US09451735B2
An screw assembling device includes a supplying mechanism, a securing mechanism, a driving mechanism, and an assembling mechanism. The supplying mechanism supplies a number of screws sequentially. The securing mechanism holds a housing of an electronic device. The assembling mechanism is connected to the supplying mechanism and the driving mechanism. The assembling mechanism is driven by the driving mechanism to predetermined positions of the housing of electronic device and is configured for assembling the plurality of screws transmitted from the supplying mechanism to the predetermined positions of the housing of electronic device.
US09451733B2
A heat exchanger assembly for an electronic image assembly placed within a housing where ambient air surrounds the exterior of the housing and a rear plate may be placed behind a backlight to create a channel. An ambient air fan may be placed between two portions of a heat exchanger to force ambient air through the heat exchanger. The fan may also be positioned to also force ambient air through the channel. A circulating gas fan may also be placed within the housing to force circulating gas through at least one portion of the heat exchanger.
US09451730B2
A system for conveying air from one location to another includes a soft duct having a passage and an air flow control device. The air flow control device can be operated to vary a cross sectional area of a portion of the passage of the soft duct.
US09451729B2
A rack-based information handling system (RIHS) includes: a rack chassis having a plurality of interconnected panels forming a volumetric space having a front section and a rear section, both with opposing side panels forming a front access space and a rear access space, respectively, between corresponding opposing side panels; one or more IT gear sleds that are inserted into the front section of the rack chassis; and a pair of front expansion panels that are added to the rack chassis and which extend past an end of the opposing side panels at the front section of the rack chassis to provide a deeper IT bay within the front section and enable insertion of longer-than-standard depth IT gear within the rack chassis. The front expansion panels are cable management panels that include at least one strap that is utilized to secure one or more cables extending from one or more IT gear inserted into the rack chassis.
US09451727B2
A camera having a substantially cubic form factor comprises, among other components, an image sensor, a lens assembly, a printed circuit board, and a heat sink. A heat sink operates to provide a thermally conductive path to an external surface of the camera. The heat sink comprises an external portion structured around a perimeter of the lens window and at least one arm extending perpendicular from the external portion to the interior of the camera. The at least one arm is thermally coupled to the at least one electronic component on the printed circuit board so as to conduct heat away from the electronics to the exterior of the camera.
US09451726B2
A fluid delivery system configuration is described for use with an array of liquid submersion cooled electronic devices disposed in a rack, such as an array of liquid submerged servers. The fluid delivery system allows for the pumping system to generate pressure and flow of the cooling system fluid at slightly higher levels than is necessary for the worst case device/position within the array and to provide for uniformity of delivery pressure and coolant flow to each and every device within the array.
US09451717B2
An electronic device is described including a sliding vertical door, the sliding vertical door having a top, a bottom, and two vertical sides, wherein each of the two vertical sides has a locking latch at a bottom edge of each of the two vertical sides, the locking latch being between two vertical encouraging slots in each of the two vertical sides of the sliding vertical door, and wherein the siding vertical door has a front face, the front face of the sliding vertical door having a door handle positioned at, near or adjacent to the bottom of the sliding vertical door, the door handle being centered horizontally on the sliding vertical door and a sliding door bay, the sliding door bay having a bottom edge, the sliding door bay having side walls, the side walls having grooves therein.
US09451710B2
A battery pack includes a connection circuit board connected to the unit cells, a conductive lead drawn out from the connection circuit board, a printed circuit module having an opening into which the conductive lead is inserted, a solder portion formed by solder connection in which the conductive lead is inserted into the opening, wherein the conductive lead has an insertion portion inserted into the opening, a bent portion bent from the insertion portion, and a recess by which the insertion portion is divided.
US09451702B2
An electronic part embedded substrate is disclosed. The electronic part embedded substrate includes a first substrate, a second substrate, an electronic part, an electrically connecting member, and a sealing member. A method of producing an electronic part embedded substrate is also disclosed. The method includes mounting an electronic part onto a first substrate, laminating a second substrate on the first substrate through an electrically connecting member; and filling a space between the first substrate and the second substrate with a sealing member to seal the electronic part.
US09451701B2
The present invention discloses an electronic package structure. The body has a top surface with a cavity thereon, the first conductive element is disposed in the cavity, and the second conductive element is disposed in the body. The first external electrode electrically connected to the first conductive element and the second external electrode electrically connected to the second conductive element are both disposed on the top surface of the body or a first surface formed by the top surface of the encapsulation compound and the exposed portions of the top surface of the body which are not covered by the encapsulation compound.
US09451698B2
A printed circuit board mounted with a power module having both a plurality of lead terminals for soldering and at least one screw terminal for screwing includes a through hole which receives the lead terminal and is soldered to the lead terminal, and an electrode section provided with a screw hole fastened to the screw terminal via a screw. A groove is formed between the electrode section and the through hole so as to intersect with two common tangents each connecting, to an outer periphery of a land of the through hole, an outer periphery of a contact area of the electrode section which is in contact with a head bearing surface of a screw or a washer.
US09451690B2
A multilayer circuit substrate has a high frequency switch embedded therein. In the multilayer circuit substrate, a first conductive layer that faces a main surface of the high frequency switch through an insulating layer has circuit patterns formed therein so as to be connected to input/output terminals through via conductors. The first conductive layer has an opening pattern in which a ground conductor is not present in a region that faces the main surface of the high frequency switch and that is outside of the circuit patterns. In a third conductive layer disposed outer side of the first conductive layer with respect to the high frequency switch, a ground conductor is formed at least in a region where the main surface of the high frequency switch is projected in the thickness direction.
US09451687B2
A high-frequency power supply device is provided with a plasma ignition step that supplies pulse power to ignite plasma, and drive power supply step to supply drive power for maintaining the plasma being generated. In the plasma ignition step, an ignition pulse being applied in an ignition pulse output operation is configured as including a main pulse that induces ignition, and a prepulse with lower power than the power of the main pulse and being applied at a stage prior to the main pulse. Since the ignition pulse is configured as including the main pulse and the prepulse, this enables protection of a high-frequency power source against reflected wave power, as well as reliably igniting the plasma.
US09451681B2
A feedback circuit for a display sign has a number of lights. A resistor is coupled in series with the lights. A voltage measuring circuit is coupled to the resistor.
US09451677B2
A display device includes pixel circuits arranged in a matrix, each of the pixel circuits including: a light-emitting element; an optical sensor to detect luminance of light emitted from the light-emitting element; and a compensation control circuit including a first capacitor and a second capacitor, the first and second capacitors to maintain a second voltage applied to the compensation control circuit. The compensation control circuit controls the light-emitting element to constantly emit light having a luminance based on a first voltage during a first interval of a light emission interval. The compensation control circuit controls the amount of current supplied to the light-emitting element based on a detection result of the optical sensor and the second voltage maintained in the first and second capacitors during a second interval and a third interval of the light emission interval, respectively.
US09451666B1
A method of adjusting output power of a lighting driver includes setting output power of the driver to a maximum output power of the driver, the maximum output power of the driver corresponding to a brightest setting of a dimmer. The output power of the driver is adjustable by adjusting a dim level setting of the dimmer. The method further includes adjusting the dim level setting of the dimmer to a new setting that is different from the brightest setting of the dimmer. The new setting of the dimmer corresponds to an amount of the output power of the driver that is less than the maximum output power of the driver. The method also includes associating, by the driver, the brightest setting of the dimmer with the amount of the output power of the driver that is less than the maximum output power of the driver.
US09451665B2
An illumination device has LEDs, EDLCs for LED use, and a non-volatile memory for recording the difference between the color temperature and/or the illumination spectrum of LEDs and Xe gas. The unused charge in an EDLC is recovered by a power cell. Illumination strength is changed in accordance with the image pickup distance of a DSC. Illumination strength is changed in accordance with exposure time so that a fill-in ratio is maintained. The illumination strength of LEDs is gradually increased and then at the peak strength is suddenly reduced. The mixture ratio of light from LEDs having different light distributions is changed due to focal distance, and then an incidence angle is changed. A group of LEDs is disposed in a ring shape on the front of a lens. During continuous capture, LEDs are caused to illuminate continuously or synchronously.
US09451656B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for enabling wireless connectivity for devices. A device can pair with a peripheral device and initiate provisioning of services to support communication with a network via the peripheral device. The device can detect completion of the provisioning, and communicate with the network via the peripheral device.
US09451654B2
Systems, methods, and devices for communicating data in a wireless communications network are described herein. In some aspects, a relay is configured to receive at least one first parameter advertised by a first potential parent relay and at least one second parameter advertised by a second potential parent relay. The relay may be further configured to select the first potential parent relay or the second potential parent relay to relay one or more packets based on the at least one first parameter advertised by the first potential parent relay and the at least one second parameter advertised by the second potential parent relay.
US09451649B2
A device-to-device (D2D) pairing assembly comprises: a first and a second device detecting and communicating (DDC) component communicatively coupled to each other and to a microprocessor that executes a device pairing parameter exchange (DPPE) utility, which configures the D2D pairing assembly to: detect a communicative coupling of a first user device to the first DDC component; receive from the first user device at least one first pairing parameter, which first pairing parameter enables another device to connect to and participate in a pairing session with the first user device; detect a communicative coupling of a second user device to the second DDC component; and communicate the at least one first pairing parameter to the second user device, via the second DDC component, to trigger the second user device to connect to and participate in a pairing session with the first user device via a direct device-to-device communication channel.
US09451639B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for a User Equipment (UE) and a base station in communication with each other to determine parameters for a Random Access (RA) process. The base station informs the UE through a System Information Block (SIB) of a number of resource sets for RA preamble transmission by the UE. Each resource set is associated with a number of repetitions for a RA preamble transmission, with a maximum number of RA preamble transmissions, and with a number of repetitions the base station transmits a response to a RA preamble reception. The SIB also informs an association between a range of path-loss values and a number of RA preamble repetitions. The UE determines a number of repetitions for a first RA preamble transmission from its path-loss measurement.
US09451637B2
Disclosed is a method for a station (STA) for accessing a channel in a wireless communication system. The method for a STA for accessing a channel in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving a beacon frame comprising a traffic indicator map (TIM); and transmitting a power save (PS)-Poll frame if buffered traffic is indicated by TIM to the STA, wherein the PS-Poll frame is transmitted during a PS-Poll dedicated restricted access window (RAW) by and/or during an additional RAW, the PS-Poll dedicated RAW being allocated to transmit the PS-Poll frame, and the additional RAW being additionally allocated subsequent to the PS-Poll-dedicated RAW.
US09451633B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a communication method for a carrier aggregation system. The communication method includes receiving physical downlink share channel PDSCH information sent by a base station through a subframe n of a secondary cell. If a subframe n of a primary cell is a downlink subframe, an ACK/NACK of the sent PDSCH information is fed back on a subframe m or a subframe p of the primary cell.
US09451632B2
In a wireless mobile communications system, a method for controlling a radio resource allocation is provided. A network transmits access control information to a terminal such that a request for the radio resource allocation which will be transmitted from the terminal can be controlled. The terminal selectively transmits the request for the radio resource allocation based on the received information, thus a transmission of an unnecessary request for the radio resource can be minimized, thereby preventing a waste of the radio resource.
US09451629B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus allocates K blocks of subframes for WAN and peer-to-peer communications in a discovery period T and remaining subframes in the discovery period T for WAN communications and allocates a first set of subframes for peer discovery and a second set of subframes for the WAN communications in each block of the K blocks.
US09451628B2
A method and apparatus facilitating priority indication and queuing for an access terminal is provided. The method may comprise receiving an access request from an access terminal (AT), determining that the AT is a priority AT and that no resources are available in response to the access request, transmitting an access deny message to the priority AT, queuing the access request until a resource becomes available, and transmitting a resource available message to the priority AT upon a determination that a resource has become available.
US09451619B2
Systems and methods for control of a radio resource for packet data services are provided to facilitate radio resource management. One embodiment comprises a radio network element of a Packet-Switched (PS) network that serves User Equipment (UE). The radio network element determines a value for a summation of load contribution from one or more UEs, the load contribution for respective ones of the one or more UEs based on a minimum grant for the respective ones of the one or more UEs; and manages a radio resource based on the value of the summation. The minimum grant may be a grant required to transport a minimum transport block size. An example method may determine a color status based on the value of the summation with respect to a scale of virtual loading, and make a radio resource management decision concerning the radio resource based on the color status.
US09451616B2
Embodiments of the invention provide methods, devices and computer programs arranged to control access to a Secondary Cell Carrier (SCC) by a user terminal. The user terminal having a first functional state in which the user terminal is arranged to monitor for a broadcast channel associated with the SCC, and a second functional state, different to said first functional state. One embodiment comprises an apparatus comprising a processing system arranged to cause the apparatus to: receive data indicative of a plurality of operational modes assigned to the SCC; and transmit a signalling message comprising data indicative of said plurality of operational modes for receipt by the user terminal, whereby to configure the user terminal into the first functional state, wherein the user terminal is arranged to selectively request access to resources of the SCC on the basis of a comparison between data contained in said signalling message and data contained in a transmission received on the broadcast channel.
US09451614B2
Methods and devices are disclosed for enabling improved efficiency and performance in idle mode processes on a multi-SIM wireless communication device currently operating in single SIM or multiple SIM multiple standby mode. After determining that the first SIM and/or second SIM are using the first RF resource and the second RF resource is unavailable, the wireless device may determine whether the first RF resource is operating in idle mode. Upon determining that the first RF resource is in idle mode, the wireless device may identify at least one idle-mode task to be performed by the first RF resource, identify parallelism parameters, identify possible parallelism task combination sets based on the at least one identified idle-mode task and the parallelism parameters, select a best parallelism task combination set, and assign parallel tasks to the first and second RF resources according to the selected parallelism task combination set.
US09451613B2
A method of transmitting a control signal using efficient multiplexing is disclosed. The present invention includes the steps of multiplexing a plurality of 1-bit control signals within a prescribed time-frequency domain by code division multiple access (CDMA) and transmitting the multiplexed control signals, wherein a plurality of the 1-hit control signals include a plurality of the 1-bit control signals for a specific transmitting side. Accordingly, reliability on 1-bit control signal transmission can be enhanced.
US09451610B2
A communicating unit of a base station performs a plurality of periodic communication services with a wireless terminal. A communication control unit of the base station includes, in a control channel, identification information for distinguishing the periodic communication services one from the other to thereby allow the wireless terminal to control at least one of activation and release of each of the periodic communication services. A communicating unit of the wireless terminal performs the plurality of periodic communication services with the base station. A communication control unit of the wireless terminal controls at least one of the activation and the release of each of the periodic communication services using the identification information included in the control channel transmitted from the base station.
US09451608B2
The present invention provides a resource configuration method, a resource deletion method and a device. The resource configuration method includes: receiving a group establishment request carrying a group identifier of a group to be established; acquiring, according to the group identifier of the group to be established, a base station list and a tracking area list of the group to be established; the base station list includes a base station in which a registered subscription user equipment of the group to be established locates at present, the tracking area list includes a tracking area in which the registered subscription user equipment of the group to be established locates at present; if the base station list is not empty, configuring, according to the base station list and the tracking area list, a resource for the group to be established.
US09451603B2
The present application provides an information transmission method, an information transmission apparatus, and a base station. The information transmission method comprises: an allocation step of, according to a search space allocation mode, performing search space allocation in a target resource consisting of at least two resource subsets and allocating, for the first user, a first search space capable of transmitting the first user control information, the search space allocation mode being associated with the at least two resource subsets; and a first transmission step of transmitting the first user control information via the first search space so that the first user can acquire the first user control information from the first search space according to the search space allocation mode. According to the present invention, the resource utilization efficiency will be improved.
US09451602B2
Disclosed in embodiments of the present invention are a CSI-RS transmission method, an inspection method and a device thereof. The transmission method comprises: transmitting a CSI-RS via any downlink subframe other than a special subframe, a downlink subframe transmitting a control message, or a downlink subframe transmitting a system message. Embodiments of the present invention enable the CSI-RS to be prevented from conflicting with the control message, the system message, and a message carried by the special subframe.
US09451600B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting an indicator in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) transmits an indicator to a base station, using at least one of a buffer status report (BSR) media access control (MAC) control element (CE) and a power headroom report (PHR) MAC CE if uplink transmission is not available. The indicator may indicates that there is no data in a buffer of the UE regardless of a current buffer status, or that there is no power headroom regardless of current power headroom status. The indicator may be a new logical channel identifier (LCID) or a new field, which indicates that the UL transmission is not available, in the at least one of the BSR MAC CE and the PHR MAC CE.
US09451599B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a method for transmitting control information, a user equipment and a base station. The method includes: acquiring a resource index of a physical uplink control channel PUCCH; acquiring a sequence index of an orthogonal sequence of the PUCCH according to the resource index, and acquiring the orthogonal sequence according to the sequence index; acquiring a cyclic shift of a reference signal of the PUCCH according to the sequence index; and transmitting the UCI to the base station on the PUCCH according to the orthogonal sequence and the cyclic shift. In the embodiments of the present application, a cyclic shift of a reference signal of a PUCCH channel for transmitting UCI is acquired according to a sequence index, and the UCI is transmitted on the PUCCH according to the cyclic shift and a corresponding orthogonal sequence, which can enhance transmission performance of the UCI.
US09451597B2
The present document discloses an apparatus for receiving Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) in Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, comprising: blocks of system FFT performing system FFT on data from a plurality of antennas, blocks of PUCCH RB processing units receiving the allocated logic resource index table and the local base sequence and output of the blocks of system FFT, and generating DMRS despread outputs and data values; a block of SR detection for receiving the data values and the DMRS despread outputs, and for generating SR detection results; blocks of user data extraction receiving data values and DMRS despread outputs, and performing user data extraction; blocks of PUCCH user processing units receiving an orthogonal sequence index, the data values and an output from blocks of user extraction, and generating a ACK/NAK/CQI signal for a concerned UE.
US09451596B2
A method for transmitting uplink control information in a carrier aggregation environment, the method includes: calculating n pieces of response data, each having 1 bit or 2 bits, for n subframes received from an enhanced Node B (eNB) through n downlink component carriers and decoded by a User Equipment (UE); calculating k bits of integrated response data by applying a mapping rule reflecting a weight given to a downlink component carrier of each of the n pieces of response data; and performing a block coding of the integrated response data to produce encoded integrated response data, and transmitting the encoded integrated response data to the eNB.
US09451592B2
A node within a wireless mesh network is configured to forward a high-priority message to adjacent nodes in the wireless mesh network by either (i) transmitting the message during successive timeslots to the largest subset of nodes capable of receiving transmissions during each timeslot, or (ii) transmitting the message on each different channel during the timeslot when the largest subset of nodes are capable of receiving transmissions on each of those channels.
US09451585B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a communication system, a base station, a host node, and a communication method in order to address one or more of the above-described problems. A communication system according to the present invention is a communication system including: a base station (10) and a host node (40) that communicates with the base station (10). The base station (10) included in the communication system transmits to the host node (40) setting information indicating whether or not a paging message transmitted from the host node (40) can be transmitted to other base stations, and the host node (40) receives the setting information from the base station (10).
US09451582B2
A critical notification is reliably delivered to at least one participant in a real-time communication session. A candidate delivery channel is selected, and a set of one or more communication state variables associated with the candidate delivery channel are identified. Current values associated with the communication state variables and determined, and a determination is made as to whether the current values associated with the communication state variables indicate that the notification can currently be reliably delivered using the candidate delivery channel. If the notification cannot currently be reliably delivered using the candidate delivery channel, an alternative delivery option is selected that may include using an alternative delivery channel and/or delaying delivery of the notification.
US09451580B2
The embodiment of the present document provides a mobile terminal and a method for obtaining location information about a mobile terminal. The method for obtaining location information about the mobile terminal comprises: turning on a satellite locating module of the mobile terminal, turning off the satellite locating module after current location information about the mobile terminal is obtained, and regarding the current location information as initial location information; a sensing module of the mobile terminal collecting motion information about the mobile terminal, and calculating variation of displacement of the mobile terminal according to the motion information; and obtaining actual location information about the mobile terminal according to the initial location information and the variation of displacement of the mobile terminal.
US09451569B1
Systems and methods are provided for detecting a received synchronization signal. The method includes receiving, at a receiver, a signal from a transmitter and the signal includes the received synchronization signal. The method includes processing the received signal and a plurality of candidate synchronization signals to obtain a plurality of correlation signals. Each candidate synchronization signal is associated with one of the plurality of correlation signals. The method includes selecting, based at least in part on the plurality of correlation signals, one of the plurality of candidate synchronization signals. The selected candidate synchronization signal is correlated with the received synchronization signal. The method includes detecting the received synchronization signal based at least in part on (i) the received signal, and (ii) a characteristic obtained from the correlation signal that is associated with the selected candidate synchronization signal.
US09451567B2
A method, telecommunication apparatus, and electronic device for detecting a status of a radio link are disclosed. A transceiver 302 may maintain a radio link with a network base station 104. A processor 304 may map channel state information to a synchronization status associated with the radio link based on the received signal and determine the synchronization status via a block error rate estimate in the radio link based on the channel state information.
US09451560B2
A method, performed by a user equipment (UE), is provided for determining uplink transmission power. A radio frequency (RF) unit is configured to use for an uplink transmission a frequency range of 1980 MHz through 2010 MHz or 1920 MHz through 2010 MHz. The UE receives a value of an additional maximum power reduction (A-MPR) from a serving base station (BS) adjacent to a neighboring BS for serving another UE using for an uplink transmission a frequency range of 2010 MHz through 2025 MHz. An uplink signal is transmitted at an uplink transmission power calculated by using the value of the A-MPR. The value of the A-MPR is 11 dB or 15 dB.
US09451555B2
Method and apparatus for controlling a transmit power of a mobile station are disclosed. Mobile stations in direct communication on a cross link (XL) receive control parameters from a base station. A first mobile station (a receiving mobile station) may calculate a correction parameter for power offset for transmissions from a second mobile station (a transmitting mobile station) to the first mobile station, and send it to the second mobile station. The correction parameter may be generated within the maximum and minimum limits. The second mobile station may calculate a transmit power level for a transmission to the first mobile station based on the correction parameter, measurements on resources allocated for cross links for mobile station-to-mobile station direct communications, an interference measurement received from the first mobile station, and a path loss to the first mobile station.
US09451554B1
Disclosed is a method and system for allocating uplink air interface resources in a manner that allows particular user equipment devices (UEs) to apply less attenuation than may be specified more generally for UEs served by a base station of a wireless service provider. The base station may operate on a carrier band, serving UEs that are subscribers of the wireless service provider as well as UEs roaming in the base station's coverage area from another service provider. To avoid uplink transmission power leakage across the edges of the carrier band, the base station may broadcast a message to all the UEs notifying them to attenuate their respective transmission levels. The base station may allocate uplink air interface resources to subscribing UEs from a particular portion of the carrier band that allows them to transmit using less attenuation than roaming UEs and still avoid power leakage across the band edges.
US09451552B2
A method and a device for managing resources of a base station in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises: calculating an average resource use of serving resources, which are used as downlinks from a serving base station to a plurality of communication terminals; selecting one of the communication terminals, which has a maximum interference from a neighbor base station, if the calculated average resource use exceeds a preset threshold; and making a reservation for at least one of neighbor resources used as downlinks from the neighbor base station, the at least one neighbor resource corresponding to the serving resource for the selected communication terminal, so that the neighbor base station may decrease transmission power in the at least one neighbor resource.
US09451551B2
A method and system are described for use in a portable electronic device that includes a wireless local area network (WLAN) subsystem, a cellular packet data subsystem for communicating packet data, a cellular voice subsystem for communicating cellular voice information, and a processing subsystem. In the described embodiments, the WLAN subsystem establishes a connection to a WLAN and the WLAN subsystem then determines the signal strength of the connection to the WLAN. Then, on condition that the signal strength exceeds a threshold, the processing subsystem selects the WLAN subsystem for the communication of packet data to and from the portable electronic device, and puts the cellular packet data subsystem into a reduced power state that reduces the power consumption of the cellular packet data subsystem. Packet data is then communicated to and from the portable electronic device using the WLAN subsystem while the cellular data subsystem is in the reduced power state.
US09451548B2
It is presented a method performed in a wireless device of a cellular network also comprising a radio base station, the wireless device being in a discontinuous reception mode comprising receiving periods and idle periods. The method comprises the steps of: determining that a control signal is expected to be received from a radio base station during a primary receiving period; when a control signal fails to be correctly received from the radio base station during the primary receiving period, adding a secondary receiving period covering a first time interval when a new control signal is expected to be received; and when a control signal is correctly received from the radio base station during the primary receiving period refraining from adding a secondary receiving period. Corresponding wireless devices computer program and computer program products are also presented.
US09451545B2
Embodiments may comprise logic to determine whether a value of a network allocation vector indicates that the apparatus is blocked from transmitting on the medium; logic to transmit a first clear to send packet at a first power level in response to determining that the apparatus is not blocked from transmitting on the medium, the first clear to send packet comprising a flag or bit to indicate the Shading Transmission Starts (STS); logic to receive a second clear to send packet after transmitting the first clear to send packet; and logic to transmit a first data transmission at a second power level after receiving the second clear to send packet, the second power level being less than the first power level.
US09451544B2
When completing radio communication with a radio terminal, a transmitting unit of a base station transmits to the radio terminal a validity period of control information on radio communication which has been used to communicate with the radio terminal. When starting radio communication with the radio terminal within the validity period, a communication unit of the base station performs radio communication with the radio terminal without performing a process of exchanging control information. When completing radio communication with the base station, a receiving unit of the radio terminal receives a validity period from the base station. When starting radio communication with the base station within the validity period, a communication unit of the radio terminal performs radio communication with the radio terminal without performing a process of exchanging control information.
US09451535B2
Techniques for wireless network discovery and selection support are described. In one embodiment, for example, an evolved packet core (EPC) node may comprise a processor circuit to implement an access network discovery and selection function (ANDSF) according to a management object that includes a branch comprising one or more policies to select a wireless local area network (WLAN), the processing circuitry to receive capabilities information and location information for a user equipment (UE) and determine access network information for the UE based on the capabilities information and the location information. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09451531B2
A method that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, transmitting movement information for the mobile communication device to a cellular network, receiving a request from a first communication device of a plurality of communication devices to access the cellular network through the mobile communication device, where the plurality of communication devices are coupled to the plurality of communication devices via a wireless local area network and wherein the mobile communication device is coupled to the cellular network, and providing access to the cellular network for the first communication device responsive to the cellular network determining that the mobile communication device has a required network capability based on the movement information and according to the request. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09451528B2
Provided are a radio communication terminal, a communication control apparatus, and a communication control method capable of enhancing the possibility of providing a communication application through inter-terminal direct communication (D2D communication) even in a case where a call request cannot be accepted due to congestion on the network side. In a terminal 400A, a call restriction reception unit 420 receives a call restriction containing configuration information on a communication environment necessary for direct communication. During restriction of initiation of communication to the radio access network, a radio communication unit 440 executes direct communication with another radio communication terminal based on the configuration information if a direct communication determination unit 430 determines that a communication application is executable through direct communication.
US09451524B2
The broadcast nature of wireless communication may be utilized by transmitting a packet frame identifying at least one relay node that can transmit the packet frame without transmitting an acknowledgement frame confirming receipt of the packet frame by a respective relay node. A relay node may cancel a relay obligation to transmit a packet frame based on detecting transmission of the packet frame by another node or based on detection of an acknowledgement frame confirming that a destination node received the packet frame. A transmission chain corresponding to the transmission of a packet frame may be assigned a priority. Alternatively or in addition, a relay node within a transmission chain may be assigned a priority. A priority may determine the amount of delay inserted prior to transmitting a packet frame.
US09451520B2
Appropriate performance is required for “Inter-Frequency Measurement” in accordance with the conditions of a cell to be subjected to “Inter-Frequency Measurement”. A mobile communication system according to the present invention is configured to separately specify the performance required for “Inter-Frequency Measurement” to be used in “Inter-frequency Handover” control between macrocells #11 and #12 and the performance required for “Inter-frequency Handover” to the cell #11B which is not set as an Scell within the coverage area of the macrocell #11.
US09451519B1
Systems and methods for determining an access node for a wireless device are provided. A source signal level associated with a source access node and a target signal level associated with a target access node may be received from a wireless device. It may be determined that the second access node is operating in a power boosting mode. The wireless device may be instructed to continue communicating with the source access node when the target signal level exceeds the source signal level by less than a first criteria.
US09451517B2
A method for path predictive congestion avoidance includes receiving activity data for a plurality of cells, determining dominant paths for each of a plurality of cells based on the activity data, predicting a future network condition based on the dominant paths, and allocating network resources based on the predicted future network condition.
US09451513B2
Communication network techniques may use geographic information to reduce a number of neighboring cell measurements to be taken. Such techniques may be useful, for example, in cell reselection.
US09451510B2
A method of initiating configuration of at least one station includes receiving capability information of at least one second base station when the at least one station is within a cell area of a first base station. The method also includes determining some configuration information of the at least one station based on the received capability information. Configuring the at least one station according to the configuration information before the at least one station is handed over from the first base station to the at least one second base station is then initiated.
US09451505B2
Aspects disclosed herein relate to effectively handling failure and retry mechanisms during pre-registration for an eHRPD optimized handover. In one example, a UE may be equipped to detect one or more instances of failure during a pre-registration procedure as part of an optimized handover process. The UE may further be equipped to perform one or more pre-registration retry processes based on the detected one or more instances of failure. In one aspect, the one or more instances of failure may include any combination of a permanent LTE connection failure, a temporary LTE connection failure, a session negotiation failure, a virtual connection failure when bringing up a data call, a link control protocol (LCP) failure, etc.
US09451499B2
Technologies relating to tagging and receiving media on a mobile communication device are disclosed. A mobile communication device is equipped with tag logic allowing the user to tag media objects that are observed and/or desired by the user. The outputted tag includes a media reference and a user identification. When the mobile communication device outputs a media object, the user tags the media object by entering a command, hitting a button, entering a key sequence, etc. The tag is transmitted from the mobile communication device to a media server over a network. Once the media server receives the tag, the media server locates the media object in a media database using the media reference and sends the media object through the network to the mobile communication device. The media server notifies a billing server of the tag, and the user is billed for the downloaded media object.
US09451498B2
A method for communication in a wireless sensor network of an industrial control system. The network includes a plurality of device nodes and at least one gateway. The method includes aggregating in at least one wireless device data originating from at least two data packets. The method includes receiving at a first node at least one first data packet for a first destination address and aggregating data from the at least one data packet with data from at least one second data packet, intended for the same first destination address, forming an aggregated data packet and sending the aggregated data packet to another node or to said gateway. In other aspects of the invention a method, system and a computer program for carrying out the method are described.
US09451497B2
A method for reducing packet loss during data transfer from a network to a wireless communication device over a connection is disclosed. The method can include the wireless communication device signaling a first receive window size for a data transfer; determining occurrence of an event resulting in an interruption of the connection; and, in response to determining occurrence of the event, signaling a second receive window size for the data transfer prior to the event to trigger an adjustment of a data rate of the data transfer in preparation for the event.
US09451493B2
A method, device and system for controlling assistant information of user equipment are disclosed. The field of wireless communication technology is related, and the problem is solved that the system efficiency is reduced, for UE reports the assistant information inappropriately. The method includes: the user equipment acquiring a control parameter of assistant information configured by a network side; and the user equipment reporting the assistant information of the user equipment to the network side according to the control parameter of assistant information. The technical scheme provided in the example of the present document is applied to a LTE system or a UMTS system, which implements that the network side controls the UE reporting the assistant information.
US09451487B2
A method for adaptively monitoring paging messages in a UE with a subscriber identity card camping on a cell includes: detecting a loading of a paging channel from the cell and generating a loading status; determining a monitoring pattern according to the loading status and a default monitoring pattern; and monitoring the paging channel the monitoring pattern.
US09451486B2
A method for performing measurements in a digital cellular wireless telecommunication network is provided. An embodiment of the method includes determining free resources of a set of cells of the telecommunication network, determining a subset of the plurality of mobile devices, setting the subset of the plurality of mobile devices into a probing mode, determining the location of the subset of mobile devices in the probing mode, exchanging test signals between the mobile devices in the probing mode and the base stations of the set of cells, performing a plurality of measurements of signal strengths and/or signal powers of the test signals, determining average values from the plurality of measurements, and storing the average values of the plurality of measurements to provide a result of the measurement.
US09451482B2
Techniques for normalizing a performance metric in a wireless communication network include collecting operation data of a network element over a plurality of data collection time periods, determining operational run time of the network element based on the operation data, calculating a normalization value based on the operational run time, and normalizing the performance metric for the network element using the normalization value.
US09451475B2
A NodeB (105) for an HSPA enabled WCDMA network (100), arranged (11, 12, 13) to transmit beam forming instructions to a User Equipment, a UE (110), which is arranged for beam forming. The beam forming instructions comprise information identifying a code book with one or more code words, and the NodeB is also arranged to transmit code words from said code book to the UE at a certain rate. The NodeB is further arranged to determine said rate based on dynamically varying information available in the WCDMA network, and to receive said information on the code book from an RNC upon configuration of the UE or to choose code book based on said dynamically varying information available in the WCDMA network.
US09451469B2
An apparatus provides notification of a circuit switched event over a packetized data network. The apparatus includes a packetized data modem that is configured to receive lower level packetized data over the packetized data network that comprises the notification. The packetized data modem has a first service-oriented tunneling link access control processor that is configured to decapsulate an Improved 1x Layer 3 General Page Message (IGPM) from the lower level packetized data, where the IGPM comprises a service option corresponding to the circuit switched event.
US09451462B2
The present disclosure relates to setup of multiple IoT network devices. Specifically, various techniques and systems are provided for setup of multiple similar IoT devices at substantially the same time using joint authentication. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems including, for example, receiving, at an existing network device on a network, one or more communications, wherein the one or more communications include an indication that multiple new network devices are associated with the network; receiving an indication that the multiple new network devices have each generated a setup access point; establishing a connection with the setup access point of each of the multiple new network devices; receiving identification information, wherein the identification information includes information identifying each of the multiple new network devices; and transmitting the identification information identifying each of the multiple new network devices, wherein when the identification information is received, the identification information facilitates generating one or more authentication queries to authenticate one or more of the multiple new network devices.
US09451454B2
An embodiment of the invention includes initially registering information with a data system, wherein the registered information pertains to a user of a mobile device and includes credential information, and further includes a message address associated with the user. An enrollment request, together with the specified credential information, is sent to a management server. Responsive thereto, the server sends a message of specified type to the message address associated with the user, wherein such message includes a pin code. The pin code is then sent from the device to the server, and responsive to receiving the pin code, the server is operated to deliver a security token, for use in authenticating the mobile device to selectively access the particular data processing system.
US09451452B2
A mesh station applying for access to a network includes a list of peer stations in messages of an authenticated key establishment protocol. A mesh key distributor derives a key delivery key and generates a top level key, and then delivers the top level key to the mesh station. Following the key establishment protocol, the mesh key distributor also creates pairwise keys for use between the mesh station and the peer stations listed in its peer list. The list of peers permits the identifier for the peer to be bound into the derived key, which helps ensure that the key used between each pair of peers is unique. Once the mesh key distributor finishes creating a key for one of the stations on the peer list, the mesh key distributor sends a message to the peer to initiate a key push.
US09451444B2
Systems and methods are described for enabling a mobile device to connect with a data network, based on the type of account associated with the mobile device. The system transmits a first signal to the data network and receives one or more network codes in response. The network codes may correspond to a type of SIM card associated with the mobile device. The system may display one or more setup screens on the mobile device based on the received network codes. The setup screens may guide the user of the mobile device to access the data network using an existing account, or setup a new account to access the data network.
US09451438B2
In order to reduce latency and overhead during the device discovery process, operations involved in pairing of two electronic devices may be predefined. In particular, when a user specifies a new electronic device in a list of their electronic devices, a computer provides a notification to these electronic devices. In response to the notification, a given one of the electronic devices generates encryption information and identification information for the given electronic device, and provides this encryption information and identification information to the new electronic device via a network (such as the Internet). Then, the new electronic device generates encryption information and identification information for the new electronic device, and provides this encryption information and identification information to the given electronic device via the network. This pairing information may subsequently facilitate secure wireless communication between the two electronic devices.
US09451434B2
A mechanism is provided for direct interaction between an individual and a communication network. Captured data is received of the individual in an environment to be analyzed by a network management computer. The data is captured by network sensors. The network management computer determines that the individual is a subscriber to services of the communication network by identifying the subscriber from the data that has been captured. The subscriber is registered with a network carrier that operates and provides the services on the communication network. The data is obtained without assistance from a subscriber owned device providing the data. The data is analyzed to interpret commands when presented by the subscriber via the network sensors. The commands include gesture commands from the subscriber. An action is performed for the subscriber based on the commands.
US09451432B2
An input/output system interconnects a mobile terminal, a cooperative processing apparatus, and a plurality of electronic devices, and is configured to implement a cooperative process of prompting an electronic device corresponding to an input apparatus to input electronic data and prompting an electronic device corresponding to an output apparatus to output the input electronic data. The input/output system includes an acquisition unit that acquires input/output apparatus information from the electronic device corresponding to the input/output apparatus, an input control unit that controls the electronic device specified by the input apparatus information to input electronic data, and an output control unit that controls the electronic device specified by the output apparatus information to output the input electronic data in an output format compatible with the electronic device specified by the output apparatus information if the electronic device is capable of directly outputting the input electronic data from the mobile terminal.
US09451422B2
A method, system and network device routes a message to a temporarily unavailable network user, wherein a subscription to a registration state of the network user is initiated if the network user is indicated as being unavailable. Then, a notification is generated, when the registration state of the network user is changed to indicate a state when the network user is available again or when the network user is registered again, and the message is routed to the network user in response to receiving the notification. Thereby, network elements or servers generating messages can be informed about the connection state of the network user.
US09451418B2
Systems, methods, and devices enable group associations based on network determined location information. The various embodiments enable the ad-hoc creation of mobile device groups based on network determined locations. In an embodiment, a server may determine the location of a mobile device and based on the mobile device being located in a pairing zone may add the mobile device to a group. In an embodiment, the server may add the mobile device to the group following the occurrence of a trigger event, such as the mobile device pausing in a given pairing zone for a period of time. In an embodiment, the server may identify that mobile devices are located within a pairing zone and may add all the mobile devices in the pairing zone to the same group.
US09451415B2
Various arrangements for cooperative data transport are presented. These arrangements may include a first mobile device configured to receive, via a first wireless network, a first set of shared data. The first set of shared data may be shared among a plurality of mobile devices using a second wireless network. The first mobile device may also receive, via the first wireless network, a first set of private data, wherein the first set of private data is intended for the first mobile device. The first set of private data may not be shared among the plurality of mobile devices.
US09451414B1
Techniques are presented herein for a server to automatically determine the locations of collaboration endpoints and user devices throughout a building, and then provide the user devices with directions to the endpoints. The server collects air pressure and GPS readings from the user devices over a period of time. The readings may be collected from user devices that are paired or unpaired with endpoints at the time of the readings. Over a period of time, the plurality of readings may be used by the server to calculate user device offsets, endpoint offsets, floor level offsets, and endpoint relative orientations within the building. The server may then, in response to a notification of an upcoming meeting, provide the user device with directions to the meeting based on the collected readings.
US09451412B1
A mobile device is provided. The mobile device includes a transceiver, a sensor unit, a storage device and a processor. The sensor unit detects the position and the motion of the mobile device to provide sensor data. The storage device stores activity records. The processor obtains an identification code of the base station connected to the mobile device through the transceiver and calculates the height of the mobile device according to the sensor data. When the identification code of the base station and the height of the mobile device match those in an activity record, the processor executes a predetermined function corresponding to the activity record. When the execution of the predetermined function fails, the processor generates a moving trail of the mobile device according to the sensor data. When the moving trail of the mobile device matches that in the activity record, the processor executes the predetermined function.
US09451411B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided which may be implemented in various devices for to determine or assist in determining that a mobile station is at one or more particular indoor regions and to provide positioning assistance data and/or the like to the mobile station with regard to at least the one or more particular indoor regions.
US09451403B2
Methods and systems for automatically configuring mobile device applications based on location are described. In an example, methods and systems for enabling contextual in-store experience modification on a mobile device can include capabilities for altering the functionality of a mobile application based at least in part on the location of the mobile device. For example, a mobile shopping application can be configured to perform different functions depending upon the type of retail location the mobile device is currently in. Additionally, the mobile application can be configured to enable different functions between a retail location and a user's residence, among other locations.
US09451401B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus receives a plurality of data sets in a first FLUTE session. Each data set of the data sets includes an identifier and a target area associated with a broadcast. The apparatus receives a broadcast and an identifier associated with the broadcast in a second FLUTE session. The apparatus determines the target area associated with the received broadcast based on the identifier received with the received broadcast. The apparatus determines whether to keep the received broadcast based on whether a criterion associated with the target area is satisfied.
US09451399B2
A method for receiving a reference signal for positioning in a wireless communication system by a user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The method includes receiving a plurality of reference signal sequences for positioning to which different frequency shift values are applied, calculating a correlation between the plurality of reference signal sequences for positioning and transmitted reference signal sequences for positioning corresponding to the plurality of reference signal sequences in a time domain, and determining a time domain index having a highest value from the correlation as a reference time point for positioning, wherein the frequency shift value is determined according to the sum of multiplication of an index of each reference signal sequence and a frequency shift interval, and frequency offset.
US09451391B1
A method may include detecting a first wireless device configured to perform short-range wireless communications and detecting a second wireless device configured to perform short-range wireless communications. The method may also include determining one or more short-range wireless connection priorities with respect to a first pairing and a second pairing. The first pairing may be with respect to short-range wireless communications between the first wireless device and a third wireless device configured to perform short-range wireless communications. The second pairing may be with respect to short-range wireless communications between the second wireless device and the third wireless device. The method may further include managing the first pairing and the second pairing based on the one or more short-range wireless connection priorities.
US09451378B2
A method and an apparatus to reproduce a multi-channel audio signal, in which mixing of a center channel signal is performed with a center channel signal in a home theater system. The method of reproducing a multi-channel audio signal includes calculating a delay value of a center channel signal according to location relationships of a listener, a center channel speaker and other channel speakers, regulating a time delay of the center channel signal according to the calculated delay value, and mixing the time-delay regulated center channel signal with other channel signals.
US09451368B2
A hearing aid is disclosed, having the ability to generate its own open-loop feedback scan of amplitude (as gain or attenuation) and phase, as a function of frequency. The hearing aid has a sensor that receives ambient sound from near a patient, and a driver that stimulates the anatomy of the patient. The hearing aid has an operational mode in which the driver stimulates the anatomy of the patient in response to the sound received at the sensor. The hearing aid has a test mode in which a test frequency is stepped through a predetermined range of frequencies. At each test frequency, the driver is driven with a sinusoidal driver signal at the test frequency, the sensor detects a sinusoidal sensor signal at the test frequency, and a comparison of the sensor signal to the driver signal produces an amplitude (gain or attenuation) and a phase for the test frequency.
US09451365B2
There is provided a voice coil speaker containing a bobbin having multilayer voice coils formed thereon in which the bobbin and a circuit board are properly arranged. In a voice coil speaker equipped with a bobbin having multilayer voice coils formed thereon and a diaphragm connected to the bobbin, the bobbin and the diaphragm being provided in a speaker body, an audio signal processing circuit board for processing an audio signal is disposed ahead of the diaphragm, and plural output terminals for outputting to the multilayer voice coils are arranged in the peripheral direction of the audio signal processing circuit board.
US09451362B2
Devices, methods, systems, and computer-readable media for adaptive beam forming are described herein. One or more embodiments include a method for adaptive beam forming, comprising: receiving a voice command at a number of microphones, determining an instruction based on the received voice command, calculating a confidence level of the determined instruction, determining feedback based on the confidence level of the determined instruction, and altering a beam of the number of microphones based on the feedback.
US09451359B2
Systems and techniques for processing a signal associated with a microphone are presented. The system includes a microphone component and a preamplifier. The microphone component is contained in a housing. The preamplifier includes an input buffer that receives a signal generated by the microphone component. The input buffer also generates an output signal that comprises a direct current (DC) voltage offset in comparison to the signal, where the preamplifier controls a degree of the DC voltage offset based on a control signal.
US09451355B1
A directional acoustic device that has an acoustic source or an acoustic receiver, and a conduit to which the acoustic source or acoustic receiver is acoustically coupled and within which acoustic energy travels in a propagation direction from the acoustic source or to the acoustic receiver, the conduit having finite extent at which the conduit structure ends. The conduit has a radiating portion that has a radiating surface with leak openings that define controlled leaks through which acoustic energy radiated from the source into the conduit can leak to the outside environment or through which acoustic energy in the outside environment can leak into the conduit. The only path for acoustic energy in the conduit to reach the external environment or acoustic energy in the external environment to enter the conduit is through the controlled leaks. The leak openings define leaks having a first extent in the propagation direction, and also define leaks having a second extent at locations along the conduit with a constant time delay relative to the location of the source or receiver. The extents of the leaks are determinative of the lowest frequency where useful directivity control is obtained. The lowest frequency of directivity control for the leak in the propagation direction is within three octaves of the lowest frequency of directivity control for the leak with constant time delay.
US09451349B2
An acoustic system includes a conduit, a microphone coupled to an end of the conduit, and a rigid moisture resistant barrier coupled to another end of the conduit to prevent moisture from traversing the length of the conduit towards the receiver. The moisture resistant barrier dampens an audio signal traversing the conduit. The moisture resistant barrier has a submersion rating at least equal to a 7 Ingress Protection rating.
US09451340B2
Computational systems and methods for reporting information regarding appurtenances to wound dressings are described. A system can include an appurtenance to a wound dressing, including a substrate, a transmission unit, a selectively activated switch, and a projection of a size and shape to extend into an interior region of a wound dressing and configured to sample a fluid associated with a wound; a local unit, including a receiver configured to receive signals from the transmission unit, a transmitter configured to send signals to the transmission unit, a processor, non-volatile memory, and a power source; and a central assembly, including a processor, a receiver configured to receive signals from the local unit, and at least one user interface.
US09451339B2
A sensor transmitter for communicating wirelessly a presence of a condition within a metal enclosure includes a power supply, at least one sensor where each sensor senses a presence of a condition, and a low frequency generator positioned within a metal enclosure and electrically coupled to the power supply and the at least one sensor. The low frequency generator transmits a low frequency wireless signal indicative of the presence of the condition within the metal enclosure when the condition is present at one sensor.
US09451336B2
A system and method for presenting progressively downloaded media programs is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, obtaining an estimated length of a media program where the estimated length is based on a plurality of different reported lengths of the media program in reported media program information, presenting at a display device a portion of the media program while it is being delivered by a media delivery system via a progressive download, and enabling bookmark and chaptering functions for the media program based on the estimated length of the media program until a true time index is generated using an index file at an end of the progressive download of the media program. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09451317B2
There are many boxes (e.g., set-top boxes) in a system offering media services to users. Each of the boxes maintains a library with a significant number of titles. Techniques for updating the library in each of these boxes using a transmission infrastructure are described. According to one aspect of the techniques, a service provider is provided with a high bandwidth broadcasting or multicasting capability, a release fragmented into a header and several segments is transmitted to all boxes that are respectively configured to receive a proper release package to update the library. Alternatively, separate release packages may be transmitted via different channels to the boxes, wherein each of the boxes is tuned to a proper channel to receive a proper release package.
US09451311B2
Techniques are provided for a handheld device, such as a smart phone, to obtain device configuration data of a controlled device via machine-readable media, such as a two-dimensional barcode. The device configuration data may be used to allow a user to select one or more features reflected in the device configuration data and supported by the controlled device. The handheld device may obtain device configuration data of multiple controlled devices and, based on the device configuration data, may allow a user to control the multiple controlled devices using the handheld device. In a related technique, a computing device obtains printer driver data of a printing device via machine-readable media. The computing device decodes information encoded in the machine-readable media in order to install a printer driver for the printing device.
US09451308B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for content presentation. One of the methods includes determining current programming being presented to a user from a first device, wherein the determining includes receiving information from the first device associated with the current programming being presented; determining one or more sponsored content items to provide to a second device, wherein the one or more sponsored content items are identified as associated with the current programming including determining that one or more presentation criteria as specified by a respective sponsored content provider have been satisfied; and providing the one or more sponsored content items to the second device.
US09451306B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for selecting content formats based on predicted user interest. One example method includes receiving a request to present additional content to a user in association with the user viewing a video content item during a session, identifying one or more candidate content formats, predicting a likelihood that the user will abandon the session for each candidate content format, selecting a format based at least in part on the predicting, determining when to present the additional content to the user, and presenting the additional content in accordance with the selected format.
US09451300B1
A system and method for providing an interactive, visual complement to one or more audio programs. In one aspect, the system comprises an audio subsystem for generating an audio signal corresponding to a sound recording. The system also comprises a video subsystem for generating a video image specification based, at least in part, on the sound recording. In one aspect, the audio signal and video image specification are transmitted to an audio/video signal transmission system. The transmission system receives the video image specification and generates a video signal that conforms to the video image specification. The video signal and the audio signal are transmitted to at least one consumer receiver. In this way, the system provides a visual complement to an audio program.
US09451294B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for controlling the distribution of supplementary content by generating a first control signal when known content is initially detected in a broadcast stream, and after generating the first control signal, generating a second control signal when the detected content is no longer detected in the broadcast stream. The first and second control signals may be used to control the distribution of supplementary content.
US09451290B2
This document describes techniques and apparatuses for implementing multi-spectral compression. These techniques enable a computing device to capture a set of images at different spectral sensitivities using a multi-spectral array imager. Once the set of images are captured by the multi-spectral array imager, the set may be encoded using encoding techniques that involve spectral prediction in addition to spatial and temporal prediction.
US09451283B2
From among blocks within a region of a first image, a search is performed for a highest scoring match to a block of a second image. Searching for the highest scoring match includes penalizing scores of blocks outside a portion of the region versus scores of blocks within the portion of the region. A motion vector is coded between the block of the second image and the highest scoring match.
US09451269B2
A method of determining an offset includes dividing a current image into a plurality of blocks, determining a category of pixels in each of the plurality of blocks based on values of neighboring pixels, determining an offset value for pixels belonging to the category, and adjusting the offset value based on characteristics of the category and a background pixel value of each of the pixels. The offset value is an average of differences between values of original images and restored images of pixels belonging to one category. The background pixel value is an average of values of pixels in a background pixel block to which the pixels belong among background pixel blocks divided to calculate a background pixel value.
US09451268B2
Encoding and decoding a motion vector using a motion vector of a current block of a current picture, which indicates a region corresponding to the current block in a first reference picture and one of generating a motion vector predictor from a motion vector of the adjacent block having a motion vector referring to the first reference picture among adjacent blocks encoded before the current block and a motion vector of an adjacent block referring to a second reference picture other than the first reference picture.
US09451265B2
An apparatus for providing improved data compression may include an encoder comprising a quantizer for encoding input data and a side model. The quantizer may be trained with respect to high priority data among the input data and may be configured to partially encode the input data by encoding the high priority data. The side model may be trained jointly with the training of the quantizer and is configured to model low priority data among the input data.
US09451264B2
Provided is an apparatus for encoding an image that adaptively filters reference pixels according to an intra prediction mode and a size of a prediction block, and generates the prediction block according to the intra prediction mode. When the reference pixels for a second directional intra prediction mode are filtered, the reference pixels for a first directional intra prediction mode, that is closer to an intra prediction mode having a direction of 45° with reference to a horizontal mode than the second directional intra prediction mode is, are also filtered. The first and the second intra prediction modes exist between the horizontal mode and the intra prediction mode having the direction of 45° with reference to the horizontal mode. The plurality of sub-blocks and non-zero coefficients of each sub-block are scanned according to a scan pattern determined by the intra prediction mode of the prediction block.
US09451262B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for intra prediction encoding/decoding. The method includes: selecting an intra prediction mode of each block to be encoded; encoding a residual block generated through an intra prediction of the block according to the selected intra prediction mode to generate a coefficient bit; encoding a mode identifier for indicating the intra prediction mode according to the predetermined mode determination method to generate a mode bit; generating a bitstream including a mode bit field including a mode bit for one or more blocks and a coefficient bit field including a coefficient bit for the block; and including a mode bit field pointer for identifying the mode bit field in the bitstream. The present disclosure simplifies the process of selecting a prediction mode in a video compression to improve a compression speed and decreases a size of compressed data to improve the compression efficiency.
US09451251B2
A method for transcoding a video file bit stream in parallel at a sub picture latency and faster than real time rate includes writing to a memory a processed raw pixel data stream. The processed raw pixel data stream is expressed as a sequence of pictures. Each picture is divided into a first sub picture partition and a second sub picture partition. A first encoder encodes each first sub picture partition, the first encoder being communicatively coupled to the memory. A second encoder encodes each second sub picture partition, the second encoder being communicatively coupled to the memory.
US09451250B2
A system implements rate control for encoding and decoding operations, for example, operations performed on slices of data such as image data. The system implements a transformation from actual buffer fullness to rate controlled fullness. With the rate controlled fullness model, the encoders and decoders adapt bit allocation responsive to rate controlled fullness, instead of the actual fullness.
US09451246B2
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a shutter panel including a driver circuit, a liquid crystal, and light-transmitting electrodes provided in a striped manner, and a positional data detector configured to detect a positional data of a viewer. The shutter panel is provided over a display surface side of the display panel, a width of one of the light-transmitting electrodes in the shutter panel is smaller than that of one of the plurality of pixels, and the driver circuit in the shutter panel is configured to selectively output signals for forming a parallax barrier to the light-transmitting electrodes. The parallax barrier is capable of changing its shape in accordance with the detected positional data.
US09451226B2
The present disclosure relates to a white balance method for performing a shading compensation, and more particularly, a white balance method for performing a shading compensation, in which a white balance control is initiated for an input image captured when a camera is driven, and then the shading compensation is performed together during a process of performing the initiated white balance control. The white balance method for performing a shading compensation includes executing a white balance for adjusting a color temperature of an input image, extracting a shading gain table corresponding to the color temperature among pre-stored shading gain tables for each color temperature during the execution of the white balance, executing a shading compensation for an image for each block of the input image by using the extracted shading gain table, and terminating the white balance.
US09451222B2
An embodiment relates to a method for color processing of an input image, the method including the steps of low-pass filtering of the input image to obtain a low-pass component, high-pass filtering of the input image to obtain a high-pass component, processing the input image for edge detection to obtain edginess parameters, and performing a color-space transformation of the input image based on the low-pass component, the high-pass component, and the edginess parameters.
US09451210B1
A computer-implemented method can include: establishing a communication session between a device of a first user and devices of at least two remote users, the communication session including at least audio communication between the first user and the at least two remote users; determining, for each of the at least two remote users, a spatial position assigned to the remote user relative to a display viewable by the first user; detecting, by the device of the first user, audio from the first user; determining a gaze direction of the first user; evaluating the gaze direction of the first user with respect to the spatial positions assigned to the at least two remote users; and based on evaluating the gaze direction with respect to the spatial positions assigned to the remote users, transmitting different audio to the devices of the at least two remote users during the communication session.
US09451209B2
A method for outputting sensitive data to a user includes a communication terminal checking to determine whether at least a portion of the sensitive data is to be outputted by determining whether the communication terminal is in one of a plurality of predefined communication configurations for outputting the sensitive data. If the communication terminal is found to be a first configuration, the communication terminal transmits the sensitive data so that at least one of the video data and the audio data is output to the user via at least one peripheral device connected to the communication terminal. If the communication terminal is in a second configuration, the communication terminal performs at least one security action to help further protect the sensitive data.
US09451206B2
To detect whether an FRC process is performed, provided is an image processing apparatus including an earlier frame movement region detecting means that detects an earlier frame movement region in an earlier frame; a later frame movement region detecting means that detects a later frame movement region in a later frame that is positioned after the earlier frame; a determining means that, when a shift between the earlier frame movement region and the later frame movement region is less than or equal to a region shift threshold value, determines that a frame rate control process is being performed and outputs a parameter change command for changing a threshold value of an image processing parameter; and an image processing means that, upon receiving the parameter change command, changes the threshold value of the image processing parameter.
US09451202B2
A media device for content-based highlight handling of television programming may be provided. Criteria of interest corresponding to user input may be processed. Idle tuner(s) not being used to receive any television channels for presentation or recording may be identified. A television channel identified based at least in part on the criteria of interest may be tuned to with an idle tuner. Content received at the media device may be processed. Update data associated with a subject matter of the content may be received separately from the television channel. A portion of the content that corresponds to the criteria may be identified based at least in part on the criteria of interest and the update data. A portion of a television program may be recorded and/or marked. The portion of the television program may correspond to the portion of the content identified based at least in part on the criteria.
US09451197B1
A server interactively serves client applications and client applications make estimates until updates are received from the server based on user input from the client. Processors on both the server and client execute applications with images. A video encoder in the server estimates images in response to the client user input and forwards a compressed data stream to the client. A video decoder of the client obtains images from memory and estimates images and reconstructs images from a compressed data stream in synchronization with an encoder of the server using the user input. A client display displays a region from memory of the one or more estimated images.
US09451196B2
iTV content is created and deployed using a server component adapted to allow content developers to create applications according to an authoring specification that describes a framework for same; a transport component configured to optimize and deliver the applications to one or more clients; and a client component adapted to render the applications through a television so as to permit user interaction therewith. The authoring specification provides for the presentation of content through one or more templates defined therein, allowing application definition and behavior to remain common across multiple client device types, middleware platforms, and/or iTV operating environments. The framework for applications accommodates advertising, promotions, content placement packages and/or programming campaign definitions, so as to permit a selection of a specific advertisement, promotion or content at a time of preparation of the iTV content by the server, and/or a time of execution of the applications by the client.
US09451193B2
An electronic apparatus includes: a reference-signal output section that outputs a reference signal; a comparator that compares an electrical signal output from a pixel with the reference signal; a counter that obtains a count value as an AD conversion result of the electrical signal, the count value being obtained by counting time taken for the reference signal to change until the electrical signal and the reference signal match each other; and an auto-zero control section that performs control so that auto zero processing for setting the comparator is completed in a reset period, in which the pixel is reset, so that a comparison result indicating that two input signals supplied to the comparator match each other.
US09451191B2
A CMOS image sensor including: a plurality of pixels; a first analog circuit for calculating one or a plurality of statistical estimators based on the analog output values of sensor pixels; and a second circuit capable of implementing a compressive image sensing method, wherein the applied compression rate is a function of the statistical estimator(s) calculated by the first circuit.
US09451190B2
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.
US09451188B2
In various embodiments, an image sensor and method of using an image sensor are described. In an example embodiment, the image sensor comprises a semiconductor substrate and a plurality of pixel regions with each pixel region comprising an optically sensitive material over the substrate and positioned to receive light. There is a bias electrode for each pixel region, with the bias electrode configured to provide a bias voltage to the optically sensitive material of the respective pixel region. Also included is a pixel circuit for each pixel region with each pixel circuit comprising a charge store formed on the semiconductor substrate and a read out circuit, the charge store being in electrical communication with the optically sensitive material of the respective pixel region. The pixel circuit is configured to reset the voltage on the charge store to a reset voltage during a reset period, to integrate charge from the optically sensitive material to the charge store during an integration period, and to read out a signal from the charge store during a read out period. The pixel circuit includes a reference voltage node to be coupled to the charge store during the reset period and the read out circuit during the read out period where a reference voltage is applied to the reference voltage node and is configured to be varied during the operation of the pixel circuit.
US09451186B2
An image capturing device includes an image capturing unit, an image data generation unit, and a display unit. The image capturing unit captures an image at a timing based on a first frame rate of the image capturing unit and outputs output data after a first period. The image data generation unit generates and outputs the image data after a lapse of a second period after the first period. The display unit displays a display image after the second period and at a timing based on a second frame rate of the display unit. The first period corresponds to an exposure time of the image capturing unit, and the second period corresponds to a processing time of the image data generation unit. A total period of the first period and the second period is less than or equal to a vertical synchronization period based on the second frame rate.
US09451185B2
Methods and apparatus for producing multi-spectral images having variable (non-uniform) magnification over the lateral extent of the image. In one example, a multi-spectral imaging system includes a first sensor sub-system configured to receive electromagnetic radiation in a first spectral band from a scene and to provide a first image signal, a second sensor sub-system configured to receive electromagnetic radiation in a second spectral band from the scene and to provide a second image signal, a processor coupled to the first and second sensor sub-systems and configured to produce a first image of the scene from the first image signal, and a second image of the scene from the second image signal, the second image having a variable lateral magnification, and a display coupled to the processor and configured to display the second image overlaid with the first image.
US09451178B2
Various embodiments provide a capture device, e.g., a camera, that is configured to have multiple capture modes including an image capture mode and a video capture mode. The capture device can be set to the image capture mode in which images or photos are periodically, automatically captured. Upon detection of a particular event, such as an audibly detectable event, the capture device automatically triggers the video capture mode and begins to capture video. After a period of time, the capture device can transition back to the image capture mode. Transition to the image capture mode can occur in various ways, e.g., after passage of a period of time, after the audibly detectable event terminates or attenuates, by way of user input and the like. In some embodiments, the capture device can be embodied as a wearable camera that is worn by a user.
US09451174B2
A first control unit (172), which controls the timing at which a first image pickup unit (110) starts exposure, obtains a second difference (Δt2) by subtracting a first difference (Δt1) from an exposure-output time (AA) of the first image pickup unit (110), and outputs a first control signal (CTR1) for delaying the timing at which the first image pickup unit (110) starts an exposure, by the second difference (Δt2). The exposure-output time is a time lag between when the image pickup unit starts an exposure and when output of an image signal obtained by the exposure is started. The first difference (Δt1) is a difference between a timing at which the first image pickup unit (110) started outputting a predetermined image signal and a timing at which a second image pickup unit (150) started an exposure for obtaining an image signal that the second image pickup unit (150) outputted immediately after the first image pickup unit (110) started outputting the predetermined image signal. In such a way, the timings at which a plurality of image pickup units provided in an image pickup apparatus start exposure are synchronized.
US09451168B2
In a photographing apparatus and a photographing control system which drive an image sensor (moving member) to obtain an optical low-pass filter effect, an exposure time setter sets an exposure time; a drive cycle setter sets the drive cycle of the moving member so that the exposure time, which is set by the exposure time setter, becomes an integer multiple of the drive cycle; a moving member drive controller drives the moving member and controls the operation thereof via the moving member driver so that the moving member traces a predetermined path an integer number of times in a plane orthogonal to an optical axis within the exposure time, which is set by the exposure time setter, based on the drive cycle, which is set by the drive cycle setter.
US09451166B1
Generally discussed herein are systems, apparatuses, and methods for. In one or more embodiments, a method can include recording imaging device external orientation parameters of a rigidly mounted imaging device, capturing a reference frame using the imaging device in an orientation corresponding to the recorded parameters, capturing a later frame after the reference frame, correlating the later frame to the reference frame to determine pixel orientation in the reference frame relative to pixel orientation in the later frame, determining an imaging device movement required to return the imaging device back to the orientation associated with the recorded imaging device external orientation parameters based on the determined pixel orientation in the reference frame relative to the pixel orientation in the later frame, and updating the imaging device external orientation parameters to account for the determined imaging device movement in accord with the imaging device external orientation parameters.
US09451158B2
A solid-state image pickup device including a lens, a first light receiving element, a second light receiving element, and an element separation area. The first light receiving element is configured to receive light from the lens. The second light receiving element is configured to receive light from the lens. The element separation area is between the first light receiving element and the second light receiving element. The lens has an optical axis, which is offset from a center of the element separation area.
US09451157B2
A video recording device and an associated video recording method are provided. The video recording device includes a main capturing module, a supplementary capturing module and a controller. The main capturing module records a to-be-captured target according to a main focus parameter. The supplementary capturing module captures the to-be-captured target and generates a plurality of supplementary capturing pictures. The controller is electrically connected to the main capturing module and the supplementary capturing module. The controller selectively updates the main focus parameter according to the supplementary focus parameter. The supplementary focus parameter is obtained according to the supplementary capturing pictures.
US09451155B2
An apparatus, method, and computer readable medium related to autofocusing a camera lens system. An initial image is captured at a first lens position and focus information is extracted with respect to a first plurality of focus windows. A second image is captured at a second lens position and focus information is extracted for a second plurality of focus windows that correspond to the first plurality of focus windows in the initial image. The focus information for corresponding windows is compared to determine whether the focus status in each window is improving or degrading; this determination reveals whether the lens is positioned in a desirable position with respect to the data revealed by the data extracted from the focus windows.
US09451153B2
Lh indicates the amount of image-surface movement of a photographic subject; Ls, a scan driving range; Lps, a scan driving range required to detect a peak; Li, the amount of initial position driving. Based on the speed of a photographic subject (inclination of a photographic-subject movement amount profile H), a body controlling unit sets Li as a driving amount and a driving direction of initial position driving in such a manner as to satisfy Lh<(Ls−Lps+Li), and performs initial position driving to move a focus lens, with the result that the profile H and a scan driving amount profile S of the focus lens intersect with each other within a section k4 where contrast AF is performed. Then, a scan driving operation is performed within the section k4, thereby detecting an in-focus position without fail regardless of the image-surface movement speed of the photographic subject (inclination of the profile H).
US09451152B2
An imaging area in an image sensor includes a plurality of photo detectors. A light shield is disposed over a portion of two photo detectors to partially block light incident on the two photo detectors. The two photo detectors and the light shield combine to form an asymmetrical pixel pair. The two photo detectors in the asymmetrical pixel pair can be two adjacent photo detectors. The light shield can be disposed over contiguous portions of the two adjacent photo detectors. A color filter array can be disposed over the plurality of photo detectors. The filter elements disposed over the two photo detectors can filter light representing the same color or different colors.
US09451141B2
In illustrative implementations of this invention, an imaging system includes multiple light sources that illuminate a scene, and also includes a lock-in time of flight camera. While the scene is illuminated by these light sources, each of the light sources is amplitude-modulated by a different modulation pattern, and a reference signal is applied to the lock-in time-of-flight camera. The modulation patterns and the reference signal are carefully chosen such that the imaging system is able to disentangle, in real time, the respective contributions of the different light sources, and to compute, in real-time, depth of the scene. In some cases, the modulation signals for the light sources are orthogonal to each other and the reference signal is broadband. In some cases, the modulation codes for the light sources and the reference code are optimal codes that are determined by an optimization algorithm.
US09451140B2
Disclosed herein is an imaging lens suitable for a camera module using a high resolution imaging sensor, decreasing a flare phenomenon and reducing the sensitivity. The imaging lens comprises, in order from the object side, a first lens having positive (+) refractive force; a second lens having negative (−) refractive force; a third lens having positive (+) refractive force; a fourth lens having positive (+) refractive force; and a fifth lens having negative (−) refractive force, wherein an object side plane of the third lens is convexly formed.
US09451138B2
A vehicular camera includes a lens, a printed circuit board and an imager. The lens has a plurality of optical element and is disposed at a lens holder. The imager is disposed at the printed circuit board. The adhesive is initially curable in an initial radiation curing process that comprises exposure to UV light, and initially-cured adhesive is further curable to a further cured strength in a secondary thermal curing process. The adhesive is initially cured via the initial radiation curing process after the lens is brought into focus with the imager and is optically center-aligned therewith. The initially-cured adhesive, as cured via the initial radiation curing process, holds the lens optically center-aligned and in focus with the imager. After the initial radiation curing process, the lens holder, adhesively attached to one of the printed circuit board and the holding element, is moved to the secondary thermal curing process.
US09451137B2
A PCB-mountable lens adapter includes an adapter lens for being a component of an imaging system that has a second field of view different from the first field of view, the imaging system comprising the adapter lens and the camera lens; and an adapter housing for holding the adapter lens and for attaching to a PCB. A method for modifying the field of view of an camera module includes attaching a PCB-mountable lens adapter to a PCB, the PCB-mountable lens adapter including an adapter lens mounted in an adapter housing, the PCB being configured for surface-mounting of the camera module thereto.
US09451136B2
The present invention relates to a shutter blade arrangement (134) for an array camera (100) comprising an array (130) of lenses (131). The shutter blade arrangement (134) comprises: at least one shutter blade (200), an array of openings (201) on said shutter blade (200), and an actuator (160) to control the at least one shutter blade (200), and wherein the at least one shutter blade (200) and said array of lenses (131) are displaceable relative each other.
US09451125B2
Based on attachment position information of each of a plurality of sensor units, which reads an image in each area obtained by dividing the area of an original in a sub-scanning direction, image data output from the sensor unit undergoes attachment error correction of correcting the attachment error of the sensor unit. Image data output from the plurality of sensor units then undergo joint processing. Based on the placement information of the original, tilt correction of correcting the tilt of the original is performed for the image data having undergone the joint processing.
US09451119B2
An apparatus and a method for photographing an image in an electronic device having a camera are disclosed. The electronic device may include an image sensor, an image signal processor configured to process an image obtained by the image sensor, an audio processing unit configured to process a sound received from a microphone, a storage unit configured to store data, and a control unit configured to implement the method. The method may include recording for a set period of time, a series of images and a series of sounds using the image sensor and the microphone when a sound photographing mode is active, selecting a particular sound from the series of sounds having a high correlation with a particular image from the series of images, and synthesizing the particular sound with the particular image and store in the storage unit the synthesized particular sound with the particular image.
US09451113B2
A print controller initiates printing of a print job by at least one print head array of a printing system. In response to determining that the at least one print head array should be serviced, the print controller determines whether the servicing of the at least one print head array will interrupt the print job. In response to determining that the servicing will not interrupt the print job, the print controller causes movement of the at least one print head array from a given position to a servicing station of the printing system. In response to determining that the servicing will interrupt the print job, the print controller performs other tasks.
US09451112B2
An image forming apparatus includes an engine unit performing an image forming job; an engine controller to perform the image forming job; and a main controller controlling an operation of the engine unit by communicating with the engine controller in a normal mode and being inactivated if the image forming apparatus changes the mode to a low-power mode. The engine controller performs the image forming job by driving the engine unit in the normal mode under the control of the main controller, and provides a service that corresponds to the low-power mode if the image forming apparatus changes the mode to the low-power mode.
US09451102B2
Upon an image processing device receiving a message from a terminal device, a screen display section displays the message and a predetermined inquiry key in a predetermined screen image on the image processing device. The message is displayed using a font preregistered in the image processing device. Upon the image processing device receiving input of selecting the inquiry key, a screen image transmitting section transmits to the server the screen image in which the message is displayed and information specifying the terminal device as a transmission source of the message. Upon the server receiving the screen image, a screen image notifying section notifies the screen image to the terminal device based on the information specifying the terminal device as the transmission source of the message. Upon the server receiving a re-created message from the terminal device, a re-notification section notifies the re-created message to the image processing device.
US09451096B2
A service provisioning method includes providing a differentiated set of information exchange services to a user. In some embodiments, differentiation between or among the provided services may include differentiated access networks, differentiated physical network layers, and/or differentiated service providers. An integrated service identity may be generated and/or maintained by the service provider(s) or by a third party. The integrated services identity may enable the user to define preference settings applicable to the information exchange services, to process billable events and activity and to issue integrated statements encompassing all of the information exchange services provided to the user, and enabling the user to access customer support services for any of the information exchange services and further enabling the logging of all customer support activities to the integrated service identity.
US09451092B2
A social networking mobile software application for particular mobile devices which allow end users on their mobile devices to view profiles of themselves that contain images and/or videos while simultaneously hearing audio description of their ad via wireless connection to the internet and/or cellular provider data network using streaming or intact multimedia file.
US09451090B2
A system and method for performance-based routing of interactions in a contact center. A routing server receives information on an interaction to be routed, and identifies a call reason for the interaction. The identification of the call reason may be based, for example, speech analytics. The routing server identifies one or more agents having experience in handling the topic. The routing server further determines a proficiency level of the identified agents in handling the topic, and selects one of the identified agents having at least a minimum level of proficiency. The routing server transmits a message for routing the interaction to the selected agent.
US09451085B2
A contact center system can receive messages from social media sites or centers. The messages may include derogatory or nefarious content. The system can review messages to identify the message as nefarious and identify the poster as a social media provocateur. The system may then automatically respond to the nefarious content. Further, the system may prevent future nefarious conduct by the identified social media provocateur by executing one or more automated procedures.
US09451084B2
The present invention relates to a system for acquiring information from sources on a network, such as the Internet. A voice browsing system maintains a database containing a list of information sources, such as web sites, connected to a network. Each of the information sources is assigned a rank number which is listed in the database along with the record for the information source. In response to a speech command received from a user, a network interface system accesses the information source with the highest rank number in order to retrieve information requested by the user.
US09451083B1
Embodiments of the present invention may relate generally to the field of computing, and more particularly to estimating an answering time by a user of a communication on a communication device. A user may receive a communication on a first communication device from a second communication device. A distance of the user from the first communication device may be determined. A time may be estimated for the user to reach the first communication device based on the distance determination. The time estimation may be communicated to the second communication device.
US09451075B2
Disclosed is an information communication terminal having a configuration in which it is possible to prevent a wrong operation of the information communication terminal due to an unconscious operation of an input equipment during operating an audio output equipment. That is, the information communication terminal includes a controller. The controller operates a detection sensor that detects an object approaching during operating the audio output equipment. And the controller controls a status of being input into the input equipment based on a detected result of the detection sensor.
US09451072B1
A phone call is made from an initiator phone to a receiver phone (200). The receiver phone determines how many people are near the receiver phone, and generates a response based on how many people are near the receiver phone. This response can be, for example, a message that is sent to the initiator phone and can be displayed at the initiator phone, indicating either that no one is near the receiver phone or that multiple people are near the receiver phone. The number of people that are near the receiver phone is monitored, and when just one person near the receiver phone is detected, various different actions can be taken. A message can be sent for display at the initiator phone indicating that there is only one person near the receiver phone, or the receiver phone can prompt the user to call back the initiator phone.
US09451071B2
A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which various kinds of convenient functions can be provided in manner of interworking with a watch type mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes a wireless communication unit configured to exchange signals with a watch type mobile terminal and a controller, if a first signal is received from a watch type mobile terminal while executing a first function by the mobile terminal, transmitting information related to the first function to the watch type mobile terminal in order for the information related to the first function to be output from the watch type mobile terminal.
US09451069B2
A mobile terminal device and methods are disclosed. A display module is provided on a first surface of the casing. A first detection module is provided to cover the display module and detects a user's operation. A second detection module is provided on a second surface opposed to the first surface and detects a user's operation. A lock control module sets a lock function for preventing the user's wrong operation. The lock control module releases the setting of the lock function, if the lock function is set and if the first detection module has detected a first operation. The lock control module releases the setting of the lock function, if the lock function is set and if the second detection module has detected a second operation.
US09451067B2
The present invention comprises: a satellite terminal short-range communication module that performs short-range radio communication with a portable terminal; a satellite RF module which processes signals in order to communicate with a satellite via a satellite antenna; a voice data input and output unit which inputs and outputs voice data; and a satellite terminal control unit which forms a traffic channel through satellite communication via the satellite RF module when a voice call is requested from the portable terminal via the satellite terminal short-range communication module, transmits the voice data inputted through the voice data input and output unit to the satellite RF module, and outputs the voice data inputted by the satellite RF module via the voice data input and output unit.
US09451057B1
In a method for coding a packet of information words into a frame for transmission, blocks of input data are received, the input data including control words and the packet of information words, the packet having (a) a start preceded by ones of the control words and (b) an ending followed by others of the control words, the blocks being smaller than the packet. When the block consists exclusively of information words, a one bit block header having a first sense is appended to the block to form the frame. When the block does not consist exclusively of information words: the block is condensed to accommodate a TYPE word, the TYPE word is inserted into the block, and a one bit block header having a second sense, opposite to the first sense, is appended to the block to form the frame.
US09451045B2
A device is operable in a content delivery network (CDN). The device has a cache server mechanism constructed and adapted to: upon joining the CDN, obtain global configuration data from a control core of the CDN; and, having joined the CDN, obtain updated global configuration data, if needed; and obtain customer configuration information associated with at least one customer of the CDN. The device serves a particular resource associated with a particular customer of the CDN in accordance with (i) the global configuration data, and (ii) customer configuration information obtained in and associated with the particular customer.
US09451031B2
A cloud-based system that includes a plurality of remote refrigerated appliances equipped with a communication and temperature control board with sensors interface, a computing cloud, and a distributed software environment for refrigerators operational data acquisition and storage and for developing testing and executing temperature control methods and with energy optimization techniques is provided. The communication and temperature control board activates the elements of a refrigerated appliance based on direct control of the remote distributed environment executing the temperature control method in software. The distributed software environment executing the temperature control method acquires operational data and energy consumption from the sensors connected to the remote communication and temperature control board and employs energy optimization techniques.
US09451028B2
One embodiment is directed to a method of selecting a communication profile for a vehicle telematics device to communicate over a vehicle electronics bus. The method includes receiving, at a server or a local computer, information identifying a vehicle to which the vehicle telematics device is to be connected. An indication of a communication profile to be loaded on the vehicle telematics device, or the communication profile itself, is sent from the server or local computer to the vehicle telematics device, wherein the communication profile includes communication related settings for the vehicle telematics device, the communication related settings corresponding to the vehicle electronics bus of the vehicle to which the vehicle telematics device is to be connected. The communication profile is then loaded on the vehicle telematics device, wherein the vehicle telematics device is field configurable to use one of multiple communication profiles.
US09451025B2
Distributed storage network with alternative foster storage approaches and methods for use therewith
A method includes encoding input data into a plurality of slices. The plurality of slices are sent to a plurality of distributed storage and task execution units for storage, the plurality of distributed storage and task execution units being located at a corresponding plurality of sites A storage failure is detected corresponding to at least one of the plurality of slices corresponding to at least one of the plurality of the distributed storage and task execution units and at least one of the corresponding plurality of sites A foster storage approach is determined. At least one alternative distributed storage and task execution unit is selected in accordance with the foster storage approach. At least one foster slice is generated corresponding to the at least one of the plurality of slices. The at least one foster slice is sent to the at least one alternative distributed storage and task execution unit.
US09451019B2
When individual persons or vehicles move through a transportation network, they are likely to be both actively and passively creating information that reflects their location and current behavior. In this patent, we propose a system that makes complete use of this information. First, through a broad web of sensors, our system collects and stores the full range of information generated by travelers. Next, through the use of previously-stored data and active computational analysis, our system deduces the identity of individual travelers. Finally; using advanced data-mining technology, our system selects useful information and transmits it back to the individual, as well as to third-party users; in short, it forms the backbone for a variety of useful location-related end-user applications.
US09451016B2
An information processing system includes a server apparatus and a client apparatus. The server apparatus includes the following components. An execution unit executes first applications. An execution controller causes, when a second application is executed, the execution unit to execute one of the first applications corresponding to the second application. A generation unit generates a first screen based on the first application. A transmission unit transmits information representing the first screen. The client apparatus includes the following components. A request unit requests execution of the first and second applications. A first acquisition unit acquires the information representing the first screen. A second acquisition unit acquires information representing a second screen based on the second application. A display displays the first screen. A display controller causes, when the first screen includes the image of the first application corresponding to the second application, the display to display the second screen.
US09451011B2
The monetization of downloadable files associated with a custodial host site based on resolving custodianship to a referrer publisher with subsequent presentation of monetized content within a modal overlay is disclosed. A request from a client device has a resource identifier and a referrer publisher identifier. The request for the downloadable file is evaluated against one or more publisher and custodianship policy rules, which relate to a file extension of the downloadable file, a format of the resource identifier, a custodial domain on which the downloadable file is stored, and a referral domain as specified in the referrer publisher identifier. When custodianship is resolved, a modal overlay on which monetized content is incorporated is presented on the client device. The modal overlay is concurrently displayed with the transfer of the downloadable file to the client device.
US09451010B2
A method, system and computer readable medium include objects with media content. The method includes receiving, at one or more servers, a request for the media content to be displayed at an endpoint. The method includes identifying information about an environment associated with the endpoint. The method includes identifying a set of objects to include in a container for the media content based on the information identified about the environment. At least one of the objects includes program code for completing a transaction during display of the media content. Additionally, the method includes sending, by one or more servers, the set of objects to the endpoint.
US09451008B1
Systems and methods for content selection with privacy features include determining that a period of time from when the cookie was last used to visit a webpage has exceeded a threshold value. Based on the determination, the topic may be removed from an interest category profile used to select content.
US09451002B2
A regularizer process is started by a first thread executing at a computing device. The regularizer process is a separate process from a process executing on the first thread. The started regularizer process sends a presence announcement to a controller device and receives a presence acknowledgement from the controller device. The started regularizer process sends a notification to the first thread that it is ready to receive streamed data. The started regularizer process receives, from the controller device, an indicator of a data provider system that is to connect to it, receives a connection request from the data provider system, compares the received connection request to the received indicator, sends a connection acknowledgement to the data provider system when the received connection request matches the received indicator, accepts a connection from the data provider system, and receives the streamed data through the connection.
US09450992B2
In one embodiment, one or more server computing devices receive, from a client computing device, a request for first information associated with a first node of a graph. The one or more server computing devices determine whether the first node is associated with a cluster of nodes. A cluster of nodes includes one or more concept nodes of the graph that are related to each other. When the first node is associated with a cluster of nodes, the one or more server computing devices access the cluster of nodes that the first node is associated with, obtain second information from one or more of the nodes in the cluster of nodes that the first node is associated with, and provide the second information for rendering by the client computing device.
US09450977B2
A method of updating a content detection module includes obtaining content detection data, and transmitting the content detection data to a content detection module, wherein the transmitting is performed not in response to a request from the content detection module. A method of sending content detection data includes obtaining content detection data, selecting an update station from a plurality of update stations, and sending the, content detection data to the selected update station. A method of building a content detection system includes establishing a first communication link between a central station and an update station, the central station configured to transmit content detection data to the update station, and establishing a second communication link between the update station and a content detection module.
US09450968B2
Media stream trust display techniques are described in which trust information regarding content elements is accessible on an individual element basis. In particular, composite content having various content elements is rendered via a user interface of a browser or other application that supports web-based communications. Trust data is then obtained for the content elements on an individual basis in accordance with a trust model implemented by the application that facilitates retrieval of trust assertions for individual content elements. The user interface may be configured to display trust data using separate elements to represent trust data for different content elements. The display of trust data may include previews of content elements, such as thumbnail images and/or live media tiles for media streams. Additionally, a thumbnail view of a composite page/document may be provided that has selectable representations of content elements through which a user may access corresponding trust data.
US09450965B2
When a pre-determined time period has elapsed after a user access is last detected, a mobile device performs protection processing on account-related information. The mobile device includes an access detection unit that detects that a user accesses the mobile device, and a time period determination unit that determines whether or not a pre-determined time period has elapsed from a last user access time point at which the user last accessed the mobile device. The mobile device further includes a storage location acquisition unit that acquires a location in the data storage unit in which the account-related information is stored, and a protection unit that performs the protection processing on the account-related information based on the storage location of the account-related information acquired by the storage location acquisition unit, when the time period determination unit determines that a pre-determined time period has elapsed from the last user access time point.
US09450964B2
An information processing system includes a receiving unit and a determining unit. The receiving unit receives an application request to request an application for a service. The application request includes first information identifying a type of the service. When the receiving unit receives the application request, the determining unit determines third information indicating an authority to use the service by combining the first information included in the application request and second information used for identifying a user to whom the service is to be provided.
US09450959B2
A system for utilizing a location-based application across a plurality of networks. A target mobile device operates within a target network of the plurality of networks. A requesting device operates within a requesting network of the plurality of networks. The requesting device transmits a location request for a location of the target mobile device utilizing a location-based service application. A gateway operatively communicates with the requesting network and target network. The gateway receives the location request and determines the target network and communication and location technologies utilized by the target network and transmits the request to the target network utilizing the communication location technology for extraction of the location information. The gateway extracts the location information of the target mobile device and transmits the location of the target mobile device to the requesting device for use with the location-based service application.
US09450957B1
The present disclosure relates generally to electronic systems and methods, and more particularly, to systems, methods, and various other disclosures related to an interactive mail verification system and method for sending and receiving electronic communications, i.e. electronic mails, as well as posts or messages from social network contacts, in a manner that allows the recipient to verify the identity of the sender prior to reviewing the electronic communications, by viewing an image with embedded interactive icons in a border that correspond to functional control commands for controlling the review of the electronic message or updating of contacts, when the icons are activated.
US09450956B1
A system and method provide automatic access to applications or data. A portable physical device, referred to herein as a Personal Digital Key or “PDK”, stores one or more profiles in memory. In one embodiment, a biometric profile is acquired in a secure trusted process and uniquely associated with a user that is authorized to use and associated with the PDK. The PDK wirelessly transmits identification information including a unique PDK identification number, and optionally the biometric profile and a profile over a secure wireless channel to a reader. A computing device is coupled to the reader. An auto login server is coupled to the reader and the computing device and launches one or more applications associated with a user name identified by the received profile.
US09450953B2
A method of maintaining a blacklist for gesture-based passwords is provided. A data store of vectors corresponding to gestures is maintained on a blacklist server. Upon receiving a new gesture based password, an electronic device converts the password to a vector and forwards that vector to the blacklist server. The blacklist server assigns the vector to one of a cluster of vectors each having low distance from one another. If the increase in the occurrences of the number of vectors in the cluster results in a blacklist threshold being exceeded, the cluster of vectors is inputted to the blacklist. A notification can be sent back to the electronic device if the forwarded vector is on the blacklist or is inputted to the blacklist.
US09450935B1
A shell device with minimal software and/or hardware resources can download from a server configuration information and/or user data in order to allow the shell device to communicate with other computing devices (whether cell phones, personal digital assistants, laptops, and the like). Various security features can also be used herein, including a shell device password and a server network access password. In another aspect, any time code and/or data is downloaded from the server to the shell device, such code and/or data resides on the shell device during the time of a communication between the server and the shell device; thereafter, it can be deleted, thereby returning the shell device to its minimalistic resource state. When the shell device contacts the server again and attempts to establish another communication, such code and/or data can be downloaded anew, and after the communication it can be deleted again.
US09450930B2
A method of pairing a first device with a second device is disclosed. Accordingly, an image that includes encoded data is generated. The encoded data includes a unique identifier for identifying the first device and an arbitrary security code. The first device displays the image on a display. The second device captures the image using an image sensing device. The encoded data is decoded to generate a decoded data. The second device sends the decoded data to a server that is communicatively connected to the first device and the second device. Upon receiving the decoded data and using the unique identifier, the server communicates with the first device to verify the arbitrary security code.
US09450921B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to controlling access to email content. According to various embodiments as described herein, an email message may be accessed by a computing device to identify a uniform resource locator (URL) within the email message, wherein the URL corresponds to a resource residing in a protected location that is not accessible by a native browser application of the client device. The computing device may determine whether the client device is permitted to access the URL and request access to the resource via the secure browser application of the client device upon a determination that the client device is permitted to access the resource in accordance with the at least one resource rule.
US09450911B2
A system and method for managing a vehicle Ethernet communication network are disclosed. More specifically, each unit in a vehicle Ethernet communication network is configured to initially enter a power-on (PowerOn) mode when is applied to each unit of the vehicle to initialize operational programs. Once powered on, each unit enters a normal mode in which a node for each unit participates in a network to request the network. Subsequently, each unit enters a sleep indication (SleepInd) mode where other nodes are not requested even though the network has already been requested by the other nodes. A communication mode is then terminated at each unit and each unit enters a wait bus sleep (WaitBusSleep) mode in which all nodes connected to the network are no longer in communication and are waiting to switch to sleep mode. Finally, each unit is powered off to prevent communication between units in the network.
US09450907B2
A method for bundling event memories in a social networking system. The method includes identifying a first plurality of user-submitted content items posted to the social networking system that are related to an event involving a plurality of users. The social networking system aggregates the first plurality of user-submitted content items into a bundled event memory, and transmits the bundled event memory to at least some of a plurality of user devices to be presented to at least some of the plurality of users, wherein the plurality of users utilize the plurality of user devices to communicate with the social networking system.
US09450906B2
A computer implemented method, system and/or computer program product is provided for managing a messaging queue in an asynchronous messaging system. A duration for which a message can remain on the messaging queue is determined. An age of the message on the messaging queue is monitored. The age of the message on the messaging queue and the determined duration is compared and a notification is generated based on the comparison.
US09450903B2
Method of processing an e-mail to determine a categorization thereof including a sender type and a message type, comprising: receiving an e-mail including a header having header fields and body having content; if the e-mail is not junk e-mail, determining the sender type of the e-mail from potential sender types, via first analysis of the header and the body including application of at least one first complex rule, each applied first complex rule including elementary rules specific thereto, at least some of the elementary rules specific thereto including regular expression analysis; if the e-mail is not junk e-mail, determining, a message type of the e-mail from potential message types, via second analysis of the header and the body including application of at least one second complex rule, each applied second complex rule including elementary rules specific thereto, at least some of the second elementary rules thereto including regular expression analysis.
US09450900B1
Communications may be facilitated among users belonging to affiliations spanning two or more virtual spaces accessible via virtual environments. In exemplary implementations, affiliations within individual virtual spaces may be managed. A given affiliation within a given virtual space may comprise a discrete group of users with a relationship having a functional significance within the given virtual space. A communications interface may be provided for presentation to individual users. The communications interface may be configured to enable a given user to observe in-coming communications and provide out-going communications. Synchronous and/or asynchronous communications may be facilitated via the communications interface between users belonging to one or more common affiliations. The communications may be facilitated among users belonging to a common overarching affiliation, which may encompass two or more affiliations from different virtual spaces that include substantially the same group of users.
US09450889B2
The present invention relates to a method, an apparatus, and a system for processing a flexible-rate signal. A signal from a client side is encapsulated to n optical channel data unit ODU signals. The n ODU signals are encapsulated to a flexible optical channel transport unit OTU signal. A nominal bit rate of the flexible OTU signal varies according to a value of n and the n is an integer greater than or equal to 1.
US09450888B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for determining whether a packet received in an input/output (I/O) circuit of a node is destined for the node and if so, providing the packet to an egress queue of the I/O circuit and determining whether one or more packets are present in an ingress queue of the I/O circuit and if so, providing a selected packet to a first or second output register according to a global schedule that is independent of traffic flow. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09450887B2
The invention relates to a method of notifying an Application Function (AF) in a communications network of resource restrictions relating to a communication session. The network includes a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) for authorizing and controlling flows of data in the session. In the method the AF sends an authorization request to the PCRF for establishing the communication session. The authorization request includes an indication that the AF is to be notified of resource restrictions for the data flows in the session. The PCRF notifies the AF of the resource restrictions.
US09450878B2
Traffic redirection methods include determining a quality-affective factor in a connection between a client and a server in a network; comparing the quality-affective factor to a threshold to determine whether the connection would benefit from a network processing function; reconfiguring the network to redirect the connection to or away from a middlebox that performs the network processing function in accordance with the determination of whether the connection would benefit from the network processing function.
US09450873B2
Traffic in a cloud is controlled by the nodes participating in the cloud. Tenants of the cloud each have a ratio. On any given node, a current transmission rate of the node is allocated among the tenants of the node, or more specifically, their execution units (e.g., virtual machines) on the node. Thus each tenant receives a predefined portion of the transmission capacity of the node. The transmission capacity can vary as conditions on the network change. For example, if congestion occurs, the transmission capacity may be decreased. Nonetheless, each tenant receives, according to its ratio, a same relative portion of the overall transmission capacity.
US09450871B2
A digital broadcasting system and a method of processing data are disclosed. Herein, additional encoding is performed on mobile service data, which are then transmitted, thereby providing robustness in the processed mobile service data, so that the mobile service data can respond more strongly against fast and frequent channel changes. In a transmitting system including a service multiplexer and a transmitter located in a remote site, a method of processing data of the transmitting system includes comparing an output data rate of the service multiplexer and a transmission data rate of the transmitter, when a difference occurs between the two data rates, adjusting a burst size, wherein the burst transmits mobile service data, and encoding the mobile service data, and referring to the burst size so as to multiplex main service data and the encoded mobile service data in a burst structure.
US09450869B2
A system and method for a flexible number of lookups in pipeline-based packet processors. Pipeline-based packet processors can be configured to allow multiple lookups per physical table. In one embodiment, a start of packet (SOP) cell is assigned to a first slot of a packet processing pipeline, and a non-SOP cell is assigned to a second slot of a packet processing pipeline. Access of a table by the second slot can be usurped by the SOP cell in the first slot.
US09450860B2
A client computer requests a resource from an ISP/OSP. The ISP/OSP maintains multiple instances of the resource. In deciding to which instance of the resource to route the client computer, a resource selection server takes network routability information into account. Geographic proximity, resource utilization, network utilization, and/or maintenance of peering agreements may also be taken into account in selecting the instance of the resource.
US09450859B2
As cluster LAG (CLA or CLAG) is a link aggregation spread across cluster nodes, the same MAC address is to be used for a CLAG on all cluster nodes. Each node in a cluster will derive the unique MAC address for all cluster LAGs. When a cluster is formed, the cluster configuration coordinator (COO) (referred to as the “source MAC node”) will sync its MAC addresses of CLAGs to all nodes in a cluster. The same MAC address may be used for a CLA on all nodes from then onwards till the source MAC node is removed from cluster. Even if the CCO changes due to some reason, CLAG MACs will not be changed as long as a source MAC node is present in the cluster.
US09450857B2
The present invention relates to a method for setting the optimum transmission path for increasing energy efficiency in a wireless ad hoc network. More particularly, the present invention relates to setting an optimized data transmission path in a multi-hop data transmission environment in a wireless network comprising machine to machine (M2M) communication devices, which operate with limited energy, based on link information of the network, such as the position of a node in the network. And to this end, the present invention relates to a wireless M2M communication network protocol minimizing energy consumption by selecting the optimum transmission method for each of the hops from the following transmission methods: a single input single output (SISO) method; a virtual single input multiple output (V-SIMO) method; and a virtual multiple input multiple output (V-MIMO) method.
US09450856B2
According to an example, in a method and an apparatus for expanding member ports of a link aggregation group between clusters, each apparatus in a cluster receives a port joining link aggregation group message sent by a master control board on a master apparatus in the cluster. In response to an apparatus determining that a newly joined port is a port on the apparatus itself and also is the first member port in the link aggregation group of the cluster, the newly joined port is associated with the link aggregation group. By applying the method and the apparatus for expanding member ports of a link aggregation group between clusters in this manner, according to an example, the number of member links in the link aggregation group between clusters is able to be increased, and the robustness of the network interconnection between clusters is also able to be enhanced.
US09450839B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program product for of efficient network bandwidth utilization in a distributed processing system are provided. Embodiments include monitoring, by a network monitor, network usage of a distributed processing system containing a plurality of endpoint devices; creating, by the network monitor, a historical network usage pattern based on the monitoring of the network usage; based on the historical network usage pattern, identifying, by the network monitor, a first set of future time periods predicted to correspond with low network usage; and selecting from the first set of future time periods, by the network monitor, a particular time period to perform a network administrative task on an endpoint device in the distributed processing system.
US09450825B2
The present disclosure includes methods, systems, and machine readable and executable instructions and/or logic for managing settings of computing devices. An example method includes receiving a platform-independent template for managing settings of a plurality of applications or operating systems of a computing device, creating, based on the received template, a profile for managing settings of one of the plurality of applications or operating systems of the computing device, deploying the created profile to the computing device to manage the settings of the one application or operating system of the computing device, and receiving a report on whether the settings of the one application or operating system of the computing device were successfully managed by the created profile.
US09450820B2
An administrative control interface is provided that controls deployed application server plugins that operate within an application-server plugin framework deployed at a group of application servers. The administrative control interface controls dynamic adjustment of runtime application server plugin configurations that perform request-level management and server-level management of the group of application servers. Request-level application server functionality and server-level application server functionality of at least one of the group of application servers is controlled using at least one of the deployed application server plugins as specified by application-server plugin commands received from the administrative control interface.
US09450816B2
A provisioning device connected to field devices, which are objects of provisioning, via a provisioning network separated from a target network may include a router advertisement unit that designates a field device, which is an object of provisioning, among the field devices located within a router advertisement zone of the provisioning device to transmit a router advertisement to the designated field device in a unicast mode, a connection control unit that controls a connection to the provisioning network of the field device that receives the router advertisement, and a parameter setting unit that performs setting of network parameters in the field device, the network parameters being managed by the field device.
US09450807B2
An inter-domain virtual network mapping method, an inter-domain virtual network and an inter-domain virtual network mapping system are provided. The method comprises: receiving an inter-domain virtual network request; obtaining a latest physical network architecture information of each of N network domains; calculating an optimized mapping solution according to the latest physical network architecture information of the N network domains to divide an inter-domain virtual network into N virtual sub-networks, each virtual sub-network corresponding to one of the N network domains; sending each virtual sub-network to a corresponding network domain thereof and performing a mapping in each network domain; initializing SUM=0, and updating SUM according to a result of the mapping in each network domain; determining whether SUM is equal to N; if yes, instructing each network domain to distribute a physical network source for the inter-domain virtual network request; and if no, instructing each network domain to undo any procedure.
US09450803B2
A method of updating a document object model (DOM) is disclosed. A request by a web browser for information to update the DOM is intercepted by intercepting an interaction with the DOM. The request is converted to a server request as part of a client-server protocol, requesting at least a portion of the information from a server. The server request is sent to the server. A first server response including at least a portion of the information from the server is received. The first server response is processed according to the client-server protocol to determine a first update to the DOM. The first update is applied to the DOM.
US09450801B2
The present invention provides a preamble that is inserted into an OFDMA frame and has a common sequence for all the base stations participating in a transmission. The subscriber station performs fine synchronization using the common sequence on the common preamble, and the resulting peaks will provide the locations of candidate base stations. The base station specific search is then performed in the vicinities of those peaks by using base station specific pseudo-noise sequences. With this two stage cell search, the searching window is drastically reduced. The preamble is matched to known values by a respective receiver to decode the signals and permit multiple signals to be transferred from the transmitter to the receiver. The preamble may comprise two parts, Preamble-I and Preamble-2, which may be used in different systems, including multioutput, multi-input (MIMO) systems.
US09450798B2
A transmitter circuit includes a frequency generation circuit configured to generate a local oscillator signal and a digital modulator configured to: receive data to be transmitted; quadrature modulate the received data to at least a first, Q, modulated value and a second, I, modulated value; examine the quadrature modulated data to determine if the first, Q, modulated value exceeds a limit, and in response thereto selectively modify the quadrature modulated values to a first modified, Q′, modulated value and a second modified, I′, modulated value thereby bringing only a value of the first modified, Q′, modulated value to within the limit. A local oscillator phase is selected in order to map the first modified, Q′, modulated value and second modified, I′, modulated value to desired quadrature values. A digital power amplifier, DPA, coupled to the digital quadrature modulator, is configured to amplify the quadrature modified modulated data.
US09450786B2
A Low-Complexity Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) method for estimation of impulse response or channel response of Impulse-Radio Ultra-Wideband (IR-UWB) wireless channels which exploits the sparsity of the received signal profile and the structure of the sensing matrix. The method comprises of first sub-sampling a received signal profile; second finding a minimum mean square error estimate of the impulse-radio ultra-wideband communication channel by Bayesian estimation according to priori channel statistics; and third identifying one or more substantially orthogonal clusters in the received signal profile. Impulse response of the impulse-radio ultra-wideband communication channel is the sum of the total number of resolvable multipath components, each with a real valued fading gain, and delay, relative to the arrival of the first path and impulse is the Dirac delta function.
US09450784B2
A gateway device performs authentication with an interconnect system that coordinates communication of data among a plurality of personal clouds. The gateway device is part of a first personal cloud that includes electronic devices. Data is communicated between the first personal cloud and at least a second personal cloud based on information in the interconnect system, wherein the communication is performed according to at least one rule provided at the gateway device, wherein the at least one rule includes at least one criterion relating to data to be shared among the plurality of personal clouds.
US09450779B2
A method for discovering a link between an entry-exit device of a computer network and a customer edge device is disclosed. The customer edge device includes an address and the entry/exit point device includes a routing table. Interfaces with the routing table and addresses of the computer network related to the entry/exit point device are obtained. Either a routing protocol or the routing table is used to obtain routing information. The routing information is compared to a selected address to find a match. The routing information the matches the selected address represents the address of the customer edge device.
US09450777B2
An electric device includes a communication unit to communicate with at least one of a gateway and a plurality of other electric devices, and a controller to broadcast a request signal for searching for a gateway, communicate with the gateway on the basis of a search response signal after transmission of the gateway response signal from at least one of the gateway and the plurality of other electric devices, and transmit a registration request signal to a power management unit through the gateway. Thus, the electric device can be automatically registered/re-registered in the electric device or be deleted from the electric device, a power management system and electric devices can be easily managed. If the user moves the electric device from a current position to another position, the power management system recognizes the movement and informs the user of the recognition result.
US09450773B2
Content may be transmitted to mobile devices, in a network, using a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (MBMS) multicast technique over wireless interfaces in the network. In one implementation, network elements in the network may receive feedback about the MBMS multicast transmission, where the feedback relates to a quality of the content, as received by the one or more mobile devices, or to the quality of the radio channel. The devices may determine whether to modify transmission parameters relating to the MBMS multicast transmission and may determine whether to retransmit lost data, corresponding to the content, to the mobile devices. The lost data may be retransmitted as a unicast transmission or a multicast transmission.
US09450772B2
The present invention provides a method, a group server, and a member device for accessing member resources. By using an established mapping relationship between a multicast address and a fanout URI in a group resource, a member resource access request may be sent by multicast to member devices having member resources in the group resource, and the fanout URI is included in the member resource access request, so that the member devices having the member resources execute, according to access paths of the member resources on the member devices as indicated by the fanout URI, an operation indicated by the member resource access request. Therefore, the group server does not need to unicast the access request to each member device, and network overheads are saved.
US09450767B2
A PCEF for setting a PCC rule in a mobile communication network includes: a receiver for receiving a command message including a monitoring key list including at least one monitoring key corresponding to a PCC rule and a number of instances monitored in a corresponding service, from a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF); a setting unit for setting the PCC rule based on the command message and setting a monitoring key according to the at least one monitoring key; and a monitoring processor for setting a range of monitoring in consideration of the number of instances and the at least one monitoring key, and performing monitoring based on the set range of the monitoring.
US09450766B2
The various embodiments include methods, computers and communication systems for distributing telecommunications functionality across multiple heterogeneous domains within a telecommunications system, which may include determining policy-charging capabilities of a first telecommunications domain, determining policy-charging capabilities of a second telecommunications domain, determining policy-charging requirements required for a communication, partitioning the policy-charging requirements into a first group and a second group based on the determined policy-charging capabilities of the first and second telecommunications domains, sending a first message including the first group of policy-charging requirements to a public interface of the first domain, and sending a second message including the second group of policy-charging requirements to a public interface of the second domain.
US09450750B2
A communication apparatus includes display control means for displaying a secret information image containing secret information, and secret information image generation means for, upon receiving a notification signal indicating that a preparation for shooting is completed from another communication apparatus, instructing the display control means to display the secret information image. Note that the display control means displays a predetermined dummy image, and the notification signal is a notification signal indicating that a shooting preparation has been completed based on the dummy image. Further, when the secret information image generation means receives a notification signal indicating that secret information contained in a secret information image is obtained from another communication apparatus, the secret information image generation means instructs the display control means to stop displaying the secret information image.
US09450748B2
Embodiments may include receiving a protected version of content that includes multiple encryption chains each including encrypted blocks of content. The protected version of content may include one or more initialization vectors for decrypting the encrypted blocks of content and discard information that specifies non-content portions of one or more data blocks to be discarded after decryption. Embodiments may also include performing chained decryption on the multiple encryption chains using the initialization vectors specified by the decryption information. The chained decryption may result in a sequence of decrypted data blocks. Embodiments may also include, based on the discard information, locating and removing the non-content portions of one or more data blocks in the sequence of decrypted data blocks. Embodiments may also include generating the protected version of content. Embodiments may also include performing any of the aforesaid techniques on one or more computers.
US09450740B2
A communication device, method, and system generate wireless communication signals that include a subframe within a radio frame. The subframe includes an extension control area in a data area of the subframe. The extension control area is set according to a periodic mapping pattern.
US09450736B2
The present invention provides a code channel activation method, a code channel activation device, a computer program and a storage medium, so as to solve the problem in the prior art that performance loss of a receiver will be caused when performing code channel activation. The method comprises calculating correlation between interference code channels on which code channel activation is to be performed and a user code channel, and correlation between the user code channels, to obtain correlation results; and performing code channel activation according to the correlation results. According to the present invention, the code channel activation is performed according to the correlation between the code channels. As a result, it is able to reserve the code channels with more information, thereby to prevent the performance loss of the receiver.
US09450735B2
An embodiment method for operating a device in receiving a transmission over a plurality of communications links includes assigning an allocatable receiver resource to each communications link in the plurality of communications links according to a measure derived from communications link characteristics of each respective communications link and combined communications link characteristics of the plurality of communications links, and receiving the transmission over the plurality of communications links with the assigned allocatable receiver resource.
US09450729B2
Provided are a method and device for allocating a downlink control channel in a wireless communication system. A base station allocates an enhanced physical control format indicator channel (e-PCFICH) to a control region of a plurality of resource blocks (RBs), transmits, to a terminal, an enhanced physical downlink control channel (e-PDCCH) indicator including information for indicating the start position of an e-PDCCH allocated to a data region of the plurality of RBs, and allocates the e-PDCCH to the data region of the plurality of RBs on the basis of the e-PDCCH indicator.
US09450725B2
Embodiments of an access point and method for high-efficiency WLAN (HEW) communication are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the access point may be configured to operate as a master station and may configure an HEW frame to include a legacy signal field (L-SIG), an HEW signal field (HEW SIG-A) following the L-SIG, and one or more HEW fields following the HEW SIG-A. The L-SIG may be configured for transmission using a legacy number of data subcarriers, a legacy number of pilot subcarriers and a number of additional reference subcarriers modulated with a known reference sequence. At least one symbol of the HEW SIG-A and the one or more HEW fields following the HEW SIG-A of the HEW frame may be configured for transmission using additional data subcarriers. The additional data subcarriers may correspond to the additional reference subcarriers of the L-SIG.
US09450723B2
A method and an apparatus for channel estimation. The method includes identifying a set of preferred BS receive beams for each of a plurality of BS antenna SAs based on periodic pilot transmissions from a UE transmitted using predefined UE transmit beams. The method also includes transmitting a request for the UE to transmit pilot signals for the set of preferred BS receive beams. The method further includes receiving the pilot signals using the set of preferred BS receive beams. The method also includes performing channel estimation and determining the data transmission parameters based on the received pilot signals, the data transmission parameters including at least one receive beam at each UE antenna SA to be used for data reception. Additionally, the method includes transmitting, to the UE, information for identifying the at least one receive beam at each UE antenna SA to be used for data reception.
US09450722B2
An example method of mapping a set of reference signal samples to subcarriers is disclosed. First and second subsets of samples having contiguous index values are determined. The second subset of samples are mapped to a first subset of subcarriers, such that a first sample of the second subset of samples having a lowest index value of the second subset of samples is mapped to a first subcarrier at a first end of a bandwidth. The first subset of samples are mapped to a second subset of subcarriers of the bandwidth, such that a last sample of the first subset of samples having a highest index value of the first subset of samples is mapped to a last subcarrier at an opposite second end of the bandwidth. A complementary method of demapping subcarriers is also disclosed.
US09450720B2
A method and apparatus for operating an analog beam is provided. The apparatus includes a hybrid beam-forming structure having a small number of digital chains provided in a digital stage and a signal is transmitted and received in a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) scheme. The apparatus includes an analog beam-forming operating unit configured to change the analog beam for a counterpart device for which use of a next frame is to be permitted, upon receiving a request for using the next frame from at least one of multiple devices that transmit and receive signals in units of frames and a communication unit configured to transmit information indicating that the analog beam is changed to permit the use of the next frame by the counterpart device to the multiple devices.
US09450715B2
A system for carrier phase recovery, including a receiver for receiving one or more frames of L symbols. A phase estimator performs carrier phase estimation for the received frames of L symbols, and the resulting carrier phase estimates are stored in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. One or more rotators de-rotates the received frames of L symbols by one or more of the carrier phase estimates, and a data processor calculates a sum of the outputs of the L de-rotated signals raised to an nth power, and determines a real part of the sum. A minimum determination device determines a minimum of the real part of the sum with respect to the carrier phase estimates, and phase unwrapping and multiplier removal is performed if a minimum has been determined.
US09450711B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for extended reverse direction grant in a WLAN are provided. In one aspect, a method for communication using a channel that is common to a plurality of nodes is provided. The method includes transmitting first data to the plurality of nodes using a first transmission resource. The first data is transmitted within a transmit opportunity time interval and comprises a first indicator. The method further includes receiving, in response to the first indicator, at least one data transmission from at least one of the nodes, respectively. The at least one data transmitted using at least one second transmission resource, respectively, and is received within the transmit opportunity time interval.
US09450709B2
Methods and apparatus are described for a User Equipment (UE) configured with multiple cells in the downlink of a time division duplex communication system to transmit HARQ-ACK information in a Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (PUSCH), to map HARQ-ACK bits transmitted in a PUSCH to information regarding correct or incorrect detections of data transport blocks in different cells and different transmission time intervals, and to provide a same understanding with an intended reception point of the information represented by HARQ-ACK bits the UE transmits in a PUSCH.
US09450703B2
A network is configured to utilize available bandwidth to conduct bulk data transfers without substantially affecting the successful transmission of time-sensitive traffic in the network. In order to avoid this interference, the packets carrying data for bulk data transfers are associated with a low priority class such that the routers of the network will preferentially drop these packets over packets associated with the normal traffic of the network. As such, when the normal traffic peaks or there are link or equipment failures, the normal traffic is preferentially transmitted over the bulk-transfer traffic and thus the bulk-transfer traffic dynamically adapts to changes in the available bandwidth of the network. Further, to reduce the impact of dropped packets for the bulk-transfer traffic, the packets are encoded at or near the source component using a loss-resistant transport protocol so that the dropped packets can be reproduced at a downstream link.
US09450702B2
A method for transmitting a packet in a communication system is provided. The method includes dividing a data stream into data payloads of a predetermined size and adding a common header to each of the data payloads, to generate a source payload, adding a first Forward Error Correction (FEC) payload Identifier (ID) to the source payload and applying an FEC code thereto, to generate an FEC source packet for a source payload, adding a second FEC payload ID to at least one parity payload and applying an FEC code thereto, to generate an FEC parity packet for the at least one parity payload, and transmitting the FEC source packet and the FEC parity packet.
US09450696B2
A photonic implementation of the modulated wideband converter (MWC) is described. The highly scalable compressive sensing receiver architecture uses photonic components for analog front-end compression and downconversion, allowing scalable data conversion over an extremely wide instantaneous surveillance bandwidth, limited only by the peak anticipated signal occupancy and application-dependent size, weight, and power constraints.
US09450693B2
A transmission apparatus includes a clock generator that generates a clock. When data is received, the transmission apparatus maps a plurality of pieces of received asynchronous data to a cross connection frame by using the generated clock. The transmission apparatus also cross-connects the mapped cross connection frame by using the generated clock. The transmission apparatus also transmits data of the cross-connected cross connection frame.
US09450685B2
A system and methods for cancelling spatial interference associated with an original multi-carrier signal carrying at least one data transmission sent by a transmitter to an antenna array comprising a plurality of antennae and having a receiver operatively associated therewith, the system receiving a plurality of received signals respectively including interference and the original signal as received by a respective individual antenna from among the plurality of antennae, the system comprising a spatial nulling device for generating a cleaner signal by reducing at least one spatial component of the interference; and a signal manipulator operative to manipulate a derivative of the received signal so as to cause the at least one data transmission to be more concentrated in a subset of frequency bands in which the spatial nulling device is more effective and to be less concentrated in frequency bands which do not belong to the subset of frequency bands.
US09450681B1
A method and system for low latency, low power, high fidelity wireless transmission of quaternions provides superior performance of real-time applications that transmit and consume quaternions. The method and system provide a quaternion transmission protocol wherein quaternion sources, such as sensor units, construct quaternion update packets containing quaternions encoded in a notation that both conserves bandwidth and preserves angular resolution provided by quaternions. The update packets are transmitted on a wireless communication link to a quaternion destination, such as a data hub, which deconstructs and interprets the update packets.
US09450675B2
A system for estimating cross-phase modulation (XPM) impairments, wherein the method comprises: determining, according to a pump Jones matrix of a pump channel and a probe Jones matrix of a probe channel of each of fiber spans except for the first fiber span in a fiber transmission system, a polarization mode dispersion (PMD)-induced relative polarization status rotation matrix between channels of the each of fiber spans; and determining, according to the rotation matrix of the each of fiber spans, dispersion of a pump signal of the each of fiber spans, differential delay of the pump signal relative to a probe signal of the each of fiber spans and a gain of the each of fiber spans, polarization crosstalk and phase noise of the XPM impairments in the fiber transmission system. This allows the XPM impairments in the effect of the polarization mode dispersion to be quickly and accurately estimated.
US09450671B2
According to one exemplary embodiment, a light communication system comprises a transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus. The transmitting apparatus generates one or more patterns of light to decide at least one reference area, and transmits signals by emitting light in the at least one reference area decided by the one or more patterns. The receiving apparatus takes measurements fewer than a total amount of pixels over a sensed image to detect the one or more patterns of light, and decides at least one ROI according to one or more detected one or more patterns; then takes all signals of light in the at least one ROI for processing of the light communication, and takes measurements fewer than a total amount of pixels over at least one tracking area for tracking the one or more patterns of light emitted by the transmitting apparatus.
US09450669B1
A microchannel plate based optical communication receiving system and method of use for extracting embedded information from a covert band of modulated light. The system includes an electrically powered microchannel plate, a sense amplifier in electrical communication with the microchannel plate configured to sense a change in current across a sense resister, a demodulator in electrical communication with the sense amplifier to demodulate the band of modulated light, a data output signal exiting from the demodulator, and a receiver for receiving the data output signal and extracting a piece of covert information.
US09450662B2
Embodiments of User Equipment (UE), an Evolved Node-B (eNB), and methods for channel quality indicator (CQI) feedback are disclosed herein. An aperiodic CQI type parameter received at the UE may indicate a CQI type for use in a determination of an aperiodic CQI based on signals received from the eNB. Channel-state information reference signals (CSI-RS) may be used when single-user multiple-input multiple-output (SU-MIMO) signals are received. Physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) blocks may be used when multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) signals are received. The aperiodic CQI may be transmitted to the eNB as part of an aperiodic CQI measurement report. In addition, periodic CQI measurement reports may also be transmitted to the eNB and may include periodic CQIs that are based on CSI-RS received at the UE.
US09450660B1
Methods and apparatus are provided for directing a beam towards a receiving device in the presence of interference. A beam transmitted by a transmission source is received by a received device. The beam shape is affected by signals transmitted by interfering sources. The receiving device computes channel estimates associated with the transmission source and the interfering sources. A feedback signal that represents the channel estimates associated with the transmission and interfering sources is transmitted to the transmission source. The transmission source changes characteristics of the beam to compensate for the interference caused by the interfering sources. The transmission source may change the characteristics of the beam by performing precoding algorithms.
US09450651B2
In a first inductive structure, a first data coil includes: a first portion for conducting a first common mode current in a first direction; and a second portion for conducting a second common mode current in a second direction opposite the first direction. The first and second portions of the first data coil are connected at a first node. In a second inductive structure, a second data coil includes: a first portion for conducting a third common mode current in the first direction; and a second portion for conducting a fourth common mode current in the second direction. The first and second portions of the second data coil are connected at a second node galvanically isolated from the first node. The first, second, third and fourth common mode currents are induced by a common mode transient.
US09450650B2
A broadband connection structure is disclosed. The broadband connection structure includes a carrier and a chip. The carrier includes a first resonator. The chip includes a second resonator and configured on the carrier using a flip-chip method. The first resonator is connected to the second resonator via a magnetic field and an electric field existing therebetween to transmit a broadband signal between the carrier and the chip. A broadband connection method is also disclosed.
US09450648B2
An inductive wireless power transfer system comprises a transmitter configured to generate wireless power signal to a coupling region in response to an input signal. The inductive wireless power transfer system's control logic is configured to determine an input power of the input signal. The control logic is configured to determine a presence of a foreign object within the coupling region in response to a comparison of the input power and an output power of an output signal of a receiver within the coupling region. Related inductive wireless power transfer systems and methods for detecting a foreign object in an inductive wireless power transfer coupling region of an inductive wireless power transfer system are disclosed.
US09450642B2
In one embodiment, a communication device samples a particular frequency hopping sequence during only a particular specified sub-timeslot of a timeslot. If a transmission energy is not detected during the specified sub-timeslot, the device turns off its receiver for a remainder of the timeslot. Otherwise, it continues to sample the particular frequency hopping sequence for at least one or more additional sub-timeslots of the remainder of the timeslot. In another embodiment, a communication device determines whether a neighboring communication device is operating in a first mode or a second mode. If in the second mode, it transmits a transmission to the neighboring communication device starting at any sub-timeslot of the plurality of sub-timeslots. If in the first mode, it transmits the transmission to the neighboring communication device while ensuring that the transmission is actively energized during a particular specified sub-timeslot.
US09450633B1
A mobile phone case for a vehicle vent includes a body forming a cavity and configured to carry the mobile phone therein and a clip pivotally attached to the body and configured to secure the body to the vehicle vent.
US09450631B2
A housing assembly for a mobile device includes a cover formed from optically transmissive material, and opaque material formed over a portion of the cover. The opaque material is arranged to define a display portion which is optically transmissive. The housing assembly further includes a frame sized to receive the cover, and a first housing structured to couple with the frame, such that the cover, the frame, and the first housing are structured to define an enclosure sized to contain electrical components for the mobile device.
US09450630B2
A method for displaying SIM card slot information for use in a device including M SIM card slots, each of which may have a SIM card inserted therein or no SIM card inserted therein. The method includes the following steps. A set of predetermined rules are first determined by the device. Statuses of the M SIM card slots corresponding to the set of predetermined rules are then acquired. Information regarding N of the M SIM card slots are displayed on a display unit of the device according to the set of predetermined rules determined by the current associated network and the acquired statuses of the M SIM card slots, where N
US09450629B2
A method for controlling local oscillator (LO) feed-through in a direct transmitter includes detecting a signal level corresponding to LO feed-through in a radio frequency (RF) signal that is output by a direct transmitter. Responsive to detecting the signal level corresponding to LO feed-through, DC offset levels are modified for an in-phase (I) signal and/or a quadrature-phase (Q) signal in the direct transmitter.
US09450624B2
Interference cancellation for wideband and narrowband communications systems is provided without apriori knowledge of statistical information about an interfering signal. In one embodiment a demodulator circuit can operate in an environment where a “no lock” situation would normally occur to remove the interference and acquire signals in low signal-to-noise ratio conditions and high signal-to-interference ration conditions. In other embodiments, performance is improved by introducing statistics of the interfering signal, and these statistics regarding the communications channel and interference properties (i.e., characteristics of the interfering signal) can be adaptive or “learned” in other embodiments.
US09450623B2
A noise canceler for use in a transceiver is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, an apparatus includes a split amplifier to output an amplified transmit signal, the split amplifier providing a first noise attenuation factor in a receive band. The apparatus also includes a transmit antenna to transmit the amplified transmit signal, the transmit antenna being isolated from a receive antenna by an antenna isolation factor that provides a second noise attenuation factor in the receive band. The apparatus also includes a noise canceler configured to subtract a detection signal from a received signal to obtain an adjusted received signal, wherein subtraction of the detection signal provides a third noise attenuation factor in the receive band, and wherein the first, second, and third noise attenuation factors combine to provide a selected amount of noise attenuation in the receive band.
US09450604B1
This disclosure relates to compressing and/or decompressing a group of similar data units, such as a table or queue of data units processed by a networking device or other computing apparatus. Each data unit in the group may only have values for fields in a master set. The described systems are particularly suited for hardware-level processing of groups of sparsely-populated data units, in which a large number of the data units have values for only a small number of the fields. In an embodiment, non-value carrying fields in a data unit are compressed based on a compression profile selected for the data unit. The compression profile indicates, for each master field, whether the compressed data unit includes a value for that field. Non-value carrying fields are omitted from the compressed data unit. The compression profile also permits compression of value-carrying fields using variable-width field lengths specified in the profile.
US09450603B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system for compressing data determines a common divisor for a set of values comprising integers. The system divides each value within the set of values by the common divisor to produce reduced values, and represents the set of values in the form of data indicating the common divisor and the reduced values. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for compressing data in substantially the same manners described above.
US09450587B2
A test circuit of a semiconductor apparatus may include a period signal counting block configured to count a period signal by a predetermined number of times, and enable an overflow signal. The test circuit of the semiconductor apparatus may include a clock signal counting block configured to count an internal clock signal until the overflow signal is enabled, and may output clock counting codes. The test circuit of the semiconductor apparatus may include an update register configured to receive and store the clock counting codes based on the overflow signal.
US09450585B2
An apparatus for selecting a plurality of input signals from a plurality of y signals in a device has a switching matrix with a plurality of n to 1 mulitplexers, wherein each n to 1 multiplexer is assigned to a different input set of n of the y signals wherein a subset of less than n input signals of each set of input signals of each of the n to 1 multiplexers is also a subset of input signals of another n to 1 multiplexer.
US09450583B2
An input/output (IO) circuit with high voltage tolerance is provided. In an integrated circuit, the IO circuit includes a charge pump for generating a bias voltage higher than an internal operating voltage of the charge pump itself, and a switch between an external circuit and an internal circuit of the integrated circuit. When the switch conducts between the external circuit and the internal circuit, the switch provides a clamping voltage according to the bias voltage and a cross voltage of the switch, so that a voltage of the internal circuit is bounded by the clamping voltage to prevent the internal circuit from over-voltage.
US09450576B2
A switching device having a good isolation characteristic is disclosed. The switching device comprises a switch unit and a control unit, wherein the control unit is connected to a power supply terminal, and connected to the switch unit via a control line and a power line. The control unit comprises a voltage regulator unit that is electrically connected to the power supply terminal and the power line of the switch unit. When the switch unit enters standby mode, the control unit provides an isolation voltage to the switch unit to effectively enhance the isolation characteristic of the switching device in the standby mode.
US09450570B2
Apparatus and methods for distributing spurious tones through the frequency domain are disclosed. One such apparatus can include a dithering circuit configured to generate a sequence of numbers that exhibit statistical randomness and a variable frequency circuit configured to adjust a frequency of an output based on the sequence of numbers so as to spread energy of spurious tones in a frequency response of the output to lower a noise floor. In one example, spurious tones can be reduced in a negative voltage generator of a radio frequency (RF) attenuator.
US09450569B1
A very low power real-time clock is provided. The real-time clock includes a real-time clock core and a real-time clock controller, both included in an electronic device. The core is powered both when the electronic device is powered on and when it is powered off. When the electronic device is powered off, the core operates on battery power. The controller is powered off when the electronic device is powered off, to save power. The core maintains a tick count and a seconds count. Because the core is powered on even when the electronic device is powered off, the core continues to update the tick count and seconds count even when the electronic device is powered off. The controller provides access, to external components, to the core. By not powering the controller when the electronic device is powered off, non-core functions do not draw power from a battery.
US09450568B1
A bias circuit includes second order process variation compensation in a current source topology having a compensation transistor operating in saturation mode as a current source. An additional compensation transistor is biased to operate in a linear mode to provide an active resistor to vary a control voltage applied to the saturation mode compensation transistor and widen the range of sourced control current, thus widening the achievable range of the control voltage applied to the biasing transistor to produce a predetermined level of bias current despite process variations. The additional compensation transistor has been shown to be able to compensate for another approximately 20-25% of the induced variations leaving less than approximately 10% and preferably less than 5% variation in the bias current from the predetermined level at certain bias conditions and over typical fabrication process variations.
US09450566B2
A method and apparatus for selective programmable filtering using analog circuits with time-varying components (e.g., resistances, capacitances) is presented. An analog front end receives an electronic signal and filters said signal by a passive or active continuous-time filter, having a combination of equivalent memory-less (e.g., resistive) and memory (e.g., capacitive or inductive) elements. A variable resistor circuit allows switching through a range of values to control one or more of the equivalent resistances of the passive or active continuous-time filter. The variable resistors are controlled using a control circuit to periodically modulate the resistances in the continuous-time filter between periodic sampling instances, such as during analog to digital conversion. Such periodic modulation of the resistances in the continuous-time filter allows for the programming and enhancement of the selectivity of said filter.
US09450564B2
An elastic wave filter includes a piezoelectric substrate, an input side IDT electrode, an output side IDT electrode, and a reflector. At least one IDT electrode among the input side IDT electrode and the output side IDT electrode is weighted only with a main lobe among an apodized weighting method such that the intersection length becomes short from a part at which one electrode finger is opposed to another electrode finger adjacent to the one electrode finger toward an end portion of the at least one IDT electrode in a propagation direction of an elastic wave. A part with the largest intersection length in the at least one IDT electrode is shifted to any one of one side and another side in the propagation direction of the elastic wave from a center position at the at least one IDT electrode in the propagation direction of the elastic wave.
US09450552B2
In an embodiment, a power amplifier (PA) includes a signal processing path including gain stages to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal and to output an amplified RF signal, sensors coupled to the signal processing path each to sense a characteristic of operation of the PA, and a microcontroller configured to execute instructions and to receive the operation characteristic(s) and to control one or more parameters of the signal processing path responsive this operation characteristic.
US09450550B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to a parametric amplifier. In one aspect, a device includes an electron source electrode, a counter electrode, and a pumping electrode. The electron source electrode may include a conductive base and a flexible conductor. The flexible conductor may have a first end and a second end, with the second end of the flexible conductor being coupled to the conductive base. A cross-sectional dimension of the flexible conductor may be less than about 100 nanometers. The counter electrode may be disposed proximate the first end of the flexible conductor and spaced a first distance from the first end of the flexible conductor. The pumping electrode may be disposed proximate a length of the flexible conductor and spaced a second distance from the flexible conductor.
US09450548B2
An apparatus for outputting audio signals. The apparatus for outputting audio signals includes a pulse density modulation (PDM) unit for PDM modulating an input audio signal to output a modulated audio signal, a driving signal generator for generating at least one driving signal to control switching amplification operations based on the modulated audio signal, and a power switching amplifier having at least one switch that is turned on or turned off in response to the driving signal and performs the switching amplification operations for using the at least one switch to output an amplified audio signal that corresponds to the modulated audio signal, wherein the at least one switch includes at least one from among a gallium nitride (GaN) transistor, gallium arsenide (GaAs) transistor, and a silicon carbide (SiC) transistor.
US09450542B2
A current bypass circuit that passes part of a photocurrent output from a photodetector is connected to an input terminal of a current-to-voltage conversion amplifier circuit. A voltage obtained by level conversion of an output voltage by a voltage level conversion circuit is input into the current bypass circuit so that the current bypass circuit is turned on at a photocurrent that is smaller than the photocurrent at which a diode connected in parallel to a feedback resistor of the current-to-voltage conversion amplifier circuit is turned on. Consequently, the current-to-voltage conversion gain is switched in three stages according to the intensity of the photocurrent corresponding to an optical signal level.
US09450539B2
A parallel amplifier and an offset capacitance voltage control loop are disclosed. The parallel amplifier has a parallel amplifier output, which is coupled to an envelope tracking power supply output via an offset capacitive element. The offset capacitive element has an offset capacitive voltage. The offset capacitance voltage control loop regulates the offset capacitive voltage, which is adjustable on a communications slot-to-communications slot basis.
US09450532B2
A motor control device includes: a control processing unit that controls driving of a motor based on a command signal input from a controller so as to command an operation of the motor and a detection signal which is a detection result of the operation of the motor; and an abnormality determining unit that detects an abnormality in the controller, the motor control device, and the motor based on the command signal, the detection signal, and a control signal generated in the motor control device and that determines a level of repeatability of the detected abnormality based on a predetermined criterion. The control processing unit transitions from a normal mode to a specific abnormality alarm mode when the abnormality determining unit determines that an specific abnormality having high repeatability has occurred.
US09450528B2
According to one embodiment, a sensorless control apparatus for a synchronous motor, includes a PWM processing unit which pulse-width-modulates a three-phase voltage command, and thereby generates a gate command for an inverter, a high-frequency voltage calculator which obtains a high-frequency voltage component included in an output of the PWM processing unit or an equivalent output value, a high-frequency current calculator which obtains a high-frequency current component included in a current response value from a synchronous motor driven by the inverter, and an estimated angle calculator which calculates an estimated phase angle indicative of an estimated value of an angle of rotation of the synchronous motor, based on a plurality of pairs each including the high-frequency voltage component and the high-frequency current component which respectively include cosine components or sine components at an equal frequency, the pairs obtained for at least two different frequencies.
US09450522B2
A field control device for a synchronous rotating machine includes: a target operating condition input unit; a first subtraction unit; a final-control-quantity control computation unit that accepts the final-control-quantity deviation and outputs a field-current correction demand value; an anticipatory computation unit that outputs a field-current anticipatory demand value based on the operating condition demand values input; an addition unit that adds the field-current correction demand value and the field-current anticipatory demand value; a second subtraction unit; and a field-current regulation device that adjusts the field current based on the field current deviation. The anticipatory computation unit includes: a dependence characteristic data storage unit that stores dependence characteristics predicted on the basis of the results of a no-load test; and a circuit calculation unit that performs a circuit calculation by using the dependence characteristics and outputs a field-current anticipatory demand value.
US09450515B2
A control method for an inverter apparatus is provided. The inverter apparatus includes a direct current to direct current (DC/DC) converter and a direct current to alternating current (DC/AC) converter. An output side of the DC/DC converter is coupled to an input side of the DC/AC converter. The control method includes the following steps: outputting a DC power from the output side of the DC/DC converter; receiving the DC power from the input side of the DC/AC converter, and generating an AC power from an output side of the DC/AC converter according to the DC power; and detecting the DC power, and accordingly controlling an operation of the DC/AC converter.
US09450513B2
A control circuit controls the inverter circuit in one of the non-master-slave inverters connected in parallel in a power system. The control circuit includes: a target parameter controller for generating a compensation value for adjusting a target parameter to the target value; a cooperative correction value generator for generating a correction value for cooperating with another of the inverters; a PWM signal generator for generating a PWM signal based on a correction compensation value obtained by adding the correction value to the compensation value; a weighting unit for weighting the correction compensation value; and a communication unit for communicating with other inverters. The communication unit transmits the weighted correction compensation value to the other inverters. The cooperative correction value generator generates the correction value using an operation result based on the weighted correction compensation value and a reception compensation value received by the communication unit from the other inverters.
US09450510B2
An energy harvesting device harvests energy from an energy source, and includes an inductor and a control switch coupled in series, and a control module. The series connection of the inductor and the control switch is adapted to be coupled to the energy source in parallel or in series. The control module is coupled to the control switch, and controls operation of the control switch between an ON state and an OFF state such that the control switch starts to operate in the ON state for a predetermined time period from a transition time point during each predetermined cycle starting from a start time point, and such that a time difference between the transition time point and the start time point is variable.
US09450507B2
A power supply apparatus with input voltage detection includes a power input side and an input detection module. The power input side has a first input terminal and a second input terminal, and the first input terminal and the second input terminal are electrically connected to a live wire and a neutral wire of an AC power source, respectively. The input detection module has two input terminals, which are corresponding electrically connected to the first input terminal and the second input terminal. The input detection module generates a detection signal to shut down the power supply apparatus when the input detection module detects that the live wire or the neutral wire is abnormal, or the live wire and the neutral wire are both abnormal.
US09450501B2
A matrix converter includes a power converter and a controller. The power converter includes bidirectional switches each having a controllable conducting direction. The bidirectional switches are disposed between input terminals and output terminals. The input terminals are respectively coupled to phases of an AC power source. The output terminals are respectively coupled to phases of a load. The controller controls the bidirectional switches. A first commutation controller performs commutation control when the conducting direction is unidirectional. A second commutation controller performs the commutation control when the conducting direction is bidirectional. A selector selects between the first commutation controller and the second commutation controller to perform the commutation control based on a state of an output current from the power converter.
US09450493B2
A negative bias circuit outputs a DC voltage of a negative polarity. A positive bias circuit outputs a DC voltage of a positive polarity. The DC voltage of the positive polarity is used, for example, as a transfer voltage, and the DC voltage of the negative polarity is used as a cleaning voltage for cleaning toner. A cycle of the clock signal in a period during which the DC voltage of the first polarity is output is longer than a cycle of the clock signal in the period during which the voltage supplied to the load transits from the DC voltage of the first polarity to the DC voltage of the first polarity.
US09450477B2
A method of cooling electronics of an alternator includes mounting the electronics onto an electrically conductive electronics chassis, and electrically connecting the electronics chassis to a positive DC (B+) output voltage terminal of the alternator, whereby the electronics chassis is electrically insulated from ground potential and thermally conductively isolated from the alternator housing. An alternator includes the housing at ground potential, the electronics chassis at B+ potential, and the mounted electronics. The electronics chassis is electrically insulated and conductively isolated from the housing. An electric machine includes the electronics chassis having an electronics mounting surface, and a convection surface, and defines an electrical bus for conducting a B+ potential. An electronics chassis assembly has an insulator secured between the housing at ground potential and the electronics chassis.
US09450470B2
An electric machine is provided. The electric machine includes at least one stator, a shaft, movable in rotation around an axis of rotation, two rotors, each being interdependent of the shaft, at least two bearings, able to support both rotors and the shaft. A single bearing is located between both rotors along the axis of rotation.
US09450461B2
A rotating electric machine comprising a rotor (2) comprising a body (34) on the periphery of which are installed conductors (36) forming the winding, and a stator (3) positioned around the rotor (2) comprising a magnetized structure extending along a circumference of the stator (3). The body (34) of the rotor (2) is made partially of plastic, in the region of the teeth which conventionally separate the notches near the air gap, on the periphery of the armature. A modified structure of magnets of Halbach type is made with magnets of NdFeB type to reduce the thickness of the stator (3), to increase the radius (R2) of the rotor (2) so as to position all the conductors (36) on the periphery of the body (34) of the rotor (2) on one and the same layer at a diameter of maximum value.
US09450454B2
In one embodiment, a grid application function is hosted at a primary grid device in a utility grid, which may determine whether or not to distribute at least a portion of the grid application function to one or more distributed secondary grid devices in the utility grid. In general, the one or more distributed secondary grid devices will be associated with a subset of the utility grid that is associated with the primary grid device (e.g., a sub-grid). Once a determination has been made, the primary grid device may dynamically distribute the grid application function, or a portion thereof, to the distributed secondary devices according to the determination. In addition, in another embodiment, the grid application function may also be withdrawn, such as from a particular secondary grid device or else from the primary grid device to an originating grid device.
US09450453B2
An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system with energy feedback to chargers and sinusoidal output charges a battery pack through a first charger under a mains mode. Under a battery mode, the UPS boosts DC voltage outputted from the battery pack to a higher voltage level through a DC-to-DC conversion module, converts the DC voltage to a sinusoidal AC voltage through a DC-to-AC conversion module, and supplies the sinusoidal AC voltage to a load. When the load has energy storage elements and discharged energy occurs in a power supply loop, a micro-controller unit can control the discharged power to charge the battery pack through a second charger, thereby solving the issue of the discharged power from the energy storage elements of the load and enhancing the operational efficiency of the UPS.
US09450452B2
Described is a technology by which magnetic flux is used to provide backup power. A transformer has a line power source controllably coupled to a first input winding, and secondary power source controllably coupled to a second input winding. A controller monitors the line power and switches to the secondary power source if the line power voltage drops too low, or uses the secondary power source to augment the line power source if the line power current gets too high. Also described is incrementally transitioning from the secondary power source back to the line power source.
US09450446B2
A method and apparatus for charging an electronic device include rotating a magnetically attractable element, or element, within the electronic device. Rotating a magnet external to the electronic device simultaneously rotates the element. Rotating the element causes an electrically generating device, such as a generator, to create an electric charge in the electronic device. The electric charge may be used to power the electrically generating device, or the electric charge may be transmitted to an internal power supply in order to charge another component or components. In another embodiment, the external magnet may wind a spring inside a device.
US09450443B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that manages use of a battery corresponding to a high-voltage lithium-polymer battery in a portable electronic device. During operation, the system monitors a cycle number of the battery during use of the battery with the portable electronic device, wherein the cycle number corresponds to a number of charge-discharge cycles of the battery. If the cycle number exceeds one or more cycle number thresholds, the system modifies a charging technique for the battery to manage swelling in the battery and use of the battery with the portable electronic device.
US09450442B2
A modular converter is disclosed for a battery charging station, having at least two charging modules connected in parallel. Each of the charging modules can be configured for generating an output current I1, I2, I3 for charging a battery. Each charging module can have a local controller for controlling the charging module. Each local controller of a charging module can be configured for determining a global charging current I and for determining the output current I1, I2, I3 of the charging module.
US09450439B2
A secondary battery has a progressively deteriorating SOC in which battery performance deteriorates when the secondary battery is stored, and is charged and discharged by a control device. An information processing device stores a preset first threshold smaller than the progressively deteriorating SOC of the secondary battery and a preset second threshold greater than the progressively deteriorating SOC, and separates the range from the minimum SOC to the maximum SOC of the secondary battery into, at least, two regions by setting the section from the first threshold to the second threshold as a boundary to thereby cause the control device to charge or discharge the secondary battery within any of the above regions.
US09450433B2
A method for controlling a portable power system, comprising: using a processor, selecting an engine efficiency range for a engine of a generator set of the portable power system, the engine efficiency range corresponding to a power output range of the generator set and to a power demand of a load coupled to the portable power system; when the power demand of the load is less than the power output of the generator set, storing excess power from the generator set in a first battery bank of the portable power system; when the power demand of the load is greater than the power output of the generator set, providing additional power to the load from a second battery bank of the portable power system; and, when at least one of a predetermined depth of discharge threshold is reached by the second battery bank and a predetermined state of charge threshold is reached by the first battery bank, switching between the second battery bank and the first battery bank.
US09450428B2
Disclosed is a package module of a battery protection circuit. The package module comprises: a first internal connection terminal area and a second internal connection terminal area, and in which first and second internal connection terminals connected to a battery can provided with a bare cell are respectively disposed; an external connection terminal area, in which a plurality of external connection terminals are disposed; and a protection circuit area comprising a device area in which a plurality of passive devices forming the battery protection circuit are disposed and a chip area, which is adjacent to the device area, and in which a protection IC and a dual FET chip forming the battery protection circuit are disposed, are disposed between the external connection terminal area and the second internal connection terminal area.
US09450410B2
A system of surge suppressor units is connected at multiple locations on a power transmission and distribution grid to provide grid level protection against various disturbances before such disturbances can reach or affect facility level equipment. The surge suppressor units effectively prevent major voltage and current spikes from impacting the grid. In addition, the surge suppressor units included various integration features which provide diagnostic and remote reporting capabilities required by most utility operations. As such, the surge suppressor units protect grid level components from major events such as natural geomagnetic disturbances (solar flares), extreme electrical events (lightning) and human-generated events (EMPs) and cascading failures on the power grid.
US09450409B2
Converter stations have real and reactive power set points initially determined as part of a main loadflow analysis routinely performed on the AC power system connected to the converter stations. Viable real and/or reactive power set points for the converter stations can be identified by calculating real and/or reactive power set point candidates for the converter stations before the main loadflow analysis is performed again on the AC power system. The power set point candidates are calculated based on information determined as part of a previous iteration of the main loadflow analysis on the AC power system. The power set point candidates which violate an operating constraint imposed on the AC power system are identified, and a region of valid power set points is defined for the converter stations that excludes the power set point candidates which violate an operating constraint imposed on the AC power system.
US09450407B2
Power management systems and methods are disclosed for a plant electrical network using plurality of controllers configured for power management such that a first controller from the plurality of controllers is configured to perform power management in a first local process area within the plant electrical network and can communicate with a second controller that is configured for power management in a second local process area within the plant electrical network, over a plant wide communication network. The power management function in the first local process area can be performed based on the information communicated between the first controller and the second controller and/or based on a power balance computation carried out for the plant wide electrical network or for the first local process area. The power management function can include slow load shedding.
US09450395B2
A Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI) interrupts the flow of current through a pair of lines extending between a source of power and a load. The GFCI includes a circuit breaker, a relay circuit including a solenoid, a latch circuit, and a fault detecting circuit packaged in a circuit assembly. The GFCI is adaptable for a quick connect of a load input cord by a user, allowing for various configurations of cords to be utilized on site, the cord easily connected from the device being protected to the GFCI at the point of use. The GFCI circuit assembly includes a load input section having cable securement jaws for connection of the load input cable terminal ends.
US09450391B2
A current bus that includes an opening that extends from one side of the current bus to an opposing side of the current bus. The opening changes in size as the opening extends from one side of the current bus to the opposing side of the current bus. The opening may include a first diameter and a second diameter that is different than the first diameter. The opening may include a first thickness at the first diameter of the opening which may be much smaller than a second thickness of the current bus. A high accuracy current measurement of the current bus may require that the magnetic field profile of the current bus within the opening be non-linear (e.g., 3rd order polynomial with the highest value of the 3rd degree coefficient).
US09450370B2
A laser medium 21 is shaped like a plate and has a waveguide structure in a direction of the thickness of a surface thereof perpendicular to the optical axis thereof. A nonlinear material 31 is placed on the optical axis of the laser medium 21 close to the laser medium 21 and has a waveguide structure in the same direction as that of the waveguide structure of the laser medium 21. A ¼ wavelength plate 41 is placed close to one of surfaces, which are perpendicular to the optical axis, of the nonlinear material 31, the one being opposite to a surface close to the laser medium 21.
US09450362B2
A connector structure, being capable of connecting with an external connector, includes a chassis, a first electronic assembly, a flexible connecting piece and a second electronic assembly. The chassis has an opening. The first electronic assembly includes a first pin-set. The flexible connecting piece is located on the surrounding of the first pin-set, and the first electronic assembly is connected with the chassis by the flexible connecting piece, so that first pins are exposed from the opening. The second electronic assembly is located inside the chassis and includes a second pin-set, wherein the second pin-set is located below the first pin-set and keeps a distance from the first pin-set. The external connector is electrically connected with the first pin-set for deforming the flexible connecting piece, such that the first pin-set moves downward and is electrically connected with the second pin-set.
US09450352B2
A coaxial connector includes an inner conductor terminal connected to a core wire of a coaxial cable, a dielectric body that surrounds an outer periphery of the inner conductor terminal, and an outer conductor terminal connected to a shield conductor of the coaxial cable and having a tubular portion surrounding the inner conductor terminal through the dielectric body. A protruding portion protruding toward an inside of the tubular portion and engaged with the dielectric body to thereby restrict a position of the dielectric body is provided integrally with the tubular portion of the outer conductor terminal. The outer conductor terminal is formed by a stereoscopic shaping method to thereby provide the protruding portion in a protruding condition integrally with an inner peripheral wall of the tubular portion.
US09450351B2
An RF interconnection module includes a housing having a perimeter, a capacitive coupling, and a float gasket disposed about the perimeter of the housing. When the housing is mounted in an opening, the float gasket is positioned between the housing and the opening. The float gasket may be made of an elastomer material and may include a plurality of outwardly extending ribs for movable securing the gasket in the opening. In addition, a mount assembly includes a bracket assembly attachable to a tower-mounted equipment and at least one jumper cable having at least one ohmic connector for connecting to the tower-mounted equipment and at least one capacitive connector. The capacitive connector may comprise an RF interconnection module mounted on the bracket assembly. The bracket assembly may be adjustable to accommodate tower mounted equipment of various sizes.
US09450339B2
Connector inserts having a high signal integrity and low insertion loss by shielding signal contacts. One example may provide one or more ground contacts between a front opening and signal pins of a connector insert. These ground contacts may have sufficient lever arm to provide a good contact to a corresponding contact in a connector receptacle. To avoid excessive length in the connector insert, embodiments of the present invention may stack a portion of the ground contact above the signal contacts in the connector insert. To reduce excessive capacitance that would otherwise reduce signal impedance, one or more openings may be formed in the ground contacts. To prevent signal contacts from shorting to a shield through this opening, the opening may be covered by tape. The ground contacts may be positioned to avoid encountering power contacts in the receptacle when the insert is inserted into the receptacle.
US09450338B2
A high speed connector assembly includes two interengaging connector halves each held in respective first and second interengaging connector housings. Each of the connector halves includes a plurality of conductive contacts arranged in at least two linear arrangements and at least partially surrounded by a conductive grounding shield. The connector housings are cylindrical and engage each other in a circular fashion, while the connectors engage each other in a linear, axial fashion. The connector housings provide a sealed environment for the connectors.
US09450316B2
A cable splice includes a casing, a jaw assembly, a biasing member, a guide, and a bullet cup. The casing has an opening and an interior cavity. The jaw assembly is positioned in the interior cavity and moveable between a loading position and a terminated position. The biasing member biases the jaw assembly towards the terminated position. The guide includes a receiving end and a shaft extending at least partially into the interior cavity. The bullet cup is positioned in the jaw assembly in the loading position.
US09450312B2
A magnetic metal particle aggregate includes a plurality of magnetic metal particles including at least one magnetic metal selected from a first group consisting of Fe, Co, and Ni. The plurality of magnetic metal particles are partly bound with each other, and an average particle diameter of the plurality of magnetic metal particles is 10 nm or more and 50 nm or less. The magnetic metal particle aggregate has an average particle diameter of 15 nm or more and 200 nm or less.
US09450294B2
A portable terminal is provided. The portable terminal includes a main housing, a sub housing, a mainboard, and an electric connector. The main housing has a first antenna radiator. The sub housing is separable from the main housing and has a second antenna radiator. The mainboard is disposed in the main housing and processes a radio signal. The electric connector is disposed in the main housing. When the sub housing and the main housing are separated from each other, the electric connector electrically connects the mainboard with the first antenna radiator of the main housing. When the sub housing and the main housing are coupled, the electric connector electrically connects the mainboard with the second antenna radiator of the sub housing.
US09450290B2
Conventionally, people have to go to the place where a measurement instrument for health data is, to obtain health data and the like. Further, even when using a portable measurement instrument, people have to manage data by themselves, thus health data cannot be managed rapidly. According to the invention, a modulating circuit, a demodulating circuit, a logic circuit, a sensor circuit, and an antenna circuit are provided over an insulating substrate, thereby data sensed by the sensor circuit is transmitted wirelessly. According to the invention, health data on the living body (for example a human body) is sensed and can be rapidly detected.
US09450279B2
A lossy electrical-signal transmission line having first and second ends, the transmission line being configured such that: its characteristic impedance at the first end has a first value; its characteristic impedance at the second end has a second value, lower than the first value; and its series resistance measured from its first end to its second end is within a given range of the difference between said first and second values.
US09450278B2
A lithium-oxygen battery may include an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte between, and in contact with, the anode and the cathode. The anode may include lithium and/or a lithium alloy. In some examples, the cathode defines a surface that is predominantly metal oxide with an electron conductivity of at least 10−1 Siemens per centimeter. In some examples, the cathode defines a surface in contact with oxygen, and includes ruthenium oxide. In some examples, the cathode defines a surface that is substantially covered by ruthenium oxide and is in contact with oxygen.
US09450273B2
Secondary batteries capable of improving cycle characteristics are provided. The secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. A separator provided between the cathode and the anode is impregnated with the electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution contains a solvent and an electrolyte salt. The solvent contains a cyclic compound having a disulfonic acid anhydride group (—S(═O)2—O—S(═O)2—) and at least one of a nitrile compound. Compared to a case that the solvent does not contain both the cyclic compound having the disulfonic acid anhydride group and succinonitrile or a case that that the solvent contains at least one thereof, chemical stability of the electrolytic solution is improved. Thus, even if charge and discharge are repeated, electrolytic solution decomposition is inhibited.
US09450270B2
A rechargeable lithium battery includes a positive active material for intercalating and deintercalating lithium ions; a negative electrode including a negative active material for intercalating and deintercalating lithium ions; and a polymer electrolyte including a polymer, a non-aqueous organic solvent and a lithium salt. The rechargeable lithium battery has a battery capacity per unit area of the positive electrode from about 3.3 mAh/cm2 to about 2.8 mAh/cm2. The polymer includes a first monomer represented by the following Chemical Formula 1 and a second monomer represented by at least one of the following Chemical Formulae 2 to 7 at a weight ratio of about 85:15 to about 50:50 of the first monomer to the second monomer. In the above Chemical Formulae 1 to 7, each compound is as described in the detailed description.
US09450264B2
A vehicle-mounted cell stack system includes a cell stack that comprises a plurality of laminated power generating cells, and power collecting plates that sandwich both outermost power generating cells, electric wires connected to the power collecting plates, and an electric load connected to the power collecting plates via the electric wires and configured to be activated by electric power that is supplied from the cell stack. The electric wires are connected to the power collecting plates in a direction other than a cell laminating direction.
US09450260B2
A method for inferring temperature in an enclosed volume containing a fuel/oxidant mixture, the method comprises placing at least one wire in the enclosed volume. The at least one wire having an identifiable property wherein the identifiable property of the at least one wire changes from a first identifiable state at a temperature below the auto-ignition temperature of the fuel/oxidant mixture to a second identifiable state at a temperature above the auto-ignition temperature of the fuel/oxidant mixture, and determining if the identifiable property of the at least one wire has changed from the first identifiable state to the second identifiable state and hence if the temperature in the enclosed volume is above the auto-ignition temperature of the fuel/oxidant mixture.
US09450256B2
An active thermal management system for a fuel cell stack controls the distribution of coolant flow for each unit cell of the fuel cell stack based on the temperature distribution measured at unit cells of the fuel cell stack. A coolant distribution means is capable of controlling the distribution of coolant flow for different sets of unit cells. The coolant distribution means is disposed in a coolant inlet manifold, and controls the coolant flow based on the temperature distribution measured at different unit cells of the fuel cell stack so as to reduce temperature variation in the unit cells, thus improving the performance and durability of the fuel cell stack.
US09450252B2
This insulating structure is for a fuel cell stack or a fuel cell of the fuel cell stack. The fuel cell stack includes a membrane electrode assembly with a peripheral frame and a pair of separators that hold the frame and the membrane electrode assembly in between and is formed by stacking a plurality of sets of the membrane electrode assembly and the pair of separators. The insulating structure includes: a coupling member disposed on at least a part of an outer periphery of the fuel cell stack or the fuel cell; and a projection formed on the coupling member in an area surrounded by the pair of separators and the frame.
US09450244B2
A battery capable of improving load characteristics, low-temperature characteristics and high-temperature cycle characteristics is provided. A cathode (13) includes a lithium cobalt complex oxide represented by LiaCoxMIyMIIzO2 (MI includes at least one kind selected from the group consisting of Al, Cr, V, Mn and Fe, MII includes at least one kind selected from the group consisting of Mg and Ca, 0.9≦a≦1.1, 0.9≦x<1, 0.001≦y≦0.05, 0.001≦z≦0.05, x+y+z=1), and further includes Zr as a sub-component element. The content of Zr is within a range from 0.01 mol % to 10 mol % both inclusive as a ratio (Zr/Co) of Zr to Co in the lithium cobalt complex oxide.
US09450242B2
A method for manufacturing a nanostructured metal oxide calcinate suitable for biosensor through a procedure of redox reaction is disclosed in this invention. The nanostructured metal oxide calcinate is free of impurities and produced with better electrocatalytic activity and better conductivity. Thus, an electrode of biosensor can be modified via the nanostructured metal oxide calcinate. The method for manufacturing the nanostructured metal oxide calcinate includes: disposing a first metal material and a second metal material into a reaction slot and making the first metal material and the second metal material dissolved within a solvent to form a mixture, wherein the pH value of the mixture ranges between 0 to 7, the mixture performs a redox reaction process for obtaining a metal oxide material; and eventually calcining the metal oxide material for obtaining a nanostructured metal oxide calcinate.
US09450239B1
A method for fabricating intercalated lithium batteries in open air deposits a thin dense layer of amorphous solid-state lithium boride electrolyte directly onto a negative electrode via flame spray pyrolysis. In one embodiment, the negative electrode is attached to a prefabricated positive electrode via hot pressing (embossing), thus forming an intercalated lithium battery. The method significantly improves upon current methods of fabricating thin film solid state batteries by permitting fabrication without the aid of a controlled environment, thereby allowing for significantly cheaper fabrication than prior batch methods.
US09450237B2
A positive electrode active material for non-aqueous secondary battery includes core particles containing a lithium transition metal composite oxide, and a covering layer covering, that covers a surface of the core particle. The covering layer contains niobium and carbonate ions, and the carbonate ions are present at a concentration of from 0.2 weight % to 0.4 weight %. The positive electrode active material for non-aqueous secondary battery exhibits infrared absorption peaks at a wavenumber range of from 1320 cm−1 to 1370 cm−1, and at a wavenumber range of from 1640 cm−1 to 1710 cm−1.
US09450235B2
The present invention aims to provide an anode active material for a sodium ion battery with favorable rate characteristic. The object is attained by providing an anode active material for a sodium ion battery comprising an active substance having an MNb3O8 phase belonging to an orthorhombic crystal (M is at least one kind of H, Li, Na and K), and a carbon material contacting with the active substance, wherein the active substance and the carbon material are composited.
US09450233B2
The present invention provides one with a battery having an iron anode, e.g., a Ni—Fe battery, having improved performance characteristics. The battery uses a particular electrolyte and/or battery separator. The resulting characteristics of efficiency, charge retention and cycle life are much improved over such batteries in the prior art.
US09450226B2
A battery pack assembly has a plurality of interconnected battery cells and is suitable for use in an electric vehicle or a hybrid electric vehicle. The assembly includes a first battery cell having a first terminal and a second battery cell having a second terminal electrically interconnected by a bus bar formed of a conductive material and attached to the first terminal and the second terminal. A bus bar retainer formed of a dielectric material is configured to contain the bus bar within the bus bar retainer. The bus bar has a greater freedom of movement within the bus bar retainer along a first, e.g. vertical, axis than along a second, e.g. longitudinal, axis and a third, e.g. lateral axis, wherein both the second and third axes are substantially perpendicular to the first axis and to each other. The assembly may also include individually removable temperature sensing devices.
US09450224B2
A method is provided for synthesizing sodium iron(II)-hexacyanoferrate(II). A Fe(CN)6 material is mixed with the first solution and either an anti-oxidant or a reducing agent. The Fe(CN)6 material may be either ferrocyanide ([Fe(CN)6]4−) or ferricyanide ([Fe(CN)6]3−). As a result, sodium iron(II)-hexacyanoferrate(II) (Na1+XFe[Fe(CN)6]Z.MH2O is formed, where X is less than or equal to 1, and where M is in a range between 0 and 7. In one aspect, the first solution including includes A ions, such as alkali metal ions, alkaline earth metal ions, or combinations thereof, resulting in the formation of Na1+XAYFe[Fe(CN)6]Z.MH2O, where Y is less than or equal to 1. Also provided are a Na1+XFe[Fe(CN)6]Z.MH2O battery and Na1+XFe[Fe(CN)6]Z.MH2O battery electrode.
US09450223B2
Disclosed is a lithium secondary battery that includes a separator including a coating layer including an inorganic compound, a polymer and an organic/inorganic bonding silane compound formed from an organic/inorganic bonding silane compound having a first reactive functional group; and an electrode contacting the coating layer, and including an active material and a binder formed from a binder having a second reactive functional group, wherein the first reactive functional group is reactive with the second reactive functional group, and the lithium secondary battery includes a chemical bond generated by reacting the first reactive functional group with the second reactive functional group.
US09450214B2
A battery pack, including: an electrode assembly; a pouch accommodating the electrode assembly; an electrode lead connected with the electrode assembly and extending to the outside of the pouch; a slit part through which the electrode lead penetrates and a lead cover formed in the vicinity of the slit part; and an insulator covering the pouch and at least a portion of the electrode lead.
US09450208B2
An organic electroluminescence display device according to the invention includes a TFT substrate, a retroreflective body formed on the TFT substrate so as to correspond to each of pixels, a plurality of organic electroluminescence elements formed on the retroreflective bodies so as to correspond to the pixels, and a pixel separation film adapted to section the pixels, and the pixel separation film is formed in an area corresponding to an area between a boundary between the pixels adjacent to each other and an outer periphery of the retroreflective body.
US09450205B2
An opto-electric device includes an opto-electric layer structure having an anode and a cathode layer and an opto-electric layer arranged between the anode and cathode layers, and having a light-transmission side. A dual electrically conductive layer structure is arranged at a side of the opto-electric layer structure opposite the light-transmission side, the dual electrically conductive layer structure having a first and a second electrically conductive layer mutually insulated by a first electrically insulating layer. A second electrically insulating layer is arranged between the light emitting layer structure and the dual electrically conductive layer structure, wherein the first electrically conductive layer is electrically connected by at least a first transverse electrical conductor with the anode layer and the second electrically conductive layer is electrically connected by at least a second transverse electrical conductor with the cathode layer.
US09450204B2
The invention provides an electro-optical device that has luminescent elements of a long lifetime by preventing oxygen or moisture from entering to luminescent layers or electrodes even in case of an electrode-optical device provided with a number of luminescent layers and an electronic apparatus provided with the electro-optical device. The invention can include an electro-optical device having first electrodes on a base body, a plurality of element areas including element layers including at least one functional layers disposed above the first electrodes, a second electrode formed above the element layers, a surrounding sections disposed on the base body so as to cover outer sides of the element layers included the element areas in the nearest proximity of the periphery of the base body, and a gas-barrier layer covering over the second electrode. Outer sides of the surrounding sections can be covered with the second electrode, and the gas-barrier layer can be in contact with the base body.
US09450198B2
An OLED includes a suppression mechanism and multiple dopants in its organic emissive layer. The organic emissive layer includes a host, a first compound capable of phosphorescent emission at room temperature, and a second compound capable of phosphorescent emission at room temperature. The suppression mechanism is capable of preferentially reducing the emission of light emitted by the second compound. The organic emissive layer may also contain a third compound capable of phosphorescent emission at room temperature.
US09450193B2
A compound for an organic photoelectric device, the compound being represented by the following Chemical Formula (“CF”) 1:
US09450180B1
A method of making a magnetic random access memory (MRAM) device includes depositing a spacer material on an electrode; forming a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) on the spacer material that includes a reference layer in contact with the spacer material, a free layer, and a tunnel barrier layer; patterning a hard mask on the free layer; etching the MTJ and the spacer material to transfer a pattern of the hard mask into the MTJ and the spacer material; forming an insulating layer along a sidewall of the hard mask, the MTJ, and the spacer material; disposing an interlayer dielectric (ILD) on and around the hard mask, MTJ, and spacer material; etching through the ILD to form a trench that extends to a surface and sidewall of the hard mask and a sidewall of a portion of the MTJ; and disposing a metal in the trench to form a contact electrode.
US09450163B1
An SMD includes a substrate and one or more electrical contacts on a first surface of the substrate. Each one of the electrical contacts are configured to couple to a corresponding electrical contact located on a surface of a carrier, and are located within a concentric area of the first surface that is less than about 50% of a total area of the first surface. By providing the electrical contacts within the concentric area, the mechanical stress experienced by the electrical contacts can be significantly reduced when compared to conventional SMDs including electrical contacts on the outer edges thereof. Accordingly, the failure rate of the SMD due to separation of one or more of the electrical contacts from the carrier may be reduced.
US09450162B2
Certain example embodiments relate to improved lighting systems and/or methods of making the same. In certain example embodiments, a lighting system includes a glass substrate with one or more apertures. An LED or other light source is disposed at one end of the aperture such that light from the LED directed through the aperture of the glass substrate exits the opposite end of the aperture. Inner surfaces of the aperture have a mirroring material such as silver to reflect the emitted light from the LED. In certain example embodiments, a remote phosphor article or layer is disposed opposite the LED at the other end of the aperture. In certain example embodiment, a lens is disposed in the aperture, between the remote phosphor article and the LED.
US09450158B2
An optical semiconductor device includes a metal lead frame including first and second plate portions, an optical semiconductor element mounted on the metal lead frame, and a reflector provided around the optical semiconductor element. A material for the reflector is an epoxy resin composition containing: (A) an epoxy resin; (B) a curing agent; (C) a white pigment; (D) an inorganic filler; and (E) at least one of a carboxylic acid and water. Components (C) and (D) are present in a total proportion of 69 to 94 wt % based on the amount of the overall epoxy resin composition, and the component (E) is present in a proportion of 4 to 23 mol % based on the total amount of the components (B) and (E). The resin composition has a higher glass transition temperature, and is excellent in moldability and blocking resistance and substantially free from warpage.
US09450153B2
Disclosed herein are a light emitting diode including a plurality of protrusions including zinc oxide and a method for manufacturing the same. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the light emitting diode includes: a substrate; a nitride light emitting structure disposed on the substrate; and a transparent electrode layer disposed on the nitride light emitting structure, wherein the transparent electrode layer includes a plurality of protrusions, the plurality of protrusions each have a lower portion and an upper portion, and a side of the lower portion and a side of the upper portion have different gradients.
US09450152B2
Systems and methods for improved light emitting efficiency of a solid state transducer (SST), for example light emitting diodes (LED), are disclosed. One embodiment of an SST die in accordance with the technology includes a reflective material disposed over electrical connectors on a front side of the die. The reflective material has a higher reflectivity than a base material of the connectors such that light traveling toward the connectors reflects back out of the device.
US09450139B2
A method for forming an amorphous semiconductor which contains an impurity element and has low resistivity and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device with excellent electrical characteristics with high yield are provided. In the method for forming an amorphous semiconductor containing an impurity element, which utilizes a plasma CVD method, pulse-modulated discharge inception voltage is applied to electrodes under the pressure and electrode distance with which the minimum discharge inception voltage according to Paschen's Law can be obtained, whereby the amorphous semiconductor which contains an impurity element and has low resistivity is formed.
US09450137B2
A device and a method for fitting solar cell contact wires providing a series connection, and which run continuously in a string direction to join a front solar cell wafer and a rear solar cell wafer.The device includes a wire-laying mechanism having a wire feed gripper, a wire transport gripper movable in the string direction relative to the wire feed gripper, a wire-holding gripper to grip and hold the contact wires behind the wafer-holding position for the rear solar cell wafer, and a wire cutter. Once a front solar cell wafer has been positioned, the contact wires are transferred from the wire feed gripper to the wire transport gripper, are advanced in the string direction over the wafer-holding position, are gripped and held by the wire-holding gripper, and are then cut behind the wire-holding gripper by the wire cutter.
US09450133B2
Thin film transistors including an oxide semiconductor containing indium, gallium, and zinc are easily arranged in a matrix over a large substrate and have small characteristic variations. With amplifier circuits and driver circuits of display elements which include the thin film transistors including an oxide semiconductor containing indium, gallium, and zinc with small characteristic variations, intensity distribution of light received by the photodiodes arranged in a matrix is converted into electrical signals with high reproducibility and output, and the display elements arranged in a matrix can be uniformly driven.
US09450123B2
A design of a quantum well region that allows faster and more efficient carrier collection in quantum well solar cells. It is shown that for a quantum well material system displaying a negligible valence band offset, the conduction band confinement energies and barrier thicknesses can be designed to favor a sequential thermionic promotion and resonant tunneling of electrons to the conduction band continuum resulting in faster carrier collection rates than for a conventional design. An evaluation of the proposed design in the context of devices incorporating GaAs/GaAsN quantum wells shows a collection of all photo-generated carriers within several to tenths of ps (10−12 s) from deep quantum wells rather than several ns, as it is the case for conventional designs. The incorporation of the proposed design in single and multijunction solar cells is evaluated with efficiency enhancements.
US09450121B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a photoelectric conversion device that includes a non-chalcopyrite-based compound semiconductor of at least one layer, which is lattice bonded or pseudo lattice bonded, and is formed on a silicon substrate, and a chalcopyrite-based compound semiconductor of at least one layer which is formed on the non-chalcopyrite-based compound semiconductor.
US09450119B2
Disclosed is a p-type organic semiconductive material that is easy to produce and that has a high planarity in its polymer skeleton, and also provides a photoelectric conversion material, a photoelectric conversion layer, a photoelectric conversion element, and an organic thin film solar cell each having high photoelectric conversion efficiency and using the p-type organic semiconductive material. Specifically, the invention provides a bibenzo[b]furan compound having at least one constitutional unit represented by the following formula (1) or (2), as well as a photoelectric conversion material, a photoelectric conversion layer, a photoelectric conversion element, and an organic thin film solar cell each using that compound for a p-type organic semiconductive material. (In the formulae, R13 and R14 each represent a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, a chlorine atom, a bromine atom, an iodine atom, an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group, an optionally substituted hydrocarbonoxy group, or an optionally substituted heterocyclic group.)
US09450107B1
An electrically programmable read only memory (EPROM) cell includes a semiconductor layer having a first conductivity, a first junction region having a second conductivity and a second junction region having the second conductivity, wherein the first and the second junction regions are disposed in an upper region of the semiconductor layer and spaced apart from each other, a gate insulation pattern and a floating gate pattern sequentially stacked over the semiconductor layer between the first and second junction regions, a first metal contact plug coupled to the first junction region, wherein an ohmic contact is formed between the first metal contact plug and the first junction region, and a second metal contact plug coupled to the second junction region, wherein a schottky contact is formed between the second metal contact plug and the second junction region.
US09450104B2
The semiconductor device includes an oxide semiconductor film having a first region and a pair of second regions facing each other with the first region provided therebetween, a gate insulating film over the oxide semiconductor film, and a first electrode overlapping with the first region, over the gate insulating film. The first region is a non-single-crystal oxide semiconductor region including a c-axis-aligned crystal portion. The pair of second regions is an oxide semiconductor region containing dopant and including a plurality of crystal portions.
US09450102B2
Electrical characteristics of a semiconductor device including the oxide semiconductor are improved. Furthermore, a highly reliable transistor with small variation in electrical characteristics is manufactured. An oxynitride insulating film functioning as a base insulating film and a transistor in contact with the oxynitride insulating film are provided. The transistor includes an oxide semiconductor film in contact with the oxynitride insulating film functioning as a base insulating film. The total amount of gas having a mass-to-charge ratio of 30 released from the oxynitride insulating film by heat treatment and double of the amount of a gas having a mass-to-charge ratio of 32 released from the oxynitride insulating film by heat treatment is greater than or equal to 5×1015/cm2 and less than or equal to 5×1016/cm2, or greater than or equal to 5×1015/cm2 and less than or equal to 3×1016/cm2.
US09450100B2
A semiconductor arrangement that includes: a substrate; a back gate formed on the substrate; fins formed on opposite sides of the back gate; and back gate dielectric layers interposed between the back gate and the respective fins. The back gate has opposite end portions recessed with respect to a middle portion thereof between the end portions, so that an overlap area between each of the end portions and each of the fins is smaller than an overlap area between the middle portion and the fin.
US09450098B2
A fin field effect transistor (FinFET) device is provided. The FinFET includes a superlattice layer and a strained layer. The superlattice layer is supported by a substrate. The strained layer is disposed on the superlattice layer and provides a gate channel. The gate channel is stressed by the superlattice layer. In an embodiment, the superlattice layer is formed by stacking different silicon germanium alloys or stacking other III-V semiconductor materials.
US09450094B1
A semiconductor process includes the following steps. A fin on a substrate is provided. Spacers are formed only on sidewalls of the fin, where a top surface of the fin is higher than or equal to top surfaces of the spacers. An epitaxial structure is formed on the fin. The present invention also provides a fin-shaped field effect transistor including a fin, spacers and an epitaxial structure. The fin is located on a substrate. The spacers are disposed only on sidewalls of the fin, where a top surface of the fin is higher than or equal to top surfaces of the spacers. The epitaxial structure is disposed on the fin.
US09450085B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having first regions of a first conductivity type and body regions of the first conductivity type, which are arranged in a manner adjoining the first region and overlap the latter in each case on a side of the first region which faces a first surface of the semiconductor substrate, and having a multiplicity of drift zone regions arranged between the first regions and composed of a semiconductor material of a second conductivity type, which is different than the first conductivity type. The first regions and the drift zone regions are arranged alternately and form a superjunction structure. The semiconductor device further includes a gate electrode formed in a trench in the semiconductor substrate.
US09450084B2
A semiconductor device having high reliability and high load short circuit withstand capability while maintaining a low ON resistance is provided, by using a WBG semiconductor as a switching element of an inverter circuit. In the semiconductor device for application to a switching element of an inverter circuit, a band gap of a semiconductor material is wider than that of silicon, a circuit that limits a current when a main transistor is short circuited is provided, and the main transistor that mainly serves to pass a current, a sensing transistor that is connected in parallel to the main transistor and detects a microcurrent proportional to a current flowing in the main transistor, and a lateral MOSFET that controls a gate of the main transistor on the basis of an output of the sensing transistor are formed on the same semiconductor.
US09450079B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device that includes forming an in-situ doped semiconductor material on a semiconductor substrate, and forming fin structures from the in-situ doped semiconductor material. A sacrificial channel portion of the fin structures may be removed, wherein a source region and a drain region portion of the fin structures of the in-situ doped semiconductor material remain. The sacrificial channel portion of the fin structure may then be replaced with a functional channel region.
US09450078B1
In forming a punch-through stopper region in a fin field effect transistor (finFET) device, a substrate may be etched to form a pair of trenches that define a fin structure. A portion of a first dose of ions may be implanted into the substrate through a bottom wall of each trench to form a pair of first dopant regions that at least partially extend under a channel region of the fin structure. The substrate at the bottom wall of each trench may be etched to increase a depth of each trench. Etching the substrate at the bottom wall of each trench may remove a portion of each first dopant region under each trench. A remaining portion of the pair of first dopant regions under the fin structure may at least partially define the punch-through stopper region of the finFET device.
US09450070B2
A method for manufacturing a silicon semiconductor substrate including a diffusion layer prior to forming a semiconductor device thereon, includes providing a silicon semiconductor substrate which is manufactured by a floating zone method; and performing thermal diffusion at a heat treatment temperature that is equal to or higher than 1290° C. and that is lower than a melting temperature of a silicon crystal to form a diffusion layer with a depth of 50 μm or more in the silicon semiconductor substrate, the thermal diffusion including a first heat treatment performed in an atmosphere consisting of oxygen or oxygen and at least one of argon, helium, or neon, followed by a second heat treatment performed in an atmosphere comprised of nitrogen or nitrogen and oxygen to form the diffusion layer. The method suppresses the occurrence of crystal defects, reduces the amount of inert gas used, and reduces manufacturing costs.
US09450066B2
Methods for forming a vertically movable gate field effect transistor (VMGFET) on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer are described. The methods include providing a process of making VMGFET devices without critical alignment of masks between sequential etch and diffusion steps. The oxide layer of the SOI wafer is used for a self-limiting etch stop layer and for a sacrificial layer to form an insulating layer between a gate electrode and a substrate. The proper location of the gate electrode with respect to the source and drain junctions is insured by using a silicon gate structure as a mask layer for the diffusion process for defining the source and drain junctions.
US09450064B1
A semiconductor element includes: a substrate; a gate dielectric layer formed over the substrate; a flat band voltage adjusting layer formed over the gate dielectric layer; and an intermediate layer formed between the gate dielectric layer and the flat band voltage adjusting layer. A negative flat band voltage generated at the intermediate layer and a positive flat band voltage generated between the substrate and the gate dielectric layer may offset each other.
US09450059B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate with a groove for forming an embedded gate therein, and a gate electrode embedded via a gate insulator film in the groove. A portion of the semiconductor substrate near the gate electrode is doped with a chemical element which is inactive in the semiconductor substrate.
US09450056B2
An LDMOS transistor with a dummy gate comprises an extended drift region formed over a substrate, a drain region formed in the extended drift region, a channel region formed in the extended drift region, a source region formed in the channel region and a dielectric layer formed over the extended drift region. The LDMOS transistor with a dummy gate further comprises an active gate formed over the channel region and a dummy gate formed over the extended drift region. The dummy gate helps to reduce the gate charge of the LDMOS transistor while maintaining the breakdown voltage of the LDMOS transistor.
US09450054B2
A semiconductor substrate has a main surface and formed of single crystal silicon carbide. The main surface includes a central area, which is an area other than the area within 5 mm from the outer circumference. When the central area is divided into square areas of 1 mm×1 mm, in any square area, density of dislocations of which Burgers vector is parallel to <0001> direction is at most 1×105 cm−2. Thus, a silicon carbide semiconductor substrate enabling improved yield of semiconductor devices can be provided.
US09450045B1
A fabrication method to form a lateral superjunction structure in a semiconductor device uses N and P type ion implantations into a base epitaxial layer. In some embodiments, the base epitaxial layer is an intrinsic epitaxial layer or a lightly doped epitaxial layer. The method performs simultaneous N and P type ion implantations into the base epitaxial layer. The epitaxial and implantation processes are repeated successively to form multiple implanted base epitaxial layers on a semiconductor base layer. After the desired number of implanted base epitaxial layers is formed, the semiconductor structure is subjected to annealing to form a lateral superjunction structure including alternate N and P type thin semiconductor regions. In particular, the alternating N and P type thin superjunction layers are formed by the ion implantation process and subsequent annealing. The fabrication method of the present invention ensures good charge control in the lateral superjunction structure.
US09450039B2
An organic light emitting display apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The organic light emitting display apparatus includes, for example, a bus electrode, an insulating layer covering the bus electrode and having a bus electrode hole exposing at least a part of the bus electrode, a pixel electrode formed on the insulating layer and electrically coupled with the bus electrode, a pixel defining layer exposing a part of the pixel electrode and a part of the bus electrode, a first intermediate layer on the pixel defining layer and the pixel electrode, the first intermediate layer having a first opening to expose the part of the bus electrode, an emission layer disposed on the first intermediate layer, and an opposite electrode to correspond to the pixel electrode and the bus electrode and contacting the bus electrode through the first opening and the bus electrode hole.
US09450029B2
Provided are OLED display panel and method for manufacturing the same. The OLED display panel includes a plurality of pixel units, each of the plurality of pixel units includes a light emitting region and a light transmitting region, the light emitting region is provided with a white organic light emitting device and a color filter; the light transmitting region is not provided with the color filter. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a light transmitting region is particular added on the color filter, so that the transmittance can be increased, so as to obtain a better transparent display effect without an extra process, which can be achieved only by appropriately adjusting design.
US09450017B2
A semiconductor light emitting device comprises a first electrode contacting layer, a first active layer on the first electrode contacting layer, a second electrode contacting layer on the first active layer, a second active layer on the second electrode contacting layer, and a third electrode contacting layer on the second active layer.
US09450011B2
At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a solid state image sensor including at least one antireflective layer and/or non rectangular shaped wiring layer cross section to reduce dark currents and 1/f noise.
US09450010B2
Provided are a semiconductor device in which a solid-state image sensing element having a backside-illuminated structure and capacitor elements storing therein some of the charges supplied from light receiving elements has further improved reliability and a manufacturing method thereof. In the solid-state image sensing element of the semiconductor device, first and second substrates are joined together at a junction surface. The first substrate is formed with photodiodes. The second substrate is formed with the capacitor elements. The photodiodes and the capacitor elements are placed to be opposed to each other. In the first substrate, first coupling portions for coupling to the second substrate are placed. In the second substrate, second coupling portions for coupling to the first substrate are placed. A first gap portion between the first coupling portions and a second gap portion between the second coupling portions are placed to overlap a first light blocking film.
US09450003B2
A solid-state imaging device including a photoelectric conversion element operable to generate electric charge according to the amount of incident light and to accumulate the electric charge in the inside thereof, an electric-charge holding region in which the electric charge generated through photoelectric conversion by the photoelectric conversion element is held until read out, and a transfer gate having a complete transfer path through which the electric charge accumulated in the photoelectric conversion element is completely transferred into the electric-charge holding region, and an intermediate transfer path through which the electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion element during an exposure period and being in excess of a predetermined charge amount is transferred into the electric-charge holding region. The complete transfer path and the intermediate transfer path are formed in different regions.
US09449999B2
The present invention provides an ID chip or an IC card in which the mechanical strength of an integrated circuit can be enhanced without suppressing a circuit scale. An ID chip or an IC card of the present invention has an integrated circuit in which a TFT (a thin film transistor) is formed from an insulated thin semiconductor film. Further, an ID chip or an IC card of the present invention has a light-emitting element and a light-receiving element each using a non-single-crystal thin film for a layer conducting photoelectric conversion. Such a light-emitting element or a light-receiving element may be formed consecutively to (integrally with) an integrated circuit or may be formed separately and attached to an integrated circuit.
US09449998B2
A pixel structure and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The pixel structure includes a substrate, a scan line, a data line, a first insulating layer, an active device, a second insulating layer, a common electrode and a first pixel electrode. The data line crossed to the scan line is disposed on the substrate and includes a linear transmitting part and a cross-line transmitting part. The first insulating layer covering the scan line and the linear transmitting part is disposed between the scan line and the cross-line transmitting part. The active device, including a gate, an oxide channel, a source and a drain, is connected to the scan line and the data line. The second insulating layer is disposed on the oxide channel and the linear transmitting part. The common electrode is disposed above the linear transmitting part. The first pixel electrode is connected to the drain.
US09449996B2
To provide a semiconductor device including a capacitor whose charge capacity is increased without reducing the aperture ratio. The semiconductor device includes a transistor including a light-transmitting semiconductor film, a capacitor where a dielectric film is provided between a pair of electrodes, an insulating film provided over the light-transmitting semiconductor film, and a light-transmitting conductive film provided over the insulating film. In the capacitor, a metal oxide film containing at least indium (In) or zinc (Zn) and formed on the same surface as the light-transmitting semiconductor film in the transistor serves as one electrode, the light-transmitting conductive film serves as the other electrode, and the insulating film provided over the light-transmitting semiconductor film serves as the dielectric film.
US09449995B2
An array substrate and manufacturing method thereof and a display device are provided. The array substrate comprises a substrate (10) and a plurality of complementary thin film transistors provided on the substrate (10). The plurality of complementary thin film transistors comprise a first N-type thin film transistor (11) and a second P-type thin film transistor (12), and the first thin film transistor (11) is an oxide thin film transistor and the second thin film transistor (12) is a poly-silicon thin film transistor. The method of manufacturing the array substrate simplifies the manufacturing process and reduces production difficulty and cost.
US09449992B2
A display apparatus includes a first base substrate, a touch sensing part provided on the first base substrate, an electronic device provided on the first base substrate, a black matrix provided on the first base substrate, a signal line provided on the black matrix to apply a driving signal to the electronic device, a second base substrate facing the first base substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first base substrate and the second base substrate.
US09449987B1
A method of fabricating a memory device is provided. The method includes forming a first alternating stack of insulator layers and spacer material layers over a semiconductor substrate, etching the first alternating stack to expose a single crystalline semiconductor material, forming a first epitaxial semiconductor pedestal on the single crystalline semiconductor material, such that the first epitaxial semiconductor pedestal is in epitaxial alignment with the single crystalline semiconductor material, forming an array of memory stack structures through the first alternating stack, and forming at least one semiconductor device over the first epitaxial semiconductor pedestal.
US09449984B2
A three dimensional memory device including a substrate and a semiconductor channel. At least one end portion of the semiconductor channel extends substantially perpendicular to a major surface of the substrate. The device also includes at least one charge storage region located adjacent to semiconductor channel and a plurality of control gate electrodes having a strip shape extending substantially parallel to the major surface of the substrate. The plurality of control gate electrodes include at least a first control gate electrode located in a first device level and a second control gate electrode located in a second device level located over the major surface of the substrate and below the first device level. Each of the plurality of control gate electrodes includes a first edge surface which is substantially free of silicide, the first edge surface facing the semiconductor channel and the at least one charge storage region and a silicide located on remaining surfaces of the control gate electrode.
US09449981B2
A method includes forming an amorphous or polycrystalline semiconductor material over at least a portion of a sidewall of a front side opening and within front side recesses in a stack of alternating first and second material layers, forming a layer of a metal material over at least a portion of the sidewall of the front side opening and adjacent to the semiconductor material within the front side recesses; annealing the metal material and the semiconductor material within the front side recesses to form a large grain polycrystalline or single crystal semiconductor material charge storage region within each of the front side recesses by a metal induced crystallization process, and forming a tunnel dielectric layer and semiconductor channel in the front side opening. Following the metal induced crystallization process, at least a portion of the metal material is located between the charge storage regions and the second material layers.
US09449973B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate; a first inverter disposed on the substrate and receiving a voltage from any one of a bit line and a complementary bit line; a semiconductor layer disposed on the first inverter; and first and third switch devices disposed on the semiconductor layer and adjusting a threshold voltage of the first inverter to a voltage level of any one of the bit line and the complementary bit line.
US09449971B2
An embodiment is a method including forming a first fin on a substrate, the first fin having a first longitudinal axis, forming a first trench having a first width in the first fin, the first trench dividing the first fin into at least two fin portions, forming a first gate structure and first source/drain regions over one of the at least two fin portions of the first fin, and forming a second gate structure and second source/drain regions over another of the at least two fin portions of the first fin.
US09449969B1
An embodiment integrated circuit includes a switch and a conductive line over the switch. The switch includes a gate, a first source/drain region at a top surface of a semiconductor substrate, and a second source/drain region at the top surface of the semiconductor substrate. The first source/drain region and the second source/drain region are disposed on opposing sides of the gate. At least a portion of the first conductive line is aligned with the gate, and the first conductive line is electrically coupled to ground.
US09449966B2
A three-dimensional (3D) semiconductor device is provided, comprising a substrate having a staircase region comprising N steps, wherein N is an integer one or greater; a stack having multi-layers on the substrate, and the multi-layers comprising active layers alternating with insulating layers on the substrate, the stack comprising a plurality of sub-stacks formed on the substrate and the sub-stacks disposed in relation to the N steps to form respective contact regions; and a plurality of connectors formed in the respective contact regions, and the connectors extending downwardly to connect a bottom layer under the multi-layers.
US09449964B2
A semiconductor structure includes a metal gate, a second dielectric layer and a contact plug. The metal gate is located on a substrate and in a first dielectric layer, wherein the metal gate includes a work function metal layer having a U-shaped cross-sectional profile and a low resistivity material located on the work function metal layer. The second dielectric layer is located on the metal gate and the first dielectric layer. The contact plug is located on the second dielectric layer and in a third dielectric layer, thereby a capacitor is formed. Moreover, the present invention also provides a semiconductor process forming said semiconductor structure.
US09449959B2
A device includes a first bidirectional PNP circuit coupled to a first output of an communication circuit, and a second bidirectional PNP circuit coupling to a second output of the communication circuit. The first and second bi-direction PNP circuits have coupled outputs and a first breakdown voltage. A third bidirectional PNP circuit is coupled to ground via the coupled outputs of the first bidirectional PNP circuit and of the second bidirectional PNP circuit. The third bidirectional PNP circuit has a second breakdown voltage. In some arrangements, a sum of the first breakdown voltage and the second breakdown voltage exceeds 60 volts. The communication circuit can be an automotive application circuit for a serial automotive communication application. The first and second bidirectional transistor circuits can form a part of a cell of an integrated circuit having an isolation structure to sustain high voltage.
US09449951B2
A semiconductor device includes an insulating substrate including a first surface and an opposing second surface, and a semiconductor chip. The semiconductor chip is mounted over the first surface, includes signal electrodes, power-supply electrodes and ground electrodes, which connect to pads on the first surface of the insulating substrate. Lands provided on the second surface of the insulating substrate include signal lands, power-supply lands and ground lands through vias penetrate from the first surface to the second surface of the insulating substrate, and include signal vias electrically connected the signal connection pads to the signal lands, power-supply vias electrically connected the power-supply connection pads to the power-supply lands and ground vias electrically connected the ground connection pads to the ground lands. At least one of the signal vias are closer to the connection pads than immediately adjacent one of the power-supply vias or the ground vias.
US09449942B1
A method for making a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) device on fabric is described herein. In a first example, an RFID semiconductor chip is attached to a piece of fabric. The RFID semiconductor chip includes two terminals. A solid wire is stitched into the fabric making an RFID antenna. The solid wire is attached to the terminals of the RFID semiconductor chip. In a second example, a metal wire is selected. The metal wire is stitched into fabric making an RFID antenna. The metal wire includes two ends and a conductive adhesive is applied to two ends of the metal wire. An RFID semiconductor chip is attached to the fabric. The RFID semiconductor chip includes two terminals and the RFID semiconductor chip is attached to the fabric at the two terminals. The conductive adhesive is cured. In both examples, the wire and the RFID semiconductor chip are encapsulated in fabric.
US09449939B2
An electronic device (10, 20, 30, 40) is provided which comprises a substrate (16) supporting an inorganic layer (11) and a joint (13), mechanically coupling a contacting element (14) to the inorganic layer (11). At least a first load distributing layer (12a) is arranged in direct contact with the inorganic layer (11) at a position of the joint (13) for relieving stress caused by an elastic mismatch between the substrate (16) and the inorganic layer (11).
US09449935B1
A semiconductor device includes a chip having an active surface and a rear surface that is opposite to the active surface; a molding compound covering and encapsulating the chip except for the active surface; and a redistribution layer (RDL) on the active surface and on the molding compound. The RDL is electrically connected to the chip. The RDL includes an organic dielectric layer and an inorganic dielectric hard mask layer on the organic dielectric layer. The RDL further includes metal features in the organic dielectric layer and the inorganic dielectric hard mask layer.
US09449933B2
A device includes a first and a second package component. A metal trace is disposed on a surface of the first package component. The metal trace has a lengthwise direction. The second package component includes a metal pillar, wherein the second package component is disposed over the first package component. A solder region bonds the metal pillar to the metal trace, wherein the solder region contacts a top surface of the metal trace.
US09449918B2
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.
US09449907B2
Various methods and apparatus for joining stacked substrates to a circuit board are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of manufacturing is provided that includes coupling plural substrates to form a stack. At least one of the plural substrates is a semiconductor chip. Plural conductive vias are formed in a first of the plural substrates. Each of the plural conductive vias includes a first end positioned in the first substrate and a second end projecting out of the first substrate.
US09449901B1
A packaged integrated circuit (IC) device having a heatsink mounted onto an IC die, itself mounted onto a die pad, is assembled using a lead frame having tie bars that deflect during an encapsulation phase of the device assembly, which enables the die pad, the die, and the heatsink to move relative to the lead frame support structure when compressive force is applied by the molding tool. This movement results in negligible relative displacement between the heatsink and the die during encapsulation, which reduces the probability of physical damage to the die. Each tie bar has a number of differently angled sections that enable it to deflect when compressive force is applied to it.
US09449895B2
A cooling system for molded modules includes a plurality of individual modules each including a semiconductor die encapsulated by a mold compound, a plurality of leads electrically connected to the semiconductor die and at least partly uncovered by the mold compound, and a cooling plate at least partly uncovered by the mold compound. A molded body surrounds a periphery of each individual module to form a multi-die module. The leads of each individual module and the cooling plates are at least partly uncovered by the molded body. A lid with a port is attached to a periphery of the molded body at a first side of the multi-die module. The lid seals the multi-die module at the first side to form a cavity between the lid and the molded body for permitting fluid exiting or entering the port to contact the cooling plates of each individual module.
US09449886B2
A semiconductor device and method of formation are provided herein. A semiconductor device includes a first active region adjacent a first side of a shallow trench isolation (STI) region. The first active region including a first proximal fin having a first proximal fin height adjacent the STI region, and a first distal fin having a first distal fin height adjacent the first proximal fin, the first proximal fin height less than the first distal fin height. The STI region includes oxide, the oxide having an oxide volume, where the oxide volume is inversely proportional to the first proximal fin height. A method of formation includes forming a first proximal fin with a first proximal fin height less than a first distal fin height of a first distal fin, such that the first proximal fin is situated between the first distal fin and an STI region.
US09449874B1
A method of forming electrically conductive structures that includes forming a copper containing layer including a barrier forming element, and applying a first anneal to the copper containing layer. The first anneal increases grain size of the copper in the copper containing layer. The copper containing layer is etched to provide a plurality of copper containing lines. A dielectric fill is deposited in the space between adjacent copper containing lines. A second anneal is applied to the plurality of copper containing lines. During the second anneal the barrier forming element diffuse to an interface between sidewalls of the copper containing lines and the dielectric fill to form a barrier layer along the sidewalls of the copper containing lines.
US09449867B2
The present disclosure relates to an integrated microsystem with a protection barrier structure, and an associated method. In some embodiments, the integrated microsystem comprises a first die having a plurality of CMOS devices disposed thereon, a second die having a plurality of MEMS devices disposed thereon and a vapor hydrofluoric acid (vHF) etch barrier structure disposed between the first die and the second die. The second die is bonded to the first die at a bond interface region. The vHF etch barrier structure comprises a vHF barrier layer over an upper surface of the first die, and a stress reduction layer arranged between the vHF etch barrier layer and the upper surface of the first die.
US09449866B2
The invention discloses a treatment process for a semiconductor, comprising providing a substrate, the substrate comprises silicon material; defining a trench region; removing the trench region using a plasma etching process and exposing a trench surface, the trench surface comprising surface defects; forming an oxidation layer overlaying the trench surface; removing the oxidation layer and at least a portion of the surface defects; expositing a treated trench surface, the treated trench surface being substantially free from surface defects; and forming a layer of silicon germanium material overlaying the treated trench surface. The invention further provides a semiconductor processing technique used to eliminate or reduce dislocation defect on the semiconductor device and improve device performance. In the treatment process, a substrate is subjected to at least one oxidation-deoxidation processes, where an oxidation layer is formed and then removed.
US09449856B2
The present invention provides an encapsulant with a base for use in semiconductor encapsulation, for collectively encapsulating a device mounting surface of a substrate on which semiconductor devices are mounted, or a device forming surface of a wafer on which semiconductor devices are formed, the encapsulant comprising the base, an encapsulating resin layer composed of an uncured or semi-cured thermosetting resin formed on one surface of the base, and a surface resin layer formed on the other surface of the base. The encapsulant enables a semiconductor apparatus having a good appearance and laser marking property to be manufactured.
US09449852B2
A semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor with stable electric characteristics and high reliability is provided. An island-shaped oxide semiconductor layer is formed by using a resist mask, the resist mask is removed, oxygen is introduced (added) to the oxide semiconductor layer, and heat treatment is performed. The removal of the resist mask, introduction of the oxygen, and heat treatment are performed successively without exposure to the air. Through the oxygen introduction and heat treatment, impurities such as hydrogen, moisture, a hydroxyl group, or hydride are intentionally removed from the oxide semiconductor layer, whereby the oxide semiconductor layer is highly purified. Chlorine may be introduced to an insulating layer over which the oxide semiconductor layer is formed before formation of the oxide semiconductor layer. By introducing chlorine, hydrogen in the insulating layer can be fixed, thereby preventing diffusion of hydrogen from the insulating layer into the oxide semiconductor layer.
US09449840B1
A method includes forming a template portion to provide a first opening trench portion surrounding a first isolated pattern, and forming an array of pillars on an underlying layer; forming a separation wall layer including first separation wall portions surrounding sidewalls of the pillars, and forming second separation wall portions covering sidewalls of the first opening trench portion; forming a block copolymer layer on the separation wall layer; forming first domains in gaps between the pillars, and forming second domains surrounding and separating the first domains by annealing the block copolymer layer; forming second openings by selectively removing the first domains; forming third openings between the second openings, and forming a fourth opening adjacent to the first isolated pattern by selectively removing the pillars and the template portion; and forming fifth openings, which extend from the second and third openings and penetrate the underlying layer, and forming a sixth opening, which extends from the fourth opening and penetrates the underlying layer.
US09449838B2
In a semiconductor device manufacturing method, a target object including a multilayer film and a mask formed on the multilayer film is prepared in a processing chamber of a plasma processing apparatus. The multilayer film is formed by alternately stacking a silicon oxide film and a silicon nitride film. The multilayer film is etched by supplying a processing gas containing hydrogen gas, hydrogen bromide gas, nitrogen trifluoride gas and at least one of hydrocarbon gas, fluorohydrocarbon gas and fluorocarbon gas into the processing chamber of the plasma processing apparatus and generating a plasma of the processing gas in the processing chamber.
US09449836B2
There is provided a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device including forming a first pattern of first features, according to a lithography process, in a photoresist layer disposed on a substrate, the lithography process having a minimum printable dimension and a minimum printable pitch, applying an additional layer on the photoresist layer having the first pattern formed therein, forming a second pattern of second features in the additional layer, the second features concentric with the first features, and etching portions of the substrate exposed through the second pattern. Further, in the provided method, the first features include geometrical features separated by a distance less than the dimension of minimum printable feature, and the geometrical features are disposed at a pitch less than the minimum printable pitch.
US09449824B2
A method for an improved doping process allows for improved control of doping concentrations on a substrate. The method may comprise printing a polymeric material on a substrate in a desired pattern; and depositing a barrier layer on the substrate with a liquid phase deposition process, wherein a pattern of the barrier layer is defined by the polymeric material. The method further comprises removing the polymeric material, and doping the substrate. The barrier layer substantially prevents or reduces doping of the substrate to allow patterned doping regions to be formed on the substrate. The method can be repeated to allow additional doping regions to be formed on the substrate.
US09449816B2
A method of fabricating a graphene oxide material in which oxidation is confined within the graphene layer and that possesses a desired band gap is provided. The method allows specific band gap values to be developed. Additionally, the use of masks is consistent with the method, so intricate configurations can be achieved. The resulting graphene oxide material is thus completely customizable and can be adapted to a plethora of useful engineering applications.
US09449812B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide hydrogen-free dielectric films and methods of fabrication. A hydrogen-free precursor, such as tetraisocyanatosilane, and hydrogen-free reactants, such as nitrogen, oxygen (O2/O3) and nitrous oxide are used with chemical vapor deposition processes (PECVD, thermal CVD, SACVD, HDP CVD, and PE and Thermal ALD) to create hydrogen-free dielectric films. In some embodiments, there are multilayer dielectric films with sublayers of various materials such as silicon oxide, silicon nitride, and silicon oxynitride. In embodiments, the hydrogen-free reactants may include Tetra Isocyanato Silane, along with a hydrogen-free gas including, but not limited to, N2, O2, O3, N2O, CO2, CO and a combination thereof of these H-Free gases. Plasma may be used to enhance the reaction between the TICS and the other H-free gasses. The plasma may be controlled during film deposition to achieve variable density within each sublayer of the films.
US09449797B2
A component of a plasma processing chamber having a protective liquid layer on a plasma exposed surface of the component. The protective liquid layer can be replenished by supplying a liquid to a liquid channel and delivering the liquid through liquid feed passages in the component. The component can be an edge ring which surrounds a semiconductor substrate supported on a substrate support in a plasma processing apparatus wherein plasma is generated and used to process the semiconductor substrate. Alternatively, the protective liquid layer can be cured or cooled sufficiently to form a solid protective layer.
US09449779B2
An aperture cooling structure (a cooling structure used for the open X-ray source) 10 comprises an aperture unit 31 formed with an aperture 33, a holder 34 for holding the aperture unit 31, and a heat dissipator 36 connected to the holder 34. The aperture 33 restricts an electron beam E from passing therethrough on an electron path 4 of an X-ray generator (open X-ray source). The heat dissipator 36 has a heat dissipation member 37 including a coolant flow path constituent part 41 and a heat dissipation member 38 including a coolant flow path constituent part 42. The coolant flow path constituent part 41 and the coolant flow path constituent part 42 are combined with each other, so as to construct a coolant flow path 43.
US09449777B2
A circuit breaker arrangement in supply of electric power has advantageous applications especially in power distribution units which supply DC power to electrical devices. Electromechanical circuit breakers are commonly used for circuit protection. They have a disadvantage of fixed tripping conditions, which can only be changed by changing the circuit breaker component. This is solved by providing a circuit breaker arrangement which has an electromechanical circuit breaker with a first, fixed tripping condition, and an additional circuit, which monitors the output current and mechanically trips the circuit breaker if the current exceeds a second tripping condition. This way, it is possible to use the first tripping condition of the electromechanical circuit breaker and/or a second, controllable tripping condition.
US09449776B2
A circuit breaker comprises a switching mechanism that including a linkage with a drive joint that is mounted to be rotatable around a rotation axis by a driving force, wherein, during the ON operation, an axis formed by the rotation axis and the point of action of the driving force makes an acute angle with the line of action of the driving force, so that the drive joint causes the tangential force of the driving force to act as input load, at least one hinge part of the linkage is configured in a way that the connecting pin is movably hinged to the long hole-shaped hinge hole, and at least one hinge part of the linkage causes the tangential force to increase by changes in the acute angle as the connecting pin moves from a first side of the long hole-shaped hinge hole to a second side.
US09449774B2
A power and control unit for a low or medium voltage apparatus, said apparatus comprising at least a couple of electrical contacts that can be coupled/separated by means of an electro-magnetic actuator, first power storage means for supplying electric power for the operations of said apparatus and power supply means for charging first said power storage means, characterized in that it comprises: a primary control device for managing the operations of said apparatus when said power supply means are available; a secondary control device for managing the operations of said apparatus when said power supply means are not available, said secondary control device being able to receive electric power directly from said first power storage means.
US09449766B2
A composite electronic component may include: a composite body including a capacitor and an inductor coupled to each other, the capacitor having a ceramic body in which dielectric layers and internal electrodes facing each other with the dielectric layers interposed therebetween are stacked, and the inductor having a magnetic body in which magnetic layers having conductive patterns are stacked; an input terminal disposed on a first end surface of the composite body and connected to the conductive pattern of the inductor; an output terminal including a first output terminal formed on a second end surface of the composite body and connected to the conductive pattern of the inductor and a second output terminal disposed on a second side surface of the composite body; and a ground terminal disposed on a first side surface of the composite body and connected to the internal electrodes of the capacitor.
US09449760B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer unit, thickness-direction first and second outer layer sections, and length-direction first and second outer layer sections. A dimension of the thickness-direction second outer layer section is greater than a dimension of the thickness-direction first outer layer section. The thickness-direction second outer layer section includes an inner portion and an outer portion. A composition ratio of Si to Ti in a ceramic dielectric layer included in the outer portion is higher than that in the inner portion. A Si content ratio is higher in a boundary portion between the outer portion and the inner portion. A relationship expressed by T1/(L0−L1)≦5.98 is satisfied when a minimum dimension in the length direction of the body is denoted by L0, a minimum dimension in the thickness direction of the multilayer unit is denoted by T1, and a minimum dimension in the length direction of the multilayer unit is denoted by L1.
US09449756B2
An electromagnetic connector well suited for use in harsh environments. The connector used an E-core or C-core magnetic members for coupling power such as from a backplane to a module mounted on the backplane and using I-cores for coupling signals to and from the module. Separation of the power and signaling allows optimization of each coupling without compromise in performance of each function. Use of I-cores for signal coupling provides efficient use of space, with the use of E-cores or C-cores providing maximum power coupling to the module in a minimum space. Various aspects of exemplary embodiments are disclosed.
US09449754B2
An inductor coil for an inductive energy transfer system includes multiple layers of a single wire having windings that are interlaced within at least two of the multiple layers such that both an input end and an output end of the wire enter and exit the coil on a same side of the coil. The input end and the output end of the wire may abut one another at the location where the input and output wires enter and exit the inductor coil. The wire can include one or more bundles of strands and the strands in each bundle are twisted around an axis extending along a length of the wire, and when there are at least two bundles, the bundles may be twisted around the axis. At least one edge of the inductor coil can be formed into a variety of shapes, such as in a curved shape.
US09449752B2
It is an objective of the invention to provide a dust core made of an Fe-based amorphous metal powder having excellent magnetic properties, in which the dust core has a higher-than-conventional density, excellent magnetic properties and a high mechanical strength. There is provided a dust core including a mixture powder compacted, the mixture powder including: an Fe-based amorphous metal powder having a crystallization temperature Tx (unit: K), the Fe-based amorphous metal powder being plastically deformed, the plastically deformed metal Fe-based amorphous metal powder having a filling factor in the dust core higher than 80% and not higher than 99%; and a resin binder having a melting point Tm (unit: K), in which the Tx and Tm satisfy a relationship of “Tm/Tx≧0.70”.
US09449751B2
A manufacturing method for a reactor in which resin for covering at least a part of a coil is formed integrally with the coil comprise a step of manufacturing a molded product and a step of attaching a temperature sensor such that the temperature sensor is opposed to a first face. The step of manufacturing the molded product includes following i) to iii): i) arranging the reactor in a cavity space for injection-molding of resin; ii) fixing the coil with the surface of a mold brought into contact with the first face and a second face located at positions which sandwich the coil on the periphery of the coil; and iii) injecting resin into the cavity space to cover at least a coil surface around the first face and a coil surface around the second face with the resin, with the first face and the second face exposed.
US09449749B2
A signal handler providing high linearity in a small size, applicable across wide operating frequencies and bandwidths, while also adapted to preferred integrated circuit (IC) and printed circuit board technologies. In one implementation, a signal handling apparatus includes an input impedance transformer for receiving an input signal and matching an internal apparatus impedance, a splitter for providing N split signals, a number of signal processing circuits for processing the N split signals, a combiner for combining the N split signals into a combined signal, and output impedance transformer for receiving the combined signal and for matching the internal apparatus impedance to an output impedance of the apparatus. The apparatus may provide filtering, duplexing and other radio frequency signal processing functions. A tunable duplexer may be implemented using a vector inductor and tunable capacitor array with frequency dependent impedance transformers.
US09449746B2
Planar transformers, and corresponding methods of manufacturing planar transformers are disclosed. The planar transformers include circuit layers that reduce termination losses on at least one of the circuit layers. The circuit layers are stacked together in a first direction and include at least first and second circuit layers. The first and second circuit layers each include an electrically conductive trace forming at least one winding having a first termination portion and a second termination portion that are separated by a gap. The gaps of the first and second circuit layers are offset relative to each other in a second direction different from the first direction. The circuit layers may further include a third circuit layer, which includes an electrically conductive trace having a grounded portion that is disposed adjacent to at least one of the gaps of the first and second circuit layers.
US09449740B2
An electric cable includes a conductor core including conductors each covered with an insulation layer, and a braided layer formed on an outer periphery of the conductor core. The braided layer includes a braid of a first line group and a second line group. The first line group includes first metal lines and first fiber lines arranged along a longitudinal direction of the conductor core and is spirally wound around the outer periphery of the conductor core. The second line group includes second metal lines and second fiber lines arranged along the longitudinal direction of the conductor core and is spirally wound around the outer periphery of the conductor core in a direction opposite to the first line group.
US09449739B2
The present disclosure provides a power cable apparatus that comprises an elongated thermal conductor, and an electrical conductor layer surrounding at least a portion of the elongated thermal conductor. In one or more embodiments, heat generated in the power cable is transferred via the elongated thermal conductor to at least one end of the power cable. In at least one embodiment, the apparatus further comprises an electric insulation layer surrounding at least a portion of the electrical conductor layer. In some embodiments, the apparatus further comprises a thermal insulation layer surrounding at least a portion of the electric insulation layer.
US09449738B2
A shielded electrical ribbon cable includes conductor sets each including a pair of twisted conductors, and first and second shielding films on opposite sides of the cable including cover portions substantially surrounding each conductor set, and pinched portions on each side of each conductor set. S is a minimum center-to-center spacing between nearest insulated conductors of two adjacent conductor sets, and Dmin is a minimum outer dimension of the nearest insulated conductors. S/Dmin is between 1.7 and 2.
US09449733B2
The present invention relates to a conductive ink composition including metal particles, a first solvent having a vapor pressure of 3 torr or less at 25° C., a second solvent having a vapor pressure of more than 3 torr at 25° C., and metal carboxylate, a printing method using the same, and a conductive pattern manufactured by using the same.
US09449731B2
Modular supramolecular approach for co-crystallization of donors and acceptors into ordered networks
Organic charge-transfer (CT) co-crystals in a mixed stack system are disclosed, wherein a donor molecule (D) and an acceptor molecule (A) occupy alternating positions (DADADA) along the CT axis. A platform is provided which amplifies the molecular recognition of donors and acceptors and produces co-crystals at ambient conditions, wherein the platform comprises (i) a molecular design of the first constituent (α-complement), (ii) a molecular design of the second compound (β-complement), and (iii) a solvent system that promotes co-crystallization.
US09449730B2
Disclosed herein is a coating composition for prevention of substrate oxidation/corrosion comprising energy level modulated conjugated polymer in combination with hydrophobic, spherical molecule in a suitable ratio. Particularly the invention relates to coating composition for protecting metal and alloy comprising the derivatives of polythiophene and polyphenylene vinylene with lower energy level, wherein the pores on the polymeric film are filled/blocked with hydrophobic, spherical molecule to enhance the efficiency of polymer against the corrosion.
US09449728B2
An electroconductive material for a connection component have a base member made of a copper alloy plate, a Ni coating layer, a Cu—Sn alloy coating layer, and a Sn coating layer. A surface of the material is subjected to reflow treatment. The base member surface is roughened. The Cu—Sn alloy coating layer is partially exposed from the outside surface of the Sn coating layer. Regions of the Cu—Sn alloy coating layer exposed to the outside surface of the Sn coating layer have random microstructures distributed irregularly between portions of the Sn coating layer and streak microstructures extending in parallel to a rolled direction of the base member. The streak microstructures having a length of 50 μm or more and a width of 10 μm or less are contained in a number of 35 or more per 1 mm2.
US09449718B2
A method for setting voltages in a flash memory for high temperature operating life (HTOL) testing is provided. The flash memory includes a substrate, a source, and a control gate. The method includes adjusting the voltages that are applied to the source, the control gate, and the substrate, such that there is no voltage difference between the control gate and the source, and no voltage difference between the control gate and the substrate. Specifically, adjusting the voltages includes setting the voltage that is applied to the source to a ground voltage, setting the voltage that is applied to the control gate to the ground voltage, and setting the voltage that is applied to the substrate to a power supply voltage.
US09449716B2
An electronic device having a printed circuit board is provided. In one embodiment, the printed circuit board includes a plurality of external pads to be coupled with an external device and a plurality of bypass pads for testing an electric circuit. The external pads are exposed and at least one of the plurality of bypass pads are not exposed from an outer surface of the PCB. A system using the electronic device and a method of testing an electronic device are also provided.
US09449707B2
A memory circuit has control gate circuitry (104) and select gate circuitry (106). A first memory cell (122/124) has a control gate coupled to the control gate circuitry, a select gate coupled to the select gate circuitry, a drain that is coupled to a first bit line for reading a logic state of the of the first memory cell, and a source. A second memory cell (150/152 or 158/160) having a control gate coupled to the control gate circuitry, a select gate coupled to the select gate circuitry, a drain that is coupled to a second bit line for reading a logic state of the of the second memory cell, and a source. A source control circuit (102) that, during programming of the first memory cell, outputs a first voltage to the source of the first memory cell and keeps the source of the second memory cell floating.
US09449699B2
An erase method of a nonvolatile memory includes supplying an erase voltage to a substrate, supplying a selection word line voltage to word lines connected with a selected sub-block within a memory block of the nonvolatile memory, supplying a non-selection word line voltage to word lines connected with an unselected sub-block within the memory block during a first delay time from a point of time when the erase voltage is supplied, and thereafter floating the word lines connected with the unselected sub-block.
US09449693B2
A split gate NAND flash memory structure is formed on a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type. The NAND structure comprises a first region of a second conductivity type in the substrate with a second region of the second conductivity type in the substrate, spaced apart from the first region. A continuous first channel region is defined between the first region and the second region. A plurality of floating gates are spaced apart from one another with each positioned over a separate portion of the channel region. A plurality of control gates are provided with each associated with and adjacent to a floating gate. Each control gate has two portions: a first portion over a portion of the channel region and a second portion over the associated floating gate and capacitively coupled thereto.
US09449684B2
Provided is a storage control device including: a detection unit which detects a first timing for performing a first rewriting process of performing only a first operation from among the first operation and a second operation, in a memory cell array in which each bit transitions to a first storage state by the first operation and transitions to a second storage state by the second operation; and a request unit which makes a request for the first rewriting process with respect to the memory cell array, when the first timing is detected.
US09449678B2
A P-type well region in which an inverter making up an SRAM cell is formed is subdivided into two portions, which are disposed on the opposite sides of an N-type well region NW1 and are formed so that a diffusion layer forming a transistor has no curvature while causing the layout direction to run in a direction parallel to well boundary lines and bit lines. At intermediate locations of an array, regions for use in supplying power to the substrate are formed in parallel to word lines in such a manner that one region is provided per group of thirty two memory cell rows or sixty four cell rows.
US09449676B2
A method of operation in a memory controller includes operating pull-up and pull-down drivers driven by separate pre-drivers between different voltage rails. Data signals driving the pull-up driver and the pull-down driver are synchronized, and the pull-up driver and the pull-down driver are coupled together to produce an output signal having a voltage swing based on both the pull-up driver and the pull-down driver.
US09449672B2
It is proposed a DRAM memory interface (40) for transmitting signals between a memory controller device (50) and a DRAM memory device (52). The DRAM memory interface comprises: data lines (44) for transmitting data signals; one or more control line(s) for transmitting control signals; one or more address line(s) for transmitting address signals; for each line, a transmitter device (41) connected to a first end of the line and a receiver device (42) connected to a second end of the line; wherein: each line is a single ended line wherein a signal transmitted on the line is referenced to a first reference voltage line (46); and—each line has an termination (Z1, Z2) on both the first and second ends of the line by connecting a first impedance (Z1) to the first end of the line and a second impedance (Z2) to the second end of the line.
US09449669B2
A memory cell based upon thyristors for an SRAM integrated circuit can be implemented in different combinations of MOS and bipolar select transistors, or without select transistors, with thyristors in a semiconductor substrate with shallow trench isolation. Standard CMOS process technology can be used to manufacture the SRAM cells. Special circuitry provides lowered power consumption during standby.
US09449660B2
A sampling circuit module, a memory control circuit unit, and a method for sampling data are provided. The sampling circuit module includes a state machine circuit, a first delay line circuit, a second delay line circuit and a delay signal output circuit. In response to a first control signal, the state machine circuit outputs a second control signal and/or a third control signal. The first delay line circuit is configured to receive a reference clock signal and the second control signal to output a first delay clock signal. The second delay line circuit is configured to receive the reference clock signal and the third control signal to output a second delay clock signal. The delay signal output circuit is configured to receive the first delay clock signal and the second delay clock signal to output a third delay clock signal.
US09449653B2
A memory chip package includes memory chips stacked, electrically connected one another, and configured to input and output an optical signal through an optical line formed by a via penetrating the memory chips. The memory chips input and output optical signals with different wavelengths, and each of the memory chips has an optical-electrical converter configured to convert an optical signal with a corresponding wavelength into an electrical signal and to convert an electrical signal into an optical signal with the corresponding wavelength.
US09449650B2
A memory module that includes: a printed circuit board having a connecting terminal; memory chips arranged on the printed circuit board; data buffers disposed on a first surface of the printed circuit board and corresponding to the memory chips; and resistance units disposed on a second surface of the printed circuit board and corresponding to the data buffers.
US09449638B2
A control device for controlling the transport of a tape within a tape transport system, the tape transport system having a head being operable to read data from and/or write data to the tape, an outboard reel and an inboard reel, wherein the tape is moveable from the outboard reel to the inboard reel in forward direction or from the inboard reel to the outboard reel in reverse direction, wherein the control device is adapted to generate control signals to control the velocity of the outboard reel and the velocity of the inboard reel as a function of a primary velocity of the tape at the head and a secondary velocity of the tape at the inboard reel and/or a secondary velocity of the tape at the outboard reel.
US09449622B2
An apparatus according to one embodiment includes a magnetic head having multiple magnetic transducers, the transducers including read sensors. The read sensors are of at least two differing types selected from a group consisting of tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR), giant magnetoresistance (GMR), anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR), and inductive sensors.
US09449620B2
An apparatus according to one embodiment includes a module having first and second transducers of different transducer types positioned towards a media facing side of the module, where the different transducer types are selected from a group consisting of data reader transducers, servo reader transducers, write transducers, piggyback read-write transducers and merged read-write transducers. The apparatus also includes a first protection structure for protecting the first transducer. The second transducer has either no protection or is protected by a second protection structure that is different than the first protection structure. In one embodiment, the first protection structure includes a coating on the media facing side of the module adjacent the first transducer. In another embodiment, the first protection structure is a recessed portion of the media facing side adjacent the first transducer.
US09449619B1
A tape appliance that includes two read heads and two write heads arranged along a magnetic tape path. The heads are configured such that for a first longitudinal direction of tape travel along the tape path, the tape engages the tape bearing surface of a first one of the write heads followed by engaging the tape bearing surface of a first one of the read heads and flies over the tape bearing surfaces of the other write head and the other read head. For the reverse longitudinal direction of tape travel along the tape path, the tape engages the tape bearing surface of the other write head followed by engaging the tape bearing surface of the other read head and flies over the tape bearing surfaces of the first write head and the first read head.
US09449618B2
A microwave assisted magnetic recording system includes a write pole that generates a write magnetic field, an element that generates a radio frequency assist magnetic field, and a recording medium that moves relative to the write pole. The recording medium is exposed to the radio frequency assist magnetic field before it is exposed to the write magnetic field. One possible element that generates the radio frequency assist magnetic field is an assist wire placed perpendicular to the write pole. Alternatively, the assist wire can be placed parallel to the write pole so that its radio frequency assist magnetic field couples with the write pole, which in turn generates its own coupled radio frequency magnetic field along with the write magnetic field.
US09449613B2
Analysis of the audio component in multimedia data is disclosed. Rooms can be described through room impulse responses (RIR), the “fingerprint” of a specific room. The method uses machine learning techniques to identify rooms from ordinary audio recordings.
US09449612B2
Systems and methods described herein modify audio content on an electronic device. Embodiments can be configured to detect a mode of the electronic device to determine whether the device is in a telephone mode; receive a speech signal from a speech source while the device is in the telephone mode; and process the speech signal to improve the perceived quality of the speech at a recipient when the electronic device is in a telephone mode; wherein processing the speech signal to improve the perceived quality of the speech comprises, decreasing the signal level of audio content outside of a determined frequency band relative to the signal level of the audio content within the determined frequency band; and wherein the determined frequency band is a frequency band associated a vocal range of the anticipated speech content. The electronic device further includes a graphical user interface which allows a user to adjust any or all audio parameters including very high frequency attack or release times.
US09449606B2
An encoder for providing an audio stream on the basis of a transform-domain representation of an input audio signal includes a quantization error calculator configured to determine a multi-band quantization error over a plurality of frequency bands of the input audio signal for which separate band gain information is available. The encoder also includes an audio stream provider for providing the audio stream such that the audio stream includes information describing an audio content of the frequency bands and information describing the multi-band quantization error.A decoder for providing a decoded representation of an audio signal on the basis of an encoded audio stream representing spectral components of frequency bands of the audio signal includes a noise filler for introducing noise into spectral components of a plurality of frequency bands to which separate frequency band gain information is associated on the basis of a common multi-band noise intensity value.
US09449598B1
Features are disclosed for performing speech recognition on utterances using a grammar and a statistical language model, such as an n-gram model. States of the grammar may correspond to states of the statistical language model. Speech recognition may be initiated using the grammar. At a given state of the grammar, speech recognition may continue at a corresponding state of the statistical language model. Speech recognition may continue using the grammar in parallel with the statistical language model, or it may continue using the statistical language model exclusively. Scores associated with the correspondences between states (e.g., backoff arcs) may be determined according to a heuristically or based on test data.
US09449585B2
An internal matrix corresponding to a representation of a display screen and having transparency data of a macro block is accessed. Display plane data from either a first or second plane is read if the internal matrix indicates the macro block is non-translucent and from both planes when the internal matrix indicates translucency. A high-level external matrix having high-level external transparency data indicating transparency of pixels is accessed if the internal transparency data indicates the macro block includes a window boundary. Display plane data from either the first or second plane is read if the high-level external transparency data indicates a non-translucent pixel and from both planes when the internal matrix indicates translucency. A detailed external matrix is accessed if the internal transparency data indicates the macro block is translucent or if the high-level external transparency data indicates the pixel is translucent. The first and second planes are blended accordingly.
US09449583B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a control method and an electronic apparatus. The control method is applied to an electronic apparatus that includes an array of image display components and an array of image collecting components. The method includes displaying a first window by the array of image display components; obtaining the position of a first region in the first window; turning on the image collecting components corresponding to the first region in the first window in the array of image collecting components according to the position of the first region, wherein the number of the image collecting components corresponding to the first region is less than or equal to the number of the image collecting components in the array of image collecting components; and obtaining a first image by the image collecting components corresponding to the first region.
US09449575B2
A screen output control method and system and a mobile terminal supporting the same are provided. The screen output control system includes a screen output device and a mobile terminal. The screen output device is connected with the mobile terminal so as to output screen data rendered by the mobile terminal. When the screen output device is connected, the mobile terminal renders screen data for the screen output device, writes the rendered screen data to a buffer assigned to the screen output device, and outputs screen data written in the buffer to the screen output device.
US09449571B2
A timing controller carries out display refresh on a display panel in a first frame which comes one frame after a second frame in which (i) an image signal supplied from an interface matches an image signal stored in a frame memory and (ii) a polarity balance value is equal to a reference value. In this case, the image signal, having a polarity opposite to that of pixel applied voltages in the second frame, is supplied to the display panel in the first frame. This makes it possible to prevent a deterioration in the display panel while reducing electric power consumption.
US09449558B2
A scan driver and display device using the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the scan driver includes a plurality of stages. Each stage includes a first transistor electrically connected between a first voltage input terminal and an output terminal, wherein the first transistor comprises a gate electrode electrically connected to a first node. Each stage also includes a second transistor electrically connected between the output terminal and a second clock signal input terminal and having a gate electrode electrically connected to a second node. Furthermore, each stage includes third and fourth transistors electrically connected in series. Each stage further includes a fifth transistor having first and second electrodes and a gate electrode electrically connected to the second node, the first electrode is electrically connected between the third and fourth transistors, and the second electrode is electrically connected to a second voltage input terminal configured to receive a second voltage.
US09449557B2
Disclosed is an organic light emitting display device including: plurality of data lines; a charging line formed in a direction crossing the plurality of data lines; and charging switches connected between the charging line and the data lines. The charging line inputs a charging voltage and the charging switches are individually controlled in data line.
US09449556B2
A driving method of a display device having a driving transistor and a display element, one source/drain region of the driving transistor connected to a power supply part, the other source/drain region connected to an anode electrode provided in the display element, the method includes the steps of: setting a potential of the anode electrode by applying a predetermined intermediate voltage to the anode electrode so that a potential difference between the anode electrode of the display element and a cathode electrode at the other end of the display element does not exceed a threshold voltage of the display element; and then holding the driving transistor in OFF-state while a drive voltage is applied from the power supply part to one source/drain region of the driving transistor.
US09449552B2
Disclosed is an organic light emitting display device. The organic light emitting display device includes a panel in which a plurality of pixels are respectively formed in intersection areas between a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines formed in an active area, a pixel circuit is included in each of the pixels, and a plurality of power lines are formed for supplying power to drive the pixel circuit; a gate driving IC configured to supply a scan signal to the gate lines, a power supply configured to supply the power to the power lines, a detection unit configured to detect a panel abnormality in the active area by using a sensing signal collected through a sensing line electrically connected to a corresponding gate line, and a controller configured to control driving of the power supply according to the detection result of the detection unit.
US09449546B2
A LED driver, a LED driving method and a controller for LED driver are discussed in the present invention. The LED driver detects the phase of the input signal which is phase cut by a triac from a pre-E-transformer. The LED driver regulates the current flowing through the LED strings by varying the phase of the input signal.
US09449545B2
A method of reducing a time for switching a gate line driving signal of display device having plural gate lines from a level that is less than a full gate-on level to the gate-on level is disclosed. The method may include: during a gate line pre-charging period of a respective gate line, causing the gate line driving signal to be at the full gate-on level; during a corresponding gate line main-charging period that follows the pre-charging period, causing the gate line driving signal of to be at the full gate-on level; and during an interposed period that is interposed between the gate line pre-charging period and its corresponding gate line main-charging period, causing the gate line driving signal to be at an intermediate level that is between the full gate-on level and an opposed gate-off level.
US09449534B2
A method for manufacturing an instructional booklet mounted on a substrate. A multi-up book log is provided having two or more booklets and a waste zone that share a common spine. The book log is adhered to an overlaminate and progressively slit to form overlaminate strips having booklets adhered thereto. The overlaminate is applied to a substrate with the booklets retained therebetween. The overlaminate and substrate are die cut around the booklets.
US09449529B2
An educational dinnerware device has an interior surface connected to a rim. The interior surface has at least one interior side wall and a bottom surface defining a food area. An exterior surface of the educational dinnerware device is connected to and extends away from the rim and has at least one exterior side wall and an exterior bottom surface. Formed in the exterior bottom surface is a card loading cavity with an exterior viewing surface forming a wall of the card loading cavity. A viewing card having two opposite viewing surfaces and an edge is placed in the card viewing cavity and allows one of the surfaces of the viewing card to be viewed through the exterior viewing surface, which can be viewed through the interior viewing surface of the educational dinnerware device.
US09449528B1
A method facilitates a participant to reduce or eliminate anxiety over-reactions. A program application is used to collect, assess and store responses from inquiry of said participant's history of significant events. The participant is given a set of directions. The participant is presented with a significant temperature change to said participant's body or a portion thereof for a period of time while using said directions and a means for recording data from sensors or from said participant.
US09449507B2
This invention localizes traffic condition detection and classification to a vehicle. Vehicles work cooperatively to fuse their traffic condition assessments so as to produce larger geographical coverage and more reliable evidence of the conditions. The system can be executed on an onboard device which includes at least one of the following: GPS capabilities, connection connected to the vehicle to measure vehicle speed, or communication with a cell phone. In the example of the cell phone, speed can be computed from phone GPS, a GPRS/CDMA, or both. Otherwise, vehicle speed can be determined obtained from in-vehicle on-board diagnostic system (e.g. using the OBD-II protocol) or based on GPS and accelerometer readings.
US09449503B2
A system, method, and apparatus including a printed circuit board with electronic circuit components mounted thereon and configured for wireless communication between the various components and devices used in a wireless dental device.
US09449498B2
In certain embodiments, a system includes a master node device. The master node device includes communication circuitry configured to facilitate communication with a welding power supply unit via a long-range communication link, and to facilitate wireless communication with one or more welding-related devices via a short-range wireless communication network. The master node device also includes control circuitry configured to manage power consumption of on-board batteries of the master node device and the one or more welding-related devices.
US09449496B2
A device for processing alarms includes a processor and a computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform various operations. The operations include receiving a first alarm from a first diagnostic device and determining a location associated with a first user. When the location associated with the first user is determined to be proximate to a device, the operations further include presenting a first verbal alert indicating that the first diagnostic device is presenting the first alarm. When the location associated with the first user is determined to be not proximate to the device, the operations further include sending a first notification message to a first mobile device of the first user indicating that the first diagnostic device is presenting the first alarm.
US09449473B2
The value of winning tickets dispensed by a vending machine to patrons who purchased the winning tickets are awarded using selection buttons on the vending machine that provide a first option to immediately redeem the value of a winning ticket at the vending machine, and a second option to defer immediate redemption of the value of a winning ticket. The tickets are preprinted with game content and are associated with a deal of tickets that includes at least some predetermined winning tickets.
US09449472B2
A gaming system and method for conducting a wagering game includes providing a first event eligibility-based equity relative to a first wagering game and converting the first event eligibility-based equity to an exchange medium. The exchange medium may be cash or a second event eligibility-based equity relative to a second wagering game. The first event eligibility-equity may be stored for later use on the first wagering game.
US09449468B2
After the main ball drop of a bingo game, a player may be given a free extra bingo number. A probability of awarding a free ball may be determined, at least in part, according to a desired paytable percentage for the bingo game. In some implementations providing multi-card bingo games, a player is required to hit a predetermined pattern on more than one bingo card in order to obtain a progressive award. The number of hits in the pattern(s) and/or the number of bingo cards involved may be determined according to a desired progressive award size and/or a desired probability of obtaining the progressive award. Players may have an opportunity to purchase an additional bingo number or a block of a plurality of additional bingo numbers after the main ball drop. The block may be offered at a discount compared to the price of an individual additional bingo number.
US09449465B2
A gaming system including a cascading symbol or tumbling reel game which utilizes zero, one or more upgrades in association with zero, one or more shifting symbols. Upon an occurrence of an upgrade event, the gaming system upgrades one or more aspects or attributes of one or more games played. In certain embodiments, such upgrades pertain to upgrading one or more symbols displayed at one or more symbol display positions of one or more symbol display position grids. In certain other embodiments, such upgrades pertain to upgrading the award evaluation of one or more symbols displayed at one or more symbol display positions of one or more symbol display position grids. In certain other embodiments, such upgrades pertain to upgrading one or more attributes or features of one or more bonus or secondary games which are subsequently triggered.
US09449451B2
A method and apparatus including the steps of establishing a defining attributes of a respective coin based at least upon a predetermined ratio of weight per unit of volume or upon topological features of one or more predominant surfaces of the coin, measuring a first set of dimensional parameters that define a shape of the disk including one or more thickness and diameter measurements, measuring a second parameter including a weight of the disk, measuring a third set of parameters defining a set of topographical features of the disk, comparing the measured parameters within at least some of the plurality of files of the database; and classifying the disk as a specific type of coin by substantially matching at least some of the measured parameters of the disk with the attributes of at least one of the plurality of files.
US09449446B1
A system employing a plurality of brain/body-generated inputs to control multi-action operation includes a controllable device, that performs at least two actions via remote control, and a head-mounted user interface device. The UI device includes a user cranium-mounted frame, first and second sensors supported by the frame, a processor, and a transmitter. The first sensor includes an electrode for contacting the cranium when the frame is worn and adapted to receive a bioelectric signal from the cranium. The second sensor receives hands-free brain/body input from the user. The processor uses application software process input provided by the first and second sensors and generates different outputs, corresponding to different commands. The transmitter transmits signals, based on the different commands, to the controllable device to initiate the different actions performed by the device.
US09449424B2
Methods, systems, and devices for the visualization of the region of a 3-dimensional space obstructed from a viewing location by an ellipsoid are disclosed. In an embodiment, the obstructed region may be defined from primitive elements which are combined using Boolean operations. The primitive elements chosen may be represented using both implicit functions and/or parametric surfaces. In an embodiment, the implicit function representation may be used to quickly determine points on candidate surfaces which may be obstructed from view. In an embodiment, the parametric representation may be used to provide ray-surface intersection solutions enabling visualization of the boundary surface of the obstruction region.
US09449392B2
An estimator training method and a pose estimating method using a depth image are disclosed, in which the estimator training method may train an estimator configured to estimate a pose of an object, based on an association between synthetic data and real data, and the pose estimating method may estimate the pose of the object using the trained estimator.
US09449384B2
A method registers a source image with a target image, wherein the images are deformable, by first measuring dissimilarity between the source image and the target image. The dissimilarity minimized using a discrete energy function. At multiple scales, multi-scale Markov random field registration is applied to the source and target images to determine a deformation vector field. Then, the target image is warped according to the deformation field vector to obtain a warped target mage registered to the source image.
US09449380B2
A medical image quality reporting and monitoring system for use in a medical imaging system comprises a medical image computer including, a display processor, a display and a report generator. The display processor generates data representing an image for display including a user selectable image element enabling a user to identify at least one medical image as having an image quality deficiency. The display presents the image. The report generator, in response to detection of selection of the image element, identifying at least one medical reduced quality image as having an image quality deficiency, automatically generates a report. The report comprises, data representing an anonymized reduced quality image having the image quality deficiency, a time of acquisition of the reduced quality image and imaging system acquisition settings used in acquiring the reduced quality image.
US09449376B2
An image processing apparatus comprises a region discrimination unit configured to discriminate object regions included in an image; a first calculation unit configured to calculate representative luminance values of a plurality of object regions discriminated by the region discrimination unit; a second calculation unit configured to calculate luminance distribution information of each of the plurality of object regions discriminated by the region discrimination unit; a determination unit configured to determine tone characteristics based on the representative luminance values of the plurality of object regions calculated by the first calculation unit and the pieces of luminance distribution information of the plurality of object regions calculated by the second calculation unit; and an image processing unit configured to perform tone correction processing based on the tone characteristics determined by the determination unit.
US09449361B2
There is provided an image processing apparatus including a graphics processing unit, a first computer that controls the graphics processing unit, an intermediate image storage unit that stores image data generated by the graphics processing unit, an image input unit that inputs a plurality of image data, an image switching unit that outputs a plurality of any image data among the plurality of image data input to the image input unit, an image combining unit that combines image data using the image data output from the image switching unit and the image data stored in the intermediate image storage unit, an image output unit that outputs the image data combined by the image combing unit, a second computer that controls the image switching unit and the image combining unit, and a connecting unit that connects the first computer and the second computer.
US09449359B2
Graphics rendering settings in a computer system are adjusted when an activity level on a bus meets a trigger condition. The graphics rendering settings of the system are returned to a previous level when the bus activity drops below a threshold. The trigger condition may be related to bandwidth usage on the bus or latency of data sent over the bus.
US09449351B2
The present disclosure provides a method of characterizing a resource in a block located in an area. The method comprises the step of providing information concerning a property of the resource for a plurality of sample positions in, at or in the environment of the block. The information is obtained from analyzes of samples from the sample positions. The method further comprises modelling a change in the property along a distance at or within the block using the provided information. The method also comprises calculating parameters associated with the modelled change using Bayes' theorem and calculating a property characteristic of the resource for the block using the calculated parameters.
US09449350B2
Computer-readable media, systems, and methods are provided for prompting a customer of a service to submit digital content to the service in order to generate an online compilation. Input from the customer may be received in response to communications from the service. Temporal preference information may then be extracted from the input by determining time periods at which the customer most commonly provides the input in response to the communications. Based on the time periods at which the customer most commonly provides input, a prompting scheme may be derived, where the prompting scheme governs scheduling an automatic distribution of subsequent communications to the customer at the time periods at which the customer most commonly provides the input. The subsequent communications may then be distributed to the customer in accordance with the prompting scheme.
US09449348B2
A method of operation of a social filter system includes: identifying a user with a user account; identifying a socially connected account from the user account, the socially connected account having a social association; selecting a content of interest from a content store of contents of interest based on the social association; and sending the content of interest for displaying on a user device.
US09449342B2
In various example embodiments, a system and method for visualization of an item in an environment using augmented reality is provided. In example embodiments, environment image data containing an image of an environment is received from a client device. A selection of an item that is under consideration for purchase and placement into an indicated location of the environment is received. An item image of the selected item is scaled to a scale that is based on dimensions determined from the environment image data for the environment. The scaled item image is augmented into the image of the environment at the indicated location to generate an augmented reality image.
US09449339B2
An electronic device may generate use related information and resource consumption related information corresponding to each of used applications used in the electronic device. The use related information and the resource consumption related information may then be transmitted to a remote applications manager, which may analyze the information to generate, based on the analysis, specially tailored application recommendations. The application recommendations may list one or more other applications, newly available or offered, which may be recommended for download to and/or use in the electronic device. The analysis of the use and the resource consumption information may comprise ranking the used applications, such as based on use patterns and/or resource consumption, and/or classification of the used applications, such as based on application type. Generating the application recommendations may comprise correlating used applications, based on classification and/or ranking, with similar applications that may be recommended.
US09449332B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server comprising a memory to store executable instructions and a controller coupled to the memory. The controller, responsive to executing the instructions, performs operations comprising presenting a graphical user interface enabling selectable advertisements or a selectable channel distribution service for delivery to a set top box, presenting filters for targeted delivery of advertisements to subscriber equipment based on information descriptive of the subscriber, selecting advertisements from an advertising server based on detected selections of advertisements or a detected channel distribution service preference, transmitting a globally unique identifier of the set top box to a billing server, initiating storage of the selectable advertisements at a remote advertisement delivery server, and presenting the selectable advertisements to the set top box. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09449329B2
A method for costing a web service operable for querying one or more data sources, the method including calculating the cost of operating the web service, measuring web service usage data using one or more service metrics, wherein the one or more service metrics include at least one derived service metric, choosing at least one service metric from the one or more service metrics, wherein one or more of the at least one chosen service metrics is a derived service metric, calculating the cost of the web service based on the at least one chosen service metric, and charging for usage of the web service based upon the calculated cost of the web service.
US09449328B2
A system for transforming customer data includes a network interface and a processor. The network interface communicates a request for customer data associated with a particular geographical area. It also receives a customer profile code associated with the customer data, wherein the customer profile code comprises a first code segment and a second code segment. It further receives first and second rules associated with the customer profile code. The processor transforms the first and second code segments into customer data using the rules. It further analyzes the particular geographical area using the customer data.
US09449320B1
Technologies for closed-looped testing of integrated circuit card payment terminals include loading a test profile onto an integrated circuit payment card. Authorization request and response messages are locally generated and translated to simulate acquirer processor processing and payment network processing. An outcome report indicative of the outcome of the test transaction is generated and transmitted to a remote certification server. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09449319B1
Techniques for conducting transactions with one-time passwords are described herein. These techniques may include receiving a request to conduct a transaction, as well as a one-time password and an identifier linked with a payment instrument. The identifier may or may not identify the linked payment instrument. In both instances, a transaction processing service may compare the received one-time password with a one-time password stored at or accessible by the transaction processing service. If the passwords match, the service may approve the transaction. Otherwise, the service may decline the transaction or implement one or more additional authorization procedures.
US09449316B2
Provided is a settlement terminal device including a plurality of information processing units. The settlement terminal device includes a first information processing unit, a secure second information processing unit, and an orientation detection unit which detects a direction of the settlement terminal device with respect to gravity. The first information processing unit reflects a detection result of the orientation detection unit on an orientation of a first display content displayed on the first display unit, and the second information processing unit determines whether or not to reflect the detection result of the orientation detection unit on an orientation of a second display content, in accordance with the second display content displayed on the second display unit. Thereby, a settlement terminal device capable of easily performing an input operation and display confirmation in a settlement process is provided.
US09449315B2
A transaction card processing and activation system comprising the identification of a unique identifier corresponding to an aggregate of transaction cards of affiliated or non-affiliated card issuers and the activation of each transaction card corresponding to the unique identifier of the aggregate irrespective of the number, types, or card issuers of the transaction cards. Additionally, the present invention allows a point of sale entity to initiate the activation of each of the multiple, disparate transaction cards in the aggregate by merely processing the unique identifier associated with the aggregate.
US09449306B2
The different illustrative embodiments provide a method for managing user identifiers presented in accordance with an illustrative embodiment. In an illustrative embodiment, a determination is made whether the new user identifier matches an existing user identifier according to a policy for a minimum degree of character variation between the new user identifier and the existing user identifier responsive to receiving a request to store a new user identifier. The request to store the new user identifier is rejected responsive to a determination that the new user identifier matches the existing user identifier according to the policy. The request is approved responsive to an absence of a determination that the new user identifier matches the existing user identifier according to the policy.
US09449302B1
A system and method for generating a membership profile for a personalized website is disclosed. An online services provider uses the interest engine to generate a questionnaire and polls. A new user provides responses that include answers to the questionnaire and polls. A profile engine generates a membership profile based on the answers. A newsletter engine generates personalized newsletter information including a number of users that provided each answer. In response to an online services provider selecting the recipients for the newsletter, the newsletter engine either generates the newsletter and transmits it to the recipients or the newsletter engine transmits the contact information to the online services provider.
US09449293B2
Embodiments are directed to displaying organizational information for a user's downline in an interactive graphical user interface (GUI). In one scenario, a computer system accesses portions of data for a user, where the data corresponds to secondary users in the user's downline. The computer system further generates a first-level view for the interactive GUI. The interactive GUI includes an interior portion configured to display filtered production data for the secondary users according to the accessed data as filtered by various production data filters. The interactive GUI also includes an exterior portion that includes rays extending outward from the interior portion, where each ray represents a secondary user's downline. The length and width of each ray is determined by the number of secondary users, and sales volume generated in the user's downline. The computer system then displays the generated first-level view in the interactive GUI.
US09449286B2
A machine learning apparatus includes an analytical information storage unit that stores therein two or more pieces of analytical information each associating input/output information used for machine learning with time-point information indicating a time point of the input/output information, an analysis-object-set specifying unit that specifies an analysis object set containing a unit-period input-output set being a set of pieces of the input/output information corresponding to pieces of the time-point information indicating the time point in a unit period and an amount of the pieces of the input/output information of the set being dependent on a period between the time point of the unit periods and a specific time point, and a machine learning unit that performs machine learning by using the pieces of the input/output information contained in the analysis object set.
US09449283B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a machine learning model. One of the methods includes performing experiments to select a training strategy for use in training the model on a particular data set. The selected training strategy includes a binning strategy for binning the raw feature vectors before the raw feature vectors are provided to the predictive model.
US09449280B2
A method for directed mining of a heterogeneous dataset with a computer comprising: populating a rule base with known rules, wherein each rule has a context and a situation; populating a case base with known cases, wherein each case has a context and a situation, and wherein the case base is partitioned from the rule base; ascribing a natural language semantics to predicates of the known cases and rules; randomly transforming the known rules and the known cases to form new rules by extracting a maximum number of common predicates; segmenting the rules and the cases on the basis of shared predicates without making distinction between context and situation predicates; abducing new knowledge from the dataset by fuzzily matching the context of a new rule to a situation the new rule does not cover; and issuing a query to a user to supply missing predicates of the fuzzy match.
US09449274B2
A device method and computer program product are disclosed for trend prediction of the course of a time-dependent series of data points of a component or system, particularly for an aircraft or spacecraft, including: providing an optimised decision tree, the input node of which is provided for inputting an input vector, the nodes of which contain the data points of a respective input vector and the leaves of which each contain an extrapolation function; iteratively calculating future data points by a respective time-dependent series of data points being inputted into the decision tree as an input vector and the decision tree calculating therefrom a data point subsequent to the last data point of the input vector in an automated manner, the calculated subsequent data point being added to the time-dependent series of data points in order to be used as a new input vector for the next iteration step.
US09449273B2
A method includes maintaining descriptions of a plurality of information technology resources in a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes maintaining a plurality of evaluation strategies, wherein the evaluation strategies associate a plurality of rules with forms of changes to the plurality of information technology resources. Responsive to detecting a command to change a first property of the set of properties of a first information technology resource of the plurality of information technology resources, the method determines that a first of the evaluation strategies associates at least one of the plurality of rules with a form of the change to the first property of the first information technology resource. Also, responsive to detecting the command, the method evaluates the at least one of the plurality of rules and performs the operation of the at least one rule.
US09449271B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for scoring concept terms using a deep network. One of the methods includes receiving an input comprising a plurality of features of a resource, wherein each feature is a value of a respective attribute of the resource; processing each of the features using a respective embedding function to generate one or more numeric values; processing the numeric values using one or more neural network layers to generate an alternative representation of the features, wherein processing the floating point values comprises applying one or more non-linear transformations to the floating point values; and processing the alternative representation of the input using a classifier to generate a respective category score for each category in a pre-determined set of categories, wherein each of the respective category scores measure a predicted likelihood that the resource belongs to the corresponding category.
US09449268B2
A device tag including a housing that includes a first connector structure constructed and arranged to engage with a battery operated device and a second connector structure constructed and arranged to slidingly engage with a battery such that the device tag is provided between the battery operated device and the battery. The device tag also includes an electrical connector carried by the housing and constructed and arranged to provide an electrical connection between the battery operated device and the battery. The device tag further includes an electronic device carried by the housing and constructed and arranged to transmit electrical signals.
US09449261B2
An image forming apparatus includes an operation unit receiving an instruction, and a connecting unit to which a wireless communication unit is detachably attached. The connecting unit is arranged at a bottom surface of a recessed portion formed on a back surface. The recessed portion has such a depth d that an indicator unit indicating a communicating state of a wireless communication unit, arranged on a surface of the wireless communication unit attached to the connecting unit, protrudes from the recessed portion. Thus, the possibility that a USB wireless LAN adaptor is damaged by external force or is erroneously pulled out can be reduced, the communicating state can easily be recognized visually, and thus, the USB wireless LAN adaptor can be used safely.
US09449259B1
The present invention relates to a classifier cascade object detection system. The system operates by inputting an image patch into parallel feature generation modules, each of the feature generation modules operable for extracting features from the image patch. The features are provided to an opportunistic classifier cascade, the opportunistic classifier cascade having a series of classifier stages. The opportunistic classifier cascade is executed by progressively evaluating, in each classifier in the classifier cascade, the features to produce a response, with each response progressively utilized by a decision function to generate a stage response for each classifier stage. If each stage response exceeds a stage threshold then the image patch is classified as a target object, and if the stage response from any of the decision functions does not exceed the stage threshold, then the image patch is classified as a non-target object.
US09449256B1
In some implementations, a method provides image candidates for a user. The method can include applying a plurality of different image adjustment types to an image to produce a plurality of different adjusted images. A score is determined for each of the adjusted images, where each score is based on previous selections by a plurality of persons of other images having one or more characteristics similar to the adjusted images. The method determines one or more candidate images for presentation to a particular user, where each candidate image is obtained from one of the different image adjustment types. The candidate images are determined based on the scores of the adjustment types.
US09449254B1
Systems and methods provide adapted content to a visitor to a physical environment. An example method receives an image of a visitor to an environment. A visitor portion of the image is distinct from an environment portion of the image. The method detects one or more shapes in the visitor portion of the image using an automatic shape detection technique and defines an approximate boundary of the one or more shapes using a mask. The one or more shapes can be shapes of the visitor's clothing items. The method then calculates an attribute for an area of the image within the mask and identifies electronic content based on the attribute for the area of the image within the mask. The attribute can be a color attribute for the area such as a median color or a dominant color. The method provides the identified electronic content for display in the environment.
US09449246B1
A method registers a deformable image to a fixed image by first acquiring the deformable image and the fixed image. Multi-resolution multi-level image pyramids are generated for the deformable and fixed images. Levels of the multi-resolution multi-level image pyramids are processed in a coarse to fine order, and for each deformable and fixed image at each level partitioning the deformable and fixed image into overlapping blocks, and labeling each block with a label by solving, iteratively and in parallel, until a termination condition is reached, a binary maximum flow problem, within α-expansion, for each block and performing boundary fusion for the blocks, and then registering each block according to the labels to form the fixed image.
US09449242B2
Provided herein are devices, systems, and methods for the detection of objects (e.g., laptop computers, electronics, explosives, etc.) within luggage. In particular, methods are provided for the detection of laptop computers within luggage (e.g., luggage containing other metallic objects and/or electronic devices).
US09449234B2
In a method for visualizing motion of an object in an image, at least two images, including a first image and a second image, wherein each of the at least two images includes an object are received. One or more processors determine a first distance value for the object in the first image and a second distance value for the object in the second image, wherein each distance value is based on a distance between the object and an image capturing device. One or more processors compare the first distance value to the second distance value to determine a difference between the first distance value and the second distance value. One or more processors generate an indication based on the determined difference between the first distance value and the second distance value.
US09449223B2
According to a processing period for OCR processing of image data for character recognition for a given page, the image processing section determines whether or not to generate image data for character recognition for a next page subsequent to the given page in accordance with an image quality setting different from that set for the given page. Upon determining generation in accordance with an image quality setting different from that set for the given page, the image processing section determines the image quality setting for the next page based on document type and size of the given page of the original document. The image processing section generates image data for character recognition for the next page in accordance with the determined image quality setting.
US09449221B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for identifying a personality of a human subject based on correlations between personality traits obtained from the subject's physical features, which may include a movement pattern of the subject, such as the subject's gait. Embodiments in accordance with the present disclosure are further capable of providing a recommendation to the subject for a product or service based on the identified personality of the subject.
US09449214B2
A sensing device comprising a plurality of sensing elements, each of the sensing elements being configured to provide a signal indicative of an electromagnetic coupling between the sensing element and a finger placed on a surface of the sensing device, a first layer arranged to cover the plurality of sensing elements, the first layer comprising a plurality of recesses, and a second layer arranged to cover the first layer, the second layer having hydrophobic surface properties. There is also provided a method for manufacturing such a sensing device.
US09449192B1
A technique for tamper protection of incoming data signal to an electronic device is disclosed. An intentional interference signal is generated and modulated onto the incoming data signal as one composite input signal, to prevent unauthorized acquisition of valid data from the incoming data signal. The magnitude of the interference signal is adjusted to correspond to the magnitude of the incoming data signal, thereby preventing an attacker from properly differentiating the two different signals and/or decoding the valid data from the composite input signal. Once the composite input signal is safely received within the device, the interference signal can be filtered out in either analog mode or digital mode.
US09449191B2
The present disclosure presents methods, systems, and devices for encrypting and comparing genomic data. The comparison of genomic data allows the owner of the data to ensure security of the data even when the party conducting the comparison is beyond the control of the owner of the data. The encryption of the genomic data enables the transmission, storage, and use of the genomic data in a secure media.
US09449181B1
Control and enforcement of access of user data are described, including receiving a request from an application to access data associated with a user; determining that a service profile and another service profile are associated with the user, the service profile includes at least one data service specified by the user and the another service profile includes at least another data service specified by the user; identifying the service profile being associated, by the user, with at least the application; determining whether the data requested by the application are provided by the at least one data service included in the service profile; and performing an action with respect to access by the application to the data requested, based on a result of the determining.
US09449178B2
A system for fast secured searching may include a user interface, a web layer configured for executing application logic and configured for interacting with a user via the user interface and configured to perform user authentication, and a database layer in communication with and accessible by the web layer and comprising a database configured for storing data, and a search engine configured for searching the database, wherein, communication to and from the database layer from and to the web layer is controlled by secure socket layer certificate authorization. The database layer may also include an inverted index in communication with the database and the search engine and configured for maintaining updated snapshots relating to the data in the database and an encryption/decryption layer for selective encryption of the data and configurable for field level, document level, and/or chunk level encryption.
