US09526194B2
A power conversion device includes a power semiconductor module that converts DC current into AC current, a capacitor for smoothing DC power, a first flow conduit defining member for defining a first flow conduit and for defining a first storage space in which the power semiconductor module is housed, and a second flow conduit defining member for defining a second flow conduit and for defining a second storage space in which the capacitor is housed. A first space, in which a vehicle component that is different from the power conversion device is disposed, is defined in a space to the side of the first flow conduit defining member and below the second flow conduit defining member.
US09526187B2
A wiring module to be attached to a power storage element group in which a plurality of power storage elements each having positive and negative electrode terminals are lined up includes: an insulating protector having a connection member holding section for holding a connection member that electrically connects adjacent electrode terminals; a temperature detecting member that is arranged so as to be in contact with the connection member held by the connection member holding section and is configured to detect the temperature of the connection member; a cover configured to cover the insulating protector; and a restricting member configured to restrict movement of the temperature detecting member by covering the insulating protector with the cover.
US09526180B2
A circuit board may include a substrate, an interconnected structure associated with the substrate, and a solder mask associated with the interconnected structure and the substrate. The solder mask may be based on a mixture that includes epoxy and a powder. The powder may be hollow glass micro-balloons.
US09526177B2
Disclosed herein are a printed circuit board including an electronic component embedded therein and a method for manufacturing the same. The printed circuit board including an electronic component embedded therein includes: a core formed with a cavity which is formed of a through hole and has a side wall formed with an inclined surface having a top and bottom symmetrically formed based on a central portion thereof; an electronic component embedded in the cavity; insulating layers stacked on upper and lower portions of the core including the electronic component; and external circuit layers formed on the insulating layers.
US09526169B2
Disclosed herein are a printed circuit board and a method for manufacturing the same. The printed circuit board includes: a base substrate having a metal pattern for a circuit; and a surface roughness provided on the metal pattern, wherein the surface roughness has a first surface roughness in an anchor structure and a second surface roughness having a black oxide layer in a granular structure formed on the first surface roughness.
US09526152B1
A landscape lighting system includes a lighting assembly having a tubular housing formed from a rock mass with a bore therein and having a light source with the ability to emit light having at least one color. The light source being positioned within the bore to project the light from the lighting assembly. An AC-to-DC converter connects to an external AC power supply and for supplying direct current to the light source within the lighting assembly. A control unit has a receiver and an internal controller for controlling the AC-to-DC converter and the light source to regulate the intensity and the color of the light emitted from the light source. A remote unit communicates with the control unit receiver to transmit instructions to the internal controller over a distance. Optionally, the landscape lighting system includes a mechanism to adjust the beam spread from the light source.
US09526150B1
The stabilization of a light-emitting diode (LED) calibration standard includes a light-emitting diode (LED), or an array of LEDs; a cylindrical hood surrounding the LED; an interior baffle for keeping the light output of the LED, and ambient light from behind the LED, from escaping to the other side; a photodetector for receiving the light output of the LED and generating a signal proportional to luminous output; and a hood surrounding the photodetector. A variable current source receives the signal and stabilizes the LED light output by adjusting the operating current of the LED to maintain a constant light output from the LED.
US09526144B2
A light source apparatus includes a cooling device configured to be able to cool a semiconductor light-emitting device, a light-emitting device drive section that supplies a semiconductor light-emitting device drive signal to the semiconductor light-emitting device, a cooling device drive section that supplies a cooling device drive signal to the cooling device, a semiconductor light-emitting device drive control section that sets a duty ratio of the semiconductor light-emitting device drive signal and controls an amount of light emission of the semiconductor light-emitting device, and a cooling device drive control section that generates the cooling device drive signal having a same duty ratio as the duty ratio of the semiconductor light-emitting device drive signal and having timing synchronized with the semiconductor light-emitting device drive signal and adjusts a signal level of the cooling device drive signal based on a measurement result of a temperature of the semiconductor light-emitting device.
US09526132B2
In accordance with certain embodiments, lighting systems include one or more lightsheets each including a plurality of strings of light-emitting elements, control elements, and power conductors for supplying power to the light-emitting elements and control elements.
US09526125B2
Described herein are technologies that facilitate transfer of data-intensive content between portable telephones. Phones are configured to transmit data indicative of phone location to a proxy server by way of respective cellular network data connections. When a user of a phone wishes to acquire content that is labeled as shareable on another phone, the user of the phone initiates a location-based request, which causes the proxy server to provide a list of phones that are estimated to be in Wi-Fi range of such phone. The user thereafter selects a particular phone, and the proxy server instructs that phone to activate its Wi-Fi radio. The phone of the user additionally activates its Wi-Fi radio, and a peer-to-peer connection between phones is established. Thereafter, rich content is transferrable between the phones.
US09526121B1
Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods that allow a mobile device to fully access unified communication services of a carrier. In a particular embodiment, a control system receives a call for a unified communications service and determines whether the mobile device is associated with the unified communication service. If the mobile device is not associated with the unified communication service, then the call is connected to a unified communication system to provide access to a first portion of the unified communication service. If the call is associated with the services, then the call is assigned a virtual number and connected to an intermediate communication system, which determines at least a second portion of the unified communication service associated with the virtual number. The call is then connected to the unified communication system to provide access to the first and second portions of the unified communication service.
US09526117B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a device for processing random access. The method includes: detecting a random access preamble sequence which is sent by a user equipment (UE) according to configuration information; determining a control channel corresponding to the detected random access preamble sequence, and scheduling random access response information corresponding to the random access preamble sequence by using the control channel.
US09526114B2
A method and a device for transmitting data in a wireless communication system are discussed. The method according to one embodiment includes receiving, by a first station, a first frame from a second station through at least one idle subchannel of a plurality of subchannels; and transmitting, by the first station, a second frame to the second station. If the first frame includes channel information related to all of the at least one idle subchannel through which the first frame is transmitted, the second frame is transmitted via the at least one idle subchannel indicated by the channel information. If the first frame does not include the channel information, the second frame is transmitted via at least one of a plurality of subchannels.
US09526102B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for assigning slot. The method includes: constructing an HELLO packet, the HELLO packet including GTS request information of a local node or including GTS request information of the local node and GTS request information of at least one neighboring node within a collision domain of the local node; and broadcasting the HELLO packet, so that a node receiving the HELLO packet performs slot reservation according to information contained in the HELLO packet. With the method and apparatus for assigning slot provided by the embodiments of the present invention, no central controller is needed any longer in comparison with a centralized slot assignment method, complexity of calculation is lowered, and utilization of slot is improved.
US09526089B2
The present invention discloses a method for a terminal to transmit control information in a wireless communication system. The method includes encoding a plurality of pieces of control information and transmitting the plurality of encoded control information and data information through a data channel. During the encoding of the plurality of control information, a channel quality indicator (CQI) and a precoding matrix index (PMI) for an entire frequency band are encoded jointly or separately, and each piece of the plurality of pieces of encoded control information and the data information is mapped into a resource block of the data channel, and is then transmitted.
US09526076B1
A communication module includes: a first transceiver configured to transmit and receive a signal using radio waves of a first frequency band; a second transceiver configured to transmit and receive a signal using radio waves of a second frequency band; a selection unit configured to select one of the first transceiver and the second transceiver; a processor configured to receive a use range of a hotspot function when the hotspot function is selected and to control the selection unit to select one of the first transceiver and the second transceiver is selected; and a power adjustment unit configured to adjust power in such a manner that a strength of radio waves is adjusted according to the received use range.
US09526075B2
The invention discloses a system comprising a first device and a plurality of second device. The system comprises a first device and a plurality of second devices. The first device comprises a receiver, a spectrum analyzer, a controller and a transmitter. The receiver receives, from at least one antenna, a plurality of signals with different signal strengths from different sources. The spectrum analyzer is communicatively coupled to the receiver and obtains strengths of the plurality of received signals. The controller is communicatively coupled to the spectrum analyzer and adjusts a radiation feature of one of at least one antenna to minimize a difference of the strengths between a plurality of received signals after adjustment. The transmitter transmits the received signals after adjustment to a plurality of second devices distributed within a site. The plurality of second devices transmit the plurality of received signals after adjustment within the site.
US09526072B1
A battery-powered multi-function voice-collaboration device includes a speaker and a microphone to support voice transmission and reception. The device has an enhanced-functionality mode EFM and a reduced-functionality mode RFM and is communicatively coupled to a battery-powered portable radio. The device determines a first operating duration if operated entirely in a RFM comprising one or more battery-consuming voice functions, and determines a second estimated operating duration N if operated entirely in an EFM comprising another battery-consuming function in addition to the battery-consuming voice functions. The device requests and receives an estimated operating duration indication of the portable radio. Responsive to determining that an estimated operating duration Z of the portable radio is between the first and second durations R, N: operating the device in the EFM for a third duration and in the RFM for a fourth duration such that the third and fourth durations combined equal the duration Z.
US09526065B2
A method and wireless station used to perform WiFi scans. The wireless station determines a first cell identity of a first cell to which the wireless station is currently connected, determines a second cell identity of a second cell that is available, determines whether either of the first or second cell identities are related to a WiFi network based on relationships between cell identities and WiFi networks stored in the wireless station, performs a first type of scan for available WiFi networks when either of the first cell identity or the second cell identity is related to the WiFi network and performs a second type of scan for available WiFi networks when neither of the first cell identity or the second cell identity is related to the WiFi network, the first type of scan is performed more frequently or over more channels compared to the second type of scan.
US09526063B2
A system includes a storage device for storing details of a plurality of reservations of a hospitality establishment. A particular reservation includes a set of reservation-specific settings affecting behavior of the computer network at the hospitality establishment during the reservation. The settings may include a registered device setting for affecting behavior of a computer network at the hospitality establishment toward a user device having a specified device identifier. The system further includes a clock unit for tracking time, and a system controller coupled to the computer network and having access to the storage device and the clock unit. The system controller automatically configures one or more network components of the computer network when a start time of the particular reservation is reached in order to activate the reservation-specific settings.
US09526062B2
In a wireless sensor network having a plurality of mobile sensor nodes (62, 63, 64, 65), a sink (70) is provided and re-positioned as required by assigning the role of sink to one of the mobile sensors at a time. Re-positioning involves finding candidate sinks in the vicinity of a current sink, a temporary sink or a central candidate in the network; judging the suitability of each candidate, for example by estimating the data throughput likely to be achieved if each candidate is selected as the new sink; and transferring the role of sink to the best candidate found. The temporary sink or central candidate may be selected with the aid of a positioning system (80) of the network. Suitability of a candidate sink may take into account a desired transmission rate of each sensor node in the vicinity of a candidate, this desired rate being found from a 3-D look-up table of each sensor.
US09526043B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a soft handover method and device. The soft handover method includes: receiving a soft handover request sent by a home access node, where the soft handover request includes user plane information of the home access node and an identifier of an RNC; establishing a signaling connection mapping between the home access node and the RNC, and forwarding the soft handover request to the RNC; receiving a soft handover response returned by the RNC; establishing a user plane connection mapping between the home access node and the RNC, forwarding the soft handover response to an HNB based on forwarding user plane information, and forwarding user plane data. The technical solutions of the present invention implement a soft handover process between a macro cell and a home access node cell.
US09526036B1
Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for dynamically selecting a packet gateway based on LTE network loading. In a particular embodiment, a method provides receiving a request to establish a data session for a wireless communication device through a non-LTE wireless network. The method further provides determining an amount of non-LTE active data sessions on the non-LTE wireless network and determining an amount of LTE active data sessions on an LTE wireless network. The method further provides selecting a packet gateway for the data session based on the amount of non-LTE active data sessions and the amount of LTE active data sessions.
US09526029B2
Logic may compress wireless communications frames and communicate compressed frames that do not include the duplicative bit sequences within the packet flow. Logic may include the compressed frames in flow frames. Logic may generate, encode, transmit, decode, parse, and interpret flow frames after a packet flow is created. Flow frames may comprise a flow frame control field, a compressed frame, and a frame sequence check. Logic may decompress the compressed flow frame based upon flow decompression rules associated with a flow index of the flow frame. Flow frames may include a duration field to set the network allocation vectors of other stations. And the frame sequence check may be generated based upon the entire flow frame.
US09526018B2
The present invention discloses a method for maintaining a base station, a device, and a system. The method includes: if a first operation and maintenance OM channel between a network management system NMS device and a first base station is in an interrupted state, determining, by the NMS device, whether a second channel between the NMS device and the first base station, sending, by the NMS device, an operation and maintenance command to the first base station through the second channel to perform operation and maintenance on the first base station. In the technical solutions of embodiments of the present invention, when the first OM channel is in an interrupted state, it may be not required to instruct operation and maintenance personnel to visit a site and perform an operation, so that costs of the site visit by the personnel are reduced, and a speed of response to a fault can be also increased.
US09526016B2
A computing system includes: an inter-device interface configured to communicate receiver signal corresponding to serving signal contemporaneous with interference signal from an interference source at an interference-aware receiver; a communication unit, coupled to the inter-device interface, configured to: determine a serving-interference metric for describing capability of the interference-aware receiver associated with serving communication capacity and interference communication capacity, and generating feedback signal including the serving-interference metric for communicating the feedback signal to a node device.An embodiment includes: an inter-device interface configured to communicate feedback signal including a serving-interference metric for representing an interference-aware receiver processing receiver signal corresponding to serving signal contemporaneous with interference signal; a communication unit, coupled to the inter-device interface, configured to: generate a communication rate profile based on the serving-interference metric for describing the interference-aware receiver, and determine serving detail based on the communication rate profile for communicating serving content to the interference-aware receiver.
US09526007B2
Location brokering technique embodiments are presented that employ sensor data captured by a user's mobile device to determine the device's location, encrypt the location data and store it in a database. The location data is encrypted in such a way that it is possible to determine when a user's mobile device is currently in the same vicinity as another user's mobile device who is a member of the same group as the first user. However, the actual location and relative mobility or immobility of the users cannot be ascertained except by the users themselves via a decryption procedure or by trusted components. Services are provided can read the stored encrypted location data, processes it to determine if group members are in the same vicinity, and either respond to user queries about the location of other members of a group the user belongs to, or push this information to appropriate users.
US09526001B2
In embodiments, apparatuses, methods, and storage media may be described for establishing a direct connection between two UEs. Each UE may be provisioned with a temporary identifier by a server of a wireless network of the UE. The UEs may then be configured to broadcast the temporary IDs in radio signals over radio resources that are separate from the radio resources of the network. The temporary IDs may not contain identifying information of the broadcasting UE that is interpretable without receiving further information from the network.
US09525995B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for user equipment (UE) devices to perform a radio access technology (RAT) upgrade. A UE may initiate a background scan to upgrade RAT while camped on a first system in response to an occurrence of a first condition. The first system may include a first PLMN that operates according a first RAT. The UE may determine a second system operates according to a second RAT that provides upgraded service as compared to the first RAT. The second system may be included in one or more systems found during the background scan. The UE may attempt to register on the second system based on the second PLMN operating according to the second RAT. The first and second PLMNs may each have an associated operator preference and the first PLMN may be preferred over the second PLMN.
US09525993B2
Embodiments are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for enhancing proximity service (ProSe) device to device (D2D) discovery. Embodiments build a discovery message configured for communication over the MAC sub-layer; wherein the discovery message comprises a unified header comprising at least one of a priority level indicator for indicating a priority level of the discovery message; a security existence indicator for indicating whether the discovery message is at least partially encrypted; a type indicator for indicating a discovery message type; and/or an SDU presence indicator (S_ind) for indicating whether the discovery message includes an SDU.
US09525991B2
A method is provided for sharing digital information between first and second mobile devices. The method may include, at an embedded device, receiving the digital information from the first mobile device; at the embedded device, notifying the second mobile device of the digital information via a push notification; and at the embedded device, maintaining communication with the first and second mobile devices. In some embodiments, the method further includes, at the embedded device, receiving an embedded device wide area network (WAN) Internet protocol (IP) address. Maintaining communication with the first and second mobile devices may include notifying the first and second mobile devices of the new embedded device WAN IP address via respective additional push notifications, or using a DDNS server.
US09525989B2
An information exchanging apparatus capable of exchanging information with a plurality of outside apparatuses has: a first wireless communicator including a telephone transmitter and telephone receiver for wireless telephone communication with one of the outside apparatuses; a second wireless communicator other than the first wireless communicator; a transmitter arranged to transmit original information to the plurality of outside apparatuses through the second wireless communicator; a processor arranged to process response information from the plurality of outside apparatuses to be received through the second wireless communicator in response to the original information; and a distributor arranged to distribute result information from the processor to the plurality of outside apparatuses through the second wireless communicator.
US09525987B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for facilitating audio access to radio stations via a call-to-listen application on a device. A server can provide a listing of radio stations via an application on a user device, such as a smartphone, receive a selection of a radio station by a user and obtain a phone number associated with the selection. The server utilizes a phone dialer on the device to dial the phone number and is presented with received audio from a radio station associated with the phone number via the device. In one embodiment, a least expensive transmission mode is determined based on a data plan balance and a voice plan balance, and the audio is presented via the determined least expensive transmission mode. In another embodiment, the phone number dialed is determined by user location.
US09525984B2
Devices, systems and methods are disclosed for selecting and sending one of a plurality of responses to a call on a communications device. A user may select a default response or a custom response. When the user receives a call to a communications device, a set of responses is displayed on the communications device to facilitate selection by the user. A response includes a message and a call processing command. A message is in the form of an audio clip, text message, webpage, picture, video, etc. A call processing command is performed along with the message. This plurality of responses can be organized by the user in groups associated with classes of callers, such as friends, family, co-workers, etc. In this manner, the responses available to the user when a call is received changes depending on the caller.
US09525983B2
The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing mobile network operator controlled content to mobile subscribers using social networking messages. According to one aspect, a method for providing mobile network operator controlled content to mobile subscribers using social networking messages is provided. The method includes receiving, at a mobile network operator node, a message for delivery to a mobile subscriber of the mobile network operator's network. The method further includes determining whether the message is a social networking message. The method further includes, in response to determining that the message is a social networking message, providing mobile network operator controlled content to the subscriber.
US09525982B2
An instruction to enter a scanning mode may be received at a communication device. The communication device may participate in several talkgroups. A determination may be made that at least one of the talkgroups is active. In response, the communication device may be set to a first active talkgroup. A determination may be made that a predetermined time has passed since the communication device was set to the first active talkgroup. In response, a determination also may be made that at least a second one of the talkgroups, other than the first active talkgroup, is active. In response, the communication device may be set to the second active talkgroup.
US09525970B2
A tracking device can securely communicate with a secondary device by generating a hash value based on the identity of the tracking device. If the secondary device cannot resolve the hash value, the hash value can be provided to a tracking server, such as a cloud server, for resolving the hash value. Upon resolving the hash value, the tracking server can store a location of the tracking device in association with the identity of the tracking device. To preserve power, the secondary device can activate location-detection functionality (such as a GPS receive) only in response to the detection of movement of the tracking device, can obtain location information, and can de-activate the location-detection functionality upon providing the location information to the tracking server. The tracking server can associate one or both of a previous location and the current location information based on movement of the tracking device.
US09525966B2
A transceiver station provides wireless resources for cells on a plurality of carriers in a geographical coverage area, where the geographical coverage area is divided into a plurality of sectors. The transceiver station includes a first board and a second board. The first board includes a L1 processing circuit configured to perform L1 processing functions on at least one of radio frequency antenna streams and downlink transmit data for users in the cells on a per-carrier basis. The second board includes a scheduler configured to schedule at least one of uplink and downlink transmissions for the cells on a per-sector basis, the second board being separate from, but interconnected with the first board.
US09525963B2
A method for controlling a Bluetooth connection according an embodiment of the present disclosure includes requesting a confirmation of connectable profiles from a vehicle to a terminal, and responding to the connectable profiles in response to the confirmation request, requesting a first connection of the connectable profiles, determining whether a hands-free profile of the connected profiles is connected based on the connection request, and requesting a second connection of the hands-free profile of the connectable profiles prior to other profiles of the connectable profiles which are not connected, when it is determined that the connection of the hands-free profile is failed.
US09525961B2
When machine-to-machine (M2M) devices attach to a mobile communication network, the associated communication session can be treated differently than the attachment of other devices. For example, upon determining that a subscriber device that attaches to a communication network is an M2M device has completed a given network transaction, the M2M device can be immediately detached without waiting on expiration of an inactivity timer. As another example, upon determining that a subscriber device that attaches to a communication network is an M2M device, the M2M device can be excluded from various signaling procedures such as load-balancing procedures.
US09525959B1
A mobile communication device comprising a radio transceiver to communicatively couple the mobile communication device to a radio access network by a wireless communication link, a processor coupled to the radio transceiver, a memory coupled to the processor, and an application stored in the memory that, when executed by the processor, collects language information for use in determining a default language for the mobile communication device, analyzes the language information to determine a probability of accuracy of the default language, and assigns the default language to the mobile communication device.
US09525952B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for real-time determination of attentiveness of an audience in a room to a speaker. A computer determines amounts of wireless activity of a computing device within the room of the audience over time during the presentation. Based in part on the amounts of wireless activity of the computing device, the computer determines and initiates display of measures of attentiveness of the audience over the time during the presentation, to display changes in the measures of attentiveness of the audience to the speaker during the presentation. In another embodiment, the computer determines amounts of attentiveness of the audience within the room over time during the presentation utilizing sensors located throughout the room.
US09525950B2
A method of processing a signal in a hearing aid (50), the method comprising the steps of determining a gain vector applied in a number of individual frequency bands, determining a gradient of a speech intelligibility measure as a function of the gain vector, modifying the value of the gradient and using the modified value of the gradient to optimize both speech intelligibility and listening comfort. The invention also provides a hearing aid (50).
US09525949B1
Methods and devices for measuring vibration of an implanted driven vibrating elongate body coupled to a bone of the middle ear, for example using an accelerometer coupled to the vibrating body. The measured vibration can be taken during implantation and long again after implantation to check for possible decoupling, disease, or additionally impeded vibratory driving of the middle ear bone. An accelerometer signal can be converted to a displacement value and used to check for an under impeded or over impeded vibratory body. An implanted device can be used to periodically check the vibration of the vibratory body. Methods and devices can be used in conjunction with implanted devices which receive vibratory signals from a middle ear bone and use the signals to drive a disarticulated middle ear bone closer to the ear drum.
US09525936B1
Disclosed are systems and devices for transmission of an audio signal. In some embodiments, the system may include a wearable computing device, a first audio receiver, and a second audio receiver. The wearable computing device may include an audio source configured to generate an audio signal that includes a first channel and a second channel, and a transmission coil configured to transmit the audio signal. The first audio receiver may include a first receiving coil configured to receive the audio signal, a first circuit configured to process the audio signal to determine the first channel, and a first audio output configured to output the first channel. Similarly, the second audio receiver may include a second receiving coil configured to receive the audio signal, a second circuit configured to process the audio signal to determine the second channel, and a second audio output configured to output the second channel.
US09525929B2
An adjustable occlusion headphone includes a housing having a face, a resilient seal member on the housing, adapted to surround the user's ear, and with the face of the housing form a chamber enclosing the user's ear. A speaker communicates through the face of the housing to provide sound to the user's ear. There is at least one port in the face of the housing. A passage extends from each port to the exterior of the housing. A valve member associated with each passage, is operable between an open position and a closed position, and an operator for operating each valve member between its open and closed position to control sound communication from outside the housing to the chamber.
US09525923B2
A communications system improves performance of detecting a signal having an indication of a request to change communications states by making at least two positive identifications of the request in a given time frame. The system may further improve performance by applying a difference in power levels for a non-request state (i.e., steady state or ‘control hold’ state) versus a request state (i.e., ‘request to change’ state). In one particular application, a base station determines a request to change communications states with a reasonably high probability of detection and a reasonably low probability of false detection. The system has a reduced number of erroneous communications states, such as erroneous traffic channel allocations. The detection technique is compatible with 1xEV-DV systems and I-CDMA systems, but general enough to support systems employing various other communications protocols used in wired and wireless communications systems.
US09525922B2
An optical access network comprises an optical network unit having a first port for connecting to a first optical link, a second port for connecting to a second optical link and an optical source. The optical source is arranged to generate a first optical signal, to transmit the first optical signal via the first port, to receive an optical seed signal via the first port and to amplify the optical seed signal. The optical seed signal has a narrower bandwidth compared to the first optical signal. A modulator is arranged to modulate the amplified optical seed signal with upstream data to form an upstream optical signal and to transmit the upstream optical signal via the second port. A polarization modifier can modify polarization of the first optical signal.
US09525910B2
A display apparatus includes a storage configured to store a recommendation channel map including a plurality of channel numbers and channel information mapped to channel numbers; an input unit for inputting a user command and selecting a channel; a contents receiver configured to receive contents through a channel corresponding to the user command; a display configured to display the contents; and a controller configured to compare the stored channel information mapped to the selected channel number in the recommendation channel map and channel information of the received contents, and to update the recommendation channel map according to a result of comparison.
US09525908B2
An external device may recognize, in the case of including a communication unit that executes communication via a communication path made up of a pair of differential transmission paths included in a transmission path, information relating to the communication unit thereof.A disk recorder transmits function information indicating that a communication unit (high-speed data line I/F 213) configured to execute communication with an external device via a communication path made up of a reserve line and an HPD line of an HDMI cable to a television receiver via a CEC line that is a control data line of the HDMI cable. The television receiver receives function information, whereby whether or not the disk recorder is an eHDMI-compatible device can be determined, and in the case of an eHDMI-compatible device, a compatible transmission format (application) can be recognized.
US09525903B2
The present disclosure provides a method and system for skipping one or more advertisements at a corresponding one or more advertisement slots in a content viewed by a user of one or more users. The method includes receiving a first amount from the user, choosing a first set of advertisement slots of the one or more advertisement slots, determining a corresponding threshold third pre-determined amount separately for each of the first set of advertisement slots for bidding and bidding a corresponding fourth pre-determined amount for each of the first set of advertisement slots. The first amount is set for skipping optimum number of the one or more advertisements at the corresponding one or more advertisement slots. The choosing is based on a second amount for each of the one or more advertisement slots, the first amount and a first pre-defined criterion.
US09525900B2
A system and method for managing video data and metadata associated with the video data is disclosed. In one embodiment, a content management system receives video data and metadata associated with the video data, such as a title, a thumbnail image and a subject matter identifier. Instructions for a media player used to present the video data using a destination site are also generated to simplify distribution of the video data to one or more destination sites. The content management system further enables a user to edit the stored video data to customize placements of advertisements or other data within the video data by identifying one or more cue points in the video data. A data store is coupled to the content management system to store the video data and the metadata associated with the video data.
US09525893B2
An exemplary method includes a network DVR system identifying a total number of requests provided by a plurality of users to record a media program during a presentation of the media program, determining, based on the total number of requests and on a predicted playback rate associated with the media program, a maximum number of temporally overlapping playback sessions of the media program that will potentially be initiated by the plurality of users subsequent to the presentation of the media program, and storing, in response to the requests and based on the determining, a plurality of unique copies of the media program. Corresponding systems and methods are also described.
US09525891B2
Provided are entropy decoding and encoding methods of a video. The entropy decoding method includes obtaining a transformation unit significant coefficient flag indicating whether a non-zero transformation coefficient exists in the transformation unit, from a bitstream, determining a context model for arithmetically 5 decoding the transformation unit significant coefficient flag, based on the transformation depth of the transformation unit and arithmetically decoding the transformation unit significant coefficient flag based on the determined context model.
US09525889B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding a video signal and a method and apparatus for decoding a video signal. The method of encoding the video signal includes: determining an optimum scaling bit depth of the video signal in consideration of a maximum bit number of an intermediate value obtained during transformation of the video signal and a maximum bit precision of the video signal; scaling the video signal according to a local shift value corresponding to a difference between the determined optimum scaling bit depth and an original bit depth of the video signal; and transforming the scaled video signal.
US09525884B2
An apparatus and method for video coding having intra-slice deblocking, intra-slice adaptive loop filter, and intra-slice adaptive offset are disclosed. In a video coding system, a picture is often divided into slices and each slice is independently processed so that errors or missing data from one slice cannot propagate to any other slice within the picture. In the recent high efficiency video coding (HEVC) development, deblock filtering (DF), adaptive loop filter (ALF) and adaptive offset (AO) may be applied to reconstructed slices. When the processing is applied across slice boundaries, it may rely on pixels outside the current slice and cause dependency of the current slice on other slice(s). Consequently, the DF/ALF/AO processing on a reconstructed slice may have to wait until the reconstructed slices that it is dependent from complete the DF/ALF/AO processing. To overcome the slice boundary issue, intra-slice DF/ALF/AO is developed that does not rely on any pixel outside the currently slice. An optional slice boundary filter may be applied to slice boundaries after all slices are processed by the intra-slice DF/ALF/AO.
US09525873B2
An image processing circuit and an image processing method are provided. The image processing circuit comprises a full search engine and a frame rate conversion (FRC) engine. The full search engine executes a full search to generate a sum of sum of absolute difference (SAD) distribution according to the reference image and the current image. The FRC engine analyzes a scene characteristic from the current image according to SAD distribution. The FRC engine adjusts at least one of the control parameters according to the scene characteristic. The FRC engine generates an interpolated image according to the reference image, the current image and the control parameters.
US09525870B2
A quantization level is determined for use by an encoder in encoding an image in accordance with a target number of bits. For each section of the image, the pixels are analyzed to estimate the complexity of the image section. For each of a plurality of candidate quantization levels, a relationship and the estimated complexity of the image sections are used to estimate the number of bits that would be generated by encoding the image with the encoder using the respective candidate quantization level, and based thereon one of the candidate quantization levels is selected. The relationship is a function of the quantization level used by the encoder, and is for use in relating the complexity of an image section to the number of bits that would be generated by encoding that image section with the encoder. The encoder uses the selected quantization level in encoding the image.
US09525867B2
Embodiments of a method for performing image analysis include accessing a digital image of a subject, the digital image comprising a portion of a target substrate of the subject, the digital image comprising a portion of a calibration device; detecting a position of the calibration device by searching the digital image for a predetermined background color; detecting a plurality of color chips on the calibration device; mapping a position of the plurality of color chips on the digital image, each of the plurality of color chips comprising a predetermined chip color; comparing at least a portion of the plurality of color chips with a predetermined color standard; and altering the digital image, based on the comparison, to provide consistent image parameters with other images of the subject.
US09525865B2
A method of analyzing a digital camera includes generating first image data using an image sensor in the camera. A first analysis is performed on at least one portion of the first image data. Second image data is generated using the image sensor and a second analysis is performed on the at least one portion of the second image data. The results of the first analysis are compared to the results of the second analysis. A signal indicating a fault with the digital camera is generated in response to the first analysis differing from the second analysis by a predetermined amount.
US09525862B2
A method for estimating a camera motion and for determining a three-dimensional model of an environment is provided that includes the steps of: providing intrinsic parameters of a camera; providing a set of reference two-dimensional imaged points captured by the camera at a first camera pose and reference depth samples; determining a three-dimensional model of the environment; providing a set of current two-dimensional imaged points captured by the camera at a second camera pose and current depth samples associated to the set of current two-dimensional imaged points and determining a current three-dimensional model; estimating a camera motion between the first camera pose and the second camera pose; determining a similarity measure between the three-dimensional model and the current three-dimensional model, and if it is determined that the similarity measure meets a first condition, updating the three-dimensional model of the environment and adding the set of current two-dimensional imaged points to the set of reference two-dimensional imaged points.
US09525853B2
The present invention provides for eliminating the requirement for cable modems and routers to be installed in CATV system subscriber homes, and/or establishments, by instead including the cable modems and routers in a CATV provider's main distribution line, for sharing amongst a plurality of subscriber homes and/or establishments.
US09525849B2
Embodiments are described for provision of video conferencing with load balancing. In some embodiments, a protocol connector module receives a media processing request from a client application for the video conference endpoint device and a client application identifier, a profile for the client application is retrieved using the client application identifier, at least one load balancing capability is determined for the client application using the identifier, a load balancing technique is selectively performed based on the at least one load balancing capability, and performance of the client application is logged with the load balancing technique in the profile.
US09525848B2
A dynamic video communications system provides real time provisioning of a video communication session in a domain video network between a set of user devices. The real time provisioning is implemented by receiving an identifier of a video communication session from a user device, where the identifier includes a domain and a name, determining an authentication principle associated with the user device, where the authentication principle includes a domain of the user, checking whether the domain of the user matches a domain of the video communication session, and joining the user device with the video communication session.
US09525846B2
This disclosure describes a system for negotiating video camera and display capabilities in a video conferencing environment. The system includes a local camera; a local communication device; and a session negotiation device where the session negotiation device further comprises a processor, memory, and a storage. The processor executes a sequence of computer programmable software instructions that further includes determining negotiation information associated with the local camera; defining the determined negotiation information in a predetermined format compatible with the remote display; applying the determined negotiation information for negotiating capability of the local camera and the remote display for data communication; sending the determined negotiation information to the remote display; mapping data streams from the local camera to the remote display using the determined negotiation information; and defining a predetermined layout of the mapped data streams on the remote display based on the determined negotiation information.
US09525845B2
Embodiments of client device and method for audio or video conferencing are described. An embodiment includes an offset detecting unit, a configuring unit, an estimator and an output unit. The offset detecting unit detects an offset of speech input to the client device. The configuring unit determines a voice latency from the client device to every far end. The estimator estimates a time when a user at the far end perceives the offset based on the voice latency. The output unit outputs a perceivable signal indicating that a user at the far end perceives the offset based on the time estimated for the far end. The perceivable signal is helpful to avoid collision between parties.
US09525840B2
According to an embodiment of the invention, an image projection apparatus includes: a light source device; a first circuit board including an image display device configured to form an image using light, a connector, and an electrically conductive portion near the connector; a retaining member made of metal; an optical illuminating unit held by the retaining member and configured to guide the light to the image display device; an optical projecting unit configured to project the image onto a projection surface; a second circuit board configured to be electrically connected to the connector; a metal plate fixed and electrically connected to the retaining member; and an elastic metal member arranged on the metal plate. The first circuit board is fixed to the retaining member. The elastic metal member is in contact with the electrically conductive portion. The second circuit board is fixed and electrically connected to the metal plate.
US09525833B2
An imaging device includes phase difference detection pixels. The imaging device receives an image formed by an optical system and includes a plurality of pixels that are two-dimensionally arranged. Each of the plurality of pixels include a micro lens; a photoelectric conversion unit positioned below the micro lens; and an optical aperture disposed between the micro lens and the photoelectric conversion unit and that is eccentric with respect to an optical axis of the micro lens, wherein the plurality of pixels of the imaging device output a signal for obtaining phase difference. The imaging device performs phase difference detection on the entire surface of a captured image without addition of pixels.
US09525823B2
There is provided a display control apparatus including an external memory accommodating unit for accommodating a removable external memory; a database recognizing unit for recognizing a database stored in the external memory, the database being recorded with an image stored in the external memory and information related to the image in correspondence to each other; a display method setting unit for setting either display method of a stored first display method or a second display method of displaying the image stored in the external memory without using the database based on a recognition result of the database recognizing unit; and a display controlling unit for displaying the image stored in the external memory by the display method based on the set display method.
US09525817B2
In a system and a method of controlling an imaging direction and an angle of view of a camera according to an aspect of the present disclosure, infrared light may be irradiated toward pupils of eyes of a user, and a position of infrared light reflected from the pupils of the eyes of the user may be detected by a first camera to track a line of sight of the user and calculate a viewing angle of the user. In addition, an imaging direction of a second camera may coincide with the line of sight of the user and an angle of view of the second camera may coincide with the viewing angle of the user to allow an image actually viewed by the user and an image captured by the camera to coincide with each other.
US09525815B2
An imaging apparatus includes a light emission unit, an instruction unit, and a light emission determination unit. The light emission unit moves between a light and a non-light emission position. The instruction unit changes, in response to a user's manual operation, to a first state giving an instruction to prepare for capturing a subject's image. In response to setting the instruction unit to the first state, the light emission determination unit makes a light emission determination based on a captured scene. In response to setting the instruction unit to the first state and where the light emission determination unit determines that the light emission unit does not emit light, the light emission determination unit determines that the light emission unit emits light, in response to a user's operation for moving the light emission unit to the light emission position while the instruction unit is kept in the first state.
US09525811B2
The disclosed technology relates to an electronic device configured to use the device's own display to provide an illumination source for front-facing image sensors and to a method of using the same. An electronic device for capturing a digital image using a front-facing image sensor and a digital display device includes a command input module configured to receive a command to capture the digital image, an illumination adjustment module configured to adjust the display device to an imaging illumination condition in response to the command, and a front-facing image sensor module configured capture the digital image using the front-facing image sensor under the predetermined illumination condition.
US09525810B2
A camera apparatus includes: a camera main body having a single plate type imaging section; and a handle mounting section for mounting a handle on an upper portion of the camera main body, wherein a lens for a three-plate type imaging section can be mounted on a lens mount section of a front portion of the camera main body via a mount adapter, and the handle mounting section mounts the handle on the upper portion of the camera main body so as to be able to move in a front-back direction.
US09525803B2
Systems and methods of detecting an object using motion estimation may include a processor and motion estimation and object detection logic coupled to the processor. The motion estimation and object detection logic may be configured to include logic to detect an object in a frame of a video based on motion estimation. The video may include a first frame and a second frame. The motion estimation may be performed on a region of the second frame using sum of absolute difference between the region of the second frame and a corresponding region of the first frame.
US09525796B2
The present invention manages a reset type and a reset condition state, the reset type indicating whether or not a screen reset operation is necessary when each synchronized setting value is synchronized. This information is confirmed when synchronization is performed, and necessary reset processing such as log-out processing is executed if necessary.
US09525794B2
An image forming apparatus is provided which is able to combine a form image with an input image by means of a new combination method. The image forming apparatus is able to combine the form image with the input image by means of a multiple form successive combination method in which in a case where a plurality of the input images are used, when a plurality of the form images are accepted, a respective one of the form images is successively combined with a respective one of the input image, and the multiple form successive combination method is a method in which in a case where the input images to a number of three or more are used, when the form images to a number of three or more are accepted, a respective one of the form images is successively combined with a respective one of the input images.
US09525790B1
Certain embodiments provide an image forming apparatus, including: a detector that detects a user who is positioned within a certain range from the apparatus; a verification unit that identifies the detected user by verification; a determination unit that determines whether there is print data which is not output yet on the basis of user identifiable information which is identified by the verification unit; and a notification unit that notifies the user that the print data is not printed yet on the basis of a result which indicates the presence of the print data from the determination unit.
US09525788B2
An image forming method and apparatus, and a host in which the image forming method includes setting a processing order of a plurality of operations of a same image data and detailed setup information of the plurality of operations, and executing the plurality of operations using the detailed setup information according to the set processing order.
US09525787B2
A system and method are provided for implementing a streamlined scheme for transferring print jobs directly from the print queue of one image forming device to the print queue of another image forming device using mobile devices and tags, such as near field communication (NFC) tags, affixed to image forming devices. A user manipulated mobile device is employed to read a readable tag affixed to or nearby a particular image forming device as a source device in which a print job is stuck, the mobile device running a print-job transfer application. The user then walks up to a different (or destination) image forming device and “touch” its tag, and confirm, for example, when prompted, to transfer the “stuck” print job from the source to the destination image forming system or device.
US09525786B2
A facsimile machine that is capable of executing a transmitting process corresponding to a user's request certainly. A setting unit receives a selection between a first connection method for connecting with a remote machine via a SIP server and a second connection method for connecting with a remote machine directly bypassing the SIP server. A communication unit communicates by the connection method selected by the setting unit when inputted destination information is a telephone number, and communicates using an IP address included in the destination information irrespective of the connection method selected by the setting unit when the inputted destination information is not a telephone number.
US09525778B2
Methods and apparatus for providing ubiquitous and configurable communications between users is provided. Ubiquity and other features are provided using a common identifier linking two or more users. In one embodiment, a common identifier is automatically provided when call forwarding is directed to a designated phone number. In another embodiment, a user can cause a common identifier to be created linking the user with a user of their choice by sending a text message to a designated address. This Abstract is provided for the sole purpose of complying with the Abstract requirement rules that allow a reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the disclosure contained herein. This Abstract is submitted with the explicit understanding that it will not be used to interpret or to limit the scope or the meaning of the claims.
US09525772B2
The invention presents a method of identifying faults on a DSL line, typically intermittent faults arising from unstable joints in the DSL line. The method collects errored seconds data at the DSLAM and at the customer's premises equipment (CPE, typically a home hub or router). The error data collected at the DSLAM are termed near-end errors, and the error data collected at the CPE are termed far-end errors. The near-end and far-end data is then analyzed by applying regression analysis to determine if there is a correlation or match between the two sets of data. Matching data patterns are indicative of unstable or bad joints in the DSL line, and are typically intermittent and located near the customer's premises.
US09525770B2
An electronic device (100) includes a housing (127,128) having a front major face, a rear major face, a first side edge (201), and a second side edge 202. A display (102) is disposed along the front major face. At least three proximity sensor components (203,204,205), operable with one or more processors (116), are disposed along the front major face and arranged to define a line (206) that is diagonal to one or more of the first side edge and the second side edge. Also, at least three additional proximity sensor components (303,304,305) are disposed along the rear major face and arranged to define another line (306) diagonal to one or more of the first side edge and the second side edge.
US09525765B2
Disclosed, in general, are devices that provide a substantially active noise canceling area over a sound source by causing disruptive interference to all frequency fields of speech sounds from the sound source. In some embodiments, active noise control or active noise cancellation means (“ANC means”) are provided to the device. Said means include one or more active noise canceling speakers for the addition of sound specifically designed to cancel noise from the speech sound source without interfering with the sound source going to the microphone, so the listener can clearly hear what the user is saying.
US09525761B1
A mobile communication device including a substrate, an antenna element and a sensing element is provided. The substrate includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. The antenna element is disposed on the first surface and converts a feeding signal into an electromagnetic wave. The antenna element includes a first portion receiving the feeding signal and a second portion electrically connected to a ground. The sensing element is disposed on the second surface and generates a sensing signal in response to proximity of an object. An orthogonal projection of the sensing element on the first surface and an orthogonal projection of the second portion on the first surface are overlapped with each other and have the same shape.
US09525760B1
A network processing device comprising a plurality of programmable processors coupled together to perform a set of packet processing operations to process a packet received by the network processing device. Ones of the programmable processors being configured to perform a respective subset of the set of packet processing operations with a respective portion of a packet context such that respective programmable processors receives a portion of the packet context, that is less than a full packet context for performing the packet processing operations. The portion of a packet context being dimensioned to perform the respective subset of the packet processing operations.
US09525758B2
An information processing system for instructing a first device associated with a first user and any one of a plurality of devices associated with a second user to execute a predetermined service includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire the association between the first and second user and a selection unit configured to select from the plurality of devices a device for executing a service, based on the association between the first and second user.
US09525749B2
The present invention relates to a Domain Name System (DNS) server and a method for resolving DNS queries from a number of clients. The DNS server comprises multiple virtual DNS server instances servicing different clients. The DNS server further comprises a shared cache for caching records which indicate answers to resolved DNS queries. The shared cache is shared between a set of virtual DNS server instances. The virtual DNS server instances that share the shared cache are able to cache DNS query results in the shared cache as well as resolve a DNS query by retrieving a cached record corresponding to the DNS query from the shared cache. Thus it is possible for a virtual DNS server instance to make use of DNS query results obtained by other virtual DNS server instances.
US09525738B2
A storage system is provided. The storage system includes a plurality of storage units, each of the plurality of storage units having storage memory for user data and a plurality of storage nodes, each of the plurality of storage nodes configured to have ownership of a portion of the user data. The storage system includes a first pathway, coupling the plurality of storage units such that each of the plurality of storage units can communicate with at least one other of the plurality of storage units via the first pathway without assistance from the plurality of storage nodes.
US09525736B2
A content delivery system and method for use with plurality of digital multimedia data processing systems and legacy systems spanning across one or more network environments. The system and method enable users with freedom of mobility while maintaining access to the user's selected content while the user transitions from one device in one location to a different device in a difference location, substantially without interruption and without the need for user action to turn on and off these target data processing systems. The Instant Invention can provide high bandwidth content delivery solutions based upon hardware and software components by activating a Target device while the system is proximate to the Target device and, in one embodiment, automatically redirecting the content while the system is proximate to a new Target device without user intervention. The Target devices include digital multimedia data processing systems and legacy systems including, but not limited to, HDTVs, TV, Personal Computers, digital music systems, printers, radios, and fax machines.
US09525734B2
A method for hybrid RDMA, the method may include: (i) receiving, by a first computer, a packet that was sent over a network from a second computer; wherein the packet may include data and metadata; (ii) determining, in response to the metadata, whether the data should be (a) directly written to a first application memory of the first computer by a first hardware accelerator of the first computer; or (b) indirectly written to the first application memory; (iii) indirectly writing or indirectly writing in response to the determination.
US09525718B2
Back-to-back Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) virtual agents, and related methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method for providing back-to-back virtual WebRTC agents comprises receiving, by a WebRTC server executing on a computing device, a WebRTC offer/answer exchange between first and second WebRTC clients. The method further comprises instantiating one or more virtual WebRTC agents. The method also comprises establishing a first WebRTC interactive flow between the first WebRTC client and one of the one or more virtual WebRTC agents, and a second WebRTC interactive flow between the second WebRTC client and one of the one or more virtual WebRTC agents. The method additionally comprises directing a content of the first WebRTC interactive flow to the second WebRTC interactive flow, and a content of the second WebRTC interactive flow to the first WebRTC interactive flow, via the one or more virtual WebRTC agents.
US09525687B2
The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for establishing an attribute template for a customer for distribution to third party recipients. In operation, customer information is received and placed as attributes in a template that is then made available to predetermined recipients.
US09525686B2
A method for determining if a user of a computer system is a human. A processor receives an indication that a computer security program is needed and acquires at least one image depicting a first string of characters including at least a first and second set of one or more characters. A processor assigns a substitute character to be used as input for each of the second set of one or more characters. A processor presents the at least one image and an indication of the substitute character and when to use the substitute character to the user. A processor receives a second string of characters from the user. A processor determines whether the second string of characters substantially matches the first string of characters based on the substitute character assigned to each of the second set of one or more characters and determines whether the user is a human.
US09525683B2
Methods for a secret supplemental username are provided. In one example, a method includes the steps of detecting a threat to an account with a primary username and password and disabling the primary username associated with the account in response to the threat. The method includes the additional steps of generating a supplemental username associated with the account and securely communicating the supplemental username.
US09525672B2
A compute instance of a virtual computing service (VCS) is assigned first and second cryptographically verifiable identities (CVIs) within respective namespaces. A cryptographic key pair associated with the first CVI includes a non-transferable private key managed by a secure key store which does not permit the private key to be copied. The VCS enables the instance to use the private key for asserting the CVIs. In response to a first identity query, the instance indicates the first CVI. In response to a second identity query, the instance indicates the second CVI.
US09525671B1
This disclosure describes, in part, systems, devices, and techniques to encrypt address resolution protocol (ARP) messages to prevent a rogue device from accessing information about a local network. In certain embodiments described herein, networked devices are preconfigured with security credentials that allow the devices, possibly via network interface controllers (NICs), to encrypt outgoing ARP messages and decrypt incoming ARP messages. The NICs may listen for encrypted messages that are recognized as being ARP messages. These encrypted messages may include a designator that indicates that the message is an encrypted ARP message. When a NIC receives a message that is indicated as an encrypted ARP message, then the NIC will decrypt the message using secure credentials to obtain the true ARP message. The device will then process the message in accordance standard procedures.
US09525665B1
A computer-implemented method for obscuring network services may include (1) identifying a local network comprising at least one client and at least one host, where the host provides a service that is not bound to any routable address on the local network and the client is expected to send messages to the service, (2) provisioning the client with a proxy that intercepts the messages directed to the service by the client, identifies the host that provides the service, and adds at least one layer of encryption to the messages, (3) configuring the proxy to route the messages through an onion routing network within the local network that comprises at least one onion routing node, and (4) configuring the onion routing network to remove the at least one layer of encryption from the messages before forwarding the messages. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09525664B2
A computer-implemented method for providing secure access to local network devices may include (1) identifying a local area network that provides Internet connectivity to at least one device within the local area network, (2) obtaining, from an identity assertion provider, (i) a shared secret for authenticating the identity of a guest user of the device and (ii) a permission for the guest user to access the device from outside the local area network, (3) storing the shared secret and the permission within the local area network, (4) receiving, via the Internet connectivity, a request by the guest user from outside the local area network to access the device, and (5) providing access to the device in response to validating the request based on the shared secret and the permission. Various other methods and systems are also disclosed.
US09525653B2
A wireless device for processing an SMS message stores the message on a local first storage device, and sends the message to a wireless carrier SMS facility. The device further stores the message from the first storage device on a second storage device that is remote from the wireless device.
US09525652B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems for selecting subsets of participants in electronic message threads. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to exclude participants based, at least in part, on activity level from message conversations, thereby streamlining message conversation and reducing unwanted message communications.
US09525650B2
The present document provides a method and system for updating a reorder depth in robust header compression. The method comprises: when determining a reorder occurs in data packets, a decompressor estimating the reorder situation, and determining whether a more robust reorder processing policy needs to be used according to the reorder situation; if it needs not to be used, maintaining a reorder depth value at the decompressor side; if it needs to be used, updating the reorder depth value at the decompressor side to a greater value, and transmitting a feedback packet carrying the updated reorder depth value to a compressor; and after receiving the feedback packet, the compressor updating the reorder depth value at the compressor side according to the reorder depth value in the feedback packet.
US09525648B2
A method for acquiring a physical address of a virtual machine includes acquiring, by a first switching endpoint, an address list of N switching endpoints from a centralized controller after receiving an address acquisition request sent by a first virtual machine, where the N switching endpoints include a second switching endpoint, sending, in a unicast manner according to the address list, the request to the N switching endpoints that include the second switching endpoint, and after receiving a second response sent by the second switching endpoint, sending the second response to the first virtual machine. The method may avoid the limitation on the quantity of created switching endpoints caused by the insufficient quantity of multicast groups of the switch in order to increase the quantity of created switching endpoints.
US09525646B2
A method for selecting a router node in a LLN (Low power and Lossy Network) type telecommunication network wherein, upon receipt by a router node of a data packet from a host node or an adherence request to a multicast group from a host node, the router node transmits to a root node a MER_Request request of configuration as a multicast router node to serve the host node, and upon receipt of the MER_Request request, the root node determines, from an association table, a configuration of the router node and transmits to the router node a MER_Reply reply message including the determined configuration.
US09525642B2
Ordering partial network traffic. In an embodiment, data packets are received from a network tap and separated into two queues. For each queue, a push-sequence is maintained to represent a sequence number that must be pushed in order to maintain a consecutive order. When both push-sequences are equal to the sequence number of their first packets, if the acknowledgement number of the first packet on one queue is greater than the push-sequence for the other queue and less than or equal to the push-sequence of the one queue, data is pushed off the other queue. Otherwise, a queue having the earlier timestamp is identified as a first queue, the existence of a next acknowledgement number is determined for the second (other) queue, and data is pushed off the first queue according to the existence of the next acknowledgement number. Gap packets may be generated to force progress.
US09525633B2
A method for adjusting an IP network load, includes: receiving an IP packet flow; and adjusting a forwarding path of an IP packet according to a load status of an IP network, and sending the IP packet, where network devices of the IP network are interconnected to form a multi-stage CLOS topology structure. According to the method, the forwarding path of the network load may be adaptively adjusted according to the dynamic load status of the network, so as to achieve dynamic load balancing of the entire network; through the dynamic load balancing, possible congestion in the network is better eliminated, thereby improving quality of service; unavoidable design for a light load caused by an actuality of an unbalanced network load is avoided, thereby enabling the network to be designed for a heavy load and increasing a utilization rate of network capacity.
US09525632B1
Embodiments are directed towards employing a packet traffic management device that has a split data flow segment (“DFS”) and control segment (“CS”) to determine if a connection flow update provided by the DFS to the CS is valid. The CS may be utilized to establish connection flows at the DFS based on connection flow requests. The CS may generate a connection flow identifier (“CFID”) for a connection flow request. The CS may cache the CFID at the CS. The CS may establish a connection flow at the DFS based at least on the connection flow request and the CFID. After a connection flow is established, a DFS may provide a connection flow update and a corresponding CFID to the CS. The CS may determine that the connection flow update is valid if the corresponding CFID matches the CFID cached at the CS.
US09525625B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for generating forwarding entries for devices in an optical network. The optical network includes a virtual access node AN, where the virtual AN includes a first access device, a second access device, and an access port management apparatus. The access port management apparatus acquires a virtual AN forwarding entry sent by an access management device; generates a first forwarding entry for a first device in the first access device and the second access device according to the virtual AN forwarding entry; and generates a second forwarding entry for a second device in the first access device and the second access device according to the virtual AN forwarding entry. The virtual AN may automatically generate forwarding entries for the first access device and second access device in the virtual AN according to the virtual AN forwarding entry.
US09525618B2
Embodiments relate to managing data flows at a network interface card (NIC). A computer program product for managing data flows at a network interface card (NIC) of a host, the NIC comprising a port, includes a tangible storage medium readable by a processing circuit that stores instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method. The method includes receiving, from a virtual forwarding element executing in the host, a packet that belongs to a data flow, identifying, at the NIC and by the processing circuit, one of a plurality of queues for storing data flows to be sent out of the host through the port based a mapping between the data flows, the queues, and a plurality of tunnels, and placing the packet in the identified queue in order to send the packet out of the host through the port.
US09525616B2
In a communication network including a plurality of network domains in which switches and controllers are separated, in controllers providing the information to which neighbor switches are to forward data packets, inter-domain communication is introduced. For example, a local controller alerts another local controller enabling this other local controller to perform process steps in preparation of arrival of a data packet prior to that data packet arriving at its network domain.
US09525606B1
This disclosure relates to the processing of data streams. More specifically, application of particular protocols to a stream and a detection analysis facilitate a selective, reliable and efficient transmission of pertinent stream data to destination addresses.
US09525597B2
A system and method for base topology selection includes a network controller including a control unit and one or more ports coupled to the control unit and configured to couple the network controller to one or more network switching devices of a network. The network controller is configured to receive initiation messages from the network switching devices, receive configuration and status messages from the network switching devices, transmit discovery requests to the network switching devices, receive discovery responses from the network switching devices, determine a network topology of the network based on information associated with the initiation messages, the configuration and status messages, and the discovery responses, apply heuristic rules to the network topology, and select a base topology based on results of the applied heuristic rules. The network controller may further be configured to transmit flow control messages to the network switching devices to provision the network consistent with the selected base topology.
US09525592B2
A setup method of a client/server network environment is provided. The client/server network environment includes a controller node and a compute node. The controller node and the compute node are respectively predefined with a specific device function. In the method, a master node recording a plurality of components and a configuration file of each of the components is provided, and an Internet Protocol (IP) address is respectively assigned to the master node, the controller node, and the compute node. When the master node receives a setup request from a device to be set up between the controller node and the compute node, an auto-shell is generated according to the setup request and transmitted to the device to be set up. The auto-shell is executed by the device to be set up to automatically accomplish the setup for realizing the specific device function corresponding to the device to be set up.
US09525591B2
Each of MCLAG devices has a MCLAG table, a port control unit, and a relay processing unit. The MCLAG table retains one or a plurality of first ports in association with a first identifier. The port control unit controls a first port group to transmission/reception permitted state when the first port group is set to active, and controls the first port group to a transmission prohibited state when the first port group is set to standby. The relay processing unit relays a frame containing the first identifier as a destination port to the first port group when the first port group is controlled to the transmission/reception permitted state, and relays the same to a bridge port when the first port group is controlled to the transmission prohibited state.
US09525583B2
The present invention relates to a method, a system and a device for implementing interconnection between IP domains. The method mainly includes: first, the Media Gateway Controller (MGC) sends the IP domain information of the IP domain to which the media stream to be created pertains to the Media Gateway (MG) between IP domains; when the MG receives the IP domain information for creating the media stream from the MGC, the MG creates the corresponding media stream between the IP domains according to the IP domain information, thus implementing the interconnection between the IP domains.
US09525575B2
A transmission method includes modulating a transmission signal using a modulation scheme selected from a plurality of modulation schemes, to generate a first symbol sequence and generating at least one second symbol including a pilot symbol generated using a PSK modulation scheme. The method includes changing an insertion interval of the second symbol to be inserted in the first symbol sequence, to generate a modulation signal and transmitting the modulation signal. The second symbol is configured for synchronization in a reception apparatus.
US09525573B2
In embodiments of a serializing transmitter, the serializing transmitter includes N multiplexing drive units, each configured to generate a series of output pulses derived from input data signals and multi-phase clock signals, and each multiplexing drive unit including a pulse-controlled push-pull output driver having first and second inputs and an output. Each multiplexing driver unit further includes a first M:1 pulse-generating multiplexer having an output coupled to the first input of the pulse-controlled push-pull output driver, and a second M:1 pulse-generating multiplexer having an output coupled to the second input of the pulse-controlled push-pull output driver, wherein each of the first and second M:1 pulse-generating multiplexers has three or fewer gate delays from a clock input to an output of the pulse-generating multiplexer.
US09525572B2
The present invention discloses a signal correction method and a receiving machine, pertaining to the radio communication field. The method includes: acquiring M channels of first signals; performing adaptive processing for each channel of first signals among the M channels of first signals to output M channels of first correction signals; making a decree according to the M channels of first correction signals to obtain M channels of decree results; using a decree result with a same value and with a largest quantity among the M channels of decree results as a feedback signal; receiving M channels of second signals; and separately performing adaptive processing, according to the feedback signal, for each channel of second signals among M channels of second signals to output M channels of second correction signals.
US09525569B2
A terminal for transmitting a voice signal, comprising: a transmitter having a first transmission module arranged to transmit signals over a packet-switched data network and a second transmission module arranged to transmit signals over a circuit-switched telephony network; a microphone for generating a voice signal; and signal processing apparatus configured to generate a first signal and a second signal from the voice signal, each representing information from the voice signal over a same portion of time. The signal processing apparatus is further configured to supply the first signal to the first transmission module for transmission to a receiver via the packet-switched data network, and to supply the second signal to the second transmission module for transmission to the receiver via the circuit-switched telephony network. There is also provided a terminal for receiving such signals and reconstructing the voice signal, and corresponding methods and program products.
US09525566B2
There is provided a method for mediating the flow of messages in a computer network having a mediation architecture that includes a plurality of logical nodes arranged in a logical mediation cycle. The method provides algorithms for: handing mediation tasks over between mediator nodes; reconfiguring the logical topology of the mediation architecture in response to a change request while maintaining system invariants; and refining the structure of the mediation architecture by adding whole subnetworks in place of single nodes.The method also addresses failure detection and recovery.
US09525561B2
A novel mechanism is disclosed by which a sender can direct information such as an audiovisual signal to a particular recipient's audiovisual display device, such as a cable television set and, thereby, share information between the sender and the recipient. In one embodiment, a calling party originates a telephone call and associates that telephone call with audio-visual information that exists on the caller's personal computer or on an Internet server. The called party answers the call, and can tune an associated cable television to the appropriate channel in order to view the audio-visual information. In another embodiment, the caller is a hotel guest and the called party is a hotel concierge and vice versa. The concierge provides information to the hotel guest such that the hotel guest can tune in to a channel on their hotel television set and access the information.
US09525557B2
Provided is a certificate issuing system including a client terminal and a server device. The client terminal derives a first hash value from a first random number using a unidirectional function, generates a secret key and a public key of the client terminal, and transmits the first hash value and the public key of the client terminal to the server device. The server device receives the first hash value and the public key of the client terminal from the client terminal, stores the first hash value, authenticates the client terminal on the basis of the stored first hash value and the derived first hash value, generates a client certificate on the basis of the public key of the client terminal and a secret key of the server device when the authentication succeeds, and transmits the client certificate to the client terminal.
US09525555B2
In one embodiment, a processor has at least one core to execute instructions, a security engine coupled to the at least one core, a first storage to store a first immutable key associated with a vendor of the processor, and a second storage to store a second immutable key associated with an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of the system. A first portion of firmware is to be verified based at least in part on the first immutable key and a second portion of firmware is to be verified based at least in part on the second immutable key, the first portion of firmware associated with the vendor and the second portion of firmware associated with the OEM. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09525554B2
A device and method associates a certificate with a first recipient identity. The method comprises receiving the first recipient identity of a user. The method comprises associating the first recipient identity of the user with a second recipient identity of the user. The second recipient identity is associated with a certificate so that subsequent transmissions of data to the first recipient identity encrypts the data according to specifications of the certificate.
US09525552B2
An audio device and method for adding a watermark data to digital signals which represent audio generates a digital signature by applying a hash calculation on the hardware address of the audio device. The audio device searches for an orthogonal code in a walsh matrix. The audio device decodes audio digital signals according to the orthogonal code to output decoded data. The audio device loads the orthogonal code into an identification information of the audio device to form the watermark data in accordance with a determination that the decoded value is not equal to one of a plurality of specific values, wherein the identification information includes the hardware address of the audio device. The audio device adds the watermark data into audio digital signals.
US09525550B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems for personalizing a software token using a dynamic credential (such as a one-time password or electronic signature) generated by a hardware token are disclosed.
US09525548B2
Provisioning techniques are described. In implementations, a particular one of a plurality of public keys are located using an identifier included in a request received via a network. The located public key is communicated via the network, the public key configured to encrypt data that is to be decrypted by a secure element of a mobile communication device, the secure element implemented using hardware and including a private key that is configured to decrypt the data that was encrypted using the public key.
US09525545B2
A phase locked loop includes a voltage controlled oscillator including a plurality of delay cells configured to respectively generate a plurality of clock signals having different phases and a harmonic lock detector configured to detect harmonic lock in the voltage controlled oscillator and to generate a reset signal in response. Remaining ones of the delay cells other than a first delay cell among the plurality of delay cells are reset in response to the reset signal.
US09525535B1
Systems and methods are described for scheduling transmission from an access node. Network conditions in a communication network comprising an access node may be monitored. A scheduling algorithm may be selected for the access node based on the monitored network conditions. Data transmissions may be scheduled from the access node based on the selected scheduling algorithm. And data may be transmitted from the access node to wireless devices based on the transmission schedule.
US09525518B2
A method for generating Acknowledgement/Negative Acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information at a user equipment in a wireless communication system. The method according to one embodiment includes receiving a plurality of transport blocks through a plurality of downlink carriers from a base station. Each of the plurality of downlink carriers carries two or more transport blocks. The method according to the embodiment further includes generating the ACK/NACK information by concatenating ACK/NACK bits corresponding to the plurality of transport blocks. The ACK/NACK bits are concatenated using an index order of the downlink carriers and an index order of the two or more transport blocks associated with each of the downlink carriers. The index order of the downlink carriers is used firstly.
US09525504B2
A network element includes first and second multiplexers, first and second interfaces, and first and second selecting units. The multiplexers are communicatively coupled. The first interface is communicatively coupled to the first multiplexer and configured to receive multiplexed signals. The second interface is communicatively coupled to the second multiplexer and configured to receive multiplexed signals. The first selecting unit is communicatively coupled to the first and second multiplexers and configured to select between a signal received from the first multiplexer and a signal received from the second multiplexer. The second selecting unit is also communicatively coupled to the first and second multiplexers and configured to select between a signal received from the first multiplexer and a signal received from the second multiplexer.
US09525499B2
Described herein are technologies related to an implementation of improving de-sensitivity in a receiver of a portable device.
US09525494B2
An optical receiver includes: a frontend circuit configured to generate a baseband signal representing a received optical signal by using local oscillator light; a frequency offset estimator configured to estimate a frequency offset of the baseband signal; a frequency offset corrector configured to correct the frequency offset of the baseband signal according to an estimation result by the frequency offset estimator; a phase recovery configured to recover a modulated phase from the baseband signal for which the frequency offset is corrected; a data recovery configured to recover transmission data according to the modulated phase recovered by the phase recovery; and a controller configured to control an operation of the frequency offset estimator according to a phase error of the baseband signal for which the frequency offset is corrected.
US09525490B2
Embodiments of the invention describe apparatuses, optical systems, and methods for utilizing a dynamically reconfigurable optical transmitter. A laser array outputs a plurality of laser signals (which may further be modulated based on electrical signals), each of the plurality of laser signals having a wavelength, wherein the wavelength of each of the plurality of laser signals is tunable based on other electrical signals. An optical router receives the plurality of (modulated) laser signals at input ports and outputs the plurality of received (modulated) laser signals to one or more output ports based on the tuned wavelength of each of the plurality of received laser signals. This reconfigurable transmitter enables dynamic bandwidth allocation for multiple destinations via the tuning of the laser wavelengths.
US09525485B2
A visible light communication system comprising a first electronic device having a display part and a second electronic device 20 having a brightness sensor, visible light communication between the first electronic device and the second electronic device occurring as a result of the brightness sensor detecting visible light (solid arrow) output from the display part.
US09525480B2
Optical communication module, optical network unit, and method of controlling light-emitting element
An optical communication module includes a modulation current supply circuit for supplying to a light-emitting element for transmitting a burst optical signal, a modulation current having magnitude in accordance with a logical value of data to be transmitted, a light-receiving element for monitoring, for outputting a current in accordance with intensity of light received from the light-emitting element, a measurement unit for measuring an output current from the light-receiving element for monitoring at set measurement timing, an adjustment unit for adjusting magnitude of the modulation current based on a result of measurement of the output current by the measurement unit, and a measurement timing setting unit for setting measurement timing based on a control signal for controlling transmission of the burst optical signal.
US09525473B2
Suitable beam pattern control is performed while performing access control based on physical carrier sense.A communication device transmits frames having a long preamble under a state where signals will not reach unless a beam pattern is formed, thereby enabling access control based on physical carrier sense, and under a state where signals will sufficiently reach without a beam pattern being formed transmits frames having a shorter preamble, thereby suppressing transmission overhead. Also, a beam pattern and preamble type are decided based on transmission/reception history of access control following CSMA/CA procedures.
US09525470B1
A system includes a memory and an integrated circuit coupled to the memory. The integrated circuit is configured to communicate data in a channel characterized as a space having at least a frequency dimension. Anchor locations within the space correspond to respective regions of the space. The integrated circuit is further configured to determine a first inverse of a first matrix that corresponds to a first channel matrix for a first anchor location of the anchor locations. The first anchor location corresponds to a first region of the regions. The integrated circuit is further configured to perform an access link process for a second location other than the first anchor location but within the first region, the access link process using the first inverse determined for the first anchor location.
US09525457B1
Spread spectrum clocking circuitry may be configured to produce a spread spectrum clock signal that coordinates the actions of functional circuitry. Spread spectrum clocking circuitry may be configured to include delay circuitry configured to generate a random delay signal based on a random input value and generate the spread spectrum clock signal based on the random delay signal. By introducing true randomness into the delay signal, spread spectrum clocking signal may be able to generate a truly random, as opposed to a merely pseudo random, clock signal.
US09525439B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a radio frequency (RF) system that may be implemented in a variety of devices. For example, the RF system may include a plurality of first RF-modules, each configured to process RF signals received from a corresponding antenna array to generate intermediate frequency (IF) signals and to process IF signals for transmission via the antenna array, wherein the plurality of first RF modules are coupled to each other via a first interface comprising transmission lines for carrying at least an IF signal, a local oscillator (LO) signal, and a control signals; at least one second RF module; and a baseband module configured to provide IF signals, the LO signal, and the control signals to one of the first RF modules via a second interface and to provide at least IF signals to the second RF module via a third interface.
US09525432B2
A low density parity check (LDPC) encoder includes first memory, second memory, and a processor. The first memory stores an LDPC codeword having a length of 64800 and a code rate of 3/15. The second memory is initialized to 0. The processor generates the LDPC codeword corresponding to information bits by performing accumulation with respect to the second memory using a sequence corresponding to a parity check matrix (PCM).
US09525429B2
A circuit includes a first digital filter that generates a first output based on a digital input and a first digital output signal. A first digital modulator generates the first digital output signal and a first error output based on the first output and a feedback error output. A second digital modulator generates a second output and a second error output based on the first error output. A second digital filter generates a second digital output signal based on the second output, and a third digital filter generates the feedback error output based on the second error output. The second digital output signal and the second error output are based on the first error output amplified by a predetermined gain.
US09525418B2
A biasing circuit includes a differential communication line comprising a first signal line and a second signal line. The biasing circuit further includes a first current source coupled between a power supply and the first signal line. The biasing circuit further includes a first high-precision voltage reference coupled to the first current source, wherein the first high-precision voltage reference outputs a reference voltage that drives a current produced by the first current source. The biasing circuit further includes a second current source coupled to the second signal line and a system ground, wherein the second current source is driven by a voltage supplied by the power supply.
US09525415B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor switch includes a power supply, a driver, a switch section, and a first potential controller. The power supply includes a first potential generator and a second potential generator. The first potential generator is configured to generate a negative first potential. The second potential generator is configured to generate a positive second potential that a power supply potential is stepped down. The driver is supplied with the first potential and a third potential and configured to output at least one of the first potential and the third potential based on a terminal switching signal. The switch section is configured to connect a common terminal to any one of a plurality of radio frequency terminals according to an output of the driver. The first potential controller includes a divider and an amplifier.
US09525408B2
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for a high speed, low power, isolated multiplexer having architecture and operation that control current flow to minimize coupling and power consumption. Multiplexer architecture may include one or more of BiCMOS components, an input disabling circuit operated to additionally disable an input circuit when it is also disabled by a selection circuit, a multiplexer disabling circuit operated to disable a multiplexer when input circuits are disabled by the selection circuit, a buffer having a buffer input disabling circuit operated to additionally disable a buffer input circuit when it is also disabled by a buffer selection circuit and a buffer disabling circuit operated to disable a buffer when the buffer input circuit is disabled by the buffer selection circuit. Any one or more of these features may be implemented to improve isolation performance. The architecture may be operated by a one-hot coding scheme.
US09525394B2
There is provided a band pass filter including: a first substrate including a plurality of capacitors and a plurality of conductive patterns provided thereon; and a second substrate laminated with the first substrate and connected to the plurality of first conductive patterns through a plurality of via holes, wherein an attenuation frequency is determined according to the amount and shape of the plurality of via holes.
US09525386B2
A receiver circuit includes a first amplifier circuit to differentially amplify differential input signals by a linear operation, a second amplifier circuit configured to differentially amplify output differential signals of the first amplifier circuit by a limiting operation, a feedback circuit, first and second resistors coupled between the feedback circuit and outputs of the first amplifier circuit, and third and fourth resistors coupled between the feedback circuit and outputs of the second amplifier circuit. The feedback circuit amplifies a positive-phase signal that is output from a positive-phase output node thereof coupled to the first and third resistors, and a negative-phase signal that is output from a negative-phase output node thereof coupled to the second and fourth resistors, and feeds back a feedback signal after amplification to the first amplifier circuit.
US09525373B2
To provide a stepping motor which can precisely and reliably detect stopping of a rotor with respect to a stopper with a simple structure, i.e., positioning of a base point of the rotor, and provide a motorized valve using it.The stepping motor includes a stator 55 and a rotor 57 rotationally driven by the stator 55, and a detection rotor 47 detecting a rotation position of the rotor 57. The detection rotor 47 is rotatably disposed on a co-axial center L with the rotor 57 and rotationally driven via a rotation drive mechanism between the rotor 57 and the detection rotor 47. The rotation drive mechanism has a drive play having a predetermined length or angle in the rotation direction.
US09525371B2
An apparatus for detecting a position of a rotor of a DC motor with N phases having a plurality of windings. The apparatus includes circuitry to couple at least two of the windings between a supply voltage and a reference voltage according to a first current path and allow the current stored in the two windings to be discharged through a second current path. The circuitry is configured to force the at least two windings at a short circuit condition in the second current path. The apparatus also includes a measurement circuit configured to measure the time period of discharging the current stored in the two windings and a rotor position detector for detecting the rotor position based on the measured time period.
US09525370B2
A method for controlling an alternator or alternator-starter of a motor vehicle, the electric machine being capable of providing an electric current, the strength of which varies on the basis of the excitation signal (EXC). A duty cycle is associated with each excitation signal. The method includes comparing the difference between the duty cycle values of two consecutive excitation signals at a predetermined threshold. If the difference is greater than the predetermined threshold, a gradual response phase is released, during which the duty cycle of the excitation signals is gradually increased, particularly in a substantially linear manner. At the start of the gradual response phase, the duty cycle of the consecutive excitation signals is increased by a predetermined jump (D,B), then the duty cycle is gradually increased. The duty cycle jump at the start of the gradual response phase being less than or equal to the release threshold of the gradual response phase.
US09525368B2
A control system included in a speed selector connected by output phases to a synchronous electric motor, the synchronous electric motor being controlled according to a control law implemented by the speed selector. A first speed of the synchronous electric motor is determined by a first speed estimator. A second speed estimator is used to determine a second speed of the synchronous electric motor. The system includes a signal generator module configured to apply, to the output phases, voltages taking account of a non-constant current signal. The second speed estimator is configured to recover the current response on the output phases, to deduce therefrom the second speed of the synchronous electric motor.
US09525367B2
A fan motor braking apparatus and a method of controlling the same provide a braking protection before the fan motor revolves. The fan motor braking apparatus includes a conversion circuit, a braking enable circuit, a braking release circuit, and a fan motor startup circuit. The conversion circuit has a plurality of power switch elements electrically connected to the fan motor. The braking enable circuit is connected to the conversion circuit and the braking release circuit is connected to the braking enable circuit. The fan motor startup circuit receives an external DC voltage. The braking enable circuit generates a braking control signal to turn on the power switch elements when the braking enable circuit receives the external DC voltage, thus braking the fan motor.
US09525365B2
A power-generating device includes a vibration plate, a lower electrode on the vibration plate, a piezoelectric layer made of piezoelectric material on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode on the piezoelectric layer, a fixing member for supporting a fixed end of the vibration plate. The vibration plate applies compressive stress to the piezoelectric layer when the vibration plate does not vibrate. The power generating device is excellent in long-term reliability.
US09525361B2
A rectifying circuit includes a first diode coupled between a first terminal configured to receive application of an A.C. voltage and a first terminal configured to deliver a rectified voltage; and an anode-gate thyristor coupled between a second terminal configured to receive application of the A.C. voltage and a second terminal configured to deliver the rectified voltage, wherein an anode of the anode-gate thyristor is connected to the second terminal configured to deliver the rectified voltage.
US09525357B2
Disclosed herein are control and drive circuits and methods for synchronous rectification switching power supply bias voltage generating circuits configured for a switching power supply. In one embodiment, a control and drive circuit can include: (i) a primary side switch controller configured to generate a primary side switch control signal; (ii) a logic circuit configured to generate a first control signal based on the primary side switch control signal; (iii) a converting circuit configured to generate a second control signal based on the first control signal; and (iv) a synchronous rectifier switch controller configured to generate a synchronous rectifier switch control signal based on the second control signal such that phases of the primary side switch control signal and the synchronous rectifier switch control signal are the same or inverse based on a topology of the synchronous rectification switching power supply.
US09525347B2
A voltage converter (200) is disclosed, which comprises a controller (210) operable in: a first mode to control the voltage converter so as to convert an input voltage (Vin) at an input (230) of the voltage converter to an output voltage (Vout) at an output (240) of the voltage converter; and a second mode, in which the controller (210) is configurable by configuration control signals (270) so as to change the control applied by the controller to the voltage converter. The voltage converter (200) also includes a power module (280) arranged to derive and supply an operation voltage (Voperation) to the controller (210), the power module (280) being arranged to derive the operation voltage from the input voltage (Vin) during operation of the controller (210) in the first mode, and a voltage source (340) other than the input voltage (Vin) during operation of the controller (210) in the second mode. There is also described herein a power supply system comprising one or more such voltage converters, and a method of configuring the power supply system.
US09525342B2
A control circuit for controlling a switching circuit is disclosed. The control circuit has a ramp compensation circuit, a ramp regulating circuit and a comparison circuit. The ramp compensation circuit generates a ramp compensation signal with the amplitude proportional to the difference between 1 and the duty cycle of a main switch of the switching circuit. The ramp regulating circuit generates a ramp regulating signal with the amplitude proportional to the duty cycle of the main switch. The comparison circuit compares a reference signal with the sum of the ramp compensation signal, the ramp regulating signal and a feedback signal representative of an output voltage of the switching circuit, so as to provide a comparison result to control the switching circuit.
US09525340B1
A boost capacitor circuit is disclosed which includes a first nMOS transistor and a voltage doubler circuit including: a first pMOS transistor having a drain coupled to a working voltage, a source coupled to a first node and a gate coupled to a second node; a drive inverter having an input terminal for receiving a first signal; a second pMOS transistor having a gate coupled to an output terminal of the drive inverter, a source and a drain coupled to each other and further to the first node; a third pMOS transistor having a gate for receiving the first signal, a source coupled to the first node and a drain coupled to the second node; and a second nMOS transistor having a gate for receiving the first signal, a source coupled to a low voltage and a drain coupled to the second node.
US09525337B2
In one embodiment, a circuit comprises a first load circuit coupled to a first input voltage. A current sinking circuit is coupled to an output of the first load circuit. A second load circuit is coupled to ground. A current sourcing circuit is coupled between a second input voltage and an output of the second load circuit. A charge-recycling circuit is coupled between the output of the first load circuit and the output of the second load circuit to provide current from the current sinking circuit to the output of the current sourcing circuit to reduce current through the current sourcing circuit. The charge-recycling circuit can be a charge pump.
US09525335B2
The present invention relates to a control method for supporting active power factor correction (APFC) loads, comprising: providing square wave width of an output voltage waveform to be a comparatively large value to improve effective value of the output voltage, in order to meet the requirements for active power factor correction (APFC) loads; and gradually decreasing square wave width of the output voltage waveform from the comparatively large value to a comparatively small value to gradually decrease effective value of the output voltage to a desirable stable voltage effective value. The present invention further relates to a control system for supporting active power factor correction (APFC) loads, comprising: a voltage increasing unit for providing square wave width of an output voltage waveform to be a comparatively large value to improve effective value of the output voltage, in order to meet the requirements for active power factor correction (APFC) loads; and a voltage stabilizing unit for adjusting square wave width to a comparatively large value, and gradually decreasing square wave width of the output voltage waveform from the comparatively large value to a comparatively small value to gradually decrease effective value of the output voltage to a desirable stable voltage effective value.
US09525327B2
The current diverter rings and bearing isolators serve to dissipate an electrical charge from a rotating piece of equipment to ground, such as from a motor shaft to a motor housing. One embodiment of the current diverter ring includes an inner body and an outer body configured to clamp at least one conductive segment between them. In the preferred embodiments of the current diverter ring, the conductive segments are positioned in radial channels. The outer body may be affixed to a shaft, a motor housing, a bearing isolator, or other structure. The bearing isolator may incorporate a retention chamber for holding conductive segments within the stator of the bearing isolator, or the bearing isolator may be fashioned with a receptor groove into which a current diverter ring may be mounted.
US09525310B2
Provided are an energy harvesting device capable of generating electric energy by effectively obtaining an electromagnetic wave emitted from an indoor lighting device and a power control system of a lighting device capable of performing self-power generation by using the energy harvesting device as a power source. The energy harvesting device using an electromagnetic wave according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes: an interface unit made of a conductive material and configured to capture a conductive interference signal transferred through a conductive member of a lighting device; and a rectifier circuit unit configured to rectify the captured conductive interference signal to convert the rectified conductive interference signal to direct current power.
US09525308B1
The present disclosure provides an emergency door release operable to release or command-to-close a rolling emergency door from its uppermost, or open, position to its lowermost, or closed, position, in response to an emergency condition even when there is a loss of mains input power, while also avoiding releasing the door solely upon a loss of mains power. The emergency door release comprises an emergency detector for detecting an emergency condition, a microcontroller for closing/releasing the rolling door in response to the emergency condition, a backup power means for providing backup power to the microcontroller during a loss of mains power, and a door retention system for retaining the rolling door when powered, and releasing the door when power is removed from the door retention system.
US09525305B2
An in-vehicle solar system that supplies electric energy from a solar battery module to an electric device such as a secondary battery, a load, and the like includes a capacitor that accumulates electric energy from the solar battery module and supplies the accumulated electric energy to the electric device.
US09525304B2
The present invention is directed to a charging system for charging an electrical device coupled to a photovoltaic electrical power generator and one or more of a microelectromechanical power generator and a thermoelectric power generator. The system includes a source of optical energy and a base portion. The base portion has a surface, and the source is disposed to impinge optical energy toward the surface.One or more of a heat source and an oscillator and is included in the base portion. The oscillator is connected to cause vibration of the surface, and the heat source is in thermal communication with the surface. The electrical device is disposed upon the surface to sense the optical energy and one or more of the vibration and the thermal energy. The charging station can be employed to rapidly charge an electrical device, such as a mobile electric device that facilitates multi-spectrum power generation. Alternatively, a multi-spectrum power generation attachment be included with charging station to facilitate backwards compatibility with existing electrical devices.
US09525301B2
A battery pack system module may include a module bypass switch for allowing charge current to bypass the battery pack system module. The module bypass switch may be activated to divert charging current from the battery pack system module to other battery pack system modules. The charging current may be diverted to bring other battery pack system modules into balance with the battery pack system module. That is, to bring the state of charge of all battery pack system modules into coarse balance. When the module bypass switch is activated, charging current through the module bypass switch may be monitored by a current sensing device such as a current sensing resistor. A microprocessor may receive information about the bypass current level and use the information to determine when to de-activate the module bypass switch. Sensing current through a module bypass switch allows more accurate and quicker inter-module balancing.
US09525299B2
A charging device for a storage battery includes: a charging power source for supplying electric power to a storage battery; a charging electric power detecting device adapted to detect electric power charged to the storage battery; a full charge determining device adapted to make a full charge determination based on a detected value of the charging electric power detecting device; and a charging controlling device adapted to conduct charging control by charging the storage battery until the full charge determination is made, stopping charging when the full charge determination is made, restarting charging after a prescribed time period elapses from the stop of charging, and continuing charging until the full charge determination is made again. The charging device further includes a temperature detecting device adapted to detect a temperature of the storage battery; and a stop time setting device adapted to set a stop time based on at least the temperature of the storage battery at the full charge determination. The stop time setting device sets the stop time to be longer as the detected temperature of the temperature detecting device becomes lower.
US09525296B2
Provided is a battery device with high convenience, which is capable of setting overcurrent release impedance to be low. The battery device includes: a first comparator circuit for detecting an overcurrent based on a first reference voltage; and a second comparator circuit for outputting an overcurrent release voltage control signal based on a second reference voltage that is higher than the first reference voltage.
US09525295B2
In a method for operating an electric device, which includes a first storage battery pack, a second storage battery pack and an electrical load, no more than one storage battery pack is discharged at any given time to operate the load. In the process, the storage battery pack to be discharged is selected as a function of a temperature of the first storage battery pack and a temperature of the second storage battery pack and/or as a function of an internal resistance of the first storage battery pack and an internal resistance of the second storage battery pack.
US09525283B2
In one embodiment, an output overvoltage protection method for a switching power supply, can include: (i) charging a first capacitor by a first current during a first time interval of a switching period of the switching power supply; (ii) charging a second capacitor by a second current during a second time interval of the switching period of the switching power supply; and (iii) generating an overvoltage protection signal by comparing a first voltage across the first capacitor against a second voltage across the second capacitor at the end of the second time interval, where the overvoltage protection signal is active when the first voltage is at least as high as the second voltage.
US09525281B2
A multilayered heat-recoverable article 1 includes a base material layer 10 and an adhesive layer 11 disposed on an inner side of the base material layer 10. The adhesive layer 11 does not flow at a temperature of 135° C. and includes a thermoplastic resin and a viscosity characteristics modifier composed of at least one selected from the group consisting of silica, an organically treated layered silicate, and a deterioration inhibitor. In the case where the multilayered heat-recoverable article 1 is used to cover an insulated electrical wire which includes a conductor and a polyvinyl chloride layer provided on the outer periphery thereof, cracks do not occur in the polyvinyl chloride layer under heating conditions at 135° C. for 200 hours.
US09525279B1
A through wall electrical device including a high voltage electrical box having a rear surface and a low voltage electrical box, an electrical receptacle or an electrical plug having a rear wall and positioned in the high voltage electrical box, and wherein the rear wall extends beyond the rear surface of the high voltage box.
US09525276B2
An enclosure for a power supply is provided. An aspect includes a first compartment and a second compartment located adjacent to the first compartment. Another aspect includes an intermediate pressure relief flap located inside the enclosure in between the first compartment and the second compartment, and a top pressure relief flap located on an external surface of the second compartment. Another aspect includes the intermediate pressure relief flap and the top pressure relief flap configured to be closed in the absence of an arc fault in the enclosure, and the intermediate pressure relief flap and the top pressure relief flap configured to open based on the presence of the arc fault in the enclosure, such that plasma from the arc fault vents from the first compartment into the second compartment via the opened intermediate pressure relief flap and out of the second compartment via the opened top pressure relief flap.
US09525273B1
In one embodiment, an igniter circuit may include a circuit to determine if the current through a load switch exceeds a threshold value, and to responsively disable a second switch that couples DC power to the igniter circuit.
US09525268B2
A quantum cascade laser includes a substrate having a principal surface including first and second regions arranged along a first axis; a laser structure disposed on the principal surface in the second region, the laser structure having an end facet intersecting the first axis, the laser structure including a stripe-shaped stacked semiconductor layer extending along the first axis; and a distributed Bragg reflection structure disposed on the principal surface in the first region, the distributed Bragg reflection structure including a semiconductor wall made of a single semiconductor material, the distributed Bragg reflection structure being optically coupled to the end facet of the laser structure. The semiconductor wall has first and second side surfaces that intersect the first axis and extend along a second axis intersecting the principal surface. The semiconductor wall is located away from the end facet of the laser structure.
US09525265B2
A repetition rate (pulse) multiplier includes one or more beam splitters and prisms forming one or more ring cavities with different optical path lengths that delay parts of the energy of each pulse. A series of input laser pulses circulate in the ring cavities and part of the energy of each pulse leaves the system after traversing the shorter cavity path, while another part of the energy leaves the system after traversing the longer cavity path, and/or a combination of both cavity paths. By proper choice of the ring cavity optical path length, the repetition rate of an output series of laser pulses can be made to be a multiple of the input repetition rate. The relative energies of the output pulses can be controlled by choosing the transmission and reflection coefficients of the beam splitters. Some embodiments generate a time-averaged output beam profile that is substantially flat in one dimension.
US09525262B2
A slab laser and its method of use for high power applications including the manufacture of semiconductors and deposition of diamond and/or diamond-like-carbon layers, among other materials. A lamp driven slab design with a face-to-face beam propagation scheme and an end reflection that redirects the amplified radiation back out the same input surface is utilized. A side-to-side amplifier configuration permitting very high average and peak powers having scalability is also disclosed. Cavity filters adjacent to pump lamps convert the normally unusable UV portion of the pump lamp spectrum into light in the absorption band of the slab laser, thereby increasing the overall pump efficiency. The angle of the end reflecting surface is changed to cause the exit beam to be at a different angle than the inlet beam, thereby eliminating the costly need to separate the beams external to the laser with the subsequent loss of power.
US09525258B2
A brush intended for ensuring electrical contact between a fixed part and a moving part, said brush comprising a layer composed chiefly of carbon, silver, and of another metal different from silver, for example copper.
US09525249B2
An electronic device includes a charge receiving coupler. The charge receiving coupler includes a switching assembly and an inserting member. The switching assembly includes a gear transmission shaft, an elastic member, a first transmission wheel, a second transmission wheel fixed to the first transmission wheel, a button gear, and a button fixed to the button gear. The button gear engages with the first transmission wheel. The gear transmission shaft extends through the elastic member, the first transmission wheel and the second transmission wheel in that order. The inserting member defines a receiving groove, and the second transmission wheel is partly received in the receiving groove. The present disclosure further provides a power adapter which is matched with the charge receiving coupler.
US09525248B2
A power strip includes a power plug, an outlet block electrically connected thereto, and a light control module disposed inside the outlet block. The outlet block has at least one electrical socket and a luminous warning field. The light control module is for emitting a light to the luminous warning field in accordance with an output current of the electrical socket. The light control module defines at least two current ranges according to a rated current, where one of the current ranges is a safety current range, the upper limit of which is greater than 50% of the rated current. The light control module alters the light emitted to the luminous warning field in accordance with the correspondence between the output current and each of the current ranges, so as to make the luminousness of the luminous warning field to change in accordance with the output current.
US09525242B1
Presented herein is a modular connector with electromagnetic interference suppression. The modular connector includes a substrate, at least one set of spring pins, and a ferrite component. Each spring in the at least one set of springs includes a first portion adjacent the substrate and a second portion extending away from the substrate. The ferrite component surrounds the at least one set of spring pins, couples the at least one set of spring pins to the substrate, and is configured to suppress electromagnetic interference.
US09525241B1
An electrical connector includes a middle shielding plate, a lower terminal module, an upper terminal module mounted on a top surface of the middle shielding plate, an insulation module and a shielding shell. The middle shielding plate is mounted on the lower terminal module. The lower terminal module includes a plurality of lower terminals which include two lower ground terminals. A front end of an outer side of each of the lower ground terminals is connected with a lower connecting piece. The upper terminal module includes a plurality of upper terminals which include two upper ground terminals. A front end of an outer side of each of the upper ground terminals is connected with an upper connecting piece. The shielding shell is mounted outside the lower terminal module, the upper terminal module and the insulation module.
US09525236B2
The present invention is to provide a waterproof connector with a gluing plane coated by waterproof glue, which includes an isolation base having a gluing plane formed at a rear end thereof, a plurality of first and second connection terminals each having a rear end exposed out of the gluing plane and an isolation sheet positioned between the first and second connection terminals; a metal casing for allowing the gluing plane to be positioned therein near a back opening thereof while the isolation base is inserted into the metal casing via the back opening; and a waterproof glue layer formed by coating a waterproof glue along where the gluing plane and an inner surface of the metal casing are abutted with each other. Thus, when the waterproof glue is hardened to form the waterproof glue layer, cracks between the metal casing and the isolation base are fully and watertightly filled.
US09525235B2
An electrical connector is disclosed having a housing and a splayed member connected to the housing. The housing has two contact receiving passageways spaced a first distance apart from each other, and two contacts, each of which are positioned in one of the contact receiving passageways. The splayed member has a terminating end distal to the contact receiving passageways, a contacting end proximate to the contact receiving passageways, and two opposite dividing surfaces in contact with the contacts. The two opposite dividing surfaces are spaced apart a second distance at the terminating end and taper down to a smaller third distance in a direction towards the contact receiving passageways.
US09525233B2
Various embodiments may relate to a connecting module for mechanically connecting two light strips each having at least one semiconductor light source and having at least two electrical contacts arranged in a housing, which electrical contacts each have two contact sections for making electrical contact with the light strips. The electrical contacts in each case pass through the housing with a further contact section for connection to a power supply.
US09525229B2
A terminal having a dissimilar material different from a contact base material, the dissimilar material arranged on a surface of a sliding contact portion on which a mating terminal slides includes a groove provided in the sliding contact portion in a direction different from a sliding direction of the mating terminal.
US09525221B2
A connector includes: a press-fit pin wherein the press-fit pin includes a conductive press-fit portion configured to be press-fitted into a through hole formed in a substrate, and a non-conductive guide pin portion extending from a front end portion of the press-fit portion, the guide pin portion being configured to be inserted into the through hole.
US09525220B1
A coaxial connector having an axially moveable shell in opposition to a separate and distinct body component wherein the moveable shell contains a gripping member capable of having the front portion displaced radially inwardly by the body so that the gripping member is positioned within the connector body and between the connector body and the coaxial cable and secures the cable to the connector and environmentally seals the junction while at the same time the shell contains a structure to move a rear portion of the gripping member radially outwardly upon compression. In some embodiments disclosed herein the shell contains a structure to prevent a rear portion of the gripping member from moving radially inwardly upon compression. Other connector shell embodiments may be made from a one-piece stamping instead of a machined component and thereby deliver a manufacturing cost savings.
US09525214B2
A power conversion and distribution system. In one embodiment low voltage source components convert a high voltage AC power source to a relatively low voltage supply and provide a direct current output. First superconductor wires carry current from the low voltage source components to a load, and second superconductor wires carry current from the load to the low voltage source components. Individual ones of the first wires are grouped with individual ones of the second wires so that wires connected to carry current in opposite directions are in such sufficiently close proximity that additives of self-fields generated by individual ones of the wires during power transmission result in reduction of the magnetic fringe field generated, thereby increasing the current carrying capacity of the wires.
US09525210B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a transmission device that includes a transmitter that generates a first electromagnetic wave to convey data. A coupler couples the first electromagnetic wave to a single wire transmission medium having an outer surface, to forming a second electromagnetic wave that is guided to propagate along the outer surface of the single wire transmission medium via at least one guided wave mode that includes an asymmetric or non-fundamental mode having a lower cutoff frequency. A carrier frequency of the second electromagnetic wave is selected to be within a limited range of the lower cutoff frequency, so that a majority of the electric field is concentrated within a distance from the outer surface that is less than half the largest cross sectional dimension of the single wire transmission medium, and/or to reduce propagation loss. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09525206B2
A DBF antenna unit including one or more transmitting antennas and a plurality of receiving antennas arranged at a predetermined interval in a horizontal scanning direction. Each of the transmitting antennas and the receiving antennas includes a waveguide provided with a corner bend and a horn expanding in a pyramid-like shape from one end of the waveguide. The other ends of the waveguides of all the transmitting antennas and the receiving antennas are placed on the same plane.
US09525202B2
A dual-dipole, multi-band conformal antenna for facilitating optimized wireless communications of a utility meter. The antenna includes an antenna backing, the backing adapted to conform to an inside surface of a utility meter and an antenna trace affixed to the antenna backing. The antenna trace is made of a conductive material and includes a symmetric low-band portion and an asymmetric high-band portion.
US09525195B2
A remanufactured battery module includes a power assembly having a stack of battery cell assemblies. Each battery cell assembly includes a plurality of layers including a battery cell and a frame supporting the battery cell within the power assembly. The plurality of layers of at least one battery cell assembly includes an internal heat fin having first and second side portions extending beyond respective side edges of the battery cell and the frame. The remanufactured battery module also includes a side assembly in physical contact with the first side portion of the internal heat fin to enable the side assembly to act as a heat sink with respect to the first side portion of the internal heat fin. A layer of the plurality of layers of at least one battery cell assembly is new, and at least a portion of the side assembly is used.
US09525176B2
A carbothermic reduction method is provided for reducing a La-, Ce-, MM-, and/or Y-containing oxide in the presence of carbon and a source of a reactant element comprising Si, Ge, Sn, Pb, As, Sb, Bi, and/or P to form an intermediate alloy material including a majority of La, Ce, MM, and/or Y and a minor amount of the reactant element. The intermediate material is useful as a master alloy for in making negative electrode materials for a metal hydride battery, as hydrogen storage alloys, as master alloy additive for addition to a melt of commercial Mg and Al alloys, steels, cast irons, and superalloys; or in reducing Sm2O3 to Sm metal for use in Sm—Co permanent magnets.
US09525175B2
Disclosed is a negative electrode for a secondary lithium battery and a secondary lithium battery including the same, wherein the negative electrode includes a current collector and a negative active material layer formed on the current collector, and the negative active material layer includes an additive including a core including a metal oxide and a metal coating layer formed on the core, and a negative active material.
US09525174B2
A lithium ion battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolyte sandwiched between the cathode and the anode. The cathode includes a cathode active material. The anode is spaced from the cathode. The cathode active material includes a sulfur grafted poly(pyridinopyridine). The sulfur grafted poly(pyridinopyridine) includes a poly(pyridinopyridine) matrix and sulfur dispersed in the poly(pyridinopyridine) matrix. The sulfur includes a number of poly-sulfur groups or a number of elemental sulfur particles dispersed in the poly(pyridinopyridine) matrix. The electrolyte is a gel electrolyte.
US09525162B2
A secondary battery, including an electrode assembly; a cap plate that seals the electrode assembly; an electrode pin electrically connected to the electrode assembly and on the cap plate with an insulating gasket therebetween; and a first lead tab coupled to the electrode pin, a relative ratio W2/W1 of a width W2 of the insulating gasket to a width W1 of the first lead tab satisfying 1.0
US09525150B2
Optoelectronic devices containing functional elements made from layers liberated from natural and/or fabricated inherently lamellar semiconductor donors. In one embodiment, a donor is provided, a layer is detached from the donor, and the layer is incorporated into an optoelectronic device as a functional element thereof. The thickness of the detached layer is tuned as needed to suit the functionality of the functional element. Examples of functional elements that can be made using detached layers include p-n junctions, Schotkey junctions, PIN junctions, and confinement layers, among others. Examples of optoelectronic devices that can incorporate detached layers include LEDs, laser diodes, MOSFET transistors, and MISFET transistors, among others.
US09525148B2
A device including an emissive material comprising quantum dots is disclosed. In one embodiment, the device includes a first electrode and a second electrode, a layer comprising quantum dots disposed between the first electrode and the second electrodes, and a first interfacial layer disposed at the interface between a surface of the layer comprising quantum dots and a first layer in the device. In certain embodiments, a second interfacial layer is optionally further disposed on the surface of the layer comprising quantum dots opposite to the first interfacial layer. In certain embodiments, a device comprises a light-emitting device. Other light emitting devices and methods are disclosed.
US09525136B1
Ultraviolet (UV), Terahertz (THZ) and Infrared (IR) radiation detecting and sensing systems using graphene nanoribbons and methods to making the same. In an illustrative embodiment, the detector includes a substrate, single or multiple layers of graphene nanoribbons, and first and second conducting interconnects each in electrical communication with the graphene layers. Graphene layers are tuned to increase the temperature coefficient of resistance to increase sensitivity to IR radiation. Absorption over a wide wavelength range of 200 nm to 1 mm are possible based on the two alternative devices structures described within. These two device types are a microbolometer based graphene film where the TCR of the layer is enhanced with selected functionalization molecules. The second device structure consists of a graphene nanoribbon layers with a source and drain metal interconnect and a deposited metal of SiO2 gate which modulates the current flow across the phototransistor detector.
US09525129B2
A semiconductor process integrates three bridge circuits, each include magnetoresistive sensors coupled as a Wheatstone bridge on a single chip to sense a magnetic field in three orthogonal directions. The process includes various deposition and etch steps forming the magnetoresistive sensors and a plurality of flux guides on one of the three bridge circuits for transferring a “Z” axis magnetic field onto sensors orientated in the XY plane.
US09525126B1
A magnetic tunnel junction cell includes a first electrode having an axis extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to an active surface of a substrate. The magnetic tunnel junction further includes a fixed layer, a U-shaped free layer, a tunnel layer sandwiched between the fixed layer and the U-shaped free layer and a second electrode embedded in the U-shaped free layer. The fixed layer, the tunnel layer and the U-shaped free layer are disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and constitute a magnetic tunnel junction. The tunnel layer may also be U-shaped.
US09525109B2
Disclosed are a light emitting device, a method of manufacturing a light emitting device, a light emitting device package and a lighting system. The light emitting device includes a substrate; a first conductive semiconductor layer on the substrate; an active layer on the first conductive semiconductor layer; a second conductive semiconductor layer on the active layer; a contact layer on the second conductive semiconductor layer; an insulating layer on the contact layer; a first branch electrode electrically connected to the first conductive semiconductor layer; a plurality of first via electrodes connected to the first branch electrode and electrically connected to the first conductive semiconductor layer by passing through the insulating layer; a first pad electrode electrically connected to the first branch electrode; a second pad electrode contacts the contact layer by passing through the insulating layer; a second branch electrode connected to the second pad electrode and disposed on the insulating layer; and a plurality of second via electrodes provided through the insulating layer to electrically connect the second branch electrode to the contact layer.
US09525108B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor device includes a conductive layer; a plurality of electrical connectors extending into the conductive layer; a semiconductor system, formed on the conductive layer, electrically connected to the plurality of electrical connectors and having a side surface; an insulation material directly covering the side surface; and an electrode arranged at a position not corresponding to the plurality of electrical connectors.
US09525106B2
A semiconductor light emitting device includes: an n-type semiconductor layer and a p-type semiconductor layer; an active layer disposed between the n-type semiconductor layer and the p-type semiconductor layer; and an electron blocking layer disposed between the active layer and the p-type semiconductor layer and doped with a p-type dopant element. The electron blocking layer is formed of AlxGa1-xN, where 0
US09525104B2
This application discloses a light-emitting diode comprising a first semiconductor layer, an active layer on the first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer on the active layer, and a semiconductor contact layer on the second semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer comprises a first sub-layer and a second sub-layer formed above the first sub-layer, wherein the material of the second sub-layer comprises AlxGa1-xN (0
US09525103B2
The sapphire substrate has a principal surface for growing a nitride semiconductor to form a nitride semiconductor light emitting device and comprising a plurality of projections of the principal surface, wherein an outer periphery of a bottom surface of each of the projections has at least one depression. This depression is in the horizontal direction. The plurality of projections are arranged so that a straight line passes through the inside of at least any one of projections when the straight line is drawn at any position in any direction in a plane including the bottom surfaces of the plurality of projections.
US09525087B2
A light receiving device includes a mesa structure including a light absorption layer disposed on a semiconductor region; a passivation film disposed on a side surface of the mesa structure, the passivation film containing oxygen; and a nitriding layer disposed between the side surface of the mesa structure and the passivation film. The light absorption layer includes a super-lattice structure including first semiconductor layers and second semiconductor layers that are alternately stacked. The first semiconductor layer is made of a III-V group compound semiconductor. The second semiconductor layer is made of a III-V group compound semiconductor that is different from the III-V group compound semiconductor of the first semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer contains antimony as a group V constituent element. In addition, the nitriding layer is made of a nitride containing a group III constituent element of the first semiconductor layer and/or the second semiconductor layer.
US09525085B2
A bismuth ferrite thin-film solar cell and a method of manufacturing the same control the quantity of Fe2+ defected in the bismuth ferrite thin-film by doping with zinc. Reduction of the quantity of Fe2+ defects in the bismuth ferrite thin-film is conducive to the increase of closed-circuit current density and enhancement of photoelectric conversion efficiency.
US09525082B2
Solar cell contact structures formed from metal paste and methods of forming solar cell contact structures from metal paste are described. In a first example, a solar cell includes a substrate. A semiconductor region is disposed in or above the substrate. A contact structure is disposed on the semiconductor region and includes a conductive layer in contact with the semiconductor region. The conductive layer includes a matrix binder having aluminum/silicon (Al/Si) particles and an inert filler material dispersed therein. In a second example, a solar cell includes a substrate. A semiconductor region is disposed in or above the substrate. A contact structure is disposed on the semiconductor region and includes a conductive layer in contact with the semiconductor region. The conductive layer includes an agent for increasing a hydrophobic characteristic of the conductive layer.
US09525078B2
A device includes a field effect transistor (FET) integrated with at least a portion of a bipolar junction transistor (BJT), in which a back gate of the FET shares an electrical connection with a base of the BJT, and in which a reverse voltage can be applied to the back gate of the FET.
US09525072B2
A semiconductor device and method of formation are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first active area over the substrate, a second active area over the substrate, a graphene channel between the first active area and the second active area, and a first in-plane gate. In some embodiments, the graphene channel, the first in-plane gate, the first active area, and the second active area include graphene. A method of forming the first in-plane gate, the first active area, the second active area, and the graphene channel from a single layer of graphene is also provided.
US09525066B2
Provided is a technique for promoting miniaturization of a MISFET. A p-type well region is disposed between LDDs (n-type low-concentration regions) of a MISFET (Qn) to cause both the well region and the low-concentration region to partially overlap each other, whereby an overlap region formed of an n-type semiconductor region having a higher resistance than that of the n-type low-concentration region is provided between the p-type well region and each of the n-type low-concentration regions. In this way, the overlap region can relieve an electric field concentration at the end of the n-type low-concentration region, thereby suppressing the occurrence of hot carriers without elongating an offset length of the LDD, which can promote the miniaturization of the MISFET (Qn), particularly, that operates at high voltage.
US09525057B2
A source region of a MOSFET includes: a source contact region connected to a source pad; a source extension region adjacent to a channel region in a well region; and a source resistance control region arranged between the source extension region and the source contact region. The source resistance control region is different in an impurity concentration from the source extension region and the source contact region. These three regions are connected in series between the source pad and the channel region in the well region.
US09525056B2
A vertical microelectronic component includes a semiconductor substrate having a front side and a back side, and a multiplicity of fins formed on the front side. Each fin has a side wall and an upper side and is separated from other fins by trenches. Each fin includes a GaN/AlGaN heterolayer region formed on the side wall and including a channel region extending essentially parallel to the side wall. Each fin includes a gate terminal region arranged above the GaN/AlGaN heterolayer region and electrically insulated from the channel region in the associated trench on the side wall. A common source terminal region arranged above the fins is connected to a first end of the channel region in a vicinity of the upper sides. A common drain terminal region arranged above the back side is connected to a second end of the channel region in a vicinity of the front side.
US09525052B2
In an exemplary implementation, a III-nitride semiconductor device includes a III-nitride heterojunction including a first III-nitride body situated over a second III-nitride body to form a two-dimensional electron gas. The III-nitride semiconductor device further includes a gate well formed in a dielectric body, the dielectric body situated over the III-nitride heterojunction. The III-nitride semiconductor device also includes a gate arrangement situated in the gate well and including a gate electrode and a field plate. The field plate includes at least two steps, the at least two steps being defined in the dielectric body.
US09525046B2
A gate electrode and method for manufacturing the same includes an amorphous gate metal layer. The amorphous gate metal layer includes an amorphous metal alloy material layer having at least two metallic elements of an amorphous material or an amorphous metal compound material layer having at least one metallic element and at least one non-metallic element selected from the IIIA group, the IVA group, and the VA group of the Periodic Table. The atoms are arranged evenly in the amorphous gate metal layer, there is no noticeable grains and grain boundaries, so that no defects will be generated through a carrier recombination, and the carrier mobility is increased and the carrier can be uniformly distributed.
US09525043B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a trench in a semiconductor body. The method further includes doping a part of the semiconductor body via sidewalls of the trench by plasma doping.
US09525037B2
A trench gate metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor includes a substrate and a gate. The substrate has a trench. The trench is extended downwardly from a surface of the substrate. The gate includes an insertion portion and a symmetrical protrusion portion. The insertion portion is embedded in the trench. The symmetrical protrusion portion is symmetrically protruded over the surface of the substrate.
US09525029B2
An insulated gate bipolar transistor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a drift region of an insulated gate bipolar transistor structure. Further, the insulated gate bipolar transistor device includes a first nanowire structure and a first gate structure. The first nanowire structure of the insulated gate bipolar transistor structure is connected to the drift region, and the first gate structure of the insulated gate bipolar transistor structure extends along at least a part of the first nanowire structure.
US09525027B2
A lateral bipolar junction transistor is fabricated using a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate. The transistor includes a germanium gradient within a doped silicon base region, there being an increasing germanium content in the direction of the collector region of the transistor. The use of a substrate including parallel silicon fins to fabricate lateral bipolar junction transistors facilitates the inclusion of both CMOS FinFET devices and lateral bipolar junction transistors having graded silicon germanium base regions on the same chip.
US09525026B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device may include: etching a recess in a semiconductor substrate, where the etching produces a metal residue over a surface of the recess. The recess may thereafter be exposed to a cleaning process that causes the metal residue to etch at least one fissure in the semiconductor substrate. The at least one fissure may extend from the surface of the recess into the semiconductor substrate. The method may further include epitaxially forming a liner comprising a first semiconductor material having a first dopant concentration within the recess and over the at least one fissure. The method proceeds with epitaxially forming a semiconductor layer comprising a second semiconductor material having a second dopant concentration over the liner.
US09525022B2
Various embodiments provide an MIM capacitor and fabrication method thereof. An exemplary MIM capacitor can include a dielectric layer disposed over a substrate containing a conductive layer. The dielectric layer can include a groove to expose the conductive layer in the substrate. A first metal layer can be disposed on a bottom surface and a bottom portion of a sidewall surface of the groove. A top surface of the first metal layer on the sidewall surface of the groove can be lower than a top surface of the dielectric layer. A dielectric material layer can be disposed on the first metal layer and on a top portion of the sidewall surface of the groove. A second metal layer can be disposed on the dielectric material layer; and a third metal layer can be disposed on the second metal layer to fill the groove.
US09525014B2
An organic light emitting display device includes a first substrate having a plurality of organic light emitting structures thereon, a second substrate facing the first substrate to encapsulate the organic light emitting structures, an aperture under a lower surface of the first substrate, and an aperture controller under the lower surface of the first substrate. The organic light emitting structures define a pixel area. The second substrate has a light absorption area. The aperture corresponds to the light absorption area. The aperture controller is adjacent to the aperture.
US09525008B2
Resistive random-access memory (RRAM) devices and methods of manufacturing thereof are disclosed. A device comprises a first transparent conducting oxide (TCO) layer and a second TCO layer over the first TCO layer. The device further comprises a first dielectric layer between the first TCO layer and the second TCO layer, a second dielectric layer between the second TCO layer and the first dielectric layer, and a metal layer between the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer.
US09524997B1
A semiconductor device includes a thermal conductor formed on and thermally connected to the seal ring. The thermal conductor is spatially spaced from the electrically conductive pad. The thermal conductor is exposed of the substrate and can be regarded as an extension of the thermal path of the seal ring, such that the heat from the seal ring is dissipated efficiently.
US09524986B2
The present invention relates generally to semiconductor devices and more particularly, to a structure and method of forming a high-mobility fin field effect transistor (finFET) fin in a silicon semiconductor on insulator (SOI) substrate by trapping crystalline lattice dislocations that occur during epitaxial growth in a recess formed in a semiconductor layer. The crystalline lattice dislocations may remain trapped below a thin isolation layer, thereby reducing device thickness and the need for high-aspect ratio etching and fin formation.
US09524985B2
The invention relates to a Radio Frequency System and method. A Radio Frequency (RF) system comprising a RF switch comprising a plurality of transistor switching elements implemented on Silicon on Insulator (SOI) for switching at least one or more RF signals and said SOI comprises a bulk substrate region and a buried oxide region. At least one filter is adapted to isolate the RF signal from the substrate and/or other high frequency signals or control signals present in the RF system. There is also provided a coupling capacitor adapted to cooperate with the filter to improve linearity of the transistor switch elements.
US09524970B2
Asymmetric, semiconductor memory cells, arrays, devices and methods are described. Among these, an asymmetric, bi-stable semiconductor memory cell is described that includes: a floating body region configured to be charged to a level indicative of a state of the memory cell; a first region in electrical contact with the floating body region; a second region in electrical contact with the floating body region and spaced apart from the first region; and a gate positioned between the first and second regions, such that the first region is on a first side of the memory cell relative to the gate and the second region is on a second side of the memory cell relative to the gate; wherein performance characteristics of the first side are different from performance characteristics of the second side.
US09524969B1
A method includes forming a set of fins composed of a first semiconductor material. The method further heats the set of fins to condense the fins and cause growth of a layer of oxide on vertical sidewalls thereof, masking a first sub-set of the fins, forming a plurality of voids in the oxide by removing a second sub-set of fins, where each void has a three-dimensional shape and dimensions that correspond to a three dimensional shape and dimensions of a corresponding removed fin from the second sub-set, and epitaxially growing in the voids a third sub-set of fins. The third sub-set of fins is composed of a second semiconductor material that differs from the first semiconductor material. Each fin of the third subset has a three dimensional shape and dimensions of a corresponding removed fin from the second sub-set. At least one structure formed by the method is also disclosed.
US09524968B1
A fabrication method of semiconductor device having metal gate includes providing a substrate, successively forming a gate insulating layer and a bottom barrier layer on the surface of the substrate, forming a work function layer covering the bottom barrier layer, removing the work function layer, and forming a top barrier layer on the bottom barrier layer to be directly contact with the bottom barrier layer, and forming a metal layer on the top bottom barrier layer.
US09524948B2
A package structure, comprising: a substrate, having at least one conductive units provided at a first surface of the substrate; at least one first die, provided on a second surface of the substrate; a connecting layer; a second die, provided on the connecting layer, wherein the connecting layer comprises at least one bump for connecting the first die to the second die such that the first die and the second die are electrically connected; and at least one bonding wire, for electrically connecting the first die to the conductive units or the substrate.
US09524945B2
An L-shaped sidewall protection process is used for Cu pillar bump technology. The L-shaped sidewall protection structure is formed of at least one of non-metal material layers, for example a dielectric material layer, a polymer material layer or combinations thereof.
US09524932B2
Semiconductor chips are described that combine a semiconductor device and a capacitor onto a single substrate such that the semiconductor device and the capacitor are electrically isolated from each other. In one example, a semiconductor chip includes a substrate having a first side and a second side, wherein the second side is opposite the first side. The semiconductor chip further includes a semiconductor device formed on the first side of the substrate and an electrically insulating layer formed on at least a portion of the second side of the substrate. The semiconductor chip further includes a capacitor device formed on at least a portion of the electrically insulating layer on the second side of the substrate, wherein the capacitor device is electrically insulated from the semiconductor device.
US09524930B2
A modularized interposer includes a plurality of interposer units that are assembled to provide a complete set of electrical connections between two semiconductor chips. At least some of the plurality of interposer units can be replaced with other interposer units having an alternate configuration to enable selection of different functional parts of semiconductor chips to be connected through the modularized interposer. Bonding structures, connected to conductive metal pads located at peripheries of neighboring interposer units and an overlying or underlying portion of a semiconductor chip, can provide electrical connections between the neighboring interposer units. The interposer units can be provided by forming through-substrate vias (TSV's) in a substrate, forming patterned conductive structures on the substrate, and cutting the substrate into interposers.
US09524927B1
Structures, architectures, systems, an integrated circuit, methods and software for configuring an integrated circuit for multiple packaging types and/or selecting a packaging type for an integrated circuit. A structure generally includes a bump pad having a plurality of electrically disconnected bump pad sections, a plurality of bond pads each configured for electrical connection to one of the bump pad sections, and a plurality of conductive traces, each adapted to electrically connect one of the bond pads to the one bump pad section. A method generally includes the steps of forming the bump pad, the bond pads, and the conductive traces from an uppermost metal layer, and forming an insulation layer thereover. Another method generally includes forming the uppermost metal layer, and forming either a wire bond to at least one of the bond pads, or a ball bond or solder ball to electrically connect the bump pad section.
US09524923B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor structure comprises a substrate, a through silicon via hole, an interlayer dielectric, a liner layer and a conductor. The through silicon via hole is formed in the substrate. The interlayer dielectric is formed on the substrate. The interlayer dielectric defines an opening corresponding to the through silicon via hole. The interlayer dielectric comprises a bird beak portion near the through silicon via hole. The liner layer is formed on a bottom and a sidewall of the through silicon via hole. The conductor is filled in the through silicon via hole and the opening.
US09524912B2
A CMOS inverter is provided. The CMOS inverter includes a substrate. The CMOS inverter also includes an NMOS transistor having a first active region, a first isolation structure surrounding the first active region, a first connect structure, a plurality of the first metal interconnect structure and a first shunted gate structure to reduce a delay time and increase a saturation current. Further, the CMOS inverter includes a PMOS transistor having a second active region with a reduced area to reduce the delay time and increase the saturation current, a second isolation structure surrounding the second active region, a second connect structure, a plurality of metal interconnect structure and a second gate structure connecting with the first gate structure through the first connect structure and/or the second connect structure.
US09524910B2
A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same. An example method may include: forming a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer sequentially on a substrate; patterning the second and first semiconductor layers to form an initial fin; forming an isolation layer on the substrate, wherein the isolation layer exposes partially the first semiconductor layer, and thus defines a fin above the isolation layer; and forming a gate stack intersecting the fin on the isolation layer, wherein the first semiconductor layer comprises a compound semiconductor, with at least one component whose concentration has a graded distribution in a stack direction of the first and second semiconductor layers.
US09524909B2
A fin structure cutting process includes the following steps. Four fin structures are formed in a substrate, where the four fin structures including a first fin structure, a second fin structure, a third fin structure and a fourth fin structure are arranged sequentially and parallel to each other. A first fin structure cutting process is performed to remove top parts of the second fin structure and the third fin structure, thereby a first bump being formed from the second fin structure, and a second bump being formed from the third fin structure. A second fin structure cutting process is performed to remove the second bump and the fourth fin structure completely, but to preserve the first bump beside the first fin structure. Moreover, the present invention provides a fin structure formed by said process.
US09524876B2
Disclosed is a plasma etching method including a deposition process and an etching process. For a processing target object including a base layer and a photoresist having a predetermined pattern which are laminated in sequence, the deposition process deposits a protective layer including silicon and carbon on the photoresist of the processing target object by plasma of a first processing gas including silicon tetrachloride gas, methane gas, and hydrogen gas. The etching process etches the base layer by plasma of a second processing gas using the photoresist including the protective layer deposited thereon, as a mask. The second processing gas is different from the first processing gas.
US09524875B2
A method of etching trenches into silicon of a semiconductor substrate includes forming a mask over silicon of a semiconductor substrate, with the mask comprising trenches formed there-through. Plasma etching is conducted to form trenches into the silicon of the semiconductor substrate using the mask. In one embodiment, the plasma etching includes forming an etching plasma using precursor gases which include SF6, an oxygen-containing compound, and a nitrogen-containing compound. In one embodiment, the plasma etching includes an etching plasma which includes a sulfur-containing component, an oxygen-containing component, and NFx.
US09524872B1
A heterogeneous integrated circuit and method of making the same. An integrated circuit includes a surrogate substrate including a material selected from the group consisting of Group II, Group III, Group IV, Group V, and Group VI materials and their combinations; at least one active semiconductor device including a material combination selected from the group consisting of Group IV-IV, Group III-V and Group II-VI materials; and at least one transferred semiconductor device including a material combination selected from the group consisting of Group IV-IV, Group III-V and Group II-VI materials. The at least one active semiconductor device and the at least one transferred device are interconnected.
US09524869B2
A nitride-based semiconductor light-emitting device includes a light-emitting stack comprising a first semiconductor structure having a first conductivity, a second semiconductor structure having a second conductivity, and an active region interposed the first semiconductor structure and the second semiconductor structure; a semiconductor buffer structure formed under the first semiconductor structure; and an un-doped AlGaN layer formed between the first semiconductor structure and the semiconductor buffer structure.
US09524859B2
Apparatus and methods for creating a pulsed ion beam. The pulsed ion beam can be used for performing mass spectrometry. A pulsed solenoid valve can provide a pulsed ion beam from an electrospray in a pre-vacuum chamber. The pulsed ion beam can enter a high vacuum region and a mass analyzer for mass spectrometry.
US09524856B2
A sample chamber is configured to accommodate a target such that a portion of the target is removable as a sample. A carrier gas injection system is configured to introduce a carrier gas into the sample region from a first position and a second position within the sample chamber such that at least a portion of the sample is entrainable by the carrier gas within the sample region. A portion of the sample region is located between the first position and the second position. A sample transport conduit is configured to transport at least a portion of the sample entrained by the carrier gas to a location outside the sample chamber.
US09524853B2
The present invention relates to an ion implantation machine 100 that comprises: an enclosure 101 that is connected to a pump device 102; a plasma source 115-121-122; a bias power supply 113; a gas inlet 117 leading into the enclosure; and a substrate-carrier 104 connected to the negative pole of the bias power supply and arranged inside the enclosure. The machine is remarkable in that: the substrate-carrier 104 consists in at least two parallel plates 105-106; a reference electrode consists in at least one strip 110, this reference electrode being connected to the positive pole of the bias power supply; and the strip is interposed between the two plates.
US09524852B2
A method for monitoring ion implantation, comprising: a), providing a control piece and forming a mask layer; b), performing ion implantation process to implant a predetermined dose of impurity ions into the control piece, an area on the control piece uncovered by the mask layer being an impurity implantation area and an area on the control piece covered by the mask layer being an impurity non-implantation area; c), peeling off the mask layer from the control piece; d), performing oxidation treatment on the control piece; and e), respectively measuring thicknesses of the oxide layers on the impurity implantation area and the impurity non-implantation area of the control piece, and monitoring the impurity dose of the ion implantation on the basis of a ratio of the thickness of the oxide layer in the impurity implantation area to the thickness of the oxide layer in the impurity non-implantation area. By this method, it is possible to accurately monitor whether or not the dose of the implanted ions meets the predetermined requirement, and it is possible to effectively avoid the defects of incorrect monitor result caused by the variation of the intrinsic resistance of the semiconductor, improve the accuracy of the monitoring, and thus improve the performance and yield rate of the device.
US09524845B2
An x-ray tube cathode with magnetic electron beam steering. In one example embodiment, an x-ray tube cathode includes a cathode head and an electron emitter. The cathode head includes electrically conductive and non-magnetic material integrated with magnetic material. The cathode head defines an emitter slot in a portion of electrically conductive and non-magnetic material positioned between two portions of magnetic material. The electron emitter is positioned within the emitter slot. The electron emitter is configured to emit a beam of electrons. The beam of electrons is configured to be both focused by the electrically conductive and non-magnetic material and steered during beam formation by the magnetic material.
US09524844B2
A fuse arrangement, including: at least a first terminal, a second terminal, and a fuse, wherein the first terminal and the second terminal may be electrically connected via the fuse, and wherein the fuse may be configured to be under fuse internal mechanical stress to deform the fuse along its width direction in case it is broken.
US09524841B2
A temperature sensing system comprises a conductive tube, a shape memory alloy (SMA) element, and a detector. The SMA element is disposed to create an electrical contact with the electrical tube when subjected to at least a critical temperature, and the detector is configured to identify an alarm condition when the conductive tube and the SMA element form a closed electrical circuit.
US09524833B2
An action output device for a micro breaker, connecting with more than one micro breaker, includes: a shell, the shell comprises: a motor, which is for outputting a torque; an action unit, which is for achieving switching the micro breaker on and off, comprising a rotating part, a poking part, and a linking piece, wherein, the torque outputted by the motor is got by the rotating part; the linking piece is drove to swing by the poking part; the linking piece is connected with an action mechanism of the micro breaker for driving to switch on and off; and a control unit, which controls the motor turning on and off.
US09524823B2
A coil unit configured to transmit or receive electric power by electromagnetic induction in a noncontact manner, including: a coil into or from both terminals of which a high-frequency voltage is input or output; a metal conductor placed near the coil; and a first capacitor and a second capacitor connected to the terminals of the coil, wherein the ratio of the capacitance between the first capacitor and the second capacitor is set to a value at which a current induced into the metal conductor due to capacitance coupling when a high-frequency voltage is input into or output from the coil is reduced.
US09524818B2
An electromagnetic lifting armature actuator, in particular for valves, comprises an armature rod which can be shifted in the direction of its longitudinal axis, and a magnetic yoke comprising a first yoke leg and a second yoke leg which is coaxial to the armature rod. A first magnet coil encloses the first yoke leg and a second magnet coil encloses both the second yoke leg and the armature rod. One of the magnet coils is a working and measuring coil which can be selectively used for enhancing the magnetic force or for determining a position of the movable armature rod.
US09524816B2
A process of fabricating a monolithic working component for magnetic heat exchange is disclosed. The process includes mixing two or more portions comprising amounts of La, Fe, Si and at least one of T and R suitable to produce a La1-aRa(Fe1-x-yTySix)13Hz phase, wherein T is at least one element from the group consisting of Mn, Co, Ni and Cr and R is at least one element from the group consisting of Ce, Nd, Y and Pr. The amount of T, R, and Si is selected for each of the two or more portions to provide the two or more portions with differing Curie temperatures and, preferably, a density, d, within a range of ±5% of an average density, dav, of a total number of portions. The process includes heat treating a single monolithic green body formed from two or more precursor powder mixtures to produce a single monolithic working component.
US09524813B2
Discloses herein is a patterned transparent conductive electrode, comprises a substrate and a substantial single conductive layer on top of the substrate. The single conductive layer comprises a first region comprising a network of silver nanowires and means for protecting the nanowire from surface oxidation; and a second region, comprising a plurality of metal nanowires and means for protecting nanowire from surface oxidation, and metal oxide nanowires.
US09524811B2
A wire harness which can absorb a position shift or a dimensional tolerance related to mounting or the like sufficiently is provided. A wire harness (21) includes a harness body (22), a motor side connector (23) provided at one end of the harness body (22), and an inverter side connector (24) provided at the other end of the harness body (22). The harness body (22) includes high voltage conduction paths (25), and an electromagnetic shielding member (26) which collectively covers the high voltage conduction paths (25). The high voltage conduction path (25) includes a conductor body (27), connecting parts (28, 29) and a mold part (30). The conductor body (27) is provided with a tolerance absorbing part (31).
US09524807B2
A polyamide composition contains the following components: (a) at least 40 parts by weight PA12; (b) 0.1-15 parts by weight of at least one salt with a non-metallic cation; (c) 0.1-25% by weight of at least one dispersant based on esters or amides; (d) a quantity of carbon nanotubes that produces in the molding compound a specific surface resistance according to IEC standard 60167 of maximum 10−1-1010Ω; (e) 0-5 parts by weight of at least one metal salt; and optionally (f) conventional auxiliary substances and additives, the sum of the parts by weight of components (a) to (f) amounting to 100. The polyamide composition can be used for manufacturing moldings with improved electrical conductivity and improved surface quality.
US09524798B2
A circuit includes: a first circuit stage configured to sample a differential input signal at a first logic state of a sampling clock and regenerate the sampled differential input signal at a second logic state of the sampling clock to output a first regenerated differential signal; a second circuit stage configured to amplify the first regenerated differential signal at the second logic state of the sampling clock to output an amplified differential signal; and a third circuit stage configured to regenerate the amplified differential signal at the first logic state of the sampling clock to output a second regenerated differential signal.
US09524795B2
A one-time programmable (OTP) memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of OTP memory cells, the plurality of OTP memory cells being connected to a plurality of bitlines, a plurality of voltage wordlines and a plurality of read wordlines, respectively; and a switching circuit configured to, in a program mode, detect program states of the plurality of OTP memory cells to block currents from flowing through the plurality of OTP memory cells from the voltage wordlines to the bitlines based on the detected program states.
US09524794B1
A device includes a non-volatile memory and a controller coupled to the non-volatile memory. The controller is configured to determine a first shaping level corresponding to applying a first shaping operation to data to be stored to the non-volatile memory. The controller is further configured to, in response to the first shaping level exceeding a threshold, perform a second shaping operation to generate shaped data that corresponds to the data, the shaped data having a second shaping level that is less than the threshold.
US09524790B1
A method for wear reduction of a flash memory module, the method may include reading data stored in a group of flash memory cells to provide a read data; wherein the reading comprise supplying a bias voltage that is lower than a write bias voltage; wherein the write bias voltage was supplied to the group of flash memory cells during a writing of the data to the group of flash memory cells; and decoding the read data, by applying a decoding process of a given complexity, to provide decoded data.
US09524784B1
The present invention provides methods and associated devices for controlling the voltage threshold distribution corresponding to performing a function on cells of non-volatile memory device. In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method may comprise providing the non-volatile memory device. The device comprises one or more strings, each string comprising a plurality of cells, the plurality of cells comprising a first cell and a second cell. The method further comprises performing a function of the non-volatile memory device by applying a first function voltage to the first cell and a second function voltage to the second cell. The first function voltage and the second function voltage are different.
US09524772B2
A memory device includes a first memory cell array including memory cells of a single-ended bitline structure, a second memory cell array including memory cells of a single-ended bitline structure, a reference voltage generator configured to output a bitline voltage of a selected one of the first and second memory cell arrays as a sensing voltage according to an array select signal and output a bitline voltage of an unselected memory cell array as a reference voltage, and a differential sense amplifier configured to amplify and output a difference between the sensing voltage and the reference voltage. Logic states of the sensing voltage and the reference voltage are complementary to each other.
US09524767B2
A method includes receiving a data bit value at a buffer in a bitcell based on a first state of a write bitline connected to the buffer, and transferring the data bit value from the buffer to a first magnetic switching cell in the bitcell for a later read operation at least by holding the write bitline to a reference value different from the first state, and asserting first and second predetermined voltage levels on respective first and second write wordlines connected to the buffer.
US09524762B1
A semiconductor device may include a boot-up operation circuit configured for executing a boot-up operation during a boot-up operation period after a power supply voltage signal reaches a predetermined level. The boot-up operation circuit may be configured for generating a boot-up period signal. The boot-up period signal may be enabled during the boot-up operation period. The semiconductor device may include a sensing circuit configured for sensing the boot-up period signal and a clock enablement signal to generate a first detection signal and a second detection signal. The semiconductor device may include an initialization circuit configured for executing an initialization operation in response to the first and second detection signals. Related semiconductor systems may also be provided.
US09524759B2
Apparatuses and methods for capturing data using a divided clock are described. An example apparatus includes a clock divider configured to receive a DQS signal, and to provide divided clock signals. A divided clock signal of the divided clock signals has a frequency that is less than a frequency of the DQS signal. The example apparatus further includes a command circuit configured to receive a command, and to assert one of a plurality of flag signals based on the divided clock signals and on a defined latency from a time of receipt of the command. The example apparatus further includes a data capture circuit configured serially receive data associated with the command and to provide deserialized data responsive to the divided clock signals. The data capture circuit is further configured to sort the deserialized data based on the asserted one of the plurality of flag signals to provide sorted data.
US09524757B2
A data storage device that includes a nonvolatile memory device, a controller suitable for controlling the nonvolatile memory device and for reading and writing data to the nonvolatile memory device, and a power management unit suitable for supplying power to the nonvolatile memory device. The controller may control the power management unit to adjust the power supplied to the nonvolatile memory device.
US09524753B2
Some embodiments provide a method for a media editing application that creates a composite presentation from several different media clips. The method provides a set of editing tools for editing the composite presentation. The method provides a voice-over tool for receiving text for a voice-over that includes a transcript for a voice-over audio clip to be recorded by the media editing application as a clip of the composite presentation. The method provides a display area for scrolling the text when recording the voice-over audio clip. The display area in some embodiments is a preview display area that scrolls the text while displaying a preview of the composite presentation when recording the voice-over audio clip.
US09524746B2
A server device (100a) includes a first generation unit (102a) generating binding information binding a user with content, a second acquisition unit (103a) acquiring a usage rule, a second generation unit (104a) generating a converted title key from a title key by using the binding information and the usage rule, and an output unit (105a) outputting content encrypted using the title key, the converted title key and the usage rule to the storage medium (600a). A playback device (700a) includes a generation unit (704a) performing the reverse of the conversion on the converted title key of the storage medium (600a) to generate a decrypted title key, by using the binding information received from the server device (100a) and the usage rule of the storage medium (600a), and a decryption unit (705a) decrypting the encrypted content of the storage medium (600a) by using the title key.
US09524745B2
A device including a first axial portion, a second axial portion, and a radial portion is disclosed. A portion of the second axial portion is configured to connect to a hub. An upper surface of the second axial portion may be positioned above an upper surface of a sleeve limiter shoulder when the portion of the second axial portion is connected to the hub. The radial portion connects the first axial portion to the second axial portion. The radial portion is configured to increase stiffness by increasing surface contact between the radial portion and the sleeve limiter shoulder.
US09524734B2
A simulation method and system. A computing system receives a first audio and/or video data stream. The first audio and/or video data stream includes data associated with a first person. The computing system monitors the first audio and/or video data stream. The computing system identifies emotional attributes comprised by the first audio and/or video data stream. The computing system generates a second audio and/or video data stream associated with the first audio and/or video data stream. The second audio and/or video data stream includes the data without the emotional attributes. The computing system stores the second audio and/or video data stream.
US09524732B2
The communication support device includes: a storing unit configured to store an utterance of a first speaker transmitted from a first terminal as utterance information; an analyzing unit configured to obtain a holding notice which sets communications with the first terminal to a holding state, the communications being transmitted from a second terminal used by a second speaker who communicates with the first speaker, and to analyze features of utterance information which correspond to a time of a holding state; and an instructing unit configured to output to the second terminal determination information on the first speaker based on the features of the utterance information of the first speaker.
US09524724B2
Noise filling in perceptual transform audio codecs is improved by performing the noise filling with a spectrally global tilt, rather than in a spectrally flat manner.
US09524720B2
Systems and methods of performing blind bandwidth extension are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes determining, based on a set of low-band parameters of an audio signal, a first set of high-band parameters and a second set of high-band parameters. The method further includes generating a predicted set of high-band parameters based on a weighted combination of the first set of high-band parameters and the second set of high-band parameters.
US09524718B2
The speech recognition result through the general-purpose server and that through the specialized speech recognition server are integrated in an optimum manner, thereby, a speech recognition function least in errors in the end being provided. The specialized speech recognition server 108 is constructed with the words contained in the user dictionary data in use as well as the performance of the general-purpose speech recognition server 106 is preliminarily evaluated with such user dictionary data. Based on such evaluation result, information related to which recognition results through the specialized and general-purpose speech recognition servers are adopted and to how the adopted recognition results are weighted to obtain an optimum recognition result is preliminarily retained in the form of a database. Upon executing recognition, an optimum recognition result is obtained by comparing the recognition results through the specialized and general-purpose servers with the parameter for recognition result integration 118.
US09524716B2
Some embodiments relate to using an unnormalized neural network language model in connection with a speech processing application. The techniques include obtaining a language segment sequence comprising one or more language segments in a vocabulary; accessing an unnormalized neural network language model having a normalizer node and an output layer comprising a plurality of output nodes, each of the plurality of output nodes associated with a respective language segment in the vocabulary; and determining, using the unnormalized neural network language model, a first likelihood that a first language segment in the vocabulary follows the language segment sequence.
US09524712B2
Adaptive filtering is described for use with amplifiers for any wired speaker. In one example, an apparatus includes an audio cable to provide an analog audio signal to an audio transducer, such as a speaker, the audio cable also receiving a modulated noise current, an output amplifier to receive an audio input, to generate an audio output by amplifying the audio input, and to provide the audio input to the audio cable, and a feedback system to receive the audio output and to receive a reference signal and to generate a noise cancellation signal to the output amplifier, the noise cancellation signal to cancel the modulated noise current.
US09524710B2
A bifilar pickup for an electrical stringed musical instrument is provided. The bifilar pickup comprises a dual coil wherein at least one coil is formed with two closely spaced bifilar parallel wound wires. A guitar in combination with the pickup unit is additionally provided.
US09524705B2
An instrument support for a wind musical instrument includes a bracket configured to be attached to the wind musical instrument, a base section configured to rest on a trunk of a user, and one or more support members spanning a distance between the bracket and the base section. The instrument support further includes a first adjustment mechanism that can be used to adjustably and selectively fix a position of the one or more support members with respect to the bracket and a second adjustment mechanism that can be used to adjustably and selectively fix the distance between the bracket and the base section.
US09524696B2
An image projection device includes: a drive control unit that generates colors sequentially; a setting unit that sets a color of an illumination image; an image capturing control unit that receives, from the drive control unit, a synchronization signal that specifies a timing at which light of a color closest to the set color of the illumination image is not projected and causes an image of a projection surface to be captured in accordance with the timing that is specified by the synchronization signal; an illumination image detection unit that detects, from captured image data, an illumination image that is produced by illuminating the projection surface by an illuminating device; and an illumination image generation unit that generates projection image data obtained by combining given image data at a position at which the illumination image is detected.
US09524693B2
A display device and a method for driving the same are discussed. The display device includes a display panel including data lines, gate lines crossing the data lines, and pixels, and source driver integrated circuits (ICs) which are connected to a timing controller through data line pairs, recover control information of a control data packet input from the timing controller, and supply a data voltage to the data lines. The timing controller sets the number of control data packets transmitted in a horizontal blank period to be less than the number of control data packets transmitted in a period except the horizontal blank period. The source driver ICs read the number of control data packets based on start information transmitted prior to the control data packet.
US09524688B2
The present invention provides a self-compensating gate driving circuit, comprising: a plurality of GOA units which are cascade connected, and a Nth GOA unit controls charge to a Nth horizontal scanning line G(n) in a display area, and the Nth GOA unit controls charge to a Nth horizontal scanning line G(n) in a display area, and the Nth GOA unit comprises a pull-up controlling part, a pull-up part, a transmission part, a first pull-down part, a bootstrap capacitor part and a pull-down holding part; the pull-up part, the first pull-down part, the bootstrap capacitor part and the pull-down holding circuit are respectively coupled to a Nth gate signal point Q(N) and the Nth horizontal scanning line G(n), and the pull-up controlling part and the transmission part are respectively coupled to the Nth gate signal point Q(N), and the pull-down holding part is inputted with a DC low voltage VSS; the pull-down holding part comprises a first pull-down holding part and a second pull-down holding part to alternately work. The present invention is designed to have the pull-down holding part with self-compensating function to promote the reliability of the long term operation for the gate driving circuit. The influence of the threshold voltage drift to the operation of the gate driving circuit is diminished.
US09524686B2
The present disclosure provides a shift register unit, a gate electrode drive circuit and a display apparatus, which relates to a technical field of display. The shift register unit includes an input reset module, a pull up module, a control module and a pull down module. By inputting a high level into the second signal input end of the input reset module in the touch scan to maintain the level at the pull up control node, the electrical leak effects at the pull up control node may be avoided efficiently. In this way, the defects of insufficient charging rate of the row pixels may be avoided and the dark lines or bad bright lines may be suppressed.
US09524680B2
An information handling system is disclosed and includes a display, a lamp back lighting the display, and a lamp control system coupled to the lamp. The lamp control system is configured to boost a maximum luminance of the lamp as the lamp ages.
US09524678B2
An organic light emitting diode display device includes: an organic light emitting diode; a driving transistor having a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode, the first electrode coupled to the variable driving voltage source and controlling the operation of the organic light emitting diode depending on a voltage difference between the third electrode and the second electrode; a first current source for supplying a first current to the third electrode and the second electrode of the driving transistor through a data line; a second current source for supplying a second current to the third electrode and the second electrode of the driving transistor through the data line; and a digital-to-analog converter for detecting the level of a sensing current flowing between the first and second electrodes of the driving transistor through the data line.
US09524675B2
The present disclosure presents a shift register and a gate driver circuit comprising a signal input unit, a reset control unit, a light emitting signal output control unit, and a scanning signal output control unit. At a charging phase, the signal input unit controls the light emitting signal output control unit to conductively connect the first reference signal terminal to the light emitting signal output terminal, and controls the scanning signal output control unit to conductively connect the second clock signal terminal to the scanning signal output terminal. At a scanning signal output phase, the scanning signal output terminal outputs a scanning signal. At a light emitting signal output phase, the light emitting signal output terminal outputs a light emitting signal. The above shift register provided according to an embodiment of the present disclosure integrates the function of outputting scanning signals and the function of outputting light emitting signals.
US09524673B2
Provided is a display device including a pixel array unit that is made by arranging a drive transistor to drive a light emitting unit, a sampling transistor to sample a signal voltage, and a pixel circuit having a storage capacitor to store the signal voltage which is written by sampling with the sampling transistor, and a drive unit that makes a gate node and a source node of the drive transistor be in a floating state up to performing writing of the signal voltage with the sampling transistor, after writing an initialization voltage in the gate node when the source node of the drive transistor is in a non-floating state.
US09524670B2
A display apparatus includes: pixels at a display area; dummy pixels at a dummy area; and repair lines coupled to the dummy pixels and connectably arranged to the pixels, each of the dummy pixels including: a driving transistor configured to output a driving current corresponding to a data signal applied to a gate electrode thereof; an emission control transistor between a connection node of a corresponding repair line of the repair lines and the driving transistor, configured to be controlled by an emission control signal; a bypass transistor between the connection node and a first initialization voltage line through which a first initialization voltage is supplied, configured to be controlled by an initialization control signal; and a coupling removal transistor between the connection node and the first initialization voltage line, configured to be controlled by a coupling control signal applied at a different timing from the initialization control signal.
US09524655B1
An interactive Braille display apparatus which includes a frame; 3-sided rotating members installed within the frame such that only one side of the 3-sided rotating members is displayed at a time. Each 3-sided rotating member includes a flat side; a first raised portion side having a first raised portion; a second raised portion side having a second raised portion connected to an input device to receive an input from a user, the second raised portion having a height greater than the height of the first raised portion. The apparatus further includes a microprocessor electrically connected to each clickable switch of each second raised portion, the microprocessor detecting when the clickable switch of at least one second raised portion has been depressed by the user and outputting that the clickable switch of the at least one second raised portion has been depressed.
US09524643B2
The present invention provides an Advanced Driver Assistant System (ADAS) 10 and an operating method thereof, which work on long time scales, and guide an ego vehicle 20 away from upcoming risks, rather than only reacting to risks to mitigate the consequences of a crash. To this end, information comprising the orientation of other traffic participants 30, 40, 50, 60, a free driving area of the ego vehicle 20, and/or a driving trajectory of the vehicle 20 as intended by the driver is taken into account, in order to determine potential risks.
US09524638B2
A method and apparatus for performing a function in a mobile device are disclosed. A media sound from a sound output device external to the mobile device is captured and a sound feature is extracted from the captured media sound. A function to be performed in the mobile device is determined by identifying at least one reference sound feature in a set of reference sound features based on the extracted sound feature, each reference sound feature in the set of reference sound features being associated with at least one of a plurality of media sounds and at least one of a plurality of functions. Further, the determined function is performed in the mobile device.
US09524637B1
A remote control apparatus is usable to remotely control another device and includes a base unit that is electrically connected with the device and further includes a remote control unit that is remote from the device and that is usable to control the device. The remote control unit includes an emergency stop switch that simultaneously actuates two switches that are electrically independent of one another. A primary control apparatus monitors one of the switches, and a secondary control apparatus monitors the other switch. If either switch is moved from its CLOSED state to its OPEN state, the corresponding control apparatus will take emergency actions. The primary and secondary control apparatuses additionally monitor the switches and perform the aforementioned emergency actions in the event of a fault with one of the switches or on the associated wiring.
US09524635B2
Embodiments provided herein relate to controlling a household via one or more household policies. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving, at a processor, a household policy for a household, the household policy related to attaining an end goal; determining, via interpretation of the household policy by the processor, an end goal state of the household policy; incrementally modifying a control trigger threshold of a conditionally controlled smart device over time until the end goal state is reached; wherein the control trigger threshold indicates when the conditionally controlled smart device should be controlled to implement a particular function.
US09524633B2
A remote control device having capacitive touch controls may be configured to enter a sleep state (or mode). For example, the remote control device may be configured to enter the sleep state upon expiration of an interval of time since a most recent button press. The remote control may be configured to awaken from the sleep state when one or more portions of a housing of the remote control are deflected, for example, when a user grasps the remote control to actuate one or more of the capacitive touch controls. For example, the remote control device may include a switch. The switch may include a carbon structure that may be configured to contact an open circuit pad on a circuit board to close the corresponding circuit when the housing is deflected and awaken the remote control device from the sleep state.
US09524631B1
A method 400 and apparatus for setting a notification readout mode based on proximity detection includes an electronic computing device configured to determine 402 that a notification readout function is enabled on the electronic computing device. The electronic computing device is further configured to determine 404 a proximity status for the electronic computing device using at least one sensor of the electronic computing device and to set 410, based on the determined proximity status, a notification readout mode for the electronic computing device.
US09524630B2
An apparatus for monitoring air flow in a vent pipe of a radon mitigation system includes a base connectable to the vent pipe. The base houses a circuit that is actuatable to indicate the condition of the radon mitigation system. An air flow switch actuates the circuit, the air flow switch includes a vane that is supported by the base and extends into the interior of the vent pipe through an opening in a wall of the vent pipe. The vane includes a wing having portions that are deflectable to permit installation of the wing through an opening in the vent pipe. The deflectable portions return under their own resilience to their non-deflected conditions once they pass through the opening in the vent pipe.
US09524628B1
In a general aspect, motion is detected based on wireless signals. In some aspects, a modulation type of a first signal is identified at a motion detector device. The first signal is based on a wireless signal transmitted through a space by a transmitter device and received by the motion detector device. A demodulator at the motion detector device generates a second signal from the first signal by demodulating the first signal according to the identified modulation type. A modulator at the motion detector device generates a third signal from the second signal by modulating the second signal according to the identified modulation type. A channel response is generated based on the first signal and the third signal. The channel response is used to detect motion of an object in the space.
US09524625B1
Apparatus, systems, and methods for providing transmission and localized reception of audio, visual, and tactile signaling are taught for a myriad of useful purposes, including embodiments that permit differentiation between selected groups of intended recipients to permit simultaneous use of multiple instances of this technology in close proximity, if desired.
US09524619B2
Systems and methods enable one or more players to play a wagering game. A game system includes a game server configured to connect to at least one gaming device over a network. The game server includes a processor configured to provide at least one wagering game to a player using the gaming device. Each wagering game is played by a plurality of players at a virtual table who are dealt a plurality of cards to form a hand, and the hand satisfying a winning criterion is determined to be a winning hand. The game system also includes at least one non-relational database configured to be connected to the game server. The database is configured to store a state of the hands of each table as a plurality of document-oriented datasets.
US09524616B2
A gaming system having a plurality of game devices, a game controller, a shared experience controller and a method for operation thereof is disclosed. Each game device allows a player to make a wager on a game and awards the respective player an award as a function as a result of a winning condition for the game played by the respective player. The game controller is coupled to the game devices for playing the game, randomly establishing the actual outcome of the game, and determining if any of the players have a winning condition. The shared experience controller is coupled to the game devices for recognizing a bonus condition for one of the players, responsively providing a choice of items to one or more other players, and providing a bonus award to the one player and/or any of the other players in response to selection of on of the items.
US09524615B2
A gaming system and method which displays a plurality of symbol displays having symbol sets distributed about circumferential paths thereof. The gaming system enables the player to select one or more directions of spin or circumferential paths for the symbol displays, and then spins the symbol displays in the selected direction(s) or along the selected circumferential paths. After the gaming system stops the spinning, each symbol display displays at least one randomly generated symbol of the symbol set extending along the circumferential path of that symbol display which corresponds to the direction of spin of that symbol display. The gaming system evaluates the displayed symbols for any winning combinations. The gaming system provides the player any awards associated with the displayed winning combinations.
US09524609B2
A gaming system which facilitates the two-way communication between mobile devices, such as mobile phones, and different gaming system components to enhance a player's gaming experience.
US09524607B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to systems and methods, which allow a player, the gaming device, and/or the gaming system to rearrange the symbols on the reels to represent winning payline patterns.
US09524600B2
Disclosed herein is an electronic luggage locking device and airline baggage handling method mainly characterized by ease-of-use, enhanced security and efficiency by utilizing proximity access-gaining and authentication technologies, a plurality of sensors, embedded electronic storage and retrieval of luggage information. The luggage locking device is incorporated with an electronic communication system enables interactions with other sensor modules within the luggage, external smart devices and airline transport systems to form an unitary baggage handling system. The baggage handling system contents a method using application software and capable of indicating and communicating the said luggage information and locational identification within an airline transport systems.
US09524597B2
A system for vehicle to another party communications that includes a vehicle personality module adapted to create a vehicle personality and a communications system that utilizes the created vehicle personality for one or more communications instead of a user's profile. The one or more communications are associated with one or more of an identifier and an icon representing the vehicle personality, with this identifier and/or icon sent with at least one communication and displayable to the recipient of the communication.
US09524591B2
The system is intended to block the tool operation for an operator holding a badge the authorized working time of which is over. The system comprises: the operator badge, comprising a storage memory for the working time carried out by the operator and a communication unit; the tool, comprising an accelerometric sensor and a housing for control and vibratory traceability comprising a communication module, arranged to exchange data with the operator badge and means for blocking the tool operation. For the vibratory charge traceability of the tool, in the tool, the accelerations experienced by the tool while operating and its corresponding working times, forming traceability data, are measured; the traceability data in the tool are saved; the traceability data are transmitted to an operator personal badge.
US09524577B1
The invention provides, in some aspects, a system for implementing a rule derived basis to display image sets. In various embodiments of the invention, the selection of the images to be displayed, the layout of the images, as well as the rendering parameters and styles can be determined using a rule derived basis. In an embodiment of the present invention, the user is presented with images displayed based on their preferences without having to first manually adjust parameters.
US09524575B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can capture media content including an original set of frames. A plurality of subsets of frames can be identified, based on a subset selection input, out of the original set of frames. An orientation-based image stabilization process can be applied to each subset in the plurality of subsets of frames to produce a plurality of stabilized subsets of frames. Multiple frames within each stabilized subset in the plurality of stabilized subsets of frames can be combined to produce a plurality of combined frames. Each stabilized subset of frames can be utilized to produce a respective combined frame in the plurality of combined frames. A time-lapse media content item can be provided based on the plurality of combined frames.
US09524574B2
A projector includes a coordinate acquiring unit configured to acquire a coordinate of a position pointed by a pointer, a sub-processor configured to render an image on the basis of the coordinate, and a main processor configured to output image data of the image rendered by the sub-processor. The projector performs, according to a predetermined condition, using the main processor, rendering in the same manner as the sub-processor on the basis of the acquired input coordinate, superimposes the rendered image on the rendered image output by the sub-processor to generate a superimposed image, and outputs the superimposed image.
US09524567B1
Methods and systems for iterative computed tomography add an auxiliary variable to the reconstruction process, while retaining all variables in the original formulation, A weighting operator or filter can be applied that causes the Hessian with respect to an image of the cost function to be well-conditioned. An auxiliary sinogram variable distinct from both a set of actual image measurements and from the set of projections computed based on an image can be applied to iteratively update during the statistical iterative image reconstruction, with applied conditions that causes the Hessian with respect to an image of the cost function to be well-conditioned.
US09524558B2
A method is provided, suitable for use in extraction of foreground objects from image stream. The method comprises: providing input image data of a region of interest, providing background model of said region of interest, and utilizing said background model for processing each image of the input image data. The processing comprises: determining a background gradient map for pixels in said background model and an image gradient map for pixels in the image; defining a predetermined number of one or more segments in said image and corresponding one or more segments in the background model; determining, for each image segment, an edge density factor is a first relation between the image and background gradient maps for said segment; and calculating foreground detection threshold based on said certain relation, thereby enabling use of said foreground detection threshold for classifying each pixel in the segment as being a foreground or background pixel.
US09524557B2
A vehicle detecting system and method are provided. The method includes creating, by a controller, a disparity map using images photographed by a stereoscopic imaging device and detecting a road area on the disparity map. In addition, the controller is configured to detect a vehicle present in the road area in a shape of a stereoscopic object.
US09524552B2
A method for preparing an image simulating the anatomy of a small subject test animal, and an apparatus for producing said image and an anatomical atlas for co-registering therewith, comprising the generation of two or more non-tomographic images of the test animals is described. Examples of the non-tomographic imaging modalities and the images generated include, but are not limited to one or more x-ray sources and resultant of x-ray projections, photographic cameras and resulting digital or optical images and surface scanners and resultant surface scans. The subject animal is positioned at a focal point in a carrier in an imaging enclosure. A combination of one or more of the non-tomographic images taken from different angles within the enclosure are combined and through an iterative process co-registered with the previously generated digital atlas of the anatomy of the same or similar test animals.
US09524550B2
A method and system for extracting coronary vessels fluoroscopic image sequences using coronary digital subtraction angiography (DSA) are disclosed. A set of mask images of a coronary region is received, and a sequence of contrast images for the coronary region is received. For each contrast image, a motion estimate is calculated between each of the mask images and a background region of the contrast image and a covariance is calculated for each motion estimate. Multiple background layer predictions are generated by generating a background layer prediction for each mask image based on the calculated motion estimate and covariance. The multiple background layer estimates are combined using statistical fusion to generate a final estimated background layer. The final estimated background layer is subtracted from the contrast image to extract a coronary vessel layer for the contrast image.
US09524549B2
A method of analyzing a spinal region of a subject. The method includes steps of obtaining a first sagittal image of the spinal region of the subject using an upright magnetic resonance imaging unit; identifying a first vertebral edge on a first side of a first disc in the first sagittal image; identifying a second vertebral edge on a second side of the first disc in the first sagittal image; and determining a first angle between the first vertebral edge and the second vertebral edge for the first disc.
US09524546B2
A reference density profile is generated in an outer circumference direction of a pipe having a reference welded portion on the basis of a reference fluoroscopic image generated from a radiation detection medium when a radiation source is disposed on a central axis of the pipe. A weld inspection density profile is generated in an outer circumference direction of a pipe having an inspection target welded portion on the basis of a weld inspection fluoroscopic image. On the basis of the reference density profile and the weld inspection density profile, density correction information is calculated. The density correction information is for correcting density irregularities in the weld inspection fluoroscopic image in the outer circumference direction of the pipe. On the basis of the density correction information, the density irregularities in the weld inspection fluoroscopic image are corrected.
US09524543B2
Systems and methods for identifying defective individual packaged modules are presented. A Printed Circuit Board (PCB) having a set of individual module substrates can be received. Further, capturing an image of the PCB and loading a PCB recipe associated with the PCB can be performed. The image of the PCB can be captured by an image capture module that can include one or more cameras. For each individual module substrate, a portion of the image corresponding to the individual module substrate can be compared to the PCB recipe. In addition, it can be determined based on the comparison whether the individual module substrate matches the PCB recipe within a degree of tolerance. In response to determining that the individual module substrate does not match the PCB recipe within the degree of tolerance, a location of the individual module substrate within a map of the PCB can be stored.
US09524538B2
A first interpolation processor of an image processing apparatus performs a first interpolation process, using values of a plurality of input pixels of an input image aligned in an arranged direction that is one of a horizontal direction and a vertical direction. Thus, the first interpolation processor derives a value of each of a plurality of noted points on an inclined interpolation line inclined relative to the horizontal direction and extending through a location of a processed pixel of an output image. Moreover, second interpolation processor derives a value of the processed pixel by performing a second interpolation process, using the derived values of the plurality of noted points on the inclined interpolation line.
US09524531B2
An extensibility model is used to provide active and interactive functionality in communication items, but the embodiments are not so limited. A computer system of an embodiment includes components configured to identify one or more activation triggers that operate to activate gadget code using an isolated code execution environment as part of injecting content into an email communication. A method of one embodiment provides an extensibility framework for using defined gadget triggers and associated gadget functionality as part of automatically injecting content inline with a mail message.
US09524521B2
A method and a system are disclosed for generating a recommendation of a retail location on a network-based system. For example, a system may obtain a retail location definition associated with a geographic location. The geographic location may represent the retail location. The system then builds a scan event model from product scan messages received from a plurality of scanning devices located within the geographic location. The scan event model may include one or more scan events each being associated with a product definition and the retail location definition. Next, a recommendation query from the search device is received by the system. The recommendation query may include a product identifier and a query location. The system may generate a recommendation of the retail location based on determining that the product identifier and the query location match the one or more scan events of the scan event model.
US09524507B2
There are provided systems and methods for communication device input interfaces for use in determining a true cost of an item with associated purchases. A user may utilize a communication device, such as a mobile phone or wearable computing device, to input information identifying an item. The input may be an image, audio, or text input. The input may be communicated to a server that determines associated purchases required or recommended with the item identified by the user. For example, the user may be recommended to purchase additional items for the installation of the item or for repairs to a home, work, or vehicle when using the item. The user may also be required to purchase shipping, labor, or other additional costs. The additional purchases may be determined from user and merchant information. A total cost for the item and the additional purchases may be determined for the user.
US09524500B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for sending transfer requests, receiving approvals, and carrying out transfers in a digital wallet application. A mobile payment engine receives a request from a client application associated with a first digital card to apply assets from at least one additional digital card to the first digital card, receives receiving approval to transfer assets from the at least one additional digital card to the first digital card, and transfers the assets to the first digital card. Transfers can be made between digital cards in the same client's digital wallet application and transfers can be made between multiple client device accounts.
US09524494B2
Methods, systems, and graphical user interfaces are provided for navigating a calendar application executing on a computer system. Aspects of scrolling by day and scrolling by week are combined into a hybrid approach that includes advantages of both. For example, the week can be displayed with the current day first (e.g. in the left most column), thereby providing a more relevant view to a user. Then, when a user selects to move forward or backward, the next or previous full week (i.e. starting with a designated day, such as Sunday or Monday) can be displayed. And, when a user forward through the current day (or other selected day), the week view can stop with the selected day displayed first, to give a user a view of the next set of days following the selected day.
US09524481B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to a system for analyzing performance in an online professional network. During operation, the system receives time series data for user actions, wherein for each user action, the time series data comprises a series of numbers associated with consecutive time intervals, wherein a given number indicates a number of times the user action occurred during the time interval. The system also receives time series data for performance metrics, wherein for each performance metric, the time series data comprises a series of numbers associated with consecutive time intervals, wherein a given number indicates the number of times the performance metric occurred during the time interval. The system then performs a time series analysis on the received time series data for user actions and performance metrics to determine relationships between the user actions and the performance metrics.
US09524477B2
Methods and arrangements are provided for utilizing a secondary application to render invitational content. Primary content rendered by a web browser can be embedded with a command requesting that a secondary application be executed. The secondary application can be executed in a secured sand box environment and configured to render invitational content in a second window above the primary content. The secondary application can be known and trusted by the operating system to gather sensitive data used to select appropriate invitational content. Further, data can be included in the command requesting that the secondary application be executed. The invitational content can be associated with secondary views that can be rendered without affecting the primary content. The secondary application can collect data to render the secondary view, such as the exact point selected, which is used to render graphical transition effects leading to the secondary view.
US09524475B1
The described herein related to a method executable by a processor of a computing environment, where the processor is communicatively coupled to a database of the computing environment. The method includes identifying a feature set from a plurality of incident tickets available on the database and selecting a first subset of the feature set as a learning set. The method further includes generating information from the learning set, where the information indicates unique changes to the computing environment corresponding to a failure. The method further includes selecting a second subset of the feature set as a classification set, validating the information via the classification set to determine whether the learning set is rendering correct values; and sourcing the failure using the validated information based on determining that the learning set is rendering correct values.
US09524467B2
A method for configuring a device for detecting a situation from a set of situations where a physical system comprises the following steps: reception of a learning sequence corresponding to a given situation of the physical system; determination of parameters of a hidden-state Markov statistical model recorded in the detection device and relating to the given situation, on the basis of a prior initialization of these parameters. The prior initialization comprises the following steps: determination of a plurality of probability distributions from the learning sequence; distribution of the probability distributions between the various hidden states of the statistical model in question by global optimization of a function of adaptation of these probability distributions to the various hidden states and to impossible transition constraints; and initialization of the parameters of the statistical model in question using given representative probability distributions for each hidden state of the statistical model in question.
US09524454B2
A product surface including a first optoelectronically readable code formed by an arrangement of planar cells of a first and a second cell type. The code has a large detectable region and the readability thereof is robust in relation to demands during the production and/or the use of the surface. The cells, as integral components of the surface, have a surface profile. An intensity difference ΔI=I2−I1 in the intensity I2 reflected by the surface profile of the second cell type and intensity I1 reflected by the surface profile of the first cell type results in the case of light incidence as a result of the configuration of the surface profiles. The surface has a second code. The maximum of the absolute intensity difference |ΔI1| of the first code lies in a different reflection direction than the maximum of the absolute intensity difference |ΔI2| of the second code.
US09524452B2
An image processing apparatus performs a density adjustment process for generating an image containing a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image for warning against the use of copy products. To help users to easily adjust the density of a latent image portion and a background portion in the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image, the image processing apparatus determines a density relationship of the latent image portion and the background portion by performing a plurality of adjustment operations, in combination, different in the amount of adjustment relating to the range of variable density in at least one of the latent image portion and the background portion, and sets, based on the density relationship, the density data of each of the latent image portion and the background portion in the data of the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image.
US09524436B2
A system and method executable by a computing device of an augmented reality system for registering a camera in a physical space is provided. The method may include identifying an origin marker in a series of images of a physical space captured by a camera of an augmented reality system, and defining a marker graph having an origin marker node. The method may further include analyzing in real-time the series of images to identify a plurality of expansion markers with locations defined relative to previously imaged markers, and defining corresponding expansion marker nodes in the marker graph. The method may further include calculating a current position of the camera of the augmented reality system in the physical space based on a location of a node in the marker graph corresponding to a most recently imaged marker, relative to the origin marker and any intermediate markers.
US09524434B2
A computer-implemented method of tracking a target object in an object recognition system includes acquiring a plurality of images with a camera. The method further includes simultaneously tracking the target object and dynamically building environment map data from the plurality of images. The tracking of the target object includes attempting to estimate a target pose of the target object with respect to the camera based on at least one of the plurality of images and based on target map data. Next, the method determines whether the tracking of the target object with respect to the camera is successful. If not, then the method includes inferring the target pose with respect to the camera based on the dynamically built environment map data. In one aspect the method includes fusing the inferred target pose with the actual target pose even if tracking is successful to improve robustness.
US09524424B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for deriving a relationship between minimum ground clearance (MGC) and inertial sensor data. A regression model may be generated by collecting tri-axial angular velocity and acceleration data from inertial sensors and MGC data from optical motion capture systems during a walking trial. A linear, quadratic, interaction, stepwise interaction, or another regression model may be generated. The regression model may estimate the MGC as a function of one or more parameters measured by or derived from the inertial sensor data. The regression model may be used to calculate an estimate of the MGC based on inertial sensor data collected from one or more individuals.
US09524421B2
Facial recognition can be used to determine whether or not a user has access privileges to a device such as a smartphone. It may be possible to spoof an authenticated user's image using a picture of the user. Implementations disclosed herein utilize time of flight and/or reflectivity measurements of an authenticated user to compare to such values obtained for an image of an object. If the time of flight distance and/or reflectivity distance for the object match a measured distance, then the person (i.e., object) may be granted access to the device.
US09524418B2
A system for detecting, identifying and tracking objects of interest over time is configured to derive object identification data from images captured from one or more image capture devices. In some embodiments of the system, the one or more image capture devices perform a first object detection and identification analysis on images captured by the one or more image capture devices. The system may then transmit the captured images to a server that performs a second object detection and identification analysis on the captures images. In various embodiments, the second analysis is more detailed than the first analysis. The system may also be configured to compile data from the one or more image capture devices and server into a timeline of object of interest detection and identification data over time.
US09524411B2
A data capture terminal for, and a method of, processing a plurality of data and a symbol arranged at spaced-apart locations on a target, such as a parcel delivery label, employ a solid-state imager having an array of image sensors for capturing return light from the data and the symbol on the target over a field of view, an actuator for actuating the imager to capture the return light from the data and the symbol on the target in a single actuation, and a controller operatively connected to the actuator and the imager, for processing the return light captured by the imager from the plurality of data and the symbol. The terminal is customized by a user program that advises the controller of user-selected parameters and conditions under which the processing of the return light is to be performed.
US09524393B2
A system for analyzing and modifying passwords in a manner that provides a user with a strong and usable/memorable password. The user would propose a password that has relevance and can be remembered. The invention would evaluate the password to ascertain its strength. The evaluation is based on a probabilistic password cracking system that is trained on sets of revealed passwords and that can generate password guesses in highest probability order. If the user's proposed password is strong enough, the proposed password is accepted. If the user's proposed password is not strong enough, the system will reject it. If the proposed password is rejected, the system modifies the password and suggests one or more stronger passwords. The modified passwords would have limited modifications to the proposed password. Thus, the user has a tested strong and memorable password.
US09524388B2
A system and method including defining at least one device authentication policy; at a policy engine, initializing authentication policy processing for an authenticator device; collecting device status assessment; evaluating policy compliance of the device status assessment to an associated defined device authentication policy; and enforcing use of the authenticator device according to the policy compliance.
US09524387B2
When user information to be registered for SNMP authentication is input, an information processing apparatus confirms whether or not user information for MFP authentication is already managed for a user to be registered who is indicated by the input user information. In the case where the user information for MFP authentication is not managed for the user to be registered, the information processing apparatus registers the input user information as user information for SNMP authentication. In the case where the user information for MFP authentication is managed for the user, the information processing apparatus registers information specific to SNMP authentication, i.e. information other than an authentication password, out of the input user information.
US09524382B2
Methods and systems for centralizedly controlling server user rights are provided herein. In an exemplary method, a first verification server can receive an instruction sent by a control server. The instruction can include a user-right-processing instruction or a user-right-adding instruction. The first verification server can process stored information of user rights in response to the user-right-processing instruction sent by the control server to generate processed information of the user rights, or the first verification server can store newly added information of the user rights in response to the user-right-adding instruction sent by the control server. The first verification server can then synchronize the processed information of the user rights or the newly added information of the user rights with a second verification server. The second verification server can be in a communication connection with the first verification server.
US09524380B2
The examples provided herein relate to digital rights management keys that allow for the presentation of content on output devices of a content presentation device. The examples describe subscriber-specific digital rights management keys that are provided to a subscriber by a mobile network operator instead of a device manufacturer. The digital rights management keys are associated with the subscriber account maintained by the mobile network operator. As a result, the mobile network operator provides the capability to transfer the digital rights management keys between multiple devices because the digital rights management keys are subscriber-specific instead of device-specific.
US09524375B2
A computer network system and method for printing accompanying information and prescription labels in pharmacies, comprises: a central CS; a PMS; a data transmission network through which said PMS and said central CS can communicate; wherein said PMS includes an I/O terminal, a scanner, and a first printer; wherein said PMS includes a PMS SO and a Catalina SO; said PMS SO is configured to receive and store prescription information for a prescription, and to associate a prescription identification with said prescription; said Catalina SO is configure to select accompanying information for said prescription, to format and save said accompanying information in an accompanying information print file; and said PMS is configured to print a prescription label for said prescription and said accompanying information print file.
US09524369B2
The present invention is directed to logic for analysis of nucleic acid sequence data that employs algorithms that lead to a substantial improvement in sequence accuracy and that can be used to phase sequence variations, e.g., in connection with the use of the long fragment read (LFR) process.
US09524367B2
A method for checking an article with material-free regions, a three-dimensional test structure of the article is set up, this test structure comprising a negative formation of the material-free regions.
US09524366B1
Methods and systems provide creating and reporting of path annotations and renaming a state node using the path annotations for high level synthesis (HLS). In an embodiment, a method to annotate a state node includes identifying labels and pragmas specified in a high-level language input model for wait statements and function calls, and can also accommodate loops. In an embodiment, a method to display and/or report annotation information for a given state node includes displaying a state node name, an associated path annotation, and/or an associated hierarchical path. In an embodiment, a method to rename a state node based on a user-specified name includes using annotation information to locate a target state node and associating the target state node with the user-specified name or an automatically-created name based on the user-specified name. In an embodiment, a name specified for a state node can persist through successive runs of an HLS tool.
US09524365B1
A system, method, and computer program product for automatically reducing the number of Monte Carlo simulation samples required to determine if a design yield is above or below a given yield target with a given confidence. Embodiments perform an initial Monte Carlo based performance modeling using an initial set of statistical samples, and estimate the failure probability of each of the remaining statistical samples based on the performance model. Embodiments then simulate each of the remaining statistical samples with a computer-operated Monte Carlo circuit simulation tool in decreasing failure probability order, wherein the sample most likely to fail is simulated first. Progressive comparisons of the simulated yield against a yield target eventually verify the yield at a required confidence level, halting the simulation and triggering tangible output of the comparison results. A potential ten-fold decrease in overall yield verification time without loss of accuracy may result.
US09524364B1
Methods and systems for creating and implementing improved routing polygon abstracts that can be used to efficiently find areas to route through in electrical designs, where the routing polygon abstracts include at least a horizontal routing polygon abstract, a maximum horizontal routing polygon abstract, a vertical routing polygon abstract, and a maximum vertical routing polygon abstract, that are created through various steps including bloating, shrinking, merging, and extending the objects towards an outer boundary.
US09524360B2
A method of designing an acoustic microwave filter in accordance with frequency response requirements. The method comprises selecting an initial filter circuit structure including a plurality of circuit elements comprising at least one resonant element and at least one other reactive circuit element, selecting circuit response variables based on the frequency response requirements, selecting a value for each of the circuit elements based on the selected circuit response variables to create an initial filter circuit design, transforming the resonant element(s) and the other reactive circuit element(s) of the initial filter circuit design into at least one acoustic resonator model to create an acoustic filter circuit design, adding parasitic effects to the acoustic filter circuit design to create a pre-optimized filter circuit design, optimizing the pre-optimized filter circuit design to create a final filter circuit design, and constructing the acoustic microwave filter based on the final filter circuit design.
US09524343B2
The claimed subject matter provides a system or method for web crawling hidden files. An example method includes loading a web page with a browser agent, and executing any dynamic elements hosted on the web page using the browser agent to insert pre-determined values. A list of form controls may be retrieved from the web page using the browser agent, and the controls may be analyzed using a driver component. Form control values may be sent from the driver component to the browser agent, and an event may be submitted to the web page by the browser agent or scripted content may be run to trigger operations on the web page corresponding to the form control values. A URL may be generated for various form control values using a generalizer.
US09524342B2
A panoptic visualization document navigation system includes a navigation engine and request interface, and is configured effect navigation of components of a document collection in a layout, panoptically arranged in a manner that reflects logical relationships between their content, which may in turn reflect relationships between the subjects or their objects depicted by the content. These logical relationships may be established by links between document components, which may be identified by information provided in associated metadata for the document components. Navigation options for navigating the layout may likewise be selected according to the associated metadata. This type of arrangement and its navigation may enable a user to see the content in a single view, and in an arrangement that facilitates a better understanding of the relationships between the content and their subjects or objects, which may be otherwise difficult to comprehend.
US09524337B2
Disclosed are an apparatus, a system, and a method for detecting complex issues based on social media analysis according to the present invention. A system for detecting complex issues based on social media analysis according to the present invention includes: a unit issue detecting unit configured to receive a keyword from a user terminal, and to detect per-type unit issues associated with the received keyword; a complex issue detecting unit configured to detect per-type complex issues from the detected per-type unit issues; a complex issue ranking unit configured to analyze the detected per-type complex issues, and to rank the per-type complex issues based on the analysis result; and a complex issue configuring unit configured to configure the ranked per-type complex issues in a predetermined form that enable users to induce a micro trend, and to provide the configured form to a user.
US09524336B1
In general, aspects of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving a search query initial input from a user, receiving a plurality of query auto-completions based on the search query initial input, receiving social graph data, the social graph data being specific to the user, for each query auto-completion of the plurality of query auto-completions, determining a ranking score, the ranking score being determined at least partially based on the social graph data, and transmitting instructions to display the plurality of query auto-completions to the user in a rank order that is determined based on ranking scores.
US09524335B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for conflating entities using a persistent entity index. Information (including attributes) pertaining to a plurality of entities is received. The received information is either matched with one or more existing entities in the persistent entity index or, if no match is found, selected for addition to the persistent entity index. The persistent entity index includes entity-attribute pairs associated therewith. Attributes associated with matching entities for which information is received are aggregated and/or reconciled with the entity-attribute pairs associated with existing entities included in the persistent entity index. The persistent entity index may be incrementally updated at predetermined time intervals to insure the accuracy and freshness of the information associated therewith.
US09524331B2
The various embodiments herein provide a method for representing OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) queries in a data grid in real time. The method comprises of providing a new OLAP query, building a directed acyclic graph structure for the OLAP query, initializing the graph structure by generating signals for one or more business entities, processing the generated signals of one or more entities, linking entities based on matching of query filter parameters specified in the OLAP query and calculating aggregate values at one or more nodes. The nodes in the directed acyclic graph comprises: a plurality of blue nodes adapted to maintain links to one or more business entities stored in a datagrid and to hold the aggregate values and a plurality of grey nodes adapted to hold the calculated aggregate values. The aggregate values comprise at least one of SUM, ACCOUNT and AVG.
US09524330B1
The systems and techniques described herein optimize processing of requests, such as external requests, internal requests or inter-service requests. In some examples, a service may interact with a client device and determine, based at least in part on a state of the interaction with the client device, a potential client request that may subsequently be received from the client device. The service may then perform one or more actions to at least partially fulfill the potential client request.
US09524320B2
An approach is provided for utilizing unstructured corpora in a Question and Answer (QA) system. A question is received at the QA system. A private corpora is generated with the private corpora being associated with the user. The private corpora is generated from private data stores associated with the user as well as private data stores associated with other users. Access to the other user's private data sources is provided to the user by the other users. The system retrieves data responsive to the question from the private corpora. The responsive data is ranked based on its relevance to the question. Likely answers are identified based on the ranked responsive data and the likely answers are provided back to the user.
US09524309B2
Methods and apparatuses for asset management are disclosed. In one example, a system and method includes receiving an indication of a coupling of an asset to a computing device. An asset identifier stored on the asset is received and an asset data record corresponding to the asset is located. A data associated with the asset is recorded in the asset data record.
US09524307B2
Systems and methods perform asynchronous error checking on a structured document. In accordance with the systems/methods, a first thread, such as a main application thread of a document editor, parses the document to identify one or more new elements included therein and create copies of the one or more new elements. A second thread, such as a background thread, applies error checking to the copies of the one or more new elements to generate error results corresponding to the one or more new elements. The first thread the uses the error results to indicate errors in association with the one or more new elements.
US09524306B2
A global information management system (GIMS) includes a collection of standards and methods that allow information management on a global scale. A GIMS computer network includes a central registration database (CRD) and one or more GIMS computer systems connected over a network. Each GIMS computer system includes a relational database having a set of standardized tables. The CRD may provide a GIMS network-unique system ID to each GIMS computer system. Each GIMS computer system uses the GIMS network-unique system ID as part of a primary key for each record generated by and stored in the set of standardized tables of the GIMS database. The GIMS enables global database normalization through the globally unique identification of database records.
US09524304B2
A method for automatically diagnosing inherited retinal disease includes receiving a plurality of dissimilar types of data and pre-processing at least one of the plurality of dissimilar types of data to generate a feature vector descriptive of a patient. Further, the method includes, for each of the plurality of dissimilar types of data: (i) comparing portions of the respective type of data or a corresponding feature vector to data in a mutation proven database; (ii) generating a ranked list of matches between the patient and the plurality of patients with known diagnoses; and (iii) storing the ranked list of matches in an output database. A diagnosis routine then aggregates a plurality of ranked lists of matches in the output database to generate a ranked list of genetic diagnoses corresponding to the patient and sends an indication of the ranked list of genetic diagnoses to the end user device.
US09524303B2
An electronic calculating apparatus for generating an interaction index map of an image, a method thereof and a non-transitory machine-readable medium thereof are provided. The electronic calculating apparatus includes a database and a processor electrically coupled to the database. The database stores a plurality of reference images. The processor sets at least one feature of the image, selects at least one candidate reference image from the plurality of reference images according to the at least one feature by a matching calculating procedure, transforms the at least one candidate reference image into at least one transformed candidate reference image, and generates a specific interaction index map of the image according to at least one interaction index map of the at least one transformed candidate reference image so that a displaying device executes the corresponding operation according to a user instruction by the specific interaction index map and side-information.
US09524301B2
Disclosed herein is a method for transferring files between different operating systems that includes sending one or more files from a first computing device executing a first operating system to a second computing device executing a second operating system. The first operating system is incompatible with the second operating system. The method also includes processing data of the one or more files using one or more applications executing within the second operating system on the second computing device. Further, the method includes receiving results of the data processing on the first computing device executing the first operating system.
US09524291B2
Techniques involving visual display of information related to matching user utterances against graph patterns are described. In one or more implementations, an utterance of a user is obtained that has been indicated as corresponding to a graph pattern through linguistic analysis. The utterance is displayed in a user interface as a representation of the graph pattern.
US09524290B2
A method that includes receiving an input, determining, by the processor, a likelihood that a predicted string associated with the received input matches an intended input string, where the determination is a function of at least one of a length of the predicted string and a typing speed associated with the received input, and displaying the predicted string.
US09524287B2
In various embodiments, methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable media are disclosed that allow developers to place tooltips on components and columns headers using a desktop integration framework. The tooltips can be tied to translatable resources or model metadata. In one aspect, the tool tip metadata is provided separately from the document to which the tool tip will eventually be tied.
US09524272B2
In any context where a user can view multiple different content items, switching among content items is provided using an array mode. In a full-frame mode, one content item is visible and active, but other content items may also be open. In response to user input the display can be switched to an array mode, in which all of the content items are visible in a scrollable array. Selecting a content item in array mode can result in the display returning to the full-frame mode, with the selected content item becoming visible and active. Smoothly animated transitions between the full-frame and array modes and a gesture-based interface for controlling the transitions can also be provided.
US09524271B2
A first source node transmits a first transmission vector formed by multiplying a vector of input values and an inverse of a transfer matrix that relates vectors transmitted from the first source node via a plurality of intermediate nodes to vectors received at a plurality of destination nodes. Each of the intermediate nodes transmits a vector formed by a linear operation performed on received vectors. The linear operation may be determined based on linear combinations of the first transmission vector and one or more second transmission vectors transmitted by second source nodes. The linear combinations are to be received at the destination nodes. The linear operation is chosen so that propagation of the first transmission vector through the intermediate nodes produces, at the destination nodes, predetermined linear combinations of the first transmission vector and one or more second transmission vectors transmitted by one or more second source nodes.
US09524264B2
Generating combined bus clock signals using asynchronous master device reference clocks in shared bus systems, and related methods, devices, and computer-readable media are disclosed. In one aspect, a method for generating combined bus clock signals comprises detecting a start event by each master device of multiple master devices communicatively coupled to a shared clock line of a shared bus. Each master device samples a plurality of shared clock line values of the shared clock line at a corresponding plurality of transitions of a reference clock signal for the master device. Each master device determines whether the plurality of shared clock line values is identical. If the shared clock line values are identical, each master device drives a shared clock line drive value inverse to the plurality of shared clock line values to the shared clock line at a next transition of the reference clock signal for the master device.
US09524258B2
The disclosure is applied to a field of communication technologies and relates to a method for controlling multiple CAN interfaces through a single SPI bus. The method includes: when a reception mailbox of any of a plurality of CAN chips finishes receiving data on a CAN bus, triggering an interrupt by the CAN chip to deliver an interrupt signal; configuring the CAN chip triggering the interrupt through the SPI bus to disable interrupts in the CAN chip, so that the CAN chip exits the interrupt; inquiring the data received by the reception mailboxes of each CAN chip triggering the interrupt, reading the data into a memory buffer of an MCU through the SPI bus, setting a data identifier in the memory buffer of the MCU, and enabling interrupts in the CAN chip triggering the interrupt to allow the CAN chip triggering the interrupt to continue receiving data; and detecting whether the data identifier is present in the memory buffer of the MCU by an application program on the MCU, and copying the data from the memory buffer of the MCU to a memory buffer of the application program if the data identifier is present in the memory buffer of the MCU; otherwise, returning a result as a failure. The invention reads the data into the MCU upon interrupts generated by CAN chips, thereby reducing costs without affecting communication.
US09524248B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for managing memory. A memory management system may include a table having multiple virtual memory addresses. Each virtual memory address may correspond to a physical memory address and data that identifies a type of memory device corresponding to the physical memory address. The physical memory device can be used to access the memory device when a table hit occurs.
US09524247B2
Efficient and convenient storage systems and methods are presented. In one embodiment, a fractured erase process is performed in which a pre-program process, erase process and soft program process are initiated independently. Memory cells can be pre-programmed and conditioned independent of an erase command. The initiation of the independent pre-programming is partitioned from an erase command which is partitioned from initiation of a soft-programming command. A cell is erased wherein the erasing includes erase operations that are partitioned from the pre-preprogramming process. In one embodiment, the independent pre-program process is run in the background.
US09524237B2
The present invention provides a data processing device where a program can be commonly used and a vector table can be shared regardless of types of endian in a bi-endian system. An instruction is fixed to little endian, and endian of data to be used for executing the instruction is variable. A size of the respective vector addresses in the vector table is 32 bits, and the number of bits at the time of a data access is maximally 32 bits. A CPU fetches an instruction, and before the fetched instruction is executed, the CPU accesses to, for example, for 32-bit data in a memory. At this time, the CPU controls the aligner so that addresses and alignments of data to be stored in each address in byte unit in a data register are identical to addresses and alignments of data determined by little endian of an instruction without depending on types of the endian of the data.
US09524232B2
A chip multiprocessor includes a plurality of cores each having a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) and a prefetch buffer (PB). Each core is configured to determine a TLB miss on the core's TLB for a virtual page address and determine whether or not there is a PB hit on a PB entry in the PB for the virtual page address. If it is determined that there is a PB hit, the PB entry is added to the TLB. If it is determined that there is not a PB hit, the virtual page address is used to perform a page walk to determine a translation entry, the translation entry is added to the TLB and the translation entry is prefetched to each other one of the plurality of cores.
US09524223B2
Identifying an inter-relationship between performance metrics of a computer system. It is proposed to convert performance metric signals, which represent variations of performance metrics over time, into quantized signals having a set of allowable discrete values. The quantized signals are compared to detect a correlation based on the timing of variations quantized signals. An inter-relationship between the performance metrics may then be identified based on a detected correlation between the quantized signals.
US09524220B1
A system having a plurality of directors, at least some of which have a local director memory, accesses requested data by determining if requested data is in local director memory of a first one of the directors in response to an access request for the requested data by the first one of the directors. The system also determines if the requested data is native to the first one of the directors in response to the requested data not being in the local director memory of the first one of the directors, where data provided on a physical storage device coupled to the first one of the directors is native to the first one of the directors. The system also obtains the requested data from a second one of the directors in response to the requested data not being native to the first one of the directors.
US09524214B1
A distributed system including one or more data processing devices executing instructions configuring the one or more data processing device to execute a virtual machine including a software application and an agent. The agent is configured to receive a first health status of the software application, determine a second health status of the software application, compare the first health status and the second health status, and restart the software application based on the comparison. The one or more data processing device also execute an application server configured to remotely determine the first health status of the software application and send the first health status of the software application to the virtual machine.
US09524200B2
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to consultation among feedback instances. According to one aspect, a system can receive a feedback instance consultation request for a consultation among an original feedback instance and a target feedback instance. The target feedback instance can be consulted with by the original feedback instance to enable the original feedback instance to cure a deficiency. The system can examine the feedback instance consultation request to determine if a match exists with an application programming interface associated with a target feedback instance model upon which the target feedback instance is based. If examination of the feedback instance consultation request determines that a match exists, the system can update the target feedback instance model with an intercommunication plan by which the consultation can occur. The system also can update an original feedback instance model upon which the original feedback instance is based.
US09524191B2
A method and apparatus for providing fairness in a multi-processing element environment is herein described. Mask elements are utilized to associated portions of a reservation station with each processing element, while still allowing common access to another portion of reservation station entries. Additionally, bias logic biases selection of processing elements in a pipeline away from a processing element associated with a blocking stall to provide fair utilization of the pipeline.
US09524186B2
A system and method can support transaction processing in a transactional environment. A coordinator for a global transaction operates to propagate a common transaction identifier and information for a resource manager instance to one or more participants of the global transaction in the transactional environment. The coordinator allows said one or more participants, which share resource manager instance with the coordinator, to use the common transaction identifier, and can process the global transaction for said one or more participants that share the resource manager instance using one transaction branch.
US09524181B2
Techniques for virtual switch and virtual switch port management for VM availability in a cluster are described. In one example embodiment, a determination is made as to whether a virtual switch port on a first virtual switch associated with a first VM network is available for powering on the VM on a first host computing system. Based on the outcome of the determination either further determination is then made as to whether a virtual switch port on a second virtual switch associated with the first VM network is available to power on the VM on a second host computing system or migration of the VM in a power-off state is initiated to the second host computing system and powered-on on the second host computing system via the virtual switch port on the second virtual switch associated with the first VM network associated.
US09524180B2
A virtual computer system including multiple virtual machines operating on a hypervisor, includes a trace information collecting section in the hypervisor configured to collect trace information including an operational state of a process on a first virtual machine of the multiple virtual machines from a context saving area corresponding to the first virtual machine, the process being executed when an interrupt is generated; multiple symbol map information collecting sections in the virtual machines, respectively, configured to collect symbol map information for identifying a process operating on each of the virtual machines from a management area included in each of the virtual machines to send the collected symbol map information to the hypervisor; and an analysis processing section in the hypervisor configured to associate the trace information with the symbol map information for each of the processes.
US09524179B2
Actions performed when one or more virtual-machine-deployment instructions are executed are exposed. The actions can subsequently be analyzed to identify potential inefficiencies or other issues in the process of deploying one or more virtual machines. In furtherance thereof, metadata associated with the actions, such as performance information, can also be attached to relevant actions.
US09524177B2
An information processing apparatus includes a control unit, a processing unit capable of dynamically changing a circuit configuration thereof, and a storage unit configured to store circuit information indicating a circuit configuration to be read into the processing unit, wherein the processing unit reads first circuit information from the storage unit to function as a storage medium for storing a program, and wherein the control unit reads the program from the processing unit to execute the program.
US09524173B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a packet processor, a persistent storage module, and a boot-up management module. The packet processor identifies a switch identifier associated with the switch in the header of a packet. The persistent storage module stores configuration information of the switch in a first table in a local persistent storage. This configuration information is included in a configuration file, and the first table includes one or more columns for the attribute values of the configuration information. The boot-up management module loads the attribute values to corresponding switch modules from the first table without processing the configuration file.
US09524171B1
A split level history buffer in a central processing unit is provided. A history buffer is split into a first portion and a second portion. An instruction fetch unit fetches and tags instructions with unique tags. A register file stores tagged instructions. An execution unit generates results for tagged instructions. A first instruction is fetched, tagged, and stored in an entry of the register file. A second instruction is fetched and tagged, and then evicts the first instruction from the register file, such that the second instruction is stored in the entry of the register file. Subsequently, the first instruction is stored in an entry in the first portion of the history buffer. After a result for the first instruction is generated, the first instruction is moved from the first portion of the history buffer to the second portion of the history buffer.
US09524156B2
A vehicle may gather vehicle build configuration information, and provide a vehicle identifier and the vehicle information to a server. The server may determine a feature set configuration of a configurable module of the vehicle based on the vehicle information and vehicle feature associations retrieved from a vehicle data source, and provide, in a message topic of a topic tree associated with the vehicle identifier to which the vehicle is subscribed, a notification to configure the configurable module. The vehicle may update a feature set configuration of a configurable module supporting a plurality of features based on the notification.
US09524152B2
Generic classes may have more than one specializable type parameter and it may be desirable to specialize one or more of the type variables while not specializing others. The result of partial specialization may be one or more additional generic classes that are further specializable on the remaining type parameters. A runtime specializer may partially specialize a generic class to produce a partially specialized class and may subsequently further specialize the partially specialized class to generate a fully specialized class. Thus, rather than performing the specialization of a generic class all at once, such as by specializing Map
US09524149B2
A method of populating object property values includes receiving an instruction on behalf of a user. The instruction represents an input indicating selection of the object. The method includes presenting, in response to the input, a list of property names and corresponding default values associated with the selected object, and presenting, for each of one or more default values, a user input field. The method includes presenting, for each of the one or more default values, an enumeration of alternative property values when the enumeration is compatible with the corresponding property. The method includes receiving from the user, for zero or more of the property names, an updated property value that is a selection from a value entered in the user input field or the enumeration of alternative property values, and generating code operative to instantiate the object. The updated property values are associated with the properties of the object.
US09524147B2
The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for providing entity-based, cross-application navigation according to an implementation. One computer-implemented method includes receiving a request for data and callable entities associated with a provided entity context, transmitting the data and callable entities, receiving request for bootstrap code associated with a target application, generating bootstrap code containing an application environment runtime detection library and application environment navigation data, and transmitting the bootstrap code.
US09524131B2
The present disclosure is directed to a printing device searching and management system and method. The method involves receiving a search input comprising a plurality of characters. The method also involves determining a search condition based on a first portion of the plurality of characters. The method further involves determining a command based on a second portion of the plurality of characters. Additionally, the method involves determining whether at least one printing device of the plurality of printing devices meets a criterion specified by the search condition. If at least one printing device meets the criterion, the method involves identifying one or more printing devices that meet the criterion specified by the search condition. Further, the method involves executing the determined command in association with at least one particular printing device from among the identified one or more printing devices on a device specified by the determined command.
US09524129B2
An information processing apparatus includes a memory that stores a log of use of the information processing apparatus by a user, and a display that displays the log of the information processing apparatus stored on the memory together with a face image of a face of the user.
US09524123B2
Methods, apparatus and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that include a storage device configured to store a logical volume mapped between a host computer and a computer having multiple initiator ports, and a processor configured to detect a unit attention condition for the logical volume. Examples of unit attention conditions for the logical volume include management operations on the logical volume and host requests for the logical volume. Upon determining, based on the unique serial number, that the processor has previously conveyed the unit attention code to any of the multiple initiator ports, to reconvey an input/output (I/O) request, receive a response for the I/O request, and convey the result to the host computer.
US09524118B2
Systems, devices, memory controllers, and methods for controlling memory are described. One such method includes activating a memory unit of a memory device; after activating the memory unit, providing a command to the memory device; and returning the memory unit to a previous state if the command does not indicate a target memory volume, wherein the memory unit remains active if the command indicates a target memory volume associated with the memory unit.
US09524116B1
Following a relocation write in which data is relocated without update from an old physical location to a new physical location within the non-volatile memory array, a controller defers an update of a logical-to-physical translation (LPT) entry to associate a logical address of the data with a new physical address of the new physical location, for example, for a time-out period. During deferment of the update to the LPT entry, the controller services a read request targeting the logical address from data at the old physical location. In response to no update to the data being made during deferment of the update to the LPT entry, the controller performs the deferred update to the LPT entry. In response to an update to the data being made during the deferment of the update to the LPT entry, the controller refrains from performing the deferred update to the LPT entry.
US09524115B2
Methods, apparatus and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that include ascertaining, by a first storage system, a respective port identifier for each of one or more host ports defined to the first storage system for a logical volume stored on a second storage system. Examples of the port identifiers include WWPN and iSCSI iQN identifiers. A respective unique identifier is assigned to each of the ascertained one or more host ports, and for each of the one or more host ports, the respective port identifier and the assigned respective unique identifier are conveyed to the second storage system. Upon receiving, from one of the one or more host ports, an input/output (I/O) request for the logical volume, I/O request with the respective unique identifier of the one of the one or more host ports is conveyed to the second storage system.
US09524112B2
Systems, methods, and/or devices are used to reduce declared capacity of non-volatile memory of a storage device in a storage system. In one aspect, the method includes, detecting an amelioration trigger for reducing declared capacity of non-volatile memory of the storage device of the storage system, and in accordance with the detected amelioration trigger, performing an amelioration process to reduce declared capacity of the non-volatile memory of the storage device, the performing including: trimming, in accordance with a trim command received from a host, at least a portion of a set of logical addresses in a logical address space; and reducing declared capacity of the non-volatile memory of the storage device. In some embodiments, the storage device includes one or more flash memory devices. In some embodiments, the method is performed by the storage device.
US09524107B2
Methods and structure for host-side device drivers for Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) systems. One system includes a processor and memory of a host, which implement a device driver. The device driver receives an Input/Output (I/O) request from an Operating System (OS) of the host, translates Logical Block Addresses (LBAs) from the received request into physical addresses at multiple storage devices, generates child I/O requests directed to the physical addresses based on the received request, and accesses an address lock system at a RAID controller to determine whether the physical addresses are accessible. If the physical addresses are accessible, the device driver reserves the physical addresses by updating the address lock system, and directs the child I/O requests to a hardware path at the RAID controller for handling single-strip I/O requests. If the physical addresses are not accessible, the device driver delays processing of the child I/O requests.
US09524105B2
Process and apparatus to reduce declared capacity of a storage device by altering an encoding format
Systems, methods and/or devices are used to reduce declared capacity of non-volatile memory of a storage device in a storage system. In one aspect, the method includes, detecting an amelioration trigger for reducing declared capacity of non-volatile memory of a storage device of the storage system, and in accordance with the detected amelioration trigger, performing an amelioration process to reduce declared capacity of the non-volatile memory of the storage device, the performing including: altering an encoding format of at least a portion of the non-volatile memory of the storage device, and reducing declared capacity of the non-volatile memory of the storage device. In some embodiments, the storage device includes one or more flash memory devices. In some embodiments, the detecting, the performing, or both are performed by the storage device, or by one or more subsystems of the storage system distinct from the storage device, or by the host.
US09524102B2
A mechanism is provided for optimizing migration/copying of de-duplicated data from an internal storage system to a removable storage system. A preliminary number of clusters to be generated are determined for sets of data objects stored on the internal storage system based on a number of the sets of data objects. The preliminary number of clusters is generated based on shortest distances between the sets of data objects, each cluster comprising one or more sets of data objects and each set of data objects comprising one or more chunks of data. A chosen cluster is identified from a set of clusters by identifying a cluster having a greatest number of common chunks within as few sets of data objects. Responsive to an export-size of the chosen cluster failing to exceed the available storage capacity of the removable storage system, the chosen cluster is exported to the removable storage system.
US09524098B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for subwoofer calibration. An example method includes determining a crossover frequency of a playback system, and the playback system includes the subwoofer and a playback device. The example method includes the subwoofer and the playback device configured to output a multimedia content in synchronization. The example method also includes outputting from the subwoofer and the playback device a series of tones near the crossover frequency. The example method also includes prompting a user to select a tone set from the series of tones, and includes automatically adjusting a phase of the subwoofer in relation to the playback device based on the user selection.
US09524094B2
An apparatus, comprising a processor, memory including computer program code, the memory and the computer program code configured to, working with the processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following, receive indication of a continuous stroke input associated with a contact region of a touch display, the continuous stroke input comprising at least a first input, and a second input, cause display of a cursor offset from the contact region in response to determining that the first input is a cursor mode initiation input, cause display of cursor to move so that the cursor remains offset from the contact region in response to determining that the second input relates to a movement input, and determine an operation based, at least in part, on position of at least part of a cursor.
US09524071B2
The description relates to threshold views. One example can include a display, storage and a processor. The storage can store instructions for execution by the processor. The processor can be configured to process the instructions to create a graphical user interface (GUI) on the display. The GUI can include a threshold view that shows elements that relate to a family on a given day. The elements can include time bound elements, semi-time bound elements and non-time bound elements.
US09524070B2
Disclosed is a touch screen device that may include first and second substrates; a plurality of first electrode lines and a plurality of second electrode lines on the first substrate that cross each other to define a plurality of touch sensors, each touch sensor including first and second electrodes, and an elastic resistor, with a gap space between the second electrode and the elastic resistor; and a touch driver that is electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of first electrode lines and the plurality of second electrode lines, and that determines a two-dimensional or three-dimensional touch information depending on an amount of force that is applied to the touch screen device.
US09524067B2
A capacitive touch system generates data indicative of sensed capacitance measured at capacitive sensing nodes of a capacitive touch panel. A signal processing circuit is coupled to receive the data indicative of sensed capacitance from the capacitive touch system. The signal processing circuit operates to fit a parabolic curve to the data indicative of sensed capacitance. A sharpness of the fit parabolic curve is indicative of whether touch versus hover interaction with the capacitive touch panel. A touch detection threshold is as a function of the determined sharpness. The set touch detection threshold is then applied against the data indicative of sensed capacitance in order to make a touch detection.
US09524063B2
Determining touch contact locations is disclosed. A signal that has been disturbed by touch contacts of a touch input on a surface is received. The received signal is transformed to determine a spatial domain signal. The spatial domain signal is compared with an expected signal associated with potential locations of sources of disturbances caused by the touch contacts. The locations of the touch contacts of the touch input are determined based at least in part on the comparison.
US09524059B2
An apparatus and method are provided to determine the occurrence and location of an interaction with an interface, particularly with an image of a user interface that may be projected or otherwise produced on a surface. The apparatus uses one or more single-element sensors (such as a photodiode) to sense and capture light readings of a scene, the readings corresponding to a plurality of structured light images injected within the presentation of the interface. The readings are compared to a baseline set of readings to determine the occurrence and location of an interaction event by an obstacle (i.e., a finger or a stylus) such as a touch event or a movement of the obstacle.
US09524055B2
An MFP (Multi Function Peripheral) serving as a display device detects a touch on the touch panel and then sets a wait time in accordance with the position of the touch on the touch panel. If another touch is detected before the wait time has passed since the touch on the touch panel is detected, the MFP determines that the detected two touches are multi-touch. If the wait time has passed without detecting another touch since the touch on the touch panel is detected, the MFP determines that the detected touch is single touch.
US09524052B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for processing touchscreen information are provided. The method may include receiving touchscreen data that includes node values representative of signals generated by a touchscreen panel, generating a first data frame including difference values, and transmitting the first data frame over a control data bus. Each of the difference values may be calculated as a difference between one of the node values and a different node-related value wherein the first data frame has a predefined size. The first data frame may be configured to permit a receiver of the first data frame to reconstruct the touchscreen data without information loss.
US09524050B2
Disclosed is a method and corresponding apparatus or system for disambiguating touch-input based on variation in a characteristic such as speed or pressure along a touch-trail (20, 26). A computing system may detect a variation in a characteristic of a touch-trail, such as variation in speed of movement of touch along the touch-trail and/or a variation in pressure of touch along the touch-trail (step 52). Based on the detected variation, the computing system may determine an intended touch position represented by the trail, such as a landing position or lifting position for instance (step 54). And the computing system may take action based at least in part on that determined touch position (step 56).
US09524039B2
A method of identifying a to-be-identified object is described. The to-be-identified object is independent of the electronic device and is placed within a predetermined distance from the electronic device. The method of identifying the to-be-identified object includes the electronic device acquiring status information of the to-be-identified object; the electronic device generating an operation instruction according to the status information of the to-be-identified object; and the electronic device operating according to the operation instruction. The identifying method and its electronic device are capable of enabling users to complete the executing of applications of the electronic device through operating the to-be-identified object, so as to improve experience and enjoyment of users.
US09524035B2
A method and a device for character input by direction key are disclosed. The method comprises: a mapping relation between characters in input character set and direction key input sequences is constructed, and at least a code table representing the mapping relation is established; the character is inputted by a code table selection key and a direction key, the character input comprises the following steps: a code table as a current code table is determined according to the input of a code table selection key (S10); a prompting message of the current code table is displayed on a display screen (S20); an input character is determined in the current code table according to a direction key input sequence (S30). The used direction key, the confirmation key and the code table selection key are based on an existing key of an existing e-book reader, media player and other electronic devices.
US09524034B2
A communication control system for a vehicle having a steering member, having a controller and at least one switch carried on the steering member.
US09524033B2
Embodiments include a wireless keyboard having a plurality of keys and a plurality of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, wherein each of the plurality of RFID tags are coupled to one of the plurality of keys. Each of the RFID tags are configured to transmit a signal when one of the plurality of keys coupled to RFID tag is pressed.
US09524030B2
A flexible device includes a bendable-foldable display that has bendable flaps connected by a hinge. The display has sensors for detecting a folding characteristic between the at least two flaps and for detecting a bending characteristic in at least one flap. The display has a haptic system with haptic output devices, where the haptic system receives input from the sensors indicating deformation of the bendable-foldable display device. A flexible device also includes bendable, foldable, or rollable displays that have sensors and actuators to augment user interaction with the device. Based on one or more measurements provided by the input, the haptic system interprets the input to determine deformation characteristics of the bendable-foldable display device. The haptic system generates haptic feedback based on the deformation characteristics.
US09524028B2
Embodiments of the invention recognize human visual gestures, as captured by image and video sensors, to develop a visual language for a variety of human computer interfaces. One embodiment provides a method for recognizing a hand gesture positioned by a user hand. The method includes steps of capturing a digital color image of a user hand against a background, applying a general parametric model to the digital color image of the user hand to generate a specific parametric template of the user hand, receiving a second digital image of the user hand positioned to represent a hand gesture, detecting a hand contour of the hand gesture based at least in part on the specific parametric template of the user hand, and recognizing the hand gesture based at least in part on the detected hand contour. Other embodiments include recognizing hand gestures, facial gestures or body gestures captured in a video.
US09524027B2
A communication device comprising a microprocessor readable computer readable medium is provided that includes microprocessor executable instructions to provide single- and multi-thread views of messages sent and received by a communication device.
US09524022B2
A medical equipment includes a surgical instrument having a movable part to perform medical treatment on a target spot, an actuator configured to operate the movable part, and a detachable interface installed on the surgical instrument and configured to attachably and detachably couple the surgical instrument to the actuator. The detachable interface has an origin return mechanism configured to move the movable part to a predetermined origin position when the surgical instrument is detached from the actuator.
US09524016B2
Methods and articles of manufacture for hosting a safety critical application on an uncontrolled data processing device are provided. Various combinations of installation, functional, host integrity, coexistence, interoperability, power management, and environment checks are performed at various times to determine if the safety critical application operates properly on the device. The operation of the SCA on the UDPD may be controlled accordingly.
US09523993B2
Accessing an energy management policy for a plurality of devices is described, wherein the devices are coupled with a first structure. The energy usage of the devices is monitored. An energy usage rule and energy usage is then compared. The energy management policy and energy usage is also compared. Based on the comparing, an instruction is generated to modify an energy usage profile of said device to correlate with the energy usage rule associated with the devices and the energy management policy, thereby enabling efficient energy management.
US09523989B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a method of controlling a power supply node includes measuring a voltage of the power supply node, determining a first current based on the measuring, determining a first current and a second current based on the measuring, and summing the first current and the second current at the power supply node. Determining the first current includes operating a first controller having a first bandwidth, and determining the second current includes operating a second controller having a second bandwidth greater than the first bandwidth.
US09523988B2
The present invention provides a pressure reducing valve. The pressure reduction valve includes a main body, an inlet, an outlet, a stem, a main seat, a pilot diaphragm, a main head, and a control spring. The pressure reduction valve includes additional auxiliary seats with corresponding auxiliary heads and displacement members/surfaces. The pressure reduction valve additional includes auxiliary seats with corresponding auxiliary heads and displacement members/surfaces enables stage wise opening of the secondary seats and the main seat. This enables to meet highly varying media flow demands using single pressure reduction valve, having less hunting effect and eliminating use of multiple pressure reduction valves.
US09523987B2
In a capacity control valve, a discharged-fluid-receiving part having a diameter that is larger than the diameter of a valve hole interconnecting a first valve chamber and a third valve chamber is provided to the outer periphery section of a third valve part. It is thereby possible to obtain a capacity control valve in which, when the first valve part opens, the discharged-fluid-receiving part receives the pressure of the discharged fluid, the actuation response of the valve body during an opening action is moderated, an excessive increase in the sensitivity to a rise in pressure in the crank chamber caused by a rapid increase in the amount of coolant flowing into the crank chamber is prevented, and the action of the valve body is stable.
US09523977B2
A method for dispensing products from a vending machine includes presenting a start screen of a user interface including menu options associated with a selection of a product. A first interaction associated with the menu options is received and recorded for use in generating an identifier. Additional interactions are received and recorded for use in generating the identifier. Each of the additional interactions corresponds to a selection made a unique sub menu of a plurality of sub menus. The additional interactions are associated with the selection of the product. A last interaction of the additional interactions determines the product to be purchased. An identifier is generated based on the recorded first interaction and the recorded at least one additional interaction. The identifier represents a sequential mapping of the first interaction and the additional interactions. The product and the identifier are provided to a user of the vending machine.
US09523976B1
A method of processing a wafer in a production tool includes receiving a wafer at a process tool, the wafer associated with a wafer process history, acquiring data associated with wafers processed by the process tool and having the wafer process history, when the amount of acquired data is insufficient, acquiring additional data associated with wafers processed by the process tool and having a process history differing from the wafer process history by a single factor, when the amount of acquired data is sufficient, determining a process parameter using the acquired data, and processing the wafer with the production tool using the process parameter.
US09523970B2
A device information display apparatus displaying device information acquired by communicating with a field device may include a storage unit that associates and stores first position information indicating a position at which the device information displayed on the display device is acquired and reproduction information for reproducing display content of the display device that has been modified based on an operation instruction for the device information displayed on the display device; a position information acquisition unit that acquires second position information indicating a current position of the device information display apparatus; and a display control unit that calculates a distance between positions indicated by the first position information and the second position information, wherein if the distance is no greater than a prescribed reference distance, the reproduced information corresponding to the first position information is used to reproduce the display content of the display device on the display device.
US09523969B2
Certain embodiments of the disclosure may include systems and methods for tracking the quality and efficiency of the machine instructions to operate an associated controller. The method may include: receiving, by at least one processor, a plurality of rules associated with an optimization procedure for a plurality of machine instructions for operating an associated controller; determining an evaluation, by the at least one processor, for the plurality of machine instructions based at least in part on the plurality of rules; and outputting the evaluation.
US09523965B2
A portable modularized stack device includes a flexible wristband and an electronic module. The flexible wristband has a belt which is embedded with wires therein. The belt has a receiving portion formed thereon, a first connector connected at one end of the belt and a second connector connected at the other end of the belt. The first connector and the second connector are matched correspondingly. The flexible wristband further has a third connector. The electronic module has a fourth connector and is disposed on the receiving portion of the flexible wristband. The fourth connector is connected to the third connector. Thus, the present invention can be varied and expanded by stacking another electronic device thereon, and the flexible wristband can be used as a transmission line.
US09523959B2
An image forming apparatus includes an exposure unit, a developing unit, a transferer, a fixer, a determiner, a blower, and a controller. The exposure unit exposes an image bearing member to light according to image data to form an electrostatic latent image. The developing unit is configured to develop the electrostatic latent image into a toner image. The transferer transfers the toner image onto a recording medium. The fixer heat fixes the toner image to the recording medium. The determiner determines a state of at least one of a temperature and a humidity inside the image forming apparatus. The blower generates airflow inside the image forming apparatus. The controller reduces the airflow volume of the blower based on a determination result of the determiner as the degree of the occurrence of dew condensation increases.
US09523958B2
An image forming apparatus (1) includes a case body (3) having a hollow space (2) in which a sheet storing part (6) and an image forming part (7) are to be housed. The case body (3) has four pillars (31), (32), (33), (34) and a conveying frame (39). The four pillars (31), (32), (33), (34) are respectively disposed at four corners of the hollow space (2). The conveying frame (39) is disposed between adjacent two pillars (32), (34) of the four pillars (31), (32), (33), (34) and configured to form a conveying path (36) of a sheet from the sheet storing part (6) to the image forming part (7). The conveying frame (39) has at least one vertical column-shaped projection (61) on a pillar side end face. The vertical column-shaped projection (61) is integrally coupled to the pillar (32).
US09523956B2
An apparatus adapted for presenting a sheet of media to an image transfer structure. The apparatus includes a registration baffle positioned in an offset relationship relative to the image transfer structure and a pre-transfer baffle assembly including a first baffle oppositely disposed to a second baffle, the pre-transfer assembly generally forms an “S” shape and is adapted for guiding the sheet of media from the registration baffle to the image transfer structure. The pre-transfer baffle assembly is arranged in a first position adapted for guiding the sheet of media toward the image transfer structure at an angle of less than ninety degrees, and the pre-transfer baffle automatically begins rotation to a second position as the sheet of media reaches a pre-determined position within a paper path.
US09523944B2
A tension roller which is brought into contact with an inner circumferential surface of an endless belt and is rotated and which can be moved to a first position where the belt is in a relaxed state and a second position where the belt is in a tensioned state, a butting member which butts against the belt, a force application unit which applies, to the butting member, a force acting in a direction opposite to a rotation direction of the belt and a movement mechanism which moves the tension roller to the first position and the second position are provided. When the belt is rotated, the butting member is moved in the rotation direction of the belt by a friction force with the belt, and the movement mechanism moves the tension roller from the first position to the second position by the movement of the butting member in the rotation direction of the belt. When the rotation of the belt is stopped, the butting member is moved in the direction opposite to the rotation direction of the belt by the force applied by the force application unit, and the movement mechanism moves the tension roller from the second position to the first position by the movement of the butting member in the direction opposite to the rotation direction of the belt.
US09523941B2
An image forming apparatus comprising a developing agent storage section including a discharge port for discharging the developing agent; a developing agent mixer configured inside the developing agent storage section to stir the developing agent and move the developing agent towards the discharge port; a motor which rotates at least the developing agent mixer; a motor control section which rotates the motor at either a first speed at which the developing agent is not discharged from the discharge port or a second speed higher than the first speed to discharge the developing agent from the discharge port; and a device control section which controls the motor control section to switch the rotation speed of the motor to the second speed at a timing different from the timing when the developing roller develops the electrostatic latent image.
US09523935B1
An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes a binder resin, a colorant, and 4-nitro-o-anisidine, wherein the colorant contains a compound represented by the following formula (I), a content of the colorant in the toner is from 1.0% by weight to 20.0% by weight, and a content of 4-nitro-o-anisidine in the toner is from 0.1 ppm to 1,000 ppm based on the weight: wherein R represents an organic group.
US09523933B2
Methods of Printing and Electrostatic Ink Compositions Herein are disclosed electrostatic ink compositions, methods of printing and printed substrates. In some examples, the electrostatic ink composition comprises a carrier liquid, particles comprising a graft co-polymer comprising an acrylate polymer backbone onto which has been grafted polysiloxane side chains, wherein the particles are dispersed in the carrier liquid.
US09523929B2
In an electrophotographic photosensitive member, a first intermediate layer contains a polymerized product of a composition including an electron transporting substance having a polymerizable functional group, and a crosslinking agent, and a second intermediate layer contains a binder resin and a metal oxide particle.
US09523928B2
A method of forming an overcoat layer. The method comprises providing a substrate having an imaging structure formed thereon, the imaging structure comprising (i) a charge transport layer and a charge generating layer, or (ii) an imaging layer comprising both charge generating material and charge transport material. An overcoat composition is deposited on the imaging structure, the overcoat composition comprising a charge transport molecule, a fluorinated building block, a leveling agent, a liquid carrier and optionally a first catalyst. The fluorinated building block is a fluorinated alkyl monomer substituted at the α and ω positions with a hydroxyl, carboxyl, carbonyl or aldehyde functional group or the anhydrides of any of those functional groups. The overcoat composition is cured to form an overcoat layer that is a fluorinated structured organic film, the curing comprising treating an outer surface of the overcoat composition with at least one cross-linking process. The crosslinking process forms a cross-linking gradient in the overcoat layer. If the overcoat composition comprises the first catalyst, there is an insufficient amount of the first catalyst to fully cross-link the overcoat layer.
US09523915B2
Coating compositions and image forming materials made therefrom, the coating compositions comprising at least one non-photosensitive source of reducible silver ions, at least one reducing agent capable of reducing the reducible silver ions, a first binder comprising vinyl butyral repeat units and vinyl alcohol repeat units, a second binder comprising vinyl butyral repeat units and vinyl alcohol repeat units, the second binder having a composition differing from that of the first binder, and a third binder comprising vinyl pyrrolidone repeat units and vinyl acetate repeat units.
US09523913B2
A pattern forming method comprises (i) a step of forming a film by using an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition containing: (A) a resin containing a repeating unit having a group capable of decomposing by the action of an acid to produce a polar group, (B) a compound capable of generating an acid upon irradiation with an actinic ray or radiation, and (C) a solvent, (ii) a step of exposing the film, and (iii) a step of developing the exposed film by using an organic solvent-containing developer to form a negative pattern, wherein the content of a repeating unit represented by the following formula (I) is less than 20 mol % based on all repeating units in the resin (A) and the resin (A) contains a repeating unit having a non-phenolic aromatic group other than the repeating unit represented by the specific formula.
US09523910B2
The present invention relates to a nanoimprint lithography method. Said nanoimprint lithography method comprises: a preparation step during which a resin (120) is placed on a substrate (130); a step of pressing a mold (200, 300, 400, 500), comprising raised patterns (202), in order to transfer the raised patterns (202) of the mold (200, 300, 400, 500) into the resin (120) so as to form designs (230) therein, which each have at least one end; and a removal step for separating the mold (200, 300, 400, 500) from the resin (120), characterized in that the resin (120) is a positive photosensitive resin, in that it includes an exposure step for activating the resin (120) before or after the step of removing the mold (200, 300, 400, 500), and in that it includes, prior to the exposure step, a masking step during which a mask coating (110, 310), partially stopping at least the exposure of the resin (120) that it covers and only covering the resin (120) outside the end of the designs (230), is placed between the mold (200, 300, 400, 500) and the resin (120).
US09523885B2
A backlight unit is discussed, which includes a frame including a bottom and a sidewall extending from the bottom; at least one substrate located on the frame, and a plurality of light sources mounted on the at least one substrate; and a reflecting sheet located on the at least one substrate, wherein the reflecting sheet includes: a first sheet part located on the bottom, the first sheet part including a plurality of holes corresponding to the plurality of the light sources; a second sheet part extended from the first sheet part, the second sheet part including first areas and second areas; and a third sheet part extended from the second sheet part and located on the sidewall.
US09523878B2
A display device includes display units arranged in an array and a light guide unit. Each display unit includes a display panel including a display surface configured for displaying an image, and a frame located adjacent to edges of the display surface. The light guide unit includes a lower light guide and an upper light guide. The lower light guide is located above the display units, and includes first gratings. Each first grating corresponds to a side of one of the display unit and is configured for refracting light emitted from the display surface towards the corresponding side of the display unit. The upper light guide is located above the lower light guide and includes second gratings. Each second grating corresponds to one of the first gratings and is configured for reversely refracting light transmitted through the first grating towards a center of the display unit.
US09523877B2
A liquid crystal display device includes: a first insulation substrate, a color filter disposed on the first insulation substrate and including a stepped region, a passivation layer disposed on the color filter and including an opening region overlapping with the stepped region, a pixel electrode disposed on the passivation layer including the opening region, a second insulation substrate facing the first insulation substrate, a common electrode disposed on the second insulation substrate and including a cross-shaped cutout, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second insulation substrates.
US09523875B2
A method for manufacturing a curved-surface display having a desired curved shape using a flat display panel having a first substrate and a second substrate includes: paring partially outer surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate so as to reduce thicknesses thereof to a predetermined thickness; attaching a polarizer on at least one of the pared outer surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate; and attaching a reinforcing plate having the same shape with the desired curved shape and light transmitting characteristics to the display panel using an adhesive layer which is formed on at least a portion of edge portions of the display panel in a state that the pared flat display panel to which the polarizer is attached is bent to the desired curved shape.
US09523874B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for producing a 2D/3D switchable integral imaging liquid crystal cell, and a liquid crystal cell, the method comprising the following steps: 1) coating a UV adhesive layer on a lower substrate; 2) imprinting grooves on the UV adhesive layer by using an array and then UV-curing the UV adhesive layer; 3) coating a lower transparent conductive film on the cured UV adhesive layer, and planarizing the grooves; and 4) forming a liquid crystal cell with the lower substrate and an upper substrate which is coated with an upper transparent conductive film on a lower surface thereof. 2D and 3D displays are switchable in the liquid crystal cell obtained by the method of the present disclosure, thereby achieving comparable displays of 2D and 3D images through simple and convenient operations.
US09523865B2
Apparatus, systems and methods of contact lenses with power sources are provided. In some aspects, a contact lens can include a substrate; and a circuit. The circuit can include: one or more sensors disposed on or within the substrate; circuitry disposed on at least a portion of the substrate; one or more photovoltaic cells disposed on at least a portion of the substrate; and a hybrid power component that supplies at least one of two or more different types of power to the circuitry, wherein at least one of the two or more different types of power is radio frequency/inductive power. In various aspects, other types of power can be solar and/or microelectromechanical system power. Additionally, in various aspects, photovoltaic cells can be arrayed in different configurations and/or over a significant portion of a viewing surface of the contact lens. In some aspects, the photovoltaic cells can be transparent.
US09523863B2
A lens assembly structure of half frame spectacle mainly comprises a half frame having at least one lens mounting portion. At least one lens is to be assembled to the corresponding lens mounting portion with its projections fitted into inlay grooves of the lens mounting portion. Two link assembly cavities are respectively provided on both sides of the half frame within which links can be respectively assembled. Each link has a limit hole provided for passing-through of a fastening member. Each temple is pivotally connected to the corresponding link. The lens can be fixed firmly in the half frame and replaced very easily.
US09523858B2
A three-dimensional (3D) display system is provided. The 3D display system includes a display device and a switchable grating. The display device is configured to display a set of images with parallax for 3D display. The switchable grating comprises a plurality of switchable grating units, and each switchable grating unit has variable width and variable refractive index and has electric-signal-controllable optical parameters. The switchable grating is coupled with the display device, and configured to enable directional light transmission so as to separate lights of the set of images into predetermined viewing directions to effect the 3D display. Further, the switchable grating includes a first substrate having a plurality of first-type electrodes; a second substrate having at least one second-type electrode; and an optical material contained between the first substrate and the second substrate.
US09523855B2
A virtual image display apparatus includes a video image display element which generates video image light and a light guiding member which includes a plurality of optical surfaces and guides the video image light by reflecting on an inner surface side. The light guiding member is a block-shaped member including, as a plurality of optical surfaces, a pair of facing planes which extend substantially in parallel with each other and fully reflect the video image. The light guiding member includes a pair of side portions interposing the pair of facing planes in a direction vertical to a light guiding direction. At least one side portion of the pair of side portions couples the pair of facing planes by a flat plane including a tapered surface which is adjacent to the one plane of the pair of facing planes and forms an obtuse angle.
US09523848B2
A micromirror system that includes a chip frame, at least one spring element, and at least one mirror plate oscillatorily suspended in the chip frame via the at least one spring element. The chip frame and the at least one spring element include at least one microchannel which is provided with an inlet opening and an outlet opening for leading through a flowing coolant.
US09523845B2
An imaging system consisting of a cell-phone with camera as the detection part of an optical train which includes other components. Optionally, an illumination system to create controlled contrast in the sample. Uses include but are not limited to disease diagnosis, symptom analysis, and post-procedure monitoring, and other applications to humans, animals, and plants.
US09523844B2
A system for creating a contiguous digital image of a fluorescence microscope sample. In an embodiment, the system comprises a both a macro camera and a time delay integration (TDI) line scan camera. The system may also comprise a motorized stage, an illumination module, a light source, an excitation filter, an objective lens, an emission filter, and at least one processor configured to assemble a plurality of digital images of portions of the fluorescence microscope sample, generated by the TDI line scan camera, into a contiguous digital image of at least a portion of the fluorescence microscope sample.
US09523833B2
A fiber optic telecommunications device includes a rack for mounting a plurality of chassis, each chassis including a plurality of trays slidably mounted thereon and arranged in a vertically stacked arrangement. Each tray includes fiber optic connection locations and a cable manager coupled to the tray and also coupled to the chassis, the cable manager for routing cables to and from the fiber optic connection locations and defining a plurality of link arms pivotally connected such that the manager retracts and extends with a corresponding movement of the tray, wherein the link arms pivot relative to each other to prevent cables managed therein from being bent in an arc having a radius of curvature less than a predetermined value, each link arm defining a top wall, a bottom wall, and two oppositely positioned sidewalls, each link arm defining an open portion along at least one of the sidewalls and an open portion along the top wall for receiving cables therein, the open portions along the top wall and the at least one of the sidewalls communicating with each other.
US09523828B2
A mechanism for an optical transceiver to latch with and release from a cage is disclosed. The mechanism includes a bail rotatable around an axis and a slider linearly movable between the latching position and the releasing position. The rotation of bail is independent of the liner motion of the slider.
US09523827B2
An optical-electrical composite connector includes a housing that can accommodate an extra portion of an optical fiber. The optical-electrical composite connector further includes a contact portion for electrically contacting with a mating connector, and a dividing member for dividing the housing into a first space and a second space. The optical fiber is disposed in the first space of the housing divided by the dividing member, and at least a part of the optical fiber is bent. At least another part of the optical fiber, which is other than the part accommodated in the first space thereof, is disposed in the second space of the housing divided by the dividing member.
US09523825B2
An optical transmission module in which optical axis adjustment is possible in a wide range and with a high accuracy, and a method of manufacturing the optical transmission module are provided. An optical transmission module includes a light source that outputs light, a mirror that reflects the light output by the light source, a lever on which the mirror is arranged and that has a fulcrum, a lens that converges the light reflected by the mirror, and a waveguide that transfers the light converged by the lens, with a core having a section width smaller than a wavelength in vacuum of the light.
US09523818B2
An optical fiber has an incident end on which light is incident, an emitting end from which the light is emitted, and an aperture provided in a core located at or near the emitting end. The aperture is formed by irradiating the core with an ultrashort pulsed laser beam having pulse widths of 10−15 seconds to 10−11 seconds.
US09523810B2
In an illumination device of the invention, as an arrangement interval of light deflection elements in a first direction discontinuously varies, an arrangement interval in a first direction becomes small with increased distance from an incidence face, where one of regions adjacent to each other which is close to the incidence face is referred to as a first region, the other of the regions which is away from the incidence face is referred to as a second region, as the arrangement interval of the light deflection elements in a second direction discontinuously varies at a boundary between the first region and the second region, the arrangement interval of part of the first region which is closest to the incidence face is smaller than the arrangement interval of part of the second region which is closest to the boundary.
US09523802B2
According to one embodiment, a first substrate includes first to fourth pixel electrodes. A color filter layer includes a red filter opposed to the first pixel electrode, a green filter opposed to the second pixel electrode, a first blue filter opposed to the third pixel electrode and having a peak of transmittance at a wavelength shorter than 460 nm, and a second blue filter opposed to the fourth pixel electrode and having a peak of transmittance at a wavelength longer than 460 nm.
US09523798B2
Provided is an element array in which an error in pitch among elements in the element array is absorbed surely in a step of laminating a plurality of element arrays so that each group of the elements arrayed in the laminating direction can be aligned with high accuracy. The element array has a plurality of elements arrayed one-dimensionally or two-dimensionally, and a flexible support formed out of a material richer in elasticity than a material forming the elements. The elements are coupled with one another through the support.
US09523797B2
Provided are a microlens array film and a display device including the same. The microlens array film includes a first transparent electrode and a second transparent electrode facing each other and a flexible polymer layer placed between the first and the second transparent electrodes. Lenses may be freely deformed by regulating voltages applied to the first and second transparent electrodes.
US09523792B2
A double-sided polarizer includes a polarizing film, a first adhesive layer formed on one surface of the polarizing film, a second adhesive layer formed on the other surface of the polarizing film, a first transparent film formed on the first adhesive layer, and a second transparent film formed on the second adhesive layer, wherein the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer are formed of an active energy line-curable adhesive and the first adhesive layer is 0.1 μm to 3 μm thick, and there is also provided an optical device including the double-sided polarizer.
US09523791B2
An observation device includes a handle having on a lower end side thereof an end portion including a tapered rod portion. The handle includes a protruding portion that protrudes outwardly from a side of the handle with respect to the tapered rod portion. The handle is formed so as to be held by a user to stick the rod portion into soil in a state that an index finger is applied on the handle from underneath and that a finger pad of a thumb presses against an upper end surface of the handle.
US09523790B1
A hybrid sensing apparatus for collecting data. The apparatus includes an optical sensing component having an optical cable that acquires a first set of data and an electrical sensing component having sensor tools that acquires a second set of data. The electrical sensing component extends parallel to the optical cable for a first length (L1) and then antiparallel to the optical cable for a second length (L2), said sensor tools being located along the second length (L2) of the electrical sensing component.
US09523787B2
A downhole optical system can include an optical fiber disposed in a subterranean well, and an optical fiber amplifier which amplifies optical power in a core of the optical fiber in the well, the amplifier being optically pumped with optical power in another core of the optical fiber in the well. Another downhole optical system can include an optical fiber disposed in a subterranean well, the optical fiber comprising multiple cores, and an optical fiber amplifier comprising multiple cores optically coupled respectively to the optical fiber multiple cores in the well.
US09523785B2
A method for determining geological subsurface resistivity. The method includes obtaining a set of lightning parameters associated with a lighting strike received by a geological volume of material, the set of lightning parameters including an indicium of the current of the lightning strike at a first initial time and an indicium of the current of the lightning strike at a first decay time subsequent to the first initial time, and inferring the resistance of the volume of geological material, at least in part, from the set of lightning parameters.
US09523747B2
A magnetoresistive device includes a carrier, an xMR-sensor, a magnetic layer formed above an active xMR-region of the xMR-sensor and an insulating layer arranged between the xMR-sensor and the magnetic layer.
US09523743B2
Provided is a magnetic sensor capable of identifying an individual having a high offset voltage, which is a cause of an initial defect in magnetic characteristics, and changes over time. A cross-transmission switch is provided in a changeover switch circuit which transmits to an amplifier circuit a differential signal voltage output from a Hall element, and the cross-transmission switch cross-transmits a signal in any one of a first period and a second period during which a current flowing into the Hall element is switched by a control signal from a control circuit, to thereby determine and identify a magnitude of an offset voltage.
US09523730B2
A circuit, system, machine-readable storage medium and method for detecting the leakage impedance in a voltage source is described. The method for identifying a presence of a leakage path in a multi-cell floating voltage source may include supplying a current to a node of the floating voltage source and sampling the voltage of the floating voltage source using a pair of amplifiers connecting in inverting configurations. The method may include sampling a reference ground potential using a reference amplifier connected in an inverting configuration. Each of the amplifiers may output an output signal. The method may include adjusting the current supplied to the node of the floating voltage source and resampling the voltage of the floating voltage source and the reference ground potential. The value of the leakage impedance may be calculated using the sampled and resampled values. The measurements may be performed independent of the battery voltage.
US09523728B2
A transmission line structure includes a first transition element, a second transition element, and an active element. The first transition element has a radio frequency injection port and the second transition element, which is spaced from the first transition element, has a radio frequency termination port. An active element is in electrical communication with the first transition element and the second transition element. The active element includes a first and second connection region where the active element is attached to the first and second transition elements. The connection regions are configured to reduce reflection of electromagnetic energy.
US09523727B2
An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include wireless transceiver circuitry that transmits signals towards an antenna. A signal path may carry the transmitted signals to the antenna. Reflected signals from the antenna may be carried along the signal path towards the transceiver circuitry. Coupler circuitry may include a forward coupler that taps the transmitted signals, a first reverse coupler that taps the reflected signals from the antenna, and a second reverse coupler that taps the reflected signals that have passed through the first reverse coupler. Analog processing circuitry and digital processing circuitry may be used to produce an impedance measurement from the tapped signals from the coupler circuitry. The analog processing circuitry may include analog signal mixers, low pass filters, and analog-to-digital converter circuitry.
US09523712B2
Provided is an inspection apparatus that includes a rotation disk configured to spin about an axis of rotation. The rotation disk includes a probe bushing configured to securely hold a standard eddy current probe a predetermined distance above a surface to be examined by the probe. The rotation disk is further configured to adjustably hold the standard eddy current probe such that the radial offset of the probe from the axis of rotation is set using a radial positioning set screw that is coupled to the rotation disk via a first slotted arm. The predetermined distance is set using a probe height set screw configured to secure the probe within the probe bushing. An outer stationary housing is coupled to the rotation disk such that the rotation disk rotates within the outer stationary housing.
US09523702B2
A sensor unit includes sensors. Each of the sensors provides a measurement axis. A connector is electrically connected with the sensors. The position of the connector is fixed relative to the sensors. A memory unit stores calibration information which specifies the respective directions of the measurement axes with respect to a reference plane established for the connector.
US09523696B2
Methods using biomarkers, e.g., serum levels of ST2, to predict risk of developing hypertension, as well as methods for treating subjects to reduce the risk of developing hypertension and methods for selecting and/or stratifying subjects for clinical trials of treatments to reduce the risk of hypertension.
US09523695B2
Therapeutic antibodies having binding specificity for ROR-1 expressed on cancer cells (particularly leukemic and lymphomic cells) and pharmaceutical compositions containing one or more such antibodies for use in treating cancer. Methods for diagnosing such cancers through in vitro detection of binding to ROR-1 protein expressed on putative cancer cells are also provided.
US09523691B2
The present invention provides a method for diagnosing KRAS mutations in colorectal cancers by measuring the level of OLFM4. In another aspect, the present invention relates a method of predicting the responds to a chemotherapeutic agent of a subject suffering from a colorectal cancer: according to the present invention, the by determining the OLFM4 levels. According to the present invention, the response can be predicted by determining the OLFM4 levels. This result in turn permits the design or the adaptation of a treatment of the said subject with the said chemotherapeutic agent.
US09523689B2
This documents provided methods and materials involved in treating bladder cancer. This document also provides methods and materials involved in identifying bladder cancer patients likely or unlikely to respond to treatment (e.g., BCG therapy).
US09523688B2
The invention concerns a novel diagnostic and/or prognostic test for cancer. More particularly, the invention concerns the human LIV21 protein, its use as cancer diagnostic and prognostic markers. The invention also concerns methods for treating cancers and neurodegenerative diseases as well as compositions therefor.
US09523680B2
Methods for proteomic screening on random protein-bead arrays by mass spec is described. Photocleavable mass tags are utilized to code a protein library (bait molecules) displayed on beads randomly arrayed in an array substrate. A library of probes (prey) can be mixed with the protein-bead array to query the array. Because mass spec can detect multiple mass tags, it is possible to rapidly identify all of the interactions resulting from this mixing.
US09523679B2
Chromophore compositions and methods of making and using the same are provided. Aspects of the chromophore compositions include a chromophore component having a chromophore, such as a fluorescent dye moiety, stably associated with a prosthetic group binding cavity of a metalloprotein. Also provided are methods of making, methods of use, systems and kits related to the subject fluorescent compositions.
US09523678B2
The invention relates to novel fluorescent dyes with phosphorylated hydroxymethyl groups, a method for preparing the same as well as to their use in imaging techniques. The fluorescent dyes are coumarin, rhodamine or BODIPY dyes having of one of the following general formulae I-III: wherein W=OP(O)Y1Y2 or P(O)Y1Y2, where Y1 and Y2 independently denote any of the following residues: OH, O(−), ORa and ORb, NHRa and NHRb, NRaRb and NRcRd, ORa and NHRb, ORa and NRbRc, NHRa and NRbRc; and any salt thereof.
US09523663B2
The objective of the present invention is to improve the robustness, sensitivity, and maintainability of a mass spectrometer to which a liquid chromatograph can be connected. This mass spectrometer includes: an ion source; a mass spectrometry unit; a plurality of flat plates used as electrodes having openings through which ions can be introduced to the mass spectrometer from an orthogonal direction along an ion introduction axis; a porous member provided between the mass spectrometry unit and the plurality of flat plates; and a mechanism for feeding gas to the plurality of flat plates for the side opposite from the ion introduction direction; the plurality of flat plates being disposed under atmospheric pressure, and the plurality of electrodes being set at a temperature higher than room temperature.
US09523662B2
Coordinating injector-valve switching with pump-stroke timing to mitigate effects of pressure pulses
A liquid chromatography system includes an autosampler with an injector valve by which a sample at low pressure within a sample loop is introduced into a high-pressure solvent mixture stream. A solvent delivery system includes a pump in fluidic communication with the injector valve of the autosampler to deliver the solvent mixture stream thereto. The solvent delivery system further comprises a processor that calculates a number of strokes of the pump needed to deliver the solvent mixture stream to the injector valve of the autosampler. The processor counts strokes of the pump during delivery of the solvent mixture stream. In response to a stroke count equaling the calculated number of strokes, the processor signals the autosampler to switch the injector valve to introduce the sample to the solvent mixture stream during a pump transfer period within which the pump performs pressure control to compensate for a drop in pressure.
US09523657B2
This invention describes an ion mobility spectrometer and operational methods for chemical analysis. The ion mobility spectrometer allows for continuous operation and rapid temperature control to reach designed operational conditions, as well as analysis under a temperature gradient.
US09523649B2
A device includes a holding device, a first camera module, a second camera module, a driving device, and an image processor. The holding device is configured for holding a plurality of lens elements, each of which includes lenses. The driving device is connected to the first camera module and the second camera module and configured for driving the first camera module and the second camera module to move such that the first camera module and the second camera module aim at and capture an image of each lens. The image processor is in communication with the first camera module and the second camera module and configured for processing the images to detect defects of the lenses, if any.
US09523648B2
A defect-inspection device includes an irradiation unit having an objective-pupil-optical unit that allows illumination light linearly condensed by a first light-condensing unit to pass through, and an objective lens that allows the illumination light having passed through the objective-pupil-optical unit to pass through; an irradiation-position-control unit that controls a passing position of the illumination light in the objective-pupil-optical unit disposed at a pupil surface of the objective lens; a detection unit having a second light-condensing unit that condenses light irradiated by the irradiation unit and generated from a sample, a specular-reflection light-blocking unit that blocks specular-reflection light from the sample and light components generated near the pupil surface among the light beams condensed by the second light-condensing unit, and an image-forming unit that images the light that is condensed by the second light-condensing unit and is not blocked by the specular-reflection light-blocking unit into a detector; and a defect-determination unit that detects a defect on a surface of the sample on the basis of a signal of the image imaged by the image-forming unit.
US09523642B2
The present disclosure provides a biological field effect transistor (BioFET) device testing and processing methods, system and apparatus. A wafer-level bio-sensor processing tool includes a wafer stage, an integrated electro-microfluidic probe card, and a fluid supply and return. The integrated electro-microfluidic probe card includes a fluidic mount that may be transparent, a microfluidic channels in the fluidic mount, at least one microfluidic probe and a number of electronic probe tips at the bottom of the fluidic mount, fluidic and electronic input and output ports on the sides of the fluidic mount, and at least one handle lug on the fluidic mount. The method includes aligning a wafer, mounting the integrated electro-microfluidic probe card, flowing a test fluid, and measuring electrical properties. The tool may also be used for stamping or printing a fluid in the device area on the wafer.
US09523639B2
A sensor includes, in part, a multitude of splitters/couplers and optical couplers. One of the splitter/couplers splits an incoming optical signal into first and second optical signals. A first optical coupler includes, in part, a through path receiving the first signal, a coupled path, and an exposure window receiving a sample undergoing sensing by the sensor. The second optical coupler includes, in part, a through path receiving the second signal, and a coupled path. A first output port of the sensor supplies the optical signal travelling in the through path of the first optical coupler. A second splitter/coupler combines the optical signals travelling in the coupled paths of the first and second optical couplers to generate a second output signal delivered to a second output port. An optional third output port supplies the optical signal travelling in the through path of the second optical coupler.
US09523637B2
A method of using photoacoustic spectroscopy to determine chemical information about an analyte includes the steps of emitting a light ray for interaction with a sample of an analyte; transmitting the light ray through a fill fluid disposed in a detection cell, the fill fluid having molecules substantially similar to molecules of the analyte to absorb the light ray; producing a thermal wave and oscillation in the fill fluid proportional to an intensity of the light ray; including a pressure oscillation in the fill fluid by the thermal wave; and detecting the pressure oscillation by a microphone to determine information about the analyte sample.
US09523628B2
The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for determining separation efficiency of a cyclone separator. The method comprises: collecting solid particles separated by a cyclone separator; performing a particle size analysis for the collected solid particles; calculating feature parameters of the collected solid particles according to a result of the particle size analysis, wherein the feature parameters are values representing particle size and particle size uniformity of the solid particles; and determining a separation efficiency corresponding to the feature parameters of the collected solid particles as a separation efficiency of the cyclone separator, according to a predetermined correspondence between feature parameter and separation efficiency. The present invention avoids the difficulty in directly measuring the material concentrations at the inlet and the outlet of the cyclone separator and has a small interference with the apparatus. In addition, the test requires a simple operation and has a good repeatability.
US09523625B2
A method for monitoring includes providing a device (64) including a first part (46) and a second part (72) and a movable joint (70) connecting the first part to the second part. An electrical characteristic of a conductive path (80) crossing the movable joint is measured, and a remedial action is initiated in response to detecting a change of the electrical characteristic.
US09523624B2
A freezeless hydrant maintenance system for testing, troubleshooting, and repairing the functionality of a freezeless water hydrant prior to the seasonal freezing temperatures, the system comprising a pressure vessel adapted to receive and hold a fluid under pressure, an actuator adapted to release the pressurized fluid upon the user's command, at least one display and an adapter hose adapted to engage a hydrant and seal to prevent pressure loss, whereby the system is attached to a freezeless hydrant, the user opens hydrant pressurizing the vertical pipe and hydrant with water and air, observes the display determining if the freezeless hydrant drain hole is block, then operates the system applying additional pressure to clear blockage, and identifies a hydrant that needs replacement.
US09523621B2
An electronic control system includes a microcomputer and a signal processing circuit, and receives output signals of an in-cylinder pressure sensor and a crank angle sensor. The output signal of the pressure sensor indicates an output voltage of a piezoelectric transducer and a reference voltage. The signal processing circuit includes a hold circuit and a differential amplifier circuit. The differential amplifier circuit amplifies a difference between the output signal of the pressure sensor and the output signal of the hold circuit and outputs the result to the microcomputer. The hold circuit switches over the output signals in response to a switchover instruction of the microcomputer. When the switchover instruction is a set instruction, the hold circuit holds as its output signal the output signal of the pressure sensor outputted at the time of receiving the set instruction. The microcomputer outputs the set instruction to the hold circuit in response to the output signal of the crank angle sensor.
US09523618B2
An electronic torque wrench is disclosed that instantaneously logs data in real time from a torqueing operation and can later transfer the data to an external device, such as a computer, for further analysis. For example, the computer can create a graph that can be analyzed to determine relevant parameters of the torqueing profile. The parameters of the graph can be analyzed to determine whether the torqueing operation was performed properly for a particular work piece or job task, or to assist users in future torqueing operations.
US09523617B2
A transducer assembly configured to accommodate a plurality of individually tunable sensing elements of various geometries and configurations by using a cap and an accompanying capillary tube. The configuration of the various embodiments described herein eliminate the header to flat plate welds of the prior art, and therefore better accommodates a plurality of sensing elements and corresponding header assemblies within one transducer assembly.
US09523615B1
The temperature-dependent resistance of a MEMS structure is compared with an effective resistance of a switched CMOS capacitive element to implement a high performance temperature sensor.
US09523612B2
Passive detector structures for imaging systems are provided which implement unpowered, passive front-end detector structures with direct-to-digital measurement data output for detecting incident photonic radiation in various portions (e.g., thermal (IR), near IR, UV and visible light) of the electromagnetic spectrum.
US09523608B2
What is disclosed is a system and method for processing image data acquired using a multi-band infrared camera system with a spectral mosaic filter arranged in a geometric pattern without having to perform a demosaicing that is typical with processing data from an array of sensors. In one embodiment, image data that has been captured using a camera system that has a spectral filter mosaic comprising a plurality of spectral filters arrayed on a grid. A material index is determined, using intensity values collected by sensor elements associated with a cell's respective spectral filters. All of the material indices collectively generate a material index image. Thereafter, material identification is performed on the material index image using, for example, pixel classification. Because the demosaicing step can be effectively avoided, image processing time is reduced. The teachings hereof find their uses in a wide array of applications including automated HOV/HOT violation detection.
US09523607B2
A tunable coherent radiation source comprises a pump laser which outputs a pump beam and a non-linear optical medium having a tuning pattern to provide tuning across a wavelength range. A translation system is arranged such that the pump beam is translated across the tuning pattern. The scanning pattern is formed such that translation of the pump beam across the tuning pattern provides one or more discontinuities in tuning across the wavelength range. A spectroscopic system and a hyperspectral imaging system comprising such a tunable coherent radiation source are described, as is a non-linear optical medium adapted for use in such a source. A method of providing coherent radiation tuned over a wavelength range is also described.
US09523606B2
A method and apparatus for testing materials for testing materials using infrared spectrometry. Calibration of an infrared spectrometer for use in testing materials including the steps of: selecting variables which have the potential to influence the physical characteristics of a composite used in the aerospace industry, selecting values for each variable and inputting the variable and values into a design of experiments model, thereby obtaining a sample test matrix.
US09523603B2
A weighing compartment (10) having a work surface (22), including a balance which is integrated into the weighing compartment and which has a scale pan (24) arranged on the work surface (22), and at least one operation surface (26) which is arranged within the area of the work surface (22). The work surface (22) is formed by the surface of a smooth, continuous plate (20) and the operation surface (26) is integrated into the work surface (22) and is designed as a sensor panel, wherein a sensor (28) is arranged below the plate which forms the work surface.
