US09795067B2
An electronic apparatus includes heat generating components accommodated in a sealed housing section of a housing, an internal-side heat exchanger and an external-side heat exchanger on opposing sides of a wall of the housing, an external-side heat exchanger for heat generating components for heat exchange between the heat generating components and air outside the housing section, and an internal fan. A high-heat generating component generating the most heat contacts the inner surface and opposed to the external-side heat exchanger for heat generating components. Heat exchange between the high-heat generating component and air outside the housing section is effected via the external-side heat exchanger for heat generating components. Heat exchange between air inside the housing section and air outside the housing section is effected via the internal-side heat exchanger and the external-side heat exchanger.
US09795065B2
A direct-interface liquid-cooled (DL) Rack Information Handling System (RIHS) includes liquid cooled (LC) nodes that include a system of conduits supplying cooling liquid through the node enclosure and including a supply conduit extending from a node inlet coupling and a return conduit terminating in a node outlet coupling. The node inlet port and the node outlet port are positioned in an outward facing direction at a rear of the node enclosure and aligned to releasably seal to the respective inlet liquid port and outlet liquid port in the node-receiving slot for fluid transfer through the system of conduits. An air-spring reducer conduit is in fluid communication with the system of conduits and shaped to trap an amount of compressible fluid that compresses during sealing engagement between the node inlet coupling and node outlet coupling and the inlet liquid port and outlet liquid port, respectively.
US09795064B2
A heat exchanger includes: a plurality of first heat radiation members, each of the plurality of first heat radiation members including a first refrigerant flow path through which a refrigerant flows; a plurality of second heat radiation members, each of the plurality of second heat radiation members including a second refrigerant flow path through which the refrigerant flows; and a fin attached between the plurality of second heat radiation members, wherein an interval between the plurality of first heat radiation members is smaller than an interval between the plurality of second heat radiation members.
US09795063B1
Disclosed is system, method, and rack stand portion for the advantageous cooling of computer equipment 305. The rack stand 200 includes a hollow body 210, 212 that may be formed of cartridges 2416. Gas from an airflow source 5204 is guided into the rack stand body and then into a sealed case of the computer equipment. Air flow is then guided out of the computer equipment for recirculation, exhaust, or other purpose.
US09795062B1
A portable data center includes a cooling system comprising a cooling circuit, one or more air plenums, and one or more air moving devices. The cooling circuit circulates a heat transfer fluid through a portion of the cooling circuit that passes through the one or more air plenums. The heat transfer fluid that passes through the one or more air plenums cools air flowing through the one or more air plenums via the one or more air moving devices. The cooling circuit also circulates the heat transfer through a separate portion of the portable data center where heat is rejected from the heat transfer fluid into the separate portion of the portable data center. In some embodiments, the air plenums and at least a portion of the cooling circuit are mounted in a sub-floor space between a platform within the portable data center and an outer structure of the portable data center.
US09795058B2
A liquid cooling heat dissipation device includes a heat-dissipating module and a liquid supply module. The liquid supply module includes an outer cover body disposed on the heat-dissipating module and at least one pump disposed inside the outer cover body. The outer cover body has an inner space divided into a first independent space adjacent to the heat-dissipating module and a second independent space far away from the heat-dissipating module and insulated from the first independent space, the at least one pump includes a stator disposed inside the first independent space and a rotator disposed inside the second independent space, and the stator is closer to the heat-dissipating module than the rotator. The instant disclosure further provides an electronic device using the liquid cooling heat dissipation device.
US09795056B2
A cooling member includes a heat-transfer member, a refrigerant introducing pipe and a covering material. The heat-transfer member has a surface with a groove opened to the surface of the heat-transfer member. The refrigerant introducing pipe is pressed into the groove. The covering material coats the surface of the heat-transfer member and the refrigerant introducing pipe.
US09795051B2
A handle assembly includes a base seat, a handle, and a button. The handle is pivotally connected with the base seat, and includes a retaining section. There is a fastening slot formed in the retaining section. The button includes a latch which is outwardly extended. When the button is moved to a first position, the latch engages into the fastening slot to restrict a movement of the retaining section, thereby preventing a pivoting movement of the handle relative to the base seat; and when the button is moved to a second position, the latch is separated away from the fastening slot to push the handle, so that the handle is pivoted along a direction away from the base seat, thereby to facilitate a user to grip the handle to pull a hard disk driver from a server.
US09795047B1
An electronic apparatus includes a case, an integrated circuit module, a cable and a fastener component. The case includes an opening and an accommodating space for the integrated circuit module and the fastener component installed therein. The cable is passed through the opening to be electrically connected with the integrated circuit module. The fastener component is adjacent to the opening and includes a first fastening portion and a second fastening portion for fastening the conducting cable and the circuit module respectively. Thereby, the cable and the integrated circuit module will be fastened simultaneously through the fastener component, and a one-time ultrasonic welding process is applied for assembly, thus the process will be simplified as to improve the yield rate.
US09795045B2
The invention relates to an underwater switch unit for voltage supply of electrical devices (11), particularly in the low voltage range, having a housing (19) which is preferably designed to be water-tight, in which an electronics unit (2) is arranged, by means of which an input voltage, which can be connected via an input connection of the underwater switch unit (14), can be distributed in parallel to a plurality of output connections (16) of the underwater switch unit (14), wherein at least two of the output connections (16) can be supplied with voltage separate from each other via at least one switch element (7, 8) of the underwater switch unit (14), and wherein the uncontrolled underwater switch unit (14) comprises a data bus connection having a related data bus interface, via which an informational signal concerning the voltage connection of an output connection (16) can be detected.
US09795042B2
Disclosed herein is a display apparatus having high quality and high gloss. The display apparatus includes a display module which keeps a display panel on which an image is displayed in a curved surface state, a driving unit provided at a rear side of the display module, and a cover which accommodates the display module and the driving unit and forms an exterior of the display apparatus, wherein the cover is injection molded, and includes a first cover which is disposed in front of the display module and is provided to have the same curvature as that of the display panel, and a second cover which is disposed at the rear side of the display module, is coupled with the first cover, simultaneously accommodates the display module and the driving unit, and is formed to have a curvature which is different from that of the display panel.
US09795041B1
An electronic device packaging box includes a first base, a second base and a connecting unit. The first base includes two side walls spaced apart from each other in a first direction and each having a first side receiving space, and a connecting wall interconnecting the side walls to define a receiving space. The second base is received in the receiving space, and includes spaced-apart top and bottom walls, and a separating wall interconnecting the top and bottom walls to define two second side receiving spaces. The connecting unit includes two first connecting subunits, each of which is mounted to a respective one of the side walls, and two second connecting subunits, which are mounted to the bottom wall.
US09795039B2
A method of making an electronic device may include forming at least one circuit layer that includes solder pads on a substrate and forming at least one liquid crystal polymer (LCP) solder mask having mask openings therein. The method may also include forming at least one thin film resistor on the LCP solder mask and coupling the at least one LCP solder mask to the substrate so that the at least one thin film resistor is coupled to the at least one circuit layer and so that the solder pads are aligned with the mask openings.
US09795035B2
A PCB page blank includes a flexible substrate, a curable adhesive, a conductive layer, and a conductive layer support. The flexible substrate receives an opaque negative circuit pattern thereon. Portions of the curable adhesive not obscured by the circuit pattern may bond to portions of the conductive layer when exposed to light. The bonded portions of the conductive layer shear or tear from non-bonded portions of the conductive layer such that the bonded portions remain with the flexible substrate and the non-bonded portions remain with the conductive layer support when the flexible substrate and the conductive layer support are separated. The flexible substrate and the bonded portions of the conductive layer thus form a PCB prototype with the bonded portions of the conductive layer forming circuit traces of the circuit pattern.
US09795033B2
A three-dimensional structure in which a wiring is provided on a surface is provided. At least a part of the surface of the three-dimensional structure includes an insulating layer containing filler. A recessed gutter for wiring is provided on the surface of the three-dimensional structure, and at least a part of a wiring conductor is embedded in the recessed gutter for wiring.
US09795031B2
The present disclosure discloses a wiring board used to connect a driving chip and a display panel, a flexible display panel and a display device. Signal output ends on the driving chip and signal input ends on the display panel may be arranged in pairs; and the wiring board may include fanout lines each of which is configured to connect a pair of signal output end and the signal input end. The wiring board may include a substrate; a plurality of segments of first connection lines having first resistivity is arranged on a first surface of the substrate; a plurality of segments of second connection lines having second resistivity is arranged on a second surface of the substrate opposite to the first surface. At least parts of the fanout lines are formed by connecting the first connection lines and the second connection lines.
US09795030B2
A metal-clad laminate according to the present embodiment includes an insulating layer, and a metal layer present on at least one surface side of the insulating layer. The insulating layer is a laminate of at least three layers of a center layer, a first resin layer present on one surface side of the center layer, and a second resin layer present on the other surface side of the center layer. The center layer, the first resin layer and the second resin layer each contain a cured product of a resin composition. Coefficients of thermal expansion of the cured products of the resin compositions contained in the first resin layer and the second resin layer are smaller than a coefficient of thermal expansion of the cured product of the resin composition contained in the center layer.
US09795029B2
Provided is a wiring thin plate capable of suppressing deterioration of an electric characteristic and variation in thickness of an aerial wiring portion while advancing reduction of rigidity of the aerial wiring portion. The wiring thin plate includes an aerial wiring portion including wiring traces and passing over an airspace, aerial base layers provided at the respective wiring traces in the aerial wiring portion and being apart from each other, and an aerial cover layer provided in the aerial wiring portion and spanning from the wiring traces of the aerial wiring portion through the aerial base layers to interspaces between adjacent aerial base layers of said aerial base layers.
US09795023B2
A device and method are disclosed in which gas is caused to flow parallel to a flow of source material to form a gas shroud. The gas shroud may protect flow of source material from being disrupted by a cross flow of gas. The gas shroud may also limit heating of a physical shroud through which the source material passes and limit accumulation of source material on the physical shroud by deforming a plasma bubble formed during irradiation of the source material so that the plasma bubble does not come too near the physical shroud. A device and method are also disclosed for establishing an additional transverse flow of gas so that the gas shroud does not cause source material contamination of an optic used to collect light generated during irradiation of the source material.
US09795021B2
The present invention provides an X-ray equipment and an alignment method thereof. The X-ray equipment comprises a tube, a detector, an LED array, a camera and a display. The LED array is fixed relative to a detection center of the detector, and has a predefined geometric center; the camera is fixed relative to a center of the tube, for photographing the LED array; the display is connected to the camera, for displaying images photographed by the camera, wherein when the center of the tube is aligned with the detection center of the detector, the geometric center of the LED array is located on a specific pixel unit on the display.
US09795016B2
The present disclosure relates to a lighting fixture that includes a driver module and at least one other module that provides a lighting fixture function, such as a sensor function, lighting network communication function, gateway function, and the like. The driver module communicates with the other modules in a master/slave scheme over a communication bus. The driver module is configured as a slave communication device, and the other modules are configured as master communication devices. As such, the other modules may initiate communications with the driver to send information to or retrieve information from the driver module.
US09795011B2
A DC-powered LED lighting device and a lighting system using such devices are disclosed. A common AC/DC power supply is coupled to at least one electric main and provides power to the LED lighting devices at DC voltages that are higher than the peak voltage of the sine wave of the at least one electric main.
US09795010B2
An interactive appliance is provided. The interactive appliance includes at least a housing, and an intelligent control disposed within the housing. One or more lighting devices are electrically connected to the intelligent control, as are one or more sensors. The sensors provide sensor data for the interactive appliance. The intelligent control is configured to alter operation of at least one of the one or more lighting devices based on data provided by the sensor to provide interactive feedback to a user of the interactive appliance. The feedback can include altering light intensity, color, consistency, or the like depending on the sensor data. Furthermore, the lighting device can be placed on a surface, such as an exterior surface of the housing of the appliance, or can be disposed within an interior portion of the appliance.
US09795007B2
A microcontroller based multifunctional electronic switch using a detection circuit design to convert external motion signals into message carrying sensing signals readable to the microcontroller. Based on the time length of sensing signals and the format of the sensing signals received in a preset instant period of time the microcontroller through the operation of its software program codes written in the OTPROM is able to recognize the working modes chosen by the external signal generating user and thereby selecting the appropriate loops of subroutine for execution. The system and method of the present invention may simultaneously be applicable to detection circuit design using infrared ray sensor, electrostatic induction sensor, conduction based touch sensor or push button sensor for performing multifunction such as controlling the on/off switch performance, the diming or speed control and the delay timer management within the capacity of a single lighting device or an electrical appliance.
US09794990B2
An LED tube lamp includes a lamp tube, a first external connection terminal and a second external connection terminal coupled to the lamp tube and for receiving an external driving signal; an LED lighting module coupled to the first external connection terminal and configured to receive a signal for emitting light, the signal derived from the first external driving signal; and a ballast interface circuit coupled between the first external connection terminal and the LED lighting module. The ballast interface circuit may be configured such that when the external driving signal is initially input at the first external connection terminal and second external connection terminal, the ballast interface circuit will initially be in an open-circuit state, which prevents the LED tube lamp from emitting light, until the ballast interface circuit enters a conduction state, which conduction state allows a current input at the first external connection terminal/second external connection terminal to flow through the LED lighting module and thereby allows the LED tube lamp to emit light.
US09794987B2
An adaptive electrothermal system and an electrothermal apparel are provided. The adaptive electrothermal system comprises a controller, a step-down regulator, a power controller and a load. An input of the controller is configured to receive an input voltage, a first output of the controller is configured to output an input voltage higher than an operating voltage of the load to the step-down regulator, a second output of the controller is configured to output an input voltage lower than or equal to the operating voltage of the load to the power controller, the step-down regulator steps the received input voltage down to a voltage equal to the operating voltage of the load and outputs the stepped-down voltage to the power controller, and the power controller outputs the input voltage it receives to the corresponding load according to a load control signal from the controller. The present invention can receive several input voltages at the same time and provide operating voltages for a plurality of loads at the same time, and has good flexibility and high reliability.
US09794978B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for configuring resources at a device operating in a sleep mode of a wireless network. The device can use at least some of the resources for other purposes, such as scanning neighbor base stations, acquiring system parameters of the wireless network or other networks, etc., based in part on requirements of a current interval of the sleep mode. In an available interval, a serving base station may attempt to communicate with the device, and thus, the device can keep at least one receiver chain tuned to the serving base station while assigning other resources to communicate with other base stations. In an unavailable interval, the device can assign all resources for communicating with the other base stations.
US09794974B2
There are provided measures for mobility management for device-to-device communications. Such measures exemplarily include receiving a radio handover request message indicating that a radio handover of at least one communication endpoint utilizing device-to-device communication is to be hidden from core network, and determining, based on device-to-device context information, which is information on said device-to-device communication, and/or on information on said at least one communication endpoint, whether a notification of said radio handover is to be transmitted.
US09794966B2
The disclosure discloses an identifier assignment method in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), which includes: a group identifier is set for a non-Access Point Station (STA). The method further includes: in a process during which the STA associates or reassociates to an Access Point (AP), a terminal identifier is assigned to the associated or reassociated STA or a terminal identifier and a group identifier are assigned to the associated or reassociated STA. The disclosure also discloses an identifier assignment device in a WLAN for implementing the terminal access method. The terminal identifier is significantly expanded through the setting of the group identifier, so that a unique identifier can be assigned to the STA accessing to the AP without identifier repetition of the STA. Meanwhile, the grouping of the STA also facilitates the scheduling and management of the STA in a group. The disclosure ensures that sufficient STAs can access to the AP and a different identifier can be assigned to each STA.
US09794961B2
A method of handling random access for a user equipment of a wireless communication system includes transmitting a plurality of repetitions of a random access preamble to a network of the wireless communication system; and monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a plurality of random access response windows for receiving a random access response identified by a random access radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI) from the network, wherein each of the plurality of random access response windows is corresponding to one of the plurality of repetitions of the random access preamble.
US09794956B2
An apparatus and method providing feedback on channel conditions in a wireless telecommunications system including a base station to communicate with plural terminals device using frequencies spanning a system frequency bandwidth. At least one terminal device is a reduced capability terminal device including a tuneable transceiver configured to receive downlink transmissions from the base station using only a restricted frequency bandwidth smaller than and within the system frequency bandwidth. The reduced capability terminal device is configured to communicate information derived from measurements of channel conditions to the base station. The information may include an indication of measured channel conditions for different frequency locations, or an indication of one or more frequency locations for which corresponding measurement of channel conditions meet a pre-defined selection criterion. The base station subsequently schedules downlink transmissions for the terminal device in a manner that takes account of the information received from the terminal device.
US09794943B1
Disclosed herein are methods and systems that may help to dynamically schedule data transmissions in accordance with a fairness policy between different classes of a users. An example method may be implemented in an access network that is configured for carrier-aggregation service via a plurality of component carriers in a given coverage area, and involves: (i) determining a usage level in the given coverage area, and (ii) determining that the usage level in the given coverage area is greater than a threshold usage level and responsively: (a) determining relative carrier-aggregation capabilities between two or more classes of user equipment (UE) that have established data connections in the coverage area, and (b) adjusting a per-carrier scheduling ratio for the given coverage area based on the relative carrier-aggregation capabilities between the two or more UE classes.
US09794942B1
A method for saving energy in a locator apparatus includes calculating an update threshold as a function of energy available in the locator apparatus, movement detection and location detection; performing a location update when the update threshold is exceeded; and transmitting the location update to a server using communication channel selected based on energy efficiency of the communication channel at the time of the transmission. The energy efficiency is determined by measuring received signal strength from each communication channel; adding a predefined protocol overhead to an amount of data of the location update to be transmitted to obtain an actual amount of data of the location update to be transmitted, for each communication channel; performing a conversion from the actual amount of data of the location update to energy required for transmission using each communication channel; and selecting the communication channel having the lowest requirement of energy for transmission.
US09794939B1
Systems and methods are described for sub-band selection for a wireless device during connection. An access node may receive a RACH preamble message from a wireless device. It may be determined that a received signal level associated with the message does not meet a signal level criteria. The wireless device may be instructed to transmit signal information to the access node. A sub-band that comprises a signal level that meets the signal level criteria may be selected. The wireless device may then be instructed to communicate with the access node using the selected sub-band when requesting a connection.
US09794935B2
A node in a wireless communication system includes a transceiver that operates according to a first radio access technology (RAT). The transceiver is to measure a medium usage by one or more other nodes that operate according to a second RAT. The transceiver alternately transmits in a first time interval and bypasses transmission in a second time interval. The first and second time intervals repeat with a duty cycle. The transceiver is to puncture the first time interval with one or more silent gaps. The node also includes a processor to determine a duration of the one or more silent gaps is based on the medium usage.
US09794933B2
An objective of the present invention is to provide a method, apparatus, and equipment for determining device channel resources of a user equipment in an LTE-TDD system. The TDD system performs resource scheduling to the user equipment using an enhanced physical downlink control channel, and a physical uplink control channel used includes channel resource(s) for feeding back a hybrid automatic repeat request of a physical downlink shared channel as scheduled by the enhanced physical downlink control channel, when the number of downlink subframes as fed back in one uplink subframe may be more than one, the channel resource(s) is divided into a plurality of channel regions based on the number of downlink subframes having the enhanced physical downlink control channel set thereon currently, or based on the potential highest number of downlink subframes having the enhanced physical downlink control channel set thereon. The present application obtains the device channel resource(s) occupied by the present user equipment in at least one channel region of the plurality of channel regions. The present invention enables the user equipment to feed back ePDCCH.
US09794927B2
Methods, a wireless device (110) and a radio network node (120) for managing a control block are disclosed. An extended Temporary Flow Identifier, eTFI, is assigned to the wireless device (110) by the radio network node (120). The radio network node (120) constructs the control information. The radio network node (120) performs a bit-wise modulo two addition with a control block and a combination of the eTFI and a pre-determined bit pattern to obtain a modified control block. The radio network node (120) adds channel coding redundancy. The radio network node (120) maps the modified control block onto physical resources. The radio network node (120) sends the modified control block to the wireless device (110). The wireless device (110) decodes the received modified control block removing the channel coding redundancy, performs a bit-wise modulo two addition between the modified control block and a combination of the eTFI and a pre-determined bit pattern to obtain a control block. The wireless device (110) decodes the control block using FIRE-decoding to obtain the control information. The wireless device (110) determines it is the intended recipient of the control information if the TFI information therein matches its assigned TFI. Corresponding computer programs and carriers therefor are also disclosed.
US09794922B2
An example data structure for managing user equipment communications in a wireless communications system is presented, as well as methods and apparatuses configured to implement the data structure. For instance, the data structure may include a downlink subframe comprising two slots and including one or more quick downlink channels having a single-slot transmission time interval. In addition, the example data structure may include one or more resource element blocks each comprising one or more resource elements into which a frequency bandwidth is divided within one or both of the two slots, wherein each of the one or more resource element blocks comprises a control channel region or a data channel region. Furthermore, the example data structure may include one or more resource grants, located within one or more control channel regions, for one or more user equipment served by the one or more quick downlink channels.
US09794920B2
Provided is a base station including circuitry that transmits a radio signal in a frame including a control region and a data region, generates a control signal which includes reference information identified by a group identifier assigned to a plurality of radio terminals and which is transmitted in the control region, and generates a data signal by disposing information for the plurality of radio terminals in a reference region indicated by the reference information in the data region.
US09794915B2
A method for adaptively allocating resources of an uplink control channel according to a system situation is disclosed. If a base station (BS) recognizes the system situation, establishes control information for resource allocation, and transmits the control information to a mobile station (MS), the mobile station (MS) allocates resources for transmitting uplink control information using a specific block or a specific resource distribution method according to the corresponding control information. The system situation may be changed according to the number of users contained in the BS's coverage or the usage of a multi-antenna. The variation of the system situation is actively reflected so that the uplink channel resources can be effectively used.
US09794906B1
Techniques for determining a Round Trip Time (RTT) calibration value are disclosed. An example of a method according to the disclosure includes receiving a fine timing measurement (FTM) exchange between an initiating station and a responding station, calculating a plurality of differential round trip time (RTT) measurements based on the FTM exchange, calculating a responding station calibration value based on the plurality of differential RTT measurements, and transmitting the responding station calibration value to the responding station.
US09794897B2
A first base station is configured to be connected with a second base station via an X2 interface. The first base station includes: a controller containing at least one processor and at least one memory, and configured to execute processes of transmitting a message, which includes a first identifier, coverage state information, and a second identifier, to the second base station before modifying a coverage of the first cell, the first identifier identifying the first cell, the coverage state information indicating that a state of the coverage after modification of the coverage, the second identifier identifying a second cell for compensating at least part of the coverage of the first cell; and modifying the coverage of the first cell after transmitting the message.
US09794895B2
A transmission power control method in a mobile communication system including a user apparatus and a base station is provided. The method enables the base station to control transmission power of a discovery signal of the user apparatus. The method includes estimating a number of the user apparatuses transmitting discovery signals by monitoring the discovery signals transmitted from the user apparatuses, by referring to power class setting information which associates the number of the user apparatuses transmitting the discover signals with a power class used for determining transmission power information of the discovery signal in the user apparatus, determining the power class associated with the number of the estimate user apparatuses, and transmitting the determined power class to the user apparatus.
US09794894B2
The invention relates to methods for informing an eNodeB on the transmit power status of a user equipment in a mobile communication system using component carrier (CC) aggregation. Furthermore, the invention is also related to the implementation of these methods by hardware and their implementation in software. The invention proposes procedures that allow the eNodeB to recognize the power usage status of a UE in a communication system using carrier aggregation. The UE indicates to the eNodeB, when the UE is close to using its total maximum UE transmit power or when it has exceeded same. This is achieved by the UE including indicator(s) and/or new MAC CEs to one or more protocol data units transmitted on respective component carriers within a single sub-frame that is providing the eNodeB with power status information. The MAC CEs may report a per-UE power headroom. Alternatively, the MAC CEs may report per-CC power headrooms and/or power reductions applied to the respective uplink CCs.
US09794890B2
Methods and apparatuses for controlling power in a communication system are provided. A first user equipment (UE) receives power control related information from a base station. Data is transmitted to a second UE based on a transmission power, if there is no uplink transmission. The transmission power is based on a first transmission power determined by a number of assigned resource blocks, a path loss, and the received power control related information.
US09794887B2
In a communication system in which a base station apparatus and a terminal apparatus communicate with each other, a base station apparatus, a terminal apparatus, and a communication system with which the base station apparatus and the terminal apparatus can efficiently communicate with each other are provided. The terminal apparatus that communicates with the base station apparatus includes a radio resource control section 6011 that configures a plurality of uplink physical channels and that configures an uplink power control-related parameter for each of the plurality of uplink physical channels in accordance with information included in a radio resource control (RRC) signal and a transmission power control section 6015 that sets transmission power of the uplink physical channels on the basis of the uplink power control-related parameters.
US09794886B2
In embodiments of wireless radios managed based on proximity, a mobile device, such as a mobile phone, tablet computer, or other portable device can be implemented for multiple, different wireless communications. A mobile device can include a first radio system for a first wireless communications technology, and a second radio system for a second wireless communications technology. A connection manager determines, based on the first wireless communications technology, whether the mobile device is in an area that is proximate an endpoint implemented for the second wireless communications technology. The connection manager can turn-on the second radio system to enable wireless communication with the endpoint when the mobile device is in the area proximate the endpoint. Alternatively, the connection manager can turn-off the second radio system and conserve power that would otherwise be utilized to scan for the endpoint when the mobile device is not in the area proximate the endpoint.
US09794882B2
Disclosed is a power control method by a first device in a communication system. In the power control method, a first communication module is activated by supplying power to the first communication module without supplying power to the second communication module, data is received using the first communication module, the second communication module is activated by supplying power to the second communication module for transmitting the data to a second device using the second communication module, the data is transmitted to the second device using the second communication module, and the power supply to the second communication module is interrupted, if the data transmission is completed.
US09794879B1
Techniques for power saving by remote wireless mobile devices are provided, in particular by stations (STAs) during downlink (DL) multiple-user multiple-input and multiple-output (MU-MIMO) transmissions in an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11ay network when reverse direction (RD) transmissions are either enabled and not enabled. Various embodiments enable each STA in a group of STAs to determine an order in which the STAs are requested to send a block acknowledgement (BACK) and which STAs will be granted an RD transmission. Further, a duration of each RD transmission is provided to each STA. Based on the provided information, each STA can determine times to enter a power saving mode. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09794870B2
An embodiment of methods and user equipment are disclosed. Once such method includes a user equipment transmitting preferences for Flow-to-RAT mapping to a base station of a network. The user equipment may receive a Flow-to-RAT mapping from the base station that specifies a particular RAT to be associated with a particular Flow.
US09794847B2
A central control device and a load balancing method thereof are provided. The central control device includes a network interface, a storage and a processor. The network interface is connected to a plurality of base stations and receives a load parameter from each base station. The storage stores the load parameters. The processor is electrically connected to the storage and the network interface. For each base station, the processor calculates a load indication according to the load parameter thereof to determine whether the base station is an overloaded base station based on the load indication, and calculates an offload priority indication according to the load indication, a quantity of off-loadable resources of at least one neighboring base station, a first weighting factor and a second weighting factor. The processor determines an offload order of the overloaded base stations according to the offload priority indications.
US09794840B1
Systems and methods are described for determining candidates for handover of wireless devices in a wireless network. A first access node in communication with one or more wireless devices may receive signal information for second access nodes from the wireless devices. A communication link between the first access node and each second access node may be used to transmit second access node network characteristics to the first access node. The first access node may store information about second access nodes in a neighbor relation table. If a removal condition is satisfied, one or more second access nodes may be removed from the first access node neighbor relation table and may be blacklisted. Blacklisted second access nodes may be monitored for improvements in signal information or network characteristics. Improved second access nodes may be removed from the blacklist based on a comparison with threshold values for signal information and network characteristics.
US09794833B1
Aspects of the subject disclosure include, for example, identifying a primary serving cell and a secondary serving cell, wherein the primary serving cell facilitates one of attachment, re-attachment or mobility, or any combination thereof, of a mobile device in association with coordination of a wireless service between the primary serving cell, the secondary serving cell and the mobile device. A latency value associated with a message exchange is determined between the primary and secondary serving cells via a messaging interface, and compared to latency requirements, which correspond to a group of mobile service features. A mobile service feature of the group is associated with the wireless service based on the comparison. The wireless service includes a coordinated exchange of wireless signals between the primary serving cell and the mobile device and between the secondary serving cell and the mobile device based on the mobile service feature. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09794829B2
A method and a device for transmitting data in in a wireless local area network are provided. The device supports a multiple basic service set and sends a physical protocol data unit (PPDU). The PPDU includes an identifier used to assist the device in identifying a basic service set.
US09794823B2
Methods and systems for optimizing bandwidth utilization in an in-home network may comprise in a multi-protocol premises-based wired and wireless network, monitoring capabilities of media of a wired communication link operating in accordance with a wired communication standard and capabilities of a wireless communication link operating in accordance with a wireless local area network standard. Some or all data communications from the wired communication link may be routed to the wireless communication link based on the media capabilities. Bit-loading of the data communications in the wired communication link and wireless communication link may be configured based on the media capabilities. The capabilities may comprise one or more of: bandwidth, data throughput, usage, and signal-to-noise ratio. The wired communication standard may comprise Multimedia over Cable Alliance (MoCA). The monitoring may be performed by one or more Multimedia over Cable Alliance (MoCA) network controllers.
US09794822B2
A multi-carrier communication system such as an OFDM or DMT system has nodes which are allowed to dynamically change their receive and transmit symbol rates, and the number of carriers within their signals. Changing of the symbol rate is done by changing the clocking frequency of the nodes' iFFT and FFT processors, as well as their serializers and deserializers. The nodes have several ways of dynamically changing the number of earners used. The selection of symbol rate and number of earners can be optimized for a given channel based on explicit channel measurements, a priori knowledge of the channel, or past experience. Provision is made for accommodating legacy nodes that may have constraints in symbol rate or the number of carriers they can support. The receiver can determine the correct symbol rate and number of earners through a priori knowledge, a first exchange of packets in a base mode that all nodes can understand, or an indication in the header of the data packet which is transmitted in a base mode of operation that all nodes can understand.
US09794813B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. A method by which a terminal measures the interference of a neighboring base station in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, can comprise the steps of: determining a first resource group and a second resource group, which respectively include resource elements of X number of zero-power channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) for measuring interference; respectively selecting T (Y≦X) number of resource elements in the first resource group and the second resource group; and measuring the interference of a neighboring base station on the basis of the locations of the selected 2Y number of resource elements.
US09794807B2
A communications network is disclosed that includes one or more microwave backhaul nodes for routing communications between one or more near end mobile communications devices and one or more far end mobile communications devices. The communications network includes a central monitoring and control infrastructure, a remote monitoring and control infrastructure and/or a local monitoring and control infrastructure. The central monitoring and control infrastructure, the remote monitoring and control infrastructure and/or the local monitoring and control infrastructure can directly manage the one or more microwave backhaul nodes. Alternatively, the remote monitoring and control infrastructure and/or the local monitoring and control infrastructure can indirectly manage the one or more microwave backhaul nodes through the central monitoring and control infrastructure.
US09794805B1
A method and associated systems for improving robustness of a cellular network. A topology of the cellular network is represented as an undirected graph that represents base stations as nodes and represents communication paths between base stations as edges. Each node is associated with a “synergistic” version of a Shapley value proportional to an amount of network disturbance that would occur if that value's corresponding base station should fail. The synergistic nature of the synergistic Shapley values allows them to account for scenarios in which multiple base stations fail at the same time. A synergistic Shapley value of a particular node is derived as a function of how many of the shortest paths between nodes of the graph lengthen when the node's corresponding base station fails. Base stations and nodes associated with higher synergistic Shapley values are deemed to be “censorious” and in need of reconfiguration.
US09794804B2
Exemplary apparatuses and methods are provided that address how to optimize automatic neighbor relations. Specifically, a base station receives measurements from a mobile terminal connected thereto. The base station determines neighbor relations from the received measurements that includes identifiers of other base stations in neighboring cells detected by the mobile terminal. The base station determines a number of communication links needed to exchange data with the other base stations. The base station prioritizes the neighbor relations from a lowest priority level to a highest priority level before a maximum number of communication links needed to exchange data is exceeded. The base station may delete neighbor relations with the lowest priority level from the base station's Neighbor Relation Table so that the base station can support new neighbor relations, more efficient hand-offs, and improve network performance. The base station may hand-off calls to base stations selected from the prioritized neighbor relations.
US09794801B1
Reliable multicast delivery in wireless communication, even when a WS doesn't know its AP, is determined at the AP without the sending device. Multicast packets are received at each AP having destinations. Without altering those packets, the AP encapsulates them in an A-MSDU packet. Each A-MSDU packet is sent individually to each destination, and might encapsulate more than one multicast packet. Destinations might receive two streaming messages faster than if sent separately. AP's might choose a 1st multiple of multicast packets from a 1st source, a 2nd, different, multiple of multicast packets from a 2nd source, and a single multicast packet from a 3rd source. Individualized optimization of transmission parameters for each A-MSDU packet and each multicast packet therein. Individualized optimization of transmission parameters for the A-MSDU packet for each destination. The AP collectively optimizes delivery of distinct multicast packets to different destinations.
US09794795B1
Implementing a live distributed antenna system (DAS) configuration from a virtual DAS design using an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) specific software system in a real DAS is disclosed herein. In exemplary aspects disclosed herein, the OEM specific software system enables a designer to create, save, import, modify and/or preconfigure a virtual DAS in a virtual DAS configuration file(s) using OEM specific software tools resident in the real DAS. The OEM specific software tools could include functionality such as the ability to incorporate and enforce OEM design constraints of the real DAS. The configuration file(s) can then be subsequently implemented to modify and/or configure live equipment of a real DAS. The OEM specific software tools and local execution of the virtual DAS facilitates, improves, and optimizes DAS design and execution, and ensures that the real DAS substantially matches the DAS design.
US09794794B2
A dual band LTE small cell base station communicates on both licensed bands and unlicensed bands. The small cell base station modifies the communication protocol utilized by the licensed band to enable communication over an unlicensed band. This modification involves replacing the physical (PHY) layer of the licensed band communication protocol with the PHY layer of a to-be-used protocol in an unlicensed band.
US09794793B2
A dynamic spectrum arbitrage (DSA) system may include a dynamic spectrum policy controller (DPC) and a dynamic spectrum controller (DSC) that together dynamically manage the allocation and use of resources (e.g., spectrum resources) across different networks. The DPC and DSC may store DSC context information, and use this information to perform various DSA operations. For example, the DSC may determine whether there is bandwidth available for allocation within cells in a first telecommunication network, generate a resource register request message that identifies the amount of bandwidth that is available, and send the generated resource register request message to the DPC using a DSAAP component/protocol. The DSC may receive the resource register response message and a bid success message via the DSAAP, and send a resources allocated message to the DPC via the DSAAP to commit the requested amount of bandwidth for use by the second telecommunication network.
US09794780B2
A mobile station (e.g., an MTC device), an access node (e.g., BSS) and various methods are described herein for implementing an accelerated system access procedure (ASAP) which improves the radio resource utilization efficiency by having: (1) the mobile station transmit a packet channel request to the access node, where the packet channel request includes a unique identifier associated with the mobile station, and (2) the access node after receiving the packet channel request transmits an Immediate Assignment (IA) message to the mobile station, where the IA message includes the unique identifier associated with the mobile station.
US09794778B2
An objective is to prohibit retransmission of “UE assistance information”. A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: transmitting “UE assistance information” to a radio base station (eNB) by a mobile station (UE), the “UE assistance information” prompting the radio base station (eNB) to change a parameter for the mobile station UE used in the radio base station; notifying, by the radio base station (eNB), the mobile station (UE) of a transmission-prohibited period of the “UE assistance information”; and stopping, by the mobile station (UE), retransmission of the “UE assistance information” on the basis of the transmission-prohibited period.
US09794775B2
A method of performing a switch from a first mobile network to a second mobile network by a mobile terminal comprising a secure element includes the steps of: (a) attaching to the first mobile network using a first attachment message containing a first identification data element, preferably a first IMSI, of a first subscription profile; and (b) attaching to the second mobile network by an attachment process including a second attachment message containing a second identification data element, preferably a second IMSI, of a second subscription profile. The second mobile network is configured to monitor at least parts of the attachment process, to determine the second identification data element contained therein and to forward this information to a subscription management server in order to confirm the successful attachment of the secure element to the second mobile network.
US09794767B2
To enable a user terminal that receives a discovery signal of another user terminal for performing Type 1 discovery to synthesize and receive the discovery signal, a user terminal capable of executing inter-terminal direct signal transmission/reception has a selecting section that selects a discovery signal transmission resource at the next period for each period, and a transmission section that transmits information on the discovery signal transmission resource at the next period, together with the discovery signal.
US09794761B2
Embodiments include a system, method, and computer program product that enable intelligent formation and management of dynamic talk groups. Embodiments include a discretionary sharing mechanism based on invitation and acceptance that allows for dynamic publication or sharing of information in real time among agencies responding to an incident, where the agencies may establish secure communications. Additional embodiments include establishing and associating geographic boundaries of incident sites with talk groups, monitoring conditions that trigger warning messages sent to talk group members, and subscriptions to information channels that allow multimedia information to flow into talk groups.
US09794755B1
Methods for emergency visualization are disclosed. The methods include a computer-implemented method for interactive emergency visualization that includes receiving a notification concerning an incident associated with a multi-floor structure, requesting location information from a user device geographically associated with the multi-floor structure, and receiving, in response to the request, a beacon identifier from the user device, the beacon identifier being associated with a beacon disposed within the multi-floor structure. The method also includes determining on which floor of the multi-floor structure the user device is located based on the beacon identifier and stored information indicating the location of the beacon and displaying a graphical map of the multi-floor structure and information indicating the specific floor on which the user device is located.
US09794744B1
A system and method for efficiently establishing secure mobile device communication for location-aware applications. A beacon device broadcasts encrypted packets. Each of the packets includes an indication of a respective time of broadcast. A mobile computing device, such as a smartphone, receives a packet that is broadcast from the beacon device. The mobile computing device determines the packet corresponds to a particular location-aware application and sends the packet to a server. The server determines an expected latency for the received packet based at least in part on crowdsourcing, which includes latencies of other packets sent from the same location. If the server determines the latency of the received packet is not within an expected range, the server considers the packet to be invalid.
US09794742B2
A wireless tracking device can utilize a location detector, such as a GPS receiver or a short-range receiver, to provide locational information for the wireless tracking device. The wireless tracking device can transmit the locational information over a cellular network. Geofences can help manage location of the wireless tracking device. An analysis can be conducted at the wireless tracking device, at a server, or at some other appropriate location to assess integrity of the locational information. A determination as to whether the wireless tracking device is in an area can be based on the locational information and the integrity of the locational information.
US09794737B2
Various embodiments associated with signal conversion while underwater are described. A source can transmit an alternating current signal with a relatively high frequency over a relatively long distance. The alternating current signal with the relatively high frequency can be converted to an alternating current signal with a relatively low frequency. An example of this conversion can be done by converting the alternating current signal with the relatively high frequency into a direct current signal. The direct current signal can then be converted into the alternating current signal with the relatively low frequency. The alternating current signal with the relatively low frequency can be transmitted from a transmission coil to a pick-up coil. After reception by the pick-up coil the alternating current signal with the relatively low frequency can be processed, such as processed to determine a direction of the source of the alternating current signal with the relatively high frequency.
US09794736B2
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for determining indoor/outdoor state of a mobile device are presented. In some embodiments, a mobile device may maintain an indoor/outdoor state. The mobile device may include at least one first sensor and at least one second sensor, the first sensor associated with higher power consumption than the second sensor. The mobile device may gate off the first sensor and using the second sensor to obtain a sensor reading, if the second sensor can generate a reading indicative of the indoor/outdoor state of the mobile device. The mobile device may use the first sensor to obtain a sensor reading, if the second sensor cannot generate a reading indicative of the indoor/outdoor state of the mobile device. The mobile device may update the indoor/outdoor state of the mobile device based on a reading received from one of the first and the second sensors.
US09794734B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to the wireless communications field, and provide a terminal switching method, an access device, a terminal, and a system. The method includes: establishing, by a first access device, an NFC connection to a second access device; receiving, by the first access device, an authentication parameter that is sent by the second access device by using the NFC connection; and performing access authentication on a to-be-switched terminal according to the authentication parameter, and establishing a second connection to the to-be-switched terminal after the authentication succeeds. An NFC connection is established to a second access device, an authentication parameter that is sent by the second access device by using the NFC connection is received, access authentication is performed on a to-be-switched terminal according to the authentication parameter, and a connection is established to the to-be-switched terminal after the authentication succeeds.
US09794733B2
A method, system and device for transferring specific information data to a user thereof comprising at least a first and a second body coupled communication (BCC), enabled devices forming a body area network (BAN), wherein the first BCC enabled device comprises a touch sensitive interface and the second BCC enabled device is worn by the user.
US09794724B1
Audio effects are played on ultrasonic (US) speakers mounted on a gimbal assembly. The audio effects channel demands an elevation, azimuth, and radial distance along which the audio effects are to be transmitted, and the gimbal assembly moves or a speaker is selected according to the audio effects channel. The demanded radial distance is established by altering the carrier frequency of the US sound.
US09794713B2
When compressing an HOA data frame representation, a gain control (15, 151) is applied for each channel signal before it is perceptually encoded (16). The gain values are transferred in a differential manner as side information. However, for starting decoding of such streamed compressed HOA data frame representation absolute gain values are required, which should be coded with a minimum number of bits. For determining such lowest integer number (βe) of bits the HOA data frame representation (C(k)) is rendered in spatial domain to virtual loudspeaker signals lying on a unit sphere, followed by normalization of the HOA data frame representation (C(k)). Then the lowest integer number of bits is set to (AA). β e = ⌈ log 2 ( ⌈ log 2 ( K MAX · O ) ⌉ + 1 ) ⌉ ( AA )
US09794709B2
A method for masking a vehicle noise includes setting a noise-generated driving region in which the vehicle noise is generated while a vehicle is running; measuring the vehicle noise in the noise-generated driving region; determining a masking sound which cancels the vehicle noise based on the measured vehicle noise; and outputting the determined masking sound into an interior of the vehicle.
US09794708B2
Apparatus and methods for detecting audio jack connection anomalies such as moisture or a partial insertion of an audio jack plug with an audio jack receptacle are provided. In an example, a method for detecting an audio jack insertion anomaly can include ramping on a first detection current source of a detection circuit coupled to a detection terminal of a first audio jack connector, receiving a reference information at a comparator of the detection circuit, receiving a voltage of the detection terminal at the comparator, providing comparison information at an output of the comparator, the comparison information indicative of a comparison of the voltage of the detection terminal and the reverence information, and wherein a first state of the comparison information indicates the audio jack insertion anomaly is due to moisture at the first audio jack connector.
US09794705B2
Systems and methods are provided herein that provide for hearing aid tuning.
US09794702B2
An implantable microphone for use in hearing systems includes a housing having a sidewall, a first membrane coupled to a top portion of the housing and configured to move in response to movement from an auditory ossicle, and a second membrane coupled to the sidewall such that an interior volume of the housing is divided into a first volume and a second volume. The first volume has an opening that permits fluid to flow out from the first volume. The implantable microphone also includes a vibration sensor coupled to the second membrane and configured to measure the movement of the second membrane and to convert the measurement into an electrical signal. The vibration sensor may include a piezoelectric sensor and/or a MEMS sensor.
US09794700B2
A hearing aid having hearing loss-compensating components, active occlusion reduction components, a vent, a tuned piston, and a flexible surround. The piston and the surround combination are assembled on the faceplate and cover the outside end of the vent that is situated on the faceplate. The piston and the surround combination minimize the adverse effects of walk-induced head vibrations.
US09794698B2
A method includes programming a sound processor to apply frequency shifting on a stimulation signal to generate a frequency shifted stimulation signal. The frequency shifting depends on one or more of a decibel level of a received sound signal, a hearing loss level associated with generating the stimulation signal, attenuation of an output based on the frequency shifted stimulation signal, or operating a hearing prosthesis in a single sided mode or a bilateral mode. The method includes receiving a sound signal, generating the stimulation signal from the sound signal, applying the frequency shifting to the stimulation signal to generate the frequency shifted stimulation signal, and generating, by an actuator of the hearing prosthesis, the output based on the frequency shifted stimulation signal, wherein the output is configured to be perceived as sound.
US09794692B2
A method is disclosed for determining a relative orientation of speakers that receive audio signals from a portable audio source device. In an embodiment, a microphone coupled with the portable audio source device receives a first sound from a first speaker and a second sound from a second speaker. An orientation detector determines a volume of at least one of the first and second sounds and the portable audio source device detects a movement of the portable audio source device. The orientation detector detects a variation in the determined volume and determines a relative orientation of the first and second speakers based, at least in part, on the detected movement and the detected variation in the determined volume.
US09794678B2
A method for perceptual enhancement of a received remote talker's voice, in the presence of local ambient noise, in an electronic voice communication system is provided. The method includes generating a pair of binaural voice signals from the remote talker's voice and manipulating the characteristics of the resulting pair of binaural signals. The two ears of the local listener are stimulated binaurally with the pair of binaural voice signals. The stimulating is performed adaptively as the ambient noise in the local listener's environment changes, thereby creating a perception of remote talker reacting actively to the local ambient noise, in a psycho-acoustically pleasing manner to the local listener.
US09794676B2
A headphone that has a support structure that is adapted to sit on a head or upper torso of a user, a first acoustic driver carried by the support structure such that the first acoustic driver is located off of an ear of the user, wherein the first acoustic driver has front and rear sides and sound is radiated from both sides of the first acoustic driver, and a structure that defines a first acoustic chamber on the front side of the first acoustic driver and with at least one opening therein, and a second acoustic chamber on the rear side of the first acoustic driver and with at least one opening therein. At low frequencies a polar pattern of the first acoustic driver behaves approximately like a dipole, and at high frequencies a polar pattern of the first acoustic driver exhibits a higher order directional pattern. A second acoustic driver can be included.
US09794673B2
A case for a portable listening device includes a rechargeable battery and a first and a second charging system. The first charging system is configured to charge the portable listening device and the second charging system is configured to wirelessly charge a portable electronic device positioned outside of the case adjacent to an exterior charging surface.
US09794666B1
An electro-acoustic driver comprises a sleeve having a first end and a second end; a first wire exit opening at a first position of the sleeve; a second wire exit opening at a second position of the sleeve; a voice coil within the sleeve; a magnetic assembly in magnetic communication with the voice coil in the sleeve between the first end and the second end; and a conductive wire of the voice coil having a first region at the first wire exit opening, a second region at the voice coil, and a third region between the first and second regions configured as a helix about the acoustic assembly. The third region of the conductive wire is substantially unsupported between the voice coil and the first wire exit opening.
US09794661B2
A surface-mountable MEMS microphone comprising a MEMS microphone die and an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) mounted inside a surface-mountable package housing, and fully enclosed therein. The surface-mountable package is a single, self-contained housing that provides an electrical interface to external circuitry for the enclosed MEMS microphone die and the ASIC, and provides electrical, physical, and environmental protection for the MEMS microphone die and the ASIC. The surface-mountable package allows external acoustic energy to enter the package interior via one or more acoustic ports and impinge on the diaphragm of the MEMS microphone die. The cover of the surface-mountable package comprises an acoustic port with ingress protection to limit dust and particle intrusion. The ingress protection can be a formed member that is part of the cover of the surface-mountable package having various shapes, an internal shield, or a combination of both a formed member and internal shield.
US09794653B2
A wearable biometric monitoring device is configured to assess the biometric signal quality of one or more sensors associated with the monitoring device, determine how the user should adjust the device to improve the biometric fit, and instruct the user to wear the biometric monitoring device a certain way. Communicating instructions to a user may include instructing the user to execute a testing regimen while wearing the biometric monitoring device. The testing regimen facilitates an estimation of a signal quality that can be used to provide feedback to the user that he/she needs to adjust the device to improve the biometric fit and the biometric signal quality.
US09794652B2
Systems and methods are described that can provide a fleet management solution for a fleet of power equipment and other power equipment machines. The fleet management solution can include receiving a wireless signal corresponding to a power equipment machine according to a wireless protocol. The fleet management solution can also include determining a status information corresponding to the power equipment machine based on the wireless signal. The fleet management solution can also include performing an action related to the power equipment machine based on the corresponding status information.
US09794645B2
A method of processing an interactive service and an apparatus thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes generating an application parameter table which includes information about at least one of applications, wherein the application parameter table includes a first identifier and a second identifier, wherein the first identifier identifies a interactive programming segment which application parameter table pertains to, and wherein the second identifier identifies an application within the scope of application parameter table; generating an activation message file that indicates at least one of activation times of the applications, wherein the activation message file includes a third identifier and activation messages, wherein the third identifier matches the first identifier of application parameter table which contains the applications, wherein the activation message includes a fourth identifier and a start time information, wherein the fourth identifier matches the second identifier of the application in the application parameter table, and wherein the start time information indicates the start time for an event targeted to the application relative to segment time; generating a multi-part message with the application parameter table as the first part and the activation message file as the second part; and transmitting the multi-part message to receiver via HTTP.
US09794642B2
Methods and systems to insert advertisements and/or other supplemental or replacement content into a stream of video content are described. In some example embodiments, the methods and systems receive a request to replace a portion of video content currently playing at a client device with supplemental video content, such as an advertisement. In response to the request, the methods and systems determine one or more fingerprints of the video content plating at the client device, identify one or more frames of the video content at which to insert the supplemental video content based on the one or more fingerprints, and insert the supplemental video content at the identified one or more frames of the video content.
US09794633B2
An image device, a receiving method of contents, a server, and a providing method of contents are provided. The image device includes: a communication unit which communicates with a server that provides content received from a content provider; a display unit; at least one application execution unit which executes the content; and an application controller which controls the communication unit to receive the content corresponding to a log-in user from the server and displays, on the display unit, reception information indicating reception of the content based on a user ID for the log-in user to be logged in to the image device and a token which matches the user ID to a content ID for the log-in user to be connected to the content provider.
US09794632B1
Video clips may be automatically edited to be synchronized for accompaniment by audio tracks. A first version of a video clip may be made up from stored video content. The first version of the video clip may include one occurrences of video events. An audio track may include audio event markers. The first version of the video clip may be synchronized so that moments within the video clip corresponding to occurrences of video events are aligned with moments within the audio track corresponding to audio event markers. Changes to the audio track may be determined. A second version of the video clip may be synchronized so that moments within the video clip corresponding to occurrences of video events are aligned with moments within the changed audio track corresponding to audio event markers.
US09794630B2
A multimedia content processing device for processing multimedia contents implementing a plurality of virtual machines is provided. The device is able to receive encrypted multimedia content, protected by a content protection system, and provide the multimedia content in decrypted form to a user device, including an access controller authorizing the provision of the decrypted multimedia content to the user device, a first securer for executing security services having a first associated level of security and a second securer for executing services having an associated level of security lower than the first level of security. The device includes a hypervisor able to control the execution of at least three groups of virtual machines, the groups of virtual machines being executed in a strictly separate manner, including, the first two groups being dedicated to executing services with a level of security lower than the first level of security and the third group of virtual machines able to implement security services with a first level of security and to act as trusted third parties for services of the first and second groups of virtual machines.
US09794614B2
Software receives a communication from a smart-television device. The communication includes a device identifier for the smart-television device and a geo-location for the smart-television device. The geo-location results from collaborative location detection that uses stored geo-positions previously received from one or more mobile devices positioned proximate to the smart-television device. The software causes the smart-television device to display a first view that includes a visual icon and a message identifying a connected-television service. The software receives a geo-position for a mobile device. Upon determining that the geo-location of the smart-television device is proximate to the geo-position of the mobile device, the software causes the mobile device to display a second view that includes the visual icon. The software receives a communication from the mobile device that indicates a match between the visual icon in the first view and the visual icon in the second view and connects the devices.
US09794610B2
An alert generation method and system. The method includes receiving by a computer processor, alert data indicating filters for specified alert types associated with possible future events. The computer processor receives monitor definition data and media generated audio/video data; compares the alert data to the media generated audio/video data; determines a first alert type matches first audio/video data of the media generated audio/video data; and determines that the first audio/video data comprises a primary event. The computer processor broadcasts the primary event.
US09794607B2
Embodiments are disclosed for dynamically updating bandwidth allocations in an AVB communication system. In some embodiments, a device includes a communication interface communicatively connectable to at least one other device in a communication network and configured to transmit data via the communication network, a processor, and a storage device that stores instructions executable by the processor to detect an incoming data stream, and determine an amount of bandwidth to be used by the data stream. The instructions are further executable to update a bandwidth allocation for the data stream based on the determined amount of bandwidth.
US09794605B2
An embodiment of a system to synchronize data streams is described. During operation, the system receives a first data stream having a first data type and performs a sequence of operations on at least a portion of the first data stream. Next, the system stores metadata associated with the first data stream one or more times during the sequence of operations. Metadata can include a time stamp, data-stream information associated with the portion of the first data stream, and event information associated with the occurrence of one or more events during the sequence of operations. Moreover, the system provides a notification based on the stored metadata, the notification to facilitate synchronizing the first data stream with a second data stream having a second data type.
US09794597B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for deblocking filtering on non-local intra prediction. An apparatus includes an encoder for encoding picture data using non-local intra prediction. The encoder includes a deblocking filter configured for use with non-local intra prediction modes so as to deblock filter at least a portion of the picture data encoded using the non-local intra prediction.
US09794596B2
The present invention provides a method and a device for coding and decoding at least a part of an image comprising a plurality of samples, each sample comprising at least two components, and the encoded image comprising at least one filtering parameter. The filtering comprises using at least one filtering parameter as a common filtering parameter for filtering both the first component and the second component of a reconstructed sample.
US09794587B2
According to one embodiment, an image encoding method includes selecting a motion reference block from an already-encoded pixel block. The method includes selecting an available block including different motion information from the motion reference block, and selecting a selection block from the available block. The method includes generating a predicted image of the encoding target block using motion information of the selection block. The method includes encoding a prediction error between the predicted image and an original image. The method includes encoding selection information identifying the selection block by referring to a code table decided according to a number of the available block.
US09794585B2
Provided is an apparatus for decoding a moving picture that determines a quantization step size of a previous coding block according to scan order as the quantization step size predictor of the current coding block when a quantization step size of a left coding block of a current coding block and a quantization step size of an above coding block of the current coding block are unavailable and determines an available motion vector encountered first when retrieving motion vectors in the order of motion vector of a first predetermined position and motion vector of a second predetermined position in a reference picture as a temporal motion vector candidate. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the amount of coding bits required to decode motion information and the quantization step size of the current prediction block.
US09794574B2
A method for encoding a video signal includes estimating a space requirement for encoding a tile of a video frame, writing a first value in a first value space of the bitstream, wherein the first value describes a size of a second value space, and defining the second value space in the bitstream, wherein the size of the second value space is based on an estimated space requirement. The method also includes writing encoded content in a content space of the bitstream, determining a size of the content space subsequent to writing encoded content in the content space, and writing a second value in the second value space of the bitstream, wherein the second value describes the size of the content space.
US09794571B2
The image coding method includes: determining a context in a current block in the image, from among a plurality of contexts; and performing arithmetic coding on the control parameter for the current block to generate a bitstream corresponding to the current block, wherein in the determining: the context is determined under a condition that control parameters of neighboring blocks of the current block are used, when the signal type is a first type, the neighboring blocks being a left block and an upper block of the current block; and the context is determined under a condition that the control parameter of the upper block is not used, when the signal type is a second type, and the second type is (i) “merge_flag”, (ii) “ref_idx_l0” or “ref_idx_l1”, (iii) “inter_pred_flag”, (iv) “mvd_l0” or “mvd_l1”, (v) “no_residual_data_flag”, (vi) “intra_chroma_pred_mode”, (vii) “cbf_luma”, and (viii) “cbf_cb” or “cbf_cr”.
US09794570B2
Methods and systems for improving coding decoding efficiency of video by providing a syntax modeler, a buffer, and a decoder. The syntax modeler may associate a first sequence of symbols with syntax elements. The buffer may store tables, each represented by a symbol in the first sequence, and each used to associate a respective symbol in a second sequence of symbols with encoded data. The decoder decodes the data into a bitstream using the second sequence retrieved from a table.
US09794564B2
The quantization parameter QP is well-known in digital video compression as an indication of picture quality. Digital symbols representing a moving image are quantized with a quantizing step that is a function QSN of the quantization parameter QP, which function QSN has been normalized to the most significant bit of the bit depth of the digital symbols. As a result, the effect of a given QP is essentially independent of bit depth a particular QP value has a standard effect on image quality, regardless of bit depth. The invention is useful, for example, in encoding and decoding at different bit depths, to generate compatible, bitstreams having different bit depths, and to allow different bit depths for different components of a video signal by compressing each with the same fidelity (i.e., the same QP).
US09794547B2
An autostereoscopic image output device includes an image panel having an array of image pixels defining an image, the image pixels being arranged in rows and columns. An array of parallel lenticular elements is positioned over the image panel, the lenticular elements having optical focal axes that are slanted at an angle (φ) to the image pixel columns. The image output device is operable in first and second modes, with the image panel and lenticular element array rotated by 90 degrees between the modes, thereby providing a landscape mode of operation and a portrait mode of operation, the slant angle φ in the landscape mode satisfies 1≧φ≧½.
US09794535B2
A light modulation device having an image forming area in which a plurality of pixels is arranged, and adapted to modulate incident light, and an illumination device adapted to illuminate the image forming area are provided, and the illumination device has an effective dimming area in which a plurality of dimming parts each capable of individually controlling a light intensity of the light for illuminating the image forming area is arranged, illumination areas illuminated by the light emitted from the dimming parts adjacent to each other out of the plurality of dimming parts partially overlap each other, and the light enters the light modulation device, and the position of the peak of the intensity distribution of the light emitted from the dimming part located on the outermost side of the effective dimming area is located on the outer edge of the image forming area or outside the image forming area.
US09794517B2
A privacy masking method is provided. The privacy masking method is configured to accurately position a mask area on a privacy area in a captured image despite any kind of camera movement. Therefore, even if a camera makes any one or more of pan, tilt, and zoom movements, the present invention can accurately match a mask area with a privacy area.
US09794514B1
Systems and methods for providing capabilities to participants in a multiparty interaction are described, wherein the multiparty interaction is divided into a plurality of areas, and each area is provided with a different set of interaction capabilities. The interaction capabilities for a given area may be defined with respect to other participants within the given area, with respect to other participants outside of the given area, with respect to other participants in a specified area outside of the given area, and/or with respect to all other participants.
US09794502B2
An image capturing apparatus comprises an image sensor in which a plurality of pixels are arranged two-dimensionally, and a control unit configured to control a band gap of the pixels of the image sensor, wherein the control unit, in a case where defective pixel detection processing is performed on the image sensor, controls the band gap so as to be smaller than in a case where normal image capture is performed.
US09794497B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit, a charge accumulating portion accumulating signal charges transferred from the photoelectric conversion unit, a floating diffusion portion accumulating signal charges transferred from the charge accumulating portion, and a read-out unit transferring signal charges from the charge accumulating portion to the floating diffusion portion and output a signal corresponding to the signal charges, and a control unit controlling the read-out unit to start, after starting read-out of signals of one frame from the charge accumulating portions, an accumulation of signal charges for a next frame at the photoelectric conversion units simultaneously, and to start, before completing the read-out of the signal of the one frame, an accumulation of signal charges at the charge accumulating portion of a pixel among the plurality of pixels from which the signal of the one frame is already read out.
US09794493B2
There is provided an image capturing apparatus comprising an image capturing unit. A control unit controls the image capturing unit to capture a first image having exposure unevenness caused by flicker in a light source. A detection unit detects a timing at which there is a low change in a light amount caused by the flicker, based on the exposure unevenness in the first image. An accepting unit accepts an image capturing instruction. The control unit controls the image capturing unit to capture a second image at the detected timing in response to the image capturing instruction.
US09794487B2
An imaging device includes an imaging unit that captures light which is formed into an image through an optical system capable of housing a lens with operating force by a user; an operating unit operated by the user; a display unit that displays an image; and a controller that is capable of setting a playback mode which is an operating mode to display on the display unit an image represented by image data stored in a storage medium, and an operating mode other than the playback mode, and that sets the playback mode when the lens is housed, regardless of whether or not operation to set the playback mode has been accepted through the operating unit.
US09794470B2
A photographing apparatus comprising: a focus adjustment lens which is provided within a lens barrel containing a photographing lens and is movable in an optical axis direction; a ring member disposed rotatably with respect to the lens barrel in an angle range from a first end point to a second end point; a storage unit to store a first relationship between a rotation angle of the ring member and a distance, and a second relationship between a position of the focus adjustment lens in the optical axis direction and the distance; and a control unit to calculate a distance corresponding to a rotation angle of the ring member according to a rotation angle of the ring member and the first relationship, and to set a position of the focus adjustment lens in the optical axis direction according to the distance and the second relationship.
US09794465B2
A network camera includes a pan driving unit and a tilt driving unit for changing a shooting direction of an imaging unit. A detection unit detects rotation angles of movable units to be driven by the pan driving unit and the tilt driving unit. A pan/tilt control unit corrects a target position of the movable unit according to a correction value according to the detected rotation angle and controls each of the driving units using a value after the correction. In addition, when masked image drawing for processing an image is performed so that a partial image of a predetermined position is not visible in the image captured by an imaging unit, an image processing unit performs a process of correcting a rotation angle detected by the detection unit according to the correction value and drawing a masked image at a mask drawing position after the correction.
US09794463B2
A control apparatus comprises a determination unit configured to determine a region defined by a pair of first coordinate values and a pair of second coordinate values which are designated on a captured image displayed on a display unit; a display control unit configured to control the display unit to display, when the region exceeds a display range of the captured image in accordance with an operation of designating at least one of the pair of first coordinate values and the pair of second coordinate values, a predetermined image including at least a part of the region on a portion that has exceeded the range while holding the region; and an output unit configured to output a command for obtaining a captured image corresponding to the region displayed and controlled by the display control unit.
US09794460B1
Provided is an image sensor. The image sensor may include a plurality of first lenses disposed on a substrate, and a plurality of second lenses disposed on a structure disposed on the substrate suitable for changing the distance between the first and second lenses from a first minimum distance wherein the image sensor operates in a first mode to a second maximum distance wherein the image sensor operates in a second mode.
US09794457B2
The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device, a method for manufacturing the same, and an electronic apparatus capable of improving sensitivity while suppressing degradation of color mixture. The solid-state imaging device includes an anti-reflection portion having a moth-eye structure provided on a boundary surface on a light-receiving surface side of a photoelectric conversion region of each pixel arranged two-dimensionally, and an inter-pixel light-blocking portion provided below the boundary surface of the anti-reflection portion to block incident light. In addition, the photoelectric conversion region is a semiconductor region, and the inter-pixel light-blocking portion has a trench structure obtained by digging the semiconductor region in a depth direction at a pixel boundary. The techniques according to the present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a solid-state imaging device of a rear surface irradiation type.
US09794449B2
A method for a color correction using RGB data without a color space conversion for the color correction includes the steps of: extracting a start hue value of color coordinates from RGB input data; extracting an end hue value, which is finally modified by a color correction matrix user, from the start hue value according to each hue control value of a red color, a green color, a blue color, a yellow color, a cyan color and a magenta color (RGBYCM); converting input values R G and B, according to the end hue value, using a conversion formula for the corresponding input hue value among R, G and B conversion formulas; extracting a final saturation value from the end hue value according to an RGBYCM saturation control value; and calculating values of R, G and B according to modified start hue value, using an RGB color saturation value conversion formula.
US09794443B2
A document processing system and method includes a display, and an embedded controller that includes a BLUETOOTH low energy network interface that is configured for communications with mobile computing devices. When a mobile computing device of a user approaches to within a threshold distance of the document processing system, the user can be presented with directions to the document processing system or service related information about the document processing system. With the mobile computing device is within close proximity of the document processing system, the embedded controller sends the user interface of the document processing system to the mobile computing device for display to the user. The distance between the mobile computing device and the document processing system can be approximated using the received signal strength indicator (RSSI) of BLUETOOTH low energy communications received from the mobile computing device by the document processing system.
US09794442B2
A communication apparatus determines whether to stop data reception during interpretation of the data according to a situation.
US09794439B2
An image forming apparatus includes a first controller, a display panel, a touch panel, a timer, a first storage unit storing a timeout period, and a first communication unit communicating with an external apparatus. When a user selects a predetermined service provided by the image forming apparatus, the first storage unit changes the timeout period to a value obtained from an external apparatus providing the selected service. The first controller uses the changed timeout period to determine whether or not a timeout process is to be performed.
US09794427B2
A computer system maps unique addresses to the conventional fax numbers of conventional fax devices (such as conventional fax machines and computing devices having conventional fax capabilities). A transmitting user who is connected to the Internet may send an IP fax to a receiving user who is also connected to the Internet by addressing the receiving user using the receiving user's unique address, even if the sending user and receiving user are not within the same local network. A server outside of the receiving user's local network mediates the transmission of the IP fax from the transmitting user to the receiving user. The server may select a preferred transmission method of the recipient (e.g., conventional fax, IP fax, email, or secure document delivery) and transmit the fax to the receiving user using that preferred transmission method. Transmitted faxes may be in color and/or contain high-definition content.
US09794426B2
A mobile terminal that communicates with an image processing apparatus including a scanning function includes a display unit that displays a screen, a first instruction unit that, when the display unit displays a specific screen corresponding to the scanning function, instructs the image processing apparatus to activate a specific application corresponding to the scanning function, and a second instruction unit that, when the mobile terminal receives an instruction to perform the scanning function, instructs the image processing apparatus to perform the scanning function.
US09794425B2
An apparatus includes a communication unit which communicates with a communication device, and can write data received from the communication device in a memory. The apparatus receives an operation request to the apparatus from the communication device, and stores the received operation request in the memory. The apparatus has a function of specifying a function corresponding to the operation request of a plurality of functions included in the apparatus in a state in which the operation request is stored in the memory. When the function is specified, and is not activated, the apparatus activates the function, and controls the activated function.
US09794424B2
An apparatus includes a communication unit which communicates with a communication device, and can write data received from the communication device in a memory. The apparatus receives an operation request to the apparatus from the communication device, and stores the received operation request in the memory. The apparatus has a function of specifying a function corresponding to the operation request of a plurality of functions included in the apparatus in a state in which the operation request is stored in the memory. When the function is specified, and is not activated, the apparatus activates the function, and controls the activated function.
US09794422B2
A method and apparatus are provided for presenting multimedia content to a caller and/or a called party in association with a telephone call. Content may be presented pre-ring (before the called party's telephone rings), in-call, and/or post-call. Content presented to a party may be related to another party participating in the call or may be related to a third party. Presented content may be actuable, and allow a caller to change the destination of a call, take advantage of an offer presented to him, redeem a coupon, schedule or queue a subsequent call, etc. To find a desired destination party, a caller may initiate a manual or automatic search of his local contacts (on his telephone) and/or a central or global directory or contact list. A party to a call may be offered one or more payment mechanisms for completing a purchase in an on-line or real-world transaction.
US09794414B1
When an incoming call is received from a customer, various aspects may include obtaining customer call information from the customer and generating a customer call key, which may be stored as a reference to the customer call information in a contact center customer call information database. The call key may be transferred from a first call agent to a second call agent without transferring the customer call information. Then the second call agent may use the call key to retrieve the customer call information and/or the customer call information may be presented on a display for use by the second call agent during the call. The call key may be used to reduce an amount of data electronically transferred between call agents during telephone call transfers.
US09794401B2
The application is directed to a method and system for improving user experience with porting a telephone number to an electronic device. The method includes the steps of displaying a user interface on a display of the electronic device for initiating porting of a telephone number. Upon receiving user information via the user interface associated with the telephone number, it is determined whether the telephone number is portable. If the telephone number is portable, it is transmitted to the electronic device.
US09794400B2
A mobile terminal and a ringtone playing method thereof are provided. The playing method includes: selecting a music file which to be set as a ringtone, and popping up a playing preview interface corresponding to the music film and, meanwhile, playing the music file; sliding a cursor of the playing preview interface to select a start position and a playing end position on a playing progress bar corresponding to the music file so as to acquire and save playing information of the ringtone, wherein the playing information comprises a playing start time point and a playing end time point of the ringtone; and in response to occurrence of a ringing event, reading the saved playing information of the ringtone and playing a music clip between the playing start time point and the playing end time point.
US09794395B2
An apparatus is capable of sharing information through a presence service in a communication network and capable of providing presence information of a Mobile Station (MS). The apparatus extracts at least one of application information and contents indication information from an application in execution. Presence information is generated that includes at least one of the application information and the contents indication information, and transmitting the presence information to a presence server.
US09794391B2
A pendant for use with a mobile terminal, including: a pendant body containing an antenna; and a pendant cord connected with the pendant body, the pendant cord enclosing a cable connected to the antenna for transmitting and receiving radio frequency signals.
US09794388B2
A headset system (1) comprising a first telecommunication device (3) comprising a desk phone or a computer (4) with an installed softphone, a second telecommunication device, such as a mobile phone or a smart phone (6), and a headset (2) comprising a cord (5) with a first connector (7), by means of which the headset (2) is adapted to be interchangeably connected to the first telecommunication device (3) and the second telecommunication device (6). The headset system (1) is adapted to transfer a call from the first telecommunication device (3) to the second telecommunication device (6), when the first connector (7) is unplugged from the first telecommunication device (3). The invention also relates to An external device (8) comprising a second connector (31) to be attached to a first connector (7) of a headset (2), means (9, 10) for connecting the external device (8) to a personal computer (4) with a softphone installed on it, a controller (36) adapted to send a call transfer control signal to the softphone, when the first connector (7) is unplugged from the second connector (31), whereby an active call on the first telecommunication device (4) is transferred to a second telecommunication device (6).
US09794383B2
A mobile phone proofed against water, dust, and physical shocks (tri-proofed) has a structure comprising a first casing, a second casing, and a third casing. The first casing is provided with protrusions, and the third casing is provided with convex blocks. The second casing is provided with a first groove for a protrusion, and is provided with a second groove for a convex block. The protrusions and the convex blocks are both interference fits in the grooves. Moreover, the second casing also includes cosmetic surfaces. The first casing and the third casing have outer surfaces and each cosmetic surface protrudes out of the outer surfaces. The cosmetic surfaces are in first contact when the mobile phone is dropped. Waterproofing, dustproofing, and shockproofing are simultaneously achieved with the single second casing structure.
US09794379B2
An example method for distributed service chaining is provided and includes receiving a packet belonging to a service chain in a distributed virtual switch (DVS) network environment, the packet includes a network service header (NSH) indicating a service path identifier identifying the service chain. The packet is provided to a virtual Ethernet module (VEM) connected to an agentless service node (SN) providing an edge service such as a server load balancer (SLB). The VEM associates a service path identifier corresponding to the service chain with a local identifier such as a virtual local area network (VLAN). The agentless SN returns the packet to the VEM for forwarding on the VLAN. Because the VLAN corresponds exactly to the service path and service chain, the packet is forwarded directly to the next node in the service chain. This can enable agentless SNs to efficiently provide a service chain for network traffic.
US09794378B2
A Network Device (ND) may be configured to enable secure digital video streaming for HD (high definition) digital video systems over a standard network. The ND may operate in at least one of two modes, a co-processor mode and a stand-alone mode, and may provide at least three high level functions: network interface control (NIC), video streaming offload (VSO), and stand-alone video streaming (SVS). To seamlessly execute the VSO functionality, the ND may be configured to have two network stacks running synchronously on a single network interface having a single network address. The two network stacks may share the data traffic, while the Host network stack may act as a master, and configure the ND network stack to accept only specifically designated traffic, thus offloading some of the data processing to the processor configured in the ND. The ND network system may appear as an ordinary network controller to the Host, from which the user may configure the ND network driver to obtain/set the network address, configure the physical layer link speed and duplex mode, configure the multicast filter settings, and obtain and clear the network level statistics.
US09794369B2
A method for allowing a user to select any portion or all of one or more webpages for display at a user accessible interface screen and a system for updating the selected portions so that the user is kept up-to-date on changes taking place on the selected webpage URL's without navigating to them. This method of allowing user selected webpage aggregation onto one or more user accessible pages gives the user the ability to read and overview a multitude of information sources quickly at one location.
US09794368B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Subscriber profile management in a wireless communication system is disclosed. A method for operating a user device, the method comprises: determining a state change of a direct connection with another device; and controlling a state of a profile including the same subscriber identification number as a subscriber identification number assigned to the other device, according to the state change of the direct connection.
US09794360B1
Systems and methods are provided for determining media engagement information related to client devices that do not support cookies. In some embodiments, a server may receive a request for a portion of live media content from a client device that does not support cookies. The server may identify a unique identifying characteristics associated with the media request. The server may determine a number of concurrent downloads of the live media content that are associated with the unique identifying characteristic. The server may further estimate a number of client devices associated with the unique identifying characteristic that have downloaded the live media content based on the number of concurrent downloads. In some embodiments, the server may also determine a number of computing devices that support cookie information and have downloaded the live media content to determine a total number of computing devices that have downloaded the live media content.
US09794359B1
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph including a number of nodes and a number of edges connecting the nodes. Each of the edges between two of the nodes represent a single degree of separation between them. The nodes include a first node corresponding to a first user associated with an online social network and a number of second nodes that each correspond to a concept or a second user associated with the online social network. The method also includes generating a user-list containing references to a number of second users. A contact-score for each second user may be calculated based on interactions between the first user and second user on the online social network, or interactions not on the online social network but accessed by the online social network. A user-list is generated containing references to second users with contact-scores above a threshold contact-score.
US09794355B2
In some embodiments, computer implemented methods, systems, and computer readable media can receive a notification from at least one of a plurality of notification nodes. The notification can be associated with a target user. Information related to the target user can be acquired. Information related to the plurality of notification nodes can be acquired. The plurality of notification nodes can be ranked based on at least one of the information related to the target user or the information related to the plurality of notification nodes. Then one or more notification nodes that satisfy one or more specified ranking criteria can be selected. The notification can be formatted based on at least one of the information related to the target user or information related to the one or more selected notification nodes. The formatted notification can then be transmitted to the one or more selected notification nodes.
US09794353B2
A system for managing process requests includes at least one memory operable to store request and response queues and a processor coupled to the memory. A request to execute a process is received and stored in a request queue among a set of request queues, the request queue corresponding to the process. It is determined if one or more nodes on a network are available to perform the process. An expiration value for the request is set based on a type of the process. The request is dispatched to the one or more nodes on the network to perform the process at a predetermined timing. A response is received from the one or more nodes. The response is stored in a response queue among a set of response queues, the response queue corresponding to the process. The response is dispatched from the response queue.
US09794352B2
Systems and methods for managing a service set in network function virtualization (NVF) are provided. A service set can be defined as an ordered list of services to be applied to packet traffic and assigned to instances of the services in a distributed pool of virtual hosts. Responsive to determining that a first service in the service set is to be transferred from a first host to a second host, other services in the service set can also be identified to be transferred to the second host to maintain quality of service and latency as a packet is processed by the service set.
US09794351B2
Distributed mobile device management including a plurality of management agents is disclosed. Management-related information may be retrieved from a storage location accessible to a plurality of management agents. The management-related information may have been provided to the storage location from a management agent associated with a managed application. And at least one operation may be performed based at least in part on the management-related information.
US09794349B2
Systems and methods of managing a link provide for receiving a remote width capability during a link initialization, the remote width capability corresponding to a remote port. A link between a local port and the remote port is operated at a plurality of link widths in accordance with the remote width capability.
US09794347B2
A system for wirelessly programming and diagnosing a motor includes a server computer system, a portable electronic device, and a wireless communication device. The server computer system stores motor operating parameters and other motor data that can be accessed by the portable electronic device over a wireless communication network for identifying a suitable replacement motor for an unserviceable motor. The server computer system also generates motor programming instructions for programming the replacement motor to emulate the unserviceable motor. The portable electronic device wirelessly transmits the motor programming instructions to the wireless communication device for storing the motor programming instructions on a memory of a controller of the replacement motor so that the replacement motor will emulate the unserviceable motor.
US09794342B2
A virtual storage apparatus based on a plurality of storage apparatuses including a first storage apparatus and a second storage apparatus is provided to a host computer. A first logical unit of the first storage apparatus and a second logical unit of the second storage apparatus are provided to the host computer in a form of a virtual logical unit. The first storage apparatus is configured to return a response to an inquiry about port statuses from the host computer designating the virtual logical unit, the response indicating that the status of the first port is a status as indicated by the first port management information and the second storage apparatus is unavailable to respond to the inquiry about port statuses. The second storage apparatus is configured to return no response to the inquiry.
US09794341B2
A server system with one or more processors and memory sends a verification request, to a client device, to verify that the client device is storing a data block, where the verification request includes verification parameters. In response, the server system obtains from the client device a first verification value for the data block. The server system compares the first verification value with a second verification value for the data block, where the second verification value was previously computed, in accordance with the data block and the verification parameters, and stored by the server system. In accordance with a determination that the first verification value matches the second verification value, the server system confirms that the client device is storing the data block.
US09794339B2
Systems and method for remotely satisfying API (Application Programming Interface) requests made by an application executing at a client device. At an accelerated remote operations system server remote from the client device, an intercepted API request of an application executing at the client device is received. At the accelerated remote operations system server, an API response to the API request is determined using an API. The API response is compared to a previously determined API response for the API request to determine if the API response has changed. A response is sent to the client device based on whether the API response has changed and is used to continue execution of the application at the client device.
US09794336B2
Described herein is a computer implemented method for updating a hierarchical dataset using a hierarchical edit script. The dataset comprises a plurality of dataset nodes and the edit script comprises a plurality of edit script nodes. The edit script nodes comprise at least one source node and at least one target node defining a move operation in which one or more nodes from the hierarchical dataset are moved from an original location to a target location.
US09794329B2
A framework for cloud applications with fast secured local access is described herein. In accordance with one aspect, a cloud application (App) on an application server on a cloud is provided. The cloud application includes a dispatcher having location information of a local resource on a local server required by the App. The dispatcher may be loaded onto an end-user device in response to a user accessing the cloud application from a browser on the end-user device on a local network. A request for the local resource may be issued to the local server by the dispatcher on the end-user device. A result of the request may be received from the local server by the dispatcher on the end-user device, and displayed on the browser.
US09794328B1
A transcoding service is described that is capable of transcoding or otherwise processing content, such as video, audio or multimedia content, by utilizing one or more pipelines. A pipeline can enable a user to submit transcoding jobs (or other processing jobs) into an available pipeline, where a transcoding service (or other such service) assigns one or more computing resources to process the jobs received to each pipeline. The transcoding service and the pipelines can be provided by at least one service provider (e.g., a cloud computing provider) or other such entity to a plurality of customers. A service provider can also provide the computing resources (e.g., servers, virtual machines, etc.) used to process the transcoding jobs from the pipelines.
US09794321B2
There is provide a computing system configured to receive an object identifier and contextual information from an end-user, to compute the object identifier and contextual information based on pre-defined set of rules, to map said object identifier and contextual information to an entry point associated with a specific computer application among a plurality of applications, and to provide access to said specific computer application to said end-user. There is also provided a method to do the same, and a tag for use with a physical object, the tag comprising a redirection identifier embodying a unique identifier of the object and an HTTP address of a server permitting to redirect or provide access to the user to a specific computer application about the object.
US09794319B2
A modular transcoder software system for transcoding a multimedia message includes a collection of software modules and objects for the dynamic construction of a series of complex, related or unrelated operations in the form of a transcoding pipeline. The transcoding pipeline provides a hierarchy of operations, such that they can be organized and optimized with the aim of being able to execute the entire hierarchy in a single pass. Additionally, external plugins can customize the mechanism of building the pipeline by altering, adding to, or removing construction knowledge.
US09794313B2
A method can include receiving, at a given node, a continuous stream of input media from a media source. A value can be computed as a function of each of a plurality of data blocks of the continuous stream of input media received by the given node. The method can also include receiving, at the given node, values computed for a plurality of data blocks of the continuous stream received by another node. A set of the received values from the other node can be correlated with a set of the computed values for the given node to determine an offset between the blocks of the continuous stream of input media that are received by the given node and the blocks of the continuous stream of input media that are received by the other node.
US09794305B2
A messaging entity configured in a memory of first node of a plurality communicatively coupled nodes is disclosed. The nodes are included in a distributed computing system. The messaging entity is configured to operate as a secondary messaging entity in a messaging server for the plurality communicatively coupled nodes. The messaging entity is communicatively couple to a primary messaging entity configured in a memory of a second node of the plurality of nodes. The primary messaging entity is configured to store a message; store a copy of the message.
US09794302B2
The invention relates to a method, network ad network entity for establishing a communication session between a calling subscriber residing in a first Visited IMS network and a called subscriber roaming in a second Visited IMS network. The method includes routing a first Invite request for the communication session via a media path extending from the first Visited IMS network via a Home IMS network of the called subscriber to the second Visited IMS network, and establishing the communication session. The method further includes inserting an additional IMS network entity, residing in the second Visited IMS network, in the part of the media path extending from the first Visited IMS network to the Home IMS network of the called subscriber and removing the Home IMS network of the called subscriber from the media path.
US09794287B1
A method, and a system are provided for implementing cloud based malware container protection. A container is provisioned for a user. The container is monitored, and when an abnormal activity is detected based upon historical metric data, a unikernel is provisioned and a user application is migrated to the unikernel while inspection occurs.
US09794285B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for detecting hacked modems in a cable network system. A cable Internet service provider can provide the disclosed heuristic to determine whether a particular cable modem has likely been hacked by obtaining a score corresponding to this likelihood. This score, as well as information regarding failure and success of various tests, can be used to generate a report identifying the likelihood that various modems have been hacked.
US09794282B1
According to certain non-limiting embodiments disclosed herein, the functionality of a server is extended with a mechanism for identifying connections with clients that have exhibited attack characteristics (for example, characteristics indicating a DoS attack), and for transitioning internal ownership of those connections such that server resources consumed by the connection are reduced, while keeping the connection open. The connection thus moves from a state of relatively high resource use to a state of relatively low server resource use. According to certain non-limiting embodiments disclosed herein, the functionality of a server is extended by enabling the server to determine that any of a client and a connection exhibits one or more attack characteristics (e.g., based on at least one of client attributes, connection attributes, and client behavior during the connection, or otherwise). As a result of the determination, the server changes its treatment of the connection.
US09794280B2
A system and method for detecting encoding errors in a template used to generate a Web page. The template is analyzed using static analysis in a source code format, without rendering the Web page. A report can be generated including details on the detected errors and provide options on how to address the errors.
US09794272B2
A method and apparatus for monitoring data traffic in a communication network are provided. A router connected to the communication network monitors information contained in the data traffic, and based on the information determines whether data in the traffic is indicative of a malicious threat to one or more resources connected to the network. Parameters which control monitoring of traffic at the router, such as the sampling rate and what information is to be extracted from the data is varied according to the condition of the network so that the monitoring can be adapted to focus on traffic which relates to a particular suspected or detected threat.
US09794270B2
The invention includes a system comprising a device, software installed on the device and coupled to the device's hardware and software stack to execute data encryption and remote attestation. The invention includes a process to configure the device for encryption and remote attestation and performing an initial inventory and content scan of the device's hardware and software stack with results transmitted across a communication network to the attestation server. The invention includes periodic inventory and content scans of the device's hardware and software stack with results transmitted again to the server via the network. The attestation server stores the results in a database for comparison to subsequent results sent by devices. The attestation server notes any differences in the most recent results and sends an alert to the device if the device is configured differently based on the previous scan, or configured the same if no differences were noted.
US09794269B2
A computer implemented method for generating a receipt. The method includes, accessing a universal digital fingerprint associated with an item of content, wherein the fingerprint is invariant across one or more formats of the item of content. The method includes accessing an identification value by the processor. The method includes generating a digital token by cryptographically binding the digital fingerprint and the identification value, wherein the digital token is invariant across the one or more formats of the item of content. The method further includes associating the digital token with at least one right to the item of content.
US09794262B2
Embodiments presented herein describe techniques for selecting incoming network frames to be mirrored using an access control list. According to one embodiment, an incoming frame is received. Upon determining that the incoming frame matches an entry in the access control list, a mirror field of the entry is evaluated. The mirror field identifies at least one mirroring action to perform on the frame. The identified mirroring action is performed on the frame.
US09794261B2
A method for use in a Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) server, for controlling access to the DLNA server, includes: receiving an access request sent from a DLNA client to access the DLNA server; obtaining a media access control (MAC) address used by the DLNA client; detecting whether the MAC address exists in a preset blacklist; and denying access of the DLNA client, if the MAC address exists in the preset blacklist.
US09794257B2
A system and method of granting a service authorization to a service provider in a regulating or funding agency of a first organization to access one or more individual's information in a second organization, where a service authorization comprises an authorization to access information and to provide specific services from said regulating or funding agency, the request for service authorization coming from an organization from an individual, patent or guardian of the individual, or regulating or funding organization, for service to be provided to an individual whose private information is stored within the second organization. A system for approving or rejecting the service authorization requests is provided based on authorization of the service provider, as well as a system and method for recording and sharing the outcomes of all decisions with the organization. If a service authorization is approved, it may be integrated into the organization's own workflow.
US09794256B2
A cloud-based platform (e.g., cloud-based collaboration and/or storage platform/service) is described that provides advanced control tools for administrators of an enterprise account. The advanced control tools permit the administrator to set mobile security settings for mobile devices running applications that allow a user to access enterprise data in the cloud-based platform; activity notification archiving; support for multiple email domains; automation processes; and policies. The settings selected by the administrator are applied enterprise-wide within the cloud-based platform.
US09794255B2
A processor stores authentication information managed by a native environment of the communication terminal in a first storage region of the storage device. The processor stores authentication information of an application to be executed on a Web application execution environment of the communication terminal in a second storage region of the storage device. The processor performs a control to write the authentication information stored in the first storage region to the second storage region when authentication information used by the application is not stored in the second storage region and is stored in the first storage region.
US09794254B2
A method in one example implementation includes extracting a plurality of data elements from a record of a data file, tokenizing the data elements into tokens, and storing the tokens in a first tuple of a registration list. The method further includes selecting one of the tokens as a token key for the first tuple, where the token is selected because it occurs less frequently in the registration list than each of the other tokens in the first tuple. In specific embodiments, at least one data element is an expression element having a character pattern matching a predefined expression pattern that represents at least two words and a separator between the words. In other embodiments, at least one data element is a word defined by a character pattern of one or more consecutive essential characters. Other specific embodiments include determining an end of the record by recognizing a predefined delimiter.
US09794247B2
An electronic component includes a processor and a memory. The electronic component has a secure platform capable of storing at least one dual key pair and a corresponding digital signature. There is also a system including a host machine and an electronic component capable of being operated by the host machine. The electronic component has a processor, a memory, and a secure platform capable of storing at least one dual key pair and a corresponding digital signature. Another aspect describes a method, which includes reading a public key from an electronic component by a host machine, verifying the public key against a stored key in the host machine, digitally signing data using a private key from the electronic component, verifying the signed data against the stored key, and using the electronic component by the host machine only if the signed data and the public key are verified.
US09794244B2
A method for operating a network in which a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) functionality between at least some of a plurality of elements of the network is realized by at least one controller. The method includes providing a secure proof of at least one network property. The secure proof of the at least one network property is provided by the SDN functionality.
US09794233B2
Systems and methods for application identification in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a user device includes a processor and memory configured to store an application, a session manager, an application identifier, and at least one shared library, and the processor is configured by the session manager to communicate the application identifier and the application identifier data to an authentication server and permit the execution of the application in response to authentication of the application by the authentication server.
US09794197B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting a CAN frame. A method for transmitting a CAN frame includes receiving an input of a transmission file containing a plurality of CAN frames; detecting the number of the CAN frames contained in the transmission file; comparing the number of the CAN frames with the number of transmission buffers; mapping, when the number of the CAN frames is less than or equal to the number of the transmission buffers, the CAN frames onto the transmission buffers in a one-to-one mapping manner; and mapping, when the number of the CAN frames is greater than the number of the transmission buffers, the CAN frames onto the transmission buffers in a many-to-one mapping manner.
US09794189B2
A service platform for a content delivery network indicates a transmission rate cap to be imposed when streaming data to a data requesting device over an access network. Means are provided for receiving a service request for delivery of data from a requesting device as the result of which the requested data is delivered as a prioritised traffic stream over an access link to the requesting device. The service platform processes the service request to determine one or more performance characteristics of said access link and uses this to determine the maximum transmission rate for the requested data to be streamed at over the access link during its delivery to the requesting device. This information is included in a source address for the requested data which the service platform generates, typically as a URL. The maximum transmission rate set is provided as a prefix to the URL (or in some other meta-data format) to the requesting device, and the content delivery platform is configured to ensure that requests for media assets which are received at the logical or virtual ports associated with the URL pre-fixes are responded to by transmissions limited to the maximum bandwidth cap indicated by the URL pre-fix.
US09794187B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for resource conversion in network function virtualization based networks. In use, a first resource of a first type is identified in a first hardware unit, the first resource at least potentially having insufficient availability and being associated with a Network Function Virtualization based (NFV-based) communication network. Additionally, a second resource of a second type is identified, the second resource being associated with the first hardware unit, the second resource being identified as sufficiently available. Further, a third resource of the first type is identified, the third resource being associated with a second hardware unit, the second hardware unit being associated with the second resource, the third resource being identified as sufficiently available.
US09794185B2
According to an example, a method for bandwidth guarantee and work conservation includes determining virtual machine (VM) bandwidth guarantees assigned to VMs in a network including a source VM that communicates with destination VMs. The method further includes assigning minimum bandwidth guarantees to communications between the source VM with the destination VMs by dividing a VM bandwidth guarantee assigned to the source VM between the destination VMs based on active VM-to-VM communications between the source VM and the destination VMs. The method also includes allocating, by a processor, spare bandwidth capacity in the network to a communication between the source VM and a destination VM based on the assigned minimum bandwidth guarantees.
US09794181B2
Some embodiments increase throughput across a connection between a host and a client by initializing the congestion window for that connection dynamically using a previously settled value from a prior instance of the connection established between the same or similar endpoints. An initialization agent tracks congestion window values for previously established connections between a host and various clients. For the tracked congestion window values of each monitored connection, the initialization agent stores an address identifying the client endpoint. When establishing a new connection, the initialization agent determines if the new connection is a recurring connection. A new connection is recurring when the new connection client address is similar or related to an address identified for a previous monitored connection. For a recurring connection, the initialization agent initializes the new connection congestion window using a value derived from the tracked congestion window values of the recurring connection.
US09794176B2
Systems and methods for differentiating between a duplicate MAC address situation and a multiple MAC address movement situation are provided. A node receives a new MAC address determines if it is a known or unknown MAC address by comparing it with a stored MAC address table. If it is a previously known MAC address, the node initiates a duplicate MAC address detection process to determine if at least one of the duplicate MAC addresses is no longer valid or is the result of a MAC mobility event.
US09794155B2
A data communication system configured to determine and coordinate loading in a mobile network with plurality of client devices. The system includes a control server coupled the client devices. The control server has a probe control function that transmits a downlink (DL) probe with an updated client probing profile to each client device. The client device has a client probing control engine that gathers network measurement information for transmission to the control server and generates uplink (UL) probes containing the network measurement information including, radio access network (RAN) metrics, DL probe measurements for transmission to the control server based on the client probing profile. The control server receives the UL probes from the client devices and determines the system load based on the measurement information, the control server updates client scheduling information based on the system load and transmits the client scheduling information to the plurality of client devices.
US09794150B2
A server includes a processor and a memory connected to the processor to store instructions executed by the processor to collect playback statistics from network connected content players, perform an evaluation of the playback statistics, and establish a playback configuration for specified content based upon the evaluation of the playback statistics. A request for the playback configuration for the specified content is received from a network connected content player. The playback configuration for the specified content is transferred to the network connected player.
US09794149B2
A user experienced quality estimation apparatus estimating a user experienced waiting time of an application in an user terminal, includes: a computer configured to: obtain, as estimation target logs, a duration time of each process of data obtaining, script execution and screen rendering performed in an estimation target period in the user terminal, and to store the estimation target logs in a received log storage unit; read out the estimation target logs from the received log storage unit, and output logs, excluding logs having data duration time shorter than a predetermined short time process threshold or longer than a predetermined long time process threshold; calculate, as multiplicity, the number of processes in a timeslot of a constant time length for the output logs; and extract a continuous region from data quantized by the quantization unit.
US09794148B1
Techniques are described for providing node protection in a Source Packet Routing in Networking (SPRING) network. In some examples, a first network device, responsive to detecting a configuration request to provide node protection to a second network device that is adjacent to the first network device: generate at least one context table; configure at least one forwarding entry that indicates: a primary path between the first network device and a third network device, and a backup path, based at least in part on the at least one context table, between the first network device and the third network device that bypasses the second network device; while the second network device has not failed, forward network packets to the third network device using the primary path; and responsive to determining that the second network device has failed, forward network packets to the third network device using the backup path.
US09794144B1
In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for correlating status information generated in a computer network. A computing system receives, for each particular computer server or application program in a group of computer servers and application programs that are executing on the computer servers, information that identifies statuses of the particular computer server or application program at a plurality of times. The computing system generates, using the information received, network signatures that each represent statuses of the computer servers and application programs in the group for a particular time, the network signatures being for multiple times. The computer system stores the network signatures along with data that identifies relationships, for each of the multiple times, between (i) application programs and the computer servers on which they were executing, and (ii) application programs that were in communication with each other.
US09794142B2
A method for analyzing traffic in a communications network includes sampling data packets at a plurality of network interconnection points, wherein sampling the data packets includes generating a plurality of sampled packet data in one or more standardized formats, converting the sampled packet data from the one or more standardized formats into a neutral format, and aggregating the sampled packet data in the neutral format from the plurality of network interconnection points. A system includes a communications node operable to sample data packets flowing through and generate sample packet data in a specified format, a collector node operable to convert the sampled packet data into a neutral format, the collector node further operable to map IP addresses of the sampled packet data to corresponding prefixes in a routing table; and an aggregator node operable to aggregate neutrally formatted sampled packet data from a plurality of collector nodes.
US09794138B2
Traffic data while the system is in operation is collected for a certain time as a preprocess. Typical patterns are extracted from the collected traffic data. Next, stream programs are created for the individual typical patterns and stored for the future reference. Next, the IDs of alternative tasks for transition among different stream programs are stored. In actual system operation, the system measures traffic data regularly or at any time, compares the resultant patterns with the typical patterns, and selects a stream program corresponding to the closest typical pattern as the next phase. Program shutdown time when shifting from the stream program in the present phase to the next phase can be reduced by gradually shifting empty tasks in the present phase to the next stream program as alternative tasks in consideration of the cost of switching between tasks, the cost of transferring data among resources, and so on.
US09794132B2
A method and an apparatus are provided, by which control in a virtual network is performed, in which resources of a network are modeled, wherein the control of the virtual network is carried out according to a first network protocol. Moreover, a network interface is provided between the virtual network and the network the resources of which are modeled. A control part of a network resource is provided in the virtual network, the control part and the network resource requiring a second network protocol for exchanging control signaling. Control information according to one of the first and second network protocols, which are destined to the network element, is encapsulated in control signaling of another one of the first and second network protocols, and the control signaling is sent to the on the network interface to a network control element, which de-capsulates the encapsulated control information from the received control signaling, and forwards the detected control information to the network resource.
US09794130B2
A procedure for evaluating a network, and a system, apparatus, and computer program that operate in accordance with the procedure. The procedure includes aggregating packet information from one or more sources in a network, and executing a correlation algorithm to determine traffic flow information based on the packet information. The aggregating includes obtaining information from a header of a packet being communicated in the network, in one example embodiment. In another example, the executing includes tracing a traffic flow from a source node to a destination node, and the tracing includes determining, based on the packet information, each link by which the traffic flow is communicated from the source node to the destination node.
US09794129B2
The present proposal provides a specific solution for communications network topology summarization with a good trade-off between high scalability, good stability and resources utilization efficiency.
US09794126B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to compressing a sequence of binary data by encoding difference values between adjacent data in the sequence. For each datum in the sequence, the difference value may be determined by comparing the datum with an immediately preceding datum. For data, the determined difference may be expressible using few bits. The determined difference is encoded in subwords having subword lengths selected from a set of predetermined subword lengths. The selected subword lengths may be a minimum one of the set of predetermined subword sizes that is capable of representing the difference between the adjacent data. A size tag is generated for each subword encoded. The size tag identifies the size of the subword selected and used for encoding the determined difference. The difference may be encoded as a mathematical difference or as a bit pattern difference.
US09794125B2
The present invention relates to a bandwidth managing unit (200) configured to manage unidirectional data transfers of data to mobile user entities (100) in a mobile communications network (300), the bandwidth managing unit comprising:—a data transfer detecting unit configured to receive data transfer requests of the mobile user entities (100) in the mobile communications network, each data transfer request requesting a unidirectional transfer of data from a content provider,—a network condition determining unit (220) configured to determine data transfer conditions in the mobile communications network (300) for the different data transfers to the corresponding mobile user entities (100),—a data transfer scheduler (270) configured to determine, for each detected data transfer request, a point in time when the requested data transfer should be initiated, taking into account the data transfer conditions in the mobile communications network (300) for the data transfer to the corresponding mobile user entity (100), and configured to initiate the data transfer at the determined point in time.
US09794120B2
A controller in a server system can determine whether to share a network connection of the server system. In response to determining to share the network connection, the controller can disable a dedicated network connection between the controller and a network interface controller (NIC) in the server system, enable a first shared network connection between the controller and a computing module in the server system, and enable a second shared network connection between the computing module and the NIC. In response to determining not to share the network connection, the controller can enable the dedicated network connection between the controller and the NIC.
US09794113B2
In one embodiment, a device receives a plurality of network alerts over a time frame. A sliding transaction window is used across the time frame to associate each network alert occurring within the transaction window with one or more transactions. A pruning test is applied to subsets of the plurality of network alerts, with the network alerts in a given subset being associated with the same transaction. The pruning test is based in part on the number of co-occurrences of network alerts in a given subset for different transaction windows. The subsets of network alerts are assigned to network alert clusters based on the applied pruning test. The network alerts are then joined within a network alert cluster to identify the largest grouping of network alerts that pass the pruning test. A notification that the identified grouping of network alerts is associated with the same transaction is also provided.
US09794105B2
A signal transmitting apparatus includes: a first converting device arranged to generate an up-converted in-phase signal according to an in-phase digital signal and a first pre-distortion signal; a second converting device arranged to generate an up-converted quadrature signal according to a quadrature digital signal and a second pre-distortion signal; an amplifying device arranged to generate an amplified signal according to the up-converted in-phase signal and the up-converted quadrature signal; and a processing device arranged to generate the first pre-distortion signal according to a first combination signal combined by a cube of the in-phase digital signal and a multiplication of the in-phase digital signal and a square of the quadrature digital signal, and to generate the second pre-distortion signal according to a second combination signal combined by a cube of the quadrature digital signal and a multiplication of the quadrature digital signal and a square of the in-phase digital signal.
US09794100B2
An apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals includes an encoder to encode service data, a framing block to map the encoded service data into data symbols to build at least one signal frame, a frequency interleaver to frequency interleaving data in the at least one signal frame by using an interleaving sequence, a modulator to perform a modulation on the frequency interleaved data by the OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme and a transmitter to transmit the broadcast signals having the modulated data. A different interleaving sequence is used for two consecutive data symbols corresponding to an OFDM symbol pair or a data symbol corresponding to an OFDM symbol according to an FFT size of the modulation.
US09794089B2
Some embodiments include apparatus and methods having an input to receive an input signal, additional inputs to receive clock signals having different phases to sample the input signal, and a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) having DFE slices. The DFE slices include a number of data comparators to provide data information based on the sampling of the input signal, and a number of phase error comparators to provide phase error information associated with the sampling of the input signal. The number of phase error comparators of the DFE slices is not greater than the number of data comparators of the DFE slices.
US09794083B2
A targeted discovery between a first device and a second device in a network, in particular, a WHDI network, provides discovery for an identified device or a group of identified devices. The targeted discovery determines an identifier for a second device or a group of devices that the second device belongs to, and sends a device discovery message to the second device using the identifier for the second device when the second device is configured to respond to the device discovery message if the device discovery message includes the identifier for the second device. The first device receives a response to the device discovery message from the second device and can start further communication with the second device.
US09794076B2
A method for a node device to enter or exit a power-saving mode and a node device are disclosed. The method for a node device to enter a power-saving mode includes: the node device detecting characteristics of a reverse power supply signal provided by a customer premise equipment, and if a condition of entering a power-saving mode is satisfied, the node device entering the power-saving mode. The method for a node device to exit a power-saving mode includes: the node device in a power-saving mode exiting the power-saving mode after detecting that a customer premise equipment starts reverse power supply to the node device. The node device includes a reverse power supply unit, a power source unit, a control unit, and a transceiver unit.
US09794075B2
An Ethernet device is disclosed that may reduce transient currents and/or power consumption while entering and exiting a low power mode by selectively powering-on and/or powering-off a number of transceiver components at different times (e.g., in a staggered manner). The transient currents and/or power consumption may be further reduced by assigning different quiet period durations to different transceiver chains, for example, to minimize the number of transceiver components that enter and/or exit the low power mode at the same time.
US09794070B2
Embodiments herein provide, for example, a method that includes, comprising: sending a request, by a first user on a first device, to a server, the request comprising requesting the server open an ephemeral communication session with a second user on a second device; allocating resources, by the server, to begin the ephemeral communication session between the first user and the second user; generating a unique ephemeral communication session identifier by the server and transmitting the unique ephemeral communication session identifier to the first user; transmitting, by the first user, the unique ephemeral communication session identifier to the second user using a second communication channel; connecting, by the second user, to the first user through the ephemeral communication session using the unique ephemeral communication session identifier; and connecting, by the first user, to the second user through the ephemeral communication session using the unique ephemeral communication session identifier. In such a method, connecting, by the second user, to the first user through the ephemeral communication session may include connecting to the server; and connecting, by the first user, to the second user through the ephemeral communication session may include connecting to the server.
US09794067B2
A method of providing robust and secure fingerprints including, at an enrollment stage, the steps of providing a content x for which a fingerprint is to be provided, assigning an ID number to the content x, providing a secret key k, generating a fingerprint bx based on content x and secret key k, storing the generated fingerprint bx together with the assigned ID in a database, as well as, at an identification stage, the steps of extracting, for a given query content y which might result either from the enrolled content x or an unrelated content x′, an estimate fingerprint by based on content y, and secret key k, producing an estimated I{hacek over (D)} number based on the estimate fingerprint by for identifying the content x using said ID number stored in the database, or else rejecting the query.
US09794062B2
A system and method for providing a scrambled tweak mode of block cipher encryption for a device that mitigates the effect of side channel attacks based on differential power analysis (DPA). The scrambled tweak mode encryption engine creates noise at the start of the encryption process by obfuscating the counter value with the use of the very fast mixing function, such as a mixing function based on a XOR tree, substitution-permutation networks, or double-mix Feistel networks. The mixing function uses some secret key material, which diversifies its behavior between different instantiations. Because the counter values are scrambled and the mixing functions operate very fast in parallel hardware, the input of the block cipher is pseudorandom and groups of blocks can't be correlated.
US09794050B2
A method of assigning PUCCH transmission timing for a mobile device configured with jointly aggregated TDD and FDD CCs includes determining a UL transmission timing in a first subframe for a corresponding feedback in response to a first DL transmission in a second subframe on a first cell, where the second subframe is k subframes prior to the first subframe; and transmitting the corresponding feedback of the first DL transmission in the first subframe on a second cell according to the first UL transmission timing of the first DL transmission of the first cell; where the first cell is on a TDD CC and the first cell has no PUCCH to transmit the corresponding feedback of the first DL transmission, and the second cell is on an FDD CC and the second cell uses PUCCH to transmit the corresponding feedback of the first DL transmission of the first cell.
US09794041B2
This application discloses a method for determining a pilot arrangement and a base station. The method includes the following steps. S1. Select a first optimized pilot arrangement P1 from an available subcarrier set G as a pilot arrangement of the first transmit antenna, and set G1=G−P1; S2. Perform a cyclic shift on the P1; if a Pi obtained after the shift is a subset of the G1, use the Pi as a pilot arrangement of the ith transmit antenna; or if a Pi obtained after the shift is not a subset of the G1, select a Pi from the G1 as a pilot arrangement of the ith transmit antenna; and set G1=G1−Pi and i=i+1, and repeatedly perform S2 until i is equal to a quantity of transmit antennas.
US09794032B2
Provided is a method of receiving a physical layer convergence procedure (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) by an access point (AP) in a wireless local area (LAN) system. The method includes: allocating a first transmission channel bandwidth to a first station (STA) which is multiple input multiple output (MIMO)-paired with the AP; allocating a second transmission channel bandwidth to a second STA which is MIMO-paired with the AP; transmitting to the first STA and the second STA a sync trigger for determining a time point at which the first STA transmits a first PPDU and a time point at which the second STA transmits a second PPDU; and receiving simultaneously the first PPDU and the second PPDU from the first STA and the second STA.
US09794025B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, devices, apparatuses, computer-/processor-readable media, and other implementations for data communication in which data is divided into multiple data blocks, with each of the multiple data blocks including a portion of a respective at least one other of the multiple data blocks to produce multiple corresponding resultant data blocks. Additionally, at least one validation code is generated based on the multiple corresponding resultant data blocks. At least the multiple corresponding resultant data blocks and the at least one validation code are communicated to a remote device.
US09794016B2
In one embodiment, an optical system for processing space-multiplexed optical signals includes an input fiber that propagates multiple spatially-separated optical signals, a photonic signal processor that receives the multiple spatially-separated optical signals and simultaneously processes those signals, and an output fiber that receives at least one of the processed signals.
US09794014B2
The present invention relates to a method by which a terminal receives a downlink signal from a base station in a wireless communication system. In detail, the method includes the steps of: receiving information about resource elements for interference channel estimation from an adjacent base station; estimating the interference channel from the adjacent base station using the resource elements for the interference channel estimation; and applying reception beam forming to avoid the interference channel and receive the downlink signal from the base station, wherein the downlink signal is not mapped to the resource elements for the interference channel estimation.
US09794013B2
A system is provided. The system includes a plurality of network nodes for operating in a Time Division Duplex, TDD, network. The plurality of network nodes includes at least a network node and a first neighbor network node. The network node includes a node processor and node memory. The node memory contains instructions executable by the node processor. The first network node is configured to detect interference caused by the first neighbor network node in at least one uplink, UL, subframe, and determine a potential reason for the interference caused by the first neighbor network node.
US09794012B2
Techniques for sending control information in a wireless communication system are described. In an aspect, a UE spreads control information across frequency with a DFT and across time with an orthogonal sequence to obtain output data for the control information. In one design, the UE receives codewords for N HARQ processes in N downlink subframes, determines an ACK value for each HARQ process, codes N ACK values for the N HARQ processes to obtain ACK information, generates output data for the ACK information, and sends the output data in one of M uplink subframes. In another aspect, first control information is processed based on a first coding and multiplexing scheme utilizing code division multiplexing in time and frequency domains. Second control information is processed based on a second coding and multiplexing scheme utilizing code division multiplexing in time domain and spreading in frequency domain.
US09794009B1
Method for testing implicit beamforming operation of a radio frequency (RF) data packet signal transceiver device under test (DUT), including transmitting to the DUT combinations of a multidirectional (e.g., legacy) RF test signal and at least two unidirectional (e.g., beamformed) RF test signals with different signal directivity patterns, and monitoring signal strengths of signals received from the DUT in response to each signal. Signal directivity patterns can be controlled by transmitting multiple phase-controlled RF signals via separate arrays of multiple antenna elements to the DUT within a multipath RF signal environment, such as an electromagnetically shielded enclosure.
US09794006B2
An envelope tracking RF transmitter calibration procedure calculates both a supply voltage to apply to a power amplifier for a modulated signal envelope to achieve ISO-gain, and a timing delay adjustment to time-align the applied supply voltage and the modulated signal to minimize distortion due to time delay error. An ISO-gain surface is calculated, as a function of the envelope of a modulated signal and the power amplifier supply voltage, for each of a plurality of desired gain values. As the envelope is swept through a predetermined range of values, demodulated outputs at predetermined points are sampled, and a set of non-linear functions relating the supply voltage to the envelope, which achieve the desired gain at the sampled points, are derived, using surface interpolation between the predetermined gain surface points. Data defining the functions are stored for use during transmitter operation. Distortion components in the transmitter output are detected, and are separated into even components representing time delay error distortion, and odd components representing transmitter saturation distortion. A timing delay value is calculated that minimizes the time delay error distortion.
US09794002B1
An information handling system, a display panel, and a method for providing optical communication of signals within a display panel is provided. The information handling system comprises a radio frequency (RF) transceiver subsystem, an antenna subsystem, and a display panel, the display panel for displaying graphic images, the display panel comprising an optical communication channel coupled to the RF transceiver subsystem and the antenna subsystem, the optical communication channel for communicating transmit signals from the RF transceiver subsystem to the antenna subsystem and for communicating receive signals from the antenna subsystem to the RF transceiver subsystem.
US09793995B2
A communication device includes: a converter circuit configured to convert an optical signal that carries an oscillator signal of a radio frequency and transmission signals generated in a signal processing device into an electric signal; an extractor configured to extract the oscillator signal from the electric signal; a recovery circuit configured to recover the transmission signals from the electric signal; a radio frequency signal generator configured to generate radio frequency signals that respectively carry the transmission signals recovered by the recovery circuit using the oscillator signal; amplifiers respectively configured to amplify the radio frequency signals; antennas respectively configured to output the amplified radio frequency signals; a feedback circuit configured to generate a feedback signal from the amplified radio frequency signals; and a transmitter configured to convert the feedback signal into an optical signal and transmit it to the signal processing device.
US09793992B2
There is provided a signal transmission device including reception processing units for respective channels, so as to enable multichannel transmission by dividing frequency bands. The total number of channels is equal to or greater than three. When full-duplex two-way communication is applied in any combination of two channels, one of reception processing unit include a signal suppressing unit configured to suppress a signal component of a channel other than a self channel.
US09793987B2
An apparatus, and computer program can recognize an IoT device. The apparatus, for example, may comprise at least one processor, and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to receive an indication of an identifier of another apparatus via wireless communication, retrieve an emission pattern, and display a representation of the emission pattern according to a time-synchronization signal, wherein the retrieved emission pattern and the received indication are associated with each other. Similar and related example apparatus and example computer programs are also provided.
US09793985B2
Disclosed are an optical burst transport network (OBTN) time slot length adjustment method, device and node, the method comprising: during OBTN initialization, measuring the circumference of a data channel, and calculating the OB time slot length according to the measurement result; and during the normal operation of an OBTN, conducting real-time detection on the circumference variation of the OBTN data channel, comparing a variation value with a preset threshold, and correspondingly processing the OB time slot length according to the comparison result. The device is disposed on the node and comprises: a circumference measurement module of the data channel, a time slot length calculation and adjustment module, and a detection module, the circumference measurement module being configured to measure the circumference of the data channel, the time slot length calculation and adjustment module being configured to calculate the OB time slot length according to the circumference measurement result, and correspondingly process the OB time slot length according to the comparison result of the detection module, and the detection module being configured to compare the circumference variation value with the preset threshold.
US09793982B2
A communication system includes a receive antenna for receiving communication signals, processing circuitry for processing the received communication signals and repeating the signals for further transmission and at least one transmit antenna for transmitting the repeated signals. The processing circuitry utilizes configurable settings for controlling the operation of the communication system and the configurable settings are variable for varying the operation of the system. The processing circuitry is further operable for receiving inputs regarding current operating conditions of the communication system and for selectively adapting the configurable settings of the system based upon the operating condition inputs.
US09793976B2
A transmission power management device including: a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: acquire a first path loss between a first relay station and a second relay station, the first relay station relaying a first signal, the second relay station relaying a second signal, and adjust a first transmission power of the first signal by the first relay station based on the first path loss.
US09793969B2
In examples, two arrays of Radio Frequency nodes achieve enhanced beamforming for communications between the arrays by successively sending sounding signals from one array to the other array. Each sounding signal sent by the first of the two arrays is beamformed through time reversal of an immediately preceding sounding signal received by the first array from the second array, and each sounding signal (except the initial sounding signal) sent by the second array is beamformed through time reversal of an immediately preceding sounding signal received by the second array from the first array. The initial sounding signal sent by the second array may be omnidirectional, beamformed through a guesstimate, random, predetermined, or determined through a search of the area where the arrays are located. With sufficient beamfocusing, the arrays may communicate by sending and receiving data from one array to the other array.
US09793967B2
Signal interference associated with multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) full-duplex wireless communication systems is reduced. In an example, first streams are received by a MIMO base station from uplink user devices based on a first availability of channel matrices and second streams are transmitted to downlink user devices based on a second availability of the channel matrices. A weighted sum of a first data rate for a first linear transceiver matrix and a second data rate of a second linear transceiver matrix is maximized based on the channel matrices, the first streams, and the second streams. The base station generates a first linear transceiver vector used in transmission of the first streams to the base station from the uplink user devices and a second linear transceiver vector used in transmission of the second streams from the base station to the downlink user devices.
US09793966B2
A link adaptation method performed by a station (STA) in a wireless local area network (LAN) system supporting multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) is provided. The method includes: receiving a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) request, a steered sounding physical layer convergence procedure (PLOP) protocol data unit (PPDU) which is beam-formed to the STA, and a MIMO indicator including MU-MIMO-related information from an access point (AP); and transmitting feedback information including an MCS acquired from the steered sounding PPDU and the MU-MIMO-related information to the AP in response to the MCS request.
US09793960B2
An NFC device may include a first and second controller interfaces, a first communication channel coupled to the first controller interface, and a second communication channel connected to the second controller interface. A secure element may include a secure element interface connected to the first communication channel and encryption/decryption circuitry configured to encrypt data to be sent on the first communication channel for being framed into the encrypted frames and to decrypt encrypted data extracted from the encrypted frames and received from the first communication channel. The secure element may also include management circuitry configured to control the encryption/decryption circuitry for managing the encrypted communication with the NFC controller. A device host may include a host device interface coupled to the second controller interface and control means or circuitry configured to control the management circuitry through non-encrypted commands exchanged on the first and second communication channels.
US09793958B2
An image processing apparatus includes an operation panel, a near field communication portion, and a hardware processor. The operation panel is attached to a main body of the image processing apparatus such that a position relative to the main body is variable. The near field communication portion is arranged in the operation panel and carries out near field communication with a terminal by receiving radio waves transmitted from the terminal. The hardware processor is configured to change a communication distance in near field communication with the terminal through the near field communication portion in accordance with a position of the operation panel.
US09793954B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a coupling device including a receiving portion that receives a radio frequency signal conveying data from a transmitting device. A magnetic coupler magnetically couples the radio frequency signal to a transmission medium as a guided electromagnetic wave that is bound by an outer surface of the transmission medium. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09793952B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus for monitoring and controlling electronic devices through the use of wired and wireless protocols. The systems and apparatuses may monitor their environment for signals from electronic devices. They may then take and disambiguate the signals that are received from the devices in their environment in order to identify said devices and associate control signals with them. The systems and apparatuses may then use communication means to send control signals to the identified electronic devices. Input and output transmission means for the systems and apparatuses may include, but are not limited to, powerline communication, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, and 6LoWPAN. Signal processing and device identification may be done onboard the device, or may be done at a remote location. Multiple apparatuses or systems may be connected together into networks, including mesh networks, in order to make for a more robust architecture.
US09793947B2
A method and system are described for providing a wireless sensor network between a main node and a plurality of nodes, the nodes associated with sensors. The method and system define communications channels over which the main node communicates with the nodes based on a channel hopping scheme, 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-acquired nodes that are not acquired to the network to enter a connection session by locating the at least one transfer channel to listen for a transfer message. The transfer message indicates a next communications channel that will become active. The method switches the non-acquired nodes to the next communications channel.
US09793935B2
A multi-mixer system includes an amplifier module and a plurality of channels. The amplifier module is arranged for receiving signals from an antenna or antenna arrays to generate a plurality of radio frequency (RF) input signals. The plurality of channels are coupled to the amplifier module, wherein the plurality of channels receive the RF input signals, respectively, and each of the channels includes a mixer for mixing one of the RF input signals with a local oscillating signal to generate a mixed signal. In addition, at least one of the channels includes an interference reduction circuit positioned between the amplifier module and the mixer.
US09793930B2
In a method, an apparatus and a system for data transmission, a plurality of transmitters are provided, which operate according to a communications standard for data transmission with a bandwidth that is higher than the transmission bandwidth. The transmitter is adapted to the transmission bandwidth, and the plurality of the adapted transmitters are allocated to different carrier frequencies in the transmission bandwidth for parallel data transmission.
US09793926B2
A bit interleaver, a bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) device and a bit interleaving method are disclosed herein. The bit interleaver includes a first memory, a processor, and a second memory. The first memory stores a low-density parity check (LDPC) codeword having a length of 16200 and a code rate of 2/15. The processor generates an interleaved codeword by interleaving the LDPC codeword on a bit group basis. The size of the bit group corresponds to a parallel factor of the LDPC codeword. The second memory provides the interleaved codeword to a modulator for 64-symbol mapping.
US09793923B2
Post-processing circuitry for LDPC decoding includes check node processor for processing shifted LLR values, a hard decision decoder circuitry for receiving processed LLR information and performing parity checks on the processed LLR information. Post-processing control circuitry controls updating of LLR information in the check node processor. The check node processor, hard decision decoder, and control circuitry cooperate to identify check nodes with unsatisfied parity checks after an iteration cycle, identify neighborhood variable nodes that are connected with unsatisfied check nodes, identify satisfied check nodes which are connected to neighborhood variable nodes, and modify messages from neighborhood variable nodes to satisfied check nodes if needed to introduce perturbations to resolve decoding errors. Neighborhood identification circuitry determines which variable nodes are connected with unsatisfied check nodes, that have failed a parity check, and produces a signal indicating which variable nodes are connected to unsatisfied check nodes.
US09793918B2
A digital data storage and retrieval system. The system has a first memory for storing a plurality of data quantities, and each data quantity, in the plurality of data quantities, consists of a first number of bits. The system also has a second memory for storing a plurality of compressed data quantities, and each compressed data quantity, in the plurality of compressed data quantities, consists of a second number of bits that is less than the first number of bits. The system also has circuitry for reading data quantities from the first memory and circuitry for writing compressed data quantities, corresponding to respective read data quantities, to non-sequential addresses in the second memory. The system also may include circuitry for reading compressed data quantities from the second memory, and circuitry for writing decompressed data quantities, corresponding to respective read compressed data quantities, to non-sequential addresses in the first memory.
US09793915B2
Aspects of a method and system for a successive approximation analog-to-digital converter with dynamic search algorithms are provided. In some embodiments, a successive approximation analog-to-digital converter includes a digital-to-analog converter, a comparator, and a search and decode logic modules which cooperate to generate a digital output code representative of the analog input voltage based on a dynamic search algorithm. The dynamic search algorithms may alter a sequence of reference voltages used to successively approximate the analog input voltage based on one or more characteristics of the analog input voltage.
US09793909B2
An image sensor includes a pixel array, a plurality of comparators, a plurality of counters and a plurality of synchronization circuits. The pixel array includes a plurality of pixels configured to generate analog signals by sensing incident light. The comparators generate comparison signals by comparing the analog signals with a reference signal. The counters are grouped into a plurality of counter groups. Each of the counters generates digital signals corresponding to the analog signals by counting, the counting terminated by the comparison signals. Each of the synchronization circuits synchronizes input clock signals to a source clock signal to provide synchronized input clock signals to each of the counter groups.
US09793900B1
Multiple, distributed, clock generating delay-locked loop (DLL) elements are interconnected/coupled in such a way as to reduce the amount of phase error present in the clocks output by these DLL elements. A plurality of DLL elements are interconnected/coupled such that a root input clock is successively relayed down a series of DLL elements. The output clocks from each of these DLL elements are interconnected/coupled to phase-corresponding output clocks from DLL elements in the series. This reduces the amount of phase error on these output clocks when compared to DLL elements that do not have outputs coupled to each other.
US09793899B1
The disclosed IC includes a load circuit and a temperature sensor circuit. The temperature sensor circuit measures temperature of the IC and stores temperature data in a register. An SEL mitigation circuit monitors the IC for a temperature change indicative of an SEL. A temperature change greater than a threshold over a time interval is indicative of an SEL. The SEL mitigation circuit is configured to reduce voltage applied to the IC to a voltage level that clears an SEL in the IC in response to a temperature change exceeding the threshold and to increase voltage applied to the load circuit after the reduction in voltage.
US09793896B1
A semiconductor device includes: first to Nth input terminals (where N is an integer equal to or greater than 2); and a redundant input terminal. When a Kth input terminal (where K is an integer ranging from 1 to N−1) is defective among the first to Nth input terminals, (K+1)th to Nth input terminals receive signals of Kth to (N−1)th input terminals, respectively, and the redundant input terminal receives a signal of the Nth input terminal.
US09793894B1
A data synchronizer that registers an input data signal into a clock domain of a clock signal. The data synchronizer includes in input circuit, first and second pass gates, first and second inverters, gate controller, and a register. The input circuit drives first and second data nodes to opposite logic states based on the input data signal. Each pass gate is coupled between a data node and a capture node. The inverters are cross-coupled between the capture nodes. The gate controller is capable of keeping the pass gates at least partially open during a metastable condition of the capture nodes, and closes the pass gates when the capture nodes resolve to opposite logic states. The register registers a capture node to provide a registered data output in response to the clock signal. The data synchronizer may be implemented using FinFET devices.
US09793891B2
A liquid discharge apparatus includes: an modulation circuit that generates a modulated signal by pulse-modulating a source signal through self-oscillation; a transistor that amplifies the modulated signal to generate an amplified modulated signal; a low-pass filter that includes an inductor and a capacitor and smoothes the amplified modulated signal to generate a drive signal; a feedback circuit that allows the drive signal to return to the modulation circuit; a piezoelectric element that is displaced by application of the drive signal thereto; a cavity that is filled with a liquid inside and has an internal volume which changes when the piezoelectric element is displaced; and a nozzle that is provided to discharge the liquid inside the cavity in response to the change of the internal volume of the cavity. In this configuration, a self-resonant frequency of the capacitor is higher than a frequency of the self-oscillation.
US09793887B2
A compact solid state relay (7) is provided. Solid state devices (74, 75), such as Triacs or Thyristors are used to implement the relay functionality. The device is at least partially enclosed in a housing that has pins for mounting on an electronics board. A number of “U” shaped jumpers (72) or other jumpers or wires are provided in the housing to act as heat sinks. A subminiature fan (70) is positioned to create an air flow over the heat sinks and dissipate heat from the device.
US09793871B1
An apparatus and method for controlling wireless transmission. The apparatus, which controls a transmitter that provides an output signal by upconverting and amplifying an input signal, includes a memory configured to store first calibration data representing a saturation power and a linear gain of a reference transmitter as functions of operating conditions of the reference transmitter. A controller may be configured to estimate a saturation power and a linear gain of the transmitter of the apparatus based on operating conditions of the transmitter and the first calibration data. The controller may generate at least one control signal for controlling an operation of the transmitter based on a saturation power difference between the estimated saturation power and a target saturation power and a linear gain difference between the estimated linear gain and a target linear gain.
US09793867B2
An apparatus and method are disclosed for providing output signal swings that are greater than the supply voltage in a class-D amplifier. The amplifier circuit boosts the voltage across the amplifier load, such as a loudspeaker, by using capacitors to “charge pump” the voltage across the load and thus increase the voltage temporarily. This is done by using two or more output bridges rather than one, and connecting the bridges through the capacitors. For signals of less than the supply voltage, only an inner bridge, similar to a full bridge of the prior art, operates. For signals above the supply voltage, an outer bridge charges capacitors, which are then used to ‘boost’ the voltage on the bridge output for the short period of the Class-D switching period. Thus, only relatively small value boosting capacitors are needed, as they do not need to supply charge for very long.
US09793855B2
A voltage controlled oscillator includes a resonator and an amplifier. The resonator includes a capacitive element and an inductive element. The inductive element has a plurality of conductive segments forming a physical loop. The inductive element has electrical connections on the physical loop to the plurality of conductive segments forming at least one electrical loop disposed within an interior space formed by the physical loop. The amplifier has an input and an output, the input coupled to a first conductive segment forming a first impedance and the output coupled to a second conductive segment forming a second impedance.
US09793853B2
A roof mount assembly mounts a structure to a roof having a rafter and a substrate supported by the rafter. The roof mount assembly includes a piece of flashing positioned on the substrate. The flashing includes a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface and an aperture extending through the flashing. A fastener extends through the flashing aperture. A bracket is connected to the flashing via the fastener, and the bracket is sized to support at least one roof-mounted structure on the roof. A seal is positioned between the flashing aperture and the fastener. The seal is sized to form a water-tight seal with the aperture to inhibit flow of fluid through the aperture. The seal includes a first portion and a second portion, in which the first portion is positioned to abut the flashing first surface and the second portion is positioned to extend through the aperture.
US09793852B2
A photovoltaic (PV) mounting hardware support system having a base portion. The system includes a hinged clamp having a first clamp portion hingedly connected to a second clamp portion and operable to lock and unlock the first clamp portion and second clamp portion to the base portion. A beam member is provided and configured as a mount for a PV module coupling device. The beam member is clamped between the first clamp portion and second clamp portion.
US09793842B2
A technique for providing electric power to an electric power utility grid includes driving an electric power alternator coupled to the grid with a spark-ignited or direct injection internal combustion engine; detecting a change in electrical loading of the alternator; in response to the change, adjusting parameters of the engine and/or generator to adjust power provided by the engine. In one further forms of this technique, the adjusting of parameters for the engine includes retarding spark timing and/or interrupting the spark ignition; reducing or retarding direct injection timing or fuel amount and/or interrupting the direct injection; and/or the adjusting of parameters for the generator including increasing the field of the alternator or adding an electrical load.
US09793836B2
The invention relates to a power module (9) for converting an electric current flowing between an accumulator and an alternating-current motor, said module (9) comprising switching means (10) that can be controlled to authorize the powering of the motor and/or the charging of the accumulator, and an intrinsic control unit (13) connected to said switching means (10) and capable of delivering opening and/or closing signals to said switching means (10), said intrinsic control unit (13) being further capable of exchanging data with a remote control unit, with a potential barrier.
US09793830B2
A self-powered sensing system is provided for the monitoring of quasi-static structural responses. The sensing system is comprised of: an energy concentrator having a member configured to detect a variation of a physical stimuli and change shape in response to the variation of the physical stimuli, where the variation typically occurs at a frequency less than one Hertz; a transducer coupled the member of the energy concentrator and generates a voltage in response to the change in shape of the member; and an event logging circuit configured to receive the voltage from the transducer and log the voltage in a non-volatile memory. Physical stimuli may include temperature, pressure or an applied force.
US09793819B2
Certain embodiments of the present invention relates to a method for controlling operation of a parallel converter system. The parallel converter system includes multiple parallel power converters, and each of the parallel power converters is coupleable to a corresponding controller. The method includes: generating, via each of the controllers, a channel reference signal, transmitting each of the generated channel reference signals to a corresponding one of the parallel power converters, and adjusting an output current of each of the parallel converters responsive to the corresponding channel reference signals received, the adjusting controlling a combined output current of the parallel converter system. The channel reference signals of these parallel power converters are generated in response to the participation factors of each of the parallel power converters, and a net converter output reference current.
US09793818B2
The present invention relates to a unit current transformer device and a magnetic induction power supplying device, and particularly to a magnetic induction power supply unit capable of linearly adjusting output power according to the number of unit current transformer devices configured to have a specific resonance frequency. To this end, the unit current transformer device includes a current transformer inducing secondary current from primary current flowing through a line in a magnetic induction manner and having a resonant frequency double or greater than that of the primary current, and a converting unit converting an output of the current transformer to DC power.
US09793812B2
A method for operating an inverter with reactive power capability that includes a voltage link circuit and an unfolding bridge, wherein poles of the voltage link circuit are configured to be selectively connected to terminals of an AC output in different configurations by means of the unfolding bridge, in order to change a polarity of the AC output relative to the voltage link circuit. The method includes in the case of a phase shift between an AC current (I) and an AC voltage (U) at the AC output reversing the direction of a current flowing via the voltage link circuit. Reversing the direction of the current flowing via the voltage link circuit includes disconnecting the AC output from the voltage link circuit, providing a freewheeling path between the terminals of the AC output, while the AC output is disconnected from the voltage link circuit, and reconnecting the AC output to the voltage link circuit with the polarity of the AC output relative to the voltage link circuit being changed by the unfolding bridge.
US09793799B1
A state machine for a multi-phase voltage converter controls cycle-by-cycle switching of the phases by: entering a first state in which a control signal for the high-side switch is activate and control signals for the low-side and SR (synchronous rectification) switches are deactivate; entering a second state in which the control signals for all switches are deactivate; entering a third state in which the control signal for the high-side switch is deactivate and the control signals for the low-side and SR switches are activate; entering a fourth state in which the control signals for the high-side and low-side switches are deactivate and the control signal for the SR switch is activate and then entering a fifth state in which the control signals for all switches are deactivate, or entering the fifth state without entering the fourth state; and entering the first state at the beginning of the next switching cycle.
US09793794B2
A system for reducing power loss in a switched-capacitor converter includes a first and second switched capacitor sub-converter each having a flying capacitor and a first, second, third, and fourth switching device. Each switching device is controlled by one of a first, second, third, and fourth clock signal. The first, second, third and fourth clock signals of the second switched capacitor sub-converter are inverted such that the first switched capacitor sub-converter operates during a first phase and the second switched capacitor converter operates during a second phase that is 1800 degrees out of phase from the first phase. The system also includes a resonant charge sharing portion for coupling a bottom-plate parasitic capacitance of the first switched capacitor sub-converter to a bottom-plate parasitic capacitance of the second switched capacitor converter.
US09793790B2
An overvoltage protection circuit and a method for protecting against an output from a power supply reaching overvoltage levels is provided. The overvoltage protection provides two operational modes for the power supply. In both modes, the overvoltage protection monitors the output voltage of the power supply and disables it if the output voltage reaches a threshold indicating an overvoltage event. In normal operation, this threshold is set to a level that is higher than a nominal safety threshold defined for the power supply whereas in reduced operation, this threshold is set to a value lower than the safety threshold. When an overvoltage event is detected in normal operation, the overvoltage protection transitions the power supply into the reduced operational mode before reactivating it. The power supply may be reactivated, produce an overvoltage event, and be deactivated multiple times in the reduced operational mode. Normal operation may resume if the power supply has no overvoltage events for a predetermined time period.
US09793789B2
An apparatus for protecting a grid-connected inverter from a low grid voltage includes a first output current sensor configured to sense an output current of a grid-connected inverter, a first output current calculator configured to calculate a D-axis current and a Q-axis current of the output current to obtain the output current that is sensed, and a first output current controller configured to determine whether a difference between the output current and a reference current exceeds a predetermined range, and to decrease the output current by a predetermined value when the difference between the output current and the reference current exceeds the predetermined range.
US09793785B2
A linear motor includes a stator and a mover coupled to the stator. The stator includes a stator body and at least one guiding portion protruding from the stator body. The mover includes a mover body and at least one sliding portion protruding from the mover body. The at least one sliding portion defines a receiving groove. The at least one guiding portion is received in the receiving groove. A gap is defined between the at least one guiding portion and the at least one sliding portion. The mover defines at least one air inlet hole communicating with the gap and configured to inject air into the gap.
US09793784B2
There is provided a cooling structure whose performance for cooling ring members and brushes is enhanced. In a cooling structure applied to a slip ring device including ring members provided to an input shaft and brushes contacting with these ring members, the input shaft includes a shaft member where an external spline portion is formed, and a cylindrical member that is installed over the external circumference of the shaft member so that an internal spline portion formed on the cylindrical member is meshed with the external spline portion, and that the ring members are fixed to the cylindrical member. The internal spline portion is formed upon a portion of the inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical member that lies on the radially inward side of the ring members.
US09793783B2
A rotor related to the present invention is for a rotary electric machine. The rotor includes a rotor core and magnets. The rotor core has a plurality of core refrigerant passages. The core refrigerant passage each includes an inlet passage, a magnet cooling passage and an outlet passage. The inlet passage is configured such that a liquid refrigerant flows into the inlet passage from a shaft refrigerant passage. The magnet cooling passage is configured such that the liquid refrigerant flows into the magnet cooling passage from the inlet passage. The magnet cooling passage extends in an axial direction. The outlet passage is configured to flow the liquid refrigerant from the magnet cooling passage to a gap. An axial position of the outlet passage in the rotor core is at one place at a central position in the axial direction.
US09793780B2
An induction machine includes: a stator having a stator core and a coil; a rotor, which has a shaft, a rotor core secured to the shaft, and a secondary conductor; a bearing supporting the shaft; a cooling fan having a blade; and a cooling fan fixture. The secondary conductor includes a rotor bar and an end ring. The blade is located axially outward of the end ring, and the distal end of the blade in the axial direction extends axially outward of the coil end of the coil. The cooling fan has a securing portion located radially inward of the end ring and a cylindrical extended portion extending from the securing portion to the blade. The securing portion is secured to the rotor with the cooling fan fixture. The bearing is located axially inward of the distal end of the blade.
US09793777B2
A disk armature generator for generating electrical energy from rotational energy of a wind power installation and comprising at least two stator components mutually offset axially along a generally horizontal rotation axis of the disk armature, and comprising, mounted therebetween so as to rotate about the rotation axis, at least one ring- or disk-shaped rotor component of the disk armature, and comprising an input-side connection for a gearbox wherein the sun gear thereof, which extends coaxially with the rotation axis of the disk armature, is coupled to at least one ring- or disk-shaped rotor component of the disk armature, wherein a rolling bearing associated with a ring- or disk-shaped rotor component of the disk armature is configured as a selected one of an angular contact ball bearing and angular contact ball bearings, having a contact angle of between 40° and 50° relative to the rotation axis, comprising a double-row angular contact ball bearing in an O arrangement.
US09793773B2
One embodiment provides a stator of an electric rotary machine, including: a stator core having plural slots; a segmented coil of plural phases; and plural base plates laminated at each end of the stator core in an axial direction. While the stator core and plural coil bars of the segmented coil form a stator core assembly, and the plural base plates and plural end coil connections of the segmented coil form plural base plate assemblies. The stator is configured by the stator core assembly and the plural base plate assemblies laminated at each end of the stator core assembly.
US09793767B2
In one exemplary embodiment, an electric machine includes a stator having a plurality of axial protrusions forming a plurality of stator cooling channels on a radially outer surface of the stator and a tapered portion located adjacent a distal end of at least one of the plurality of protrusions. Additionally, the disclosure includes a method for cooling the electric machine.
US09793765B2
A wireless power transmission system is disclosed. In one aspect, the system includes a transmitting antenna configured to transmit power, via a magnetic field, to a receiving antenna to power a load. The system also includes a tuning loop electrically isolated from the transmitting antenna and being movable relative to the transmitting antenna to adjust a coupling between the transmitting antenna and the tuning loop.
US09793761B2
A wireless power transmission system for wirelessly transmitting electric power from a power transmitting device to a power receiving device using magnetic field coupling between a power transmitting coil and a power receiving coil is provided. The power transmitting device includes a power transmitting circuit generating an electric signal for transmitting electric power, first and second power transmitting coils compatible with first and second transmission methods, respectively, a first magnetic substance on which the first power transmitting coil is placed, a second magnetic substance on which the second power transmitting coil is placed, and a power feeding surface on which the power receiving device is to be placed. First and second attachment surfaces of the first and second magnetic substances, respectively, are located on the lower side of the power feeding surface and arranged on a same plane surface parallel to the power feeding surface.
US09793759B2
A power receiving circuit, a power transmitting circuit, an apparatus, and a feed system are disclosed. The power receiving circuit receives power in a noncontact manner, and includes an LC parallel resonant circuit and a reactance element that is electrically connected in series to the LC parallel resonant circuit. The reactive element may be a capacitive or inductive element. In effect, a coil or capacitor in the LC parallel resonant circuit and the reactance element define another LC resonant circuit, namely, an LC series resonant circuit. The power transmitting circuit transmits power in a noncontact manner, and in one example, may also include a similar configuration.
US09793758B2
An enhanced transmitter for wireless power transmission is disclosed. The transmitter may be able to transmit radio frequency (RF) waves or pockets of energy for charging or powering an electronic device. The transmitter may include antenna element arrangements for receiving RF waves from a plurality of wireless sources and process them using a dedicated RF integrated circuit (RFIC) and set of antenna elements for receiving RF input signals from a plurality of wireless power sources. A digital signal processor (DSP) may be used to control reception using the dedicated RFIC and antenna elements of reception and to control transmission of wireless power selecting the transmitting RFICs and configuration of antenna elements to send RF waves or pockets of energy to a wireless receiver. The frequency of RF waves received may be sampled through a down converter array and line addressing devices to send the signals received to a micro-controller including a proprietary algorithm which control switching and processing necessary for faster and enhanced wireless power transmission, thus improving transmission efficiency.
US09793755B2
An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and method for managing power flow in a grid-tied photovoltaic system, wherein the UPS provides grid-tie, backup power, voltage-frequency relay, power factor control, and load-leveling functions. The UPS includes a bi-directional power converter, a switch, and a controller. The converter converts between AC power and DC power, and includes ports which are connectable to a battery, a plurality of current-source inverters, a load, and an electric utility grid. The switch selectively connects and disconnects the converter from the grid. The controller monitors the voltage and current associated with the grid, and based thereon, controls the switch and the bi-directional power converter to manage power flow in the grid-tied photovoltaic system. The controller also manages the power factor of the current flowing into or out of the grid by introducing appropriate distortion or displacement current.
US09793738B2
Apparatus and methods directed to wireless power are disclosed. A charging device includes an antenna circuit for wirelessly receiving power from a first device via a power antenna. Received power can be stored in an energy storage device. The antenna circuit can wirelessly power or charge a plurality of second electronic devices via the power antenna based on power stored in the energy storage device. Furthermore, a wireless charging apparatus is disclosed that includes a display for receiving a device placed on its surface. Changes in a magnetic field in response to the placement of the chargeable electronic device on the surface of the display is detected. A communication link with the chargeable electronic device in response to the change in the level of the magnetic field is activated. A transmit antenna circuit wirelessly transmits power to the chargeable electronic device.
US09793733B2
A method for charging rechargeable cells, in particular lithium ion cells. An apparatus for charging such cells. In order to specify a method for charging a lithium-based cell and an apparatus for charging a lithium-based cell, in which the capacitance of the cell is optimally used, the charging time is drastically shortened, the shelf life of the cell is extended and/or it is possible to increase the capacitance of the cell, a method is stated which includes the following steps, pulsed charging of the cell, wherein the charging current IL exceeds the nominal charging current ILmax of the cell during the charging pulses; and the cell is discharged between the charging pulses using load pulses.
US09793727B2
A wireless charger optimized for charging efficiency of portable terminals (e.g., mobile phones) of different sizes has a housing including within it laterally spaced side supports and a bottom support for cradling an inserted portable terminal. The side supports and the bottom support are interlocked for coordinated movement such that the bottom support is moved by a predetermined amount according to movements of the side supports. This arrangement optimizes relative placement of the charger's transmitting coil and the portable terminal's receiving coil.
US09793718B2
A coil unit includes first and second coils that are apposed, and third and fourth coils located on the rear side of the first and second coils so as to interpose the center of the first coil and the center of the second coil between the third and fourth coils, in the direction of alignment of the first and second coils. The axial direction of the third and fourth coils is substantially perpendicular to the axial direction of the first and second coils. First to fourth drive control units control the directions or phases of the currents to be supplied to the first to fourth coils, respectively.
US09793717B2
An apparatus and method for lost power detection are described. In one implementation, an apparatus for wireless transferring power comprises a wireless power transmitter configured to wirelessly transmit power at a power level sufficient to power or charge a chargeable device. The apparatus further comprises a controller configured to determine a first and second power difference between a first and second power measurement and the second and a third power measurement of the power level provided by the wireless power transmitter at a first, second, and third sample time, respectively. The controller is further configured to determine a transmitter power difference between the first power difference and the second power difference. The controller is further configured to determine an absence or a presence of an object that affects consumption of power transmitted by the wireless power transmitter based at least on the transmitter power difference Δ_T.
US09793711B2
A power supply device for redundantly supplying power to a load comprises a first supply unit, a second supply unit, a first DC-DC converter, a second DC-DC converter, a first output switching controller, and a second output switching controller. The first and second supply units are interconnected. The first output switching controller is connected on the load side of the first DC-DC converter, and the second output switching controller is connected on the load side of the second DC-DC converter. The outputs of the output switching controllers are interconnected.
US09793710B2
The disclosure relates to an energy storing device for generating a supply voltage for an electric machine, comprising at least one energy supply branch which is connected in parallel and each of which has a plurality of first and second energy storing modules that are connected in series. The first and second energy storing modules each comprise an energy storing cell module, which has at least one energy storing cell, and a coupling device, which is designed to selectively connect the energy storing cell module into the respective energy supply branch or to bridge said energy storing cell module. Each second energy storing module additionally has a cooling element for the at least one energy storing cell, and the cooling element is designed to cool the at least one energy storing cell dependent on a control signal of a cooling controller.
US09793709B2
Embodiments described herein provide short circuit detection capabilities for current drivers. One embodiment includes a controller and a current driver. The current driver includes a power switch circuit that couples a supply rail to a high side of a load in response to receiving a drive signal. The current driver further includes a continuity circuit that couples the supply rail to the high side and indicates to the controller whether a first current flow to the high side exceeds a first threshold. The current driver further includes a current sense circuit that couples a low side of the load to ground and indicates to the controller whether a second current flow from the low side exceeds a second threshold. The controller identifies, based on the first current flow, the second current flow, and the drive signal, a plurality of short circuit conditions that may exist at the current driver.
US09793708B1
Overvoltage protection circuits include a combination of an overvoltage detection circuit and a voltage clamping circuit that inhibits sustained overvoltage conditions. An overvoltage detection circuit can include first and second terminals electrically coupled to first and second power supply signal lines, respectively. This overvoltage detection circuit may be configured to generate a clamp activation signal (CAS) in response to detecting an excessive overvoltage between the first and second power supply signal lines. This CAS is provided to an input of the voltage clamping circuit, which is electrically coupled to the first power supply signal line and configured to sink current from the first power supply signal line in response to the CAS. The voltage clamping circuit may be configured to turn on and sink current from the first power supply signal line in-sync with a transition of the CAS from a first logic state to a second logic state.
US09793705B2
A DC-to-DC converter for transporting energy between two networks includes two or more converter circuits connected in parallel, wherein a first semiconductor switch that can be actuated as a function of a voltage drop across the first semiconductor switch is arranged in series to each converter circuit or a second semiconductor switch that can be actuated as a function of a voltage drop across the second semiconductor switch is arranged in series to each converter circuit.
US09793698B2
A dead-end termination clamp including a cast body, a clamping end, and a connection end. The dead-end clamp may be scaled to support various size wires or cables. The dead-end clamp may be able to provide a support strength less than, equal to, or exceeding the breaking strength of a supported cable. A collet with a length, two ends, a central cavity and at least one helical slot running along the length of the collet. The at least one helical slot may have a varying width or pitch along the length. The at least one helical slot may terminate before reaching one or both ends. The collet may have one helical slots which runs the entire length of the collet. The collet may be substantially cylindrical or another shape. The center cavity may be substantially cylindrical or another shape.
US09793691B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for peeling a coil of a motor, including a pallet on which the coil is mounted; a conveying part formed long in a lengthwise direction and configured to convey the pallet; a clamper located at the side surface of the conveying part and formed to be movable toward the conveying part and to fix the tip portion of the coil; and a laser irradiating part located at a side surface of the conveying part to radiate laser at a peeling work spot and to peel a coating layer of a tip portion of the coil. Therefore, a bonding force between the coil and the bus bar can be easily increased.
US09793683B2
A laser system includes a laser generation element and a pulse width modulated (PWM) signal generator that uses a clock to generate a control signal having a period based on the clock frequency and includes a pulse width between a rising edge and a falling edge. The system also includes a switch mode power supply controlled by the control signal output by the PWM signal generator for providing power to the laser generation element based on the control signal. Also, the system includes a signal modification circuit that selectively delays the rising edge of each period of the control signal by one of one or more selectable durations thereby reducing the pulse width by a quantity, wherein the quantity is smaller than a minimum increment amount that the pulse width is able to change based on the clock frequency.
US09793681B2
This semiconductor laser device includes a semiconductor laser chip and a spatial light modulator SLM which is optically connected to the semiconductor laser chip. The semiconductor laser chip LDC includes an active layer 4, a pair of cladding layers 2 and 7 sandwiching the active layer 4, and a diffraction grating layer 6 which is optically connected to the active layer 4. The spatial light modulator SLM includes a common electrode 25, a plurality of pixel electrodes 21, and a liquid crystal layer LC arranged between the common electrode 25 and the pixel electrodes 21. A laser beam output in a thickness direction of the diffraction grating layer 6 is modulated and reflected by the spatial light modulator SLM and is output to the outside.
US09793672B2
In a composite component having a laminate body, a conductive layer and a connector can be joined to one another using an intermediate flexible circuit. Among other things, this flexible circuit places the conductive layer and the connector in electrical communication with one another. Furthermore, during the forming process and because of its thinness, the flexible circuit integrates well with the layers of the laminate body and can accommodates some spatial displacement of the connector and conductive material relative to one another.
US09793663B2
A connector configured to operate in two different electrical performance modes. The connector may include a plurality of connector contacts, a plurality of contact pads, and an insulator having an insulating portion adjacent the plurality of contact pads. The insulator is movable between an insulating position and a non-insulating position. When the insulator is in the insulating position, the insulating portion insulates the plurality of contact pads from the plurality of connector contacts and the connector operates in a first one of the electrical performance modes. When the insulator is in the non-insulating position, the plurality of connector contacts contact the plurality of contact pads and the connector operates in a different second one of the electrical performance modes. The connector may be implemented as a plug or an outlet.
US09793655B2
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing having a mating tongue and a supporting tongue both extending forwardly in a front-to-back direction and spaced from each other in a vertical direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction. A plurality of contacts is disposed in the housing with corresponding contacting sections exposed upon the mating tongue and corresponding tails retained in the housing. A metallic shield encloses the housing and cooperates with the supporting tongue to commonly define a mating cavity in which the mating tongue extends forwardly. The supporting tongue includes a plurality of cutouts in which a plurality of offset spring tangs of the metallic shield extend with corresponding ends extending into the mating cavity.
US09793651B2
The present invention discloses a blind mating and floating RF connector assembly with low intermodulation, comprising a first connecting device and a second connecting device, wherein the first connecting device comprises a first guide portion and the second connecting device comprises a second guide portion adapted for mating with the first guide portion, wherein the first connecting device has a slotted configuration and is provided, at an end, with a boss projecting radially outwards and the second connecting device is provided with a corresponding inner engaging groove being capable of radially abutting the boss, wherein the second connecting device comprises a fixed mount unit and a floating unit, the floating unit being capable of moving radially and axially relative to the fixed mount unit, in such a way that a plurality of pairs of the first connecting device and the second connecting device can be quickly connected simultaneously via a quick blind mating operation when the first connecting device and the second connecting device are brought together, without necessarily making the first connecting device and the second connecting device be axially aligned precisely with each other. The present invention allows relative floating of connecting devices of a plurality of pairs of low-intermodulation RF connectors, allows simultaneous quick blind mating connection, and improves connecting efficiency and installation reliability.
US09793643B2
An electrical connector includes a shell having a cavity configured to receive a complementary connector. The shell has a front end and a rear end and a circumferential channel in the cavity. The channel has an undercut defined by a seal retention flange extending circumferentially around the channel. A seal retainer is received in the cavity at the front end. The seal retainer has a front edge and a rear edge received in the channel. The rear edge of the seal retainer has an undercut defined by a seal retention flange. The seal retention flange of the seal retainer faces the seal retention flange of the shell across the channel to define a seal pocket. An O-ring seal is received in the seal pocket and is held in the seal pocket by the seal retention flanges.
US09793641B1
A plug receptacle is disclosed, comprising a receptacle housing having a passage configured to receive at least a part of a plug of a plug connector, a front side having a first opening and a top side having a second, elongated opening that intersects the first opening, the passage opening to the front side via the first opening and to the top side via the second opening. The plug receptacle also comprises at least one plug receptacle cover that is reversibly extendable between a cover position and an open position. In the cover position, the at least one plug receptacle cover covers the second opening at least partially. In the open position, at least a part of the at least one plug receptacle cover is extended outwards, so that the at least the part of the plug partially extends through the second opening.
US09793632B2
A spring finger of an electrical connector is disclosed. The spring finger includes a soldering section, a support section extending substantially perpendicularly from an end of the soldering section, a U-shaped first bend extending from an end of the support section opposite the soldering section and forming a first opening facing the soldering section, and a U-shaped contact structure obliquely suspended from an end of the first bend and spaced apart from the support section. The contact structure contacts a mating conductive terminal of a mating connector in a lateral direction parallel to the soldering section.
US09793627B2
A ground terminal fitting includes a bolt fastening portion (11) to be bolted to a ground part (40) and a wire connecting portion (12) to be connected to an end part of a wire (30). The bolt fastening portion (11) and a bottom plate portion (18) of the wire connecting portion (12) are arranged flush with each other. A protrusion (21) projecting toward the ground part (40) is provided on a part of the bolt fastening portion (11) around a bolt insertion hole (14) through which a bolt (41) is to be inserted. Since a linking portion (13) lining the bolt fastening portion (11) and the wire connecting portion (12) needs not be formed into a bent shape according to this configuration, a stress concentration on the linking portion (13) can be alleviated.
US09793623B2
A coaxial cable connector assembly and a receptor connector are provided. The coaxial cable connector assembly is composed at least of one cable end connector and the receptor connector. The receptor connector is formed of an insertion space with a lateral insertion opening to allow one portion of the cable end connector to be inserted into the insertion space through the lateral insertion opening such that the cable end connector and the receptor connector are in electrical connection. The cable end connector will be constrained such that it cannot be detached from the receptor connector in the direction other than the lateral insertion opening.
US09793620B2
A connector assembly for electrically contacting a blade connector to a second connector The connector assembly includes a blade connector which has a contact surface plane that is electrically connected to the second connector in the mated state. In order to improve mechanical and electrical properties of the overall connector assembly and, in particular, of the blade connector, the assembly further includes a mounting cage in which the blade connector is captively held and which has at least one clamping device that presses the second connector onto the contact surface plane of the blade connector in the mated state.
US09793619B2
Certain embodiments described herein are directed to couplers configured to provide an electrical connection between two or more separate electrical wires. In certain embodiments, the coupler is configured to provide the electrical connection without the two electrical wires physically contacting each other. In other instances, the coupler can be configured to provide an electrical connection between the wires without the use of an electrical box or wiring nuts.
US09793614B1
A multi-slot patch antenna is provided. The multi-slot patch antenna includes a central patch including cut corners; a plurality of strips of varying widths, the plurality of strips surrounding the central patch; and a plurality of slots of varying widths, the plurality of slots being positioned between each of the plurality of strips, wherein one of the plurality of slots is positioned between a first one of the plurality of strips and the central patch.
US09793596B2
Disclosed herein are example embodiments for facilitating wireless communication in conjunction with orientation position. For certain example embodiments, at least one device, such as a portable wireless node: (i) may obtain one or more antenna assembly configuration parameters that are associated with at least one orientation position of at least one portable wireless node; or (ii) may utilize one or more antenna assembly configuration parameters that are associated with at least one orientation position of at least one portable wireless node. However, claimed subject matter is not limited to any particular described embodiments, implementations, examples, or so forth.
US09793590B2
The first member and the second member include, when a line that connects a first port and a second port is denoted by a reference line, a first groove that has a central point on the reference line and extends in a direction that intersects with the reference line; a second groove that connects one end of the first groove and the first port; a third groove that connects the other end of the first groove and the first port and has a shape that is line symmetrical to the second groove with respect to the reference line; a fourth groove that connects the other end (FN2) of the first groove and the second port; and a fifth groove that connects one end (FN1) of the first groove and the second port and has a shape that is line symmetrical to the fourth groove with respect to the reference line.
US09793584B2
A battery module includes a plurality of battery cells and a plurality of cell barriers. Each cell barrier is between adjacent battery cells of the plurality of battery cells and includes at least one flange. The flange has a first flange portion and a second flange portion. The first flange portion has a first sealing edge extending therefrom and overlapping a first lateral side of one of the adjacent battery cells, and the second flange portion has a second sealing edge extending therefrom and overlapping a second lateral side of another of the adjacent battery cells.
US09793582B2
A method is provided for transmitting measured data from cells of a battery system, having a plurality of individual cells, to a control device, comprising the steps of identifying a first individual cell for which measured data are to be furnished at a first measured-data quality; identifying at least one further individual cell or which measured data are to be furnished at a second measured-data quality; the first measured-data quality being higher than the second measured-data quality; identifying the first-quality measured data; identifying the second-quality measured data; transferring the first-quality measured data to a control device using a data connection; and transferring the second-quality measured data after the first-quality measured data have been transferred.
US09793570B2
A shared electrode battery includes multiple electrodes of one type (e.g., two or more cathodes) that share an electrode of another type (e.g., a shared anode). The multiple electrodes of the same type (e.g., the multiple cathodes) can have different characteristics, such as different chemistries, particle sizes and distributions, capacities, and so forth that are designed to provide particular features such as high energy density, high power density, high cycle life, fast charge, safety, and so forth. Multiple cathode-anode pairings of one of the multiple electrodes of the same type with the shared electrode are possible. Switching hardware is operable to select one of the multiple pairings at any given time, allowing the battery to provide power using the cathode having the desired characteristics at that given time. A single battery is thus able to provide these multiple different features.
US09793568B2
A fuel cell is formed by sandwiching a membrane electrode assembly between a first separator and a second separator. The membrane electrode assembly includes a cathode, an anode, and a solid polymer electrolyte membrane interposed between the cathode and the anode. In the membrane electrode assembly, a catalyst area of an electrode catalyst layer of the cathode and an electrode catalyst layer of the anode terminates at a position spaced upwardly from lower ends of an oxygen-containing gas flow field and a fuel gas flow field.
US09793565B2
An object is to provide a technique that improves the power generation performance, while enhancing the strength of a reinforced electrolyte membrane. There is provided a method of manufacturing a reinforced electrolyte membrane that comprises a first reinforcing film on one surface of an electrolyte membrane and a second reinforcing film on the other surface of the electrolyte membrane. The method of manufacturing the reinforced electrolyte membrane comprises (a) process of thermally compressing the first reinforcing film and the second reinforcing film to the electrolyte membrane. In the process (a), a number of times of thermally compressing the second reinforcing film to the electrolyte membrane is less than a number of times of thermally compressing the first reinforcing film to the electrolyte membrane.
US09793555B2
In order to provide a membrane electrode assembly that can further improve power generation performances of a fuel cell, the present invention allows a rib portion (22) that separates mutually adjacent gas flow passages (21) from each other to have a porosity lower than the porosity of a lower area (23) of the rib portion. Thus, it is possible to suppress the deformation of the rib portion and excessive permeation of a reaction gas, and consequently to further improve the power generation performances.
US09793552B2
The present disclosure relates to a PtAu nanoparticle catalyst heat-treated in the presence of carbon monoxide (CO) and a method for preparing same. Since the PtxAuy nanoparticle catalyst heat-treated under CO atmosphere has high Pt surface area and superior oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity, a high-efficiency, high-quality fuel cell can be achieved by applying the catalyst to a fuel cell.
US09793541B2
The specification relates to a composite particle for storing lithium. The composite particle is used in an electrochemical cell. The composite particle includes a metal oxide on the surface of the composite particle, a major dimension that is approximately less than or equal to 40 microns and a formula of MM′Z, wherein M is from the group of Si and Sn, M′ is from a group of Mn, Mg, Al, Mo, Bronze, Be, Ti, Cu, Ce, Li, Fe, Ni, Zn, Co, Zr, K, and Na, and Z is from the group of O, Cl, P, C, S, H, and F.
US09793522B2
An electrochemical battery can include electrodes (a cathode and an electrode) arranged on respective surfaces of an electrolyte. The electrodes and electrolyte can each be solid state films that can be layered on top of one another to create a stacked structure disposed on a substrate. A polymeric sealant material can be applied over and around the battery stack and a moisture barrier can be formed over the sealant material to thereby prevent moisture from reaching the battery. Conductive terminals electrically coupled to the cathode and anode, respectively, can be formed on a second side of the substrate. As such, the battery can be flip-chip mounted to corresponding mounting pads and thereby connected to other electronics that can receive power from the battery.
US09793521B2
A pouch-type rechargeable battery includes an electrode assembly performing charging and discharging, a pouch forming a sealing portion at a side surface of a cell body receiving the electrode assembly by sealing an outer portion thereof and forming a terrace drawing out a first lead tab and a second lead tab connected to the electrode assembly at the other side surface of the cell body, and an insulation tape insulating the sealing portion from the cell body and including a short circuit check hole adjacent to the end of the terrace. The insulation tape insulates both side ends of the end.
US09793514B2
The present invention relates to an organic light emitting diode and a manufacturing method therefor, and the organic light emitting diode comprises: a lower electrode formed on a light-transmitting substrate; an organic thin film layer which is formed on the lower electrode and includes a light-emitting layer; a light-transmitting upper electrode formed on the organic thin film layer; a functional layer which is formed on the upper electrode and enables mutual reinforcement and interference for the transmitted lights; and a reflective layer formed on the functional layer.
US09793507B2
Provided is an OLED device packaging method, which includes: providing an OLED substrate that includes an OLED unit formed on surface thereof; attaching an insulation material to the surface of the OLED substrate to form a first frame having frame members located outside and circumferentially surround arranged the OLED unit; providing a packaging cover having a surface; attaching a low-temperature metal conductive adhesive tape directly on the surface of the packaging cover to form a second frame having frame members corresponding to and having a width smaller than the frame members of the first frame; laminating the packaging cover and the OLED substrate together in a vacuum environment with the frame members of first and second frames stacked on each other; and (6) melting the second frame securely bond the packaging cover and the OLED substrate together. Also provided is an OLED device formed with such a packaging method.
US09793505B2
A light emitting device including an emissive material comprising quantum dots is disclosed. In one embodiment, the device includes a cathode, a layer comprising a material capable of transporting and injection electrons comprising an inorganic material, an emissive layer comprising quantum dots, a layer comprising a material capable of transporting holes, a layer comprising a hole injection material, and an anode. In certain embodiments, the hole injection material can be a p-type doped hole transport material. In certain preferred embodiments, quantum dots comprise semiconductor nanocrystals. In another aspect of the invention, there is provided a light emitting device wherein the device has an initial turn-on voltage that is not greater than 1240/λ, wherein λ represents the wavelength (nm) of light emitted by the emissive layer. Other light emitting devices and a method are disclosed.
US09793498B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide an organometallic complex that can emit phosphorescence. In the following general formula (G1), X represents —O— or —N(R10)—. R1 to R9 each represent any of hydrogen, an alkyl group or a cycloalkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an alkoxycarbonyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an acyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an acyloxy group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a halogen group, a haloalkyl group, and an aryl group having 6 to 12 carbon atoms. In addition, R10 represents any of an alkyl group or a cycloalkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an acyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an aryl group having 6 to 12 carbon atoms, and a heteroaryl group having 4 to 10 carbon atoms. Moreover, M represents an element belonging to Group 9 or 10.
US09793496B2
A condensed cyclic compound and an organic light-emitting device, the compound being represented by Formula 1: (A1)a1-(L1)b1-(A2)a2
US09793495B2
An OLED device including a first electrode; a second electrode; and an organic layer, the organic layer including an emission layer, a hole transport region between the first electrode and the emission layer, the hole transport region including at least one of a hole transport layer, a hole injection layer, and a buffer layer, and an electron transport region between the emission layer and the second electrode, the electron transport region including at least one of a hole blocking layer, an electron transport layer, and an electron injection layer, wherein the emission layer includes at least one host (H) and at least one phosphorescent dopant (D), an electron affinity (EA) and an ionization potential (IP) simultaneously satisfying the relationships represented by Equation (1) and Equation (2) below: EA(D)−EA(H)≧0.2 eV (1) IP(H)−IP(D)≧0.2 eV (2).
US09793492B2
A compound represented by D-A-D is useful as a light emitter for an organic electroluminescent device:
US09793487B2
An organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the organic layer including an emission layer, wherein the organic layer includes a first compound represented by Formula 1 and a second compound represented by Formula 2:
US09793483B2
Disclosed are a diamine represented by the following formula, a polyimide and a polyamide using the same as the raw material, a cyclized product thereof, and a method for producing the same. In the formula, A represents a single bond, an ether bond, a sulfide bond, CO, CH2, SO, SO2, C(CH3)2, NHCO or C(CF3)2, or a bivalent group having an aliphatic ring, a hetero ring or an aromatic ring, R1 represents a C1-4alkyl group or a halogen group, and each of “a” and “b” independently represents an integer of 0-2, and 1≦a+b≦4. The polyimide and the polyamide are a fluorescent polyimide and a fluorescent polyamide that are easily soluble in organic solvents to the extent that they can be formed into a film by a wet process when making an optical device, that have heat resistance and strength when formed into a film, and that have superior fluorescent characteristics.
US09793482B2
The present invention provides a display device and a manufacturing method thereof that can simplify manufacturing steps and enhance efficiency in the use of materials, and further, a manufacturing method that can enhance adhesiveness of a pattern. One feature of the invention is that at least one or more patterns needed for manufacturing a display panel, such as a conductive layer forming a wiring or an electrode or a mask for forming a desired pattern is/are formed by a method capable of selectively forming a pattern, thereby manufacturing a display panel.
US09793478B2
An optical radiation source produced from a disordered semiconductor material, such as black silicon, is provided. The optical radiation source includes a semiconductor substrate, a disordered semiconductor structure etched in the semiconductor substrate and a heating element disposed proximal to the disordered semiconductor structure and configured to heat the disordered semiconductor structure to a temperature at which the disordered semiconductor structure emits thermal infrared radiation.
US09793476B2
Provided are a substrate treating apparatus and method of manufacturing a phase-change layer having superior deposition characteristics. The substrate treating method of manufacturing a phase-change memory includes forming a bottom electrode on a substrate on which a pattern is formed, performing surface treating for removing impurities generated or remaining on a surface of the substrate while the bottom electrode is formed, performing nitriding on the surface of the substrate from which the impurities are removed, and successively depositing a phase-change layer and a top electrode on the bottom electrode. The substrate treating apparatus for manufacturing a phase-change memory includes a load lock chamber into/from which a plurality of substrates are loaded or unloaded, the load lock chamber being converted between an atmosphere state and a vacuum state, a nitriding chamber in which nitriding is performed on a surface of a substrate on which a bottom electrode is disposed, the nitriding chamber being coupled to one side of a plurality of sides of the vacuum transfer chamber, and a process chamber in which a phase-change layer is deposited on the surface of the substrate on which nitriding is performed in the nitriding process chamber, the process chamber being coupled to one of the plurality of sides of the vacuum transfer chamber.
US09793474B2
A method of forming a non-volatile memory device. The method includes providing a substrate having a surface region and forming a first dielectric material overlying the surface region of the substrate. A first electrode structure is formed overlying the first dielectric material and a p+ polycrystalline silicon germanium material is formed overlying the first electrode structure. A p+ polycrystalline silicon material is formed overlying the first electrode structure using the polycrystalline silicon germanium material as a seed layer at a deposition temperature ranging from about 430 Degree Celsius to about 475 Degree Celsius without further anneal. The method forms a resistive switching material overlying the polycrystalline silicon material, and a second electrode structure including an active metal material overlying the resistive switching material.
US09793469B2
A magnetoresistive element according to an embodiment includes: a first magnetic layer; a second magnetic layer; a first nonmagnetic layer disposed between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer; a third magnetic layer disposed between the first magnetic layer and the first nonmagnetic layer; and a layer having an amorphous structure, the layer containing two or more elements that are contained in the first magnetic layer, the layer being disposed between the first magnetic layer and the third magnetic layer.
US09793465B2
An ultrasonic sensor includes a first electrode, a first piezoelectric layer, a substrate, a second electrode, a second piezoelectric layer, and a third electrode. The first electrode and the first piezoelectric layer are stacked on a first surface of the substrate. The second electrode, the second piezoelectric layer, and the third electrode are stacked on a second surface opposite to the first surface of the substrate. The substrate is made of chemically strengthened glass.
US09793462B2
A thermoelectric module includes a low temperature-side wiring line, a high temperature-side wiring line, a low temperature-side member, a plurality of low temperature-side thermoelectric conversion elements made of a BiTe-based material, a high temperature-side member, a plurality of high temperature-side thermoelectric conversion elements made of a material different from the BiTe-based material, an insulating member, a radiant heat blocking plate, a low temperature-side electrode, and a high temperature-side electrode. The radiant heat blocking plate is arranged on the side of the high temperature-side member with respect to the low temperature-side wiring line and the high temperature-side wiring line. A thermoelectric module that can restrain burning of wiring lines, as well as a thermoelectric power generating apparatus and a thermoelectric generator including the same can thereby be obtained.
US09793452B2
A blue light leakage-suppressing LED structure for emitting white light includes at least one LED chip, an encapsulation element, a light output lens, and an optical fuse coating formed of a thermosensitive material; or includes at least one LED chip and an encapsulation element formed of a mixture of an encapsulation material and a thermosensitive material; or includes at least one blue LED chip, a fluorescent powder layer, an isolation region, an optical fuse layer, and a light output lens. Thanks to the hue changing property of the thermosensitive material, the LED structure can reduce the intensity of its short-wavelength light component and its overall brightness significantly before reaching the L70 threshold, after passing which the LED structure will emit excessive blue light. Thus, the user is protected from overexposure to blue light and will be reminded to replace the LED structure when the LED structure is about to malfunction.
US09793451B2
An encapsulated light-emitting diode device is disclosed. The encapsulated light-emitting diode device includes a circuit carrier including a surface; a light-emitting device including a transparent substrate, the transparent substrate including a first surface and a second surface, and the first surface and the surface of the circuit carrier includes an included angle larger than zero; a light-emitting diode chip located on the first surface of the transparent substrate; and a first transparent glue covering the light-emitting diode chip and formed on the first surface; and a second transparent glue formed on the second surface corresponding to the first transparent glue; wherein the first transparent glue has a circular projection on the first surface and the light-emitting diode chip is substantially located at the center of the circular projection.
US09793449B1
The present disclosure provides a LED package structure and a LED light-emitting device. The LED package structure comprises a LED chip and a wavelength converting layer covering the LED chip. The wavelength converting layer contains red phosphor, which has lower amount in edge portion than in center portion. It is possible to avoid direct or indirect excitation for generating red light in edge portion of the LED chip by adjusting the amount of red phosphor in edge portion to be lower, so that the color temperature in edge portion may be adjusted toward to high color temperature, and thus the phenomenon of yellow halo may be alleviated.
US09793448B2
A light-emitting diode (LED) includes a substrate, a semiconductor stacked structure disposed on the substrate, the semiconductor stacked structure including a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer, a wavelength converting layer configured to convert a wavelength of light emitted from the semiconductor stacked structure, the wavelength converting layer covering side surfaces of the substrate and the semiconductor stacked structure, and a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) configured to reflect at least a portion of light wavelength-converted by the wavelength converting layer, in which at least a portion of the DBR is covered with a metal layer configured to reflect light transmitted through the DBR.
US09793446B2
Composites having semiconductor structures embedded in a matrix are described. In an example, a composite includes a matrix material. A plurality of semiconductor structures is embedded in the matrix material. Each semiconductor structure includes an anisotropic nanocrystalline core composed of a first semiconductor material. Each semiconductor structure also includes a nanocrystalline shell composed of a second, different, semiconductor material at least partially surrounding the anisotropic nanocrystalline core. An insulator layer encapsulates each nanocrystalline shell and anisotropic nanocrystalline core pairing.
US09793445B2
A method of manufacturing optoelectronic components includes spraying a fluorescent layer of an optoelectronic component onto a substrate, the substance or the substance mixture of the fluorescent layer including an electric charge when sprayed on, and wherein the electrically charged substance or the at least partially electrically charged substance mixture includes a larger electric potential when the fluorescent layer is sprayed on than at least one area of the substrate; and locally adjusting the thickness of the fluorescent layer of the sprayed-on fluorescent substance when spraying on the fluorescent layer onto the substrate by an electric potential gradient.
US09793435B2
A method for growth and fabrication of semipolar (Ga,Al,In,B)N thin films, heterostructures, and devices, comprising identifying desired material properties for a particular device application, selecting a semipolar growth orientation based on the desired material properties, selecting a suitable substrate for growth of the selected semipolar growth orientation, growing a planar semipolar (Ga,Al,In,B)N template or nucleation layer on the substrate, and growing the semipolar (Ga,Al,In,B)N thin films, heterostructures or devices on the planar semipolar (Ga,Al,In,B)N template or nucleation layer. The method results in a large area of the semipolar (Ga,Al,In,B)N thin films, heterostructures, and devices being parallel to the substrate surface.
US09793433B2
A method of fabricating an ultraviolet (UV) light emitting device includes receiving a UV transmissive substrate, forming a first UV transmissive layer comprising aluminum nitride upon the UV transmissive substrate using a first deposition technique at a temperature less than about 800 degrees Celsius or greater than about 1200 degrees Celsius, forming a second UV transmissive layer comprising aluminum nitride upon the first UV transmissive layer comprising aluminum nitride using a second deposition technique that is different from the first deposition technique, at a temperature within a range of about 800 degrees Celsius to about 1200 degrees Celsius, forming an n-type layer comprising aluminum gallium nitride layer upon the second UV transmissive layer, forming one or more quantum well structures comprising aluminum gallium nitride upon the n-type layer, and forming a p-type nitride layer upon the one or more quantum well structures.
US09793424B2
A photoelectric conversion device includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface that is an opposite side of the first surface, wherein one of the first and second surfaces is a light incidence surface, a photodiode (PD) formed in the first surface of the substrate, a reflective layer formed on one of the first and second surfaces of the substrate, which is the opposite side of the light incidence surface, and a microlens formed on the light incidence surface of the substrate.
US09793420B2
Sputtered zinc oxide layer is used to improve and control the crystalline properties of a molybdenum back contact used in photovoltaic cells. Optimum thicknesses for the zinc oxide layer are identified.
US09793419B2
A silicon-based photoelectric multiplier comprises a plurality of cells and a number of read-out lines, and at least one of a number read-out pads or a ring-like line, wherein the plurality of cells may be divided into a number of segments, and each one of the read-out lines may be electrically connected with the cells of at least one segment.
US09793404B2
A source/drain (S/D) structure includes a SiGe structure epitaxially grown and having sloped facets on a recessed fin structure disposed adjacent to a channel portion of a finFET, a first Ge structure having a rounded surface epitaxially grown on the SiGe structure, and a capping layer formed over the rounded surface of the Ge structure. The capping layer may be formed of Si. Such S/D structures provide both a larger physical size for lower contact resistance, and greater volume and concentration of Ge for higher compressive strain applied to the channel portion of the finFET.
US09793398B1
A method of forming a strained channel for a field effect transistor, including forming a sacrificial layer on a substrate, forming a channel layer on the sacrificial layer, forming a stressor layer on the channel layer, wherein the stressor layer applies a stress to the channel layer, forming at least one etching trench by removing at least a portion of the stressor layer, channel layer, and sacrificial layer, wherein the etching trench exposes at least a portion of a sidewall of the sacrificial layer, and separates the stressor layer, channel layer, and sacrificial layer into two or more stressor islands, channel blocks, and sacrificial slabs, and removing the sacrificial slabs to release the channel blocks from the substrate using a selective etch, wherein the channel blocks adhere to the substrate surface.
US09793393B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, an active gate trench in the substrate; a source polysilicon pickup trench in the substrate; a polysilicon electrode disposed in the source polysilicon pickup trench; and a body region in the substrate. The top surface of the polysilicon electrode is below the bottom of the body region.
US09793379B2
The present invention relates generally to semiconductor devices, and more particularly, to a structure and method of forming a spacer adjacent to a gate in a fin field effect transistor (FinFET) device without resulting in substrate gouging or a spacer foot. A conformal spacer layer may be formed around a plurality of fins and a gate, wherein the conformal spacer layer may have a thickness above the plurality of fins that is at least one-half the distance between the individual fins. An isotropic etch may be used to remove excess spacer material around the plurality of fins (but not between the fins) and around the gate. An anisotropic etch may be used to remove the remaining spacer material from between the fins and around the gate, leaving a spacer adjacent to the gate without gouging the substrate surface between the fins.
US09793377B2
The present invention relates to a thin film transistor, a thin film transistor array panel, and a manufacturing method thereof. A thin film transistor according to an exemplary embodiments of the present invention includes: a gate electrode; a gate insulating layer positioned on or under the gate electrode; a channel region overlapping the gate electrode, the gate insulating layer interposed between the channel region and the gate electrode; and a source region and a drain region, facing each other with respect to the channel region, positioned in the same layer as the channel region, and connected to the channel region, wherein the channel region, the source region, and the drain region comprise an oxide semiconductor, and wherein a carrier concentration of the source region and the drain region is larger than a carrier concentration of the channel region.
US09793376B2
In a method of manufacturing a silicon carbide semiconductor device including a vertical switching element having a trench gate structure, with the use of a substrate having an off angle with respect to a (0001) plane or a (000-1) plane, a trench is formed from a surface of a source region to a depth reaching a drift layer through a base region so that a side wall surface of the trench faces a (11-20) plane or a (1-100) plane, and a gate oxide film is formed without performing sacrificial oxidation after formation of the trench.
US09793367B2
An ohmic contact to a semiconductor layer including a heterostructure barrier layer and a metal layer adjacent to the heterostructure barrier layer is provided. The heterostructure barrier layer can form a two dimensional free carrier gas for the contact at a heterointerface of the heterostructure barrier layer and the semiconductor layer. The metal layer is configured to form a contact with the two dimensional free carrier gas.
US09793357B2
A semiconductor device includes first, second, third, and fourth electrodes, a first insulating film, and first, second third, and fourth silicon carbide layers. A first distance between the first electrode and a first interface between the fourth electrode and fourth silicon carbide region is longer than a second distance between the first insulating film and a second interface between the third silicon carbide region and the fourth silicon carbide region. The fourth silicon carbide region is between the third silicon carbide region and the second silicon carbide region in a direction perendicular to the second interface.
US09793352B1
A combination switch includes an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT), an anti-parallel diode, and a saturable inductor. The diode and inductor are coupled in series between a collector and an emitter of the IGBT. The inductor is fashioned so that it will come out of saturation when a forward bias current flow through the diode falls below a saturation current level. When the diode current falls (for example, due to another combination switch of a phase leg turning on), the diode current initially falls at a high rate until the inductor current drops to the saturation current level. Thereafter, the diode current falls at a lower rate. The lower rate allows the diode current to have a soft landing to zero current, thereby eliminating or reducing voltage and/or current spikes that would otherwise occur. Multiple methods of implementing and manufacturing the saturable inductor are disclosed.
US09793351B2
A tunneling field effect transistor, comprising a gate electrode layer, a gate dielectric layer, a source region, a connected region and a drain region, wherein the source region comprises a first source region and a second source region, the second source region comprising an inner layer source region and an outer layer source region. The connected region comprises an expansion region and a high-resistance region. The doping types of materials of the inner layer source and the outer layer source region are opposite, and the forbidden bandwidth of the material of the inner layer source region is less than that of the outer layer source region. The contact surface formed by way of covering the inner layer source region by the outer layer source region is a curved surface. Since a contact surface of an outer layer source region and an inner layer source region of a tunneling field effect transistor is of a curved surface structure, the contact area of the outer layer source region and the inner layer source region is increased, and the probability of tunneling of a carrier through the contact surface is increased. Therefore, the On-state current is increased, thereby having a good current drive capability.
US09793350B1
An exemplary FET includes a base and first and second stacked layer groups each having a nonconductive layer and a semiconductive layer adjacent the nonconductive layer. Source and drain electrodes are in low resistance contact with the semiconductive layers. First and second parallel trenches extend vertically between the source and drain electrodes to create access to first and second edges, respectively, of the layers. A 3-dimensional ridge is defined by the layers between the first and second trenches. A continuous conductive side gate extends generally perpendicular to the trenches and engages the first edges, the top of the ridge and the second edges. A gate electrode is disposed in low resistance contact with the conductive side gate. The figure of merit for the FET increases as the number of layer groups increases. A plurality of parallel spaced apart ridges, all engaged by the same side gate, can be utilized.
US09793349B1
A method for forming a vertical single electron transistor includes forming a heterostructured nanowire having a SiGe region centrally disposed between an upper portion and a lower portion in the nanowire. An oxide is deposited to cover the SiGe region, and a condensation process is performed to convert the SiGe to oxide and condense Ge to form an island between the upper portion and the lower portion of the nanowire. A bottom contact is formed about the lower portion, a first dielectric layer is formed on the bottom contact and a gate structure is formed about the island on the first dielectric layer. A second dielectric layer is formed on the gate structure, and a top contact is formed on the second dielectric layer.
US09793347B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a conductive pattern, a side spacer, and an air gap. The substrate includes an interlayer insulating layer and a trench penetrating the interlayer insulating layer. The conductive pattern is disposed within the trench of the substrate. The side spacer is disposed within the trench. The side spacer covers an upper side surface of the conductive pattern. The air gap is disposed within the trench. The air gap is bounded by a sidewall of the trench, the side spacer, and a lower side surface of the conductive pattern. A level of a bottom surface of the conductive pattern is lower than a level of bottom surfaces of the side spacer.
US09793343B2
To improve withstand capability of a semiconductor device during reverse recovery, provided is a semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate having a first conduction type; a first region having a second conduction type that is formed in a front surface of the semiconductor substrate; a second region having a second conduction type that is formed adjacent to the first region in the front surface of the semiconductor substrate and has a higher concentration than the first region; a third region having a second conduction type that is formed adjacent to the second region in the front surface of the semiconductor substrate and has a higher concentration than the second region; an insulating film that covers a portion of the second region and the third region; and an electrode connected to the second region and the first region that are not covered by the insulating film.
US09793330B2
The present invention provides a slim-bezel flexible display device and a manufacturing method thereof. A through hole is formed in a first base plate of a lower substrate in an area adjacent to an edge thereof. A conductive connection body is mounted in the through hole. The conductive connection body is connected to a circuit layout layer and a flexible connection circuit that is connected to a drive circuit board so as to have the drive circuit board and the circuit layout layer connected. Compared to the prior art, the present invention provides an arrangement that makes it not necessary for the side of the lower substrate associated with the circuit layout layer to provide an additional connection zone for connection with the flexible connection circuit so that an effective display zone of a flexible display device can be enlarged and a bezel area can be reduced. Further, the flexible connection circuit is completely arranged at one side of the lower substrate so that the flexible connection circuit curving around an edge of the lower substrate required in the prior art can be prevented thereby eliminating the issue of a lateral side space of the lower substrate being undesirably occupied, allowing further reduction of the bezel area for achieving slim-bezel displaying.
US09793329B2
It is an object to provide a flexible light-emitting device with long lifetime in a simple way and to provide an inexpensive electronic device with long lifetime using the flexible light-emitting device. A flexible light-emitting device is provided, which includes a substrate having flexibility and a light-transmitting property with respect to visible light; a first adhesive layer over the substrate; an insulating film containing nitrogen and silicon over the first adhesive layer; a light-emitting element including a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and an EL layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; a second adhesive layer over the second electrode; and a metal substrate over the second adhesive layer, wherein the thickness of the metal substrate is 10 μm to 200 μm inclusive. Further, an electronic device using the flexible light-emitting device is provided.
US09793328B2
Failure light emission of an EL element due to failure film formation of an organic EL material in an electrode hole 46 is improved. By forming the organic EL material after embedding an insulator in an electrode hole 46 on a pixel electrode and forming a protective portion 41b, failure film formation in the electrode hole 46 can be prevented. This can prevent concentration of electric current due to a short circuit between a cathode and an anode of the EL element, and can prevent failure light emission of an EL layer.
US09793327B2
The present application discloses an array substrate comprising a pixel unit comprising a bottom emitting organic light emitting diode, a top emitting organic light emitting diode, a first drive thin film transistor, and a second drive thin film transistor. The first drive thin film transistor is connected to the bottom emitting organic light emitting diode for driving the bottom emitting organic light emitting diode to emit light. The second drive thin film transistor is connected to the top emitting organic light emitting diode for driving the top emitting organic light emitting diode to emit light.
US09793320B1
A memory cell includes a first diode, a second diode, and a random access memory cell element. The first diode and the random access memory cell element are series connected between a bit line and a word line. The second diode and the random access memory cell element are series connected between the word line and a reset line. A set path is formed through the first diode and the random access memory cell element, and a reset path is formed through the random access memory cell element and the second diode. The first diode is configured to performed a read operation and a set operation. The second diode is configured to perform a reset operation. The memory cell has higher forward current, lower leakage current and smaller size comparing with conventional memory cells.
US09793316B1
An imager module having an interposer chip electrically connected to and routing signals between an image sensor, a printed circuit board (PCB), and a voice coil motor (VCM) is disclosed. In some example embodiments, one or more surface mount devices (SMDs) may further be attached to the interposer chip, the PCB, or both the interposer chip and the PCB. The interposer chip may further have a cavity therethrough to allow light to impinge in the image sensor. The interposer chip may still further have through silicon vias (TSVs) to route signals from the PCB to the VCM.
US09793311B2
In a solid-state imaging device including a plurality of pixels each pixel including a plurality of photodiodes, it is prevented that an incidence angle of incident light on the solid-state imaging device becomes large in a pixel in an end of the solid-state imaging device, causing a difference in output between the two photodiodes in the pixel, and thus autofocus detection accuracy is deteriorated. Photodiodes extending in a longitudinal direction of a pixel allay section are provided in each pixel. The photodiodes in the pixel are arranged in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the pixel allay section.
US09793304B2
A method for producing an array substrate is provided. The method includes: forming metal film layers and patterning the metal film layers to form a plurality rows of gate lines and a plurality columns of data lines crossed to each other in the non-display area and forming thin film transistors; forming a pad part at one end of the gate lines or data lines. The process of producing the pad part includes: forming a first insulation layer on the metal film layers by patterning; forming an etching protection layer, a source and drain metal layer and a second insulation layer sequentially by patterning, wherein the first insulation layer, the etching protection layer, the source and drain metal layer and the second insulation layer form a trapezoid stack.
US09793302B1
An active device includes a poly-silicon semiconductor layer, a first insulating layer, a gate electrode, a second insulating layer, a first through hole, an oxide semiconductor layer, a first electrode and a second electrode. The poly-silicon semiconductor layer includes a first doped region, a channel region and a second doped region. The gate electrode is disposed on the first insulating layer covering the poly-silicon semiconductor layer, and corresponds to the channel region. The gate electrode is covered by the second insulating layer, where the first and second insulating layers have a first through hole. The oxide semiconductor layer is disposed on the second insulating layer and corresponds to the gate electrode. The first and second electrodes are oppositely disposed on the oxide semiconductor layer. The oxide semiconductor layer is electrically connected to the second electrode, and to the second doped region via the first through hole.
US09793301B2
A display panel is provided. The display panel has an active area and a border area out of the active area. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels, a first gate driver portion, a plurality of scan lines and a multiplexer portion. The pixels are located in the active area. The first gate driver portion is located in the border area. The scan lines are located in the active area, and connected to the first gate driver portion. The multiplexer portion is located in the border area. The multiplexer portion and the first gate driver portion at least partially overlap along a direction parallel to one of the plurality of scan lines.
US09793296B2
A method for fabricating substrate of a semiconductor device includes the steps of: providing a first silicon layer; forming a dielectric layer on the first silicon layer; bonding a second silicon layer to the dielectric layer; removing part of the second silicon layer and part of the dielectric layer to define a first region and a second region on the first silicon layer, wherein the remaining of the second silicon layer and the dielectric layer are on the second region; and forming an epitaxial layer on the first region of the first silicon layer, wherein the epitaxial layer and the second silicon layer comprise same crystalline orientation.
US09793294B1
A semiconductor device includes an SOI substrate and a transistor device positioned in and above the SOI substrate. The SOI substrate includes a semiconductor bulk substrate, a buried insulation layer above the semiconductor bulk substrate, and a semiconductor layer above the buried insulation layer. The transistor device includes a gate structure having a gate electrode and a first cap layer covering upper and sidewall surfaces of the gate electrode. An oxide liner covers sidewalls of the gate structure and a second cap layer covers the oxide liner. A recess is located adjacent to the gate structure and is at least partially defined by an upper surface of the semiconductor layer, a bottom surface of the second cap layer and at least part of the oxide liner. Raised source/drain regions are positioned above the semiconductor layer and portions of the raised source/drain regions are positioned in the recess.
US09793292B2
Three-dimensional (3D) nonvolatile memory devices include a substrate having a well region of second conductivity type (e.g., P-type) therein and a common source region of first conductivity type (e.g., N-type) on the well region. A recess extends partially (or completely) through the common source region. A vertical stack of nonvolatile memory cells on the substrate includes a vertical stack of spaced-apart gate electrodes and a vertical active region, which extends on sidewalls of the vertical stack of spaced-apart gate electrodes and on a sidewall of the recess. Gate dielectric layers extend between respective ones of the vertical stack of spaced-apart gate electrodes and the vertical active region. The gate dielectric layers may include a composite of a tunnel insulating layer, a charge storage layer, a relatively high bandgap barrier dielectric layer and a blocking insulating layer having a relatively high dielectric strength.
US09793291B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, the method including forming a structure on a substrate, the structure including a metal pattern, at least a portion of the metal pattern being exposed; forming a preliminary buffer oxide layer to cover the structure, a metal oxide layer being formed at the exposed portion of the metal pattern; and deoxidizing the metal oxide layer so that the preliminary buffer oxide layer is transformed into a buffer oxide layer.
US09793289B2
A non-volatile memory device includes a conductive layer, a first electrode layer provided side by side with the conductive layer in a first direction, a second electrode layer provided between the conductive layer and the first electrode. At least a part of the second electrode on the conductive layer side has a work function smaller than a work function of the first electrode. The device further includes a first channel body extending through the first electrode layer in the first direction and a charge storage portion provided between the first electrode layer and the first channel body.
US09793288B2
Methods of fabricating semiconductor devices, such as monolithic three-dimensional NAND memory string devices, include selectively forming semiconductor material charge storage regions over first material layers exposed on a sidewall of a front side opening extending through a stack comprising an alternating plurality of first and second material layers using a difference in incubation time for the semiconductor material on the first material relative to an incubation time for the semiconductor material on the second material of the stack. In other embodiments, a silicon layer is selectively deposited on silicon nitride on a surface having at least one first portion including silicon oxide and at least one second portion including silicon nitride using a difference in an incubation time for the silicon on silicon nitride relative to an incubation time for the silicon on silicon oxide.
US09793272B2
A semiconductor device including a gate structure on a channel region portion of a fin structure, and at least one of an epitaxial source region and an epitaxial drain region on a source region portion and a drain region portion of the fin structure. At least one of the epitaxial source region portion and the epitaxial drain region portion include a first concentration doped portion adjacent to the fin structure, and a second concentration doped portion on the first concentration doped portion. The second concentration portion has a greater dopant concentration than the first concentration doped portion. An extension dopant region extending into the channel portion of the fin structure having an abrupt dopant concentration gradient of n-type or p-type dopants of 7 nm per decade or greater.
US09793261B2
A power semiconductor device includes: a first MOSFET having a first conductivity type including a first source, a first drain, and a first gate; a second MOSFET having a first conductivity type including a second drain, a second source electrically coupled to the first source, and a second gate electrically coupled the first gate; and a diode being coupled between the first and second drains. A breakdown voltage of the first MOSFET is higher than that of the second MOSFET
US09793256B2
A transient-voltage suppressing (TVS) device disposed on a semiconductor substrate including a low-side steering diode, a high-side steering diode integrated with a main Zener diode for suppressing a transient voltage. The low-side steering diode and the high-side steering diode integrated with the Zener diode are disposed in the semiconductor substrate and each constituting a vertical PN junction as vertical diodes in the semiconductor substrate whereby reducing a lateral area occupied by the TVS device. In an exemplary embodiment, the high-side steering diode and the Zener diode are vertically overlapped with each other for further reducing lateral areas occupied by the TVS device.
US09793251B2
Disclosed herein is a semiconductor package in which a semiconductor chip and a mounting device are packaged together. The semiconductor package includes a semiconductor chip, a mounting block on which a first mounting device is mounted on a substrate that includes a circuit formed thereon, and an interconnection part configured to electrically connect the semiconductor chip to the mounting block.
US09793248B2
A light emitting device includes a substrate, a plurality of micro light emitting chips and a plurality of conductive bumps. The substrate has a plurality of pads. The micro light emitting chips are disposed on the substrate in dispersion. Each of the micro light emitting chips includes an N-type semiconductor layer, an active layer and a P-type semiconductor layer. The conductive bumps are disposed corresponding to the micro light emitting chips and located between the micro light emitting chips and the substrate. The micro light emitting chips are electrically connected to the pads of the substrate by the conductive bumps. An orthogonal projection area of each of the conductive bumps on the substrate is greater than an orthogonal projection area of each of the micro light emitting chips on the substrate.
US09793237B2
The present disclosure relates to a flip-chip package with a hollow-cavity and reinforced interconnects, and a process for making the same. The disclosed flip-chip package includes a substrate, a reinforcement layer over an upper surface of the substrate, a flip-chip die attached to the upper surface of the substrate by interconnects through the reinforcement layer, an air cavity formed between the substrate and the flip-chip die, and a protective layer encapsulating the flip-chip die and defining a perimeter of the air cavity. Herein, a first portion of each interconnect is encapsulated by the reinforcement layer and a second portion of each interconnect is exposed to the air cavity. The reinforcement layer provides reinforcement to each interconnect.
US09793229B1
A re-distribution layer structure is adapted to be disposed on a substrate having a pad and a protective layer which has a first opening exposing a part of the pad. The re-distribution layer structure includes a first and a second patterned insulating layers and a re-distribution layer. The first patterned insulating layer is disposed on the protective layer and includes at least one protrusion and a second opening corresponding to the first opening. The re-distribution layer is disposed on the first patterned insulating layer and includes a pad portion and a wire portion. The pad portion is located on the first patterned insulating layer. The wire portion includes a body and at least one trench caved in the body. The body extends from the pad portion to the pad exposed by the first and the second openings. The body covers the protrusion, and the at least one protrusion extends into the at least one trench. The second patterned insulating layer covers the wire portion and exposes a part of the pad portion. A manufacturing method of re-distribution layer structure is further provided.
US09793224B2
A wafer is disclosed. The wafer comprises a plurality of chips and a plurality of kerfs. A kerf of the plurality of kerfs separates one chip from another chip. The kerf comprises a crack stop barrier.
US09793222B1
Packages and packaging techniques for providing EMI shielding are described. In an embodiment, a package includes an electrically conductive ground structure on a ground pad at a periphery of a package substrate. The electrically conductive ground structure is encapsulated in a molding compound, and a surface of the electrically conductive ground structure is exposed at a side surface of the molding compound. An electrically conductive shield layer is on top and side surfaces of the molding compound, and in physical contact with the surface of the exposed electrically conductive ground structure.
US09793221B2
A first insulating film is applied onto a joining face of a semiconductor device including a connection terminal on a joining face, and the connection terminal is embedded inside the first insulating film. The second insulating film is formed on a joining target face of a joining target, which includes a connection target terminal on the joining target face, and the connection target terminal is embedded inside the second insulating film. The semiconductor device and the joining target are joined together by applying pressure and causing the semiconductor device and the joining target to make contact with each other.
US09793220B2
A capacitive sensor and measurement circuitry is described that may be able to reproducibly measure miniscule capacitances and variations thereof. The capacitance may vary depending upon local environmental conditions such as mechanical stress (e.g., warpage or shear stress), mechanical pressure, temperature, and/or humidity. It may be desirable to provide a capacitor integrated into a semiconductor chip that is sufficiently small and sensitive to accurately measure conditions expected to be experienced by a semiconductor chip.
US09793218B2
In a method for manufacturing a device embedded substrate, a conductive via that penetrates a first insulating layer and a second insulating layer from an outer metal layer to reach a second terminal of an IC device is formed after forming the outer metal layer.
US09793207B1
An antifuse structure including a first electrode that is present in at a base of the opening in the dielectric material. The antifuse structure further includes an antifuse material layer comprising a phase change material alloy of tantalum and nitrogen. A first surface of the antifuse material layer is present in direct contact with the first electrode. A second electrode is present in direct contact with a second surface of the antifuse material layer that is opposite the first surface of the antifuse material layer.
US09793201B2
Embodiments of the present description relate to the field of fabricating microelectronic substrates. The microelectronic substrate may include a trace routing structure disposed between opposing glass layers. The trace routing structure may comprise one or more dielectric layers having conductive traces formed thereon and therethrough. Also disclosed are embodiments of a microelectronic package including a microelectronic device disposed proximate one glass layer of the microelectronic substrate and coupled with the microelectronic substrate by a plurality of interconnects.
US09793195B1
A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device has a semiconductor chip, an island having an upper surface to which the semiconductor chip is bonded, a lead disposed around the island, a bonding wire extended between the surface of the semiconductor chip and the upper surface of the lead, and a resin package sealing the semiconductor chip, the island, the lead, and the bonding wire, while the lower surface of the island and the lower surface of the lead are exposed on the rear surface of the resin package, and the lead is provided with a recess concaved from the lower surface side and opened on a side surface thereof.
US09793189B2
A printed wiring board assembly includes a first board including a first surface; a second board including a second surface and facing the first surface; a plurality of first electrodes formed on a bottom surface of a recess formed in one of the first and the second surfaces; a plurality of second electrodes formed on the one of the first surface and the second surface and positioned outside the recess; a plurality of first solders each coupled to a respective one of the plurality of first electrodes; and a plurality of second solders each coupled to a respective one of the plurality of second electrodes, wherein the plurality of first electrodes are formed at a larger pitch than a pitch at which the plurality of second electrodes are formed, and a size of each the plurality of first solders is larger than a size of the plurality of second solders.
US09793186B1
A semiconductor test system has a film frame including a tape portion with one or more openings through the tape portion. The opening is disposed in a center region of the tape portion of the film frame. The film frame may have conductive traces formed on or through the tape portion. A thin semiconductor wafer includes a conductive layer formed over a surface of the semiconductor wafer. The semiconductor wafer is mounted over the opening in the tape portion of the film frame. A wafer probe chuck includes a lower surface and raised surface. The film frame is mounted to the wafer probe chuck with the raised surface extending through the opening in the tape portion to contact the conductive layer of the semiconductor wafer. The semiconductor wafer is probe tested through the opening in the tape portion of the film frame.
US09793181B2
A method for calibrating a resistance value comprises the steps of measuring a value of a reference capacitor, and adjusting a variable resistor based on the measured value of the reference capacitor. The method may more specifically comprise the steps of directing a constant current through the reference capacitor during a reference time interval; after the reference time interval, directing the constant current through the variable resistor; and varying the variable resistor value progressively by varying a control signal until a voltage of the variable resistor reaches a voltage of the reference capacitor.
US09793180B2
A semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof. Various aspects of the disclosure may, for example, comprise connection verification for a first one or more mounted components prior to additional assembly.
US09793173B2
A semiconductor device may include a substrate, an n-channel field-effect transistor positioned on the substrate, and a p-channel field-effect transistor positioned on the substrate. The n-channel field-effect transistor may include an n-type silicide source portion, an n-type silicide drain portion, and a first n-type channel region. The first n-type channel region may be positioned between the n-type silicide source portion and the n-type silicide drain portion and may directly contact each of the n-type silicide source portion and the n-type silicide drain portion.
US09793172B2
A method for fabricating field effect transistors using carbon doped silicon layers to substantially reduce the diffusion of a doped screen layer formed below a substantially undoped channel layer includes forming an in-situ epitaxial carbon doped silicon substrate that is doped to form the screen layer in the carbon doped silicon substrate and forming the substantially undoped silicon layer above the carbon doped silicon substrate. The method may include implanting carbon below the screen layer and forming a thin layer of in-situ epitaxial carbon doped silicon above the screen layer. The screen layer may be formed either in a silicon substrate layer or the carbon doped silicon substrate.
US09793166B2
A lift-off method for transferring an optical device layer in an optical device wafer to a transfer substrate, the optical device layer being formed on the front side of an epitaxy substrate through a buffer layer. A transfer substrate is bonded through a bonding layer to the front side of the optical device layer of the optical device wafer, thereby forming a composite substrate. A pulsed laser beam having a wavelength transmissive to the epitaxy substrate and absorptive to the buffer layer is applied from the back side of the epitaxy substrate to the buffer layer, thereby breaking the buffer layer, and the epitaxy substrate is peeled from the optical device layer, thereby transferring the optical device layer to the transfer substrate. Ultrasonic vibration is applied to the composite substrate in transferring the optical device layer.
US09793161B2
A method of making a semiconductor device includes depositing a hard mask on a dielectric layer on a substrate, the dielectric layer being disposed around first, second, and third gates; removing a portion of the hard mask to form an opening that exposes the first, second, and third gates; forming a patterned soft mask on the first, second, and third gates within the opening, a first portion of the patterned soft mask being disposed on the first and second gates, and a second portion of the patterned soft mask being disposed on the second and third gates; removing portions of the dielectric layer to transfer the pattern of the patterned soft mask into the dielectric layer and form first and second contact openings between the first and second gates, and third and fourth contact openings between the second and third gates; and disposing a conductive material in the contact openings.
US09793157B2
A semiconductor device that includes a gate structure on a channel region of a semiconductor device. Source and drain regions may be present on opposing sides of the channel region. The semiconductor device may further include a composite gate sidewall spacer present on a sidewall of the gate structure. The composite gate sidewall spacer may include a first composition portion having an air gap encapsulated therein, and a second composition portion that is entirely solid and present atop the first composition portion.
US09793149B2
A method of electrostatically clamping a dielectric wafer to a processing table during plasma processing is described. The table has interdigitated electrodes embedded therein. The method comprises applying respective voltages of opposite first and second polarities to adjacent electrodes wherein polarization charges are induced in the wafer with opposite polarity to the respective underlying electrodes thereby electrostatically clamping the wafer to the table; and, after a predetermined time (ton), reversing the polarities of the voltages so that the polarization charges and electrostatic clamping continues. The on time (ton) of each of the first and second polarities is preselected to be a) greater than the time (T1) required to generate sufficient polarization charge in the wafer such that the wafer is held with a required pressure for at least 2 seconds after withdrawing of clamping voltages, b) less than the time (T2) for the wafer to separate from the table by a first predetermined amount while in the presence of a steady voltage and a plasma, and c) less than the time (T3) for the wafer to separate from the substrate by a second predetermined amount in the absence of a plasma, after an applied voltage has been applied. The time (ts) for switching between the first and second polarities is less than the time (T1) and less than 2 seconds.
US09793144B2
A wafer holder and temperature controlling arrangement has a metal circular wafer carrier plate, which covers a heater compartment. In the heater compartment a multitude of heater lamp tubes is arranged, which directly acts upon the circular wafer carrier plate. Latter is drivingly rotatable about the central axis. A wafer is held on the circular wafer carrier plate by means of a weight-ring residing upon the periphery of a wafer deposited on the wafer carrier plate.
US09793143B2
Embodiments of a semiconductor processing apparatus are provided. The semiconductor processing apparatus includes a housing and a support base disposed in the housing. The semiconductor processing apparatus also includes a carrying arm movably disposed on the support base and a nozzle device disposed on the carrying arm. The semiconductor processing apparatus further includes a wafer plate disposed on the support base. When a cleaning process is performed, the carrying arm is moved toward the wafer plate, and the nozzle device emits a first gas toward the support base and the wafer plate.
US09793138B2
The present invention relates to a thermal processing method for wafer. A wafer is placed in an environment filled with a non-oxygenated gas mixture comprising deuterium gas and at least one kind of low active gas, and a rapid heating processing process is performed on a surface of the wafer to heat the wafer to a predetermined high temperature. Then, the wafer is placed in an environment filled with an oxygenated gas mixture, and a rapid cooling 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.
US09793126B2
The disclosed techniques relate to methods and apparatus for etching a substrate. A plate assembly divides a reaction chamber into a lower and upper sub-chamber. The plate assembly includes an upper and lower plate having apertures therethrough. When the apertures in the upper and lower plates are aligned, ions and neutral species may travel through the plate assembly into the lower sub-chamber. When the apertures are not aligned, ions are prevented from passing through the assembly while neutral species are much less affected. Thus, the ratio of ion flux:neutral flux may be tuned by controlling the amount of area over which the apertures are aligned. In certain embodiments, one plate of the plate assembly is implemented as a series of concentric, independently movable injection control rings. Further, in some embodiments, the upper sub-chamber is implemented as a series of concentric plasma zones separated by walls of insulating material.
US09793120B2
According to one embodiment, a device substrate includes a multilayer film that includes a film constituting a device element and is disposed on a substrate. A main face on which the device element is disposed includes a patterning region on which a resist is to be applied during an imprint process, and a bevel region provided as a region from a peripheral edge portion of the patterning region to an end portion of the device substrate. The bevel region includes a region where an upper surface of the bevel region becomes lower toward the end portion of the device substrate relative to an upper surface of the patterning region. The upper surface of the bevel region has an inclination angle of 10° or more and 90° or less with respect to the upper surface of the patterning region, at a boundary between the patterning region and the bevel region.
US09793108B2
A method for sealing porous low-k dielectric films is provided. The method comprises exposing a substrate to UV radiation and a first reactive gas, wherein the substrate has an open feature defined therein, the open feature defined by a porous low-k dielectric layer and a conductive material, wherein the porous low-k dielectric layer is a silicon and carbon containing material and selectively forming a pore sealing layer in the open feature on exposed surfaces of the porous low-k dielectric layer using UV assisted photochemical vapor deposition.
US09793107B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, includes: forming a thin film containing silicon, oxygen and carbon or a thin film containing silicon, oxygen, carbon and nitrogen on a substrate by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times. The cycle includes supplying a precursor gas serving as a silicon source and a carbon source or a precursor gas serving as a silicon source but no carbon source, and a first catalyst gas to the substrate; supplying an oxidizing gas and a second catalyst gas to the substrate; and supplying a modifying gas containing at least one selected from the group consisting of carbon and nitrogen to the substrate.
US09793106B2
It has been discovered that poor TDDB reliability of microelectronic device capacitors with organic polymer material in the capacitor dielectric is due to water molecules infiltrating the organic polymer material when the microelectronic device is exposed to water vapor in the operating ambient. Water molecule infiltration from water vapor in the ambient is effectively reduced by a moisture barrier comprising a layer of aluminum oxide formed by an atomic layer deposition (ALD) process. A microelectronic device includes a capacitor with organic polymer material in the capacitor dielectric and a moisture barrier with a layer of aluminum oxide formed by an ALD process.
US09793104B2
Provided is a method of epitaxial deposition, which involves dry-etching a semiconductor substrate with a fluorine containing species and exposing the dry-etched substrate to hydrogen atoms, prior to epitaxially depositing a semiconductor layer to the surface of the substrate.
US09793095B2
A processing system is disclosed, having a power transmission element with an interior cavity that propagates electromagnetic energy proximate to a continuous slit in the interior cavity. The continuous slit forms an opening between the interior cavity and a substrate processing chamber. The electromagnetic energy may generate an alternating charge in the continuous slit that enables the generation of an electric field that may propagate into the processing chamber. The electric field may interact with process gas in the processing chamber to generate plasma for treating the substrate. The interior cavity may be isolated from the process chamber by a dielectric component that covers the continuous slit. The power transmission element may be used to control plasma density within the process chamber, either by itself or in combination with other plasma sources.
US09793092B2
A charged particle beam apparatus has a charged particle beam column configured to irradiate a charged particle beam, and a controller configured to control the charged particle beam column to irradiate the charged particle beam at a first pixel interval for a first region and to irradiate the charged particle beam at a second pixel interval different from the first pixel interval for a second region included in the first region. The first and second regions include plural first and second pixels each including first and second sub-pixels which are irradiated by the charged particle beam to generate secondary electrons. First and second sub-pixel images are formed based on the detected secondary electrons, and the first and second sub-pixel images are synthesized to form first and second images.
US09793090B2
The present invention discloses an e-beam inspection tool, and an apparatus for detecting defects. In one aspect is described an apparatus for detecting defects that includes a focusing column that accelerates the e-beam and separately, for each of the plurality of predetermined locations, focuses the e-beam to a predetermined non-circular spot that is within the predetermined surface area of each of the plurality of predetermined locations based upon the major axis.
US09793089B2
A field emission device comprises one or more emitter elements, each having a high aspect ratio structure with a nanometer scaled cross section; and one or more segmented electrodes, each surrounding one of the one or more emitters. Each of the one or more segmented electrodes has multiple electrode plates. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US09793085B2
A focused ion beam apparatus is equipped with a gas field ion source that can produce a focused ion beam for a long period of time by stably and continuously emitting ions from the gas field ion source having high luminance, along an optical axis of an ion-optical system for a long period of time. The gas field ion source has an emitter for emitting ions, the emitter having a sharpened end part made of iridium fixed to a cylinder-shaped base part made of dissimilar wire.
US09793076B2
A switching operator control arrangement for a motor vehicle. A movable operating area interacts with a shifting device in such a way that the operating area can be moved in a substantially linear manner over at least one distance from a neutral position to an operating position. The operating position can be in the form of a switching position in such a way that the operating area has a switching action on a switching element, a sensor or the like in the switching position. The shifting device includes a rocking lever arrangement which can move in parallel.
US09793074B2
A multi-directional operation switch that can be miniaturized is provided. The multi-directional operation switch includes an operation rod that is rotatable about an operation rod axis, and is also tiltable. The operation rod has an inner end portion inserted in a hole in a circuit substrate, and a slider, which operates in conjunction with an operation of the operation rod, is provided on the inner end portion. The slider has a movable contact. The circuit substrate has a plurality of fixed contacts that are brought into contact with, and are electrically connected to, the movable contact when the slider rotates or slides.
US09793071B2
Systems and methods for providing input component assemblies for dome switches are provided. In some embodiments, an input component assembly includes a switch, a button positioned over the switch, where the button is operative to close at least one circuit of the switch when the button is depressed towards the switch, an actuator positioned underneath the button to at least partially enclose at least one switch element, where the actuator is operative to deform when the button is depressed, and a weld plate welded to an underside surface of the button with at least one sonic weld joint to create a seal around the actuator and the at least one switch element, where a portion of the actuator is secured between the underside surface of the button and the weld plate.
US09793069B2
An operating device having an optical finger navigation module for installation in a steering wheel of a motor vehicle, which allows for secure operation and can be produced at low cost, is disclosed. The operating device has a mounting frame, in which a first light guiding element and the optical finger navigation module is held by a light sealing element. The light sealing element is mounted by a snap connection on the mounting frame. The mounting frame has at least one guide element with which a movement of the mounting frame can be guided.
US09793068B2
An indicator system for an electronic miniature circuit breaker that has tripped and therefore has no power to provide its own trip indication comprises a breaker in a tripping state and an adjacent breaker in a nontripping state, both with aligned indicator light tubes and data transmission lines or light pipes. The tripped, or tripping, breaker sends a Notice of Trip Data signal before its contacts open and its power goes out, or does so on reserve power. A neighboring breaker's transceiver receives the Notice of Trip Data signal, encodes it, and then repeats it back via an LED and indicator light tube to the tripped breaker. The trip occurrence has opened a shutter on the tripped breaker which allows it to display the repeated Notice of Trip Data signal as a visible light indication through an indicator window in its top wall.
US09793066B1
Embodiments described herein provide a low travel switch mechanism. The low travel switch mechanism may include a substrate, a dome coupled to the substrate, a keycap, and an integrated pivot component disposed between the keycap and the dome. The integrated pivot component may include a hinge assembly coupled to a light guide structure. The hinge assembly may secure to the substrate, via one or more hinge interconnects, joints, or interlock features to form a pivot point. When the keycap receives a keystroke, the integrated pivot component may be operative to pivot about the pivot point and contact the dome to cause a switching event or operation.
US09793065B2
Technologies are generally described for an electron conductive polymer capacitor may incorporate a conductive polymer mixture embedded with carbon nanoparticles between electrodes to rapidly charge and store large amounts of charge compared to conventional electrolytic capacitors. Such a capacitor may be constructed with a laminate sheet including layers of inner and outer electrodes, an electrolyte mixture between the electrodes, a conductive polymer mixture, and a composite mixture of carbon nanoparticles embedded in the conductive polymer between the inner electrodes. The laminate sheet may be wound into a roll and the inner and outer electrodes are coupled electrically. When an electric field is applied, cations within the electrolyte mixture move towards the outer electrodes and anions towards the inner electrodes. Further, the inner conductive polymer layer is ionized causing electrons to move toward the inner electrodes to be deposited onto high surface area carbon nanoparticles where charge is stored.
US09793060B2
A solid electrolytic capacitor that contains an anode body, dielectric overlying the anode body, adhesion coating overlying the dielectric, and solid electrolyte overlying the adhesion coating. The solid electrolyte contains an inner conductive polymer layer and outer conductive polymer layer, at least one of which is formed from a plurality of pre-polymerized conductive polymer particles. Furthermore, the adhesion coating contains a discontinuous precoat layer containing a plurality of discrete nanoprojections of a manganese oxide (e.g., manganese dioxide).
US09793040B2
The invention relates to an apparatus for providing vehicles with energy by magnetic induction. The apparatus has a primary side electric conductor and a field shaping layer. The invention also relates to a composite layer for shaping magnetic field lines of an electromagnetic field generated by an electric conductor. The composite layer includes a continuous supporting layer and a plurality of elements made of magnetizable material. Finally, the invention relates to a method of generating an apparatus for providing vehicles with energy by magnetic induction.
US09793026B2
Using SWNT-CA as scaffolds to fabricate stiff, highly conductive polymer (PDMS) composites. The SWNT-CA is immersing in a polymer resin to produce a SWNT-CA infiltrated with a polymer resin. The SWNT-CA infiltrated with a polymer resin is cured to produce the stiff and electrically conductive composite of carbon nanotube aerogel and polymer.
US09793021B2
A transfer cask system for cooling spent nuclear fuel during the transfer from a spent nuclear fuel pool to a storage or transfer cask is disclosed. A canister containing spent nuclear fuel is inserted into a transfer cask. The transfer cask includes spacing components which define an annular region between the transfer cask and the canister. The transfer cask includes air inlets near a bottom end that permit air to flow through the defined annular region and exit at the open top of the transfer cask, thereby cooling the fuel within the canister. The transfer cask further comprises a neutron shield configured to absorb additional heat and shield radiation that may be generated within the canister. The transfer cask includes a transfer door that can open and close and has support rails that can support a spent nuclear fuel canister located in the transfer cask.
US09793012B2
A nuclear fuel assembly spacer grid defining a lattice of cells for receiving fuel rods is provided. The spacer grid includes a peripheral band composed of at least one peripheral strip delimiting a portion of the peripheral contour of the spacer grid, and at least one spacer grid positioning spring elastically deformable and formed in the peripheral band.
US09793008B2
Apparatus and methods for soft post package repair are disclosed. One such apparatus can include memory cells in a package, volatile memory configured to store defective address data responsive to entering a soft post-package repair mode, a match logic circuit and a decoder. The match logic circuit can generate a match signal indicating whether address data corresponding to an address to be accessed matches the detective address data stored in the volatile memory. The decoder can select a first group of the memory cells to be accessed instead of a second group of the memory cells responsive to the match signal indicating that the address data corresponding to the address to be accessed matches the defective address data stored in the volatile memory. The second group of the memory cells can correspond to a replacement address associated with other defective address data stored in non-volatile memory of the apparatus.
US09793006B2
The present disclosure provides a gate driving circuit and a display apparatus, wherein the gate driving circuit comprises a shift register (10) including a plurality of shift register units connected with each other sequentially, and the gate driving circuit further comprises: a first strobe module (20) and/or a second strobe module (30); the first strobe module (20), connected to a gate scanning trigger signal line (STV) and strobe signal lines (CS0, CS1); the second strobe module (30), connected to the strobe signal lines. With incorporation of the first strobe module (20), a gate scanning trigger signal on a gate scanning trigger signal line (STV) is supplied to a predetermined shift register unit according to strobe signals provided on the strobe signal lines (CS0, CS1); and the second strobe module (30), which is configured to cut off communication between the predetermined shift register unit and its previous stage of shift register unit according to the strobe signals provided on the strobe signal lines (CS0, CS1), so that the shift register is turned off from the predetermined shift register unit, and thus it can be achieved on a liquid crystal display panel that the gate signal(s) in a black-scan area are selectively turned off in a partial display mode, thus power consumption of the whole display panel being reduced.
US09793002B2
In one embodiment, a programming circuit is configured to form a programming current for a silicide fuse element by using a non-silicide programming element.
US09792999B2
According to an adaptive programming method for flash memories, the cell programming speed is detected by programming a number of cells using a fixed trial program voltage. A starting program voltage Vstart is then adjusted based on the detected cell programming speed. The ISPP is then carried out using the adjusted value for Vstart.
US09792996B1
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a word line and a driver. The word line coupled to a memory cell. The driver is configured to apply a voltage to the word line. When a voltage applied to the word line is changed from a first voltage to a second voltage, the driver applies a third voltage according to a voltage difference between the first voltage and the second voltage to the word line.
US09792988B2
A parallel turbine ternary content addressable memory includes one or more atoms in each of one or more rows, wherein each of the one or more atoms includes a memory with N addresses and a width of M logical lookup entries, wherein N and M are integers, one or more result registers, each with a width of M, wherein a number of the one or more result registers equals a number of one or more keys each with a length of N, and a read pointer configured to cycle through a row of the N addresses per clock cycle for comparison between the M logical entries and the one or more keys with a result of the comparison stored in an associated result register for each of the one or more keys.
US09792984B1
Disclosed are methods, systems and devices for operation of non-volatile memory devices. In one aspect, a correlated electron switch (CES) device may be placed in any one of multiple memory states in a write operation. Limiting current between terminals of the non-volatile memory device during read operations may enable use of higher voltages for higher realized gain.
US09792982B1
Disclosed are methods, systems and devices for generation of a read signal to be applied across a load for use in detecting a current impedance state of the load. In one implementation, a voltage and current of a generated read signal may be controlled so as to maintain a current impedance state of the load.
US09792977B2
The present invention provides an erasure circuitry, a method for erasing a volatile memory, a volatile memory and erasure module in the form of computer readable instructions, where the erasure circuitry is adapted to erase the memory at occurrence of a predefined event. The erasure circuitry includes a negative pulse generator which is adapted to reduce the charge on capacitor in one or more volatile memory cells to zero logic by using a switch connected to the Voltage Reference (Vref) of the volatile memory cell, a controller and a negative power supply. The switch and the negative power supply impose a negative pulse on the Vref of the volatile memory cells on being instructed by the controller at the occurrence of a predefined event. An erasure module associated with the controller is provided for instructing the erasure circuitry for erasing data at the occurrence of a predefined event.
US09792973B2
Methods, systems, and devices for operating a ferroelectric memory cell or cells are described. A memory device may maintain a digit line voltage at a ground reference for a duration associated with biasing a ferroelectric capacitor of a memory cell. For example, a digit line that is in electronic communication with a ferroelectric capacitor may be virtually grounded while a voltage is applied to a plate of the ferroelectric capacitor, and the ferroelectric capacitor may be isolated from the virtual ground after a threshold associated with applying the voltage to the plate is reached. A switching component (e.g., a transistor) that is in electronic communication with the digit line and virtual ground may be activated to virtually ground the digit line and deactivated to isolate the digit line from virtual ground.
US09792947B1
An apparatus according to one embodiment includes a block having multiple skiving edges along a tape bearing surface thereof, and a guide mechanism configured to set a wrap angle of a tape approaching the skiving edge. A drive mechanism is configured to cause the tape to move over the block. The block has no transducer coupled directly thereto. A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes causing a magnetic recording tape to pass over a block having a skiving edge at a wrap angle of at least one degree for burnishing the tape, wherein the block has an average hardness of at least about 9 Mohs.
US09792942B2
A write-once type information recording medium according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes at least one recording layer. In the information recording medium, the at least one recording layer has a spiral shape in which a land track and a groove track are alternately arranged as a recording track, the recording track is divided into blocks each of which being minimum unit in which recording is performed, and the information recording medium includes a management information area where management information is recorded and a user data area where user data is recorded. Each of the management information areas of both the land track and the groove track on each recording layer of the at least one recording layer is disposed at a same distance from the center of the information recording medium.
US09792939B2
At least a portion of a first servo mark is read using a first read head during a rotation of a disk, the rotation comprising no more than 360 degrees. At least a portion of a second servo mark is read using a second read head during the rotation of the disk. Tracking positions of the first read head and the second read head are determined during the rotation based on reading the first servo mark and the second servo mark.
US09792933B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic head includes an air bearing surface, a first surface on which contact pads connected to elements are provided, a pair of second surfaces provided respectively with a connection terminal connected to the contact pad, a main pole with a distal end portion extending to the air bearing surface, a write shield opposing the distal end portion of the main pole with a write gap therebetween, and a high-frequency oscillator provided between the main pole and the write shield within the write gap and electrically connected to the main pole and the write shield. The high-frequency oscillator includes a spin injection layer and an oscillation layer, and at least the oscillation layer is recessed in a direction away from the air bearing surface.
US09792931B2
Devices having an air bearing surface (ABS), the devices including a write pole; a near field transducer (NFT) that includes a peg and a disc, wherein the peg is at the ABS of the device; a heat sink positioned adjacent the disc of the NFT; a dielectric gap positioned adjacent the peg of the NFT at the ABS of the device; and a conformal diffusion barrier layer positioned between the write pole and the dielectric gap, the disc, and the heat sink, wherein the conformal diffusion barrier layer forms at least one angle that is not greater than 135°.
US09792928B2
A technique includes in a data storage device, sensing a plurality of data streams from a track of storage media as the media moves in a given direction using a plurality of read elements such that at least one of the read elements is redundant. The technique includes combining the data streams to generate a data stream indicating data read from the track.
US09792922B2
An encoder and a method therein for Pyramid Vector Quantizer, PVQ, shape search, the PVQ taking a target vector x as input and deriving a vector y by iteratively adding unit pulses in an inner dimension search loop. The method comprises, before entering a next inner dimension search loop for unit pulse addition, determining, based on the maximum pulse amplitude, maxampy, of a current vector y, whether more than a current bit word length is needed to represent enloopy, in a lossless manner in the upcoming inner dimension loop. The variable enloopy is related to an accumulated energy of the vector y. The performing of this method enables the encoder to keep the complexity of the search at a reasonable level.
US09792916B2
A sample counter in each channel performs counting operation at a given rate. Independently for each channel, the rate and an initial value for the counter are set, and start and stop of the counting operation of the counter are controlled, so that a partial portion of an original waveform corresponding to a count range from the set initial value to a count stop point is reproduced in the channel. A control section sets the initial values in individual ones of a set of channels, selected from among the channels, such that sample values at different sample positions of the original waveform are simultaneously retrieved in individual ones of the set of channels, and controls an overlap adder to add up the retrieved sample values, so that sample values of an audio waveform signal with a plurality of partial portions of the original waveform, partially overlapping each other are output.
US09792905B2
An apparatus, a method, and a machine-readable medium are provided for characterizing differences between two language models. A group of utterances from each of a group of time domains are examined. One of a significant word change or a significant word class change within the plurality of utterances is determined. A first cluster of utterances including a word or a word class corresponding to the one of the significant word change or the significant word class change is generated from the utterances. A second cluster of utterances not including the word or the word class corresponding to the one of the significant word change or the significant word class change is generated from the utterances.
US09792902B2
A device including a speech recognition function which recognizes speech from a user, includes: a loudspeaker which outputs speech to a space; a microphone which collects speech in the space; a first speech recognition unit which recognizes the speech collected by the microphone; a command control unit which issues a command for controlling the device, based on the speech recognized by the first speech recognition unit; and a control unit which prohibits the command issuance unit from issuing the command, based on the speech to be output from the loudspeaker.
US09792897B1
Various implementations disclosed herein include an expert-assisted phoneme recognition neural network system configured to recognize phonemes within continuous large vocabulary speech sequences without using language specific models (“left-context”), look-ahead (“right-context”) information, or multi-pass sequence processing, and while operating within the resource constraints of low-power and real-time devices. To these ends, in various implementations, an expert-assisted phoneme recognition neural network system as described herein utilizes a-priori phonetic knowledge. Phonetics is concerned with the configuration of the human vocal tract while speaking and acoustic consequences on vocalizations. While similar sounding phonemes are difficult to detect and are frequently misidentified by previously known neural networks, phonetic knowledge gives insight into what aspects of sound acoustics contain the strongest contrast between similar sounding phonemes. Utilizing features that emphasize the respective second formants allows for more robust sound discrimination between these problematic phonemes.
US09792895B2
Disclosed are systems, methods and computer program products for using prior frame data for OCR processing of frames in video sources to detect natural language text therein. An example includes receiving a frame from a video source and retrieving prior frame data associated with the video source. The OCR-processing includes using prior frame data to detect blobs similar to blobs described in the prior frame data; using detected similar blobs to detect in the frame character candidates similar to character candidates described in the prior frame data; using detected similar character candidates to detect in the frame text candidates similar to text candidates described in the prior frame data; and using detected similar text candidates to detect in the frame text strings similar to text strings described in the prior frame data.
US09792893B1
An active noise reduction (ANR) earphone system includes a feedback microphone for detecting noise, feedback circuitry, responsive to the feedback microphone, for applying a digital filter Kfb to an output of the feedback microphone to produce an antinoise signal, an electroacoustic driver for transducing the antinoise signal into acoustic energy, a housing supporting the feedback microphone and the driver near the entrance to the ear canal, and an ear tip for coupling the housing to the external anatomical structures of a first ear of a user and positioning the housing to provide a consistent acoustic coupling of the feedback microphone and the driver to the ear canal of the first ear. The acoustic coupling includes a tube of air defined by the combination of the housing and ear tip, having a length L and effective cross-sectional area A such that the ratio L/A is less than 0.6 m−1.
US09792873B2
The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel. The liquid crystal display panel includes drive circuits, data lines for transmitting the data signals, scan lines, and pixel units. Each of the drive circuits includes a level shifter and an output buffer. Voltage signals which are inputted to a non-inverting input terminal and an inverting input terminal of the level shifter are determined according to a number of inverting amplifiers of the output buffer. The present invention further provides a liquid crystal display device. The present invention can effectively decrease the manufacture cost of the liquid crystal display panel.
US09792868B2
The present disclosure provides a shift register unit including a pull-up module, an input module, a reset module, a first pull-down module, a second pull-down module, a first control module, a second control module, a first state clearing module, and a second state clearing module. The shift register unit utilizes a first clock signal and a second clock signal to cause the first and second pull-down modules to pull down alternately, in order to maintain the stability of the output signal. Furthermore, each of the TFTs in the circuit structure has a duty cycle smaller than 50%, so that the lifetime of TFTs is greatly increased. The present disclosure further provides a gate driving device and a display device using the shift register unit.
US09792867B2
Provided is a display device capable of suppressing electrostatic breakdown due to dummy wiring even when the dummy wiring is arranged adjacent to signal wiring supplying a display region with a driving signal.Two first supply circuit boards supply the display pixels in each row with a scanning signal, and four second supply circuit boards supply the display pixels in each column with a data signal. Dummy wiring is arranged at the position on the board adjacent to the outermost scanning signal wiring of a plurality of scanning signal wirings connected to each first supply circuit board. The offset distance from the dummy wiring to the peripheral conductor excluding the scanning signal wiring is longer than the offset distance between the dummy wiring and the scanning signal wiring.
US09792865B2
To reduce the area of a portion where a plurality of transistors are provided in a region around a display region and to reduce the area of the region around the display region, a display device includes a first transistor and a second transistor each as a transistor, and the transistor includes a connection wiring that electrically connects a semiconductor film and a source-drain electrode to each other via an opening portion provided in an insulating film. The first transistor and the second transistor are adjacent to each other, and there is a clearance between an end portion, on the side of the second transistor, of the connection wiring in the first transistor and an end portion, on the side of the second transistor, of the opening portion in the first transistor.
US09792861B2
An electro-phoretic display and a method for driving the same are provided, where the electro-phoretic display has a plurality of pixel units. The method includes: setting a plurality of particle tightening time periods and a plurality of gray level displaying time periods for the pixel units respectively, where each of the gray level displaying time periods is arranged after each corresponding particle tightening time period; providing a plurality of particle tightening voltages to the pixel units for tightening the particles of the pixel units respectively during the particle tightening time periods, and providing a plurality of display driving voltages to the pixel units during the gray level displaying time periods. The particle tightening time periods and/or the gray level displaying time periods are determined by a plurality of display gray level data corresponding to the pixel units.
US09792858B2
A scanning line drive circuit includes a shift register having stages, hold circuits, and scanning signal output circuits. The hold circuit holds a shift register output in accordance with a sampling signal which is in an active level in one line period in a video signal period. The scanning signal output circuit outputs a scanning signal to be applied to scanning lines based on the shift register output, a hold output, a period specifying signal indicating whether it is in the video signal period or in a vertical flyback period, and timing signals. The scanning signal output circuit outputs a scanning signal for measurement and writing when the hold output is in a selection level in the vertical flyback period. It is possible to select a scanning line corresponding to the pixel circuits in one row and measure currents or voltages in the vertical flyback period, using a simple circuit.
US09792851B2
A gate drive circuit is disclosed. The gate drive circuit includes shift register units connected with gate lines. The gate drive circuit also includes clock signal lines to provide clock signals. A trigger signal terminal of the first shift register unit is connected with a first initial trigger signal line, and a trigger signal terminal of the p-th shift register unit is connected with an output terminal of the (p−1)-th shift register unit. An end signal terminal of the r-th shift register unit is connected with an output terminal of the (r+2M-1)-th shift register unit, low level signal terminals are connected with a first low level signal line, and reset signal terminals are connected with a reset signal line. In addition, forward scan signal terminals are connected with a first scan signal line, and backward scan signal terminals are connected with a second scan signal line.
US09792848B2
The present invention provides a digital driving method of an OLED display device, and the input front end data analysis module analyzes the data signals of at least two adjacent frames of image, and the OLED display device divides the data signals of each frame of image in the at least two adjacent frames of image into a plurality of subframes according to an order of display times, and adjusts an order of various color components outputted by the plurality of subframes corresponded with the data signals of each frame of image according to an analysis result of the data signals of at least two adjacent frames of image to prevent the new integral effect generates between the two adjacent frames of image because the data signals are different, and thus to eliminate the flicker and raising the image display quality.
US09792845B2
A scan driving circuit is provided for driving scan lines which are connected in series, including a pull-down controlling module, a pull-down module, a reset-controlling module, a resetting module, a downward-transmitting module, a first bootstrap capacitor, a constant low voltage level source, and a constant high voltage level source. The entire structure of the scan driving circuit is simple, and energy consumption is reduced.
US09792844B2
A display device capable of high-quality stereoscopic display without decreasing resolution is provided. A pixel portion including a plurality of pixels arranged in matrix is divided into plural regions, lighting of backlight units each emitting light of different hues is controlled in each region, and the backlight units of the plural regions are turned off simultaneously at a regular interval so as to display black. The right-eye image and the left-eye image are alternately displayed with black display interposed therebetween, and light incident on the right eye of a viewer is blocked when a left-eye image is displayed, and light incident on the left eye of the viewer is blocked when a right-eye image is displayed. An image signal is written into a pixel in a black display period during which the backlight units are turned off.
US09792839B2
A length of fastener stock (111) includes opposing first and second continuous side members—(113-1) and (113-2) which are coupled together by a plurality of flexible cross-links (117). Individual fasteners (121) are selectively obtained from the stock (111) by cutting or separating the side members (113-1) and (113-2) at appropriate points (i.e., midway) between the cross-links or filaments (115). Accordingly, each fastener (121) will include a first cross-bar (123-1), which has been cut from side member (113-1), and a second cross-bar (123-2), which has been cut from side member (113-2), the cross-bars (123-1) and (123-2) being interconnected by the flexible filament (115). Suitably, with respect to an axial cross-section thereof, the width W of the flexible filament (115) is greater than or equal to approximately one and a half-times the height H of the filament (115).
US09792832B2
An image display device displays operation items of an electron microscope on an operation screen, and a storage device stores information of assist buttons which display image state information acquired via a detector of the electron microscope. The information of the assist buttons corresponds to image quality of an acquired image via the detector as well as to observation conditions composed of a combination of parameter setting values of the electron microscope, an operation program which analyzes the image quality of the acquired image. The information of the assist buttons is acquired based on analytical results of the image quality as well as current observation conditions, and the assist buttons are displayed on a predetermined part of the operation screen. Accordingly, the skills of a novice user operating a charged particle beam apparatus can be improved.
US09792816B2
A server system 150 for providing data to at least one mobile device 200, the server system comprising a processing resource 174. In a first embodiment, the processing resource 174 is configured to generate contour data representing a boundary of a respective area for which a weather-related parameter has substantially the same value, the contour data being sent to a mobile device 200. In a second embodiment, the processing resource 174 is configured to determine a plurality of parameter values of a model representative of weather-related data, and to filter the parameter values such that only some of the values of sent to a mobile device 200.
US09792815B2
A driving assistance apparatus determines whether or not a road section corresponding to a current location of an own vehicle corresponds to a no-passing zone. A leading vehicle present ahead of the own vehicle is detected. An operation state of the detected leading vehicle is recognized. A passing maneuver performed by the own vehicle to pass the detected leading vehicle is detected. A warning operation to output a warning to a driver of the own vehicle is performed, when the passing maneuver is detected under a condition that the road section corresponding to the current location is determined to correspond to the no-passing zone. The warning operation is prohibited when the recognized operation state of the leading vehicle meets a predetermined passing-allowed condition that is a condition under which passing is allowed.
US09792801B2
A method for alertness control of a vehicle operator includes obtaining, by an apparatus, physiological status data of a person acquired using at least one sensor including at least a biosignal sensor; determining, based on at least the physiological status data, at least one alertness value being indicative of alertness level of the person; determining, by comparing the at least one alertness value to at least one alertness reference value, whether the alertness level of the person is below a threshold alertness level for operating the vehicle; and as a response to the determining that the alertness level is below the threshold alertness level, causing an output of a control signal.
US09792798B2
In an example embodiment, biometric data and environmental data are obtained from sensors. Corporate information system (CIS) information is retrieved for a worker, with the CIS information including a schedule of tasks assigned to the worker. A task currently being performed by the worker is determined based on the schedule of tasks. Weights are assigned to the biometric data and the environmental data. The weights vary between data from different sensors, with the weights assigned based on the task currently being performed by the worker. A current safety score is assigned for the worker based on the calculation of a formula, with the formula using the assigned weights as coefficients to variables, with the variables being values obtained from the biometric data and the environmental data. The current safety score is compared to a safety threshold, and if the threshold is violated, an alert is generated to the worker.
US09792792B2
A security tag for mounting on a handle of a container such as a paint can or plastic pail includes a tag housing having a tubular configuration and a lumen extending through the housing. The housing further includes a flange extending radially outwardly from the tubular housing. The flange is adapted to receive a security device, such as an electronic article surveillance tag or an RFID tag. The security tag includes a cover mounted to the flange to encapsulate the security device. The security tag may be placed onto, e.g., a wire loop handle prior to mounting the handle to the container.
US09792787B2
An apparatus including an elongated apparatus structure configured to fit around a body part of a user and an actuator configured to change shape of the elongated apparatus structure. The actuator is configured to change tightness of the elongated apparatus structure around the body part of the user based on an action the apparatus is performing.
US09792775B2
A method of manufacturing a reel for a slot machine according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: forming an opening in a reel strip on which a plurality of first symbols are printed; forming a second symbol on an optical sheet by vacuum forming the optical sheet to form a symbol piece, the second symbol including a protrusion and a depression; attaching the symbol piece to the reel strip such that the second symbol is exposed through the opening of the reel strip; and attaching the reel strip to a reel frame for the slot machine.
US09792763B2
An inverted mechanic interleaved wagering system includes an interactive controller configured to: communicate prize selection data; display a paytable; receive wager outcome display instructions; display a wager outcome; a wager controller configured to: generate the paytable; receive wager request instructions; determine a wager outcome; and an application controller connecting the interactive controller and the wager controller and constructed to: scan received prize selection data to determine the one or more prizes; instruct the wager controller by communicating generated paytable generation instructions; scan received paytable data to determine the paytable; instruct the interactive controller by communicating generated paytable display instructions; scan received wagering event initiation data to determine a wagering event initiation; instruct the wager controller by communicating generated wager request instructions; scan received wager outcome data to determine the wager outcome; and instruct the interactive controller by communicating generated wager outcome display instructions; communicate application resources to the interactive controller.
US09792761B2
Techniques for processing and presenting wagering data are presented herein. In one embodiment, a method comprises configuring a wagering game terminal for contemporaneously presenting content for a plurality of wagering games. Configuring the terminal can include dividing a player interface into a plurality of areas, wherein each of the areas is associated with one of the plurality of wagering games. The configuring can also include resizing the content to fit in the areas. The method can also include receiving, from a remote wagering game server, results for one or more of the wagering games, and selecting portions of the content, wherein the portions of the content graphically represent the results. The method can also include displaying the portions of the content.
US09792753B2
A distributed system for tracking bank notes as they pass through an automated currency processing system is disclosed. The bank note processing system includes a conveyance device for transporting a bank note along a transport path and a detector module comprising a detector. The detector detects raw detector information from the bank note. The detector controller is communicatively coupled to the detector module and the raw detector information is communicated to the detector controller. A host controller is communicatively coupled to the detector controller. The detector controller processes the raw detector information to determine processed detector information. The detector controller then communicates the processed detector information to the host controller.
US09792751B2
A bill discrimination apparatus and method using a radio frequency (RF) signal that includes a transmission antenna radiating the radio frequency (RF) signal; a reception antenna receiving the RF signal from the transmission antenna; and a control unit providing the RF signal to the transmission antenna, and detecting a thickness of a bill, a state of the bill, or a presence of a foreign object on the bill based on a voltage of the RF signal transmitted through the bill and received by the reception antenna when the bill is between the transmission antenna and the reception antenna. The RF signal has a preset, specific frequency.
US09792744B2
An electronic lock system including an access control device configured to provide system instructions, an interface module electrically coupled to the access control device and configured to transmit RF signals in response to system instructions received from the access control device, and a plurality of wireless electronic door locks each configured to wirelessly communicate with the interface module. Each of the wireless electronic door locks includes a controller and a wireless receiver operatively connected to the controller, the wireless receiver including a first antenna defined as a circuit board trace and a second antenna, spaced from the first antenna and defined as a circuit board trace. Each of the first antenna and the second antenna include one of a monopole antenna and a fractal antenna. The controller is configured to switch between the first antenna and the second antenna to receive a wireless signal having a greater signal strength.
US09792743B2
A communications system configured to execute data transmission between a transponder having no radio wave generating source thereof and a reader/writer is provided. The communications system includes, a service permission level notifier configured to tell a service permission level for associated with a received signal level for permitting service acceptance from the reader/writer to the transponder, and an access controller configured to determine in the transponder whether the received signal level from the reader/writer is at the notified service permission level to determine accessibility to the transponder from the reader/writer.
US09792742B2
Described are systems and techniques for leveraging a virtual distributed trustless database using access-enabling codes. The computations use private codes. Each computation includes the information from all previous computations so that a chain of computations is maintained and controlled. A central system insures that dual computations do not occur.
US09792741B2
A method of estimation on a curve of a relevant point for detecting an anomaly of a motor. The method includes selecting a profile including a binary code, each component of which codes a direction of variation between two consecutive characteristic points of at least one learning curve, a model making it possible to estimate a relevant point based on a set of characteristic points of a curve and a filter. The method also includes applying the filter of the profile selected to the curve, determining a set of characteristic points of the filtered curve and of a binary code, comparing the determined code and the code of the profile selected, and estimating, as a function of the comparison, the relevant point on the curve based on the characteristic points of the filtered curve and the model of the profile selected.
US09792739B2
An operation monitoring system for a machine is provided. The operation monitoring system includes a frame and a dump body. The operation monitoring system further includes an inertial measurement unit to measure acceleration and rotation of the dump body. The operation monitoring system further includes a position determination unit to determine position of the machine. The operation monitoring system further includes a time logging unit to record a time entry. The operation monitoring system further includes a processing unit in communication with the inertial measurement unit, the position determination unit and the time logging unit. The processing unit is configured to determine operation states of the machine based on the received signals.
US09792738B1
A computerized, on-road, vehicle service handling method involves, while a user is driving a vehicle between first and second locations, receiving a fault condition signal from an on-board diagnostic system; automatically transmitting information to multiple vehicle service locations ahead of the vehicle, including vehicle and fault information and an individual estimated time of arrival (ETA) based upon current location and speed; receiving individual service responses including at least a parts and labor cost estimate, and at least one appointment time after the ETA; receiving a selection by the user of at least two of the provided vehicle service locations and an order of preference thereof; sending payment information to the first vehicle service location; receiving a communication either accepting or rejecting, and, if accepted, automatically directing the user to the first vehicle service location, but if rejected, sending the payment information to a next preferred vehicle service location.
US09792730B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-program, which when executed by a system, causes the system to: obtain first image data from an image capture device; detect certain image data corresponding to a reference object from the first image data; control a display to display object data on the first image data when the certain image is detected, the object data being associated with the certain image data and stored in a memory; obtain second image data from the image capture device; control the display to continue displaying the object data on the first image when a certain operation to the image capture device is detected; and control the display to display the second image data when the certain operation is not detected.
US09792720B2
A synthetic acceleration shape bound primitives composing a 3-D scene, and is defined using a group of fundamental shapes arranged to bound the primitives, and for which intersection results for group members yield an ultimate intersection testing result for the synthetic shape, using a logical operator. For example, two or more spheres are used to bound an object so that each of the spheres is larger than a minimum necessary to bound the object, and a volume defined by an intersection between the shapes defines a smaller volume in which the object is bounded. A ray is found to potentially intersect the object only if it intersects both spheres. In another example, an element may be defined by a volumetric union of component elements. Indicators can determine how groups of shapes should be interpreted. Synthetic shapes can be treated as a single element in a graph or hierarchical arrangement of acceleration elements.
US09792711B2
A method that receives a visual media item and determines an identity of at least one intended viewer of the visual media item is disclosed. The method may further identify a visual representation of an object that is comprised by the visual media item and determine a relevance of the object based, at least in part, on the identity. The method may further generate a modified visual media item such that the modified visual media item differs from the visual media item, at least, by visual emphasis of the visual representation of the object.
US09792705B1
An atlas application enables an electronic display device to receive touch input from a user on a screen of the display device to access an atlas database to obtain graphic map information representative of a portion of the surface of the earth and to display the obtained graphic map information on the screen of the display as a graphic map showing a plurality of points of interest on the portion of the surface of the earth. The user is able to manipulate the graphic map by touch to locate and select a particular point of interest for detailed examination. The atlas data may contain at least one of descriptive textual information and graphic map information representative of particular points of interest selected by the user. A position of the device may be selected or determined to assist in presenting various points of interest for perusal.
US09792704B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus including a control section which performs control of presenting, in association with each other, actual energy consumption representing an amount of energy consumed by a device in a case where a user performs any one of user actions, the user actions each being capable of being carried out by the user, and estimated energy consumption representing an amount of energy consumed by the device in a case where the user does not perform the user action.
US09792703B2
A method for generating a synthetic two-dimensional mammogram with enhanced contrast for structures of interest includes acquiring a three-dimensional digital breast tomosynthesis volume having a plurality of voxels. A three-dimensional relevance map that encodes for the voxels the relevance of the underlying structure for a diagnosis is generated. A synthetic two-dimensional mammogram is calculated based on the three-dimensional digital breast tomosynthesis volume and the three-dimensional relevance map.
US09792698B2
A method including automatically segmenting regions of images of a focal stack into segment regions; and based, at least partially, upon selection of one or more of the segment regions, generating a refocused image which induces different ones of the segment regions from at least two of the images of the focal stack. An apparatus including an image segmentator for a focal stack of images, where the image segmentator is configured to automatically form segment regions for each of the images; and a focal stack fuser configured to fuse the focal stack of images into a refocused image, where the refocused image comprises different ones of the segment regions from at least two of the images of the focal stack.
US09792688B2
To obtain a position detection device capable of detecting highly accurate and robust position by suppressing affect of error detection of an edge, provided is a configuration for performing a validity determination of edges detected by binarizing an image signal (21) converted by a light-receiving element (3) for receiving light irradiated from a light source (1) toward a scale (2) having a code pattern, and performing position detection after removing the edges determined to be invalid as edges that have been affected by foreign matter and the like among the edges on which the validity determination has been performed.
US09792678B2
Assembly and quality of an electronic vaping device (“e-vaping device”) may be tested and verified using imaging techniques. Infrared (“IR”) imaging may identify whether a temperature is uniform in an vaping device during usage. Potential burning locations may be identified through the imaging by identifying locations whose temperature is unusually high or non-uniform. This temperature information may be used to calibrate the power of the e-vaping device.
US09792677B2
There are provided an imaging section imaging a subject and generating a plurality of images; an evaluating section performing evaluation on the plurality of images generated by the imaging section; a selecting section selecting, based on an evaluation result of the evaluating section, a part of images from among the plurality of images generated by the imaging section; a recognizing section performing scene recognition on a plurality of images selected by the selecting section; and a determining section determining, based on a recognition result of the recognizing section, reproduction order of the plurality of images subjected to the scene recognition.
US09792675B1
A method for recognizing an occurrence of an object in an image is provided where the appearance of the object may vary from one occurrence to another. The method includes defining a model set for object recognition, the model set including at least one model, acquiring a target image, processing the target image according to a set of morphological operations to obtain a set of morphologically-processed target images, performing object recognition on the set of morphologically-processed target images for the defined model set, and selecting at least one candidate occurrence of a model of the defined model set in the target image based on the object recognition performed on the set of morphologically-processed target images.
US09792671B2
A mechanism is described for facilitating code filters for coded light depth acquisition in depth images at computing devices according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes detecting a code image of an object comprising pixels of code values and pixels of metadata values including confidence and code transition locations, and computing a vertical filter to be applied to the code image to smooth out the code transitions along vertical directions. The method further include computing a horizontal filter to be applied to the code image to smooth out the code transitions along horizontal directions, and computing a consistency filter to be applied to the code image to increase an accuracy of the code values and mark inconsistent pixels as invalid. The method may further include applying at least one of one or more of the vertical filter, the horizontal filter, and the consistency filter to filter the digital image, and outputting the filtered code image comprising filtered code values and filtered metadata values.
US09792670B2
The present disclosure provides a picture display method and apparatus that relate to the field of image processing and are increase flexibility of picture display and reducing a memory occupation rate of a terminal on the premise of not modifying an attribute of an original picture. The method and apparatus include receiving an instruction for displaying a picture; obtaining, according to an identifier of a to-be-displayed picture included in the instruction, an original bitmap of the to-be-displayed picture and searching, a database of a current device for a pre-stored first rotation angle corresponding to the to-be-displayed picture; adjusting, according to a resolution of a current screen and/or a current window size, a display size of the original bitmap of the to-be-displayed picture, so as to obtain a compressed bitmap of the original bitmap; and displaying, according to the first rotation angle, a compressed bitmap of the original bitmap.
US09792659B2
A computer-aided learning method and apparatus for a learning user to learn materials inexpensively. Not only does the apparatus provide the user the freedom as to where and when to learn, and the guidance as to what to learn, the apparatus also reduces a significant hurdle to learning—money. The apparatus retrieves a user identifier entered by the user, and determines whether the user is a learning user or an institute user. If the user is a learning user, the apparatus allows the user to access information regarding learning materials. If the user is an institute user, the apparatus permits the user to access information regarding at least one learning user. The institute user might be interested to use the apparatus to recruit employees to fill job openings. A learning user pays significantly less than an institute user to access information, so as to encourage the learning user to work on learning materials. The apparatus can also track and update information regarding the users.
US09792651B2
A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for delaying execution of financial transactions. A first message including data for a first financial transaction is received, the first message being uncorrupted. A first trading symbol that is a target of the first financial transaction is determined. The first trading symbol is determined to be a target of at least one financial transaction that was included in at least one previous message that was determined to be corrupted. Execution of the first financial transaction is delayed.
US09792646B2
A method and a system to provide real-time bidding in online auction. For example, a system may comprise a notification module to generate and transmit a notification to a client machine. The notification may be generated based on a defined end time of a selected auction. A subscription module may establish electronic communication with the client machine responsive to a subscription message received from the client machine in response to the notification. In some instances, the electronic communication is established using a push technology. An event filter may filter an event from a plurality of events related to the selected auction where the filtered event is a highest received bid in the selected auction. The filtered event may then be pushed to the client machine by the subscription module.
US09792645B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product to facilitate video interactions between a publisher, and a set of end users, the publisher having content available from a network-accessible site. Each end user has a device that includes a media player. In one embodiment, the method begins by receiving (e.g., via a web-based interface) information to configure a video module to execute in association with the end user media players. A particular instance of the video module is adapted to execute as an end user media player renders a video to provide interactivity to the video. Preferably, the interactivity specifies at least one of a set of interactivity actions available to an end user. The video module is then published. After deployment the video module, the platform receives data about (i) execution of the video module in the end user media players, and (ii) the interactivity actions.
US09792635B2
An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit, an image capturing unit, and a processing unit. The storage unit stores a plurality of feature values to be used for object recognition and an update program for the feature values, with respect to each of products registered for sale. The image capturing unit is configured to acquire an image of a product registered for sale. The processing unit is configured to extract a feature value of the product from the acquired image, select one of the plurality of the feature values corresponding to the product as a replacement target, by executing the update program corresponding to the product, and replace the selected feature value with the extracted feature value.
US09792630B2
Methods and systems are described for providing programmatic bidding of advertisement inventory. In one embodiment, an advertising system includes an ad bidding component or module of an ad server and a storage medium coupled to the ad server. The storage medium stores instructions including instructions of the ad bidding component or module. Processing logic is configured to execute the instructions to receive a bid campaign function call for an ad campaign from an advertising entity, determine objectives for the advertising entity including life time value (LTV) for users and return on investment (ROI) for the ad campaign, determine targeted users having characteristics appropriate for satisfying the objectives of the advertising entity, and autonomously determine a dynamic ad bid price parameter and associated group of targeted users that satisfy the objectives of the advertising entity based on having characteristics that satisfy at least three different parameters.
US09792629B2
An example system can include a server that includes or is associated with a keyword recommendation module. The keyword recommendation module can be configured to select keywords for a search engine for use in a search engine marketing campaign, wherein the search engine provides more traffic to Internet content of a publisher than other search engines, for the keywords. The module can also be configured to determine, per keyword, user engagement with the Internet content resulting from the traffic provided by the search engine for the keywords, according to one or more of time spent viewing the Internet content, page views of the Internet content, and dwell times. The module can also be configured to score, per keyword, the keywords according to the determined user engagement with the Internet content, and generate keyword recommendations according to the scoring of the keywords.
US09792624B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for communicating product or service information to a potential purchaser. A product or item describing a service are scanned to obtain both a product or service code and an advertisement promotion code provided by a vendor/retailer or manufacturer of the product or service using a smartphone of a first user. A barcode is generated on the smartphone by combining the product or service code and the advertisement promotion code with information from the smartphone associated with the product or service and with an advertiser code that uniquely identifies the first user. The barcode is communicated to a communication device of a second user that is the potential purchaser of the product or service. When the communication device is presented to a point of sale (POS) terminal, the terminal scans the barcode, decodes the barcode, and compensates the first user according to the advertisement promotion code.
US09792616B2
A method is provided for generating an electronic coupon comprising generating coupon identification data; generating coupon metadata; and generating the electronic coupon based on the coupon identification data and based on the coupon metadata. Further, a coupon holding device is provided including a coupon receiving unit configured to receive a first electronic coupon; a coupon metadata generation unit configured to generate coupon metadata for the first electronic coupon; and a coupon generation unit configured to generate a second electronic coupon based on the first electronic coupon and the coupon metadata.
US09792614B2
Automated integration of partner products in connection with a web analytics application is facilitated. A list of available partner products is displayed, and the user is provided with an opportunity to select one or more of the displayed partner products. A wizard is presented, allowing the user to configure the partner product by specifying and mapping metrics, dimensions, and the like. Partner product integration then takes place automatically, thereby simplifying the process by which such integrations can be implemented.
US09792610B2
A communication channel is provided between a transaction acquirer and a payment network, for the purpose of transmitting payment card account transaction authorization requests. Via the communication channel the payment network may receive a message containing additional information. The additional information may originate at the point of sale and may be in addition to a PAN (primary account number) or the like. The payment network may send a message including the additional information to an entity that is neither a payment account issuer nor the transaction acquirer.
US09792608B2
A system for pre-authenticating a magnetic stripped card or smart card holder for a non-checking account transaction at the point-of-sale that includes a database that contains sensitive data, corresponding to digital photographic images of said account holders that employs a pre-authentication process whereby all account holders undergo a meticulous comparison with their submitted data against a plethora of objective public, private and internal databases culminating in a video displayed image at some point in the future enabling a merchant to make a visual comparison of the account holder either on site or during a mail order or telephone order transaction corresponding to the pre-authenticated image to prevent identity theft.
US09792606B2
A method for performing a secure transaction between a secure device (2) and a terminal (4), the method being carried out by the secure device (2) and comprising the steps of: receiving transaction data from the terminal (4), characterized in that it comprises, before the step of receiving transaction data from the terminal (4), the steps of obtaining transaction data entered by a user of the secure device (2), and transmitting the transaction data to the terminal (4).
US09792600B1
Technology is disclosed for a convenient money transfer without requiring any account login and/or creation activities. The disclosed technology enables a sender to transfer a specified amount of currency to one or more recipients through a payment application. In response to a request from the sender, the technology provides a user interface to collect a numerical value corresponding to the specified amount of currency, accesses a list of contacts in a database of the sender's mobile device, and then provides the list of contacts to the sender. The technology enables the sender to manually select recipients from the provided list of contacts and can accordingly initiate a payment process based on statuses of selected recipients.
US09792597B1
A product catalog service allows business entities to create and store product catalogs indicating products that are available from the business entities. A product catalog includes multiple product family definitions. Each product family definition specifies attribute names of a product family and, for each attribute name, a set of allowed attribute values. In order to specify a particular product variant, an entity may supply one of the allowed attribute values for each specified attribute name of the product. The product catalogs may be received from multiple business entities. Each product catalog may also be shared with multiple business entities. A merchant, for example, may select products from a product catalog to purchase from another merchant. When creating a product catalog, a business entity may reference product family definitions of other product catalogs.
US09792593B2
A method of processing an online transaction request involves a network gateway generating a revised transaction request from an incoming transaction request that is received from a client terminal. The revised transaction request includes a revised transaction message that is derived from the incoming transaction request and a revised transaction request cryptogram that is generated from the revised transaction message. The revised transaction request cryptogram is uniquely associated with an identity token that is interfaced with the client terminal. The network gateway receives a transaction authorization from an issuer server for the revised transaction request, and provides a revised transaction authorization message to the client terminal in accordance with the received transaction authorization. The revised transaction authorization message provides an indication of authorization of the revised transaction request.
US09792584B2
A method for preparing a presentation connects a plurality of geographically dispersed contributors to a controller through a network to collaborate to prepare the presentation, allows the contributors to propose contributions to the presentation residing on storage devices under the control of the contributors, makes the proposed contributions available for viewing and comment by all contributors, allows the controller to select one or more of the proposed contributions, and provides the controller access through the network to the storage devices to retrieve the selected contributions for inclusion into the presentation.
US09792573B2
A method is provided that includes receiving process-related information describing a logical sequence of tasks to produce respective internal products of a process for production of a product. At least some of the tasks have a precedence relationship whereby the internal product produced by one task is an input utilized or required by another task. The method includes for at least some of the tasks, separating each of the at least some of the tasks into a closure portion that requires availability of the last input of its task before being initiated, and a distinct precursor portion capable of being initiated before the respective last input is available; and constructing a schedule for execution of the at least some of the tasks. Construction of the schedule includes temporally sequencing the closure portions of the respective tasks without intervening precursor portions, and prepending the precursor portions to respective, temporally-sequenced closure portions.
