a first classification result indicating a possibility that an object of a specific kind is included in each of the multiple partial image areas; and a generating unit that generates a second classification result indicating a possibility that the object of the specific kind is included in the image to be processed on the basis of the first classification result of each of the multiple partial image areas.
US09122955B2
A method of generating a category model for classifying medical images. The method comprises providing a plurality of medical images each categorized as one of a plurality of categorized groups, generating an index of a plurality of visual words according to a distribution of a plurality of local descriptors in each the image, modeling a category model mapping a relation between each visual word and at least one of the categorized groups according to the index, and outputting the category model for facilitating the categorization of an image based on local descriptors thereof.
US09122953B2
Methods and systems for character segmentation in an automatic license plate recognition application. One or more images of a license plate are acquired. Then, a pixel-level importance may be calculated with respect to the image(s) of the license plate based on information within the image, such as gradient information and raw grayscale information. A seam selection can be then applied with respect to the pixel-level importance map and the image(s) by enforcing constraints based on known characteristics of license plates in order to provide for character segmentation with respect to the image(s) of the license plate.
US09122938B2
A transmission leakage signal offset apparatus of a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader is disclosed. The transmission leakage signal offset apparatus may include a signal divider to divide a received signal of the RFID reader, the received signal including a transmission leakage signal, and to transmit the divided received signal to a signal combiner and an injection locked oscillator (ILO); a signal synchronizer to synchronize a phase of the ILO with a phase of the transmission leakage signal; a phase controller to control a phase difference between the received signal of the RFID reader and an output signal of the ILO; and a signal combiner to combine the received signal of the RFID reader and the output signal of the ILO, between which the phase difference is controlled.
US09122935B2
It is an object of the present invention to achieve an object detection apparatus, a program, and an integrated circuit each of which is capable of appropriately detecting an axially symmetric object in an image, whatever image is to be processed, without performing any complicated thresholding. The object detection apparatus includes a processing object region determination unit, a variance acquisition unit, a matching determination unit, and an object region detection unit. The processing object region determination unit sets a symmetry axis in an image region included in an image and divides the image region into a determination image region and a reference image region so as to be line symmetric with respect to the symmetry axis. The variance acquisition unit acquires a degree of variance of image feature amount in the image region. The matching determination unit acquires a matching value between the determination image region and the reference image region and determines the symmetry between the determination image region and the reference image region with respect to the symmetry axis on the basis of a corrected matching value which is obtained by correcting the acquired matching value in accordance with the degree of variance. The object region detection unit detects an image region which is line symmetric with respect to the symmetry axis on the basis of a determination result from the matching determination unit.
US09122934B2
An object detection method with a rising classifier effect is embedded in an object detection device and has steps of acquiring image information; determining a position of an obstacle in the image information, wherein the image information is detected for generation of an extracted range corresponding to the obstacle; recognizing an extracted contour of the obstacle, wherein the extracted contour of the obstacle associated with the extracted range is obtained by using an algorithm for Poisson gradient vector flow based active deformable contour model and a multi-mesh algorithm with different grid sizes; and forming a maximum border of the extracted contour of the obstacle for a classifier to recognize a type of the obstacle according to the maximum border of the obstacle. Accordingly, the object detection method is advantageous in complete extraction, higher recognition rate, faster computation and feasibility to be integrated with vehicle systems.
US09122928B2
An approach for processing an image is presented. A category specifying characteristics of a shape of a license plate of a vehicle is determined. Based on the category, characteristics of objects in the image are determined to not match the characteristics of the shape of the license plate. Based on the characteristics of the objects in the image not matching the characteristics of the shape of the license plate, the image is determined to not include an identifiable license plate. In response to determining the image does not include the identifiable license plate, the image is determined to be invalid and a manual character recognition process for determining identifiers in license plates is bypassed.
US09122919B2
Systems and methods for determining a customized cosmetic formulation. In one method, a user is guided to capture an image of a skin region with known lighting and color characteristics, and the image is processed to provide calibrated skin color information. A customized cosmetic formulation is automatically determined for the user based on the calibrated skin color information. In another method, a user is interactively guided through capture of one or more skin region images using a device having an image sensor. The skin region images are processed to provide calibrated skin color information, which is compared to a ground truth data set to identify a set of closest known values in the ground truth data set. A customized cosmetic formulation is automatically determined for the user based on the comparison.
US09122915B2
A method and apparatus for tracking passengers at a travel facility and may include receiving captured facial recognition features of a passenger using a first facial recognition camera at a first known location, determining if the captured facial recognition features of the passenger are stored in a database, wherein if the captured facial recognition features of the passenger are not stored in the database, starting a timer, receiving captured facial recognition features of the passenger using a second facial recognition camera at a second known location, stopping the timer, determining the amount of elapsed time between the received captured facial recognition features of the passenger using the first facial recognition camera at the first known location and the receiving captured facial recognition features of the passenger using the second facial recognition camera at the second known location, outputting the determined amount of elapsed time to at least one or more.
US09122899B2
A card connector for use with a card comprising electronic circuitry and a card reader device comprising electronic circuitry which can communicate with the card. The card connector is configured to receive the card when the card is inserted into the card reader. The card connector has a connector body and an attached cover. The connector body includes a plurality of electronic contacts that engage the card circuitry and operationally link the card to the card reader device. The cover includes one or more retaining springs which engage the card to secure the card and draw heat from the card. The cover also has a lip or tongue and grounding tabs which provide electrostatic discharge protection.
US09122898B2
A computer implemented method for extracting meaningful text from a document of unknown or unspecified format. In a particular embodiment, the method includes reading the document, thereby to extract raw encoded text, analysing the raw encoded text, thereby to identify one or more text chunks, and for a given chunk, performing compression identification analysis to determine whether compression is likely. The method can further include performing a decompression process, performing an encoding identification process thereby to identify a likely character encoding protocol, and converting the chunk using the identified likely character encoding protocol, thereby to output the chunk as readable text.
US09122896B2
A circuit in which a storage function and an arithmetic function are combined is proposed by using a transistor with low off-state current for forming a storage element. When the transistor with low off-state current is used, electric charge can be held, for example, in a node or the like between a source or a drain of the transistor with low off-state current and a gate of another transistor. Thus, the node or the like between one of the source or the drain of the transistor with low off-state current and the gate of the another transistor can be used as a storage element. In addition, leakage current accompanied by the operation of an adder can be reduced considerably. Accordingly, a signal processing circuit consuming less power can be formed.
US09122887B2
A user interface for a virtual file management system that provides user access to managed content on mobile devices. The system comprises storage domains storing the managed content distributively using file systems, and a data infrastructure that organizes the managed content into a virtual file system. The data infrastructure includes a component that maintains policies defining controls for permissible operations on the managed content, the permissible operations including the file system primitives. A client application including a user interface is hosted on the mobile devices and is coupled to the data infrastructure and the storage domains and includes an enforcement component that retrieves and enforces the policies by applying the controls on the mobile devices.
US09122861B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for interoperating a device with network based services. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting registration with a service account, providing a graphical display for user selection during output associated with content stored by the device, the graphical display identifying a network based service based on the service account, and detecting user selection of the graphical display, wherein the network based service relates to a network accessible third party service associated with the device based on the service account. The method may further include transmitting the content by the device based on the user selection to the network based service.
US09122859B1
At a client, a first application is executed to identify event information with respect to events that occur at the client, including events associated with execution of one or more other applications resident on the client. The first application communicates with a second application, also executing on the client, to transmit the event information to a communications network, wherein the second application and not the first application is in communication with the communications network. In some embodiments, the second application is a browser application. Optionally, the first application installs a browser loadable object in the browser application, and the browser loadable object registers callback information with the first application. Later, the first application uses the callback information to communicate a network request to the browser loadable object.
US09122852B2
A password input system and a method inputting a password are provided. The password input system includes a signal receiving unit, a processing unit and a storage device. The signal receiving unit receives input signals comprising key-pressing signals and key-releasing signals respectively corresponding to the key-pressing signals and each key-pressing signal corresponds to an alphanumeric symbol. The processing unit, according to a predetermined key-releasing rule, sequentially groups the alphanumeric symbols corresponding to the key-pressing signals into groups. Each group is regarded as a password element and the password elements together form a multi-key input password set. The storage device stores the multi-key input password set.
US09122849B2
Embodiments of a method are provided for personalizing a memory card. The method comprises receiving one or more credentials. The method further comprises authenticating the one or more credentials. The method further comprises reserving a memory segment in the memory card based on the authentication, wherein one or more memory segments in the memory card are vacant. The method furthermore comprises writing the one or more credentials on to the memory segment.
US09122847B2
A device and system for management of and access to externally connected peripheral devices by mobile devices. User and/or application data on a mobile device is sent to externally connected peripheral devices. External peripheral devices includes, but are not limited to, printers, scanners, displays, audio interfaces, speakers, network adapters, storage drives, hard drives, and the like. An end user mobile device application interface is installed as an application on a mobile device. Data may be sent directly to a peripheral device, or to a peripherals aggregation device, which may be active or passive.
US09122842B2
An apparatus and method for enhancing security and stability in a heterogeneous computing environment that supports an open standard parallel program are provided. A method of enhancing security in a heterogeneous computing environment may include loading a source code kernel corresponding to an application program to be installed in a host system, determining whether the source code kernel is targeted for integrity check, based on a security policy of the host system, prior to cross-compiling the source code kernel, requesting a security engine of a computing device to check an integrity of the source code kernel, when the source code kernel is determined to be targeted for the integrity check, and controlling an operation of a runtime compiler based on a check result received from the security engine.
US09122840B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for performing collective operations on a hybrid distributed processing system that includes a plurality of compute nodes and a plurality of tasks, each task is assigned a unique rank, and each compute node is coupled for data communications by at least two different networking topologies. At least one of the two networking topologies is a tiered tree topology having a root task and at least two child tasks and the at least two child tasks are peers of one another in the same tier. Embodiments include for each task, sending at least a portion of data corresponding to the task to all child tasks of the task through the tree topology; and sending at least a portion of the data corresponding to the task to all peers of the task at the same tier in the tree topology through the second topology.
US09122839B2
A method comprises providing a non-transitory, machine-readable storage medium storing a partial netlist of at least a portion of a previously taped-out integrated circuit (IC) layout, representing a set of photomasks for fabricating an IC having the IC layout such that the IC meets a first specification value. A computer identifies a proper subset of a plurality of first devices in the IC layout, such that replacement of the proper subset of the first devices by second devices in a revised IC layout satisfies a second specification value different from the first specification value. At least one layout mask is generated and stored in at least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium, accessible by a tool for forming at least one additional photomask, such that the set of photomasks and the at least one additional photomask are usable to fabricate an IC according to the revised IC layout.
US09122829B2
A computer-implemented method of configuring a semiconductor device includes identifying an interconnect having an interconnect path length greater than a stress-induced void formation characteristic length of the semiconductor device, and placing, with a processor, a conductive structure adjacent the interconnect to define a pair of segments of the interconnect. Each segment has a length no greater than the stress-induced void formation characteristic length of the interconnect, and the conductive structure is selected from the group consisting of a decoy via connected to the interconnect, a floating tile disposed along the interconnect, a tab that laterally extends outward from the interconnect, and a jumper from a first metal layer in which the interconnect is disposed to a second metal layer.
US09122826B1
A method for designing a system on a target device includes merging a netlist for a first partition of the system generated from a bottom-up design flow with a netlist for a second partition of the system from a top-down design flow to form a combined netlist, and performing fitting on the combined netlist.
US09122822B2
A three-dimensional fluid simulation method is disclosed wherein: a first mesh of a flow domain non-uniformly split with respect to each of three degrees of freedom is defined; a second mesh uniformly sprit with respect to only one of the three degrees of freedom but non-uniformly with respect to other two degrees is defined; an object model is set in the first mesh and a motion equation is formed and calculated to obtain fluid velocity; based on the fluid velocity, flow imbalance is computed for each cell; based on the flow imbalance, fluid pressure correction equation is formed; the flow imbalance is mapped onto the second mesh and the fluid pressure correction is computed; the fluid pressure correction is mapped onto the first mesh; and until the flow imbalance and motion equations are converged the computation is repeated.
US09122817B2
A method for collaborative editing an electronic model of a CAx object may include providing access to an electronic model that is spatially decomposed into a plurality of editing regions, enabling a user to make changes to an editable feature corresponding to a particular editing region and blocking the user from making changes to an editable feature corresponding to an editing region assigned to another user. A corresponding apparatus may comprise one or more software modules and associated hardware that are configured to execute the described method.
US09122816B2
A high performance computing system is provided with an ASIC that communicates with another device in the system according to a protocol defined by the other device. The ASIC is coupled to a reconfigurable protocol table, in the form of a high speed content-addressable memory (“CAM”). The CAM includes instructions to control the execution of the protocol by the ASIC. The CAM may include instructions to control the ASIC in the event that unanticipated signals or other errors are encountered while executing the protocol. Internal ASIC state data may be routed to the CAM to permit the ASIC to generate a reasonable response to errors either in the design or fabrication of the ASIC or the device with which it is communicating.
US09122812B2
A semiconductor device comprises conductive buses and conductive bridges. A respective conductive bridge is conductively coupled to at least two portions of at least one of the conductive buses. At least N plus one (N+1) vias are coupled between every one of the conductive bridges and a respective feature in an integrated circuit when: (1) a width of the respective conductive bridge is less than a width of each of the at least two portions of the at least one of the conductive buses to which the respective conductive bridge is coupled, and (2) a distance along the respective conductive bridge and at least one of the vias is less than a critical distance. N is a number of conductive couplings between the respective one of the conductive bridges and the at least one of the conductive buses.
US09122810B2
A remote component controller of a server rack includes a real time clock information unit to maintain real clock time and to respond to requests for real time clock information, and a communication module to receive over a communication link a request from a processing node of the server rack for real time clock information, to forward the request to the real time clock information unit, to receive from the real time clock information unit a response to the request, and to transmit the response to the request to the processing node over the communication link.
US09122808B2
an illustrative video apparatus comprises a decoder that decodes video information in a native format, an emulation controller coupled to the decoder, and a network controller coupled to the emulation controller and capable of coupling to an external network. The video apparatus also includes a storage holding an instruction sequence executable on the emulation controller. The instruction sequence comprises a code for receiving network information from the external network and converting the network information to the native format for transfer to the decoder.
US09122806B2
A method and apparatus for providing a SATA host with access to multiple SATA drives is disclosed. The apparatus may include: an emulated port multiplier for presenting at least one logical drive to the SATA host; a mapping module for maintaining a mapping between the at least one logical drive and a plurality of physical SATA drives, wherein the plurality of physical SATA drives reside in a SAS topology; and a SATA/STP bridge for providing an interface between the SATA host and the SAS topology, the SATA/STP bridge configured to function as a SATA target to communicate with the SATA host and to function as a STP initiator to communicate with the plurality of physical SATA drives in the SAS topology.
US09122801B2
A method, apparatus and computer-implemented method, the method comprising: receiving a combinatorial testing model comprising an attribute collection, the attribute collection comprising a predetermined number of initial attributes, one or more possible values for each of the initial attributes, a coverage requirement, and an order coverage requirement for the initial attributes, the order coverage requirement related to predetermined relative order in which the attribute values are to be applied; and providing two or more tests in which each of the initial attributes is assigned a value from the possible values, wherein the tests satisfy the order coverage requirement for the at least two attributes.
US09122798B2
Methods and apparatus for debuggers supporting method restart are described. A method comprises implementing a user interface (UI) enabling a user to submit a request, via a single interaction within a debugging session, to restart execution of an invocable operation of a program. The method further comprises, in response to a request to restart an invocable operation, designating, as the source code line whose corresponding executable code is to be executed next, the first line of source code of the particular invocable operation that corresponds to an executable operation. The method includes indicating that execution of the program is to be resumed at the first line, and resuming execution of the program at the first line.
US09122781B2
An application maturity illustration system is provided. Such a system may determine a maturity of a computer application, and display same. The determination may include determining an inventory score, an operational status, a management score reflective of a ratio of an actual management value to a desired management value, a risk score and a future score for the computer application. The future score may be reflective of a projected relative importance of the computer application. The processor may operate to display a GUI that includes inventory score, operational status score, management score, risk score and the future score in a horizontal row. The vertical column may be located either along the top most portion of the GUI with respect to a user viewing the GUI or at the bottom most portion of the GUI with respect to a user viewing the GUI. The GUI may also be configured to display a recovery exercise date region. The recovery exercise date region may be color-coded.
US09122780B2
Embodiments of apparatus, computer-implemented methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media are described herein for tracking per-virtual machine (“VM”) resource usage independent of a virtual machine monitor (“VMM”). In various embodiments, a first logic unit may associate one or more virtual central processing units (“vCPUs”) operated by one or more physical processing units of a computing device with a first VM of a plurality of VMs operated by the computing device, and collect data about resources used by the one or more physical processing units to operate the one or more vCPUs associated with the first VM. In various embodiments, a second logic unit of the computing device may determine resource-usage by the first VM based on the collected data. In various embodiments, the first and second logic units may perform these functions independent of a VMM of the computing device.
US09122770B2
A computer-implemented system and method for creating, managing, and reusing schema type definitions in SOA services, grouped in the form of libraries are disclosed. The method in an example embodiment includes: grouping a plurality of Extensible Mark-up Language (XML) schema (XSD) types, each XSD type defined in an individual XSD file; using a processor to bundle the plurality of individual XSD types into a type library, the type library including a type information file to register the individual XSD types in the type library, the type library further including a type dependencies file to register dependencies between the individual XSD types in the same or different type library; importing types from a different type library, when defining derived types or aggregated types; generating Java artifacts from the XSD types; and associating the Java artifacts with corresponding XSD types in the type information file of the type library.
US09122768B2
A method and mobile communications device for retrieving and presenting partial skipped content are provided. A display of a mobile communication device provides content of a first segment and a further segment of an electronic document received at the mobile communication device. Content between the first segment and the further segment is skipped content which has not been received. On the display, an indication of the skipped content is provided, the indication including a selectable client control for retrieving at least a portion of the skipped content.
US09122767B2
A method for pre-rendering a system response. In one embodiment, the method includes a mobile device sending a first page request to a secondary system via a wireless communication link. The secondary system sends a first reply to the mobile device in response to the secondary system receiving the first page request, wherein the first reply comprises first page information and second page information. The mobile device stores the second page information in memory. The mobile device also displays a first page comprising a visual representation of the first page information.
US09122765B1
A computer system includes an SSD as swap space for a database management system that comprises a primary database engine and at least one clone database engine. A queued database transaction is sent to the clone database engine for pre-processing while the primary database engine is processing a current database transaction and if data needed to process the queued database transaction is not currently cached in the computer system, the clone database engine fetches the data and caches it into a buffer accessible by the primary database engine. When the primary database engine is ready to process the queued database transaction, it will be able to access the needed data without accessing the SSD, thereby avoiding delays resulting from accessing the SSD.
US09122760B2
A database of user preference information is extracted and compiled from multiple websites by web-crawling robots without cooperation or specific participation by users. Users who interact with a website are frequently required to register and create a login or userID name that uniquely identifies them. Thereafter, when an individual rates an item, it is often recorded and published under their userID name such that other users can see how a specific individual rated the item. Although there is no requirement that a specific user register on different websites utilizing the identical userID, it is extremely common that this practice occurs and the use of identical userIDs on multiple sites is used herein to expand preference analysis beyond a single site. Once the database exists, users can request or be passively offered suggestions that result from preference associations across multiple websites as performed by a preference analysis and suggestion function.
US09122758B1
Techniques for initiating a shared electronic browsing session for a plurality of users are described herein. A computing device may initiate the session and associate browsing and chat activity of the users with the session to enable at least one of real-time, joint browsing and chat or asynchronous browsing and chat. Further, the computing device may determine a social graph for one of the users based on the session and may recommend items to the user based on content browsing and chat activities of users included in the social graph.
US09122752B2
In order to increase the efficacy of a mood-based playlisting system, a mood sensor such as a camera may be used to provide mood information to the mood model. When the mood sensor includes a camera, a camera may be used to capture an image of the user. The image is analyzed to determine a mood for the user so that content may be selected responsive to the mood of the user.
US09122748B2
Techniques and tools are described for matching documents against monitors. An index can be generated from a plurality of monitors, where the index represents the query logic of the plurality of monitors. The index can be searched using the documents as search queries. The searching can comprise matching the documents against the monitors using the query logic represented in the index. An index can be distributed to a plurality of computing devices to be searched at the plurality of computing devices, where each computing device searches a subset of a plurality of documents against the full index. Searching at the plurality of computing devices can be performed in parallel, and results can be aggregated at a central location.
US09122745B2
A natural language specification of at least one high level information technology services requirement is obtained from a user, via a conversational interface; the same is parsed into first pre-defined semi-structured data, using a conversation parser. Based on the first pre-defined semi-structured data, a subset of candidate information technology services is identified, with a dialog engine, from a plurality of candidate information technology services provided by a plurality of vendors, the dialog engine is used to formulate a response including second pre-defined semi-structured data. The response is reverse-parsed into a natural language response, using the conversation parser. The natural language response includes a question for the user to assist in further refining the subset of candidate information technology services; the natural language response is presented to the user via the conversational interface.
US09122740B2
A PDM system, method, and computer program product for traversing a large data structure including corresponding runtime objects. A method includes receiving traversal parameters including a plurality of unique object identifiers (UIDs) corresponding to objects in a data structure. The method includes receiving input objects, including input runtime objects, and closure rule clauses. The method includes configuring runtime objects, from the objects in the data structure, according to the traversal parameters, and storing the runtime objects in a temporary table. The method includes traversing the data structure and temporary table using the closure rules to produce traversed objects, and serializing and storing the traversed objects.
US09122739B1
Described herein is a system and method for dynamically managing service-level objectives (SLOs) for workloads of a cluster storage system. Proposed states/solutions of the cluster may be produced and evaluated to select one that achieves the SLOs for each workload. A planner engine may produce a state tree comprising nodes, each node representing a proposed state/solution. New nodes may be added to the state tree based on new solution types that are permitted, or nodes may be removed based on a received time constraint for executing a proposed solution or a client certification of a solution. The planner engine may call an evaluation engine to evaluate proposed states, the evaluation engine using an evaluation function that considers SLO, cost, and optimization goal characteristics to produce a single evaluation value for each proposed state. The planner engine may call a modeler engine that is trained using machine learning techniques.
US09122734B2
A method includes monitoring, on a computing device, data events corresponding to manipulation of data by an application. The monitoring is performed by a data library service that is embedded in the application. The method includes, in response to the monitoring indicating first data on the computing device is modified by the application, synchronizing, by the computing device under control at least in part of the data library service, second data stored on one or more storage providers in a network with the first data modified by the application and stored on the computing device. Apparatus and computer program products are also disclosed.
