US09462722B2
An electronic device includes a chassis, two opposite mounting brackets mounted to a front of the chassis, two latching apparatuses installed to the mounting brackets, and a panel. Each latching apparatus includes a latching member rotatably mounted in the corresponding mounting bracket, a first resilient member connected between the latching member and the mounting bracket for restoring the latching member, and an operating member rotatably mounted to the mounting bracket. The operating member can push the latching member to rotate. Two latching bars protrude out from two opposite ends of the panel. Each latching member includes a latching pole extending through the corresponding bracket. The panel is inserted between the mounting brackets. Each latching bar slidably abuts against the corresponding latching pole to rotate each latching member and deform the first resilient member, until the latching pole slides over the latching bar.
US09462719B2
A plug-in mechanism, a subrack and a finished board are provided. The plug-in mechanism implements fast and reliable plug-in and plug-out by using a lever assistance effect and a gearing effect of a gear. The plug-in mechanism is configured to be disposed between a sub-carrier frame and a parent carrier frame to implement plug-in and plug-out of the sub-carrier frame in the parent carrier frame, and the plug-in mechanism includes a driving part and a gearing part, where the driving part includes an ejector lever, the gearing part includes at least one gear that is engaged successively, a gear at one end is connected to the ejector lever, each of the at least one gear is fastened onto the sub-carrier frame by using a rotating shaft, and the at least one gear is connected to the parent carrier frame by using a linkage structure.
US09462716B2
A shock buffering structure which has a side buffer member arranged between a wristwatch case and a watch module within the wristwatch case, wherein the side buffer member is layered and formed by a plurality of buffer layers having respectively different vibration transmissibility for predetermined frequencies. Accordingly, when the wristwatch case receives vibration from external shock, the plurality of buffer layers of the side buffer member attenuate and absorb low-frequency vibration and high-frequency vibration, respectively.
US09462706B2
A device for a system for traffic monitoring of vehicles in road traffic, the device having a first mounting frame and a second mounting frame, which can be secured relative to each other by inner fixing elements. At least the first mounting frame has a cylindrical, especially cuboidal, shape. At least one device for recording a traffic situation can be disposed or is disposed in the first mounting frame and wherein at least the first mounting frame is accessible from four sides.
US09462692B2
A method and apparatus for testing the electrical characteristics, such as electrical continuity, is provided. A substrate, such as a wafer or an interposer, having a plurality of through vias (TVs) is provided. Along one side of the substrate, a conductive layer electrically couples two or more of the TVs. Thereafter, the electrical characteristics of the TVs may be test by, for example, a probe card in electrical contact with the TVs on the other side of the substrate. During testing, current passes through a first TV from a first side of the substrate, to the conductive layer on a second side of the substrate, to a second TV, and back to the first side of the substrate through the second TV.
US09462690B1
An electronic component package includes a substrate having an upper surface. Traces on the upper surface of the substrate extend in a longitudinal direction. The traces have a first latitudinal width in a latitudinal direction, the latitudinal direction being perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. Rectangular copper pillars are attached to bond pads of an electronic component, the copper pillars having a longitudinal length and a latitudinal second width. The latitudinal second width of the copper pillars is equal to and aligned with the first latitudinal width of the traces. Further, the longitudinal length of the copper pillars is parallel with the longitudinal direction of the trace and equal to the length of the bond pads. The copper pillars are mounted to the traces with solder joints.
US09462674B1
A circuit for providing a ground path in an integrated circuit device is described. The circuit comprises a device region formed in a substrate; a substrate tap formed adjacent to the device region; and a conductive path coupled between the substrate tap and a ground metal layer by way of a plurality of metal layers and vias, wherein the conductive path is configured to meet a predetermined design requirement.
US09462667B2
The present invention provides methods and apparatus for facilitating the start up of a fuel droplet stream generator. During a start-up phase the fuel droplet stream generator is positioned so that the fuel droplets re emitted downwardly whereby gravity assists in the establishment of the stream. The droplets are monitored using a visualization system and once the stream is determined to have the desired characteristics the stream generator is moved to a second position of steady state use in which the droplet stream is emitted in a horizontal direction.
US09462666B2
A ballast circuit for a lighting system using an induction fluorescent lamp utilizes an AC-DC rectification circuit, a DC-DC boost power conversion circuit, a DC-AC half bridge inverter circuit, and a resonating circuit to ignite the lamp and maintain substantially constant power output of the lamp, while the DC-AC half bridge inverter circuit is further comprised of a gate isolation transformer connected in a half bridge inverter schematic which uses a ballast integrated circuit (IC) to drive a high side MOSFET and a low side MOSFET and the gate isolation transformer electrically isolates a gate signal to the high side MOSFET.
US09462657B2
A system and method for operating one or more light emitting devices is disclosed. In one example, the light emitting devices may be deactivated in response to a rate of temperature rise of the light emitting devices.
US09462656B2
A lamp base including a neutral contact and a line contact, a semiconductor transient protection device having three terminals. The semiconductor transient protection device being an integral portion of the lamp base. A first terminal of the semiconductor transient protection device in mechanical and electrical contact with the neutral contact, a second terminal in mechanical and electrical contact with the line contact, and a third terminal in electrical contact with a lead-in wire. The semiconductor transient protection device configured to isolate the line contact from the neutral contact during a first line voltage input, and to provide a low-resistance shunt path between the line contact and the neutral contact during a second line voltage input.
US09462653B2
An illumination system includes different color LEDs, a controller, and an input device. The controller controls intensities of the LEDs. The input device accepts an input corresponding to a total color of the LEDs. The input device includes a display, a pointer, and an output circuit. The display displays a chromaticity diagram. The pointer specifies a color point in the diagram. The output circuit detects the coordinates of the point and provides them to the controller. The controller includes a limiter, and a calculator. The limiter provides a limiter signal for limiting the maximum output the LED. The calculator calculates outputs of the LEDs based on the coordinates and the limiter signal so that the total color is adjusted to the point.
US09462647B2
A lighting device includes first to third output terminals, a power converter, a bypass switch, and a controller. A first light source is connected between the first and third output terminals. A second light source is connected between the second and third output terminals. The bypass switch is connected between the second and third output terminals. The controller switches the bypass switch between ON-state and OFF-state. The controller controls the power converter to adjust an output current. The controller includes a voltage meter for measuring a voltage corresponding to an output voltage of the power converter. The controller compares a measured voltage of the voltage meter with a first threshold voltage while keeping the bypass switch in OFF-state. The controller compares the measured voltage with a second threshold voltage while keeping the bypass switch in ON-state. The second threshold voltage is smaller than the first threshold voltage.
US09462643B2
The AC-DC power booster includes an electromagnetic interference (EMI) filter circuit that is included to convert alternating current (AC) power from among applied AC power and direct current (DC) power, to DC power to be output; a power factor correction (PFC) circuit that is connected to the EMI filter circuit and stabilizes an output voltage; and a switching mode power supply (SMPS) circuit that is connected to the PFC circuit and is capable of generating AC and DC power at the same time; a maximum power point tracking (MPPT) circuit that applies the voltage output from the SMPS circuit between a drain and a source of a switching device; a battery that is charged by receiving power from a solar light energy source connected to the MPPT circuit; and an inverter that operates an AC home appliance with the power received in the battery.
US09462636B2
A lamp device for thermal processing of a substrate is provided. The lamp device includes a bulb enclosing a filament, the filament having a pair of leads. The lamp device further includes a lamp base. The lamp base includes a seal connecting the bulb to the lamp base; a sleeve having one or more walls and two ends with one end surrounding the seal; a potting compound filling the sleeve; one or more wires distributed through the sleeve and the potting compound and coupled to the pair of leads; and one or more hookable features located within 10 mm of the sealing end.
US09462635B2
An apparatus for applying EM energy to a load may include at least one processor configured to receive information indicative of dissipated energy for each of a plurality of modulation space elements and group a number of the plurality of modulations space elements into at least two subsets based on the information received indicative of dissipated energy. The processor may also be configured to associate a power delivery protocol with each of the at least two subsets wherein the power delivery protocol differs between subsets and regulate energy applied to the load in accordance with each power delivery protocol.
US09462634B1
A mobile-cordless phone system including a mobile-cordless phone assembly; the mobile-cordless phone assembly including an external-phone-body and an internal-circuitry system. The external-phone-body and the internal-circuitry system are structured and arranged to provide the user with a device useful for communications with the internal-circuitry useful for providing a user with a portable telephone with the capabilities to operate on a wireless cellular network and, optionally, a telephone landline. The mobile-cordless phone assembly may be weather-resistant in some embodiments, and may include a multi-color-LED-light-source useful for providing visual indications and notifications to the user. The mobile-cordless phone system includes a solar panel for charging. The mobile-cordless phone assembly may also include a charging-port for connecting a charging-device to the mobile-cordless phone system. Preferred embodiments may also include a fingerprint-reader.
US09462628B2
An apparatus and a method are provided for improving user experience in a multi-radio access bearer (multi-RAB) wireless communication system. After a user equipment establishes a circuit-switched communication link and a packet-switched communication link with a core network, it may receive an indication of an error associated with the packet-switched communication link. Here, if the value of a timer such as the RAB re-establishment timer T314 has a predetermined value (e.g., 0), the user equipment may release the packet-switched communication link, and maintain the circuit-switched communication link. The packet-switched communication link may then be re-established. In this fashion, errors that may occur on the data call need not interrupt a voice call.
US09462626B1
A communication system that includes a vehicle and a mobile device, and a method of continuing a mirroring session between the mobile device and a display in the vehicle, which is carried out using the communication system. The method includes the steps of: establishing the mirroring session between the mobile device and the vehicle display; providing mirroring data from the mobile device to the vehicle display via the mirroring session; receiving at the mobile device a keep-alive message from the vehicle display; and in response to receiving the keep-alive message, continuing the mirroring session following an initiation of an inactivity mode of the mobile device.
US09462624B2
Methods, devices, and machine-readable media are provided to provide secure communications between entities. As provided in this disclosure, this may include receiving a request to begin a new communication session, determining one or more desired parameters of the session, and determining whether the desired parameters of the message match proposed parameters provided by the entity requesting the new communication session. When the one or more proposed parameters match the one or more desired parameters, a secure communication session is established between the entities.
US09462621B2
The value of communication bands required for each transmission line between a line consolidation section that consolidates lines from a plurality of radio base stations and the radio base stations are calculated and assigned based on the distribution of a number of terminals that is based on positional information of each radio terminal.
US09462619B2
Disclosed is a method for establishing an X2 interface IPSec tunnel. The method comprises: obtaining, by using SI signaling, IP information of a peer end base station for establishing an inter-base station X2 interface coupling link; automatically generating or receiving configuration data automatically generated and delivered by an operation and maintenance center and used for establishing the inter-base station X2 interface coupling link and configuration data used for establishing an inter-base station X2 interface IPSec tunnel; generating an X2 interface coupling packet according to the configuration data used for establishing the inter-base station X2 interface coupling link; and generating an IPSec negotiation packet according to the configuration data used for establishing the inter-base station X2 interface IPSec tunnel, and triggering the establishment of the inter-base station X2 interface IPSec tunnel by using the X2 interface coupling packet. Also disclosed are a base station, a system and a computer storage medium.
US09462618B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for a voice over LTE system to shorten the call set up time. In one novel aspect, the mobile origination (MO) UE starts the UE-initiated dedicated resource allocation before receiving any responses from the remote UE. In another embodiment, the mobile termination (MT) UE starts the UE-initiated dedicated resource allocation upon receiving the INVITE from the remote UE. In one embodiment, the UE adjusts the timeout value based on the PLMN information in its PLMN database. The timeout value can be set to be zero if early reservation is allowed. Upon timer expires, the UE starts UE-initiated dedicated resource allocation. In one novel aspect, the MO UE retrieves the codec information of a remote UE from its peer profile information database and uses a matching codec in its INVITE message. In another embodiment, the MT MO includes the SDP answer in its 180 RINGING message.
US09462615B2
To establish a voice connection between the driver of a single-track vehicle and an emergency call center, a telematics unit is provided on the vehicle which transmits emergency call signals to the emergency call center. The voice connection is established between the driver and the emergency call center by way of the telematics unit and a mobile radio device carried by the driver of the vehicle.
US09462592B2
Data is selectively transmitted over one or more carriers of a set of carriers. According to some aspects of the disclosure, a decision may be made to forgo the transmission of a preamble via one of the carriers (e.g., channels). For example, in a multi-carrier system, transmission of a preamble via one carrier may be inhibited if all of the data can be transmitted via another carrier. According to some aspects of the disclosure, a decision may be made to transmit different types of data on a single carrier rather than on multiple carriers. For example, a single carrier may be used to transmit schedule data and non-scheduled data if all of the data can be transmitted on one of the carriers (e.g., during a single transmission time interval). In this case, transmission of a preamble on another one of the carriers may therefore be inhibited.
US09462590B2
A method of data transmission includes determining the number of layers, generating mapping symbols by mapping modulation symbols for a first codeword and modulation symbols for a second codeword to each layer, and transmitting the mapping symbols through a plurality of antennas. At least one of the first codeword and the second codeword is mapped to at least 3 layers and the number of layers is larger than 3.
US09462585B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and device for communication between terminals in a wireless communication system. According to the present invention, a resource configuration method, a channel configuration method, a transmission power control method, etc. for communication between terminals can be provided.
US09462583B2
A method and apparatus for communication is disclosed. Information is received on a downlink channel in a first time interval. Feedback information regarding the received information is transmitted in a second time interval on an uplink channel. For the second time interval, an explicit allocation of the uplink channel is not received. The second time interval on the uplink channel is a pre-determined time period away from the first time interval on the downlink channel.
US09462569B1
There is disclosed a method and system for use in managing a data storage system. A management system stores information in connection with a data storage system. The information comprises a location of the data storage system. A near field communication link is established between a wireless mobile communications device and the management system in response to the wireless mobile communications device being positioned substantially adjacent the management system. The location of the data storage system is transmitted from the management system to the wireless mobile communications device over the near field communication link. The transmitted location of the data storage system is received in the wireless mobile communications device such that the wireless mobile communications device can assist in locating the data storage system.
US09462558B2
Methods, apparatuses and computer readable media are described that manage transmit power levels for a wireless device connected to a network access system of a wireless network. Processing circuitry in the wireless device obtains a target average transmit power level. Based on estimates of an actual average transmit power level for a sliding window of a past time period and the target average transmit power level, the processing circuitry determines a target transmit power level, a duty cycle percentage, and a transmit pattern of transmit on frames and transmit off frames for a future time period. The processing circuitry sends to the access network system signaling messages indicating non-zero valued buffer status reports for the transmit on frames and zero valued buffer status reports for the transmit off frames. Non-zero values correspond to actual amounts of pending uplink data, while zero values are sent irrespective of actual uplink buffer status.
US09462553B2
A user equipment (UE) prioritizes searches and/or measurements of neighbor cells/frequencies based on a level of mobility of a UE. In one instance, the UE identifies a priority of a layer of a radio access technology (RAT) to be measured or searched and identifies a level of mobility of the UE. A sensor module of the UE may determine the level of mobility of the UE and generate an indication corresponding to the level of mobility of the UE. The UE prioritizes a periodicity of interlayer search and/or measurement based on the priority of the layer to be measured and the level of the mobility of the UE.
US09462551B2
A central control apparatus and method thereof include a traffic demand receiving unit, a traffic demand calculating unit, a base station efficiency calculating unit, and a base station management unit. The traffic demand receiving unit is configured to receive a required traffic demand and a current location of each of terminals. The traffic demand calculating unit is configured to calculate traffic of each of base stations to which a terminal is unassigned. The base station efficiency calculating unit is configured to calculate an energy efficiency of each of the base stations. The base station management unit configured to verify a base station with an optimum energy efficiency, to activate the base station with the optimum energy efficiency, and to assign the terminals of a corresponding region to the base station with the optimum energy efficiency.
US09462547B2
A method for transmitting data using a tail time in a cellular network comprising steps of: receiving a data transmission request from a mobile terminal, and inserting the data transmission request into a real-time request queue or a delay-tolerant request queue according to a type of the data transmission request; determining a tail time according to a state of a RRC state machine and a throughput of the mobile terminal; and obtaining the data transmission request to be transmitted from the real-time request queue or the delay-tolerant request queue, and transmitting the real-time data transmission request directly as there are real-time data transmission requests in the real-time request queue, and transmitting the delay-tolerant data transmission request using the tail time when the tail time is available for transmitting data or transmitting the delay-tolerant data transmission request directly when a deadline of the delay-tolerant data transmission request is approached.
US09462545B2
A cellular communication module utilized within a battery-powered vehicle comprising a processor configured to activate an extended power mode, wherein the extended power mode allows the cellular communication module to establish a data session with a cellular communication network for a first time period. The process if further configured to activate a low power mode, wherein the low power mode allows the cellular communication module to maintain a registered cellular connection with the cellular communication network for a second time period, and activate a sleep mode, wherein the sleep mode maintains a registered cellular connection with the cellular communication network during a reoccurring wake-up cycle or is disconnected from the cellular communication network for a third time period.
US09462540B2
A method and a user equipment (105) includes a communication device adapted to attempt to access a mobile telecommunications network (107) and to receive from the network (107) information about the presence of access restrictions to the network (107); the equipment (105) also includes an access management module (106) configured for determining, in the presence of access restrictions to the network (107), a wait time (Tbarring) that must elapse, at the least, between successive verifications of the possibility of accessing the network (107), wherein the wait time (Tbarring) is determined at least on the basis of the result of at least one previous attempt to access the network (107) by the user equipment (105).
US09462533B2
A device in an industrial environment may adapt communications to account for industrial noise in the industrial environment. The device may send a first communication to a destination device in the industrial environment using a first communication technology. The device may access noise prediction data for the industrial environment, and the noise prediction data may indicate predicted noise for one or more portions of the industrial environment, including a communication pathway to the destination device using the first communication technology. The device may adapt a subsequent communication to the destination device to account for the predicted noise along the communication pathway.
US09462528B2
Various methods for wireless communication in a device with co-existed/co-located radios are provided. Multiple communication radio transceivers are co-existed/co-located in a user equipment (UE) having in-device coexistence (IDC) capability, which may result in IDC interference. For example, the UE is equipped with both LTE radio and some ISM band applications such as WiFi and Bluetooth modules. In a first method, the network identifies IDC capability by UE identification (e.g., UE ID). In a second method, the UE intentionally performs cell selection or reselection to cells in non-ISM frequency bands. In a third method, the UE signals the existence of ISM band applications via capability negotiation. In a fourth method, the UE signals the activation of ISM band applications by signaling messages (e.g., RRC message or MAC CE). Under the various methods, the UE and its serving eNB can apply FDM or TDM solutions to mitigate the IDC interference.
US09462526B2
An enhanced uplink user equipment is in soft handover. A radio network controller selects a primary Node-B out of a plurality of Node-Bs supporting the soft handover. The radio network controller receiving successfully received enhanced uplink data packets from the plurality of Node-Bs. The radio network controller reordered the successfully received enhanced uplink data packets for in-sequence deliver. The primary Node-B sends specified scheduling information to the user equipment that the other Node-Bs does not transmit. At least the primary Node-B transmits acknowledgements and negative acknowledgements to the user equipment.
US09462519B2
A method and apparatus is provided for facilitating identification of a cell in a cellular communication system and particularly a system which incorporates different radio access technologies. A network element such as a Radio Network Controller (RNC) includes a store containing a neighbor cell list, the neighbor cell list containing parameters relating to neighbor cells wherein parameters of cells in the neighbor cell list which have a common area of coverage and which support radio access technologies different from one another are linked together. A signal processor correlates measurement reports received by the RNC from a user equipment with the neighbor cell list to determine the identity of a cell in the cellular communication system. The invention has particular applicability to resolving the problem of Primary Scrambling Code confusion where a repeating pattern of small cells lies underneath a macrocell.
US09462518B1
Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for optimizing the transfer of neighbor information in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network. In a particular embodiment, a method provides exchanging communications with an eNodeB of a LTE wireless communication network. The method further provides receiving at least one physical cell identifier (PCI) from at least one respective neighboring cell during a predetermined time period. After the predetermined time period, the method provides transferring the at least one PCI to the eNodeB.
US09462499B2
Methods and apparatus for communication at a network entity comprise sending a measurement configuration message to a user equipment (UE) to configure the UE to perform one or more measurements during a specified measurement period. Additionally, the methods and apparatus comprise suspending, at the network entity, transmission of at least one configuration parameter to the UE during the specified measurement period, wherein the network entity is the serving network entity. Moreover, the methods and apparatus comprise receiving at least one measurement report message from the UE after the specified measurement period.
US09462498B2
The present invention discloses a method for a first communication module of a user equipment measuring for eliminating in-device coexistence (IDC) interference in a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention comprises the following steps: receiving a message from one or more second communication modules which coexists in the terminal; performing inter-frequency measurement based on the setting information related to measuring when the message indicates the beginning of the operation of the second communication module; and reporting to the base station the result of the inter-frequency measurement.
US09462497B2
Analysis and graphical rendering of subscriber data is provided. A data analysis component is provided that obtains a set of subscriber data, correlates various subsets of the subscriber data to determine a plurality of data relationships, and graphical renders the subscriber data as a heat map, a fractal map, a tree map, a three dimensional plot, a three dimensional map, a graph, a chart, etc. based on a scale associated with the data relationships. In addition, the data analysis component can obtain a set of line number portability data that can be correlated with the various subsets of the subscriber data to determine the data relationships.
US09462488B2
A system and method are provided for a WiFi network including multiple access points, each access point including an antenna having a plurality of modes corresponding to a plurality of radiation patterns, respectively, or an antenna system including a plurality of antennas having a plurality of modes corresponding to a plurality of radiation patterns, respectively, and a processor implemented with an algorithm. The algorithm is a computer program having instructions for performing steps to optimize signal quality for multiple devices linked to the WiFi network.
US09462480B2
A method of operating a femtocell network cluster is disclosed. One example method of operating the femtocell network cluster may include certain operations, such as, selecting a master femtocell access point among various femtocell access points operating on the femtocell network cluster and updating a master table to include the master femtocell access point in the master table neighbor list. Other operations may include transmitting the master table to each of the femtocell access points informing them of the identity of the master femtocell access point. The tables may be maintained by all of the femtocell access points operating on the network.
US09462479B2
A wireless communication system that concurrently communicates information in multiple regulatory domains to facilitate audio/video media streaming and other high bandwidth operations. One domain may be licensed and the other may be unlicensed. Transmission in the licensed domain may occur in white space in the domain, and the amount of information transmitted in that domain may be limited by regulations. The amount of information conveyed in the licensed domain may also depend on channel conditions in either or both of the domains. As a result, the relative amount of information transmitted in each domain may vary dynamically. The system includes a transmitter that dynamically determines weighting coefficients applied to each of a plurality of channels to set power levels in both domains to achieve a desired metric for the overall communication. A corresponding receiver assembles the substreams into a stream that can then be displayed or otherwise processed.
US09462474B2
An unlock method for conveniently releasing a lock mode of a mobile terminal includes tracking a trajectory corresponding to a touch-and-drag operation of touching the touch screen and then dragging when the mobile terminal is in a lock mode, determining whether one or more intersections occur on the trajectory, and releasing the lock mode if one or more intersections occur on the trajectory. Accordingly, a touch input pattern for unlocking a lock mode is unlimited in terms of size, location, and pattern so that a user can freely touch the touch screen to release the lock mode.
US09462469B2
Systems and methods for application level authentication are provided for use with the low energy Bluetooth device and accessory. This includes receiving accessory credentials from a server, establishing a Bluetooth low energy connection with the accessory, authenticating with the accessory, and lastly transferring data to the accessory. The transferring of the data may be either a bulk transfer, or a data stream. The authenticating may be an application layer authentication between a device and the accessory using a shared secret key and using a hash function. Additional embodiments include methods for over-the-air firmware updates, and device control of a low energy Bluetooth accessory.
US09462459B2
An asset bundle package is created with asset bundle package records for at least two user types and from one or more mobile phone service operators. The asset bundle package and asset bundle record selection criteria are installed on a mobile computing device. A boot routine uses the asset bundle record selection criteria to select asset bundle records required to configure the mobile computing device for at least one of the two user types.
US09462458B2
A call loop avoidance capability is provided for preventing formation of a call loop resulting from handling of a mobile terminated (MT) call in parallel with a location update for a mobile device (MD) in a wireless communication network. The call loop avoidance capability prevents formation of a call loop between an old mobility and call management entity (MCME) and a new MCME when delivery of an MT call to an MD is performed while the MD is in the process of moving from the old MCME to the new MCME using a location update procedure. An enhanced call routing procedure supports direct delivery of the MT call from the new MCME to the MD (rather than delivery of the MT call by the new MCME to the MD via the old MCME) in order to prevent formation of a call loop between the old MCME and the new MCME.
US09462450B2
A method of transmitting a discovery signal by a first UE for device-to-device (D2D) communication in a wireless communication system according to the present invention includes a step of a first UE transmitting a discovery signal for identifying a second UE for D2D communication, wherein the discovery signal includes information related to the presence or absence of D2D data for the D2D communication.
US09462438B2
Methods related to do-not-disturb modes activated by a mobile device are provided. An example method may include receiving a do-not-disturb notification by a mobile device indicating that the mobile device is in a do-not-disturb mode. The method may further include temporarily disabling, when the mobile device is in the do-not-disturb mode, causing at least one communications feature associated with the mobile device and one or more additional communications features associated with one or more ancillary devices to be temporarily disabled. Another example method may include detecting whether a mobile device is in one of a stationary display screen face down state or a moving display screen face down state, and, when the mobile device is in at least one of the stationary display screen face down state or the moving display screen face down state, causing a first communications feature associated with the mobile device to be temporarily disabled and sending a do-not-disturb notification to a server. Systems and computer-readable media are also described.
US09462437B2
An approach is provided adjusting one or more device functionalities based on location, movement, noise, or a combination thereof. An adjustment platform determines at least one state of movement, at least one ongoing communication session, or a combination thereof associated with at least one device, wherein the at least one state of movement includes, at least in part, location information, orientation information, speed information, acceleration information, time information, or a combination thereof. The adjustment platform then causes, at least in part, an initiation of one or more adjustments to one or more functionalities of the at least one device based, at least in part, on the at least one state of movement, the at least one ongoing communication session, or a combination thereof.
US09462434B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a search unit that searches for an apparatus, which is suitable for providing event notification, when event generation is detected; and a supply unit that supplies notification content to the apparatus which is found by the search unit. The search unit is configured to issue a response request for responding to a search target apparatus in an event a third condition, which includes a first condition relevant to display of a privacy information and a second condition relevant to whether or not a user notices the notification, is satisfied.
US09462433B2
In one arrangement, a first device presents a display that is based on context data, derived from one or more of its sensors. This display is imaged by a camera in a second device. The second device uses context data from its own sensors to assess the information in the captured imagery, and makes a determination about the first device. In another arrangement, social network friend requests are automatically issued, or accepted, based on contextual similarity. In yet another arrangement, delivery of a message is triggered by a contextual circumstance other than (or in addition to) location. In still another arrangement, two or more devices automatically establish an ad hoc network (e.g., Bluetooth pairing) based on contextual parallels. In still another arrangement, historical context information is archived and used in transactions with other devices, e.g., in challenge-response authentication. A great number of other features and arrangements—many involving head-mounted displays—are also detailed.
US09462432B2
A terminal device includes a message generation unit configured to generate an instant message according to a user command and a communication unit configured to transmit the instant message to another terminal device. A header of the instant message includes a field in which is inserted display identification information indicating whether or not to display the instant message on a display screen.
US09462431B2
A communications device determines the appropriate method for providing a message depending upon the content of the message without prompting or querying a user of the device. When the user selects a name as the recipient of the created message, the mobile device determines delivery options. If the message contains text only and if the user enters/selects a mobile device phone number, the message is sent via SMS. If the message contains multimedia and if the user enters or selects a mobile device phone number, the message is sent via MMS. If the message is text only or multimedia, and if the user enters or selects an email address, the message is sent via email. In various implementations, the message is delivery via determined delivery options including a lowest cost delivery option, a subscriber preferred delivery option, or a delivery options as indicated by an intended recipient's presence information.
US09462423B1
A system and method for determining the location of a mobile device is provided. Such a method includes receiving an interior map, determining a first location to be an absolute location of a mobile communication device, locating the absolute location at a first position on the interior map, relocating the mobile communication device to a second location, estimating the second location of the mobile communication device based on an output of one or more sensors and modifying, using a computer-based system, the estimated second location based on a comparison of the estimated second location to the interior map.
US09462420B1
An antenna pairing system includes a mobile communication platform (MCP) and a prediction system to determine geographic boundaries where particular pairs of antennas aboard the MCP and their respective data bearers should be activated or deactivated along a predicted course and heading for the MCP. The system manages network connectivity for the MCP in real-time and to alter antenna pairing in response to the determined geographical boundaries.
US09462413B2
Methods and apparatuses of providing assistance data of a venue to a mobile device are disclosed. According to aspects of the present disclosure, for the same area, multiple or different versions of assistance data may be generated. Restrictions may be applied by access area, such that positioning grid, heat maps, and maps can be restricted to certain sections of the venue; and point of interests (POIs) and search features may be provided based on at least one of user credentials, time-based restrictions, ticket-based restrictions, or loyalty-based restrictions, or any combination thereof.
US09462412B1
This specification describes technologies relating to content presentation. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving, at a first time, a device identifier in association with a first network identifier that corresponds to a first network to which the device is connected, processing the first network identifier to determine a first location, associating the device identifier with the first location and the first time, receiving a content request from the device, determining that the device has been connected to the first network within a defined chronological proximity of receiving the content request, selecting one or more content items based on at least the first location, and providing the one or more content items to the device. Other embodiments of the various aspects include corresponding systems, apparatus, and computer program products.
US09462408B2
The present invention discloses an information processing method. The method comprises: obtaining a control operation for the first application indicating N applications are to be installed on a second electronic device; controlling the wireless communication module to serve as a wireless Access Point (AP) having a signal coverage that covers at least the second electronic device; obtaining response information from the second electronic device and establishing a direct communication channel with the second electronic device at a radio link layer; and transmitting installation data packages associated with the N applications to the second electronic device via the communication channel. The present invention also discloses an electronic device. With the present invention, the efficiency of content transfer from an old mobile phone and a new mobile phone can be improved.
US09462404B2
In processing a multi-channel audio signal having at least three original channels, a first downmix channel and a second downmix channel are provided, which are derived from the original channels. For a selected original channel, channel side information are calculated such that a downmix channel or a combined downmix channel including the first and the second downmix channels, when weighted using the channel side information, results in an approximation of the selected original channel. The channel side information and the first and second downmix channels form output data to be transmitted to a decoder, which, in case of a low level decoder only decodes the first and second downmix channels or, in case of a high level decoder provides a full multi-channel audio signal based on the downmix channels and the channel side information.
US09462398B2
The present application relates to a new stimulation design which can be utilized to treat neurological conditions. The stimulation system produces a combination of burst and tonic stimulation which alters the neuronal activity of the predetermined site, thereby treating the neurological condition or disorder.
US09462390B2
Provided is a diaphragm for use in a speaker that is configured to include a nanoweb that is formed by electrospinning a polymer material and accumulating nanofibers, so as to have a plurality of pores through which air can pass. The diaphragm can be made thin, have excellent flexibility, have sufficient strength to endure sound pressure, and enhance sound quality of low pitched bands.
US09462386B2
A method and system for communicating audio signals between an input device and an output device via a network. The output device can include loudspeakers and headphones. In some embodiments an output device, for example a center channel speaker, transmits audio signals to other output devices. In some embodiments, the output device is coupled to, or combined with, a speaker stand or speaker bracket. The network can be wireless, wired, infrared, RF, and powerline.
US09462380B2
A microphone array system for sound acquisition from multiple sound sources in a reception space surrounding a microphone array that is interfaced with a beamformer module is disclosed. The microphone array includes microphone transducers that are arranged relative to each other in N-fold rotationally symmetry, and the beamformer includes beamformer weights that are associated with one of a plurality of spatial reception sectors corresponding to the N-fold rotational symmetry of the microphone array. Microphone indexes of the microphone transducers are arithmetically displaceable angularly about the vertical axis during a process cycle, so that a same set of beamformer weights is used selectively for calculating a beamformer output signal associated with any one of the spatial reception sectors. A sound source location module is also disclosed that includes a modified steered power response sound source location method. A post filter module for a microphone array system is also disclosed.
US09462374B2
A vibration pickup device for measuring an electronic device that transmits sound to a user via vibration transmission by pressing a vibrating body held in a housing against a human ear includes a plate-shaped vibration transmission member and a vibration pickup joined to a portion of the vibration transmission member. The vibration transmission member is mountable on a peripheral portion of an artificial external ear canal, formed in an ear model unit modeled after a human ear, and includes a hole in communication with the artificial external ear canal.
US09462373B2
The present invention provides an improved loudspeaker enclosure comprising two opposing end sections arranged at a distance from each other and enclosing sections which connect the end sections over said distance, wherein the inner volume of the enclosure is defined by said sections. The enclosure also has a reflex port which comprises a reflex opening which is provided to the enclosure and adapted to exhaust internal pressure from the inner volume to outside the enclosure. The reflex port further comprises an inner reflex port former which connects the inner volume of the enclosure to the reflex opening for forming the reflex port. The reflex port former is formed by molding as an integral inner wall section which extends inwards from the inner surface of either or both end section. On the other hand the reflex port former extends adjacent to an enclosing section which at least partially surrounds the reflex port former such that the reflex port is formed to a space between the reflex port former and the adjacent enclosing section.
US09462372B2
A unidirectional condenser microphone includes a first and second condenser elements each having a diaphragm and a fixed electrode disposed opposite the diaphragm, an insulating base having an opening at the center thereof and supporting the respective fixed electrodes of the first and second condenser elements at opposite sides of the insulating base, acoustic resistance materials covering both ends of the opening, and air chambers formed respectively between each of the fixed electrodes and the insulating base, such that respective back sides of the diaphragms of the first and the second condenser elements are acoustically in communication with each other, wherein the diaphragm of the second condenser elements is formed to be an annular-shape having a central opening, and the second condenser element has a rear acoustic terminal hole communicating with the central opening.
US09462361B2
An audio speaker is provided including a housing having a first array of housing retaining elements aligned in a first direction and a first sealing surface. Each housing retaining elements has a housing channel region formed therein. The audio speaker further includes a frame element having a speaker assembly mounted thereon and a second array of frame retaining elements aligned in the first direction and a second sealing surface, where the second array of frame retaining elements are positioned to interleave with the first array of housing retaining elements when the second sealing surface is disposed over the first sealing surface. Each frame retaining element has a frame channel region formed therein. The audio speaker further includes a first rod disposed within the housing channel regions of the first array of housing retaining elements and the frame channel regions of the second array of frame retaining elements.
US09462358B2
An optical network is configured to provide an optical reroute over a backup path (2139) during a failure in a signal path (2133). The network comprises a first node (B). A second node (C) is coupled to receive a signal from the first node (B) via the signal path (2133), and a backup signal via the backup path (2139). The network is adapted to transmit a signal and a corresponding backup signal from the first node to the second node even when there is no failure in the signal path (2133), wherein the backup signal is blocked at the second node (C) when there is no failure in the signal path (2133). Embodiments of the invention utilize the broadcast and blocking functionalities of a wavelength selective switch (WSS) device. Such WSS devices enable, in the case of a failure of a link, the fast switchover of optical traffic onto local detours within a reduced time.
US09462356B2
A device and a system may facilitate access to communication connectors, adapters, and/or ports that are supported within a housing, e.g., a rack or cabinet. The system may include a tray slidable distally into a housing and proximally out of the housing. A plurality of first connectors may each be coupled to an arm having a distal end pivotably coupled to the tray. The tray may include a track, and a connector holder may be slidably coupled to the track. At least one second connector may be coupled to the connector holder and may have a stored state and a retracted state and may be positioned at least partially distal to the distal ends of the arms when in the stored state.
US09462345B2
A system and method in a television system for providing for user-selection of objects in a television program, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims.
US09462341B2
The present technology concerns cell phones and similar devices, and their use in conjunction with media content (electronic and physical) and other systems (e.g., televisions, digital video recorders, and electronic program directories). Some aspects of the technology particularly concern “second screen” applications that sense a television program being watched by a user, and present menus of complementary content on the phone touchscreen from which the user can select. This complementary content can include other video content, associated web pages, opportunities to buy merchandise related to the program, etc. This complementary content can be identified by a provider of the television program, or can be identified otherwise (e.g., by crowd-sourcing). In some embodiments, the phone instructs a remote DVR to record content of interest for later viewing. The technology also provides features for making TV watching a social experience—involving remote friends. A great number of other arrangements and details are also disclosed.
US09462336B2
A control chip for controlling a player with a multimedia playback function and a data processing function is provided. The control chip includes: a multimedia playback module, being adapted to drive the multimedia playback function, configured to generate multimedia playback information associated with multimedia data that has been played; a data processing module, being adapted to drive the data processing function, configured to generate data processing information associated with data that has been processed; and a data protection module, configured to control at least one of the multimedia playback module to stop the multimedia playback function and the data processing module to stop the multimedia playback function according to the multimedia playback information and the data processing information.
US09462334B2
A method and control device for controlling the display of multimedia data on an audio-video rendering device, e.g. a TV device (AVD), when a channel selection navigation, from a first channel to a second channel, is activated. It is controlled which, how and when particular multimedia data is displayed as it may for instance be necessary to perform parental control to prevent the display of “adult” multimedia data at particular times of the day, or advertisements at times when they could disturb the comfort of watching of the user of the TV set. In a preferred embodiment, multimedia data of a second content type, e.g. “normal” programs (PGS) or previews of programs (PRS) is displayed in replacement of the advertisements during a predetermined time delay called advertisement-play grace period.
US09462333B2
A method, machine readable medium, system, and device are disclosed. In one embodiment the method comprises determining whether one or more components that comprise a multimedia stream require real-time processing, if at least one of the one or more components require real-time processing, assigning the one or more components that require real-time processing to one or more real-time processes, and assigning any remaining components to one or more non-real-time processes.
US09462332B2
A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for detecting a communication network, broadcasting a query message by way of the communication network, receiving a response message from the communication network, detecting from the response message that a media device is communicatively coupled to the communication network, receiving a key from a remote server to enable communications with the media device, detecting an event requiring use of the media device, generating a command responsive to the event, transmitting to the media device the command to direct the media device to request information from a web server executed by the processor, receiving from the media device a request for information to be provided by the web server, and transmitting to the media device by way of the web server the information requested. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09462330B2
In one embodiment, a multimedia audio inserter removes the left and right audio channel data from a multimedia signal, for example an HDMI® signal and replaces it with an alternate audio signal, which may be the center channel audio signal provided by a digital surround sound receiver. In exemplary applications, the resulting, modified multimedia signal may be provided to a digital television that is part of a surround sound system, enabling the television to play the center channel signal through its speakers. Optionally, the multimedia audio inserter may provide a copy of the multimedia signal at a multimedia feedthrough output. In exemplary applications, the multimedia feedthrough output may be used to play left and right channel audio, present in the HDMI® signal, through dedicated left and right speakers.
US09462329B2
A method for frame rate control in a transmitter of a wireless communications system comprises generating a frame and a first information corresponding to a first expiration time of the frame by a frame generating module; handling the frame according to the first expiration time by a driver module; and informing the frame generating module an adjusting information according to a first pre-determined rule by the driver module.
US09462326B2
Techniques for power and computational load management in video processing and decoding are provided. In one configuration, an apparatus comprising a processor having a set of instructions operative to extract and compile information from a data stream having video is provided. The processor is operative to prioritize a set of parsing or decoding operations to process the data stream referred to as power management (PM) sequences based on the information and calculate projections of at least one of power and computational loading for each of the prioritized PM sequences.
US09462321B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a processor that causes a STB to present an avatar. The processor can receive from the STB a response of the user, detect from the response a change in an emotional state of the user, adapt a search for media content according to the change in the emotional state of the user, and adapt a portion of the characteristics of the avatar relating to emotional feedback according to the change in the emotional state of the user. The processor can cause the STB to present the adapted avatar presenting content from a media content source identified from the adapted search for media content. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09462320B2
A multi-modal digital terminal adapter (DTA), and associated methods and computer-readable media, are disclosed for determining a current mode of operation of the DTA, selectively activating and/or deactivating one or more receiving modules based at least in part on the current mode of operation, and routing an incoming signal to one or more receiving modules based at least in part on one or more characteristics of the signal to initiate processing of the signal in accordance with the current mode of operation for the multi-modal DTA.
US09462310B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media content processor having a controller adapted to detect an event associated with recorded media content derived from one among a plurality of media content sources, select a communication device of a subscriber of the media content processor, retrieve a portion of the recorded media content, generate a notice describing the event, and transmit the notice with the portion of the recorded media content to the communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09462304B2
Disclosed embodiments allow media players and other electronic devices that operate under a first protocol to control the media capture devices that operate with a second protocol which may not be configurable to communicate with the first protocol. In one embodiment of the disclosure, a network device may store and/or render content within a Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) network and/or assist in content delivery for a DLNA device on a network. In another embodiment of the disclosure, a media capture device uses the Internet Protocol.
US09462301B2
Videos of an event may be captured by camera (e.g., camera devices). The videos may be processed to generated virtual videos that provide different viewpoints of the event. The videos and virtual videos may be analyzed to identify panning points in the videos. A user may pause the video at the identified panning points and may be allowed to pan around the event and/or event location during the identified panning points in the videos and/or virtual videos. The pan around view may be provided by a pan around video generated based on the videos and/or the virtual videos. A user may resume viewing one of the videos and/or virtual videos after pausing playback of the pan around video. A user may also pan around an event and/or event location while the videos and/or virtual videos are playing during the panning points.
US09462296B2
A video receiver is operable to receive three-dimensional (3D) video bitstreams from a video transmitter. The received 3D video bitstreams comprises a plurality of video frames and corresponding coding information. The coding information, for example, block motion vectors, block coding modes, quantization levels, and/or quantized residual data, is extracted for performing frame-rate up-conversion on the received plurality of video frames. The coding information is generated at the video transmitter via entropy decoding on a compressed 3D video from a video feed from, for example, an IP TV network. When an uncompressed 3D video is received, the video receiver is operable to perform frame-rate up-conversion on the received uncompressed 3D video using extracted block motion vectors and associated confidence-consistence measure. When a compressed 3D video is received, the video receiver is configured to perform video decompression on the received compressed 3D video prior to the frame-rate up-conversion.
US09462288B2
A video encoding method and apparatus and video decoding method and apparatus generate a restored image having a minimum error with respect to an original image based on offset merge information indicating whether offset parameters of a current block and at least one neighboring block from among blocks of video are identical.
US09462283B2
A method includes, in an encoder, dividing an image into blocks, and producing respective compressed descriptions of the blocks. First data, which contains at least some of the compressed descriptions, is generated such that a compressed description of each block within the first data is accessible irrespective of the compressed descriptions of the other blocks. Second data, which contains at least a portion of the compressed descriptions or of the blocks and has a better error resilience than the first data, is also generated. The first and second data are stored in a memory. At a decoder, the first and second data are read from the memory, and the image is reconstructed from the read first and second data.
US09462277B2
A method performed by an apparatus of decoding a video in the unit of blocks, includes: decoding information on a block size from a bitstream; determining a maximum block size to be used for decoding an encoded image, based on the information on the block size; and reconstructing an image by decoding the encoded image using the determined maximum block size, wherein the information on the block size includes a first information on a minimum block size and a second information on a difference between the minimum block size and the maximum block size.
US09462276B2
Hybrid video decoder supporting intermediate view synthesis of an intermediate view video from a first- and a second-view video which are predictively coded into a multi-view data signal with frames of the second-view video being spatially subdivided into sub-regions and the multi-view data signal having a prediction mode is provided, having: an extractor configured to respectively extract, from the multi-view data signal, for sub-regions of the frames of the second-view video, a disparity vector and a prediction residual; a predictive reconstructor configured to reconstruct the sub-regions of the frames of the second-view video, by generating a prediction from a reconstructed version of a portion of frames of the first-view video using the disparity vectors and a prediction residual for the respective sub-regions; and an intermediate view synthesizer configured to reconstruct first portions of the intermediate view video.
US09462274B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a transformation mode encoding and decoding method and apparatus. A correlation between the prediction mode and the transformation mode is used, and an optimal transformation mode candidate set is simplified, thereby saving resources when an index of an optimal transformation mode is encoded in encoding header information. In addition, encoding efficiency is higher when an encoding end elects a transformation mode.
US09462269B2
An image encoding apparatus includes a calculation unit configured to calculate a profile indicating a combination of processes which can be decoded by an image decoding apparatus and a level indicating a range of a parameter value which can be decoded by the image decoding apparatus, a determination unit configured to determine a number of horizontal pixels of a tile or a number of horizontal tiles with respect to a specific profile to be N or smaller (N>0) which is a maximum number of horizontal pixels defined in advance according to the level, and to determine a number of vertical pixels of the tile or a number of vertical tiles with respect to the specific profile to be M or smaller (M>0) which is a maximum number of vertical pixels defined in advance according to the level.
US09462264B2
Systems and related methods are provided to perform optical characterization of system under tests (SUT), including one or more optical elements (OE), for various purposes including evaluation of optical resolution needed to distinguish image elements, blur, line of sight jitter, and/or pointing stability. Various testing systems and methods are provided including an embodiment having a vibration loading system (VLS), a first acceleration sensor coupled with the VLS, and a mounting structure adapted to receive the SUT. An illumination target system (ITS) emits light that passes through the SUT OE's lens and is captured by the SUT's imaging system. A light control system controls the ITS based on a plurality of activation commands and a Test Control System (TCS). The TCS receives ITS input through the SUT that is synchronized with acceleration sensor data (e.g. phase of VLS position) and analyzed via real-time or post-processing including image distortion analysis.
US09462258B2
A digital display interface (40) connects a first audio-visual device (10) to a second audio-visual device (20). Stereoscopic image data is transmitter over the display interface (40). Components of stereoscopic image data are multiplexed and inserted into an image data carrying element. An existing deep color mode can be re-used for this purpose. Signaling information to help identify or decode the stereoscopic image data is carried in auxiliary data carrying elements. Stereoscopic image data can be distributed between image data carrying data elements and auxiliary data carrying data elements. Auxiliary data carrying elements can be transmitted in horizontal or vertical blanking periods, and can comprise HDMI Data Island Packets. Stereoscopic image data can be sent over an auxiliary data channel. The auxiliary data channel can form part of the same cable as is used to carry a primary channel of the display interface, a separate cable, or a wireless link.
US09462249B2
A system, method, and software for mobile video display and management includes acquiring a plurality of streams of video data from a plurality of cameras. The plurality of streams of video data are stored and plurality of selected streams of video data that includes at least one stream of recorded video data and at least one stream of live video data are presented in a graphical user interface of a remote device.
US09462244B2
This image display apparatus includes laser beam source portions, a synthesized beam generation portion, a control portion, a branching unit, and a detection portion, while the branching unit has a reflectance or transmittance with increase/decrease characteristics opposite to increase/decrease characteristics of the outputs of laser beams in increasing or decreasing the outputs of the laser beams of color components according to changes of the wavelengths of the laser beams of the color components in order to maintain the prescribed color state of a synthesized beam.
US09462242B2
An external micro projector comprises a micro projector body. A magnetic block is disposed in the micro projector body. The magnetic block is used for magnetically adhering with a magnetic adhesion device in a smartphone. A Pogo Pin connector is disposed on the micro projector body. The Pogo Pin connector is used for being electrically connected to the smartphone.
US09462232B2
A method includes inspecting a packet stream sent from a set-top box device via a network. The packet stream includes video content that is divided into a plurality of subsections. The method includes generating a plurality of signatures by applying a wavelet transform to each of the plurality of subsections, and determining a match between the video content and protected video content based at least in part on a comparison of the plurality of signatures to one or more stored signatures generated based on the protected video content.
US09462230B1
A system determines if someone watching a live video feed looks or moves away from a display screen, and when their attention is back on the display, provides an accelerated recap of the content that they missed. The video component of the feed may be shown as a series of selected still images or clips from the original feed, while audio and/or text captioning is output at an accelerated rate. The rate may be adaptively adjusted to maintain a consistent speed, and superfluous content may be omitted. When the recap catches up to the live feed, output returns to regular speed.
US09462215B2
Projector display systems comprising a light dimmer and first modulator are disclosed. The light dimmer may comprise an adjustable iris, adjustable light sources and/or LCD stack that is capable of lowering the luminance of the light source illuminated the first modulator. The first modulator may comprise a plurality of analog mirrors (e.g. MEMS array) and the second modulator may comprise a plurality of mirrors (e.g., DMD array). The display system may further comprise a controller that sends control signals to the light dimmer and first modulator. The display system may render a desired dynamic range for rendering a projected image by a combination of such control signals.
US09462204B2
An imaging device includes: an imaging section in which a plurality of unit pixels having a photoelectric conversion element are arranged in the form of a matrix; a reference signal generating section configured to generate a reference signal that increases or decreases with a passage of time; a comparison section that includes a differential amplifier including a first input terminal electrically connected to the reference signal generating section and a second input terminal electrically connected to the unit pixels and configured to compare voltages of the first input terminal and the second input terminal and is arranged for each column or for a plurality of columns of a pixel array of the imaging section; and a measurement section configured to measure a comparison time from when the comparison section starts comparison until the comparison ends and generate data corresponding to the comparison time.
US09462202B2
A pixel array includes regular pixels for imaging, and special pixel sites interspersed among the regular pixels. When the regular pixels become saturated from bright illumination, at least some of their excess charges are removed by the special pixel sites. The removal can reduce or eliminate blooming. In some embodiments, the special pixel sites include special pixels. For imaging, the regular pixels of a group such as a sub-array provide regular outputs that are combined into a composite signal. The special pixels provide a special output. The special output of the group may optionally be added to the composite signal, which can increase the dynamic range.
US09462201B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel unit in which a plurality of pixels converting physical quantities into electric signals are arranged in a two-dimensional shape, a vertical signal line for reading signals from the pixels, and column circuits arranged corresponding to columns of the pixel unit and collecting the signals from the vertical signal line at the inside of the pixel unit.
US09462200B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array section that has at least one pixel with a photoelectric conversion unit and a charge detection unit. A driving section is configured to read out a signal of the pixel, a first portion of said signal being based on signal charge, a second portion of said signal being based on a reset potential. A signal processing section is configured to read out the first portion of the signal as a reference voltage, with the reference voltage being adjusted to cause the first and second portions of the signal to be within an input voltage range.
US09462198B2
A method of acquiring an image of a scene illuminated by a first beam, by means of a sensor including at least two pixels, including the steps of: a) for each pixel, reading a first output value of the pixel representative of the intensity of the radiation received by the pixel during a first integration period during which the sensor is illuminated by a second beam coherent with the first beam; and b) for each pixel, reading a second output value of the pixel representative of the intensity of the radiation received by the pixel during a second integration period during which the sensor is not illuminated by the second beam, wherein steps a) and b) are repeated a plurality of times by changing, between two successive iterations, the angle of incidence or a phase parameter of the second beam.
US09462196B1
In one aspect, a computer-readable medium includes a set of program instructions that when executed cause performance of a set of functions involving (i) selecting a first log-entry from a traffic log, wherein the first log-entry corresponds to a bug-overlay digital video effect (DVE) stored in a stunt switcher, and to a first start-time; (ii) selecting a second log-entry from the traffic log, wherein the second log-entry corresponds to a video component (VC) and to a second start-time, wherein the second start-time is later than the first start-time; (iii) causing the VC to start being channeled through the stunt switcher proximate the second start-time; (iv) determining a target time to run the bug-overlay DVE; and (v) causing the stunt switcher to run the stored bug-overlay DVE proximate the determined target time such that a bug is overlayed on the VC as the VC is being channeled through the stunt switcher.
US09462193B2
Certain cameras and systems described herein produce enhanced dynamic range still or video images. The images can also have controlled or reduced motion artifacts. Moreover, the cameras and systems in some cases allow the dynamic range and/or motion artifacts to be tuned to achieve a desired cinematic effect.
US09462185B2
A system for capturing aerial images, the system comprising at least one steerable camera module, the steerable camera module comprising a camera and a beam-steering mechanism in the optical path of the camera module whereby the pointing direction of the camera is time-multiplexed to provide a wider effective field of view, the beam-steering mechanism comprising a steerable mirror tilted with respect to an optical axis of the camera module, the steerable mirror adapted to spin about the optical axis to effect beam steering.
US09462180B2
A method and system for detecting facial expressions in digital images and applications therefore are disclosed. Analysis of a digital image determines whether or not a smile and/or blink is present on a person's face. Face recognition, and/or a pose or illumination condition determination, permits application of a specific, relatively small classifier cascade.
US09462175B2
A digital annotation-based visual recognition book pronunciation system and its method of operation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a mobile application program in the system extracts graphical feature points from a page image of a book captured by an integrated camera lens, transmits the graphical feature points to a digital annotation database executed in a cloud computing server, retrieves a book pronunciation content associated with the page image of the book, and superimposes an icon or a representation of the book pronunciation content on the page image of the book displayed as a real-time augmented application on the display panel of the mobile device. The system further includes the digital annotation database that stores relational data between the page image of the book and the book pronunciation content recited by a human narrator, and a related image analysis and matching program.
US09462173B2
An information communication method is provided for obtaining information from a subject using a terminal device. The method includes obtaining and holding identification information of devices, and service information associated with the identification information, from a server. The method also includes setting an exposure time of an image sensor so that a bright line corresponding to each of the plurality of exposure lines included in the image sensor appears according to a change in luminance of the subject, and obtaining a bright line image including a plurality of bright lines. The method further includes obtaining identification information of the subject, by demodulating data specified by a pattern of the plurality of bright lines included in the obtained bright line image, selecting service information associated with the identification information, and presenting the service information to a user of the terminal device.
US09462171B2
A camera assembly for an electronic device. The camera assembly comprises an image sensor, a housing barrel, at least one lens and a seal member. The housing barrel is positioned above the image sensor and includes a proximal end and a distal end, as well as an inner surface which defines a barrel cavity. The image sensor is configured to receive light that extends through the barrel cavity. The at least one lens is positioned within the housing barrel. The upper lens cover is positioned over the distal end of the housing barrel. The upper lens cover has an inner surface and an outer surface. The seal member is integrally formed with one of the housing barrel, at a distal end thereof, and the inner surface of the upper lens cover, wherein the seal member effectively provides a seal between the housing barrel and the upper lens cover.
US09462161B2
An image forming apparatus and an image forming method are provided. The image forming apparatus includes a processor, and each of the processor of the image forming apparatus and the image forming method includes obtaining an output image of a primary color and a secondary color that is formed on a recording medium based on an image having an area ratio of each toner being uniform over the recording medium, obtaining spectral reflectance of the output image in a main scanning direction, obtaining spectral reflectance of a primary-color solid-fill image and the recording medium stored in a memory, calculating fluctuations in area ratio of each toner of a streaked area of the output image using the spectral reflectance of the streaked area and a streak-free area of the output image, and correcting an area ratio of each toner in the streaked area of image data to be output.
US09462155B2
Provided is a dot area extraction method including extracting a first dot area in binary data based on periodicity of pixels for every first range by dividing the binary data in a first direction or a second direction in the first range which includes a first number of pixels in the first direction and a second number of pixels in the second direction, and extracting a second dot area in the binary data based on the periodicity of the pixels for every second range by dividing the binary data in the first direction or the second direction in the second range which includes a third number of pixels in the first direction and a fourth number of pixels in the second direction.
US09462147B2
There is provided an image processing apparatus for recording an image on a unit region of a recording medium by performing relative scanning operations, each relative scanning operation being a scanning operation of recording element groups relative to the unit region performed by using a recording head including the recording element groups, each including a different recording element. The image processing apparatus receives image data of an image to be recorded on the unit region, obtains, for each of the recording element groups, a ratio of being used for recoding the image on the unit region, and corrects the image data in accordance with the obtained ratios and recording characteristic information representing recording characteristics of the recording element groups.
US09462140B2
A scanner includes: a communication device communicable with an information processing device; and a controller. The controller is configured to cause the scanner to execute: a determination processing in which the scanner determines whether a reading request which is a request for reading a pseudo image file is received from the information processing device; a scan executing processing in which the scanner executes a scan processing when the reading request for reading the pseudo image file is received in the determination processing; and a scan-data writing processing in which the scanner writes scan data created in the scan executing processing, into the pseudo image file.
US09462138B2
Method and system for crediting cellular accounts with airtime comprising exchanging funds within a mobile telephone based money transfer system account for airtime. Crediting a plurality of cellular accounts with the airtime.
US09462135B2
Delivery of alarm system event data and audio. In certain aspects, a method for delivery of alarm system event data is described, including communicating alarm event data from an alarm system to a private telecommunications switch. In turn, the alarm event data may be communicated to a message processing gateway. The message processing gateway evaluates service parameters of the alarm system and, in certain cases, instructs the private telecommunications switch to contact a central alarm monitoring station if certain service parameters are met. In additional aspects, private telecommunications switch opens a voice channel between the private telecommunications switch and the central alarm monitoring station and communicates the alarm event data. Additionally, in response to a determination that a voice channel between the private telecommunications switch and the central alarm monitoring station remains open, the private telecommunications switch may also bridge the voice channel to the alarm system.
US09462133B2
Methods, products, apparatuses, and systems may facilitate a conference operation. The conference operation may include conference chaining, conference switching, conference modification, conference announcement, and so on. A collection of authentication data for a plurality of distinct conferences may be performed to chain the conferences. Switching among the distinct conference may be performed in response to a switch key code. The switch key code may include a general key code applicable to each of the conferences and/or a specific key code application to a specific conference.
US09462122B1
Managing an outgoing telephone call includes receiving a request for a telephone call to a first call participant from a second call participant. A list that is specified by the second call participant is accessed. The list specifies users of an electronic communications system for which contact information is maintained. Whether the first call participant is included in the list of users is determined. A group of one or more of the users included in the list of users with which the first call participant is associated is identified when the first call participant is included in the list of users. A rule associated with the identified group that indicates a manner in which electronic communications of the first or second call participants should be handled is accessed, and a manner in which the call should be handled that is in accordance with the accessed rule is identified.
US09462120B2
A user of the system of the invention is given the option of recording a memo on the calls he or she has received through a prompt on a telecommunication device. The user can choose to record a voice memo or text memo after each call. The memos are saved in connection with caller id information pertaining to the number from which the call was placed. When a user of the system receives a call from a number that has a memo saved in relation thereto, the user will be prompted to hear, and may listen to, the voice memo before answering the call. If the memo is in text form, the user can configure the system to provide various processing options.
US09462119B2
Ring backs are provided for calls. When a call is placed to a called address, a ring back may be provided to a calling address. However, the ring back may be personalized to appeal to the calling address and/or to the called address.
US09462116B2
An apparatus comprising a receiver coupled to a digital subscriber line (DSL) between an exchange site and a customer premise equipment (CPE) and configured to send a feedback error message to train a precoder coupled to the exchange site, wherein the feedback error message comprises a plurality of error components and an indication of a quantity of bits per error component, a quantization accuracy per error component, or both. Included is a method comprising sending an error feedback message to a DSL crosstalk precoder to train the crosstalk precoder, wherein the error feedback message comprises an error vector and a quantization scaling factor of the error vector.
US09462111B1
The present invention is to provide a wearable electronic device applied to an electronic commerce system, wherein the wearable electronic device is configured to be in communication with an information management server located in a cloud end through short-range wireless communication between the wearable electronic device and a network communication device, the wearable electronic device is also able to play audio files, store audio property of the audio files as an audio preference record and transmit the audio preference record to a streaming audio server located in the cloud end through the network communication device and the information management server sequentially, and the streaming audio server can then directly update the audio file stored in the wearable electronic device according to the audio preference record through the network communication device, so as for the client to enjoy the latest and favorite audio during sport through wearing the wearable electronic device.
US09462099B2
A protective case for housing a mobile device is provided. The protective case comprises a top shell that seals against a top surface of a device and a bottom shell that cradles the back of the device. The top shell provides a downward extension along its perimeter that fits within a pocket formed around at least a portion of the perimeter of the bottom shell. At least the top shell forms an outward extending protrusion that is gripped by one or more backing elements that slide over the exterior of the bottom shell and extend up around the protrusion to grip the top shell and secure it to the bottom shell. Where upper and lower backing elements are used that meet at a parting line along the outer (exterior) surface of the bottom shell, a locking mechanism may be used to pull the backing elements together and hold them in place.
US09462094B2
A housing for a portable electronic device is provided. The housing includes a first section made of metal and a second section made of dielectric ceramic. The second section is coupled to the first section to cooperatively define an accommodating space. When an antenna is coupled to an inner surface of the second section facing the accommodating space, the antenna can transmit and receive signals through the second section. A portable electronic device incorporating the housing is also provided.
US09462088B2
Techniques are presented herein for receipt/transmission of packets to/from a host via a connected input/output (IO) device. In general, a packet is associated with a payload, an inner packet header, and an outer overlay header. The IO device is configured to perform independent offload operations on the inner packet header and the outer overlay header.
US09462086B2
A short message service (SMS) over SGs solution comprising an SGs application part (SGsAP) gateway. The SGsAP gateway is positioned between a mobile management entity (MME) on a long term evolution (LTE) network and a short message service center (SMSC)/home location register (HLR) on a circuit-switched (CS) network to permit SMS messages to be passed between the two domains. The SGsAP gateway performs centralized routing to home public land mobile networks (HPLMN) on the circuit-switched (CS) domain. An SGs interface is used to route messages between an SGsAP gateway and a mobile management entity (MME) on a long term evolution (LTE) network. The inventive solution does not require CS networks to support an SGs interface. In accordance with the principles of the present invention, a mobile management entity (MME) need only maintain a single SCTP association to a SGsAP gateway.
US09462083B1
The present disclosure is directed generally to systems and methods for the server side matching of web analytics and content viewing. According to the methods and systems disclosed herein, a first identifier is delivered to a client device when the client device accesses a first website. If the client device later accesses of a second website the first identifier can be processed by the system to determine if the client device previously accessed the first website.
US09462071B2
In one embodiment, a proxy device in a computer network receives a redirected client request having a request source address as a client address and a request source port as a client port. The proxy device then decides whether to serve, proxy, or bypass the client request, and in response to deciding to proxy the client request, forwards the client request to a corresponding server with the request source address as the client address and the request source port altered to a selected proxy port value corresponding to the proxy. In addition, the proxy device may then receive a redirected server reply for the client request that has a reply destination address as the client address and a reply destination port as the selected proxy port value, wherein the redirected server reply is received from a forwarding device based on selected proxy port value within the reply destination port.
US09462067B2
An engine, system and method for a domain social network that interconnects Internet users with at least domains owned by or of interest to those Internet users, and that may obtain and/or forward obtained dynamic data regarding those domains automatically, such as by web service or email service. The dynamic data may be used to filter and protect content and data of the respective domains, to protect users by identifying low quality web pages or malicious software or pages, to isolate or improve search results regarding the domain, and/or to improve Internet-based transaction flow, such as the creation of advertising.
US09462059B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method is provided. The method may include a computer registering a first instance of a logical partition on a source server with a logical unit and placing a first persistent reservation on the logical unit, wherein the first persistent reservation indicates that only the first instance of the logical partition can hold a reservation on the logical unit. The method may further include the computer registering a second instance of the logical partition on a destination server with the logical unit and downgrading the first persistent reservation, such that the first and second instances of the logical partition can hold persistent reservations on the logical unit. The method may further include the computer placing, by one or more computer processors, a second persistent reservation on the logical unit.
US09462041B1
A device automation system for providing automatic control of one or more devices in an environment includes a hub in communication with the one or more devices and with a data network where the hub is configured to issue commands to the devices and receive data from the devices; and a central server in communication with the hub through the data network where the central server is configured to install one or more automation applications in the hub or on the central server for handling events generated at the devices. Each of the automation applications responds to an event and issuing an action in response. The central server is configured to determine that a first set of the events is to be handled at the hub while a second set of events is to be handled at the central server.
US09462028B1
A system and method for simultaneous real time video streaming from multiple mobile devices or other sources through a server to recipient mobile devices or other video displays, enabled by sender or recipient requests, to create a wall of real time live videos, and to enable responses from those recipients, for security, personal, entertainment or commercial applications. A server searches, retrieves, upstreams and simultaneously transmits videos from multiple sender devices to requesting recipient devices and other designated recipient devices. The server displays the content of the upstream on a website. The server enables placement of information such as third party and sender advertising and publicity in the content and enables responses to the content such as communicating with the user, posting comments, conducting electronic commerce and making reservations.
US09462024B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a method of operating a streaming media client includes electronically receiving, from a network, information regarding component access points of a first multiplexed representation of a streaming content. The first multiplexed representation of the streaming content includes a plurality of media components, and each component access point defines an independently coded access point for one of the plurality of media components. The method further includes selecting a first segment of the first multiplexed representation of the streaming content based on the information regarding the component access points, and requesting the selected first segment of the first multiplexed representation of the streaming content from the network.
US09462019B1
A system comprising a broadcast facility, one or more players, and an analytic service center. The broadcast facility may be configured to provide a plurality of streams. The one or more players may be configured to receive at least one of the plurality of streams and provide feedback on a user experience. The analytic service center may be configured to receive the feedback from the one or more players.
US09462017B1
A method for conducting a communications session (e.g., a teleconference) may include: displaying, by a client device, a communications interface that may include a first canvas, a second canvas, and a content browser. The first canvas may be arranged to display a media stream. The second canvas may be arranged to display a sequence of content items that may be provided by a communications system (e.g., a teleconferencing system). The content browser may be arranged to display identifiers for one or more files that are associated with the teleconference. The method may further include detecting a first input that moves a file from the content browser onto the second canvas, and in response to the first input, transmitting from the client device to the communications system, an instruction to generate a new sequence of content items based on at least a portion of the file.
US09462015B2
A computer-implemented method for a distributed association engine, comprising searching, by a processor, for one or more objects of interest within a spatial bounded area, identifying, by the processor, the one or more objects of interest responsive to the search, and mapping, by the processor, one or more relationships between a user and the one or more objects of interest in a personal network.
US09462010B1
A device may obtain information regarding a security situation of a set of computing resources associated with a cloud-based platform. The information may be related to an ongoing security threat or a potential security threat. The information may be obtained utilizing one or more internet security resources. The device may determine a threat assessment level, of a set of threat assessment levels, for the security situation based on the information regarding the security situation. The information regarding the security situation may satisfy a set of threshold criteria for the threat assessment level. The device may perform one or more response actions associated with the threat assessment level based on the security situation. The one or more response actions may include providing an alert notification regarding the security situation that identifies the threat assessment level.
US09462006B2
A data verification system facilitates verifying whether a CCN Content Object is authentic or trustworthy on behalf of an application. During operation, the system can obtain a stack requirement for a custom transport stack, which specifies at least a description for a verifier stack component that verifies a Content Object using a key identifier (KeyID) associated with a publisher. The system instantiates the verifier stack component in the custom stack, and can use the custom stack to obtain a verified Content Object. While using the custom stack, the system can push, to the custom stack, an Interest that includes a name for a piece of content and includes a KeyID associated with a content producer. The system then receives, from the custom stack, a Content Object which the verifier stack component has verified is signed by the content producer associated with the KeyID.
US09462005B2
Systems, methods, and devices for multicast wireless local area network messages with message authentication are contained herein. The method includes determining a message integrity check value for each of a plurality of wireless devices. The method further includes transmitting a multicast packet to each of the plurality of devices on a wireless local area network, the multicast packet including an indication of each of the plurality of devices and the message integrity check value for each of the plurality of devices.
US09462004B1
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for managing electronic messages of users in a social network. One method includes an operation for receiving attributes of a profile of a person with a person account that has started following an entity with an entity account, in the social network. Further, the person is added to one or more groups in the entity account based on the attributes. Each of the groups is associated with defined properties for adding persons to each group. Furthermore, messages, created by the entity and addressed to the one or more groups, are distributed to a stream of the person account.
US09461998B2
Techniques for call-based user verification are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a processor circuit and a storage component. The apparatus may further comprise a session component, an identification (ID) component, a mapping component, and a verification component. The session component may be operative on the processor circuit and configured to receive session data from a client device and store the session data in the storage component. The ID component may be operative on the processor circuit and configured to request ID data from a server, receive ID data from the server, and send the ID data to the client device. The mapping component may be operative on the processor circuit and configured to map the session data with the ID data. The verification component may be operative on the processor circuit and configured to receive a confirmation from the client device, request verification from the server, and upon receiving verification from the server, verify the client device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09461995B2
The present invention discloses a terminal, a network locking and network unlocking method for same, and a storage medium, said network locking method comprising: writing network-locking parameters in a first memory unit of the terminal; obtaining, in accordance with terminal hardware unique identification information and the network-locking parameters, network-locking parameter authentication information and an unlock code; storing the obtained network-locking parameter authentication information in a second memory unit of the terminal, and saving the unlock code.
US09461991B2
The invention provides a system and method for signing a user workstation onto an access restricted network utilizing a mobile communication device. The method includes receiving a sign-on request from a mobile communication device of a user of the network, looking up a user certificate included in the sign-on request in an enrollment database and retrieving identifiers relating to the user, the workstation and network from the database, and transmitting a sign-on command to an authentication driver operating on the workstation, in response to which the authentication driver negotiates a sign-on operation of the workstation onto the network.
US09461986B2
A system includes authentication of a user with a first server, reception of a request from the user to authenticate the user with a second server, requesting, from the first server, in response to receiving the request, user credentials to access the second server, reception of the user credentials from the first server, and transmission of the user credentials to the second server.
US09461984B1
A computer-implemented method for blocking flanking attacks on computing systems may include (1) detecting a denial-of-service attack targeting a computing network, (2) inferring, based at least in part on detecting the denial-of-service attack, a secondary attack targeting at least one computing resource within the computing network, (3) determining that the computing resource is subject to additional protection based on inferring the secondary attack targeting the computing resource, and (4) protecting the computing resource against the secondary attack by adding an authentication requirement for accessing the computing resource. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09461981B2
Leveraging a persistent connection to provide a client access to a secured service may include establishing a persistent connection with a client in response to a first request from the client, and brokering a connection between the client and a secured service based on a second request from the client by leveraging the persistent connection with the client. The brokering may occur before the client attempts to connect to the secured service directly and the connection may be established between the client and the secured service without provision by the client of authentication information duplicative or additional to authentication information provided by the client to establish the persistent connection.
US09461977B2
The present invention provides a communications client program and an associated transfer server for onymous and secure communications over the internet. The communications client program is used for electronically sending and receiving mail items and for conducting realtime audio and video communications in a secure manner. A mail item is any item of correspondence that bears an addressee's street address (i.e. number, street, suburb, state and post code) or an advertising item that does not necessarily bear an addressee, but includes nominations for preferred destinations.
US09461976B1
Techniques are disclosed for provisioning Internet of Things (IoT) devices in accordance with a state machine model. More particularly, collections of IoT devices may be organized into enclaves, groups or “shoals” that operate as autonomous or semi-autonomous groups of devices functioning as a collective having a common objective or mission. IoT devices participating in a shoal may be provisioned with shoal-specific context information as part of their device-specific provisioning activity. By way of example, a shoal context object can include a current state variable and a target next state variable. The shoal's target next state variable establishes a goal (e.g., for provisioning activity) without dictating how the individual shoal members (IoT device) are to achieve that goal. This mechanism may be used to drive a shoal's separate devices through their individual provisioning state machines until the shoal itself is made operational.
US09461973B2
Systems and methods for decryption of payloads are disclosed herein. In various embodiments, systems and methods herein are configured for decrypting thousands of transactions per second. Further, in particular embodiments, the systems and methods herein are scalable, such that many thousands of transactions can be processed per second upon replicating particular architectural components.
US09461954B2
In particular embodiments, one or more computer systems of a social-networking system query a social graph of the social-networking system for social content associated with particular media content. The social graph includes nodes and edges connecting the nodes. The nodes include user nodes that are each associated with a particular user of the social-networking system. The one or more computer systems of the social-networking system determine a time associated with each of the social content, determine, using the determined time of each of the social content, a particular point within the particular media content that the social content was generated, and present a content visualization graph for display on a display device. The content visualization graph is a visual indication of the particular points within the particular media content that the social content was generated.
US09461953B2
An agent server determines a posting timing of a message on a family message board on the basis of urgency associated with situation information based on which a message is generated and a posting state, which is obtained by the posting state obtaining section, on the family message board.
US09461952B2
In a method for processing messages with the aid of at least one Ethernet controller having a message store, the at least one Ethernet controller checks a received message for the presence of at least one property, and the received message is stored in the message store if this at least one property applies to the message.
US09461931B1
Methods and apparatus for processing and using TCP packets to communicate RTP packets are described. Head of line blocking is avoided by operating a TCP packet processing module to output RTP packet data to an application irrespective of whether or not a preceding TCP packet was received. Since output of packet data to an application using RTP packets is not delayed when there is a missing TCP packet, head of line blocking is avoided. RTP packet data is subjected to pattern matching in order to identify and process RTP packets in the case where RTP header information such as packet length information is missing due to the failure to receive a TCP packet. The methods are particularly well suited for the communication of audio and/or video by devices operating behind firewalls which block UDP or other types of packets other than TCP packets.
US09461928B2
A LACP negotiation processing method is implemented by relay node that is located between a first node and a second node. A relay node receives a LACP packet sent by the first node and a LACP packet sent by the second node. The relay node determines first link information between the relay node and a first node according to the LACP packet sent by the first node, and determines second link information between the relay node and a second node according to the LACP packet sent by the second node; then establishes a correspondence between the first link information and the second link information. The relay node forwards the LACP packet sent by the first node to the second node according to the correspondence, and forwards the LACP packet sent by the first node to the second node according to the correspondence.
US09461917B1
A radio access network (RAN) may determine that a quality-of-service (QOS) load of a first base station exceeds a QOS load high threshold. The RAN may further determine that a set of wireless communication devices (WCDs) served by the first base station are located within a geographic area nearby a second base station. The RAN may additionally determine that the set of WCDs are responsible for at least a predefined portion of the QOS load of the first base station, and may power on the second base station. If at some point a second QOS load of the second base station falls below a QOS load low threshold, the RAN may facilitate handover of at least one of the WCDs served by the second base station from the second base station to the first base station, and may power off the second base station.
US09461915B1
The present technology considers network devices that include forwarding tables having a number of next-hop entries (e.g., egress ports) where it is possible that the egress port utilization can be load balanced using WCMP groups. To implement a WCMP group, its members are assigned weights representing an amount of data flow to distribute over a plurality of links for a given destination. The members may be replicated in a forwarding table proportionally to their assigned weights. This disclosure provides systems and methods to reduce the number of forwarding table entries required when implementing a WCMP group.
US09461904B2
Examples of selective enablement of operating modes or features of a storage system via host transfer rate detection are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a storage device includes an interface configured to couple the storage device to a computing host indirectly via an intermediate fabric; and a storage controller configured to determine whether a nominal data transfer rate of the interface across the intermediate fabric is at or above a predetermined threshold, and selectively enable coalescing of status information that is to be returned to the computing host via status combining across multiple host requests responsive to it being determined that the nominal data transfer rate is at or above the predetermined threshold.
US09461903B2
A communication device, including: a processor configured to estimate each of a plurality of first throughputs for each of a plurality of first route patterns corresponding to each of combinations of a plurality of first routes used in parallel, coupling the communication device to a first content server, estimate each of a plurality of second throughputs for each of a plurality of second route patterns corresponding to each of combinations of a plurality of second routes used in parallel, coupling the communication device to a second content server, select one of the plurality of the first and second route patterns based on the estimated plurality of the first and second throughputs, acquire an identical content from the first content server or the second content server using the selected one of the plurality of the first and second route patterns, and transmit the acquired identical content to a terminal device.
US09461900B2
A signal processing apparatus which processes a voice packet is provided. The signal processing apparatus includes: a network jitter measurer which estimates network jitter using a weighting of a network jitter variance according to a network state, a compression and output unit which compresses or outputs a voice frame based on the estimated network jitter, and a loss concealer which divides a voice packet loss into short-term loss concealment and long-term loss concealment, and performs loss concealment in a different way depending on whether the voice packet loss is the short-term loss concealment or the long-term loss concealment.
US09461898B2
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for determining the duration of time that has passed since temporarily idle or abandoned resources or property were last in use or possessed. The methods and systems provide for determining the point in time at which resources or property become idle or abandoned and for registering the cessation of use or abandonment event. Thereafter, the methods and systems provide for receiving and responding to queries concerning the temporarily idle or abandoned property and for detecting and registering resumption of use or reclamation events.
US09461895B1
Methods, mediums, and systems are described for detecting the loss of one or more packets in a data stream and identifying the missing packets so that they may be re-transmitted. The packets of the data stream may be associated with a continuity counter capable of representing a number n of values. A number m of packets of the data stream may be encapsulated into an encapsulating packet, where m does not share any common factors with n. Accordingly, if a number of streaming packets are lost, the loss of the packets may be readily detected even when the number of lost packets is a multiple of n. The received packets may be searched for a range including the missing packets and bounded by packets that are likely to be unique. Once the bounding packets are identified, packets between the bounding packets may be requested from the original sender.
US09461874B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for collective operation management in a parallel computer are provided. Embodiments include a parallel computer having a first compute node operatively coupled for data communications over a tree data communications network with a plurality of child compute nodes. Embodiments also include each child compute node performing a first collective operation. The first compute rode, for each child compute node, receives from the child compute node, a result of the first collective operation performed by the child compute node. For each result received from a child compute node, the first compute node stores a timestamp indicating a time that the child compute node completed the first collective operation. The first compute node also manages, based on the stored timestamps, execution of a second collective operation over the tree data communications network.
US09461870B2
Systems and methods for providing a dedicated storage directory for third-party applications in a cloud storage system may include allocating a user specific and application specific directory for the third-party application and controlling access to the directory. The directory may be used to store application data associated with the third-party application. The directory is made available to the respective third-party application and may be hidden from view from other applications and users.
US09461869B2
A digital signal processor (300), compatible with the Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI), permits reading and writing of IQ data of antenna carriers which have two different sampling rates by using just two single sample rate DMA (Direct Memory Access) modules (306,313). The digital signal processor (300) is capable of processing data of different sampling rates on just one CPRI lane comprising one framer (302). This is achieved by incorporating a divider module (307) and a multiplexer module (314) between the framer (302) and system memory (309, 315). The processor (300) may also be configured so that single sampling rates can also be accommodated.
US09461867B1
A method for routing communication paths among computing devices. The method includes a one or more computer processors identifying a computing entity and a data storage entity that transfer data. The method further includes determining a plurality of communication ports that the data storage entity utilizes to transfer data to the computing entity. The method further includes identifying a plurality of computing resources respectively associated with the determined plurality of communication ports that the data storage entity utilizes to transfer the data to the computing entity. The method further includes generating a list of tuples for the data storage entity based, at least in part, on the identified plurality of computing resources and the determined plurality of communication ports.
US09461862B2
Orthogonal differential vector signaling codes are described which support encoded sub-channels allowing transport of distinct but temporally aligned data and clocking signals over the same transport medium. Embodiments providing enhanced LPDDR interfaces are described which are suitable for implementation in both conventional high-speed CMOS and DRAM integrated circuit processes.
US09461861B2
A smart utility network (SUN) device that includes an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)-based transmitter. The OFDM-based transmitter including a signal processor to convert data from a frequency-domain to a time-domain using an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) and configured to perform a time-domain windowing function based on a Hanning window on OFDM symbols.
US09461858B1
In a method implemented in a communication device configured to transmit PHY data units via a communication channel, first data and second data is received. The first data is modulated according to a first constellation having a first number of constellation points, and the second data is modulated according to a second constellation having a second number of constellation points higher than the first number of constellation points. The first data and the second data is parsed to a plurality of spatial streams such that a first subset of the spatial streams includes at least some of the modulated first data but none of the modulated second data, and a second subset of the spatial streams includes at least some of the modulated second data but none of the modulated first data. A single PHY data unit that includes the plurality of spatial streams is generated.
US09461855B2
Pilot logic may determine based upon channel and phase information how to process pilot tones that shift locations every N symbols in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) packet transmission. Pilot logic may determine a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for the channel to determine how to process the shifting pilot tones. Pilot logic may also determine channel and phase information updates such as channel state information and phase correction information from pilot tones. In situations of high SNR, logic may use channel estimates and phase rotations that are obtained from locations of the pilot tones for phase tracking and updating the equalizer. In situations of low SNR, logic may use the phase rotations for phase tracking and not update the equalizer during the OFDM transmission. Logic may also determine the presence or absence of a Doppler effect on the transmission and transmit a selection for N to an access point in response.
US09461853B2
An automatic gain control (AGC) method and system for a radio receiver are proposed in which the ACG comprises two AGC loops; a first loop controlling signal gain in the analogue portion of the radio receiver, a second loop controlling gain in the digital domain after digitization of the received signal. The analogue AGC loop has a slower response time than the digital AGC loop. When applied to a multi-branch diversity receiver, each branch has its own digital AGC loop, but the analogue gain can be common to all branches, based on measurement of the analogue signal in each branch.
US09461851B1
A circuit for enabling an adaptation of an equalization circuit is described. The circuit comprises a continuous time linear equalizer configured to receive an input data signal and generate an equalized input data signal; a decision circuit configured to receive the equalized input data signal, wherein the decision circuit generates an estimate of the input data signal; channel estimation circuit configured to receive the estimate of the input data signal and an error signal to generate an impulse response estimate of an equivalent channel; a frequency response computation circuit configured to receive the impulse response estimate of the equivalent channel and generate a channel frequency response; and a continuous time linear equalizer control circuit configured to receive the channel frequency response and to generate a CTLE adaptation signal for controlling the continuous time linear equalizer.
US09461849B2
A method and system for wireless communication in a wireless communication network. The wireless communication network has a first mobile terminal and a second mobile terminal arranged in virtual multiple input, multiple output (“V-MIMO”) communication with a base station. A first wireless communication uplink channel corresponding to the first mobile terminal is estimated. The estimate is based on a first reference symbol signal and the cancellation of interference from a second reference symbol signal received from the second mobile terminal. A second wireless communication uplink channel corresponding to the second mobile terminal is estimated. The estimate is based on the second reference symbol signal and the cancellation of interference from the first reference symbol signal received from the first mobile terminal. The estimated first wireless communication uplink channel is used to demodulate a first data signal received from the first wireless device, and the estimated second wireless communication uplink channel is used to demodulate a second data signal received from the second wireless device.
US09461848B2
A pass-through packet determination unit (112) of an anchor GW 100A controls whether or not to transfer a Layer 3 packet arriving from an external network (20) to a downlink channel set up with a mobile terminal (700) based on a transfer policy. Further, a transfer policy control unit (111) changes the transfer policy to enable transfer of a multicast packet or a broadcast packet to the mobile terminal (700) by the downlink channel in response to receiving from the mobile terminal (700) a Layer 3 packet preliminarily specified as a trigger to start transfer of a multicast packet or a broadcast packet to the mobile terminal (700) by the downlink channel.
US09461847B2
An Internet Protocol (IP) TeleVision (IPTV) service provision method and system is provided for providing both fixed and mobile device users with IPTV services. The IPTV service provision method of the present invention includes establishing, when a Mobile-IPTV terminal function (M-ITF) including a first Open IPTV Terminal Function (OITF) having a plurality of functional entities and an embedded gateway having a plurality gateway functions detects a gateway function of an IPTV Terminal Function (ITF) including a second OITF having a plurality of functional entities and a plurality of gateways, a link with the gateway function of the ITF; disabling the embedded gateway; requesting a service provider network for an IPTV service via the gateway function of the ITF; and establishing a service link with the service provider network to received the IPTV service.
US09461845B2
Methods and apparatus to provide voice communication inoperative condition notifications are disclosed. An example method includes detecting an inoperative condition associated with a called voice over internet protocol device, comparing the inoperative condition to a criterion, and forwarding an inoperative condition notification for display on a display device associated with the called voice over internet protocol device when the criterion is satisfied.
US09461844B2
Method and apparatus for voice traffic management in a data network includes establishing a default maximum bandwidth setting at a LAN egress port when voice-type traffic is not present in a LAN portion of the data network, detecting voice-type traffic, reducing the bandwidth setting at the LAN egress port to effect a change in a rate of non voice type traffic and monitoring non voice type traffic and voice quality statistics to determine if the rate of non voice type traffic entering the data network has changed. Once the desired change has occurred, performing a linear increase of the bandwidth setting at the LAN egress port to a first value while monitoring voice quality statistics, determining if voice quality has degraded during increase of the bandwidth setting and repeating the last two steps if voice quality has not degraded.
US09461838B2
A communication management apparatus includes a token-circulation-order-information storing unit that stores token circulation order, a token-frame processing unit that determines whether transmission right acquiring apparatus information of the token frame indicates the own apparatus and transmits a token frame in which first transmission right acquisition determination information indicating a sequence number of a communication apparatus that can acquire a transmission right in the token circulation order, second transmission right acquisition determination information indicating the number of frames that can be transmitted during one token frame circulation, and transmission right acquiring apparatus information indicating the next transmission destination of the token frame after the own apparatus acquired from the token circulation order are set, and a data-frame-communication processing unit that transmits and receives the data frame, thereby to reduce time required until a communication node that acquired the token frame transmits data.
US09461837B2
The implementation of serial transmission protocols typically involves the transmission of data in form of serial data streams over multiple serial communication links in parallel. Upon reception, the serial data streams are aggregated to implement a behavior equivalent to the transmission of the data over a single serial communication link. A high-speed serial communication receiver with a central alignment control circuit is provided that performs the identification of word boundaries within each serial data stream, the alignment of all the serial data streams, and the arrangement of the serial communication links in a given order. Using a single central alignment control circuit reduces the circuit area required for performing these operations, facilitates a reduced latency, and can easily control a simplified switching network.
US09461831B2
A packet forwarding system includes: first relay apparatuses that are connected to each other; a second relay apparatus that includes ports and that is connected to first relay apparatuses; and a control apparatus that configures a trunk serving as virtual logical link by using physical links among first and second relay apparatuses. The control apparatus determines a designated port from ports of first relay apparatuses included in the trunk. When a relay apparatus included in the first relay apparatuses receives a predetermined control target packet, the control apparatus controls the first relay apparatuses to transmit a received control target packet via relay apparatus having the designated port.
US09461828B2
Providing information about digital certificate validity includes ascertaining digital certificate validity status for each of a plurality of digital certificates in a set of digital certificates, generating a plurality of artificially pre-computed messages about the validity status of at least a subset of the set of digital certificate of the plurality of digital certificates, where at least one of the messages indicates validity status of more than one digital certificate and digitally signing the artificially pre-computed messages to provide OCSP format responses that respond to OCSP queries about specific digital certificates in the set of digital certificates, where at least one digital signature is used in connection with an OCSP format response for more than one digital certificate. Generating and digitally signing may occur prior to any OCSP queries that are answered by any of the OCSP format responses. Ascertaining digital certificate validity status may include obtaining authenticated information about digital certificates.
US09461814B1
The present invention is directed to data communication. More specifically, the present invention provides a mechanism for determining an adjustment delay that minimizes skew error due to poor alignment between edge samples and data samples. The adjustment delay is determined by sampling edge samples and data samples using different test delays at a calibration frequency that is different from the sampling frequency. The test delay associated with the least average position between the data samples and edge samples is selected as the adjustment delay. The adjustment delay is used as a parameter when sampling data at the sampling frequency. There are other embodiments as well.
US09461809B2
Aspects of a method and system for extended range Ethernet link discovery signaling are provided. A local PHY may detect of one or more active twisted-pair wires in a remote PHY in extended range applications. The local PHY may determine whether to operate as a master or slave based on detected pairs. When operating as a master device, the local PHY may correct twisted-pair wire swap information received from the remote PHY before communicating an encoded link length value to the remote PHY. When operating as a slave device, the local PHY may transmit encoded twisted-pair wire swap information to the remote PHY before recovering a link length value communicated from the remote PHY. The local PHY may communicate supported operating modes based on the link length value to the remote PHY. Moreover, the local PHY may enable establishing a common full duplex operating mode with the remote PHY.
US09461804B2
A first apparatus 101 and a second apparatus 102 carry out wireless data communication using a wireless transmission path that uses a plurality of physical links in parallel. In each of the apparatuses, input/output ports 111 to 113 input and output data. A plurality of wireless signal processing means 141 to 143 respectively control different ones of the physical links. The wireless signal processing means 141 to 143 respectively measure reception signal levels of the physical links, and notify a counterpart apparatus about the reception signal levels. Link aggregation control means 130 determines a priority for each of the physical links based on the signal level for each of the physical links. The packet transfer processing means 141 to 143 select, out of the physical links structuring the wireless transmission path, the physical link having a usable band of a prescribed capacity and high priority as the data recipient.
US09461802B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for transmitting an HARQ ACK/NACK. The method includes: in a TDD-FDD CA scheme; recognizing a 2-bit downlink (DL) downlink assignment index (DAI) field configured in a DL downlink control information (DCI) format, the DL DCI format indicating a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) transmission on the second serving cell, and the 2-bit DL DAI field indicating that ten downlink subframes for the second serving cell are associated with one uplink subframe; in response to received data, generating a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) Acknowledgement/Negative Acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) signal, the HARQ ACK/NACK signal being indexed based on a value of the 2-bit DL DAI field; and transmitting the HARQ ACK/NACK signal through one uplink subframe of the first serving cell.
US09461800B2
Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to enable retransmitting of communications in a mobile network using small cell clusters are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein for a macro node in a mobile network include configuring a cluster of small cell nodes in communication with the macro node to perform retransmission of downlink packets sent from the macro node to a first user equipment (UE) served by the macro node. Such example methods also include sending a first downlink packet from the macro node for receipt by the first UE. Such example methods further include receiving acknowledgment information for the first downlink packet from the cluster of small cell nodes.
US09461795B2
Transitioning from basic higher order MIMO channel estimation to enhanced higher order MIMO channel estimation (and vice-versa) can be accomplished through the signaling of high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) shared control channel (HS-SCCH) orders to next-generation user equipments (UEs). A base station can be configured to send an HS-SCCH order indicating activation of scheduled pilot channels, and then begin transmitting the scheduled pilot channels after receiving an ACK message from at least one next-generation UE. A base station can also be configured to send an HS-SCCH order indicating de-activation of scheduled pilot channels to next-generation UEs scheduled for downlink transmission, and then stop transmitting the scheduled pilot channels after receiving ACK messages from each next-generation UE. Alternatively, scheduled pilot channels may be activated/de-activated without receiving an ACK message from some or all of the next-generation UEs scheduled for downlink transmission.
US09461786B2
The present disclosure provides a method for allocating a code for inter-Base Station (BS) coordinated communications in a radio communication system. The method includes grouping terminals, at least more than a predetermined number of whose transmit and receive beams indicated by the terminals' respective favorite beam configuration information correspond to each other, in a same group; and allocating unique codes to terminals in the same group and sending information regarding the allocated code to each of the terminals.
US09461775B2
A method, an apparatus, and a system for transmitting information bits, where the method for transmitting information bits includes: dividing the information bits to be transmitted into at least two groups; encoding the information bits to be transmitted in each group; modulating the coded bits obtained by the encoding to obtain modulation symbols, in which each modulation symbol is obtained by using the modulation of the coded bits in the same group; and mapping and transmitting the modulation symbols. In this way, the receiving end easily reduces the algorithm complexity, thereby ensuring the performance of the receiving end.
US09461767B2
A code generating apparatus, demodulation reference signal generating apparatus, and methods thereof. The demodulation reference signal generator includes generating a non-correlation sequence for RS of a first resource block; spreading spectrums of elements in the non-correlation sequence for RS to be mapped to a first frequency resource of the first resource block, by using a first group of codes; second spreading spectrums of elements in the non-correlation sequence for RS to be mapped to a second frequency resource of the first resource block, by using a second group of Codes; the first and second frequency resources are adjacent frequency resources in frequency resource elements used for RS transmission in the first resource block, and the first and second groups of Codes are mirrors in column to each other; and mapping the spectrum-spread elements to the first and second frequency resources, respectively.
US09461761B1
The techniques described herein comprise functionality (e.g., an application) that executes on a user device (e.g., a smartphone) and that is used to submit a ski-related conditions report to a remote device (e.g., a server) so that the ski-related conditions report can be shared with others. The remote device may aggregate and organize the ski-related conditions reports received from devices qualified to be within a pre-defined geo-fence so that, upon receiving requests to view the ski-related conditions reports, the ski-related conditions reports can be shared with others. A pre-defined geo-fence may create a virtual perimeter around a real-world geographic area (e.g., a resort ski area). A ski-related conditions report may include information describing at least one of temperature, visibility, wind, snow accumulation, precipitation, surface conditions, an indication of ski crowds, an indication of a length of time for a chair lift wait, and so forth.
US09461755B2
Enhanced RF system measurement including measurement of reflected power of a transmission system using two directional couplers configured to couple reflected power (e.g., isolate forward power). The directional couplers may be placed at a distance of ¼ wave separation and measurements from the two directional couplers may be averaged to obtain a reflected power for the transmission path. The enhanced measurement of reflected power may be used to obtain a more accurate VSWR or return loss measurement. An indication of the reflected power (e.g., VSWR, return loss, etc.) may be fed back to a source, which may adjust transmit power based on the measured VSWR to achieve a certain amount of power conveyed to the load (e.g., target radiated power from an antenna, etc.). Error conditions may be detected and the source may terminate transmission to prevent potential adverse operating conditions.
US09461745B2
According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method of modeling an optical signal transmission path may include obtaining first transmission characteristics of an optical signal transmission path within an optical network based on a parameter of the optical network and randomly changing states of polarization of an optical signal within the optical signal transmission path. The method may also include obtaining second transmission characteristics of the optical signal transmission path based on the parameter and a first fixed state of polarization of the optical signal. The method may also include correlating the first transmission characteristics with the second transmission characteristics to obtain an effective state of polarization of the optical signal. A simulation of the optical signal transmission path based on the parameter and the effective state of polarization of the optical signal may produce transmission characteristics that may approximate the first transmission characteristics.
US09461736B2
Techniques for efficiently sending and receiving data in a wireless communication system are described herein. The techniques utilize a slot structure that is backward compatible with existing design. The techniques include sending and receiving forward link packets that occupy less than a full slot of the slot structure. An output waveform, which includes at least one slot, is generated at an access point. Each slot is segmented into two half-slots, wherein at least one half-slot includes a data unit of a packet. At a terminal, the output waveform is received and processed to extract the data unit and the data unit is processed to determine whether it is accurate. The terminal also generates ACK/NACK information in response to the results of processing the data unit and transmits channel information including the ACK/NACK information. The access point interprets the ACK/NACK information to determine if the data unit should be resent.
US09461734B2
A communication system, (a base station apparatus, a data transmission method, and a program) in which unnecessary signalings do not occur in a large quantity as a result of the execution of a SON function, includes an eNB and an eNB that performs data transmission/reception with the eNB, in which the eNB includes a signal transmission/reception unit that transmits information to the eNB, the information being used to determine whether or not autonomous setting information should be transmitted from the eNB to the eNB.
US09461733B2
A telecommunications system for intermittent data transfer from and to at least one user located substantially on the surface of a celestial body. The system comprises at least one surface transmitter/receiver terminal associated with each user, one or more signal repeater means for the signals transmitted and/or received from the surface terminals. Each moving repeater means has at least one antenna oriented toward the surface of the celestial body, and adapted to allow communications from and to surface terminals. Each antenna produces a transmission/reception beam, the track of which on the surface of the celestial body forms the ground track, the progressive sweeping of the surface by this ground track forming a strip called a swath.
US09461726B2
A method for generating a codebook and a method and an apparatus for data transmission are provided. The method includes: receiving a label of a codeword sent by a User Equipment (UE); selecting the codeword identified by the label from the codebook for eight-antenna; and coding data to be sent by using the codeword. The codebook for eight-antenna includes at least one rank-8 codeword for eight-antenna. The rank-8 codeword for eight-antenna is generated by multiplying an inverse matrix of a rotation matrix for eight-antenna with an eight-dimensional matrix formed by rank-4 codewords for four-antenna; or generated by extending rank-4 codewords for eight-antenna, where the rank-4 codeword for eight-antenna is generated according to codewords for four-antenna. Therefore, the codeword in the codebook for eight-antenna is applicable to scenarios including dual-polarization strong correlation, dual-polarization weak correlation, single-polarization strong correlation, and single-polarization weak correlation, etc.
US09461718B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. In particular, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting channel quality information using a terminal, wherein the method comprises the steps of: receiving CoMP configuration information from a serving transmission point; receiving a downlink signal from a plurality of transmission points; and transmitting channel quality information on one or more downlink sub-bands for each transmission point to the serving transmission point, wherein the plurality of transmission points select the same one or more downlink sub-bands in consideration of the CoMP configuration information.
US09461709B2
A server system includes a common power bus, a power supply to provide direct current (DC) power through the common power bus, at least one node including a processor to receive the DC power through the common power bus, a transmitter capacitive coupled to the common power bus to transmit a power information signal from the power supply through the common power bus, and at least one receiver capacitive coupled to the common power bus to receive the power information signal transmitted by the transmitter and to provide the received power information signal to the at least one node. A plurality of buffers respectively coupled between the common power bus and each of the power supply and the at least one node provide path separation for high frequency and low frequency currents.
US09461702B2
In an example, time and frequency domain speech enhancement is implemented on a platform having a programmable device, such a PC or a smartphone running an OS. Echo cancellation is done first in time domain to cancel a dominant portion of the echo. Residual echo is cancelled jointly with noise reduction during a subsequent frequency domain stage. The time domain block uses a dual band, shorter length Adaptive Filter for faster convergence. Non-linear residual echo is cancelled based on an echo estimate and an error signal from the adaptive filters. A controller locates regions that had residual echo suppressed and which do not have speech and injects comfort noise. The controller can be full-duplex and operate non-linearly. An AGC selectively amplifies the frequency bins, based on the Gain function used by the residual echo and noise canceller.
US09461696B1
A converged communication device and a method of providing broadband communication and narrowband communication with the converged communication device. The method includes determining a data rate at a broadband transceiver of the converged communication device. The method also includes determining a signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio at a narrowband transceiver of the converged communication device. The method further includes assigning a first communication state to the converged communication device when the data rate is greater than a threshold data rate and the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio is greater than a threshold signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio. The method also includes transmitting, at the broadband transceiver, the broadband communication when the converged communication device is in the first communication state. The method further includes transmitting, at the narrowband transceiver, the narrowband communication when the converged communication device is in the first communication state.
US09461695B2
A wireless transceiver includes a semiconductor device configured to perform a transmission process and a reception process using a radio wave, the semiconductor device including a transmission unit and a reception unit. The wireless transceiver further includes an antenna configured to transmit an output signal from the transmission unit and provide a received input signal to the reception unit, and a baseband circuit configured to receive an output signal from the reception unit and output the output signal to the transmission unit.
US09461692B2
Examples disclosed herein provide a protective cover for a portable computing device. The protective cover can include a first portion and a second portion pivotally attached to the first portion at a first end of the second portion. A second end of the second portion can be coupled to a back surface of the device. The first portion can include a keyboard and a connector to electrically couple the keyboard with the device when the connector is connected with a port of the device.
US09461691B2
A mobile communication device includes a metallic housing, a main board mounted within the metallic housing, and an antenna portion and a grounding portion, the antenna portion including at least a first antenna and a second antenna, wherein these antennas share a common radiation part formed by a metallic cover piece, a metallic surrounding piece, an insulating piece, and a connection piece; the cover piece is grounded, the grounding portion including a first grounding point and a second grounding point both provided on the main board, respectively located laterally to the connection piece and abutting against the metallic surrounding piece. A corresponding manufacturing method of the mobile communication device is also related.
US09461688B2
A method, system, and device provide power-efficient communications within the context of available power. Transmission and receipt data rates are scalable in accordance with output power available from a power source. Data is transmitted at a data rate determined, at least in part, by the available output power.
US09461687B2
A mobile terminal and a method for reducing a specific absorption rate are disclosed. The mobile terminal includes: a control unit connected to an input unit, a memory and a switch, an antenna group containing multiple antennas, and the switch connected to each antenna and the radio-frequency circuit; wherein the input unit is configured to: detect a location of the mobile terminal relative to a user, and notify the control unit of the location; the memory is configured to: store location-specific absorption rate corresponding information of each antenna; and the control unit is configured to: according to the location, search the location-specific absorption rate corresponding information for a specific absorption rate of each antenna at the location, select an antenna according to the specific absorption rate of each antenna at the location, and control the switch to connect the selected antenna with the radio-frequency circuit.
US09461685B2
An apparatus, a system and a method of controlling a subscriber identity module (SIM) operation state in a multiple SIMs radio. For example, while operating a first packet switch (PS) service on a first SIM, a multi-SIM radio is configured to receive a PS paging signal indicating on arrival of a second PS service configured to operate on a second SIM. The radio may determine a priority of the first PS service, and a priority of the second PS service. The radio is configured to activate the second SIM, for example, if the priority of the second PS service is higher than the priority of the first PS service operating on the first SIM.
US09461675B2
A method for distortion compensation in a transmission link comprising obtaining information of an amplitude distribution of a signal prior to being transmitted by a transmitter, receiving the transmitted signal at a receiver and determining a received signal amplitude distribution, comparing the received signal amplitude distribution to the amplitude distribution of the signal prior to transmission and using results of the comparison to estimate the AM/AM non-linearity in the transmitter.
US09461668B2
A decimal floating point finite number in a decimal floating point format is composed from the number in a different format. A decimal floating point format includes fields to hold information relating to the sign, exponent and significand of the decimal floating point finite number. Other decimal floating point data, including infinities and NaNs (not a number), are also composed. Decimal floating point data are also decomposed from the decimal floating point format to a different format.
US09461660B2
A method and apparatus for a digitally-corrected analog-to-digital converter (ADC) are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a nonlinearity generator that generates one or more nonlinear characteristics of a time varying input signal and that causes unwanted signal components at frequencies other than a frequency of the time varying input signal, a frequency response modifier coupled to the nonlinearity generator that modifies the unwanted signal components by altering an amplitude of the unwanted signal components, a frequency response compensator coupled to the frequency response modifier, wherein the frequency response compensator compensates for the modification introduced by the frequency response modifier to provide a filtered digital signal, and an inverse nonlinearity generator coupled to the frequency response compensator for receiving the filtered digital signal, wherein the inverse nonlinearity generator compensates for the one or more nonlinear characteristics.
US09461652B2
Techniques for providing transformer-based CMOS oscillators capable of operation with low voltage power supplies. In an exemplary embodiment, an LC tank is provided at the drains of a transistor pair, and the inductance of the LC tank is mutually magnetically coupled to an inductance between the gates of the transistor pair. A separate complementary transistor pair is also coupled to the LC tank. A further exemplary embodiment provides an LC tank at the gates of a transistor pair, as well as for three-way coupling amongst a tank inductance, an inductance between the gates of the transistor pair, and an inductance between the gates of a complementary transistor pair.
US09461651B2
Systems and methods are provided for detection and compensation of dielectric resonator oscillator frequency drift. DRO frequency drift detection and compensation may be applied in a system (e.g., outdoor unit) during handling of received signals. The DRO frequency drift detection and compensation may comprise, for each input signal, obtaining DRO frequency drift related information, related to the input signal; determining, based on the obtained DRO frequency drift related information, one or more adjustments applicable to processing of the input signal and/or the generation of the output signal using the at least portion of the input signal; and applying the one or more adjustments. The DRO frequency drift detection and compensation may be applied continually, occasionally, and/or periodically.
US09461649B2
A programmable logic circuit architecture using resistive memory elements. The proposed circuit architecture uses the conventional island-based Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) architecture, but with novel integration of CMOS-compatible resistive memory elements that can be programmed efficiently. In the proposed architecture, the programmable interconnects of FPGA are redesigned to use only resistive memory elements and metal wires. Then, the interconnects can be entirely fabricated over logic blocks to save area while keeping their architectural functions unchanged, and the programming transistors can be shared among resistive memory elements to save area. Finally, on-demand buffer insertion is proposed as the buffering solution to achieve more speedup.
US09461645B2
A method for fabricating a touch panel, a touch panel, and an electronic device having the touch panel are provided. The touch panel includes a window member including a view area and a bezel area surrounding the view area, a sensor layer formed in the view area on a surface of the window member and including a sensor pattern for detecting a user input, a light blocking layer formed in the bezel area on the surface of the window member, a wiring layer formed on a surface of the light blocking layer and connected to the sensor pattern, and a barrier layer formed on the surface of the light blocking layer or a surface of the wiring layer.
US09461644B2
An electronic switch, or an electronic equipment having such switch that has a tap-sensing detection region for a user to perform finger-tapping, foot-tapping, or other finger movements on a contact surface in this region and effectuate sending of a signal to turn on, turn off, or perform other contemplated functions of the electronic equipment. This switch emits a radiation, such as infrared light, towards the detection region. The reflection of the radiation off of an object is collected and compared to a predetermined value. If there is a match, the switch would send a signal to the device to perform the predetermined function. In operation, the switch would allow an electrical equipment to have a “virtual switch” where the user can control the device by manipulating his finger or his foot in the designated detection region. The equipment may optionally have a LED illuminator to shine a lit marking indicating where the contact surface is and how it is to be used.
US09461642B1
A high-speed high-voltage pulser especially designed to operate in high radiation environments. The pulser uses a primary side driver and switches in front of an isolation gate transformer. The primary side driver and switches provide amplified and fast complementary pulse signals to the transformer. The transformer has top and bottom secondary windings, which respectively receive the complementary signals, and deliver them to secondary side drivers and switches. The switches are implemented with series-connected FETs.
US09461640B2
A switching element drive circuit of the present invention outputs a voltage to the switching element by use of a voltage output unit configured as an amplifier circuit having a voltage amplification factor of 1 to drive the switching element. When the switching element is turned on, a turn-on voltage having a value higher than a threshold voltage of the switching element and lower than a value of a voltage of a power supply of the switching element drive circuit is provided to the voltage output unit. After elapse of a turn-on voltage maintenance period, a voltage provided to the voltage output unit is switched by a voltage switching unit to the voltage of the power supply of the switching element drive circuit.
US09461634B2
A data output circuit of a semiconductor apparatus may include a first driver coupled to an output terminal via a first node, a second driver coupled to the output terminal via a second node and a controller coupled to the first and second drivers and configured to adjust a slew rate of a data signal output via the output terminal.
US09461632B2
Provided is a CR oscillator circuit that achieves a small occupied area and good oscillation frequency accuracy while having small current consumption. The CR oscillator circuit includes: a reference voltage circuit configured to switch and output a reference voltage; a first constant current source configured to charge a capacitor; a second constant current source configured to discharge the capacitor; a voltage comparator configured to compare voltages of the reference voltage circuit and the capacitor; and a logic circuit. The logic circuit is configured to switch between the reference voltage circuit and the constant current source simultaneously in response to an output signal of the voltage comparator.
US09461627B2
A gate-drive-on-array circuit for use with oxide semiconductor thin-film transistors of the present invention uses two constant-voltage negative potential sources (VSS1, VSS2) that are reduced step by step and low potentials of a high-frequency clock signal (CK(n)) and a low-frequency clock signal (LC1, LC2) to ensure an up-pull circuit portion (200) is maintained in a well closed condition during a non-operating period without being affected by the high-frequency clock signal (CK(n)) so as to ensure the circuit operates normally. Further, the first down-pull circuit portion (400) is re-designed to prevent influence thereof imposed on the outputs of the first node (Q(N)) and the output terminal (G(N)) so as to ensure the first node (Q(N)) and the output terminal (G(N)) can supply the outputs normally without generating signal distortion.
US09461621B2
A first filter channel with superior attenuation characteristics for transmission signals and is less susceptible to influence of transmission signals inputted to a transmission SAW filter device, is disposed closer to a transmission terminal, whereas a second filter channel with poor attenuation characteristics in a transmission band and is more susceptible to the influence of transmission signals inputted to the transmission SAW filter device, is disposed farther from a transmission terminal to improve isolation characteristics in a differential mode of a duplexer.
US09461619B2
A high-frequency module includes a multilayer substrate, a switch IC, a SAW duplexer and a matching circuit. The matching circuit includes a wiring line and first and second inner layer ground electrodes. The matching circuit performs impedance matching between the switch IC and the SAW duplexer in a pass band of the SAW duplexer. The wiring line is an inner layer electrode of the multilayer substrate that is connected between the switch IC and the SAW duplexer. The first and second inner layer ground electrodes face the wiring line in a stacking direction with only dielectric layers of the multilayer substrate therebetween.
US09461618B2
In one aspect of the invention, an acoustic device has a first coupled resonator filter (CRF) and a second CRF electrically coupled to one another in series. Each CRF has an input port, an output port, a bottom film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR), an acoustic decoupler formed on the bottom FBAR, and a top FBAR formed on the acoustic decoupler. Each FBAR has a bottom electrode, a piezoelectric layer formed on the bottom electrode, and a top electrode formed on the piezoelectric layer. The decoupling layer capacitance arising between the two electrodes enclosing the acoustic decoupler in a CRF is configured to achieve targeted filter response. A compensating capacitance is introduced to improve the amplitude and phase imbalance performance of an unbalanced to balanced CRF by eliminating the existence of asymmetric port-to-ground or feedback capacitance at the balanced output port produced by the decoupling layer capacitance.
US09461611B2
A low pass filter having an attenuation pole includes at least inductors disposed on a series arm which connects an input terminal and an output terminal. The inductors are wound inductors mounted on a first surface of a multilayer body. A winding axis of one of the wound inductors is perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to a winding axis of the other one of the wound inductors.
US09461610B2
Apparatus and methods for high voltage variable capacitors are provided herein. In certain configurations, an integrated circuit (IC) includes a variable capacitor array and a bias voltage generation circuit that biases the variable capacitor array to control the array's capacitance. The variable capacitor array includes a plurality of variable capacitor cells electrically connected in parallel between a radio frequency (RF) input and an RF output of the IC. Additionally, each of the variable capacitor cells can include a cascade of two or more pairs of anti-series metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) capacitors between the RF input and the RF output. The pairs of anti-series MOS capacitors include a first MOS capacitor and a second MOS capacitor electrically connected in anti-series. The bias voltage generation circuit generates bias voltages for biasing the MOS capacitors of the variable capacitor cells.
US09461604B2
A sound output device of the present invention is one that receives a digital audio signal including a plurality of channels and performs digital signal processing on the received digital audio signal, and includes a detecting portion which detects peak values or effective values of the plurality of channels included in the digital audio signal. The sound output device also includes an electric power calculating portion which calculates necessary electric power to output sound of each of the channels according to the peak values or the effective values. The sound output device also includes a sound volume adjusting portion which adjusts sound volume of the digital audio signal according to a total of the necessary electric power calculated by the electric power calculating portion for each of the channels.
US09461603B2
A method includes comparing a magnitude value of an audio signal in a fixed unit section with a target volume level, measuring audio gain in each fixed unit section using specific functions which are each determined to be different according to a ratio of the target volume level to the audio signal magnitude, and providing the measured audio gain to the audio signal in the fixed unit section.
US09461597B2
A system and method for linearizing a power amplifier using digital predistortion technique is provided including processing circuitry, the processing circuitry configured to apply a digital predistortion function based on a weighted static polynomial function, a weighted dynamic polynomial function and a threshold parameter which splits the nonlinear transfer characteristics of the device under test into a region where the static nonlinearity predominates and a region where the dynamic distortions predominate.
US09461594B2
Consumption current may be reduced in a power amplifier module in which a power supply voltage supplied to a power amplification transistor is controlled according to the level of output power. The power amplifier module includes an amplification transistor supplied with the power supply voltage according to the level of output power to amplify a radio-frequency signal, a bias control circuit for generating a bias voltage according to the power supply voltage, and a bias circuit for supplying a bias current according to the bias voltage to the amplification transistor, wherein current flowing through the amplification transistor when the radio-frequency signal is not input is varied according to the level of output power.
US09461592B2
A distortion compensation device compensates a non-linear distortion of a power amplifier included in a wireless communication apparatus that employs the power amplifier to amplify a transmission signal and that transmits the amplified transmission signal. The distortion compensation device includes a bit adjusting unit that, when a width of a distribution of a first parameter among a plurality of calculated parameters is equal to or smaller than a predetermined level, adjusts a bit number of a first address corresponding to the first parameter to be a value obtained by decreasing a first reference bit number and adjusts a bit number of a second address corresponding to a second parameter other than the first parameter to be a value obtained by increasing a second reference bit number.
US09461590B2
Envelope tracking (ET) is enabled in connection with single-band or multi-band transmission. One example system includes two or more power amplification components associated with distinct frequency bands, with at least one including a first power amplifier (PA) configured to operate in an ET mode, and at least one including a second PA configured to operate in an average power tracking (APT) mode of operation. A first DC-to-DC converter is configured to provide a first supply voltage according to the ET mode to each first PA, and a second DC-to-DC converter is configured to provide a second supply voltage according to the APT mode to each second PA. A control component is configured to determine a present transmission mode and to select on that basis one or more PAs, wherein the control component selects at most one of the first PAs and at most one of the second PAs.
US09461589B2
Disclosed is an amplifier circuit having an output stage that includes an H-bridge circuit. The H-bridge circuit includes sense resistors on one side of the circuit. A current detection circuit can produce an output indicative of current flow through a load based on voltages across the sense resistors.
US09461586B2
An oscillator is provided including a nanopillar and current injector for injecting a power supply current through the nanopillar, the nanopillar including at least one pattern including first and second layers made from a ferromagnetic material separated from each other by an intermediate layer made from a non-magnetic material. Each of the first and second ferromagnetic layers is prepared such that its remanent magnetic configuration corresponds to a vortex configuration and the polarity of the vortex core of the first layer is opposite the polarity of the vortex core of the second layer. The intermediate layer can allow repellant magnetic coupling between the two vortices of the first and second layers, for a zero intensity of the power supply current and a zero amplitude of the outside magnetic field.
US09461584B2
A circuit includes an oscillator circuit to receive a bias current and generate an oscillating signal at an output node. A current differencing circuit subtracts a current at the output node from a reference current to generate a first current. In addition, a current mirroring circuit mirrors the first current to generate the bias current. An inverter stage is coupled to the output node, and includes an input branch configured to receive the oscillating signal and generate first and second control signals based upon the oscillating signal. At least one amplifying branch receives the first and second control signals and amplifies the first and second control signals. An output branch receives the amplified first and second control signals and generates an amplified version of the oscillating signal based upon the amplified first and second control signals.
US09461582B2
Methods and structures for extracting at least one electric parametric value from a back contact solar cell. According to one embodiment, a first layer of electrically conductive metal having an interdigitated pattern of base electrodes and emitter electrodes is formed on the backside surface of a semiconductor solar cell substrate. An electrically insulating layer is formed on the first layer of electrically conductive metal providing electrical isolation between the first layer of electrically conductive metal and a second layer of electrically conductive metal. Vias are formed in the electrically insulating layer providing access to the first layer of electrically conductive metal. A second electrically conductive metallization layer is formed on the electrically insulating layer and contacts the first electrically conductive metal layer through the vias. An electrical parametric value is extracted from the solar cell by probing the electrically conductive metallization layer with an electrical current or voltage.
US09461581B2
A shadowing compensation device for a solar cell module has an input port, an isolated DC-DC power converter, and an output port. The input port is connected to two output ends of a solar cell array including multiple solar cell modules connected in series. The output port is connected to one of the multiple solar cell modules of the solar cell array. When one of the solar cell modules connected to the output port of shadowing compensation device has been shaded, the isolated DC-DC power converter outputs a compensating current to the solar cell module that has been shaded for increasing the output voltage of the solar cell module that has been shaded, and increasing the output voltage and output power of the solar cell array.
US09461577B2
In some aspects, an actuation system includes an electrical positioning driver and an electrically-driven actuator. A voltage boost converter in the electrical positioning driver receives an input voltage. The voltage boost converter passes the input voltage to a voltage bus in the electrical positioning driver. The voltage on the voltage bus is converted to an actuator power signal that controls the electrically-driven actuator. The voltage boost converter boosts the voltage on the voltage bus to control a mechanical output performance of the electrically-driven actuator.
US09461576B2
A fan motor drive device configured to drive a fan with a motor includes a position speed estimating calculator configured to calculate estimated values of a rotation angle and a rotation speed of the motor, a multiplier configured to calculate a control target value by multiplying the rotation speed calculated in the position speed estimating calculator and a flow coefficient, and a current vector controller configured to control a drive current of the motor by feedback control based on the control target value. A rotor magnetic flux intensity of the motor is calculated based on at least a drive current obtained by a current sensor and the rotation angle obtained from the position speed estimating calculator, and a control value used in driving the motor is changed by the rotor magnetic flux intensity thus calculated.
US09461574B2
A motor control system for determining a reference d-axis current and a reference q-axis current is provided. The motor control system includes a motor, a DC power source and DC input lines, and a current command controller. The DC power source generates a bridge voltage across the DC input lines. The current command controller is configured to monitor the bridge voltage and a torque reference command. The current command controller is configured to calculate the reference q-axis current based on a torque reference command. The current command controller is configured to calculate the reference d-axis current based on a magnitude of the reference q-axis current.
US09461566B2
The invention relates to a drive arrangement for the motorized adjustment of an adjustment element of a vehicle, wherein at least one drive comprising an electric drive motor and a drive control means and is connected to a supply, wherein the drive is designed in a non-self-locking manner, the drive motor operates as a generator and generates a generator voltage, wherein the drive control means has a driver unit for supplying electrical power to the at least one drive. The invention proposes that the drive control means has a switching device and has a detection device for detecting a non-motorized adjustment of the adjustment element, and that the drive control means, when a predetermined, non-motorized adjustment of the adjustment element is detected, connects the supply voltage to the supply connections of the driver unit by means of the switching device in one switching operation.
US09461565B2
A system for soft starting a large AC motor may include a variable frequency drive (VFD) having a much lower voltage rating than the rated voltage of the AC motor. The VFD's voltage rating may be in a range of about 33% to about 67% of the AC motor's rated voltage. The AC motor may be coupled to a utility power source via conventional connections to leads of the AC motor's windings. The VFD may be connected to the AC motor via tapped connections within the windings of the AC motor such that the tap voltages are much less than the AC motor's rated voltage. A less expensive VFD may therefore be used to soft start the AC motor instead of a VFD having the same rated voltage as the AC motor. Methods of starting large AC motors with a VFD are also provided, as are other aspects.
US09461558B2
A control device of a switching converter controls the closing and opening of a switch of the converter that regulates the operation of an inductor. The control device includes a ramp voltage generator, a switch control circuit configured to close the switch based on a comparison of the ramp voltage with a first signal and a generator control circuit configured to control the ramp voltage generator based on a value of a second signal representative of a current flowing through the inductor of the converter, in comparison with the value of a third signal.
US09461555B2
A multilevel current source converter (CSC) for controlling electrical power transmission in a high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system includes an alternating current (AC) side for input/output of AC to/from the CSC; a direct current (DC) side for input/output of DC to/from the CSC; and a plurality of modular CSC cells connected in parallel with each other between the AC side and the DC side of the CSC, each modular cell comprising a plurality of switches. The CSC is configured for being connected in series with an HVDC transmission line and for injecting a voltage in series with the HVDC transmission line at the DC side of the CSC.
US09461554B2
A converter comprises a non-isolated stage coupled to an input dc power source, wherein the non-isolated stage is configured to operate at a buck converter mode in response to a first input voltage and operate at a boost converter mode in response to a second input voltage, a resonant stage coupled between the non-isolated stage and a load, wherein the resonant stage is configured to operate at a resonant mode and a capacitor coupled between the non-isolated stage and the resonant stage.
US09461551B2
Systems, methods, and devices for use with photovoltaic micro-inverters. A control system for controlling power switches in a full bridge inverter in a DC/DC converter uses an estimate of the output current of a photovoltaic (PV) panel. The estimate is provided by a current estimator that takes as input the output voltage of the PV panel as well as the bus voltage of the DC/DC converter. Also used as input to the current estimator are two of the control signals for specific power switches in the full bridge inverter in the DC/DC converter.
US09461548B2
Embodiment relates to a switch control circuit, a switch control method, and a power supply using the switch control circuit. The power supply supplies power to a load using an input voltage. The switch control circuit controls a switching operation of the power switch that controls the power supply. The switch control circuit detects a duty of the power switch using a signal for controlling the switching operation of the power switch, detects the load using the feedback voltage, and determines a short-circuit of the sense resistor according to the detected duty and the detected load.
US09461546B2
An energy efficient apparatus includes a switching device, a frequency dependent reactive device, and a control element is provided. The switching device is coupled to a source of electrical power and includes a pair of transistors and is adapted to receive a control signal and to produce an alternating current power signal. The frequency of the alternating current power signal is responsive to the control signal. The frequency dependent reactive device is electrically coupled to the pair of transistors for receiving the alternating current power signal and producing an output power signal. The frequency dependent reactive device is chosen to achieve a desired voltage of the output power signal relative to the frequency of the alternating current power signal. The control element senses an actual voltage of the direct current power signal and modifies the control signal delivered to achieve the desired voltage of the direct current power signal.
US09461545B2
A first softstart signal indicates operation in a load phase for a boost rectifier and a second softstart signal indicates operation in a pulse drive phase which follows the load phase. A rectification transistor is actuated for the duration of the load phase in response to the first softstart circuit to generate a rising output voltage. The rectification transistor is further repeatedly actuated during the pulse drive phase in response to the second softstart circuit to generate a boosted output voltage. A first transistor coupled between a first conduction terminal and a body terminal of the rectification transistor is actuated, and a second transistor coupled between the body terminal and a second conduction terminal of the rectification transistor is deactuated, during the load phase. The first transistor is deactuated, and the second transistor is actuated, during the pulse drive phase.
US09461540B2
There is disclosed an asynchronous switch mode power supply comprising: a subtractor for subtracting an output of the switch mode power supply from a reference signal; a filter for filtering the subtracted output; a quantizer for generating a plurality of quantizer outputs in dependence on the integrated subtracted output; and a power switch stage for connecting one of a plurality of supply voltages to the output of the switch mode power supply in dependence on the quantizer outputs.
US09461532B2
A resistance generating device for a drive unit of an opening and closing member of a vehicle includes a transmission member transmitting a rotary motion to a rotary body, and a fixing member provided to form a clearance between the fixing member and the transmission member in a radial direction of a rotary axis of the transmission member. One of the fixing member and the transmission member includes a magnet and the other includes a magnetic body. The magnet is disposed to face the magnetic body so that the facing position facing each other is changed as the transmission member rotates. The magnet is disposed to face the magnetic body so that magnetic poles at the facing position alternate as the transmission member rotates. The magnetic body and the magnet generate a magnetic force therebetween, the magnetic force generating a resistance against an opening and closing movement of the opening and closing member.
US09461531B2
A braking device includes a flywheel rotatably mounted on a brace, a circular rotor deposited on the flywheel, and a stator fixed to the brace for combining with the rotor. The stator includes first and second magnetic poles. The first magnetic pole is larger than the second magnetic pole. The first and second magnetic poles are arranged into a ring in an interlaced manner. Each of the first and second magnetic poles has a coil. The braking device has a magnetic control unit mounted on a lateral of the brace near a rim of the flywheel and configured to generate magnetism in response to electric currents generated by the coils, so as to change a rotatory load of the flywheel. With the interlaced arrangement of the large and small magnetic poles, the braking device can have the rotor rotating with less cogging torque, and in turn reduced noise.
US09461529B2
A transducer comprising: a flat strip of metal formed into a closed metal loop with two substantially parallel sides and rounded corners, a solenoid fixed to a surface on a first parallel side, and fixed magnets attached to an opposite parallel side of the trapezoidal shape to bring the fixed magnets into proximity with the solenoid, wherein at least one lateral side of the trapezoidal shape coupling said parallel sides has a continuously varying width, resulting in the transducer being able to resonate with high fidelity over a range of frequencies in response to reception of a signal comprising varying frequencies.
US09461522B2
A drive unit that includes a rotating electric machine having a stator with winding wound on the stator and with a shaft rotating within the stator, and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator. The drive unit also includes a controller holding member disposed on one end of the rotating electric machine, and a controller having a substrate fixed to the controller holding member, a heat generation element mounted on a heat generation element mounting surface. The drive unit further includes a power supply connector connecting the substrate and a power supply, and a ground line coupled to a ground terminal of the power supply providing a conductive connection to the controller holding member via the substrate and the power supply connector. With this structure, the drive unit's common mode noise may be reduced.
US09461518B2
A stepping motor includes a first plate; a second plate having a side facing the first plate and a reverse side; a stator held by the first plate and the second plate axially; plural band connecting portions equipped in the first plate, disposed at a side surface of the stator, extending toward the second plate and having an engaging portion at an outer side thereof; and a band portion contacting the reverse side of the second plate, extending toward the first plate and having plural arm portions engaging respective engaging portions of the band connecting portion. The band portion is connected to the first plate while holding the second plate and the stator therebetween by engaging the plural arms with the engaging portions, the band portion is elastically deformed, the deformation causes tensile force in which the arm portions pull the band connecting portions toward the band portion.
US09461516B2
Disclosed herein is a fan motor including: a first bracket having a central portion through which a rotary shaft penetrates, the first bracket having an upper bearing insertion space which is formed in the first bracket and to which an upper bearing for supporting the upper end portion of the rotary shaft is inserted; a second bracket having an upper side to which the first bracket is connected, the second bracket having a lower bearing insertion space which is formed at the central portion of the lower side thereof and to which a lower bearing for supporting the lower end portion of the rotary shaft is inserted; a printed circuit board inserted and fixed into a PCB insertion space formed in the lower side of the second bracket; and a third bracket having an upper side to which the second bracket is connected.
US09461510B2
A 2-pole machine arrangement (10) has a stator (100) with windings (101) in conventional form, wound either in a single phase or three phase configuration. The rotor is formed of stacked laminations. The laminations include rotor pole pieces (107) located between the two magnetic poles. Each pole is formed by a pair of (embedded) permanent magnets (103), angularly spaced-apart by inter-magnet segments (106). The rotor pole pieces (107) include a series of evenly-spaced slots (109) and a central void (108). The slots (109) are of various lengths to direct the flux from the magnets (103) into the air gap (121) at a desired angle normal to the rotor surface. The slots 109 may be varied in width and angle to achieve the desired lowest waveform distortion under load and the highest air gap flux. The slots (109) also contribute to changing the saliency of the rotor.
US09461502B2
A control method for performing wireless charging in a wireless power receiver is disclosed. The control method includes receiving charging power from a wireless power transmitter; detecting transition of the wireless power receiver from a Stand Alone (SA) mode to a Non Stand Alone (NSA) mode; upon detecting the mode transition, generating a message including address information used to re-connect with the wireless power transmitter; and transmitting the message to the wireless power transmitter.
US09461501B2
A power source, charging system, and inductive receiver for mobile devices. A pad or similar base unit comprises a primary, which creates a magnetic field by applying an alternating current to a winding, coil, or any type of current carrying wire. A receiver comprises a means for receiving the energy from the alternating magnetic field and transferring it to a mobile or other device. The receiver can also comprise electronic components or logic to set the voltage and current to the appropriate levels required by the mobile device, or to communicate information or data to and from the pad. The system may also incorporate efficiency measures that improve the efficiency of power transfer between the charger and receiver.
US09461495B2
A battery warm up system according to the present disclosure includes a battery state measuring unit to measure a state of charge (SOC) of each module of a battery pack of a vehicle, a control unit to optionally output a forced discharging start signal and to output a balancing start signal, a forced discharging circuit unit to force at least one battery module among a plurality of battery modules of the battery pack to be discharged in response to the forced discharging start signal, and a balancing unit to balance the SOC of each of the battery modules in response to the balancing start signal.
US09461492B1
A system and method to charge a battery during a charging cycle having a plurality of portions. The method comprises generating a first charge signal during the first portion of the charging cycle, wherein the first charge signal is based on a charge-time parameter. The charge-time parameter correlates a charge time period of the charging cycle to (i) a state of charge of the battery and/or (ii) a charge storage level corresponding to an amount of usage time of the battery. The method further includes applying the first charge signal to the battery during the first portion of the charging cycle, and, in response thereto, charging the battery to provide a state of charge and/or (ii) a charge storage level corresponding to an amount of usage in or within the charge time period of the charge-time parameter.
US09461482B2
A battery system includes a cell group in a lead-acid battery power system (battery system A) coupled to a battery power system (battery system B) having a different chemistry, such as lithium ion-based battery. Each battery system, A and B, are interconnected at specific cathode and anode contacts chosen based on the voltages range present at those points to prevent damage to the different battery systems. The worst-case voltage range of the battery system A at the connection points is higher than the worst case voltage range of battery system B. The battery system includes a battery management system (BMS) that monitors voltages at each cell level and that monitors current at the pack level. The BMS can also be configured to control conductivity between packs A and B, and to protect battery systems A and B from going out of normal operating conditions.
US09461473B2
Embodiments disclose using a pairing or pairings of terminals in a DC power system including a plurality of terminals to implement power oscillation damping (POD), where the DC power system is connectable to at least one AC power system. The active and/or reactive power of the terminals in the pairing may be controlled or modulated in a similar manner such that no power imbalance in the DC power system is created. For example, POD may be implemented by means of active and/or reactive power modulation by pairing two terminals in the DC power system) such that their active and/or reactive powers are controlled or modulated in the same or substantially the same manner or identically but with the opposite sign.
US09461471B2
Systems and methods for managing power on an electric power grid including a server for communicating IP-based messages over a network with distributed power consuming devices and/or power supplying devices, the IP-based messages including information relating to activities by the power consuming devices and/or the power supplying devices; and wherein the information is transformed by the system into settlement grade data corresponding to the activities of the power consuming devices and/or the power supplying devices.
US09461468B2
A transfer switch panel including a bonded neutral connection to ground that allows the connection and disconnection of the utility neutral and an auxiliary power source neutral in one switching movement. The transfer switch panel includes a transfer switch connected to both a utility power source and an auxiliary power source. The transfer switch connects either the utility power source or the auxiliary power source to a pair of hot buses and a neutral bus contained within the transfer switch panel. The neutral bus includes a bonded connection to ground such that the neutral line of either the utility power source or the auxiliary power source is connected to ground when providing power to loads connected to a load center panel.
US09461461B2
The invention relates to a defect indicator for an electronic device, in particular a surge arrester, comprising at least two thermal overcurrent protection devices which respond to different fault or overload states and each have a mechanical actuating device for triggering the fault signalling, wherein the mechanical actuating device is in the form of a bolt or pin which acts on a fault signalling element. According to the invention, the at least two overcurrent protection devices are arranged relative to one another in such a manner that the direction vectors of the bolts or pins intersect in an imaginary extension of the movement path thereof, wherein the particular bolt or pin acts on a respectively provided surface side of a displaceable armature and the armature occupies a variable position in the movement path. The armature also has a further surface side which, in the event of an armature movement, in turn acts on the fault signalling element and displaces the latter, for example, and this further surface side comprises at least one wedge slope for this purpose in order to change the direction of force on account of the movement of one of the bolts or pins.
US09461458B2
The present invention is concerned with a method of distance protection of parallel transmission lines applicable both to series compensated and uncompensated electric power lines, using a distance relay. The method is characterized in that a pair of flags (ff1, ff2) are calculated for indication faulted and healthy circuits in parallel lines and in the same time a flag (Internal_Fault) for indication internal or external fault in parallel lines is calculated independently. Next gathering all calculated flags (ff1, ff2, Internal_Fault) an analyze of the value of these flags are performed and depending on the values of flags (ff1, ff2, Internal_Fault) and on their reciprocal relationship, a trip permission signal from the protection relay (4) is released and sent to the alarms devices or to the line breakers, or a block signal from the protection relay (4) is generated and sent to protect parallel lines before damage.
US09461430B1
A system comprising a panel with at least a first receptacle formed in the panel to receive at least one of an electrical outlet plug in at least two arrangements and at least a first universal serial bus (USB) type plug and a second USB type plug so that when received the electrical outlet plug, the first USB type plug and the second USB type plug remains within the receptacle when the panel is orientated in at least one of a nearly vertical position and a vertical position. An apparatus is also disclosed.
US09461425B2
A connector which includes a metal piece, a contact assembly including a body which fixes a plurality of contacts, and a housing in which the contact assembly is inserted, in which the metal piece includes an arm portion which is extended in an arrangement direction of the contacts, an L-shaped portion, and of which an end surface is brought into contact only with a lateral wall of a concave portion of the housing, and a pressing portion which is formed by extending an end surface of the L-shaped portion, and which protrudes from a hole to be brought into contact only with a lateral wall of a recess of the body.
US09461424B2
An electrical receptacle connector, provided to connect with an electrical plug connector, includes a metal shell, an insulation housing and a conductive piece. The conductive piece is disposed at a tongue portion of the insulation housing and includes a contact portion, two laterally soldering portions and an abutting portion. The contact portion is disposed at a rear contact region of the tongue portion, the two laterally soldering portions are respectively extending from two sides of the contact portion, and the abutting portion is extending from the contact portion to attach on a base portion of the insulation ho thus abutting against an inner wall of the metal shell.
US09461422B2
In an embodiment, a micro ethernet connector includes an outer housing that has a recessed front end and a back end. The micro ethernet connector further includes an inner housing that is disposed within the recessed front end of the outer housing. The inner housing has an exposed end. The exposed end includes a recessed channel. The volume of the recessed channel is substantially equal to the volume of a correspondingly shaped protruding printed circuit board of a male micro ethernet connector. A plurality of spring-biased connectors are disposed within the recessed channel of the inner housing.
US09461417B2
An electrical connector assembly includes a connector, an inner printed circuit board, and a light guide member made of transparent or semitransparent material. The connector comprising an insulative housing and a plurality of contacts received in the insulative housing, and each contact has a contacting portion and a soldering portion. The inner printed circuit board is welding with the soldering portions of the contacts and defines an LED. The light guide member is neighboring to the LED and exposed out of the electrical connector assembly. The inner printed circuit board defines a control module thereon for controlling the LED on or off and a touch switch arranged in front of the control module, the LED is electrically connected with the control module and the touch switch.
US09461412B2
A receptacle connector for mating with the plug connector, includes an insulative housing and two rows of terminals. The housing includes a main body and a mating tongue forwardly extending from the main body and forming two opposite mating surfaces. Each of the terminals includes a front mating section and a rear mounting section. The mating tongue forms a plurality of passageways to receive the mating sections of the corresponding terminals therein, respectively. The housing further forms a plurality of holes communicatively behind the some passageways in the vertical direction for increase the impedance of the corresponding terminal on the mating sections, respectively.
US09461411B2
A card connector (100) includes an insulative housing (1), a number of terminals (2) affixed in the insulative housing, a shielding shell (4) attached to the insulative housing to form a cavity (11), a tray (3) insertable in the cavity; and an EPM (5) affixed in the insulative housing. The tray is attracted by the EPM under a first current in one direction during tray-insertion and released by the EPM under a second current in opposite direction during tray-ejection.
US09461410B2
An electrical connector includes a dielectric housing, a plurality of electrical signal contacts carried by the dielectric housing, and a ground plate carried by the dielectric housing. The electrical signal contacts are arranged along a first plane, wherein the signal contacts define signal pairs such that a respective gap is disposed between adjacent signal pairs. The signal contacts further define respective mating and mounting ends. The ground plate includes a ground plate body oriented in a second plane that is substantially parallel to the first plane and offset from the first plane. The ground plate body defines first and second opposed surfaces. The ground plate includes at least one rib that defines first and second opposed surfaces, wherein the first surface of the rib projects from the first surface of the ground plate body in a direction toward the gap, and the second surface is recessed into the second surface of the ground plate body. The ground plate further includes a plurality of mating ends and mounting ends extending from the ground plate body and disposed in the first plane so as to be aligned with the respective mating ends and mounting ends of the electrical signal contacts.
US09461409B2
An electrical connector is provided. The connector includes a housing having a wire end and a mating end. A terminal array extends between the wire end and the mating end of the housing. The terminal array has second terminals and first terminals. Each of the second terminals and the first terminals has a wire contact positioned at the wire end of the housing and a mating contact positioned at the mating end of the housing. The wire contact of each second terminal is positioned closer to the wire end of the housing than the wire contact of each first terminal. The mating contacts of the second terminals are positioned adjacent the mating contacts of the first terminals.
US09461406B2
A connector (1) collectively connects terminals (10) of a plurality of devices (11) by being fit to a stacked body (12) in which the plurality of devices are stacked. The connector (1) includes a terminal main portion (2) with a plurality of independent fitting portions (21 to 24) for connection to the respective terminals (10) of the devices (11). The connector (1) also has a terminal holding portion (3) for supporting and uniting the terminal main portion (2). Connecting portions (51 to 53) connect the fitting portions (21 to 24) and the terminal holding portion (3) and are formed as tolerance absorbing portions capable of absorbing a tolerance due to the stacking of the devices by a resilient force.
US09461393B2
In one aspect, a physical shielding system includes one or more shield components to protect a first ECG electrical connection and a second ECG electrical connection from objects. The first ECG electrical connection is formed between a connector of an ECG lead set and an adapter and the second ECG electrical connection is formed between the adapter and an ECG monitor. In another aspect, an ECG adapter system includes an ECG adapter. The ECG adapter includes a first interface configured to directly couple with a connector of an ECG lead set to form a first ECG electrical connection, a second interface configured to directly couple with an ECG monitor to form a second ECG electrical connection and a shield disposed around the adapter that includes a first opening configured to allow the connector to couple with the adapter and to shield the first ECG electrical connection from objects and a second opening configured to allow the ECG monitor to couple with the adapter and to shield the second ECG electrical connection from objects.
US09461390B2
An externally accessible component in an electronic device is described. The component may be installed within an enclosure without being properly aligned with an opening of the enclosure. A tool external to the electronic device may be inserted into the component and into a rear member located behind the component. The tool may actuate the rear member in a manner that actuates the component to move in a direction toward the opening, in order to align the component with the opening. A method of aligning the component is also described.
US09461384B2
A connecting module includes: a body with conductive contact points formed on one surface; and a connecting terminal that is formed to be exposed to the other surface of the body and electrically connected to the conductive contact points, the connecting terminal including: a deformation portion that is elastically deformed in a direction toward or away from the body; and first and second support portions that are respectively formed on both sides of the deformation portion to support the deformation portion and integrally attached to the body.
US09461383B1
An electrical connector for mounting to a printed circuit board that has a connector housing with a printed circuit board interface and a port supporting a central signal contact, and a metal component at the printed circuit board interface that has a hole corresponding the port. An outer contact is disposed in the port and surrounding the signal contact. The outer contact includes a conductive body that has a first end forming a ring and outwardly flared tines extending from the ring. Each tine has a flexible arm with a lip portion at a distal end thereof. The lip portion has an outer lead-in surface that tapers outwardly from the second end of the conductive body toward the first end. The lip portion has an outer shielding contact surface each adapted to contact the inner diameter surface of the hole of the metal component.
US09461382B2
An electronic device includes a case, a mother board, a fixing component, a fastening module and an interface card. The fastening module comprises a circuit board, a first connector, a second connector and a fastening component. The circuit board is fixed to the fixing component. The circuit board has a sliding groove. The first connector is fixed to a top surface of the circuit board. The second connector is fixed to a bottom surface of the circuit board. The fastening component includes a sliding portion, a first fastening portion and a second fastening portion. The first and second fastening portions are fixed to the sliding portion. The sliding portion is slidably disposed in the sliding groove to adjust a distance between the first fastening portion and the first connector and a distance between the second fastening portion and the second connector.
US09461379B2
A charger and a method for charging a battery pack having a plurality of battery cells is presented. The method includes measuring the voltage of the battery cell(s), comparing the voltage measurement(s) of the cell(s) to a target charge voltage value and if the voltage measurement(s) of the cell(s) is not greater than or equal to the target charge voltage value than setting a current for the battery pack based on the voltage measurement(s) of the cell(s).
US09461373B2
A terminal clamp is described. The terminal clamp includes a housing, a clamp pocket arranged in the housing into which a conductor to be clamped can be inserted, the clamp pocket having a base wall, and two side walls which are opposite each other, which extend away from the base wall, and which form a conductor guide channel, the conductor guide channel having, at least in regions in the longitudinal direction thereof, a cross-section which continually narrows towards the base wall, and at least one clamping spring protruding into the clamp pocket for clamping the inserted conductor in the clamp pocket.
US09461364B2
A wireless power receiver according to an embodiment wirelessly receives power from a wireless power transmitter. The wireless power receiver includes a printed circuit board having a reception space in a predetermined area, a receiving coil disposed in the reception space of the printed circuit board for receiving power from the wireless power transmitter, and a short-range communication antenna disposed on the printed circuit board while surrounding the receiving coil.
US09461362B2
A multi-band antenna and electronic device are provided. The multi-frequency antenna includes a feeding portion, a shorting portion, a radiating portion and a loop radiating portion. One end of the feeding portion is electrically connected to a signal source. One end of the shorting portion is electrically connected to a ground plane. The radiating portion is electrically connected to another end of the shorting portion and another end of the feeding portion. The loop radiating portion is electrically connected to the radiating portion.
US09461359B2
In some aspects, an antenna system for a mobile device includes a multi-feed structure and a main antenna structure. The feeds reside on a substantially planar surface of a substrate. Each of the feeds has a first end connected to at least one of the other feeds and a second end connected to a connector. The main antenna structure extends from the substantially planar surface and is connected to the connector.
US09461348B2
The present invention relates to an electrochemical device, in particular a lithium-air battery with an aqueous electrolyte, comprising: a negative electrode compartment containing lithium metal; a positive electrode compartment comprising at least one positive air electrode making contact with an aqueous solution containing lithium hydroxide; and a solid electrode separating, in a gas and fluidtight manner, the negative electrode compartment from the positive electrode compartment, characterized in that the aqueous solution containing the lithium hydroxide furthermore contains at least one additive decreasing the solubility of the lithium ions. The invention also relates to a method for storing and releasing electrical energy using a lithium-air battery according to the invention.
US09461346B2
A thermal management system that provides air cooling and heating for a battery by flow-shifting air through a battery enclosure. The battery includes a plurality of battery cells provided in the enclosure. The enclosure includes a first manifold having a first end and second end and second manifold opposite to the first manifold having a first end and second end. The thermal management system includes a plurality of valves for allowing air flow into and out of the first end or the second end of the first manifold and a second valve for allowing air flow into and out of the first end or the second end of the second manifold to provide the flow-shifting.
US09461345B2
A secondary battery supplying electrical power to a load comprises a battery unit, at least one PTC temperature sensing device and a load switch. The battery unit is encompassed by a battery shell. The PTC temperature sensing device is disposed on a primary surface of the battery shell to effectively sense a temperature of the battery unit. The load switch connects to the battery unit and a load and determines whether the battery unit and the load switch are in electrical connection or in an open circuit state upon resistance variation of the PTC temperature sensing device. When the resistance of the PTC temperature sensing device increases by a threshold times within a specific temperature variation or time period, the load switch receives a control signal and accordingly switches to an open circuit state.
US09461344B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for cooling a battery pack, having a stack having a plurality of battery pack containers in a multi-layered structure, the battery pack container having an inner space to receive a battery pack and includes a first and second side plate facing each other to form side walls of the inner space; two upper frames for respectively connecting the top corners of the first to the second side plate; and two lower frames for respectively connecting the bottom corners of the first to the second side plate, the two lower frames including a front lower frame, disposed forwardly within the container with an inflow hole for introducing cooling medium, and the two upper frames include a rear upper frame, disposed rearwardly within the container and having an outflow hole for discharging cooling medium after heat exchange occurs; a housing; a circulation driving module; and an exhaust duct.
US09461338B2
A battery pack including a core pack including a unit cell; a protection circuit module electrically connected to the core pack; and a frame including a first region accommodating the core pack and a second region accommodating the protection circuit module, the frame further including a supporting portion supporting the protection circuit module in the second region, and a partition wall dividing the first region and the second region from each other.
US09461336B2
New electrochemical battery recharging, refurbishment and replacement techniques are provided. In some aspects of the invention, small, fungible battery elements may be immersed in a fluid and delivered via a bifurcated pump interface that simultaneously unloads discharged cells and loads new, charged cells, to accomplish rapid cell replacement and recharging. The cells may be magnetically aligned to bring cathode and anode elements together, in series, and bridge contacts within a container (powering an appliance). Density differentials between charged and discharged elements may aid in placing them in series (with similar charge states and capacities) and in removing them during replacement.In other aspects, electrode elements may be rapidly flushed to accomplish rapid recharging, in a staged process. Aspects of the invention also provide for rapid exchange of larger, streamlined battery elements, without the use of an immersive fluid, and systematic control of recharging balances accomplished by such exchanges.
US09461331B2
A method of preparing an oxide-based solid electrolyte includes preparing a precursor solution which includes a lanthanide complex and a metal complex; preparing an intermediate by a hydrothermal reaction that is performed on the precursor solution; adding a lithium compound and a dopant precursor to the intermediate to prepare a mixture; and crystallizing the mixture. The mixture is crystallized by preparing a first oxide-based solid electrolyte by performing a first crystallization process on the mixture; and preparing a second oxide-based solid electrolyte by performing a second crystallization process on the first oxide-based solid electrolyte, wherein the second oxide-based solid electrolyte has a stoichiometric composition that is the same as that of the first oxide-based solid electrolyte, but that has a different crystal structure.
US09461329B2
A power generation system includes a hydrothermal fluid well including a drilled hole reaching down to a hydrothermal fluid reservoir present below an ocean floor from an ocean floor surface and a casing installed in the drilled hole through a guide base on the ocean floor surface, an anode provided on a flow channel for hot water formed by the hydrothermal fluid well, a cathode provided in seawater other than the flow channel for hot water formed by the hydrothermal fluid well, and an ocean floor device that is connected with the anode and the cathode respectively and extracts generated power so as to operate. Power is easily and stably supplied on the ocean floor.
US09461328B1
The bootstrap start-up system (42) achieves an efficient start-up of the power plant (10) that minimizes formation of soot within a reformed hydrogen rich fuel. A burner (48) receives un-reformed fuel directly from the fuel supply (30) and combusts the fuel to heat cathode air which then heats an electrolyte (24) within the fuel cell (12). A dilute hydrogen forming gas (68) cycles through a sealed heat-cycling loop (66) to transfer heat and generated steam from an anode side (32) of the electrolyte (24) through fuel processing system (36) components (38, 40) and back to an anode flow field (26) until fuel processing system components (38, 40) achieve predetermined optimal temperatures and steam content. Then, the heat-cycling loop (66) is unsealed and the un-reformed fuel is admitted into the fuel processing system (36) and anode flow (26) field to commence ordinary operation of the power plant (10).
US09461321B2
Disclosed herein is a method for diagnosing a fault of a fuel cell stack, the method including: applying a summed current obtained by summing first and second frequencies to the fuel cell stack; diagnosing whether or not a fault has been generated in the fuel cell stack using a higher frequency of first and second frequencies of output voltages of the fuel cell stack; and reconfirming whether or not the fault has been generated in the fuel cell stack using the first and second frequencies in the output voltage of the fuel cell stack.
US09461315B2
A system of fuel-cell stacks is provided. The system includes fuel-cell stacks, a circuit for supplying each fuel-cell stack with an oxidizing fluid, a circuit for supplying each fuel-cell stack with a reducing fluid, and a pressure-regulating device fitted to the supply circuits so as to regulate the fluid pressure in each fuel-cell stack. The pressure-regulating device includes a first line for controlling the fluid pressure and a second line for passing the fluid, these two lines being placed in parallel between an upstream channel delivering fluid from a supply circuit and downstream channels connected to each fuel-cell stack. The first line comprises a first pressure regulator for regulating the pressure in an upstream portion of the first line depending on a pressure measured downstream of a second pressure regulator placed on the second line, and the second pressure regulator is capable of matching the pressure in the downstream portion of the second line to a reference pressure, measured in the downstream portion of the first line.
US09461306B2
A magnesium electrochemical cell having a positive electrode containing as an active ingredient, an amorphous material of formula [V2O5]c[MgXy]d[MaOb]e is provided. In the formula M is an element selected from the group consisting of P, B, Si, Ge and Mo, and X is O, F, Cl, Br or I.
US09461292B2
A battery system is configured by connecting a plurality of battery modules in series, and each of the plurality of battery modules is configured by stacking a plurality of unit batteries. A connecting terminal through which electricity is obtained is provided between a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal of at least one of the plurality of battery modules.
US09461290B2
Provided is a separator which shows excellent performance in electric insulation, electrolyte-holding property and ion- or electron-permeability and which can be stably manufactured. The separator is configured from a laminate non-woven fabric consisting of at least two layers, said layers including a non-woven fabric layer (layer I) that comprises a synthetic fiber having a fiber size of 0.1 μm or greater and less than 4.0 μm and a non-woven fabric layer (layer II) that comprises a thermoplastic resin fiber having a fiber size of 4.0-30.0 μm inclusive, and has a weight per area of 3.0 g/m2 or greater and less than 20.0 g/m2.
US09461289B2
A secondary battery includes an outer housing and an electrode body including a positive electrode member, separator member and a negative electrode member stacked in this order wherein the positive electrode member and the negative electrode member are formed from a collector and an active material layer formed to cover one end on the collector, an insulating body in which an insulating material that does not exhibit adhesiveness at room temperature is adhered with an adhesive strength of 1 N/15 mm or greater onto the collector constituting the positive electrode member or the negative electrode member, and a peripheral edge of the positive electrode member or the negative electrode member has a cross-sectional surface including the collector and the insulating body.
US09461284B2
An apparatus for swappable battery packaging for electric vehicle, the apparatus is contributing for dual purpose of protecting the batteries and providing contribution to the overall structural performance of the vehicle. The apparatus offer self repairable battery packing system to even a novice user thereof, offering each of replacement or recharging operations.
US09461276B2
An organic EL device includes: a reflective electrode; a transparent electrode opposite the reflective electrode; an organic layer including a light-emitting layer between the reflective electrode and transparent electrode; and a low refractive index layer between the reflective electrode and light-emitting layer. The low refractive index layer has a function of transporting/injecting electrons/holes, and has a lower refractive index than the light-emitting layer. Distance between the surface of the reflective electrode and a central light-emitting position of the light-emitting layer is 300 nm or less. Furthermore, Δn×d/λ≦−0.009 and Δn×d/λ≦−0.02 are satisfied when the reflective electrode comprises Al and Ag, respectively, where: λ denotes the central light-emitting wavelength of light generated in the light-emitting layer; Δn denotes the refractive index difference between the low refractive index layer and the light-emitting layer, with the refractive index of the light-emitting layer as reference; and d denotes the thickness of the low refractive index layer.
US09461270B2
A method of manufacturing an OLED device is discussed. The method can include forming a gate electrode on a substrate; forming a gate insulation film on the substrate provided with the gate electrode; forming a channel layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode on the substrate provided with the gate insulation film; forming an organic light emitting diode which includes a first electrode connected to the drain electrode, an organic emission layer formed on the first electrode, and a second electrode formed on the organic emission layer; forming a passivation layer, which has a hydrogen content below 10%, on the substrate provided with the organic light emitting diode using an organic silicon compound; and forming a sealing layer on the substrate provided with the passivation layer.
US09461268B2
A light-emitting device is equipped with a first light-emitting element and a second light-emitting element that are formed above a base, and a sealing layer that coats the first light-emitting element and the second light-emitting element. At least one of an interval between the first light-emitting element and the second light-emitting element, a pitch between the first light-emitting element and the second light-emitting element, or a width of the light-emitting elements is less than or equal to a film thickness of the sealing layer.
US09461266B2
An organic light emitting display apparatus includes a substrate, a display unit on the substrate, and a thin-film encapsulation layer for sealing the display unit, the thin-film encapsulation layer including a first organic film, a first inorganic film covering the first organic film, and an interlayer disposed at a lower surface of the first organic film, the interlayer defining an area where the first organic film is formed, an area of the interlayer being the same as the area of the first organic film.
US09461264B2
An organic EL device includes: a first substrate having electrical conductivity; an organic layer formed on the first substrate; a second substrate having translucency; and an electrode layer formed on the second substrate. The electrode layer on the first substrate and the organic layer on the second substrate contact each other. The organic layer is not formed in the peripheral portion of the second substrate. In the region where the organic layer is not formed, a portion of the electrode layer is provided to extend, and the first substrate is not present to face the extended electrode layer, and the portion of the electrode layer is exposed to form an electrode portion. Thus, the electrode portion can be formed by a simple procedure in which, for example, the first substrate is removed, and the organic EL device can be efficiently manufactured.
US09461263B2
The organic light emitting display apparatus includes a substrate; a buffer film on the substrate, the buffer film including a via hole, a thin film transistor (TFT) on the buffer film, the TFT including an active layer, a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, a first electrode electrically connected to one of the source electrode and the drain electrode and corresponding to the via hole; an intermediate layer on the first electrode, the intermediate layer including an organic emission layer, and a second electrode on the intermediate layer.
US09461256B2
A flexible display device, including a display panel for displaying an image; and a flexible substrate having a side on which the display panel is supported, the flexible substrate including a plastic film having at least one of a carbon material and a graphite material.
US09461255B2
Claimed is a cyclometallated organometallic light emitting complex having two tridentate ligand portions sharing a central heterocycle “A” providing a binding-site for each of the two metals (formula I): Formula (I): A more illustrative embodiment is formula (XII): Characterizing for the invention is that either one of XI and X2 and either one of Y1 and Y2 is carbon. The dinuclear complexes are for use in OLEDs.
US09461250B2
Disclosed is an organic electroluminescent device (organic EL device) which is improved in luminous efficiency, sufficiently secures driving stability, and has a simple configuration. The organic EL device of this invention comprises a light-emitting layer between an anode and a cathode piled one upon another on a substrate wherein the light-emitting layer contains a phosphorescent dopant and a 1,9-substituted carbazole compound as a host material. An example of the 1,9-substituted carbazole compound is represented by the following general formula (1). In formula (1), Ar is an aromatic hydrocarbon group or aromatic heterocyclic group; L is an aromatic hydrocarbon group or aromatic heterocyclic group; each of R1 to R3 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aromatic hydrocarbon group, or an aromatic heterocyclic group; n is an integer of 1 to 3.
US09461239B2
A method of heating includes a process of forming a layer to be heated on one surface of a light absorption layer; and a process of heating the light absorption layer by irradiating light onto the other surface of the light absorption layer. The other surface of the light absorption layer is a surface opposite to the one surface of the light absorption layer.
US09461238B2
Provided are a piezoelectric thin film having good piezoelectricity in which a rhombohedral structure and a tetragonal structure are mixed, and a piezoelectric element using the piezoelectric thin film. The piezoelectric thin film includes a perovskite type metal oxide, in which the perovskite type metal oxide is a mixed crystal system of at least a rhombohedral structure and a tetragonal structure, and a ratio between an a-axis lattice parameter and a c-axis lattice parameter of the tetragonal structure satisfies 1.15≦c/a≦1.30. The piezoelectric element includes on a substrate: the above-mentioned piezoelectric thin film; and a pair of electrodes provided in contact with the piezoelectric thin film.
US09461232B2
A thermoelectric conversion element includes a magnetic body and an electromotive component. The magnetic body has a pipe shape. The electromotive component is arranged to at least one of an outer surface, an inner surface, and an inside of the magnetic body. The electromotive component contains a material having a spin orbit coupling. The magnetic body is magnetized in an axial direction and has a temperature gradient in a radial direction. The electromotive component is spirally arranged around the magnetic body along a circumferential direction.
US09461219B2
A method of producing a light emitting device includes providing a light emitting element on a base member, the base member including an insulating member and a pair of connection terminals at least on an upper surface thereof. The connection terminals have an exposed portion exposed to outside, with the light emitting element electrically connected to the connection terminals. A covering member is disposed to cover at least a portion of the upper surface of the light emitting element, and a protective layer is disposed to cover at least a portion of the exposed portions of the connection terminals. The covering member is removed, and material from the upper surface side of the base member is supplied to dispose a light-transmissive member on the upper surface of the light emitting element. At least a portion of the light-transmissive member present on the protective layer is then removed.
US09461218B2
In at least one embodiment, a surface light source includes one or a more optoelectronic semiconductor chips having a radiation main side for generating a primary radiation. A scattering body is disposed downstream of the radiation main side along a main emission direction of the semiconductor chips. The scatting body is designed for scattering the primary radiation. A main emission direction of the scattering body is oriented obliquely with respect to the main emission direction of the semiconductor chip.
US09461217B2
LED devices are provided including an LED package including an LED and an optical element in an optical receiving relationship with the LED. The optical element has a higher light absorbing property at an exit surface away from the LED than at a bottom surface proximal to the LED. The optical element may include different epoxies, dye, and opaque particles. Methods for producing disclosed LED devices are also disclosed.
US09461215B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a formulation for use in the fabrication of a light-emitting device, the formulation including a population of semiconductor nanoparticles incorporated into a plurality of discrete microbeads comprising an optically transparent medium, the nanoparticle-containing medium being embedded in a host light-emitting diode encapsulation medium. A method of preparing such a formulation is described. There is further provided a light-emitting device including a primary light source in optical communication with such a formulation and a method of fabricating the same.
US09461214B2
A method for manufacturing a light emitting device, having; a die bonding step of mounting a light emitting element on a board; a phosphor layer formation step of forming a phosphor layer that contains a phosphor by spraying on surfaces of the board and the light emitting element after the die bonding step; and a cover layer formation step of forming a cover layer that contains at least one type of light reflecting material and light blocking material on a surface of the phosphor layer over the board.
US09461211B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a connection region (70) of an optoelectronic semiconductor chip (100), comprising the following steps: providing an optoelectronic semiconductor chip (100), forming or exposing a seed layer (6) on an outer surface (100a) of the optoelectronic semiconductor chip (100), and depositing a contact layer sequence (7) on the seed layer (6) without current, wherein the seed layer (6) is formed comprising a metal that enables nickel to be deposited on the seed layer (6) without current, the contact layer sequence (7) comprises a nickel layer (71) as a first layer facing the seed layer (6), and the contact layer sequence (7) has a contact surface (7a) on the side of the contact layer sequence facing away from the seed layer (6), by means of which contact surface the optoelectronic semiconductor chip (100) can be electrically contacted.
US09461210B2
A light emitting element includes a semiconductor stacked layer body having an n-type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a p-type semiconductor layer in this order, and a plurality of exposed portions defined at an upper surface side of the semiconductor stacked layer body, the plurality of exposed portions respectively exposing a part of the n-type semiconductor layer, a p-side electrode arranged in a first region and electrically connected with an upper surface of the p-type semiconductor layer and, arranged at one corner above the p-type semiconductor layer in a plan view, and an n-side electrode electrically integrally connected to the plurality of exposed portions and arranged in a different region in a plan view. In a plan view, the semiconductor stacked layer body has a rectangular shape and the plurality of exposed portions includes, a plurality of first exposed portions arranged at substantially equal intervals along a side of the semiconductor stacked layer body and a plurality of second exposed portions arranged closer to the p-side electrode than the first exposed portions are to the p-side electrode. The plurality of second exposed portions include at least one second exposed portion which has a shortest distance to the first exposed portions, the shortest distance to the first exposed portions being longer than a shortest distance among the first exposed portions. The at least one second exposed portion also has a shortest distance to the p-side electrode shorter than the shortest distance among the first exposed portions.
US09461209B2
A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a semiconductor stack comprising a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and an active layer between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, wherein the first semiconductor layer includes a periphery surface surrounding the active layer; a plurality of vias penetrating the semiconductor stack to expose the first semiconductor layer; and a patterned metal layer formed on the plurality of vias and covered the periphery surface of the first semiconductor layer.
US09461201B2
A high efficiency LED chip is disclosed that comprises an active LED structure comprising an active layer between two oppositely doped layers. A first reflective layer can be provided adjacent to one of the oppositely doped layers, with the first layer comprising a material with a different index of refraction than the active LED structure. The difference in IR between the active LED structure and the first reflective layer increases TIR of light at the junction. In some embodiments the first reflective layer can comprise an IR lower than the semiconductor material, increasing the amount of light that can experience TIR. Some embodiments of LED chips according to the present invention can also comprise a second reflective layer or metal layer on and used in conjunction with the first reflective layer such that light passing through the first reflective layer can be reflected by the second reflective layer.
US09461198B2
In the present invention, a fabrication process for epitaxy onto back-side patterned substrate, where the substrate patterns were defined prior to epitaxy and therefore simplify post growth processing. Specifically, for LED devices, said fabrication process reduces the post growth processing steps required to obtain high LEE due to strong scattering of the back-side features defined on the substrate. The features defined on the back-side patterned substrate scatters strongly with light emitted from the LED devices. Methods of obtaining such features include wet and dry etching.
US09461185B2
Disclosed herein is a coated glass element including a glass component and a coating adhered to the glass component through siloxane linkages, the coating having at least one of an anti-reflective property, a high abrasion resistance property and a hydrophobic property, wherein the coating comprises a dried gel formed from at least one hydrolyzed alkoxysilane-based sol and at least one hydrolyzed organosilane-based sol.
US09461180B2
The concentration of impurity elements included in an oxide semiconductor film in the vicinity of a gate insulating film is reduced. Further, crystallinity of the oxide semiconductor film in the vicinity of the gate insulating film is improved. A semiconductor device includes an oxide semiconductor film over a substrate, a source electrode and a drain electrode over the oxide semiconductor film, a gate insulating film which includes an oxide containing silicon and is formed over the oxide semiconductor film, and a gate electrode over the gate insulating film. The oxide semiconductor film includes a region in which the concentration of silicon is lower than or equal to 1.0 at. %, and at least the region includes a crystal portion.
US09461172B2
Methods for fabricating semiconductor devices are provided. Gate structures are formed on a top surface of a substrate to form semiconductor devices. Trenches are formed in the substrate on both sides of each gate structure of each semiconductor device. The trenches on the both sides of each gate structure are filled with stress layers, the stress layers in the substrate protruding over the top surface of the substrate. The stress layers are ion-doped and annealed on the both sides of each gate structure, and are pulse-etched to form a source region and a drain region of each gate structure. The pulse-etching is controlled such that the source regions and the drain regions of the plurality of semiconductor devices have a top surface coplanar with the top surface of the substrate.
US09461157B2
The present invention provides a nanowire sensor comprising nanowires, in which the nanowires are stacked to form a three-dimensional structure so that they have a large exposed surface area compared to that of a conventional straight nanowire sensor in the same limited area, thereby increasing the probability of attachment of a target material to the nanowires to thereby increase the measurement sensitivity of the sensor. Thus, a change in the electrical conductivity (conductance or resistance) of the nanowires can be sensed with higher sensitivity, suggesting that the sensor has increased sensitivity.
US09461150B2
A method for fabricating semiconductor device with fin-shaped structure is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: forming a fin-shaped structure on a substrate; forming a first dielectric layer on the substrate and the fin-shaped structure; depositing a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer; etching back a portion of the second dielectric layer; removing part of the first dielectric layer to expose a top surface and part of the sidewall of the fin-shaped structure; forming an epitaxial layer to cover the exposed top surface and part of the sidewall of the fin-shaped structure; and removing a portion of the second dielectric layer.
US09461148B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is described. The method of fabricating a semiconductor device comprises providing a fin formed to protrude from a substrate and a plurality of gate electrodes formed on the fin to intersect the fin; forming first recesses in the fin on at least one side of the respective gate electrodes; forming an oxide layer on the surfaces of the first recesses; and expanding the first recesses into second recesses by removing the oxide layer. Related devices are also disclosed.
US09461143B2
Gate contact structures disposed over active portions of gates and methods of forming such gate contact structures are described. For example, a semiconductor structure includes a substrate having an active region and an isolation region. A gate structure has a portion disposed above the active region and a portion disposed above the isolation region of the substrate. Source and drain regions are disposed in the active region of the substrate, on either side of the portion of the gate structure disposed above the active region. A gate contact structure is disposed on the portion of the gate structure disposed above the active region of the substrate.
US09461124B2
A Ga2O3 semiconductor element, includes: an n-type β-Ga2O3 substrate; a β-Ga2O3 single crystal film, which is formed on the n-type β-Ga2O3 substrate; source electrodes, which are formed on the β-Ga2O3 single crystal film; a drain electrode, which is formed on the n-type β-Ga2O3 substrate surface on the reverse side of the β-Ga2O3 single crystal film; n-type contact regions, which are formed in the β-Ga2O3 single crystal film, and have the source electrodes connected thereto, respectively; and a gate electrode, which is formed on the β-Ga2O3 single crystal film with the gate insulating film therebetween.
US09461117B2
A high voltage semiconductor device includes a well region of a first conductive type formed at a surface portion of a substrate, a gate electrode disposed on the well region, a source region formed at a surface portion of the well region adjacent to the gate electrode, a drain region formed at a surface portion of the well region adjacent to the gate electrode, and a drift region of a second conductive type disposed under the drain region.
US09461111B2
A method of forming double and/or multiple numbers of fins of a FinFET device using a Si/SiGe selective epitaxial growth process and the resulting device are provided. Embodiments include forming a Si pillar in an oxide layer, the Si pillar having a bottom portion and a top portion; removing the top portion of the Si pillar; forming a SiGe pillar on the bottom portion of the Si pillar; reducing the SiGe pillar; forming a first set of Si fins on opposite sides of the reduced SiGe pillar; removing the SiGe pillar; replacing the Si fins with SiGe fins; reducing the SiGe fins; forming a second set of Si fins on opposite sides of the SiGe fins; and removing the SiGe fins.
US09461108B2
In one general aspect, an apparatus can include a semiconductor region including a silicon carbide material and a junction termination extension implant region disposed in the semiconductor region. The apparatus can include a low interface state density portion of a dielectric layer having at least a portion in contact with the junction termination extension implant region.
US09461105B2
In connection with a semiconductor device including a capacitor element there is provided a technique capable of improving the reliability of the capacitor element. A capacitor element is formed in an element isolation region formed over a semiconductor substrate. The capacitor element includes a lower electrode and an upper electrode formed over the lower electrode through a capacitor insulating film. Basically, the lower electrode and the upper electrode are formed from polysilicon films and a cobalt silicide film formed over the surfaces of the polysilicon films. End portions of the cobalt silicide film formed over the upper electrode are spaced apart a distance from end portions of the upper electrode. Besides, end portions of the cobalt silicide film formed over the lower electrode are spaced apart a distance from boundaries between the upper electrode and the lower electrode.
US09461099B2
A donor mask and a method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting display apparatus by using the donor mask. The method includes transferring a portion corresponding to a through hole of a transferring layer deposited on a light-to-heat conversion layer of the donor mask onto at least a portion of pixel electrodes on a substrate.
US09461098B2
An OLED device is disclosed. The device includes a substrate defined to have a first active area and a dummy area. First electrodes are formed on the substrate, and a first bank pattern is formed to overlap with edges of each first electrode and to expose a part of an upper surface of each first electrode. A second bank pattern is formed on the first bank pattern within the first active area, and a third bank pattern is formed on the first bank pattern within the dummy area in the same layer as the second bank pattern. The second bank pattern is formed to have a larger width than that of the third bank pattern. As such, an organic emission layer can be evenly formed in the active area.
US09461097B2
The present invention provides an OLED display device and a manufacture method thereof. The OLED display device comprises: a substrate (100); a plurality of first electrodes (200), spaced with one another and arranged in array on the substrate (100); pixel barrier layers (300), located on the substrate (100) and between every two adjacent first electrodes (200); each pixel barrier layer (300) comprises a rut (310) at center, and the rut (310) penetrates the pixel barrier layer (300); an OLED organic material layer (400), located on the first electrodes (200) and the pixel barrier layers (300); the OLED organic material layer (400) is disconnected at the ruts (310); a second electrode (500), located on the OLED organic material layer (400); the second electrode (500) is similarly disconnected at the ruts (310). The OLED display device can inhibit the leaking emitting light problem caused by the leakage current. The short circuit defects can be decreased, and the reliability of the OLED display device is promoted and the display quality of the OLED display device is improved.
US09461095B2
The present invention provides an OLED display device and a manufacturing method thereof, in which a planarization layer (5) of a white sub pixel zone (40) is made to have a thickness greater than the thickness of a planarization layer (5) of the other sub pixel zones so as to increase the vertical distance between bottom wiring (2) and a first electrode (6) in the white sub pixel zone (40) thereby compensating the problem that the vertical distance between the bottom wiring (2) and the first electrode (6) of the white sub pixel zone (40) is relatively small resulting from lacking of a filter in the white sub pixel zone (40) and preventing the occurrence of shorting or over current between the first electrode (6) and the bottom wiring (2) of the white sub pixel zone (40). The manufacturing method is simple and easy to perform and may prevent the occurrence of shorting or over current between the first electrode and the bottom wiring of the white sub pixel zone thereby enhancing yield rate of manufacture of the OLED display device.
US09461092B2
A technique of manufacturing a display device with high productivity is provided. In addition, a high-definition display device with high color purity is provided. By adjusting the optical path length between an electrode having a reflective property and a light-emitting layer by the central wavelength of a wavelength range of light passing through a color filter layer, the high-definition display device with high color purity is provided without performing selective deposition of light-emitting layers. In a light-emitting element, a plurality of light-emitting layers emitting light of different colors are stacked. The closer the light-emitting layer is positioned to the electrode having a reflective property, the shorter the wavelength of light emitted from the light-emitting layer is.
US09461087B2
A solid-state imaging device including a semiconductor substrate; plural photoelectric conversion units formed side by side on the semiconductor substrate to form a light receiving unit; a peripheral circuit formed in a portion on an outside of the light receiving unit on the semiconductor substrate; a wiring section formed on the light receiving unit and formed for connecting the plural photoelectric conversion units and the peripheral circuit; and a dummy wiring section formed on an opposite side of the wiring section for at least one photoelectric conversion unit among the plural photoelectric conversion units on the light receiving unit and formed for functioning as a non-connected wiring section not connected to the photoelectric conversion units and the peripheral circuit, wherein the dummy wiring section has a predetermined potential.
US09461084B2
An image sensor is provided. The image sensor includes a substrate, a first interlayer insulating layer, a first metal line, and a shielding structure. The substrate includes a pixel array, a peripheral circuit area, and an interface area disposed between the pixel array and the peripheral circuit area. The first interlayer insulating layer is formed on a first surface of the substrate. The first metal line is disposed on the first interlayer insulating layer of the pixel array. The second interlayer insulating layer is disposed on the first interlayer insulating layer wherein the second interlayer insulating layer covers the first metal line. The shielding structure passes through the substrate in the interface area wherein the shielding structure electrically insulates the pixel array of the substrate and the peripheral circuit area.
US09461081B2
An imaging device includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, a plurality of color filter components having a first color filter component and a second color filter component; a light shielding portion, at least a part of which is disposed between the first and second color filter components in a cross-section view; and a transparent film, at least a first part of which is disposed between the first color filter component and the light shielding portion in the cross-section view. A surface of the transparent film facing to the first and second color filter components is nonplanar, and a thickness of the transparent film is less than a thickness of the light shielding portion.
US09461070B2
A thin film transistor is provided. An active layer (3) of the thin film transistor is made of an amorphous phosphide semiconductor material. Due to high carrier mobility of the phosphide semiconductor material, a thin film transistor with a high carrier mobility can be obtained by employing the amorphous phosphide semiconductor material to prepare the active layer of the thin film transistor. A method for manufacturing such a thin film transistor, and an array substrate and a display panel each comprising such a thin film transistor, are further provided.
US09461064B2
A memory array includes a plurality of ridge-shaped multi-layer stacks extending along a first direction, and a hard mask layer formed on top of the plurality of ridge-shaped multi-layer stacks. The hard mask layer includes a plurality of stripes vertically aligned with the plurality of ridge-shaped multi-layer stacks, respectively, a plurality of bridges connecting adjacent ones of the stripes along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a plurality of hard mask through holes between the plurality of bridges and the plurality of stripes.
US09461060B1
A split-gate flash memory cell (cell) includes a semiconductor surface. A first control gate (CG) on a first floating gate (FG) and a second CG on a second floating gate (FG) are on the semiconductor surface. A common source or common drain is between the first and second FG. A first select gate and a second select gate on a select gate dielectric layer is between a first BL source or drain (S/D) and the first FG and between a second BL S/D and the second FG, respectively. The first select gate has a first pocket region that has a first doping distribution different from a second doping distribution in a second pocket region associated with the second select gate which reduces a variation in read current (Ir) for the cell between measuring Ir using the first select gate and measuring Ir using the second select gate.
US09461059B1
A method of forming a NAND flash memory includes forming a dielectric layer over NAND strings separated by shallow trench isolation structures, forming an opening in a mask layer over the dielectric layer, the opening extending over contact areas, the opening having a first width at first locations over contact areas and having a second width at second locations over shallow trench isolation structures, the second width being less than the first width.
US09461056B2
There is provided a non-volatile memory including: plural zener zap devices, each including a cathode region and an anode region formed in a well; and a metal wiring line that is formed above the plural zener zap devices, that is commonly connected to each of the cathode regions, and that supplies a write voltage to each of the zener zap devices.
US09461052B1
A method comprises forming a cavity in a substrate, depositing a silicon material in the cavity, forming a fin in the substrate and the silicon material such that a first portion of the fin is formed from the substrate and a second portion of the fin is formed from the deposited silicon material, forming a gate stack over the fin, growing an oxide material over the first portion of the fin and the second portion of the fin, removing the oxide material from the first portion of the fin, growing an epitaxial material on an exposed portion of the first portion of the fin, removing the oxide material from the second portion of the fin, and growing an epitaxial material on exposed portions of the second portion of the fin.
US09461048B2
A system comprises a first transistor comprising a first drain/source region and a second drain/source region, a second transistor comprising a third drain/source region and a fourth drain/source region, wherein the first transistor and the second transistor are separated by an isolation region, a first resistor formed by at least two vias, wherein a bottom via of the first resistor is in direct contact with the first drain/source region, a second resistor formed by at least two vias, wherein a bottom via of the second resistor is in direct contact with the second drain/source region, a bit line connected to the third drain/source region through a plurality of bit line contacts and a capacitor connected to the fourth drain/source region through a capacitor contact.
US09461046B1
A laterally diffused MOS (LDMOS) device includes a substrate having a p-epi layer thereon. A p-body region is in the p-epi layer. An ndrift (NDRIFT) region is within the p-body region providing a drain extension region, and a gate dielectric layer is formed over a channel region in the p-body region adjacent to and on respective sides of a junction with the NDRIFT region, and a patterned gate electrode on the gate dielectric. A DWELL region is within the p-body region, sidewall spacers are on sidewalls of the gate electrode, a source region is within the DWELL region, and a drain region is within the NDRIFT region. The p-body region includes a portion being at least one 0.5 μm wide that has a net p-type doping level above a doping level of the p-epi layer and a net p-type doping profile gradient of at least 5/μm.
US09461043B1
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first gate, a second gate, and an insulating structure. The substrate includes a first fin and a second fin. The first gate is disposed over the first fin. The second gate is disposed over the second fin. A gap is formed between the first gate and the second gate, and the gap gets wider toward the substrate. The insulating structure is disposed in the gap. The insulating structure has a top surface and a bottom surface opposite to each other. The bottom surface faces the substrate. An edge of the top surface facing the first gate is curved inward the top surface.
US09461042B2
A dielectric mandrel structure is formed on a single crystalline semiconductor layer. An amorphous semiconductor material layer is deposited on the physically exposed surfaces of the single crystalline semiconductor layer and surfaces of the mandrel structure. Optionally, the amorphous semiconductor material layer can be implanted with at least one different semiconductor material. Solid phase epitaxy is performed on the amorphous semiconductor material layer employing the single crystalline semiconductor layer as a seed layer, thereby forming an epitaxial semiconductor material layer with uniform thickness. Remaining portions of the epitaxial semiconductor material layer are single crystalline semiconductor fins and thickness of these fins are sublithographic. After removal of the dielectric mandrel structure, the single crystalline semiconductor fins can be employed to form a semiconductor device.
US09461037B2
A structure and method for reducing second-order harmonic distortion in FET devices used in applications that are sensitive to such distortion, such as switching RF signals. The asymmetry of the drain-to-body capacitance Cdb and source-to-body capacitance Csb of a FET device are equalized by adding offsetting capacitance or a compensating voltage source.
US09461030B2
A capacitive component region is formed below a temperature detecting diode or below a protective diode. In addition, the capacitive component region is formed below an anode metal wiring line connecting the temperature detecting diode and an anode electrode pad and below a cathode metal wiring line connecting the temperature detecting diode and a cathode electrode pad. The capacitive component region is an insulating film interposed between polysilicon layers. Specifically, a first insulating film, a polysilicon conductive layer, and a second insulating film are sequentially formed on a first main surface of a semiconductor substrate, and the temperature detecting diode, the protective diode, the anode metal wiring line, or the cathode metal wiring line is formed on the upper surface of the second insulating film. Therefore, it is possible to improve the static electricity resistance of the temperature detecting diode or the protective diode.
US09461027B2
An LED package (40) and manufacturing method in which the package has LED substrate (50) and a circuit substrate (54) bonded together, with the LED over the integrated circuit, and with electrical connection between the LED and corresponding integrated circuit. The package has package terminals (56a, 56b) on one face only with through vias (58a, 58b) providing connection between the LED substrate and the circuit substrate.
US09461026B2
A method of fabricating a composite semiconductor structure includes providing a substrate including a plurality of devices and providing a compound semiconductor substrate including a plurality of photonic devices. The method also includes dicing the compound semiconductor substrate to provide a plurality of photonic dies. Each die includes one or more of the plurality of photonics devices. The method further includes providing an assembly substrate, mounting the plurality of photonic dies on predetermined portions of the assembly substrate, aligning the substrate and the assembly substrate, joining the substrate and the assembly substrate to form a composite substrate structure, and removing at least a portion of the assembly substrate from the composite substrate structure.
US09461025B2
A package includes a device die, a molding material molding the device die therein, and a through-via penetrating through the molding material. A redistribution line is on a side of the molding material. The redistribution line is electrically coupled to the through-via. A metal ring is close to edges of the package, wherein the metal ring is coplanar with the redistribution line.
US09461021B2
A semiconductor device includes a first chip including a PN junction diode, and a second chip including a Schottky barrier diode, connected in parallel to the first chip. A first inductive metal member has a first end connected to a cathode of the PN junction diode, and a second end connected to a cathode of the Schottky barrier diode. A second inductive metal member has a third end connected to the cathode of the Schottky barrier diode. An output line is connected to a fourth end of the second connection member, and electrically connected to the cathode of the PN junction diode via a first path formed by the first and second metal members, and to the cathode of the Schottky barrier diode via a second path formed by the second metal member and exclusive of the first metal member, so that the first path has greater inductance than the second.
US09461020B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include semiconductor packages and methods of forming the same. An embodiment is a semiconductor package including a first package including one or more dies, and a package substrate bonded to a first side of the first package with by a first set of connectors. The semiconductor package further includes a surface mount device mounted to the first side of the first package, the surface mount device consisting essentially of one or more passive devices.
US09461014B2
Methods of forming a microelectronic packaging structure and associated structures formed thereby are described. Those methods and structures may include attaching a device to a patch substrate, wherein the assembled device and patch substrate comprise a warpage, attaching the assembled device and patch substrate to an interposer to form a package structure, and then reflowing the package structure at a temperature below about 200 degrees Celsius to form a substantially flat package structure.
US09461010B2
The present subject matter relates to the field of fabricating microelectronic devices. In at least one embodiment, the present subject matter relates to forming an interconnect that has a portion thereof which becomes debonded from the microelectronic device during cooling after attachment to an external device. The debonded portion allows the interconnect to flex and absorb stress.
US09461001B1
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device package which includes a carrier, an electronic component, conductive elements, a package body, a shield, a magnetic insulating layer, and a patterned conductive layer. The carrier has a top surface on which the electronic component is disposed. The conductive elements are disposed on the top surface of the carrier. The package body is disposed on the top surface of the carrier and encapsulates the electronic component and a portion of each of the conductive elements. The shield is disposed on the package body and covers an exterior of the package body. The magnetic insulating layer is disposed on a top surface of the shield. The patterned conductive layer is disposed on the magnetic insulating layer. Each of the conductive elements electrically connects the patterned conductive layer to the electronic component.
US09460999B2
A method of producing an electro-optic device includes providing a substructure, depositing a network of nanowires on the substructure, depositing a sol-gel solution on the network of nanowires and the substructure, and removing solvent from the sol-gel solution to provide fusing material that causes junctions of nanowires within the network of nanowires to fuse together to reduce electrical sheet resistance of the network of nanowires. An electro-optic device includes a sub-structure, a network of nanowires deposited on the substructure, and a plurality of nanoparticles attached to the network of nanowires. The plurality of nanoparticles fuse junctions of overlapping nanowires together to reduce electrical sheet resistance of the network of nanowires.
US09460987B2
An interconnect structure and a method of forming an interconnect structure are provided. The interconnect structure is formed over a carrier substrate, upon which a die may also be attached. Upon removal of the carrier substrate and singulation, a first package is formed. A second package may be attached to the first package, wherein the second package may be electrically coupled to through vias formed in the first package.
US09460981B2
A semiconductor module uses pin bonding and improves cooling capacity. The semiconductor module includes a semiconductor element; a pin electrically and thermally connected to an upper surface of the semiconductor element; a pin wiring substrate having a first metal film and a second metal film respectively provided on the rear and front surfaces of a pin wiring insulating substrate, the first metal film being bonded to the pin; a first DCB substrate having a third metal film and a fourth metal film respectively provided on the rear and front surfaces of a first ceramic insulating substrate, the third metal film being bonded to a lower surface of the semiconductor element; a first cooler thermally connected to the fourth metal film; and a second cooler that thermally connected to the second metal film.
US09460980B2
Some examples of the disclosure include a semiconductor package having a heat spreader, an outer perimeter portion attached to the bottom of the heat spreader along the perimeter and having a plurality of electrical pathways, a package substrate located below and spaced from the outer perimeter portion and having a plurality of electrical pathways, a plurality of connection points located between the outer perimeter component and the package substrate to provide connection points coupling the plurality of electrical pathways of the outer perimeter portion to the plurality of electrical pathways in the package substrate, and a cavity formed on the bottom of the heat spreader inside the outer perimeter portion.
US09460979B2
An electronic device includes a semiconductor module, a wiring substrate, a case member and a heat conducting member. The heat conducting member thermally connects predetermined portions of wiring patterns and a heat conducting pattern of the wiring substrate to a predetermined heat conduction region of a surface of the case member opposing to the wiring substrate. The predetermined heat conduction region is located further from the wiring substrate than a surface of a body portion opposing to the case member. As a result, heat can be radiated and a short can be restricted with the case member having a simple shape. The heat conducting pattern is disposed adjacent to at least one of non-terminal projecting surfaces of the body portion on a surface of the wiring substrate. As a result, an area of a heat conducting passage increases and heat radiation performance can be increased.
US09460971B2
Methods and structures for forming localized, differently-strained regions in a semiconductor layer on a substrate are described. An initial, unstrained, semiconductor-on-insulator substrate may be processed to form the differently-strained regions in the original semiconductor layer. The differently-strained regions may have opposite types of strain. The strains in the different regions may be formed independently.
US09460964B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a buried gate electrode in a semiconductor substrate. An insulating layer is formed over the buried gate electrode and is etched to form a contact hole exposing the semiconductor substrate. A sacrificial spacer is formed on sidewalls of the insulating layer defining the contact hole. A polysilicon layer pattern is formed in the contact hole. The sacrificial spacer is removed to form an air gap around the polysilicon layer pattern. A thermal process is performed to remove a seam existing in the polysilicon layer pattern.
US09460956B2
According to an exemplary embodiment, a semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a first vertical structure protruding from the substrate; a second vertical structure protruding from the substrate; an STI between the first vertical structure and the second vertical structure; wherein a first horizontal width between the first vertical structure and the STI is substantially the same as a second horizontal width between the second vertical structure and the STI.
US09460939B2
A method for manufacturing a package-on-package structure may include: providing a support structure having a package attached to an inclined surface of the support structure, the package comprising: a first chip package; a second chip package disposed over the first chip package; and a standoff gap between the first chip package and the second chip package, wherein a first side of the package is disposed higher on the inclined surface of the support structure than a second side of the package; and dispensing an underfill into the standoff gap, the underfill flowing through the standoff gap from the first side of the package to the second side of the package.
US09460936B2
The semiconductor device has a gate electrode GE formed on a substrate via a gate insulating film GI and a source/drain semiconductor layer EP1 formed on the substrate. The upper surface of the semiconductor layer EP1 is positioned higher than the upper surface of the substrate straight below the gate electrode GE. And, end parts of the gate electrode GE in a gate length direction are positioned on the semiconductor layer EP1.
US09460934B2
An silicon-containing antireflective coating (SiARC) material is applied on a substrate. The SiARC material which includes a base polymer and may include a boron silicate polymer including silsesquioxane. An etch sequence is utilized, which includes a first wet etch employing a basic solution, a second wet etch employing an acidic solution, and a third wet etch employing another basic solution. The first wet etch can be employed to break up the boron silicate polymer, and the second wet etch can remove the base polymer material, and the third wet etch can remove the residual boron silicate polymer and other residual materials. The SiARC material can be removed from a substrate employing the etch sequence, and the substrate can be reused for monitoring purposes.
US09460927B2
A semiconductor device manufacturing method for a semiconductor device having a p-n junction formed of a first conductivity type first semiconductor region and a second conductivity type second semiconductor region, and comprising a low-lifetime region that has a carrier lifetime shorter than that in other regions at the interface of the p-n junction. The method includes an implantation process of, after implanting a second conductivity type impurity into the surface of the first semiconductor region with a first acceleration energy, implanting a second conductivity type impurity, with a second acceleration energy differing from the first acceleration energy, into the surface of the first semiconductor region into which the second conductivity type impurity has been implanted.
US09460914B2
A technique includes forming a film having a borazine ring structure and containing boron and nitrogen on a substrate by intermittently performing an act of simultaneously performing: (a) supplying borazine-based gas including a ligand to the substrate; and (b) supplying a ligand desorption gas which desorbs the ligand to the substrate, wherein the (a) and (b) are performed under a condition where the borazine ring structure in the borazine-based gas is held.
US09460899B2
The present invention relates to a photomultiplier having a structure for making it possible to easily realize high detection accuracy and fine processing, and a method of manufacturing the same. The photomultiplier comprises an enclosure having an inside kept in a vacuum state, whereas a photocathode emitting electrons in response to incident light, an electron multiplier section multiplying in a cascading manner the electron emitted from the photocathode, and an anode for taking out a secondary electron generated in the electron multiplier section are arranged in the enclosure. A part of the enclosure is constructed by a glass substrate having a flat part, whereas each of the electron multiplier section and anode is two-dimensionally arranged on the flat part in the glass substrate.
US09460891B2
Inspection equipment frequency transforms a mirror electron image with respect to position coordinates, calculates a value of a frequency plane origin or a value at a vicinity of the frequency plane origin as a first measurement value, and calculates a second measurement value by totalizing values of image intensities in a certain area, the image intensities having been obtained through normalization by the origin value or origin-vicinity value and the frequency transform. The inspection equipment automatically controls the voltage of a wafer holder based on the first and second measurement values.
US09460889B2
A specimen image capture method using a charged particle microscope device includes: a first image acquisition step in which the gain of a detector in a charged particle microscope is set to a first gain value, charged particle beam scanning is carried out on a specimen, and a first image is obtained; a second image acquisition step in which the gain of the detector is set to a second gain value, which is different to the first gain value, charged particle beam scanning is carried out on the specimen, and a second image is obtained; and an image combination step in which the first gain value and the second gain value are used and the first image and the second image are combined.
US09460884B2
A microplasma generator includes first and second conductive resonators disposed on a first surface of a dielectric substrate. The first and second conductive resonators are arranged in line with one another with a gap defined between a first end of each resonator. A ground plane is disposed on a second surface of the dielectric substrate and a second end of each of the first and second resonators is coupled to the ground plane. A power input connector is coupled to the first resonator at a first predetermined distance from the second end chosen as a function of the impedance of the first conductive resonator. A microplasma generating array includes a number of resonators in a dielectric material substrate with one end of each resonator coupled to ground. A micro-plasma is generated at the non-grounded end of each resonator. The substrate includes a ground electrode and the microplasmas are generated between the non-grounded end of the resonator and the ground electrode. The coupling of each resonator to ground may be made through controlled switches in order to turn each resonator off or on and therefore control where and when a microplasma will be created in the array.
US09460870B2
An arc extinguishing chamber includes an arc formation chamber containing a stationary contact and a movable contact which form an arc between them when separated. The arc formation chamber communicates with an inlet of a second chamber. A separating wall is placed in a volume downstream from said second chamber. The wall extends in the direction of the gas flow to partition the volume in the direction of the flow of the gases and exhaust outlets enabling the quenching gases to be removed outside of the apparatus. The separating wall(s) extend(s) in such a way as to partition in the direction of the flow to the outlets and to thereby form at least a first removal duct and a second removal duct, said ducts each being associated with an exhaust outlet and enabling a substantially complete separation to be achieved between a first flow and a second flow.
US09460868B2
An exemplary assembled pole part includes two pole part frames made of insulating material, between which a vacuum interrupter is mounted. The vacuum interrupter includes a fixed contact and a moving contact. The frame includes a first support to affix the vacuum interrupter at the moving contact side, and a second support to affix the vacuum interrupter to the fixed contact side at an opposite end of the frame. In order to apply common pole part frames for different vacuum interrupter sizes, in order to alleviate the manufacture of such pole parts, at least two fixation points are arranged pairwise in parallel along different distances along the long axis of the frame. The first support at the moving contact side maintains a specified fixation position, so the frame is configured for use with at least one other vacuum interrupter of a different length.
US09460866B2
A microelectronic assembly, a surface mount component and a method of providing the surface mount component. The assembly comprises: a substrate having bonding pads disposed on a mounting surface thereof, the bonding pads including a ferromagnetic material therein; solidified solder disposed on the bonding pads; and a surface mount component bonded to the substrate by way of the solidified solder and including a magnetic layer disposed on a substrate side thereof, the magnetic layer being adapted to cooperate with the ferromagnetic material in the bonding pads to establish a magnetic force of a sufficient magnitude to hold the surface mount component on the substrate before and during soldering.
US09460858B2
Solder-repellent portions are each arranged so as to extend over all or substantially all of a portion of a corresponding one of outer electrodes provided on a corresponding one of end surfaces of a monolithic ceramic electronic component and partially on portions of the outer electrode provided over two side surfaces of the monolithic ceramic electronic component. When the monolithic ceramic electronic component is mounted on the circuit board, solder does not adhere to the end surfaces and portions of the outer electrode provided on portions of the two side surfaces. Thus, expansion and contraction that occur as a result of application of an AC voltage is not transmitted or is not significantly transmitted to the circuit board. Consequently, vibrations of the circuit board are significantly reduced or prevented.
US09460836B2
The present invention provides a powder for a magnet which can form a rare earth magnet having excellent magnetic characteristics and which has excellent moldability, a method for producing the powder for a magnet, a powder compact, and a rare earth-iron-boron-based alloy material.
US09460835B2
Provided is a sintered ferrite magnet 10 that contains Sr ferrite having a hexagonal crystal structure, wherein the total amount of Na and K is 0.01 to 0.09% by mass in terms of Na2O and K2O, an amount of Si is 0.1 to 0.29% by mass in terms of SiO2, and the following Expression (1) is satisfied. 2.5≦(SrF+Ba+Ca+2Na+2K)/Si≦5.4 (1) [In Expression (1), SrF represents an amount of Sr, on a molar basis, other than Sr which constitutes the Sr ferrite, and Ba, Ca, Na, and K represent amounts of respective elements on a molar basis.]
US09460834B2
A method for adjusting the electrical behavior or characteristics of a calibration element includes adjusting the electrical behavior or characteristics of the calibration element by making one or more incisions or cuts in the calibration element. The calibration element has a plurality of apertures, and the method includes making an incision or cut in the calibration element between an edge thereof and at least one of the apertures, and/or making an incision or cut in the calibration element between at least two of the apertures.
US09460828B2
Disclosed is a graphene printed circuit pattern structure including a substrate excellent in electrical insulation and a graphene printed circuit layer provided on the substrate. The graphene printed circuit layer is electrically conductive and has a circuit pattern like an electrical circuit on the circuit board. The graphene printed circuit layer includes surface-modified nanographene platelets, a carrier resin and a filler. The ratio of the particle size of the filler to the thickness of the surface-modified nanographene platelet is 2-1000, and the surface-modified nanographene platelets are dispersed in the carrier resin. The filler is uniformly placed among the surface-modified nanographene platelets so as to enhance effective contact for the surface-modified nanographene platelets. The graphene printed circuit pattern structure provides excellent electrical properties and heat dissipation to achieve protection by preventing electrical elements from overheat.
US09460827B2
Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a graphene hybrid composite (GHC). The GHC can be formed between specific nano carbon materials and graphene generated via pyrolysis of solid carbon sources. A Raman spectrum of the GHC can show a major 2D band at approximately 2650 cm−1, a minor D and G band at approximately 1350 cm−1 and approximately 1575 cm−1, and an intensity ratio of 2D band over D band and G band greater than 1.
US09460824B2
An article of manufacture includes a substrate and a stretchable, conductive film. The stretchable, conductive film includes a plurality of annealed silver nanoparticles disposed on the substrate. The conductive film can be formed from a liquid composition comprising silver nanoparticles in a decalin solvent. The conductive film can further include a first conductivity associated with an as-annealed shape of the conductive film, and the film can include a second conductivity upon being stretched in at least one direction beyond the as-annealed shape.
US09460818B2
A supplementary injection device is installed in a nuclear power plant to draw coolant and inject coolant using an entraining fluid. The injection device can be a venturi or other passive device operable at relatively low fluid pressure that draws coolant through suction at the venturi narrowing point and mixes the coolant with the fluid for injection. The injection device is operable with a known BWR design, where the device is attached to a steam connection to the main steam line of the reactor, a coolant connection drawing from suction lines to a suppression cool or condensate tank, and an outlet connection injecting into the main feedwater lines. In a BWR, the injection device is operable without electricity and at a wide range of pressures, even less than 50 pounds per square inch, to maintain coolant levels in the reactor.
US09460807B2
An OTP (One-Time Programmable) element can be fabricated in CMOS FinFET processes are disclosed. The OTP cell can be implemented as a MOS device, dummy-gate diode, or Schottky diode as selector is disclosed here. In one embodiment, the OTP element includes a MOS gate with at least one portion of the MOS gate can have at least one extended area to accelerate programming. An extended area is an extension of the OTP element beyond two nearest cathode and anode contacts and are longer than required by design rules. The extended area can also have reduced or substantially no current flowing through. The selector can be built with a MOS gate to divide at least one fin structure into two different active regions. By using different source/drain implant schemes on the two active regions, the selector can be turned on as MOS device, MOS device and/or diode, dummy-gate diode, or Schottky diode.
US09460797B2
The invention provides a non-volatile memory cell structure and non-volatile memory apparatus using the same. The non-volatile memory cell structure includes a substrate, first to three wells and first to three transistors. The first to three wells are disposed in the substrate, and the first to three transistors are respectively forming on the first to three wells. The first to third transistors are coupled in series. Wherein, a control end of the first transistor is floated, a control end of the second transistor receives a bias voltage, and a control end of the third transistor is coupled to a word line signal. Moreover, the third well and the second cell are in same type, and the type of the first well is complementary to a type of the third well.
US09460794B2
In a writing operation, a control circuit raises the voltage of a writing-prohibited bit line among a plurality of bit lines to a first voltage, and thereafter brings the writing-prohibited bit line into a floating state. Then, the control circuit raises the voltage of a writing bit line other than the writing-prohibited bit line to a second voltage. In this way, the control circuit prohibits writing into a memory transistor corresponding to the writing-prohibited bit line. On the other hand, the control circuit executes writing into a memory transistor corresponding to the writing bit line.
US09460792B2
Apparatuses and methods for segmented SGS lines are described. An example apparatus may include first and second pluralities of memory subblocks of a memory block. The apparatus may include a first select gate control line associated with the first plurality of memory subblocks and a second select gate control line associated with the second plurality of memory subblocks. The first select gate control line may be coupled to a first plurality of select gate switches of the first plurality of memory subblocks. The second select gate control line may be coupled to a second plurality of select gate switches of the second plurality of memory subblocks. The first and second pluralities of select gate switches may be coupled to a source. The apparatus may include a plurality of memory access lines associated with each the first and second pluralities of memory subblocks.
US09460779B2
A memory sensing method is provided. The memory sensing method comprises the following steps: sensing a first memory unit to obtain a first sensing result; sensing a second memory unit to obtain a second sensing result; and looking up a one-time sensing table according to the first and second sensing results to obtain an output data.
US09460769B2
To realize an electric field-driven type ferromagnetic resonance excitation method of low power consumption using an electric field as drive power, and provide a spin wave signal generation element and a spin current signal generation element using the method, a logic element using the elements, and a magnetic function element such as a high-frequency detection element and a magnetic recording device using the method. A magnetic field having a specific magnetic field application angle and magnetic field strength is applied to a laminate structure in which an ultrathin ferromagnetic layer sufficiently thin so that an electric field shield effect by conduction electrons does not occur and a magnetic anisotropy control layer are directly stacked on each other and an insulation barrier layer and an electrode layer are arranged in order on an ultrathin ferromagnetic layer side. An electric field having a high-frequency component of a magnetic resonance frequency is then applied between the magnetic anisotropy control layer and the electrode layer, thereby efficiently exciting ferromagnetic resonance in the ultrathin ferromagnetic layer.
US09460764B2
A buffer control circuit of a semiconductor memory apparatus includes a delay unit configured to determine delay amounts for a command in response to a plurality of command latency signals, delay the command according to a clock, and generate a plurality of delayed signals; and a buffer control signal generation unit configured to receive the plurality of command latency signals and the plurality of delayed signals, and generate a buffer control signal.
US09460753B2
A system and method for a media processor separates the functions of topology creation and maintenance from the functions of processing data through a topology. The system includes a control layer including a topology generating element to generate a topology describing a set of input multimedia streams, one or more sources for the input multimedia streams, a sequence of operations to perform on the multimedia data, and a set of output multimedia streams, and a media processor to govern the passing of the multimedia data as described in the topology and govern the performance of the sequence of multimedia operations on the multimedia data to create the set of output multimedia streams. The core layer includes the input media streams, the sources for the input multimedia streams, one or more transforms to operate on the multimedia data, stream sinks, and media sinks to provide the set of output multimedia streams.
US09460752B2
The paper discloses a system including a multi-source content acquisition engine configured to provide an instruction to launch an editor window to display a set of selectable content from user-generated content generated by a plurality of remote sources and stored in a content datastore. The system includes a multi-source content selection configured to identify a set of selected content from the set of selectable content. The system includes an integrated content arrangement engine configured to arrange the set of selected content into a multi-sourced journal content sequence. The system includes a layer integration engine configured to apply a layer from the layer datastore to a portion of the multi-sourced journal content sequence. The system includes a multi-source content launch engine configured to provide an instruction to display an integrated multi-sourced journal content sequence including the multi-sourced journal content sequence and the layer in the editor window.
US09460751B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for binding shingled recording bands in data storage devices, particularly devices employing shingled magnetic recording. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a controller configured to define boundaries of an area of a data storage medium based on a constraint and a list of defective sectors. In another embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a data storage device including a memory configured to store data in a shingled manner where one track partially overlaps an adjacent track, and a controller configured to define boundaries of a plurality of bands, each band including a plurality of tracks of the memory, based on the results of an error discovery scan for defective sectors of the memory.
US09460748B2
Disclosed herein is an optical disc apparatus capable of reading out information stored in an optical disc medium, the optical disc apparatus including: a light emitting device radiating light; an object lens converging light radiated by the light emitting device on the optical disc medium; and a control section carrying out control to shift the center position of the object lens with respect to the optical-axis position of light radiated by the light emitting device in an operation to read out information from the optical disc medium.
US09460730B2
Encoding and decoding methods and apparatus are described to obtain auxiliary information from an audio signal. The auxiliary information uses a plurality of frequency components residing in a plurality of code bands. The audio signal is transformed into a frequency domain representation. Characteristics of frequencies of the frequency domain representation that may contain the auxiliary information are determined. The characteristics of frequencies of the frequency domain representation in a respective one of the code bands that may contain the auxiliary information are normalized across the code band. The normalization is carried out against a characteristic of a frequency in that code band. The normalized characteristics of the frequencies representative of auxiliary information are summed to determine a sum for a frequency representative of auxiliary information. It is determined when the sum is representative of the auxiliary information.
US09460724B2
An audio signal decoder for providing an upmix signal representation on the basis of a downmix signal representation and an object-related parametric information and in dependence on a rendering information has an object parameter determinator. The object parameter determinator is configured to obtain inter-object-correlation values for a plurality of pairs of audio objects. The object parameter determinator is configured to evaluate a bitstream signaling parameter in order to decide whether to evaluate individual inter-object-correlation bitstream parameter values to obtain inter-object-correlation values for a plurality of pairs of related audio objects, or to obtain inter-object-correlation values for a plurality of pairs of related audio objects using a common inter-object-correlation bitstream parameter value. The audio signal decoder also has a signal processor configured to obtain the upmix signal representation on the basis of the downmix signal representation and using the inter-object-correlation values for a plurality of pairs of related objects and the rendering information.
US09460722B2
In a method of diarization of audio data, audio data is segmented into a plurality of utterances. Each utterance is represented as an utterance model representative of a plurality of feature vectors. The utterance models are clustered. A plurality of speaker models are constructed from the clustered utterance models. A hidden Markov model is constructed of the plurality of speaker models. A sequence of identified speaker models is decoded.
US09460715B2
Techniques for using both speaker-identification information and other characteristics associated with received voice commands to determine how and whether to respond to the received voice commands. A user may interact with a device through speech by providing voice commands. After beginning an interaction with the user, the device may detect subsequent speech, which may originate from the user, from another user, or from another source. The device may then use speaker-identification information and other characteristics associated with the speech to attempt to determine whether or not the user interacting with the device uttered the speech. The device may then interpret the speech as a valid voice command and may perform a corresponding operation in response to determining that the user did indeed utter the speech. If the device determines that the user did not utter the speech, however, then the device may refrain from taking action on the speech.
US09460712B1
A method of operating a voice-enabled business directory search system includes receiving category-business pairs, each category-business pair including a business category and a specific business, and establishing a data structure having nodes based on the category-business pairs. Each node of the data structure is associated with one or more business categories and a speech recognition language model for recognizing specific businesses associated with the one or more businesses categories.
US09460707B1
Speech is modeled as a cognitively-driven sensory-motor activity where the form of speech is the result of categorization processes that any given subject recreates by focusing on creating sound patterns that are represented by syllables. These syllables are then combined in characteristic patterns to form words, which are in turn, combined in characteristic patterns to form utterances. A speech recognition process first identifies syllables in an electronic waveform representing ongoing speech. The pattern of syllables is then deconstructed into a standard form that is used to identify words. The words are then concatenated to identify an utterance. Similarly, a speech synthesis process converts written words into patterns of syllables. The pattern of syllables is then processed to produce the characteristic rhythmic sound of naturally spoken words. The words are then assembled into an utterance which is also processed to produce a natural sounding speech.
US09460705B2
A device may determine a representation of text that includes a first linguistic term associated with a first set of speech sounds and a second linguistic term associated with a second set of speech sounds. The device may determine a plurality of joins between the first set and the second set. A given join may be indicative of concatenating a first speech sound from the first set with a second speech sound from the second set. A given local cost of the given join may correspond to a weighted sum of individual cost. A given individual cost may be weighted based on a variability of the given individual cost in the plurality of joins. The device may provide a sequence of speech sounds indicative of a pronunciation of the text based on a minimization of a sum of local costs of adjacent speech sounds in the sequence.
US09460699B2
An electronic percussion instrument includes a head, a frame, and an impact sensor, and a plate serving as a vibration-damping member. The back of the head is divided into a main area (e.g. a main strike area) and an auxiliary area. The plate is ring-shaped sheet, made of a harder material (e.g. a metal) than the head, with an elongated hole and attached to the head to encompass or sandwich the main strike area of the head, thus demonstrating a vibration-damping effect. When the main strike area of the head is being struck with a beater, a vibration is caused to occur in the head and detected by the impact sensor to produce an electric signal which is used to generate an electronic musical sound while the vibration-damping member suppresses vibration being transmitted through the head due to an impact of the beater on the head.
US09460698B2
A stringed instrument includes a body, a string, a string exciting device and a bridge. The body supports the string, the string exciting device and the bridge. The string has a scale length determined by a distance between a first support point and a second support point. The string exciting device is designed to be driven by an electrical signal having a certain frequency and vibrate the string by applying an excitation signal having a frequency corresponding to the frequency of the electrical signal. The bridge has the first support point and a surface located between the first support point and the second support point and designed to come into contact with the string during vibration of the string.
US09460696B2
A music reproduction apparatus includes a reproduction section for reproducing user-selected music piece data, a generation section for generating control information including music piece information identifying a music piece reproduced by the reproduction section and reproduced position information indicative of a currently-reproduced position, a modulation section for outputting, on the basis of the generated control information, an audio signal of a predetermined frequency band for carrying the control information, and an output section for transmitting to outside the audio signal generated by the modulation section. An information processing apparatus stores a plurality of sets of displaying content, receives the audio signal, demodulates the control information from the received audio signal to extract the music piece information and reproduced position information, identifies displaying content from the extracted music piece information, and displays a part of the identified displaying content in accordance with the extracted reproduced position information.
US09460695B2
An audio or visual system may include an encoder to encode electrical signals generated by an instrument such as a stringed instrument to music control message data such as MIDI data. A first wireless transceiver coupled to the encoder may transmit the MIDI data to a second wireless transceiver. A processor, coupled to the second wireless transceiver, may produce media signals based on the MIDI data.
US09460694B2
An automatic composition apparatus includes a processing unit. The processing unit performs a receiving process of receiving a phrase including a plurality of note data items as a received motif and receiving a type of the phrase, a retrieving process of retrieving a phrase set from a phrase set database and a melody generating process of generating a melody based on the retrieved phrase set. The phrase set includes phrases having the same type as the received type and having relatively high matching levels for the received motif. The phrase set database stores a plurality of phrase sets each of which is a combination of a plurality of phrases of different types.
US09460692B2
A drum pedal has a base, a pivoting assembly, a rotating element, a beater holder assembly, a chain assembly, and a foot board. The pivoting assembly is mounted in the base. The rotating element, the beater holder assembly and the chain assembly are mounted in the pivoting assembly. The foot board is mounted between the chain assembly and the base. The base has a resilient element mounted concentric with a shaft of the pivoting assembly. A rotating element receives the resilient element. A torque of the resilient element is evenly matched with a swing caused by the beater holder and the chain assembly. Therefore, the beater holder and the chain assembly return to the original position immediately after the swing. Two drum pedals are manipulated to play respectively, and are connected by a coupling assembly to compose a drum pedal unit.
US09460690B2
A touch screen display is disclosed. In one aspect, the touch screen display includes a plurality of first touch electrodes each including first and second ends opposing each other and a plurality of second touch electrodes crossing the first touch electrodes. The touch screen display also includes a first voltage line providing a voltage, a first signal line providing a touch driving signal, and a plurality of first switching units respectively connected to the first touch electrodes. Each of the first switching units is electrically connected to the first voltage line, the first signal line, and the first end of a corresponding first touch electrode. Each of the first switching units alternately provides one of the voltage and the touch driving signal to the corresponding first touch electrode.
US09460686B2
According to an aspect, an electronic device includes a first face, a second face, a display unit arranged on the first surface, a notification unit arranged on the second surface, an attitude detecting unit, and a control unit. The attitude detecting unit detects whether attitude of the electronic device is a first attitude, in which the first surface faces upward in the vertical direction, or a second attitude, in which the first surface faces downward in the vertical direction. When the attitude detecting unit detects the second attitude, the control unit prevents displaying on the display unit and enables the notification unit to give a notification.
US09460685B2
A display driver integrated circuit includes a memory unit configured to store image data received from an external host, an image processing chain unit configured to perform image processing on the image data, a data driver configured to control data lines of a display panel based on the image data, and a data path selection unit configured to selectively activate, based on an operation mode of the display driver integrated circuit, one of a first data path and second data path for the image data. The first data path is formed by sequentially connecting the external host, the memory unit, the image processing chain unit and the data driver. The second data path is formed by sequentially connecting the external host, the image processing chain unit, the memory unit and the data driver.
US09460681B2
A display device and a driving circuit thereof are disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a display panel, a gamma reference voltage generator, a data driver and a driving controller. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels, each pixel including first and second sub-pixels. The gamma reference voltage generator generates one or more first gamma reference voltages each having a high gamma value greater than a reference gamma value, and one or more second gamma reference voltages each having a low gamma value less than the reference gamma value. The data driver generates a data voltage based at least in part on one or more of the first and second gamma reference voltages, and provides the data voltage to the first and second sub-pixels. The driving controller determines a gamma value and a data voltage output pattern according to a driving method of the display panel.
US09460679B2
A display driving circuit having a shift register is formed on the display panel. The shift register includes a first stage having first and second transistors and a second stage having a third and fourth transistor. A voltage of a control electrode of the first transistor is boosted by a voltage of a first pulse line changing from low to high. In an On state, the second transistor connects the control electrode of the first transistor and a constant voltage line. A voltage of a control electrode of the third transistor is boosted by a voltage of a second pulse line changing from low to high. In an On state, the fourth transistor connects the control electrode of the third transistor and a constant voltage line. The fourth transistor is switched on by a signal from the first stage.
US09460678B2
When a 2D display is performed, a controller causes a first selection signal to be in an active state during a given period, and causes a second selection signal to be in the active state during another given period after causing the first selection signal to be in a non-active state. When a 3D display is performed, the controller causes the first selection signal to be in the active state at a given timing point, cause the second selection signal to be in the active state during a period when the first selection signal is in the active state, and thereby cause an overlapping period to arise during a period which is part of a selection period for selecting signal lines corresponding to the first selection signal, and which is part of another selection period for selecting signal lines corresponding to the second selection signal.
US09460670B2
An array substrate, a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device. The array substrate comprises data lines, gate lines and a pixel array provided on a base substrate. Each data line is connected with at least one type of sub-pixels in the pixel array, and sub-pixels of same type connected with a same data line have same polarity, and the sub-pixels connected with the same data line are connected with different gate lines, respectively.
US09460669B2
A display device having at least a plurality of pixel circuits, connected to signal lines to which data signals in accordance with luminance information are supplied, arranged in a matrix, wherein pixel circuits of odd number columns and even number columns adjacent sandwiching an axis in a column direction parallel to an arrangement direction of the signal lines have a mirror type circuit arrangement symmetric about the axis of the column direction, and there are lines different from the signal lines between signal lines of adjacent pixel circuits.
US09460657B2
A display device includes a pixel unit including a plurality of pixels that have light-emitting time periods adjusted in response to light-emitting control signals, and a brightness control unit that adjusts a duty ratio of the light-emitting control signals and setting gamma and that converts image data according to a brightness mode.
US09460655B2
A pixel circuit for AC driving, a driving method and a display apparatus relate to the field of display manufacture, and are capable of removing effect of internal resistance of a power supply line on the current for light-emitting and effect of the threshold voltage of the driving transistor on the display nonuniformity of a panel while effectively avoiding rapid aging of OLED. The pixel circuit comprises: a capacitor (C1), a first voltage input unit (11), a second voltage input unit (12), a data signal input unit (13), a first light emitting unit (14), a second light emitting unit (15) and a light emitting control unit (16). The present disclosure can be applied in display manufacture.
US09460643B2
A light-emitting device can be folded in such a manner that a flexible light-emitting panel is supported by a plurality of housings which are provided spaced from each other and the light-emitting panel is bent so that surfaces of adjacent housings are in contact with each other. Furthermore, in the light-emitting device, in which part or the whole of the housings have magnetism, the two adjacent housings can be fixed to each other by a magnetic force when the light-emitting device is used in a folded state.
US09460642B2
A laminate that possesses dye sublimation properties, particularly for use as tagless labels and embellishments for garments, apparel, fabric items and so forth such as sportswear fabrics, clothing and accessories is provided. The laminate includes a dye sublimation ink layer that overlies a substrate in which the dye sublimation ink interacts with the substrate's chemical make-up.
US09460640B2
A versatile multi-function modular pulse duplicator system having multiple modules each universally and fluidly connected to each other via universal connectors. Each module being detachable from another module and the plurality of modules can be rearranged in different sequence or quantity as the user desires for specifically designed hemodynamic simulations. Some modules have specific functions by having a pump, a compliance chamber, a resistance mechanism, or a fluid reservoir. Optional peripheral modules that simulate anatomical subsystems can be fluidly coupled within this system of modules, allowing studying/training/product demonstration in the subsystem specifically provided, under desired cardiovascular hemodynamics. The use of universal connectors, peripheral modules, and selectively attachable/detachable modules, make this a versatile system where a user can design a simulation according to the specifics needed for product testing, product demonstration, surgical training, teaching and researching.
US09460639B2
A diaphragm respiratory signal simulator is activated by skin voltage that is coupled to the simulator by many ways such as but not limited to a user sliding a finger over a conductive surface, the user sliding a finger over surfaces close to the conductive element, touch or sliding the finger over the ventilator screen. The conductive surface is electrically connected to a ring electrode at a distal part of a manikin's esophagus. The diaphragm respiratory signal simulator produces a synthetic diaphragm electrical signal that triggers a ventilator to deliver a supported breath, which is proportional to the strength of the generated signal. This process allows safe and successful training on the operations of NAVA mode of ventilation and catheter positioning.
US09460630B2
A method of automatically determining a landing runway for an aircraft includes the steps of i) determining control points assigned to a landing runway along a landing approach of an airplane; ii) determining the spatial deviation of the airplane from the determined control points; and iii) determining an appropriate landing runway while taking into account the determined spatial deviation.
US09460626B2
A driving support device and a driving support method, which can appropriately determine whether driving support is necessary and perform effective driving support, are provided. A driving support device calculates TTC, which is a time required for the vehicle to arrive at an intersection point at which the vehicle and a moving object intersect in the traveling direction of the vehicle and in a direction intersecting with the traveling direction, and TTV required for the moving object to arrive at the intersection point, and performs driving support in the vehicle based on the relative relation between TTC and TTV.
US09460624B2
A method and apparatus for determining a lane identity of a vehicle travelling in a roadway where the roadway contains a plurality of lanes is determined based on information from sensors associated with the vehicle and map data for detecting the lane marker type to a left side and right side of the vehicle, any lane crossings during travel of the vehicle along the roadway, a history of lane marker type up to a predetermined travel distance along the roadway, and the lane marker type at the instantaneous position of the vehicle in the roadway. The lane identity method and apparatus outputs a confidence belief identifying the probability that the vehicle is traveling in one particular lane of the roadway.
US09460618B1
A system and method for providing increased traffic carrying capacity of a road, such as a highway, by modifying an existing roadway from, for example, four lanes to five lanes, to create an additional travel lane. The system and method dynamically changes the width of travel lanes using, for example, embedded pavement lights, or other lighting arrangements, in lieu of traditional painted lane lines. As traffic volumes increase and speeds decrease along the road, an intelligent transport system (ITS) sends a congestion signal to the overhead lane controls and dynamic message signs (DMS) along the entire road segment of interest. The posted speed limits are changed, and the lane markings are controlled to dynamically increase the number of lanes in the road segment to five, for example, of narrower widths until traffic volumes reduce and the number of lanes can be returned to four, for example, with normal speed limits.
US09460616B1
To provide different services and information in real time to each automobile or each driver with a high-quality driving assistance or automatic driving system that manages a plurality of mobile objects by communicating with the mobile objects, provided is a system including a mobile object server operable to receive information from each of a plurality of mobile objects within a geographic space and perform a process associated with each mobile object; and a registration server operable to register a first additional process that is to be performed in addition to a first basic process common to the plurality of mobile objects, in association with one mobile object among the plurality of mobile objects. Also provided are a method and program product.
US09460615B2
A first mobile monitoring system includes one or more mobile monitoring devices, a network, a server and a storage memory. The server is implemented to analyze the collected signals and the traffic information to identify at least one traffic flow according to travel routes of the one or more wireless devices; determine whether the identified at least one traffic flow exceeds an updating threshold based on the collected signals; derive at the server when the traffic flow exceeds the updating threshold, an updating priority indicating an order in which the traffic flows are processed based on the collected signals; and update a dynamic traffic transportation plan map based on the at least one traffic flow, the updating threshold and the updating priority.
US09460613B1
Pedestrian detection and counting for traffic intersection control analyzes characteristics of a field of view of a traffic detection zone to determine a location and size of a pedestrian area, and applies protocols for evaluating pixel content in the field of view to identify individual pedestrians. The location and size of a pedestrian area is determined based either on locations of vehicle and bicycle detection areas or on movement of various objects within the field of view. Automatic pedestrian speed calibration with a region of interest for pedestrian detection is accomplished using lane and other intersection markings in the field of view. Detection and counting further includes identifying a presence, volume, velocity and trajectory of pedestrians in the pedestrian area of the traffic detection zone.
US09460611B2
A system and method for sending emergency communications. An indicator of an emergency is received through a set-top box. A location associated with the emergency is determined. A message indicating the emergency and the location associated with the emergency is sent from the set-top box.
US09460606B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to a set of timers each corresponding to one of a set of visual indicia, and each timer configured to be associated with one or more predetermined timing thresholds associated with temporal hazards of a perishable food item. In an illustrative embodiment, each timer may have three timing thresholds, one associated with a room-temperature spoilage hazard, one with a refrigerator spoilage hazard, and one with a freezer spoilage hazard. In some embodiments, an identifying tag having one of the set of visible indicia may attach to a perishable food container. The identifying tag may be a color or a symbol attached to a nipple of a baby bottle, for example. In some embodiments, an alarm signal may be generated when the timer equals one of the predetermined timing threshold to advantageously warn a user that the associated temporal hazard may have occurred.
US09460605B2
A housing for a computer system includes at least one first and one second housing opening, at least one first housing cover and one second housing cover, wherein the first housing opening can be closed by the first housing cover and the second housing opening can be closed by the second housing cover, and a switching element having a switching contact, wherein the switching element is arranged such that, both when opening the first housing cover and when opening the second housing cover, the switching contact is triggered to indicate that the housing has been opened.
US09460603B2
Provided is a navigation system capable of, when an emergency situation occurs, immediately distributing, to a mobile terminal that is a client terminal located in a region impacted by the emergency situation, required information according to the terminal position in order of priority. During an emergency situation such as when a disaster or the like occurs, information on the emergency situation is distributed from a server, as a priority, simultaneously to each mobile terminal located in an area that is strongly impacted (for example, areas marked with a circled 1) immediately, regardless of when terminal position information is received from the mobile terminals, and the information on the emergency situation is displayed on a display device of the mobile terminal and a display device of a DA device to which same was distributed.
US09460600B2
According to one embodiment, a hazard detector may include a back plate and a front casing coupled to the back plate to define a housing having an interior region and an opening through which air flows into the interior region. A circuit board may be coupled to the back plate and have a plurality of components mounted thereon. A smoke chamber may be mid-mounted on the circuit board, mid-mounting being characterized in the smoke chamber extending through a hole formed in the circuit board such that a top surface of the smoke chamber is positioned above a top surface of the circuit board and a bottom surface of the smoke chamber is positioned below a bottom surface of the circuit board, whereby an interior region of the smoke chamber is accessible to smoke from both the top and bottom surfaces of the circuit board.
US09460593B2
A container breach detector system to monitor breaches of a transportation container. A self-contained container breach detector provides activation, status, and/or breach event date and time stamp data and a unique identification number of a communication tower, for a user to determine when and where authorized and/or unauthorized breaches of the transportation container occurred. Furthermore, the self-contained container breach detector serves as a recording device to record the activation, status, and/or breach event date and time stamp data; and communicates via various communication means including text via short message service, SMS, and/or e-mail. A container breach detector is intended for a one-time use only, to be discarded at destination. Each container breach detector has individual serial numbers. An encapsulating composition ensures that the self-contained container breach detector is used only once, and is not removed, recharged and reused, whereby removal of the encapsulating composition would damage its electrical system.
US09460588B1
A state-agnostic counter deposit ticket is provided. The counter deposit ticket may include MICR ink. The MICR ink may be printed on a top face of the ticket. The MICR ink may include a universal routing transit number, which may be independent of any state of origin indication in the MICR ink. Waveforms may be produced from the MICR ink may include a positive indication of state-agnosticity. The counter deposit ticket may include a plurality of boxes on the top face on the ticket. Each box may include the name of one of the fifty states of the United States of America. The counter deposit ticket may outline a portion of empty space. The portion may be at least two inches by two inches square on a bottom face of the ticket, and designated by the legend “do not write in this area”.
US09460587B2
A gaming system including a cascading symbol game which utilizes a plurality of symbol display position matrices and a plurality of different directions of symbol movement. Each symbol display position matrix includes a plurality of symbol display positions. At least one of the symbol display position matrices includes one or more symbol display positions linked to or otherwise associated with one or more symbol display positions of at least another of the symbol display position matrices. If the gaming system determines that one or more symbols will be repositioned from one or more symbol display positions of one symbol display position matrix to one or more linked symbol display positions of another symbol display position matrix, the gaming system determines a direction of movement of such symbols.
US09460585B2
Methods and systems are provided keno game play. A keno board is displayed showing a set of available spots. A player selection of a plurality of player selected spots is received. A set of removed spots to be removed from play is determined from the set of available spots. A plurality of drawn spots is selected from at least some of the set of available spots, where the plurality of drawn spots exclude the set of removed spots.
US09460577B2
A method for sharing a key of a vehicle that electronically controls the vehicle includes: setting a control value limiting a use of the vehicle through a terminal of a user of the vehicle which includes the key of the vehicle, and transferring the key of the vehicle from the terminal of the user to a terminal of an additional user of the vehicle using short-distance communication.
US09460575B2
A vehicle includes a sensing unit for sensing an authentication input of a user, the sensing unit including a sensor configured to sense one or more taps that are applied by the user to arbitrary positions within a preset region of the vehicle as the authentication input. The vehicle control apparatus also includes a control apparatus that includes a memory configured to store an authentication information and a controller configured to determine whether the authentication input matches the stored authentication information. The controller is also configured to control the vehicle according to the stored authentication information when the authentication input matches the stored authentication information.
US09460574B2
According to various aspects, exemplary embodiments are disclosed of a Bluetooth zone control system. In an exemplary embodiment, a Bluetooth zone control system generally includes a first Bluetooth device configured to provide a first Bluetooth signal. A location of the first Bluetooth device corresponds to a location of a machine. The system also includes an operator control unit having a second Bluetooth device configured to detect the first Bluetooth signal. The operator control unit is configured to control the machine based on first authorization rights when the second Bluetooth device detects the first Bluetooth signal at or above a signal threshold, and to control the machine based on second authorization rights when the second Bluetooth device does not detect the first Bluetooth signal at or above the signal threshold.
US09460572B2
A portable control system for use by an agent in the travel industry and the like is disclosed. A reader reads user data from a user identity document and also reads further user data from a token associated with a product or service. A display is provided for displaying a field of view for the agent. In response to the agent positioning the user identity document and token within the field of view, the reader reads the user data from the document and reads the further user data from the token and compares the user data and further user data.
US09460562B2
In order to aid a user in filling a container with a target volume of a substance, an image is received. The image includes a view of the container and a view of a reference object. The reference object has a known dimension. The view of the reference object and the view of the container are then compared with reference to the known dimension. Based on the comparison, a volume of the container is determined. Based on the volume of the container, a volume indicator is provided.
US09460556B2
A system and method for providing an intuitive and efficient mechanism to select areas of interest on a 3D model, and modify a pose or shape of the 3D model. A masking module allows an artist to interactively mask portions of a 3D object and leave other portions of the object unmasked. A posing module provides various tools to allow the artist to apply a posing or reshaping action on the unmasked areas of the 3D object. The computer artist masks portions of the 3D object by clicking and dragging the user input device on an area of the 3D object. All vertices whose topological distances are closer to the vertex associated with the initial click position than the final dragged position are masked. The artist then draws an action line on or partially on the 3D object to define a coordinate system. The artist clicks on a point on the action line, and drags the user input device for corresponding transformations of the unmasked portions of the 3D object.
US09460552B2
It is presented a method for improving performance of generation of digitally represented graphics. Said method comprises the steps of: selecting (440) a tile comprising fragments to process; executing (452) a culling program for the tile, the culling program being replaceable; and executing a set of instructions, selected from a plurality of sets of instructions based on an output value of the culling program, for each of a plurality of subsets of the fragments. A corresponding display adapter and computer program product are also presented.
US09460534B2
In at least one embodiment of the invention, a method of rib labeling for 2D images is disclosed. In at least one embodiment a corresponding computation unit, a system including a computation unit and a displaying unit, a medical imaging device, and a computer program are also disclosed. According to a first embodiment of the invention, the method of rib labeling includes receiving a plurality of 2D images representing cross sections of a rib cage, each 2D image comprising cross sections of a plurality of ribs; and generating an anatomical label for each of the ribs in each of the 2D images, each anatomical label being placed radially outside the rib cage. Each anatomical label is placed in the vicinity of the cross section of the respective rib to provide a simple identification of the respective rib.
US09460533B2
Implementations generally relate to generating image compositions. In some implementations, a method includes receiving a plurality of photos from a user and determining one or more composition types from the photos. The method further includes generating one or more compositions from the received photos based on the one or more determined composition types, where each composition is based on modified foregrounds of the photos. The method further includes providing the one or more generated compositions to the user.
US09460518B2
Techniques are provided for efficiently identifying relevant product images based on product items detected in a query image. In general, a query image may represent a digital image in any format that depicts a human body and one or more product items. For example, a query image may be an image for display on a webpage, an image captured by a user using a camera device, or an image that is part of a media content item, such as a frame from a video. Product items may be detected in a query image by segmenting the query image into a plurality of image segments and clustering one or more of the plurality image segments into one or more image segment clusters. The resulting image segments and image segment clusters may be used to search for visually similar product images.
US09460512B2
A three-dimensional image processing apparatus which obtains a three-dimensional image from a plurality of images from different projection views of a patient which have been obtained by carrying out multiple imaging while rotating around the patient, includes a locating unit to specify a point of one of the plurality of images from different projection views. A searching unit searches a point corresponding to the specified point in the plurality of images from different projection views, on the basis of the specified point. A reconstruction region identification unit identifies a region of a part of a region which can be reconstructed, as a reconstruction region by using the specified point and the searched point. A reconstruction unit obtains a three-dimensional image by reconstructing an image in the identified reconstruction region.
US09460510B2
Disclosed herein is a framework for facilitating synchronized image navigation. In accordance with one aspect, at least first and second medical images are received. A non-linear mapping between the first and second medical images is generated. A selection of a given location in the first medical image is received in response to a user's navigational operation. Without deforming the second medical image, a target location in the second medical image is determined by using the non-linear mapping. The target location corresponds to the given location in the first medical image. An optimized deformation-free view of the second medical image is generated based at least in part on the target location. While the user performs navigational operations on the first medical image, the framework repeatedly receives the selection of the given location, determines the target location using the non-linear mapping, and generates the optimized deformation-free view of the second medical image based at least in part on the target location.
US09460508B2
A method and system for acquiring, processing, storing, and displaying x-ray mammograms Mp tomosynthesis images Tr representative of breast slices, and x-ray tomosynthesis projection images Tp taken at different angles to a breast, where the Tr images are reconstructed from Tp images.
US09460507B2
An automatic method for detection and quantification of localized sources of magnetic susceptibility in images using a computer with instructions for a parameter module; an image input and filtering module; a second image filtering module; and a pattern quantification module.
US09460500B2
An image processing apparatus includes a display and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry generates second image data by subtracting first image data before and after contrast enhancement. The processing circuitry removes information indicating a structure from pieces of the second image data to generate third image data. The processing circuitry correct misalignment of the third image data based on characteristics of the shape of the subject represented in at least any one of the first to third image data. The processing circuitry obtains a variation index between the third image data after alignment correction, and generates fourth image data base on the variation index. The processing circuitry displays a medical image based on the fourth image data on the display.
US09460497B2
An embodiment of an image enhancement method is introduced for use in an electronic device. An image composed of a plurality of pixel values is first received, and each pixel therein is separated into two channels. The image is further divided into a plurality of blocks. A distribution of a selected channel is determined for each block, which is selected from the two channels. For each pixel, the pixel value of the selected channel is adjusted according to at least one distribution corresponding to at least one neighboring block. For each pixel, the pixel value of the other channel is adjusted according to the adjusted pixel value of the selected channel. As a result, the adjusted image is provided.
US09460492B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for image processing including a first low pass filter (LPF) which removes high-frequency components from selection information about image data selection between a long-exposure image and a short-exposure image, a movement detector which obtains movement detection information by detecting movement from at least one of the images, a second LPF which removes high-frequency components from the movement detection information, a selector which obtains selection results by selecting one of the selection information from which the high-frequency components are not removed by the first LPF and the selection information from which the high-frequency components are removed by the first LPF, for each pixel group based on the movement detection information from which the high-frequency components have been removed, and a composer which composes the long-exposure image and the short-exposure image based on the selection results.
US09460489B2
An image processing apparatus is provided, which performs alignment of pixels on a reference frame and on a standard frame, executes an image reconfiguration based on an alignment result, and generates a high resolution image of a frame from low resolution images of the reference and the standard frames, the apparatus including a memory configured to store an input video and to output an image processed video; and a plurality of arithmetic processors configured to perform in parallel, at the time of the alignment, a first alignment processing in a first direction from the reference to the standard frame by a first arithmetic processor, and a second alignment processing in a second direction from the standard to the reference frame by a second arithmetic processor, the second direction being opposite to the first direction, processing results of the first and the second alignment processings being shared among the processors.
US09460485B2
A method includes obtaining spectral computed tomography (CT) information via an acquisition unit having an X-ray source and a CT detector. The method also includes, generating, with one or more processing units, using at least one image transform, a first basis image and a second basis image using the spectral CT information. Further, the method includes performing, with the one or more processing units, guided processing on the second basis image using the first basis image as a guide to provide a modified second basis image. Also, the method includes performing at least one inverse image transform using the first basis image and the modified second basis image to generate at least one modified image.
US09460482B2
A system on chip (SoC) including a configurable image processing pipeline is provided. The SoC includes a bus; a first image processing module configured to be connected to the bus and to process image data; a first image processing stage configured to transmit either first image data or second image data received from the bus to at least one of the bus and the first image processing module through a first bypass path in response to first control signals; and a second image processing stage configured to transmit either third image data received from the first image processing module or fourth image data received from the bus to the bus through one of a second bypass path and a second scaler path in response to second control signals.
US09460477B2
An information processing apparatus includes the following elements. A selector selects, as a first item, an item disposed within a QFD chart. A first calculator calculates a correlation score between the first item and an item associated with an adjacent axis. A first extracting unit compares the correlation score with a predetermined value and extracts a second item related to the first item. A second calculator calculates a correlation score between the second item and an item associated with an adjacent axis and determines the calculated correlation score between the item associated with the adjacent axis and the first item. A second extracting unit compares the correlation score with a predetermined value and extracts a third item related to the first item. A display unit displays the first item, the second item, and the third item in a mode different from a mode of the other items.
US09460476B2
In one embodiment, a social-networking system accesses a social graph, receives a request to access a resource of the social graph, generates an advertisement of a third-party application based on the relevance of the third-party application to the user, wherein the relevance of the third-party application is based on social-graph information associated with the user and the third-party application, and sends the advertisement of the third-party application to the client device of the user for display.
US09460466B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a method for providing content. A request is received for content to be displayed on a resource to a user. The user is identified. Candidate content items are identified from an inventory of content items that are responsive to the request. The candidate content items are evaluated including determining bid-eligible content items including content items that satisfy an eligibility threshold based on an eligibility status associated with a respective candidate content item. The eligibility status is based at least in part on results associated with past opportunities to present a content item to identified user. An auction is conducted to identify a winner from among the bid-eligible content items. The winning content item is provided responsive to the request. An eligibility status is updated for losing and winning content items in the auction.
US09460465B2
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for encoding applications in an image. One embodiment of the method includes forming a first image that encodes information indicative of a map relating one or more pixel patterns to functionality implemented by a processor-based device. The first image is formed so that the processor-based device can decode the information to generate the map. The method also includes forming a second image that includes the pixel pattern(s). The second image is formed so that the processor-based device can detect the pixel pattern(s) and implement the functionality using the map.
US09460464B2
A method and a system for displaying items for sale is described. For example, plural icon size scaling values associated with plural items posted for sale on an e-commerce website may be determined. The plural icons corresponding to the plural items may be displayed on a display of a client machine, a size of each of the icons being scaled based on the icon size scaling value associated with the corresponding item.
US09460463B2
The present disclosure discloses a method, a web server and a web browser of providing information. The method of providing information includes: in response to receiving a webpage access request of a user, obtaining, by a web server, attribute information of second product information that matches with first product information corresponding to a webpage which the user requests to browse; finding second product information which satisfies the attribute information; and sending the found second product information to a web browser used by the user in order for the webpage browser to include the received second product information in the webpage for provision to the user. The technical scheme of the present disclosure solves the problem of repeatedly performing actions (such as searching, clicking, browsing, etc.) by a user in an electronic commerce website and thereby wasting a relatively large amount of processing resources of the electronic commerce website under existing technologies.
US09460455B2
The propensity and intent of a user to make a purchase is predicted based on product search queries and chat streams. The contents of the data sources, including search queries and chat streams, are analyzed for product names and product attributes. The results of the analyses are used to predict user needs. Product names and attributes are extracted from the data sources. The extracted information is mapped onto abstract product categories. Based on the abstract product categories, offers for products and services are made to the user.
US09460450B2
The present disclosure provides a method for providing an application list. The method includes: a mobile terminal records and processes information on a user's usage of third party applications to obtain history data about the third party applications, matches the history data about the third party applications with application information in a database of an application store, forms a third party application selection list from the matched result, and pushes the content of the third party application selection list to a display interface of the application store on the mobile terminal. An apparatus for providing an application list is also provided. The method and the apparatus can push different third party application selection lists to different users, display the third party applications in which users may be interested to indirectly realize user's customization, enable a user to rapidly choose and purchase the third party applications the user like, improve the purchasing and using ratio of various applications in the application store, and ensure Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) of an operator.
US09460449B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for creating experiment content distribution campaigns (“experiment campaign”) and allocating content in accordance with the experiment campaign. In one aspect, a control campaign or an experiment campaign are selected as an available campaign for providing content in response to receiving a content request. The selection can be a probability constrained selection where the probability with which the experiment campaign is selected is specified as a portion of a total number of requests received during an experiment period for which the experiment campaign is available to provide content. Content is provided in response to the request, where the provided content being content corresponding to the selected campaign.
US09460445B2
The present invention is a system and method for conducting survey using wireless devices. The system architecture of the present invention comprises a location server and a location system. The location server can receive a survey request from a subscriber, delineate a survey area for the survey, broadcast a query containing the survey to a plurality of wireless devices, process responses received from the wireless devices, and deliver a result of the survey to the subscriber. The location system can generate location information for each of the wireless devices that received the query. The location system may be a network-based unit or a portable unit provisioned at each of the wireless devices. In one of the embodiments, the location system is a GPS receiver that generates the longitude and the latitude of the wireless devices at which it is provisioned.
US09460444B2
A system causes display of a visual representation of a cell-based calendar having cells representing data records, where the cells have corresponding visual indicators corresponding to values of the respective data records. The cells are arranged in plural blocks corresponding to time intervals of the cell-based calendar. Event visual indicators transparently overlay cells in at least some of the plural blocks, where the event visual indicators represent events that occurred in time intervals corresponding to the at least some blocks. The events are separate from activities represented by the data records. Providing the event visual indicators transparently overlaid over the cells in the at least some blocks depict a relationship and relative impact between the data records and the events.
US09460441B2
Systems and methods for managing a construction payment process. One construction of the system includes a computer readable memory and a software enabled user interface. A process is configured to display to a payee via the user interface an electronic notification of a pending payment and a request for an electronically signed document such as a lien waiver. The processor of this construction is further configured to receive the electronically signed document, store it to a computer readable memory, and initiate payment. In some constructions, the processor is further configured to display the electronically signed document to the payer only after payment has been initiated. In some constructions, the processor is further configured to verify that requirements are fulfilled before initiating payment.
US09460439B2
A card validation system receives a request to validate a card and receives a request from a user for a set of cell identifiers. The system determines a set of cell identifiers of a card validation matrix to associate with the user and transmits the set of cell identifiers to the user. The system further receives a set of received cell values corresponding to set of cell identifiers of a card validation matrix. The system determines the set of stored cell values corresponding to the set of cell identifiers of the card validation matrix. The system compares the set of received cell values to the set of stored cell values. Based at least in part upon the comparison, the system determines whether the card is validated.
US09460438B1
In an approach for authenticating a request for an electronic transaction, a computer receives a request for an electronic transaction on a user account. The computer determines whether the request for the electronic transaction is suspicious, and responsive to determining the request is suspicious, the computer retrieves profile information for the user. The computer determines based on at least the profile information, one or more contacts of the user, wherein the one or more contacts are identified by the user. The computer then determines, based on at least a response from the one or more contacts, whether the request for the electronic transaction is suspicious, wherein determining the request is not suspicious validates authentication of the electronic transaction.
US09460427B2
A system for making commercial transactions through a paper document includes: a device (3) for reading and scanning the paper document containing information useful for a commercial transaction, the reading and scanning device (3) having an IP address; a user device (5); an interface (7), in particular a connection, between the reading and scanning device (3) and the user device (5), wherein the reading and scanning device (3) includes a software interface adapted to exchange data and/or the information with the user device (5) through the interface (7) and via the HTTP protocol.
US09460416B2
Concepts and technologies are described herein for providing interactive slide presentations with accompanying notes in a reading mode of a presentation application program. In accordance with some of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a computer-implemented method includes computer-implemented operations for providing a reading mode user interface that includes a presentation object including a slide placeholder and a notes placeholder. The method may also include displaying slide content within the slide placeholder in the reading mode user interface. The method may also include moving the presentation object out of a view and a new presentation object into the view in response to an input. The method may also include scaling the new presentation object.
US09460414B2
A computer-enabled system, method, and medium is provided to support analyzing intellectual property documents by linking and annotating patents, copyrights, trademarks, license agreements, and other types of intellectual property documents. The invention is suitable for use by intellectual property professionals in memorializing their thought processes, work products, and reasoning, whether in preliminary or final form, and is flexible to support development and use of a rich linked set representing complex relationships in an intellectual property portfolio. Optionally, marked up, linked documents are divided into data streams, one of the data streams containing the original document for mark-up, and one other data stream containing the annotation data. The marked-up document may be further revised and/or annotated, even by multiple users. The system provides that the same document such as a patent may be centrally stored but independently marked-up by different users (or groups of users). The system further extracts from such a marked-up document such annotation data with any changes thereto, and provides one or more data streams, containing the annotation data for storage and or later use.
US09460413B2
A storage unit for tracking events associated with an item is disclosed that includes a storage unit, a tracking device, and a processing and/or storage device. The tracking device monitors the presence of an item associated with the storage unit and the temperature of the item at discrete intervals of time. The processing and/or storage device is electrically connected to the tracking device and stores information generated from the tracking device. An automated access system may also be provided that grants access to the storage unit only to authorized users. An external network may also be provided which allows a user to monitor the storage unit including, access to the storage unit, and a temperature of the storage unit.
US09460412B2
In an airport baggage handling system bag information, flight information and airport topology information are provided to a central processor which determines a path for the bag through the handling system. The bag is scanned at various points along the path and the scan time is compared with a predetermined arrival time for the bag at the scan point. A bag is marked at risk if it arrives at a scan point after the predetermined time and the system may suggest an alternative handling path for the bag if it is determined that the risk of the bag not making an outbound flight is too high.
US09460411B2
Methods and systems for facilitating delivery of a package to a customer are described. The methods include receiving a delivery order, the order including a signature requirement; requesting a visual identification of an authorized receiver of the package from a user; receiving the visual identification from the user; and transmitting the visual identification to a shipping carrier.
US09460401B2
Using machine learning to predict behavior based on local conditions. In one example embodiment, a method for using machine learning to predict behavior based on local conditions may include identifying a lead, identifying a target behavior for the lead, identifying a locality associated with the lead, identifying a current local condition of the locality, and employing a machine learning classifier to generate a prediction of a likelihood of the lead exhibiting the target behavior. In this example embodiment, the machine learning classifier may base the prediction on the target behavior, the locality, and the current local condition.
US09460397B2
A quantum computing device magnetic memory is described. The quantum computing device magnetic memory is coupled with a quantum processor including at least one quantum device corresponding to at least one qubit. The quantum computing device magnetic memory includes magnetic storage cells coupled with the quantum device(s) and bit lines coupled to the magnetic storage cells. Each of the magnetic storage cells includes at least one magnetic junction. The magnetic junction(s) include a reference layer, a nonmagnetic spacer layer, and a free layer. The nonmagnetic spacer layer is between the reference layer and the free layer. The magnetic junction(s) are configured to allow the free layer to be switched between stable magnetic states. The magnetic junction(s) are configured such that the free layer has a nonzero initial writing spin transfer torque in an absence of thermal fluctuations.
US09460393B2
A method, a system and a computer program product for determining whether a change in value of a data item relating to an entity being tracked within a cohort is statistically and contextually significant. A computer captures a plurality data items relating to the entity being tracked at a time N+1. The value of the data item at time N+1 is compared to a value of a historical data item at time N. If the value of the data item at time N+1 is different from the value of the historical data item at time N, determining that a change has occurred. If a change in a data item has occurred, determining whether the change in the data item is related to the entity being tracked is statistically and contextually significant in n space on multiple dimensions.
US09460385B2
Apparatus and methods for activity based plasticity in a spiking neuron network adapted to process sensory input. In one approach, the plasticity mechanism of a connection may comprise a causal potentiation portion and an anti-causal portion. The anti-causal portion, corresponding to the input into a neuron occurring after the neuron response, may be configured based on the prior activity of the neuron. When the neuron is in low activity state, the connection, when active, may be potentiated by a base amount. When the neuron activity increases due to another input, the efficacy of the connection, if active, may be reduced proportionally to the neuron activity. Such functionality may enable the network to maintain strong, albeit inactive, connections available for use for extended intervals.
US09460380B1
Technologies are generally directed to assembly of a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag precursor. An assembly may be provided, the assembly having an RFID integrated circuit (IC), a nonconductive repassivation layer on a surface of the IC and confined within a perimeter of the surface, and a conductive redistribution layer on the repassivation layer and confined within the perimeter of the surface, in which a first portion of the redistribution layer is electrically connected to the IC through a first electrical connection. A substrate having a first antenna terminal to the assembly may be attached with an adhesive, and at least a first portion of a nonconductive barrier present on at least one of the first antenna terminal and the first portion of the redistribution layer may be reacted with a reactant to make the first portion of the nonconductive barrier conductive. A second electrical connection may then be formed between the first antenna terminal and the first portion of the redistribution layer through the first portion of the nonconductive barrier.
US09460367B2
Systems and methods for automating an image rejection process. Features including texture, spatial structure, and image quality characteristics can be extracted from one or more images to train a classifier. Features can be calculated with respect to a test image for submission of the features to the classifier, given an operating point corresponding to a desired false positive rate. One or more inputs can be generated from the classifier as a confidence value corresponding to a likelihood of, for example: a license plate being absent in the image, the license plate being unreadable, or the license plate being obstructed. The confidence value can be compared against a threshold to determine if the image(s) should be removed from a human review pipeline, thereby reducing images requiring human review.
US09460365B1
Color values may be compressed using a palette based encoder. Clusters of color values may be identified and encoded color values within the cluster with respect to a color value having a predefined characteristic. Clusters that have pixels or samples with constant color value may also be encoded.
US09460357B2
Embodiments disclosed facilitate robust, accurate, and reliable recovery of words and/or characters in the presence of non-uniform lighting and/or shadows. In some embodiments, a method to recover text from image may comprise: expanding a Maximally Stable Extremal Region (MSER) in an image, the neighborhood comprising a plurality of sub-blocks; thresholding a subset of the plurality of sub-blocks in the neighborhood, the subset comprising sub-blocks with text, wherein each sub-block in the subset is thresholded using a corresponding threshold associated with the sub-block; and obtaining a thresholded neighborhood.
US09460338B2
Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with face detection are disclosed. In embodiments, an apparatus may comprise one or more processors, cache memory, a lookup table of feature patterns, and a face detector. The lookup table is to be loaded into the cache memory, during operation, for use to detect whether a face is present in an image. The feature patterns within the lookup table are organized within the lookup table in accordance with relative connectivity of the feature patterns. The face detector to detect whether a face is present in an image, may use the lookup table of feature patterns loaded into the cache memory during detection for the face. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09460335B2
A method of detecting a venous network in a portion of a human body, the method comprising the steps of capturing an infrared image of said human body portion in order to reveal a venous network of said human body portion; analyzing contrast in the infrared image in order to determine contrast characteristics of the infrared image; and determining whether the human body portion is real on the basis of contrast characteristics determined in the infrared image and of contrast characteristics determined from reference human body portions. A method of biometric recognition with a prior stage of detecting whether a portion of a human body is real.
US09460329B2
A novel system, device and method of validation is provided for sensing a biometric such as a fingerprint, where biometric data corresponding to the biometric entity such as a fingerprint is then transmitted to a host configured to perform a plurality of authentication processes to authenticate the biometric data. At least one of the plurality of authentication steps is then validated. Alternatively, a portion of the biometric data may be retained, where biometric data corresponding to the biometric is then transmitted to a host configured to perform a plurality of authentication steps to authenticate the biometric data. At least one of the plurality of authentication steps is then validated.
