US09781870B2
A component supply device which includes a moving slider for moving between a position near a wafer sheet replenishment section and a position near a mounter, a table supported on the moving slider, and a rotating mechanism for rotating the table around a specific rotation axis. The table is supported on the moving slider by a number one support point, a number two support point, and a number three support point which are provided on a circumference with the rotation axis at the center. The rotating mechanism includes a number one guide for moving number one support point in an arc with respect to the rotation axis, and driven guides for moving number two support point and number three support point in an arc with respect to the rotation axis.
US09781867B2
A power module assembly includes opposing end caps collectively having coolant ports and a row of cards that each have a major side defining a projection extending across the card. A side panel extends between the end caps such that the panel and row define a channel in fluid communication with the ports and configured to convey coolant directly across the cards. The side panel defines a groove that receives the projections.
US09781856B2
The invention relates to a control unit for an electric vehicle or hybrid vehicle. The control unit has a housing enclosing a cavity. The housing has a housing lid and a housing opening, wherein the housing lid is designed to close the housing opening. According to the invention, the control unit has an electrically insulating shock hazard protection cover, which has at least one projection region extending transversely with respect to a surface of the shock hazard protection cover. The housing lid has at least one receptacle for the projection region, wherein the cutout is designed to retain the projection region in a force-locking manner. The shock hazard protection cover has at least one latching hook designed to latch in a positively locking manner, or additionally in a force-locking manner, with the housing or a part of the control unit in the interior of the housing which is connected to the housing.
US09781850B1
An electronic controller which includes a cover connected to a base plate, a housing, and a printed circuit board disposed in the housing. The base plate includes a press-fit inspection opening or aperture, and a cover is placed on the base plate over the opening, creating a seal path between the cover and the edge of the opening in the base plate. In one embodiment, there is a sealant, such as room temperature vulcanization (RTV) or heat cured sealant, dispensed on the sheet metal base plate around the perimeter of the opening, and the sealant is cured to prevent the formation of a leak path. Prior to the curing process, the cover is held in place by a pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA), as the sealant is cured. The controller is treated to a curing process to cure the sealant between the cover and the base plate.
US09781847B2
The present disclosure provides a positioning frame for mounting a display module and a display panel. The positioning frame includes: a plurality of side plates enclosing an accommodation zone for receiving the display module; a support bed provided on at least a pair of side plates arranged opposite to each other, and connected perpendicularly with the side plates, for supporting the display panel of the display module; baffles corresponding to the support beds one by one, the baffles are provided at the display side of the display panel, perpendicularly connected with the side plate and arranged to be parallel with the support bed, for limiting the display panel in the normal direction; limiting holes provided in the baffle and support bed at least at one side; limiting element being plugged in the limiting hole for limiting the display in peripheral directions. The positioning frame enables effective assembling the display module.
US09781844B2
A multilayer printed circuit board is provided having a first dielectric layer and a first plating resist selectively positioned in the first dielectric layer. A second plating resist may be selectively positioned in the first dielectric layer or a second dielectric layer, the second plating resist separate from the first plating resist. A through hole extends through the first dielectric layer, the first plating resist, and the second plating resist. An interior surface of the through hole is plated with a conductive material except along a length between the first plating resist and the second plating resist. This forms a partitioned plated through hole having a first via segment electrically isolated from a second via segment.
US09781843B2
A method of fabricating a packaging substrate having an embedded through-via interposer is provided. The method includes providing a through-via interposer having opposite first and second sides and conductive through-vias in communication with the first and second sides, wherein each of the conductive through-vias has a first end surface on the first side and a second end surface on the second side, and the second end surfaces protrude below the second side to serve as conductive bumps. Next, forming a redistribution layer on the first side and the first end surfaces such that the redistribution layer electrically connects with the first end surfaces. Afterwards, forming an encapsulant layer to encapsulate and embed the through-via interposer, wherein the encapsulant layer has opposite first and second surfaces. Next, forming a built-up structure on the second surface of the encapsulant layer, the second side of the through-via interposer and the conductive bumps.
US09781840B2
A substrate for mounting an electronic component includes a base material including insulating resin, a first conductor layer formed on first surface of the material, a second conductor layer formed on second surface of the material, and a metal block inserted into a hole penetrating through the first conductor, material and second conductor such that the metal block is fitted in the hole. The material has a bent portion in contact with the metal block in the hole such that the bent portion is bending toward the second conductor, the metal block has surface on first conductor side such that the surface has an outer peripheral portion having a curved-surface shape, and the hole has a first fitting inlet on the first conductor layer side and a second fitting inlet on second conductor side and that the metal block is positioned in contact with the second fitting inlet.
US09781839B1
A method of attaching wire to an exposed surface of an adhesive layer includes guiding wire from a wire source through a payout head and through a foot of a write head. A first portion of the wire extends from the foot toward the adhesive layer. The write head is positioned such that a gap between the foot and the exposed surface of the adhesive layer is greater than a diameter of the wire. The write head is moved in a motion parallel to the adhesive layer, and the first portion of the wire adheres to the adhesive layer. Wire is pulled from the wire source by the payout head as the write head is moving in order to maintain slack in a second portion of the wire between the payout head and the write head as the wire is attached to the exposed surface of the adhesive layer.
US09781817B2
A glow discharge cell includes an electrically conductive cylindrical vessel, a hollow electrode, a cylindrical screen, a first insulator, a second insulator and a non-conductive granular material. The hollow electrode is aligned with a longitudinal axis of the cylindrical vessel and extends at least from the first end to the second end of the cylindrical vessel. The hollow electrode has an inlet, an outlet, and a plurality of slots or holes. The cylindrical screen is aligned with the longitudinal axis of the cylindrical vessel and disposed between the hollow electrode and the cylindrical vessel to form a substantially equidistant gap between the cylindrical screen and the hollow electrode. The first insulator seals the first end of the cylindrical vessel around the hollow electrode. The second insulator seals the second end of the cylindrical vessel around the hollow electrode. The non-conductive granular material is disposed within the substantially equidistant gap.
US09781812B2
A lighting control device includes: a sensor that detects a state of a user and a gesture made by the user; and a controller that controls a lighting characteristic of one or more lighting devices. In the lighting control device and in a method of controlling the lighting device, the sensor detects a first state and a second state of a hand of the user. In response to the sensor detecting the hand of the user in the first state aiming at one lighting device among the one or more lighting devices, the controller designates the one lighting device as a control target lighting device, and in response to the sensor detecting a predetermined gesture involving the hand in the second state, the controller controls a lighting characteristic of the control target lighting device.
US09781810B2
A control apparatus includes a sensor and a control circuit. The sensor obtains a thermal pattern formed by a plurality of thermo-elements arranged in an appliance control device, a temperature of heat generated by each of the plurality of thermo-elements being controllable. The control circuit controls an appliance in accordance with the thermal pattern obtained by the sensor.
US09781803B2
A thermal management system for reducing or eliminating heat-mediated degradation of LED performance and/or operating life. The system may include a thermal controller arranged to respond to an LED operating condition, and to responsively limit temperature in the LED. The thermal controller in one implementation includes a bypass circuit containing a bypass control element, such as a varistor, Zener diode, or antifuse device, and arranged to divert current from flowing to the LED so that the LED remains in a cool state, e.g., below 75° C. The system may be arranged to (I) at least partially attenuate the power supplied to an LED so as to reduce heat generation in such LED and maintain the LED below a threshold temperature and/or (II) remove heat from the LED to maintain temperature of the LED below a threshold temperature.
US09781798B2
An LED based illumination device includes a plurality of LEDs that emit light through an output port of a housing. The LED based illumination device includes a heat sink that is in thermal contact with the plurality of LEDs. A peripheral electrical circuit board is configured to be contained within the housing, e.g., surrounding at least a portion of the heat sink. The peripheral electrical circuit board may include a radio frequency (RF) transceiver configured to communicate data between the LED based illumination device and another electronic device. A primary electrical circuit board may be electrically coupled to the peripheral electrical circuit board and electrically coupled to the plurality of LEDs.
US09781793B2
A circuit for driving a light source includes a power converter coupled between a power source and the light source, and a controller coupled to the power converter. The power converter receives power from the power source and provides a regulated power to the light source. The controller receives a conduction status signal indicating a conduction state of a dimmer coupled between the power source and the power converter, and adjusts the brightness of the light source based on the conduction status signal. The controller also receives an operation indicating signal indicative of operation of an ON/OFF switch coupled to the dimmer, and adjusts color temperature of the light source based on the operation indicating signal.
US09781787B2
Voltage transformer (A) and rectifier (B1), (B2) meant for power supply for LED lamps wherein the mentioned transformer (A) comprises a three-phase primary winding and at least two three-phase secondary windings wherein the outputs (1u, 1 v, 1 w) and (2u, 2v, 2w) of the mentioned secondary windings are connected to the rectifiers (B1) and (B2). The secondary windings are divided for several primary windings with various phases and are connected with various connections between outputs of the secondary windings in order to create the desired phase differences or the secondary windings have each their own primary winding wherein the connections between the outputs of the secondary windings have a characteristic, desired phase difference.
US09781786B2
A control circuit of a LED driver utilizes a counter to acquire a cycle and a conduction time or a non-conduction time of an AC phase-cut voltage outputted by a TRIAC dimmer. A bleeding signal is determined according to the cycle and the conduction time or the non-conduction time and used for adjusting a bleeding current so as to avoid a flickering of the LED. The control circuit does not need extra pins for coupling a large capacitor, but the bleeding signal can be still acquired. Preferably, the present invention is suitable for an IC of low pin numbers.
US09781785B2
A ballast type detecting circuit includes a ballast signal clamping circuit coupled to a ballast, wherein the ballast signal clamping unit is configured to clamp an output of the ballast, and a ballast type detection circuit configured to compare first and second reference clocks and the clamped output of the ballast to determine a type of the ballast, each of the first and second reference clocks having a frequency lower than an output frequency of a first type ballast and higher than an output frequency of a second type ballast. Thus, the ballast type detecting circuit detects a type of electronic ballast and magnetic ballast based on a digital output signal and decreases a number of outside circuit elements through a ballast type detection based on a digital output signal.
US09781781B2
The invention discloses a vertical power supply for a lamp. The vertical power supply for the lamp comprises a shell formed in an integrated mode and a tail cover, wherein one end of the shell is closed and the other end is provided with an opening; the tail cover is fixedly connected with the opening end of the shell; and a hole is formed in the tail cover. The vertical power supply for the lamp further comprises a circuit board with a control circuit, a switch for generating a pulse signal and a sealing piece, wherein at least one part of the circuit board is mounted in a cavity of the shell; one end of the switch is welded and fixed on the circuit board, and the other end of the switch is a free end; the sealing piece is mounted in the hole of the tail cover to seal the hole; and after the tail cover and the shell are fixed, the sealing piece abuts against the free end of the switch and one end of the sealing piece is exposed in the air. The vertical power supply for the lamp has the advantages of simple structure and good waterproof performance.
US09781777B2
A tray for a microwave oven and a microwave oven having the same is disclosed. Heat generators are formed on the surface of a tray unit of the tray for a microwave oven through transfer coating carried out at a high temperature, and thus the tray for a microwave oven may be heated to a high temperature, thereby being capable of effectively forming a grill mark on food to be cooked.
US09781769B2
A method and an apparatus for controlling a wireless network connection are provided. The method includes detecting a signal strength in a connected wireless network, determining whether the detected signal strength is greater than a first threshold, if the detected signal strength is not greater than the first threshold determining whether an error occurs at least once in data transmission through the connected wireless network, and controlling a connection state of the connected wireless network according to a result of the error determination.
US09781756B2
A technique for facilitating connection establishment between wireless devices is provided. According to an example embodiment, the technique comprises storing, at an apparatus for wireless communication, one or more default authentication keys for authenticating a wireless device that is not paired with the apparatus; selectively operating the apparatus in one of predefined states, said states comprising at least a first state where the apparatus is connectable but not discoverable by other wireless devices; verifying, in response to having received, when the apparatus is operated in said first state, a connection request from a first wireless device that is not paired with the apparatus, whether at least one of said authentication keys is a valid authentication key for said first wireless device, and establishing, in response to having found at least one of said authentication keys to be a valid authentication key for said first wireless device, an authenticated connection with said first wireless device.
US09781751B2
A media device including a broadcast receiver that receives broadcast media from a plurality of broadcast sources where the broadcast receiver is tunable to a first broadcast source. The media device also includes a data store that stores a list of contact identifiers where each contact identifier is associated with a broadcast source. The media device includes a user interface that: i) provides a prompt to a user to enable the user to initiate contact with the first broadcast source, and ii) receives a user indication to initiate contact with the first broadcast source. The media device further includes a transceiver that initiates the contact with the first broadcast source by sending a communications session request via a communications network to the first broadcast source that includes a contact identifier associated with the first broadcast source.
US09781746B2
A communication system for supporting carrier aggregation and a method and apparatus for updating system information thereof are disclosed. A method for providing system information in the communication system supporting carrier aggregation includes: when system information of said communication system changes, generating first information including information for indicating the change of system information; determining a first cell of a terminal related to the change of system information, wherein said first cell is one of cells to which said terminal connects, and corresponds to a carrier unit currently used by said terminal for keeping connection with a base station of said communication system; and transmitting said first information to said terminal through said first cell.
US09781745B2
A method and system are described for providing a wireless sensor network between a main node and a plurality of nodes, the nodes associate with sensors. The method and system define communications channels over which the main node communicates with the nodes based on a channel hopping scheme pattern, and define at least one transfer channel that is dedicated to carrying transfer frames that are broadcast by the main node. The method and system configure non-attached nodes that are not attached to the network, to enter a connection session by tuning to the transfer channel to listen for a transfer message. The transfer message indicates a next communications channel. The method tunes the non-attached nodes to the next communications channel, listens for a beacon frame, and utilizes the beacon frame as a timing reference to enable the non-attached nodes to attach to the network.
US09781743B2
The invention relates to a telecommunications network configured for providing access to a plurality of terminals is proposed and a method therefore. Each terminal comprises a unique identifier for accessing the telecommunications network. The telecommunications network comprises a register, an access request receiver and an access module. The register is configured for storing the unique identifier of at least one terminal in combination with at least one grant access time interval, or an equivalent thereof, during which access for the terminal is permitted. The access request receiver is configured for receiving the access request and the unique identifier for accessing the telecommunications network from the terminal. The access module is configured for denying access for the terminal if the access request is received outside the time interval, or the equivalent thereof.
US09781738B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for establishing a low latency millimeter wave (mmW) backhaul connection. A base station may receive a mmW relay schedule from an evolved Node B (eNB) within one Long Term Evolution (LTE) scheduling interval. The base station may decode the mmW relay schedule, and initialize a mmW radio transmission resource according to the mmW relay schedule. The base station may receive a data packet from a second base station in a mmW transmission time interval (TTI) based on the mmW relay schedule using the initialized mmW radio transmission resource, and may transmit the data packet to a third base station based on the mmW relay schedule using the initialized mmW radio transmission resource. The transmitting may begin before the reception of the data packet is complete.
US09781737B2
Methods and apparatus for minimizing scheduling collisions between networks. In one embodiment, the networks are substantially unsynchronized, and during hybrid network operation (e.g., LTE and CDMA 1X operation), a mobile device can place CDMA 1X voice calls while registered with the LTE network. However, since the LTE and CDMA 1X networks are not coordinated, the mobile device will experience scheduling collisions. In one variant, the LTE network accounts for predictable behaviors (such as CDMA 1X paging), and schedules low priority tasks during likely time interval conflicts. Consequently, even though the mobile device must tune away from the LTE network to check CDMA 1X pages, overall LTE network performance is minimally affected.
US09781735B2
Methods and apparatus for mitigating in-device interference are described. The methods may include an in-device interference event (e.g. an interference situation), and the processing of events may depend on the priority of the technologies. A handover to another frequency or radio access technology (RAT) may occur in case a co-existing technology may be activated. The network may signal to the device a list of frequencies or RATs that it may be allowed to measure and handoff to. A network may provide a scaling value that the device may use to speed up reaction to the interference. The device may apply a scaling factor to an “out of synch’ counter and/or the radio link failure (RLF) timer used for the RLF procedure. The device may apply different scaling factors for the measurements and time to trigger events. The device may trigger a report to the network requesting gaps for an alternate RAT.
US09781724B2
Method to use auxiliary channel to achieve fast and power-efficient association in wireless networks
A medical system includes one or more MBAN devices that acquire and communicate patient data. The medical system further including one or more medical body area network (MBAN) systems, each MBAN system including the one or more MBAN devices that communicate the patient data with a hub device via short-range wireless communication, the communication of the patient data via the short-range wireless communication being within a predefined spectrum. The hub device receives patient data communicated from the one or more MBAN devices and communicates with a central monitoring station via a longer range communication. The one or more MBAN devices transmit an association request to the hub device on one or more auxiliary channels to associate each MBAN device with the MBAN system, the auxiliary channels being outside the predefined spectrum.
US09781717B2
Disclosed are a method, device and system for transmitting uplink information, which are used for solving the problem that the existing UE uplink transmission mechanism may increase the load of a Macro eNB and increase the uplink interference among UEs, and is not beneficial to power saving of UEs. The method in the embodiments of the present application comprises: a macro eNB determining an uplink transmitting node used for receiving uplink information about a UE this time from a transmission node connected to the UE; determining the effective time of the uplink transmission node determined this time; and after the effective time of the uplink transmitting node determined this time has arrived, receiving the uplink information sent by the UE through the uplink transmitting node determined this time. Under a heterogeneous network, the embodiments of the present application can flexibly determine an appropriate uplink transmission node to transmit uplink information, thereby reducing the load of the Macro eNB, reducing the interference among various UEs, improving the system throughput, and saving the electric quantity of the UEs.
US09781712B2
A method and apparatus schedule user equipment uplink transmissions on an unlicensed carrier. A grant for transmitting physical uplink shared channel on a serving cell operating on an unlicensed carrier can be received in a subframe. A set of subframes can be determined for possible transmission of the physical uplink shared channel. Listen before talk can be performed on the unlicensed carrier to determine an earliest unoccupied subframe in the set of subframes. A physical uplink shared channel can be transmitted in multiple subframes within the set of subframes on the unlicensed carrier, starting with the earliest unoccupied subframe, in response to receiving the grant.
US09781703B2
A mobile communication system and a communication method are provided in which, a base station apparatus can efficiently allocate, to a mobile station apparatus, an uplink resource for transmitting information indicating an ACK/NACK for downlink data. The mobile station apparatus that communicates with the base station apparatus, comprising: a scheduling unit configured to determine two physical uplink control channel resources for a transmission using a physical downlink shared channel in a case that a downlink transmission mode that supports the transmission of up to two downlink transport blocks using the physical downlink shared channel is configured for the secondary cell, and a physical downlink control channel that indicates the transmission using the physical downlink shared channel on the secondary cell is detected on the secondary cell.
US09781702B2
The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and discloses a data transmission method, user equipment, a base station, and a system. The method includes: selecting, by user equipment (UE), a preamble sequence, and acquiring an uplink time-frequency resource and a downlink time-frequency resource that are corresponding to the preamble sequence; sending the preamble sequence to a base station, so that the base station decodes the preamble sequence, and determines, according to the decoded preamble sequence, the uplink time-frequency resource and the downlink time-frequency resource that are corresponding to the decoded preamble sequence.
US09781700B2
A method of connecting devices to a network is provided. The method includes providing base stations connected to a network, and at each of the base stations, receiving probe signals from terminal devices. For each of the terminal devices, the base station calculates a signature waveform based on a time-reversed waveform of a channel response signal derived from the corresponding probe signal. For each of the terminal devices, the base station determines a downlink transmit signal for the terminal device based on the downlink data and the corresponding signature waveform, and transmits the downlink signals to the terminal devices. Several base stations have overlapping broadcast regions, several terminal devices are located within the overlapped broadcast regions, the base stations transmit the downlink signals using a same frequency band, and some downlink signals transmitted by base stations having overlapping broadcast regions also overlap in time.
US09781699B1
In order to determine the location of wireless network devices without inherent location capabilities, a wireless network device such as an access point can receive geolocation information from transient data sources such as mobile devices requiring network access from the access point. The access point stores geolocation records including location coordinates received from the transient data sources. The geolocation records can be processed to determine the position and movement of the access point. The geolocation records and/or location information can be passed to other transient clients that do not have inherent location capability.
US09781692B2
A method for transmitting primary synchronization signals and secondary synchronization signals in new carriers is provided, which includes: with respect to a time domain, a base station side sending Primary Synchronization Signals (PSS) and Secondary Synchronization Signals (SSS) in Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols except OFDM symbols occupied by reference signals in subframes #1 and #6, or subframes #0 and #5, or subframes #1, #6, #0 and #5; and with respect to a frequency domain, the base station side sending the PSS or SSS in resources of intermediate 6 Physical Resource Block (PRB) pairs of system bandwidth; the reference signals include Demodulation Reference Signals (DMRS).
US09781691B2
There is provided a wireless communication device including a reception timing sense unit configured to sense reception timing information, a reception timing storage unit configured to store the reception timing information and to disclose and delete the stored reception timing information, a frame group arrival confirmation unit configured to confirm that a frame group arrives, a first frame group transmission unit, a second frame group transmission unit, a third frame group transmission unit, and a frame group transmission control unit configured to select any of the first frame group transmission unit, the second frame group transmission unit, and the third frame group transmission unit on the basis of the reception timing information and a result of frame group arrival confirmation, and to control a frame group transmission operation.
US09781688B2
A method and apparatus for configuring Power Headroom Report (PHR) of a User Equipment (UE) efficiently in a mobile communication system supporting carrier aggregation are provided. The method includes generating a header including a LCID for identifying extended PHR and L indicating a length of the extended PHR, and inserting Power Headrooms (PHs) of multiple activated carriers into the extended PHR of one of the carriers.
US09781686B2
An electronic device includes communication circuitry configured to communicably couple the electronic device to one or more other electronic devices in a wireless network associated with a structure. A processor of the electronic device is operatively coupled to a memory. The processor is configured to determine a status associated with one or more occupants of the structure. The processor is configured to control wireless transmission power output of the electronic device or the one or more other electronic devices based on the status associated with one or more occupants of the structure.
US09781683B2
A method and apparatus for determining transmit power limits for multiple transmitter devices is provided. The method begins when a two-dimensional area scan and a localized three-dimensional volume scan are performed for each transmitter and antenna. These two-dimensional area scans are converted to a three-dimensional full volume data using analytical estimations to determine the peak averaged SAR value, and subsequently determining the error associated with the analytical estimation. The error associated with the analytical estimation is determined by comparison with the measured value. The combined peak averaged SAR may then be determined for simultaneous transmissions of multiple transmitters with varying transmit powers by combining the scaled and analytically determined three-dimensional full volume data for each transmitter. The value is then further scaled by the worst-case conversion error for all active transmitters. This value is compared with the SAR limit and the maximum allowable transmit power determined for the multiple transmitters.
US09781674B2
An communications method for intercommunication by multiple electronic devices includes determining an on or off status of a first communication device, the first communication device being given master status if turned on and being used, and other devices being given slave status. If one other device is then used in preference to the first communication device, the other device is appointed as master and all other devices which are turned on are appointed as slaves. According to current state of the first communication device, the first communication device is turned off if not being used.
US09781673B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described for power conservation in a wireless communications system. In embodiments, power conservation may be achieved by adaptively controlling power modes of a wireless communication device, and implementing lower power modes with various modes of the device. According to one aspect, the mode of the device may be a beacon monitoring mode or a delivery traffic indication message (DTIM) mode. In such a mode, the device may receive a portion of a beacon in a first power mode. The device may transition to a second, different (e.g., higher) power mode using information contained in the received portion of the beacon as guidance.
US09781662B2
A method of performing WLAN measurement for a communication device in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving WLAN measurement configuration including a WLAN identity of a WLAN that is to be measured, from a network, scanning WLAN channels to detect the WLAN identity, measuring received power in a channel when the WLAN identity is detected on the WLAN channel, determining if a WLAN access point (AP) can be connected, and transmitting a first message indicating the WLAN is not available to the network after the WLAN identity is not detected or after the WLAN identity is detected but the WLAN access point (AP) cannot be connected.
US09781660B2
Various configurations and arrangements of various systems and methods for identifying, detecting and obtaining service on closed subscriber group systems are disclosed. A method in accordance with the disclosure includes receiving first information from a first AP that supports a first wireless technology. The first information is indicative of the first AP. The method further includes determining if the first information matches second information stored in a memory in association with third information stored in the memory. The third information is indicative of a second AP that supports a second wireless technology. The method further includes, upon determining, that the first information matches the second information, attempting to establish a connection with the second AP based on the third information.
US09781659B2
Systems, methods, devices, and computer program products are described for supporting macrocell-to-femtocell hand-ins of active macrocell communications for a mobile device. A mobile device may perform an out-of-band (OOB) search for the femtocell, the OOB search triggered by a proximity detection configuration command from the macrocell. The mobile device may wirelessly communicate with a located femtocell via an OOB link, and receive femtocell information from the femtocell via the OOB link. The mobile device may transmit the received femtocell information to the macrocell. The macrocell may generate instruction for a mobile device search based on the femtocell information. The macrocell may transmit such instructions to the mobile device for an in-band search for the femtocell.
US09781658B1
A wireless detection device receives a user input indicating at least one wireless communication network service. The detection device processes the user input to select a pseudo-pilot signal configuration. The detection device wirelessly transmits a pseudo-pilot signal having the selected pseudo-pilot signal configuration. The detection device wirelessly receives a device identifier from a wireless communication device responsive to the pseudo-pilot signal. The detection device stores data indicating the device identifier and a time when the device identifier was received from the wireless communication device. The detection device may transfer the data to a control system or display the data to the user.
US09781657B2
Embodiments of a user station (STA) and methods for WLAN channel selection through beacon requests are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a STA requests that an access point (AP) transmit a beacon signal on a first sub-band. The first sub-band may include a channel of interest to the STA. The STA may determine that the AP supports the first sub-band if the AP transmits the requested beacon signal.
US09781653B2
A wireless device includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to store data into the memory, detect that the wireless device moves from a first cell area formed by a first base station to a second cell area formed by a second base station, when it is detected that the wireless device moves from a first cell area to a second cell area, determine whether to execute a processing for establish a communication path between the second base station and the wireless device based on an amount of the data stored in the memory, when it is determined to execute the processing for establish the communication path, execute the processing for establish the communication path, and send, to the second base station, the data stored in the memory using the established communication path.
US09781646B2
Method and apparatus for controlling re-direction between heterogeneous mobile communication systems
The present invention is a method for controlling re-direction between heterogeneous mobile communication systems, comprising a step in which a terminal, a connection request of which is rejected from a first communication system (UTRAN), receives, from a second communication system to which the terminal intends to connect, information indicating that the second communication system does not support the terminal; a step of setting information for preventing re-direction to the second communication system; and a step of transmitting, to the first communication system, a request for connection to the first communication system, which includes the information.
US09781636B2
Method and apparatus efficiently signal and use resources for wireless communications supporting circuit switched (CS) and packet switched sessions (PS). Signaling and interaction between the wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), and various network entities, such as the Mobility Management Entity (MME), the Visitor Location Register (VLR), and Base Stations (BS), are used to implement circuit switched fall back (CSFB) in a PS system.
US09781634B2
Embodiments of the invention include methods, articles, and apparatuses to provide information related to channels transmitted and received according to a wireless communications protocol. One embodiment of the invention provides a method comprising generating channel offset information corresponding to an extension channel within a channel of a wireless communications protocol, and transmitting the channel offset information as part of channel information to be transmitted to one or more remote devices communicating according to the wireless communications protocol. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US09781631B2
Systems and methods of optimizing capacity of network equipment in mobile networks. A computing device receives a user identification and a user attribute, the user identification corresponding to a characteristic of the mobile network user, the user attribute corresponding to at least one characteristic of mobile network usage by the mobile network user. The computing device generates a usage prediction based on the user identification and the user attribute, the usage prediction including information corresponding to anticipated future data usage of the mobile network user, the anticipated future mobile network usage corresponding to at least one mobile resource. The computing device transmits the usage prediction to a serving gateway (SGW) such that the SGW routes the mobile network user to one of a legacy packet data network gateway (PGW) and a network function virtualization (NFV) PGW based on the usage prediction.
US09781630B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for segmenting and reordering a RLC status PDUs in the wireless communication system, the method comprising: generating an RLC status PDU (Radio Link Control status Protocol Data Unit); segmenting the generated RLC status PDU if a size of transmitting resource is smaller than a size of the generated RLC status PDU; generating a plurality of Segment RLC status PDUs, wherein each Segment RLC status PDU has a segment of the generated RLC status PDU and a RLC header including segmentation information; and transmitting the plurality of Segment RLC status PDUs.
US09781626B2
A system and method are provided for allocating wireless channels in a base station processor to messages sent between a subscriber and the base station processor in a wireless network. A latency period is determined corresponding to a return message to be received from a responsive node in response to an outgoing message sent from a sender via the base station processor. A latency manager in the base station processor computes the latency period and stores the latency period in an allocation table. A scheduler schedules a channel to be available at the end of the latency period indicated in the allocation table. At the end of the latency period, the return message is received and the scheduler allocates a channel as defined in the allocation table. The scheduled channel is used to transmit the message to or from the corresponding subscriber.
US09781625B2
A portable information terminal provided with a group terminal connection status management section which manages the connection statuses of a plurality of portable information terminals belonging to the same group connected by a tethering function; a host terminal order determination section which determines selection order of a portable information terminal to serve as a host terminal from among the portable information terminals belonging to the same group including its own terminal, based at least on reception quality from the base station, remaining battery capacity, and either a contracted allowable data transmission speed or a maximum data transmission speed notified from a network; and a control section which controls whether to operate as the host terminal or to communicate with the base station via the host terminal, based on the determined selection order.
US09781621B2
There are provided a terminal, a base station, a communication method, and an integrated circuit for enabling the base station and the terminal to efficiently perform received power measurement and perform a measurement report in a communication system in which the base station and the terminal perform communication with each other. The terminal that performs communication with the base station, includes a reception unit 205 that performs received power measurement that is based on a first signal in a certain cell, in which in a case where a configuration of a second signal is set and the certain cell is not set to a predetermined carrier type, the reception unit 205 performs the received power measurement that is based on the first signal, and in a case where the certain cell is set to the predetermined carrier type, the reception unit 205 performs the received power measurement that is based on the second signal.
US09781616B2
A method for determining a loading of a wideband communications channel in a wireless communications system includes: setting up a loading table for the wideband communications channel comprising a plurality of narrow band communications channels; obtaining channel characteristics of the plurality of narrow band communications channels; deciding on a number of data streams and a practical bandwidth of the wideband communications channel for a data transmission transaction and selecting one or more peer communications devices for receiving the data streams; completing the data transmission transaction with the one or more peer communications devices; updating the loading table with the information about the practical bandwidth of the wideband communications channel, the number of data streams and duration of the data transmission transaction; and computing the loading by using the information in the loading table in accordance with a pre-determined formula.
US09781613B2
In the present invention, a communication network management system and method is provided that includes a central processing unit (CPU) including an individual and device recognition analysis engine located within the system on computer-readable-medium having the analysis instructions stored thereon in a non-transitory manner, a recognition device operably connected to the CPU and analysis engine and a transceiver configured to transmit and receive wireless signals between the CPU and various patient care devices located within a coverage area defined by the transceiver. The analysis engine receives information from the recognition device regarding the occupancy of the coverage area and identifies the individuals and devices occupying the coverage area to determine the adequacy of the network to accommodate the potential usage and interference levels resulting from the coverage area occupancy. The system can then alter the network configuration to provide adequate bandwidth and signal strength for the coverage area, as necessary.
US09781612B2
Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide self-interference suppression for a transceiver of a wireless communication system. To minimize interference from a transmit signal appearing on a receive path of the system, a cross-correlation is minimized between the transmit signal and a desired receive signal.
US09781610B2
A method of coordinating a small cell with a plurality of small cells includes estimating backhaul bandwidth and backhaul bandwidth utilization of the small cell; estimating aggregate bandwidth utilization for the small cell and the plurality of small cells based on the estimated backhaul bandwidth utilization for each of the small cells; selecting the small cell as a cluster head for a cluster of the small cells based on the estimated aggregate backhaul bandwidth utilization, the cluster including at least some of the small cells; and communicating, via the cluster head, information between a network entity and the small cells of the cluster.
US09781600B2
A remote control method between a control-side mobile communication terminal and a controlled-side mobile communication terminal is provided which comprises executing remote control programs respectively mounted on the control-side and the controlled-side mobile communication terminals. Intention of a user of the controlled-side mobile communication terminal for accepting a remote control can be confirmed without having to perform a complicated authentication process, and both users' convenience and security can be secured.
US09781597B2
A method and an electronic device are provided for providing a network connection. Gateway address information of a first network is received from the first network. The gateway address information is configured as gateway address information of the electronic device. It is determined whether the configured gateway address information remains valid when the network connection of the electronic device is switched from the first network to a second network. It is determined whether to update the configured gateway address information based on whether the configured gateway address information remains valid.
US09781594B2
A context for a mobile device is determined based on received electronic signals, wherein the context is either a personal context or a work context. Depending upon whether the determined context is the personal context of the work context, a type of information from either a work data storage or a personal data storage is accessed and displayed on the mobile device. In one implementation, a keyword identified in an event on the mobile device is identified and used to retrieve and display supplemental information for the event.
US09781585B2
A wireless terminal (26) is capable of wireless communications with a node (22) of a radio access network over a radio interface. A method in the wireless terminal (26) comprises providing both a first set of radio resources (56) and a second set of radio resources (58). The first set of radio resources (56) is which may be used by the wireless terminal when performing a device-to-device (D2D/SL) communication with another wireless terminal when the wireless terminal is within coverage of a radio access network. The second set of radio resources (58) is which may be used by the wireless terminal when performing a device-to-device (D2D/SL) communication with the other wireless terminal when the wireless terminal is not within coverage of the radio access network. The method further comprises allowing the wireless terminal (26), when still within coverage of the radio access network, to use the second set of resources (58) for the device-to-device (D2D/SL) communication in conjunction with a random access procedure.
US09781581B1
A system for exchanging messages between a business user and another messaging-capable device, and associated methods are presented. The system may include a business server, an application programming interface (“API”) and/or an SMS database. The business server may be configured to exchange messages with the business user and to obtain a public identifier for the business user to enable duplex message exchange between the business user and the messaging-capable device by either retrieving the public identifier or associating the business user with the messaging-capable device and a public identifier. The system may accommodate temporary events, such as emergencies, by associated a public identifier with a business user initiating the temporary event and one or more messaging-capable devices involved in the event.
US09781580B2
A system having a server for receiving a message from a sending device executing a messaging application and for sending a message notification alert to a recipient, the server having a processor and memory, the memory having computer executable code, comprising receiving the message from the sending device executing the messaging application, the message containing recipient address information provided by the sending device, determining, based on recipient address information, that the recipient is not associated with a recipient device having the messaging application, and transmitting the message notification alert to the recipient via an alternate communications method, the message notification alert comprising a link to view the message.
US09781578B2
A method of transmitting data in a wireless local access network, the method comprising: transmitting, by an access point, a downlink management frame to a plurality of recipients, the downlink management frame including information about a group address indicating a station group to which the plurality of recipients belongs; transmitting, by the access point, a data frame to the plurality of recipients, the data frame including the group address and a plurality of Aggregate-Medium Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Units (A-MPDUs) for the plurality of recipients, wherein each of the plurality of A-MPDUs includes at least one MPDU for a corresponding one of the plurality of recipients, and wherein each of the plurality of A-MPDUs further includes zero or more padding bits so that all of the plurality of A-MPDUs have the same transmission time corresponding to a transmission time of a longest A-MPDU among the plurality of A-MPDUs.
US09781575B1
A portable electronic device may generate a (RF) radio frequency fingerprint that includes information representative of at least a portion of RF signals received at a given physical location. The RF fingerprint may include, for example, a unique identifier and a signal strength that are both logically associated with at least a portion of the received RF signals. The portable electronic device may also receive data representative of a number of environmental parameters about the portable electronic device. These environmental parameters may be measured using sensors carried by the portable electronic device. Considered in combination, these environmental parameters provide an environmental signature for a given location. When combined into a data cluster, the RF fingerprint and the environmental signature may provide an indication of the physical subdivision where the portable electronic device is located. The portable electronic device may then generate a proposed semantic label for the physical subdivision.
US09781573B2
A transmission management system for controlling data transmission between a first transmitting terminal and a second transmitting terminal is provided. The transmission management system includes a receiving unit that receives location information about the second transmitting terminal; and a transmitting unit that transmits first presence information about the first transmitting terminal to the second transmitting terminal depending on first location information about the second transmitting terminal received by the receiving unit, and transmits second presence information about the first transmitting terminal to the second transmitting terminal depending on second location information about the second transmitting terminal received by the receiving unit.
US09781568B2
A method and mobile transceiver for asset tracking is provided. In one aspect, a method of operating a mobile transceiver comprising a processor, a memory, a satellite receiver, and at least one wireless transceiver is provided. The method comprises activating a wireless transceiver associated with a last used wireless service from a low power mode, searching for a wireless signal for the last used wireless service, and selecting an alternate wireless service when the last used wireless service is not available. Different approaches for selecting the alternate wireless service are provided.
US09781567B2
One disclosure of the present specification provides a method for performing a proximity service (ProSe). The method may be performed by a user equipment (UE) and comprise: performing, by the UE configured with a primary cell (Pcell) and a secondary cell (Scell), a switching between the ProSe and a cellular service with at least one of the Pcell and the Scell; transceiving a ProSe discovery signal with at least one or more adjacent UEs after performing a switching from the cellular service to the ProSe service; and transceiving a signal with the at least one of the Pcell and the Scell after performing a switching from the ProSe service to the cellular service. Here, the UE is allowed an interruption of up to one subframe that is N subframes before and after an uplink (UL) subframe configured for transmitting the ProSe discovery signal.
US09781560B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described for wireless communication. An example method includes receiving, by a first wireless communication device having a plurality of antennas disposed at a localized position, a plurality of fine timing management (FTM) messages from a second wireless communication device. The example method includes transmitting, by the first wireless communication device, a plurality of FTM responses to the second wireless communication device. Each of the plurality of FTM responses may be transmitted using a different antenna of the first wireless communication device. The example method also includes estimating a range between the first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication device based at least in part on the plurality of FTM messages.
US09781557B1
A system for and a method of providing enhanced services by using machine-based wireless communications of portable computing devices (PCDs) are described. More specifically, a system for and a method of efficiently and effectively projecting, in a controlled fashion, a user's profile to a service provider's PCD in anticipation of an expected interaction between the user and the service provider. The user's profile may comprise content related to identification, current physical location, personal preferences, etc. The system and method may emphasize proactively controlled projection of private/personal information, proactively controlled use of PCD resources, and proactively controlled use of communication network resources.
US09781555B2
Techniques are described for providing an indication of creative digital media associated with a geographic location. Embodiments determine positional information corresponding to a geographic location. One or more instances of creative digital media that include content with a predefined association with the geographic location are identified from a plurality of instances of creative digital media. Embodiments provide an indication of at least a portion of the identified instances of creative digital media.
US09781554B2
Structures and protocols are presented for signaling a status or decision concerning a wireless service or device within a region to a communication device (smartphone or wearable device, e.g.) or other wireless communication participant (motor vehicle having a wireless communication capability, e.g.).
US09781545B2
A wireless communication system and related wireless devices are disclosed. The wireless communication system includes: a source wireless device configured to operably insert an auto-pairing request and one or more source Bluetooth device addresses into one or more predetermined advertising packets to form one or more target advertising packets, and configured to operably transmit the target advertising packets; and a destination wireless device configured to operably receive and parser the target advertising packets to extract the auto-pairing request and the one or more source Bluetooth device addresses. The destination wireless device performs an auto-pairing procedure with the source wireless device according to the auto-pairing request and the one or more source Bluetooth device addresses to establish a Bluetooth bond with the source wireless device. Each of the predetermined advertising packets is an advertising indication (ADV_IND) packet, a non-connectable advertising indication (ADV_NONCONN_IND) packet, or a discoverable advertisement indication (ADV_DISCOVER_IND) packet.
US09781543B2
Techniques are described that can be used for efficient mobility management signaling. In some cases, a network can specify an extended timer used for a machine to machine (M2M) type device to communicate with a network. The extended timer can be transmitted in connection with an attachment acceptance message, Location Updating Accept message, Tracking Area Update Accept, or Routing Area Update Accept message. In some cases, a timer can be adjusted using a multiplier in order to increase a period at which communications with the network occur. The network can transmit an indication to change a timer by multiplying the timer with the multiplier.
US09781537B2
There is provided a system for use in an environment, the system comprising a microphone, a plurality of speakers, a memory storing an executable code, and a processor executing the executable code to receive a media content including an audio component, play the audio component of the media content over at least one of the plurality of speakers, detect, while playing the audio component, an ambient sound in the environment using the microphone, and adjust playing of the audio component of the media content for the at least one of the plurality of speakers based on the ambient sound in the environment.
US09781529B2
An electronic apparatus and a method for activating a specified function are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a speaker, an audio signal processor and an application processor. The audio signal processor senses a variation of an acoustic condition of the speaker. The application processor is used for: generating a logic high or low signal in response to the sensed variation of the acoustic condition; interpreting the logic high or low signal as a control signal; and performing an instruction corresponding to the control signal.
US09781525B2
An intra-oral appliance for transmitting sound via bone conduction and optimized for comfort, safety, speech intelligibility, eating and drinking and extended wear by the user including an actuator to provide bone conduction sound transmission; a transceiver coupled to the actuator to cause the actuator to generate sound; and a first chamber containing the actuator and the transceiver, said first chamber adapted to be coupled to one or more teeth of the user.
US09781518B2
A MEMS microphone assembly includes a MEMS transducer element having a back plate and a diaphragm displaceable relative to the back plate. A bias voltage generator is adapted to provide a DC bias voltage applicable between the diaphragm and the back plate. An amplifier receives an electrical signal from the MEMS transducer element and provides an output signal. The amplifier is adapted to amplify the electrical signal from the MEMS transducer element according to an amplifier gain setting. A processor is adapted to carry out a calibration routine at power-on of the microphone assembly determining information regarding the DC bias voltage and/or the amplifier gain setting.
US09781508B2
A sound pickup device is provided, the device including (1) a directionality forming unit that forms directionality to output of a microphone array, (2) a target area sound extraction unit that extracts non-target area sound from output of the directionality forming unit, and that suppresses non-target area sound components extracted from output of the directionality forming unit so as to extract target area sound, (3) a determination information computation unit that computes determination information, (4) an area sound determination unit that determines whether or not target area sound is present using the determination information computed by the determination information computation unit, and (5) an output unit that outputs the target area sound extracted only in cases in which the target area sound is determined to be present by the area sound determination unit.
US09781482B2
It is determined that a substantial portion of set-top terminals connected to a video content network require a software upgrade. In-band video bandwidth (e.g., video-on-demand or switched digital video) is allocated for the software upgrade. The software upgrade is broadcast to the set-top terminals from a carousel in a first remote node of the video content network, via the allocated in-band video bandwidth, until a predetermined number of the set-top terminals have received the software upgrade. Subsequent to the predetermined number of set-top terminals receiving the software upgrade, the in-band video bandwidth is de-allocated and the software upgrade is made available out-of-band to the remaining portion of the set-top terminals, via individual sessions with an application server in a second remote node of the video content network. An exemplary system, which can implement the method, includes a controller, a dynamic bandwidth allocation device, the carousel, and the application server.
US09781480B2
A set top box includes an interface to a video system configured to deliver data to an individual subscriber or subset of subscribers that are part of a larger group of subscribers, wherein the data is not delivered to the other subscribers of the larger group, the interface adapted to receive communications from one or more modulators of a modulator group of the video system. The set top further includes a decoder configured to extract a modulator group identifier periodically inserted into communications directed to the set top box from the one or more modulators, the modulator group identifier unique to a physical transmission path from a headend of the video system to the one or more modulators. The set top includes a video request interface to the video system, the video request interface configured to output a request for video data including the modulator group identifier.
US09781473B2
A method for effectively implementing a multi-room television system includes a digital base station that processes and combines various program sources to produce a processed stream. A communications processor then responsively transmits the processed stream as a local composite output stream to various wired and wireless display devices for flexible viewing at variable remote locations. The transmission path performance is used to determine the video encoding process, and special attention is taken to assure that all users have low-latency interactive capabilities.
US09781468B2
Methods and systems, such as television receivers, are disclosed for receiving data from remote controls for manipulation of graphical user interfaces. Aspects include providing a seamless transition between absolute and relative navigational schemes to allow for users to more efficiently make use of touch and position sensitive remote controls. Further, aspects include dynamically scaling the touch and position sensitive remote controls outputs to match various grid sizes that may be included in the graphical user interface.
US09781464B2
Arrangements detailed may cause a television channel received via the tuner to be recorded for a period of time to create a channel-specific file. The channel-specific file may include multiple television programs. User input that requests playback of a first television program of the plurality of television programs from the channel-specific file may be received. A front-end adjustment time period for playback of the first television program may be determined. A start time from which playback commences in the channel-specific file may be at least partially based on the front-end adjustment time period and a scheduled start time of the television program.
US09781454B2
A method for reproducing, i.e., playing back, media data includes: receiving media data in a receive buffer; determining whether the receive buffer is sufficiently filled; reducing the playback speed over a period until the receive buffer is sufficiently filled, and playing back the media data at the reduced playback speed. The reduced playback speed has a speed profile having at least one non-linear section.
US09781451B2
A method and apparatus for decoding a compressed video is disclosed. The method comprises scrambling the compressed video, to produce a scrambled compressed video; delivering the scrambled compressed video to a decoder, for decoding the scrambled compressed video to produce a scrambled decompressed video; receiving from the decoder the scrambled decompressed video; and descrambling the scrambled decompressed video, to produce a descrambled decompressed video.
US09781446B2
A method for decoding a stream of coded data to reconstruct a current block of a sequence of images is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: reconstructing for the current block a first item of motion data from a stream of coded data, identifying a first prediction block with the first item of motion data, determining a second item of motion data by template matching, identifying a second prediction block with the second item of motion data, reconstructing the current block from the first and second prediction blocks. The step of determination of the second item of motion data is a function of the first distortion calculated between the first prediction block and the second prediction block.
US09781444B2
A first vector predictor candidate list generating unit generates a first motion vector predictor candidate list from motion vectors of encoded neighboring blocks to blocks to be encoded. A second vector predictor candidate list generating unit generates a second motion vector predictor candidate list from motion vectors of blocks at the same positions as the blocks to be encoded in an encoded image and neighboring blocks to the blocks at the same positions. A combination determining unit determines whether to generate a third vector predictor candidate list combining the first and second vector predictor candidate lists by comparison of a block size of the blocks to be encoded and a threshold size. A vector predictor candidate list deciding unit generates the third vector predictor candidate list from the first vector predictor candidate list.
US09781442B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for processing a video signal. The method comprises: acquiring an inter-view motion vector from a neighboring block of a current texture block; and decoding the current texture block using the acquired inter-view motion vector. The neighboring block includes a spatial neighboring block and a temporal neighboring block. The acquired inter-view motion vectors are compared with each other to determine the inter-view motion vector of the current texture block. The method and apparatus of the present invention may reduce the complexity for acquiring an inter-view motion vector and improve the accuracy of inter-view inter prediction.
US09781440B2
According to an embodiment, a decoding device includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire first format information, encoded data, and first filter information, the first format information indicating a resolution of a color-difference component of the encoded data; a decoding unit configured to decode the encoded data to obtain a decoded image; and a converting unit configured to convert a color-difference format of the decoded image represented by a first color-difference format by using a filter identified by the filter information.
US09781432B2
An image coding method and apparatus considering human visual characteristics are provided. The image coding method comprises (a) modeling image quality distribution of an input image in units of scenes such that the quality of an image input in units of scenes is gradually lowered from a region of interest to a background region, (b) determining a quantization parameter of each region constituting one scene according to the result of modeling of image quality distribution, (c) quantizing image data in accordance with the quantization parameter, and (d) coding entropy of the quantized image data.
US09781430B2
An image coding method and apparatus considering human visual characteristics are provided. The image coding method comprises (a) modeling image quality distribution of an input image in units of scenes such that the quality of an image input in units of scenes is gradually lowered from a region of interest to a background region, (b) determining a quantization parameter of each region constituting one scene according to the result of modeling of image quality distribution, (c) quantizing image data in accordance with the quantization parameter, and (d) coding entropy of the quantized image data.
US09781425B2
An image coding method and apparatus considering human visual characteristics are provided. The image coding method comprises (a) modeling image quality distribution of an input image in units of scenes such that the quality of an image input in units of scenes is gradually lowered from a region of interest to a background region, (b) determining a quantization parameter of each region constituting one scene according to the result of modeling of image quality distribution, (c) quantizing image data in accordance with the quantization parameter, and (d) coding entropy of the quantized image data.
US09781423B2
Provided are encoding and decoding methods and apparatuses for a video by selectively determining and using a scan mode. The video encoding method includes: generating transformation coefficients by performing transformation based on a transformation unit to encode an image; determining a scan mode, from among a plurality of scan modes, indicating a scanning direction of the generated transformation coefficients, based on characteristics of the transformation coefficients; and determining and outputting an encoding order of the generated transformation coefficients based on the scanning direction of the determined scan mode.
US09781421B2
Innovations in use of chroma quantization parameter (“QP”) offsets when determining a control parameter for deblock filtering. For example, as part of encoding, an encoder sets a picture-level chroma QP offset and slice-level chroma QP offset for encoding of a slice of a picture. The encoder also performs deblock filtering of at least part of the slice, where derivation of a control parameter considers only the picture-level chroma QP offset. The encoder outputs at least part of a bitstream including the encoded content. As part of decoding, a corresponding decoder sets a picture-level chroma QP offset and a slice-level chroma QP offset for decoding of a slice of a picture, but derivation of a control parameter for deblock filtering considers only the picture-level chroma QP offset.
US09781420B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for calculating and applying a VQ metric which operates during the decoding of compressed video. As such, this metric is appropriate for all formats of compressed video codecs (e.g. MPEG-2, AVC and HEVC.) The VQ metric relies on the decoded quantization parameter (Qp) together with analysis of both the compressed and decoded video. As such, the VQ metric does not require a reference video, and is less cumbersome to use for multiple channels, e.g., statistically multiplexed channels.
US09781419B2
Provided in an example is a method of compressing a digital image includes dividing the image into cells of constant physical size regardless of resolution of the image to produce cell data for each cell which defines content of the cell and compressing the cell data.
US09781396B2
A projector includes a projection section that projects a plurality of patterns having lightness values different from each other, an imaging section that captures an image of the plurality of patterns projected by the projection section, and a projection state adjustment section that adjusts, based on any of the plurality of patterns captured by the imaging section, a projection state in which the projection section performs projection.
US09781393B2
An imaging apparatus include an imaging processing unit, a dial operation unit, a boundary setting unit, and a control unit. The imaging processing unit acquires image data having a predetermined image effect. The dial operation unit receives a dial operation to set at least one boundary line in the image data. The boundary setting unit sets the boundary line in the image data in response to the dial operation. The control unit controls the imaging processing unit so that image data having different image effects are obtained in the respective partial regions of the image data that are divided by the boundary line set by the boundary setting unit.
US09781387B2
Techniques for video conferencing include receiving a stream of video slices from a participant, designating the video slices as a primary sub-picture of a frame of video, encoding, with a first encoder, a first secondary sub-picture of the frame of video to obtain an encoded first secondary sub-picture of a frame of video, encoding, with a second encoder, a second secondary sub-picture of the frame of video to obtain an encoded first secondary sub-picture of a frame of video, combining the primary sub-picture with the encoded first secondary sub-picture to obtain a first video stream, combining the primary sub-picture with the encoded second secondary sub-picture to obtain a second video stream, and transmitting the first and second video streams to respective recipients.
US09781374B2
An output control unit configured to set an amplitude of a signal output to a signal line to be smaller as compared with a case where an amplification unit outputs a signal on the basis of a potential of the input node or put the amplification unit into a non-operating state is provided.
US09781362B1
An image sensor capable of capturing an image formed by a lens includes a substrate and a bonding wire. The substrate has a pixel array and a bonding pad on a top surface of the substrate between the pixel array and a substrate edge. The bonding wire is electrically connected to the bonding pad and has a region forming a non-zero angle with respect to the substrate top surface. The non-zero angle is in at least one of a lower and an upper angular range for minimizing reflection of incident light on the region from reaching the image sensor. The lower angular range is selected such that the region reflects the incident light away from the pixel array toward a plane including the lens. The upper angular range is selected such that the region reflects the incident light to a clearance between the bonding pad and the pixel array.
US09781361B2
An integrated camera, ambient light detection, and rain sensor assembly suitable for installation behind a windshield of a driver operated vehicle or an automated vehicle includes an imager-device. The imager-device is formed of an array of pixels configured to define a central-portion and a periphery-portion of the imager-device. Each pixel of the array of pixels includes a plurality of sub-pixels. Each pixel in the central-portion is equipped with a red/visible/visible/visible filter (RVVV filter) arranged such that each pixel in the central-portion includes a red sub-pixel and three visible-light sub-pixels. Each pixel in the periphery-portion is equipped with a red/green/blue/near-infrared filter (RGBN filter) arranged such that each pixel in the periphery-portion includes a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel, a blue sub-pixel, and a near-infrared sub-pixel.
US09781347B2
An exposure control technique that makes it possible, even when photographing is performed in an enlarged display state of live view, to obtain an image photographed with correct exposure, by causing a setting shifting function to operate. When an enlargement instruction is received from a user when images acquired by an image pickup device are being sequentially displayed on an image display section, a camera control circuit causes an enlarged image corresponding to a partial area of an object area to be displayed on the image display section. If an exposure is to be changed when the enlarged image is being displayed, the camera control circuit changes the exposure, based on a result of photometry of the image acquired by the image pickup device before the enlarged image is displayed on the image display section.
US09781344B2
A processing device which obtains distance information of a subject, including: a calculation unit configured to calculate the distance information of the subject from a difference in blur degree of a plurality of images photographed by an imaging optical system; a correcting unit configured to correct the distance information using correction data in accordance with an image height in the imaging optical system; and an extraction unit configured to extract at least one frequency component from each of the plurality of images, wherein the calculation unit calculates the distance information from a difference in blur degree in the plurality of images in the at least one frequency component; and the correcting unit corrects the distance information using correction data in accordance with an image height in the at least one frequency component.
US09781343B2
An image processing apparatus includes a first input section configured to receive image data including images in a forward field of view and a lateral field of view; an enhancement processing section configured to enhance edges of images corresponding to the image data received; and a boundary correction section provided on a downstream side of the enhancement processing section and configured to perform a correction process non-commutative with an edge enhancement process, the correction process being performed on a boundary region between a forward field of view and a lateral field of view using the image data subjected to edge enhancement.
US09781342B1
Systems and methods for identifying comment clusters for panoramic content segments. A panoramic content segment of digital content may be hosted to client computing platforms. User comment information may be received. The user comment information may convey user comments, include time indications for a duration of a content segment, and/or include location indications for a panorama of the panoramic content segment. A comment distribution may be determined from the user comment information. A comment cluster may be identified based on the comment distribution. View information may be received from a client computing platform. Whether a view range associated with the comment cluster identified is located within or outside one or more visible ranges of viewing angles selected by the user may be determined. Alert information may be generated and/or transmitted for effectuating presentation of a notification on the client computing platform associated with the user.
US09781340B2
An image processing system includes an image acquisition section that consecutively acquires still images, a direction determination section that determines a camera moving direction, a slit image generation section that generates slit images based on the consecutively acquired still images, and a panoramic image generation section that performs a synthesis process of the slit images to generate a panoramic image. The direction determination section determines whether the camera moving direction is a first camera moving direction or a second camera moving direction when the imaging section is moved during capture. The panoramic image generation section performs the synthesis process of each slit image based on the camera moving direction when the consecutively acquired still images were captured to generate the panoramic image.
US09781336B2
Provided are a camera that images a subject; a person tracking portion that detects a person from an image which is captured by the camera and tracks the detected person; a person interpretation portion that extracts items including a number of face detections, a movement direction, a facing direction, a focus, a dynamic range and a view angle as store visitor information with respect to the person who is tracked by the person tracking portion; a camera installation condition estimation unit that estimates whether installation conditions including an installation position, a height, the view angle and the focus of the camera are appropriate based on the store visitor information which is extracted by the person interpretation portion; and a user presentation unit that presents a result estimated by the camera installation condition estimation unit.
US09781331B2
Automatic focusing where variance in the focus due to a relative shift in mounted positions of sensors is suppressed is performed. An imaging apparatus including a photometric sensor and a ranging sensor includes an image data generating unit configured to generate image data by using the photometric sensor, a detection unit configured to detect a region including an object from the image data generated by the image data generating unit, a determination unit configured to divide the image data into blocks corresponding to discretely arranged ranging points of the ranging sensor, and to determine a proportion of an area occupied by the region including the object for each block, and a focusing unit configured to focus on a ranging point of the ranging sensor corresponding to a block where the area occupied by the region including the object is at a predetermined proportion or more.
US09781320B2
A camera flash device, method and computer program for communicating between a primary camera flash device and other camera flash devices comprising: detecting orientation and position of the camera flash device and range of a primary subject in focus on the camera flash device; locating other networkable camera flash devices for communication; receiving subject data for a real time image of a subject from one or more of the located networkable camera flash devices; determining from subject data which networkable camera flash devices are pointing at the primary subject; determining two or more camera flash devices for use in a picture; and synchronizing determined two or more camera flash devices for flash operation when one or more of the camera flash devices takes a picture of the primary subject.
US09781318B2
Provided are a depth camera and methods of measuring a depth image by using the depth camera. The depth camera is a time-of-flight (TOF) depth camera including: an illumination device that illuminates a patterned light to an object; a filter unit that reduces noise light included in light reflected by the object; and an image sensor that provides a depth image of the object by receiving light that enters through the filter unit. The illumination device includes: a light source; and a patterned light generator that changes the light emitted from the light source into the patterned light. The filter unit includes a band pass filter and an optical modulator. The patterned light generator may be a diffractive optical element or a refractive optical element.
US09781317B2
A camera includes a camera-unit rotatably held which can change its photographing direction by rotation, and a rotation detecting device for detecting the rotation. The rotation detecting device includes: a detection part having a lever which self-returns to a reference position; a cam part, with which the lever part is contact, including a cut-out part in a part thereof; and a rotary body rotatable together with the camera-unit. In one-directional rotation about a shaft, the rotary body transitions at least among a first state of the lever not facing the cut-out part, a second state of the lever facing the cut-out part at the reference position, and a third state of the lever not facing the cut-out part. The detection part detects which one of the first, second, and third states the rotary body is in, and determines the photographing direction of the camera-unit based on the detected state.
US09781314B2
[Problem] To provide a digital camera that enables, using a simple configuration, a digital display to be easily and freely rotated in the horizontal and vertical directions. [Solution] A digital camera (1) is provided with the following: a camera main body (2) having an image pickup lens; a liquid crystal display (3) that displays the images picked up by the image pickup lens; and a hinge unit (4) that connects the camera main body (2) and the electronic display (3). The camera main body (2) includes a first slit (22) that is formed by cutting out at least a portion of an inner circumferential wall (21a) of an accommodating depression (21) which accommodates the hinge unit (4), and that causes an outer circumferential surface (4a) of the hinge unit (4) to be exposed to the outside. The hinge unit (4) includes a second slit (43) that is formed by calling out at least a portion or an outer circumferential wall (42) which surrounds the outer circumference of the liquid crystal display (3), and that causes an outer circumferential surface (3b) of the liquid crystal display (3) to be exposed to the outside.
US09781313B2
A platform for interchangeably mounting a payload to a base support is provided. In one aspect, the platform comprises: a support assembly configured to be releasably coupled to a payload via a first coupling and configured to control a spatial disposition of the payload; and a mounting assembly configured to be releasably coupled via a second coupling to a plurality of types of base supports selected from at least two of the following: an aerial vehicle, a handheld support, or a base adapter mounted onto a movable object.
US09781312B2
A platform for interchangeably mounting a payload to a base support is provided. In one aspect, the platform comprises: a support assembly configured to be releasably coupled to a payload via a first coupling and configured to control a spatial disposition of the payload; and a mounting assembly configured to be releasably coupled via a second coupling to a plurality of types of base supports selected from at least two of the following: an aerial vehicle, a handheld support, or a base adapter mounted onto a movable object.
US09781311B2
A liquid crystal optical device includes: a first electrode unit including a first substrate transparent to light, a light-transmitting layer formed on the first substrate, and a first electrode formed on the light-transmitting layer and being transparent to light, the light-transmitting layer including recesses formed on a surface facing the first electrode, arranged in a first direction, and extending in a second direction; a second electrode unit including a second substrate, the second substrate being transparent to light, and two second electrodes formed on the second substrate, the second electrodes being arranged in the second direction and extending along the first direction; a liquid crystal layer located between the first and second electrode units; a first polarizing plate located on an opposite side of the second electrode unit from the liquid crystal layer; and a drive unit that applies voltages to the first and second electrodes.
US09781309B2
A non-transitory machine readable medium that has a computer program for adjusting color values of an image represented in a color space is described. The image includes a set of pixels. Each pixel includes a set of color values. The computer program displays a composite bump on a tonal adjustment graph that is defined along a particular color component of the color space. The composite bump is generated by blending several bumps on the tonal adjustment graph. In response to receiving an input on a location on the tonal adjustment graph, the computer program creates a new bump based on the input and blending the new bump with the composite bump to create a modified composite bump. The computer program adjusts the color values of the image based on the modified composite bump.
US09781300B1
A method and system for removing objects from a print document are provided. An image forming apparatus receives a print document sent from a computing device remote from the image forming apparatus. The print document includes print data. The image forming apparatus further receives a directive to remove, from the print document, at least one type of object selected for removal, wherein the print data includes data representing one or more objects of the type of object selected for removal. In response to the directive, the image forming apparatus removes the one or more objects of the type of object selected for removal prior to printing the print document.
US09781278B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel circuit including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements and configured to output a signal level and a reset level, an analog correlated double sampling (CDS) circuit connected to the pixel circuit and configured to perform correlated double sampling in an analog region based on the signal level and the reset level and output a result of the correlated double sampling, an analog-digital (AD) conversion circuit connected to the analog CDS circuit and configured to convert two different analog signals output from the analog CDS circuit into two digital signals, a signal processing circuit connected to the AD conversion circuit and configured to obtain a difference between the two different digital signals output from the AD conversion circuit; and a reference voltage generating circuit to output a first reference voltage that defines a clamp level of the analog CDS circuit.
US09781275B2
Provided is a mobile terminal including: a display unit to which an execution screen of an application for controlling at least one electronic apparatus is output; a memory unit in which at least one piece of operation command information relating to the electronic apparatus is stored; and a controller that generates an operation command for which at least one condition for a control command relating to driving of the electronic apparatus is set, based on a user input that is applied to the execution screen, in which the controller determines whether or not the stored operation command and the generated operation command form a loop, and in which, in a case where a result of the determination is that multiple operation commands including the generated operation command form the loop, the controller determines whether or not the generated operation command is stored in the memory unit.
US09781265B2
The present disclosure is directed to syncing data related to voice calls via dynamically assigned virtual phone numbers. A system receives a voice call entry from a content provider. The system access a lot data structure to parse the log data structure. The system matches a device identifier of the voice call entry with a device identifier of the log entry. The system determines that a predetermined threshold is satisfied by a time or duration of the log entry. The system retrieves a virtual phone number from the log entry. The system performs a lookup to determine a content item impression identifier. The system stores data provided via the voice call entry.
US09781262B2
Methods and apparatus for voice-enabling a web application, wherein the web application includes one or more web pages rendered by a web browser on a computer. At least one information source external to the web application is queried to determine whether information describing a set of one or more supported voice interactions for the web application is available, and in response to determining that the information is available, the information is retrieved from the at least one information source. Voice input for the web application is then enabled based on the retrieved information.
US09781254B1
A system, computer readable medium, and method are provided for training a serial communication link to perform crosstalk cancellation. The method includes the steps of, for each crosstalk channel of one or more crosstalk channels, transmitting a training sequence over a crosstalk channel, estimating a phase offset associated with the crosstalk channel, and selecting a set of symbol response coefficients. The method further includes steps for configuring the serial communication link to perform crosstalk cancellation utilizing the selected set of symbol response coefficients and, for each crosstalk channel, updating the selected set of symbol response coefficients every number of Baud durations corresponding to the crosstalk channel.
US09781246B2
A small cell may include a base station that may be co-located with an edge computing device. The edge computing device may be integrated within a small cell base station or be a physically separate module communicatively coupled to and in close proximity with the small cell base station that provides edge computing resources at the small cell. The edge computing device may communicate with input/output devices that are in hyper proximity to the small cell base station. The input/output devices may be capable of sensing aspects of the environment (e.g., via microphones, light sensors, cameras, thermometers, etc.) and providing a stimulus to an individual within hyper proximity to the input-output devices. The stimulus may be in response to or based on the environmental information gathered by the input-output devices.
US09781239B2
Disclosed is a method and a hands free communication system comprising a first system part and a second system part, wherein the first system part comprises a first connector part and a first transceiver, and the second system part comprises a second connector part and a second transceiver, whereby the first system part and the second system part are configured to be connected in a corded mode by means of the first and second connector parts, whereby the first system part and the second system part are configured to be connected in a wireless mode by means of the first and second transceivers, wherein the hands free communication system comprises detecting means for detecting whether the first system part and the second system part are in a certain vicinity of each other, when the hands free communication system is in the wireless mode, and wherein, the hands free communication system comprises alert means to alert a user of the hands free communication system, when the detecting means detects that the first and second system parts are within the certain vicinity of each other while the hands free communication system is in the wireless mode.
US09781219B2
An Interactive Tracking Virtual World (ITVW) system, may be utilized with other systems accessible through the Internet and/or a communications network. The ITVW system may be operable as an online game and/or to provide a virtual environment. ITVW system users (i.e., ITVW users) may be individuals or groups, such as parents and/or their children, which utilize the ITVW system for tracking an identity within the ITVW system. The ITVW system may also include ITVW system participants (i.e., ITVW participants), such as commercial business establishments, individuals and/or other entities associated with the ITVW system. The ITVW system collects an ITVW user's location information and location history.
US09781215B2
The present disclosure relates generally to the field of migration (e.g., seamless migration) of a network connection under mobility (e.g., host mobility). In various examples, migration (e.g., seamless migration) of a network connection under mobility (e.g., host mobility) may be implemented in the form of methods and/or algorithms.
US09781210B2
A method for saving a file stored on a third-party system directly to a cloud storage system includes providing a third-party system with an embeddable user interface for saving a plurality of files stored on the third-party system to a server hosting the cloud storage system. The method further includes receiving at the server a save request from a user on a client computer using the embeddable user interface to select the first file to be stored on the server, where the save request comprises information identifying a first file in the plurality of files. The method further includes authenticating the save request, downloading the first file from the third-party system directly to the server using the information identifying the first file, and saving the first file on the server.
US09781206B2
Systems and methods are disclosed to display a blended set of thumbnail images. A first subset of thumbnail images may include one or more thumbnail images that correspond with images stored at a local storage location. A second subset of thumbnail images may include one or more thumbnail images that correspond with images stored at a remote storage location. A request may be received to display a first image corresponding with the first subset of thumbnail images; whereupon the first image may be displayed. A request may be received to display a second image corresponding with the second image of the second subset of thumbnail images. The second thumbnail image may be displayed while the second image is requested. The second image may then be displayed in place of the second thumbnail image.
US09781204B2
A cloud-based computer system changes the modern paradigm from being device-centric to being person-centric. The system makes all user data, software settings, device settings, and licensed content for a user available in the cloud. The system includes a conversion mechanism that can convert information intended for one device type to a different device type. Thus, a user changing smart phone platforms can convert their current smart phone settings to equivalent settings on the new phone platform, and their new phone can then be configured using the user's converted settings stored in the cloud. By storing all the user's relevant information in the cloud, this information may be accessed anywhere and may be used to configure a large number of different devices according to the user's settings.
US09781198B2
An information processing method applied to a first electronic device is provided. The first electronic device is capable of running multiple applications including a first application, and is capable of establishing a connection with and transmitting data to a second electronic device by using the first application. The method includes: when the first application runs in foreground and one or more applications including the second application run in background, receiving a first predetermined operation performed on the first application by a user; in response to the first predetermined operation, controlling a display unit of the first electronic device to display a first interface of the second application; receiving a second predetermined operation performed on the first interface by the user; and in response to the second predetermined operation, determining first data which will be transmitted to the second electronic device. A corresponding first electronic device is further provided.
US09781190B2
A terminal apparatus includes an information receiver that receives, from a server apparatus, first webpage information, which enables a first user to specify an image to be posted on a first website, a storage that stores the received first webpage information, and an information processor that reads the first webpage information from the storage and that displays the first webpage information on a screen. In the screen, among a plurality of images, which are candidates for the image to be posted on the first website, an image selected on the basis of an image used in a second website is displayed at a position closer to the center of the screen than positions of other images are or displayed in a mode different from a mode in which the other images are displayed.
US09781183B2
One embodiment provides a technique for dynamically adjusting streaming media bit rates in response to user requests for accelerated playback. A user request to increase a playback speed at which the units of digital content are played back on a content player is received. Upon receiving the user request to increase the playback speed, while previously downloaded units of the digital content having a first bit rate are being output for display, and prior to downloading a next unit of digital content from a content server, embodiments determine that the increased playback speed cannot be maintained without buffer underrun if subsequent units of digital content are downloaded from the content server at the first bit rate. A second bit rate, lower than the first bit rate, is determined and the next unit of digital content is downloaded from the content server for playback at the second bit rate.
US09781172B2
A media system includes a computer network, a media device supporting a network-based media sharing protocol, a plurality of output devices located at a plurality of physical locations within a hospitality establishment, and a system controller. In response to a first event, the system controller assigns the media device to a particular guest device by reconfiguring one or more components of the computer network to enable the particular guest device to utilize the network-based media sharing protocol to share media over the computer network with the media device, and commands an output device located at a physical location associated with the particular guest device to play media corresponding to the media signal outputted by the media device on the output port. In response to a second event, the system controller un-assigns the media device from the particular guest device and commands the output device to stop playing the media.
US09781169B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for collecting call data, feeding call data to applications, and providing advanced call features.
US09781168B2
The embodiments described herein recite a telephone communication system used for handling information such as messages, typically voice mail messages, and, more particularly, is directed to a system that provides distributed session initiation protocol (SIP) silos. Distributed SIP silos (DSS) is a Communications Application Platform (CAP) feature that maintains the site's call capacity even when a signaling server fails. DSS uses multiple non-redundant signaling servers to provide SIP signaling for the same set of media ports. Because there are multiple signaling servers providing signaling for the same set of ports, the failure of one signaling server only terminates the calls it was actively processing and once those calls have been cleaned up, all the available (non-suspended) ports in the configuration are available to the remaining signaling servers.
US09781161B2
Processing a connection request is disclosed. The connection request is received. It is determined whether the connection request identifies a Transport Layer Security (TLS) ticket that identifies a previously load balanced session. In the event it is determined that the TLS ticket identifies the previously load balanced session, (1) the previously load balanced session that corresponds to the connection request is identified, wherein the previously load balanced session is load balanced to a selected server among a plurality of servers, and (2) the connection request is associated with the identified previously load balanced session.
US09781148B2
Methods are provided for determining an enterprise risk level, for sharing security risk information between enterprises by identifying a security response by a first enterprise and then sharing the security response to a second enterprise when a relationship database profile for the first collection indicates the security response may be shared. Methods are also provided for determining whether to allow a request from an originating device where the request may have been initiated by a remote device.
US09781146B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and a device for evaluating security assessment of an application. The method comprises receiving application entry data associated with a plurality of entry points of the application. Also, the method comprises identifying at least one security threat entry point based on the application entry data. Further, the method comprises computing a coverage index value based on the application entry data and the at least one security threat entry point and generating a recommendation report indicating security coverage of the application based on the coverage index value.
US09781136B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for mitigating the impact from Internet attacks in a Radio Access Network, RAN (10), using Internet transport. This object is obtained by a method performed in a User Equipment, UE (13) associated with the RAN (10) using Internet transport. The method comprises receiving from at least a network node (11, 12, 21, 22, 23) in the RAN (10), information associated with an Internet attack. Obtaining, based on the information, a mitigation action, the mitigation action mitigating the impact of the attack on the RAN service. The method further comprises to perform the obtained mitigation action to mitigate the impact on the RAN service level.
US09781135B2
Systems and methods for efficient downloading and rendering of a web page on a network connected processing device are provided. A per-page manifest specifies a list of blocked resources specific to the web page is provided. When a page is requested by the network connected processing device, blocked resources defined in the manifest are not retrieved via the network and hence not rendered by the processing device. Manifests are defined on a per-page basis. In one embodiment, manifests are created or retrieved with each request.
US09781124B2
Methods, computing systems and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that include defining a first multiple of software container configurations and a second multiple of permission sets, and receiving, by a first computer, a request to perform a service operation on a second computer having multiple resources. Upon identifying one or more of the resources that are required for the service operation, a given software container configuration and a given permission set are selected based on the identified one or more resources, and the given software container configuration and the given permission set are conveyed to the second computer. Upon the second computer receiving the given software container configuration and the given permission set, a software container is generated. The software container is opened on the host computer prior to performing the service operation, and closed upon completing the service operation.
US09781120B2
A system on chip comprises a responder unit comprising a set of responder elements and an access control unit associated with an authorization list and the responder unit. An entry of the authorization list defines a set of access requirements in relation to an address space identifying at least part of the responder unit. The access control unit is arranged to: receive a request for access to a target responder element among the responder elements of the responder unit, determine the corresponding set of access requirements for the received access request from the authorization list, and evaluate the request for access with respect to the determined set of access requirements and generate a first request evaluation result. A protection unit associated with the responder unit is arranged to: provide a group assignment assigning a group to each of the responder elements of the responder unit, provide a group authorization list, an entry of the group authorization list defining a set of group access requirements for the group assigned, receive the request for access to the target responder element, determine the group assigned to the target responder element from the group assignment and further determine the set of group access requirements from the group authorization list for the group assigned. The system-on-chip also evaluates the request with respect to the determined set of group access requirements and generates a second request evaluation result. Interaction with the target responder element is controlled in response to the first and/or second evaluation result.
US09781119B2
Particular embodiments of a computing device associated with a user may detect an event using a sensor of the computing device. The event may be a lock-triggering event or an unlock-triggering event. The computing device may assess a state of the device. The computing device may also access further information associated with the user. The computing device may also monitor activity on the computing device to detect further events if such further monitoring is warranted. Based on the gathered information, the computing device may update a lock status of the device to lock or unlock access interfaces of the computing device, functionality of the computing device, or content accessible from the computing device. If the event comprised the computing device detecting an attempt by a third party to use the device, the device may attempt to identify the third party to determine if they are authorized to use the device.
US09781113B2
Technologies for supporting and implementing multiple digital rights management protocols on a client device are described. In some embodiments, the technologies include a client device having an architectural enclave which may function to identify one of a plurality of digital rights management protocols for protecting digital information to be received from a content provider or a sensor. The architectural enclave select a preexisting secure information processing environment (SIPE) to process said digital information, if a preexisting SIPE supporting the DRM protocol is present on the client. If a preexisting SIPE supporting the DRM protocol is not present on the client, the architectural enclave may general a new SIPE that supports the DRM protocol on the client. Transmission of the digital information may then be directed to the selected preexisting SIPE or the new SIPE, as appropriate.
US09781111B2
An operation apparatus includes a communication section to communicate with an electronic apparatus capable of communicating, through a first transmission medium, with an accumulation apparatus capable of accumulating contents, the communication section communicating with the electronic apparatus through a second transmission medium, a content selection section to select a content to which a parental lock is to be set from among the contents accumulated in the accumulation apparatus, a release key setting section to set a key for releasing the parental lock for the content selected, a storage section to associate identification information of the content selected with the key set by the release key setting section and stores the identification information and the key associated with each other, and a parental lock notification section to notify the accumulation apparatus in which the content is accumulated of the identification information of the content to which the parental lock is set.
US09781105B2
The presently disclosed subject matter includes a system, a method and a non-transitory program storage device configured for authorizing access of a user device to a service provider server. Responsive to a request to authenticate the identity of a user attempting to access an SP server via a user device (UD), an authentication server is configured to initiate at least one authentication operation using a second UD; in the event of a failure to receive a response to the at least one authentication operation from the second UD, the authentication server is configured to proceed according to an alternative authentication method which does not involve the second UD.
US09781094B2
Various embodiments for performing remote authentication of a virtual subscriber identity module (SIM) on a mobile communication device include receiving, on a first subscription of the mobile communication device, an authentication request from a virtual SIM network. The mobile communication device may tune from the first subscription to a second subscription of the mobile communication device to send the authentication request to a remote server and periodically perform tune-aways between the first subscription and the second subscription while determining whether the remote server has sent an authentication response through the second subscription. The mobile communication device may send the authentication response to the virtual SIM network through the first subscription in response to determining that the remote server has sent an authentication response through the second subscription.
US09781088B2
By a Web browser, an authentication screen is displayed based on HTML data received from a Web server, and authentication information inputted via the authentication screen is managed. Upon a display of the authentication screen, in a case where it is set to display an address of the HTML data as the identification information of the authentication screen, the address of the HTML data is displayed in a case where the title of the authentication screen does not exist, and in a case where it is set to not display the address of the HTML data as the identification information of the authentication screen, a predetermined character string is displayed in a case where the title of the authentication screen does not exist.
US09781086B2
A system and method for confirming identity and authority by a patient medical device is provided. Master credentials are issued to a requesting device and a receiving device from an authorizing agent. The master credentials include a public key of the authorizing agent and a digital signature of a root certification authority. Device credentials are issued to the requesting device from the authorizing agent. The device credentials include a public key of the requesting device and a digital signature of the authorizing agent. Identification credentials are provided to the receiving device and include the device credentials and a digital signature of the requesting device. The requesting device is authenticated. The digital signature of the authorizing agent in the device credentials is checked using the public key of the authorizing agent in the master credentials of the receiving device. The digital signature of the requesting device in the identification credentials is checked using the public key of the requesting device in the device credentials.
US09781084B2
A method is provided for delivering a streaming media asset to a client device. For the method, a request is received over a communication network from a client device for playing a media asset in accordance with a streaming media technique. Prior to fully authorizing the client device to play the media asset, the client device is provided with access to a first cryptographic key that decrypts a subset of the media asset so that the client device is able to render the subset of the media asset before completion of the authorization. The subset of the media asset is less than all of the media asset. Subsequent to successfully fully authorizing the client device to play the media asset, the client is provided with access to at least one additional cryptographic key that decrypts a remainder of the media asset.
US09781081B1
A client application cryptographically protects application data using an application-layer cryptographic key. The application-layer cryptographic key is derived from cryptographic material provided by a cryptographically protected network connection. The client exchanges the cryptographically protected application data with a service application via the cryptographically protected network connection. The client and service applications acquire matching application-layer cryptographic keys by leveraging shared secrets negotiated as part of establishing the cryptographically protected network connection. The shared secrets may include information that is negotiated as part of establishing a TLS session such as a pre-master secret, master secret, or session key. The application-layer cryptographic keys may be derived in part by applying a key derivation function, a one-way function or a cryptographic hash function to the shared secret information.
US09781080B2
A method for diverse security handling may comprise: maintaining a first connection between a user equipment and a first network node, and a second connection between the user equipment and a second network node which has a third connection with the first network node; setting an indicator in a packet to indicate whether a destination of user data in the packet is the first network node or the second network node; and transmitting the packet from the user equipment to the first network node via the first connection.
US09781079B2
A communication system has a first and a second communicating device operable to send and receive data units through a communication channel. Some of the data are encrypted using a security key. The first device comprises a first key generator generating a first embodiment of the key independently of a second embodiment of the key generated by a second generator of the second device, the second embodiment being generated independently of the first, which depends on parameter(s) characterizing a first transmission quality of the channel when receiving a first set of unencrypted data sent by the second device. The second embodiment depends on parameter(s) characterizing a second transmission quality of the channel when receiving a second set of unencrypted data sent by the first device, the first set being different from the second set.
US09781074B2
A method for sending a cloud server address to a desktop cloud terminal, where a terminal management server receives a request message from a desktop cloud terminal, obtains, by means of parsing, an address of the desktop cloud terminal carried in the request message, queries a mapping table according to the address of the desktop cloud terminal, acquires an address of a cloud server accessible to the desktop cloud terminal, generates a request response message, and sends the request response message to the desktop cloud terminal, where the request response message carries the address of the cloud server accessible to the desktop cloud terminal. Therefore a system administrator does not need to manually configure the cloud server address on the terminal management server for the desktop cloud terminal, and a desktop cloud terminal user does not need to manually configure the desktop cloud terminal.
US09781069B2
A gratuitous address resolution protocol frame is sent from an information handling system upon detection of VLAN status change the information handling system. A status flag included in the address resolution protocol frame provides a switch that receives the frame with the status change, such as the addition or removal of a VLAN at the information handling system.
US09781055B2
In an example, a server architecture is described for a dynamic cascaded node chain providing a resource cluster. The cascaded node chain may include one or more resource instances provisioned as a head node, zero or more middle nodes, and a tail node. Each node may include a discrete number of available resource entries in a flow table. As traffic enters the head node, each node attempts to match the traffic to an entry in its flow table. If no match is found, the packet is downlinked to the next node in the chain. If the packet reaches the tail node without a match, it is punted to the controller. The controller may then provision a matching entry if an entry is available. If not, the controller may spawn a new resource instance. When the full capacity of the cluster is reached, non-matching entries may be dropped.
US09781044B2
Network tool optimizers and related methods are disclosed that provide automated discovery and configuration of network tool devices. The disclosed embodiments include tool processors having tool discovery engines and tool configuration engines that provide discovery of tool information and generation of rules for filter engines within the network tool optimizer (NTO) so that relevant network traffic received by the NTO is forwarded to network tool devices connected to the NTO. New network traffic sources connected to the NTO can also be automatically configured to forward relevant traffic to the network tool devices based upon the discovered tool information. Further, a database of tool information can be stored within the NTO and can be used by the NTO in determining relevant traffic for connected tool devices. A variety of different implementations can use the automatic tool discovery and configuration embodiments.
US09781043B2
Systems and methods for automatically building a deadlock free inter-communication network in a multi-core system are described. The example implementations described herein involve automatically generating internal dependency specification of a system component based on dependencies between incoming/input and outgoing/output interface channels of the component. Dependencies between incoming and outgoing interface channels of the component can be determined by blocking one or more outgoing interface channels and evaluating impact of the blocked outgoing channels on the incoming interface channels. Another implementation described herein involves determining inter-component communication dependencies by measuring impact of a deadlock on the blocked incoming interface channels of one or more components to identify whether a dependency cycle is formed by blocked incoming interface channels.
US09781041B2
Systems and methods are provided that may be employed in a network environment to implement load balancing for multi-network interface controller (NIC) teaming applications using pause frame flow control communications received at an information handling system in situations where a given data path through a given NIC of the information handling system and a corresponding network switch is heavily loaded or otherwise congested relative to one or more other more lightly loaded data paths through other NICs of the information handling system and their corresponding network switches.
US09781031B2
An example method for a device to implement one of the nodes in a wireless network for processing packets includes submitting a request to a network-management system in the network to become a node in the network, after having registered with the network-management system, determining neighboring nodes, flooding the wireless network with a link-state advertisement, the link-state advertisement providing neighboring relationships of the node, constructing switching rules for the node based on a tree switching network portion of the network, processing the packets received by the node with the switching rules, the switching rules defining at least one of (1) an ingress link to a parent node with a power capability greater than the node and (2) egress links to child nodes with a mobility greater than the node, and in response to having determined a failed link to a neighboring node, informing a node at the end of an ingress wireless link and the network-management system of the failed link.
US09781028B2
A server according to the present disclosure includes: a converting unit that converts content data to enhance a real-time property, and creates a packet of the converted content data; and a server control unit that updates a routing table that describes processing for an interest packet, wherein when an interest packet for content including converted content data is received, the server control unit performs control of issuing an interest packet for original content data of the content which is to be converted, and when original content data to be processed is received from a CCN, the server control unit performs control of causing the original content data to be converted, a packet of the converted original content data to be created, and the packet of the converted original content data to be transmitted as a response packet for the interest packet for the content including the converted content data.
US09781027B1
Various systems and methods to facilitate general communication, via a memory network, between compute elements and external destinations, while at the same time facilitating low latency communication between compute elements and memory modules storing data sets, without impacting negatively the latency of the communication between the compute elements and the memory modules. General communication messages between compute nodes and a gateway compute node are facilitated with a first communication protocol adapted for low latency transmissions. Such general communication messages are then transmitted to external destinations with a second communication protocol that is adapted for the general communication network and which may or may not be low latency, but such that the low latency between the compute elements and the memory modules is not negatively impacted. The memory modules may be based on RAM or DRAM or another structure allowing low latency access by the compute elements.
US09781024B2
Various embodiments manage data flow between at least one wireless communication device and at least one application executing at an edge of the wireless communication network. In one embodiment, a first flow regenerator disposed within the network generates a replicated set of data packets. The replicated set of data packets are a copy of a set of data packets being transmitted between an application disposed on a first node at an edge of the network and a wireless communication device. The first flow regenerator sends the replicated set of data packets to a second flow regenerator disposed in the network. The replicated set of data packets are sent to the second flow regenerator through at least a second node disposed between the first flow regenerator and the second flow regenerator. The second node is configured to perform one or more book-keeping operations on the replicated set of data packets.
US09781016B1
A method of dynamically adding a communication service function to a communication session comprises receiving a communication during a communication session on an active connection, detecting a communication service trigger in the communication, determining a second communication service function based on the communication service trigger, sending a message to a network function virtualization (NFV) catalog, receiving a response from the NFV catalog, providing the routing information to a software defined network (SDN) controller, routing the communication from the first communication service function to the second communication service function, processing the communication with the second communication service function, and routing the communication to an output. The message to the NFV server can include an identity of the second communication service function. The SDN controller can set the session routing protocol to include the second communication service function in a communication flow for the communication session.
US09781008B1
In one example embodiment, a computer-implemented method is provided in which data is received that represents connectivity state between a plurality of nodes interconnected in a hierarchical manner in a network and including a first tier of nodes and a second tier of nodes, wherein the nodes in the second tier have at least one link to each node in the first tier. Display data is generated based on the connectivity state among the plurality of nodes, the display data describing a graphical user representation of the inter-tier link status of individual nodes or groupings of nodes. The display data is presented to a display device.
US09781005B2
The present disclosure provides a technique for ensuring that a service or conversation is carried in a congruent manner on a Link Aggregation Group (LAG). The Service ID (e.g., conversation ID) to link mapping is configured on both sides of the LAG independently of each other. The Service ID to link assignment is stored in a well-defined format, e.g. in an assignment table. A digest is then prepared on the assignment table. The digest is exchanged between the two sides of the LAG. If there is a mismatch between the digests, then the service is transmitted on a predefined and agreed-upon default link if congruency has to be enforced for that particular service. Furthermore, the digest exchange allows verification on the configuration to check whether all services to be handed-off are configured on both sides.
US09781002B2
An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for transmitting information for measuring a terminal by a first transmission point among a plurality of transmission points which use identical time division duplex (TDD) settings in a wireless communication system. The method is an information transmitting method and includes a step of transmitting a subframe set for measurement to the terminal, wherein the subframe set is determined from first and second pieces of information related to a change of the TDD setting.
US09781001B2
Rather than there being a requirement that specific instructions be issued to cause a transport network tunnel to be configured, it is proposed herein to have a transport node autonomously determine that a transport network tunnel is to be configured and, responsively, cause the transport network tunnel to be configured. In general, a transport node (an L0/L1 device) adjacent to the packet device at the origin of LACP messages snoops on the LACP messages. The transport node may determine, based on the contents of a control LACP message, that a new packet network link is to be established between the origin packet device and a destination packet device. Responsive to the determining, the transport node adjacent to the origin packet device causes a transport network tunnel to be established between one of its ports and a port at a transport node adjacent the destination packet device.
US09780996B2
A method of communication between a sending device and a recipient device, comprising a step (210; 310; 410) for transmission, from the sending device to the recipient device, of a first message comprising a first service identifier relating to a first data transport service and a first data set corresponding to a configuration of said first data transport service, a step (220; 320; 420) for the sending, from the sending device to the recipient device, of a second message comprising a first protocol identifier relating to a first data transmission protocol and a second data set corresponding to a configuration of said first data transmission protocol, the first message and the second message being sent separately.
US09780995B2
An advanced intelligence engine (AIE) for use in identifying what may be complex events or developments on one or more data platforms or networks from various types of structured or normalized data generated by one or more disparate data sources. The AIE may conduct one or more types of quantitative, correlative, behavioral and corroborative analyses to detect events from what may otherwise be considered unimportant or non-relevant information spanning one or more time periods. Events generated by the AIE may be passed to an event manager to determine whether further action is required such as reporting, remediation, and the like.
US09780993B2
Processes and systems are disclosed for leasing a producer virtual machine on behalf of a consumer virtual machine in an overlay network. The consumer host of the consumer virtual machine can communicate with a set of leasing agents to obtain the identity of a number of producer virtual machines capable of providing the consumer virtual machine with access to a service. When the consumer virtual machine attempts to communicate with a producer system, the consumer host can identify a producer host that hosts a target producer virtual machine and redirect a service request to the producer host.
US09780989B2
There is provided spectrum shaping of a signal. A frequency-domain representation of the signal to be spectrum-shaped is provided. The signal is associated with a set of constellation points having a minimum distance. A spectrum-shaped signal is determined by altering a proper subset of the constellation points while maintaining the minimum distance between all of the constellation points. The spectrum-shaped signal is transformed into a time-domain signal.
US09780986B2
A method for generating a virtual codebook of low peak to average power ratio (PAPR) sequences includes generating a plurality of low PAPR combination block sequences, with each low PAPR combination block sequence including at least one of a plurality of sparse codebook, and applying time domain hopping to the plurality of low PAPR combination block sequences, thereby producing a virtual codebook. The method also includes storing the virtual codebook.
US09780984B2
A method and apparatus are provided for reducing the number of pilot symbols within a MIMO-OFDM communication system, and for improving channel estimation within such a system. For each transmitting antenna in an OFDM transmitter, pilot symbols are encoded so as to be unique to the transmitting antenna. The encoded pilot symbols are then inserted into an OFDM frame to form a diamond lattice, the diamond lattices for the different transmitting antennae using the same frequencies but being offset from each other by a single symbol in the time domain. At the OFDM receiver, a channel response is estimated for a symbol central to each diamond of the diamond lattice using a two-dimensional interpolation. The estimated channel responses are smoothed in the frequency domain. The channel responses of remaining symbols are then estimated by interpolation in the frequency domain.
US09780978B2
A system for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) equalizer, said system comprising a program memory, a program sequencer and a processing unit connected to each other, wherein the processing unit comprises an input selection unit, an arithmetic logic unit (ALU), a coprocessor and an output selection unit; further wherein the program sequencer schedules the processing of one or more symbol-carrier pairs input to said OFDM equalizer using multiple threads; retrieves, for each of the one or more symbol-carrier pairs, multiple program instructions from said program memory; generates multiple expanded instructions corresponding to said retrieved multiple program instructions; and further wherein said ALU performs said processing of the one or more symbol-carrier pairs using the multiple threads across multiple pipeline stages, wherein said processing comprises said ALU executing arithmetic operations to process said expanded instructions using said multiple threads across the multiple pipeline stages.
US09780971B2
A high-power point and one or more low-power points transmit signals associated with the same cell-identifier in a heterogeneous cell deployment. Coverage areas corresponding to the low-power points fall at least partly within the coverage area for the high-power point, so that mobile stations within range of a low-power point are also within range of the high-power point. Channel-state-information reference symbols, CSI-RS, are transmitted using different CSI-RS resources on different transmission points within the cell, while configuration of CSI-RS measurement resources is conducted on a UE-specific basis. The choice of measurement resources to be used is determined by the network, based on the properties of the channels from the transmission points to the UE. As the UE moves around within the cell, the network tracks the channel properties and reconfigures the CSI-RS resources measured by the UE, to correspond to the resource of the closest transmission point or points.
US09780969B2
Systems, apparatus and methods are described including operations for demodulating, via a front end demodulator of an analog front end processor, at least a portion of digital sample data into front end demodulated data. A framer of the analog front end processor may frame data from a selection of the front end demodulated data as well as undemodulated digital sample data remaining from the digital sample data, into frames of front end demodulated data and/or undemodulated digital sample data.
US09780968B2
A sender telephone receives a text message to send to a receiver telephone. The sender telephone determines the transmission delay time by sending a predetermined message to receiver telephone, based on the time it receives an address complete message and a release message. The sender telephone determines a constant value that is greater than the transmission delay time and in response to the determining the constant value, ringing the receiver telephone to transmit the received inputted text message. A receiver telephone receives a predetermined message from a caller telephone to determine a transmission delay time, based on the time it receives the address complete message and a release message. The receiver telephone determines a constant value that is greater than the transmission delay time. The receiver telephone receives incoming rings from the caller telephone and converts the received rings into a text message to be displayed.
US09780961B2
A HEMS controller repeatedly transmits a predetermined signal to a control-target appliance at a set time interval in order to detect a change in a status of the control-target appliance. If the status changes, the HEMS controller notifies a smartphone of the changed status via a server apparatus. In a state where the time interval is set to a first time interval, when receiving a control instruction for controlling an operation of the control-target appliance from the smartphone via the server apparatus, the HEMS controller transmits the control instruction to the control-target appliance. In response to the transmission of the control instruction to the control-target appliance, the HEMS controller changes the time interval to a second time interval shorter than the first time interval.
US09780956B2
A method is provided which comprises: adjusting a plurality of times a transmit power to vary between a first setting and a second setting on a first Digital Subscriber Line (DSL line) to optimize energy consumption for the first DSL line; measuring or estimating a change in a performance of a second DSL line neighboring the first DSL line caused by a change in crosstalk on the second DSL line generated by the first DSL line in response to adjusting the transmit power of the first DSL line; and identifying one or more DSL lines among a plurality of DSL lines determined to safely operate in a low-power mode by identifying which of the plurality of DSL lines exhibit a crosstalk coupling to neighboring DSL lines below a specified threshold.
US09780949B2
A data processing device comprises a protection key unit, a dummy key unit, and a control unit. The protection key unit provides a protection key. The dummy key unit provides a dummy key. The dummy key unit has a set of two or more allowed dummy key values associated with it and is configurable by a user or a host device to set the dummy key to any value selected from said set of allowed dummy key values. The control unit is connected to the dummy key unit and to the protection key unit and arranged to set the protection key to the value of the dummy key in response to a tamper detection signal (fatal_sec_vio) indicating a tamper event. The value of the dummy key may notably be different from zero.A method of protecting a data processing device against tampering is also described.
US09780948B1
In a general aspect, pseudorandom integers are generated for use in a cryptographic protocol. In some aspects, a first plurality of digits are obtained and converted to a second plurality of digits. The first plurality of digits (e.g., bits) represent an integer in a first number system (e.g., binary), and the second plurality of digits (e.g., trits) represent the integer in a second number system (e.g., trinary). A plurality of integers in the first number system are generated based on the second plurality of digits, and an array of integers is produced. Each integer in the array is less than a modulus, and the array includes the plurality of integers. The array of integers can be used in a lattice-based cryptographic protocol.
US09780944B2
In an embodiment, a circuit includes a synchronizer configured to generate a trigger signal synchronized to a reference clock. A synthesizer is configured to synthesize a signal according to frequency control data in response to the trigger signal. A radio receiver is configured to process a carrier signal according to the synthesized signal. A phase measurement unit is configured to measure a first channel frequency response based on the processed carrier signal.
US09780940B2
The present invention provides a method for receiving acknowledgement/not-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) of a terminal in a wireless communication system. The method transmits uplink data through an uplink data channel and receives ACK/NACK for the uplink data. The uplink data channel is transmitted through aggregated carriers and the aggregated carriers include a first band recognizable to first and second type terminals and a second band recognizable only to the second type terminal.
US09780932B2
The present invention is designed to realize signaling of DM-RS sequence parameters for improving the flexibility of allocation of DM-RS resources in a system having complex cell structures. According to the radio communication method of the present invention, in a radio communication system supporting a system band formed with a plurality of component carriers by carrier aggregation, a radio base station apparatus allocates uplink DM-RS sequences per mobile terminal apparatus and per component carrier, and reports DM-RS sequence allocation information, and a mobile terminal apparatus generates DM-RS sequences using the allocation information reported from the radio base station apparatus.
US09780919B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide example preamble formats with repeated signal (SIG) fields that may help provide backwards compatibility and help address the effects of larger delay spreads in various wireless bands (e.g., WiFi bands).
US09780915B2
A system and method are provided for reducing the overhead caused by the presence of the cyclic prefix while enabling inter-carrier interference (ICI) and inter-symbol interference (ISI) cancellation in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) network that includes an OFDM transmitter and an OFDM receiver.
US09780910B2
The digital video communications device includes a scalable video coding (SVC) controller including an encoder and associated block equalizer. The encoder is configured to receive digital video, and encode received digital video into a plurality of related streams including a base layer having a first modulation type, and scaled enhancement layers having different modulation types. The block equalizer is configured to generate a waveform by sequentially interleaving the plurality of related streams with equalizer probes. The digital video transmission approach allows the receiver to automatically provide the best video quality that the channel will support without negotiation with the transmitter.
US09780907B2
A matrix M indicating a minimum number of all optical paths between pairs of nodes may be generated in one embodiment using an algorithm for transitive closure. In various embodiments, different algorithms and methods may be used to generate matrix M. Once a convergent matrix M has been generated that attains transitive closure, any corresponding reachability matrix RM^a may be obtained from matrix M in a computationally efficient manner. Matrix M may be used to determine groups of potential regenerator placements and obtain end-to-end optical paths by selecting desired sequences of regenerators.
US09780898B2
The present invention relates to a TDMA access method and device based on multiple access points. According to the problems that the existing method cannot simultaneously satisfy the demands of timeliness and reliability in actual industrial application and has low resource utilization rate, the present invention takes full consideration of the transmission characteristics and industrial automation application characteristics of wireless networks, and provides a TDMA access method and device based on multiple access points. The main ideas of the method in the present invention are: the multi-access point redundant communication manner is adopted to improve system reliability, beacon frames of multiple access points are utilized to perform time synchronization so as to improve synchronization precision, confirmation messages are fed back with regard to reliable access points to reduce the number of retransmissions, and a modularized multi-access point device design method is adopted to lower the difficulties of device maintenance and management.
US09780897B2
An optical transmission apparatus that accommodates client signals in a line signal, includes: an OPUn mapper unit that receives and maps the client signals; and a mapping control unit that determines the number of pieces of client data to be mapped to a payload portion and determines the timing to insert client data and information on the number of pieces of client data into the payload portion to control mapping performed in the OPUn mapper unit.
US09780892B2
A method and system are provided. The method includes receiving a signal strength corresponding to a long range wireless link established between a first directional wireless radio and a second wireless radio, the signal strength varying over time as the first directional wireless radio is aligned with a second wireless radio by an installer, and producing a sound indicator indicative of the signal strength. The sound indicator varies over time as the first directional wireless radio is aligned with the second wireless radio.
US09780887B2
Methods and systems for providing and processing data are disclosed. An example method can comprise determining a first weighted probability based on a probability of occurrence of a noise signal and a first likelihood ratio. The first likelihood ratio is based on a frequency distribution of the noise signal. An example method can comprise determining a second weighted probability based on a probability of non-occurrence of the noise signal and a second likelihood ratio. An example method can comprise determining a combination of the first weighted probability and the second weighted probability, and providing the combination to a decoder configured to decode a value based on the combination.
US09780884B2
An optical receiver comprises a package provided with an input window; a polarization-maintaining optical fiber fixable to the input window; a polarization beam splitter, disposed on the package, for inputting light outputted from the polarization-maintaining optical fiber and outputting first output light and second output light having respective polarization directions different from each other; a beam splitter, disposed on the package, for splitting the first output light; a first light-receiving element, optically coupled to the beam splitter, having two light-receiving parts corresponding to two kinds of the output light split by the beam splitter; and a second light-receiving element, disposed on the package, for receiving the second output light.
US09780883B2
A system and method including multi-dimensional coded modulation wherein symbols within successive blocks of symbols are mapped using at least two different constellations to differentiate the symbols from each other. At least one data bit is encoded by an order of the symbols within each block of symbols. The receiver decodes the data by decoding at least one bit from the order of the symbols mapped with the first and second constellations.
US09780881B1
A Pulse Amplitude Modulated (PAM) optical device utilizing multiple wavelengths, features a communications interface having enhanced diagnostics capability. New registers are created to house additional diagnostic information, such as error rates. The diagnostic information may be stored in raw form, or as processed on-chip utilizing local resources.
US09780879B2
A vehicle communication system may include a first vehicle node, a second vehicle node, and a fiber optic node connection. The first vehicle node includes an electronic processing unit coupled to a first communication circuit that includes a plurality of self-configuring optical cells. The fiber optic node connection couples the first vehicle node to the second vehicle node using at least some of the self-configuring optical cells. In response to a trigger event, the electronic processing unit is adapted to configure the plurality of self-configuring optical cells to enable communication between the first and second vehicle nodes via the fiber optic node connection.
US09780877B2
The present application relates to multi-stage amplitude modulation-based methods, apparatuses, and systems for coding and decoding a visible light signal. The coding method includes the following steps: dividing to-be-transmitted information into multiple information units, where each information unit includes multiple bits; converting the multiple information units into multiple electrical signal units indicated by at least three levels, where an interval indicated by a first level in the at least three levels exists between adjacent electrical signal units, and each electrical signal unit uses a combination of other levels in the at least three levels to represent the multiple bits of a corresponding information unit; combining the electrical signal units to obtain a coded electrical signal; and transmitting the coded electrical signal in a visible light signal form.
US09780875B2
A visible light communication modulation circuit includes a modulation resistance circuit configured to change a current flowing through an LED light source by changing a resistance thereof, a measurement circuit configured to simultaneously measure a voltage applied to the LED light source and the current flowing through the LED light source at least twice until the current is stabilized, an calculation circuit configured to obtain an equivalent series resistance of the LED light source based on at least two sets of voltage values and current values and determine a target resistance of the modulation resistance circuit based on the equivalent series resistance and a predetermined modulation degree, and a conversion circuit configured to change the resistance of the modulation resistance circuit based on the target resistance.
US09780874B2
The present invention discloses a light signal-based information processing method and device. The method includes: receiving trigger information; extracting corresponding information according to the trigger information; sending the extracted information in a form of a visible light signal, or receiving a visible light signal; obtaining modification of user information and user information according to the visible light signal; and modifying stored user list information according to the modification of user information and the user information, so that an authorization information list of a light signal receiving device can be modified conveniently no matter whether the light signal receiving device is fixed in a specific system.
US09780870B1
Methods and systems for tuning a resonant modulator are disclosed. One method includes receiving a carrier signal modulated by the resonant modulator with a stream of data having an approximately equal number of high and low bits, determining an average power of the modulated carrier signal, comparing the average power to a predetermined threshold, and operating a tuning device coupled to the resonant modulator based on the comparison of the average power and the predetermined threshold. One system includes an input structure, a plurality of processing elements, and a digital control element. The input structure is configured to receive, from the resonant modulator, a modulated carrier signal. The plurality of processing elements are configured to determine an average power of the modulated carrier signal. The digital control element is configured to operate a tuning device coupled to the resonant modulator based on the average power of the modulated carrier signal.
US09780867B2
In an optical communication abnormality-recovery system and method, when an abnormality occurs in transmission and reception of one wavelength of an optical line terminal of a PON system, an optical network unit that is performing communication at a certain wavelength switches the wavelength for performing the communication to another backup wavelength that is instructed in advance. The optical line terminal also performs switching so that the communication is performed using the same backup wavelength as in the optical network unit.
US09780864B2
A wireless communication device for wireless relay communication includes a network interface, a data storage, and a processor. The processor determines whether or not to continue communication with a current parent node based on a communication status with the current parent node. Upon determining not to continue communication with the current parent node, the processor determines part of the nodes in the network to be one or more candidates for a new parent node, based on hop numbers of the nodes stored in the data storage, each of which is associated with one of the nodes in the network, wherein a hop number of a node indicates a node distance between the node and a reference node, causes the network interface to be in a receivable state during time slots associated with the one or more candidates, and selects one of the candidates as the new parent node.
US09780863B2
A system and method for selecting an operator to boost in a repeater are disclosed. Wireless signals are received at a wireless signal booster from two or more mobile phone operators. One selected operator is selected from the two or more mobile phone operators. The wireless signals from the selected operator are then selectively boosted, the selectively boosting repeating the wireless signals from the selected operator in a boosted state for a mobile phone recipient.
US09780860B1
Systems and methods are described for controlling a reference signal mode to facilitate beamforming. A load amount for reference signals from one or more wireless devices in communication with an access node is determined and compared with load level criteria. When the load amount meets or exceeds the load level criteria, the one or more wireless devices are directed to transmit reference signals using a subband mode of transmission. A subband quality is determined for a plurality of subbands available for the one or more wireless devices and a subband for reference signal transmission is selected from the plurality of subbands based on channel quality criteria. Wireless transmission, such as from an access node, to the one or more wireless devices is scheduled utilizing beamforming based on the reference signal.
US09780857B1
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a hybrid beamforming architecture are described. According to one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a beamforming architecture including a baseband unit and a processor. The beamforming architecture is configured to determine a steering matrix based on at least the baseband unit and the processor; and wherein the beamforming architecture is configured to simultaneously support a plurality of beamformee client devices, each beamformee client device beamformed by a beamformer with at least one of a beamformer hardware mode and a beamformer software mode and with at least one of a beamformer explicit mode and a beamformer implicit mode.
US09780855B2
Provided is a transmission control apparatus that, at a first transmission timing, causes a first symbol to be transmitted from a first antenna, causes the first symbol having the same phase as the first symbol transmitted from the first antenna to be transmitted from a second antenna that is orthogonal to the first antenna and has a path to a mobile terminal that is the same as a path between the first antenna and the mobile terminal, causes a second symbol to be transmitted from a third antenna arranged parallel to the first antenna, and causes the second symbol having the inverse phase of the second symbol transmitted from the third antenna to be transmitted from a fourth antenna that is orthogonal to the third antenna and has a path to the mobile terminal that is the same as a path between the third antenna and the mobile terminal.
US09780854B2
Systems and method for adaptive constellation mapping determine transmission formats for simultaneous transmission from multiple transmitter chains. The adaptive constellation mapping can select a winning combination of mappings using distance metrics. The distance metrics can be calculated from estimated received signal constellations at a multi-layer receiver. The multi-layer receiver can separate the data received from each of the transmitter chains. Additional systems and method can determine a whether to use adaptive constellation mapping or an alternate transmission format. Further systems and methods can determine a transmit arrangement that include selection of which of multiple transmitters will be a part of an adaptive constellation mapping transmission, the number of layers that will be transmitted by each transmitter, the transmitter chains that will be used, and which of multiple antennas that will be used.
US09780853B2
An embodiment of a receiver includes a first number of antennas and a signal analyzer. The antennas are each spaced from another of the antennas by approximately a distance, and are configured to provide, at one or more wavelengths that are greater than twice the distance, a channel capacity that exceeds a saturation channel capacity. The signal analyzer is configured to recover information from a second number of signals each received by at least one of the antennas over a respective one of a third number of signal pipes, and each having a wavelength that is greater than twice the distance, the second number being related to the third number. Such a receiver can be a multiple-input-multiple-output orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing (OFDM-MIMO) receiver that can be configured to increase the information-carrying capacity of a channel (i.e., increase the channel capacity) above and beyond a saturation capacity of the channel.
US09780852B2
Provided is a transmission control apparatus that determine a first phase difference for a phase difference between an electric wave output by a first antenna and an electric wave output by a second antenna, and for a phase difference between an electric wave output by a third antenna and an electric wave output by a fourth antenna, based on a determined polarization characteristic; determines a second phase difference for a phase difference between the electric wave output by the first antenna and the electric wave output by the third antenna and for a phase difference between the electric wave output by the second antenna and the electric wave output by the fourth antenna, based on the determined beam direction; and controls phases of the electric waves output by the first to fourth antennas, according to the first and second phase differences.
US09780850B2
Channel state information (CSI) feedback in a wireless communication system is disclosed. A precoding matrix is generated for multi-antenna transmission based on precoding matrix indicator (PMI) feedback, wherein the PMI indicates a choice of precoding matrix derived from a matrix multiplication of two matrices from a first codebook and a second codebook. In one embodiment, the first codebook comprises at least a first precoding matrix constructed with a first group of adjacent Discrete-Fourier-Transform (DFT) vectors. In another embodiment, the first codebook comprises at least a second precoding matrix constructed with a second group of uniformly distributed non-adjacent DFT vectors. In yet another embodiment, the first codebook comprises at least a first precoding matrix and a second precoding matrix, where said first precoding matrix is constructed with a first group of adjacent DFT vectors, and said second precoding matrix is constructed with a second group of uniformly distributed non-adjacent DFT vectors.
US09780847B2
Channel feedback reporting for non-orthogonal wireless communication systems employing frequency selective channels. A plurality of channel feedback matrices corresponding to a plurality of sub-carriers of a sub-band for a non-orthogonal channel may be determined by a UE, and one or more effective channel feedback matrices for the sub-band may be determined based on the plurality of channel feedback matrices. Each of the one or more effective channel feedback matrices may be associated with corresponding sets of transmission strategies, where each of the corresponding sets of transmission strategies include one or more transmission strategies of a plurality of transmission strategies for the non-orthogonal channel. Channel feedback information representing the one or more effective channel feedback matrices may be reported to a base station, which may estimate channel quality for the plurality of transmission strategies based at least in part on the channel feedback information, for downlink transmissions to UEs over the non-orthogonal channel.
US09780839B2
An active electrode and a passive electrode are electrically field-coupled with an active electrode and a passive electrode provided in a power transmission device, respectively. Power in a high frequency voltage excited on the active electrode and the passive electrode is supplied to a mobile unit via a step-down transformer, a rectification smoothing circuit, and a DC-DC converter. A CPU turns off switches when wireless communication is carried out. The passive electrode functions as a booster antenna that is magnetically field-coupled with an antenna coil. A high frequency signal outputted from an RF circuit is transmitted via the antenna coil and the passive electrode, and a high frequency signal transmitted from the power transmission circuit is inputted, via the passive electrode and the antenna coil, to the RF circuit.
US09780837B2
Spatially enabled secure communication technologies are disclosed. A proximity boundary can be defined by a communication range of one or more SRC devices configured to communicate using near field magnetic induction (NFMI) using at least two antennas to provide magnetic induction diversity. Secure data can be selected for NFMI communication on a spatially secure NFMI data link between the one or more SRC devices. Non-secure data can be selected for communication on one of a wireless local area network or a wireless wide area network.
US09780836B2
Server information handling system deployment and maintenance is enhanced with automated trouble ticket generation at a mobile telephone through an NFC transaction with a management controller. NFC transactions coordinate authorization for replacement component installation and server information handling system replacement. In one embodiment, a bezel includes an NFC device that interfaces with a management controller and stores configuration information to aid installation of replacement server information handling systems in the event of a system failure. A back-up battery provides power to an NFC support circuit that stores fault codes detected by the management controller so that fault codes are available during management controller failures. In one embodiment, contact information provided from a mobile telephone through an NFC transaction is used by the management controller to notify the mobile telephone of the state of management functions initiated by the mobile telephone with the NFC transaction.
US09780832B2
The invention relates to a use of an apparatus for configuring two or more communication-related parameters in a cable modem system. The apparatus comprises a processor, a cable television signal input interface for receiving one or more cable television signals, and a cable modem termination system unit for providing access to a communication network.
US09780829B1
A method, apparatus, computer program, data structure, signal relating to: causing correlation of a digital signal provided by a receiver with a motion-compensated correlation code, wherein the motion-compensated correlation code is a correlation code that has been compensated before correlation using one or more phasors dependent upon an assumed or measured movement of the receiver.
US09780827B2
This application relates to various button related embodiments for use with a portable electronic device. In some embodiments, a snap clip can be integrated with a button bracket to save space where two separate brackets would take up too much space in the portable electronic device. In other embodiments, a tactile switch can be waterproofed by welding a polymeric layer atop a tactile switch assembly. In this way water can be prevented from contacting moisture sensitive components of the tactile switch assembly. The weld joining the polymeric layer to the tactile switch can include at least one gap to trapped gas surrounding the tactile switch assembly to enter and exit during heat excursions caused by various operating and/or assembly operations.
US09780824B2
A case for a portable electronic device includes a back wall with front face, a rear face and an outer edge. A containment wall extends forward from the front face around at least a portion of the outer edge of the back wall and is configured to hold the portable electronic device within the case by friction. The containment wall includes an unobscuring free end such that an entire front surface of the portable electronic device is unobscured from view when held within the case.
US09780819B2
An orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) receiver includes detection logic, offset generation logic, tone erasure logic, and correction generation logic. The detection logic is configured to detect a signal containing a block of samples that includes a narrowband interferer from a communication channel. The offset generation logic is configured to align a frequency of the narrowband interferer to a center of a subcarrier frequency of the communication channel to produce an offset signal thereby introducing inter-carrier interference (ICI). The tone erasure logic is configured to remove the subcarrier frequency from the offset signal to produce an interferer erased offset signal. The correction generation logic is configured to remove the ICI to produce an interferer erased signal.
US09780815B2
Various embodiments relate to a device for reducing noise in a received signal, the device including a memory; a processor configured to: receive a signal containing narrow band noise which was transmitted over a channel and received at an analog front end; add two separate delays to the signal to generate a first delayed signal and a second delayed signal; apply an adaptive noise cancellation using the first delayed signal and the second delayed signal to estimate the narrow band noise; and remove the narrow band noise based upon the estimated narrow band noise.
US09780814B2
A gain control apparatus for an amplifier is disclosed. The gain control apparatus configured to provide an amplifier gain control signal for setting the gain applied by the amplifier to an amplifier signal comprising an amplifier input signal amplified by the amplifier to generate an amplifier output signal. The apparatus includes a plurality of gain determination elements comprising and a gain controller configured to generate the amplifier gain control signal based on at least the first and second gain control signals.
US09780811B2
The invention relates to a method for synchronizing sensors in a sensor array, including at least one electronic control unit and at least one sensor, which are connected to each other by a first and a second line, wherein the sensor is supplied with electric power by the first and second lines, and additionally at least one data signal (a) is transmitted by the first and second lines from the sensor to the electronic control unit, wherein the electronic control unit transmits a defined supply voltage signal having varying polarity as a synchronization signal (b, c) to the sensor, whereupon the sensor transmits at least one data signal (a) to the electronic control unit, after the polarity of the synchronization signal has been reversed.
US09780807B2
A data processing apparatus includes a circuit selecting unit and a decoding processor. The circuit selecting unit selects a decoder circuit for each data part of encoded target data. The decoder circuit is suitable for an arrangement of run lengths in the data part. The decoding processor performs reconfiguration to form the decoder circuit selected for the data part, and decodes the target data.
US09780806B2
Apparatus and systems, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for predicate application using partial compression dictionary match. A search strategy is developed for each predicate to be applied to compressed data. The compressed data is searched using the search strategy to locate the compression symbols identified in the search strategy. In response to locating a compression symbol from the search strategy in the compressed data, a respective row and applying the predicate is decompressed and a respective row that matches the predicate is returned to a database engine or an application.
US09780805B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for predicate application using partial compression dictionary match. A search strategy is developed for each predicate to be applied to compressed data. The compressed data is searched using the search strategy to locate the compression symbols identified in the search strategy. In response to locating a compression symbol from the search strategy in the compressed data, a respective row and applying the predicate is decompressed and a respective row that matches the predicate is returned to a database engine or an application.
US09780800B1
A method may include processing an analog input signal with a first processing path configured to generate a first digital signal based on the analog input signal; processing the analog input signal with a second processing path configured to generate a second digital signal based on the analog input signal, and adapting a response of an adaptive filter configured to generate a filtered digital signal from the second digital signal to reduce a difference between the filtered digital signal and the first digital signal. The method may additionally or alternatively include determining nonlinearities present in the second processing path based on comparison of the first digital signal and the second digital signal, and applying a linear correction to the second digital signal to generate a corrected second digital signal with decreased nonlinearity from that of the second digital signal.
US09780799B2
Methods and systems for an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with constant common mode voltage may include in an ADC comprising a sampling switch on a first input line to the ADC, a sampling switch on a second input line to the ADC, N switched capacitor pairs and M single switched capacitors on the first input line, and N switched capacitor pairs and M single switched capacitors on the second input line: sampling an input voltage by closing the sampling switches, opening the sampling switches and comparing voltage levels between the input lines, iteratively switching the switched capacitor pairs between a reference voltage (Vref) and ground based on the compared voltage levels, and iteratively switching the single switched capacitors between ground and voltages that are a fraction of Vref, which may equal Vref/2x where x ranges from 0 to m−1 and m is a number of single switched capacitors per input line.
US09780791B2
A switch comprising a spin-transistor and a first control wire. The spin-transistor is configured so that when a magnetic field applied to the spin-transistor is less than a threshold value, the transistor is in a conductive state in which electric current flows through the spin-transistor. When the magnetic field applied to the spin-transistor is greater than the threshold value, the spin-transistor is in a resistive state in which the electric current flowing through the spin-transistor is substantially reduced. The first control wire is for receiving a current to affect the magnetic field applied to the spin-transistor.
US09780789B2
An integrated circuit (IC) includes a first circuit implemented using programmable circuitry of the IC, and a second circuit implemented using hardened circuitry of the IC. The IC further includes a configurable interface circuit to couple the first circuit to the second circuit using ready/valid signaling with a configurable ready-latency value.
US09780787B2
Provided is a fault self-repairing circuit sequentially converting an N-bit output value according to a pre-determined schedule and outputting the converted result. The fault self-repairing circuit includes different N logic modules configured to output each bit of the N bits. Here, each of the logic modules includes an internal logic. When the N-bit output value is identical to a pre-determined value, an output value of each of the logic modules is provided by the internal logic, and, when the N-bit output value is not identical to the pre-determined value, the output value of each of the logic modules is provided with a correct value provided outside each of the logic modules.
US09780783B1
Apparatuses and methods associated with voltage tolerant termination presence detection for universal serial bus type-C connectors are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an apparatus to enable voltage tolerant termination presence detection may include sensor circuitry to determine whether a device coupled to the sensor circuitry is to operate in host mode or device mode based on a signal on a configuration channel between the device and the sensor circuitry. In embodiments, the apparatus may further include termination circuitry to bias the configuration channel in accordance with the host mode or the device mode based on the determination of whether the device is to operate in the host mode or the device mode. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09780782B2
A memory subsystem includes a multi-device package including multiple memory devices organized as multiple ranks of memory. A control unit for the memory subsystem sends a memory access command concurrently to some or all of the ranks of memory, and triggers some of all of the memory ranks that receive the memory access command to change on-die termination (ODT) settings. One of the ranks is selected to execute the memory access command, and executes the command while all ranks triggered to change the ODT setting have the changed ODT setting.
US09780774B2
In accordance with an embodiment, an adjustable capacitance circuit comprising a first branch comprising plurality of transistors having load paths coupled in series with a first capacitor. A method of operating the adjustable capacitance circuit includes programming a capacitance by selectively turning-on and turning-off ones of the plurality of transistors, wherein the load path of each transistor of the plurality of transistors is resistive when the transistor is on and is capacitive when the transistor is off.
US09780765B2
One embodiment describes a Josephson current source system. The system includes a flux-shuttle loop that is inductively coupled with an AC input signal. The flux-shuttle loop includes a plurality of Josephson junctions spaced about the flux-shuttle loop and being configured, when activated, to sequentially trigger the plurality of Josephson junctions about the flux-shuttle loop in response to the AC input signal to generate a DC output current provided through an output inductor. The system also includes a flux injector that is configured to selectively activate and deactivate the flux-shuttle loop in response to an input signal to control an amplitude of the DC output current.
US09780760B2
A variable filter circuit includes a serial arm connected between ports (P1-P2), a parallel arm having a resonator connected in series between ports (P1-P3), and another parallel arm having another resonator connected in series between ports (P2-P3). The serial arm includes an inductor connected between the ports (P1-P2), and the parallel arms include variable capacitances connected in series to the resonators.
US09780755B1
An apparatus for on flex desensing, includes a flex circuit including one or more DC traces, and at least one desense filter including a transformer having a primary winding coupled to at least one of the DC traces. Each desense filter includes one or more circuits coupled to a secondary winding of the transformer. Each of the circuits includes a variable capacitor connected in parallel with a resistor, and each desense filter is tunable to filter a desense frequency in a frequency band associated with one or more wireless communication protocols.
US09780751B2
In some embodiments, a method for processing an audio signal in an audio processing apparatus is disclosed. The method includes receiving an audio signal and a parameter, the parameter indicating a location of an auditory event boundary. An audio portion between consecutive auditory event boundaries constitutes an auditory event. The method further includes applying a modification to the audio signal based in part on an occurrence of the auditory event. The parameter may be generated by monitoring a characteristic of the audio signal and identifying a change in the characteristic.
US09780748B2
An integrated circuit amplifier configurable to be either a programmable gain amplifier or an operational amplifier comprises two output blocks, one output block is optimized for programmable gain amplifier operation, and the other output block is optimized for operational amplifier applications. A common single input stage, input offset calibration and bias generation circuits are used with either amplifier configuration. Thus duplication of the input stage, offset calibration and bias generation circuits are eliminated while still selectably providing for either a programmable gain amplifier or operational amplifier configuration.
US09780746B1
An apparatus includes an input port, an output port, and a plurality of amplifier stages connected in parallel between the input port and the output port. Each of the amplifier stages comprises a common source field effect transistor (CSFET) and at least two common gate field effect transistors (CGFETs) coupled in series with a drain of the common source FET. At least one of the common gate field effect transistors of each stage includes a stabilizing network connected between drain and source diffusions.
US09780739B2
A device and method for controlling reproduction of an audio signal is provided, wherein the device is operated by means of an energy storage device. The method comprises the steps of deactivating a normal mode and activating an energy saving mode. Power consumption from the energy storage device for reproduction of the audio signal is reduced in the energy saving mode when compared to the normal mode. The method comprises reducing in the energy saving mode, a bass frequency component of a frequency spectrum of the audio signal and outputting the audio signal with reduced bass frequency component. The method further comprises ascertaining a charge state of the energy storage device and controlling the reduction in the bass frequency component based on a decrease in the charge state of the energy storage device.
US09780738B2
A semiconductor device is provided with: a field-effect transistor that has a source electrode and a drain electrode that are connected to a semiconductor layer, a gate electrode that is provided on the surface of the semiconductor layer between the source electrode and the drain electrode, and a field plate electrode that is provided on the surface of the semiconductor layer in the vicinity of the gate electrode via an insulating layer, wherein the field-effect transistor amplifies high frequency signals received by the gate electrode to be outputted from the drain electrode; and a voltage dividing circuit that divides a potential difference between the drain electrode and a reference potential GND, and applies a bias voltage such that respective parts of the field plate electrode have a mutually equal potential.
US09780736B1
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for compensating input offset of an amplifier having first and second amplifier output nodes. The method comprises generating a proportional-to-absolute temperature (PTAT) current, generating a complementary-to-absolute temperature (CTAT) current, and selecting, based on the input offset, one of the first and second amplifier output nodes into which a compensation current is to be coupled. The compensation current is based on a selected one of the PTAT current and CTAT current.
US09780735B1
A high-frequency signal amplifier circuit is used in a front-end circuit configured to propagate a high-frequency transmission signal and a high-frequency reception signal, and includes an amplifier transistor configured to amplify the high-frequency transmission signal; a bias circuit configured to supply a bias to a signal input end of the amplifier transistor; and a ferrite bead, one end of which is connected to a bias output end of the bias circuit and the other end of which is connected to the signal input end of the amplifier transistor, having characteristics in which impedance in a difference frequency band between the high-frequency transmission signal and the high-frequency reception signal is higher than impedance in DC.
US09780730B2
A wideband self-envelope tracking power amplifier (PA) can use more than a 40-MHz channel bandwidth and improves the envelope bandwidth limit of a self-envelope tracking PAs by ten times. The PA uses an envelope load network, which is based on a general multi-stage low-pass filter. The envelope load network located between an RF choke inductor and main DC power supply provides a dynamically modulated PA supply voltage without using a dedicated envelope amplifier. An input terminal of the network connects a main PA via an RF choke inductor to an input of low-pass filter. An output terminal is connected to the low-pass filter via an envelope choke inductor and to a direct current (DC) power supply. A DC blocker is connected between the output of the low-pass filter and ground by a termination resistor.
US09780713B2
A driving apparatus for driving an electric motor, such as a synchronous motor or an induction motor, and more particularly to a driving apparatus which performs a vector control based on an output current of an inverter. The driving apparatus of the present invention includes an inverter, a current detector configured to detect an output current of the inverter, and a vector controller configured to transform the output current, detected by the current detector, into a torque current and a magnetization current and to control the torque current and the magnetization current. The vector controller includes a target-output-voltage determination section configured to determine a target output voltage from the torque current, the magnetization current, an angular velocity of the rotor, and motor constants, and a target-magnetization-current determination section configured to determine a magnetization-current command value based on a deviation between the torque-voltage command value and the target output voltage.
US09780706B2
A driver circuit is provided for driving a load, such as a multi-phase motor. The driver circuit includes a gate driver for providing a control signal to switching elements coupled to the driver circuit. A first switching element is coupled between a high supply voltage and a switching node of the load, and a second switching element is coupled between the switching node and a low supply voltage. To detect zero crossings of a current through the load, a zero crossing detector includes a first counter coupled to the switching node and a second counter coupled to the control signal. The first counter and second counter count in a predetermined direction based on a detected voltage of the switching node and based on a detected voltage of the control signal, respectively. The zero crossing detector generates an output signal based upon the difference between the first and the second counter.
US09780704B2
An electrical motor system comprises a switched reluctance electrical motor comprising a rotor section and a stator section, the rotor section comprising a plurality of rotor teeth and the stator section comprising a plurality of stator teeth, the stator teeth wound with respective coils. Coil driver circuitry is coupled to the coils of the stator teeth and controls an independent phase of electrical power to each coil of the plurality of stator teeth. The coils of the stator teeth each have an inductance which absorbs electrical energy provided to that coil by the coil driver circuitry and subsequently releases at least a portion of the electrical energy back to the coil driver circuitry when that coil is not being actively driven by the coil driver circuitry. The coil driver circuitry comprises an electrical energy store configured to store the portion of the electrical energy released back from the inductance of each coil and the electrical energy provided to each coil of the stator teeth by the coil driver circuitry is augmented by the electrical energy stored in the electrical energy store.
US09780696B2
A vibration power generator configured to generate power by displacement between an electret group having a plurality of electrets and an electrode group having a plurality of electrodes in a relative movement direction in response to an external vibration, includes a casing in which the electret group and the electrode group are disposed, a fixed member in which one of the electret group and the electrode group is disposed, the fixed member being fixed to a side of the casing, and a movable member in which the other of the electret group and the electrode group is disposed. The movable member is disposed in the casing such that the movable member is relatively movable in response to the external vibration while opposed to the fixed member.
US09780689B2
A method and device for providing isolated power transfer to a low-power load across a capacitor of a series resonance circuit are shown. The method includes comparing an output voltage received via a feedback loop with a desired output voltage. Responsive to determining that the output voltage is not equal to the desired output voltage, the method determines a sub-harmonic order of the resonant frequency of the series resonance circuit to use as a switching frequency and switches the series resonance circuit at substantially the determined subharmonic order of the resonant frequency.
US09780685B2
An electrical power converter includes: AC voltage terminals U, V, and W; DC voltage terminals P and N; a converter cell series unit composed of one or more converter cells connected in series between the AC voltage terminals U, V, and W and the DC voltage terminals P and N, each converter cell including a semiconductor element and a capacitor; and a first inductance connected in series to the converter cell series unit, between, of the DC voltage terminals P and N, a DC voltage terminal at the lowest potential with respect to the ground, and the AC voltage terminals U, V, and W.
US09780683B2
A converter full-wave rectifies a single-phase voltage, and outputs the rectified voltage across DC power supply lines. An inverter receives the rectified voltage, and supplies a three-phase AC current to an inductive load. A power buffer circuit is connected between the DC power supply lines. The power buffer circuit includes a discharge circuit and a charge circuit. The discharge circuit includes a capacitor and a switch connected in series to each other. The discharge circuit is configured, for example, by a boost chopper, and includes a switch, a reactor, and a diode. The power buffer circuit provides and receives part of pulsations of a power input into the converter to and from the DC power supply lines.
US09780671B2
A power conversion apparatus including a power converter, a first output port, a second output port, a load detection circuit and an output selection circuit is provided. The power converter generates a first and a second output voltages having different voltage specification. The first and the second output ports respectively provide the received output voltages to a back end. The load detection circuit is coupled with the power converter and the second output port and detects a load requirement of a load connected to the second output port to generate a load detection signal. The power converter generates a first switch control signal according to the load detection signal to control the output selection circuit, such that the output selection circuit provides one of the first and the second output voltages in response to the first switch control signal.
US09780670B2
A resonant converter includes a primary switching circuit with a primary winding and a primary full-bridge switching stage that drives the primary winding. A resonance inductor is in series with the primary winding. A secondary resonant circuit has a secondary winding magnetically coupled to the primary winding and a resonance capacitor electrically connected in parallel with the secondary winding. A secondary rectification stage is electrically connected in parallel to the resonance capacitor. A driving module receives a signal representing the voltage measured across an upper or lower switching half-bridge. The drive module detects a negative voltage in the signal. At each cycle, the drive module anticipates a control signal for control of the switches of the lower or upper switching half-bridge that is to be activated the next switching cycle by a shift time that is reduced cycle until the condition of absence of negative voltage in the signal is satisfied.
US09780661B2
Switch mode power supplies and integrated circuits are presented to provide a DC output voltage signal using high and low side switches, with a switching control circuit to turn off the high side switch and engage an active shunt circuit to provide a reduced voltage to continue converter operation to accommodate high input voltage transients when the DC input voltage exceeds a threshold voltage without requiring an oversized low side switch for improved efficiency through reduced switching and conduction losses in normal operation.
US09780660B2
An apparatus is adapted to drive an insulating gate-type semiconductor element by a first control voltage and a second control voltage, that are supplied to a first insulating gate and a second insulating gate, respectively, and includes a first noise filter inputting a signal about current that passes through the insulating gate-type semiconductor element, a first comparator making a comparison between an output signal of the first noise filter and a first reference signal and outputting a first comparison result, a first control voltage output circuit, and a second control voltage output circuit, the second control voltage output circuit being adapted to reduce the second control voltage when it is determined from the first comparison result that overcurrent passes through the insulating gate-type semiconductor element, the first control voltage output circuit being adapted to reduce the first control voltage after the second control voltage is reduced.
US09780659B2
In general, according to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a device main body, a semiconductor substrate. The device main body includes a semiconductor substrate mounting part and a first conductor provided around the semiconductor substrate mounting part. The semiconductor substrate includes a DC-to-DC converter control circuit having a detector to detect at least one of a current flowing through the first conductor and a voltage supplied to the first conductor. The semiconductor substrate is disposed on the semiconductor substrate mounting part so that the detector comes close to the first conductor.
US09780654B2
A device includes a digital switch regulator to supply an output voltage and a first current to a load based on a reference voltage. The device also includes an analog circuit to supply a second current to the load in addition to the first current based on a duty cycle of the digital switch regulator.
US09780646B2
A device and system for converting a three phase power input to a direct current output, and method of operating the device and system, are provided. The device includes a rectifier circuit for rectifying the three phase power input into a plurality of rectified outputs, a converter circuit for converting each of the rectified outputs, and a control circuit for generating the control signal based at least in part on the single direct current output. Each of the rectified outputs may have a common first mean voltage level, which is converted to a second mean voltage level based on a control signal. Each of the rectified outputs at the second mean voltage level are capable of being combined into a single direct current output.
US09780642B2
An energy recovery snubber circuit for a power converter which includes a flyback transformer driven by a converter switch is disclosed. The snubber circuit includes two capacitors which are connected such that, when the snubber circuit is connected to a primary winding of the flyback transformer, the capacitors are charged in series by current flowing in a first direction in the primary winding when the converted switch is turned OFF, to recover energy stored in the leakage inductance of the transformer, and discharged in parallel to cause current flow in a second direction in the primary winding of the transformer, to thereby transfer the recovered energy to the transformer.
US09780641B1
A protection circuit includes a pre-charge rectifying circuit, a pre-charge resistor, a varistor, a switch, a main rectifying circuit, a bulk capacitor, and a control circuit. The pre-charge rectifying circuit is connected with an AC power source. The pre-charge resistor and the varistor are connected between the pre-charge rectifying circuit and the switch. The switch is further connected with a first node. The main rectifying circuit is connected between the AC power source and the first node. The bulk capacitor and the control circuit are connected between the first node and a ground terminal. The control circuit generates a first control signal to control the switch. The control circuit further generates a control signal set to control the main rectifying circuit.
US09780638B2
Systems and methods to generate drive current in a power supply, independent of the input voltage, are provided. The power supply includes front end circuitry, control circuitry, and drive circuitry. The front end circuitry includes protection circuitry to defend against damage from EMI, voltage spikes, and the like. The control circuitry includes startup circuitry, power factor correction (PFC) circuitry, and output power configuration circuitry. The startup circuitry provides operational voltage to the PFC circuitry, derived from an input voltage, until an internally generated operational voltage becomes available. The PFC circuitry uses the operational voltage to generate output power for the drive circuitry based on the output power configuration circuitry. The drive circuitry includes drive current configuration circuitry to generate a drive current to drive a load, coupled to the power supply, independent of the input voltage.
US09780633B2
A system, method, and apparatus for kinetic energy harvesting are disclosed. An example kinetic energy harvesting apparatus includes first and second magnet housings configured to each have a tubular shape. Each of the first and second magnet housing contains a central magnet and a ferrous shield connected to the respective magnet housings. One of the ferrous shields is located on a first side of the first magnet housing that is opposite of a second side facing the second magnet housing. The other of the ferrous shields is located on a first side of the second magnet housing that is opposite of a second side facing the first magnet housing.
US09780632B2
A synchronous electric machine includes a stator having a plurality of teeth with first and second active surfaces; first and second stator windings having respective series of first and second coils wound on said teeth; first and second rotors having respective series of first and second permanent magnets with alternate polarities and facing said respective first and second active surfaces; wherein the first coils and the second coils of each stator winding are arranged in pairs, with two coils of each pair offset from each other by a predetermined angle; and wherein, during operation as a motor, two first coils of each pair produce concordant torque contributions on the first rotor and discordant torque contributions on the second rotor and two second coils of each pair produce concordant torque contributions on the second rotor and discordant torque contributions on the first rotor.
US09780629B2
A method for manufacturing a magnet-conductive device includes performing a punch process to a plate by a glue-injectable punch structure, wherein the glue-injectable punch structure includes a punch head and a control member. The punch head comprises an accommodating cavity, an injection hole and an inlet, and a supply channel is formed by the accommodating cavity, the injection hole and the inlet. The control member selectively obstructs the supply channel or permits the supply channel into conduction. By using the method for manufacturing the magnet-conductive device, the stack between plural plates is simplified, and the coupling strength between adjacent plates is enhanced. In addition, this invention considers the gel between adjacent plates to be insulating medium to lower the iron loss of the magnet-conductive plates.
US09780626B2
A rotor includes a shaft having knurled portions and a rotor core having a fitting-recess that is fitted and fixed to the knurled portions. The shaft has a small diameter portion on one end of the knurled portions and a flange portion on another end. The rotor core has a small diameter hole on one end of the fitting-recess. When the fitting-recess is fitted into the knurled portions, an end face in the other end of the rotor core abuts the flange portion, while a stepped surface between the fitting-recess and the small diameter hole contacts with an end face in the one end of the knurled portions. Thus, a filler is sealed in gaps formed between the knurled portions and an internal wall of the fitting-recess.
US09780624B2
An assembly for harnessing a pendulum motion from fluid wave energy to convert to power. The assembly converts a fluid wave energy into electricity through a pendulum mechanism. The pendulum mechanism makes use of a buoyant sphere that floats in a fluid and absorbs wave energy, such as oscillations, vibrations, and disturbances known in wave energy, while floating in the fluid. A hemispherical pendulum swings in relation to the wave energy. The hemispherical pendulum transmits the swinging motion to an electrical generator for conversion to electricity. The harnessing of wave energy and swinging of the hemispherical pendulum is controlled through various components that balance and stabilize the assembly. The sphere comprises components to help control the irregularities from wave energy on the hemispherical pendulum through a directional guidance member, a velocity regulation member, and a stabilization member. A transmission cable transmits the electricity to a control center on shore.
US09780621B2
An electronic device including a processor, at least one sensor in communication with the processor, wherein the processor is configured to determine an orientation of the device and drop event based on input from the at least one sensor. The electronic device further includes a motor in communication with the processor and a mass operably connected to the motor. The processor is configured to drive the motor when a drop event is determined and the mass is configured to rotate with respect to the motor to alter the orientation of the device.
US09780606B2
The disclosure may generally relate to a motor which may include a rotor core which may include a first rotor lamination portion and a second rotor lamination portion. At least one magnet may be operably coupled to the first rotor lamination. The first rotor lamination may be in contact with the at least one magnet and the second rotor lamination may not be in contact with the at least one magnet. Additionally, the first rotor lamination and the second rotor lamination may be comprised of different materials.
US09780598B2
Provided is a power-receiving device according to at least one embodiment includes: a transmission/reception unit (2) including a resonant circuit having an antenna (2a) configured to receive a power transmitted from a contactless charging device (50) and to transmit and receive data to and from the contactless charging device (50); a charge control unit (5) configured to perform power source control; and a control unit (3) configured to generate control state data indicating a charging state of the secondary cell (6) and/or a power source state of an apparatus main unit (30) operated with the secondary cell (6) and to transmit the control state data to the contactless charging device (50). The control unit (3) has a power-receiving mode in which normal power supply is performed and a regulation mode in which the received power is regulated by regulating a resonant frequency of the resonant circuit.
US09780597B2
A system for providing power signals to peripheral devices on a vehicle using magnetic resonance coupling. The system includes a transmitter circuit having a variable current source, a base coil and a variable capacitor, where the current source and the capacitor are tuned to provide a predetermined AC current to the base coil so as to generate an oscillating magnetic field at a predetermined frequency. The system also includes a receiver circuit for each peripheral device, where each receiver circuit includes a receiver coil and a rechargeable power source. When the base coil is tuned to the receiver coil the power source can be recharged through magnetic resonance coupling to power the device. The transmitter circuit can be on the vehicle or can be separate from the vehicle, such as in a charging pad.
US09780589B2
An electrical equipment is supplied with electric power from one of an electric power supply system and a secondary battery. The electrical equipment includes a switch circuit and a module. The switching circuit switches a power supply source for supplying electric power to the electrical equipment between the electric power supply system and the secondary battery. The module includes a processor to execute a program to perform a controlling process including a process of controlling the switch circuit to selectively connect the electrical equipment to one of the electric power supply system and the secondary battery according to a control signal supplied from an external device.
US09780588B2
An electronic system may include a charging device and an electronic device. The charging device may include an input port, a charge circuit, a storage, and a connector device. The charging device may receive a direct current (DC) voltage at the input port. The charge circuit may receive the DC voltage and provide a charged voltage to the storage. The electronic device may include a body, a battery, a first pad directly on the battery and a second pad directly on the battery. The battery may receive the DC charged voltage when the electronic device is coupled to the charging device.
US09780573B2
The disclosure features power transmitting apparatus for wireless power transfer to a receiver that includes a housing having a form factor that corresponds to a container featuring lateral surfaces, a bottom surface, and an opening opposite the bottom surface, a first coil formed by a continuous path of electrically conductive material and featuring a plurality of non-planar loops that conform to a first pair of opposite lateral surfaces and to the bottom surface, and a second coil formed by a continuous path of electrically conductive material and featuring a plurality of non-planar loops that conform to a second pair of opposite lateral surfaces and to the bottom surface.
US09780567B2
Systems and methods for controlling power flow to and from an energy storage system are provided. One energy storage system includes an energy storage device and a bidirectional inverter configured to control a flow of power into or out of the energy storage device via a plurality of phases. The energy storage system further includes a controller configured to control the bidirectional inverter based on a load condition on one or more phases. The controller is configured to control the bidirectional inverter to store power generated by a generator set in the energy storage device and transmit power from the energy storage device to a load driven by the generator set in response to detecting a load imbalance between the phases.
US09780557B2
An electrical apparatus (10) comprises: first and second terminals (18,20) for connection to an electrical circuit; a chain-link converter (22) connected between the first and second terminals (18,20), the chain-link converter (22) including a plurality of chain-link modules (24), each chain-link module (24) including at least one switching element (26) and at least one energy storage device (28), the or each switching element (26) and the or each energy storage device (28) of each chain-link module (24) combining to selectively provide a voltage source; and a protection device (32) connected across an electrical block (34) that includes at least two of the plurality of chain-link modules (24), the protection device (32) including a plurality of series-connected semiconductor devices (36), wherein the protection device (32) selectively provides a current-conductive path to allow at least part of a current flowing in the electrical apparatus (10) to bypass the electrical block (34).
US09780552B2
An electric-wire protection device that protects an electric wire by cutting off power to the wire when its temperature is elevated above a predetermined value is presented. The device includes switching means to control the conduction of power to the wire, current measuring means to measure a current in the wire, environment temperature detecting means to detect a temperature of the environment surrounding the wire, electric-wire temperature calculating means to calculate the temperature of the wire using the value of the current in the wire and the environment temperature, limiting means to stop the conduction of power to the wire when the temperature is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, peripheral component current measuring means to measure the current flowing to a component at the periphery of the environment temperature detecting means, thermal influence acquisition means to obtains an amount of temperature increase caused by the component at the environment temperature detecting means, and environment temperature correcting means to correct the environment temperature based on the amount of temperature increase.
US09780549B2
A pre-expanded cover assembly for protecting a cable splice connection including a cable, the cable including an electrical conductor surrounded by a cable insulation layer, includes a splice body assembly and a removable holdout. The splice body assembly includes a tubular, cold-shrinkable, electrically insulative, elastomeric splice body having an interior surface defining an interior passage. The splice body assembly further includes a tubular layer of a conformable medium pre-mounted on the interior surface of the splice body. The conformable medium is a flowable material having a high electrical permittivity. The splice body assembly is mounted on the holdout such that the holdout maintains the splice body in an elastically radially expanded state, and the holdout is selectively removable from the splice body to permit the splice body to elastically radially contract. The layer of the conformable medium is positioned and configured such that, when the pre-expanded cover assembly is positioned adjacent the cable splice connection, the holdout is removed from the splice body, and the splice body elastically radially contracts onto the cable splice connection, the layer of the conformable medium will be radially interposed between and engage each of the interior surface of the splice body and an opposing interface surface of the cable insulation.
US09780543B2
A support frame (10) for a cabling trunk assembly (1) is disclosed. In one embodiment, the support frame (10) has a main body (11) defining a mounting surface (41), and a first extension leg (50) extending along a first side edge (42) of the main body (11) and away from the mounting surface (41). Similarly, the support frame (10) can be provided with a second extension leg (52) that extends along a second side edge (44) of the main body (11) and away from the mounting surface (41). The extension legs (50, 52) may be provided with tabs (54, 56) to provide a secure connection with receiving grooves (28, 29) on a channel (12) of the cabling trunk assembly (1). The extension legs (50, 52) may also be configured to provide a snap-fit connection with the receiving grooves (28, 29).
US09780536B2
A spark plug having a spark plug body and an insulator arranged therein, in which insulator a passage is provided in which a center electrode, an ignitor and a glass seal connecting the center electrode to the ignitor and acting as an interference-suppression resistor are arranged. At least one additional interference-suppression element is arranged in the passage of the insulator.
US09780532B1
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL) device that utilizes an external micromirror array, and methods of fabricating and using the same. In one embodiment, a VECSEL device includes a gain chip, a mirror, and a micromirror array. The gain chip includes a gain medium. The micromirror array includes a plurality of curved micromirrors. The micromirror array and the mirror define an optical cavity, and the micromirror array is oriented such that at least one of the curved micromirrors is to reflect light generated by the gain medium back toward the gain medium along a length of the optical cavity.
US09780516B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for power interconnection, adapted for use between a main connector and a DC main. The power connector has a connector power terminal and the DC main has a DC main power terminal. The apparatus includes an apparatus power terminal for being electrically coupled to the DC main power terminal in response to the apparatus in connection with the DC main; a first conductor including a resistor and a conductive contact, the conductive contact being electrically coupled to the resistor; and a second conductor, the resistor being electrically coupled to the second conductor, wherein, in response to an action of the power connector in connection with the apparatus, the connector power terminal contacts the conductive contact and a first current flowing therethrough is limited by the resistor. A receptacle structure for power interconnection is also disclosed.
US09780509B2
A lamp socket includes a first socket portion, a second socket portion, and a neck portion joining the first and the second socket portions. The first socket portion defines a first cylindrical volume proximate to an open end of the lamp socket. The second socket portion is concentric with the first socket portion and defines a second cylindrical volume distal from the open end of the lamp socket. The second socket portion has a smaller diameter than the first socket portion.
US09780507B2
The utility model claims a double-side and dual-purpose connector, comprising a terminal component and a shell, wherein the terminal component comprises a first terminal and a second terminal which are in isolated setting and adapt to different data interface types; different types of data interfaces can be connected by the first terminal and the second terminal; and the shell is tightly sleeved outside the terminal component to limit and fix the terminal component. The connector provided in the utility model is convenient to use and capable of being compatible with different types of data interfaces and matching with the interface of electronic equipment, such as existing cell phone, etc.
US09780505B2
The present invention provides a Type-C-based USB connector capable of transmitting large current. Since the lower ground terminal and the lower power signal terminal both are of tear structures, and the ground base of the lower ground terminal, the power signal base of the lower power signal terminal, the main body of the lower ground terminal and the main body of the lower power signal terminal are all widened parts, the active areas of the ground terminal and the power signal terminal are larger, which improves the ability and reliability to transmit large current, thus solving the technical problem that the temperature would be much too high when large current are transmitted. With the present invention, it is possible to improve reliability and operation ease of the product for transmitting large current.
US09780504B2
An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated housing, conductive terminals, and a fixing base. The insulated housing defines a connecting space therein. The insulated housing includes a tongue portion extending into the connecting space and a base portion arranged at the rear part of the tongue portion. The base portion has a rear wall, two lateral walls extended backward from the rear wall, and an assembling space defined by the rear wall and the two lateral walls. The fixing base is received in the assembling space and defines first through holes and second through holes. The pins of the conductive terminals are passing through the first through holes and the second through holes. The fixing base has a rear wall surface defining grooves communicating with the respective first through holes. The width of the groove is less than the width of the corresponding first through hole.
US09780499B2
The power receiving connector to be placed as a vehicle-mounted feeding port is formed by integrating connection terminals, internal wirings, wiring branch parts, a ground wire side branch line, a control wire side branch line, capacitors, a superposition separation element, and a low-pass filter with a housing as a replaceable unit.
US09780498B2
A cable termination and method are disclosed that electrically and mechanically terminates a bundled cable that requires a radial space only slightly greater than the cable diameter. An electrically-conductive ferrule is connected to an end of a cable, with a conductive adhesive such as a conductive epoxy injected into the ferrule to mechanically connect the ferrule to the cable end, and to electrically couple the ferrule to a shield of the cable, such as a braided wire shield. The ferrule is received by a connector housing, such as being inserted between a pair of connector housing halves, to retain the ferrule mechanically coupled to the housing, and to electrically couple the ferrule to the housing.
US09780495B2
A plug connector assembly includes: a mating member; a cable; a printed circuit board (PCB) interconnected between the mating member and the cable; a metal shell enclosing the PCB, a rear of the mating member, and a front of the cable, the metal shell including an upper shell part and a lower shell part both welded to the rear of the mating member; and an insulative outer shell enclosing the metal shell, the rear of the mating member, and the front of the cable, wherein the upper shell part is welded to the lower shell part.
US09780478B2
A connector comprises a housing, a contact and a connection structure. The connection structure is a structure other than the housing and comprises a conductive member, a protection portion and an electric-shock prevention portion. The conductive member has a first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portion is attached to or integrally formed with the contact. The protection portion covers a part of the conductive member, which is positioned between the first end portion and the second end portion. The housing has an accommodation portion formed therewithin. The accommodation portion has an opening. The contact is accommodated in the accommodation portion together with the first end portion of the conductive member. The electric-shock prevention portion, at least in part, blocks the opening of the accommodation portion and obstructs entrance of a finger into the accommodation portion beyond the electric-shock prevention portion.
US09780476B2
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing having a tongue portion, and two rows of terminals reversely-symmetrically arranged at opposite faces of the tongue portion. Each row of terminals include a grounding terminal and a power terminal arranged at a first district, and at least one subsidiary terminal arranged at a second district connecting the first district. Each row of terminals lack of at least two terminals to thereby form a vacant space between the grounding terminal and the power terminal. The subsidiary terminals in the two rows are offset with each other along an up-to-down direction.
US09780471B2
A printed circuit board arrangement and a method for mounting a product to a main printed circuit board (100) at a substantially perpendicular angle, the printed circuit board arrangement comprises a main printed circuit board (100) comprising an elongated slot (102), and a product (128) comprising a connector portion (130) configured to be inserted into the elongated slot (102). The connector portion (130) is such that the product (128) may be attached at a substantially perpendicular angle to the main printed circuit board (100). The elongated slot (102) comprises a protrusion (104), and the connector portion (130) comprises a spring portion (132) configured to engage with the protrusion (104) when the connector portion (130) is inserted into the elongated slot (102). This results in a force pressing the connector portion (130) of the product (128) to at least one side wall of the elongated slot (102).
US09780460B2
There is provided an electric cable connection terminal. A first connection part is configured to connect the one electric cable thereto. A second connection part is configured to connect the other electric cable thereto. A waterproof member is configured to be melted to seal leading end portions of core wires of the electrics cable when being heated and configured to be solidified to waterproof the leading end portions when being cooled. An accommodation part accommodating the waterproof member therein is provided between the first and second connection parts. A thermal shrinkage member is provided to cover the first and second connection parts and the accommodation part and configured to be shrunken when being heated to closely contact the first and second connection parts and the accommodation part. When the cables are connected to the first and second connection part, respectively, the core wires are arranged at an interval.
US09780457B2
A multiple beam antenna system is described. The system may include a mounting structure, a first wireless access antenna, a second wireless access antenna, and a radio frequency lens. The first and second wireless access antennas may be mounted to the mounting structure. Columns of radiating elements of the first and second wireless access antennas may be aligned with the radio frequency lens. The radio frequency lens may be modular in a longitudinal or radial direction, or in both directions. The radio frequency lens may include a plurality of compartments arranged to form a first cylinder made up of concentric, coaxial cylinders and a plurality of dielectric materials in at least some of the plurality of compartments.
US09780456B2
An antenna system includes a first dipole antenna element and a second dipole antenna element. The first dipole antenna element includes a first feeding radiation element and a first grounding radiation element. The first feeding radiation element has an extension portion. The first grounding radiation element has an open slot. The extension portion extends into the interior of the open slot. The second dipole antenna element includes a second feeding radiation element and a second grounding radiation element. The first dipole antenna element and the second dipole antenna element are both excited by a signal source. The first dipole antenna element operates in a low-frequency band. The second dipole antenna element operates in a high-frequency band.
US09780453B1
A method of configuring a small wireless communication system is described for body wearable applications where the radiated power from the antenna in the direction of the user is reduced. A method of coupling resonators, which are formed by planar conductors as well as linear conductors, is described where the resonators extend the electrical extent of the ground plane of a small circuit board resulting in improved antenna efficiency and bandwidth characteristics from an antenna coupled or connected to the ground plane. The resonators can be configured to modify the near-field distribution of the antenna radiation pattern of the antenna coupled to the small ground plane which will result in less power radiated in the volume behind the top surface of the ground plane the antenna is coupled to. A technique is also described wherein the antenna element is integrated onto the top surface of a packaged RFIC, with the RFIC containing the transceiver circuit. The technique is optimal for providing efficiency improvements for antennas on electrically small ground planes. A method of forming slots from planar conductors is described where the radiated field from the slot is combined with the radiated field from an antenna coupled to a small ground plane which can result in improved efficiency and/or modified polarization properties from the combination of antenna, resonator, and ground plane.
US09780452B2
Embodiments include a communication device, having a wireless communication processor. The communication device includes an antenna connected to a feeding point of the wireless communication processor. The communication device also includes a metal component disposed proximal the antenna and a circuit board including a ground plane. The communication device further includes a first conductive line and a second conductive line which connect the ground plane to two locations on the antenna, on one end and the other end of a location proximal the metal component.
US09780449B2
A method includes injecting a reference input signal into each Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) of a number of VCOs forming a coupled VCO array to reduce a level of injection energy required therefor. The reference input signal is configured to control operating frequency of the coupled VCO array. The method also includes utilizing a phase shift circuit: between individual VCOs of the coupled VCO array and/or in a path of injection of the reference input signal into one or more VCO(s) of the individual VCOs, and mixing outputs of the number of VCOs with signals from antenna elements of an antenna array to introduce differential phase shifts in signal paths coupled to the antenna elements during performing beamforming with the antenna array. Further, the method includes reducing a phase-steering requirement of the coupled VCO array during the beamforming based on the utilization of the phase shift circuit.
US09780447B2
Antenna system having an antenna array with multiple sub-arrays, each having one or more antenna elements, is calibrated using a distributed calibration antenna element, such as a leaky coaxial cable, that spans across at least two and possibly all of the sub-arrays. To calibrate the transmit (TX) paths of the sub-arrays, TX calibration test signals are transmitted by the sub-arrays, captured by the distributed calibration element, and processed by a corresponding calibration radio. To calibrate the receive (RX) paths of the sub-arrays, an RX calibration test signal is generated by the calibration radio, transmitted by the distributed calibration element, captured by the sub-arrays, and processed by their corresponding radios. Cross-correlation between the calibration and captured signals is performed to derive the complex gain of each sub-array transmitter and receiver, which provides information for aligning the gain, phase, and delay of the different TX and RX paths of the antenna array.
US09780443B2
A radar apparatus is provided that is capable of providing desired directivity without preventing downsizing of the apparatus. In the radar apparatus, an antenna for at least either transmitting radar waves or receiving reflected waves is protected by a radome. Provided on an opposing face that is a face of the radome opposing the antenna is a wall section protruding from the opposing face of the radome into a space of the radome and extending along at least a portion of an outline of an aperture projection. The aperture projection is a projection of an aperture of the antenna onto the opposing face in a normal direction to the aperture.
US09780442B2
A joined structure which is configured such that a space between adjacent substrates is filled with a filling material. The joined structure includes a first substrate having a first conductor formed on a surface of the first substrate, a second substrate having a second conductor formed on a surface of the second substrate, arranged so that a surface of the first substrate faces a surface of the second substrate, a connecting conductor which electrically connects the first conductor and the second conductor, and a filling material between the first substrate and the second substrate. The filling material is formed into such a shape that a space is provided which corresponds to at least one of the first conductor, the second and the connecting conductor.
US09780439B2
An antenna structure includes a feed portion, a ground portion, a first radiator, a second radiator, a first metallic sheet, and a second metallic sheet. The first radiator is coupled to the feed portion. The second radiator is spaced from the first radiator, and is electronically coupled to the first radiator. The first metallic sheet is coupled to the ground portion. The first metallic sheet and the second metallic sheet are connected to two opposite sides of the second radiator.
US09780433B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing antenna structures to optimize transmission and reception of wireless signals from ground-based signal distribution devices, which include, but are not limited to, cabinets, pedestals, hand holes, and/or network access point platforms. Wireless applications with such devices and systems might include, without limitation, wireless signal transmission and reception in accordance with IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ad/af standards, UMTS, CDMA, LTE, PCS, AWS, EAS, BRS, and/or the like. In some embodiments, an antenna might be provided within a signal distribution device, which might include a container disposed in a ground surface. A top portion of the container might be substantially level with a top portion of the ground surface. The antenna might be communicatively coupled to at least one conduit, at least one optical fiber line, at least one conductive signal line, and/or at least one power line via an apical conduit system installed in a roadway.
US09780430B2
A terminal connection comprises an HF conductor and a terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus comprises an HF conductor receiving element comprising an HF conductor receiving hole. At least one solder deposit is arranged between the HF conductor and the HF conductor receiving element of the terminal apparatus to establish an electrically conductive connection. There is also an insertion sleeve comprising a receiving opening into which the HF conductor is inserted. The insertion sleeve is inserted into the HF conductor receiving hole in the HF conductor receiving element via an insertion opening on the plug-in side. The insertion sleeve is undeformable and/or is formed from a dielectric. It may also be adapted, in terms of the circumferential lateral face thereof, to an inner face of the HF conductor receiving hole. It may also comprise a receiving channel, which is used for receiving the at least one solder deposit.
US09780415B2
A battery includes at least two battery cells and a first electrical connection between a first battery pole of one of the at least two battery cells and a second battery pole of one other battery cell of the at least two battery cells. A second electrical connection branches off from the first electrical connection for the purpose of measuring a battery cell voltage of at least one battery cell of the at least two battery cells.
US09780413B2
A battery cooling system has a case that forms an internal space surrounded by a plurality of walls to accommodate a plurality of battery cells, a blower accommodated in the case that circulates a fluid for cooling the plurality of battery cells inside of the case, and a passage-along-wall forming member. The passage-along-wall forming member forms passage-along-walls along with and between side walls among the plurality of walls that forms the case. The passage-along-wall forming member has an inflow part where the fluid flowing out of the blower before contacting the battery cells passes when flowing into the passage-along-wall, and an outflow part where the fluid flowed in from the inflow part into the passage-along-wall passes when flowing out from the passage-along-wall.
US09780411B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte solution secondary battery having an electrode element having a positive electrode and a negative electrode disposed so as to face each other, a nonaqueous electrolyte solution, and an outer package housing the electrode element and the nonaqueous electrolyte solution, wherein the nonaqueous electrolyte solution contains a cyclic sulfonic acid ester represented by the general formula (1), and a positive electrode active material in the positive electrode is a mixture of a lithium manganese composite oxide having a spinel structure and a lithium transition metal composite compound having a layered rock salt structure. wherein, in the formula (1), R1 and R2 are each independently a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, a halogen group or an amino group with the proviso that R1 and R2 are not hydrogen atoms at the same time; R3 represents a linkage group selected from the group consisting of an alkylene group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, a carbonyl group, a sulfonyl group, a fluoroalkylene group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, and a divalent group having 2 to 6 carbon atoms in which alkylene units or fluoroalkylene units are bonded through an ether group.
US09780407B2
An exemplary all-solid lithium secondary battery includes a positive electrode including a positive-electrode active substance layer, a negative electrode, and a solid electrolyte layer interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The positive-electrode active substance layer is composed of lithium cobaltate, and has an α-NaFeO2 type crystal structure. The positive-electrode active substance layer has a (018) plane oriented in a normal direction of a principal face of the positive-electrode active substance layer. The solid electrolyte layer is composed of lithium lanthanum titanate and has a tetragonal perovskite-type crystal structure. The solid electrolyte layer has a (110) plane or a (102) plane oriented in a normal direction of a principal face of the solid electrolyte layer.
US09780403B2
The present application relates to the filed of energy storage devices, and in particular, relates to a cathode sheet and a lithium ion electric roll using the cathode sheet. The cathode sheet comprises a cathode current collector, an active substance layer, a cathode tab, a head protective adhesive, a tail protective adhesive, an ending adhesive, and an anti-puncture cushion. The cathode current collector comprises a head exposed zone, a head adhesive application zone, a coating zone, a tail adhesive application zone, and a tail exposed zone. The active substance layer covers the coating zone, the head protective adhesive covers the head adhesive application zone, the tail protective adhesive covers the tail adhesive application zone, the ending adhesive is bonded to a tail of the tail exposed zone, and the anti-puncture cushion is connected to the tail exposed zone.
US09780401B2
A device for producing a packaged electrode includes: a conveyance unit configured to sequentially overlay the electrode and the pair of separators from a front end side in a conveying direction while conveying the electrode and the pair of separators; a first joining chip configured to join lateral edges of the pair of separators together; at least one second joining chip positioned downstream of the first joining chip in the conveying direction and configured to join the lateral edges of the pair of separators together. Front ends of the lateral edges of the pair of separators being sequentially overlaid while being conveyed by the conveyance unit are joined together by the first joining chip positioned upstream before the front ends are conveyed to the second joining chip positioned downstream.
US09780399B2
An electrode assembly and a method of making an electrode assembly. One embodiment of the method includes coating an ionomer solution onto a catalyst coated diffusion media to form a wet ionomer layer, and applying a porous reinforcement layer to the wet ionomer layer such that the wet ionomer layer at least partially impregnates the reinforcement layer. Drying the wet ionomer layer with the impregnated reinforcement layer and joining it to the catalyst coated diffusion media forms an assembly that includes an integrally-reinforced proton exchange membrane layer. This layer may be additionally joined to other ionomer layers and other catalyst coated diffusion media such that a membrane electrode assembly is formed.
US09780391B2
To provide a fuel cell device capable of extending the years of service life of a reformer by suppressing thermal runaways. The present invention is a solid oxide fuel cell device, including a fuel cell module having fuel cell units; a reformer disposed above the fuel cell units, for producing hydrogen by a partial oxidation reforming reaction and a steam reforming reaction; a vaporizing chamber disposed adjacent to the reformer; a combustion chamber for heating the vaporization chamber; a water supply device; an electrical generation oxidant gas supply device; and a controller for raising the fuel cell units to a temperature at which electrical generation is possible; whereby over the entire period of the startup step, the reforming oxidant gas supply device and water supply device are controlled so that partial oxidation reforming reactions do not occur independently in the reformer.
US09780389B2
A separator includes a gas flow path forming body, which includes a substrate made of stainless steel, a resin layer arranged on the substrate, and a conductive layer arranged on the surface of the resin layer. The resin layer contains a filler, which has conductivity and greater hardness than an oxide film of the substrate. The conductive layer contains graphite. The filler extends through the oxide film of the substrate and contacts the base material.
US09780383B2
A process of producing a porous electrode substrate, including: dispersing first short carbon fibers and producing a first precursor sheet not having a three-dimensional entangled structure of the first short carbon fibers; treating the first precursor sheet such that the first short carbon fibers in the first precursor sheet are entangled and that a second precursor sheet having a three-dimensional entangled structure of the first short carbon fibers is obtained; dispersing second short carbon fibers on the second precursor sheet such that a porous electrode precursor sheet including the second precursor sheet and a third precursor sheet not having a three-dimensional entangled structure of the second short carbon fibers and stacked on the second precursor sheet is obtained; and carbonization treating the porous electrode substrate precursor sheet at a temperature of at least 1000° C. to obtain the porous electrode substrate.
US09780378B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided a nonaqueous electrolyte battery. The nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode material layer. The negative electrode material layer includes a negative electrode active material capable of absorbing and releasing lithium at a potential of 0.78 V (vs. Li/Li+) or more. A film containing a compound having a propylene glycol backbone is formed on at least a part of a surface of the negative electrode material layer. A content of the compound having the propylene glycol backbone in the film is 2 μmol to 40 μmol per g of a weight of the negative electrode material layer.
US09780361B2
In an example of the method disclosed herein, SiOx (0
US09780360B2
Provided is a cathode mixture which can have both ion conductivity and electron conductivity and with which a solid battery having an excellent output characteristic can be obtained.The cathode mixture includes a plurality of cathode active material particles, a fibrous electroconductive material, a particulate electroconductive material, and a solid electrolyte, wherein setting the total number of the plurality of cathode active material particles as 100%, the number of the cathode active material particles in contact with the fibrous electroconductive material via the particulate electroconductive material is 40% or more.
US09780357B2
Disclosed herein is a silicon-based anode active material, comprising a silicon phase, a SiOx (0
US09780347B2
Glass-fiber mats for lead-acid batteries are described. The glass-fiber mats may include a plurality of glass fibers held together with a binder. The binder may be made from a binder composition that includes (i) an acid resistant polymer, and (ii) a hydrophilic agent. The hydrophilic agent increases the wettability of the glass-fiber mat such that the glass-fiber mat forms a contact angle with water or aqueous sulfuric acid solution of 70° or less. Also described are methods of making the glass-fiber mats that include applying a binder composition to the glass fibers, and including a hydrophilic agent in the glass fiber mat that increases the wettability of the mat. The hydrophilic agent may be added to the binder composition, applied to the glass-fiber mat, or both.
US09780345B2
A device for electrical interconnection of cells of a battery pack through cell connectors, and a battery pack having the device and the cell connectors are provided. A plurality of cell connectors for connection of at least two cell poles are fitted on a mounting plate, electrically isolated from one another. Each cell connector has at least one flexible bracket which extends away from a connection area. The flexible brackets are coupled to the connection area through a resilient structure having a meandering shape.
US09780343B2
Provided is a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a bottomed cylindrical positive electrode casing, and a negative electrode casing which is fixed to an opening of the positive electrode casing through a gasket. The opening of the positive electrode casing is caulked to the negative electrode casing side to seal an accommodation space. A caulking tip end in the opening of the positive electrode casing is disposed in an inward direction of the negative electrode casing than a tip end of the negative electrode casing. A diameter d of the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is in a range of 4 mm to 12 mm, a height h1 of the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is in a range of 1 mm to 3 mm, a side surface portion of the positive electrode casing is formed in a curved surface shape, a radius of curvature R is set in a range of 0.8 mm to 1.1 mm, and a height h2 of the positive electrode casing is in a range of 65% to 90% with respect to the height h1 of the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery.
US09780342B2
A curved secondary battery may include a can having an opening, an electrode assembly accommodated in the can, and a cap plate coupled to the can. The cap plate may include a concave first side surface and a parallel convex second side surface, and a first surface and a second surface that connect the first and second side surfaces. The first surface may include a first groove extending along a lengthwise direction of the cap plate and positioned closer to the first side surface than to the second side surface.
US09780333B1
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) element and a display device are provided. The OLED element includes a base substrate and an anode, an organic functional layer and a cathode sequentially stacked on the base substrate. A thermal expansion layer is disposed on at least one of a side of the anode away from the organic functional layer or a side of the cathode away from the organic functional layer and is a transparent thermal expansion layer.
US09780330B2
The invention relates to OLEDs (1) having a substrate (2), a first electrode layer (3), a layer of organic electroluminescence material (4), a second electrode layer (5), a cover layer (6), moisture-absorbing means (9) and a separating foil (10) of resilient material. According to the invention, said foil (10) is positioned between the second electrode layer (5) and the moisture-absorbing means (9). This feature results in a longer mean life-time of the OLED. Advantageously spacer structures (12) (preferably formed as dots) are applied on the separating foil (10) between the foil (10) and the cover (6). This prevents discoloring effects around the rim of the OLED material.
US09780328B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a first substrate, a display unit defining an active area on the first substrate and including an insulating layer, a second substrate on the display unit, one or more signal lines outside the active area and on the insulating layer, and a sealant between the first substrate and the second substrate. The sealant bonds the first substrate and the second substrate, and covers at least a portion of the signal lines.
US09780319B2
An organic electroluminescent device includes a substrate having a plurality of pixel regions defined thereon; and, in each pixel region, at least first, second and third light emitting elements formed on the substrate, each of the first, second, and third light emitting elements including a lower first electrode, an upper first electrode, an organic-light emitting layer, and a second electrode. A ratio of a thickness of the upper first electrode to a thickness of the organic light emitting layer in the first light emitting element is 1:3 to 1:4. A ratio of a thickness of the upper first electrode to a thickness of the organic light emitting layer in the second light emitting element is 1:2.5 to 1:3. A ratio of a thickness of the upper first electrode to a thickness of the organic light emitting layer in the third light emitting element is 1:1.5 to 1:2.
US09780313B2
A carbazole-based compound and an organic light-emitting device, the carbazole-based compound being represented by Chemical Formula 1
US09780302B2
Some embodiments relate to an integrated circuit device. The integrated circuit device includes a resistive random access memory (RRAM) cell, which includes a top electrode and a bottom electrode that are separated by a RRAM dielectric layer. The top electrode of the RRAM cell has a recess in its upper surface. A via is disposed over the RRAM cell and contacts the top electrode within the recess.
US09780294B2
The present invention aims to provide an excellent piezoelectric composition and an excellent piezoelectric element if the piezoelectric properties especially a high spontaneous polarization and a sufficiently high resistivity, the low pollution, the environment and the ecology are considered. In the piezoelectric composition, the main component contains the substance represented by the following formula with a perovskite-typed structure, (Bi(0.5x+y+z)Na0.5x)m(Tix+0.5yMg0.5yAlz)O3. Wherein, 0.01≦x≦0.8, 0.2≦y≦0.8, 0.01≦z≦0.6, 0.75≦m≦1.0, and x+y+z=1.
US09780291B2
A self-charging power pack (300) includes a cathode (312) and an anode (310) that is spaced apart from the cathode (312). An electrolyte (318) is disposed between the anode (310) and the cathode (312). A piezoelectric ion transport layer (322) is disposed between the anode (310) and the cathode (312). The piezoelectric ion transport layer (322) has a piezoelectric property that generates a piezoelectric field when a mechanical force is applied thereto. The piezoelectric field causes transportation of ions in the electrolyte (318) through the piezoelectric ion transport layer (322) towards the anode (310).
US09780290B2
A nanometer-scale precision actuator comprises a base, an intermediate structure, an output interface, and two linear elements producing a controllable extension in the same longitudinal direction, each between a first and a second end. A first of the two elements has a first end fixed onto the intermediate structure and a second end fixed onto the base, a second of the two elements has a first end fixed onto the intermediate structure and a second end fixed to the output interface. The base and the intermediate structure are positioned in such a manner that the controllable extension of the second element produces a displacement of the actuator in a first direction and the controllable extension of the first element produces a displacement of the actuator in a second direction, opposite to the first direction, with respect to the base.
US09780288B2
An ultrasonic transducer includes a stack of flat electrodes between which are interposed ceramic wafers of substantially same surface area as the electrodes, stacked contours of the ceramic wafers and electrode wafers defining substantially flat or cylindrical side faces of the stack. A method of manufacturing the transducer includes: alternatively stacking a ceramic wafer and an electrode wafer, placing between each ceramic wafer and its two neighboring electrodes a composition of which at least 75% by weight, or at least 80% by weight, that includes silver nanoparticles having a grain size of smaller than or equal to 80 nanometers, or smaller than or equal to 60 nanometers; and compressing the stack by heating to a temperature of less than or equal to 280° C., or between 200° C. and 250° C.
US09780281B2
A power generator includes layered-polymer piezoelectric element that is arranged on an object to be a heat source and a vibration source, and that generates electric power according to vibration transmitted from the object; a first heat conductor containing a flexible material that is arranged on the object, and that conducts heat from the object. The power generator includes a second heat conductor that is arranged on the first heat conductor and the layered-polymer piezoelectric element, and that conducts heat from the first heat conductor. Furthermore, the power generator includes a thermoelectric element that is arranged on the second heat conductor so as to be layered on the second heat conductor on the layered-polymer piezoelectric element, and that generates electric power according to inner temperature difference between temperature on a heat absorbing side obtained by the second heat conductor and temperature on a heat releasing side.
US09780280B2
An illumination assembly for a vehicle includes an energy harvesting module disposed on an exhaust pipe of the vehicle. The energy harvesting module includes an energy harvesting device configured to capture heat and to convert the harvested heat to electrical energy. An illumination member is electrically connected to the energy harvesting module and is configured to be illuminated by the electrical energy supplied from the energy harvesting device.
US09780279B2
Systems and methods are provided for generating electric power using low grade thermal energy from a vehicle. The methods may include surrounding at least a portion of a coolant conduit system with a flexible thermo-electrochemical cell including a nanoporous cathode electrode, a nanoporous anode electrode, and an electrolyte. A coolant fluid may be circulated through the coolant conduit system, which is in thermal communication with a power generating unit, such as an internal combustion engine or fuel cell stack. The method includes maintaining a temperature gradient in the electrolyte solution by contacting the anode electrode with the coolant conduit system, and exposing the cathode electrode to a temperature lower than a temperature of the coolant conduit system. Generated electrical charges can be collected for subsequent use.
US09780270B2
An initially flat light sheet is formed by printing conductor layers and microscopic LEDs over a flexible substrate to connect the LEDs in parallel. The light sheet is then subjected to a molding process which forms 3-dimensional features in the light sheet, such as bumps of any shape. The features may be designed to create a desired light emission profile, increase light extraction, and/or create graphical images. In one embodiment, an integrated light sheet and touch sensor is formed, where the molded features convey touch positions of the sensor. In one embodiment, a curable resin is applied to the light sheet to fix the molded features. In another embodiment, optical features are molded over the flat light sheet. In another embodiment, each molded portion of the light sheet forms a separate part that is then singulated from the light sheet.
US09780262B2
A light-emitting-device package according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a metal substrate; a light emitting device disposed on a first surface of the metal substrate and configured to emit at least ultraviolet light; a pair of electrodes disposed to be spaced apart from each other on at least the first surface of the metal substrate, and electrically connected to the light emitting device; and an insulating layer provided between the metal substrate and the pair of electrodes. UV reflectance of the first surface of the metal body is higher than UV reflectance of the pair of electrodes.
US09780261B2
A light-emitting element includes a light transmissive substrate; a first semiconductor stacked body including: a first n-side semiconductor layer, and a first p-side semiconductor layer, the first p-side semiconductor layer having a hole formed therein; a first p-electrode; a first n-electrode having a portion above the first p-electrode, and a portion extending into the hole, the first n-electrode being electrically connected to the first n-side semiconductor layer through the hole; a second semiconductor stacked body including: a second n-side semiconductor layer located around a periphery of the first semiconductor stacked body, and a second p-side semiconductor layer located above the second n-side semiconductor layer and located outside of an inner edge portion of the second n-side semiconductor layer; a second p-electrode; and a second n-electrode having a portion above the second p-electrode, and being electrically connected to the inner edge portion of the second n-side semiconductor layer.
US09780247B2
A SPAD including, in a substrate of a first conductivity type: a first region of the second conductivity type extending from the upper surface of the substrate; a second region of the first type of greater doping level than the substrate, extending from the lower surface of the first region, having a surface area smaller than that of the first region and being located opposite a central portion of the first region; a third region of the first type of greater doping level than the substrate extending from the upper surface of the substrate, laterally surrounding the first region; and a fourth buried region of the first type of greater doping level than the substrate, forming a peripheral ring connecting the second region to the third region.
US09780240B2
The invention relates to quantum dot and photodetector technology, and more particularly, to quantum dot infrared photodetectors (QDIPs) and focal plane array. The invention further relates to devices and methods for the enhancement of the photocurrent of quantum dot infrared photodetectors in focal plane arrays.
US09780237B2
According to the embodiment, there is provided a solar cell including: a back electrode layer; a light absorbing layer on the back electrode layer; a buffer layer on the light absorbing layer; and a front electrode layer on the buffer layer, wherein the front electrode layer comprises an intrinsic region and a doping region having a conductive dopant, and a concentration of the conductive dopant is gradually lowered in upward and downward directions from an excess doping region of the doping region.
US09780228B2
Provided are an oxide semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing same, wherein the oxide semiconductor device according to an embodiment of the inventive concept includes a substrate, and an oxide semiconductor layer on the substrate having different concentration of oxygen vacancy in the thickness direction.
US09780221B2
A thin film transistor array substrate includes a pixel electrode layout area, a data electrode layout area, a transparent pixel electrode layer formed in the pixel electrode layout area, a first metal layer, a first dielectric layer, an amorphous silicon layer, a second metal layer, a second dielectric layer formed in the pixel electrode layout area and the data electrode layout area. The first dielectric layer covers the first metal layer. The amorphous silicon layer, the second metal layer and the second dielectric layer are sequentially formed on the first dielectric layer. The transparent pixel electrode layer is connected to the second metal layer through a via hole formed in the pixel electrode area of the second dielectric layer. Moreover, a method for manufacturing the thin film transistor array and a liquid crystal display including the thin film transistor array substrate also are provided.
US09780215B2
A method for producing a semiconductor device includes a first step of forming a fin-shaped semiconductor layer on a semiconductor substrate and forming a first insulating film; a second step of forming a pillar-shaped semiconductor layer and a first dummy gate; a third step of forming a second dummy gate; a fourth step of forming a fifth insulating film and a sixth insulating film; a fifth step of depositing a first interlayer insulating film, removing the second dummy gate and the first dummy gate, forming a gate insulating film, depositing metal, and performing etch back to form a gate electrode and a gate line; a seventh step of forming a seventh insulating film; and an eighth step of forming insulating film sidewalls, forming a first epitaxially grown layer on the fin-shaped semiconductor layer, and forming a second epitaxially grown layer on the pillar-shaped semiconductor layer.
US09780209B1
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate stack, at least one epitaxy structure, a dielectric material, and a contact. The gate stack is present on the substrate. The gate spacer is present on a sidewall of the gate stack. The epitaxy structure is partially present in the substrate. The dielectric material is present on the substrate and between the epitaxy structure and the gate spacer. The contact is present on the epitaxy structure, the dielectric material, and the gate spacer.
US09780208B1
An intermediate semiconductor structure in fabrication includes a silicon semiconductor substrate, a hard mask of silicon nitride (SiN) over the substrate and a sacrificial layer of polysilicon or amorphous silicon over the hard mask. The sacrificial layer is patterned into sidewall spacers, each of the sidewall spacers having vertically tapered inner and outer sidewalls providing a rough triangular shape. The rough triangular sidewall spacers are used as a temporary hard mask to pattern the SiN hard mask.
US09780205B2
A technique disclosed herein improves a voltage resistance of an insulated gate type semiconductor device. A provided method is a method for manufacturing an insulated gate type switching device configured to switch between a front surface electrode and a rear surface electrode. The method includes implanting a first kind of second conductivity type impurities to bottom surfaces of gate trenches and diffusing the implanted first kind of second conductivity type impurities, and implanting a second kind of second conductivity type impurities to the bottom surfaces of the circumferential trenches and diffusing the implanted second kind of second conductivity type impurities.
US09780195B2
A non-volatile memory includes a substrate, a stacked structure, a channel layer, and a second dielectric layer. The stacked structure includes a first dielectric layer and a plurality of memory cells. The first dielectric layer is disposed on the substrate. The memory cells are stacked on the first dielectric layer. Each of the memory cells includes two first conductive layers and a charge storage structure. The charge storage structure is disposed between the two first conductive layers. The charge storage structures in the vertically adjacent memory cells are separated from each other. The channel layer is disposed on a sidewall of the stacked structure and connected to the substrate. The second dielectric layer is disposed between the channel layer and the first conductive layers.
US09780183B2
A semiconductor device includes a first transistor comprising a first dielectric film on a substrate and a first work function metal film of a first conductivity type on the first dielectric film, a second transistor comprising a second dielectric film on the substrate and a second work function metal film of the first conductivity type on the second dielectric film, and a third transistor comprising a third dielectric film on the substrate and a third work function metal film of the first conductivity type on the third dielectric film. The first dielectric film comprises a work function tuning material and the second dielectric film does not comprise the work function tuning material. The first work function metal film has different thickness than the third work function metal film. Related methods are also described.
US09780170B2
A semiconductor memory device of an embodiment comprises a memory cell. This memory cell comprises: an oxide semiconductor layer; a gate electrode; and a charge accumulation layer disposed between the oxide semiconductor layer and the gate electrode. This oxide semiconductor layer includes a stacked structure of an n type oxide semiconductor layer and a p type oxide semiconductor layer.
US09780163B2
A structure having high, middle, and low impurity concentration regions disposed from a surface side of a substrate is more suitably manufactured. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: a first implantation of first conductivity type impurities into a first conductivity type semiconductor substrate from a surface; melting and solidifying a first semiconductor region between a depth and the surface, wherein the depth is deeper than a depth having a peak impurity concentration in an increased region where the impurity concentration was increased in the first implantation, and shallower than a deeper end of the increased region; a second implantation of the impurities from the surface into a region shallower than the depth; and melting and solidifying a region in which the impurity concentration was increased in the second implantation.
US09780154B2
A display device of the present disclosure includes a plurality of pixels, in which a pixel includes a light-emitting element, a drive circuit which has a thin film transistor driving the light-emitting element, and a coupling unit which connects the light-emitting element and the drive circuit to each other, the light-emitting element has a configuration in which an organic layer including a light-emitting layer is interposed between a transparent electrode and a reflective electrode, the thin film transistor has a configuration which includes a semiconductor layer, an insulation layer, a first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer, and the coupling unit includes a metal layer which is thinner than the first electrode and the second electrode of the thin film transistor the metal layer being disposed in one portion of the coupling unit.
US09780151B2
A radiation-emitting device includes a substrate; and at least one layer sequence arranged on the substrate that generates electromagnetic radiation, including at least one first electrode area, at least one second electrode area, and at least one functional layer between the first electrode area and the second electrode area, wherein the functional layer generates electromagnetic radiation in a switched-on operating state, and at least one removal region is arranged between at least two points of the first electrode area conductively connected to one another by the first electrode area, the first electrode area being at least partly removed in the at least one removal region.
US09780138B2
A method and device of driving a radiation sensor pixel is disclosed. The sensor pixel comprises a sensing element capable of charge generation as a response to impinging radiation, a floating diffusion node, a transfer gate between the sensing element and the floating diffusion node, and a charge storage device connected to the floating diffusion node via a switch. The method comprises biasing the transfer gate to three or more bias voltages OFF, ON and an intermediate bias between OFF and ON. During the period in which the transfer gate is biased to the intermediate bias, if the sensor reaches saturation, the overflown charges may be collected and part of them stored in the charge storage device, for further analysis and merging.
US09780137B2
Embodiments of mechanisms for forming an image-sensor device are provided. The image-sensor device includes a substrate having a front surface and a back surface. The image-sensor device also includes a radiation-sensing region formed in the substrate. The radiation-sensing region is operable to detect incident radiation that enters the substrate through the back surface. The radiation-sensing region further includes an epitaxial isolation feature formed in the substrate and adjacent to the radiation-sensing region. The radiation-sensing region and the epitaxial isolation feature have different doping polarities.
US09780126B2
The present invention provides a Z-inversion type display device comprising a gate line and a data line that intersect with each other to define a pixel area on a substrate, a thin film transistor that includes a gate electrode, a semiconductor layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode, and a pixel electrode that is formed in the pixel area, and is electrically connected to the drain electrode of the thin film transistor, wherein the drain electrode completely overlaps the gate line such that a drain electrode area is wholly included in a gate line area on a plan view.
US09780125B2
A transistor substrate includes a plurality of first transistors formed between a power supply wire and a first conductive wire, and a plurality of second transistors formed between the power supply wire and a second conductive wire. A length of a portion of the power supply wire between the plurality of second transistors and a drive signal generation circuit is longer than a length of a portion of the power supply wire between the plurality of first transistors and the drive signal generation circuit, and a total sum of channel widths of second channels included in the plurality of second transistors is wider than a total sum of channel widths of first channels included in the plurality of first transistors.
US09780122B2
An array substrate, a display panel and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes: a substrate, wherein a signal transmission line, a first insulator layer, a second insulator layer, a pixel electrode layer and a common electrode layer are disposed on the substrate, wherein the first insulator layer is disposed between the signal transmission line and the common electrode layer, and the second insulator layer is disposed between the pixel electrode layer and the common electrode layer, and wherein a dielectric constant of the first insulator layer is less than or equal to a dielectric constant of the second insulator layer, and the signal transmission line is electrically connected with the common electrode layer. A parasitic capacitance between the signal transmission line and the common electrode layer is reduced in the array substrate.
US09780121B2
To provide a touch sensor including a transistor and a capacitor in which the transistor and the capacitor are electrically connected to each other, the capacitor includes a pair of electrodes and a dielectric layer, the dielectric layer is located between the pair of electrodes, and one of the pair of electrodes includes an oxide conductor layer. To provide a touch panel including the touch sensor, a light-blocking layer, and a display element in which the touch sensor is located more on the display surface side of the touch panel than on the display element side, the light-blocking layer is located more on the display surface side than on the touch sensor side, the display element includes a portion overlapping with the capacitor, and the light-blocking layer includes a portion overlapping with the transistor.
US09780116B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a stacked body and a pillar. The stacked body includes insulating films, electrode films, and silicon containing films. Each of the insulating films and each of the electrode films are stacked alternately. One of the silicon containing films is provided between one of the insulating films and one of the electrode films. The pillar extends in the stacked body in a stacking direction of the insulating films and the electrode films. The pillar includes a silicon pillar and a memory film. The silicon pillar extends in the stacking direction. The memory film is provided between the silicon pillar and one of the electrode films.
US09780111B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a substrate, a stacked body, a film having semi-conductivity or conductivity, and a memory film. The stacked body includes a plurality of metal layers, a plurality of insulating layers, and a plurality of intermediate layers stacked on a major surface of the substrate. The film extends in the stacked body in a stacking direction of the stacked body. The memory film is provided between the film and the metal layers. The metal layers are tungsten layers and the intermediate layers are tungsten nitride layers. Or the metal layers are molybdenum layers and the intermediate layers are molybdenum nitride layers.
US09780107B2
Methods of forming integrated circuit devices containing memory cells over a first region of a semiconductor substrate and gate structures over a second region of the semiconductor substrate recessed from the first region. The methods include forming a metal that is common to both the memory cells and the gate structures.
US09780102B2
Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods having a source material, a dielectric material over the source material, a select gate material over the dielectric material, a memory cell stack over the select gate material, a conductive plug located in an opening of the dielectric material and contacting a portion of the source material, and a channel material extending through the memory cell stack and the select gate material and contacting the conductive plug.
US09780099B1
A layout pattern of a static random access memory includes a pull-up device, a first pull-down device, a second pull-up device, a second pull-down device, a first pass gate device, a second pass gate device, a third pass gate device and a fourth pass gate device disposed on a substrate. A plurality of fin structures is disposed on the substrate, the fin structures including at least one first fin structure and at least one second fin structure. A step-shaped structure is disposed on the substrate, including a first part, a second part and a bridge part. A first extending contact feature crosses over the at least one first fin structure and the at least one second fin structure.
US09780096B2
Vertical memory devices, and methods of manufacturing the same, include providing a substrate including a cell array region and a peripheral circuit region, forming a mold structure in the cell array region, forming an opening for a common source line passing through the mold structure and extending in a first direction perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate, forming a first contact plug having an inner sidewall delimiting a recessed region in the opening for the common source line, and forming a common source bit line contact electrically connected to the inner sidewall of the first contact plug.
US09780094B2
A semiconductor structure includes a replacement strap for a finFET fin that provides communication between a storage capacitor and the fin. The storage capacitor is located in a deep trench formed in a substrate and the fin is formed on a surface of the substrate. The replacement strap allows for electrical connection of the fin to the storage capacitor and is in direct physical communication with the fin and the storage capacitor. The replacement strap may be formed by removing a sacrificial strap and merging epitaxially grown material from the fin and epitaxially grown material from the capacitor. The epitaxially grown material grown from the fin grows at a slower rate relative to the epitaxially grown material grown from the capacitor. By removing the sacrificial strap prior to forming the replacement strap, epitaxial overgrowth that may cause shorts between adjacent capacitors is limited.
US09780088B1
A method of forming a vertical finFET and vertical diode device on the same substrate, including forming a channel layer stack on a heavily doped layer; forming fin trenches in the channel layer stack; oxidizing at least a portion of the channel layer stack inside the fin trenches to form a dummy layer liner; forming a vertical fin in the fin trenches with the dummy layer liner; forming diode trenches in the channel layer stack; oxidizing at least a portion of the channel layer stack inside the diode trenches to form a dummy layer liner; forming a first semiconductor segment in a lower portion of the diode trenches with the dummy layer liner; and forming a second semiconductor segment in an upper portion of the diode trenches with the first semiconductor segment, where the second semiconductor segment is formed on the first semiconductor segment to form a p-n junction.
US09780082B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first transistor gated by an inverted voltage level of a first input signal to pull up a first node, a second transistor gated by a voltage level of a second input signal to pull down the first node, a third transistor gated by an inverted voltage level of the second input signal to pull up the first node, a fourth transistor gated by a voltage level of the first input signal to pull down the first node, a fifth transistor gated by the voltage level of the second input signal to pull down a second node, a sixth transistor gated by the inverted voltage level of the first input signal to pull up the second node, a seventh transistor gated by the voltage level of the first input signal to pull down the second node, and an eighth transistor gated by the inverted voltage level of the second input signal to pull up the second node.
US09780078B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a plurality of optoelectronic semiconductor components (1), comprising the following steps: a) providing a semiconductor layer sequence (2) having a plurality of semiconductor body regions (200); b) providing a plurality of carrier bodies (3), which each have a first contact structure (31) and a second contact structure (32); c) forming a composite (4) having the semiconductor layer sequence and the carrier bodies in such a way that adjacent carrier bodies are separated from one another by interspaces (35) and each semiconductor body area is electrically conductive connected to the first contact structure and the second contact structure of the associated carrier body; and d) separating the composite into the plurality of semiconductor components, wherein the semiconductor components each have a semiconductor body (20) and a carrier body. The invention further relates to an optoelectronic semiconductor component (1).
US09780071B2
A semiconductor package may include a first semiconductor chip having a plurality of first bonding pads arranged at a first pitch on a first active surface. The semiconductor package may include one or more reconfigurable package units each including a second semiconductor chip having a plurality of second bonding pads arranged at a second pitch on a second active surface; a semiconductor chip connector arranged spaced apart from the second semiconductor chip and having a plurality of through vias arranged at the first pitch; a molding layer surrounding side surfaces of the second semiconductor chip and the semiconductor chip connector; and redistribution lines formed over the second semiconductor chip, the semiconductor chip connector, and the molding layer. The semiconductor package may include coupling members interposed between the first bonding pads of the first semiconductor chip and the through vias of the reconfigurable package unit and between the respective through vias of the stacked reconfigurable package units.
US09780058B2
An electronic assembly has a carrier substrate with contact surfaces and at least one electrical component on the carrier substrate. On its surface that is oriented toward the carrier substrate, the component has a number of contacting solder balls, which are respectively connected to a contact surface assigned to them. On the surface of the electrical component that is oriented toward the carrier substrate there is also arranged at least one fixing solder ball, which has a greater diameter than the contacting solder balls. The carrier substrate has at the location at which the at least one fixing solder ball is in contact with the carrier substrate a depression, in which the fixing solder ball is placed.
US09780052B2
The present technology is directed to manufacturing collars for under-bump metal (UBM) structures for die-to-die and/or package-to-package interconnects and associated systems. A semiconductor die includes a semiconductor material having solid-state components and an interconnect extending at least partially through the semiconductor material. An under-bump metal (UBM) structure is formed over the semiconductor material and is electrically coupled to corresponding interconnects. A collar surrounds at least a portion of the side surface of the UBM structure, and a solder material is disposed over the top surface of the UBM structure.
US09780042B2
A composite interposer can include a substrate element and a support element. The substrate element can have first and second opposite surfaces defining a thickness of 200 microns or less, and can have a plurality of contacts exposed at the first surface and electrically conductive structure extending through the thickness. The support element can have a body of at least one of dielectric or semiconductor material exposed at a second surface of the support element, openings extending through a thickness of the body, conductive vias extending within at least some of the openings in a direction of the thickness of the body, and terminals exposed at a first surface of the support element. The second surface of the support element can be united with the second surface of the substrate element. The terminals can be electrically connected with the contacts through the conductive vias and the electrically conductive structure.
US09780041B1
A method for making EMI shielding layer on a package is disclosed to include the steps of: a) disposing a UV curable adhesive which can be thermally released on a light-transmissive substrate; b) placing the package on the UV curable adhesive in such a way that the UV curable adhesive adheres to and cover a surface of the package having solder pads; c) irradiating UV light toward the light-transmissive substrate to cure the UV curable adhesive; d) forming an EMI shielding layer on the package; and e) thermally releasing the UV curable adhesive.
US09780011B2
To provide a brazing material for maintaining bonding strength between ceramic substrate and metal plate at a conventionally attainable level, while addition amount of In is reduced, and a brazing material paste using the same. A mixture powder provided by mixing alloy powder composed of Ag, In, and Cu, Ag powder, and active metal hydride powder, the mixture powder containing active metal hydride powder with a 10-to-25-μm equivalent circle average particle diameter by 0.5 to 5.0 mass %, the equivalent circle average particle diameters for the alloy powder, Ag powder, and active metal hydride powder having a relationship: alloy powder≧active metal hydride powder>Ag powder, and the powder mixture having a particle size distribution of d10 of 3 to 10 μm, d50 of 10 to 35 μm, and d90 of 30 to 50 μm, and in the frequency distribution, a peak of the distribution existing between d50 and d90.
US09780010B1
The present disclosure relates to a hermetic package with improved RF stability and performance. The package includes a carrier, a bottom dielectric ring over the carrier, a bottom metal layer over the bottom dielectric ring, a top dielectric ring over the bottom metal layer, a top metal layer over the top dielectric ring, an exterior plated layer, and multiple top vias. Herein, the bottom metal layer includes signal sections and at least one ground section, which is electrically isolated from the signal sections. The exterior plated layer covers at least a portion of a first exterior sidewall of the bottom ring structure and electrically couples the carrier to the at least one ground section. The multiple top vias extend through the top dielectric ring and electrically couple the top metal layer to the at least one ground section.
US09779992B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first via having a first diameter in a first main surface of a semiconductor substrate having a first thickness, after forming a first insulating film on a bottom surface and a side surface of the first via, forming a first through electrode inside the first via a first barrier metal film, after forming the first through electrode, processing the semiconductor substrate from a second main surface on an opposite side of the first main surface to reduce the first thickness of the semiconductor substrate to a second thickness thinner than the first thickness, after processing the semiconductor substrate, forming a third insulating film on the second main surface of the semiconductor substrate, and after forming the third insulating film, sequentially processing the third insulating film and the semiconductor substrate.
US09779981B2
A semiconductor device and methods for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a polymer substrate and an interfacial layer over the polymer substrate. A buried oxide layer resides over the interfacial layer, and a device layer with at least a portion of a field effect device resides over the buried oxide layer. The polymer substrate is molded over the interfacial adhesion layer and has a thermal conductivity greater than 2 watts per meter Kelvin (W/mK) and an electrical resistivity greater than 1012 Ohm-cm. Methods of manufacture for the semiconductor device include removing a wafer handle to expose a first surface of the buried oxide layer, disposing the interfacial adhesion layer onto the first surface of the buried oxide layer, and molding the polymer substrate onto the interfacial adhesion layer.
US09779970B2
A heater supporting device for use in a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus is provided so as to improve the uniformity of a temperature property and the expected lifespan by preventing support pieces from being damaged and separated from piece holders, and preventing deterioration in adiabatic efficiency in the vicinity of a ceiling of a vertical type furnace. A heating element of a coil shape is disposed around an object. The support pieces are vertically connected in multiple. Hollows of an elliptical shape are formed between the respective support pieces. Concave insertions are formed on one of upper and lower surfaces of the respective support pieces, and convex insertions are formed on the other one of the upper and lower surfaces of the respective support pieces. The convex insertions are insert-fitted with the concave insertions. The support pieces are vertically connected in multiple by insert-fitting the concave insertions to the convex insertions.
US09779965B2
A method of ultrasonically bonding semiconductor elements includes the steps of: (a) aligning surfaces of a plurality of first conductive structures of a first semiconductor element to respective surfaces of a plurality of second conductive structures of a second semiconductor element; and (b) ultrasonically bonding ones of the first conductive structures to respective ones of the second conductive structures. A bonding surface of at least one of the first conductive structures and the second conductive structures includes a frangible coating.
US09779964B2
The present invention relates to a thermal processing method for wafer. A wafer is placed in an environment filled with a gas mixture comprising oxygen gas and deuterium gas, and a rapid thermal processing process is performed on a surface of the wafer. As a result, a denuded zone is formed on the surface of the wafer, deuterium atoms, which may be released to improve characteristics at an interface of semiconductor devices in a later fabrication process, are held in the wafer, and bulk micro-defects are formed far from the semiconductor devices.
US09779963B2
A method of making a semiconductor structure, the method including forming a conductive layer over a substrate. The method further includes forming a first imaging layer over the conductive layer, where the first imaging layer comprises a plurality of layers. The method further includes forming openings in the first imaging layer to expose a first set of areas of the conductive layer. The method further includes implanting ions into each area of the first set of area. The method further includes forming a second imaging layer over the conductive layer. The method further includes forming openings in the second imaging layer to expose a second set of areas of the conductive layer, wherein the second set of areas is different from the first set of areas. The method further includes implanting ions into the each area of the second set of areas.
US09779958B2
A method of forming a hard mask includes depositing step for depositing a titanium nitride film on a surface of a to-be-processed object; adsorbing step for adsorbing oxygen-containing molecules onto a surface of the titanium nitride film; and heating step for heating the titanium nitride film to a predetermined temperature.
US09779942B1
A method of forming a patterned mask layer includes the following steps. A plurality of support features is formed on a mask layer. A plurality of spacers is formed on side walls of the support features. A patterned protection layer is formed on the support features and top surfaces of the spacers. At least a part of side surfaces of the spacers are not covered by the patterned protection layer, and the patterned protection layer is formed in a process environment containing methane (CH4). A trimming process is then performed to remove a part of each of the spacers. Tapered parts of the spacers may be removed by the trimming process before the step of etching the mask layer with the spacers as a mask, and the critical dimension uniformity of the patterned mask layer may be improved accordingly.
US09779941B2
In a method of forming patterns of a semiconductor device, an object layer is formed on a substrate. A plurality of guiding pillars and at least one guiding dam are formed on the object layer. A self-aligned layer including a block copolymer is formed in a space between the guiding pillars and the guiding dam, such that first blocks aligned around the guiding pillars and second blocks aligned around the guiding dam are formed. A trim pattern at least partially covering the guiding dam is formed. The first blocks are transferred in the object layer.
US09779940B2
An embedded die package comprising a die having die contract pads in a passivation layer, the die contact pads being coupled to a first side of a feature layer by an adhesive layer, a layer of pillars extending from a second side of the feature layer, the die, feature layer and the layer of pillars being encapsulated by a dielectric material.
US09779938B2
A metal oxide thin film according to the present invention has a peak which is attributed to 1s electrons of nitrogen in a binding energy range of 402 eV to 405 eV in an XPS spectrum obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, in which peak areas, which are obtained by separation of peaks having a peak energy of a metal-oxygen bond attributed to 1s electrons of oxygen, satisfy the following expression. 0.9
US09779933B2
A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor layer made of a nitride semiconductor and formed on a substrate, a second semiconductor layer made of a material including InAlN and formed on the first semiconductor layer, an insulator layer formed by an oxidized surface part of the second semiconductor layer, a gate electrode formed on the insulator layer, and a source electrode and a drain electrode respectively formed on the first or second semiconductor layer.
US09779927B2
Method for loading a sample of a target compound into a nanospray emitter tube for analysis by nanospray ionization mass spectrometry, wherein a cartridge having a fluid container, an inlet and an outlet is mounted onto a nanospray emitter tube on a nanospray emitter mount to form a nanospray emitter tube assembly, the assembly is mounted on a micro-centrifuge tube, a volume of the sample to be analyzed is loaded into the fluid container and the micro-centrifuge tube is spun on a centrifuge to transfer the sample into the nanospray emitter tube.
US09779921B2
An apparatus includes a process chamber, a substrate holder arranged in the process chamber, a first shield provided on the peripheral portion of the substrate holder, and a second shield provided inside the process chamber. The internal space of the process chamber is partitioned into an outer space and a process space to process the substrate, by at least the first shield, the second shield, and the substrate holder. The substrate holder can be driven along a driving direction perpendicular to a substrate holding surface. The length, in a direction parallel to the driving direction, of a minimum gap portion having a minimum size in a direction perpendicular to the driving direction between the first and second shields does not change even if the substrate holder is driven in the driving direction.
US09779904B2
A chip type fuse excellent in resistance to climate conditions, where the fuse is able to operate stably under high temperature and high humidity environments. The fuse includes an insulative substrate; an under-glass layer formed on the insulative substrate; a fuse element formed on the under-glass layer; a pair of electrodes formed at both end sides of the fuse element; and an over-glass layer covering at least a fusing section of the fuse element; wherein the fuse element includes a layer where a first metal layer and a second metal layer are piled up, and a barrier layer consisting of a third metal layer, which covers the first metal layer and the second metal layer with a width that is wider than the width of the first metal layer and the second metal layer. The third metal layer overwraps the second metal layer and the first metal layer.
US09779900B2
A heater-bimetal apparatus is disclosed. The heater-bimetal apparatus has a heating element having a first portion and a second portion, a bimetal element coupled to the heating element at a third portion between the first and second portions, and a support member coupled to the heating element at the third portion, the support member including registration surfaces adapted to be received in pockets formed in spaced portions of circuit breaker housing. Assemblies including the heater-bimetal apparatus and methods of assembly of heater-bimetal assemblies are provided, as are other aspects.
US09779898B2
A switch device (10) and method for generation of energy for operating the switch device (10), wherein the switch device (10) is provided with a drive unit (120) interacting with an actuation device operable by a user, and with a moving device (130) configured to be set in motion by the drive unit (120), and with an energy harvester (132, 140, 140a) for providing energy to the switch device (10) in dependence on a motion of the moving device (130), such that energy for commands or other operations is provided to the switch device (10). The moving device (130) is configured to be repeatedly repositioned in relation to a defined zero position, as long as it has kinetic energy, in order to provide kinetic energy which can be converted in electric energy by the energy harvester (132, 140, 140a). Such an electromechanical device for generating energy can ensure wireless operation of the switch device (10) without the need of batteries or any other kind of power supply.
US09779894B2
Systems and methods for forming button assemblies for electronic devices are disclosed. According to some embodiments, the button assemblies include one or more sound improvement features to improve the sound that the button assemblies make when pressed by users of the electronic devices. According to some embodiments, the button assemblies include shims that provide proper alignment of the various components of the button assemblies and to accommodate any tolerance stack up of the various components of the button assemblies. The shims can include alignment features to prevent the shims from shifting within the button assemblies. According to some embodiments, thicknesses of the shims are customized to accommodate varying tolerance stack ups of the components of the button assemblies. In some embodiments, the button assemblies include a combination of sound improvement features and shims.
US09779892B2
A target pole-close timing determining unit corrects a breaker characteristic correction signal of a preceding turn-on phase by using a correction amount which is proportional to an absolute value of the interpolar voltage upon turn-on of the proceeding turn-on phase, and a correction amount which is proportional to an elapsed time after a target pole-close timing of the preceding turn-on phase, to generate a subsequent phase interpolar voltage signal, and determines a target pole-close timing of the subsequent turn-on phase at a timing when the subsequent phase interpolar voltage signal is equal to or smaller than a threshold value.
US09779891B1
A circuit breaker installation including a frame assembly and a circuit breaker assembly is provided. The frame assembly includes a conductor assembly and the frame assembly defines an enclosed space. The frame assembly conductor assembly includes a primary contact assembly and a movable secondary contact assembly. The circuit breaker assembly is movably disposed in the frame assembly enclosed space. The contact assemblies are configurable electrical components. The configurable electrical components move between a connect configuration, a test configuration, and, a disconnect configuration.
US09779877B2
A film capacitor includes a pair of mutually opposed dielectric films; and evaporated electrodes respectively provided on the pair of dielectric films. The evaporated electrode provided on one of the pair of dielectric films includes slits that are regions in which the evaporated electrode is not provided, a plurality of electrode regions defined by the slits, and at least one fuse portion that connects the electrode regions adjacent to each other. The one dielectric film, on which the evaporated electrode including the slits and the at least one fuse portion is provided, includes at least one through portion that extends through the one dielectric film, the at least one through portion being provided in at least one area corresponding to at least one of the slits adjacent to the at least one fuse portion.
US09779869B2
An integrated circuit transformer structure includes at least two conductor groups stacked in parallel in different layers. A first spiral track is formed in the at least two conductor groups, the first spiral track included first turns of a first radius within each of the at least two conductor groups, and second turns of a second radius within each of the at least two conductor groups, the first and second turns being electrically connected. A second spiral track is formed in the at least two conductor groups, the second spiral track including third turns of a third radius within each of the at least two conductor groups and disposed in a same plane between the first and second turns in each of the at least two conductor groups.
US09779867B2
An electronic component includes a body including internal electrodes; an insulating layer disposed on side surfaces of the body and at least one of an upper surface of the body and a lower surface of the body; and an external electrode disposed on an end surface of the body and connected to the internal electrodes. The external electrode extends to at least one of the upper surface of the body, the lower surface of the body, and the side surfaces of the body, and partially overlaps the insulating layer.
US09779851B2
This invention is directed to a polymer thick film transparent conductive composition with haptic response capability that may be used in applications where thermoforming of the base substrate occurs, e.g., as in capacitive switches. Polycarbonate substrates are often used as the substrate and the polymer thick film conductive composition may be used without any barrier layer. Depending on the specific design, the thermoformable transparent conductor may be below or on top of a thermoformable silver conductor. Thermoformable electric circuits benefit from the presence of an encapsulant layer over the dried polymer thick film conductive composition. The electrical circuit is subsequently subjected to an injection molding process.
US09779846B2
A detection apparatus for detecting high energy radiation, preferably for detecting gamma radiation, coming from a source of high energy radiation in a detection volume, e.g. from one or more particles emitting high energy radiation. The apparatus comprises at least one detection surface configured to convert incident high energy radiation into a detection signal, and a collimator system comprising at least three collimator slits. Each collimator slit is arranged to project high energy radiation coming from a respective slit field of view of said detection volume onto said detection surface. At least two of said collimator slits extend in non-parallel directions and the respective slit fields of view of said at least two non-parallel collimator slits and the slit field of view of any other of said at least three collimator slits overlap and define a common detection volume of the detection apparatus.
US09779844B2
To provide a containment cask for storage or transport of radioactive material, without employing a homogenization treatment. Pouring a molten lead between an inner shell 2 and an intermediate shell 3 to serve as a gamma ray shielding material, allowing the lead to cool, and subsequently, filling either one or both of a first void layer 9a formed at a boundary between the inner shell 2 and the poured lead 5a or a second void layer 9b formed at a boundary between the intermediate shell 3 and the poured lead 5a, using a low melting point metal 10 in a closely adhering state. To provide the cask 1 with a good heat-dissipating effect, by filling the void layers 9a, 9b that prevent the cask 1 from dissipating heat, with the low melting point metal 10 that has a superb thermal conductivity.
US09779832B1
In one aspect, a voltage is provided as a rectangular waveform in which the duty cycle is varied to provide different effective voltages. These voltages may be applied to various control lines in a memory device such as a word line, bit line and/or source line, in a program, verify, read or erase operation. In some cases, the duty cycle is a function of programming data of a memory cell such as an assigned data state or a programming speed category. The duty cycle could also be a function of a programming phase or other criterion. The duty cycle can be varied by modifying the duration and separation of the pulses of the waveform or by pulse counting, in which a specified number of pulses are passed in a time period.
US09779828B2
Apparatuses and methods for inferring threshold voltage distributions associated with memory cells via interpolation are described herein. An example includes determining soft data for a group of memory cells each programmed to one of a number of data states, wherein the soft data comprises a number of different soft data values, determining a quantity of memory cells associated with each of the different soft data values, and inferring at least a portion of a threshold voltage distribution associated with the group of memory cells via an interpolation process using the determined quantities of memory cells associated with each of the different soft data values.
US09779825B2
One embodiment provides a method for reading a memory cell of a memory plane of a memory of the erasable electrically-programmable ROM type. The word line and of the bit line to which the memory cell belongs are selected and the content of the cell is read via a read amplifier. One input of the read amplifier is connected to the bit line and pre-charged at a pre-charge voltage. During the read operation, a source voltage higher than the pre-charge voltage is applied to the source of the floating-gate transistor of the cell. A read current flows from the cell towards the input of the read amplifier and then flows through a programmed cell.
US09779821B2
In an embodiment of a memory device including a matrix of memory cells wherein the memory cells are arranged in a plurality of memory cells strings each one including at least two serially-connected memory cells, groups of at least two memory cells strings being connected to a respective bit line, and wherein said memory cells are adapted to be programmed into at least a first programming state and a second programming state, a method of storing data comprising exploiting a single memory cell for each of the memory cells string for writing the data, wherein said exploiting includes bringing the single memory cell to the second programming state, the remaining memory cells of the string being left in the first programming state.
US09779820B1
A non-volatile memory and a programming method thereof are provided. The programming method for the non-volatile memory includes: setting at least one first isolation cell between a first side cell and at least one first pass cell of an inhibited memory string; cutting off the at least one first isolation cell and providing a pre-boosting voltage to a word line of the first side cell and at a first time point; turning on the at least one first isolation cell at a second time point for transporting the pre-boosting potential to channels of the at least one first pass cell and a primary cell at a second time period; and providing a boosting voltage to word lines of the at least one first pass cell during a boosting time period.
US09779818B2
A method includes storing data in memory cells by programming the memory cells with respective values. The memory cells are read in multiple readout operations that each compares the programmed values to at least first and second read thresholds, while keeping the first read threshold fixed throughout the readout operations and perturbing only the second read threshold between the readout operations. A preferred value for the second read threshold is estimated based on the multiple readout operations.
US09779811B2
A memory circuit, including a memory array (such as a cross-point array), may include circuit elements that may function both as selection elements/drivers and de-selection elements/drivers. A selection/de-selection driver may be used to provide both a selection function as well as an operation function. The operation function may include providing sufficient currents and voltages for WRITE and/or READ operations in the memory array. When the de-selection path is used for providing the operation function, highly efficient cross-point implementations can be achieved. The operation function may be accomplished by circuit manipulation of a de-selection supply and/or de-selection elements.
US09779808B2
A resistance random access memory device includes a control circuit. The control circuit applies a first voltage between the plurality of second interconnects and one of the first interconnects for a first time when switching resistance states of the variable resistance members from a first state to a second state, and the control circuit applies a second voltage between the plurality of second interconnects and the one of the first interconnects for a second time after applying the first voltage when the resistance state of one or more of the variable resistance members of a plurality of the variable resistance members connected to the one of the first interconnects is in the first state. The second voltage has the same polarity as the first voltage and is lower than the first voltage. The second time is longer than the first time.
US09779800B2
Apparatuses and methods for providing activation timings of sense amplifiers in a semiconductor device are described. An example apparatus includes: a first memory bank including at least one first sense amplifier that is enabled responsive to a first activation signal; a second memory bank including at least one second sense amplifier that is enabled responsive to a second activation signal; and a control circuit that receives a control signal. The control circuit includes a delay circuit that provides a delayed control signal by delaying the control signal, a first sense amplifier control circuit coupled to the first delay circuit and provides the first activation signal respective to the delayed control signal when the first memory bank is designated, and a second sense amplifier control circuit coupled to the delay circuit and provides the second activation signal respective to the delayed control signal when the second memory bank is designated.
US09779789B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to performing comparison operations in memory. An example apparatus can include a first group of memory cells coupled to a first access line and configured to store a plurality of first elements, and a second group of memory cells coupled to a second access line and configured to store a plurality of second elements. The apparatus can include a controller configured to cause the plurality of first elements to be compared with the plurality of second elements by controlling sensing circuitry to perform a number of operations without transferring data via an input/output (I/O) line, and the plurality of first elements and the plurality of second elements can be compared in parallel.
US09779777B2
A frame rate is synchronized to a detected cadence in order to generate an output image sequence that is substantially stabilized. In an in-camera process, a camera receives motion data of the camera while the camera captures the sequence of image frames. A dominant frequency of motion is determined and the capture frame rate is dynamically adjusted to match the frequency of detected motion so that each image frame is captured when the camera is at approximately the same position along the axis of motion. Alternatively, in a post-processing process, frames of a captured image sequence are selectively sampled at a sampling rate corresponding to the dominant frequency of motion so that each sampled frame corresponds to an image capture that occurred when the camera is at approximately the same position along the axis of motion.
US09779775B2
Embodiments described herein include systems and methods for automatically creating compilation videos from an original video based on metadata associated with the original video. For example, a method for creating a compilation video may include determining a relevance score for video frames in an original video; selecting a plurality of relevant video frames from the original video based on the relevance score; selecting a plurality of video clips from the original video based on the relevance scores of the video frames; and creating a compilation video from the plurality of video clips. Each of the plurality of video clips, for example, may include at least one relevant video frame from the plurality of relevant video frames.
US09779772B1
The magnetic tape has a magnetic layer containing ferromagnetic powder and binder on a nonmagnetic support, wherein a timing based servo pattern is present on the magnetic layer, the centerline average surface roughness Ra that is measured on the surface of the magnetic layer is less than or equal to 1.8 nm, and the coefficient of friction that is measured on the base portion of the surface of the magnetic layer is less than or equal to 0.35.
US09779771B1
A stack includes a substrate, a magnetic recording layer comprising FePtX disposed over the substrate, and a capping layer disposed on the magnetic recording layer. The capping layer comprises Co; at least one rare earth element; one or more elements selected from a group consisting of Fe and Pt; and an amorphizing agent comprising one to three elements selected from a group consisting of B, Zr, Ta, Cr, Nb, W, V, and Mo.
US09779769B2
A diamond probe is suitable to be attached to an Atomic Force Microscope and is created with a tip that incorporates a one or more Nitrogen Vacancy (NV) centers located near the end of the tip. The probe arm acts as an optical waveguide to propagate the emission from the NV center with high efficiency and a beveled end directs excitation light to the NV center and directs photoluminescence light emanating from the NV center into the probe arm. The light source (or a portion of the light source), a detector, as well as an RF antenna, if used, may be mounted to the probe arm. The probe with integrated components enable excitation of photoluminescence in the NV center as well as optically detected Electron Spin Resonance (ODMR) and temperature measurements, and may further serve as a light probe utilizing the physical effect of Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED).
US09779768B2
A sequential storage media system may include a head for reading or writing data to sequential storage media and a controller communicatively coupled to the head. The controller may be configured to control winding of a tape comprising cleaning media between reels of a cartridge comprising the tape in order to determine an occurrence of an event indicative of a need to clean a head of a sequential storage media system, issue to a user an indication of the occurrence of the event, determine an amount of cleaning for the head based on a bit error rate of input/output communication associated with the head, and responsive to receiving a cleaning cartridge in the sequential storage media system, clean the head of a sequential storage media system in accordance with the amount of cleaning by passing cleaning media of a cartridge over the head.
US09779757B1
Architectures and techniques to visually indicate an operational state of an electronic device. In some instances, the electronic device comprises a voice-controlled device configured to interact with a user through voice input and visual output. The voice-controlled device may be positioned in a home environment, such as on a table in a room of the environment. The user may interact with the voice-controlled device through speech and the voice-controlled device may perform operations requested by the speech. As the voice-controlled device enters different operational states while interacting with the user, one or more lights of the voice-controlled device may be illuminated to indicate the different operational states.
US09779751B2
Respiratory-based biofeedback devices, systems, and methods are provided. A respiratory biofeedback method includes producing a respiratory signal in response to a user's respiratory activity, generating an audio output signal that includes a modified version of the respiratory signal, and converting the audio output signal into sound waves output to the user to provide biofeedback. The sound waves can be output to the user in real time response to the user's respiratory activity. A microphone can be used to generate the respiratory signal. The generated audio output signal can includes the respiratory signal modified to increase a volume level of a portion of the respiratory signal where the volume level exceeds a specified volume level.
US09779747B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a coding/decoding method, apparatus, and system. According to the coding method, de-emphasis processing is performed on a full band signal by using a de-emphasis parameter determined according to a characteristic factor of an input audio signal, and then the full band signal is coded and sent to a decoder, so that the decoder performs corresponding de-emphasis decoding processing on the full band signal according to the characteristic factor of the input audio signal and restores the input audio signal. This resolves a prior-art problem that an audio signal restored by a decoder is apt to have signal distortion, and implements adaptive de-emphasis processing on the full band signal according to the characteristic factor of the audio signal to enhance coding performance, so that the input audio signal restored by the decoder has relatively high fidelity and is closer to an original signal.
US09779734B2
A speech recognition server and method are provided. The speech recognition server includes: a network connector configured to connect to terminals through a communication network, and a processor configured to calculate times of arrival of a speech sound at each of the terminals using the speech signals received from each of the terminals, calculate distances between a user and the terminals based on the times of arrival of the speech sound to each of the terminals, and recognize a command to control a target by integrating speech recognition results obtained from the speech signals using a weighted value determined based on the distances.
US09779731B1
An audio processing system configured to generate, based at least in part on captured sound, an audio signal that includes a speech component corresponding to a user's speech utterance and an audio component corresponding to audio output of another device is described herein. The audio processing system is also configured to receive a reference signal that corresponds to the audio output of the other device. The reference signal may be received as ultrasonic audio output of the other device or from a remote server. The audio processing device then processes the generated audio signal to remove at least a part of the generated audio signal that corresponds to the reference signal.
US09779729B1
Various embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems, and computer-program products for predicting an outcome for an event of interest associated with a contact center communication. That is to say, various embodiments of the invention involve predicting an outcome for an event of interest associated with a party involved in a contact center communication based on characteristics and content of the communication conducted with the party by utilizing one or more classifier models.
US09779728B2
Systems and methods are provided for adding punctuations. For example, one or more first feature units are identified in a voice file taken as a whole; the voice file is divided into multiple segments by detecting silences in the voice file; one or more second feature units are identified in the voice file; a first aggregate weight of first punctuation states of the voice file and a second aggregate weight of second punctuation states of the voice file are determined, using a language model established based on word separation and third semantic features; a weighted calculation is performed to generate a third aggregate weight based on a linear combination associated with the first aggregate weight and the second aggregate weight; and one or more final punctuations are added to the voice file based on at least information associated with the third aggregate weight.
US09779721B2
A wireless communication device is disclosed. The wireless communication device includes a processor, a memory, a transceiver configured to receive an audio signal, a codec to decode the audio signal, a dynamic range controller and a phoneme processor. The phoneme processor is configured to extract acoustic cues from each frame of the decoded audio signal and to identify a phoneme class in the each frame. The dynamic range controller is configured to apply dynamic range compression on the each frame based on the identified phoneme class.
US09779720B2
A control system provides centralized active noise control (ANC) and active vibration control (AVC) through a digital network. The control system includes a controller, an audio sub-system, and a vibration sub-system. The audio-sub system includes at least one sound monitoring component and at least one sound outputting component. The vibration sub-system includes at least one vibration monitoring component and at least one vibration actuating component. The controller and the sub-systems are interconnected through the digital network. The controller controls the sub-systems through the digital network to perform the ANC and AVC functions in a holistic approach.
US09779710B2
An electronic apparatus includes a plurality of pads, each of the plurality of pads including a touch sensor and an acceleration sensor, a sound output interface configured to output sounds that are set to the respective pads, a display configured to display visual feedback, and a processor configured to, in response to the touch sensor in a pad among the plurality of pads detecting a touch of the pad, and the acceleration sensor in the pad detecting an intensity of the touch that is greater than or equal to a value, determine that a beat is performed on the pad, control the sound output interface to output a sound that is set to the pad on which the beat is determined to be performed, with a magnitude corresponding to an intensity of the beat, and control the display to display the visual feedback corresponding to the beat determined to be performed.
US09779703B2
Provided is a timing controller configured to operate a display device. The timing controller includes a receiving unit receiving a still image signal; a transmitting unit outputting an output data used to display images; a clock frequency spreader generating a spread clock signal having a frequency value adjusted between first and second frequency values by modulating a reference clock signal; a memory system storing a first image data which corresponds to a first frame of an image, and outputting the first image data in response to the spread clock signal; and a still image managing unit communicating with the memory system in order to output the first image data as the output data. According to the timing controller, electro-magnetic interference may be reduced and operation errors of the display device may be prevented.
US09779701B2
There is provided at least one image processing apparatus capable of precisely reproducing a large blur similar to a background blur produced by a single-lens reflex camera, while suppressing a circuit scale for filter processing. A two-dimensional filter processing circuit of at least one embodiment of an image processing unit performs the filter processing using first to N-th division filters each having a plurality of filter coefficients (where N is an integer of 2 or more) on an input image to generate first to N-th intermediate images. A combination unit of the at least one embodiment of the image processing unit combines or adds together the first to N-th intermediate images generated by the two-dimensional filter processing circuit to generate an integrated image. Thus, a large blur similar to a background blur produced by the single-lens reflex camera can be precisely reproduced by small-size two-dimensional filter processing.
US09779697B2
A display apparatus for displaying a display information includes a display panel, and a plurality of gate drivers and a plurality of source drivers coupled to the display panel. When one abnormal driver exists among the plurality of gate drivers and the plurality of source drivers, the other functionally operating gate drivers and source drivers transform the display information into a transformed display information to transmit the transformed display information to the display panel for a display operation.
US09779692B2
A display apparatus suitable for use in any of a number of different display applications including, but not limited to, mounting to a dashboard of a motor vehicle. The display apparatus includes a display portion arranged to display an image having a brightness and a contrast, the brightness and/or contrast of the image being a function of viewing angle, the brightness and/or contrast having at least one local maximum along a direction substantially parallel to at least one primary vector, the at least one primary vector not being a vector substantially normal to a plane of the display portion.
US09779691B2
An information handling system can include a display for displaying an image and a graphics processing unit. The graphics processing unit can select a display color table based on a display type determined based on extended data identification data for the display, receive an input image into a graphics processing unit, perform image contrast and sharpness calculations on the input image, perform a color optimization using the display color table, and provide an output image to the display.
US09779685B2
A vehicle display control device includes: a memory that stores a native platform for operating a native application and a versatile platform for operating a versatile application, and includes a common memory area for sharing data; a control unit that executes the versatile platform to operate a storing device for storing a versatile application image in the common memory area, executes the native platform to operate an acquisition device for acquiring the versatile application image, and operates a production device for producing a display image, in which the versatile application image and a native application image rendered by a native application are laid out; and a display control device that displays the display image on a display device.
US09779670B2
Provided is a driving device of a display medium, including an application unit that applies a voltage with a pulse width corresponding to a density of a color to be displayed to each of plural pixels of a display medium in which plural kinds of particle groups having different movement starting voltages for movement between a pair of substrates according to an electric field and different colors are enclosed, and a controller that controls the application unit so that a first voltage with a pulse width corresponding to a density of a color of a first particle group finishes being applied to each of the plural pixels, and then a second voltage with a pulse width corresponding to a density of a color of a second particle group is applied thereto.
US09779667B2
Provided is an organic light emitting display device including: a display panel including data lines, scan lines, and pixels coupled to the data lines and the scan lines; a digital data converter configured to calculate a panel load utilizing digital video data, and to convert the digital video data such that peak luminance of the pixels have a maximum value when the panel load is equal to or less than a limit value; a data driver configured to convert digital conversion data, which has been converted by the digital data converter, into data voltages, and to supply the data voltages to the data lines; and a scan driver configured to provide scan signals to the scan lines.
US09779666B2
An organic light emitting display includes a plurality of pixels and a compensation unit. Each of the pixels includes a driving transistor to control an amount of current supplied to a corresponding organic light emitting diode. The compensation unit is coupled to the pixels by data lines and includes at least one sensing unit. The sensing unit extracts threshold voltage information from the pixels corresponding to respective driving transistors. The sensing unit receives noise currents from a plurality of data lines, offset the noise currents, and extracts the threshold voltage information after offset of the noise currents.
US09779665B2
A gate driver for a display device and a display device including the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the gate driver includes first through N-th scan drivers configured to respectively output first through N-th scan signals, where N is an integer greater than 1. The gate driver also includes first through N-th sensing drivers configured to respectively output first through N-th sensing signals, wherein an M-th one of the first through N-th sensing drivers is configured to activate an M-th one of the first through N-th sensing signals K times during an active period of an (M+1)-th one of the first through N-th scan signals, where M is an integer greater than 0 and less than N and K is an integer greater than 1.
US09779664B2
This application relates to methods and apparatus for refreshing a display device at various frequencies. Specifically, multiple areas of the display device can be refreshed concurrently at different frequencies. In this way, when static content is being displayed in certain areas of the display device, those certain areas can be refreshed at a lower rate than areas displaying dynamic content such as video or animation. By refreshing at lower rates, the energy consumed by the display device and subsystems associated with the display device can be reduced. Additionally, processes for reducing flicker when refreshing the display device at different refresh rates are disclosed herein.
US09779663B2
An organic light emitting display, a method for driving the same, and a method for manufacturing the same are discussed. The organic light emitting display according to an embodiment includes a panel including subpixels each having a compensation circuit including a reference voltage supply transistor, which receives a reference voltage and initializes a node of a gate electrode or a drain electrode of a driving transistor using the reference voltage, a scan driver supplying a scan signal to scan lines of the panel, a data driver supplying a data signal to data lines of the panel, a timing controller that controls the scan driver and the data driver, and a reference voltage compensation unit supplying the reference voltage including a reverse voltage opposite a ripple generated in the reference voltage to the subpixels and cancel the ripple.
US09779662B1
A pixel circuit, a drive method based on the pixel circuit, and a display device. The pixel circuit comprises: a first capacitor (C1), a second capacitor (C2), a second transistor (T2), a third transistor (T3) and a light-emitting branch for being coupled between a first common electrode (VDD) and a second common electrode (VSS); wherein the light-emitting branch comprises a first transistor (T1), a fourth transistor (T4) and a light-emitting element (OLED) which are connected in series; a first electrode of the first transistor (T1) is coupled to a second electrode of the fourth transistor (T4), and a coupling node is a third node (C); and a control electrode of the fourth transistor (T4) is used for inputting a second scanning control signal (VEM), and the fourth transistor (T4) switches the ON/OFF state of the light-emitting branch in response to the second scanning control signal (VEM). At the programming stage, a threshold voltage of the first transistor (T1) is input to a first node (A) through the third transistor (T3) and is stored; and at the light-emitting stage, a light-emitting current for driving the light-emitting element (OLED) is generated according to information about a voltage difference across two ends of the first capacitor (C1). The pixel circuit is used for compensating for the threshold voltage shift of the first transistor (T1) and the light-emitting element (OLED).
US09779660B2
A pixel cell driving circuit driving an organic electric lighting component comprises a first, a second and a third thin film transistors and a storage capacitor. The first thin film transistor is turned on or turned off under a control of a first scanning signal. When the first thin film transistor is turned on, the storage capacitor is charged by a data signal. The second thin film transistor is turned on under an action of the storage capacitor and drives an OLED. The third thin film transistor is turned on under a control of the second scanning signal when the first thin film transistor is turned off, and the storage capacitor is charged by a charging signal. The pixel cell driving circuit may effectively avoid the flicker due to the electrical charge leakage of the storage capacitor. The disclosure further provides a pixel cell and a pixel cell driving method.
US09779653B2
To provide a highly browsable data processing device, provide a highly portable data processing device, provide a data processing device which consumes low power, or provide a data processing device having high display quality, the data processing device includes a display portion having flexibility, a plurality of driver circuit portions arranged in the periphery of the display portion, a sensor portion discerning an external state of the display portion, an arithmetic portion supplying image data to the driver circuit portions, and a memory portion storing a program executed by the arithmetic portion. A first mode in which the display portion is unfolded or a second mode in which the display portion is folded is sensed by the sensor. Luminance adjustment processing is carried out by the program in accordance with the first mode or the second mode.
US09779646B2
A shift register, a method and a system for operating the shift register are provided. The shift register includes: an input circuit adapted to output a first voltage signal in response to an input signal; a trigger circuit adapted to generate a second voltage signal based on a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage, in response to the first voltage signal; and generate a third voltage signal, different than the second voltage signal, based on the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage, in response to the first voltage signal; and an output circuit adapted to output a scanning signal based on the second voltage signal and the third voltage signal. The voltages of the second voltage signal and the third voltage signal depend on a voltage dividing value of the trigger circuit, and the voltage dividing value of the trigger circuit is based on the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage.
US09779645B2
A display panel, a display method and a display device are disclosed; the display panel comprises sub pixel units of red (R), green (G), blue (B) and one other color (X), wherein the sub pixel units are arranged into a sub pixel unit array, the sub pixel units in the sub pixel unit array are all in a cross shape, the cross shape being constructed with rectangles with an aspect ratio of 3:1 in transverse and longitudinal directions, and the cross shape having equal lengths in the transverse and longitudinal directions; and respective sub pixel units in the sub pixel unit array are interlaced with each other sequentially and arranged periodically. The display panel makes the pixel structure more compact and the pixel sharing property more obvious.
US09779640B2
Self-erectable displays and methods of making such self-erectable displays are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a shroud including a first shroud panel; a second shroud panel opposite the first shroud panel; a first end separating the first shroud panel and the second shroud panel; and a second end separating the first shroud panel and the second shroud panel; and an elastic band to be coupled to the shroud between the first and second ends to outwardly bias the first shroud panel relative to the second shroud panel to enable the shroud to have an oblong cross-section when erected.
US09779631B1
Facilitating patient communication using branching logic in an outpatient oncology treatment regimen
A method and system facilitate communication with a patient on an outpatient oral oncology regimen. The method and system facilitate creating an initial contact guide to direct a patient interaction occurring at the beginning of the outpatient oral oncology regimen and using the initial contact guide to conduct an initial contact with the patient using the branching logic of the initial contact guide to determine which initial contact guide questions and informational scripts to present based on information provided by the patient. The method and system further facilitate creating a secondary contact guide to conduct a secondary, follow-up contact with the patient using the branching logic of the secondary contact guide to determine which secondary contact guide questions and informational scripts to present based on information provided by the patient.
US09779623B2
Systems and methods for communicating alerts to vehicles based on vehicle movement are disclosed. According to an aspect, a method includes determining movement of one or both of first and second vehicles. The method also includes analyzing the determined movement based on a predetermined criteria. Further, the method includes receiving user input for vehicular communication of an alert. The method also includes communicating an alert to the second vehicle based on the analysis in response to receiving the user input.
US09779621B1
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for providing information about road features. A server can receive reports from information sources associated with a road feature that can include a road intersection. Each report can include source data obtained at a respective time. The source data from the reports can be stored at the server. The server can construct a phase map, where the phase map is configured to represent a status of the road feature at one or more times. The server can receive an information request related to the road feature at a specified time. In response to the information request, the server can generate an information response including a prediction of a status related to the road feature at the specified time. The prediction can be provided by the phase map and is based on information request. The information response can be sent from the server.
US09779620B2
The present invention relates to a method for obtaining traffic information using the billing information of a mobile terminal. A specified number of a mobile terminal is obtained from billing information necessary for performing a billing operation when a telephone call is made using the mobile terminal on a highway (S61, S62 and S63). The moving time of the mobile terminal between base stations is tracked (S65), such that information of a traffic state on the highway can be obtained in real time (S66). The existing mobile communication network is employed to obtain the traffic information, such that the cost required for operating special vehicles for collecting traffic information and for obtaining traffic information from information providers can be reduced. Customer demand can be met as a measurement operations is continuously carried out and the traffic information abruptly changed is reflected in real time.
US09779615B2
A premises apparatus is provided. The premises apparatus includes a processor configured to: determine that at least one monitoring service is being requested for activation and determine permit data associated with the at least one monitoring service. The processor is father configured to, if the determined permit data indicates at least one permit is required for the at least one monitoring service: transmit a request for at least one permit that is required for activation of the at least one monitoring service and, after transmitting the request for the at least one permit for activation of the at least one monitoring service, activate the at least one monitoring service.
US09779606B2
The present invention discloses a method, device, and system for prompting whether a portable locator has arrived on time, one of which comprising: a server, according to position point information transmitted by the portable locator, judges that there is not a position point indicative of arrival at a destination reminder area in a current preset time period and the current time has already exceeded an estimated arrival time, and then generates and issues a non-arrival reminder. By employing the present invention, the guardian confirms at any time that the monitored person carrying the portable locator does not arrive at the destination reminder area within the preset arrival time, and thereby masters the safety information of the monitored person, whereby the user experience is improved and subsequent person search effectiveness is enhanced.
US09779601B2
A device tag including a housing that includes a first connector structure constructed and arranged to engage with a battery operated device and a second connector structure constructed and arranged to slidingly engage with a battery such that the device tag is provided between the battery operated device and the battery. The device tag also includes an electrical connector carried by the housing and constructed and arranged to provide an electrical connection between the battery operated device and the battery. The device tag further includes an electronic device carried by the housing and constructed and arranged to transmit electrical signals.
US09779597B2
A method of operating a security system with deterrent capability is implemented through security cameras that are articulated and non-articulated, entry doors, and a control unit. The control unit is communicatively coupled with the security cameras and the entry doors as the control unit is supervised by a trained operator. The security cameras continuously send audio and video data to the control unit so that a threatening target can be identified before he or she can do any destruction. When the threatening target is identified, the entry doors are locked and electrified through the control unit in order to provide an initial defense system for the threatening target. Additional deterrence can be implemented at the threatening target through a less-lethal deterrence unit and non-lethal deterrence units of the articulated security cameras while the non-articulated security cameras provide surveillance of the threatening target to the control unit.
US09779590B2
The present invention provides a multicolor signal light and a controlling method thereof. The multicolor signal light includes: a multicolor layer, comprising a plurality of lights being capable of lighting multicolor lights and arranged in a certain pattern; a single control signal line for receiving a control signal from a controller outside; a processor for controlling the multicolor layer to light in a different mode and in a different color according to the control signal received by the single control signal line; and power supply terminals for receiving power supply voltage from outside.
US09779589B2
According to one embodiment, a receipt data processing device includes an obtaining section, a data generating section, and an output section. The obtaining section is configured to obtain customer code of a customer who purchased an item. The data generating section configured to generate receipt data including information about the purchased item, and include the customer code in the receipt data when the customer code is obtained. The output section is configured to output the receipt data to a certain destination based on whether or not the receipt data includes the customer code.
US09779587B2
A method, computer system, and computer program product to award one or more benchmark prizes in an online card game or hand. In certain embodiments, a controller automatically triggers awarding a first benchmark prize to at least one of one or more players or one or more game observers, based at least in part on an occurrence of a first benchmark event. The awarding occurs without any physical based-dealer taking time to payout the first benchmark prize, and thus, without slowing down the online game or hand that is being played.
US09779581B2
There is provided an amusement system which expands an opportunity that a user obtains a prize relating to a game. In an amusement system where: the game can be played on a user terminal using a game server portion of a server apparatus; a prize relating to the game is selected by the game server portion in association with an operation by a user to the user terminal; and the user can use the selected prize in the game, a vendor apparatus being constructed as a physical apparatus different from the user terminal is connected to the server apparatus, a prize is selected by the game server portion based on an operation by a user to the vendor operation, and printing-output is performed by a printer of the vendor apparatus as one example of a physical prize corresponding to the selected prize.
US09779579B2
Systems and methods configured to display a single reel game including a plurality of cells and one or more scenarios, symbols or game event descriptions positioned within the cells that impact game credit, in which the selection of a cell is based on the prior cell selected and the random selection of a number from a group of a numbers.
US09779573B2
Breakage of electrical components inside is prevented when live wire insertion-and-removal is performed after inhibition of an increase in costs.A coin processing device 1 includes a coin sorting unit 3, a coin housing unit 2, and a harness 4. The coin housing unit has a first connector 21 including a first terminal TH2, a second terminal TL1, and a first ground terminal TG1. The coin sorting unit includes: a second connector 31 coupled to the first connector through the harness, the second connector 31 including the third terminal TH4 to which a high voltage is supplied through the first terminal, a fourth terminal TL2 configured to supply a low voltage to the second terminal, and a second ground terminal TG2 grounded through the first ground terminal; a low-voltage power source circuit 32 configured to generate the low voltage from the high voltage supplied to the third terminal, and configured to output the low voltage from a low-voltage output terminal 32t; and a switch circuit 34. The switch circuit disconnects electrical connection between the low-voltage output terminal and the fourth terminal in a case where a difference between a voltage at the second ground terminal and a voltage at the low-voltage output terminal has been less than a threshold value.
US09779562B1
A system for automatic characterization of a vehicle includes an input interface and a processor. The input interface is for receiving sensor data. The processor is for determining a vehicle characterization based at least in part on the sensor data and determining a vehicle identifier based at least in part on the vehicle characterization.
US09779556B1
The present invention is directed to systems and methods which identify fraudulent situations during the transaction phase. In one embodiment, such detection is accomplished by monitoring for situations either outside the range of normal for the general population or outside the range of normal for this particular user. The normal range could be rule driven and, for example, could include size of a given purchase, frequency of purchases, identity of use equipment being utilized for the current transaction, etc. The rule could be relaxed or tightened, at least in part, based on the length of time that the user has been a customer and the user's past payment history. In one embodiment, device ids are used to detect fraudulent users. These device (or software) ids could, for example, be a “fingerprint” of the user's equipment, or a “cookie” previously downloaded to the user that identifies the user to the fulfillment system. In situations where fraud is detected downloading the value to the user is interrupted.
US09779552B2
An information processing method and an apparatus thereof are provided, which are applicable to a head-mounted device with a display unit. The information processing method includes: determining a virtual vision area for a user in a case that the user wears the head-mounted device; searching an environment space for a first object which is located in the virtual vision area and satisfies a predetermined condition; determining a first display area of the display unit which matches the first object; and outputting first display content in the first display area, such that when the user watches the display unit, the user sees that the first display content is presented on the first object in the virtual vision area. Display effect of the head-mounted device is improved according to the embodiments of the disclosure.
US09779551B2
The invention relates to a method for generating content in augmented reality mode for an equipment item (E) situated in the real world, by employing a mobile terminal (1) provided with a screen (11), the method comprising: a step of determining an augmented reality database stored in an augmented reality server (S1), a step of reading, using the mobile terminal, a matrix code (20) or an electronic tag associated with said equipment item (E), said matrix code (20) or said electronic tag respectively coding or comprising an address linked to a content, a step of memorizing said address, a step of generating a graphical interface component (Wx) corresponding to said address allowing access to said content, a step of memorizing the graphical interface component (Wx) in the database (DB) stored in the augmented reality server (S1).
US09779542B2
An apparatus and method are described for implementing flexible finite differences in a graphics processor. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processor comprises: pixel shading logic to perform pixel shading operations on pixels associated with a rasterized primitive using covered pixels and uncovered pixels; and helper pixel selection logic to select helper pixels in the rasterized primitive, the helper pixels to be used by the pixel sharing logic for gradient computations, wherein for one or more of the covered pixels, the helper pixel selection logic attempts to identify one or more suitable covered helper pixels and, if no suitable covered helper pixels exist, identifies one or more uncovered helper pixels.
US09779535B2
A resource used by a shader executed by a graphics processing unit is referenced using a “descriptor”. Descriptors are grouped together in memory called a descriptor heap. Applications allocate and store descriptors in descriptor heaps. Applications also create one or more descriptor tables specifying a subrange of a descriptor heap. To bind resources to a shader, descriptors are first loaded into a descriptor heap. When the resources are to be used by a set of executing shaders, descriptor tables are defined on the GPU identifying ranges within the descriptor heap. Shaders, when executing, refer to the currently defined descriptor tables to access the resources made available to them. If the shader is to be executed again with different resources, and if those resources are already in memory and specified in the descriptor heap, then the descriptor tables are changed to specify different ranges of the descriptor heap.
US09779532B2
A method and system for transforming simple user input into customizable animated images for use in text-messaging applications.
US09779527B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and a terminal device for processing an image. The method includes: acquiring an image; recognizing a face contained in the image; acquiring information of character features according to the face in the image; processing the image according to the information of character features; and obtaining the processed image. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, by automatically recognizing the face in the image, and acquiring the information of character features thereby acquiring a cosmetic process mode corresponding to the information of character features, and then processing the image according to the selected cosmetic process mode, manual setting of cosmetic process parameters can be avoided and the efficiency of image processing can be improved.
US09779526B2
A method of determining a coverage area of a pixel covered by a scalable path definition for a character, is disclosed. An edge direction for each edge of the scalable path definition intersecting the pixel is received. A fragment area is determined for each of the intersecting edges, each of the fragment areas representing an area of the pixel located to a side of a corresponding edge. The side of the corresponding edge is selected according to a direction of the corresponding edge. The coverage area of the pixel is determined based on a sum of the fragment areas, the sum of the fragment areas having a value greater than a total area of the pixel.
US09779514B2
A display device includes a display panel including a display region and a driver driving each pixel of the display region in response to input image data. The driver calculates area characterization data indicating feature quantities of an image displayed in each of areas defined in the display region for each of the areas, based on the input image data and generates pixel-specific characterization data associated with each pixel by applying filtering to the area characterization data associated with the area in which each pixel is located and with areas adjacent to the area in which each pixel is located. The driver generates output image data associated with each pixel by performing a correction on the input image data associated with each pixel in response to the pixel-specific characterization data associated with each pixel and drives each pixel in response to the output image data associated with each pixel.
US09779513B2
An image processing device according to one embodiment includes a calculation unit and a setting unit. The calculation unit calculates a degree of complexity indicating a degree of positional dispersion of edges in a target region where a text region is to be extracted. The setting unit sets an edge threshold for detecting the text region to low as the degree of complexity is low.
US09779512B2
Methods for automatically generating a texture exemplar that may be used for rendering virtual objects that appear to be made from the texture exemplar are described. In some embodiments, a head-mounted display device (HMD) may identify a real-world object within an environment, acquire a three-dimensional model of the real-world object, determine a portion of the real-world object from which a texture exemplar is to be generated, capture one or more images of the portion of the real-world object, determine an orientation of the real-world object, and generate the texture exemplar using the one or more images, the three-dimensional model, and the orientation of the real-world object. The HMD may then render and display images of a virtual object such that the virtual object appears to be made from a virtual material associated with the texture exemplar.
US09779510B2
A medical image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes an estimation circuitry and a tracking circuitry. The estimation circuitry is configured to estimate the activity of the myocardium across a plurality of images at different time phases from a group of images where a plurality of images containing a myocardium are chronologically arranged. The tracking circuitry is configured to set a search range for tracking the myocardium in the group according to the activity of the myocardium and perform the tracking.
US09779509B2
A method of detecting the presence of a building in a captured image is provided. The method includes dividing the captured image into a plurality of image regions, detecting a dominant angle of detected edges within each image region, and detecting the presence of a building in an image region if the dominant angle of detected edges within that image region, excluding edges within a first threshold angle of vertical, is within a second threshold angle of horizontal and if the distribution of detected edges within the second threshold angle of horizontal is substantially the same as that of at least one adjacent image region.
US09779508B2
A combination of three computational components may provide memory and computational efficiency while producing results with little latency, e.g., output can begin with the second frame of video being processed. Memory usage may be reduced by maintaining key frames of video and pose information for each frame of video. Additionally, only one global volumetric structure may be maintained for the frames of video being processed. To be computationally efficient, only depth information may be computed from each frame. Through fusion of multiple depth maps from different frames into a single volumetric structure, errors may average out over several frames, leading to a final output with high quality.
US09779505B2
A medical image processing apparatus comprises a structure identification unit configured to automatically identify at least one anatomical structure of a medical image data set, and a metadata unit configured to validate or populate metadata associated with the medical image data set based on the identified at least one anatomical structure.
US09779493B2
A method of setting an address point (AP) of a measuring apparatus includes generating an original image using design data, generating a first simplified image by extending sizes of patterns in the original image, searching for at least one vertex in the first simplified image, and setting a predetermined region including the at least one vertex as the AP upon locating the at least one vertex.
US09779479B1
A cloud network server system, a method, and a software program product for experiencing a three-dimensional (3D) model are provided. 3D model data associated with a 3D video game is uploaded to the cloud network server system. The system is used to design for example a computer game that renders non-spatial characteristics such as, smell, reflection and/or refraction of light, wind direction, sound reflection, etc., along with spatial and visibility information associated with 3D objects displayed in the 3D video game. Different versions of the 3D model are created based on memory, streaming bandwidth, and/or processing power requirements of different user terminal computers. Based on a virtual location of a user in the 3D model, parts of at least one version of the 3D model are rendered to the user.
US09779478B1
A head-mounted display (HMD) divides an image into a high resolution (HR) inset portion at a first resolution, a peripheral portion, and a transitional portion. The peripheral portion is downsampled to a second resolution that is less than the first resolution. The transitional portion is blended such that there is a smooth change in resolution that corresponds to a change in resolution between a fovea region and a non-fovea region of a retina. An inset region is generated using the HR inset portion and the blended transitional portion, and a background region is generated using the downsampled peripheral portion. The inset region is provided to a HR inset display, and the background region is provided to a peripheral display. An optics block combines the displayed inset region with the displayed background region to generate composite content.
US09779477B2
Image enlarging apparatus, image enlarging method, surveillance camera, program and recording medium
In enlarging an image by a super-resolution process using learned data, a reference value obtained from each patch and the pixel values of peripheral pixels in the patch are compared to generate binary or ternary comparison codes, and a patch of a high-resolution component corresponding to a binary pattern code or a ternary pattern code generated from the comparison codes is read. When a high-frequency component is contained the binary pattern code may be used; otherwise the ternary pattern code may be used. It is possible to reduce the storage capacity of the coefficient data storage unit and to improve the sense of high resolution.
US09779476B2
An image signal processing method includes: receiving an original color filter array (CFA) image and a pixel binned CFA image; computing a specific information of the pixel binned CFA image; and processing the original CFA image according to the specific information. The associated image signal processor includes an input terminal, an operating unit and a processing unit, wherein the input terminal is for receiving an original CFA image and a pixel binned CFA image, the operating unit is for computing a specific information of the pixel binned CFA image, and the processing unit is for processing the original CFA image according to the specific information and utilizing the pixel binned CFA image.
US09779467B2
The subject disclosure is directed towards providing a web application with access to hardware accelerated graphics. A rendering format for a set of video frames is established. A graphics component, which is coupled to a graphics device and associated with an unsupported file type, is identified. The graphics component generates image data compromising the hardware accelerated graphics. When the web application requests a set of video frames, the image data is transformed into the set of video frames in accordance with the format. Then, the set of frames is communicated to a display device.
US09779460B2
Methods, non-transitory computer-readable storage media, and computer systems comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and at least one processor are provided for evaluating predictions regarding relationships. A computer system is controlled to manage a relationships database of relationship data records. Each relationship data record includes a person identifier for each person in the relationship. The computer system is controlled to manage a prediction database of prediction data records. Each prediction data record includes a relationship prediction for a relationship identified by a relationship data record in the relationships database. For each relationship prediction included in a prediction data record in the prediction database, the computer system is controlled to determine whether the relationship prediction is correct by accessing official records from a database via a network, and generate a prediction result indicator that indicates a result of the determination.
US09779459B2
The social in line consumer interaction launch pad is a digital commerce service that integrates into digital social forums that allows users (e.g., consumers) to perform commerce functions within a social conversation (e.g., interaction) without leaving the social forums. The launch pad automatically determines whether the conversation is about a company, brand, product and/or service, and converts text entered during the conversation into a ‘hypertext link-mouse over-launch pad’ for users to view and respond to services related to the brand, product and/or service based context. The launch pad is implemented through alliances with social forum service providers and/or a web browser plug-in to tag input (e.g., free form text) within reviews, comments, and unstructured data, selectable to initiate an interaction and/or transaction with the company of the brand and/or product. The launch pad determines the content to provide based on context information and demographics of the author and/or recipient.
US09779448B2
A system stores, in a database, different stock templates and also, for each stock template, a stock image to be displayed with the template. The system receives a user-designated image. The system then displays items simultaneously. Each item incorporates a different one of the stock templates along with the respective template's stock image. The system provides an image selector that is in a first position and capable of being switched by a user to a second position. Each time the user switches the selector to the second position, the system transforms the stock images in the displayed items simultaneously to the user-designated image. Each time the user switches the selector to the first position, the system transforms the stock images in the displayed items simultaneously to the items' respective stock images.
US09779443B1
Systems and methods for designing personalized merchandising schemes that are responsive to events received in an event stream may provide, for example, one or more graphical user interfaces by which to receive parameters for a personalized merchandising scheme from a designer. Messages may be selected for delivery to a user responsively to an event according to a defined personalized merchandising scheme.
US09779442B1
Techniques for identifying and recommending garden items may be provided. For example, image and non-image data about a garden may be received and analyzed. Identifications of garden items from the garden and related constraints may be determined accordingly. The identifications and the constraints may be used to recommend uses of the garden items and/or to recommend additional garden items that may be ordered and used in conjunction with the garden items.
US09779439B2
In an example embodiment, a memory stores a database of text objects having textual information pertaining to at least one of a plurality of documents, and contextual information about the documents. A translation module then is configured to translate text from a first user from a first language to a second language, the text pertaining to a first of the plurality of documents. A context ranking module is configured to locate, in the database, a plurality of text objects, in the second language, having text similar to the translated text, and to rank the plurality of text objects having text similar to the translated text based on a comparison of contextual information about the first document and the contextual information stored in the database for documents corresponding to the plurality of text objects having text similar to the translated text.
US09779435B2
Various embodiments provide computer program products and mobile purchase shipping systems for facilitating purchase of a product by a customer. The products and systems may be configured to receive customer data associated with the customer and to validate at least a portion of the received customer data. The products and systems may then receive package data associated with the product and receive payment data from a type of payment presented by the customer. Once received, the products and systems may use at least a portion of the validated data, the package data, and the payment data to generate a shipping manifest. In certain embodiments, the products and systems may include a magnetic card reader configured to read customer data from a customer driver's license. Still other embodiments may incorporate a mobile printer, such that the products and systems may generate a package shipping label, a shipping manifest, and/or a receipt.
US09779434B2
Methods and systems are provided for facilitating user joint purchasing and user-participated online advertisements, including: providing means for a user to request joint purchasing of products and services online; subtracting sponsoring amount provided by users' sponsors from the listed prices of products and services; dividing the cost of products and services among users participated in joint purchasing; receiving separate payments from such users; delivering products and services based on system configurations and user joint purchasing instructions; integrating existing third party online advertisements with user incentives; and enabling users to create and modify online advertisements for entities and individuals, wherein said advertisements can be customized or designed by said users. Such methods and systems further include: providing group and role-based security for users; providing means for external websites to embed unique functions of present invention, such as user joint purchasing, user-participated online advertisements, and the like; providing means to enable users to arrange others' assets; providing means for users to participant in various online events to foster better relationships; providing means for users to pool funds for charity organizations or individuals; providing means for users to centrally manage multiple accounts of their external websites; and providing means for users to acquire free assets.
US09779421B2
An embodiment of the present invention is described that includes an incentive application for providing incentives to a visitor of a site. The incentive application is both portable onto other sites and is customizable on each site to the information provided on the site.
US09779415B2
A method and system for placement of graphical objects on a page to optimize the occurrence of an event associated with such objects. The graphical objects might include, for instance, advertisements on a webpage, and the event would include a user clicking on that ad. The page includes positions for receipt of the object material. Data regarding the past performance of the objects is stored and updated as new data is received. A user requests a page from a server associated with system. The server uses the performance data to derive a prioritized arrangement of the objects on the page. The objects are arranged according to a calculation and returned to the user on the requested page.
US09779406B2
A method and an apparatus of identifying a user feature include: in response to receiving a designated evaluation of an interacting party in a service interaction, determining a reliability value of the designated evaluation of the interacting party based on a feature value of the service interaction; based on reliability values of multiple designated evaluations of the interacting party in multiple service interactions including the designated evaluation, determining a reliability mean value of the multiple designated evaluations; determining a reliability weighted mean value of the multiple designated evaluations based on a frequency weight corresponding to the multiple designated evaluations and the reliability mean value, wherein a number of the multiple designated evaluations is in a monotonically incremental or decremental relationship with the corresponding frequency weight; determining a user feature of the interacting party based on a size relationship between the reliability weighted mean value and a preset reliability threshold. Using the solution provided in the embodiment of the present disclosure can improve the accuracy of determining a user feature of an interacting party in a service interaction.
US09779404B2
System and methods for conducting wireless mobile business transactions on electronic hand-held device are disclosed. The electronic hand-held device comprises a dedicated communication component, a social media filter, and at least one functional identifier. The dedicated communication component communicates with at least one transceiver when the electronic hand-held device is located within a predetermined proximity of the at least one transceiver. The social media filter filters good or service offerings based on a user's desire. The at least one functional identifier is activatable for at least one good or service by a user when the communication is established between the electronic hand-held device and the at least one transceiver and a business transaction for the at least one good or service is initiated on the application server in a secure, user-authorized manner. The business transaction for the at least one good or service is authenticated by a social media provider.
