US09769970B2
An apparatus and method for feeding electronic components for insertion onto circuit boards, the apparatus comprising: a vibratory bowl configured for receiving electronic components and for lining up the electronic components onto a moveable conveyor, the vibratory bowl is configured for vibrating and guiding each of the electronic components towards an opening in the vibratory bowl where each of the electronic components is transferred to the conveyor; a component processing unit configured for checking operation of each of the electronic components lined up along the conveyor and for removing any defective electronic component failing the operation check; and a component feeder configured for transferring each of the electronic components that are non-defective to a machine for handling insertion of the electronic components onto circuit boards.
US09769969B2
An electronic circuit component mounting head which mounts electronic circuit components to a circuit substrate is provided. The mounting head includes a rotating/raising/lowering axis held on a head main body as to be capable of rotation and of being raised/lowered, a suction nozzle held on the rotating/raising/lowering axis as to be capable of being raised/lowered and not capable of being rotated relatively, and the rotating/raising/lowering axis and suction nozzle can be rotated as necessary by an electric motor. A raising/lowering driving member is held on head main body as to be capable of being raised/lowered, and is raised/lowered by a first linear motor. A first engaging section of the raising/lowering driving member is engaged with the rotating/raising/lowering axis, and a second engaging section of a second linear motor is held on the raising/lowering driving member engaged with suction nozzle.
US09769963B2
A heat-sink-attached-power module substrate (1) has a configuration such that either one of a metal layer (13) and a heat sink (31) is composed of aluminum or an aluminum alloy, and the other one of them is composed of copper or a copper alloy, the metal layer (13) and the heat sink (31) are bonded together by solid phase diffusion bonding, an intermetallic compound layer formed of copper and aluminum is formed in a bonding interface between the metal layer (13) and the heat sink (31), and an oxide is dispersed in an interface between the intermetallic compound layer and either one of the metal layer (13) composed of copper or a copper alloy and heat sink (31) composed of copper or a copper alloy in a layered form along the interface.
US09769960B2
New data center heat removal systems and methods allow a combination of active and passive thermal processes for removing heat from and cooling air in data center environments. Systems and methods include a data center heat removal system including an adjustable thermal feed cold air intake system, a distribution system for cold and warm air including one or more hot aisles and one or more cold aisles, and a convection system to draw cool air through data center equipment using a naturally-occurring convection processes to expel hot air. Misters, cooling elements, and/or freezer boxes may further cool the intake of air. A controller is programmed to efficiently manage and control the climate (e.g., temperature, humidity, air flow, pressure, air quality, etc.) within a data center to minimize the use for energy for air distribution and cooling.
US09769959B2
A system, a shelf, and a high density platform optimize the physical arrangement of cards to maximize cooling effectiveness and line card pitch while minimizing backplane trace lengths between line interface and switch fabric cards. The shelf and system and associated card arrangement supports scaling to a larger, double-size system that maintains the required length of backplane traces for card communications without compromising card cooling. Advantageously, the shelf and system maintains full NEBS compliance through an arrangement supporting full air intake/outtake through a front and/or back of the shelf or system, i.e. no side ventilation, and includes a false front to ensure all cards (switch fabric and line interface cards) are substantially flush with one another.
US09769955B2
A printed board on which a power module is mounted, a cooling pipe that is a refrigerant pipe of a refrigerant circuit, and a cooler attached to the power module and the cooling pipe are disposed in a casing. A support member by which the cooler is attached to the printed board and supported on the printed board, and a fixing member by which the printed board is fixed to the casing and supported on the casing are used.
US09769945B2
A cover device for a contact section of a printed circuit board for a mechatronics module is proposed. The printed circuit board includes a contact section which has at least one connection hole, for connecting an electrical connection element to the printed circuit board. The cover device is characterized in that the cover device has a voltage protection element and a sealing element for sealing the at least one connection hole. The sealing element has at least one blind hole thereby, for receiving an end section of the electrical connection element.
US09769938B2
A window member includes: a glass member; a display member wherein the glass member has a bottom surface which faces and overlays the display member and a pattern layer provided on a first surface of the glass member and having a fine pattern. The pattern layer is silk-screen printed on the first surface of the glass member to directly contact the surface of the glass member. A method of manufacturing a window member, includes: forming a pattern layer such that the pattern layer contacts a surface of the glass member along a periphery of the glass member. The pattern layer is formed at a location which is offset inward from a periphery of the glass member.
US09769926B2
A circuit board includes a board base with a first surface and a second surface that is located opposite the first surface. A plurality of first coupling pads are located on the first surface of the board base. A plurality of second coupling pads are located on the second surface of the board base. The first coupling pads and the second coupling pads define a coupling pad footprint. A breakout via system is included in the board base. The breakout via system includes a plurality of primary signal vias that are located in the board base and outside of the coupling pad footprint, a plurality of first primary signal via connections that extend between the primary signal vias and the plurality of first coupling pads, and a plurality of second primary signal via connections that extend between the primary signal vias and the plurality of second coupling pads.
US09769925B2
A relieved component pad for 0201 component use between vias on a tight-pitch Ball Grid Array is disclosed herein. The relieved component pad for 0201 component use between vias provides substantially rectangular component pads having a relieved section at a point of closest approach to a via pad. The relieved component pad for 0201 component use is particularly useful for overcoming the problem of 0201 component placement on tight-pitch arrays known in the art.
US09769923B2
Interposer circuitry (130) is formed on a possibly sacrificial substrate (210) from a porous core (130′) covered by a conductive coating (130″) which increases electrical conductance. The core is printed from nanoparticle ink. Then a support (120S) is formed, e.g. by molding, to mechanically stabilize the circuitry. A magnetic field can be used to stabilize the circuitry while the circuitry or the support are being formed. Other features are also provided.
US09769921B2
A printed circuit board has a double-sided substrate with an insulation layer, a bonding member, a base layer of an aluminum material, and a circuit pattern; a second insulation layer; a second bonding member; a second base layer; a through hole; a zinc substitution layer; a plating layer; and a second circuit pattern.
US09769919B2
Discussed is a display device and a method of manufacturing the display device. The display device according to one example includes a display panel including a first substrate and a second substrate facing and coupled to the first substrate, wherein the first substrate includes a display part in which a plurality of pixels are formed, a bending part formed at one side of the display part, and a pad part formed at an end of the bending part; a back film adhered to a portion, corresponding to the display part and the pad part, in a bottom of the first substrate; and a supporting member formed to guide the bending part and support the back film adhered to a portion corresponding to the display part.
US09769915B2
The invention relates to a drive arrangement in a spacecraft, comprising several drive units (TW1,TW2,TW3), several individually controllable drive units that can be continuously applied to a common, constant voltage potential (HV), and a control of the axial thrust in the respective drive units is achieved due to the fact that the production of plasma in the respective drive units is individually controlled. In particular, the time-variable control of the production of plasma occurs by the time-variable control of the flow of neutral working gas (AG) in the ionization chamber (IK).
US09769910B2
System, methods, computer-readable media and apparatus are described herein for sharing lighting settings between lighting systems in real time. In some embodiments, a user may configure a local lighting system to “follow” a remote lighting system, such that the local lighting system emits light that resembles light emitted contemporaneously by the remote lighting system. Likewise, a user may cause one or more attributes of light emitted by a local lighting system to be published, so that other remote lighting systems may follow the local lighting system.
US09769902B1
A laser sensor stimulator integrates laser units, an inertial measurement unit, a control unit, and ergonomic, modular design with GPS data feeds into a portable system that can be used to test energy sensors and warning devices and includes a user interface facilitates tracking and acquisition of items of interest by the laser sensor stimulator.
US09769883B2
There is provided a placement position determining part that calculates a rising gradient of an output value of the infrared sensor every after passage of a first predetermined time and performs a placement position determining operation of determining that a placement position of a cooking vessel is improper when the rising gradient is smaller than a first threshold value, and the placement position determining part performs the placement position determining operation after a lapse of a second predetermined time from the start of heating, thereby accurately determining that the cooking vessel is improperly placed on a top plate and preventing overheating of the cooking vessel.
US09769876B2
Power outputs in a heating control and/or regulation device are each electrically connectable to a heating element, especially a radiant heater. A power input is able to be connected electrically to a power supply for the heating elements. A power distribution device is connected electrically on its input side to the power input and is connected electrically on its output side via a branch to each of the power outputs to supply the power outputs with electric power from the power supply. A switching element is disposed in each of the branches or between each of the power outputs and the heating elements. A control and/or regulation unit is configured such that it controls and/or regulates the switching state of the switching elements as a function of set values. An interface receiving set values has at least one additional connection to a temperature measurement device that measures actual values of temperature. The control and/or regulation unit is configured such that it acquires the actual values of the temperature from the temperature measurement device and additionally controls and/or regulates the switching state of the switching elements as a function of these actual values of the temperature.
US09769869B2
A non-contact type power supply apparatus may include a power unit transmitting power to a power receiving apparatus in a non-contact type manner, a communicating unit communicating with the power receiving apparatus, and a controlling unit terminating communications with the power receiving apparatus in the case in which a communications signal level of the power receiving apparatus transmitted to the communicating unit is equal to or less than a reference signal level.
US09769866B2
Apparatus and methods to support IP flow mobility (IFOM) via multiple wireless accesses in a wireless device are disclosed. The wireless device initiates network-based IFOM (NB-IFOM) to establish and manage IP flows. Support for NB-IFOM is negotiated during initial attach procedures to either or both wireless accesses and by using packet data network (PDN) connectivity procedures. The wireless device sends routing rules including priorities to apply to both existing and future IP flows or to future IP flows only. The wireless device requests to move IP flows from a source access to a target access. When a new wireless access is added to an existing PDN connection, an identical IP address for the wireless device is allocated as used for the existing PDN connection. The network establishes a GPRS tunneling protocol (GTP) tunnel for the new wireless access while maintaining a previously established GTP tunnel for the existing wireless access.
US09769857B2
A method for operating a user equipment (UE) in a UE group including at least two UEs includes receiving, from a communications controller, network resources information about an allocation of a first set of network resources to the UE group and a transmission indication, where the transmission indication indicates that the UE is selected to transmit in a second set of network resources that is a subset of the first set of network resources. The method further includes transmitting, to other UEs in the UE group utilizing a direct mobile communications (DMC) link associated with the communications controller, a first message including a control indicator in a first subset of the second set of network resources, the control indicator indicating scheduling information for a second subset of the second set of network resources.
US09769855B2
Embodiments of methods and systems for mobility in enterprise networks are presented. The methods and systems described herein provide a mobile wireless device with access to both an enterprise network and an external network by establishing a proxy connection between a gateway component of the enterprise network and a gateway component of the external network. Such embodiments may maintain the security of the enterprise network. Additionally, such embodiments may not require modification of the User Equipment (UE) or of components of the external network. Indeed, the methods and systems may operate transparently to both the UE and to components of the external network.
US09769844B2
The present invention relates to a method for performing direct D2D communication by means of a first device in a wireless communication system. In particular, the method includes the steps of: detecting a scheduling message from a plurality of first subframes in which the search region of the scheduling message for D2D direct communication is activated; and performing direct D2D communication with a second device in a second subframe on the basis of the scheduling message, wherein the scheduling message includes an instructor instructing the direct D2D communication.
US09769841B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for processing a PDCP reordering function in a dual connectivity system, the method comprising: generating a MAC PDU (Medium Access Control Protocol Data Unit) if both of a PHR (Power Headroom Reporting) and a sidelink BSR (Buffer Status Reporting) are generated while the UE communicates with other UEs directly using a sidelink; and transmitting the MAC PDU, wherein the PHR is prioritized over the sidelink BSR when the UE prioritizes between the PHR and the sidelink BSR in the generated MAC PDU.
US09769837B2
Provided are a method of allocating a resource in a wireless communication system and an apparatus using the method. The method includes: measuring a variation of a data usage pattern or density of user equipments located in a region for providing a service; determining whether the variation is greater than or equal to a threshold; and determining a resource allocation type of the region for providing the service on the basis of the determination result.
US09769832B2
A proper communication service is provided according to use by a user.An information processing apparatus includes a selection unit and a control unit. Based on a request from a wireless communication apparatus, the selection unit selects a connection right that has to be set to be in the wireless communication apparatus, from among multiple types of connection rights for connecting to a predetermined network using a wireless communication. The control unit controls a wireless communication service relating to the request, which is performed between the information processing apparatus and the wireless communication apparatus after the connection right that is selected by the selection unit is set to be in the wireless communication apparatus.
US09769824B2
Systems and methods for OFDM channelization are provided that allow for the coexistence of sub-band channels and diversity channels. Methods of defining diversity sub-channels and sub-band sub-channels are provided and systematic channel definition and labeling schemes are provided.
US09769821B2
In one embodiment, a plurality of data rates available for communication is identified at a first device in a network. Slots of a channel hopping schedule are also identified and the data rates are assigned to the slots of the channel hopping schedule to generate a data rate hopping schedule. The generated data rate hopping schedule is further provided to a second device in the network.
US09769816B2
The present specification discloses a mobile communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving data using a plurality of carriers in a mobile communication system.
US09769812B2
The method for receiving system information by a terminal in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a step of receiving a subframe; and a step of performing, for a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) in a predetermined resource region of the subframe, blind decoding based on a plurality of sequences to be masked to a CRC parity bit. If a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) does not exist in the subframe, each of the plurality of sequences indicates pieces of individual information contained in one or more of a reference signal type set, a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) antenna port information set and diversity scheme information set.
US09769806B2
A system and method for providing both localized and distributed transmission modes for EPDCCH is disclosed, where one EPDCCH comprises of one or multiple CCEs. Localized versus distributed transmission may be defined in terms of the EPDCCH to CCE resource mapping. In a localized transmission CCEs are restricted to be contained within one PRB. In a distributed transmission a CCE spans over multiple PRBs. A UE can be configured to either receive the EPDCCH only in localized or only in distributed transmissions. A UE can also be configured to expect EPDCCH transmissions in both localized and distributed transmissions. In each PRB configured by the higher layer as an EPDCCH resource, 24 REs that may be used for any DMRS transmission are always reserved and not used for EPDCCH transmission.
US09769797B2
A system includes a self-backhauled eNodeB which communicates via a radio interface with an anchor eNodeB, where the self-backhauled eNodeB is made reachable in an operator's network via a serving gateway and where the serving gateway of the self-backhauled eNodeB owns an IP address associated with the self-backhauled eNodeB. The system receives a packet destined for the self-backhauled eNodeB and classifies the packet to a bearer associated with a self-backhauled link to the self-backhauled eNodeB.
US09769794B1
In accordance with the disclosed methods and systems, while providing a service that enables user equipment devices (UEs) being served by a first network to engage in signaling with a second network via the first network, a controller or other network entity may detect a failure of paging in the first network. In response to detecting the failure of paging, the first network may then cause one or more UEs being served by the first network to transition from operating in a first mode that uses the given service to operating in a second mode that does not use the given service.
US09769785B2
Improved methods and networks of components are described for dynamically changing an operational mode of node operations in a wireless node network having at least a plurality of master nodes and a server. A method begins with a first master node detecting an environmental change related to the first master node, such as when the first master node loses reception of a location signal due to surrounding structure. In response to the detected environmental change, changing an operational mode for the first master node to a temporary ID node mode where the first master node no longer can self-determine its location. The first master node operating in the temporary ID node mode then notifies the server that the first master nodes is operating in the temporary ID node mode, and associates with a second master node.
US09769784B2
A serving gateway updates location information for a mobile device based on information in an update bearer request. The serving gateway receives a first update bearer request for a mobile device. The first update bearer request includes a first address associated with a micro cellular service base station to which the mobile device is in communication. The micro cellular service base station is associated with a physical location. The serving gateway sends a location notification to a location server, indicating that the mobile device is physically near the micro cellular service base station. The serving gateway receives a second update bearer request for the mobile device including an address associated with a macro cellular service base station. The serving gateway sends another location notification to the location server indicating that the mobile device is no longer at the physical location of the micro cellular service base station.
US09769783B2
It is inter alia disclosed to obtain or generate detection data. The detection data comprises position data that is indicative of a position of a terminal and one or more identifiers respectively related to one or more coverage areas detected by the terminal. A negative hit for at least a region of a coverage area representation associated with a coverage area is detected, if at least all of the following conditions (i)-(iii) hold: (i) a class of the coverage area matches at least one class of one or more coverage areas for which respective identifiers are comprised or at least expected to be comprised in the detection data, (ii) the position of the terminal is within the region, and (iii) the detection data does not comprise an identifier related to the coverage area associated with the coverage area representation. At least information on the detected negative hit is used and/or provided for deciding if the region of the coverage area representation shall remain part of the coverage area representation or shall be removed from the coverage area representation, and/or for deciding whether a frequency of generating detection data shall be increased.
US09769782B2
According to some embodiments, a wireless communication device within a coverage area of a first network is configured to act according to first configuration information associated with the first network. The wireless communication device detects when it has moved outside the coverage area of the first network and, in response, applies an out-of-coverage configuration management rule. The rule indicates how to manage the first configuration information outside the coverage area of the first network.
US09769777B2
When using a plurality of antenna elements, calibration is performed appropriately, while preventing processing time from increasing. A base station apparatus has a plurality of antenna elements; a combiner configured to receive and combine downlink transmission signals, each including a reference signal, from monitor ports provided corresponding to the antenna elements; a channel estimator configured to estimate a channel of the reference signal for each of the antenna elements; and a calibration controller configured to calculate a calibration correction value to be applied to each of the antenna elements based upon channel estimation result.
US09769765B2
A method for transmitting to a direct mobile communications (DMC) device by a user equipment operating in both a cellular mode and a DMC mode includes estimating a first pathloss of a first channel from the user equipment to a base station according to a difference between a known base station transmit power level and a received base station power level, and estimating a second pathloss of a second channel from the user equipment to the DMC device according to a difference between a known DMC device transmit power level and a received DMC device power level. The method also includes setting a transmit power level for transmission to the DMC device according to the first pathloss and the second pathloss, and transmitting a signal to the DMC device at the transmit power level.
US09769754B2
The transmission of a reference signal, such as a CSI-RS, is enabled while maintaining a power saving effect when performing inter-cell cooperative transmission/reception or the like in a plurality of cells. In order to realize inter-cell cooperative transmission/reception, a CSI-RS which is used for estimating the state of a spatial propagation path of a communication line is generated by a CSI-RS generation unit, and the CSI-RS is disposed in a predetermined subframe by a disposition unit and transmitted. At this time, when a frame has ten subframes #0 to #9, the CSI-RS is disposed in the subframes #4 and #9, which are subframes excluding the subframes #0 and #5 incapable of transmitting a CSI-RS and are subframes other than subframes capable of acting as MBSFN subframes when discontinuous communication (Extended Cell DTX) is performed so as to achieve power saving, and transmitted.
US09769750B2
Methods for enhanced UE data transmission for power consumption optimization are disclosed. A UE detects UE conditions and determines a UE traffic characteristic. The UE performs power consumption optimization based on the traffic characteristic. In one novel aspect, based on the UE condition, the UE determines that the traffic characteristic is low priority traffic or mobile originated only traffic. In one embodiment, the UE aligns prescheduled low priority data transmission with mobility management messages, or group multiple low priority prescheduled data transmission together. In another embodiment, the UE reduces NAS retry process upon detecting application triggered low priority traffic. In another embodiment, the UE turns off RF module until next data transmission for MO only traffic. In another novel aspect, the UE detects and sends UE conditions to the network. The network determines a UE traffic characteristic and performs power consumption optimization accordingly.
US09769744B2
Certain aspects involve power management subsystems for a distributed antenna system (“DAS”) or other telecommunication system. The power management subsystem can include a measurement module and an optimization module. The measurement module can monitor a utilization metric for a remote unit in the DAS or other telecommunication system. The power optimization module can determine whether the remote unit is underutilized based on the monitored utilization metric. The power optimization module can configure the remote unit for a low-power operation in response to determining that the remote unit is underutilized.
US09769741B2
An add-on communication device attached to a cable-mounted charging control device integrated with a cable assembly for charging an electric vehicle includes a control unit and a plurality of communication modules for communicating with a terminal device. The control unit determines a first communication module for transmitting a message, from among the plurality of communication modules. The control unit determines a second communication module for retransmitting the message, from among the plurality of communication modules excepting the first communication module, when reception of an acknowledgement message indicating normal reception of the message by the terminal device is abnormal.
US09769740B2
In one aspect, a mobile device comprises a transceiver and a controller. The transceiver communicates with another device in a plurality of frequency bands. The plurality of frequency bands includes a first frequency band and a second frequency band. The first frequency band has a lower frequency than the second frequency band. The controller uses the first frequency band in preference to the second frequency band in a first case where an own mobile device is estimated to be immersed in water based on a value detected by at least one sensor. The controller uses the second frequency band in preference to the first frequency band in a second case where the own mobile device is not estimated to be immersed in water based on a value detected by the at least one sensor.
US09769738B2
According to an example, in an AC pool including a MAC and a plurality of LACs registered on the MAC, after a first LAC is registered on the MAC, the MAC issues a first traffic rule to the first LAC, wherein the first traffic rule redirects a discovery packet sent from an AP to the MAC. When receiving the discovery packet sent from the AP or receiving a discovery packet sent from the AP and forwarded via a LAC, the MAC selects, from a plurality of the LACs, a second LAC for handling the AP. The MAC generates a second traffic rule associated with the AP and the second LAC, and issue the second traffic rule to a plurality of the LACs, so that when another LAC receives a communication tunnel protocol packet sent from the AP, the other LAC redirects the communication tunnel protocol packet to the second LAC.
US09769735B2
User equipment (UE) obtains system information using a foreground or background process. The system information may include cell information that distinguishes femtocells from macrocells. Given this cell information, the UE may avoid tuning to or attempting to connect to cell types that the UE does not support. For instance, the UE may avoid connection attempts to femtocells, when the UE does not support femtocell connections.
US09769721B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a channel switching method, apparatus, and device. The method includes: obtaining, by a mobile Wi-Fi device, a channel switching instruction sent by a Wi-Fi access point, where the channel switching instruction carries a destination channel identifier; and switching, by the mobile Wi-Fi device according to the channel switching instruction, a communication channel between the mobile Wi-Fi device and the Wi-Fi access point, and a communication channel between the mobile Wi-Fi device and a terminal that accesses the mobile Wi-Fi device to a destination communication channel corresponding to the destination channel identifier carried in the channel switching instruction. In this way, a Wi-Fi client and a Wi-Fi access end of a mobile Wi-Fi device still work on a same communication channel after performing channel switching, thereby improving compatibility, a throughput, and stability of the mobile Wi-Fi device.
US09769711B2
The present disclosure provides a method for cell reselection in a wireless communication system in which various radio access technologies (RATs) coexist with each other. In a wireless communication system in which heterogeneous networks coexist with each other, the method of cell reselection between heterogeneous networks for a user equipment may include: receiving a system information block (SIB) containing cell reselection parameters from a corresponding base station; checking whether cell reselection parameters based on a cell selection quality value (Squal) are configured in the received SIB; and performing, when cell reselection parameter based on Squal are not configured, cell reselection based on a cell selection receive level value (Srxlev). The present disclosure may prevent the user equipment from performing unnecessary cell reselection.
US09769708B2
A method of mobility management in a label-switched network comprising a primary domain comprising N label-switched nodes, with N>1, and a mobile domain comprising M mobile label-switched nodes, with M≧1, the mobile domain being movable with respect to said primary domain, packets routing between the primary domain and the mobile domain being performed by means of a primary border node, selected from the N label-switched nodes, and a mobile border node, selected from the M mobile label-switched nodes, wherein a handoff procedure is executed that establishes a label switched connection between the primary border node and the mobile border node.
US09769706B2
Resources are reserved for handover signaling. Handover reliability is thereby improved since the primary interference for handover signaling will be from the handover signaling of nearby cells (e.g., as opposed to data traffic). Given the relatively sparse nature of handover signaling, a significant reduction in interference may be achieved in a network employing this technique in comparison to conventional networks. In some implementations, a set of neighboring access points cooperate to determine which resources are reserved for handover signaling. In some implementations, resources for handover signaling are reserved on a network-wide basis or an access point cluster-wide basis.
US09769704B2
A method for a mobile station to access to a base station in a wireless communication system that uses selective acknowledgement mechanism, comprising: transmitting, an access probe from the mobile station to the base station, the access probe including a plurality of data frames; setting, a vector in the mobile station based on a message received from the base station, wherein the message indicates parts of the plurality of data frames in the access probe are not decoded by the base station; passing, the parts of the plurality of data frames that are not decoded by the base station from a MAC layer of the mobile station to a PHY layer of the mobile station according to the vector; and sending, by the mobile station to the base station, the parts of plurality of data frames that are not decoded by the base station.
US09769703B2
A fragmentation threshold is dynamically determined based on a current transmission rate. A medium access control (MAC) service data unit (MSDU) is received, and it is determined whether a length of the MSDU exceeds the fragmentation threshold. The MSDU is fragmented into multiple MAC protocol data units (MPDUs) when it is determined that the length of the MSDU exceeds the fragmentation threshold, whereas an MPDU that includes the MSDU is generated when it is determined that the length of the MSDU does not exceed the fragmentation threshold.
US09769702B2
A method and system are for generating a report for delivery to or access or query by a network operator by determining, by a server-side proxy, optimization efficiency for traffic in a wireless network, tracking, by the server-side proxy, user-related information in the wireless network, generating, based on at least one of the optimization efficiency and the user-related information, a report for delivery to or access by an operator of the wireless network, the report including an alert of viral take-up of a new application, and performing, by the server-side proxy, traffic optimization functions alleviating traffic in the wireless network.
US09769698B2
A load balancing process includes determining when the cell is overloaded, determining whether the cell is in a hold state, maintaining a current mitigation state for the cell when the cell is determined to be in a hold state, determining whether traffic has decreased for the cell since a previous time and whether mitigation was applied to the cell at the previous time, applying a hold state to the cell when the traffic is determined to have decreased and the mitigation is determined to have been applied, determining whether performance has decreased by a predetermined level for the cell when the cell is not in the hold state, and applying mitigation to the cell when performance has decreased by at least the predetermined level. Such a process may be implemented as a state machine in a system.
US09769697B2
Embodiments are provided herein for improving carrier aggregation for wireless networks. A plurality of bandwidth channels are assigned to a basic service set (BSS) for transmissions. Specifically, the bandwidth channels are divided into multiple channel segments corresponding to multiple primary or alternate primary channels. A channel segment possibly further includes one or more additional secondary channels. The locations of the primary or alternate primary channels that correspond to the channel segments of the BSS are then broadcasted in the network. When a station or AP receives this BSS information, it searches for an available primary or alternate primary channel of the BSS to begin transmission. Upon detecting an available primary channel or alternate primary channel that is not used for another transmission, the station or AP transmits data on the channel segment corresponding to the detected primary or alternate primary channel.
US09769690B2
A discovery signal measurement method, base station and terminal, wherein the method includes: a base station determining measurement patterns used by different terminals for measuring discovery signals according to transmission patterns of discovery signals; the base station configuring measurement patterns corresponding to the terminals for the terminals; the base station transmitting the discovery signals in cells corresponding to the transmission pattern according to the transmission patterns. The method, base station and terminal according to the embodiment of the present invention provide a definite solution for configuring measurement patterns of discovery signals.
US09769689B2
Adjusting cell specific antenna configuration parameters includes receiving, at each of a plurality of radio access nodes in a network, measurement reports from a plurality of user equipment devices. Base incremental adjustments to configuration parameters of one or more antennas are performed at each radio access node in response to the measurement reports. Additional measurement reports are received from the plurality of user equipment devices after the incremental adjustments. Base incremental adjustments to the configuration parameters of the one or more antennas at the radio access nodes continue to be performed in response to the measurement reports after previous incremental adjustments until an improvement limit has occurred. Biased random adjustments to the configuration parameters of the one or more antennas at the radio access nodes are performed in response to the improvement limit until a desired optimum result is achieved.
US09769684B1
Systems and methods are described for determining latency in a communication network. A non-IP protocol physical interface may be implemented at an access node. The physical interface may be configured to receive a simulated wireless device that mimics a radio-frequency interface. Delay data associated with segmented portions of a backhaul of the communication network may be measured at a base band unit (BBU) of the access node using the simulated wireless device. At least one segment of the backhaul may be isolated based on the measured delay data associated with the segmented portions.
US09769675B2
A cloud-based connectivity system is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of wireless devices and a computing device connected to at least one of the wireless devices. The computing device includes a control unit to receive context information from each of the plurality of wireless devices, to determine future consumption patterns for each of the plurality of wireless devices by using the received context information, to create a connectivity representation for the plurality of wireless devices, and to determine an optimal network topology for the plurality of wireless devices.
US09769674B2
Multiple mobile cellular network (MCN) communication systems can be networked together to form a network of MCN communication systems (NOM). Each MCN communication system within the NOM can operate as an independent cellular network to provide communications between user equipment within a covered area. The MCN can be managed by a network management control center (NMCC). The NMCC can be configured generate coverage maps of the NOM and NMC system coverage areas.
US09769672B2
It is provided a method, including mapping, based on a predefined zone mapping table, a share status of a geographically defined zone to a cell of a communication network; identifying, based on a predefined cell mapping table, a cell device related to the cell; and triggering issuing a command to the cell device to modify an activity status of a predefined radio resource in the cell depending on the share status.
US09769669B2
Apparatus, methods, computer readable media and processors may provide a secure architecture within which a client application on a wireless device may, in some aspects, exchange information securely with resident device resources, and in other aspects, with a remote server over a wireless network.
US09769664B1
An access point and a sensor node are disclosed for use within a wireless sensor network. The wireless sensor network includes at least one access point adapted to securely communicate with at least one of the sensor nodes using an encryption mechanism that uses a nonce and an encryption key to encrypt the plaintext at the sensor node to create the cipher text included in the data payload of a message sent to the access point. The sensor node does not send the nonce. The access point uses the same nonce to decipher to the received message's data payload, but generates the nonce internally without receiving it from the sensor node.
US09769656B2
An electronic device including a communication module capable of exchanging messages with an external entity, characterized in that the communication module includes at least a first communication circuit capable of exchanging messages using a first communication protocol and a second communication circuit capable of exchanging messages using a second communication protocol different from the first communication protocol.
US09769654B2
Disclosed are methods and systems of implementing a right over a content or contents. Various implementations may include means and operations for receiving, for example in an execution environment and from a secure element, a first key for implementing a right over an encrypted content; decrypting said content in said execution environment with the help of the first key; and implementing the right over the content in said execution environment. Various implementations may also include means and operations for receiving a second key in, for example, said execution environment, from the secure element; and encrypting said content in sad execution environment with the help of the second key.
US09769653B1
A method and apparatus for deriving an encryption key for use between two stations in a wireless network using information intrinsic to one of the stations, without exchanging pairwise transient keys.
US09769646B2
Various embodiments of the present technology allow multi-realm support at I/S-CSCF to IMS by the same I/S-CSCF nodes. Some embodiments allow for a registration message to be received from an IMS client. The registration message can be used to establish, through an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) core network, a service between a first endpoint associated with a first realm and a second endpoint associated with a second, different realm. The registration message can be translated so that the second endpoint believes the first endpoint is associated with the second realm before being transmitted to the second endpoint. Upon receiving a successful IMS registration message from the IMS core network, a binding can be created between the first endpoint and the second endpoint.
US09769638B2
There is provided a system for enhancing safety of a vehicle for which an operator wears a helmet, the system comprising an RFID device comprising an RFID tag and an RFID reader adapted to detect whether the helmet is within a proximity distance from the vehicle and to output a first helmet status signal; a helmet presence detector adapted to detect whether the helmet is being worn by the operator and to output a second helmet status signal; and a circuit for receiving safety conditions signals comprising the first and second helmet status signals and for activating an ignition system of the vehicle when safety conditions are detected, the safety conditions comprising when the helmet is detected to be concurrently within the proximity distance and worn by the operator. There is also provided a safety circuit and helmet device.
US09769635B2
Disclosed are a broadcast signal transmitting method. The method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes processing with input streams to output transmission units, wherein the transmission units carry broadcast data which carries a service or a service component, encoding the transmission units, symbol-mapping the encoded transmission units, MIMO encoding the symbol-mapped transmission units, time-interleaving the MIMO-encoded transmission units, building signal frames including the time-interleaved transmission units, modulating the built signal frames by Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, OFDM scheme, and transmitting the modulated signal frames. Herein the signal frames include a fixed mode of signal frame and a mobile mode of signal frame. Herein a signal frame in the transmitted signal frames includes a preamble part, and the preamble part includes physical signaling data for the transmission units, and wherein the physical signaling data include information on a pilot mode for the signal frame.
US09769631B2
The present invention discloses a method for implementing resending of a short message, including: when an Internet Protocol short message gateway (IP-SM-GW) learns that in an Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) domain, a short message fails to be sent to a receiver, sending, by the IP-SM-GW, the short message to a service center, so that the service center stores the short message; and when the receiver corresponding to the short message changes to available status, receiving, by the IP-SM-GW, the stored short message sent by the service center, and resending the short message to the receiver through the IMS domain, thereby implementing resending of a short message request failing to be sent, improving availability of sending the short message request in the IMS, and improving user experience.
US09769610B1
A method for providing adaptive location sharing based on proximity may include identifying a group of entities (people and/or places) associated with a target person, receiving, from a mobile communications device associated with the target person, location data indicative of a current geographic location of the target person, determining, using the location data, that the target person is proximate to at least a first entity of the group, generating a proximity message, and sending the proximity message to a remote monitoring device to cause the remote monitoring device to display a location-based status of the target person. The location-based status does not specify any geographic location of the target person.
US09769609B1
A method of adapting determination of location of mobile communication devices. The method comprises receiving and storing the time and self-location of an emergency (e911) call message from a mobile communication device. The method then retrieves the time and self-location information and the trilateration data associated with the mobile communication device that originated the e911 call message. An estimated position is then calculated from the trilateration data by using a trilateration position estimating model. An error is determined between the self-location and the estimated position of the mobile communication device, whereby the self-location is deemed authoritative. The trilateration position estimating model is adapted based on the error determined and then used to determine the position of a second mobile communication device.
US09769608B2
A method and a system for an external device with information about a task being performed by a user device are provided. The method includes receiving information about the task being performed by the user device, identifying a plurality of external devices located near a wearable device of a user of the user device, determining a first external device to continuously perform the task from among the plurality of external devices based on the information about the task and characteristics information about the identified external devices, and transmitting the information about the task to the first external device.
US09769607B2
In some implementations a method includes receiving a first request for a first ultrasonic audio signature from a first computing device. The method also includes transmitting first data indicative of the first ultrasonic audio signature to the first computing device. The method further includes receiving audio data from a second computing device. The method further includes determining that the audio data is indicative of the first ultrasonic audio signature. The method further includes transmitting, to one or more of the first computing device or the second computing device, a message indicating that the first computing device is in proximity to the second computing device.
US09769605B2
The present disclosure provides a terminal including a processor-readable storage medium including a set of instructions for geographic location sharing between the terminal and a target terminal; and a processor in communication with the storage medium. The processor is configured to execute the set of instructions to establish a communication with a target terminal of a target user remote to the terminal though a social networking application installed in the terminal; acquire a current geographic location information of the terminal at an interval of a preset period of time; and send the current geographic location information of the terminal to the target terminal at an interval of a preset period of time.
US09769600B2
The present disclosure relates to providing user information. In a method for requesting user information of an information requesting device in a mobile communication system, the method includes selecting a callee from a user, acquiring a user identifier (ID) of the selected callee, transmitting a user information request for the selected callee and the user ID to a relay server, evaluating whether an admission message is received from the relay server, and if the admission message is received, receiving user information from the relay server.
US09769598B2
A method for detecting the proximity of a signal source using wireless systems is contemplated in which a wireless mobile device wirelessly receives packets from a signal source and determines a received signal strength for each packet. The wireless mobile device may store information based upon the received signal strength for each packet, and calculate from the information stored for all the packets, a current path loss value corresponding to a current distance from the wireless mobile device to the signal source. The wireless mobile device may then determine whether the current distance is sufficient to be an enabling condition such as tap, for example, for a data transfer or a transaction between the wireless mobile device and the signal source.
US09769592B2
A method for transferring data using optimized short message transport includes receiving at a first network node an attach request message. The attach request message includes short-message data. The first network node receives from a second network node a short-message data response message. The short-message data response message includes at least one of an address for a short message service center, an indication that indicates no mobile-terminated message is pending for the UE, or a short-message entity destination address.
US09769587B2
A multi-channel sound (MCS) system features intelligent calibration (e.g., of acoustic echo cancellation (AEC)) for use in dynamic acoustic environments. A sensor subsystem is utilized to detect and identify changes in the acoustic environment and determine a “scene” corresponding to the resulting acoustic characteristics for that environment. This detected scene is compared to predetermined scenes corresponding to the acoustic environment. Each predetermined scene has a corresponding pre-tuned filter configuration for optimal AEC performance. Based on the results of the comparison, the pre-tuned filter configuration corresponding to the predetermined scene that most closely matches the detected scene is utilized by the AEC subsystem of the multi-channel sound system.
US09769583B2
The present invention discloses a vibration membrane assembly for a speaker, a method for producing a vibration membrane assembly and a speaker. The assembly comprises a vibration membrane and a vibration membrane carrier ring. The method comprises providing a first thermal molding die having a molding side, the molding side having a profile which is complementary to that of the second side of the vibration membrane assembly, putting the vibration membrane carrier ring onto the molding side of the first thermal molding die and laying a vibration membrane blank onto the vibration membrane carrier ring to bring the vibration membrane blank in contact with the vibration membrane carrier ring, applying a pressure to the vibration membrane blank against the vibration membrane carrier ring to nest and fix the vibration membrane blank on the vibration membrane carrier ring to form the vibration membrane assembly, removing the pressure off the vibration membrane blank and separating the vibration membrane assembly from the first thermal molding die.
US09769582B1
An example method includes controlling an audio source to generate a test tone, controlling a plurality of audio sensors to sense the test tone simultaneously, receiving an output signal from each audio sensor, and determining an acoustic characteristic of each audio sensor based at least in part on the received output signals. The method also includes determining a difference between the acoustic characteristic and a corresponding reference value, identifying at least one audio sensor for which a difference corresponding to the at least one audio sensor is within a predetermined range of the reference value, and generating a compensation factor of the at least one audio sensor based at least in part on the respective output signal of the at least one audio sensor.
US09769581B1
The technology described in this document can be embodied in a method for controlling acoustic output radiating through an adjustable wing of a seat headrest. The method includes receiving, from a sensor disposed in the seat headrest, an input signal indicative of a position of the adjustable wing. The position can be one of multiple positions within an angle range. The method also includes updating, based on the input signal, values for one or more control parameters associated with a transducer that generates the acoustic output radiating through the adjustable wing, and adjusting the transducer in accordance with the position of the adjustable wing using one or more control signals that are generated based on the updated values of the one or more control parameters.
US09769580B2
An automated process for equalizing an audio system and an apparatus for implementing the process. An audio system includes a microphone unit, for receiving the sound waves radiated from a plurality of speakers, acoustic measuring circuitry, for calculating frequency response measurements; a memory, for storing characteristic data of the loudspeaker units and further for storing the frequency response measurements; and equalization calculation circuitry, for calculating an equalization pattern responsive to the digital data and responsive to the characteristic data of the plurality of loudspeaker units. Also described is an automated equalizing system including a acoustic measuring circuitry including a microphone for measuring frequency response at a plurality of locations; a memory, for storing the frequency responses at the plurality of locations; and equalization calculation circuitry, for calculating, from the frequency responses, an optimized equalization pattern.
US09769576B2
Method for providing hearing assistance to a user by capturing audio signals with a microphone arrangement of a transmission unit; analyzing, by a voice activity detector of the transmission unit, the captured audio signals to judge whether a voice is present close to the microphone arrangement or not, analyzing, by a noise level estimator, the captured audio signals to estimate a surrounding noise level, processing the captured audio signals and transmitting, by a transceiver of the transmission unit, the processed audio signals via a wireless link to a receiver unit, and stimulating the user's hearing, by stimulating means at or in at least one user ear, according to the received audio signals, wherein the audio signals are processed via the wireless link by setting the gain applied to the audio signals according to the close voice/no close voice judgment of the voice activity detector and the estimated surrounding noise level.
US09769574B2
The application relates to a hearing device comprising a) a forward path between an input transducer for converting an input sound to an electric input signal and an output transducer for converting an electric output signal to an output sound, the forward path comprising a signal processing unit for applying a level and/or frequency dependent gain to the electric input signal or a signal originating therefrom and for providing a processed signal, and feeding the processed signal or a signal originating therefrom to the output transducer, an acoustic feedback path being defined from said output transducer to said input transducer; b) a configurable anti-feedback system comprising a feedback estimation unit for providing an estimate of said acoustic feedback path; c) a number of detectors, each providing a detector signal for characterizing a signal of the forward path. The object of the present application is to save power in a hearing device. The problem is solved in that the hearing device further comprises an activation control unit configured to control the anti-feedback system based on said detector signals, and to bring the anti-feedback system into one of at least two predefined modes based on said detector signals, said at least two predefined modes comprising an ON-mode and an OFF-mode. The invention may e.g. be used in hearing aids, headsets, ear phones, active ear protection systems, or similar portable devices, where a need for feedback cancellation and low power consumption is important.
US09769568B2
A system and method for speech reinforcement may determine the spatial location of an audio source and the spatial location of a listener. An audio signal generated by the audio source may be captured. The spatial location, relative to the listener, of two or more audio transducers that emit a reinforcing audio signal to reinforce the audio signal may be determined. The captured audio signal, responsive to the spatial location of the audio source, the spatial location of the listener and the spatial location of the two or more audio transducers to generate the reinforcing audio signal, such that, when emitted by the two of more audio transducers, the listener perceives a source of the reinforcing audio signal to be spatially located in substantially the spatial location of the audio source thereby reinforcing the audio signal.
US09769552B2
An audio capture device generates two microphone beam patterns with different directivity indices. The audio capture device may determine the position of a user relative to the audio capture device based on sounds detected by the separate microphone beam patterns. Accordingly, the audio capture device allows the determination of the position of the user without the complexity and cost of using a dedicated listening device and/or a camera. In particular, the audio capture device does not need to be immediately proximate to the user (e.g., held near the ear of the user) and may be used to immediately provide other services to the user (e.g., audio/video playback, telephony functions, etc.). The position of the user may include the measured distance between the audio capture device and the user, the proximity of the user relative to another device/object, and/or the orientation of the user relative to the audio capture device.
US09769543B2
Methods, systems and devices enable enhanced delivery of metadata, as well as auxiliary programs and services associated with a primary content. In one method, a primary content with pre-existing watermarks is received at a content distributor device. The pre-existing watermark include specific fields that allow retrieval of a first metadata. The values and boundary locations of the symbols of the pre-existing watermark messages are determined, and symbols of a new watermark message are embedded in the primary content to render the pre-existing watermarks undetectable. The new watermark message includes symbol values that different from those in the pre-existing watermark messages and enable retrieval of a second metadata. Upon transmission of the primary content to a client device, detection of the new watermark message, and initiation of a request by the client device, access to the first or the metadata, as well as associated programs or services, are enabled.
US09769541B2
A content server receives live streams from a content distributor to transmit to users of the content server. In one embodiment, the content server promotes the live streams received from the content distributor, by serving portions of the live stream as advertisements (ads) to users of the content server along with videos or digital content requested by the users. The content server buffers the live stream. The content server receives a request for a video from a client device. The content server identifies the video requested by the user and metadata associated with the identified video. The content server, based on the metadata determines whether to serve the client device with a live-stream ad, as a pre-roll ad for example, along with the video requested by the user. The content server then identifies a buffered live-stream ad to transmit to the client device along with the requested video.
US09769522B2
Systems and methods for performing user accommodations are described. An exemplary system may include an electronic device configured to receive audiovisual content and/or user inputs. The electronic device may further include one or more processors as well as memory, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause them to perform one or more locating functions to locate one or more users of the electronic device, and determine a level of interaction for the one or more users based at least in part on the location. The one or more processors may further be caused to perform at least one accommodation function based at least in part on the determined level of interaction for the one or more users or location of the one or more users.
US09769518B2
A method to receive a broadcast includes parsing a first trigger for obtaining a first identifier for identifying a targeted Triggered Declarative Object (TDO), and a preparation trigger time for the targeted TDO; parsing a second trigger for obtaining an activation time and a termination time for the targeted TDO; activating the targeted TDO corresponding to the first identifier on a background, when a receiving time of the preparation trigger is before the preparation trigger time, immediately activating the targeted TDO corresponding to the first identifier on the background, when the receiving time of the preparation trigger is after the preparation trigger time; changing a state of the targeted TDO to a foreground, when a current system time is after the activation time; and terminating the targeted TDO, when the current system time is after the termination time.
US09769513B2
Personal content server apparatus and associated methods that allow a user (e.g., cable or satellite network subscriber) to access content, such as a video program, from a location outside the subscriber's network. In one embodiment, a personal content server streams the content to the subscriber over a network connection from the local e.g., (subscription) network to a remote network upon authorization by a content manager process. Various access, business or operational rules are applied depending on the content and delivery mode; e.g., to live video broadcast, video-on-demand (VOD), or archived content from the subscriber's digital video recorder (DVR) or networked PVR. In another variant, reservation information (for example program or asset ID information) is cached at a headend or hub server, thereby obviating the subscriber (or the network) having to access the subscriber's premises device. In yet another variant, a “virtual” CPE experience is provided for the remote user.
US09769494B2
A method, system, and computer program product that exploits motion hints associated with rendered video frames. These motion hints are provided to a video encoder to guide a motion-compensation prediction process performed by the video encoder. Specifically, these motion hints can be used to better position a search window in a reference video frame to better capture the motion of a block of pixels in the reference video frame. Because the search window is better positioned in the reference video frame, the memory required to perform the encoding process can be reduced without sacrificing the level of encoded image quality.
US09769493B1
A system comprises a phase plane correlation (PPC) processing module configured to receive video data from a video source and generate a motion vector (MV) candidate, and a three-dimensional (3D) recursive processing module configured to receive the MV candidate from the PPC processing module, perform 3D recursive processing on a number of MV candidates including the MV candidate received from the PPC processing module, and select one of the MV candidates based on the 3D recursive processing.
US09769485B2
Innovations described herein provide a generic encoding and decoding framework that includes some features of simulcast and some features of scalable video coding. For example, a bitstream multiplexer multiplexes component bitstreams into a multi-layer encoding (MLE) bitstream that provides temporal scalability, spatial resolution scalability and/or signal to noise ratio scalability. Each of the component bitstreams provides an alternative version of input video, and a given component bitstream can be a non-scalable bitstream or scalable bitstream. The multiplexer follows composition rules for the MLE bitstream and may rewrite values of certain syntax elements of component bitstreams using an approach that avoids bit shifting operations. A corresponding demultiplexer receives an MLE bitstream that includes component bitstreams and demultiplexes at least part of at least one of the component bitstreams from the MLE bitstream, following decomposition rules for the demultiplexing.
US09769482B2
A method and device for coding and decoding are disclosed. The method includes: dividing a picture to be encoded into several slices, each containing macroblocks continuous in a designated scanning sequence in the picture; dividing slices in the picture into one or more slice sets according to attribute information of the slices, each slice set containing one or more slices; and encoding the slices in the slice sets according to slice and slice set division information to get a coded bit stream of the picture. The decoding method includes: obtaining slice and slice set division information from a bit stream to be decoded and decoding the bit stream according to the obtained slice and slice set division information. The invention improves the performance of video transmission effectively and realizes region based coding. The implementation of coding and decoding is simple and the complexity of coding and decoding systems is reduced.
US09769477B2
A system and method including one or more asymmetric data compression algorithms is disclosed. A first asymmetric data compression algorithm of the one or more asymmetric data compression algorithms compresses data at a higher data compression rate than a second asymmetric data compression algorithm of the one or more asymmetric data compression algorithms. The system and method also include one or more processors that determine one or more data parameters from one or more data blocks and select one or more asymmetric data compression algorithms from among the one or more asymmetric data compression algorithms based upon, at least in part, the determined one or more data parameters.
US09769473B2
Video coders may perform perspective transformation of reference frames during coding in a manner that conserves processing resources. When a new input frame is available for coding, a camera position for the input frame may be estimated. A video coder may search for reference pictures having similar camera positions as the position of the input frame and, for each reference picture identified, the video coder may perform a prediction search to identify a reference picture that is the best prediction match for the input frame. Once the video coder identifies a reference picture to serve as a prediction source for the input frame, the video coder may derive a transform to match the reference frame data to the input frame data and may transform the reference picture accordingly. The video coder may code the input frame using the transformed reference picture as a prediction reference and may transmit coded frame data and the camera position of the input frame to a decoder. Thus, the video coder may perform derivation and execution of transforms on a limited basis which conserves system resources.
US09769471B2
Embodiments disclose systems and methods for testing and determining outages of communication systems. A server can receive signal-reception-related information from set-top boxes (STBs) in a particular geographical region, where a STB: receives signals having a predefined pattern, generates a comparison of the predefined pattern to reference patterns stored on the STB, generates the signal-reception-related information based on the comparison, and sends the signal-reception-related information. The server can determine an outage status for the particular geographical region based on the signal-reception-related information. The server can generate an output based on the outage status. The output is configured to provide information related to the outage status of the particular geographical region and information for possible responses related to the outage status. The server can send the output.
US09769470B2
A method of measuring a display delay includes a first step where a first display device performs a switching operation of switching a display pattern displayed on a display unit of the first display device, a second step where a first camera captures a first image and displays the first image in a live view mode, a third step where a second camera captures a second image containing the first image and records at least the first image contained in the captured second image while being correlated with information indicative of an imaging time when the second image is captured, and a fourth step where a display delay time of the first camera from the imaging of the first image to the display of the first image is deduced from the time indicated by the display pattern contained in the first image and the information indicative of the imaging time.
US09769465B2
A head mounted display device includes a first flexible display to display a left-eye image, a second flexible display to display a right-eye image, a first optical system between the first flexible display and a left eye of a user, a second optical system between the second flexible display and a right eye of the user, and a housing including the first flexible display, the second flexible display, the first optical system, and the second optical system.
US09769464B2
An image display device is provided. The image display device includes a light source and a polarizer including a first polarizing region configured to linearly polarize light which is output from the light source and a second polarizing region configured to circularly polarize light which is output from the light source.
US09769457B1
An imaging platform and camera system with an oscillating platform having two dimensions or degrees of freedom of movement having three parallel axes about a single mounting position, an accelerometer, light meters, central processing unit, software techniques and sequence of imaging methodology to create a matrix of images by converting XYZ data into a 2-D matrix. A set of images, tagged with XYZ data at a range of degrees, are placed into the matrix. Adjacent, corresponding and opposite images for specific locations and object placement are captured. Patterns are created from sets of images previously photographed from exact XYZ coordinates that correspond to the 2-D matrix pattern, creating an illusion of 3-D oscillation of the objects, including dynamic texture, color and glimmer.
US09769454B2
A pattern of symbols is generated and sent to a projector, wherein the pattern includes an array of symbols having a given number of symbol columns and symbol rows, and an image is obtained from a camera. Next the image is decoded in order to generate a decoded pattern of symbols and the depth map is generated as a function of the pattern and the decoded pattern. The image is decoded by placing an array of classification windows on the image and determining the displacement of each classification window in order to optimize a given cost function. Finally, the decoded pattern is generated by determining a respective symbol for each classification window.
US09769444B2
A system for projecting 2D images, providing a computerized representation of a first, dense, grid of spatial 3D coordinates which respectively correspond to a set of time-points evenly distributed along a time-dimension with constant time-discretization; deriving a dense 2D representation of an image, whose coordinate pairs respectively correspond to said set of time-points; d. Defining a sparse 2D grid of second coordinate pairs, spaced such that distances between any two adjacent coordinate pairs along a row of said sparse 2D grid are constant; and finding, coordinate pairs closest to the second sparser grid to yield a third grid, and a laser controller to control the laser to project a digitally represented image, from said distance, timed to project pixels whose locations respectively correspond to the subset of uniformly distanced positions forming said third grid, thereby to prevent image distortion despite non-uniformity of micro-mirror's angular velocity.
US09769442B2
A method for displaying information on a screen includes modifying tone values to compress the tone of a main image; projecting by a first projector the main image with compressed tones generated with a first polarization component; modifying tone values of a sub-image for correcting tones of the sub-image; generating a correction image; and projecting by a second projector the correction image with a second polarization component different from the first polarization component over the main image projected by the first projector such that the main image is buried by an overlapped projection of the main image and the correction image generated by using the sub-image and an offset value to provide the sub-image to a viewer with a naked eye and to provide the main image to another viewer with a polarizer.
US09769432B2
An apparatus for safeguarding a machine having a machine part performing a working movement, has a light source, a camera unit and a control unit. The light source and camera unit are attached to the machine part so as to concurrently move together with the machine part. The camera unit has an objective body with an optical lens element, an electronic image sensor arranged on a component support, an aperture stop, and a coupling part having a one-piece body by means of which the objective body and the component support are joined in a defined relative position to one another. The one-piece body fixedly rests on the component support thereby holding the aperture stop at a defined position relative to the electronic image sensor without individual adjustment. The control unit is designed to stop the working movement of the machine part depending on a signal produced by the camera unit.
US09769430B1
An imaging system configured to display a captured image on a display having a lower dynamic range than the imaging system is provided, wherein the imaging system includes a high dynamic range imager configured to capture at least one high dynamic range image, and a processing device communicatively connected to the high dynamic range imager, wherein the processing device is configured to reduce color speckles caused by errant interpolated pixel values and reduce occurrence of errant values of alternate color while maintaining at least one of sharpness detail, edge detail, and generate smoothing color rendering in a displayed image.
US09769426B2
A transmission management apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives, from a first transmission terminal, a communication request for a communication with a second transmission terminal; a fists storage unit that stores therein terminal identification information for identifying the transmission terminals and relay device identification information for identifying a relay device that relays data to be transmitted and received by the first transmission terminal, in an associated manner; a relay device selecting unit that selects the relay device associated with the terminal identification information of the first transmission terminal in the first storage unit; a second storage unit that stores therein the relay device identification information and encryption necessity information in an associated manner; and an encryption necessity determining unit that determines whether encryption is needed based on the encryption necessity information associated, in the second storage unit, with the relay device selected by the relay device selecting unit.
US09769424B2
According to embodiments of the present invention, sound localization is used to determine the active speaker in a video conference. A network element uses the localization to determine which regions of the image that should be preserved and retargets the video accordingly. By providing a retargeted video where the speaker is more visible, a better user experience is achieved.
US09769413B2
A display device, a remote control device for the display device, a method of controlling the display device, a method of controlling the remote control device, and a method of controlling a server includes collecting at least one piece of situation information or receiving at least one piece of situation information from a remote control device, determining a current state of a user based on the collected or received at least one piece of situation information, instructing the remote control device to output a notification signal corresponding to the current state of the user, and generating the control command according to the current state of the user and providing a sense-based image service to the user according to the control command.
US09769406B2
A photoelectric conversion element that generates charges according to a light quantity of incident light and accumulates the charges in the inside thereof, a transfer transistor (TRG) that transfers the charges accumulated by the photoelectric conversion element, a first charge voltage conversion section that converts the charges transferred by the transfer transistor (TRG) into a voltage, and a substrate electrode of a MOS capacitor (a region of a second charge voltage conversion section facing a gate electrode) that connects the first charge voltage conversion section via a connection transistor (FDG). The gate electrode of the MOS capacitor is applied with a voltage that is different in a read period of the voltage signal converted by the first charge voltage conversion section and in a period other than the read period. The present disclosure can also be applied to a CMOS image sensor or the like.
US09769396B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array section that has at least one pixel with a photoelectric conversion unit and a charge detection unit. A driving section is configured to read out a signal of the pixel, a first portion of said signal being based on signal charge, a second portion of said signal being based on a reset potential. A signal processing section is configured to read out the first portion of the signal as a reference voltage, with the reference voltage being adjusted to cause the first and second portions of the signal to be within an input voltage range.
US09769385B2
A MEMS actuator including buckled flexures and a method of assembling the actuator are described. The assembled MEMS actuator includes an inner frame; an outer frame including latched electrical bars, where a first of the latched bars includes a latch protrusion secured to a corresponding latch groove of a second of the latched bars; and buckled flexures coupling the inner frame to the outer frame. The flexures are buckled during assembly of the MEMS actuator by incorporating the electrical bar latching mechanism into the design of the outer frame of the MEMS actuator. In one implementation, the MEMS actuator is assembled by providing a MEMS actuator with unbuckled flexures coupling the outer frame of the MEMS actuator to an inner frame of the MEMS actuator, where the outer frame includes unlatched electrical bars, and latching the electrical bars of the outer frame, resulting in buckled flexures.
US09769384B2
An imaging apparatus includes a camera shake correction unit which uses a coil and a magnet to move a movable portion including an image pickup device relative to a fixed portion. A position detection section detects the position of the movable portion. A setting section sets a resolving power of the detection of the position by the position detection section to a first or second resolving power which is a resolving power higher than the first resolving power and at which an amount of deviation from a target position is less than or equal to a pixel shift amount. A drive control section performs pixel shifts to move the movable portion with the second resolving power set by the setting section. A photography control section causes the image pickup device to perform exposures by timing of the pixel shifting and which composes images obtained by the exposures.
US09769382B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes at least one image sensor, and a processor for generating a plurality of images having different noise characteristics through the at least one image sensor, and combining the plurality of images.
US09769374B2
A motion sensor device for detecting a detection object in a detection region, with detector means (12) which are arranged in a sensor housing (10) and designed for detecting motions of the detection object, as well as for generating an electronic distance signal (a) and angle signal (phi) corresponding to the detection object, wherein the distance signal (a) corresponds to an instantaneous distance of the detection object from the sensor housing (13) and the angle signal corresponds to an instantaneous position angle (phi) of the detection object in the form of an azimuth angle in a plane of motion of the detection object extending parallel to the ground surface in the installed state of the motion sensor device on a wall and signal processing and control means (14) connected downstream of the detector means are designed for activating a device (11) to be connected downstream of the motion sensor device in dependence on the distance signal and the angle signal, and wherein the signal processing and control means feature detection region determining means (16) with an interface unit (18; 20), which can be adjusted, configured and/or actuated by a user and serves for at least sectionally adjusting and/or defining a boundary of the detection region in the plane of motion, wherein the signal processing and control means feature comparing means (22), which are designed for comparing a distance signal and angle signal generated for a detection object by the detector means with data on a predefined or adjusted boundary of the detection region that can be variably defined and/or adjusted relative to the sensor housing frontally (32) and laterally (30, 34) in the plane of motion, wherein display and/or visualization means (26) are assigned to the interface unit (18) in order to optically display and/or output the boundary.
US09769368B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for a remote video system. In some embodiments, a camera device may include a processor configured to capture image and audio content, perform data manipulation to alter the content, and stream the content to a remote server. Camera devices may be set up at a particular venue or location, and may have settings selected by a venue administrator. Camera devices may also be configured for head recognition, for determining activity levels in a venue, and for reporting accumulated data to the remote server. Streamed content may be accessed by users over a network via an application on computing devices, such as mobile applications or web browsers. The application may provide promotional materials to users based on the user's location, the activity levels within the venue, or other information. Users may also be able to establish direct stream connections to customer service or other venue personnel.
US09769360B2
A camera rig configured support a video camera or other cinematographic equipment is disclosed. The camera rig includes a first track and a second track movably coupled to the first track. The second track is configured to move along the first track between a first angular position and a second angular position. The camera rig also includes a platform movably coupled to the second track. The platform is configured to support the video camera or the other cinematographic equipment. The platform is configured to move along the second track between a first vertical position and a second vertical position.
US09769358B2
An information processing apparatus and an information processing method in which each piece of data included in light field data including a plurality of pieces of data indicating an incidence position, an incidence direction, and an intensity of a ray incident on an imaging apparatus from an object is projected based on a plurality of pieces of data corresponding to an object that is the same as the object corresponding to the data in a light field space defined by the incidence position and the incidence direction of the ray. Thus, light field data with an amount of information increased in a predetermined space in the light field space.
US09769354B2
An efficient method and system to enhance digital acquisition devices for analog data is presented. The enhancements offered by the method and system are available to the user in local as well as in remote deployments yielding efficiency gains for a large variety of business processes. The quality enhancements of the acquired digital data are achieved efficiently by employing virtual reacquisition. The method of virtual reacquisition renders unnecessary the physical reacquisition of the analog data in case the digital data obtained by the acquisition device are of insufficient quality. The method and system allows multiple users to access the same acquisition device for analog data. In some embodiments, one or more users can virtually reacquire data provided by multiple analog or digital sources. The acquired raw data can be processed by each user according to his personal preferences and/or requirements. The preferred processing settings and attributes are determined interactively in real time as well as non real time, automatically and a combination thereof.
US09769353B2
An image reading apparatus includes a light source and a movable light reflecting surface provided to be capable to move to a first position to reflect light from the light source. The image reading apparatus includes a cam to move the light reflecting surface and having a first portion, a driving module for providing a driving force, and a transmission member for rotating the cam with the driving force provided by the driving module, the transmission member having a second portion, wherein the transmission member moves the light reflecting surface to a predetermined position by rotating the cam, and by bringing the second portion into contact with the first portion to hold the light reflecting surface at the predetermined position when there is no driving force.
US09769348B2
What is disclosed is an apparatus and method for calibrating an optical module of a document scanning device. In one embodiment, imaging sensors of an optical module of the scanning device are used to obtain an image scan of a calibration strip mounted on a surface of a platen on which a sheet to be scanned has been manually placed. The calibration strip has a first vertical line at a first distance from a right edge of the strip, a second vertical line at a second distance from a left edge of the strip, and a sloping horizontal line positioned between the first and second vertical lines. A slope of the horizontal line is non-zero. In a manner more fully disclosed herein, the image scan of the calibration strip is to obtain calibration measurements. The calibration measurements are, in turn, used to calibrate the scan head of the optical module.
US09769346B2
An image scanner includes a transparent plate, a scanning device, a driving device, a positioning member, a light absorbing portion and a white reference portion. The transparent plate has an original placing surface. The scanning device irradiates an original with light by means of a light source and scans reflected light from the original. The driving device reciprocates the scanning device along the transparent plate. The positioning member positions the original placed on the original placing surface of the transparent plate. The light absorbing portion, which is disposed on the original placing surface side of the positioning member and at substantially a central portion of the positioning member in moving directions of the scanning device, absorbs ambient light entering to the original placing surface side of the positioning member through the transparent plate. The white reference portion is provided to the original placing surface side of the positioning member.
US09769345B2
An information processing apparatus receives a change of a parameter included in media characteristic information, causes, from media characteristic information held by a storage, the parameter for which the change is received to be held as custom media characteristic information, the apparatus performs an update of the media characteristic information held by the storage in accordance with new media characteristic information and decides, if an update of the custom media characteristic information is to be performed by using the new media characteristic information, whether to hold, or to update without holding, the parameter for which the change is received, based on a difference in configuration between the custom media characteristic information held by the storage and the new media characteristic information.
US09769338B2
An operation console used in relation to an apparatus as an object of control operated by a user operation includes: a display device having a display area for displaying information to the user; an input device for the user to input a request; and a display control device displaying, if a request for displaying specific information on said display device is input through the input device, the specific information on the display device. The input device includes a plurality of operation buttons for inputting a plurality of requests, corresponding to respective requests, arranged in the vicinity of the display area. Among the plurality of operation buttons, an operation button corresponding to the request for displaying the specific information is provided closest to the display device.
US09769335B2
An embodiment of this invention is directed to an information processing apparatus capable of performing high-speed processing and preventing memory shortage even when executing a hybrid application. According to the embodiment, an information processing apparatus that executes a program including a first program layer with an instruction set to be interpreted and executed by a processor and a second program layer with an instruction set interpreted in advance by a unit other than the processor includes the following arrangement. That is, the processor includes a plurality of interpretation units configured to interpret the first program layer. A first interpretation unit is provided in an operating system that operates in the processor, and a second interpretation unit is provided in the second program layer.
US09769334B1
An image processing device including a reception unit, an acquisition unit, an image reading unit, a transmission unit, and an instruction unit. The reception unit receives a processing identifier associated with image reading processing. The acquisition unit acquires processing information associated with the processing identifier, the processing information including at least information regarding a storing location and client's identification information. The image reading unit reads an image on the basis of the processing information. The transmission unit transmits data of the read image to the storing location according to the processing information. The instruction unit issues a print instruction to print the image on the basis of the client's identification information included in the processing information.
US09769331B2
An image forming apparatus includes a communication device, a RAM, a job managing unit, and an external temporary memory area managing unit. The communication device performs data communication with an external user terminal apparatus. The job managing unit allocates a memory area required to execute a requested job and executes the requested job. When it is determined that the memory area can't be allocated in the RAM owing to shortage of a free area in the RAM, the external temporary memory area managing unit (a) identifies a user who issued a job execution request on the basis of user authentication, (b) identifies a user terminal apparatus corresponding the identified user, and (c) uses a storage device of the identified user terminal apparatus as a part or all of a memory area required to execute the requested job on the basis of data communication performed by the communication device.
US09769326B2
The present disclosure include acquiring, by a TDF entity, a correlation identifier of a data flow of an application borne by the TDF entity; and sending, by the TDF entity, first charging information to a charging system, where the first charging information carries the correlation identifier of the data flow of the application borne by the TDF entity, so that the charging system performs, according to the correlation identifier of the data flow of the application borne by the TDF entity and a correlation identifier of a data flow borne by a PCEF entity, correlation processing for the first charging information and second charging information that is sent by the PCEF entity to the charging system, where the second charging information carries the correlation identifier of the data flow borne by the PCEF entity. Thereby, accurate charging can be performed for the data flow and the application.
US09769316B2
A method for customization of voice mail messaging. The method includes recording a plurality of voice mail messages, defining selection criteria for each of the plurality of voice mail messages, establishing a first call for which one of the plurality of voice mail messages will be selected, identifying parameters of the first call, matching the parameters with the selection criteria, selecting the one of the plurality of messages based on the matching step, and playing the selected message on the first call.
US09769315B2
Aspects of systems and methods for maintaining and operating agent nodes are provided. In some embodiments, calls, contacts, and other work units may be routed to individual customer service agents via a centralized queue based on a variety of factors. Some embodiments may provide market-based call pricing and customer service agent compensation.
US09769309B1
The system for disabling a mobile phone in a vehicle is adapted for use with an automobile. The system for disabling a mobile phone in a vehicle is further adapted for use with a cellular phone. The system for disabling a mobile phone in a vehicle is a Bluetooth beacon that transmits a Bluetooth signal when engine of the automobile is running. A background application loaded on the cellular phone continuously monitors for a signal from the beacon and, when it senses the signal from the beacon the application shuts down the all wireless communication, with the exception of Bluetooth communication, and visual displays from the cellular phone until: 1) the beacon stops transmitting; or, 2) the cellular phone connects to a Bluetooth based hands free device. The system for disabling a mobile phone comprises a beacon and an application.
US09769303B2
A control device of an information terminal of the present invention determines whether one specified operation among multiple specified operations to an input device 11 is done. On condition that the one specified operation is determined to be done, the control device causes the input device 11 to function as an input interface used to input information in order to use a function related to one category among the multiple categories corresponding to the one specified operation.
US09769296B2
Techniques for controlling a personalized Bluetooth device (e.g., headset) and a voice interaction control method thereof are described. According to one aspect of the present invention, the Bluetooth device is caused to maintain a voice contact list. Each item in the voice contact list corresponds to a phone number associated with a set of audio data (e.g., a voice or a predefined audio). Instead of dialing a phone number on a calling device (e.g., a cellular phone) being paired with the Bluetooth device, a user can speak to the Bluetooth device that is caused to search a corresponding phone number in the voice contact list. The number is then sent to the calling device to make a call.
US09769293B2
Techniques including use of a slider cover for a computing device are described. In one or more implementations, the slider cover includes a cover body and a pair of hinge assemblies secured along opposing edges of the cover body. The hinge assemblies are designed to attach to a housing for a computing device having a pair of tracks extending along opposing edges of the housing. Engagement of the tracks with the hinge assemblies forms an attachment of the housing to the slider cover designed to enable the housing and slider cover to slide relative to one another in parallel planes and the housing to pivot around a pivot axis formed by the pair of hinge assemblies. Accordingly, manipulation of the housing relative to the slider cover may occur via the hinge assemblies to assume multiple different configurations for an apparatus that includes the slider cover.
US09769288B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for dynamically changing an advertised window for a transport layer connection. A device can receive data from a server destined for an application. The device identifies the size of the application buffer corresponding to the application and advertises the application buffer size as a window size to the server. The device stores the data in the device memory. The device then determines the memory usage by comparing the memory usage to one or more predetermined thresholds. If the device determines that the memory usage is below a first predetermined threshold, the device can implement an aggressive dynamic receive buffering policy in which the device increases the advertised window size by a first increment. If the device determines that the memory usage is above the first threshold and below a second threshold, the device executes a more conservative dynamic receive buffering policy.
US09769271B2
Aspects include capturing and replaying activities conducted during a web browsing session. Activities conducted by a user via browser application at a website are received at a computer processor. The activities occur across multiple web pages and span multiple windows during a single browsing session. The activities associated with corresponding web pages, and the activities are ordered in chronological order for each of the web pages. User interface events corresponding to the ordered activities are displayed via a browser based interface. The user interface events are selectable by an end user of the browser based interface.
US09769265B2
A communication system comprising computers and a management computer, wherein the computers include a communication control unit configured to control a communication using a session of a terminal. The communication control unit manages a database storing in a plurality of pieces of session information. The management computer includes property management information for managing a property of each of the plurality of pieces of session information. The session information migration control unit is configured to: detect a migration trigger of the plurality of pieces of session information stored in a first database; select the plurality of pieces of session information from the plurality of pieces of session information stored in the first database based on the property management information; determine a migration order for the selected plurality of pieces of session information based on the property of the each of the selected plurality of pieces of session information.
US09769264B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed of providing a user application with a notification message. One example method may include receiving a script to setup a message queue, the script may include a database schema and the script may be executed by a processor to apply the database schema to a database that includes the message queue. The method may also include receiving one or more notifications messages having specific notification content that is applied to notification messages. The notifications may be received from a remote device. The message queue may include notification content used to generate notification messages destined for end user devices.
US09769263B2
According to one or more embodiments, a method may include obtaining a connection request to communicate with a database. The method may further include determining a predicted wait time for the connection request. The predicted wait time may include a predicted amount of time until a connection with the database will be available to communicate with the database. The method may further include determining whether to shed the connection request before a connection request timeout time. The determination as to whether to shed the connection request may be based on whether the predicted wait time exceeds the connection request timeout time.
US09769258B1
A method for synchronizing a set of one or more individual web apps and/or browser extensions to a user's computing device includes sending, from a server, one or more application stubs corresponding to the individual web apps or browser extensions in the set to the computing device. The method further includes establishing the ordered synchronization schedule prioritizing synchronization of the individual web apps or browser extensions in the set by size and/or a likelihood of use of the individual web apps or browser extensions on the user's computing device. The method involves sending, from the server to the computing device, application data including executable code associated with the individual web apps or browser extensions to synchronize the individual web apps or browser extensions in the set according to the ordered synchronization sequence.
US09769254B2
A method of operating a resource management node includes, for each of a plurality of resources available in a plurality of distributed computing systems, determining a productive spend metric based on utilization of the resource and cost associated with making the resource available in the distributed computing system. Relocation of workload of selected ones of the resources between the plurality of distributed computing systems is controlled based on the productive spend metrics determined for the selected ones of the resources. Related computer program products and resource management nodes are disclosed.
US09769246B2
In an information processing terminal, a web browser, if instructed by a user to call a function for specific data managed by a client, identifies second function information for adapting the specific data to a type processable by a first function called by using first function information belonging to a category corresponding to the function called by a user's instruction. The web browser issues a request for processing the specific data processed with a second function called by using the identified second function information, with the first function, and receives a processing result of the requested processing.
US09769244B2
Example apparatus facilitate controlling how targeted electronic data is selected and couriered (e.g., physically carried) between a provider in a first physical location and a recipient in a second physical location. An apparatus, method, or service may control the flow of targeted electronic data or metadata concerning the targeted electronic data in a courier network. The service may consider requests for targeted electronic data or information from which targeted electronic data can be identified. The service may also consider predictions about content that a recipient may want. The targeted electronic data may be identified based on a current state of an operating system, an application, or content at the recipient and information about a desired state of the operating system, application, or content. The number and identity of courier devices selected to courier data may be based on a familiarity index between couriers and recipients in the courier network.
US09769238B2
An Internet infrastructure delivery platform operated by a provider enables HTTP-based service to identified third parties at large scale. The platform provides this service to one or more cloud providers. The approach enables the CDN platform provider (the first party) to service third party traffic on behalf of the cloud provider (the second party). In operation, an edge server handling mechanism leverages DNS to determine if a request with an unknown host header should be serviced. Before serving a response, and assuming the host header includes an unrecognized name, the edge server resolves the host header and obtains an intermediate response, typically a list of aliases (e.g., DNS CNAMEs). The edge server checks the returned CNAME list to determine how to respond to the original request. Using just a single edge configuration, the CDN service provider can support instant provisioning of a cloud provider's identified third party traffic.
US09769236B2
Described herein are techniques for facilitating combined broadcast and unicast delivery of content. According to various embodiments, a media stream from a content provider may be received at a unicast server and at a broadcast server. The media stream may comprise a plurality of media stream fragments. A relative delay may be introduced into the media stream at the broadcast server such that media stream fragments transmitted from the broadcast server are delayed relative to media stream fragments transmitted from the unicast server. The media stream fragments may be transmitted to a user device. The user device may be operable to switch between receiving the media stream fragments from the unicast server and the broadcast server.
US09769233B2
Distributed media classification algorithm in a service controller platform for enhanced scalability
A network system and the method is described that splits media identification logic and media classification and/or general data session processing/management logic into separate controllers (e.g., between the local controllers and a service controller). By separating media identification logic and media classification logic (or general media processing/management logic), the system and method allows for greater flexibility and scalability in a network system employing a service controller. In particular, by allowing the local controllers to perform media identification and to construct a single packet that characterizes/describes a media session, the system avoids the need to transmit multiple data packets of a media session to the service controller for classification of the session. Accordingly, the system includes the flexibility a service controller provides while allowing for greater scalability by separating media identification logic and media classification respectively between a local controller and the service controller.
US09769228B2
An embodiment method for operating a network entity servicing one or more user equipments (UEs) includes transmitting a data file through one or more streams, wherein each of the one or more streams are carried on a multiple-user accessible channel. A configuration communication is provided to the one or more UEs regarding a relationship between content of the data file and the one or more streams such that each of the one or more UEs can receive the data file at different time instances according to the configuration communication.
US09769226B2
Systems and methods for remotely viewing medical images on a client device having a zero-client web application with a buffering module. The zero-client web application receives an image series selection from a user and receives corresponding series details from a web server. The zero-client web application generates an off-screen image array according to the series details. The buffering module outputs image requests based on the series details to a web server. The web server is in communication with a medical image database storing images in a non-web browser compatible format (e.g., DICOM). The buffering module then populates the off-screen image array with converted medical images received from the web server. The zero-client web application further includes an on-screen image and a display module. The display module sequentially sets converted medical images of the off-screen array as the on-screen image to stream the converted medical images.
US09769218B2
An image processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive a session start message, a determination unit configured to determine whether the session start message received by the reception unit is a session start message from a public Internet Protocol network or a session start message from a local Internet Protocol network, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a media type included in the session start message received by the reception unit, and a control unit configured to determine whether a start of a session is allowed, based on a result determined by the determination unit and the media type acquired by the acquisition unit.
US09769216B2
A collaboration handoff method for seamlessly passing a communication session between devices includes connecting a first device and a second device to enable communication between the first and second devices using an intermediary device to initiate a communication session. A request may be received from one of the first device and a third device to switch to the third device for communication with the second device. Communication session data for the first device may be identified at the intermediary device. The third device may be connected with the second device within the communication session and the communication session data may be transmitted to the third device.
US09769211B2
A common security policy for a heterogeneous computer architecture environment is provided. A configuration of a security policy of a heterogeneous computer architecture is received from a management console. The security policy is stored on a policy server that is communicatively connected, by a management network, to a plurality of hardware platforms of the of the heterogeneous computer architecture. The security policy is distributed to a plurality of policy agents of the heterogeneous computer architecture over the management network. The security policy includes a security policy administrator role that permits management of (i) one or more subjects in a plurality of security zones and (ii) one or more objects in the plurality of security zones. The security policy also includes security zone administrator roles, wherein each security zone administrator role (i) is associated with a respective security zone and (ii) permits management of object(s) in the respective security zone.
US09769171B2
A management apparatus stores a usable or non-usable state representing whether a right is usable or non-usable by a user in a facility in which a service is provided by a service provider using a service providing apparatus. And, the management apparatus updates the use usable or non-usable state to a non-usable state in a case where a use request of the right is received and transmits the use request to a terminal apparatus. And, the management apparatus permits the use of the right to the user by updating the usable or non-usable state to a usable state in a case where a notification of satisfaction is received from the terminal apparatus or the service providing apparatus, the notification of satisfaction indicating that the user, who requests the use of the right in the use request, satisfies a use requirements of the right.
US09769164B2
A validation module provides for the upgrading of a physical access control system (PACS) to full HSPD-12 compliance without requiring modification or replacement of the existing PACS. The validation module may contain all of the validation functionality required by federal specifications and technical requirements. The validation module may be installed between an existing PACS panel and a supported card/biometric reader. Readers may be selected based on assurance level requirements, e.g., contactless or contact readers for low and medium assurance level areas and full biometric readers for high assurance areas. The validation module may validate a card according to the assurance level setting, extract ID information from data on the card and then pass the ID information to the PACS panel for an access decision. Cardholder data captured by one validation module may be distributed to other validation modules of the PACS using a management station.
US09769161B2
A reader configured to perform dual-factor authentication is provided. The reader is configured to analyze credential data as well as event-based user inputs. The event-based user inputs are received in response to the reader presenting one or more events to a user and monitoring the user's reaction thereto. Utilization of an event-based user input enables the reader to perform dual-factor authentication without necessarily being provided with a keyboard or other advanced user input device.
US09769160B2
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a method for controlling access to a plurality of electronic devices is disclosed. The method includes detecting whether a first device is in contact with a user, adjusting a security level of the first device to activate the first device when the first device is in contact with the user, detecting at least one second device within a communication range of the first device, and adjusting a security level of the at least one second device to control access to the at least one second device based on a distance between the first device and the at least one second device.
US09769156B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to methods of generating and using an image-based derived key. In various embodiments, the image-based derived key may be used to facilitate user authentication and data encryption. For some embodiments, a method is disclosed comprising determining an image-based derived key, wherein the image-based derived key is generated from a selection of authentication images chosen by a user, encrypting data using the image-based derived key, and transmitting the encrypted data.
US09769151B2
Techniques are disclosed for generating multiple key pairs using different algorithms and similarly installing certificates signed using the different algorithms. A customer server receives a selection of algorithms for generating a public/private key pair (e.g., RSA, ECC, DSA, etc.). The customer server generates key pairs for each selection and also generates corresponding certificate signing requests (CSR). The customer server sends the CSRs to a certificate authority (CA). The CA generates certificates associated with algorithm and sends the certificates to the customer server. The customer server may prompt a user to select one or more of the certificates to install, and upon receiving the selection, the customer installs the certificates.
US09769145B2
A method of connecting to an online service where a terminal transmits information regarding a selected online service and first authentication information to an external device, receives second authentication information detected based on the transmitted information, from the external device, and is then logged into the selected online service based on the received second authentication information.
US09769136B2
A system and method which includes monitoring an existing first connection to a secured network domain. A first network configuration is employed to access the secured network domain via the first connection. An available second connection to the network domain is detected, whereby the system and method automatically switch to the second connection to access the secured network domain upon detecting a termination with the first connection. Access to the secured network domain, via the second connection, is established by employing a second network configuration. In an aspect, the first connection is by cable and the first network configuration is associated with direct access to the secured network domain. In an aspect, the second connection is a wired or wireless signal and the second network configuration is associated with a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection.
US09769133B2
A wearable device provides protection for personal identity information by fragmenting a key needed to release the personal identity information among members of a body area network of wearable devices. A shared secret algorithm is used to allow unlocking the personal identity information with fragmental keys from less than all of the wearable devices in the body area network. The wearable devices may also provide protection for other personal user data by employing a disconnect and erase protocol that causes wearable devices to drop connections with an external personal data space and erase locally stored personal information if a life pulse from a connectivity root device is not received within a configurable predefined period.
US09769125B2
An information administration system configured of: a component information management apparatus (4) including a component information storing unit (41) storing component information after sectionalizing the component information into public information and non-public information, and also sectionalizing the non-public information into information for designing and information for manufacturing, and an encryption processing unit (42) encrypting the non-public information; a designing information management apparatus (2) including a first component information receiving unit (24) receiving the component information, a first decryption unit (25) decrypting non-public component information for designing, and a designing information storing unit (22) storing designing information that is designed by adding the received component information thereto; and a manufacturing apparatus (3) including a second decryption unit (33) decrypting the received non-public component information for manufacturing, and a drive controlling unit (34) controlling driving of the manufacturing apparatus based on the received manufacturing information and component information.
US09769124B2
An approach is provided for providing access control to shared data based on a trust level. A method comprising, encrypting, at a first device, data with public attribute keys associated with attributes according to an attribute-based encryption (ABE) scheme, wherein the attributes comprising at least one trust level related attribute representing an access condition for the data based on a trust level; storing the encrypted data into a data center, determining the eligibility of a user of a second device by checking whether a trust level of the user of the second device satisfies the access condition; and issuing to the second device, secret attribute keys associated with attributes and personalized for the user of the second device for decrypting the encrypted data, when the user of the second device is eligible.
US09769120B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for providing exclusive access to a virtual private network (VPN) connection to an authorized application. During operation, the system creates a unique network namespace that is different from a default network namespace of a host system. The system then places a pseudo network interface associated with the VPN connection into the unique network namespace. Furthermore, the system places at least one socket for an authorized application into the unique network namespace. The system also precludes unauthorized applications on the host from accessing the unique network namespace, thereby facilitating exclusive access to the VPN connection by the authorized application.
US09769109B2
A message associated with a subscription topic hosted by a publish/subscribe message tracking device is sent by the publish/subscribe message tracking device to at least one subscriber device that is registered to the subscription topic and configured to report action completion processing based upon content of the message. The action completion processing based upon content of the message by the at least one subscriber device is monitored.
US09769086B2
Techniques for providing data in dynamic account and device management are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a system for providing data in dynamic account and device management. The system may comprise one or more processors communicatively coupled to a network. The one or more processors may be configured to identify a user device to be managed. The one or more processors may be configured to transmit a request for delegate authority to manage the user device. The one or more processors may be configured to receive delegate authority to manage the user device. The one or more processors may be configured to provide network access to the user device. The one or more processors may also be configured to manage the user device and monitor data communicated to and from the user device.
US09769082B2
Systems and methods for network bandwidth, buffers and timing management using hybrid scheduling of traffic with different priorities and guarantees are provided. In certain embodiments, a method of managing network scheduling and configuration comprises, for each transmitting end station, reserving one exclusive buffer for each virtual link to be transmitted from the transmitting end station; for each receiving end station, reserving exclusive buffers for each virtual link to be received at the receiving end station; and for each switch, reserving a exclusive buffer for each virtual link to be received at an input port of the switch. The method further comprises determining if each respective transmitting end station, receiving end station, and switch has sufficient capability to support the reserved buffers; and reporting buffer infeasibility if each respective transmitting end station, receiving end station, and switch does not have sufficient capability to support the reserved buffers.
US09769071B2
A first communication device transmits one or more first communication frames during a transmit opportunity period (TXOP) of the first communication device via a first composite channel. A control frame is generated, wherein the control frame includes information indicating a bandwidth of the first composite channel. After the one or more first communication frames have been transmitted, the first communication device transmits, during the TXOP, the control frame via the first composite channel. Information from a response frame that indicates a bandwidth of a second composite communication channel is extracted, the response frame having been transmitted by a second communication device and received by the first communication device during the TXOP. The first communication device transmits one or more second communication frames during the TXOP, wherein the one or more communication frames span the second composite communication channel and do not span the entire first composite communication channel.
US09769069B2
Methods and apparatus to provide a consumer services cloud in a communications network are disclosed. An example method includes obtaining, at a first device in a communications network, network communications transmitted from a client device of a communications network customer that are diverted via a software-defined networking switch. The example method also includes analyzing the network communications to identify which of multiple possible users associated with the communications network customer is a current user of the client device; in response to identifying the current user, accessing a first profile corresponding to the identified current user to determine a rule to be used to handle the network communications within the communications network. The example method also includes configuring the software-defined networking switch to: identify subsequent network communications that correspond to the identified current user of the client device; and handle the subsequent network communications in accordance with the rule.
US09769068B2
A receiving node receives a virtual LDP initialization (vInit) message from a first node, where the vInit message comprises a request to establish a vLDP session between a requesting node and a target node. If the receiving node does not own a destination address of the vInit message, the receiving node is determined to be a relay node. The relay node inserts a relay label into the vInit message, where the relay label is an outgoing label that the relay node uses to reach the first node, and forwards the vInit message toward the destination address. If the receiving node owns the destination address, the receiving node is determined to be the target node, which extracts a stack of relay labels from the vInit message. The relay labels are used to define a return path to the requesting node for messages transmitted over the vLDP session.
US09769057B2
In one embodiment, a method comprises creating, in a computing network, a loop-free routing topology comprising a plurality of routing arcs for reaching a destination device, each routing arc comprising a first network device as a first end of the routing arc, a second network device as a second end of the routing arc, and at least a third network device configured for routing any network traffic along the routing arc toward the destination device via any one of the first or second ends of the routing arc; and causing the network traffic to be forwarded along at least one of the routing arcs to the destination device.
US09769047B2
A method of generating timestamp information irrespective of a packet format include generating an egress timestamp corresponding to a time at which a first egress packet associated with a synchronization event is transmitted to a network medium; storing the egress timestamp in a memory based on an egress identifier; and transmitting a second egress packet associated with the synchronization event with the stored egress timestamp being included in the transmitted second egress packet for timing synchronization in the network medium. The method also includes receiving an incoming packet from the network medium; generating an ingress timestamp corresponding to a time at which the incoming packet is received; replacing an error detection field included in the incoming packet with an error detection tag; inserting the ingress timestamp into the error detection tag; and providing the incoming packet with the ingress timestamp to a processor for synchronization of a local clock.
US09769046B2
The invention comprises a method and system of deploying and managing sensor agents to provide services to networks and devices within a network. The invention dynamically deploys, initiates, and controls sensor agents that scan networks. Data obtained during the scan are returned to an analysis system for evaluation. Results are displayed to a user through a graphical interface or stored in a database. Results may also be used by the analysis system to remediate anomalies and provide graphical network information. Typically, a plurality of sensor agents are used to gather data in the aggregate and provide a more complete analysis on the operation and security of a network.
US09769034B2
A network node, comprising a receiver configured to receive a request for a service, wherein the request comprises a hierarchically structured name comprising a root and a suffix, a data storage component comprising a network synchronized policy rule associated with a service name root, wherein the network synchronized policy rule is applied to any request for a service whose name comprises a root matching the service name root, and a processor coupled to the receiver and to the data storage component, wherein the processor is configured to apply the network synchronized policy rule to the request, wherein the processor is configured to synchronize service definitions and service policies with other nodes in a network based on the name of the service, and wherein the network synchronized policy rule is synchronized with the other nodes in the network using name-based routing.
US09769028B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for receiving data from each of a plurality of components in a network, the components being arranged as a plurality of multicast trees, the data from each of the components indicating a structure of a portion of the network and at least one attribute associated with the respective component. The disclosure further provides for determining, based on the data, a structure of at least some of the multicast trees, receiving search criteria, and determining which of the multicast trees meet the search criteria.
US09769017B1
Techniques are described for providing an indication of an impending control plane disruption of a router using forwarding plane liveliness detection protocols. A forwarding plane of the router outputs liveliness detection messages that, when received by a peer router, provide an indication that the forwarding plane is operational and able to forward packets. When constructing the liveliness detection messages, the forwarding plane may embed additional information indicative of any impending disruption in the control plane of the network device. In this way, the forwarding plane of the transmitting router provides an indication to the peer router that, although currently operational, the control plane of the router may in the near term become non-operational. The peer router, in response to receiving an enhanced liveliness detection message indicating an impending control plane disruption, suppresses a recovery action otherwise triggered by a loss of communication with a control plane of the network device.
US09769015B2
A network management server stores, in terms of a transmission path within the network, each occurrence pattern of a failure occurrence area in which a failure has occurred in a communication apparatus through which the transmission path passes. Information for identifying a recovery plane serving as a set of recovery paths corresponding to each occurrence pattern and information for identifying the communication apparatus through which each of the recovery paths passes is also stored. When a failure occurs in any one of the plurality of areas, whether or not the failure corresponds to any one of the failure occurrence patterns, the information for identifying the recovery plane corresponding to the identified failure occurrence patterns is acquired; and the communication apparatus through which each of the recovery paths included in the recovery plane passes is notified of the information for identifying the recovery plane acquired.
US09769007B1
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for passively migrating a consumer from a legacy backup management system to a modern backup management system is discussed. A new hardware device may virally deploy the backup software throughout the consumer system. If the consumer decides the new backup system is performing optimally, it may disable the legacy system.
US09768993B2
A plurality of high-frequency components 12 that are provided in parallel between an input-side transmission circuit 10 and an output-side transmission circuit 11 and have pass characteristics different from each other are included, each high-frequency component 12 includes a power supply terminal 17 to which a driving power supply signal is selectively input, a signal transmitted through the input-side transmission circuit 10 is transmitted to the output-side transmission circuit 11 via a transmission path including only the high-frequency component in which the driving power supply signal is input to the power supply terminal 17 among the plurality of high-frequency components 12, and at least one of the plurality of high-frequency components 12 function as an equalizer that changes a frequency characteristic of the signal input to the input-side transmission circuit 10 due to the driving power supply signal being input to the power supply terminal 17.
US09768991B2
An active circuit control system that utilizes multiple PWM signals to activate and power an array of active components, requiring minimal wiring between the multi-mode signal conditioner and active components. Signal conditioning and filtering is implemented to allow transmission of power and control signals for multiple components over a single or multiple transmission lines. The circuit can be used to provide supply voltage and control signals for active antennas, switch networks, and other components in communication systems and electronic devices.
US09768990B2
A device for manipulating interface signals includes a slave interface, which is connectable to a master interface of a control device, a master interface, which is connectable to a slave interface of a measuring device, and a circuit configuration, which is supplied with at least one data-input signal per interface, and which outputs a corresponding data-output signal per data-input signal to the respective other interface. The circuit configuration includes at least one manipulation unit, to which a data-input signal and a substitute-data signal are supplied and which outputs a corresponding data-output signal, as well as a protocol unit, to which at least one protocol-relevant interface signal is supplied and which, based on manipulation rules and information received with the at least one protocol-relevant interface signal, chooses when the at least one manipulation unit outputs the corresponding data-input signal or the substitute-data signal as data-output signal.
US09768981B2
A tunnel management device includes: a central processing unit configured to manage a tunnel that establishes a virtual network to be overlaid on a IP network; and a memory coupled to the central processing unit, wherein the central processing unit: extracts a second tunnel in the virtual network that uses a second route in the IP network where a number of times a portion of a first route in the IP network is used by a first tunnel in the virtual network is used is minimized.
US09768980B2
Virtualization software that includes a VDRB (virtual distributed router/bridge) module for performing L3 routing and/or bridging operations is provided. At least some of the VDRBs are configured as VDBs (virtual distributed bridge) for performing bridging operations between different network segments in a distributed manner. The bridging tasks of a network are partitioned among several VDBs of the network based on MAC addresses. MAC addresses of VMs or other types of network nodes belonging to an overlay logical network are partitioned into several shards, each shard of MAC addresses assigned to a VDB in the network. Each VDB assigned a shard of MAC addresses performs bridging when it receives a packet bearing a MAC address belonging to its assigned shard. A VDB does not perform bridging on packets that do not have MAC address that falls within the VDB's shard of MAC addresses.
US09768976B2
A gas detection unit capable of automatically communicating event data is provided. The unit includes a housing, a gas detector module mounted in the housing, and a programmable processor configured to retain preselected event data of the gas detector module and to automatically initiate a wireless signal communicating the preselected event data for further transmission to a remote database in response to the detection of an available communication connection. The unit can include a low power radio module configured to transmit a low power radio signal communicating the preselected event data in response to initiation of the wireless signal by the programmable processor.
US09768964B2
A certified identification system for a subject is described. The system has a certification station configured to issue first identification means representing the subject, second identification means, suitable for identifying at least one identification station, and configured to be associated with the subject, wherein the identification station is configured to combine the identification means and the first code of the second identification means, issuing a unique identification code comprising first data, a second code and a first code, wherein the identification station (4) further includes an encapsulation module configured to encapsulate the identification data so that they are presented as compact data. The certification station further includes an interpretation module configured to interpret the compact data, one or more from among first, second and third comparison modules, and a certification module configured to activate a permission for access to the certification station to manage operations with certified identity.
US09768963B2
Methods and systems for secure user authentication using a OTP involve, for example, pre-storing a OTP application on a first computing device for generating a valid OTP value for the user responsive to receiving entry of a valid PIN value of the user, no part of the valid PIN value is stored on the first computing device and pre-storing on a back-end server the valid PIN value and a valid shared secret for the user. Upon receiving entry of a purported PIN value of the user, a purported shared secret is dynamically synthesized on the first computing device by the OTP application based on the purported PIN value of the user and a purported OTP value is generated on the first computing device. When entry of the purported OTP value is received by the back-end server in an attempt to log on the back-end server from a second computing device, the back-end server cryptographically calculates a window of OTP values, and log on to the back-end server from the second computing device is allowed if the calculated window of OTP values corresponds to the received OTP value.
US09768950B2
Efficient codeword synchronization methods and systems for fiber channel protocol are disclosed. The method includes identifying a codeword boundary by detecting 100-bit known patterns in a bit codeword in a transmission.
US09768942B2
The invention relates to a method for communicating based on a flexible TDD configuration by introducing flexible subframes, selectively usable as a downlink or uplink subframe in a manner avoids a transition from a (non-)flexible downlink subframe n to a (non-)flexible uplink subframe n+1. Furthermore, the invention allows reducing the number and types of uplink transmissions that would be pending for a flexible subframe, by defining HARQ uplink feedback timings based on the HARQ uplink feedback timings for the static TDD configurations such that HARQ uplink feedback is never transmitted in a flexible subframe, and also by releasing configurations for periodic uplink transmissions such as, SPS-scheduled uplink data transmissions, periodic CSI report, uplink sounding, random access, and scheduling requests.
US09768933B2
A method for performing by a mobile station (MS) a retransmission operation in a device to device (D2D) communication system is provided. The method includes performing a data communication with a peer MS using a D2D communication, receiving feedback information for a retransmission operation for data which is transmitted to the peer MS which is transmitted using a resource block mapped to identification information of a D2D connection from the peer MS, determining whether there is need for retransmission of the data based on the feedback information received from the peer MS, and if there is need for the retransmission of the data, retransmitting the data to the peer MS.
US09768924B2
A set of antennas is selected from a plurality of antennas for transmitting data streams on a plurality of subcarriers based on channel state information of a communications channel between the plurality of antennas and a plurality of receive antennas at a client device, a number of the data streams to be transmitted, and a channel coherence time of the communications channel. A size of the set is equal to or greater than the number of data streams.
US09768915B2
The present invention relates to data transmission/reception methods using a polar coding scheme, and devices for supporting same. The method for transmitting data by using polar coding in a wireless access system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, may comprise the steps of deriving Bhattacharyya parameters according to data bits input for finding noise-free channels among equivalent channels; allocating data payloads comprising data bits and cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits to the found noise-free channels; inputting the data payloads into a polar encoder; and transmitting code bits output by the polar encoder, wherein the CRC bits may be allocated to better noise-free channels, among the noise-free channels indicated by the Bhattacharyya parameters, than the data bits.
US09768910B2
The present aspects relate to enabling a user equipment (UE) to operate in Dual Carrier mode during wireless communication, including generating an event trigger to be transmitted to a network entity in response to the UE satisfying a maximum transmit power threshold value, wherein generating the event trigger initiates a trigger timer that controls when to transmit the event trigger to the network. The aspects further include determining whether a plurality of optimization conditions are met, and modifying a transmission scheme based on the determination that the plurality of optimization conditions are met, wherein modifying the transmission scheme prevents the transmission of the event trigger to the network entity and resets the trigger timer.
US09768903B2
An approach to proving a flexible grid architecture for time and wavelength division multiplexed passive optical networks is described. One embodiment includes an optical transmitter array configured to transmit an optical signal, an optical combiner coupled to the optical transmitter array configured to receive unlocked wavelengths from the optical transmitter array and output a single optical signal, and an optical amplifier coupled to the optical combiner configured to boost downstream optical power. In some embodiments, a WDM filter is coupled to the optical amplifier, and a tunable optical network unit (ONU) coupled to the WDM filter is configured to transmit and receive the optical signals. In still other embodiments, a cyclic demultiplexer is coupled to the optical splitter and connects to an optical receiver array configured to receive optical signals.
US09768901B2
An assembly of waveguide wavelength multiplexers and demultiplexers, together with continuous wave (CW) laser transmitters that interface to grating couplers on a silicon photonics chip, providing CW sources, multiplexed output and optionally multiplexed input, all using a single photonic lightwave circuit (PLC).
US09768896B2
A method self-adapts signal quality of non-audio data exchanged via an audio channel between a mobile terminal and a payment accessory. The method includes at least one iteration of the following acts: reception, by the mobile terminal, of a reference signal transmitted by the payment accessory; analysis, in the mobile terminal, of the received reference signal, the analysis delivering at least one item of information representative of the quality of the reference signal, referred to as quality information; transmission, by the mobile terminal to the payment accessory, of the quality information. In the above iteration, the roles of the mobile terminal and the payment accessory can be switched.
US09768892B1
In an embodiment, a method for measuring passive intermodulation (PIM) associated with a device under test (DUT) includes generating a test signal using a measuring instrument and obtaining measurements of PIM for the DUT. The test signal comprises two or more tones each amplified to a target output power by a respective amplifier according to a duty cycle. Measurements are obtained by the measuring instrument during an active portion of each duty cycle over a sweep of frequencies. PIM is calculated for the DUT by averaging a plurality of measurements obtained for each frequency from the sweep of frequencies. The duty cycle is determined based on the target output power.
US09768891B2
A distortion compensation device includes a multiplier, a subtracter, an LUT, and a distortion compensation unit. The multiplier calculates the product of amplitudes or the product of power of transmission signals at two different times or calculates the ratio of amplitudes or the ratio of power of transmission signals at two different times. The subtracter calculates the phase difference between the transmission signals at two different times. The LUT specifies a distortion compensation coefficient by using both the product or the ratio calculated by the multiplier and the phase difference calculated by the subtracter. The distortion compensation unit performs, by using the distortion compensation coefficient specified by the LUT, a predistortion process on the transmission signal that is input to the amplifier.
US09768885B2
A method and a system for pilot-aided feedforward data recovery are provided. The method and system include a receiver including a strong local oscillator operating in a free running mode independent of a signal light source. The phase relation between the signal light source and the local oscillator source is determined based on quadrature measurements on pilot pulses from the signal light source. Using the above phase relation, information encoded in an incoming signal can be recovered, optionally for use in communication with classical coherent communication protocols and quantum communication protocols.
US09768880B2
A method for preventing nonlinear interference in an optical communication system. The method may include selecting an optical signal of a first optical channel. The method may include determining an estimate of inter-channel nonlinear interference to the optical signal of the first optical channel. The inter-channel nonlinear interference may be generated by one or more optical signals transmitted over a second optical channel in the optical communication system. The method may include determining one or more linear filters based on the estimate of the inter-channel nonlinear interference. The method may include pre-distorting an optical signal for transmission over the second optical channel using the one or more linear filters. The pre-distorted optical signal may be configured for reducing the inter-channel nonlinear interference to the first optical signal of the first optical channel. The method may include transmitting the pre-distorted optical signal over the second optical channel through an optical transmission medium.
US09768871B2
A method (10) of changing operating mode of an optical amplifier in an amplifier chain in an optical network, the optical amplifier initially configured to operate in a first mode to apply a substantially constant first gain to an optical signal comprising a plurality of optical channels, the method comprising, after a time period unique to the optical amplifier within the amplifier chain (12), configuring the optical amplifier to operate in a second mode to apply a second gain to the optical signal so that the optical power of the optical signal is maintained at a target optical power dependent on a current plurality of optical channels in the optical signal (14).
US09768869B2
An information communication method is provided that determines a pattern of a change in luminance by modulating a signal to be transmitted, and outputs the determined pattern to a light emitter that changes in luminance according to the determined pattern. In the method, the signal includes a first data, a first header of the first data, second data, and a second header of the second data. Additionally, the pattern of the change in luminance is determined according to in an order of (i) the first data, (ii) the first header, (iii) the first data, (iv) the second data, (v) the second header, and (vi) the second data.
US09768867B2
A coded light receiver comprising a sensor for receiving coded light, a filter, and a timing and data recovery module. The coded light comprises a signal whereby data and timing are modulated into the light according to a self-clocking coding scheme. The filter is arranged to match a template waveform of the coding scheme against the received signal, thereby generating a pattern of filtered waveforms each corresponding to a respective portion of the data, and the timing and data recovery module recovers the timing from the signal based on characteristic points of the filtered waveforms. The timing and data recovery module is configured to do this by separating the filtered waveforms into different sub-patterns in dependence on the data, and to recover the timing by processing each of the sub-patterns individually based on the characteristic points of each sub-pattern.
US09768866B2
An optical wavelength and optical power measurement device is provided. The optical wavelength and optical power measurement device includes: an input unit in which an optical connector that emits communication light of an infrared ray wavelength region is connected; a filter unit that separates the communication light of an infrared ray wavelength region and light of a visible ray wavelength region; a sensing unit that communicates with a path of the communication light of an infrared ray wavelength region of the filter unit and in which a signal of the communication light of an infrared ray wavelength region is input; and an inspection unit that communicates with a path of the light of the visible ray wavelength region of the filter unit and that inspects a surface of the optical connector.
US09768858B2
A method for efficient retransmission over a satellite network including transmitting data packets to VSATs, receiving retransmission requests for at least one of the data packets from the VSATs, generating a retransmission packet based on the retransmission requests using XOR summing, transmitting the retransmission packet to the plurality of VSATs.
US09768850B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A method and an apparatus for grouping a plurality of beams into a plurality of beam groups in a wireless communication system supporting Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) are provided. The method includes determining at least one preferred beam set, based on a channel between a plurality of transmission beams of a Base Station (BS) and a plurality of reception beams of a Mobile Station (MS), transmitting information on the at least one preferred beam set, to the BS, generating information indicating interference that at least one transmission beam of the BS exerts to the MS, based on a preferred reception beam comprised in the at least one preferred beam set, and transmitting the generated interference information to the BS.
US09768840B2
A method and apparatus for determining placement of a plurality of antennas of a distributed antenna system for handling MIMO signals includes, at a first location, simulating the communication of a first MIMO signal by a first remote unit over an air interface in an environment and, at a second location, simulating the communication of a second MIMO signal by a second remote unit over an air interface in the environment. The first and second locations are arranged within the environment to provide overlapping signal coverage of both the first MIMO signal and the second MIMO signal at a third location in the environment. Analysis is made of at least an imbalance of received power between the first and second MIMO signals within the environment at a third location in order to determine whether a desired capacity for MIMO communications with the system has been achieved at the third location.
US09768828B2
A communication system includes a carrier generator configured to generate a first carrier signal and a demodulator configured to demodulate a modulated signal responsive to the first carrier signal. The demodulator includes a filter and a gain adjusting circuit. The filter is configured to filter a first signal. The first signal is a product of the first carrier signal and the modulated signal. The filter has a first cutoff frequency and a gain. The gain of the filter is controlled by a set of control signals. The gain adjusting circuit is configured to adjust the gain of the filter based on a voltage of the filtered first signal or a voltage of a second signal. The adjustable gain circuit is configured to generate the set of control signals.
US09768827B2
A UWB impulse receiver including an RF stage followed by a baseband processing stage. The baseband processing stage includes a Rake filter including a plurality of time fingers, each finger including an integrator of the baseband signal during an acquisition window, a control module, and a detection module estimating the received symbols from the integration results. During a synchronization phase, the control module drives respective positions of the acquisition windows associated with the different fingers, to scan at a reception interval, the RF stage only operating, in a course of the synchronization phase, during the plurality of acquisition windows.
US09768824B2
The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal mounted with a cover to provide its associated functions, and a control method thereof. The present disclosure may include a body having a front surface and a rear surface thereof, a display unit disposed on the front surface, a cover disposed to cover the display unit, and provided with a window portion, and a controller configured to control the display unit to illuminate notification light on the window portion when an event occurs while the display unit is deactivated. The window portion may be formed to expose at least part of the display unit to the outside while covering the display, and the cover is formed to output the illuminated notification light at a boundary of the window portion.
US09768819B2
A protective case for a mobile device having a multi-layered construction is disclosed. The multi-layered construction includes three layers that are co-molded to one another and is capable of being lightweight and low-profile, yet provide a high level of impact protection. The first layer generally forms the external back face surface of the case, the third layer generally forms the perimeter bumper of the case and the second layer forms the internal liner of the case and includes an elevated pattern of walls upon which the back face of the mobile device rest upon. The first layer is comprised of material that has a hardness greater than the other two layers. The third layer is comprised of a material that has a hardness that is greater than the second layer. The layers are configured to interact with one another so that they are capable of distributing and absorbing impact forces to mitigate damage to the mobile device.
US09768810B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, determining, by a controller of a mobile communication device, a phase shift criteria and an amplitude shift criteria associated with a modulation being implemented by the mobile communication device. The controller can determine a group of tuning steps that satisfies the phase and amplitude shift criteria and that provides a desired tuning step for a matching network of the mobile communication device. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US09768808B2
The various implementations described herein include systems, methods and/or devices for modifying an error correction format of a respective memory portion of non-volatile memory in a storage device. In one aspect, the method includes, for respective memory portions of the non-volatile memory, obtaining a performance metric of the respective memory portion, and modifying a current error correction format in accordance with the measured performance metric, the current error correction format corresponding to a code rate, codeword structure, and error correction type. Furthermore, data is stored, and errors are detected and corrected, in the respective memory portion in accordance with the modified error correction format. The current and modified error correction formats are distinct, and comprise two of a sequence of predefined error correction formats, wherein a plurality of the sequence of predefined error correction formats have a same number of error correction bits and different numbers of data bits.
US09768807B2
A decoder includes syndrome storage and a first barrel shifter configured to bit-shift hard decision bit data to generate shifted data that is aligned with a set of syndromes from the syndrome storage. The decoder also includes a first syndrome update circuit coupled to the first barrel shifter and configured to process the set of syndromes based on the shifted data to generate an updated version of the set of syndromes. The decoder may also be configured to perform on-the-fly syndrome weight computation.
US09768805B2
Techniques relating to LDPC encoding. A set of operations is produced that is usable to generate an encoded message based on an input message. The set of operations corresponds to operations for entries in a smaller matrix representation that specifies locations of non-zero entries in an LDPC encoding matrix. A mobile device is configured with the set of operations to perform LDPC encoding. Circuitry configured with the set of operations performs LDPC encoding with high performance, relatively small area and/or low power consumption.
US09768800B1
An apparatus comprises a digital to analog converter (DAC) circuit configured to receive a time-varying a digital input signal and convert the digital input signal to an analog output signal, an output amplifier circuit operatively coupled to the output of the DAC circuit, a peak detector circuit operatively coupled to the input the DAC and configured to produce a signal envelope of the digital input signal, and logic circuitry. The logic circuitry is operatively coupled to the peak detector circuit and is configured to detect when the signal envelope satisfies a specified threshold value; and to adjust a drive capability of an output amplifier circuit of the DAC circuit according to the signal envelope.
US09768786B2
A power system stabilizing device includes an arithmetic unit that constructs a system model by collecting various kinds of system information, calculates a transient stability under an assumed accident condition beforehand, and selects, for each assumed accident in advance, a target solar power generator for shutdown and a target power generator to be disconnected to stabilize a power system, and a control unit that shutdowns the shutdown target solar power generator and disconnects the disconnection target power generator from the power system which are selected by the arithmetic unit when a system accident occurs.
US09768781B2
An embodiment of the present invention is an identification circuit for generating an identification number (ID). The identification circuit includes a plurality of identification cells each comprising a latch having a first output and a second output that are opposite to each other. The first output and the second output are a function of process variations of the identification circuit. A first buffer and a second buffer are provided on both sides of the latch and connected to the first output and the second output of the latch, respectively.
US09768770B2
Embodiments provide a switching circuit including a transistor and a bias circuit. The transistor may transition between an off state and an on state responsive to a control signal received at a control terminal. The bias circuit may be coupled between the control terminal and a gate terminal of the transistor. The bias circuit may include a gate resistor coupled between the gate terminal and the control terminal. The bias circuit may further include one or more diodes coupled in parallel with the gate resistor between the gate terminal and the control terminal to allow leakage current to pass from the gate terminal through the one or more diodes. In some embodiments, the bias circuit may include a switch coupled with the one or more diodes to selectively couple the one or more diodes in parallel with the gate resistor when the transistor is off.
US09768762B2
An integrated circuit includes a first circuit and a test circuit. The test circuit is configured to test the timing of a first circuit. The first circuit includes a plurality of flip-flops and a plurality of data paths. Each data path of the plurality of data paths is connected to one or more of the plurality of flip-flops. The test circuit includes a plurality of loopback paths, a controller, a multiplexer connected to the plurality of loopback paths and a counter connected to the multiplexer. The controller is configured to select a path from the plurality of loopback paths and the plurality of data paths. The multiplexer is configured to selectively output a first signal including an oscillation frequency. The first signal is applied to the selected path and the counter is configured to measure the oscillation frequency of the first signal.
US09768752B2
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides an impedance matching circuit including a matching network. The matching network includes a first port and a second port, and one or more variable reactance components. The one or more variable reactance components are operable to receive one or more variable voltage signals to cause the one or more variable reactance components to change an impedance of the matching network. At least one of the one or more variable reactance components includes a first conductor coupled to one of the first port or the second port of the matching network, a second conductor, and a tunable material positioned between the first conductor and the second conductor. Additionally, at least one of the first conductor and the second conductor are adapted to receive the one or more variable voltage signals to cause the change in the impedance of the matching network. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US09768751B2
An audio system includes a level controller receiving an input audio signal from an audio medium. The level controller includes a gain adjust module producing an output audio signal based on the input audio signal. A filter arrangement is communicatively coupled to the level controller. The filter arrangement receives the output audio signal and divides the output signal into a plurality of filtered signals. Each of the filtered signals corresponds to a respective frequency band. A multiband dynamics controller is communicatively coupled to the filter arrangement. The multiband dynamics controller receives the filtered signals and applies a respective gain characteristic to each of the filtered signals to thereby produce a plurality of gain adjust signals. The gain adjust signals are combined into a multiband dynamics controller output signal.
US09768746B2
A user interface includes a rotatable ring for controlling a function on an associated device, and a support ring for supporting the rotatable ring. The support ring includes a plurality of biasing elements, and a plurality of engagement members rotatably mounted on the biasing elements and configured to engage the rotatable ring so as to preload the biasing elements and thereby (i) biasing the rotatable ring toward a center position in which a central axis of the rotatable ring is coincident with a central axis of the support ring, and (ii) increasing resistance to rotational movement of the rotatable ring.
US09768741B2
A method for improving circuit stability is disclosed. In the method of the present invention, the circuit is analyzed to find the frequency band in which the input impedance at a target node behaves as a negative resistance, and then find the signal path of the frequency band in the matching circuit in front of the target node and add an attenuator in the signal path. This prevents the circuit from oscillation and improves the stability of the circuit. Furthermore, the signal on the main signal path will not be attenuated and the performance of the circuit will be maintained.
US09768734B2
Embodiments of a Doherty power amplifier that maintain efficiency over a large operating average power range are disclosed. In one embodiment, the Doherty power amplifier includes reconfigurable main and auxiliary output matching networks and a fixed combining network. The reconfigurable main and auxiliary output matching networks can be reconfigured such that together the reconfigurable main output matching network, the reconfigurable auxiliary output matching network, and the fixed combining network provide proper load modulation for multiple different back-off power levels. As a result, the Doherty power amplifier maintains high efficiency over an extended back-off power level range.
US09768729B2
A power amplifier has improved power added efficiency at high output power. The power amplifier includes: a first transistor for amplifying an input signal input to the base thereof and outputting the amplified signal from the collector thereof; a second transistor with power-supply voltage applied to the collector thereof to supply bias voltage or bias current from the emitter thereof to the base of the first transistor; a third transistor whose collector is connected to the collector of the first transistor to amplify the input signal input to the base thereof and output the amplified signal from a collector thereof; a fourth transistor whose base and collector are connected to supply bias from the emitter thereof to the base of the third transistor; and a first resistor with bias control voltage applied to one end thereof and the other end connected to the bases of the second and fourth transistors.
US09768724B2
The invention relates to a carrier structure for solar panels. The invention also relates to a beam (3) for use in a carrier structure according to the invention. The invention then relates to a carrier (4,5) for use in a carrier structure according to the invention. The invention furthermore relates to an assembly of at least one carrier structure and at least one solar panel. In addition, the invention relates to a method for producing a carrier structure according to the invention.
US09768720B2
A method for estimating operation parameters of a servomotor is described. The method includes the steps of: driving the servomotor to rotate stably at an initial angular velocity; computing d- and q-axis components of an initial voltage when the servomotor rotates at the initial angular velocity; accelerating the servomotor to a predetermined angular velocity according to the initial voltage; and computing at least one operation parameter of the servomotor after the servomotor rotates at the predetermined angular velocity.
US09768719B2
In one aspect, an apparatus includes a motor and inverter configured to provide input power to the motor and a data store comprising at least one entry including a first torque command, a first motor speed, and a first DC voltage value. The first torque command and the first motor speed and the first DC voltage value are associated with a first current output. The apparatus includes a processor configured to receive a torque input, a DC voltage input, and a motor speed input and determine an output current associated with the torque input, the DC voltage input, and the motor speed input, correct the output current to be within a voltage constraint of the motor when the DC voltage input is than a reference voltage at the motor and output the corrected output current to cause the inverter to provide the input power to the motor.
US09768707B2
A power harvesting circuit, a rectifier circuit and a capacitor. The rectifier circuit includes a diode circuit, a diode voltage reduction circuit, and a start up current circuit. The diode circuit passes a current when a received RF signal has a first polarity and to substantially blocks the current when the received RF signal has a second polarity. The diode voltage reduction circuit is operably coupled to reduce a voltage drop of the diode circuit. The start up current circuit operably coupled to reduce the start up current of the diode voltage reduction circuit and/or the diode circuit. The capacitor is operably coupled to convert the rectified signal into a DC supply voltage.
US09768701B2
A synchronous rectifier comprises at least one rectification switch (102, 103), and a control circuit (104) for controlling the at least one rectification switch to allow unidirectional current flow only. The control circuit comprises at least one current sensor (105, 106) for sensing an alternating component of current of the at least one rectification switch, and at least one driver circuit (107, 108) for controlling the at least one rectification switch at least partly on the basis of the direction of the sensed alternating component. Using the alternating component for controlling the rectification switch removes a need to compare the current to any non-zero constant or adjustable threshold value, and thus challenges related to defining the threshold value can be avoided. The synchronous rectifier can be for example a part of a resonant converter.
US09768694B2
An intrinsically safe redundant regulator circuit includes a plurality of voltage limiting regulators between a regulated rail and a ground rail. Each of the plurality of voltage limiting regulators includes: (i) a shunt regulator component configured to clamp a voltage across the regulated rail and the ground rail to a safety clamp voltage value; and (ii) one or more components, where a property of each of the one or more components is selected to configure the safety clamp voltage value.
US09768686B2
Embodiments described herein describe a switching power converter that includes a switch, an inductor, a diode, and a controller that generates a control signal to turn on and turn off the switch. The controller generates the control signal by generating a reference signal, integrating a difference between a voltage value of the generated reference signal, and a voltage difference between voltage values of the switching node and the second output terminal, and generating the control signal by processing the integrated voltage difference.
US09768668B2
A cooling system includes a cooling circuit that has a circulation pump circulating a coolant containing antifreeze solution and cools down, by means of the coolant, a power element mounted in a power converter for an on-vehicle rotary electric machine; a control signal calculation unit that calculates heat quantity generated by the power element; a power element temperature sensor that detects the temperature of the power element; and a coolant temperature sensor that detects the temperature of the coolant. The control signal calculation unit calculates, on the basis of the heat quantity, the temperature of the power element, and the coolant temperature, power element cooling performance that is the amount of heat transferred from the power element to the coolant per unit temperature difference, and lowers the driving power of the circulation pump when the calculated power element cooling performance is greater than a predetermined criterion.
US09768645B2
The invention relates to a device (1) for emitting energy by electromagnetic coupling which comprises: a single generator (5) outputting an AC electric signal between two terminals; a series of resonant modules (2i) each including a capacitor and a first inductance, and first to fourth terminals (Ai, Bi, Ci, Di), the first (Ai) and second (Bi) terminals of a first module being connected to terminals of the generator, and the first (Ai) and second (Bi) terminals of the other module or modules being connected to the third (Ci) and fourth (Di) terminals of the module of the previous row.
US09768628B2
A system wearable on a body part of a user. The system includes an electronic device powered by a primary power source, and a circuitry coupled to the electronic device. The system also includes a removable secondary power source configured to charge the primary power source with secondary power when coupled to the circuitry.
US09768627B2
Disclosed herein is an overcharge protection apparatus with minimized power consumption. An overcharge protection apparatus with minimized power consumption according to an embodiment includes a switching unit for controlling supply of voltage detected in a battery cell depending on an ignition-on or off state of a vehicle, and an overcharge prevention circuit for, when the battery cell is overcharged based on the voltage of the battery cell output from the switching unit, turning off a main relay, thus interrupting supply of power to a battery module, so that the voltage of the battery cell is detected only in an ignition-on state of a vehicle and power consumption is minimized, thus preventing the lifespan of a battery from being shortened by reducing a voltage difference between cells.
US09768623B2
A wireless power receiver circuit forms a wireless power receiving apparatus together with a reception coil. An internal power supply line is connected to a capacitor C. An output line is connected to a secondary battery. An H-bridge circuit includes N-channel MOSFETs MH1, MH2, ML1, and ML2. A first switch is arranged between a rectification line and the internal power supply line. A second switch is arranged between the rectification line and the output line. A voltage VDD of the internal power supply line is supplied to a power supply terminal of a controller.
US09768621B2
A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting wireless power in a wireless power network managed by a wireless power transmitter. The method includes transmitting a command signal, at stated periods, that controls the first wireless power receiver to report power information to the wireless power transmitter; determining whether a report signal corresponding to the command signal is received from the first wireless power receiver; and determining that the first wireless power receiver is removed from the wireless power network, when the report signal is not received from the first wireless power receiver after transmitting the command signal a predetermined number of times at the stated periods.
US09768617B2
The invention relates to a power management system, comprising: a power source; a source of renewable energy; a power converter; a first selection means arranged to connect the input of the power converter either to the power source or to the source of renewable energy; a second selection means arranged to connect the outlet of the power converter either to the power source or to a system for storing power; and a means for synchronizing the first selection means and the second selection means, which operates according to pre-established operation rules.
US09768611B2
An apparatus for providing protection to an electric circuit includes a P-channel MOSFET; a freewheeling diode coupled to a drain of the P-channel MOSFET and coupled to a load; and a charge pump coupled to a gate of the P-channel MOSEFT. In a normal operating mode, the charge pump receives a voltage from a voltage regulator, and is configured to multiply and reverses the polarity of the voltage to supply to the gate of the MOSFET. In a reverse battery operating mode, the charge pump receives no voltage from the voltage regulator to supply to the gate of the MOSFET causing the MOSFET to deactivate such that when the MOSFET deactivates, current is prevented from flowing through the freewheeling diode to protect the freewheeling diode.
US09768610B2
A method for leakage current compensation in a photovoltaic system includes determining a reference current flowing from at least one current-carrying line under voltage via a capacitor to earth, and generating a compensation current, having a phase and a frequency of the reference current, and having an amplitude adjusted by a negative scaling factor based on the reference current. The method further includes determining a current sum using a differential current sensor for at least a portion thereof, wherein the addends of the current sum are the currents through a complete set of current-carrying lines and the compensation current, minimizing the determined current sum by adjusting the scaling factor, and routing the compensation current through at least one other differential current sensor, such that the compensation current compensates a leakage current component of a differential current monitored by the other differential current sensor. A related device and system is also disclosed.
US09768606B2
A method for discharging a high-voltage system in a vehicle, the high-voltage system having at least one energy store and a plurality of high-voltage consumers. To discharge the high-voltage system, the electrical energy store is first separated from the rest of the vehicle electrical system, and at least one of the high-voltage consumers is switched on, so that the charge stored within the system drains via the consumers.
US09768603B2
A lightning protection system for a tower of a wind turbine is provided. The tower includes a reinforced concrete tower wall in which a plurality of electrically conductive structural reinforcing elements are embedded during construction. The lightning protection system includes a plurality of the structural reinforcing elements connected in an electrically conductive manner with each other and with a ground terminal. Further, a method of incorporating such a lightning protection system in a reinforced concrete tower, and a wind turbine with such a lightning protection system is provided.
US09768586B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, for optical communication. One apparatus includes a Fabry-Perot (FP) laser diode assembly coupled to a first port of a circulator; an optical amplifier coupled to a second port of the circulator; a wavelength division multiplexer (WDM) filter coupled to a third port of the circulator; and a Faraday rotator mirror coupled to the WDM filter.
US09768584B2
A laser diode package includes a heat pipe having a fluid chamber enclosed in part by a heat exchange wall for containing a fluid. Wicking channels in the fluid chamber is adapted to wick a liquid phase of the fluid from a condensing section of the heat pipe to an evaporating section of the heat exchanger, and a laser diode is connected to the heat exchange wall at the evaporating section of the heat exchanger so that heat produced by the laser diode is removed isothermally from the evaporating section to the condensing section by a liquid-to-vapor phase change of the fluid.
US09768580B2
A Free Electron Laser source includes: a fiber-based laser having a plurality of amplifying fibers wherein an initial laser pulse is distributed and amplified, and element for grouping together the elementary pulses amplified in the fiber in order to form an a single amplified global laser pulse; a laser plasma accelerator wherein the global laser pulse generates relativistic electron beams, a beam focusing system transporting electron beams from the laser plasma accelerator, an undulator wherein relativistic electron beams generate an electromagnetic beam, and a beam separator system, wherein the electron beam and the electromagnetic beam are separated.
US09768578B1
Ultrashort pulse fiber amplifier having a pulse width from 200 ps to 200 fs comprising a rare earth oxide doped multicomponent glass fibers for laser amplification, including a core and a cladding, the core comprising at least 2 weight percent glass network modifier selected from BaO, CaO, MgO, ZnO, PbO, K2O, Na2O, Li2O, Y2O3, or combinations; wherein the mode of the core is guided with step index difference between the core and the cladding, a numerical aperture of the fiber is between 0.01 and 0.04; core diameter is from 25 to 120 micron, and a length of the gain fiber is shorter than 60 cm.
US09768577B2
A pulse multiplier includes a beam splitter and one or more mirrors. The beam splitter receives a series of input laser pulses and directs part of the energy of each pulse into a ring cavity. After circulating around the ring cavity, part of the pulse energy leaves the ring cavity through the beam splitter and part of the energy is recirculated. By selecting 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 splitter. This pulse multiplier can inexpensively reduce the peak power per pulse while increasing the number of pulses per second with minimal total power loss.
US09768574B2
A spin weld apparatus for spin welding a prepared end of a coaxial cable with a coaxial connector includes a cable clamp dimensioned to grip the coaxial cable and a drive collet dimensioned to enclose and rotationally interlock with a lateral surface of the coaxial connector. The drive collet is dimensioned to rotationally interlock with an interlocking portion of a spin welder. The spin welder is dimensioned to axially align the coaxial connector with the coaxial cable for spin welding when the drive collet is rotationally interlocked with the spin welder.
US09768572B1
Apparatus and associated methods relate to a quick-connector conversion system having a front cover and a rear module. In an illustrative example, the front cover includes apertures from which a plurality of connector ports extend through. Each connector port of the plurality of connector ports is in electrical communication with a first communication module. A rear module includes a second communication module electrically connected to a plurality of input/output (I/O) terminals such that when the front cover aligns with the rear module, the first communication module pluggably connects to the second communication module. When the first communication module and the second communication module are pluggably connected, the plurality of connector ports electrically connects to the plurality of the I/O terminals.
US09768568B1
An electrical connector for connecting a cable, includes an insulating body and a first terminal group received in the insulating body. The first terminal group includes a ground terminal, a power terminal, and first and second high-speed signal terminals. The first high-speed signal terminal has a first contacting portion, a first bending portion and a first soldering portion from front to rear. The extending direction of the first bending portion is different from that of the first contacting portion. The second high-speed signal terminal has a second contacting portion, a second bending portion, a reverse bending portion and a second soldering portion from front to rear. The second bending portion extends in a bending direction toward the first bending portion. The reverse bending portion reversely bends from the second bending portion. The spacing between the first and second soldering portions and the space for accommodating the cable are enlarged.
US09768567B2
An electrical connector assembly includes a housing comprising a rear base and a mating tongue extending forward from the base; a row of upper terminals and a row of lower terminals retained on the housing, each terminal including a contacting section exposed to mating tongue and a pin leg section from the base, and the contacting sections of the upper and lower terminals being aligned with each in a vertical direction. The contacting sections of each row terminals are arranged in different central pitch, the pin leg sections of the upper and lower terminals are aligned with each in a front and back direction and the pin leg sections of each row are arranged with a same central pitch.
US09768558B1
Electrical connector includes a connector housing. The electrical connector also includes a plurality of signal conductors coupled to the connector housing. Each of the signal conductors has a first terminal, a second terminal, and an elongated conductor body extending between the first and second terminals. The first terminals are configured to engage corresponding conductive elements of an electrical component. The electrical connector also includes a ground structure coupled to the connector housing. The ground structure is positioned between adjacent signal conductors and has an exterior surface. At least a portion the exterior surface has a textured area that is configured to dampen reflected energy that propagates there along.
US09768547B1
A water resistant port and a method for using it are provided. The port comprises a moveable seal assembly coupled to a spring structure. The moveable seal assembly may comprise a plastic material on an inner surface and a seal material on an outer surface. When the spring structure is in a relaxed position, the moveable seal assembly is caused to create a seal with a gasket material coupled to a side wall of a port casing. The spring structure comprises a spring coupled to the moveable seal assembly at one end and to a guide at an opposite end in an interior portion of the port casing. The port casing comprises, on an interior surface, one or more electrical connectors adapted to receive one or more electrical contacts of an accessory plug when the spring structure is compressed and the moveable seal assembly is in an engaged position.
US09768542B2
An electrical connector with snap-in compliant arm members, an alignment member and a plurality of pin members for mating with openings on a PCB.
US09768532B1
An irrigation system grounding strap including an adjustable lap-joint band clamp attachable to a wheel support lateral member of an irrigation system end tower with a flat braided copper wire strap having one end attached to the band clamp and an opposite end having a ground body, such as a flat washer, attached thereto that makes ground contact when the irrigation system is operating to dissipate electrical charges produced by a short circuit in the electric drive motor on a lateral wheel support member of an end tower of the irrigation system.
US09768528B2
A power cable in-line power outlet (and associated method of use); said outlet including at least two sockets or slots for receiving power conducting pins of a plug of a powercord; said sockets or slots providing access to connector elements engaging with corresponding power conducting elements of said power cable; said power cable comprising an outer insulating sheath enclosing separate insulating sheaths of each said at least two power conducting elements; said power cable urged into cutting contact with said connector elements by rotation of a cam-lever from an initial non-contacting position to a position in which each of said power conducting elements of said power cable are in contact with said connector elements.
US09768518B2
A microelectronic wireless transmission device including: a substrate able to be traversed by radio waves intended to be emitted by the device, an antenna, an electrical power supply, an integrated circuit, electrically connected to the antenna and to the electrical power supply, and able to transmit to the antenna electrical signals intended to be emitted by the antenna in the form of the said radio waves, a cap rigidly connected to the substrate and forming, with the substrate, at least one cavity in which the antenna and the integrated circuit are positioned, where the cap comprises an electrically conductive material connected electrically to an electrical potential of the electrical power supply and/or of the integrated circuit, and able to form a reflector with regard to the radio waves intended to be emitted by the antenna.
US09768516B2
Complementary metamaterial elements provide an effective permittivity and/or permeability for surface structures and/or waveguide structures. The complementary metamaterial resonant elements may include Babinet complements of “split ring resonator” (SRR) and “electric LC” (ELC) metamaterial elements. In some approaches, the complementary metamaterial elements are embedded in the bounding surfaces of planar waveguides, e.g. to implement waveguide based gradient index lenses for beam steering/focusing devices, antenna array feed structures, etc.
US09768512B2
A radar antenna is disclosed. The disclosed antenna includes: a dielectric substrate; a feed line for feeding RF signals that is formed on an upper portion of the dielectric substrate and has a linear form; a multiple number of radiators that are perpendicularly joined to the feed line and have a bent structure comprising a horizontal portion and a vertical portion; a matching element for adjusting impedance matching that is joined to an end of the feed line; and a ground formed on a lower portion of the dielectric substrate, where a length of the horizontal portion and the vertical portion is set based on a polarization angle of an RF signal that is to be radiated. The disclosed antenna can be manufactured with a simple structure and a compact size.
US09768508B2
An antenna system for triple-band satellite communication according to one exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes a feed horn device that is configured to simultaneously radiate or absorb wireless signals of triple bands including X, Ku and Ka bands, and a waveguide section that is coupled to the feed horn device and configured to transmit input and output of the wireless signals, wherein the feed horn device includes a corrugation horn that is configured to radiate or absorb the wireless signals of the X and Ku bands, the corrugation horn having a bell-like shape with a plurality of corrugations formed on an inner circumferential surface thereof in a stepped manner, and a dielectric feed horn that is configured to radiate or absorb the wireless signal corresponding to the Ku band and disposed in a central region of the corrugation horn.
US09768492B2
An antenna apparatus for a portable terminal having a main board is provided. The antenna apparatus includes a main antenna that electrically connects to a feed line of the main board. A metal frame is constructed as part of a case frame forming an exterior of the portable terminal. The metal frame is divided into first and second parts that are separated. The first part electrically connects to the main antenna or to the main board feed line, and is designed to radiate. The second part electrically connects to a ground surface of the main board. The metal frame enhances overall antenna performance rather than causing degradation through interference.
US09768489B2
A joining device to enable the fastening of a rigid flat radome onto a circular-opening reflector comprises an upper brace applied to one outward-turned side of the radome and covering the peripheral segment of the reflector and radome, a lower brace placed against the face of the reflector opposite the radome, and a rigid spacer comprising and joined with a pad disposed between the reflector and the radome, at least one cylinder leaving a through-hole for a means of fastening the radome onto the reflector, and at least one peg mating with the radome. The upper brace covers the peg and comprises an orifice for putting the cylinder through. In an antenna comprising a circular-opening reflector, a rigid flat radome comprising a plurality of holes on its periphery, and such a joining device, only some of the holes of the radome are used to allow a means of fastening through.
US09768488B1
A method, apparatus and system for aligning an antenna reflector with satellites in a satellite configuration.
US09768482B2
The compact excitation module comprises two radiofrequency RF exciters and a rotary joint coupled together along a common longitudinal axis, the rotary joint comprising two distinct parts, respectively fixed and rotating around the common longitudinal axis, the two radiofrequency exciters being mounted one on each side of the rotary joint, respectively on the fixed and rotating parts, and axially coupled together by the rotary joint. The compact excitation module further comprises a rotary actuator provided with an axial transverse opening, the rotary joint being housed in the axial transverse opening of the rotary actuator.
US09768481B2
Method and system for generating electrical energy from a volume of water.
US09768470B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary cell which can maintain and demonstrate an excellent cell characteristic over a long period of time. The method for manufacturing a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary cell provided by the present invention includes: a step of preparing a positive electrode having a positive electrode mix layer and a negative electrode having a negative electrode mix layer; and a step of housing the positive electrode and the negative electrode together with a nonaqueous electrolytic solution in a cell case. The nonaqueous electrolytic solution includes a Compound (I) constituted by lithium tris(oxalate)phosphate. When a BET specific surface area of the negative electrode mix layer is denoted by X (m2/g) and the amount of the Compound (I) added to the entire amount of the nonaqueous electrolytic solution is denoted by Y (% by mass), the following relationships are satisfied: 3≦X≦4.3; 0.4≦Y≦1.5; and (Y/X)≦0.35.
US09768448B2
A binder composition for a rechargeable lithium battery includes: an interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) structure including a cyclic polymer including a structural unit represented by Chemical Formula 1 or a structural unit represented by Chemical Formula 2, and polyacrylamide. A method of preparing the same, and an electrode for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same are also disclosed. In Chemical Formulae 1 and 2, R1 to R3, R11 to R16, and n and m are the same as defined in the detailed description.
US09768443B2
A positive electrode for a nonaqueous secondary battery including an active material layer which has sufficient electron conductivity with a low ratio of a conductive additive is provided. A positive electrode for a nonaqueous secondary battery including an active material layer which is highly filled with an active material, id est, including the active material and a low ratio of a conductive additive. The active material layer includes a plurality of particles of an active material with a layered rock salt structure, graphene that is in surface contact with the plurality of particles of the active material, and a binder.
US09768428B2
The invention relates mainly to a system of electrochemical cells for the production of a battery module for an electric or hybrid vehicle, comprising a stack of flexible electrochemical cells, characterized in that it comprises at least one support strip with at least one electrochemical cell disposed on the surface thereof. According to the invention, the support strip can be cut such that the number of electrochemical cells disposed on the surface is adapted to provide the necessary battery power, and the strip can be folded such as to allow the electrochemical cells to be positioned side by side and stacked on top of one another.
US09768420B2
A rechargeable battery includes an electrode assembly having a first electrode and a second electrode of different polarities, a case with an opening that houses the electrode assembly, the case having a pair of opposing first side walls, each first side wall of the pair of first side walls including at least one groove extending from the opening of the case to an opposite side of the case, a cap assembly coupled to the opening of the case to seal the case, a first current collecting member and a second current collecting member inside the case, the first and second current collecting members being connected to the first electrode and the second electrode, respectively, and a first terminal and a second terminal on the cap assembly, the first and second terminals being connected to the first current collecting member and the second current collecting member, respectively.
US09768419B2
A curved secondary battery includes an electrode assembly; a first sealing sheet at a first surface of the electrode assembly; a second sealing sheet at a second surface of the electrode assembly, the first sealing sheet and the second sealing sheet together sealing the electrode assembly; and a reinforcing layer on the first sealing sheet, wherein the first sealing sheet has a concavely curved surface, and wherein the reinforcing layer has a curvature corresponding to a curvature of the first sealing sheet.
US09768418B2
A secondary battery including: a can having an opening at one end; and an electrode assembly in the can, wherein the can includes: a bottom surface which is curved; and a deformation inducing portion at the bottom surface to reduce a force needed for deformation when bending the bottom surface.
US09768411B2
Provided are an organic light emitting display (OLED) apparatus and a manufacturing method thereof. The OLED apparatus includes: a thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate including: a support substrate, including a soft material and a plurality of TFTs on the support substrate corresponding to a plurality of pixel areas, a light emitting array (LEA) including a plurality of organic light emitting devices on the TFT array substrate corresponding to the plurality of pixel areas, a sealing structure facing the TFT array substrate, the LEA interposed between the TFT array substrate and the sealing structure, and an adhesive layer between the LEA and the sealing structure to adhere the LEA to the sealing structure, wherein the sealing structure includes: a protective layer on the LEA, a sealing layer over the TFT array substrate, and a barrier layer adhering the protective layer to the sealing layer.
US09768399B2
Disclosed is a flexible organic light emitting display panel in which an upper substrate is larger in size than a lower substrate including a pad area. The flexible organic light emitting display panel includes, for example, a lower substrate, including a flexible lower base film and an organic light emitting diode (OLED) included in the flexible lower base film, and an upper substrate including a flexible upper base film and a multi-buffer which is coated on the flexible upper base film for preventing penetration of water.
US09768390B2
The present invention discloses a phenanthroline derivative is represented by the following formula(I), the organic EL device employing the phenanthroline derivative as hole blocking electron transport material, electron transport material can display good performance like as lower driving voltage and power consumption, increasing efficiency and half-life time. Wherein Ar, X, m, n, p and R1 to R3 are the same definition as described in the present invention.
US09768384B2
A method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting display apparatus including forming a liftoff layer containing a fluoropolymer on a substrate, forming a photoresist on the liftoff layer and patterning the photoresist by removing a portion thereof, etching, using a first solvent, the liftoff layer in a region where the photoresist is removed so that a portion of the liftoff layer remains on the substrate, forming an etch stop layer above the liftoff layer that remains on the substrate and above a region where the photoresist remains on the liftoff layer, and removing, using a second solvent, the liftoff layer under the region where the photoresist remains on the liftoff layer.
US09768383B2
A method is described for applying an organic semiconductor layer based on epindolidione to a carrier. In order to provide advantageous production conditions it is proposed that the epindolidione is first reacted with tert-butyloxycarbonyl as protective group to give tert-butyloxycarbonyl epindolidione and then dissolved in a solvent before the dissolved tert-butyloxycarbonyl epindolidione is applied to the carrier, and that the solvent then be evaporated and the tert-butyloxycarbonyl protective group be detached again.
US09768381B2
The present invention relates to a resistive random access memory device having a nano-scale tip, memory array using the same and fabrication method thereof. Especially, the present invention provides a technique forming a bottom electrode having an upwardly protruding tapered tip structure through etching a semiconductor substrate in order that an electric field is focused on the tip of the bottom electrode across a top electrode and that a region where conductive filaments are formed is maximally minimized or localized.
US09768374B2
In manufacturing method of a cylindrical piezoelectric element, a cylindrical piezoelectric material is formed by molding a piezoelectric material into a cylindrical shape and subjecting the molded piezoelectric material to calcination. A reference electrode is provided on an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical piezoelectric material. Drive electrodes are provided in a circumferential direction so that the drive electrodes are extending in an axial direction from one end to the other end on an outer circumferential surface. A polarization electrode is provided at a part of the circumferential surface in the vicinity of the one end. A predetermined voltage is applied between the polarization electrode and the reference electrode. The polarization electrode is removed from the cylindrical piezoelectric material.
US09768356B2
A method is described for forming at least one metal contact on a surface of a semiconductor and a device with at least one metal contact. The method is used for forming at least one metal contact (60) on a surface (11) of a semiconductor (10) and has the steps of: applying a metal layer (20) of palladium onto the semiconductor surface (11), applying a mask (40, 50) onto the metal layer (20), and structuring the palladium of the metal layer (20) using the mask (40, 50), wherein lateral deposits (21) of the metal are formed on sidewalls of the mask by the structuring so that the mask is embedded between the deposits (21) and the structured metal layer (20′) after the structuring. Since the mask is conductive, it can remain embedded in the metal. The deposits and the mask form a part of the contact.
US09768352B2
Provided is a self-supporting polycrystalline GaN substrate composed of GaN-based single crystal grains having a specific crystal orientation in a direction approximately normal to the substrate. The crystal orientations of individual GaN-based single crystal grains as determined from inverse pole figure mapping by EBSD analysis on the substrate surface are distributed with tilt angles from the specific crystal orientation, the average tilt angle being 1 to 10°. There is also provided a light emitting device including the self-supporting substrate and a light emitting functional layer, which has at least one layer composed of semiconductor single crystal grains, the at least one layer having a single crystal structure in the direction approximately normal to the substrate. The present invention makes it possible to provide a self-supporting polycrystalline GaN substrate having a reduced defect density at the substrate surface, and to provide a light emitting device having a high luminous efficiency.
US09768351B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor device comprises a barrier layer, a first semiconductor layer on the barrier layer, the first semiconductor layer comprising a first dopant and a second dopant, and a second semiconductor layer beneath the barrier layer, the second semiconductor comprising the second dopant, wherein, in the first semiconductor layer, a concentration of the first dopant is larger than a concentration of the second dopant, and the concentration of the second dopant in the second semiconductor layer is larger than that in the first semiconductor layer.
US09768338B2
Provided is an energy harvesting device, including a solar cell including at least one active layer for receiving a first range of electromagnetic frequencies, at least one layer including antenna structures for receiving RF energy and formed on a first side of the solar cell, and at least one semiconductor for absorbing IR energy, and formed on a second side of the solar cell opposite the first side.
US09768336B2
A solar cell module includes a plurality of solar cells and includes first and second solar cells positioned adjacent to each other in a first direction, the solar cell module further comprises a connector for connecting hole terminals of the first solar cell to electron terminals of the second solar cell, the hole terminals being positioned on the first solar cell and being separated from each other and the electron terminals being positioned on the second solar cell and being separated from each other. The hole terminals and the electron terminals of each solar cell are positioned parallel to a first side of each solar cell, the connector is positioned parallel to a second side crossing the first side of each solar cell, and the connector is positioned on the same side of the first and second solar cells.
US09768334B2
A photovoltaic (PV) device including: (a) a p-n junction having (i) p-type silicon substrate with an Al-doped P++ surface, (ii) a wide band intrinsic AlP region having a first side formed on the Al-doped P++ surface of the silicon substrate, and (iii) an Si-doped n++ surface formed on a second side of the AlP region that is opposite to the first side; (b) charged quantum dots formed on the Si-doped n++ surface of the p-n junction and optionally (c) an electrode connected to each side of the device; wherein the charged quantum dots are operatively linked to the p-n junction to enable electrons harvested from IR photons absorbed by the quantum dots to be harvested with electrons harvested from photons absorbed by the p-n junction and wherein the wide band intrinsic AlP region is configured to inhibit leakage of hole current. Also, a method for forming the PV device.
US09768333B2
The invention is directed to a method for producing non-oxide semiconductor nanoparticles, the method comprising: (a) subjecting a combination of reaction components to conditions conducive to microbially-mediated formation of non-oxide semiconductor nanoparticles, wherein said combination of reaction components comprises i) anaerobic microbes, ii) a culture medium suitable for sustaining said anaerobic microbes, iii) a metal component comprising at least one type of metal ion, iv) a non-metal component comprising at least one non-metal selected from the group consisting of S, Se, Te, and As, and v) one or more electron donors that provide donatable electrons to said anaerobic microbes during consumption of the electron donor by said anaerobic microbes; and (b) isolating said non-oxide semiconductor nanoparticles, which contain at least one of said metal ions and at least one of said non-metals. The invention is also directed to non-oxide semiconductor nanoparticle compositions produced as above and having distinctive properties.
US09768327B2
Fabricating a semiconductor device can include forming a metal seed region over a substrate. The method can include forming a mask over a first portion of the metal seed region. The method can also include forming a metal region over the metal seed region and removing the mask. The method can include forming metal contact fingers on the semiconductor device, where the forming includes etching the first portion of the metal seed region with an etchant comprising an acid, an oxidizer and chloride ions.
US09768325B2
Diodes and fabrication methods thereof are presented. The diodes include, for instance: a first semiconductor region disposed at least partially within a substrate, the first semiconductor region having a first conductivity type; and a second semiconductor region disposed at least partially within the first semiconductor region, the second semiconductor region having a second conductivity type, wherein the first semiconductor region separates the second semiconductor region from the substrate. In one embodiment, the substrate and the first semiconductor region have a sigma-shaped boundary. In another embodiment, the substrate and the first semiconductor region have U-shaped boundary. In a further embodiment, the first semiconductor region comprises an alloy of a first material and a second material, where the concentration of the second material varies from a maximum to a minimum, where the first semiconductor region adjacent to the second semiconductor region has the minimum of the concentration of the second material.
US09768315B2
A change in electrical characteristics can be inhibited and reliability can be improved in a semiconductor device using a transistor including an oxide semiconductor. A semiconductor device includes a transistor which includes a gate electrode, a first insulating film over the gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor film over the first insulating film, a source electrode electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor film, and a drain electrode electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor film. A second insulating film is provided over the transistor, and a protective film is provided over the second insulating film. The second insulating film includes oxygen. The protective film includes at least one of metal elements used for the oxide semiconductor film.
US09768299B2
Methods and structures for forming strained-channel FETs are described. A strain-inducing layer may be formed under stress in a silicon-on-insulator substrate below the insulator. Stress-relief cuts may be formed in the strain-inducing layer to relieve stress in the strain-inducing layer. The relief of stress can impart strain to an adjacent semiconductor layer. Strained-channel, fully-depleted SOI FETs and strained-channel finFETs may be formed from the adjacent semiconductor layer. The amount and type of strain may be controlled by etch depths and geometries of the stress-relief cuts and choice of materials for the strain-inducing layer.
US09768294B2
A semiconductor device includes a fin-shaped semiconductor layer, a first insulating film formed around the fin-shaped semiconductor layer, a first metal film formed around the first insulating film, a pillar-shaped semiconductor layer formed on the fin-shaped semiconductor layer, a gate insulating film formed around the pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, a gate electrode formed around the gate insulating film and made of a third metal, a gate line connected to the gate electrode, a second insulating film formed around a sidewall of an upper portion of the pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, and a second metal film formed around the second insulating film. The upper portion of the pillar-shaped semiconductor layer and the second metal film are connected to each other, and an upper portion of the fin-shaped semiconductor layer and the first metal film are connected to each other.
US09768292B2
Provided is a manufacturing method for a laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor device, comprising the following steps: growing an oxide layer on a substrate of a wafer (S210); coating a photoresist on the surface of the wafer (S220); performing photoetching by using a first photoetching mask, and exposing a first implantation window after development (S230); performing ion implantation via the first implantation window to form a drift region in the substrate (S240); coating one layer of photoresist on the surface of the wafer again after removing the photoresist (S250); performing photoetching by using the photoetching mask of the oxide layer of the drift region (S260); and etching the oxide layer to form the oxide layer of the drift region (S270). Further provided is a laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor device.
US09768291B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of compensation regions of a vertical electrical element arrangement, a plurality of drift regions of the vertical electrical element arrangement and a non-depletable doping region. The compensation regions of the plurality of compensation regions are arranged in a semiconductor substrate of the semiconductor device. Further, the plurality of drift regions of the vertical electrical element arrangement are arranged in the semiconductor substrate within a cell region of the semiconductor device. The plurality of drift regions and the plurality of compensation regions are arranged alternatingly in a lateral direction. The non-depletable doping region extends laterally from an edge of the cell region towards an edge of the semiconductor substrate. The non-depletable doping region has a doping non-depletable by voltages applied to the semiconductor device during blocking operation.
US09768285B1
In one embodiment, an IGBT is formed to include a region of semiconductor material. Insulated gate structures are disposed in region of semiconductor material extending from a first major surface. An n-type field stop region extends from a second major surface into the region of semiconductor material. A p+ type polycrystalline semiconductor layer is disposed adjacent to the field stop region and provides an emitter region for the IGBT. An embodiment may include a portion of the p+ type polycrystalline semiconductor being doped n-type.
US09768283B1
A high-voltage semiconductor structure including a substrate, a first doped region, a well, a second doped region, a third doped region, a fourth doped region, and a gate structure is provided. The substrate has a first conductive type. The first doped region has the first conductive type and is formed in the substrate. The well has a second conductive type and is formed in the substrate. The second doped region has the second conductive type and is formed in the first doped region. The third doped region has the first conductive type and is formed in the well. The fourth doped region has the second conductive type and is formed in the well. The gate structure is disposed over the substrate and partially covers the first doped region and the well.
US09768282B2
This disclosure relates to bipolar transistors, such as heterojunction bipolar transistors, having at least one grading in the collector. One aspect of this disclosure is a bipolar transistor that includes a collector having a high doping concentration at a junction with the base and at least one grading in which doping concentration increases away from the base. In some embodiments, the high doping concentration can be at least about 3×1016 cm−3. According to certain embodiments, the collector includes two gradings. Such bipolar transistors can be implemented, for example, in power amplifiers.
US09768276B2
An e-Fuse structure is provided on a surface of an insulator layer of a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate (SOI). The e-Fuse structure includes a first metal semiconductor alloy structure of a first thickness, a second metal semiconductor alloy structure of the first thickness, and a metal semiconductor alloy fuse link is located laterally between and connected to the first and second metal semiconductor alloy structures. The metal semiconductor alloy fuse link has a second thickness that is less than the first thickness.
US09768274B2
A method includes defining, on a surface of a material, a plurality of discrete portions of a surface as surface elements having at least one of a laterally-varying size, a laterally-varying shape, and a laterally-varying spacing. A plurality of portions of the material beneath the surface elements are doped with a single quantity of dopant material per element area. The dopant material within the material beneath the surface elements expands to provide a lateral gradient of dopant material in the material beneath the surface elements.
US09768266B2
Three-dimensional semiconductor memory devices and methods of fabricating the same. The three-dimensional semiconductor devices include an electrode structure with sequentially-stacked electrodes disposed on a substrate, semiconductor patterns penetrating the electrode structure, and memory elements including a first pattern and a second pattern interposed between the semiconductor patterns and the electrode structure, the first pattern vertically extending to cross the electrodes and the second pattern horizontally extending to cross the semiconductor patterns.
US09768260B2
Process (A) of preparing a silicon carbide substrate of a first conductivity type; process (B) of forming an epitaxial layer of the first conductivity type on one principal surface of the silicon carbide substrate; process (C) of forming on another principal surface of the silicon carbide substrate, a first metal layer; process (D) of heat treating the silicon carbide substrate after the process (C) to form an ohmic junction between the first metal layer and the other principal surface of the silicon carbide substrate, and a layer of a substance (10) highly cohesive with another metal on the first metal layer; and a process (E) of removing impurities and cleaning a surface of the first metal layer (8) on the other principal surface of the silicon carbide substrate (D), are performed. The heat treatment at process (D) is executed at a temperature of 1,100 degrees C. or more.
US09768259B2
Methods of forming a semiconductor structure include the use of channeled implants into silicon carbide crystals. Some methods include providing a silicon carbide layer having a crystallographic axis, heating the silicon carbide layer to a temperature of about 300° C. or more, implanting dopant ions into the heated silicon carbide layer at an implant angle between a direction of implantation and the crystallographic axis of less than about 2°, and annealing the silicon carbide layer at a time-temperature product of less than about 30,000° C.-hours to activate the implanted ions.
US09768258B1
In an embodiment, a substrate structure includes a support substrate, a buffer structure arranged on the support substrate, the buffer structure including an intentionally doped superlattice laminate, an unintentionally doped first Group III nitride layer arranged on the buffer structure, a second Group III nitride layer arranged on the first Group III nitride layer forming a heterojunction therebetween, and a blocking layer arranged between the heterojunction and the buffer structure. The blocking layer is configured to block charges from entering the buffer structure.
US09768256B2
Embodiments of mechanisms for forming dislocations in source and drain regions of finFET devices are provided. The mechanisms involve recessing fins and removing the dielectric material in the isolation structures neighboring fins to increase epitaxial regions for dislocation formation. The mechanisms also involve performing a pre-amorphous implantation (PAI) process either before or after the epitaxial growth in the recessed source and drain regions. An anneal process after the PAI process enables consistent growth of the dislocations in the source and drain regions. The dislocations in the source and drain regions (or stressor regions) can form consistently to produce targeted strain in the source and drain regions to improve carrier mobility and device performance for NMOS devices.
US09768241B2
A thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate includes: a substrate; a first insulation layer on the substrate; a capacitor including a lower electrode on the first insulation layer, and an upper electrode arranged to overlap with the whole lower electrode and having an opening, and the upper electrode is insulated from the lower electrode by a second insulation layer; an inter-layer insulation film covering the capacitor; a node contact hole in the inter-layer insulation film and the second insulation layer, and within the opening; and a connection node on the inter-layer insulation film and electrically coupling the lower electrode and at least one TFT to each other through the node contact hole.
US09768237B2
An organic light emitting diode display panel is disclosed, which comprises: a first substrate with an organic light emitting layer formed thereon; a second substrate corresponding to the first substrate, and adhered to the first substrate with a frit sealant; and plural spacers disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and comprising a first spacer, a second spacer and a third spacer adjacent to each other, wherein shapes of a first projection of the first spacer, a second projection of the second spacer and a third projection of the third spacer on the second substrate are different from each other. In addition, the present invention also disclosed an organic light emitting diode display device containing the same.
US09768228B2
The present invention relates to a semiconductor device, including: a substrate; a plurality of first semiconductor elements and a second semiconductor element arranged on a mount area of the substrate; an external electrode to supply electricity to the first and second semiconductor elements; and a frame of reflective material formed at a periphery of the mount area. Extensions of the first external electrodes are formed at the inner side of the plurality of wirings, and the first external electrodes are formed along the periphery of the mount area at the outer side of at least one of the second external electrodes or the wiring connected to the second external electrodes, and electrodes of the plurality of first semiconductor elements are electrically connected to the pair of first external electrodes by a bonding wire that bridges across at least one of the pair of the second external electrodes or the wiring electrically connected to the pair of second external electrodes with intervening a part of the frame therebetween.
US09768225B2
A camera module including a die having a top side and a bottom side, an image sensor is positioned on the top side of the die and a conductive via is formed through the die to provide an electrical connection between the top side and the bottom side; an overmold casing formed around the die; and a lens holder assembly attached to the top side of the die and the overmold casing. A method of producing a camera module including providing an image sensor die that is overmolded within a casing, the image sensor die having a top side and a bottom side, wherein an image sensor is positioned on the top side and a conductive via is formed through the image sensor die from the top side to the bottom side; and attaching a lens holder to the top side of the image sensor die.
US09768224B2
A method includes fabricating an image sensing element in a substrate. A plurality of inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layers are formed over the substrate. Each IMD layer includes a metal layer and a dielectric layer. A planar top surface of a top IMD layer of the plurality of IMD layers is planarized. A portion of the top IMD layer is then removed to transform a region of the planar top surface to a curved recess. A lens is formed on the top IMD layer and in the curved recess. A color filter layer is disposed over the lens and the image sensing element.
US09768221B2
A semiconductor device including a light sensing region disposed on a substrate is provided that includes a bond structure having one or more patterned layers underlying the pad element. The pad element may be coupled to the light sensing region and may be formed in a first metal layer disposed on the substrate. A second metal layer of the device has a first bond region, a region of the second metal layer that underlies the pad element. This first bond region of the second metal layer includes a pattern of a plurality of conductive lines interposed by dielectric. A via connects the pad element and the second metal layer.
US09768219B2
A groove-type through hole passing through a silicon layer and a first interlayer insulating film is formed in a region around a chip formation region including a photodiode. In the groove-type through hole, a wall-like wall-type conductive pass-through portion corresponding to the groove-type through hole is formed. An electrode pad is in contact with the wall-type conductive pass-through portion. The electrode pad is electrically connected to a first interconnection through the wall-type conductive pass-through portion.
US09768217B2
A solid-state image sensing device including a pixel array including a plurality of pixels, wherein each pixel comprises a photoelectric conversion portion arranged in a substrate and a microlens arranged thereon, an insulating member is arranged between the substrate and the microlens, each pixel further comprises a light-guide portion configured to guide incident light to the photoelectric conversion portion, the pixel array includes a central region and a peripheral region, in a pixel located in the peripheral region, the microlens is arranged while being shifted to a side of the central region with respect to the photoelectric conversion portion, and, on a cross section along the shift direction, the microlens has a left-right asymmetric shape and a highest portion of the microlens is located on the side of the central region.
US09768208B2
An organic light emitting display includes a pixel circuit to supply current to an organic light emitting device. The pixel circuit includes a switching transistor and a driving transistor. The switching transistor includes a first insulating layer between a first gate electrode and an oxide semiconductor layer. The driving transistor includes a second gate electrode on an active layer. The first insulating layer is between the active layer and the second gate electrode.
US09768206B2
A display substrate includes a base substrate comprising a plurality of sub-pixels, a first switching element disposed on the base substrate and electrically connected to a gate line extending in a first direction and a data line extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, a color filter layer disposed on the switching element and comprising a red color filter, a green color filter, a blue color filter and a white color filter alternately disposed on the plurality of sub-pixels, respectively, a column spacer disposed on the color filter and comprising the same material as that of the white color filter, an insulation layer disposed on the color filter and the column spacer and a pixel electrode disposed on the insulation layer.
US09768202B2
The present invention provides a TFT backplate structure and a manufacture method thereof. The TFT backplate structure comprises a switch TFT (T1) and a drive TFT (T2). The switch TFT (T1) is constructed by a first source/a first drain (61), a first gate (21), and a first etching stopper layer (51), a first oxide semiconductor layer (41), a first gate isolation layer (31) sandwiched in between. The drive TFT (T2) is constructed by a second source/a second drain (62), a second gate (22), and a second oxide semiconductor layer (42), a first etching stopper layer (51), a second gate isolation layer (32) sandwiched in between. The electrical properties of the switch TFT (T1) and the drive TFT (T2) are different. The switch TFT has smaller subthreshold swing to achieve fast charge and discharge, and the drive TFT has relatively larger subthreshold swing for controlling the current and the grey scale more precisely.
US09768197B2
A flexible display panel includes a bending area and a surrounding area adjacent to the bending area. The barrier layer includes first silicon nitride layers and first silicon oxide layers which are overlapped with the bending area. The first silicon nitride layers and the first silicon oxide layers are stacked alternately. Each of the first silicon nitride layers may have a thickness less than or equal to about 400 Å, and each of the first silicon oxide layers may have a thickness less than or equal to about 650 Å.
US09768180B1
A method is provided that includes forming a dielectric material above a substrate, forming a hole in the dielectric material, the hole disposed in a first direction, forming a word line layer above the substrate via the hole, the word line layer disposed in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the word line layer including a first conductive material having a first work function, forming a nonvolatile memory material on a sidewall of the hole, the nonvolatile memory material including a semiconductor material layer and a conductive oxide material layer, forming a local bit line in the hole, the local bit line including a second conductive material having a second work function, wherein the first work function is greater than the second work function, and forming a memory cell comprising the nonvolatile memory material at an intersection of the local bit line and the word line layer.
US09768173B2
Semiconductor structures having a source contact and a drain contact that exhibit reduced contact resistance and methods of forming the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the present application, the reduced contact resistance is provided by forming a layer of a dipole metal or metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) oxide between an epitaxial semiconductor material (providing the source region and the drain region of the device) and an overlying metal semiconductor alloy. In yet other embodiment, the reduced contact resistance is provided by increasing the area of the source region and drain region by patterning the epitaxial semiconductor material that constitutes at least an upper portion of the source region and drain region of the device.
US09768167B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes providing a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate includes a plurality of fins formed thereon, a stress layer formed on the top surface of each of the fins, and a plurality of strip-shaped gate structures formed above the stress layers. The method further includes forming a contact hole etch stop layer. The method further includes forming a first interlayer dielectric layer to fill the gaps between adjacent fins. The first interlayer dielectric layer includes filling voids formed therein. The method further includes back etching the first interlayer dielectric layer to cause the top surface of the first interlayer dielectric layer to be just above the filling voids. The method further includes forming a barrier liner layer over the first interlayer dielectric layer, and forming a second interlayer dielectric layer over the barrier liner layer and the contact hole etch stop layer.
US09768165B2
An embodiment integrated circuit includes a switch and a conductive line over the switch. The switch includes a gate, a first source/drain region at a top surface of a semiconductor substrate, and a second source/drain region at the top surface of the semiconductor substrate. The first source/drain region and the second source/drain region are disposed on opposing sides of the gate. At least a portion of the first conductive line is aligned with the gate, and the first conductive line is electrically coupled to ground.
US09768161B2
A capacitor includes a semiconductor substrate. The capacitor also includes a first terminal having a fin disposed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate. The capacitor further includes a dielectric layer disposed onto the fin. The capacitor still further includes a second terminal having a FinFET compatible high-K metal gate disposed proximate and adjacent to the fin.
US09768153B2
A light-emitting apparatus package of the present invention includes (i) an electrically insulated ceramic substrate, (ii) a first concave section formed in the direction of thickness of the ceramic substrate so as to form a light exit aperture in a surface of the ceramic substrate, (iii) a second concave section formed within the first concave section in the further direction of thickness of the ceramic substrate so that one or more light-emitting devices are provided therein, (iv) a wiring pattern for supplying electricity, which is provided in the first concave section, and (v) a metalized layer having light-reflectivity, which is (a) provided between the light-emitting device and the surface of the second concave section of the substrate, and (b) electrically insulated from the wiring pattern. On the account of this, the light-emitting apparatus package in which heat is excellently discharged and light is efficiently utilized and a light-emitting apparatus in which the light-emitting apparatus package is used can be obtained.
US09768150B2
An LED display comprises a first end providing a current, a second end receiving the current, a first LED chip, electrically connected between the first end and the second end, emitting a first light, and a second LED chip, emitting a second light, electrically connected to the first end and is insulated from the second end. The current flows from the first end and through the first LED chip to the second end.
US09768145B2
A semiconductor device and a method of making the same are provided. A first die and a second die are placed over a carrier substrate. A first molding material is formed adjacent to the first die and the second die. A first redistribution layer is formed overlying the first molding material. A through via is formed over the first redistribution layer. A package component is on the first redistribution layer next to the copper pillar. The package component includes a second redistribution layer. The package component is positioned so that it overlies both the first die and the second die in part. A second molding material is formed adjacent to the package component and the first copper pillar. A third redistribution layer is formed overlying the second molding material. The second redistribution layer is placed on a substrate and bonded to the substrate.
US09768132B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a bond pad over the substrate, and a passivation layer over the substrate and a peripheral region of the bond pad. The bond pad has a bonding region and the peripheral region surrounding the bonding region. The passivation layer has an opening defined therein, and the opening exposes the bonding region of the bond pad. A first vertical distance between an upper surface of the passivation layer and a surface of the bonding region ranges from 30% to 40% of a second vertical distance between a lower surface of the passivation layer and an upper surface of the peripheral region.
US09768117B1
According to one embodiment, a substrate includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion has a columnar configuration. The second portion has an upper surface continuous with a side surface of the first portion via a corner. A plurality of electrode layers include a lowermost electrode layer opposing the side surface of the first portion above the second portion. An insulating film is provided between the side surface of the first portion and a side surface of the lowermost electrode layer, and between the upper surface of the second portion and a lower surface of the lowermost electrode layer. An angle formed between the upper surface of the second portion and the corner of the substrate on the insulating film side is greater than 90°.
US09768110B2
A method for fabricating an interconnect function array includes forming a first plurality of conductive lines on a substrate, forming an insulator layer over the first plurality of conductive lines and the substrate, removing portions of the insulator layer to define cavities in the insulator layer that expose portions of the substrate and the first plurality of conductive lines, wherein the removal of the portions of the insulator layer results in a substantially random arrangement of cavities exposing portions of the substrate and the first plurality of conductive lines, depositing a conductive material in the cavities, and forming a second plurality of conductive lines on portions of the conductive material in the cavities and the insulator layer.
US09768109B2
An integrated circuit (IC) includes a first semiconductor device on a glass substrate. The first semiconductor device includes a first semiconductive region of a bulk silicon wafer. The IC includes a second semiconductor device on the glass substrate. The second semiconductor device includes a second semiconductive region of the bulk silicon wafer. The IC includes a through substrate trench between the first semiconductive region and the second semiconductive region. The through substrate trench includes a portion disposed beyond a surface of the bulk silicon wafer.
US09768103B2
An embedded chip substrate includes a first insulation layer, a core layer, a chip, a second insulation layer, a first circuit layer, and a second circuit layer. The core layer disposed on the first insulation layer has an opening that exposes a portion of the first insulation layer. The chip is adhered into a recess constructed by the opening and the first insulation layer. The second insulation layer is disposed on the core layer for covering the chip. The first circuit layer is disposed at the outer side of the first insulation layer located between the first circuit layer and the core layer. The second circuit layer is disposed at the outer side of the second insulation layer located between the second circuit layer and the core layer. The first circuit layer is electrically connected to the second circuit layer that is electrically connected to the chip.
US09768101B2
The present invention relates to the technical field of integrated circuit package, and more specifically, this invention relates to a high density integrated circuit package structure and an integrated circuit with this package structure. A high density integrated circuit package structure according to this invention comprises a sealed metal lead frame, a chip, and a cuboid plastic package structure with micron connecting wires. The length (A1) of the plastic package structure meets the relationship 1.20 mm+(B−8)×0.3 mm/2≦A1≦4.50 mm+(B−8)×1.00 mm/2, the width (A2) of the plastic package structure meets the relationship 1.20 mm≦A2≦3.50 mm, the thickness (A3) of the plastic package structure meets the relationship A3≧0.35 mm, and B is the number of the outer leads and is an integer number meeting the relationship 4≦B≦68. A package structure according to this invention may meet the demands generated when chip manufacturing technology progresses from micron scale to sub-micron scale, or even nanometer scale. It may satisfy the requirements of low power consumption, high speed, large capacity and small volume for portable products.
US09768095B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor module. The semiconductor module includes a package made of resin. The package contains a semiconductor element and a heat sink. The heat sink has a thermal conductive surface exposed on a part of one surface of the package. The semiconductor device includes an insulating plate, which is a part of a cooler, facing the thermal conductive surface of the heat sink and a resin surface around the thermal conductive surface, and pressed against the semiconductor module. At least a part of the thermal conductive surface comprises a recessed region recessed with respect to the resin surface. A solid heat transfer layer is interposed between the recessed region of the thermal conductive surface and the insulating plate, and is not interposed between the resin surface and the insulating plate.
US09768090B2
An embodiment device package includes a package substrate and a first and a second die bonded to the package substrate. The package substrate includes a build-up portion comprising a first contact pad and a plurality of bump pads. The package substrate further includes an organic core attached to the build-up portion, a through-via electrically connected to the first contact pad and extending through the organic core, a second contact pad on the through-via, a connector on the second contact pad, and a cavity extending through the organic core. The cavity exposes the plurality of bump pads, and the first die is disposed on the cavity and is bonded to the plurality of bump pads.
US09768089B2
A semiconductor wafer stack and a method of forming a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes providing a wafer stack with first and second wafers bonded together. The wafers include edge and non-edge regions, and at least one of the first and second wafers includes devices formed in the non-edge region. The first wafer serves as the base wafer while the second wafer serves as the top wafer of the wafer stack, where the base wafer is wider than the top wafer, providing a step edge of the wafer stack. An edge protection seal is formed on the wafer stack, where first and second layers are deposited on the wafer stack including at the top wafer and step edge of the wafer stack. The portion of the first and second layers on the step edge of the wafer stack forms the edge protection seal which protects the devices in the wafer stack in subsequent processing.
US09768087B2
There are disclosed herein various implementations of a compact high-voltage semiconductor package. In one exemplary implementation, such a semiconductor package includes a power transistor, as well as a drain contact, a source contact, and a gate contact to provide external connections to the power transistor. The semiconductor package also includes a contour element formed between the drain contact and the source contact in the semiconductor package. The contour element increases a creepage distance between the drain contact and the source contact in the semiconductor package so as to increase a breakdown voltage of the semiconductor package.
US09768081B2
An electrode system configured to be positioned within a vacuum chamber of an electron-beam metal evaporation and deposition apparatus including a metal slug from which metal is evaporated during operation of the electron-beam metal evaporation and deposition apparatus. The electrode system includes a substantially ring-shaped electrode formed of a conductive material and a plurality of insulating standoffs configured to support the substantially ring-shaped electrode in the vacuum chamber in a position substantially surrounding the metal slug.
US09768065B1
Interconnect structures and related methods of manufacture improve device reliability and performance by selectively incorporating dopants into conductive lines. Multiple seed layer deposition steps or variable trench bottom areas are used to locally control the dopant concentration within the interconnect structures at the same wiring level, which provides a robust integration approach for metallizing interconnects in future-generation technology nodes.
US09768064B1
Formation methods of a semiconductor device structure are provided. The method includes providing a substrate having a low topography region and a high low topography region. The method also includes forming a first dielectric layer over the substrate. The method further includes forming a second dielectric layer over the stop layer. In addition, the method includes forming an opening in the first dielectric layer, the stop layer and the second dielectric layer. The method also includes forming a conductive material layer over the second dielectric layer. The conductive material layer fills the opening. The method further includes performing a polishing process over the conductive material layer until a top surface of the stop layer is exposed.
US09768061B1
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a low-k dielectric layer over a substrate and depositing a cap layer over the low-k dielectric layer. A treatment process is performed to the cap layer. After the treatment process to the cap layer is performed, the low-k dielectric layer is etched to form a plurality of trenches using the cap layer as an etching mask.
US09768054B2
High voltage devices and methods for forming thereof are disclosed. A high voltage device includes a substrate having a device region, where the device region includes a source region and a drain region defined thereon. A transistor is disposed on the device region. The transistor includes a gate disposed over the substrate and in between the source and drain regions. First and second device wells are disposed in the substrate within the device region. The first device well is adjacent to a second side of the gate and the second device well is adjacent to a first side of the gate. Isolation regions are disposed within the substrate. The isolation regions include a device isolation region surrounding the device region and one or more isolation fingers disposed in a first portion of the device region adjacent to the first side of the gate.
US09768050B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a film for semiconductor back surface having reworkability, and an application of the film. A film for semiconductor back surface has: an adhering strength at 70° C. of 7 N/10 mm or less to a wafer before the film is thermally cured; and a rupture elongation at 25° C. of 700% or less. The film for semiconductor back surface preferably has a degree of swelling due to ethanol of 1% by weight or more. The film for semiconductor back surface preferably contains an acrylic resin.
US09768042B2
A substrate processing method is implemented in a substrate processing apparatus including a substrate holding and rotating unit having a spin base rotatable about a predetermined vertical axis, and a processing cup surrounding the substrate holding and rotating unit and arranged to receive processing liquid splattering from the substrate rotated by the substrate holding and rotating unit, the substrate processing method including a substrate rotating step of rotating the spin base to rotate the substrate about the vertical axis at a predetermined liquid processing speed and, in parallel with the substrate rotating step, a processing liquid supplying step of supplying processing liquid onto the lower surface of the substrate at a predetermined first flow rate and supplying processing liquid onto the upper surface of the substrate at a second flow rate that is higher than the first flow rate.
US09768032B2
A method of forming a pattern including forming a feature layer on a substrate having first and second regions; forming a first guide pattern on the first region, the first guide pattern having openings therein, the openings exposing the feature layer; forming a second guide pattern covering the feature layer exposed through the first guide pattern on the first region and covering the second region; forming a block copolymer layer covering the first guide pattern and the second guide pattern on the first and second regions; phase-separating the block copolymer layer to form first vertical domains and a second vertical domain; removing the first vertical domains on the first region; and etching the first guide pattern and the feature layer using the second vertical domain as an etch mask on the first region to form a feature pattern having holes therein.
US09768030B2
A Tunnel Field-Effect Transistor (TFET) includes a source region in a semiconductor substrate, and a drain region in the semiconductor substrate. The source region and the drain region are of opposite conductivity types. The TFET further includes a gate stack over the semiconductor substrate, with the source region and the drain region extending to opposite sides of the gate stack. The gate stack includes a gate dielectric over the semiconductor substrate, and a ferroelectric layer over the gate dielectric.
US09768029B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device is disclosed. A substrate having a dielectric layer thereon is provided. The dielectric layer has a gate trench therein and a gate dielectric layer is formed on a bottom of the gate trench. A work function metal layer and a top barrier layer are sequentially formed in the gate trench. A treatment is performed to the top barrier layer so as to form a silicon-containing top barrier layer. A low-resistivity metal layer is formed in the gate trench.
US09768028B1
Disclosed are methods that employ a mask with openings arranged in a pattern of elongated trenches and holes of varying widths to achieve a linearly graded conductivity level. These methods can be used to form a lateral double-diffused metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (LDMOSFET) with a drain drift region having an appropriate type conductivity at a level that increases essentially linearly from the body region to the drain region. Furthermore, these methods also provide for improve manufacturability in that multiple instances of this same pattern can be used during a single dopant implant process to implant a first dopant with a first type (e.g., N-type) conductivity into the drain drift regions of both first and second type LDMOSFETs (e.g., N and P-type LDMOSFETs, respectively). In this case, the drain drift region of a second type LDMOSFET can subsequently be uniformly counter-doped. Also disclosed are the resulting semiconductor structures.
US09768009B2
Systems and methods are provided for shaping an effective transmission window used to select precursor ions for a precursor mass range of a sequential windowed acquisition experiment. For at least one precursor mass range, an ion transfer function is selected that is a function of mass using a processor. A quadrupole mass filter that transmits ions from a sample is instructed to produce two or more transmission windows over time using the processor. The two or more transmission windows are produced to cumulatively create an effective transmission window for the at least one precursor mass range with a shape described by the ion transfer function.
US09768002B2
Systems and methods are provided for reducing the time period of a CID event of an MS3 experiment and making the overall fragmentation event more generic. A CID event of an MS3 experiment performed on a sample by a mass spectrometer is divided into two time periods using a processor. At the beginning of a first time period of the CID event, the mass spectrometer is instructed to both open a pulse valve in order to pulse a collision gas and apply a first CID voltage. At the beginning of a second time period of the CID event, the mass spectrometer is instructed to both close the pulse valve and apply a second CID voltage. The mass spectrometer is pumped down during the second time period. The overlap in time of the pump down and CID reduces the overall time period of the CID event.
US09767996B2
Disclosed herein are various embodiments, including an electrostatic screen for use in a plasma processing chamber with a plurality of electrical leads. A plurality of petal groups is provided with each petal group comprising a substantially-flat structure, wherein each petal group is electrically connected to at least one electrical lead of the plurality of electrical leads and wherein each petal group is insulated from any other petal group, wherein the plurality of petal groups form a radial symmetry around a vertical axis. Each substantially flat structure comprises a sector of a conductive annulus and a plurality of conductive petals, each connected to the sector of the conductive annulus, wherein the at least one electrical lead is connected to substantially equal potential locations in each petal group.
US09767994B2
A shower plate is disposed in a processing chamber in a plasma processing apparatus, and plasma excitation gas is released into the processing chamber so as to generate plasma. A ceramic member having a plurality of gas release holes having a diameter of 20 μm to 70 μm, and/or a porous gas-communicating body having pores having a maximum diameter of not more than 75 μm communicating in the gas-communicating direction are sintered and bonded integrally with the inside of each of a plurality of vertical holes which act as release paths for the plasma excitation gas.
US09767993B2
This microwave plasma processing apparatus has, as a gas introduction mechanism for introducing a working gas inside a chamber (10), electrical discharge prevention members (96(1) to 96(8)), each of which is provided to a plurality of dielectric window gas passages (94(1) to (94(8)) through which a dielectric window (54) passes. Each electrical discharge prevention member (96(n)), a portion (114) of which protrudes only a height h, which is greater than or equal to a predetermined distance H, upward from the rear surface of a dielectric window (52) on the inlet side, passes through an opening (54a) of a slot plate (54), and inserts into a branched gas supply path (92(n)) of a gas branch part (90). The gas branch part (90), spring coils (116) and the slot plate (54), which surround the protruding portion (114) of each electrical discharge prevention member (96(n)), constitute an enclosing conductor (118).
US09767989B2
A method of forming a feature in a void, the method including filling the void having at least one sloped wall with a polymeric material; forming a layer of photoresist over the polymeric material; forming a gap in the layer of photoresist; and etching the polymeric material exposed by the gap in the layer of photoresist to form a feature.
US09767987B2
A method of treating resist features comprises positioning, in a process chamber, a substrate having a set of patterned resist features on a first side of the substrate and generating a plasma in the process chamber having a plasma sheath adjacent to the first side of the substrate. The method may further comprise modifying a shape of a boundary between the plasma and the plasma sheath with a plasma sheath modifier so that a portion of the shape of the boundary is not parallel to a plane defined by a front surface of the substrate facing the plasma, wherein ions from the plasma impinge on the patterned resist features over a wide angular range during a first exposure.
US09767984B2
A chicane blanker assembly for a charged particle beam system includes an entrance and an exit, at least one neutrals blocking structure, a plurality of chicane deflectors, a beam blanking deflector, and a beam blocking structure. The entrance is configured to accept a beam of charged particles propagating along an axis. The at least one neutrals blocking structure intersects the axis. The plurality of chicane deflectors includes a first chicane deflector, a second chicane deflector, a third chicane deflector, and a fourth chicane deflector sequentially arranged in series between the entrance and the exit and configured to deflect the beam along a path that bypasses the neutrals blocking structure and exits the chicane blanker assembly through the exit. In embodiments, the chicane blanker assembly includes a two neutrals blocking structures. In embodiments, the beam blocking structure is arranged between the third chicane deflector and the fourth chicane deflector.
US09767974B2
A short-circuit shutdown switch is disclosed having a load current path and a cutting plunger. The load current path has a separating member with a first predetermined cutting zone, a second predetermined cutting zone, and a central section positioned between the first predetermined cutting zone and the second predetermined cutting zone. The cutting plunger is positioned to cut the first predetermined cutting zone and the second predetermined cutting zone.
US09767972B2
An in-line slide dimming switch includes a switch and dimming circuit installed on a printed circuit board (which is installed in the in-line slide dimming switch) and operated with a dimmable energy-saving fluorescent bulb and a dimmable LED bulb, so that the in-line slide dimming switch may adjust the light emitting brightness of the dimmable energy-saving fluorescent bulb and the dimmable LED bulb installed onto a lamp holder. With the wire holders installed at both ends, a power cable is installed conveniently to achieve the effects of shortening the assembling procedure, and improving the assembling efficiency and the market competitiveness.
US09767969B2
It is described a switching device comprising a semiconductor switching unit; a contactor electrically coupled in series with the semiconductor switching unit; and a controller being configured for activating an electrically isolating state of the switching device and/or activating an electrically conducting state of the switching device based on a command signal or based on a comparison of a measured value and predetermined activation condition.
US09767965B2
An electric storage device according to the present invention includes a case having a case body and a cover plate, the cover plate has a projection to be inserted into the opening of the case body, the projection is in contact with or adjacent to the inner surface of the opening edge of the case body in the second direction, and the projection is locally located in the vicinity of the circumferential edge of the cover plate.
US09767964B2
A capacitor assembly that is stable under extreme conditions is provided. A capacitor assembly that is capable of achieving a high capacitance and yet remain thermally and mechanically stable under extreme conditions. Even at high capacitance values, good mechanical stability can be achieved by connecting multiple individual capacitor elements to the housing of the assembly. Without intending to be limited by theory, it is believed that the use of multiple elements increases the surface area over which the elements are connected to the housing. Among other things, this allows the elements to dissipate vibrational forces incurred during use over a larger area, which reduces the likelihood of delamination. The capacitor elements are also enclosed and hermetically sealed within a single housing in the presence of a gaseous atmosphere that contains an inert gas, thereby limiting the amount of oxygen and moisture supplied to the solid electrolyte of the capacitor elements. Through the combination of the features noted above, the capacitor assembly is able to better function under extreme conditions.
US09767961B2
The present invention relates to a composite electronic component having a dielectric body portion inside of which a conductive body is provided, and a magnetic body portion inside of which a conductive body is provided. In the present invention, a layer made of a metal material is arranged between the dielectric body portion and the magnetic body portion as an intermediate layer.
US09767952B2
Disclosed herein is a magnetic sensor including: a first core made of a first soft magnetic material, the first core having first and second connection surfaces; a second core made of a second soft magnetic material different from the first soft magnetic material, the second core having a third connection surface facing the first connection surface and a fourth connection surface facing the second connection surface; and a coil wound around the first core between the first connection surface and the second connection surface. The first core reaches magnetic saturation at a higher magnetic field intensity than that of the second core, and the second core has a higher magnetic permeability than that of the first core.
US09767947B1
A coupled inductor includes a first end magnetic element, a second end magnetic element, N connecting magnetic elements, and N windings, where N is an integer greater than one. Each of the N connecting magnetic elements connects to both of the first and second end magnetic elements. Each of the N windings is wound around a respective one of the N connecting magnetic elements such that the N windings are wound in alternating opposing directions. Possible applications of the coupled inductor include, but are not limited to, switching power converter applications.
US09767945B2
A magnet powder having a composition composed of R (R consists of R1 and R2, R1 represents at least one rare earth element selected from the group consisting of Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Tb, Dy, Er, Tm, Yb and Lu, R2 represents at least one rare earth element selected from the group consisting of Ho and Gd). T (T represents at least one transition metal element containing Fe or the combination of Fe and Co as essential element(s)) and B, wherein, the atomic ratio of R2/(R1×R2) is 0.05 to 0.1, the ratio of R/T is 0.25 to 0.35, and the magnet powder has an average primary particle size of 45 to 100 nm. The present invention also provides a bond magnet using the magnet powder.
US09767944B2
The present invention relates to cellulose nanofibrils decorated with magnetic nanoparticles as well as a method for the preparation thereof and a material comprising the nanofibrils.
US09767941B2
A superconducting power transmission system that comprises an inner pipe housing a superconducting cable therein, a radiation covering at least a part of the inner pipe from outside; and an outer pipe housing the inner pipe and the radiation shield therein. A vacuum is created in a space from an inside of the outer pipe to an outside of the inner pipe with the radiation shield therebetween. The system further comprises at least one radiation shield pipe, housed in the outer pipe and thermally coupled with the radiation shield, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a second cryogen for the radiation shield being made to flow through the radiation shield pipe.
US09767940B2
Superconducting cables employ one or more superconducting tapes wound around a former. A compact superconducting cable is configured using a former having a small diameter, e.g., less than 10 millimeters. A flexible superconducting cable is configured with a former made of a flexible material. Superconducting tape conductors are wound around the former, with the superconducting layer in compression on the inside of the wind turns of the wind, to prevent irreversible damage to the superconductor. A layer of solder is on the superconducting tape(s) or solder sheaths are wound between tape conductors in each layer. The one or more solder layers or sheaths are melted to cause the solder to flow within the structure, to bond some or all of the superconducting tape conductors together and form a mechanically strong cable with an enhanced level of electrical connectivity between tapes in the cable.
US09767938B2
A cable that include a hose having a conductor located thereabout. A first strength member layer is located about the conductor. A second strength member layer is located about the first strength member layer. A first jacket is located about the second strength member layer. The first jacket is fiber-reinforced. A second jacket is located about the first jacket. The second jacket is a contrasting color to the first jacket.
US09767935B2
The present invention pertains to a system and method for adaptive X-ray filtration comprising a volume of X-ray attenuating material with a central less attenuating three-dimensional region. The volume of X-ray attenuating material can be positioned within 10 cm from an X-ray source and rotated around an internal axis of rotation. The volume of X-ray attenuating material can be symmetric around the internal axis while the central less attenuating region can be asymmetric around the internal axis. Rotating the volume by a predetermined angle around the internal axis can change the amount of attenuation of an X-ray beam through the filter. The volume can be rotated by the same predetermined angle as an imaging subject or X-ray source and detector are rotated during X-ray image acquisition.
US09767933B2
Disclosed embodiments include nuclear fission reactors, nuclear fission fuel pins, methods of operating a nuclear fission reactor, methods of fueling a nuclear fission reactor, and methods of fabricating a nuclear fission fuel pin.
US09767929B2
A new, improved grid spacer for a nuclear fuel assembly is provided, comprising several straps which intersect each other alternatively to form a plurality of grid cells and fuel rods reside in some of the grid cells; the grid spacer further comprises mixing elements set at the corner of the grid cells in which the fuel rods have resided; wherein the mixing element comprises a mixing vane stretching towards the direction of the fuel rod and a flow funnel set on the bended edge of the mixing vane continuously and extending towards adjacent grid cells; the mixing vane and the flow funnel set across two sides of two adjacent grid cells respectively, and the flow funnel introduces the coolant in the grid cell at its side to the mixing vane, then the mixing vane introduces the coolant to the grid cell at its own side.
US09767928B2
A nuclear reactor fuel assembly includes a plurality of fuel rods, a plurality of guide channels, two nozzles, one of which has a bearing plate with openings, elements for the detachable connection of the nozzles to the guide channels, a detachable connection locking device and locking device fasteners. The elements for the detachable connection of the nozzles to the guide channels have a cross-section size greater than the size of openings in the nozzle bearing plate.
US09767925B2
The invention is for a system and method to reduce neutron production from a deuterium-helium-3 (D-3He) fueled, steady-state, small nuclear fusion reactor. The reactor employs a field-reversed configuration (FRC) magnetic confinement scheme and an odd-parity rotating magnetic field (RMFo) that produces periodic, co-streaming, energetic ion beams which heat the plasma. This is accomplished through radio-frequency (RF) heating, which can effectively heat and maintain the plasma. Use of this method will lessen damage to and activation of reactor components and, in doing so, can advance the development of fusion reactors for electrical, power and propulsion applications by alleviating the need for both nuclear-materials and tritium-breeding-technology testing programs.
US09767921B1
Systems and apparatuses are provided for an arbiter circuit for timing based ZQ calibration. An example system includes a resistor and a plurality of chips. Each of the plurality of chips further includes a terminal coupled to the resistor, a register storing timing information, and an arbiter circuit configured to determine whether the resistor is available based, at least in part, on the timing information stored in the register. The timing information stored in the register of each respective chip of the plurality of chips is unique to the respective chip among the plurality of chips.
US09767920B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, an input/output (I/O) gating circuit, an error decision circuit and an error check and correction (ECC) circuit. The I/O gating circuit reads test pattern data to provide test result data in a test mode and reads a codeword in a normal mode. The error decision circuit determines the correctability of errors in the test result data by a first unit, based on the test pattern data and the test result data and provides a first error kind signal indicating a first determination result, in the test mode. The ECC circuit decodes the codeword including main data and parity data generated based on the main data, determines correctability of errors in the codeword by a second unit and provides a second error kind signal indicating a second determination result, in the normal mode. The main data includes a plurality of unit data.
US09767919B1
Semiconductor memory testing devices and methods are disclosed. In one respect, a device is disclosed that includes a first memory cell array having a first bit-line and a plurality of first memory cells connected to the first bit-line; a second memory cell array having a second bit-line and a plurality of second memory cells connected to the second bit-line, the number of second memory cells being smaller than that of the first memory cells; a sense amplifier connected to the first bit-line and a first end of the second bit-line; a word decoder configured to operate the second memory cells responsive to a first test signal; and a transistor coupled to a second end of the second bit-line and operated by a second test signal.
US09767914B1
A method of a state machine executing instructions related to program-erase operations performed on a non-volatile memory is disclosed. The method includes implementing a program-erase loop counter in the state machine, and presetting a threshold for an electric current of memory cells and a step time for each of the program and the erase operation. Based on repeatedly executing a number of comparison and verification operations, each for a duration of the preset step time until the program-erase loop counter reaches a maximum value thereof, the electric current of the each programmed-erased memory cell is maintained at a desired level thereof following termination of the each of the program and the erase operation.
US09767907B2
A row decoder for a non-volatile memory device includes an input and pre-decoding module that receives address signals and generates pre-decoded address signals. A decoding module receives the pre-decoded address signals for generation on an output of decoded address signals. A driving module generates biasing signals for biasing wordlines of a memory array. The decoding module envisages a plurality of decoding stages, each of which carries out an operation of an OR logic combination between a first and a second predecoded address signal to be combined. The decoding module includes at least one first pass transistor for selectively transferring onto the output the one between the first and second predecoded address signals to be combined in a first operating condition. The decoding module includes at least one first pull-up transistor to selectively bring the output to a high state in at least one second operating condition.
US09767891B2
Passive write assist passively improves SRAM performance (e.g., write margin speed) while reducing manufacturing costs (e.g., die area, packaging) and operating costs (e.g., power consumption, cooling) associated with active write assist schemes. Passive write assist may be implemented in peripheral circuitry or embedded in an SRAM array or even in each array cell or bitcell. For example, one or more memory cells may be converted to provide passive write assist to a plurality of other memory cells. As another example, each memory cell may independently implement passive write assist using one or more high resistive contacts to couple to the array power supply, resulting in the array voltage level being changed by different amounts in different memory cells according to cell variations.
US09767853B2
A configuration method is provided. The method includes receiving a command for configuring touch screen functions associated with scrolling through a video file in a forward direction or a reverse direction at various speeds dependent on a direction and distance of movement of a touch screen gesture performed by a user. A movement distance of the touch screen gesture in a forward direction is associated with a first specified number of video frames of the video file and a forward scrolling speed is determined. An additional movement distance of the touch screen gesture in a reverse direction is associated with a second specified number of video frames of the video file and a reverse scrolling speed is determined. In response, a scrolling process is enabled.
US09767841B2
The disclosed technology provides for a method and system comprising determining a write-encroachment threshold of a recording medium, determining a track as off-track and one or more tracks substantially near the off-track as unwriteable, flagging the one or more tracks substantially near the off-track track, and writing write data for the one or more flagged tracks to a media cache. In a recovery process, the write data can be later transferred back to the flagged tracks.
US09767833B1
A process for manufacturing a magnetic tape head module involves depositing over a wafer substrate electrical traces from respective electrical lapping guides (ELGs) to an area at an end of a tape head module also formed over the substrate, fabricating a closure adjacent to the tape head module where the closure terminates outside of the area at the end of the tape head module, and electrically connecting the electrical traces to an external circuit using a wire-bonding procedure, thereby electrically connecting each ELG to the external circuit. A plurality of electrical connection pads may be deposited at the area at the end of the tape head module, and each electrical trace electrically connected to one of the pads, where electrically connecting the traces to the external circuit includes wire-bonding the pads to the circuit.
US09767831B1
A magnetic write apparatus has a media-facing surface (MFS), a pole, a write gap, a top shield and coil(s). The pole includes a yoke and a pole tip. The pole tip includes a bottom, a top wider than the bottom and first and second sides. The pole tip has a height between the top and the bottom. At least part of the top of the pole tip is convex in a cross-track direction between the first and second sides such that the height at the MFS is larger between the first and second sides than at the first and second sides. The height increases in a yoke direction perpendicular to the MFS. The write gap is adjacent to and conformal with the top of the pole at the MFS and is between part of the top shield and the pole. The top shield is concave at the MFS.
US09767827B2
Unwanted audio, such as explicit language, may be removed during audio playback. An audio player may identify and remove unwanted audio while playing an audio stream. Unwanted audio may be replaced with alternate audio, such as non-explicit lyrics, a “beep”, or silence. Metadata may be used to describe the location of unwanted audio within an audio stream to enable the removal or replacement of the unwanted audio with alternate audio. An audio player may switch between clean and explicit versions of a recording based on the locations described in the metadata. The metadata, as well as both the clean and explicit versions of the audio data, may be part of a single audio file, or the metadata may be separate from the audio data. Additionally, real-time recognition analysis may be used to identify unwanted audio during audio playback.
US09767825B2
Input media data with an input playing speed is received. One or more user identities are identified based at least in part on biometric data collected from one or more users who correspond to the one or more user identities and to whom audio utterance derived from the input media data is to be played. A preferred rate of audio utterance is determined based at least in part on the one or more user identities. A rate of audio utterance is determined for a portion of the input media data. Based at least in part on the preferred rate of audio utterance and the rate of audio utterance, a portion of audio output media data is generated with an output playing speed at which audio utterance in the portion of audio output media data is rendered with the preferred rate of audio utterance.
US09767818B1
Some of the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a device comprising: a first channel configured to receive a signal, wherein the signal comprises (i) a target signal and (ii) a background signal; a second channel configured to receive the signal a time t after the first channel receives the signal; a delay control circuit configured to iteratively determine a fractional delay to maximize a correlation coefficient between the signal on the first channel and the signal on the second channel; and an adaptive fractional delay filter in the first channel configured to adaptively align, in the digital domain, the signal on the first channel with the signal on the second channel based, at least in part, on the fractional delay.
US09767814B2
A method, system, and computer program product for processing an encoded audio signal is described. In one exemplary embodiment, the system receives an encoded low-frequency range signal and encoded energy information used to frequency shift the encoded low-frequency range signal. The low-frequency range signal is decoded and an energy depression of the decoded signal is smoothed. The smoothed low-frequency range signal is frequency shifted to generate a high-frequency range signal. The low-frequency range signal and high-frequency range signal are then combined and outputted.
US09767811B2
Device and method for postprocessing a decoded multi-channel audio signal or a decoded stereo signal
According to the invention, a device for post-processing at least one channel signal of a plurality of channel signals of a multi-channel signal is described, the at least one channel signal being generated from a decoded downmix signal by a low-bit-rate audio coding/decoding system, the device comprising: a receiver for receiving the at least one channel signal generated from the decoded downmix signal, a time envelope of the decoded downmix signal, an interchannel time difference between the channel signal and the downmix signal, and a classification indication indicating a transient type of the downmix signal; and a post-processor for post-processing the at least one channel signal based on the time envelope of the decoded downmix signal weighted by a respective weighting factor and in dependence on the classification indication and the interchannel time difference.
US09767792B2
A system and method for learning alternate pronunciations for speech recognition is disclosed. Alternative name pronunciations may be covered, through pronunciation learning, that have not been previously covered in a general pronunciation dictionary. In an embodiment, the detection of phone-level and syllable-level mispronunciations in words and sentences may be based on acoustic models trained by Hidden Markov Models. Mispronunciations may be detected by comparing the likelihood of the potential state of the targeting pronunciation unit with a pre-determined threshold through a series of tests. It is also within the scope of an embodiment to detect accents.
US09767790B2
A voice retrieval apparatus executes processes of: converting a retrieval string into a phoneme string; obtaining, from a time length memory, a continuous time length for each phoneme contained in the converted phoneme string; deriving a plurality of time lengths corresponding to a plurality of utterance rates as candidate utterance time lengths of voices corresponding to the retrieval string based on the obtained continuous time length; specifying, for each of the plurality of time lengths, a plurality of likelihood obtainment segments having the derived time length within a time length of a retrieval sound signal; obtaining a likelihood showing a plausibility that the specified likelihood obtainment segment specified is a segment where the voices are uttered; and identifying, based on the obtained likelihood, for each of the specified likelihood obtainment segments, an estimation segment where utterance of the voices is estimated in the retrieval sound signal.
US09767788B2
The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for speech synthesis based on a large corpus. The method for speech synthesis based on a large corpus comprises: utilizing a prosodic structure prediction model to carry out prosodic structure prediction processing on input text to provide at least one alternative prosodic boundary partitioning solution; determining a prosodic boundary partitioning solution according to structure probability information about a prosodic unit in a speech corpus in the at least one alternative prosodic boundary partitioning solution; and carrying out speech synthesis according to the determined prosodic boundary partitioning solution. The method and apparatus for speech synthesis based on a large corpus provided by the embodiments of the present invention improve the naturalness and flexibility of speech synthesis.
US09767783B2
A device includes a sound source, an electric board, an exterior member, an electric board container box, and a sound absorber. The sound source generates a sound at a time of operation. The electric board has a circuit mounting an electrical component. The exterior member surrounds the sound source and the electric board. The electric board container box houses the electric board. The sound absorber is at least partially disposed inside a virtual space corresponding to a thickness of the electric board container box in an interior space of the device.
US09767777B1
Methods, devices, systems, and computer programs are presented for providing music while exercising. One method includes an operation for receiving a request for a music segment from a computing device. The request includes the pace of exercise of a user associated with the computing device. The music segment is selected based on the pace, and the music segment is modified to correlate the tempo of the music segment to the pace of exercise. The modified music segment is sent to the computing device to be played in one or more speakers to provide music that is correlated to the exercise.
US09767776B2
A support stand for supporting a stringed instrument having a securing mechanism, a front compression plate having a leg portion, and a back compression plate having a leg portion, where the front compression plate engages the securing mechanism, the back compression plate engages the securing mechanism, and the support stand supports the instrument in a generally upright position when the support stand is placed on a surface.
US09767773B2
A drumhead tuning rim system and method for securing and tuning a drumhead on a drum shell of a drum, comprising a drumhead tuning rim apparatus comprising a cable tension dial assembly configured for operably engaging a rim of the drum so as to increase or decrease tension on the rim, the rim being configured for seating over the drumhead on the drum shell, and an apparatus controller configured for operably interfacing with the drumhead tuning rim apparatus so as to selectively control the cable tension dial assembly and thereby adjust the overall pitch of the drumhead as by adjusting the tension on the rim.
US09767769B2
According to an embodiment, the display device includes a touch controller, an image processor, and a display driver. The touch controller is configured to output touch event information corresponding to a touch signal received from a touch panel. The image processor is configured to determine whether a host is in a sleep mode or a normal mode, and to output mixed image data obtained by overlapping an image displayed on a display panel and a marker corresponding to the touch event information while a host is in the sleep mode. The display driver is configured to output pixel driving signals corresponding to the mixed image data to the display panel. The touch controller or image processor is further configured to determine whether a touch input of a user to the touch panel meets a predetermined condition, and if the predetermined condition is met, output a wake-up signal to the host.
US09767766B2
A display apparatus includes: a display panel including a first display area and a second display area; a first timing controller to control an operation of the first display area, generate a first reference clock signal, generate a first internal reference clock signal based on the first reference clock signal, and generate a first synchronization clock signal based on the first internal reference clock signal; and a second timing controller to control an operation of the second display area, receive the first reference clock signal, generate a second internal reference clock signal based on the first reference clock signal, and generate a second synchronization clock signal based on the second internal reference clock signal, wherein the first and second timing controllers are to be synchronized with each other based on the first reference clock signal, and exchange first data based on the first and second synchronization clock signals.
US09767764B2
A method for determining the screen brightness in the electronic device includes determining whether a flip cover opens or closes a screen when the screen display event occurs, determining a first brightness value for a full screen display mode when the flip cover is opened, and determining a second brightens value for a flip covered window display. Other embodiments including an apparatus for determining the screen brightness are also disclosed.
US09767763B2
Improved methods are provided for calibrating color on a color display coupled to a computer, which are useful for obtaining calibrated data in a virtual proof network for enabling different color devices to render consistent color. Methods involve user interactions with screens on the display to set color display parameters. An apparatus is also provided for calibrating a sensor which may be used for measuring color of a display in one or more of these methods.
US09767759B2
Gate driver, display apparatus including the same and method of driving display panel using the same
A gate driver includes a precharge signal generating part configured to generate a precharge signal which varies based on a previous data signal corresponding to a previous gate line and a data signal corresponding to a gate line, and a signal adding part configured to add the precharge signal and a non-precharge signal to generate a gate signal.
US09767758B2
There are provided a driving apparatus of a display panel and a driving method thereof, and a display device. The driving apparatus of the display panel comprises a gate driver circuit (101) configured to input a turn-on signal to each gate line on the display panel at a first moment; and a source driver circuit (102) configured to input a first voltage to each data line on the display panel at a first moment, the first voltage being a common electrode voltage of the display panel. The driving apparatus and the driving method, and the display device are capable of raising the effect of eliminating shutdown image sticking.
US09767757B2
An example embodiment includes a LCOS IC. The LCOS IC includes multiple pixels, a column driver, and multiple conductive lines. The pixels are arranged in a pixel array. The column driver is configured to supply multiple signals to a column of pixels included in the pixel array. Each of the conductive lines couples the column driver to a subset of pixels in the column of pixels. The conductive lines are configured such that two or more of the signals can be supplied to two or more of the subsets of pixels with some overlapping duration.
US09767747B2
A display device and method of driving the same are disclosed. The display device that transmits signals between a system board section and a circuit board section through an interface and uses Panel Self-Refresh (hereinafter, abbreviated as ‘PSR’) to reduce power consumption, the circuit board section comprising a PSR controller that, when a PSR On signal is supplied from the system board section, changes the operating frequency of a gate driver and data driver to a frequency higher than a reference frequency for driving the panel with PSR On, set by the system board section.
US09767746B2
A display device includes a pixel matrix having pixel rows and pixel columns and including pixels having switching elements positioned alternately at a corner near an upper and a lower side of each pixel row and positioned alternately at a corner near an upper and a lower side of and alternately at a corner near a left and a right side of each pixel column; multiple pairs of gate lines transmitting a gate-on voltage; and multiple data lines transmitting data voltages, wherein each pair of gate lines are disposed at the upper and lower sides of each pixel row with the pixels in each row connected to the gate line positioned nearest the respective switching element, and each data line is disposed between adjacent pairs of pixel columns and connected to pairs of pixels where one pixel of the pair has a switching element positioned nearest the respective data line.
US09767737B2
A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a backlight configured to emit red light, green light, and blue light for forming an image, a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of pixels through which light components supplied by the backlight respectively pass, configured to control transmittances of the plurality of pixels to form an image, and a backlight controller configured to control respective intensities of the red light, the green light, and the blue light emitted by the backlight. The backlight controller is configured to compensate for a black color coordinate value generated with respect to a predetermined color by controlling the backlight such that a second red light intensity and a second green light intensity are larger than a first red light intensity and a first green light intensity and a second blue light intensity are smaller than a first blue light intensity. A black color coordinate value may be made correspond to a white color coordinate value.
US09767733B2
A scan sense driver includes a scan driver and a sense driver. The scan line driver provides a scan line enable signal based on a plurality of clock signals, a global clock signal, and a scan input signal during a scan time interval. The sense driver provides a sense enable signal based on the clock signals and a sense input signal during a sense time interval. The sense driver provides the sense enable signal during a period when an organic light-emitting diode of a pixel is to be tested for a malfunction.
US09767727B2
A display panel including: pixels disposed in an active area of a substrate; data lines connected to the pixels; and a crack detection line disposed in a peripheral area of the active area in the substrate. The crack detection line includes a plurality of stacked conductive layers and at least one insulating layer disposed therebetween. At least one of the conductive layers is electrically connected to any one of the data lines.
US09767726B2
Systems, methods, and device are provided to provide inversion techniques for dynamic variable refresh rate electronic displays. One embodiment of the present disclosure describes An electronic display including a display panel that display images with varying refresh rates and a timing controller that receives image data from an image source, determines a counter value, and instructs a driver in the electronic display to apply a voltage to the display panel to write an image on the display panel, in which a negative voltage is applied when the counter value is positive and a positive voltage is applied when the counter value is less than or equal to zero. Additionally, the timing controller update the counter value based at least in part on duration the image is displayed on the display panel, wherein the counter value increases when the voltage is positive and decreases when the voltage is negative.
US09767725B2
A display panel, a method for driving the display panel, and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a display region and a peripheral region surrounding the display region. Multiple gate lines each extending in a first direction and multiple data lines each extending in a second direction are arranged at the display region. A multiplexer is arranged at the peripheral region pointed by the second direction. The multiplexer is used to, under the control of gate line ON signals from a gate line switching control line, input gate line signals from a source driver unit to corresponding gate lines in a time-division manner, and under the control of data line ON signals from corresponding data line switching control lines, input data signals from the source driver unit to corresponding data lines in a time-division manner.
US09767723B2
A device and a method for processing a waited display picture of an OLED display device are provided. The device includes a block dividing unit for dividing a waited display picture into multiple blocks; an average grayscale determining unit for determining an average grayscale value of each block; a high grayscale determining unit for determining a block having an average grayscale value greater than a preset threshold value as a high grayscale block; an adjacent grayscale determining unit for determining an adjacent grayscale value of each high grayscale block; and a regulation unit for adjusting grayscale values of pixels of each high grayscale block. The present invention adjusts grayscale values using a block as a unit. Besides, the difference of luminous efficiency or light transmittance of different color components is also considered so as to effectively improve the life of the OLED display device.
US09767721B2
An inspection apparatus and an inspection method capable of reducing the effect of noises are provided. An inspection apparatus according to the present invention includes a work table 26 on which an inspection panel 12 is placed, a probe unit 31 including a probe 38 that comes into contact with an electrode 12a of the inspection panel 12 placed on the work table 26, and a stage 11 that moves the work table 26 in order to bring the probe 38 into contact with the electrode 12a of the inspection panel 12 placed on the work table 26, in which the stage 11 is connected to the ground and supports the work table 26 through a resistive element.
US09767717B1
A method and system for managing law enforcement critical incident operations at a scene of the critical incident is described, including at least one writable panel adapted and constructed to be transported to the scene of the critical incident and to contain relevant information related to a critical incident. A plurality of matching portable forms contains a copy of an entire panel or part of a panel. The forms can be color-coded in the same way as the matching panel or part of a panel. The portable forms are constructed to be transported to the scene of the critical incident, and handed out to field officers at the scene of the critical incident. The officers can write information on the portable forms while executing the operation, and through the forms provide rapid and efficient feedback to a commander who is coordinating the operation with help of the matching panels.
US09767705B1
A system for providing a user a virtual exercise in playing a music instrument relative to the user's skill characteristics includes: a processing entity and a memory entity for processing and storing data, respectively to execute the system functions, and a data transfer entity for receiving and transmitting data, the system configured to: obtain musical notation data, analyze it to assign the musical piece to which such data pertains a number of difficulty characteristics with scalar values, provide the user with a number of musical pieces, with known difficulty characteristics, as virtual exercises to be completed by playing an instrument, obtain user performance data of completed virtual exercises, analyze the user performance data to determine and assign the user with a number of skill characteristics values in accordance with the difficulty characteristic values of the completed musical pieces, and determine a musical piece for the user as a virtual exercise.
US09767703B2
A portable emergency vehicle demonstration system can include an enclosure having a base and a cover mounted thereto, wherein the cover is movable between an opened position and a closed position, a set of functional warning units arranged within the enclosure, wherein the arrangement of the set of functional warning units represents an emergency vehicle, and a controller arranged within the enclosure and configured to operate the set of function warning units according to a set of predetermined signaling patterns.
US09767702B2
A system and method for providing landing guidance to an aircraft may include an aviation headset having one or more sensors and one or more antennas, a position module configured to determine a position of the headset, and an encoder module for encoding the position information as an audible subchannel. The encoded audible subchannel may be included with voice transmissions via the aircraft radio. A guidance portion may receive the transmission and analyze the encoded audible subchannel to determine the position of the aircraft. Landing guidance may be communicated based on a comparison of the position with a desired glide path.
US09767693B2
A transparent display apparatus which is used in a transportation apparatus includes: a communication unit which receives surrounding situation information, a controller which recognizes surrounding objects using the surrounding situation information, and determines a danger element that is likely to collide with the transportation apparatus using characteristics of the surrounding objects and a movement characteristic of the transportation apparatus, and a transparent display which displays information for informing a user of the danger element. Accordingly, a surrounding situation can be effectively presented.
US09767686B2
A method for determining the plausibility of wrong-way travel of a motor vehicle when entering a directional roadway, including detecting at least one curve information item of a current travel path, ascertaining at least one curve information item of a permitted travel path, determining a deviation between the detected and ascertained curve information items, and plausibilizing a wrong-way travel if a deviation exists or a deviation limit value is breached. A control/detection device for determining the plausibility of wrong-way travel when entering a directional roadway, includes an arrangement for detecting at least one curve information item of a current travel path; an arrangement for ascertaining at least one curve information item of a permitted travel path; an arrangement for determining a deviation between detected and ascertained curve information items; and an arrangement for determining the plausibility of wrong-way travel if a deviation exists or a deviation limit value is breached.
US09767685B2
A method for connecting low power radios into a self-assembling and self-healing network with multiple portals to higher speed networks such as, but not limited to, electrical or optical Ethernet is provided for monitoring transmission lines, for example, or other monitoring application. An arrangement of sensors is provided (e.g., sensors can be associated with clamps or positioned along infrastructure being monitored and without dependence on any clamps or other devices) that are designed to communicate and operate in an geographically distributed array to provide increased and autonomous monitoring of large utility, highway, communication and similar networks. A unique collection of sensors (e.g., an anemometer with no moving parts) provides comprehensive diagnostics for improved operation of large geographic scale utility, highway, communication and similar infrastructure.
US09767678B2
The invention includes systems, methods, and software applications for centrally maintaining information and automatically distributing relevant portions of the information to remote users. In one embodiment, a central server stores the information, which is maintained on the central server. Periodically, or each time the server information is updated, the server identifies the portion of the information that is relevant to each user and downloads the relevant portion of information to each user, for example to a mobile device such as a Blackberry™. The invention may be used to maintain and timely distribute information related to emergency response procedures, sales or servicing schedules, and delivery schedules, among other things.
US09767677B1
An emergency notification method which includes receiving an alert signal triggered by a user from a first remote device during an emergency situation, receiving user identification data of the user from the first remote device, sending a response request signal to a plurality of first responders with a second remote device, receiving location information from the user and the plurality of first responders from the first and second remote device, respectively, and sending the alert signal to authorized first responders of the plurality of first responders to respond to the emergency situation.
US09767675B2
Various embodiments relate to creating and utilizing a vehicle surveillance network to monitor objects and/or events. Messages may be broadcasted from at least one communication system of a surveillance network which is communicating with one or more vehicles of the surveillance network and received in a vehicle. Instructions may be transmitted to at least one vehicle camera to capture one or more images of objects or events outside of the vehicle in response to receiving the at least one broadcasted message. At least one vehicle camera in each of the vehicles of the surveillance network may capture the images of the object and/or events. Further instructions may include transmitting the captured images from the one or more vehicles to one or more event responders.
US09767671B2
The present disclosure is directed to a system for determining sensor condition. A sensor signal generated by a sensor to communicate the current condition of an aspect being monitored by the sensor may also be employed to determine the condition of the sensor itself. For example, a device capable of determining if the sensor condition is normal or malfunctioning (e.g., erratic, stuck, etc.) may comprise a monitoring module (MM) to receive the sensor signal. The MM may comprise a sensor condition determination module (SCDM) to determine sensor condition. The SCDM may include a feature extraction engine to determine various characteristics of (e.g., to “extract features” from) the sensor signal and a model to determine sensor condition based on the extracted features. The model may include a support vector machine (SVM) taught to determine sensor condition utilizing sampled sensor signals correlated with annotations of sensor condition.
US09767668B2
Arrangements relate to the automatic adjustment of an alert trigger threshold associated with a metric. In response to a determination that a predetermined alert trigger threshold associated with a metric is met, an alert notification can be sent to a plurality of users associated with the metric. Feedback on the alert notification can be received from one or more of the plurality of users. The alert trigger threshold can be adjusted based on the received feedback. Such adjusting can be performed using a processor.
US09767654B2
A gaming system is disclosed which comprises a symbol selector arranged to select a plurality of symbols for display at a corresponding plurality of display positions, an outcome evaluator arranged to determine whether the selected symbols correspond to a winning symbol combination by evaluating symbols disposed in defined win lines, and a prize allocator arranged to allocate a prize to a player when a winning symbol combination exists in a defined win line. At least one display position is of different size to at least one other display position and the defined win lines are dependent on the respective sizes of and locations of the display positions. A corresponding method is also disclosed.
US09767649B2
A system and method for tracking customer activity without need for an extensive interconnecting network. The system includes a plurality of gaming devices that are communicatively isolated from one another. Information, including tracked customer activity, bonus requirements, and in one embodiment, personal information, is stored on a memory device communicable with the gaming devices. This allows implementation of an incentive program at reduced cost because the service devices themselves need not be networked together.
US09767637B2
A gaming device repetitively generating an outcome display, for each play, is positioned relative to a companion complementary display. The symbols dominant to a winning outcome, which are displayed after a play, are used to control the characteristic of the complementary display. Several symbols may be displayed to indicate a game outcome in association with color characteristics. In an embodiment, a color of light is associated with a particular game symbol.
US09767621B2
The present invention discloses a method for visualizing 4D data by integrating received data, at a server system. The method may include a step of extracting data for extracting layer information representing a relation between items, status information representing state or event of each of the items, and connection information enabling each of the items to be related to internal/external system from received at least one raw data, a step of generating contents for generating an object from the extracted information as and integrally implementing the generated object in a visualization space, and a step of visualization control for visualizing and controlling the generated contents, wherein each of the object and the visualization space may be integrally implemented to 4D data with location information and time information.
US09767619B2
A tomogram of an object is acquired. A place in a tomogram which corresponds to a portion spaced apart from a reference point in the object by a predetermined distance is specified. A composite image is generated by combining the tomogram with information indicating the specified place. The composite image is output.
US09767608B2
An augmented reality image display system may be implemented together with a surgical robot system. The surgical robot system may include a slave system performing a surgical operation, a master system controlling the surgical operation of the slave system, an imaging system generating a virtual image of the inside of a patient's body, and an augmented reality image display system including a camera capturing a real image having a plurality of markers attached to the patient's body or a human body model. The augmented reality image system may include an augmented reality image generator which detects the plurality of markers in the real image, estimates the position and gaze direction of the camera using the detected markers, and generates an augmented reality image by overlaying a region of the virtual image over the real image, and a display which displays the augmented reality image.
US09767593B2
An apparatus for processing an animation includes an animation control unit configured to determine an animation processing mode as an interpolated animation mode or a cascading style sheets level 3 (CSS3) animation mode according to a property of the animation, the property being received through an application program interface (API), an animation engine unit configured to calculate a matrix of an object for each frame and to process the animation based on the calculated matrix if the animation processing mode is determined as the interpolated animation mode, and a web engine unit configured to process the animation based on a target matrix of the object and CSS 3 transition if the animation processing mode is determined as the CSS3 animation mode.
US09767584B2
A method and device for synthesizing an image for audiovisual communication includes: generating, if a request for synthesizing a sensor image input through a camera sensor and an image designated by a user is input, a synthesis image of the sensor image and the designated image. The method also includes storing, when the synthesis image is generated, object information of an object of the sensor image and object information of an object of the designated image; and changing, if a sensor image is input in which object information of the sensor image object has changed, object information of the designated image object according to the changed object information of the sensor image object and synthesizing the sensor image and the designated image in which object information has changed.
US09767576B2
The described technology regards an augmented reality system and method for estimating a position of a location of interest relative to the position and orientation of a display, including receiving and selectively filtering a plurality of measurement vectors from a rate-gyroscope. Systems of the described technology include including a plurality of sensors, a processing module or other computation means, and a database. Methods of the described technology use data from the sensor package useful to accurately render graphical user interface information on a display.
US09767575B2
The described technology regards an augmented reality system and method for estimating a position of a location of interest relative to the position and orientation of a display, using a forward buffer to store current and predicted position estimates calculated by the methods of the present invention. Systems of the described technology include including a plurality of sensors, a processing module or other computation means, and a database. Methods of the described technology use data from the sensor package useful to accurately render graphical user interface information on a display.
US09767563B2
An image processing apparatus obtains location information of each image feature in a captured image based on image coordinates of the image feature in the captured image. The image processing apparatus selects location information usable to calculate a position and an orientation of the imaging apparatus among the obtained location information. The image processing apparatus obtains the position and the orientation of the imaging apparatus based on the selected location information and an image feature corresponding to the selected location information among the image features included in the captured image.
US09767562B2
An image processing apparatus comprises a corresponding point information obtaining unit configured to obtain corresponding point information input for alignment between images; a satisfaction degree obtaining unit configured to obtain a satisfaction degree of the corresponding point information based on the corresponding point information; and a presentation control unit configured to control presentation of information about the satisfaction degree.
US09767561B2
A method, apparatus and a surround view camera system for determining the optimal seam for a surround view camera system. The method includes determining the corrected side view image at bird-eye perspective, generating a cost map for overlapping region, finding a minimum cost seam for each overlapping region, computing weight based on distance to the seam, if blending of the pixel, and blending the pixel, synthesizing composite view, and generating a composite view image.
US09767560B2
The present disclosure illustrates a work mode control method. The work mode control method includes the following steps. First, capturing an image once every capturing interval. Next, determining a shutter time, an average brightness and an image quality in response to the images. The shutter time is associated with a frequency of the optical encoder to capture the images. The average brightness is associated with a brightness of environmental light sensed by the optical encoder. The image quality is associated with clarity of the images. Then, adjusting a work mode of the optical encoder in response to the shutter time, the average brightness and the image quality. Finally, controlling the optical encoder to enter a rest mode when the shutter time is higher than a first threshold, the average brightness is higher than a second threshold, and the image quality is lower than a third threshold.
US09767559B1
A system and method for reconstructing locations of sensors in radiopaque images may estimate sensor locations in two groups of good radiographic images and use them to estimate candidate sensor locations in a group of bad radiographic images B1, . . . , Bn in which many sensors are indiscernible. A first iterative process pervading from the first image B1 to the last image Bn may determine a first set of candidate sensor locations, and a second iterative process pervading from the last image Bn to the first image B1 may determine a second set of candidate sensor location for each image. Location of a sensor in each image Bi may be estimated based on the pertinent first and second candidate sensor locations related, or determined for, the particular sensor in the particular image. Sensor locations still missing in the series of images are, then, estimated using the already estimated sensor locations.
US09767557B1
A method and apparatus for vascular disease detection and characterization using a recurrent neural network (RNN) is disclosed. A plurality of 2D cross-section image patches are extracted from a 3D computed tomography angiography (CTA) image, each extracted at a respective sampling point along a vessel centerline of a vessel of interest in the 3D CTA image. Vascular abnormalities in the vessel of interest are detected and characterized by classifying each of the sampling points along the vessel centerline based on the plurality of 2D cross-section image patches using a trained RNN.
US09767552B2
In one embodiment, the presence of anomalous material within tissue is detected by scanning a patient using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to obtain MRI data, identifying individual voxels of the MRI data, identifying multiple parameters of each voxel, and determining as to each voxel based upon the identified parameters the likelihood of tissue represented by the voxel containing anomalous material.
US09767550B2
A method and a device for analyzing a region of interest in an object is proposed. The method comprises: (a) providing measurement data by a differential phase contrast X-ray imaging system, and (b) analyzing characteristics of the object in the region of interest. Therein, the measurement data comprise a 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional set of pixels wherein for each pixel the measurement data comprises three types of image data spatially aligned with each other, including (i) absorption representing image data A, (ii) differential phase contrast representing image data D, and (iii) coherence representing image data C. The analyzing step is based, for each pixel, on a combination of at least two of information comprised in the absorption representing image data A and information comprised in the differential phase contrast representing image data D and information comprised in the coherence representing image data C.
US09767544B2
A method for brightness and contrast enhancement includes computing a luminance histogram of a digital image, computing first distances from the luminance histogram to a plurality of predetermined luminance histograms, estimating first control point values for a global tone mapping curve from predetermined control point values corresponding to a subset of the predetermined luminance histograms selected based on the computed first distances, and interpolating the estimated control point values to determine the global tone mapping curve. The method may also include dividing the digital image into a plurality of image blocks, and enhancing each pixel in the digital image by computing second distances from a pixel in an image block to the centers of neighboring image blocks, and computing an enhanced pixel value based on the computed second distances, predetermined control point values corresponding to the neighboring image blocks, and the global tone mapping curve.
US09767536B2
A method of providing a medical image of a region of interest (ROI) of a patient, the method comprising: acquiring a time ordered sequence of measurements of radiation used to provide the medical image; generating a Fourier transform of the time ordered sequence or a function thereof; using the Fourier transform to determine which of the frequencies characterize real motion of tissue in the ROI and which characterize noise; generating a corrected Fourier transform that is exclusive of frequencies that characterize noise; and providing a medical image of the ROI using the corrected Fourier transform.
US09767532B2
A method and system is implemented at an electronic device for displaying output from an application on a fixed orientation display. The electronic device includes a display module and an application. The application sends a request to display output from the application in a second orientation with second dimensions, and receives from the electronic device a notification that a display associated with the electronic device is a fixed orientation display with a first orientation and first dimensions. The application then obtains application data verifying that it is able to scale the output for displaying in an orientation and dimensions different from the requested second orientation and second dimensions, and determines optimal dimensions to display the output from the application based on the first orientation and first dimensions associated with the fixed display. The electronic device then scales output data to match the determined optimal dimensions.
US09767527B2
A tradeable commodity or instrument, a trading system for a plurality of such commodities, a method of trading using such a system and security systems related thereto. The tradeable instrument comprises a secure container constituted by a transparent cover (12), a stone holder pad (14), a set of diamonds (15), a diamond or stone holder (16), a data card (18), a bottom cover (20) and a tamper evident band (22) interconnected into a secure, tamper-evident envelope. The data card (18) incorporates physical and digital security features. In addition, at least one externally readable programmable logic device is incorporated in the tradeable instrument card. The tamper evident band (22) is shrunk onto the tradeable instrument card and includes physical security features in the form of holographic foils incorporated in the band.
US09767521B2
Systems and methods are provided for correlating data from agricultural operations and displaying the resulting correlations. In some embodiments, data is gathered during two agricultural operations, a bitmap is rendered of the first operation, and second operation data from a live location is associated with a bitmap value at coordinates associated with the live location.
US09767520B2
Disclosed is an approach for managing a dialog between a user and a merchant as part of a purchase. The method includes receiving a posting of an item through a social networking site, wherein the social networking site receives and transmits posted items from a posting entity to receiving entities. When the posting references a product in a product database, the posting includes a payment process initiation object. Clicking on object transitions the user to a dialog application that engages in a dialog between the user and the merchant. The dialog application includes payment processing capabilities such that the user can complete the purchase via the dialog application.
US09767502B2
The present invention relates to a system, apparatus and method for facilitating the selection, purchasing and ordering glass products. The apparatus includes a processor which is controlled by software to facilitate a selection process which integrates the comparison of glass products and their properties, as well as, including particular properties of particular components of a glass product. The apparatus can work with a user input device and is programmed to display graphics associated with selections and potential selections for glass products. The system and method providing selection menus for display on a display device and an animation graphic associated with a selection presented to the user. The system, apparatus, and method integrates the glass product selection information, and makes selections for the user, based on the user's previous choices and specified target performances to present to the user potential glass products.
US09767496B2
A method and system is provided for notifying an addressee about a mail piece having an address. The system captures an image of the mail piece and determines a communication channel for the addressee using the address from the mail piece. The system provides the addressee with the image via the communication channel.
US09767493B2
Various systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for retrieving a customer check. One example method may comprise generating a list of items included on at least one open check. The example method may further comprise receiving from a customer a selection of an item from the list, wherein the item is included on a check associated with the customer. The example method may further comprise identifying the check associated with the customer based at least in part on the selected item. Similar and related methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer program products are also provided.
US09767488B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a method for providing content. A linking is provided of identifiers for users or devices known to a content delivery service. Each identifier is associated with the user or device in a specific context. The linking includes first and second identifiers. A request for content is received that includes either the first or second identifier. Bidders in an exchange are identified that have expressed an interest in bidding on a content delivery opportunity associated with the user or the device. For each bidder, a relative value is determined for a respective bidder for the opportunity to present content to the user or device in association with each identifier known to the bidder. For each bidder, a real-time bid request is generated in the exchange that includes the highest value identifier for submission to a respective bidder.
US09767487B2
An online system enables developers of third-party applications to specify online system users to receive advertisements. The online system generates and sends a user-specific identifier for online system users that use a third-party application when an advertiser associated with the third-party application requests a user-specific identifier from the online system. For example, the online system retrieves user identifying information associated with a client device identifier provided by an advertiser and generates a user identifier by encrypting the retrieved user identifying information. The advertiser may include one or more user-specific identifiers in an advertisement request sent to an online system to present an advertisement in the advertisement request to online system users corresponding to the user-specific identifiers. The online system determines whether to present the advertisement to users based in part on whether users correspond to user-specific identifiers included in the advertisement request.
US09767486B2
A computer method and system for ranking computer network portal users is provided. The system and method comprise a ranking module which determines rank of an individual in a community of global computer network users. The ranking module determines rank of an individual as a function of user demand. The function of user demand includes any one or combination of number of requests to be connected to the individual user, readership following of the individual user and keywords common between profiles or authored works by the individual user and those of other users. An output member is coupled to receive the determined rank from the ranking module and generates an ordered list of user names ordered by determined rank of individuals. The rank of individuals may be provided to external entities such as fraud detection systems or advertising targeting engines.
US09767485B2
An apparatus and method are disclosed for providing an advertising system in which a buyer generates a profile containing a list of preferred purchases or vendors. At least some of the buyer's preferred profile entries are associated with a geographic area. A mobile network is used to connect the mobile buyers and the sellers. Both the buyers' profiles and the sellers' advertisements are uploaded to the network. The network matches buyers and sellers by providing to the buyers sales advertisements that match the criteria of the uploaded buyer's profiles but without sharing buyers' unique identifying information with the sellers. The buyer devices optionally include an ad server to filter and manage the buyer's receipt of advertisements. The sellers' offers and promotions also optionally include time-dependent information such that they expire upon the passage of a specified time period.
US09767482B1
Extracting and sharing user preference information includes receiving a call from a user device, retrieving user information from a user account stored in a user databank in response to receiving the call, executing a data backup operation to share the user account information with at least one established account partner remotely via a secure communication channel, wherein executing the data backup operation comprises transmitting the user account information to a remote databank of the at least one established account partner over the secure communication channel.
US09767471B1
A service provider may receive transaction information from a plurality of merchant devices for a plurality of point of sale transactions conducted between buyers and merchants. The service provider can associate the transaction information with respective buyer profiles of a plurality of buyer profiles. In some examples, the service provider may determine a subset of the buyer profiles based on at least a portion of the buyer profiles in the subset including transaction information that is related to a particular one of the merchants. The service provider may further determine at least one characteristic associated with at least some of the buyer profiles in the subset, and may send a recommendation to the particular merchant related to the at least one characteristic. As an example, the recommendation may be for improving or optimizing the business of the particular merchant.
US09767466B2
A method and apparatus configure a network between users in a communication system. In a server, the method includes receiving user information from a terminal for purchasing contents, storing information on a purchaser for each of a plurality of contents, and configuring the network including users who purchase identical contents. Accordingly, the network can be automatically configured between user terminals on the basis of a contents purchase history of the user terminal in the communication system.
US09767455B1
A transaction and payment and processing system securely conducts transactions over the public telephone network. The transactions may be between and among entities of any type such as individuals, merchants, utilities, banks, etc. Nothing more than access to a telephone is required after initial registration of a user.
US09767450B2
Provided is an antenna module package including a substrate, a wireless card payment antenna structure mounted on the substrate and including a first antenna chip and wireless card payment matching elements electrically connected to the first antenna chip, a near field communication (NFC) antenna structure mounted on the substrate, sharing the first antenna chip, and including an extended NFC antenna loop and NFC matching elements electrically connected to the first antenna chip, and a wireless charging antenna structure mounted on the substrate and including a second antenna chip, and an extended wireless charging antenna loop and wireless charging matching elements electrically connected to the second antenna chip.
US09767431B2
A base hierarchy of products or the like can be user-modified into a virtual hierarchy that is represented as a collection of changes to the base hierarchy rather than a new hierarchy stored in memory. The collection of changes can be used to enable user interactions such as queries, displays, and writes using the virtual hierarchy as thought it were an actual hierarchy stored in memory, with aspects of the virtual hierarchy dynamically created using a collection of procedures based on the changes and corresponding inverses. The representation of the modified hierarchy can be dynamically displayed to a user or otherwise processed in the same manner as other hierarchies and hierarchical data.
US09767425B2
A tangible computer-readable storage device storing computer-executable program instructions that generate a user interface for displaying workflow information associated with a tissue specimen in a pathology laboratory. The program instructions may be configured to perform a method including displaying a virtual laboratory component representing a physical pathology laboratory having one or more laboratory stations for processing the tissue specimen, wherein the tissue specimen is processed by the one or more laboratory stations according to a workflow, and displaying a specimen indicator that indicates a current specimen state based on a current relationship of the tissue specimen to the workflow. The method may further include enabling a first active component associated with the virtual laboratory component, wherein the first active component is configured to receive a user selection of a laboratory station and generating a supplemental view component of the selected laboratory station in response to the user selection, wherein the supplemental view provides supplemental information on processing by the selected laboratory station of the tissue specimen.
US09767416B2
Herein is described a data-parallel and sparse algorithm for topic modeling. This algorithm is based on a highly parallel algorithm for a Greedy Gibbs sampler. The Greedy Gibbs sampler is a Markov-Chain Monte Carlo algorithm that estimates topics, in an unsupervised fashion, by estimating the parameters of the topic model Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). The Greedy Gibbs sampler is a data-parallel algorithm for topic modeling, and is configured to be implemented on a highly-parallel architecture, such as a GPU. The Greedy Gibbs sampler is modified to take advantage of data sparsity while maintaining the parallelism. Furthermore, in an embodiment, implementation of the Greedy Gibbs sampler uses both densely-represented and sparsely-represented matrices to reduce the amount of computation while maintaining fast accesses to memory for implementation on a GPU.
US09767412B2
Systems and methods are disclosed to determine “don't care” variables in programming code. The method comprises obtaining an SMT formula having a plurality of SMT variables from programming code; obtaining a simplified SMT formula from the SMT formula, the simplified SMT formula includes a plurality of simplified SMT variables; obtaining an SAT formula from the simplified SMT formula, the SAT formula includes a plurality of SAT variables; determining which of the plurality of the SMT variables are “don't care” variables from the simplified SMT formula; and determining which of the plurality of the SMT variables are “don't care” variables from the simplified SAT formula.
US09767409B1
Features are disclosed for identifying and routing items for tagging using a latent feature model, such as a recurrent neural network language model (RNNLM). The model may be trained to identify latent features for catalog items such as movies, books, food items, beverages, and the like. Based on similarities in latent features, tags previous assigned to items may be applied to untagged items. Application may be manual or automatic. In either case, resources need to be balances to ensure efficient tagging of items. The included features help to identify and direct these limited tagging resources.
US09767404B2
Various embodiments of RFID switch devices are disclosed herein. Such RFID switch devices advantageously enable manual activation/deactivation of the RF module. The RFID switch device may include a RF module with an integrated circuit adapted to ohmically connect to a substantially coplanar conductive trace pattern, as well as booster antenna for extending the operational range of the RFID device. The operational range of the RFID switch device may be extended when a region of the booster antenna overlaps a region of the conductive trace pattern on the RF module via inductive or capacitive coupling. The RFID switch device may further include a visual indicator displaying a first color if the RFID switch device is in an active state and/or a second color if the RFID switch device is in an inactive state.
US09767397B2
The present invention relates to a color separation condition determination device, method and storage medium. A pixel of interest is extracted from multiple pixels, and the influence of visual effect applied to the pixel of interest is estimated on the basis of the positional relationship between the color of the pixel of interest and each color of at least one surrounding pixel. Also, the total usage of color materials in the pixel of interest is estimated. The color separation condition in the pixel of interest is determined on the basis of the respectively estimated influence of visual effect and total usage of color materials.
US09767395B2
An image forming apparatus comprises: an image forming unit configured to form an image; an image scanning unit configured to scan an image; and a control unit configured to perform control of the image forming unit and the image scanning unit, wherein the control unit controls the image scanning unit to scan an original, controls the image forming unit to form an additional image on the original after the scanning of the original is completed, and controls the image forming unit to form, after the formation of the additional image on the original is completed, an image in which the original is copied based on image information of the original scanned by the image scanning unit.
US09767394B2
A first mask region is a dot recording region including a pixel position on which a dot is recorded, a second mask region is a dot non-recording region including only a pixel position on which a dot is not recorded, recording of dots is performed so as to overlap the first mask regions with each other in a state where the first mask regions of two masks or more among the P masks are shifted from each other on the recording medium, and D1
US09767391B2
A card reader may include a card conveying mechanism; a guide; a magnetic head; a positioning member to position the card relative to the magnetic head; and a shutter. The positioning member may include a card abutting part to abut a third direction end of the card; and a card support part to contact a first direction side of the card. A distance between the card abutting part and a third direction end of the guide is shorter than a width in the short-side direction of the card. When the shutter has closed, a fourth direction end of the shutter is disposed on a first direction side of the guide. When the shutter has opened the opening, the shutter is disposed on the first direction side of the guide. The third direction end of the card may be guided to the card support part by the shutter.
US09767385B2
Object detection uses a deep or multiple layer network to learn features for detecting the object in the image. Multiple features from different layers are aggregated to train a classifier for the object. In addition or as an alternative to feature aggregation from different layers, an initial layer may have separate learnt nodes for different regions of the image to reduce the number of free parameters. The object detection is learned or a learned object detector is applied.
US09767383B2
The invention relates to a method (100) for detecting incorrect associations between keypoints of a first image and keypoints of a second image, the method (100) comprising associating (101) every keypoint of the first image with every keypoint of the second image to obtain global associations, determining (103) similarity measures for pairs of initial associations, determining (105) similarity measures for pairs of global associations, determining (107) a first number of pairs of initial associations having a similarity measure within a predetermined range, determining (109) a second number of pairs of global associations having a similarity measure within the predetermined range, and comparing (111) the first number of pairs with the second number of pairs to detect the incorrect associations. The invention further relates to an apparatus for detecting incorrect associations between keypoints of a first image and keypoints of a second image.
US09767370B1
Aspects of the disclosure relate to identifying construction objects. As an example, an image captured by a camera associated with a vehicle as the vehicle is driven along a roadway may be received. This image may be converted into a first channel corresponding to an average brightness contribution from red, blue and green channels of the image. The image may also be converted into a second channel corresponding to a contribution of a color from the red and the green channels of the image. A template may then be used to identify a region of the image corresponding to a potential construction object from the first channel and the second channel.
US09767362B2
Techniques for matching a feature of captured visual data are described in various implementations. In one example implementation, a server from among plural servers matches a feature of captured visual data of a physical target received from an electronic device with features of one of a plurality of partitions. Based on the matching, an object is identified that corresponds to the captured visual data.
US09767358B2
Technologies are presented herein in support of a system and method for performing iris identification and verification using mobile devices. Embodiments of the present invention concern a method for authenticating a user with a mobile device that includes steps for capturing imagery of a user's face, analyzing the imagery to identify the portion of the image depicting the user's eyes and segmenting the eye image to isolate the iris image data and encoding the iris image data in iris template. The present disclosure further describes authenticating the user based on the encoded iris template and additional techniques for preventing erroneous authentication caused by spoofing. In some examples, the anti-spoofing techniques may include capturing one or more images of a user's eyes and analyzing the captured images for indications of liveness based on reflection characteristics depicted in the imagery.
US09767355B2
Comparing extracted card data from a continuous scan comprises receiving, by one or more computing devices, a digital scan of a card; obtaining a plurality of images of the card from the digital scan of the physical card; performing an optical character recognition algorithm on each of the plurality of images; comparing results of the application of the optical character recognition algorithm for each of the plurality of images; determining if a configured threshold of the results for each of the plurality of images match each other; and verifying the results when the results for each of the plurality of images match each other. Threshold confidence level for the extracted card data can be employed to determine the accuracy of the extraction. Data is further extracted from blended images and three-dimensional models of the card. Embossed text and holograms in the images may be used to prevent fraud.
US09767354B2
According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes: capturing an image of a document using a camera of a mobile device; performing optical character recognition (OCR) on the image of the document; extracting an identifier of the document from the image based at least in part on the OCR; comparing the identifier with content from one or more reference data sources, wherein the content from the one or more reference data sources comprises global address information; and determining whether the identifier is valid based at least in part on the comparison. The method may optionally include normalizing the extracted identifier, retrieving additional geographic information, correcting OCR errors, etc. based on comparing extracted information with reference content. Corresponding systems and computer program products are also disclosed.
US09767352B2
An apparatus and method for analyzing body part association. The apparatus and method may recognize at least one body part from a user image extracted from an observed image, select at least one candidate body part based on association of the at least one body part, and output a user pose skeleton related to the user image based on the selected at least one candidate body part.
US09767349B1
A method for determining an emotional state of a subject taking an assessment. The method includes eliciting predicted facial expressions from a subject administered questions each intended to elicit a certain facial expression that conveys a baseline characteristic of the subject; receiving a video sequence capturing the subject answering the questions; determining an observable physical behavior experienced by the subject across a series of frames corresponding to the sample question; associating the observed behavior with the emotional state that corresponds with the facial expression; and training a classifier using the associations. The method includes receiving a second video sequence capturing the subject during an assessment and applying features extracted from the second image data to the classifier for determining the emotional state of the subject in response to an assessment item administered during the assessment.
US09767342B2
In one embodiment of the invention, a method to image a probe array is described that includes focusing on a plurality of fiducials on a surface of an array. The method utilizes obtaining the best z position of the fiducials and using a surface fitting algorithm to produce a surface fit profile. One or more surface non-flatness parameters can be adjusted to improve the flatness image of the array surface to be imaged.
US09767334B2
The device includes an illumination; a camera configured to acquire at least one image of at least one portion of a symbol, the running substrate being illuminated by the illumination; and a processor connected to the camera and configured to be suitable for implementing an image-processing step in which the acquired image is processed by the processor and decoded. The camera used is linear and the illumination is a dark field illumination. Furthermore, the device is configured to carry out, prior to the processor processing step, a plurality of image acquisitions with the linear camera of various portions of the symbol.
US09767325B2
Certain embodiments of the disclosure may include systems and methods for calculating the wind deflection of a rifle bullet using concentric scales. The scales are marked radially on each side, one side pertaining to wind speed and the opposite side pertaining to wind direction. The scales of one side include indicia of deflection at various wind speeds, and the scales of the other side include indicia for various wind directions. Using both sides together and in sequence, correction can be made for both wind speed and wind direction.
US09767323B2
Systems and methods of providing spatial security of data stored on a hard disk drive. A method includes associating a user with at least one track and/or sector of the hard disk drive. The method also includes locking the at least one track and/or sector as a default setting. The method additionally includes determining the user has moved into a predefined area. The method further includes unlocking the at least one track and/or sector based on the determining the user has moved into the predefined area.
US09767317B1
A browser includes modules to provide markup language applications with access to cryptographic functions executing in a secure zone. Non-secure operations associated with the cryptographic functions called by the markup language application may be executed in a virtual machine. Sensitive data such as cryptographic keys may be “wrapped” or encrypted by the secure zone using a key. The encrypted sensitive data may then be stored in non-secure memory for further use. Upon request by the cryptographic functions, the encrypted sensitive data may be retrieved and decrypted with the secure zone for use.
US09767304B2
Techniques for representation of operating system context in a trusted platform module are described. In at least some embodiments, authorization principals that corresponds to representations of operating system context are derived in a trusted platform module. The authorization principals can be used to define authorization policies for access to security assets stored in a trusted platform module.
US09767299B2
A system and method for sharing an encrypted file stored on a cloud server is disclosed. In certain embodiments, the method includes generating a file key associated with the encrypted file stored in the cloud server; generating a share message, the share message including the generated file key and identifying a recipient user and the encrypted file stored in the cloud server; encrypting the file key using an identification key of the recipient user to generate a share key; storing the share key in the cloud server; notifying the recipient user of the encrypted file and share key stored on the cloud server; retrieving the encrypted file and the share key from the cloud server; decrypting the share key using the identification key of the recipient user to reconstruct the file key; and using the reconstructed file key to decrypt the encrypted file.
US09767289B2
A firmware image is received at an information handling system. A symmetric key is generated and stored at a trusted platform module (TPM). The firmware image is encrypted using the symmetric key. The encrypted firmware image is stored in a non-volatile memory.
US09767276B1
A method and apparatus for detecting kernel data structure tampering are disclosed. In the method and apparatus, a memory region of a computer system is scanned for one or more characteristics of a kernel data structure of an operating system kernel. It is then determined, based at least in part on identifying whether the one or more characteristics are found in the memory region, whether the kernel data structure is stored in the memory region of the computer system for tampering with the kernel data structure.
US09767269B2
A display unit displays a configuration of a system in a display device. An implementation scheme configuration support unit provides a candidate of a security implementation scheme configurable for a component of the system and configures a security implementation scheme selected by a user to a component selected by a user. An associated function element configuration support unit provides a candidate of an associated function element configurable for a component of the system and configures an associated function element selected by a user to a component selected by a user. An evaluation unit determines whether or not the associated function element configured for the component of the system is appropriate based on a condition to determine appropriateness of the configuration of the certain associated function element. An output unit outputs a result of the determination by the associated function element evaluation unit.
US09767254B2
A prepaid card allows for prepaying for access to a web site configured to provide for management of personal health care records. The prepaid card includes a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, a promotional code printed on the second surface, a scratch box on the second surface and overlaying the promotional code. The promotional code may be associated with a monetary value for the prepaid card on the web site configured to provide for management of personal health care records. A method for providing a service facilitating online management of personal health records includes receiving data from a prepaid card at a web server, activating a new user account for the online management of personal health records using the data from the prepaid card; and providing online access to the new user account.
US09767253B2
The present system and the method relate to adding product information to patient record. A product database stores the product information corresponding to a product, while a patient database stores the patient record corresponding to a patient. A product detector detects a product identifier corresponding to the product information and generates a product identifier message. The patient detector detects a patient identifier corresponding to the patient record and generates a patient identifier message. An adding module adds the product information to the patient record based on the patient identifier message and the product identifier message.
US09767229B2
The invention relates to a method for simulating the unsteady aerodynamic loads being exerted on the external structure of an aircraft, notably in the context of a simulation of the buffeting of a wing surface in an airflow. The method includes a step of measurement of pressure (410) at different points of a grid, a step of calculation of the spectral density at these points (420) followed by extrapolation/interpolation operations to calculate the missing measurements (430), a step of estimation of the pressure coherence (440) for each pair of points of the grid, a step of estimation of the interspectral pressure density (450) for these same pairs of points, from the coherence thus estimated, and a step of calculation of the aerodynamic loads (460) by summing the real part of the interspectral density for the area of the wing surface having a separation of the boundary layer.
US09767225B2
A system for predicting the performance of a rotary unit operation on a web. The system includes a first rotary roll, a second rotary roll, a nip gap between the first rotary unit and the second rotary roll, a web enabled to travel through the nip, a predetermined pattern, and a computing device comprising a processor and a memory component. The first rotary roll and the second rotary roll are enabled to imprint the predetermined pattern on the web. The memory component stores logic that, when executed by the processor, causes the system to perform at least the following: receive input characteristics of the first rotary roll and the second rotary roll, the web, and the initial nip-gap; receive the predetermined pattern; simulate a transformation performance on the web by the first rotary roll and the second rotary roll; output an analysis demonstrating a load impact factor; and analyze one or more load impact factors to determine if the system will output the predetermined pattern and if the transformation is robust.
US09767223B2
This invention generally relates to a system and a method of designing a dental component for a region on a patient's set of teeth. More particularly, the invention relates to obtaining a digital 3D representation of at least the region of the patient's set of teeth, where the digital 3D representation is based on a 3D scan.
US09767220B2
Approaches for facilitating queries of a topic-based-source-specific search system are disclosed. In certain implementations, an input relating to a query may be received. Suggested ones of predefined sources and suggested ones of information items of the predefined sources may be determined based on the input. A set of suggestions including a group of suggestions relating to the suggested sources and a group of suggestions relating to the suggested information items may be provided for presentation on a user interface. In some implementations, metadata that indicates first, second, or other attributes relating to the predefined sources or the information items may be stored in association with the predefined sources or the information items. A second input relating to the query may be received responsive to providing the set of suggestions. A presentation of a comparison between the first attribute and the second attribute may be provided based on the second input.
US09767219B2
In one aspect, there is provided a method. The method may intercepting a result provided by a database in response to a query; modifying the intercepted result to enable detection of an order by problem; and detecting, based on the modified intercepted result, whether the query is missing an order by clause. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
US09767218B2
In one embodiment, a method includes determining rankings for a plurality of objects of a social-networking system, where the social-networking system includes a social graph that includes a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes. Each object corresponds to a node of the social graph, and each ranking for each object is determined based on a number of edges being connected to the node to which the respective object corresponds. The objects are stored in a plurality of partitions of a database, where each partition stores only objects having a particular ranking. The objects are indexed in the partitions by a plurality of search indices that each index only a particular one of the plurality of partitions.
US09767214B2
A method and apparatus for automatically analyzing and providing feedback regarding the optimizability of a relational database query. A query developer's primary goal is to ensure that queries and DML operations are rewritten for the most efficient execution. Rewrite diagnosability captures metadata for each attempted query optimization including success or failure and the reasons for failure. The metadata is stored in association with the operators that were not removed through rewriting. Once all optimizations have been attempted and rewriting is complete, the metadata is selectively displayed based on the cost to perform the associated operation. The context of performing the operation may affect the cost. The cost may be based at least on the type of operation and where within the query tree the operation is located. A query developer may configure the database system not to execute the resulting query plan based on one or more criteria.
US09767202B2
A system and method for linking content files is disclosed. The system comprises a targeting module, a link generation module and a graphic user interface module (GUI module). The targeting module determines a target content file based at least in part on an uploaded content file. The target content file comprises a long form content file. The link generation module is communicatively coupled to the targeting module for generating a link to the target content file. The GUI module is communicatively coupled to the targeting module and to the link generation module for generating a web page. The web page includes a playable version of the uploaded content file and the link to the target content file.
US09767198B2
Methods, systems and programming for presenting content summary of search results. In one example, an input associated with a search query is received from a user. One or more search results are fetched based on the search query. A summary of content with respect to at least one of the one or more search results is obtained. A search result page is presented to the user as a response to the input. The search results page includes the one or more search results and at least part of the summary of content.
US09767190B2
Systems and methods for calculating a patent claim scope rating are disclosed. In an example embodiment, a method of calculating a patent claim scope rating includes identifying patent references cited in examination of a subject patent and storing the identified patent references as an applied art list, identifying first backward references for the patent references in the applied art list and storing the first backward references as a first backward list, identifying second backward references for the first backward references in the first backward list and storing the second backward references as a second backward list, identifying forward references for the patent references in the applied art list and storing the forward references as a forward list. A patent claim scope rating is based on a calculation including at least a partial combination listing of the applied art list, the first and second backward lists, and the forward list.
US09767189B2
System and methods are provided for performing a method, for instance, at a computer system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors. In the method a search query is received. The search query identifies a message category from among a plurality of message categories. Each respective message category in the plurality of message categories corresponds to an electronic message display format in a plurality of electronic message display formats. Responsive to the search query, a search result comprising one or more electronic messages satisfying the search query is identified. The one or more electronic messages are prepared for display by formatting for display a first electronic message, in the one or more electronic messages, associated with the first message category. The formatting makes use of the electronic message display format that corresponds to the first message category.
