US10064320B2
A component mounter which picks components which are stored in tape and supplied from a component supply device by a component picking device and mounts components on a board which is conveyed by a board conveyance device including a waste box which stores the cut tape after the components are picked, a scraping out device which can scrape the tape out of the waste box, and a control device which controls scraping out the stored tape by the scraping out device when the tape is stored in the waste box to a predetermined amount.
US10064319B2
Machine for transferring electronic components onto electronic cards with sensors along the conveyor
Disclosed is a machine for transferring electronic components onto electronic cards (4), including: a conveyor (1) on which the electronic cards (4) file past in succession, and sensors (3) disposed along the conveyor in such a way as to determine the position of the electronic cards (4) filing along the conveyor (1). The density of the sensors (3) along the conveyor (1) is sufficiently high such that an electronic card (4) does not leave the field of a sensor (3) before it has entered the field of another sensor (3), over at least a part of the length of the conveyor (1).
US10064312B1
A data center includes a computer room with one or more regions, where each region includes air handling components which can be independently controlled, relative to components in other regions. A purge control system in each region can bypass a control system which adjusts the components based on environmental sensor data to command the components to purge the region. Upon the components in a region entering a purge mode, a purge notification signal can be sent to a master control system, which can instruct other control systems in other non-purging regions to limit controller output ranges to last-known values prior to the purge, so that the components in other regions are operated at last-known states while one or more regions are purging. When regions have ceased purging, the regional control systems can re-establish the control loop output ranges. Such re-establishment can include incrementally expanding the output range over time.
US10064311B2
A first thermal management approach involves an air flow through cooling mechanism with multiple airflow channels for dissipating heat generated in a PCA. The air flow direction through at least one of the channels is different from the air flow direction through at least another of the channels. Alternatively or additionally, the airflow inlet of at least one channel is off-axis with respect to the airflow outlet. A second thermal management approach involves the fabrication of a PCB with enhanced durability by mitigating via cracking or PTH fatigue. At least one PCB layer is composed of a base material formed from a 3D woven fiberglass fabric, and conductive material deposited onto the base material surface. A conductive PTH extends through the base material of multiple PCB layers, where the CTE of the base material along the z-axis direction substantially matches the CTE of the conductive material along the x-axis direction.
US10064304B2
A separated back plane design within a server rack is provided which allows for the hot-swapping of a control module board. The separated back plane design consists of a base plane board and a control module board which connects to the base plane board. The base plane board can draw power from a power supply and can connect a number of electrical components which are not significantly susceptible to damage or failure. The control module board can consist of a number of other electrical components, which are susceptible to damage or failure. The control module board connects to the base plane board, and can be removed during failure of the control module board. When the control module board is removed from the base plane board, the base plane board and its functions continue to operate, and power need not be shut off in order to replace the control module board.
US10064301B2
The present disclosure relates to an assembly comprising a housing and at least one busbar for connecting a printed circuit board disposed in the housing to a power supply present outside the housing, wherein the housing has a penetration, from which the busbar projects, wherein a magnetic core and a gasket accommodating the magnetic core are placed in the housing penetration in a media-tight manner, and the gasket, together with the magnetic core, encompasses the busbar in a form-fitting manner.
US10064300B2
Disclosed is an electrical junction box including a case, and a block housed in the case. The case includes a frame, and a lower cover attached to a lower end side of the frame a joint part part of an outer wall of the frame and an outer wall of the cover an upper end of the outer wall of the lower cover is positioned more inwardly than a lower end of the outer wall of the frame and nearly the same height as a component insertion plane. At an edge portion of the block is disposed a waterproof barrier located between the component housing of the block and the joint part part and extending below the component insertion plane of a lower end of the component housing.
US10064291B2
A circuit board and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The circuit board includes an insulating part, a thermally conductive structure comprising a first structure and a second structure, and an insulator configured to insulate the first structure from the second structure, wherein the first structure and the second structure are composed of thermally conductive material, and at least a part of the thermally conductive structure is inserted to the insulating part.
US10064287B2
In an embodiment, a method includes arranging a first carrier on a first major surface of a circuit board such that an electronic component arranged on the first carrier is positioned in an aperture in the circuit board and spaced apart from side walls of the aperture, and arranging a second carrier on a second major surface of the circuit board such that the second carrier covers the electronic component and the aperture, the second major surface of the circuit board opposing the first major surface of the circuit board. The electronic component includes a power semiconductor device embedded in a dielectric core layer and at least one contact pad arranged on a first major surface of the dielectric core layer.
US10064274B2
A conductive adhesive film includes a first adhesive member including a first insulating adhesive layer having a first viscosity, a plurality of first conductive balls being in the first insulating adhesive layer, and a second adhesive member including a second insulating adhesive layer having a second viscosity greater than the first viscosity, a plurality of second conductive balls being in the second insulating adhesive layer.
US10064271B2
The present disclosure discloses a PCB processing method and a PCB. The method includes: respectively carrying out laminating processing on a plurality of PCB daughter boards constituting a PCB, and drilling and electroplating the top-most PCB daughter board to form a via hole; and laminating the plurality of PCB daughter boards together to form the PCB, and drilling and electroplating the formed PCB to form a through hole for mounting a connector, wherein a blind hole for mounting a connector is formed by the via hole, and a depth of the blind hole is greater than or equal to the length of a signal pin of the connector. By virtue of the technical scheme of the present disclosure, a space between wafers of the lower layer of PCBs may be doubled, and the space for layout between wafers may be doubled.
US10064270B2
Provided herein are flexible interconnects, systems containing one or more flexible interconnects, and textiles including one or more flexible interconnects.
US10064269B2
Disclosed herein are stretchable, foldable and optionally printable, processes for making devices and devices such as semiconductors, electronic circuits and components thereof that are capable of providing good performance when stretched, compressed, flexed or otherwise deformed. Strain isolation layers provide good strain isolation to functional device layers. Multilayer devices are constructed to position a neutral mechanical surface coincident or proximate to a functional layer having a material that is susceptible to strain-induced failure. Neutral mechanical surfaces are positioned by one or more layers having a property that is spatially inhomogeneous, such as by patterning any of the layers of the multilayer device.
US10064268B2
Provided are a display device and a method of manufacturing the same. The display device includes a display panel having one surface and the other surface, a main drive board formed on the other surface of the display panel, a flexible circuit board having one end electrically connected to the one surface of the display panel and the other end electrically connected to the main drive board and having a bent portion formed at a lateral surface of the display panel, and a board support portion formed on an inner surface of the flexible circuit board.
US10064259B2
A vehicle badge is provided herein. The badge includes one or more light sources configured to illuminate in a pseudorandom sequence. Each respective light source illuminates in a first illumination sequence defined by a first set of parameters and a subsequent second illumination sequence defined by a second set of parameters. A controller is operably coupled with the light sources and has a counter therein. The counter determines the subsequent illumination sequence while the first illumination sequence occurs.
US10064256B2
A lighting system for a vehicle is disclosed. The system comprises a controller in communication with at least one light source and an occupancy sensor. The controller is configured to control an activation emission output from the light source configured to charge a persistent luminescent portion. The controller is further configured to detect an occupancy of the vehicle and charge the luminescent portion by periodically outputting the activation emission. The controller determines the periodicity of the output based on the occupancy.
US10064243B2
A heating pad with a thermostatic control circuit coupled to a resistance heating element. The resistance heating element and an acrylic based polymer adhesive are glued between polyester film layers. The film layers and heating element are contained with a plastic sleeve. The thickness and properties of the polyester film and adhesive forms a fuse. The adhesive delaminates the polyester film at excessive temperatures causing the resistance heating element to sever thereby creating an open circuit that halts operation of the heating pad. The thermostatic control circuit includes a hysteresis circuit that compares analog signals across two thin film resistors to provide a control signal to a power controller to selectively vary the power output to the heating element. The thermostatic control circuit is an integrated circuit board disposed within the fused plastic sleeve.
US10064241B2
The described implementations provide devices, systems, and methods that offload the usage of a cellular network using dynamic selection of broadband network connections such as wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) access points. A Wi-Fi transceiver on a mobile device may be activated when certain conditions (e.g., trigger events) are met. These conditions may include when, for instance, a cellular signal is dropped to 2G, weak or no cellular coverage is detected, a data use limit has been reached, an associated device is in domestic or international roaming or a particular location, and/or an associated device is in a saved private network area.
US10064228B2
In one embodiment of the present invention, a portable computing device for wireless communications comprises a first network interface for communicating with a public wireless wide area network (WWAN), a second network interface for communicating with a private wireless local area network (WLAN), and a processor executing under control of software instructions, the software instructions defining a gateway protocol, the gateway protocol establishing the portable computing device as an access point within the private WLAN after the wireless presence on the public WWAN is established.
US10064226B2
A mobile radio communication device is described configured to operate in a first communication state and in a second communication state. The mobile radio communication device includes: a transmitter configured to transmit data to a mobile radio communication network when the mobile radio communication device is in a first communication state in which the mobile radio communication device is in a connection with a cell of the mobile radio communication network; a memory configured to store information based on the transmitted data; a cell determination circuit configured to determine a cell of a mobile radio communication network as a connection candidate based on the stored information; and a connection request circuit configured to request connection with the determined cell when the mobile radio communication device is in a second communication state in which the mobile radio communication device seeks a connection with a cell of a mobile radio communication network.
US10064216B2
To enable a mobile terminal apparatus to correctly demodulate a data signal in the case of applying Coordinated Multi-Point transmission (CoMP), particularly, JP-CoMP, a radio communication method of the invention is characterized in that a radio base station apparatus generates information for demodulation of a data signal in a mobile terminal apparatus in applying Coordinated Multi-Point transmission, and transmits the information for demodulation to a mobile terminal apparatus that performs Coordinated Multi-Point reception, and that the mobile terminal apparatus receives the information for demodulation of a data signal, and demodulates the data signal subjected to Coordinated Multi-Point reception using the information for demodulation.
US10064208B2
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for managing coexistence of a satellite positioning system (SPS) receiver with one or more transceivers are presented. In some embodiments, a device determines whether a first transceiver of the one or more transceivers in accordance with a first Radio Access Technology (RAT) is able to transmit a packet via a first frequency band within a time period based at least on a first coexistence rule. The first coexistence rule corresponds to an impact on the SPS receiver by operation of at least the first RAT on the at least the first transceiver. The device transmits the packet via a second frequency band in accordance with a second RAT based on the determination that the first transceiver in accordance with the first RAT is not able to transmit the packet via a first frequency band within the time period.
US10064206B2
Disclosed in the present application is a method for a terminal transmitting a scheduling assignment (SA) for direct device-to-device communication in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the method comprises the steps of: determining whether data to be transmitted using the direct device-to-device communication is present; determining whether to transmit the SA according to a resource allocation mode for the direct device-to-device communication, when the data is not present; and transmitting a first SA when the resource allocation mode is a first mode, wherein the resource allocation mode includes the first mode in which a resource for the direct device-to-device communication is allocated by a base station, and a second mode in which a resource for the direct device-to-device communication is allocated through a random selection by the terminal.
US10064200B2
A method for receiving a PDCH is provided. The method comprises: receiving, by a UE, information identifying a plurality of resource elements that are transmitted with zero power in a resource block containing the PDCH; receiving, by the UE, a first DMRS on a first DMRS port transmitted from a first cell; and receiving, by the UE, the PDCH that is transmitted on the first DMRS port.
US10064198B2
A wireless communication system, wireless communication system and method, the device on the base station side in the wireless communication system including: an edge user equipment (UE) identification unit configured to identify the edge UE on the enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) according to the information about the UE received from the UE; and an interference coordination unit configured to apply an interference coordination plan to the EPDCCH of the edge UE. Applying the interference coordination plan to the EPDCCH of the edge UE improves service quality of the edge UE; and setting a proper degree of enhanced control channel element aggregation for the edge UE reduces the number of blind tests of the UE, thus increasing the system response speed.
US10064197B2
The exemplary embodiments provide at least a method for receiving from a serving access node information of communications of at least one other access node, the information comprising interference conditions of at least one distributed enhanced physical downlink control channel set used by the at least one other access node, and the communications comprising transmissions from two or more antenna ports of the at least one other access node, estimating different interference conditions with respect to communications from different antenna ports of the two or more antenna ports based on the information; and using an enhanced receiver based on the estimated at least two different interference conditions. Further, the exemplary embodiments provide at least determining by a serving access node information of interference conditions of at least one distributed enhanced physical downlink control channel set used by at least one other access node; and sending towards user equipment the information.
US10064188B2
A radio resource allocation method in a communication node is disclosed. The method comprises determining that a first time reference has a time shift compared to a second time reference. The method further comprises determining a duration of a communication sub-frame based on the time shift, and scheduling the determined communication sub-frame on a first component carrier to a first communication device. Corresponding computer program product, arrangement, communication node and first communication device are also disclosed.
US10064186B2
Techniques are described for wireless communication at a wireless communication device. One method includes obtaining a plurality of signal strength samples for a first wireless channel during a measurement period; determining a loading parameter of the first wireless channel based at least in part on a distribution of the signal strength samples for the first wireless channel among a set of predefined signal strength bins; and selecting a wireless operating channel based at least in part on the determined loading parameter of the first wireless channel.
US10064181B2
Sub-band allocation techniques for reduced-bandwidth machine-type communication (MTC) devices are described. In one embodiment, for example, user equipment (UE) may comprise logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to identify a machine-type communication (MTC) sub-band allocation based on received MTC sub-band allocation information, the MTC sub-band allocation to comprise an allocation of a plurality of subcarriers to an MTC sub-band of a system bandwidth of a serving cell of the UE, the MTC sub-band allocation to define at least one MTC direct current (DC) subcarrier among the plurality of subcarriers, and a radio interface to receive a transmission via the MTC sub-band according to the MTC sub-band allocation. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10064161B2
To provide a user terminal, radio base station apparatus, radio communication system and radio communication method that support increases in the number of users, a user terminal is provided with a reception section that receives a downlink control signal multiplexed into radio resources from the starting OFDM symbol to a predetermined OFDM symbol in a subframe, and a downlink control signal subjected to frequency division multiplexing with a downlink data signal into radio resources after the predetermined OFDM symbol, a retransmission check section that performs a retransmission check on the downlink data signal based on the downlink control signal subjected to frequency division multiplexing to output a retransmission response signal, and a selection section that selects a radio resource of an uplink control channel used in transmission of the retransmission response signal.
US10064155B2
The present invention discloses a positioning apparatus and method. In embodiments of the present invention, a sending module sends auxiliary data information to a terminal, where the auxiliary data information is information required by the terminal to perform measurement on positioning nodes, where the auxiliary data information includes positioning node index numbers of the positioning nodes; a receiving module receives a positioning measurement result sent by the terminal, and provides the positioning measurement result to a positioning module, where the positioning measurement result includes a positioning measurement result corresponding to each positioning node index number, or a positioning measurement result that a reference positioning node index number separately corresponds to other positioning node index numbers; and the positioning module determines a location of the terminal by using the positioning measurement result.
US10064142B2
A user apparatus in a mobile communication system including a first base station and a second base station that perform communication with the user apparatus by inter-base station carrier aggregation, including: a transmission trigger detection unit configured to detect a transmission trigger for transmitting uplink transmission power information in the user apparatus to the first base station or to the second base station; and an uplink transmission power information transmission unit configured to transmit the uplink transmission power information to the first base station or to the second base station based on a transmission trigger detected by the transmission trigger detection unit.
US10064140B2
A wireless device includes a radio-frequency module, a modem module, and a control unit. The radio-frequency module and the modem module operate either in a first operation mode or in a second operation mode. The control unit, coupled to the RF and the modem module, generates a control signal to indicate to the RF and the modem module to operate in the first operation mode or to operate in the second operation mode. A first set of signal formats corresponding to the first operation mode is a superset of a second set of signal formats corresponding to the second operation mode, and a first power consumption corresponding to the first operation mode is higher than a second power consumption corresponding to the second operation mode.
US10064114B2
Provided are methods and systems of managing vertical handoffs in a wireless communication network. Embodiments include analyzing wireless device usage to determine usage patterns, which may include locations and times at which the wireless device is typically accessing the network. The network may recognize points in the usage patterns at which signal quality parameters are typically reduced. Such reductions in signal quality parameters may lead to inefficient vertical handoffs. The network may decrease adverse effects of inefficient vertical handoffs by reducing ping ponging, selecting links between wireless devices and network nodes, or indicating to a user of the wireless device that delays and/or data loss may occur.
US10064113B2
The systems, devices, and methods discussed herein are directed to migrating user equipment (UE) communication from an initially assigned channel in a licensed spectrum to an unlicensed spectrum available in a neighboring cell. As the UE is powered on, data connectivity between the UE and a carrier cell is checked, and if connected, an available neighbor cell in an unlicensed spectrum may be searched. If an available neighbor cell in the unlicensed spectrum is found, the carrier cell may hand off UE communication to the available neighbor cell in the unlicensed spectrum based on a type of the available neighbor cell and available quality for communication in the unlicensed spectrum.
US10064112B2
A user equipment (“UE”) connected to a first network that performs methods including receiving a page from the first network indicating an incoming voice call, when it is determined the voice call was not successfully connected, incrementing a value of a counter and when the value satisfies the threshold, switching from the first network to a second network. Another method includes originating a voice call via the first network, when it is determined the voice call was not successfully connected, opening a socket connection with the first network and attempting to re-originate the voice call via the first network. Another method includes determining whether the UE has switched a connection from a first network to a second network and when it is determined that the UE has switched the connection to the second network, initiating an action by the UE.
US10064100B2
Methods and coordination units are provided which partition data transmission between a first network entity and a second network entity between at least two communication channels which employ different technologies.
US10064099B1
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, perform operations comprising: identifying a first plurality of cells as a controlled group of cells; determining, for each cell of the controlled group of cells, an average number of allocated physical resource blocks; determining, for each cell of the controlled group of cells, a total number of physical resource blocks available to carry payload traffic; determining, for each cell of the controlled group of cells, a metric equal to: (a) the average number of allocated physical resource blocks of the cell divided by (b) the total number of physical resource blocks of the cell available to carry payload traffic; and performing a load balancing of the controlled group of cells based upon the metric. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10064097B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for allocating bandwidth on a physical wireless interface. The method includes configuring a first virtual interface and a second virtual interface on the physical wireless interface. A requirement associated with the first virtual interface is monitored and one or more time slots are allocated to the first virtual interface in accordance with the requirement.
US10064090B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for triggering and reporting a buffer status in the wireless communication system, the method comprising: configuring a plurality of logical channel sets comprising a first logical channel set transmitting data to the first BS and a second logical channel set transmitting data to the second BS, wherein the first and the second logical channel sets respectively comprise one or more logical channels; receiving data for a first logical channel belonging to the first logical channel set; and triggering a buffer status reporting to the first BS, if the first logical channel has highest priority among logical channels for which data are available for transmission in the first logical channel set.
US10064081B2
A method for controlling a mobile device engaging with a head unit of vehicle includes executing a vehicle engagement application installed in the mobile device, determining first and second spaces having the same size in a frame buffer, monitoring whether a first data responsive to an execution of the vehicle engagement application is written in the first and second spaces, and if the first data is not written in the first and second spaces, performing an autonomous recovery process for the vehicle engagement application.
US10064076B2
A method and a wireless device (110) for managing probe messages are disclosed. The probe messages are used for verifying a required level of a connectivity for a service of the wireless device (110) towards a wireless network (100). The required level of the connectivity relates to likelihood of maintaining the connectivity towards the wireless network (100). The wireless device (110) estimates an estimated level of the connectivity for the wireless device (110). The wireless device (110) further adjusts an amount of the probe messages based on the required level of the connectivity and the estimated level of the connectivity. Moreover, corresponding computer programs and computer program products are disclosed.
US10064073B2
The present invention provides a computer implemented method, system, and computer program product of optimizing bandwidth of cognitive radios (CRs). In an embodiment, the present invention includes monitoring use of channels of digital wireless spectrum by at least one primary user communications device (PU device), resulting in PU activity data describing the use, using a digital wireless spectrum channel with a lowest usage by the at least one PU device as indicated by the PU activity data, detecting when the at least one PU device begins to use at least one digital wireless spectrum channel, calculating TCP connection data describing a plurality of TCP connections in light of TCP connection parameter data, and performing a network congestion-avoidance algorithm using the calculated TCP connection data, resulting in digital wireless transmission characteristics for at least one of the plurality of TCP connections that are optimized for at least one CR device.
US10064069B2
A method for setting a beam in a mobile communication system includes determining at least one of a beam width and a beam direction in consideration of a criteria value in response to a failure of a random access attempt, and retransmitting a beam based on the determined at least one of the beam width or the beam direction. The criteria value includes at least one of a beam gain history of a candidate beam combination and a previous transmission failure history.
US10064068B2
Example methods, apparatus, articles of manufacture and systems for providing secondary coverage in a mobile communication system are disclosed. Example methods for a first device to provide secondary coverage in a mobile communication system include transmitting a secondary coverage signal and receiving a presence indication from a second device. Such example methods can also include reporting the presence indication to an access node of the mobile communication system. Such example methods can further include receiving information from the access node to enable relay node functionality in the first device in response to reporting the presence indication to the access node.
US10064066B2
A method for transmitting and receiving a wireless signal in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor are disclosed. Specifically, a method for transmitting and receiving a wireless signal in an unlicensed band includes the steps of: performing a clear channel assessment (CCA) during a predetermined time interval in the unlicensed band; and transmitting a wireless signal in the unlicensed band when it is determined that the unlicensed band is in an idle state where the unlicensed band is not occupied by other wireless communication devices, wherein when the wireless communication device uses a directional antenna, a first difference between a CCA range and an interference range when the wireless signal is transmitted and received using the directional antenna may be adjusted to be equal to a second difference between the CCA range and the interference range when the wireless signal is transmitted and received using an omni-directional antenna.
US10064057B2
Techniques for providing a secure Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) exchange between two wireless transceivers are disclosed. An example of a method according to the disclosure include transmitting a protected FTM range request message with a Dialog Token of a FTM frame, receiving a protected FTM range report message from a station, wherein the protected FTM range report message includes FTM information, and authenticating the station based at least in part on the FTM information included in the protected FTM range report message.
US10064051B2
A system and method provide a security aspect for a UE in dual connectivity mode of operation in wireless communication networks. The system and method provide secure simultaneous transmission and reception in a secure manner between a User Equipment (UE) and one or more eNodeBs (eNBs) configured in an inter-eNB carrier aggregation scenario. The system establishes of a security context between the UE and the Secondary eNB (SeNB) using the RRC signaling between the UE and the Master eNB (MeNB), when a plurality of SCells within SeNB are added simultaneously. The system also detects the intruder in the user data radio bearers, while a UE is operating in dual connectivity mode of operation.
US10064050B2
A mobile communication apparatus comprises an anti-theft control circuit and a transmission control circuit. The anti-theft control circuit has an information management module and a security module. The information management module is used for storing a user personal database comprising at least one of a phonebook database, a schedule database, and an e-mail database. The transmission control circuit is used for transmitting data and/or signals. When the transmission control circuit receives a remote message, the security module examines whether the remote message is a predetermined legitimate remote control message; wherein if YES, the transmission control circuit sends out at least one record of the phonebook database, the schedule database, and the e-mail database to an electronic apparatus indicated by the remote message.
US10064049B1
A messaging hub provides communication services for user devices associated with an enterprise office telephone number. The messaging hub establishes a secure connection between the messaging hub local SMSC/MMSC and a data adapter of a unified communications service, provision the enterprise office telephone number for use in a global SMS/MMS network and delivers messages addressed to the enterprise office telephone number to selected user devices.
US10064048B1
A gateway (GW) acquires an International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) of a user equipment (UE) without requesting a mobile management entity (MME) of a core network (CN) to provide it. The GW detects arrival of a S1AP message for the UE. If the GW does not have the IMSI of the UE, and if a NAS payload of the S1AP message is ciphered, send to the UE a rejecting message indicating detaching the UE from the CN, causing the UE to request re-attaching to the CN in a S1AP message that is an Initial UE Message, which contains a temporary identifier of the UE. Then alter the Initial UE Message with a fabricated temporary identifier not recognizable by the MME and send the altered message to the MME, causing the MME to ask the UE to identify itself with the IMSI, which is read by the GW.
US10064046B2
A communication terminal is described comprising a two SIMs, first components assigned to the first SIM and second components assigned to the second SIM and a shared component. A priority determiner determines, for each first component a priority of a function to be carried by the component using the shared component and determines an accumulated priority for the first SIM and determines for each second component a priority of a function to be carried by the component using the shared component and determines an accumulated priority for the second SIM and further comprises a controller configured to give access to the shared radio communication component based on the accumulated priorities.
US10064040B2
A mobile device includes a Bluetooth transceiver, the Bluetooth transceiver being in an idle power state when not securely paired to a second Bluetooth transceiver of a peripheral device. The mobile device further includes an audio interface, the audio interface coupled to the Bluetooth transceiver, the audio interface configured to connect to a second audio interface of the peripheral device. The mobile device is configured to establish an out-of-band audio communication channel to the peripheral device by connecting the audio interface to the second audio interface, the mobile device configured to exchange Bluetooth authentication data with the peripheral device via the out-of-band audio communication channel in response to transitioning to an operating state, the mobile device configured to initialize the Bluetooth transceiver with the Bluetooth authentication data to establish an authenticated and cryptographically protected in-band Bluetooth communication channel allowing the mobile device to be securely paired with the peripheral device.
US10064033B2
Device group partitions and a settlement platform are provided. In some embodiments, device group partitions (e.g., partitions of devices based on associated device groups) are provided. In some embodiments, a settlement platform service is provided. In some embodiments, a settlement platform service is provided for partitioned devices. In some embodiments, collecting device generated service usage information for one or more devices in wireless communication on a wireless network; and aggregating the device generated service usage information for a settlement platform for the one or more devices in wireless communication on the wireless network is provided. In some embodiments, a settlement platform implements a service billing allocation and/or a service/transactional revenue share among one or more partners. In some embodiments, service usage information includes micro-CDRs, which are used for CDR mediation or reconciliation that provides for service usage accounting on any device activity that is desired. In some embodiments, each device activity that is desired to be associated with a billing event is assigned a micro-CDR transaction code, and a service processor of the device is programmed to account for that activity associated with that transaction code. In some embodiments, a service processor executing on a wireless communications device periodically reports (e.g., during each heartbeat or based on any other periodic, push, and/or pull communication technique(s)) micro-CDR usage measures to, for example, a service controller or some other network element for CDR mediation or reconciliation.
US10064032B2
Methods and apparatuses for transmitting application-specific data over a control channel of a GMS telecommunications system. In one embodiment of the invention the application-specific data is transmitted from an application device to a central monitoring station in the content field of a register_ss message. In one embodiment of the invention, application-specific data is transmitted from a central monitoring station to an application device in the calling party number field of a caller identification message.
US10064020B2
Embodiments herein provide a method for identity management across multiple planes. The method includes receiving, by a MCPTT server, a first request message to establish a call between a first MCPTT client and the one or more second MCPTT client from a signaling plane entity. The first request message includes an application plane identity of the one or more second MCPTT client. Further, the method includes translating, at the MCPTT server, the application plane identity of the one or more second MCPTT client to a signaling plane identity of the one or more second MCPTT client. Furthermore, the method includes sending, by the MCPTT server, the one or more second request message including the signaling plane identity of the one or more second MCPTT client to the second MCPTT client for establishing the call via the signaling plane entity.
US10064019B2
Various communication systems may benefit from an improved signaling protocol. For example, communication systems may benefit from an improved network support for a single frequency network transmission using an Ethernet switch. A method includes receiving a message at an access point in a single frequency network from a network entity through a data switch. The message comprises an indication of at least one of a downlink physical channel or an uplink physical channel. The method also includes transmitting a request for a signal characteristic through the at least one downlink physical channel to a user equipment. In addition, the method includes receiving the signal characteristic through the at least one uplink physical channel from the user equipment. Further, the method includes transmitting a response message through the data switch from the access point to the network entity indicating the signal characteristic.
US10064017B2
Determining building weather profile parameters, and correcting an estimated altitude of a receiver using the building weather profile parameters. Systems and methods for estimating an altitude of a receiver using building weather profile parameters may identify one or more weather profile parameters for a building, determine an initial estimate of a receiver's altitude at a floor inside the building, and use the initial estimate and the identified weather profile parameters to determine a corrected estimate of the receiver's altitude at the floor.
US10064016B2
Provided are a method for a connection configuration of a base station including: operating a C-RNTI release timer for release of a C-RNTI which is used in a connection mode before an idle mode after a terminal is transited to the idle mode; and configuring a connection with the terminal by using the C-RNTI before the C-RNTI release timer is expired, a method for connection configuration of a terminal including: receiving information on a release time of a C-RNTI which is used in a connection mode before an idle mode from a base station after being transited to the idle mode; and configuring a connection with the base station by using the existing C-RNTI when a transmission request of uplink data occurs for the release time, and the terminal.
US10064010B2
Systems and methods for a media guidance application that alerts a user to access the upcoming media asset on an output device of a second output device type, since the media asset will not be available through any output devices of a first output device type. For example, the media guidance application may determine that a user enjoys a media asset, but is too far from an output device of a first output device type (e.g., speakers) to view or listen to the media asset or that other nearby users do not enjoy the media asset. In these instances, the media guidance application may alert the user to use a different output device type to view and/or listen to the media asset (e.g., on a mobile phone).
US10064008B2
Provided is a method and/or apparatus for providing a wireless location service using a beacon signal. A wireless location service method may include collecting a plurality of beacon signals from each of a plurality of beacon transceivers positioned around a user, and determining a current location of the user based on at least one of a virtual point and the plurality of beacon signals, the virtual point positioned in a space in which the beacon transceivers are provided.
US10063985B2
Audio signals (201) are received. The audio signals include left and right surround channels (206). The audio signals are played back using far-field loudspeakers (101-108, 401-406) distributed around a space (111, 409) having a plurality of listener positions (112, 410). The left and right surround channels are played back by a pair of far-field loudspeakers (103, 106, 403, 405) arranged at opposite sides of the space having the plurality of listener positions. An audio component (208) coinciding with or approximating audio content common to the left and right surround channels is obtained. The audio component is played back using at least a pair of near-field transducers (109, 110, 407, 408) arranged at one of the listener positions. Associated systems (100, 400), methods (800) and computer program products are provided. Systems (300), methods (900) and computer program products providing a bitstream (303) comprising the audio signals and the audio component are also provided, as well as a computer-readable medium with data (700) representing such audio content.
US10063979B2
A hearing aid and a method for operating a hearing aid is disclosed. The hearing aid comprises a processor configured to compensate for a hearing loss; a battery unit comprising a rechargeable battery; a wireless receiver element for receipt of a wireless power signal, the wireless receiver element configured to convert the wireless power signal to an electrical power signal; a detector assembly for provision of one or more detector signals including a first detector signal; and a power controller connected to the processor and the detector assembly, wherein the power controller is configured to select a power mode of the hearing aid from a plurality of power modes based on the first detector signal and apply the selected power mode in the hearing aid.
US10063976B2
Headphones for stereo tactile vibration, and related systems and methods are disclosed. A headphone comprises a first speaker assembly including a first audio driver and a first tactile bass vibrator. The headphone also comprises a second speaker assembly including a second audio driver and a second tactile bass vibrator. The headphone further comprises a signal processing circuit configured to generate a first tactile vibration signal and a second tactile vibration signal from an audio signal to be received by the headphone. The first tactile vibration signal differs from the second tactile vibration signal. A method of operating the headphone includes generating the first tactile vibration signal and the second tactile vibration signal, and driving vibration of the first and second tactile bass vibrators with the first and second tactile vibration signals, respectively. A stereo tactile vibrator system includes the headphone.
US10063974B2
[object] To provide a headphone device in which the influence of individual differences in virtual sound field reproduction is less likely to occur and which may listen external sounds naturally,[solution] A left-side headphone body and a right-side headphone body include speaker arrays which are formed of a plurality of speaker units which are arranged to surround auricles, respectively. The speaker array of the headphone body reproduces a sound field inside a closed curved surface in the vicinity of the auricle using wave field synthesis, and since reverberation or a diffraction effect occurs in the ear of each individual, the influence caused by individual differences is less likely to occur. In addition, the speaker array has the plurality of the speaker units arranged to surround the auricle and is not of a shape that blocks the ear of the listener, and then the external sound can be heard naturally.
US10063973B2
A speaker assembly is provided with a housing, a first speaker and a second speaker both supported by the housing, and a controller. The controller is programmed to determine a location of the housing relative to a docking station. The controller is further programmed to disable the second speaker and control the first speaker to play a low-frequency component of an audio signal in response to the housing being located proximate to the docking station.
US10063963B2
An apparatus configured to acoustically process an acoustic signal for a transducer, and to provide a physical interface for a further apparatus within which the apparatus is located.
US10063959B1
A headset system with at least one or more headsets to provide output audio and a monitoring device is provided. The monitoring device is connected with the one or more headsets, which each comprise an audio processor to provide the output audio to a respective user from an input audio signal and a reporting module, configured to generate metadata of the output audio. The monitoring device is configured to receive the metadata from the one or more headsets and to determine, whether an acoustic safety incident is given. To reduce acoustic shocks to the user, the audio processor comprises a mode-switchable acoustic safety module with at least an enabled state and a disabled state, which acoustic safety module in the enabled state being configured to process the input audio signal to reduce acoustic shocks.
US10063958B2
Devices for attaching earpiece to a user's ear are described herein. In one embodiment, an earpiece that is removably attachable to an ear of a user can include a housing that has a proximal end portion and a distal end portion. A transducer may be positioned, for example, at the proximal portion of the housing, and a retention member can be elastically coupled to the distal portion of the housing. The retention member and the housing can be configured to compress a portion of the user's ear therebetween in a manner that positions the proximal end portion of the housing in a vestibule of the ear adjacent an entrance to the auditory canal of the user's ear when the earpiece is attached to the user's ear.
US10063957B2
A wireless earpiece includes a wireless earpiece housing, at least one microphone for detecting ambient environment sound, and a processor disposed within the wireless earpiece housing, the processor configured to distinguish between two or more sources of sound within the ambient environment sound. The wireless earpiece further includes a user interface operatively connected to the processor. The processor is configured to receive user input through the user interface to select one of the sources of sound within the ambient environment sound and wherein the processor is configured to process the ambient environment sound to emphasize portions of the ambient environment sound generated by the one of the sources of the ambient environment sound selected by the user to produce a modified sound. The earpiece may further include a speaker operatively connected to the processor to reproduce the modified sound.
US10063956B2
An audio headset comprising at least one headset earpiece comprising a speaker, an ear cushion adapter, a microprocessor and a driver; and a removable ear cup configured to be removably attached to the headset ear piece; wherein the microprocessor is configured to recognize the removable ear cup and adjust audio output through the speaker based on parameters associated with the removable ear cup.
US10063954B2
A device includes an input for receiving an audio signal, a speaker to convert the audio signal into an audible sound, and a memory for storing remediation instructions and detection instructions. The device further includes a processor coupled to the input, the speaker, and the memory. The processor is configured to process the audio signal according to the detection instructions and the remediation instructions to modulate amplitude of the audio signal based on the remediation instructions.
US10063952B2
An acoustic pillow includes a pillow body top having an outer surface and an inner surface with assembly projections extending from the inner surface, and a pillow body base having an outer surface and an inner surface with assembly depressions molded into the inner surface of the pillow body base. The pillow body top is assembled with the pillow body base with the inner surface of the pillow body top opposing the inner surface of the pillow body base and the assembly projections inserted into the assembly depressions. The acoustic pillow includes a wireless communication system disposed between the pillow body base and the pillow body top having a controller housing, a power source, at least one speaker housing, and a controller interface housing for operating the acoustic pillow.
US10063948B2
A loudspeaker system includes a first flexible panel, a first line array of electro-acoustic drivers, and at least one mechanically adjustable point. The first line array of electro-acoustic drivers are mounted on the first flexible panel and linked to each other by flexible joints in the first flexible panel. The at least one mechanically adjustable point enables articulation of the first flexible panel at the flexible joints to produce one or more of a substantially straight and an arcuate configuration of the first line array of electro-acoustic drivers.
US10063938B2
A method of decoding an audio/video content transmitted over a broadband network. The method being based on the quick decoding of the first frames of a group of pictures without rendering them if the group of pictures arrives too late to be rendered synchronously with another audio/video content received through a broadcast network. The method allowing the synchronized rendering of contents respectively received over broadcast and broadband networks as soon as possible for the viewer.
US10063928B2
Systems, methods, and media for controlling a presentation of media content are provided. In accordance with some embodiments, methods for controlling a presentation of media content, the methods comprising: causing the presentation of the media content to begin; measuring an elapsed time of the presentation of the media content; determining a first threshold based on at least one of: a characteristic of a person; a characteristic of a current point in time; and a characteristic of the media content; determining if the elapsed time of the presentation has met the first threshold; and ending the presentation in response to determining that the elapsed time of the presentation has met the first threshold.
US10063924B2
A system and method for operating a user receiving device includes a first user device that receives first user settings and stores the first user settings therein. The first user device communicates first user settings to a second user receiving device. The second user receiving device operates with the first user settings.
US10063920B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a storage medium including computer instructions to receive sensory information at a media device from a first mobile communication device where the first mobile communication device obtains at least a portion of the sensory information from at least one second mobile communication device in response to a broadcast by the first mobile communication device of a wireless signal representing a notice to obtain the sensory information, where the sensory information is associated with an environment of the first mobile communication device, and where the sensory information comprises images of the environment. The computer instructions can enable generating a plurality of personal content utilizing at least a portion of the sensory information, where each of the plurality of personal content includes some of the images captured at different perspectives. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10063913B2
A system and method that provide reduced latency in a video signal processing system. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise receiving a current request from a user for first video information. Such a request may, for example, be received with a user interface module. A first video stream and a second video stream may be received simultaneously, where the first video stream comprises the first video information currently requested by the user, and the second video stream comprises second video information not currently requested by the user. A video receiver module may, for example, perform such receiving. The first video stream may be processed to present the first video information to the user at the current time. Further, the second video stream may be pre-processed in preparation for being presented to the user in the future. A video processing module may, for example, perform such video stream processing.
US10063905B2
A digital device and a method for controlling the digital device are disclosed in this specification. Herein, according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a targeted device being controlled by a control command received through at least one or more controlling devices includes a first receiving unit receiving content, a second receiving unit receiving a voice signal or text data respective to the voice signal from the controlling device, a decoder decoding the content, a processing unit processing the text data, a controlling unit identifying whether or not text data received from the processing data include a control command, controlling an output of a voice interface in response to a reception of the identified text data, configuring a result screen respective to the processed data and controlling an output of the result screen, and performing control operations so as to execute functions corresponding to the outputted result screen, and an outputting unit outputting the decoded content, the voice interface and its result screen or its function execution screen.
US10063901B2
Methods and systems are disclosed herein for a media guidance application that allows access restrictions to be modified in a flexible manner based on the activities of a user. Specifically, the media guidance application detects communications from the user to other devices and based on that communication determines whether or not to modify a level of access restriction to media content.
US10063899B2
Systems and methods for automatically obtaining cost-efficient access to a media content collection are provided. A user selection of a media content collection, which consists of a number of media assets, is received. A first price is determined for receiving access to the entire media content collection using a single transaction. For each media asset of the media content collection a set of providers of the media asset are identified, and the lowest price for receiving access to each media asset is determined. The lowest price for receiving access to each media asset of the media content collection is accumulated to determine a second price for receiving access to the media content collection using multiple transactions. The first and the second price are compared, and access to the media content collection is received based on this comparison.
US10063887B2
A method inducing video information required for decoding a current block by entropy-decoding a bitstream; inducing a first disparity vector based on a neighboring block of the current block in the same view by using the video information, inducing a second disparity vector by using the first disparity vector and a reference view depth, and inducing a third disparity vector using the difference between the first disparity vector and the second disparity vector; inducing a prediction sample of the current block by using one of the first disparity vector, the second disparity vector, or the third disparity vector; and applying filtering to a current picture which has been restored using the prediction sample.
US10063879B2
Obtaining one or more motion vector predictor candidates includes: (a1) generating a motion vector predictor candidate, based on motion vectors of first adjacent blocks adjacent to a block to be processed in a first direction; and (a2) generating a motion vector predictor candidate, based on motion vectors of second adjacent blocks adjacent to the block to be processed in a second direction, and step (a2) (S500) includes: (S520) determining whether the first adjacent blocks include an inter-predicted block; and (S530) searching for a motion vector on which scaling processing can be performed from among the motion vectors of the second adjacent blocks when it is determined that the first adjacent blocks do not include an inter-predicted block, and executing, when the motion vector on which scaling processing can be performed is obtained in the search, scaling processing on the motion vector obtained in the search.
US10063875B2
Methods for decoding of a video bitstream by a video decoding circuit are provided. In one implementation, a method receives coded data for a 2N×2N coding unit (CU) from the video bitstream, selects one or more first codewords according to whether asymmetric motion partition is disabled or enabled when a size of said 2N×2N CU is not equal to a smallest CU size, wherein none of the first codewords corresponds to INTER N×N partition, selects one or more second codewords when the size of said 2N×2N CU is equal to the smallest CU size, wherein none of the second codewords corresponds to the INTER N×N partition when N is 4, determines a CU structure for said 2N×2N CU from the video bitstream using said one or more first codewords or said one or more second codewords, and decodes the video bitstream using the CU structure.
US10063865B2
An image coding method in which a chroma component and a luma component of an input image including one or more transform blocks are transformed to code the input image. The luma component has the same size as the current transform block. The chroma component is smaller than the current transform block. In the method, when the current transform block has a first minimum size, the chroma component is transformed on a basis of a block resulting from binding a plurality of the chroma blocks to has the same size as the luma block, and when the current transform block has a size other than the first minimum size, a CBF flag indicating whether or not coefficients of the chroma component include a non-zero coefficient is not coded.
US10063864B2
The present disclosure relates to system(s) and method(s) for compression and decompression of Unicode characters. The system is configured to maintain a set of character tables and a cluster table in a memory. Each character table is configured to store a set of Unicode characters corresponding to a character class of a set of characters classes, wherein each Unicode character from the character table is assigned with a shortened bit representation. Furthermore, the cluster table may be configured to maintain a set of cluster types and a cluster identifier corresponding to each of the cluster type. The system is configured to compress text data in Unicode format using the set of character tables and the cluster table by identifying the different clusters in each word and replacing the clusters with cluster identifier followed by the shorten bit representation of characters in each cluster.
US10063863B2
Described tools and techniques relate to signaling for DC coefficients at small quantization step sizes. The techniques and tools can be used in combination or independently. For example, a tool such as a video encoder or decoder processes a VLC that indicates a DC differential for a DC coefficient, a FLC that indicates a value refinement for the DC differential, and a third code that indicates the sign for the DC differential. Even with the small quantization step sizes, the tool uses a VLC table with DC differentials for DC coefficients above the small quantization step sizes. The FLCs for DC differentials have lengths that vary depending on quantization step size.
US10063859B2
An apparatus for post-processing a reconstructed image is discussed. The apparatus includes an inter prediction unit for generating a prediction block using a reference picture and a motion vector, wherein the prediction block generated by the inter prediction unit is added to a residual block to generate a reconstructed picture; an intra prediction unit for recovering an intra prediction mode for a current prediction unit and generating a prediction block using the intra prediction mode, wherein the prediction block generated by the intra prediction unit is added to a residual block to generate a reconstructed picture; and a post-processing unit for determining a boundary strength for an edge which is a prediction edge or a transform edge on the reconstructed picture, determining whether deblocking filtering is applied on the edge or not using the boundary strength, and filtering the edge in order of vertical edges and horizontal edges if the deblocking filtering is applied on the edge, and for generating an edge index of a current sample, and applying an edge offset corresponding to the edge index to the current sample.
US10063855B2
An image predictive encoding device can efficiently encode an image, while suppressing an increase in prediction information and reducing the prediction error of a target block. In an image predictive encoding device, according to one embodiment, to produce a prediction signal of a partition in a target region, it is decided whether prediction information of a neighboring region can be used. When prediction information of the neighboring region can be used, a region width of the partition where the prediction information of the neighboring region is used to produce the prediction signal is determined. The prediction signal of the target region is produced from a reconstructed signal based on at least one of the region width, the prediction information of the target region, and the prediction information of the neighboring region. The prediction information, information identifying the region width, and a residual signal are encoded.
US10063853B2
The invention pertains to a method for a video encoder to select data from a set of image blocks, each block being associated with a frame, a counter value and a cost, the method comprising: calculating, for a target block from among said set of image blocks, the respective counter values and the respective costs of other blocks from among said set of image blocks, said other blocks being associated with the same frame as the target block or with a previous frame; and selecting from said other blocks a reference block having the lowest cost and counter value, according to predefined criteria. The invention also pertains to a computer program product for carrying out the method, and to a video encoder apparatus.
US10063852B2
Provided is an image processing apparatus including a decoding section that decodes a luminance component and a color difference component of a block inside a coding unit in an order of the luminance component and the color difference component in each block.
US10063850B2
A surgical stereoscopic observation apparatus defines main optical paths and secondary optical paths that are branched from the main optical paths A and run to a pair of fluorescence imaging elements. The apparatus picks up both visible-light images and fluorescence images, displays the images on an electronic image display unit, and allows an observer to stereoscopically observe the displayed images.
US10063841B2
There are provided a mobile terminal including light emitting devices and a method for controlling the same. A mobile terminal includes a camera, a light emitting unit including a plurality of light emitting devices, the light emitting unit emitting light toward a space corresponding to an image received through the camera, and a controller for controlling light emitting devices, which emit light toward a space corresponding to a portion of the image among the plurality of light emitting devices, to be used in extracting depth information of the portion.
US10063836B2
A visualization technique for a vehicle and a vehicle driver combines a forward facing video camera and a forward facing time of flight camera. The outputs of the camera are combined to provide the vehicle driver with an augmented reality display, whereby topographical features can be identified in relation to the vehicle even if out of line of sight of the driver.
US10063828B2
A method to be performed by a playback device includes determining whether the playback device has a function for converting first graphics in a second luminance range narrower than a first luminance range to second graphics in the first luminance range, when the playback device has the function, converting the first graphics to the second graphics, and displaying a video in the first luminance range with the second graphics being superimposed on the video, and when the playback device does not have the function, displaying the video with third graphics different from the second graphics being superimposed on the video.
US10063825B2
A method of operating a mobile device and mobile systems are provided. The method includes detecting a first event through an interface of the mobile device, displaying scene data that is generated by a camera of the mobile device on a display of the mobile device, in response to the detecting first event, detecting a second event through the interface, and measuring an external color temperature in response to the detecting the second event. The method further includes generating flash data having a color temperature for compensating the external color temperature, displaying the flash data on the display, and capturing a scene using the camera.
US10063817B1
Large format display systems are described that are reconfigurable between an open configuration designed for performing maintenance on the system and a closed configuration designed for normal operations of the display system. In the closed configuration, the display screen is intentionally subjected to a substantial amount of tensile force to advantageously stabilize the display screen. That substantial tensile force is generated by a sturdy stationary frame that the display screen is anchored against in the closed configuration. When the display system is reconfigured to the open configuration, the display system is no longer anchored against the stationary frame. The process of reconfiguring the display system from the closed configuration to the open configuration includes relieving most of the tensile force applied to the display screen using adjustable tensioning mechanisms of the display systems.
US10063811B2
Disclosed aspects relate to dynamic video image management. A set of dynamic image quality factors may be collected with respect to a dynamic video image. A set of display parameter values may be determined based on the set of dynamic image quality factors. The set of display parameter values may be of a set of display parameter values for a set of computing assets. The set of display parameter values may be determined to benefit the set of dynamic image quality factors with respect to the dynamic video image. The set of computing assets may be configured using the set of display parameter values. The set of computing assets may be configured to benefit the set of dynamic image quality factors with respect to the dynamic video image.
US10063808B2
A video processing apparatus and method is provided. The video processing apparatus divides video data and then processes a current divided area of the divided video data by referring to pixels in an adjacent divided area while processing the current divided area, thereby minimizing artifacts generation along a boundary between divided areas when the processed divided areas are subsequently merged.
US10063788B2
An image processing apparatus includes an image acquirement section, a correction section, and an image production section. The image acquirement section acquires an image signal representing an image, the image signal is generated by light receiving elements that receive lights from a specific space preliminarily defined in a vicinity of a vehicle via a near infrared passing filter mainly transmitting near infrared lights and a visible light passing filter transmitting visible lights and near infrared lights, respectively. The image includes multiple areas and indicates the specific space projected onto a plane. The correction section corrects each area of the image by amplifying intensity of near infrared lights with an increasing amplification factor when a difference between the intensity of near infrared lights and intensity of visible lights and near infrared lights becomes smaller. The image production section produces a new image based on the corrected areas of the image.
US10063775B2
Disclosed herein is a content transmission apparatus, including: a retaining section adapted to retain a multi viewpoint video content formed from a plurality of viewpoint videos imaged simultaneously by a plurality of different video cameras; a production section adapted to produce a VRT including acquisition destination information of the viewpoint videos which configure the multi viewpoint video content, VRT standing for View Relation Table; a supplying section adapted to supply the produced VRT to a content reproduction apparatus; a broadcasting section adapted to broadcast one or plural ones of the viewpoint videos which configure the retained multi viewpoint video content; and a delivery section adapted to deliver one or plural ones of the viewpoint videos which configure the retained multi viewpoint video content through a network.
US10063758B2
A system and method for automatically photographing vehicles in a drive-thru structure is provided where the passage of a vehicle triggers an automated process that captures a series of vehicle images, and uploads the captured images to a web template for display and recordation. The images captured have controlled reflections from multiple angles and perspectives. A viewer is able to discern whether there are surface imperfections, scratches, and dents on a vehicle surface. Reflections are controlled in the structure or circular chamber with curved walls that are covered with a light scattering sheet material such as a white canvas or gray walls. The lighting style used to illuminate the vehicle within the structure is a sunset horizon style of lighting, where the lights are hidden below the curved wall that may be gray or white so as to use a sunset style reflection on the vehicle surface through subtractive lighting.
US10063757B2
Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide adaptable settings for imaging devices and systems. Operating modes may be defined based on whether movement is detected within a predetermined area. One or more parameters of illumination or modulation may be dynamically adjusted based on the present operating mode.
US10063756B2
Provided are a camera module and a mobile terminal having the same. The camera module includes a first lens assembly, a second lens assembly disposed to be adjacent to the first lens assembly, a lens cover accommodating the first and second lens assemblies and having first and second through holes allowing light to be incident to the first and second lens assemblies, an actuator provided on one side of the first and second lens assemblies to drive the first and second lens assemblies, one image sensor disposed below the first and second lens assemblies and converting light signals incident through the first and second lens assemblies into first and second image signals, and a camera case having a through hole formed on a front side thereof and accommodating the lens cover to allow light to be incident to the first and second lens assemblies through the through hole.
US10063754B2
A mobile deposit kit for use with a mobile deposit application of a mobile device provides a container having (1) a top, a bottom, and a back, and further includes two sides each adjoining to the top, the bottom, and the back, (2) at least one series of fasteners along back and the two sides at a specified distance from the bottom, (3) a tray supported by the fasteners, and including (a) a base, (b) a stencil, and (c) an opening within the stencil corresponding to specified check measurements, (4) an opening in the top sufficiently sized to correspond to a camera lens of a mobile device, and wherein the top includes outline markings for placement of the mobile device, whereby the mobile device is utilized for securing at least one check image for use in a mobile deposit application.
US10063751B2
In one example, a system and method includes acquiring, by a wireless dockee (WD), an image, initiating a wireless connection between the wireless dockee (WD) and a wireless docking center (WDC) having one or more peripherals, determining attributes associated with the acquired image, wherein the attributes include feature descriptors, receiving, at the WD and from the WDC, information representative of matching items stored on one or more of the peripherals, wherein the matching items include images with attributes similar to the attributes associated with the acquired image, selecting, at the WD and as a function of the information representative of the matching items, one or more of the matching items, and receiving, from the one or more of the peripherals, the selected matching items.
US10063750B2
An image forming apparatus includes a table generating unit. The table generating unit determines whether a target-value Voronoi region and a measured-value Voronoi region are identical or not. The table generating unit sets an output color value associated with a print position where the target-value Voronoi region and the measured-value Voronoi region are identical in the second color conversion table as the output color value associated with a specific input color value in the first color conversion table. The table generating unit sets the output color value associated with the print position where the target-value Voronoi region and the measured-value Voronoi region are different in the second color conversion table as a color value that is a color value in the hue plane and is different from the output color value associated with the specific input color value in the first color conversion table.
US10063746B2
An object of the present invention is to reproduce glossiness and sense of sparkle on a printed material. The present invention is an apparatus for generating image data for reproducing material appearance of an object to be rendered on a printed material, the apparatus including: a gloss level obtaining unit configured to obtain a gloss level that evaluates glossiness of the object to be rendered; a sparkle level obtaining unit configured to obtain a sparkle level that evaluates sense of sparkle of the object to be rendered; and a deriving unit configured to derive a parameter relating to use of ink for reproduction of the material appearance by an image forming device, the image forming device receiving and printing the image data based on the obtained gloss level and sparkle level.
US10063745B2
An information processing system includes a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus. The first information processing apparatus includes first circuitry that registers job information and a first transmitter that transfers job identification information respectively to a transmission source of the job information and a predetermined destination, and further transfers address information indicating an address of the transmission source of the job information to the predetermined destination. The second information processing apparatus includes a receiver that receives, from the first information processing apparatus, the job identification information and the address information, second circuitry that acquires, from a memory, user identification information corresponding to the address indicated by the address information, the user association information, and registers the received job identification information, and a second transmitter that transfers a request for transmission and provides at least a part of the registered job to a source of the inquiry.
US10063743B2
An image that is to be a target for filtering processing is acquired, a plurality of filters having mutually different filter sizes and arrangement spacing for significant coefficients in the filters are applied to the image to perform filtering processing on the image.
US10063740B2
An image reading apparatus includes a light irradiator, an optical system and a photoelectric converter. The optical system includes a reflection mirror unit and an aperture unit. The reflection mirror unit includes first and second reflection areas successively provided in a main scanning direction. The aperture unit includes a light shielding portion and first and second light passing holes for allowing the passage of the light reflected by each of the first and second reflection areas. The photoelectric converter includes a light receiving surface having first and second light receiving areas configured to receive the light passed through each of the first and second light passing holes and successively arranged in the main scanning direction. A length of the light receiving surface along the main scanning direction is set to be equal to or longer than that of the image reading area along the main scanning direction.
US10063727B2
Certain embodiments provide a marking apparatus, which marks on media that is reusable by recording and erasing decolorable material, comprising a scanner configured to read media to which a first mark representing the reuse times of media is attached; a determination section configured to determine whether or not the media is reusable according to a reading result of the first mark or a use state of the media; and a recording section configured to print a second mark different from the first mark on the media according to a determination result representing that the media cannot be reused.
US10063726B2
An image processing apparatus including: a first housing; and a second housing, the second housing including: a base part; a supporting part; an image reader; and a detector, the first housing including: an image forming unit and a cover, wherein: the cover has a 1st region disposed on a lower position of the detector and a 2nd region disposed on an upper position of a moving range of a recording head; the 1st region has a recessed part recessed downward, an inner bottom surface of the recessed part being disposed at a position lower that an upper edge position of the 2nd region; the base part has a housing part; and a lower edge of the detector is lower than the upper edge position of the 2nd region.
US10063725B2
An information processing apparatus for providing, via a network, information indicating a resource to be displayed on a screen of a client device includes a resource manager to store resources, wherein each resource belongs to one of resource groups, each of the resource groups belongs to a content item, display priority orders are respectively assigned to two or more of the resource groups when the two or more of the resource groups belong to the content item, and identification information is attached to the content item; a receiver to receive, from the client device, the identification information of the content item; a selector to select, based on the identification information of the content item and the priority orders for displaying, a resource to be displayed on the screen of the client device from the resources; and a transmitter configured to transmit information indicating the resource to the client device.
US10063723B2
A display input device includes a display portion, a touch panel portion and a control portion, and when in a login state, a predetermined processing start time is reached, reduction processing is performed in which in a screen being presently displaced, a display size of a logout key is maintained and in which a display size of a reduction target element that is a screen element other than the logout key is reduced.
US10063719B2
An image forming apparatus, guide providing method thereof, cloud server and error analyzing method thereof are provided. The image forming apparatus may include a scanner configured to scan a script and generate a scan image, a communicator configured to communicate with a cloud server, a display configured display a screen, and a processor configured to control the communicator to transmit the generated scan image to a cloud server, and in response to receiving an error solution guide of the scan image from the cloud server, control the display to display the received error solution guide.
US10063717B2
An information transmitting device includes: a receiving unit configured to receive setting of a first mode or a second mode as a transmitting mode; a transmitting unit configured to transmit the data in the transmitting mode the setting of which is received; a first obtaining unit configured to obtain identification information associated with a process by an application for setting; a storage unit configured to store the obtained identification information; a second obtaining unit configured to obtain the identification information regarding the transmitting process of the data when the first mode is set; a determining unit configured to determine whether the identification information stored in the storage unit is identical to the identification information obtained by the second obtaining unit; and a switching unit configured to switch the transmitting mode to the second mode when it is determined that the pieces of identification information are not identical to each other.
US10063711B2
Systems and methods that provide charging for supplemental content in a data flow separately from other content in the data flow. One embodiment comprises a network element of a Packet-Switched (PS) network that serves mobile User Equipment (UE). The network element receives a data flow of packets for a download of content requested by the UE, and identifies supplemental content in the data flow not requested by the UE, such as advertising content. The network element generates a charging request, inserts charging information for the supplemental content in the charging request, and transmits the charging request to a charging system so that the supplemental content can be charged separately from other content of the data flow.
US10063702B2
The present disclosure includes an intelligent customer service system comprising a customer end, a customer service robot, and a human customer-service end. The customer service robot is configured to: receive a session message from the customer end; identify content of the session message; determine whether it is capable of processing the session message based on the identified content; if so, obtain an answer message matching the identified content from pre-stored service resource and transmit the answer message to the customer end; or otherwise, set its state to a session suspended state, obtain a comforting answer message matching the session message from the pre-stored service resource, send the comforting answer message to the customer end, and transmit to the human customer-service end the session message that the customer service robot is not capable of processing or the content of which the customer service robot cannot identify.
US10063701B2
A request to execute an interaction site associated with a custom grammars file is received from a user device and by a communications system. An interaction flow document to execute the interaction site is accessed by the communications system. The custom grammars file is accessed by the communications system, the custom grammars file being configured to enable the communications system to identify executable commands corresponding to utterances spoken by users of user devices. An utterance spoken by a user of the user device is received from the user device and by the communications system. The utterance is stored by the communications system. The custom grammars file is updated by a grammar generation system to include a representation of the stored utterance for processing utterances in subsequent communications with users.
US10063694B1
A system for multilingual authentication access to a communication system in a controlled environment is disclosed. The system includes a communication subsystem that connects a communication between a first communication device and a second communication device, wherein the first communication device is used by the inmate of the correctional facility. The system also includes a profile subsystem configured to store profile information of the inmate associated with the first communication device. The system further includes an authentication subsystem that provides a challenge question to the first communication device based on the profile information and an accommodation of the inmate that affects authentication, receives a response to challenge question and a voice sample from the first communication device, verifies the response and the voice sample, and authorizes connection of the communication between the first communication device and the second communication device based on verification of the response and the voice sample.
US10063693B2
A system and method for recording media for a contact center includes establishing via a processor in a first geographic location, a communication session between first and second communication devices. The processor determines that media exchanged during the media session is to be recorded. The processor identifies a second geographic location associated with a resource involved in the media session, and identifies a media controller associated with the second geographic location. The media controller bridges the media path between the first and second communication devices, and the media exchanged during the media session is recorded.
US10063692B2
An inbound call connection request may be received from a non-resident, directed to a controlled-environment facility resident and/or the resident's device. A determination may be made that a calling account of the resident does not have sufficient funds to pay for the inbound call, whereupon a message may be provided to the non-resident offering billing options, including at least a wireless carrier billing option, to complete the call connection. The call may be connected with the resident device in response to a determination a calling account of the inmate has sufficient funds to pay for the call or acceptance of one of the payment methods by the non-resident, along with authentication that the non-resident is associated with an address identifier (AID) of the resident device, and verification that the resident operating the device is associated with the AID of the device.
US10063688B1
Described herein are methods and systems for limiting functionality of a smartphone by an administrator device based on the speed of the smartphone, which can indicate that the smartphone owner is driving. In some embodiments, the smartphone can be configured to launch a blocking application as the default home screen application. The blocking application can be used to pair the smartphone to the administrator device. The smartphone can receive a velocity threshold and an allowed application list from the administrator device. The smartphone can determine that the velocity of the smartphone, based on GPS data, exceeds the velocity threshold. The blocking application can enable a block mode on the smartphone in response to determining that the velocity exceeds the velocity threshold. Enabling the block mode can include disabling access to applications that are not in the allowed application list, thereby limiting distractions caused by the smartphone for the driver.
US10063684B2
A wearable device comprising: a band unit; and a vibration generating unit coupled to the band unit. The band unit comprises a communication unit receiving a first signal by a predetermined communication method and a control unit determining an amplification extent of the first signal received from the communication unit and generating a second signal based on the determined amplification extent, and the vibration generating unit receives the second signal from the control unit and generates a vibration corresponding to the second signal.
US10063681B2
A wearable device and corresponding method include producing, at a wearable device, an incoming call processing option list in response to a rejection input from a user rejecting an incoming call from a mobile terminal. The wearable device and corresponding method further transmit, from the wearable device to the mobile terminal, a result value corresponding to a gesture of the user and in response to the incoming call processing option list.
US10063677B2
An electronic device includes a first device housing and a second device housing. A hinge, which can be a multi-link hinge, couples the first device housing to the second device housing. The first device housing is pivotable about the hinge relative to the second device housing. A flexible display is coupled to the first device housing and the second device housing and spans the hinge. The flexible display is to deform when the first device housing pivots about the hinge relative to the second device housing.
US10063674B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a broadcast signal including a robust header compression (RoHC) packet stream are disclosed. The broadcast signal transmitting method includes compressing a header of an IP packet included in an IP packet stream to output an RoHC (Robust Header Compression) packet stream, generating a signaling packet including information of at least one RoHC packets included the RoHC packet stream, wherein the signaling packet includes a signaling packet header and a signaling packet payload, wherein the signaling packet header includes signaling information that is included in the signaling packet payload, transporting the signaling packet through a first channel and transporting the RoHC packet stream through a second channel.
US10063673B2
Methods and apparatuses for transmitting and receiving a broadcast signal are disclosed. The broadcast signal transmission method includes generating a plurality of input packets including broadcast data, generating at least one link layer packet using the generated input packets, generating a broadcast signal including the generated at least one link layer packet, and transmitting the generated broadcast signal.
US10063672B2
A network for handling parameter configurations comprises a processing means to execute instructions. The instructions comprise determining a subset of parameter configurations; transmitting information of the subset of parameter configurations to a communication device via a higher layer signaling; selecting at least one parameter configuration from the subset of parameter configurations, wherein the at least one parameter configuration corresponds to at least one communication device, respectively; transmitting information of the at least one parameter configuration to the communication device via a physical layer signaling; transmitting a signal to the communication device via a resource according to a transmission scheme and a parameter configuration of the communication device; and transmitting at least one signal to the at least one communication device via the resource according to the transmission scheme and the at least one parameter configuration.
US10063669B2
A communication device includes: a processor, wherein the processor adds a header corresponding to a second communication rule used by a network to uplink data which is transmitted from a terminal device to a control device to generate uplink transfer data when the communication device does not have a control element which is used for converting the communication rule of the data and corresponds to a first communication rule used by the terminal device; and the processor transmits, through the network, the generated uplink transfer data to a management device which includes the control element, that converts the communication rule of the uplink data in the uplink transfer data from the first communication rule to the second communication rule using the control element, and that transmits the uplink data to the control device.
US10063667B2
One embodiment provides an apparatus comprising an input connector directly mateable with a media device to receive an analog signal. The apparatus further comprises an amplifier configured to amplify the analog signal, an analog-to-digital converter configured to convert the analog signal to a digital signal, a network interface configured to convert the digital signal to a networked compliant digital signal compatible with at least one network protocol, and an output connector mateable with a standard network cable that transmits the networked compliant digital signal.
US10063660B1
A user computing device may receive a command from a user to modify an object of a canvas. The canvas state may be shared between multiple users as part of a collaborative editing session. The received command may be accepted and the user computing device may perform a first operation on the object of the canvas according to the command, such as modifying a mutable attribute. The computing device may perform one or more steps to generate a patch. The computing device may be configured to receive a remote patch and process the remote patch in a manner where some operations of the remote patch are discarded and other operations of the remote patch are applied. A hybrid logical clock may be utilized to coordinate the application of remote patches.
US10063659B2
The monetization of downloadable files associated with a custodial host site based on resolving custodianship to a referrer publisher with subsequent presentation of monetized content within a modal overlay is disclosed. A request from a client device has a resource identifier and a referrer publisher identifier. The request for the downloadable file is evaluated against one or more publisher and custodianship policy rules, which relate to a file extension of the downloadable file, a format of the resource identifier, a custodial domain on which the downloadable file is stored, and a referral domain as specified in the referrer publisher identifier. When custodianship is resolved, a modal overlay on which monetized content is incorporated is presented on the client device. The modal overlay is concurrently displayed with the transfer of the downloadable file to the client device.
US10063650B2
A routing device capable of performing application layer data caching is described. Application data caching at a routing device can alleviate the bottleneck that an application data host may experience during high demands for application data. Requests for the application data can also be fulfilled faster by eliminating the network delays for communicating with the application data host. The techniques described can also be used to perform analysis of the underlying application data in the network traffic transiting though a routing device.
US10063644B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for an instance monitoring service. Instances are associated with alarm conditions indicating a deviation in the operational health of the instance. Upon an alarm condition being satisfied, a remedy operation may be applied to restore the operational health of the instance. A notification system may let customers know of satisfied alarms, and confirm or cancel remedy operations.
US10063642B2
Techniques for supporting location services are disclosed. In an aspect, a generic location session between a terminal and a location server may be established for a particular duration or until the generic location session is terminated by a trigger condition. Parameters related to the generic location session may be exchanged between the terminal and the location server during session establishment. Thereafter, the terminal and the location server may engage in one or more positioning activities at any time during the generic location session. Each positioning activity may be of any type supported by the terminal and the location server. The generic location session can be initiated by either the terminal or the location server. In one design, one entity (e.g., the location server) may initiate the generic location session, and the other entity (e.g., the terminal) may send an end message to terminate the generic location session.
US10063638B2
A method and system for enabling Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe) for accessing remote solid state drives (SSDs) (or other types of remote non-volatile memory) over the Ethernet or other networks. An extended NVMe controller is provided for enabling CPU to access remote non-volatile memory using NVMe protocol. The extended NVMe controller is implemented on one server for communication with other servers or non-volatile memory via Ethernet switch. The NVMe protocol is used over the Ethernet or similar networks by modifying it to provide a special NVM-over-Ethernet frame.
US10063633B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for managing hierarchy and optimization in network function virtualization based networks. In use, a first hardware unit of a plurality of hardware units associated with a network function virtualization (NFV) based communication network is identified, the first hardware unit being identified based on a first load characteristic associated with the first hardware unit. Further, a first virtual network function (VNF) instance associated with the first hardware unit is identified, the first VNF instance being associated with usage of at least one service. Additionally, at least one traffic route associated with the first VNF instance is identified, the at least one traffic route being associated with usage of the at least one service. Furthermore, a second hardware unit for handling at least a portion of a workload associated with the at least one service is identified, the second hardware unit being identified based on a second load characteristic associated with the second hardware unit, and the second hardware unit being capable of utilizing the at least one traffic route. Still yet, a second VNF instance is initiated in the second hardware unit. Moreover, at least part of the at least one service is migrated from the first VNF instance to the second VNF instance without disrupting the service.
US10063629B2
An interactive component-level visual monitoring and control (ICVMC) system of a large-scale information handling system (LIHS) displays on a display device graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that include a visual representation of data centers (DCs) each having functional components operationally configured and interconnected in a system that operates based, at least in part, on one or more set points stored in respective registers. in response to receiving a user selection, ICVMC system changes set point/s respectively in registers in at least one DC based upon a test protocol or a locally-optimized operating protocol to obtain one of a test result and a local optimization of the at least one DC.
US10063622B2
Systems, apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture provide for facilitating upload of one or more electronic files from a user device to a remote server. In some embodiments, a background upload process manages connectivity of the user device to the remote server and staging file uploads in a disconnected mode for automatic processing when connectivity is restored.
US10063621B2
Systems and methods are provided herein for enabling a plurality of users in a closed environment, such as an environment where users cannot access or have limited access to the Internet, to share media while retaining ownership rights to their media, and while ensuring that processing power of their devices is not unduly burdened by the sharing. For example, users may be able to establish a group, and may be able to transfer media amongst one another. The system described herein may recommend content using not only what is stored on the user's device, but also content stored on devices of other users of the established group. Access controls may be implemented to ensure that the media is returned to its rightful owner at the end of a viewing, and to ensure that a user's viewing plans are not interrupted by the desires of another user.
US10063613B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for synchronizing data streams. A client computing device can receive a video stream including image data representing at least one video frame. The image data can include a first timecode encoded within the image data. The client computing device can receive a metadata stream including metadata associated with the at least one video frame and a second time code. The client computing device can extract the first timecode from the image data included in the video stream. The client computing device can determine an offset between the first timecode and the second timecode. The client computing device also can synchronize the video stream with the metadata stream, based on the offset between the first timecode and the second timecode.
US10063601B2
A system, method, and apparatus are provided for identifying clients or consumers of one or more controlled resources within a computing environment (e.g., a data center, a computing cluster). The resources may be controlled via the enforcement of quotas, wherein different clients have different quotas for the controlled resource(s). A client associated with a given call to a resource is identified using a tuple formed from identifiers of multiple services in the call stack, such as a first service (e.g., a front-end or user-facing service) and an immediate service (e.g., a final service in the stack prior to receipt of the call at a gateway, broker, or other entity that manages access to the controlled resources).
US10063598B2
An approach is provided for establishing, authenticating, and accessing a content channel. A channel platform receives an input/request for specifying at least one object to associate with at least one content channel. Further, the channel platform and/or a user/device causes, at least in part, a designation of the at least one object, one or more representations of the at least one object, or a combination thereof as at least one key for accessing the at least one content channel, wherein an authentication of the at least one key as presented by at least one device causes, at least in part, a granting of an access to the at least one content channel to the at least one device.
US10063595B1
A system is disclosed that includes components and features for enabling enterprise users to securely access enterprise resources (documents, data, application servers, etc.) using their mobile devices. An enterprise can use some or all components of the system to, for example, securely but flexibly implement a BYOD (bring your own device) policy in which users can run both personal applications and secure enterprise applications on their mobile devices. The system may, for example, implement policies for controlling mobile device accesses to enterprise resources based on device attributes (e.g., what mobile applications are installed), user attributes (e.g., the user's position or department), behavioral attributes, and other criteria. Client-side code installed on the mobile devices may further enhance security by, for example, creating a secure container for locally storing enterprise data, creating a secure execution environment for running enterprise applications, and/or creating secure application tunnels for communicating with the enterprise system.
US10063588B2
The invention proposes a new device and method that allows scanning and downloading the content of a portable storage device (i.e., USB drive) from any computer with a portable storage device plug and a browser without the risk of having the computer infected by virus or malware resident in the portable storage device. The device can be manufactured in a small and portable device.
US10063585B2
Methods, and devices implementing the methods, use device-specific classifiers in a privacy-preserving behavioral monitoring and analysis system for crowd-sourcing of device behaviors. Diverse devices having varying degrees of “smart” capabilities may monitor operational behaviors. Gathered operational behavior information may be transmitted to a nearby device having greater processing capabilities than a respective collecting device, or may be transmitted directly to an “always on” device. The behavior information may be used to generate behavior vectors, which may be analyzed for anomalies. Vectors containing anomaly flags may be anonymized to remove any user-identifying information and subsequently transmitted to a remote recipient such as a service provider or device manufacture. In this manner, operational behavior information may be gathered about different devices from a large number of users, to obtain statistical analysis of operational behavior for specific makes and models of devices, without divulging personal information about device users.
US10063578B2
In one embodiment, a device in a network analyzes local network data regarding a portion of the network that is local to the device using a first anomaly detection model. The device analyzes the local network data using a second anomaly detection model that was trained in part using remote network data regarding a portion of the network that is remote to the device. The device compares outputs of the first and second anomaly detection models. The device identifies the local network data as peculiar, in response to the first anomaly detection model determining the local network data to be normal and the second anomaly detection model determining the local network data to be anomalous.
US10063576B2
Systems, methods, and media for detecting network anomalies are provided. In some embodiments, a training dataset of communication protocol messages having argument strings is received. The content and structure associated with each of the argument strings is determined and a probabilistic model is trained using the determined content and structure of each of the argument strings. A communication protocol message having an argument string that is transmitted from a first processor to a second processor across a computer network is received. The received communication protocol message is compared to the probabilistic model and then it is determined whether the communication protocol message is anomalous.
US10063569B2
Embodiments of an invention for custom protection against side channel attacks are disclosed. In one embodiment, a processor includes instruction hardware and execution hardware. The instruction hardware is to receive an instruction to provide for shielding code against side channel attacks, wherein the instruction includes a first operand to specify one of a plurality of levels of protection. The execution hardware is to execute the instruction, wherein execution of the instruction includes configuring the processor to provide a specified level of protection.
US10063558B2
Methods and apparatuses for blocking unauthorized data access are provided, one of methods comprises, monitoring whether there is an access to an object by an accessing instance, receiving an user operation event from a user accessibility management module, wherein the user operation event is created by the user accessibility management module and includes information on a user operation object and blocking at least one of the access to the object and a transmission of the object to an external device via a network, in accordance with the access to the object is monitored, when the accessed object is different from the user operation object or no user operation event is provided for the accessed object.
US10063548B1
Particular systems, methods, and program products for web-based security systems for user authentication and processing in a distributed computing environment are disclosed. A computing sub-system may receive an electronic processing request and a first signed data packet having a first payload that was hashed and encrypted using a first private key. The first payload may comprise first processing output and a first timestamp. The sub-system may verify the first signed data packet by decrypting it using a first public key. The sub-system may execute computing operations to satisfy the electronic processing request, producing second processing output. The sub-system may configure a data packet with a second payload comprising at least the second processing output and a second timestamp. The sub-system may encrypt the second payload using a second private key producing a second signed data packet. The sub-system may transmit to a second sub-system the second signed data packet.
US10063540B2
The embodiments set forth systems and techniques to authenticate a user device for device services, such as by transferring or extending a trusted device status from a separate and trusted associated user device, which can be paired with the user device. This can be done automatically without requiring the user to sign in at or on behalf of the user device, and the automated process can include verifying a trusted status for the associated user device, receiving data items from both devices, evaluating the data items, and facilitating an authentication of the user device when the evaluating returns a favorable result. Data items can include provisioned machine identifiers, temporally limited one-time user passwords, and a provisioned password reset key. Authentication or trusted device status transfer can be achieved by way of an authentication token that is given to the user device.
US10063539B2
A system and method for using a single-use password to add SSO functionality to a service of a Service Provider belonging to an F-SSO federation that does not support F-SSO functionality for the service. In response to receiving notification from an Identity Provider that a user has requested access to the service, the Service Provider uses information provided by the Identity Provider to identify and authenticate the user, and then uses standard API calls to create and send a temporary password to the user. This password may be created as a function of the user's physical location or IP address and may be communicated out-of-band. Upon determining that the user has correctly returned the temporary password to the Service Provider, the Service Provider generates and sends the user a strong single-use password through a secure in-band communication, through which the user may access the service.
US10063536B2
A method includes receiving a request from a certificate user to utilize a short-term private key-public key pair. The short-term private key-public key pair includes a short-term private key and a public key. The short-term private key may expire after a period less than a year in length. The method further includes generating, using a processor, the short-term private key and generating, using the processor, the public key. The method further includes requesting a public key certificate from a Certificate Authority (CA). The method also includes receiving the public key certificate from the CA and pairing the short-term private key with the public key certificate. The public key certificate may include the public key that corresponds to the short-term private key. The method further includes storing the short-term private key-public key pair to a storage.
US10063532B2
Provided is an authentication apparatus that performs user authentication, using a wearable terminal worn by a user, whereby allowing a high security to be achieved. It includes a storage part that stores a piece of authentication information in which a piece of terminal information that identifies the wearable terminal worn by the user is registered, a communication part that makes communication with the wearable terminal worn by the user to acquire a piece of terminal information, and an authenticating part that performs user authentication in the case where the same piece of terminal information as that registered in the authentication information has been acquired by the communication part.
US10063528B2
A searchable encryption method enables encrypted search of encrypted documents based on document type. In some embodiments, the searchable encryption method is implemented in a network intermediary, such as a proxy server. The network intermediary encrypts documents on behalf of a user or an enterprise destined to be stored on a cloud service provider. The searchable encryption method encodes document type information into the encrypted search index while preserving encryption security. Furthermore, the searchable encryption method enables search of encrypted documents using the same encrypted index, either for a particular document type or for all encrypted documents regardless of the document type.
US10063518B2
A method for reducing data transfer connections is provided. The method may include receiving data requests associated with devices. The method may further include collecting data associated with the devices based on the data requests. Additionally, the method may include identifying applications for receiving the collected data. The method may also include generating datasets based on the collected data and the identified applications, wherein the datasets include collected data that is combined based on a commonality for transmission to one or more common applications. The method may further include generating passwords for the datasets. The method may also include encrypting the passwords. The method may further include generating data blocks, including a dataset, the generated and encrypted passwords, and UUIDs for each application. The method may also include transmitting the data blocks to the identified applications. The method may further include receiving and transmitting data responses from the applications.
US10063515B2
A method is presented for taking an unknown field of transponders and converting them to a slotted Aloha architecture and increasing the throughput allowed by the slotted Aloha architecture by using several different techniques including shortening the time of empty and collided timeslots, implementing a unique random number generator that creates random numbers that are uniquely based on an individual tags location, and on an ability to estimate the total number of transponders and control the offered rate such that throughput is always maximum. While these techniques work well together and produce the most benefit when used together, they are independent techniques and any one may be used alone without the others. Thus a system might use the estimated total number of transponders technique and the timeslot shortening technique, but use a standard random number generator rather one based on transponder location with only a small decrease in overall performance.
US10063509B2
A method, system, and or computer program product manages message threads. A message server detects a message thread addressed to a client device. The message thread is an exchange of multiple message replies related to a first topic discussed in an initial message. The multiple message replies are from multiple other client devices. The message server caches the multiple message replies in a messages cache, and determines whether a quantity of messages in the message thread exceeds a predetermined limit during a specified amount of time. If so, then the message server generates a consolidated single message that describes content of the multiple message replies in the message thread, and transmits the consolidated single message to the client device, such that the consolidated single message replaces the multiple message replies for display on the client device.
US10063507B2
A collaboration system provides a combination of technical features to address complex collaboration between geographically distributed teams. The collaboration system implements follow and notify functionality, monitor and engage functionality, and capture functionality. The collaboration system may, for instance, tailor data flows and notifications of significant workflow events via a dynamically tuned subscription model. The system may also create a digital collaboration workspace supported by automation and machine learning functionality. In addition, the system may create documentation of collaboration with automatic recommendation of metadata tags to support search and cataloging of the documentation.
US10063503B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for sending, from a first computing device, an email digest in an email message to a second computing device at a first point in time, wherein the email digest includes one or more content items for display at the second computing device when the email digest in the email message is accessed. An action is determined to be performed on a content item of the one or more content items at a second point in time that is after the first point in time. The content item of the one or more content items in the email digest is filtered from the email message based upon, at least in part, determining that the action is performed on the content item of the one or more content items at the second point in time.
US10063500B2
A system for introducing live content into an electronic mail message comprising at least one dynamic live content area sent through an e-mail service provider system comprises memory and a click manager. The memory includes live content comprising image data and expiration data. The click manager receives an indication of the opening of the message by a recipient, wherein the click manager accesses the memory to retrieve live content and send the retrieved live content for rendering in the dynamic live content area of the e-mail message opened by the one of the plurality of recipients.
US10063495B2
Accordingly, there is provided an IMS node, comprising a transmission module and a processor. The transmission module is arranged to send SIP messages to a plurality of other IMS nodes. The processor arranged to detect an error in a particular other IMS node, the error indicating that the particular other IMS node is not available to receive traffic. In response to detection of such an error, the processor causes the particular other IMS node not to be used for a period of time. The transmission module is further arranged to send at least one test message to the particular other IMS node when the period of time expires. The processor is further arranged to determine if the at least one test message is successfully processed by the particular other IMS node, and in response to a positive determination then returning the particular other IMS node to use.
US10063493B2
Various embodiments for elastic resource provisioning in a disaggregated cloud computing environment, by a processor device, are provided. Respective members of pools of hardware resources within the disaggregated cloud computing environment are provisioned to a tenant according to an application-level service level agreement (SLA). Upon detecting a potential violation of the application-level SLA, additional respective members of the pools of hardware resources are provisioned on a component level to the tenant to avoid a violation of the SLA by one of a scale-up process and a scale-out process.
US10063490B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for implementing runtime experiments with user interface configurations. In at least one implementation, an online application service receives access requests associated with various client applications attempting to access the online application service. In response to the access requests, the online application service communicates with an experiment control service to identify an experimental configuration in accordance with which to present a user interface to the online application service. The experiment control service selects the experimental configuration from various experimental configurations. The user interface is then presented in accordance with the experimental configuration identified for each of the client applications.
US10063486B2
A method for conserving network and battery usage is provided. The method includes determining that a device is communicating over at least two overlapping push channels and blocking one of the push channels to eliminate or reduce overlap between the at least two overlapping push channels. Related systems are also provided.
US10063481B1
A congestion management protocol that can be used for small messages in which the last-hop switch determines the congestion of the end point. The last-hop switch drops messages when the end point is congested and schedules a retransmission. A second congestion management protocol transmits small messages in a speculative mode to avoid the overhead caused by reservation handshakes.
US10063476B2
There is provided a content centric networking system providing a differentiated service that includes a client device that creates an interest packet, an edge router directly connected to the client device in the content centric networking system, that determines a traffic class for an interest packet on the basis of the information included in an interest packet received from the client device, and marks the determined traffic class information in association with the interest packet; and a differentiated service router, which when receiving the interest packet added with the traffic class information, stores the traffic class information in a pending interest table (PIT) and differentially transmits the data requested by the interest packet in accordance with the traffic class information.
US10063472B2
A wireless communication terminal including a transmitter which transmits, to an external device, a frame including n frame sets each including a subheader field, a frame check sequence field, and a frame body field including data, where n is an integer of two or more. The subheader field includes a sequence number field which notifies a sequence number; a more fragment field which notifies whether or not the data is a last fragment; and a frame body length field which notifies a length of the frame body field. A receiver receives, from the external device, a response frame notifying a successively and successfully received maximum sequence number which indicates a highest sequence number among sequence numbers indicated in sequence number fields of frame sets which have been successively and successfully received by the external device among the n frame sets included in the transmitted frame. The receiver receives one response frame per transmitted frame, even if more than two frame sets among the n frame sets have been successfully received.
US10063455B2
A method for obtaining and utilizing internet protocol (IP) subnet information, the method may include obtaining by a layer two cable modem termination system (L2 CMTS) information about IP subnets that comprise DHCP leased IP addresses assigned to devices serviced by the L2 CMTS; and maintaining, by the L2 CMTS and based on the information about the IP subnets, a data structure that reflects the IP subnets that comprise the IP addresses that are allocated to the devices serviced by the L2 CMTS.
US10063451B2
In general, techniques for are described for providing application metadata using an Internet Protocol Flow Information eXport (IPFIX) protocol in computer networks. In one example, a first network device including a processor and a memory may perform the techniques. The processor may be configured to determine types of the application metadata that the first network device has a capability to detect through analysis of network packets. The application metadata may comprise data representative of network protocols used by networking processes that exchange packets. The memory may be configured to store the application metadata. The processor may further be configured to execute the IPFIX protocol to advertise the types of the application metadata to a second network device configured to collect a subset of the application metadata.
US10063447B2
In one embodiment, an ingress network virtualization edge (NVE) in a computer network generates an echo packet, and sets an indication in the echo packet that the echo packet is for overlay path validation. In addition, the ingress NVE sets a message type of the echo packet to a generic echo request, and includes virtualization network (VN) context information within the echo packet. Once setting a destination address of the echo packet as an egress NVE address and including an indication to the egress NVE that the echo packet is an operations, administration, and management (OAM) message, the ingress NVE may then send the echo packet toward the egress NVE (e.g., to validate the VN context information and/or to reveal multipath traces).
US10063445B1
A method of detecting misconfiguration of a hardware resource during a software deployment in a service provider may include receiving configuration data for the hardware resource, the configuration data being associated with a hardware layer, an operating system layer and an application layer of the hardware resource. At least a first fingerprint may be generated using the configuration data associated with the hardware resource. Software may be deployed to the hardware resource. Updated configuration data for the hardware resource may be received, the updated configuration data being associated with the hardware layer, the operating system layer and the application layer of the hardware resource after the deployment. A second fingerprint associated with the hardware resource that is based on the updated configuration data may be generated. The first fingerprint may be compared to the second fingerprint to determine whether the software deployment was successful.
US10063441B2
The present invention provides a system for calculating latency in a distributed data flow environment. The system includes a plurality of hop servers and a central registry server. The plurality of hops servers is configured to receive a plurality of data packets across a time window, bucket each of the data packets of the plurality of data packets received across the time window into one or more buckets and transmit count of the plurality of the data packets in the one or more buckets and a window identifier associated with the time window to the central registry server. Each of the data packet of the plurality of data packets includes a header. The central registry server is configured to receive a plurality of counts and a plurality of window identifiers, to receive a latency query and to calculate latency.
US10063438B2
A system for securely distributing and managing resources includes a smart device, a resource management device, and a third party system, each having communication interfaces, and memory device, and processing device. In the resource management device, the processing device is configured to: receive from a smart device a set of smart device data via the smart device communication interface; detect within the set of smart device data a subset of data associated with a failure condition of the smart device; and communicate a set of instruction information to a third party system, wherein the instruction information is usable by the third party system to initiate a targeted communication between a host entity system associated with the smart device and the custodian such that maintenance, repair, and/or replacement of the smart device can be effectuated.
US10063416B2
A redundant mesh communications network uses multiple controllers or controller gateways to route messages and to monitor the integrity of wired and wireless mesh system elements. Such multiple control units and multiple paths provide various redundant communications solutions, thereby avoiding a single point of failure in the network.
US10063414B2
One embodiment provides a transport stack updating system that facilitates updating a component of a transport stack of a computer system. During operation, the system sets, by a component of the transport stack, a state of the component as quiesced in response to receiving a pause message. A component in the quiesced state is precluded from processing an interest or a content object. The system determines whether the pause message triggers a rejection passes an acknowledgment message of the pause message up the transport stack. The acknowledgment message indicates that the pause message has been successfully processed by a respective component of the transport stack.
US10063409B2
A method for managing a plurality of computing machines comprises deploying an indication of a management activity having an applicability rule to selected one or more of the computing machines to cause each of the selected computing machines fulfilling the applicability rule to execute the management activity on the selected computing machine, receiving an error message for each failure computing machine of the selected computing machines wherein the execution of the management activity has failed, determining at least one relevant property of each failure computing machine among a plurality of selected properties of the computing machines according to the corresponding error message, collecting a value of at least part of the selected properties for at least part of the computing machines, the values of the selected properties comprising a failure value of each relevant property for each failure computing machine, and updating the applicability rule according to the failure values.
US10063407B1
A method of identifying a failed egress path of a hardware forwarding element. The method detects an egress link failure in a data plane of the forwarding element. The method generates a link failure signal in the data plane identifying the failed egress link. The method generates a packet that includes the identification of the egress link based on the link failure signal. The method sets the status of the egress link to failed in the data plane based on the identification of the egress link in the generated packet.
US10063397B1
A method and apparatus for a novel adaptive equalization technique for a Serializer/Deserializer receiver is disclosed. In one approach, adjustment of AC and DC gains is performed before DFE coefficients are adjusted. Further after the equalization an electrical idle threshold may be set based on the results of the equalization.
US10063394B2
The disclosure relates to a method (60) performed in a network node (2) for estimating a channel. The network node (2) controls an antenna array (3) comprising a number N of antennas (51, . . . , 5N) in one or more spatial dimensions. The network node (2) comprises a receiver (72) receiving signals from the antenna array (3). The method (60) comprises: obtaining (61) matched filter channel estimates for each sub-carrier and antenna of a signal received by the antennas (51, . . . , 5N), the signal comprising a number K of frequency sub-carriers; arranging (62) the obtained matched filter channel estimates in a first multi-dimensional array, wherein time or frequency domain samples of the matched filter channel estimates are arranged along a first dimension and wherein a second dimension is a first spatial dimension of the number N of antennas, wherein the matched filter channel estimates are ordered in the first multi-dimensional array such as to reflect the physical location in space of the antennas (51, . . . , 5N); applying (63) an orthogonal transform to the first multi-dimensional array, providing a second multi-dimensional array; de-noising (64) the second multi-dimensional array, providing a third multi-dimensional array; applying (65) the inverse of the orthogonal transform to the third multi-dimensional array, providing channel estimates for all branches of the receiver (72). The disclosure also relates to corresponding network node, computer program and computer program products.
US10063392B2
Methods and apparatus to select a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) border element are disclosed. An example method comprises sending a first session initiation protocol (SIP) protocol message from a first voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) device, the first SIP message comprising an Internet protocol (IP) address shared by at least two VoIP border elements, and receiving a second SIP message at the first VoIP device from a second VoIP device, the second SIP message comprising a unique address for the second VoIP device, the second VoIP device to be selected based on the shared IP address.
US10063391B2
A subscriber station for a bus system and a method for improving the reception quality in the bus system are provided. The subscriber station includes an acquisition device for acquiring a bus state of a bus of the bus system, and a symmetrization device for the symmetrization, on the basis of the result of the acquisition device, of the bit durations and/or of the delay time durations of the rising and falling edge of a bit of signals received from the bus.
US10063384B2
According to an embodiment, a multiplexing device includes: a packet generating unit which generates one or more third packets based on at least one of one or more first packets and a second packet; a main signal generating unit which generates from the third packets a main signal; an information generating unit which generates transmission multiplexing control information; a slot generating unit which generates a slot by combining the transmission multiplexing control information and the main signal corresponding to the information described in the transmission multiplexing control information having been generated a predetermined number of frames prior to the currently generated transmission multiplexing control information; and a time writing unit which writes a time in the second packet in the main signal included in the generated slot.
US10063376B2
Aspects include providing automatic access control and security for a synchronous input/output (I/O) link. Providing automatic access control and security includes initializing devices of a storage environment over a first link to verify that the devices are available within the storage environment; building a table of identifiers, where each of the identifiers is assigned one of the devices that have been initialized; and verifying a first device attempting to perform synchronous I/O commands across the synchronization I/O link by confirming that an identifier assigned to the first device is within the table of identifiers.
US10063370B2
An embodiment relates to a method for processing data that includes (a) calculating a second identifier based on input data, (b) conducting a first operation comparing the second identifier with a first identifier, and (c) conducting a second operation comparing the second identifier with a modified first identifier.
US10063365B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus for inserting a re-timer signal between a transmitter and a receiver, including receiving, from the transmitter, an input data signal having encoded words, where each encoded word of the encoded words has a word length of a predetermined number of bits; generating, by a re-timer and based on the input data signal, a regenerated clock signal and an output data signal; determining, based on the regenerated clock signal, a timing difference between the input data signal and the output data signal of the re-timer; and applying, by the re-timer and based on the timing difference between the input data signal and the output data signal, a delay to the input data signal to generate a delayed output data signal, such that a timing difference between the input data signal and the delayed output data signal corresponds to N word lengths.
US10063364B2
A full-duplex transceiver is provided with componentry and methods for cancellation of nonlinear self-interference signals. The transceiver is capable of receiving an incoming radio-frequency signal that includes both a desired radio-frequency signal component and a self-interference component caused by the transceiver's own radio-frequency transmission. The transceiver demodulates the incoming radio-frequency signal to generate a first demodulated signal. The transceiver combines an analog corrective signal with the first demodulated signal to generate a second demodulated signal with reduced self-interference. The transceiver processes the first and second demodulated signals to determine a desired incoming baseband signal and to determine nonlinear components of the self-interference signal, such as nonlinearities introduced by the transceiver's power amplifier.
US10063363B2
A intelligent backhaul radio is disclosed, which can operate by zero division duplexing for use in PTP or PMP topologies, providing for significant spectrum usage benefits among other benefits. Specific system architectures and structures to enable active cancellation of multiple transmit signals at multiple receivers within a MIMO radio are disclosed. Further disclosed aspects include the adaptive optimization of cancellation parameters or coefficients.
US10063361B2
A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device comprising a memory to store instructions and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein responsive to executing the instructions, the processor performs operations. The operations comprise receiving signals over a spectrum of frequencies, providing location data of the device to a base station, receiving a request from a base station to perform a spectral analysis of the signals, detecting an interference among the signals, and providing, in response to the request, data to the base station regarding a source of the interference, wherein the data comprises a location of the source relative to the device, spectral data for identifying the source, and a time a frequency of occurrence of the interference. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10063358B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a pilot signal sending and receiving method and apparatus, wherein the pilot signal sending method includes: establishing a first correspondence between a carrier identifier and a pilot pattern of a first type of pilot signal; establishing a second correspondence between a carrier identifier and a resource block set; acquiring a target carrier identifier of a target carrier; determining a location of a target resource block set corresponding to the target carrier identifier; determining a target pilot pattern that is of a first type of pilot signal and that corresponds to the target carrier identifier; mapping, according to the target pilot pattern, the first type of pilot signal to each resource block in the target resource block set on the target carrier. In this method, mapping is performed on a pilot signal only in a resource block set, which may reduce pilot redundancy and overheads.
US10063353B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for automatically injecting symbol errors into a data stream prior to transmitting the data stream for timing recovery robustness are disclosed. In one aspect, a first telecommunications device determines that a data transition rate of a data stream exceeds a pre-specified rate. In response to the determination that the data transition rate exceeds the pre-specified rate, the first telecommunications device injects symbol errors into the data stream prior to transmitting the data stream to a second telecommunications device. The pre-specified rate is based on at least a nominal passband of the second telecommunications device.
US10063350B2
A User Equipment (UE) for sending Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) information is described. The UE includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The UE determines a primary cell (PCell) configuration. The UE also determines a secondary cell (SCell) configuration. The UE further determines whether the PCell configuration specifies uplink (UL) and the SCell configuration specifies downlink (DL) for a subframe or whether the PCell configuration specifies DL and the SCell configuration specifies DL for the subframe. The UE additionally determines a HARQ Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) reporting subframe based on the PCell configuration if the PCell configuration specifies DL and the SCell configuration specifies DL for the subframe. The UE also sends SCell Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) HARQ-ACK information in the HARQ-ACK reporting subframe.
US10063346B2
A method (600) for protecting a data transport block against memory errors and transmission errors includes: attaching (601) a first redundancy section to the data transport block for protecting the data transport block against memory errors and providing the data transport block in a memory buffer; attaching (602) a second redundancy section to the data transport block read from the memory buffer for protecting the data transport block against transmission errors and providing the data transport block for transmission; and invalidating (603) the second redundancy section if an evaluation of the first redundancy section of the data transport block read from the memory buffer indicates a memory error.
US10063345B2
A transmitting apparatus is disclosed. The transmitting apparatus includes an encoder to perform channel encoding with respect to bits and generate a codeword, an interleaver to interleave the codeword, and a modulator to map the interleaved codeword onto a non-uniform constellation according to a modulation scheme, and the constellation may include constellation points defined based on various tables according to the modulation scheme.
US10063340B2
In a cell where messages having a message type are sent without knowledge of radio frequency conditions for individual ones of user equipment within the cell, measured radio frequency conditions are accessed of multiple user equipment within the cell. Based on the measured radio frequency conditions, a minimum control channel coding rate is determined for a control channel for messages having the message type. Subsequent to a determination of the minimum control channel coding rate, transmission is caused toward all user equipment in the cell of the messages having the message type using the determined minimum control channel coding rate for the control channel. Methods, apparatus, computer programs, and program products are disclosed. The methods may be performed by a base station, self-organizing network server, or other apparatus.
US10063334B2
A device and a method for generating a secondary timing signal that is synchronous with a primary timing signal are presented. The method comprises deriving (401) an auxiliary timing signal from an auxiliary signal received at a first site and correcting (402, 403) the timing phase of the auxiliary timing signal so as to obtain the timing phase for the secondary timing signal. The timing phase is corrected with the aid of the following a) a constant phase shift between the auxiliary timing signal and another auxiliary timing signal derived in a second site where both the primary timing signal and the auxiliary signal are available and b) a dynamic phase shift between the other auxiliary timing signal and the primary timing signal at the second site.
US10063332B2
A method of receiving a broadcast signal in a receiver. The received broadcast signal is demodulated. The demodulated broadcast signal is parsed to output at least one signal frame. The at least one signal frame includes first data, second data, and signaling data. The signaling data is decoded. The first data and the second data are decoded with different code rates, respectively. The at least one signal frame includes known data for channel estimation. The at least one signal frame includes a plurality of subframes, and the subframes include a plurality of data units. A first data unit in the data units includes the first data, and a second data unit in the data units includes the second data. The signaling data includes information for fast service acquisition which allows the receiver to locate upper layer signaling information. The signaling data further includes information on encoding type of data.
US10063326B1
An impedance matching network between a transmitter and an antenna. The impedance matching network comprises of a watt meter coupled to the transmitter for measuring a standing wave ratio (“SWR”). A first unbalanced to unbalanced transformer (“first unun”) with an impedance ratio of N:1 is selectively coupled in series with the watt meter. A microprocessor is coupled to the watt meter for determining iteratively whether the first unun lowers the standing wave ratio (“SWR”) in response to switching the first unun in and out of a series connection with the antenna.
US10063322B2
A signal shifted from a carrier frequency in a frequency domain by using digital signal processing is generated, and the optical modulator is driven with a drive signal based on the signal. A monitor monitors whether or not a component of a modulated signal light output from the optical modulator appears in a specific frequency depending on a frequency shift performed by the digital signal processing, and the controller controls a relation between a sign of the drive signal and an operating point of the optical modulator according to a monitored result.
US10063315B2
A method and system for high-precision two-way fiber-optic time transfer comprising pre-adjusting, including calculating a local timing signal adjustment amount for a first fiber-optic time synchronization unit and a second fiber-optic time synchronization unit, and the corresponding adjusting. and following steps including the two fiber-optic time synchronization units conducting two-way time transfer based on a time division multiplexing transmission over an optical fiber link. The present invention realizes high-precision fiber-optic time transfer by combining two-way time transfer and bidirectional time division multiplexing technique.
US10063307B2
A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, the apparatus comprises a receiver to receive the broadcast signals, a demodulator to demodulate the received broadcast signals by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme, a frame parser to parse a signal frame from the demodulated broadcast signals, wherein the signal frame includes at least one service data, a time deinterleaver to time deinterleave each the service data, wherein the time deinterleaving is performed depending on a number of physical paths for each the service data, a damapper to demap the time deinterleaved data and a decoder to decode the demapped service data.
US10063301B2
The invention is directed to systems, methods and computer program products for determining a transmission path for a data packet through a network. An exemplary method comprises: tagging, at a first node, a data packet with at least one of a direction or a location of a second node; determining whether the second node is in a transmission area of the first node; in response to determining the second node is not in the transmission area of the first node, selecting a third node within the transmission area of the first node based on the at least one of the direction or the location of the second node; and transmitting the data packet to the third node.
US10063296B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method includes: receiving a reference signal sent by abase station; selecting, based on the reference signal, a precoding matrix from a codebook, where a precoding matrix W included in the codebook is a product of three matrices being W1, Z, and W2, that is, W=W1ZW2, where both W1 and Z are block diagonal matrices, W1=a formula (I), Z=a formula (II), each of W1 and Z includes at least one block matrix, that is, NB≥1, and each column of each block matrix Zi in the matrix Z has the following structure formula (III); and sending a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) to the base station, where the PMI corresponds to the selected precoding matrix, and is used by the base station to obtain the selected precoding matrix W according to the PMI.
US10063292B2
Methods, devices, and computer-readable media for wireless communication may involve techniques for managing multi-user (MU) operation when a device in a wireless network has coexisting radios. Such techniques may involve identifying a change in a multiple radio access technology (RAT) coexistence status of a first device, e.g., a change between a coexistence status that is not disruptive to MU communications and one that is disruptive. For a device communicating with a network using Wi-Fi, the change in the multiple RAT coexistence status may indicate a change between inactive Bluetooth (BT) communications and active BT communications concurrent with Wi-Fi communications. Based at least in part on the identified change in the multiple RAT coexistence status, a MU communications operation at a second device may be adjusted, for example, by disabling MU communication between the first and second devices over a first RAT when the first device changes to a coexistence status that may disrupt MU communications.
US10063291B1
An antenna beam searching method uses a balance puzzle concept to perform group division of a plurality of antenna beams supported by a transmitter end, so as to perform evaluation on the antenna beam group(s) thus divided to determine an angle of departure of the transmitter end.
US10063286B2
An electronic device includes a main body having an aperture, a slot member disposed in the main body, the slot member having a slot exposed by the aperture and in which a memory card of a predetermined size is inserted and a connection terminal electrically connectable to a connection terminal of the memory card, and a coil disposed on a surface of the main body or within the main body so as to overlap with a surface of the slot member that is disposed to face a main surface of the memory card when the memory card is inserted in the slot.
US10063281B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system that performs operations including detecting a signal degradation of electromagnetic waves guided by a transmission medium, and adjusting at least one phase of signal components of the electromagnetic waves to produce adjusted electromagnetic waves having a hybrid wave mode and a non-optical frequency range to mitigate the signal degradation. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10063269B2
An accessory unit includes a front flap and a rear cover. The rear cover includes a recessed portion that defines a chamber and a lip that extends about an opening of the chamber. The chamber is configured to receive a consumer electronic device, and the lip is configured to hold the consumer electronic device therein. The rear cover can include a shell formed from glass fiber reinforced plastics and a lip formed from a thermoplastic. The front flap may include segments formed from panels with folding regions therebetween, which allow the front flap to fold. Further, an end region of the front flap hingedly couples the front flap to the rear cover, such that the front flap may be moved between open and closed configurations. Methods of manufacturing the accessory unit are also disclosed.
US10063267B2
In particular embodiments, a broadband receiver of a wireless communications device may poll a broadband communications channel for configuration data. Once the configuration data has been received, the channel may be established, and connection information may be transmitted to a base station. The connection information may be an identifier for a user of a social-networking system. Based on the identifier, the device may be able to establish a narrowband communications channel with the base station. Using the identifier, the base station may be able to begin retrieving social-networking information for the user while establishing a communications channel using the narrowband transceiver. Once the narrowband communications channel has been established, the wireless communications device may be able to receive the social-networking information over that channel and provide social-networking functionality.
US10063265B2
A digital pre-distortion system can inversely model a power amplifier of a system to linearize the transmitter. A complex baseband model for digital pre-distortion based on a narrowband signal assumption is unworkable for an ultra wide band Cable television application. Predistortion can use a true wide band model including real-valued basis terms, obtained from a real-valued signal. When raised to a power, both even and odd harmonics or both odd or even other non-linear terms are represented and negative frequency fold-over can be accounted for. A Hilbert transform can be applied. Compressed sensing can be used to reduce the number of basis terms in the true real wide band model to generate a sparse model. Sparse equalization can be added to improve the stability of the digital pre-distortion system.
US10063259B2
An interleaving method and apparatus for adaptively determining an interleaving depth of each of one or more interleaving blocks based on a maximum interleaving depth and a number of codewords of a packet, and interleaving the interleaving blocks based on the interleaving depth. The adaptively determining the interleaving depth includes: calculating a number of remaining codewords by performing a modulo operation on a basic interleaving depth and the number of the codewords; and determining the interleaving depth by adjusting the basic interleaving depth based on the number of the remaining codewords.
US10063244B1
Phase-locked loop circuitry to generate an output signal, the phase-locked loop circuitry comprising oscillator circuitry, switched resistor loop filter, coupled to the input of the oscillator circuitry (which, in one embodiment, includes a voltage-controlled oscillator), including a switched resistor network including at least one resistor and at least one capacitor, wherein an effective resistance of the switched resistor network is responsive to and increases as a function of one or more pulsing properties of a control signal (wherein pulse width and frequency (or period) are pulsing properties of the control signal), phase detector circuitry, having an output which is coupled to the switched resistor loop filter, to generate the control signal (which may be periodic or non-periodic). The phase-locked loop circuitry may also include frequency detection circuitry to provide a lock condition of the phase-locked loop circuitry.
US10063239B2
An integrated circuit protection device, including: groups of radiation detection elements distributed in a matrix array; logic gates combining outputs of the detection elements in rows and in columns, each output of a detection element being connected to a gate combining a row and to a gate combining a column; and a circuit for interpreting signals supplied by said logic gates and including an event counter and a delay element.
US10063238B1
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to sequencing. In accordance with one aspect, sequencing includes creating a one hot list; selecting a current word of the one hot list as a one hot list output; comparing the one hot list output with a current accumulation register value of an accumulation register to produce a logical comparison; inputting the logical comparison to the accumulation register to generate an updated accumulation register value; and outputting the updated accumulated register state to a client unit to enable or disable the client unit.
US10063235B2
A semiconductor die includes at least one flexible interface block. The flexible interface block includes at least one interconnect, and at least one buffer coupled to the at least one interconnect. The flexible interface block further includes a routing interface coupled to circuitry integrated in the semiconductor die, and a controller coupled to provide communication between the routing interface and the at least one buffer.
US10063233B2
A method of operating a pull-up circuit includes turning off a first transistor of the pull-up circuit during a failsafe period by a feedback signal, the feedback signal being received by way of a feedback circuit; isolating the first transistor from the feedback circuit during a pull-up period; and coupling or isolating a control terminal of the first transistor and a control terminal of a second transistor of the pull-up circuit during the pull-up period by a first switch.
US10063230B2
An electronic switch with force feedback function includes a base, an actuating component and a. The actuating component is movably connected to the base, and includes a. The magnetic field generating module is disposed on the base, and provides a magnetic repulsive force to the magnetic unit for force feedback while the actuating component moves close to the base.
US10063228B2
A qubit system is provided wherein successive sets of M RF pulses are generated simultaneously, for application to qubit circuits in a plurality of N groups of M qubit circuits. M switching multiplexer circuits are used, each to pass a respective one of the M RF pulses in the set to a selected one of a plurality of N M to one RF combiners in a multiplexing mode. Combined RF pulses at M different RF frequencies are transmitted from each of the N combiners to a transmission structure for a respective one of the groups. Individual ones of the combined RF pulses are coupled from the transmission structure for the group to respective ones of the qubit circuits of the groups via respective frequency selective filters. In a broadcast mode the M switching multiplexer circuits are used to transmit the simultaneous pulses to all of RF combiners.
US10063217B2
A current-to-voltage conversion circuit according to one aspect of the present invention includes a first resistor, a first current source, a first capacitor, a first output terminal, a first voltage source, a first transistor, and a second resistor. The first resistor includes a first end and a second end. The first end of the first resistor is connectable to an electrode included in a sensor and the second end of the first resistor is connected to a first electrical potential. The first capacitor includes a first end and a second end. The first end of the first capacitor is connected to the first end of the first resistor and the second end of the first capacitor is connected to the first current source. The first transistor includes a first terminal, a second terminal, and a control terminal. The first terminal is connected to the second end of the first capacitor, the second terminal is connected to the first output terminal, and the control terminal is connected to the first voltage source. The second resistor includes a first end connected to the second terminal and a second end connected to a second electrical potential.
US10063216B2
In some embodiments, an attenuator can include a first group of attenuation steps with each attenuation step being configured to switchably provide a first attenuation value, and a second group of attenuation steps with each attenuation step being configured to switchably provide a second attenuation value less than the first attenuation value. The attenuator can be capable of providing a total attenuation value from approximately zero to a sum of the attenuation steps of the first group and the second group in increments of the second attenuation value. With such a configuration, a glitch can have a maximum magnitude that is a difference between the first attenuation value and the second attenuation value during a change in the total attenuation value.
US10063207B2
A method and apparatus for processing object-based audio signals is provided. The apparatus receives a plurality of object-based audio signals. Each object-based audio signal of the object-based audio signals includes audio waveform data and object metadata associated with the audio waveform data. The object metadata includes at least one of a loudness parameter or a power parameter associated with the audio waveform data. The apparatus determines a loudness metric based on the received object-based audio signals and based on the at least one of the loudness parameter or the power parameter for each object-based audio signal of the received object-based audio signals. In one configuration, the apparatus renders the received object-based audio signals to a set of output signals based on the determined loudness metric. In another configuration, the apparatus transmits (e.g., broadcast, file delivery, or streaming) the received object-based audio signals based on the determined loudness metric.
US10063205B2
In a related-art semiconductor device, there is a problem that a second-order harmonic distortion originating in a power amplifier driven by a rectangular-wave signal cannot be effectively suppressed. According to an embodiment, a semiconductor device generates a transmission signal RF_OUT for driving an antenna by receiving first transmission pulses INd_P and second transmission pulses INd_N having a duty ratio lower than 50%, adjusting a phase difference between the first and second transmission pulses INd_P and INd_N to a predefined phase difference, and supplying the phase-difference-adjusted first and second transmission pulses INd_P and INd_N to a power amplifier 54.
US10063204B2
The application discusses a computer implemented method and apparatus for performing audio equalisation in an audio receiver device, such as an integrated receiver/decoder or set top box, or integrated TV, connected to one or more audio playback devices, such as a television unit, computer screen and speakers, amplifier or home theatre equipment. The method and apparatus use an equalisation process which compares audio signals received in different audio formats (e.g. MPEG-1 Layer II, AC-3 2.0, AC-3 5.1 and HE-AAC) with one another, allowing a correction gain factor to be determined for equalising the perceived loudness of the signals when played-back at a connected playback device. The correction gain factor is then applied in the audio receiver device before output.
US10063195B2
An amplifier circuit includes a converter configured to convert a predefined physical quantity to a resistance value, and the resistance value converted by the converter is converted to a voltage value and then amplified. The converter includes variable resistance sensors of piezoresistance elements. A bias unit is configured to determine a bias current of the converter, and includes bias resistances. An operation amplifier unit receives, as input signals, output signals from the bias unit and the converter, and includes feedback resistances respectively connected to input and output ends of a first operational amplifier. The first operational amplifier is a whole differential operational amplifier including a common-mode feedback circuit.
US10063194B1
A number of low voltage vacuum tube circuits include using supply voltages well below the manufacturer's recommended voltages applied to the plate or screen grid. Some of the tube circuits operate at near zero plate and or screen grid voltages. Other low voltage circuits have forward biasing on one or more grids that are normally biased at a non positive voltage or a grid that is normally connected a cathode. Substantially lower supply voltages allow for example, the filament supply to also supply voltage to the plate and or grid for providing an output signal at a grid and or a plate. Also one or more voltage controlled resistors circuits are shown that include near zero plate (e.g., supply) voltage.
US10063188B2
A technique for reducing jitter in an oscillating signal generated by an oscillator circuit includes reducing feedback of gate leakage current while increasing electrostatic discharge protection and reducing regulated power supply requirements of the oscillator circuit, as compared to conventional oscillator circuits. A circuit includes a first integrated circuit terminal and a thick gate native transistor of a first conductivity type having a first gate terminal having a first gate thickness. The first gate terminal is coupled to the first integrated circuit terminal. The thick gate native transistor has a first threshold voltage. The thick gate native transistor is configured as a source follower. The circuit includes a second transistor of the first conductivity type having a second gate terminal with a second gate thickness less than the first gate thickness. The second gate terminal is coupled to a source terminal of the thick gate native transistor.
US10063181B2
A system for detecting a decrease in or loss of an input phase to a motor. A power rectifier rectifies and combines three input voltages to produce an output voltage to power the motor. A PFC circuit manages the power flowing to the motor. A sensing circuit located between the power rectifier and the PFC senses a voltage level of the power rectifier's output voltage. Alternatively, a sensing rectifier is connected before the power rectifier, and the sensing circuit senses the voltage level of the sensing rectifier's output voltage. A microprocessor compares the sensed voltage level to a threshold voltage level which is indicative of the decrease in or loss of one of the three input voltages, and if the former drops below the latter, then the microprocessor sends a signal to either shut off the motor or cause the PFC circuit to reduce the power flowing to the motor.
US10063171B2
A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine is provided with: a first determining device configured to determine whether or not the number of revolutions of the internal combustion engine is less than a predetermined number of revolutions and control torque is required for a rotary electric machine; a second determining device configured to determine whether or not required control torque is less than a predetermined threshold value; a first controlling device configured to realize the control state in one arm and to realize the power generation state if the required control torque is less than the predetermined threshold value; a second controlling device configured to realize the control state in both the one arm and the other arm if the required control torque is greater than the predetermined threshold value; and a threshold changing device configured to change the predetermined threshold value to increase with increasing number of revolutions of the internal combustion engine.
US10063170B2
In a described example an apparatus includes: an FET driver circuit configured to supply current to a coil in a stepper motor, the FET driver circuit configured to regulate the current to the coil using a fixed delta current; a current chopper pulse width modulated circuit coupled to the FET driver circuit configured to supply pulses corresponding to a step control signal and a direction control signal; a back electromotive force (BEMF) monitor coupled to the current chopper circuit configured to measure an off time pulse and to output a BEMF monitor signal; and a controller coupled to the current chopper pulse width modulated circuit to supply the step and direction control signals and coupled to receive the BEMF monitor signal.
US10063161B2
Unique systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses of an active neutral point clamped converter (ANPC converter). One exemplary embodiment is a power conversion system comprising a grid-side converter, a DC link, a multi-phase ANPC converter coupled to an electric machine, and an electronic control system. The electronic control system is structured to selectably operate in a first mode and a second mode in response to a device failure state of the ANPC converter, the first mode operating the grid-side converter to provide a first DC link voltage and operating the ANPC converter using a first modulation index, and the second mode operating the grid-side converter to provide a second DC link voltage greater than the first DC link voltage and operating the ANPC converter using a second modulation index lower than the first modulation index.
US10063160B2
A power adapter, a cable, and a charger, where the power adapter includes an output port, a comparator circuit, and a voltage control and shaping circuit. The output port includes a voltage output terminal, a signal feedback terminal, a first ground terminal, and a second ground terminal. The comparator circuit is electrically connected to the signal feedback terminal, and is configured to compare a reference voltage with a charging input voltage of a to-be-charged device that is fed back by the signal feedback terminal to obtain a comparison voltage and output the comparison voltage to the voltage control and shaping circuit.
US10063147B2
The present invention relates to a multiple output boost DC-DC power converter generating two, three or more separate DC output voltages, and to a multi-level power inverter and an alternating current generator both employing the multiple output boost DC-DC power converter.
US10063139B2
The present disclosure shows a hybrid regulator topology that can be more easily integrated and that can maintain high efficiency across a wide output and input voltage range, even with a small inductor. The hybrid regulator topology can include two types of regulators: a flying switched-inductor regulator and a step-down regulator that divides the input voltage into an M/N fraction of the input voltage. The disclosed embodiments of the hybrid regulator topology can reduce the capacitive loss of the flying switched-inductor regulator by limiting the voltage swing across the switches in the flying switched-inductor regulator. The disclosed embodiments of the hybrid regulator topology can reduce the inductor resistive loss of the flying switched-inductor regulator by operating the flying switched-inductor regulator at a high switching frequency and with a small amount of current flow through the inductor.
US10063136B2
The present disclosure relates to a control circuit of the switching power supply including a soft-booting voltage generation circuit, a first comparator, a voltage selection circuit, a switching circuit, a second comparator, an error amplification circuit, and a pulse signal control circuit. During the soft-booting phase and during the operational phase, different superposition voltages are superposed with the control voltage by the voltage selection circuit to obtain the clamping voltage. Thus, different clamping voltages are configured during the soft-booting phase and the operational phase, which contributes to the system stability. In addition, when the output voltage of the switching circuit is greater than the reference voltage, the second comparator outputs the first high level signals to the clock signal generator. The clock signal generator then stops operations, that is, and the control circuit of the switching power supply is in the sleep mode, which enhances the efficiency of the power.
US10063133B2
A power supply device includes a first rectifying unit that converts the AC power passed through an input unit into DC power, a power-factor improving unit that improves a power factor of the DC power output from the first rectifying unit, a first power storage unit that stores the DC power passed through the power-factor improving unit and supplies the stored DC power to a load side, a second rectifying unit connected to a portion where the input unit is connected to the AC power supply, the second rectifying unit converting the AC power into the DC power, a second power storage unit that stores the DC power passed through the second rectifying unit, and a control unit that operates using the electric power stored in the second power storage unit and, when a short-circuit failure occurs in the power-factor improving unit, performs control for interrupting the input unit.
US10063131B2
A method of controlling a secondary-side rectifier switch of a flyback converter, can include: detecting a slope parameter of a secondary-side detection voltage along a predetermined direction, where the secondary-side detection voltage is configured to represent a voltage across a secondary winding of the flyback converter; and controlling the secondary-side rectifier switch to turn on when the slope parameter is greater than a slope parameter threshold, and a relationship between the secondary-side detection voltage and the ON threshold meets a predetermined requirement.
US10063129B2
A flat linear vibration motor is disclosed. The flat linear vibration motor includes a housing having an accommodation space, a first magnet received in the accommodation space and fixed in the housing, a vibrator unit suspended in the housing, the vibrator unit including a third magnet, a driving magnet, and a fourth magnet, the third magnet being such configured that a magnetic pole thereof is similar to an adjacent magnetic pole of the first magnet, a second magnet fixed in the housing, the first magnet, the vibrator unit and the second magnet arranged one by one along a vibration direction of the vibrator unit; the second magnet being such configured that a magnetic pole thereof is similar to an adjacent magnetic pole of the fourth magnet, a guiding member provided for enabling the vibrator unit being suspended within the housing, and guiding the vibrator unit moving along the vibration direction, the guiding member having an inner magnet fixed on the vibrator unit and an outer magnet surrounding the inner magnet, separated from the inner magnet and attached on the housing, a magnetic pole of the inner magnet is similar to an adjacent magnetic pole of the outer magnet, and a driving coil received in the accommodation space and opposed to the driving magnet.
US10063128B2
The present disclosure relates to a linear vibrator including a bottom plate, a voice coil fixed on the bottom plate, a mass block which has a receiving space and located above the voice coil, a magnet array in the receiving space, the magnet array including odd number of longitudinally magnetized first magnets and even number of transversely magnetized second magnets, the first magnets and the second magnets being arranged alternately in a row, and the adjacent first magnets in opposite magnetization direction and the adjacent second magnets in opposite magnetization direction.
US10063121B2
A lid has a fixing surface to be fixed to a metal board so that a metal surface, equipped with no components, of the metal board is in contact with the fixing surface, a through bore provided in laterally close proximity to the fixing surface and exposing mating parts of an external connector with which harnesses are mated, a fixing edge provided around the through bore and fixed to a housing of the external connector; and fixing pedestals projecting from a circumference of the fixing surface and fixed to the control board. A direction of connecting power supply terminals of the external connector to the metal board is a direction being perpendicular to the metal board. A direction of connecting the control board to signal terminals of the external connector is identical to the direction of connecting the power supply terminals to the metal board.
US10063115B2
Provided is a rotor for use in an inner rotor-type motor, comprising a plurality of magnets arranged in a circumferential direction around the center axis, and a rotor core formed of a magnetic material. The rotor core has an inner core part and a plurality of outer core parts. The plurality of outer core parts and the plurality of magnets are alternately arranged in a circumferential direction at a radially outer side of the inner core part. The magnet has a pair of circumferential end surfaces which are magnetic pole surface, and at least one of them is a protruded surface. Also, the magnet has a portion of which circumferential width is wider than a circumferential width of an outer end surface. For this reason, the volume of the magnet can be increased and the magnetic force of the rotor can be increased, without the need to increase the diameter of the rotor. As a result, when such rotor is incorporated into a motor, the torque of the motor can be improved.
US10063109B2
A system for optical wireless power transmission to a power receiving apparatus generally situated in a mobile electronic device. The transmitter has an optical resonator with end reflectors and a gain medium positioned between them, such that an optical beam is generated. The frequency of the beam is selected such that it is absorbed by almost all transparent organic materials in general use. A beam steering unit on the transmitter can direct the beam in any of a plurality of directions, and the beam is absorbed on the receiver by means of an optical-to-electrical power converter, through a low reflection surface. The band gap of this power converter is selected to be smaller than that of the gain medium. The receiver has a voltage converter including an inductor, an energy storage device and a switch. A beam steerer controller ensures that the beam impinges on the receiver.
US10063106B2
A system and method for a self-system analysis in a wireless power transmission network is disclosed. According to some aspects of this disclosure a wireless power transmission network may include one or more wireless power transmitter managers, one or more wireless power receivers, servers, and clouds within a local network to provide wireless power transfer to electronic devices. Wireless power devices in the network may establish, but is not limited to a WiFi connection to share information among all the wireless power devices in the system. Wireless power transmitter managers may monitor everything that happens in the network. If a problem is detected by the wireless power transmitter manager, an analysis of the issue may be done by any device in the network with a copy of the device database. Then a recommendation may be generated for enhancing the system.
US10063099B2
A wireless power receiver for wirelessly receiving a supply of power from a wireless power supplier is disclosed. The wireless power receiver includes a power reception unit for wirelessly receiving wireless power from the wireless power supplier; a rectifier for rectifying the wireless power into power including a DC waveform; a power adjustor for configuring a closed loop with the power reception unit for a first period and transferring the wireless power to the rectifier for a second period to adjust a size of the wireless power; and a controller for determining the first period and the second period, wherein the power adjustor is electrically connected to the power reception unit and the rectifier.
US10063098B2
An electronic module is provided. The electronic module comprises an inductor having a magnetic body with a coil encapsulated in the magnetic body and a substrate having electronic devices thereon, wherein a first electrode is disposed on a top surface of the magnetic body and a second electrode is disposed on a lateral surface of the magnetic body, wherein the top surface of the inductor and the bottom surface of the substrate are configured side by side and electrically connected to each other, wherein a plurality of third electrodes are disposed on a lateral surface of the substrate, for electrically connecting the electronic module to an external circuit board.
US10063088B2
Electrical inductive charging device chassis and cases are provided herein. An example charging case includes a device receiving tray, a sliding tray having a charging interface and an inductive charging base, a stabilizer tray, and a gear having teeth that cooperate with a grooved track of the sliding tray such that when the gear is rotated, the teeth of the gear translate the sliding tray backwards and forwards to retract and extend the sliding tray and charging interface. Another example charging case includes a device receiving tray that protectingly surrounds a computing device, an inductive charging base, a charging interface selectively extendable from the charging case, and an extendable stabilizer that is translatable between a stored configuration and a deployed configuration.
US10063084B2
An apparatus includes a digital battery charger. The digital battery charger includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to convert a terminal voltage of a battery to a first digital signal. The digital battery charger further includes a digital controller coupled to the ADC to receive the first digital signal and provide a set of control signals. The digital battery charger further includes a current digital-to-analog converter (IDAC) coupled to the digital controller to receive the set of control signals and to provide a battery charging current signal.
US10063068B1
A battery system includes a battery module having first and second battery cells. The battery system further includes first and second cell balancing circuits and a microcontroller. The microcontroller determines a first cell balancing current value indicating an amount of electrical current flowing through a first resistor of the first cell balancing circuit based on the first, second, third, and fourth voltage values and a first resistance value. The microcontroller generates a first fault condition code indicating an operational failure of the first transistor in the first balancing circuit if the first cell balancing current value is less than a minimum desired current value.
US10063066B2
For battery control, an apparatus includes a shared bus and a plurality of isolated direct current (DC) to DC bypass converters. Each bypass converter is associated with one battery unit. Inputs of each bypass converter are in parallel electrical communication with the associated battery unit. Outputs of each bypass converter are in parallel electrical communication with the shared bus. Each bypass converter estimates a battery state for each battery unit and controls the battery state to a reference state.
US10063065B2
A wireless power transmitter for receiving external power from a power adaptor includes an output control signal generator configured to generate an output control signal from the external power, and supply the output control signal to the power adaptor; and a wireless power generator configured to generate power to be wirelessly transmitted to a wireless power receiver using the external power supplied by the power adaptor in response to the output control signal, and wirelessly transmit the generated power to the wireless power receiver.
US10063062B2
Detecting presence or absence of plasma is accomplished from probe signals. In one embodiment, a low-power modulated signal is applied to an electrostatic chuck from a bias power generator. A corresponding system then monitors peak-to-peak voltage (Vpp) signal responses or radio frequency current responses. The probe signal can be generated to have insufficient power to either ignite or sustain plasma discharge (or cause component damage). Thus, low-duty and/or low current pulsing signals to be used. Presence or absence of the bulk plasma will then result in different Vpp or radio frequency current values.
US10063060B2
The invention relates to a method for feeding electric power from at least one wind power installation or of a wind farm into an electric supply system having a line voltage and a grid frequency, wherein the method for feeding electric active power and electric reactive power is prepared and the active power that is fed in can be adjusted by means of an active power control as a function of a grid state and/or the reactive power that is fed in can be adjusted by means of a reactive power control as a function of at least one grid state and the active power control or the reactive power control respectively specify a target value that is to be fed in, which value is adjusted by means of an adjustment function as a function of at least one grid state, wherein the adjustment function is specified with the help of points of support, which points are defined by pairs of values each of which comprise a value for the active power or the reactive power respectively, and a value for the grid state.
US10063057B2
Systems, methods, and devices relating to the control of power conditioning systems. For a micro-inverter, a controller block controls the DC/DC converter while a separate controller block controls the DC/AC inverter. A dynamic maximum efficiency tracker (DMET) control block receives state variable outputs from the converter and the inverter. The control block then perturbs specific control input parameters for the converter and the inverter and determines the effect of the perturbation on the converter and inverter efficiencies and on micro-inverter efficiency as a whole. If the efficiency decreases, then the direction of the perturbation is reversed. Other system control tasks, such as maximum power point tracking and DC-bus voltage regulation can be performed concurrently by adjusting other control input parameters.
US10063050B2
A power supply system includes a plurality of power supply apparatuses whose inputs and outputs are respectively connected in parallel with one another. The output of each of the plurality of power supply apparatuses is wired-OR connected to a synchronization pulse bus line in an open collector structure or an open drain structure. The plurality of power supply apparatuses each include a synchronization pulse generator generating a synchronization pulse for synchronization of a switching cycle, and a switching control circuit, connected to the synchronization pulse bus line, performing switching control of a switch device in synchronization with a signal of the synchronization pulse bus line. There is no distinction between a master power supply apparatus and a slave power supply apparatus in the plurality of power supply apparatuses. Further, generation of noise due to a transmission line for a synchronization signal is avoided.
US10063048B2
Circuit configurations and related methods are provided that may be implemented using insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) device circuitry to protect at risk circuitry (e.g., such as high voltage output buffer circuitry or any other circuitry subject to undesirable ESD events) from damage due to ESD events that may occur during system assembly. The magnitude of the trigger voltage VT1 threshold for an IGBT ESD protection device may be dynamically controlled between at least two different values so that trigger voltage VT1 threshold for an IGBT ESD protection device may be selectively reduced when needed to better enable ESD operation.
US10063047B2
A system for monitoring performance of an aircraft windshield includes a sensor comprising a sensory contact and an evaluation unit. The sensory contact is in physical contact with one or more components of the windshield, and generates a signal representative of the performance of the component(s) of the windshield. An electrical connector is secured to the surface of the windshield facing the interior of the aircraft. The signal from the sensory contact passes through the connector to the evaluation unit. The evaluation unit acts on the signal to determine the performance of the component(s) of the windshield, wherein the evaluation unit is spaced from and out of physical contact with the windshield and the electrical connector, and is in electrical contact with the electrical connector.
US10063044B2
A rigid joint assembly for jointing two cables; the assembly includes outer cable entry parts outside a water-tight casing assembly. A first and second cable insulation system deformation preventing devices are provided, each including a rigid pipe, which surrounds a respective first or second cable core end section, and a bedding material layer, which extends at least partially along a length of an inner surface of the respective rigid pipe. The assembly further includes first and second grooved pipes of elastic material having a plurality of grooves on the side facing the cable, each grooved pipe surrounding the respective first or second cable core end section at a respective inner cable entry part inside the water-tight casing assembly 30.
US10063027B2
The present invention provides a semiconductor laser device for improving temperature characteristics of waveguide structures and realizing stable light emitting patterns and high output, and a method for making the same. The semiconductor laser device (1) comprises: an n-type clad layer (5) laminated on a substrate (2); an active layer (6) laminated on the n-type clad layer (5); a p-type clad layer (7) laminated on the active layer (6); and a plurality of waveguide structures (8) formed on the p-type clad layer (7) and having a ridge of a horn shape in top view. In this configuration, a divider (29) is formed between adjacent waveguide structures (8), and the divider (29) comprises: a groove (30) dividing the active layer (6); and a heat dissipation material (34) filled in the groove (30) and having a thermal conductivity higher than a thermal conductivity of a semiconductor layer (4).
US10063021B1
A connector assembly that includes an outer shell and a first communication connector. The first communication connector and/or the outer shell is/are movable about one or more degrees of freedom. The first communication connector is configured to form a first electrical or optical connection with an external communication connector. Optionally, the connector assembly includes a second communication connector. The first communication connector may be connected to a cable or the optional second communication connector by a flexible substrate positioned inside the outer shell. The first communication connector may be implemented as a fiber optic connector optically connected to either a fiber optic cable or the second communication connector, which may also be implemented as a fiber optic connector.
US10063019B1
The present disclosure relates to an LED LAN cable connector capable of high speed data transmission, and according to the present disclosure, it is possible to effectively prevent the data speed from decreasing and the data from being blocked when applying external power source to the LAN cable connector where an LED is installed.
US10063011B2
Examples disclose an electrical connector comprising a first pin and a second pin. Each pin has a different length corresponding to a different data signaling rate.
US10063007B2
A wire cover (10) is mounted on a rear surface of a housing (30) so that a bundle of wires can be (31) pulled out in a predetermined direction from a rear surface of the housing (30). The wire cove (10) includes a band inserting portion (15) having a curved shape to extend along a part of an outer surface of the bundle of the wires (31) in a circumferential direction and defines a route for a binding member (40) for binding the bundle of the wires (30). A lock fixing portion (47) is provided on an end of the band inserting portion (15) in the circumferential direction and is configured to position a lock (42) of the binding member (40) for locking a band (41) wound around the bundle of wires (31) at a predetermined position, and a reinforcing portion (18) is provided on the lock fixing portion (17).
US10063002B2
A network includes a first device control assembly and at least one second device control assembly. The first device control assembly is electrically connected to a power distribution panel. The first device control assembly is further configured to regulate a load. The at least one second device control assembly is electrically connected to a power distribution panel. The first device control assembly is in data communication with the at least one second device control assembly. The first device control assembly regulating the load based on the data communication from the at least one second device control assembly.
US10062997B2
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and a number of contacts over-molded in the insulative housing, each of the contacts including: a conductive member comprising a base portion and a contact portion projected from the base portion and exposed out of the insulative housing for being electrically connected with a mating connector contact; and a connecting member electrically connected with the conductive member. The connecting member includes a soldering portion soldered with the base portion, an elastic portion for connecting to a printed circuit board, and a connecting portion connected between the soldering portion and the elastic portion.
US10062995B2
An electrical connector includes a terminal having a connecting portion to be connected to an electrical circuit board and a contact portion to be contacted with a mating connector; and a housing for holding the terminal. The housing includes a fixed housing and a movable housing arranged to be movable relative to the fixed housing. The terminal includes a fixed side held portion held with the fixed housing, a movable side held portion held with the movable housing, and an elastic portion situated between the fixed side held portion and the movable side held portion. The housing includes an accommodating space for accommodating the elastic portion. The elastic portion includes a first wave shape portion having a first bent portion and a pair of first extending portions. The first extending portions are configured to extend away from each other with a distance in between decreasing toward the first bent portion.
US10062993B1
A circuit assembly is disclosed. The circuit assembly includes an edge connector comprising a plurality of connector pins for electrical connection, a rigid circuit board comprising a connector footprint region, wherein the connector footprint region is mechanically coupled to the plurality of connector pins, and a flexible cable comprising a first edge connection component, wherein the flexible cable is inserted in-between the connector footprint region and at least a portion of the plurality of connector pins, wherein the first edge connection component is electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of connector pins.
US10062991B2
A card edge connector includes an insulative housing, a plurality of conductive terminals and a pair of metal members. The insulative housing defines two side walls extending in a longitudinal direction and a central slot disposed between said two side walls, the conductive terminals are disposed in the insulative housing and protruding into the central slot, the pair of metal members enclose the insulative housing, wherein each side wall defines an embedded groove recessed from a top surface thereof and extending along the side wall in said longitudinal direction, each metal member defines a main portion enclosing an outside of the side wall and a bending portion bending from an upside thereof, the bending portion is retained in the embedded groove to provide a stability for the card edge connector.
US10062983B2
A connector housing includes a hole having a minimum size that a lead section of a connector terminal to penetrate, and a guide wall which is formed along an outer peripheral of the hole, and is protruded in a direction which a lead section protrudes from the connector housing to a bending section of the lead section, wherein, by which inner walls of the guide wall is mutually and directly in contact with side surfaces of the lead section over a height near a top end side of the lead section in a bending section of the lead section from an outer peripheral of the hole, a sealing structure is formed from the bending section of the lead section to an interior of the connector housing.
US10062981B2
Electronic devices and associated methods are shown including a connector mounted to a printed circuit board (PCB). Examples shown include a number of ground vias passing through the PCB to a second side of the PCB, wherein the number of ground vias is smaller than a number of ground sites. Selected examples include an optoelectronic connector mounted using surface mount technology.
US10062979B2
A terminal block marker designed to identify a terminal block. The terminal block marker includes a rigid base and a flexible film insert. The rigid base includes a top with a first arm having a first inwardly extending projection and a second arm having a second inwardly extending projection. The rigid base also includes a bottom with legs extending in a direction opposite the arms to hold the terminal block marker in the terminal block. A flexible film insert with identification markings is installed on the rigid base. The flexible film insert is positioned under a first projection of the first arm and rotated downward until the flexible film insert snaps under the second projection of the second arm. The first and second projections retain the flexible film insert on the rigid base to form the terminal block marker.
US10062977B2
An embodiment is directed to a module-to-module power connector configured to form connections between battery modules installed in a battery housing of an energy storage system. The module-to-module power connector includes electrical interfaces and busbar(s) configured to form one or more electrical connections terminals of adjacent battery modules. The busbar(s) is flexibly configured to permit a defined range of movement of the electrical interfaces during insertion of the respective battery modules into respective battery module compartments. The module-to-module power connector may further be arranged inside in a tunnel space, whereby holes are defined in a battery module mounting area housing the battery modules that open into the tunnel space.
US10062973B2
A wireless device includes at least one radiating system having a redundancy system and a combining system. The redundancy system includes two or more radiation boosters. The radiating system is characterized by its simplicity that facilitates its integration within the wireless device and achieves enhanced radio-electric performance in at least one frequency region of the electromagnetic spectrum, which may include multiple wireless services. The combining system enables a substantially balanced power distribution among the radiation boosters of the redundancy system, and the radiating system provides an increased robustness to human loading effects in at least one frequency region of operation.
US10062969B2
An antenna circuit includes a substrate, an antenna, and a projected artificial magnetic mirror (PAMM). The antenna is fabricated on the substrate and is positioned in a region of the substrate that has a high permittivity. The PAMM produces an artificial magnetic conductor at a distance above a surface of the substrate to facilitate a radiation pattern for the antenna.
US10062962B2
Composite radome wall structures (10) exhibit both antiballistic and radar transparency properties and include an antiballistic internal solid, void-free core (12) and external antireflective (AR) surface layers (14-1, 14-2) which sandwich the core. The antiballistic core (12) can be a compressed stack of angularly biased unidirectional polyethylene monolayers formed of tapes and/or fibers. Face sheets (16-1, 16-2) and/or one or more impedance matching layers may optionally be positioned between the antiballistic core (12) and one (or both) of the external AR layers (14-1, 14-2) so as to bond the core to the AR surface layer(s) and/or selectively tune the radome wall structure to the frequency of transmission and reception associated with the radar system.
US10062950B2
A heat dissipater with an antenna structure comprises a heat conductive portion capable of being contacted with a heat source of an electronic device for heat dissipation; and an antennal portion integrally formed to the heat conductive portion so as to form as an integral body; and the antenna portion comprises at least one sheet body. A conductive layer is coated on a surface of the sheet body; in that the conductive layer can be connected to a conductive wire for being lead to the portable electronic device for signal receiving and transmission. The heat conductive portion 10 has the function of heat dissipation and the antenna portion 20 has the function of wireless transmission which are made integrally with a compact space so that the space in an portable electronic device for receiving the heat conductive device is sufficient to receiving the whole structure.
US10062946B2
Programmable multi-reflective phase shifters which provide reduced root-mean-square phase error, can be optimized for a desired frequency band, can compensate for process variations arising during manufacture, and can help offset system level performance shortfalls. Embodiments include a hybrid coupler (e.g., a Lange hybrid coupler) in combination with a multi-reflective reactance-based terminating circuit with a number of different configurations that permit various modes of operation, including a thermometric mode, a phase overlap mode with interstitial phase shift states, an extended range phase shift mode, and a “tweak bit” mode. A number of programmable or selectable RF phase shifters can be series or parallel connected to provide a desired gamut of phase shift.
US10062941B2
Disclosed is an indirect transmission type automatic frequency modulation filter including a microwave body, a moving plate, a fastener, and a motor unit. The microwave body has plural openings. The moving plate includes a board, plural lugs and a first moving member, and the lugs and the first moving member form the board. The fastener includes a support base and a second moving member. The motor unit includes a rod and a driver, and the driver determines a clockwise rotation or a counterclockwise rotation and drives the rod to move the moving plate towards or away from the microwave body so as to insert the lugs into cavities to a desired depth and adjust a center frequency.
US10062938B2
An assembled battery is formed by combining battery modules. Each battery module includes at least one battery cell and a rectangular box-shaped case that accommodates the at least one battery cell. The battery modules include a first battery module and a second battery module located adjacent to each other. The case of each of the first battery module and the second battery module includes an opposing side surface that is opposed to one of the first battery module and the second battery module. Each opposing side surface includes projections, which are laid out in rows, and ribs, which extend parallel to the layout direction of the projections. The ribs are smaller in height than the first projections. The ribs include connection ribs that connect the projections located in a predetermined range in the layout direction of the projections.
US10062937B2
A battery housing for accommodating one or more cell blocks of a battery provides the interstice between an outer wall and an inner wall with supported vacuum insulation composed of a porous support material. This vacuum insulation can be switched between an insulation state and a transient state. The interstice is additionally provided with cooling elements. This battery housing offers crash-safe accommodation of the cell blocks accommodated in the battery housing, for one thing, and furthermore offers passive or controllable and/or regulatable thermal management to the effect that the cell blocks accommodated in the battery housing can be cooled or heated as needed, in any case kept in a permissible temperature range in every operating state.
US10062933B2
The present disclosure relates generally to recycling lead-acid batteries, and more specifically, relates to purifying and recycling the lead content from lead-acid batteries. A method includes reacting a lead-bearing material with a first carboxylate source to generate a first lead carboxylate. The method includes reacting the first lead carboxylate with a second carboxylate source to generate a second lead carboxylate. The method further includes applying an electrical bias to an aqueous solution of the second lead carboxylate to generate metallic lead.
US10062932B2
A method is provided for determining the internal temperature of an electrochemical energy storage device, particularly for a motor vehicle. The internal temperature of a cell winding of the energy storage device is determined by calculation in a control device of the energy storage device by way of a thermal model for the energy storage device which is saved in the control device.
US10062931B2
The present disclosure relates to a battery module that includes a stack of battery cells disposed in a housing, where each battery cell of the stack of battery cells has a terminal, and a bus bar having a body and an indicator disposed on the body, where the bus bar is configured to couple a first terminal of a first battery cell of the stack of battery cells to a second terminal of a second battery cell of the stack of battery cells. The battery module also includes a sensing component disposed on the indicator and configured to monitor a condition of at least one battery cell of the stack of battery cells and a weld physically and electrically coupling the sensing component to the bus bar.
US10062930B2
A battery cell assembly includes a thin sensor assembly having a plastic sheet, first, second, third, and fourth conductive pads, first and second resistive traces, a sensing circuit, a microprocessor, and an electrical connector. The plastic sheet has a first side and a second side. The plastic sheet further having first and second sheet portions, a first connecting portion, and first, second, and third tabs. The first connecting portion is coupled to and between the first and second sheet portions. The first and second resistive traces are disposed directly on and coupled to the first and second sheet portions, respectively. The first and second conductive pads are disposed directly on and coupled to the first and second tabs, respectively, on the first side.
US10062927B2
An accumulator battery system has stages, a power connection, a controller, and circuits. The stages are series-connected. Each has an electrochemical accumulator and a switch. A power connection connects a load to the stages. Each the circuit is associated with a stage. Each circuit generates a voltage variation at terminals of its associated stage, and applies, to a switch of the associated stage, a binary sequence at a frequency. The sequence differs from those of other stages, thus allowing distinguishing between stages based on the sequence. The controller, which is connected to the stages by the power connection, measures a voltage variation across terminals of the stage in response to application of the binary sequence to the stage, identifies a stage from which the variation originates by searching for its associate sequence, and determines, from the variation, an impedance of the identified stage for that frequency.
US10062918B2
An aqueous electrolyte for a metal-halogen flow battery includes an electrolyte that includes zinc bromide, a chelating agent, and a metal plating enhancer. The metal plating enhancer may include Bi, Pb, Te, Se, and/or Tl, salts thereof, or any combination thereof.
US10062910B2
A method for producing electrical energy in a munition includes; initiating a thermal battery contained within the munition to generate electrical energy; dumping the electrical energy generated by the thermal battery into an electrical energy storage device before the thermal battery becomes inactive; and using the stored electrical energy in the electrical energy storage device over a period of time. The initiation device can be an inertial igniter, the electrical energy storage device can be a capacitor and the thermal battery, initiation device and electrical energy storage device can be configured such that the initiation device and electrical energy storage device sandwich the thermal battery.
US10062900B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing a cathode foil of a lithium-containing battery, comprising: (i) provision of a dry, solvent-free composition which comprises polytetrafluoroethylene, an electrically conductive, electrochemically inactive carbon material and an electrochemically active cathode material, (ii) formation of at least partially fibrillated polytetrafluoroethylene by action of shear forces on the dry, solvent-free composition to give a fibrillated composition, (iii) forming of the fibrillated composition to give a cathode foil.
US10062895B2
A securing device for an electrical arrangement is disclosed. The electrical arrangement has at least one electrical component, which has at least one electrical contact element, and at least one electrical connection element, wherein the contact element of the component is connected to the electrical connection element by means of an electrically conductive adhesive, wherein at least one actuator is arranged between the component and the electrical connection element, and an actuating force that moves the component and the connection element apart from one another can be exerted via said at least one actuator.
US10062890B2
As a laminated porous film realizing excellent handling properties in a low-humidity environment, a laminated porous film in which a layer containing a polymer is laminated on at least one side of a polyolefin porous film, satisfying the following (1) and (2) is provided. (1) When the laminated porous film has left still for 1 hour in an environment at a temperature of 23° C. and a humidity of 50%, a lifting amount of the side parallel with the direction perpendicular to the machine direction is 8 mm or more. (2) When the laminated porous film has left still for 1 hour in an environment at a temperature of 23° C. and a humidity of 5%, a lifting amount of the side parallel with the machine direction is 15 mm or less.
US10062887B2
According to one embodiment, a nonwoven fiber mat for reinforcing a plate or electrode of a lead-acid battery includes a plurality of glass fibers and an acid resistant binder that couples the plurality of glass fibers together. The nonwoven fiber mat also includes a wetting component that is applied to the glass fibers and/or nonwoven fiber mat to increase the wettability of the nonwoven fiber mat such that the nonwoven fiber mat exhibits an average water wick height of at least 0.5 cm after exposure to water for 10 minutes conducted according to method ISO8787. The wetting component may be dissolvable in an acid solution of the lead-acid battery such that a significant portion of the nonwoven fiber mat is lost due to dissolving of the wetting component.
US10062885B2
A tray glide system includes a frame having opposite sides, and a base defining an interior, where a tray slides relative to the frame. Glide mounts formed of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene are attached to the base in the interior, and are located under the tray providing sliding of the tray relative to the frame. Glide rails are engaged to the bottom of the tray and are shaped to engage one or more surfaces of the slide mounts. Each of the glide rails includes a bearing ledge proximate to one of the opposite sides of the frame. An upper guide rail is attached to each of the opposite walls. Each upper guide rail has a horizontal retaining ledge positioned above one of the bearing ledges, to engage the bearing ledges, and to prevent downward pivoting of the tray during withdraw of the tray from the frame.
US10062883B2
There is provided a non-stop battery changing system that includes: a body connected to a moving body that is moved by power, having a seat on a side, and having locking grooves and a power terminal in the seat; a battery pack inserted in the seat of the body to supply power to the moving body, having locking protrusions sliding inward/outward, and having a battery terminal that comes in contact with the power terminal; and a pushing protrusion extending outward from a side of the battery pack in a mounting direction of the battery pack inserted in the seat by movement of the moving body, and unlocking the locking protrusions out of the locking grooves, when the battery pack used in the seat is replaced with another charged battery pack.
US10062871B2
A rechargeable battery is disclosed. In one aspect, the battery includes an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed between the first and second electrodes and a case accommodating the electrode assembly, wherein an opening is formed in the case. The battery also includes a cap plate coupled to and closing the opening of the case, a terminal placed to pass through the cap plate and a first tab interconnecting the terminal and the first electrode, wherein the first tab includes a stretchable first drawn portion.
US10062867B2
A light-emitting element having high external quantum efficiency is provided. A light-emitting element having a long lifetime is provided. A light-emitting element includes a light-emitting layer between a pair of electrodes. The light-emitting layer contains at least a phosphorescent compound, a first organic compound (host material) having an electron-transport property, and a second organic compound (assist material) having a hole-transport property. The light-emitting layer has a stacked-layer structure including a first light-emitting layer and a second light-emitting layer, and the first light-emitting layer contains a higher proportion of the second organic compound than the second light-emitting layer. In the light-emitting layer (the first light-emitting layer and the second light-emitting layer), a combination of the first organic compound and the second organic compound forms an exciplex.
US10062862B2
The present disclosure provides an OLED display panel, an electronic device, and a manufacturing method. The OLED display panel comprises a substrate, a first electrode, a light-emitting function layer, and a second electrode including Ag or a metal alloy containing Ag. When the second electrode is made of the metal alloy containing Ag, a content of Ag in the second electrode is more than a sum of contents of all other elements in the second electrode.
US10062857B2
Vacuum transistors with carbon nanotube as the collector and/or emitter electrodes are provided. In one aspect, a method for forming a vacuum transistor includes the steps of: covering a substrate with an insulating layer; forming a back gate(s) in the insulating layer; depositing a gate dielectric over the back gate; forming a carbon nanotube layer on the gate dielectric; patterning the carbon nanotube layer to provide first/second portions thereof over first/second sides of the back gate, separated from one another by a gap G, which serve as emitter and collector electrodes; forming a vacuum channel in the gate dielectric; and forming metal contacts to the emitter and collector electrodes. Vacuum transistors are also provided.
US10062852B2
A condensed cyclic compound represented by Formula 1: wherein, in Formula 1, groups and variables are the same as described in the specification.
US10062848B2
An organic light-emitting device includes an emission layer and an electron transport layer. The emission layer includes at least one compound represented one of Formula 1, Formula 2 and/or Formula 3. The electron transport layer includes at least one compound represented by Formula 4 and/or Formula 5. An organic light-emitting device including the emission layer and the electron transport layer has high emission efficiency and an improved lifetime.
US10062846B2
A manufacturing method of a display device includes: forming, in a resin layer including a display area where a plurality of lower electrodes is formed and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, a band-like groove which divides the resin layer in a form of surrounding the display area; forming an organic electroluminescence layer including a light emitting layer, on the resin layer and inside the band-like groove in such a way as to be placed on the plurality of lower electrodes; irradiating the organic electroluminescence layer with a pulse laser and thus eliminating the organic electroluminescence layer in such a way that a part of the organic electroluminescence layer is left in a shape of an island at least on a bottom surface of the band-like groove and that the bottom surface of the band-like groove is continuously exposed in the form of surrounding the display area.
US10062833B2
A MRAM-based magnetic device including an electrical interconnecting device including: a magnetic tunnel junction; a strap portion electrically connecting a lower end of the magnetic tunnel junction; a current line portion electrically connecting an upper end of the magnetic tunnel junction; an upper metallic stud electrically connecting a lower metallic stud through a via; the strap portion being in direct electrical contact with the via, such that a current passing in the magnetic tunnel junction flows directly between the strap portion and the via and between the via and the lower metallic stud or the upper metallic stud.
US10062826B2
The present disclosure relates to thermoelectric devices useful for a range of thermoelectric applications (e.g., high temperature thermoelectric generation, fluid conditioning). Thermoelectric devices may include one or more heat exchangers (e.g., coolant heat exchanger(s)) and one or more thermoelectric layers adjacent to the heat exchanger(s). An enclosure may surround the thermoelectric layer(s) and heat exchanger(s), providing a barrier from outside fluid (e.g., hot fluid flow). The enclosure may conduct heat between the outside surroundings and the thermoelectric layer(s). The heat exchanger(s) may be spaced from and movable or slidable relative to the enclosure, which may accommodate for certain thermal expansion effects. The enclosure may include a conformable surface adapted to conform substantially to the shape of the thermoelectric layer(s) (e.g., when a vacuum is applied). One or more thermally conductive members (e.g., fins) may extend from the conformable enclosure. Various embodiments of a thermal switch are also described.
US10062822B1
A light-emitting diode package structure, a light-emitting device and a method of making the same are provided. The light-emitting diode package structure includes an insulating base, a first conductive unit, a second conductive unit and at least one light-emitting diode chips. The first conductive unit is disposed on the insulating base. The second conductive unit is disposed on the insulating base and separated from the first conductive unit. The at least one light-emitting diode chips is electrically connected to the first conductive unit and the second conductive unit. Further, the first conductive unit has a first groove, and an outer surface thereof is divided by the first groove into two separated parts. In addition, the second conductive unit has a second groove, and the outer surface thereof is divided by the second groove into two separated parts.
US10062814B2
A method of manufacturing a light emitting device, includes: temporarily connecting light emitting elements to a wiring layer through connection members, the wiring layer being formed on a mounting board provided with reflectors; contacting a pressing surface of a press-bonding jig with upper surfaces of the light emitting elements and pressing the light emitting elements toward the mounting board while being heated at the same time to deform the connection members and to contact the pressing surface with tops of the reflectors; and connecting the light emitting elements to the wiring layer in a flip chip manner, wherein when the light emitting elements are temporarily connected to the wiring layer, a sum of height of a light emitting element of the light emitting elements and a connection member of the connection members is set to be larger than a height of a reflector of the reflectors.
US10062813B2
An optoelectronic component (100) comprises an optoelectronic semiconductor chip (10), a first contact area (31) and a second contact area (32), which is laterally offset with respect to the first contact area and is electrically insulated therefrom, and a housing element (40). The first contact area (31) is electrically conductively connected to the first semiconductor layer (21) and the second contact area (32) is electrically conductively connected to the second semiconductor layer (22) of the optoelectronic semiconductor chip. The first contact area (31) and the second contact area (32) project beyond the optoelectronic semiconductor chip laterally in each case. The housing element (40) is fixed to the first contact area (31) and the second contact area (32) in regions in which the first contact area (31) and the second contact area (32) project beyond the optoelectronic semiconductor chip laterally in each case. The housing element surrounds the optoelectronic semiconductor chip at least partly. A surface of the housing element that faces the optoelectronic semiconductor chip is embodied as reflective at least in partial regions. A wall of the housing element has a cutout (61).
US10062806B2
We propose a method of producing a III nitride semiconductor light-emitting device including a p-type semiconductor layer, in which the p-type semiconductor layer is formed by the steps comprising: an electron blocking layer formation step for forming an electron blocking layer made of AlyGa1-yN (b
US10062803B2
Embodiments regard micro-size devices formed by etch of sacrificial epitaxial layers. An embodiment of a method includes forming a plurality of epitaxial layers on a sapphire crystal, wherein the epitaxial layers include a buffer layer on the sapphire crystal, a sacrificial layer above the buffer layer, and one or more device layers above the sacrificial layer; etching to singulate the semiconductor devices, the etching being through the one or more device layers and wholly or partially through the sacrificial layer; electrochemical etching of the sacrificial layer; and lift-off of one or more semiconductor devices from the buffer layer.
US10062798B2
A photodiode structure is based on the use of a double junction sensitive to different wavelength bands based on a magnitude of a reverse bias applied to the photodiode. The monolithic integration of a sensor with double functionality in a single chip allows realization of a low cost ultra-compact sensing element in a single packaging useful in many applications which require simultaneous or spatially synchronized detection of optical photons in different spectral regions.
US10062794B2
Resonant-cavity infrared photodetector (RCID) devices that include a thin absorber layer contained entirely within the resonant cavity. In some embodiments, the absorber region is a single type-II InAs—GaSb interface situated between an n-type region comprising an AlSb/InAs n-type superlattice and a p-type AlSb/GaSb region. In other embodiments, the absorber region comprises one or more quantum wells formed on an upper surface of the n-type region. In other embodiments, the absorber region comprises a “W”-structured quantum well situated between two barrier layers, the “W”-structured quantum well comprising a hole quantum well sandwiched between two electron quantum wells. In other embodiments, an RCID in accordance with the present invention includes a thin absorber region and an nBn or pBp active core within a resonant cavity.
US10062791B2
A thin film transistor comprises a substrate, a gate electrode formed on the substrate, an electrically insulating layer covering the gate electrode, a channel layer made of a semiconductor material and formed on the electrically insulating layer, a source electrode formed on a first lateral side of the electrically insulating layer, and a drain electrode formed on an opposite second lateral side of the electrically insulating layer. The source electrode has an inner end covering a first outer end of the channel layer and electrically connecting therewith. The drain electrode has an inner end covering an opposite second outer end of the channel layer and electrically connecting therewith. An area of the channel layer adjacent to and not covered by one of the source electrode and the drain electrode has an electrical conductivity lower than the electrical conductivity of other area of the channel layer.
US10062780B2
A FinFET device and a method of forming the same are disclosed. In accordance with some embodiments, a FinFET device includes a substrate having at least one fin, a gate stack across the at least one fin, a strained layer aside the gate stack and a silicide layer over the strained layer. The strained layer has a boron surface concentration greater than about 2E20 atom/cm3 within a depth range of about 0-5 nm from a surface of the strained layer.
US10062777B2
A semiconductor device having a vertical drain extended MOS transistor may be formed by forming deep trench structures to define vertical drift regions of the transistor, so that each vertical drift region is bounded on at least two opposite sides by the deep trench structures. The deep trench structures are spaced so as to form RESURF regions for the drift region. Trench gates are formed in trenches in the substrate over the vertical drift regions. The body regions are located in the substrate over the vertical drift regions.
US10062775B2
A GaN-based power electronic device and a method for manufacturing the same is provided. The GaN-based power electronic device comprising a substrate and an epitaxial layer over the substrate. The epitaxial layer comprises a GaN-based heterostructure layer, a superlattice structure layer and a P-type cap layer. The superlattice structure layer is provided over the heterostructure layer, and the P-type cap layer is provided over the superlattice structure layer. By using this electronic device, gate voltage swing and safe gate voltage range of the GaN-based power electronic device manufactured on the basis of the P-type cap layer technique may be further extended, and dynamic characteristics of the device may be improved. Therefore, application process for the GaN-based power electronic device that is based on the P-type cap layer technique will be promoted.
US10062766B1
A hetero-junction Schottky diode device includes a buffer layer, at least one channel layer, at least one barrier layer and a Schottky metal layer. The buffer layer is disposed on a substrate. The at least one channel layer is disposed on the buffer layer. The at least one barrier layer is disposed on the at least one channel layer. Besides, multiple strip openings are configured to penetrate through the at least one barrier layer and at least one channel layer. The Schottky metal layer is disposed on the at least one barrier layer, across the strip openings and fills in the strip openings.
US10062763B2
A sacrificial cap is grown on an upper surface of a conductor. A dielectric spacer is against a side of the conductor. An upper dielectric side spacer is formed on a sidewall of the sacrificial cap. The sacrificial cap is selectively etched, leaving a cap recess, and the upper dielectric side spacer facing the cap recess. Silicon nitride is filled in the cap recess, to form a center cap and a protective cap having center cap and the upper dielectric spacer.
US10062756B2
A semiconductor structure can include a substrate, a high-voltage blocking layer overlying the substrate, a doped buffer layer overlying the high-voltage layer, and a channel layer overlying the doped buffer layer, wherein the doped buffer layer and the channel layer include a same compound semiconductor material, and the doped buffer layer has a carrier impurity type at a first carrier impurity concentration, the channel buffer layer has the carrier impurity type at a second carrier impurity concentration that is less than the first carrier impurity concentration. In an embodiment, the channel layer has a thickness of at least 650 nm. In another embodiment, the high-voltage blocking includes a proximal region that is 1000 nm thick and adjacent to the doped buffer layer, and each of the proximal region, the doped buffer layer, and the channel layer has an Fe impurity concentration less than 5×1015 atoms/cm3.
US10062746B2
A semiconductor rectifying device includes a substrate of a first conductivity type, an epitaxial layer of the first conductivity type, a filling structure, an upper electrode, a guard ring, and a guard layer. The epitaxial layer defines a plurality of trenches thereon. The filling structure includes an insulating material formed on the inner surface of the trench and a conductive material filled in the trench. A doped region of a second conductivity type is formed in the surface of the epitaxial layer between the filling structures. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor rectifying device includes forming an epitaxial layer of a first conductivity type on a substrate of the first conductivity type, defining a plurality of trenches on the epitaxial layer, forming a plurality of filling structures in the plurality of trenches, and forming a doped region in the epitaxial layer between the filling structures.
US10062745B2
A method of forming an array of capacitors comprises forming elevationally-extending and longitudinally-elongated capacitor electrode lines over a substrate. Individual of the capacitor electrode lines are common to and a shared one of two capacitor electrodes of individual capacitors longitudinally along a line of capacitors being formed. A capacitor insulator is formed over a pair of laterally-opposing sides of and longitudinally along individual of the capacitor electrode lines. An elevationally-extending conductive line is formed over the capacitor insulator longitudinally along one of the laterally-opposing sides of the individual capacitor electrode lines. The conductive line is cut laterally through to form spaced individual other of the two capacitor electrodes of the individual capacitors. Other methods are disclosed, including structures independent of method of manufacture.
US10062741B2
A method of manufacturing joined body including: firstly, putting sheet material in intimate contact with first substrate to cover, with resin layer of sheet material, areas of first substrate including first area, boundary area surrounding first area, and second area located across from first area with respect to boundary area, sheet material being laminate including resin layer and separable layer, resin layer containing uncured sealing resin; secondly, curing sealing resin in part of resin layer covering boundary area; thirdly, removing, along with separable layer, part of resin layer covering second area in one direction from one end towards the other of two ends of second area; and fourthly, joining first substrate and second substrate together by arranging second substrate to face first substrate and curing sealing resin with parts of resin layer covering boundary area and first area located between second substrate and first substrate.
US10062739B2
A flexible display device includes display panel, a touch panel including a touch sensor and a second touch sensor intersecting the first touch sensor, in which the first touch sensor includes first sensor parts, each of the first sensor parts including first conductive lines, and a first crossing part connecting two adjacent first sensor parts, the first crossing part including second conductive lines, and the second touch sensor includes second sensor parts, each of the second sensor parts including third conductive lines, and a second crossing part including fourth conductive lines disposed between the second conductive lines, and a first connection electrode connecting the third conductive lines to the fourth conductive lines and insulated from the second conductive lines.
US10062735B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an integrated chip having a vertical transistor device. The integrated chip may have a semiconductor body with a trench extending along first sides of a source region, a channel region over the source region, and a drain region over the channel region. A gate electrode is arranged along a first sidewall of the trench, and a metal contact is arranged on the drain region. An isolation dielectric material is disposed within the trench. The isolation dielectric material is vertically over a top surface of the gate electrode and is laterally adjacent to the gate electrode.
US10062732B2
A magnetic memory device comprises a first reference magnetic layer, a first tunnel barrier layer, a second tunnel barrier layer, and a free magnetic layer disposed between the first tunnel barrier layer and the second tunnel barrier layer. A magnitude of an in-plane magnetostatic field from the first reference magnetic layer at an edge of the free magnetic layer is less than about 500 Oe. One embodiment comprises a second reference magnetic layer on the second tunnel barrier layer in which the first reference magnetic layer, the first tunnel barrier layer, the free magnetic layer, the second tunnel barrier layer and the second reference magnetic layer are arranged as a stack, and in which a width of the first tunnel barrier layer, the free magnetic layer, the second tunnel barrier and the second reference magnetic layer in a second direction is less than about 30 nm.
US10062731B2
An apparatus including a spin to charge conversion node; and a charge to spin conversion node, wherein an input to the spin to charge conversion node produces an output at the charge to spin conversion node. An apparatus including a magnet including an input node and output node, the input node including a capacitor operable to generate magnetic response in the magnet and the output node including at least one spin to charge conversion material. A method including injecting a spin current from a first magnet; converting the spin current into a charge current operable to produce a magnetoelectric interaction with a second magnet; and changing a direction of magnetization of the second magnet in response to the magnetoelectric interaction. A method including injecting a spin current from an input node of a magnet; and converting the spin current into a charge current at an output node of the magnet.
US10062728B2
A system and method for reducing cross-talk between photosensitive diodes is provided. In an embodiment a first color filter is formed over a first photosensitive diode and a second color filter is formed over a second photosensitive diode, and a gap is formed between the first color filter and the second color filter. The gap will serve to reflect light that otherwise would have crossed from the first color filter to the second color filter, thereby reducing cross-talk between the first photosensitive diode and the second photosensitive diode. A reflective grid may also be formed between the first photosensitive diode and the second photosensitive diode in order to assist in the reflection and further reduce the amount of cross-talk.
US10062726B2
An imaging device including a unit pixel cell including a semiconductor substrate having a surface including a first area and a second area surrounded by the first area. The semiconductor substrate including a first region of a first conductivity type exposed to the surface in the first area, and a second region of a second conductivity type directly adjacent to the first region and exposed to the surface in the second area; a photoelectric converter; an amplifier; a contact plug connected to the second region; a first transistor including a first electrode; a second electrode covering a second portion of the first area; and a second insulation layer between the second electrode and the semiconductor substrate. When viewed in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the semiconductor substrate, a contact between the second region and the contact plug is located between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US10062725B2
The invention concerns active-pixel electronic image sensors. The pixel comprises a photodiode (PH) designed in a semiconductor active layer (12) and maintained at a nil reference potential, and above the active layer an anti-blooming gate (G5) adjacent on one side to the photodiode and on another side to an evacuation drain (22). The sensor comprises means for applying to the anti-blooming gate, during most of the duration of integration, a blocking potential creating beneath the gate a potential barrier of a first height, and, during a series of brief pulses over the duration of integration, an anti-blooming potential creating a potential barrier of a second height, lower than the first. The fact of only applying the anti-blooming voltage during the brief pulses reduces the dark noise induced by tunneling effect by the electric field between gate and photodiode.
US10062717B2
Provided is a semiconductor device which can operate stably even in the case where a transistor thereof is a depletion transistor. The semiconductor device includes a first transistor for supplying a first potential to a first wiring, a second transistor for supplying a second potential to the first wiring, a third transistor for supplying a third potential at which the first transistor is turned on to a gate of the first transistor and stopping supplying the third potential, a fourth transistor for supplying the second potential to the gate of the first transistor, and a first circuit for generating a second signal obtained by offsetting a first signal. The second signal is input to a gate of the fourth transistor. The potential of a low level of the second signal is lower than the second potential.
US10062716B2
By applying an AC pulse to a gate of a transistor which easily deteriorates, a shift in threshold voltage of the transistor is suppressed. However, in a case where amorphous silicon is used for a semiconductor layer of a transistor, the occurrence of a shift in threshold voltage naturally becomes a problem for a transistor which constitutes a part of circuit that generates an AC pulse. A shift in threshold voltage of a transistor which easily deteriorates and a shift in threshold voltage of a turned-on transistor are suppressed by signal input to a gate electrode of the transistor which easily deteriorates through the turned-on transistor. In other words, a structure for applying an AC pulse to a gate electrode of a transistor which easily deteriorates through a transistor to a gate electrode of which a high potential (VDD) is applied, is included.
US10062714B2
A fin of silicon-germanium material is formed and covered with an epitaxially grown layer of silicon material. A dummy transistor gate is then formed to extend over a channel of the fin. Sidewall spacers are formed on each side of the dummy transistor gate and directly on top of the expitaxial silicon layer. Epitaxially grown raised source and drain regions are formed on each side of the dummy transistor gate adjacent the sidewall spacers. The dummy transistor gate and a portion of the epitaxial silicon layer (underneath said dummy transistor gate) are removed and replaced by a metal gate.
US10062708B2
Vertical memory blocks for semiconductor devices include a memory cell region including an array of memory cell pillars and at least one via region including a dielectric stack of alternating dielectric materials and at least one conductive via extending through the dielectric stack. Semiconductor devices including a vertical memory block include at least one vertical memory block, which includes slots extending between adjacent memory cells of a three-dimensional array. The slots are separated by a first distance in a first portion of the block, and by a second, greater distance in a second portion of the block. Methods of forming vertical memory blocks include forming slots separated by a first distance in a memory array region and by a second, greater distance in a via region. At least one conductive via is formed through a stack of alternating first and second dielectric materials in the via region.
US10062705B1
A method of manufacturing a flash memory includes providing a substrate, a memory gate on the substrate, a hard mask on the memory gate, a spacer on a sidewall of the memory gate, and a select gate disposed on a sidewall of the spacer. A first silicon oxide layer is formed to conformally cover the memory gate, the hard mask, the spacer, and the select gate. A thickness of the first silicon oxide layer is smaller than 0.54 of a thickness of the hard mask. Later, the first silicon oxide layer is thinned by a dry etching process. After that, the first silicon oxide layer and the hard mask are entirely removed by a wet etching process.
US10062700B2
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor storage device includes forming a plurality of bit line structures on a semiconductor substrate and forming a plurality of storage node contacts disposed between the bit line structures. The method of forming the storage node contacts includes forming a plurality of conductive patterns on the semiconductor substrate followed by performing an etching back process to the conductive patterns for decreasing a thickness of the conductive patterns. The manufacturing method further includes forming a plurality of isolation patterns between the conductive patterns, wherein the isolation patterns are formed after forming the plurality of conductive patterns and before the etching back process. According to the present invention, the storage node contacts are formed by first forming the conductive patterns and then forming the isolation patterns between the conductive patterns, so as to simplify manufacturing process and increase process yield.
US10062698B2
Multi-time programmable (MTP) memory cells, integrated circuits including MTP memory cells, and methods for fabricating MTP memory cells are provided. In an embodiment, an MTP memory cell includes a semiconductor substrate, a p-well formed in the semiconductor substrate, and an n-well formed in the semiconductor substrate and isolated from the p-well. The MTP memory cell further includes a p-channel transistor disposed over the n-well and including a transistor gate. Also, the MTP memory cell includes a p-channel capacitor disposed over the p-well and including a capacitor gate. The capacitor gate is coupled to the transistor gate.
US10062695B2
A semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor, and a dielectric layer. The MOS transistor includes a gate structure formed over the substrate. The dielectric layer is formed aside the gate structure, and the dielectric layer is doped with a strain modulator. An effective lattice constant of the dielectric layer modified by the doping with the strain modulator is different from an effective lattice constant of the dielectric layer prior to the doping.
US10062686B2
A Reverse Bipolar Junction Transistor (RBJT) integrated circuit comprises a bipolar transistor and a parallel-connected distributed diode, where the base region is connected neither to the collector electrode nor to the emitter electrode. The bipolar transistor has unusually high emitter-to-base and emitter-to-collector reverse breakdown voltages. In the case of a PNP-type RBJT, an N base region extends into a P− epitaxial layer, and a plurality of P++ collector regions extend into the base region. Each collector region is annular, and rings a corresponding diode cathode region. Parts of the epitaxial layer serve as the emitter, and other parts serve as the diode anode. Insulation features separate metal of the collector electrode from the base region, and from P− type silicon of the epitaxial layer, so that the diode cathode is separated from the base region. This separation prevents base current leakage and reduces power dissipation during steady state on operation.
US10062681B2
A protection device for protecting an IC against electrostatic discharge includes a buried insulant layer having a thickness that is no greater than fifty nanometers with bipolar transistors arranged thereon, one of which is NPN and the other of which is PNP. A base of one merges with a collector of the other. The transistors selectively conduct a discharge current between electrodes. A first semiconductor ground plane under the buried insulant layer is capable of being electrically biased and extends underneath the base of the first bipolar transistor. The ground plane and a base of one transistor have the same doping. However, its dopant density is at least tenfold greater than that of the base.
US10062680B2
Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) standard library cell circuits having gate back-bias rail(s) are disclosed. Related systems and methods are also disclosed. In one aspect, a SOI CMOS standard library cell circuit is provided that is comprised of one or more standard library cells. Each standard library cell includes one or more PMOS channel regions and one or more NMOS channel regions. Each standard library cell has one or more gate back-bias rails disposed adjacent to PMOS and NMOS channel regions. The gate back-bias rails are configured to apply bias voltages to corresponding PMOS and NMOS channel regions to adjust threshold voltages of PMOS and NMOS transistors associated with the PMOS and NMOS channel regions, respectively. Voltage biasing can be controlled to adjust timing of an IC using SOI CMOS standard library cell circuits to achieve design timing targets without including timing closure elements that consume additional area.
US10062674B1
Embodiments are related to scalable surface structure (e.g., a well or other structure) formation in a substrate and, more particularly, to systems and methods for forming displays using a photo-machinable material layer.
US10062670B2
A packaged module for use in a wireless communication device has a substrate supporting a crystal and a first die that includes at least a microprocessor and one or more of radio frequency transmitter circuitry and radio frequency receiver circuitry. The first die is disposed between the crystal and the substrate. An overmold encloses the first die and the crystal. The substrate also supports a second die that includes at least a power amplifier for amplifying a radio frequency input signal, where the second die is disposed on an opposite side of the substrate from the first die and the crystal.
US10062666B2
Various systems, devices and methods are provided for interconnection between wafers and/or chips using catch flexures. In one example, among others, a catch flexure assembly includes a first interconnect affixed to a first wafer. The first interconnect can include a female opening at a distal end of a flexible member that is configured to receive a male extension of a second interconnect affixed to a second wafer when the first wafer is aligned with the second wafer, and retain the male extension during a bonding process of the first and second flexible interconnects. The catch flexure assembly can also include bonding material disposed adjacent to the female opening, which is configured to secure the male extension in the female opening during the bonding process.
US10062663B2
A semiconductor assembly with built-in stiffener and integrated dual routing circuitries is characterized in that a semiconductor device and a first routing circuitry are positioned within a through opening of a stiffener whereas a second routing circuitry extends to an area outside of the through opening of the stiffener. The mechanical robustness of the stiffener can prevent the assembly from warping. The first routing circuitry can enlarge the pad size and pitch of the semiconductor device, whereas the second routing circuitry not only provides further fan-out wiring structure, but also mechanically binds the first routing circuitry with the stiffener.
US10062660B2
An anisotropic conductive film (ACF) is disclosed. In one approach, the ACF includes a non-reflective adhesive layer including a top surface, a plurality of conductive particles included with the non-reflective adhesive layer, and a reflective adhesive layer disposed along the top surface of the non-reflective adhesive layer.
US10062657B2
In order to manufacture an alloy bump, a resist pattern having openings which expose a substrate is formed on the substrate, an under-bump metal is formed on the substrate inside the openings, a first plating film is formed on the under-bump metal by electroplating, a second plating film containing no metal components which are contained in the first plating film is formed on the first plating film by electroplating, the resist pattern is removed, and the alloy bump is formed by heat treating the substrate to thereby alloy the first plating film and the second plating film.
US10062654B2
A semiconductor structure has an integrated circuit component, a conductive contact pad, a seal ring structure, a conductive via, a ring barrier, and a mold material. The conductive contact pad is disposed on and electrically connected with the integrated circuit component. The seal ring structure is disposed on the integrated circuit component and surrounding the conductive contact pad. The conductive via is disposed on and electrically connected with the conductive contact pad. The ring barrier is disposed on the seal ring structure. The ring barrier surrounds the conductive via. The mold material covers side surfaces of the integrated circuit component. A semiconductor manufacturing process is also provided.
US10062651B2
A packaging substrate is provided, which includes: a substrate body having a first region with a plurality of conductive pads and a second region adjacent to the first region, and a material layer formed on the second region to prevent the substrate body from warping. An electronic package having the packaging substrate is also provided.
US10062641B2
Integrated circuits and methods of forming the same are provided herein. In an embodiment, an integrated circuit includes a semiconductor substrate that has an isolated well. A multilayer metallization stack overlies the semiconductor substrate. The multilayer metallization stack includes a metal layer, a functional via, and a dummy metal feature. The metal layer includes a first line in electrical communication with the isolated well through a contact. The functional via is in electrical communication with the first line and the contact. The dummy metal feature is in electrical communication with the functional via.
US10062635B2
A double-facing cooling-type power module has coolers on both sides. The power module includes: a first switch having the coolers on both sides; a second switch disposed independently from the first switch and having the coolers on both sides; and a common electrode coupled to both the first switch and the second switch.
US10062632B2
A semiconductor device includes a base plate, a case, a power semiconductor element, and a control semiconductor element. Case is provided on base plate. Power semiconductor element is disposed over base plate in case. Control semiconductor element is disposed in case. Case has an opening formed therein opposite to base plate. The semiconductor device further includes a cover to close opening in case. Cover has a hole formed in at least a portion of a region overlapping control semiconductor element in plan view.
US10062631B2
A power module capable of increasing structural stability and reliability at high temperatures includes: an upper substrate having a metal layer; a lower substrate spaced apart from the upper substrate and having a metal layer facing the metal layer of the upper substrate; a semiconductor element configured to be disposed between the upper substrate and the lower substrate; and at least one leg portion formed on at least one of the metal layer of the upper substrate and the metal layer of the lower substrate to make the upper substrate and the lower substrate be spaced apart from each other at a predetermined interval, in which the leg portion may be electrically connect the semiconductor element to the metal layer of the upper substrate or the metal layer of the lower substrate.
US10062628B2
A printed circuit module having a protective layer in place of a low-resistivity handle layer and methods for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The printed circuit module includes a printed circuit substrate with a thinned die attached to the printed circuit substrate. The thinned die includes at least one device layer over the printed circuit substrate and at least one deep well within the at least one device layer. A protective layer is disposed over the at least one deep well, wherein the protective layer has a thermal conductivity greater than 2 watts per meter Kelvin (W/mK) and an electrical resistivity of greater than 106 Ohm-cm.
US10062624B2
A packaged transistor device (100) comprises a semiconductor chip (101) including a transistor with terminals distributed on the first and the opposite second chip side; and a slab (110) of low-grade silicon (l-g-Si) configured as a ridge (111) framing a depression including a recessed central area suitable to accommodate the chip, the ridge having a first surface in a first plane and the recessed central area having a second surface in a second plane spaced from the first plane by a depth (112) at least equal to the chip thickness, the ridge covered by device terminals (120; 121) connected to attachment pads in the central area having the terminals of the first chip side attached so that the terminals (103) of the opposite second chip side are co-planar with the device terminals on the slab ridge.
US10062623B2
A semiconductor package substrate includes an insulating substrate, a circuit pattern on the insulating substrate, a protective layer formed on the insulating substrate to cover the circuit pattern on the insulating substrate, a pad formed on the protective layer while protruding from a surface of the protective layer, and an adhesive member on the pad.
US10062616B2
A CMOS transistor manufacturing method includes: forming a gate insulating film on a semiconductor substrate; forming a first gate electrode pattern on the gate insulating film in an NMOS transistor area; forming a second gate electrode pattern on the gate insulating film in a PMOS transistor area; forming a first photoresist pattern covering the NMOS transistor area to expose the second gate electrode pattern; performing a first ion injection process into the PMOS transistor area to form an n-type well region and a p-type LDD region; removing the first photoresist pattern; forming a second photoresist pattern covering the PMOS transistor area to expose the first gate electrode pattern; performing a second ion injection process into the NMOS transistor area to form a p-type well region and an n-type LDD region; removing the second photoresist pattern; and forming sidewall spacers at sidewalls of the first and second gate electrode patterns.
US10062615B2
A semiconductor device comprises first stack of nanowires arranged on a substrate comprises a first nanowire and a second nanowire, the second nanowire is arranged substantially co-planar in a first plane with the first nanowire the first nanowire and the second nanowire arranged substantially parallel with the substrate, a second stack of nanowires comprises a third nanowire and a fourth nanowire, the third nanowire and the fourth nanowire arranged substantially co-planar in the first plane with the first nanowire, and the first nanowire and the second nanowire comprises a first semiconductor material and the third nanowire and the fourth nanowire comprises a second semiconductor material, the first semiconductor material dissimilar from the second semiconductor material.
US10062605B2
Methods of forming a semiconductor structure includes etching a via opening through an interlevel dielectric to a metal conductor. A contiguous metal liner is deposited onto exposed surfaces of the substrate. The substrate is exposed to a gaseous ion plasma to remove portions of the metal liner that are horizontally oriented and to reduce a height of the metal liner from portions thereof that are vertically oriented. Subsequently, a trench opening is formed in the interlevel dielectric, wherein the trench opening is connected with the via opening, wherein at least a portion of the metal liner remains on sidewall surfaces within the via opening during the forming of the trench opening. A diffusion barrier liner is deposited within the trench opening and the via opening. A conductive material is formed within remaining portions of the trench opening and the via opening to define the interconnect structure.
US10062602B2
The invention relates to a method of etching a layer of porous dielectric material, characterized in that the etching is performed in a plasma formed from at least one silicon-based gas mixed with oxygen (O2) and/or nitrogen (N2) so as to grow a passivation layer all along said etching, at least on flanks of the layer of porous dielectric material and wherein the silicon-based gas is taken from all the compounds of the type SixHy for which the ratio x/y is equal or greater than 0.3 or is taken from all the compounds of the following types: SixFy and SixCly, where x is the proportion of silicon (Si) in the gas and y is the proportion of fluorine (F) or chlorine (Cl) or hydrogen (H) in the gas.
US10062599B2
A cluster tool assembly includes a vacuum transfer module, a process module having a first side connected to the vacuum transfer module. An isolation valve having a first side and a second side, the first side of the isolation valve coupled to a second side of the process module. A replacement station is coupled to the second side of the isolation valve. The replacement station includes an exchange handler and a part buffer. The part buffer includes a plurality of compartments to hold new or used consumable parts. The process module includes a lift mechanism to enable placement of a consumable part installed in the process module to a raised position. The raised position provides access to the exchange handler to enable removal of the consumable part from the process module and store in a compartment of the part buffer. The exchange handler of the replacement station is configured to provide a replacement for the consumable part from the part buffer back to the process module. The lift mechanism is configured to receive the consumable part provided for replacement by the exchange handler and lower the consumable part to an installed position. The replacement by the exchange handler and the process module is conducted while the process module and the replacement station are maintained in a vacuum state.
US10062597B2
A chuck for testing an integrated circuit includes an upper conductive layer having a lower surface and an upper surface suitable to support a device under test. An upper insulating layer has an upper surface at least in partial face-to-face contact with the lower surface of the upper conductive layer, and a lower surface. A middle conductive layer has an upper surface at least in partial face-to-face contact with the lower surface of the upper insulating layer, and a lower surface.
US10062596B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for treating the surface of a microelectronic substrate, and in particular, relate to an apparatus and method for scanning the microelectronic substrate through a cryogenic fluid mixture used to treat an exposed surface of the microelectronic substrate. The fluid mixture may be expanded through a nozzle to form an aerosol spray or gas cluster jet (GCJ) spray may impinge the microelectronic substrate and remove particles from the microelectronic substrate's surface. In one embodiment, the fluid mixture may be maintained to prevent liquid formation within the fluid mixture prior to passing the fluid mixture through the nozzle. The fluid mixture may include nitrogen, argon, helium, neon, xenon, krypton, carbon dioxide, or any combination thereof.
US10062593B2
During a teaching operation regarding a transport mechanism, a hand of the transport mechanism is moved to a tentative target position in a substrate supporter, and a substrate supported at a reference position in the substrate supporter is received by the hand. A positional relationship between the substrate held by the hand and the hand is detected. A deviation between the tentative target position and the reference position is acquired as correction information based on the detected positional relationship. During the teaching operation or during substrate processing, the tentative target position is corrected to a true target position to coincide with the reference position based on the acquired correction information. During the substrate processing, the hand is moved to the true target position, so that the substrate is transferred to the substrate supporter by the hand, or the substrate is received from the substrate supporter by the hand.
US10062582B2
A package having ESD (electrostatic discharge) and EMI (electromagnetic interference) preventing functions includes: a substrate unit having a ground structure and an I/O structure disposed therein; at least a semiconductor component disposed on a surface of the substrate unit and electrically connected to the ground structure and the I/O structure; an encapsulant covering the surface of the substrate unit and the semiconductor component; and a metal layer disposed on exposed surfaces of the encapsulant and side surfaces of the substrate unit and electrically insulated from the ground structure, thereby protecting the semiconductor component against ESD and EMI so as to improve the product yield and reduce the risk of short circuits.
US10062580B2
Provided is an etchant for a semiconductor process, which contains a sulfonic acid compound, a halogen ion, nitric acid or a nitric acid ion, an organic cation, and water.
US10062579B2
Exemplary methods for laterally etching silicon nitride may include flowing a fluorine-containing precursor and an oxygen-containing precursor into a remote plasma region of a semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include forming a plasma within the remote plasma region to generate plasma effluents of the fluorine-containing precursor and the oxygen-containing precursor. The methods may also include flowing the plasma effluents into a processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. A substrate may be positioned within the processing region, and the substrate may include a trench formed through stacked layers including alternating layers of silicon nitride and silicon oxide. The methods may also include laterally etching the layers of silicon nitride from sidewalls of the trench while substantially maintaining the layers of silicon oxide. The layers of silicon nitride may be laterally etched less than 10 nm from the sidewalls of the trench.
US10062578B2
A method of selectively etching a metal-containing film from a substrate comprising a metal-containing layer and a silicon oxide layer includes flowing a fluorine-containing gas into a plasma generation region of a substrate processing chamber, and applying energy to the fluorine-containing gas to generate a plasma in the plasma generation region. The plasma comprises fluorine radicals and fluorine ions. The method also includes filtering the plasma to provide a reactive gas having a higher concentration of fluorine radicals than fluorine ions, and flowing the reactive gas into a gas reaction region of the substrate processing chamber. The method also includes exposing the substrate to the reactive gas in the gas reaction region of the substrate processing chamber. The reactive gas etches the metal-containing layer at a higher etch rate than the reactive gas etches the silicon oxide layer.
US10062576B2
A method of plasma etching one or more features in a silicon substrate includes performing a main etch using a cyclical etch process in which a deposition step and an etch step are alternately repeated, and performing an over etch to complete the plasma etching of the features. The over etch includes one or more etch steps of a first kind and one or more etch steps of a second kind, each of the etch steps of the first and second kind include etching by ion bombardment of the silicon substrate. The ion bombardment during the one or more etch steps of the second kind has an inward inclination with respect to ion bombardment during the one or more etch steps of the first kind.
US10062574B2
A wafer polishing apparatus capable of maintaining a drive ring in a flat state and a wafer polishing method are provided.In the wafer polishing apparatus and method according to an embodiment, when the head assembly moves to the initial descending position by the wafer elevation unit, the shape of the drive ring inside the head assembly may be measured by using the sensor, and thus the polishing process may be performed in the state where the descending position of the head assembly is automatically adjusted by using the head auxiliary elevation unit to maintain the drive ring in the flat state.Therefore, since the wafer polishing process is performed in the state the balance of the wafer mounting part is automatically adjusted by using the drive ring, the polishing quality of the wafer may be uniformly maintained, and also the polishing performance may be improved.
US10062568B2
A method of synthesis of two-dimensional metal chalcogenide monolayers, such as WSe2 and MoSe2, is based on a chemical vapor deposition approach that uses H2Se or alkyl or aryl selenide precursors to form a reactive gas. The gaseous selenium precursor may be introduced into a tube furnace containing a metal precursor at a selected temperature, wherein the selenium and metal precursors react to form metal chalcogenide monolayers.
US10062554B2
Exemplary metamaterial photocathodes enable detection of light from visible through long wave infrared wavelengths. Metamaterial stacks, comprising gold, silicon, and cesium-oxide, coupled to a semiconductor allow hot electrons to efficiently enter a vacuum. The hot electrons are multiplied in a multichannel plate and directly through another vacuum towards a phosphorus screen.
US10062552B2
A copper alloy sputtering target is formed by a copper alloy including the content of Ca being 0.3 to 1.7% by mass, the total content of Mg and Al being 5 ppm or less by mass, the content of oxygen being 20 ppm or less by mass, and the remainder is Cu and inevitable impurities. A manufacturing method of a copper alloy sputtering target comprises steps of: preparing a copper having purity of 99.99% or more by mass; melting the copper so as to obtain a molten copper; controlling components so as to obtain a molten metal having a predetermined component composition by the addition of Ca having a purity of 98.5% or more by mass into the molten copper and by melting the Ca; casting the molten metal so as to obtain an ingot; and performing stress relieving annealing after performing hot rolling to the ingot.
US10062548B2
A gas injection system for an ion beam device, the gas injection system including an extraction plate, an extraction aperture formed in the extraction plate for allowing passage of an ion beam, a first gas distributor removably fastened to the extraction plate on a first side of the extraction aperture, the first gas distributor having a gas orifice formed therein, a second gas distributor removably fastened to the extraction plate on a second side of the extraction aperture opposite the first side, the second gas distributor having a gas orifice formed therein, a first gas conduit extending through the extraction plate between the first gas distributor and a gas manifold mounted to the extraction plate, and a second gas conduit extending through the extraction plate between the second gas distributor the gas manifold, and a residue removal gas source connected to the gas manifold.
US10062536B2
A fusible link unit includes: a fuse element including a plurality of fusible portions arrayed in a predetermined array direction; a housing having a window portion penetrating the housing in an intersecting direction to intersect the array direction; and fusible portion covers attached to the housing. The housing holds the fuse element to locate the fusible portions inside the window portion. The fusible portion covers includes a first cover that is transparent and has a plate shape extending in the array direction and covering one opening of the window portion and a second cover that is non-transparent and having a plate shape extending in the array direction and covering the other opening of the window portion. A length of the first cover in the array direction is different from a length of the second cover in the array direction.
US10062533B2
An electrical switch device features a switch module housing that fits at least partially within an in-wall electrical box. The housing contains electrically controlled switches and has line and neutral contacts carried for each of the electrically controlled switches to enable connection of a different respective load circuit across each electrically controlled switch. A control panel is mountable over an open front of the in-wall electrical box and the housing therein, and has a user-interface for operation of the switch module to control the electrically controlled switches and connected loads. The control panel is sized to fully cover the open front of a multi-gang electrical box, whereby the same switch module and control panel are usable with either a single-gang or multi-gang electrical box without leaving any portion of the open front of the single-gang or multi-gang electrical box uncovered by said control panel.
US10062529B2
The present invention relates to motor safety devices as used in increasing numbers for the killing of engines or disengaging propulsion units from motors, when there are no operators to maintain control of an apparatus or vehicle such as jet-ski, boat, go-kart and the like or personnel to oversee use of a motorised tool or the like. Motor boat operators on a boat have been known to fall overboard without being detected by the operator of the boat. Such runaway boats have been known to seriously injure the operator of the boat in the water since a runaway boat tends to circle back to the place where the operator has fallen overboard. The present invention is also applicable to other types of equipment such as motorised gymnasium equipment, hand operated power tools, such as agricultural and arboriculturist equipment and wood working tools.
US10062526B2
Exemplary embodiments relate to a medium voltage switchgear with interlocking device associated with an actuator drive, which operates a switching element via a mechanical coupling element. The switching drive is movable in two end positions until which the interlocking is active between a freely selectable middle position and a specified end position. In order to keep the interlocking active over a certain range of the actuator travel, the mechanical coupling element includes a force flux element that is rotatable during operation of the drive from OFF to ON. In this way, the region where the interlocking shifts from unlocked to locked can freely be chosen by the shape of the force flux element.
US10062524B2
A disconnect system for a solar installation shuts down power upstream from an inverter, so that it is safe for solar field personnel to perform work related to a solar installation. The system actuates multiple disconnect devices in one motion by a linkage assembly which can associate 2-4 disconnect switches with a single handle. This system preferably includes hardware and logic for monitoring the current and voltage output of electrically coupled combiner/recombiner boxes in the solar field, and for wirelessly transmitting this data to a user. A single disconnect cabinet can accommodate 2-20 inputs from associated lead assemblies and/or recombiner lead assemblies with 5 handles or less.
US10062515B2
This capacitor structure is provided with a capacitor body in which a plurality of wound-type capacitors are housed in a housing, and which is fixed to a fixing object via a fastening tool (a cylindrical member and a fixing bolt). The capacitor structure is configured such that the capacitor body is fixed to the fixing object by inserting the fastening tool into at least one of a gap formed between the outer peripheral surfaces of the wound-type capacitors or gaps formed between the outer peripheral surfaces of the wound-type capacitors and the inner wall of the housing, in a state in which the wound-type capacitors are installed side by side on the floor of the housing.
US10062513B2
A capacitor component includes a body having a first surface, a second surface, a third surface, a fourth surface, a stack structure including a plurality of dielectric layers, and a first internal electrode and a second internal electrode, a first external electrode formed on the first surface and the fourth surface, and a second external electrode formed on the second surface and the fourth surface. The first internal electrode includes a first region and a second region, the first region being connected to the first external electrode by a lead extending to the fourth surface, and the second region being connected to the first external electrode by a lead extending to the first surface. The second internal electrode includes a third region and a fourth region, the fourth region being connected to the second external electrode by a lead extending to the second surface.
US10062512B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component has a dimension in a longitudinal direction of no less than about 0.12 mm and no more than about 0.27 mm, a dimension in a width direction of no less than about 0.06 mm and no more than about 0.14 mm, and a dimension in a lamination direction of no less than about 0.06 mm and no more than about 0.14 mm, for example. Each of a first outer electrode and a second outer electrode includes an underlying electrode layer disposed on a surface of a multilayer body, a nickel-plated layer covering the underlying electrode layer, and a tin-plated layer covering the nickel-plated layer. The nickel-plated layer in each of the first outer electrode and second outer electrode has surface roughness of no less than about 3 μm and no more than about 6 μm, for example.
US10062500B2
One object is to reduce, in a common mode choke coil having three coil conductors, a deviation in stray capacities generated between the coil conductors. A common mode choke coil according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a first coil conductor, a second coil conductor, and a third coil conductor. In said embodiment, the first coil conductor, the second coil conductor, and the third coil conductor extend parallel with each other in a first region in plan view as seen from an axial direction along the coil axis. In said embodiment, in the first region, when seen in a cross section cut along a plane including the coil axis, in an n-th turn, an arranging order of the first coil conductor, the second coil conductor, and the third coil conductor from an inner side in a radial direction thereof is inverted from that in an n+1th turn.
US10062499B2
A power module including a power device and a magnetic component is provided. The magnetic component is stacked with the power device and a vertical projection of the magnetic component is at least partially overlapping with the power device. The magnetic component includes a magnetic core and a winding set. The magnetic core includes a first surface, a second surface and at least one window. The window is located between the first surface and the second surface, and includes a passing-through axis vertical to a surface of the power device, where at least one leading pin or pad is disposed on the surface of the power device. The winding set includes at least one winding portion. The winding portion passes through the window and electrically connected to the power device. Each winding set and the magnetic core are configured to form an inductor, and the winding set is preformed.
US10062498B2
A composite magnetic component is provided. The composite magnetic component includes a magnetic flux-guiding unit, a first coil structure and a second coil structure. The first coil structure and the second coil structure are wound around a first winding portion and a second winding portion of the magnetic flux-guiding unit, respectively. A first magnetic flux results from the first coil structure and the magnetic flux-guiding unit. A second magnetic flux results from the second coil structure and the magnetic flux-guiding unit. The first magnetic flux is orthogonal to the second magnetic flux within the magnetic flux-guiding unit.
US10062495B2
In manufacturing an embedded magnetic component, a cavity is formed in an insulating substrate with one or more channels connecting the cavity to an exterior of the component. The channels include one or more obstruction sections that define a sealed base area of the cavity into which adhesive is dispensed to secure the magnetic core in the cavity. The obstruction sections prevent egress of the adhesive before it hardens. The cavity and the magnetic core are then covered with a first insulating layer. Through holes are formed through the first insulating layer and the insulating substrate, and plated up to form conductive vias. Metallic traces are added to the exterior surfaces of the first insulating layer and the insulating substrate to form upper and lower winding layers. The metallic traces and the conductive vias form the windings for an embedded magnetic component, such as a transformer or an inductor.
US10062492B2
The following examples and embodiments are directed to an induction coil that can be used in a variety of applications, including, for example, induction charging systems. In one example, an induction coil is configured to couple an electrical field between a base device and a mobile device in an inductive charge system. The induction coil includes a coil substrate formed by a molding process. The induction coil also includes a shield element disposed within the coil substrate. The shield element may be formed within the coil substrate as part of the molding process. A conductive winding is also formed within a surface of the coil substrate. In some cases, the coil substrate is formed by an injection-molding process.
US10062491B1
A choke coil module of a high power density DC-AC power inverter includes a bottom plate and a top plate. Two upright posts are secured between the bottom plate and the top plate. The upright posts are sleeved with choke coils, respectively. The choke coils and heat radiating holes of the bottom plate and the top plate are communicated with one another to form an air guide passage. When the power converter is actuated, the choke coils generate heat. Through a fan unit, the outside air is guided into a casing via air inlets of the casing, and the heat generated by the choke coils is expelled to the outside via the air guide passage and air outlets of the casing. The choke coil module mounted in the high power density casing is able to achieve an excellent heat radiation effect.
US10062479B2
A method for constructing a superconductive cable system is proposed. Using this method, at least one superconductive cable (2) is mounted in a tubular cryostat (3) serving for guiding a cooling agent by means of which the cryostat (3) equipped with the cable (2) and wherein the cable (2) and the cryostat (3) are transported to the placement location and both ends are connected to units. The cable (2) is mounted in a cryostat (3) which at both axial ends (3b, 3c) protrudes beyond the cable (2). The unit of cable (2) and cryostat (3) is transported to the placement location. The ends (3b, 3c) protruding beyond the cable (2) are cut to a predetermined length. The superconductive cable (2) and the cryostat (3) are subsequently connected to the units.
US10062478B2
A superconducting cable comprises a superconductor 60, two or more coolant passages including an outgoing coolant passage 12 and a returning coolant passage 14 that transfer a coolant that cools the superconductor, and a heat insulating pipe 10 inside which the superconductor 60 and the coolant passages are formed. For the coolant passages, by a double structured tube of an inner tube 6 and an outer tube 8, the outgoing coolant passage 12 is formed in the internal space of the inner tube 6 and the returning coolant passage 14 is formed in the space between the inner tube 6 and the outer tube 8, the inner tube 6 is formed between the outgoing coolant passage 12 and the returning coolant passage 14 of a heat insulating material, the superconductor 60 is disposed on the outer circumferential side of the inner tube 6, and the superconductor is cooled by the coolant that flows through the returning coolant passage.
US10062473B2
A silver-coated copper alloy powder, which has a low volume resistivity and excellent storage stability (reliability), is produced by coating a copper alloy powder, which has a chemical composition comprising 1 to 50 wt % of at least one of nickel and zinc and the balance being copper and unavoidable impurities (preferably a copper alloy powder wherein a particle diameter (D50 diameter) corresponding to 50% of accumulation in cumulative distribution of the copper alloy powder, which is measured by a laser diffraction particle size analyzer, is 0.1 to 15 μm), with 7 to 50 wt % of a silver containing layer, preferably a layer of silver or an silver compound.
US10062471B2
An additive formulation suitable for antistatic modification and improving the electrical conductivity of inanimate organic material, consisting essentially of (A) from 1 to 50% by weight of an olefin-sulfur dioxide copolymer, (B) from 1 to 50% by weight of a compound which comprises one or more basic nitrogen atoms and has at least one relatively long-chain linear or branched hydrocarbon radical having at least four carbon atoms or an equivalent structural element which ensures the solubility of component (B) in the inanimate organic material, (C) from 0.1 to 30% by weight of an oil-soluble acid and (D) from 1 to 80% by weight of a high-boiling organic solvent which consists of one or more molecule types, where at least 80% by weight of these molecule types have a boiling point of more than 150° C. at standard pressure, where the sum of all components adds up to 100% by weight.
US10062469B2
Articles with graphene are selectively transparent to electromagnetic radiation. The articles transmit electromagnetic radiation in the infrared and visible light bands while inhibiting incident radio frequency radiation. The articles have high electrical conductivity and may be used in windows and domes.
US10062460B2
A sealing member is provided to create a sealed region about an annulus formed between an inner body, such as a thermal sleeve, and an outer body, such as a control rod drive housing nozzle. Liquid is introduced into the sealed region to create a flooded region, which is pressurized to a desired level. A nozzle is provided into the flooded region, the nozzle being configured to fit within the annulus. Pressurized fluid is ejected from the nozzle, causing the formation of cavitation bubbles. The nozzle flow causes the cavitation bubbles to settle on the surfaces forming the annulus. The collapsing impact of the cavitation bubbles imparts compressive stress in the materials of the surfaces forming the annulus.
US10062459B2
The present invention relates to a novel material made of uranium, gadolinium and oxygen, having a crystalline phase having cubic crystallographic structure, having an atomic ratio Gd/[Gd+U] of 0.6 to 0.93, the uranium being present in an oxidation state of +IV and/or +V. The invention further relates to the use of such a material as a consumable neutron poison of a fuel element.
US10062451B2
A schedulable memory scrubbing circuit and/or a known-state memory test circuit (collectively, background memory test apparatus (“BGMTA”)) are located on-chip with an integrated computing system. The BGMTA operates in parallel with a system CPU but shares a system bus with the CPU. The BGMTA sequentially reads one word at a time from a block of memory to be tested during system bus idle cycles. The schedulable memory scrubbing circuit embodiment tests on-chip parity/ECC memory arrays using memory controller-implemented parity or ECC error detection to trigger error handling interrupts. The known-state memory test circuit embodiment performs CRC calculations on known-state memory arrays as each data word is read sequentially. A final resulting CRC calculation value is compared to a known CRC value for the block, sometimes referred to as a “golden CRC.” If the two CRC values differ, a CRC error interrupt is triggered for servicing by the CPU.
US10062450B1
In pipelined analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), a passive switched capacitor (PSWC) circuit can be used in a multiplying analog-to-digital converter (MDAC), which generates an analog output being fed to a subsequent stage. Complementary analog input signals are sampled respectively onto first and second capacitors, which are stacked to provide gain. The first capacitor is positioned between a first input switch and an output node of the PSWC circuit, and the second capacitor is positioned between the second input switch and a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) output. The topology advantageously isolates common modes of the complementary analog input signals, the DAC output, and the output of the PSWC circuit. As a result, the topology offers more degrees of freedom in the overall circuit design when stages having the MDAC are cascaded, resulting in pipelined ADCs with a more elegant design with lower noise and lower power consumption.
US10062449B2
A magnetic domain wall (MDW) motion device. The MDW motion device may include a ferromagnetic layer with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and non-magnetic metal layers extending parallel to and in contact with the ferromagnetic layer. The ferromagnetic layer may include first ferromagnetic regions, which are arranged in an extension direction of the ferromagnetic layer, and second ferromagnetic regions, which are provided between an adjacent pair of the first ferromagnetic regions. The first and second ferromagnetic regions may have spin torque coefficients of opposite signs, and an MDW positioned near an interface between the first and second ferromagnetic regions may be moved by an in-plane current flowing through the non-magnetic metal layer.
US10062446B2
A circuit architecture for operating error-correction code (ECC) in a memory apparatus includes a control circuit and an ECC circuit. The ECC circuit is coupled with the control circuit. The control circuit receives a first data of a set of bits to invert the first data as an inverted data. The ECC circuit receives the inverted data for encryption or decryption and outputs an ECC-processed data. The control circuit inverts the ECC-processed data as a second data.
US10062444B2
An integrated circuit, that may be a part of an electronic system, may include a first set of storage cells to store settings and a second set of storage cells to store alternate settings. At least one control cell may also be included in the integrated circuit. The at least one control cell may indicate whether to use the settings stored in the first set of storage cells, or the alternate settings stored in the second set of storage cells, to control one or more operating parameters of the integrated circuit. Methods for using the alternate setting are also described.
US10062441B1
Methods of operating a memory include determining a respective raw data value for each memory cell of a plurality of memory cells; determining the numbers of memory cells of a first subset of the plurality of memory cells having each raw data value as their respective raw data value; determining a respective raw data values representative of transition between each pair of adjacent data states responsive to the determined numbers of memory cells of the first subset of the plurality of memory cells for each raw data value; and determining a respective data state of the plurality of data states for each memory cell of a second subset of the plurality of memory cells responsive to its respective raw data value and to the determined raw data values representative of the transitions between adjacent data states.
US10062433B2
A method is provided for a reading memory even if there is a threshold voltage in an overlapped threshold voltage (VTH) region between a first state distribution and a second state distribution. The method includes ramping a bias on a memory cell a first time to determine a first threshold voltage (VTH1) of the memory cell and determining whether the VTH1 is within the overlapped VTH region. Upon determination that the memory cell is within the overlapped VTH region, the method further includes applying a write pulse to the memory cell; ramping a bias on the memory cell a second time to determine a second threshold voltage (VTH2); and determining the state of the memory cell prior to receiving the write pulse based on a comparison between the VTH1 and the VTH2.
US10062424B2
This technology provides an electronic device. An electronic device in accordance with an implementation of this document may include a semiconductor memory, and the semiconductor memory may include: an under layer including a plurality of material layers having a different crystal structures; a first magnetic layer formed over the under layer and having a variable magnetization direction; a tunnel barrier layer formed over the first magnetic layer; and a second magnetic layer formed over the tunnel barrier layer and having a pinned magnetization direction.
US10062416B2
Provided is an image decoding device including an acquisition unit configured to acquire clean random access (CRA) information used to identify one or more CRA pictures in an image sequence inserted into a data region from a header region of a file format including the header region and the data region, a control unit configured to specify one CRA picture in the image sequence as a decoding start picture using the CRA information when an instruction of random access is detected, and a decoding unit configured to decode the image sequence from the decoding start picture specified by the control unit.
US10062409B2
Techniques and devices for creating an AutoLoop output video include identifying optimal loops within short videos or within a series of image. The AutoLoop output video may be automatically created using casually shot, handheld videos, and may include an AutoLoop pipeline that may comprise obtaining an input video, stabilizing the input video, detecting optimal loop parameters and baking out the AutoLoop output video with crossfade and playing back the AutoLoop output video. Video stabilization can include a cascade of video stabilization algorithms including a tripod-direct mode and a tripod-sequential mode. After stabilization, an AutoLoop operation may determine optimal loop parameters. Once optimal loop parameters are determined, a crossfade may be added to smooth out any temporal and spatial discontinuities in the AutoLoop output video.
US10062405B2
A video compressing apparatus and method that may increase the compression efficiency while maintaining the quality of video on an electronic device processing multimedia data including video are provided. The apparatus includes a video compressing apparatus and method that obtain a target image from a memory or camera, generate meta data corresponding to attribute information of the obtained target image, and compress the target image based on, at least, the generated meta data.
US10062400B1
An apparatus includes a first waveguide core extending along a light-propagation direction and configured to receive light from a light source at a combined transverse electric (TE) mode and a transverse magnetic (TM) mode. A second waveguide core is spaced apart from the first waveguide core and is configured to couple light at a TM mode to the second waveguide core. A near-field transducer (NFT) is disposed at a media-facing surface of a write head, the NFT receiving the light from the first waveguide core or the second waveguide core and heating a magnetic recording medium in response thereto.
US10062396B1
A platter supported and driven turntable has a spindle, an upper circular platter, a lower circular platter, an arm board, and a tonearm assembly. The spindle is to rotate about a first direction. The spindle has a hub, a shaft and a bearing assembly between the hub and the shaft. The shaft has a flange. The upper circular platter is attached to the shaft of the spindle. The lower circular platter is attached to the flange of the shaft of the spindle. The arm board is attached to the hub of the spindle. The arm board has a first extension section, a mid-range section, and a second extension section. The mid-range section of the arm board is disposed between the upper circular platter and the lower circular platter. The tonearm assembly is directly attached to the first extension section of the arm board. The second extension section of the arm board is attached to a ballast or a supporting turntable through one or more adjustable height mounts.
US10062393B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for recording sound of a video-recorded object and a mobile terminal, so as to reduce background noise in recorded sound of a video-recorded object, and improve quality of the recorded sound. The method in the embodiments of the present disclosure includes: obtaining, by a mobile terminal by means of facial recognition, position information of the video-recorded object; and performing processing on recorded sound signals, so as to enhance signal intensity of a sound signal at a position of the video-recorded object, and attenuate signal intensity of a sound signal at another position, to obtain sound at the position of the video-recorded object.
US10062391B2
To prevent that the noise occurs at timing switching between PCM data and DSD data by a simple configuration.An AV receiver 1 includes a mute circuit 5 that mutes output from a DAC 4, a detection circuit 6 that detects that a digital audio signal is zero data and supplies a detection signal, a microcomputer 2 that supplies a control signal at timing switching from PCM data to DSD data before switches from PCM mode that the DAC 4 converts PCM data into an analog audio signal to DSD mode that the DAC 4 converts DSD data into the analog audio signal, and an AND circuit 7 that activates the mute circuit 5 in case that the detection signal from the detection circuit 6 and the control signal from the microcomputer 2 are supplied.
US10062389B2
A decoding device includes: a separating unit separating first encoded data, a spectrum including a low-band spectrum of audio signals having been encoded, and second encoded data, a high-band spectrum of a higher band having been encoded, based on the first encoded data; a first decoding unit decoding the first encoded data and generating a first decoded spectrum; a first amplitude normalizer dividing amplitude of the first decoded spectrum into sub-bands, normalizing the spectrum of each sub-band by the largest amplitude of the first decoded spectrum within each sub-band, and generating a normalized spectrum; an addition unit adding noise spectrum to the normalized spectrum and generating a noise-added normalized spectrum; a second decoding unit decoding the second encoded data using the noise-added normalized spectrum, and generating a second noise-added spectrum; and a converter performing time-frequency conversion regarding a spectrum coupled based on the first decoded spectrum and second noise-added spectrum.
US10062380B2
An automatic dialing system includes a telephone directory database configured to store first terminal information which includes a first telephone directory and first identification information and second terminal information which includes a second telephone directory and second identification information. An instruction receiving unit is configured to receive a dialing instruction. A telephone directory search unit is configured to search for a telephone directory. A mobile device connection unit is configured to connect the second mobile device corresponding to the automatic dialing system, when the found telephone directory corresponds with the second telephone directory. A dialing control unit is configured to dial a phone number corresponding to the received instruction through the second mobile device, when the found telephone directory corresponds with the second telephone directory.
US10062372B1
An audio device may be configured to produce output audio and to capture input audio for speech recognition. In some cases, a second device may also be used to capture input audio to improve isolation of input audio with respect to the output audio. In addition, acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) may be used to remove components of output audio from input signals of the first and second devices. AEC may be implemented by an adaptive filter based on dynamically optimized filter coefficients. The filter coefficients may be analyzed to detect situations in which the first and second devices are too close to each other, and the user may then be prompted to increase the distance between the two devices.
US10062368B2
A chord judging method performed by a processor to judge chords of a musical piece, in which the processor estimates plural chord candidates of each of plural parts specified in the musical piece; calculates connection costs, each of which is defined between the chord candidates of adjacent parts of the musical piece; obtains total sums of the connection costs between the chord candidates along plural routes through the musical piece; and selects a route from among the plural routes, which route shows a less total sum of the connection costs of the chord candidates, thereby outputting an appropriate chord candidate of each of the parts along the found route of the musical piece.
US10062365B2
A variable mode electronic wind chime. The electronic wind chime provides a visual and audible indicator of the presence or absence of wind. A housing is the structural center of the electronic wind chime and contains a clapper, chimes and light sources corresponding with the chimes opposite of a hanger. The light sources can be modified by the insertion of color films into film slots. The clapper can be moved between various settings to enable audible sound, light source activation or a combination thereof.
US10062364B1
The present invention relates to a drumstick sleeve system. The system may include an elastic sleeve configured to be worn around a user's arm and comprising a sleeve front end, a sleeve rear end, a sleeve length extending from the sleeve front end to the sleeve rear end, a sleeve width generally perpendicular to the sleeve length, a sleeve interior configured to receive the user's arm, a sleeve exterior, a pocket comprising a pocket front entry portal, a pocket rear exit portal, and a pocket length extending from the pocket front entry portal to the pocket rear exit portal, the pocket length generally parallel to the sleeve length. The pocket is configured to receive a drumstick and the drumstick may be removably secured to the sleeve exterior with the at least one strap.
US10062363B2
The present invention relates to a mobile terminal and a method for controlling the same which can effectively reduce an afterimage phenomenon generated on a display unit. A control apparatus of a mobile terminal for reducing an afterimage of a display unit of the mobile terminal according to embodiments of the present invention may comprise: the display unit for displaying items in a turned-on state; and a control unit for turning off the display unit after displaying the items on the display unit, moving display locations of the items displayed on the display unit in the turned-on state in a state where the display unit is turned off, and displaying the items in the moved display locations when the display unit is turned back on.
US10062357B2
Disclosed is an imaging directional backlight including an array of light sources, and a control system arranged to provide variable distribution of luminous fluxes, scaled inversely by the width associated with the respective light sources in the lateral direction, across the array of light sources. The luminous intensity distribution of output optical windows may be controlled to provide desirable luminance distributions in the window plane of an autostereoscopic display, a directional display operating in wide angle 2D mode, privacy mode and low power consumption mode. Image quality may be improved and power consumption reduced.
US10062352B2
A display comprises a plurality of autonomous pixels on a substrate. Each autonomous pixel comprises a display element, a sensing element and a control element. The sensing element is arranged to detect an external stimulus and the control element is arranged to generate, entirely within the autonomous pixel, a control signal to drive the display element based, at least in part, on a magnitude of the external stimulus detected by the sensing element. Additionally, the control element comprises one or more groups of transistors, each group comprising two or more transistors arranged to perform the same function and connected in parallel with each other.
US10062344B2
The invention provides a voltage stabilizing device. In the voltage stabilizing device, a signal detecting and amplifying circuit detects an operating voltage of the functional circuit, amplifies the detected operating voltage and outputs the amplified voltage signal to a logic processing circuit; the logic processing circuit adjusts a first control signal according to the amplified voltage signal and outputs the adjusted first control signal to a feedback voltage signal generating circuit; the feedback voltage signal generating circuit adjusts a feedback voltage signal according to the adjusted first control signal and outputs the adjusted feedback voltage signal to the logic processing circuit. Moreover, the logic processing circuit further adjusts a second control signal according to the adjusted feedback voltage signal and outputs the adjusted second control signal to the functional circuit, and thereby controls an output voltage of the functional circuit to be kept stable.
US10062342B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a LCD Q-Panel, a LCD panel and a LCD apparatus, for solving the technical problem that there is a large loss of a signal over the resistance of the signal transmission line when the signal is loaded into a general signal connection port of the LCD Q-Panel in the prior art. The LCD Q-Panel provided in embodiments of the present invention comprises: a general signal connection port, at least one LCD panel comprising a signal connection point, and at least one voltage follower; the signal input from the general signal connection port is transmitted via the at least one voltage follower to the signal connection point connected to an output terminal of the at least one voltage follower and the LCD panel comprising the signal connection point.
US10062339B2
The data signal driving method is disclosed. The method is applied in a display panel. The display panel includes a display region having data lines and a fan-out region having connection lines. The method includes: inputting a reference voltage to each connection lines and obtaining a current in each connection line; setting a most middle connection line as a first connection line, using the first connection line as a reference, respectively calculating and obtaining resistances of a 2nd to a N-th connection lines; inputting a data signal voltage to the connection lines; and inputting a compensation voltage to each of the 2nd to the N-th connection lines according to the data signal voltage and the resistances such that after applying the data signal voltage and the compensation voltages, the current in each connection line is equal; wherein, N is an integer greater than 2. A driving device is also disclosed.
US10062338B2
Provided is a photosensor device that even when the width and thickness of a bezel are reduced, can cause a sensor unit to smoothly exit and enter the bezel. Using drive means, a photosensor device causes a sensor unit to perform multiple rotation operations. Thus, the sensor unit is allowed to approach a display screen of an image display panel for a measurement and to be stored in a bezel after the measurement.
US10062334B2
Quantum dot backlights for use in displays and processes for controlling the dimming of quantum dot backlights are provided. The backlight can include an LED (e.g., a blue LED) configured to emit a light through a sheet of quantum dots. The quantum dots can be configured to emit colored light (e.g., red and green light) in response to the light emitted from the LED. To control the relative luminance of the LED, the backlight can be controlled through the use of current dimming to adjust the brightness of the LED at high relative luminance settings to increase the light output efficiency and can include the use of pulse width modulation to adjust the brightness of the LED at low relative luminance settings to reduce the amount of wavelength shift experienced by the LED.
US10062332B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, wherein each of the pixels includes a switching element connected to a data line and a gate line, a light source configured to provide the display panel with a light, a light source driver configured to turn the light source on and off, and a panel driver configured to output a data voltage to the data lines and a gate signal to the gate lines during an ON period in which the light source turns on the light, and to block the data voltage to be applied to the data lines and the gate signal to be applied to the gate lines during an OFF period in which the light source turns off the light.
US10062328B2
An organic light emitting display device includes: pixels including driving transistors positioned in regions divided by scan lines and data lines; a data accumulating unit arranged to accumulate first data; a first storage unit storing current and voltage change information corresponding to a degradation of an organic light emitting diode (OLED); a second storage unit storing a compensation value corresponding at least partially to channel length modulation of the driving transistors; and a timing controller programmed to carry out an altering of first data corresponding to an ith pixel so as to generate second data to be supplied to the ith pixel, the altering carried out according to: accumulation stress information for the ith pixel, the accumulation stress information corresponding to the accumulated first data and being stored in the data accumulating unit, the current and voltage change information, and a compensation value corresponding to the ith pixel.
US10062320B2
A display device includes a multiplicity of pixels, at least one connection carrier, and a multiplicity of inorganic light-emitting diode chips. The connection carrier includes a multiplicity of switches. Each pixel contains at least one light-emitting diode chip. Each light-emitting diode chip is mechanically fixed and electrically connected to the connection carrier. Each switch is designed for driving at least one light-emitting diode chip and the light-emitting diode chips are imaging elements of the display device.
US10062316B2
A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns, a plurality of gate lines in a first direction and connected to the pixels, and a plurality of data lines connected to the pixels. A number of data lines are between pixels in one row and in each of first areas adjacent to one side of the pixels in one column of a first column and the last column.
US10062311B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a display substrate and fabricating method thereof and a display device. The display substrate comprises a plurality of pixel groups, wherein each of said pixel groups comprises a plurality of color sub-pixels and a plurality of white sub-pixels. A first driving transistor is provided in a light emitting layer missing region of the color sub-pixel, for driving the color sub-pixel. A second driving transistor and a white sub-pixel are provided on the first driving transistor, the second driving transistor for driving the white sub-pixel. According to the technical solution, white light OLED display may be implemented by forming the white sub-pixel and the driving transistor thereof on the driving transistor of the color sub-pixel, while making use of the space on the thickness dimension of the color sub-pixel, so that the light emitting layer missing region in the color sub-pixel is fully utilized.
US10062306B2
A display tool includes a display part, a back part, a stable part, a leg part, and a bottom part. The display part is disposed in its erected state. The back part has its upper edge connected to an upper edge of the display part and is disposed behind the display part such that a distance between the back part and the display part gradually increases from the upper edges to lower edges of the back part and the display part. The stable part protrudes downwardly along the back part from a portion of the lower edge of the back part. The leg part protrudes downward direction from the remaining portion of the lower edge of the back part at an angle less than an angle at which the back part slants. The bottom part is connected to a lower edge of the display part and to a lower edge of the leg part. The stable part is disposed such that its lower edge is in abutment with an upper surface of the bottom part.
US10062299B1
The arithmetic educational tool utilizes a container having a main chamber and two extended chambers from the main chamber to visually demonstrate addition and subtraction. Objects placed with the container will move from the main chamber into the extended chambers when the container is tilted and thereby break the number objects in the main chamber into parts. The container is bifurcated, having the two extended chambers branching off of from the main chamber and thereby causes a random splitting of the number of objects into each of the extended chamber. Conversely, objects placed in each of the extended chambers can be added when the chamber is tilted to cause the object to move from the extended chambers into the main chamber. One or more of the chambers may have an obscuring feature, such as a color or slidably cover, that enables obscuring the number of objects therein.
US10062294B2
An obstacle-avoidance system for a vehicle, the obstacle-avoidance system may comprise: a communication device; a plurality of sensors, the plurality of sensors configured to detect collision threats within a predetermined distance of the vehicle; and a processor. The processor may communicatively couple to the communication device and the plurality of sensors and configured to receive navigation commands being communicated to a control system via said communication device. The processor may also receive, from at least one of said plurality of sensors, obstruction data reflecting the position of an obstruction. Using the obstruction data, the processor identifies a direction for avoiding said obstruction. In response, the processor may output, via said communication device, a derivative command to said control system causing the vehicle to travel in said flight direction.
US10062292B2
One embodiment provides a method comprising maintaining a weather model based on predicted weather conditions for an air traffic control zone. A hash table comprising multiple hash entries is maintained. Each hash entry comprises a timestamped predicted weather condition for a cell in the zone. A flight plan request for a drone is received. The request comprises a planned flight path for the drone. For at least one cell on the planned flight path, same latitude or same longitude cells, whichever is most closely orthogonal to a direction of the planned flight path, are heuristically probed. Weather conditions for the at least one cell are estimated based on predicted weather conditions for the same latitude or same longitude cells. An executable flight plan is generated if the planned flight path is feasible based on the estimated weather conditions; otherwise, a report including an explanation of infeasibility is generated instead.
US10062290B2
A computing device for a vehicle imaging system includes a data storage medium and a processing device programmed to execute computer-executable instructions stored on the data storage medium. The instructions include capturing an image of an area ahead of a host vehicle in a convoy with at least one other vehicle, wirelessly pairing with a mobile device associated with the at least one other vehicle, and presenting an image captured by the mobile device associated with the at least one other vehicle.
US10062286B2
A method and apparatus for use in traversing a vehicle transportation network may include determining a codeword based on host vehicle information and remote vehicle information, and wherein the codeword indicates whether an expected path for the remote vehicle and an expected path for the host vehicle are convergent, and traversing a portion of the vehicle transportation network in response to the codeword. Determining the codeword may include determining an orientation sector based on a geodesic between the host vehicle and the remote vehicle, determining relative position information for the host vehicle and the remote vehicle based on the orientation sector, determining relative elevation information for the host vehicle and the remote vehicle based on the remote vehicle information and the host vehicle information, and determining relative heading information for the host vehicle and the remote vehicle based on the remote vehicle information and the host vehicle information.
US10062280B2
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for providing a traffic news interface. For example, a traffic news provider component may query traffic camera data and/or traffic incident data to identify traffic cameras and/or traffic incidents along a route of a driver. The traffic cameras and/or the traffic incidents may be ranked based upon a safety metric, a travel time sensitivity metric, an alternative route selection metric, a driving behavior pattern, a driver mood, a distance of a traffic camera or traffic incident from a current user location, and/or other information used to determine how relevant information from the traffic camera and/or a traffic incident is to this particular driver. A subset of traffic cameras and/or traffic incidents may be selected for inclusion within a traffic news interface based upon camera relevancy rankings and/or incident relevancy rankings.
US10062278B2
A parking lot is set up for the parking of motor vehicles. A method for managing the parking lot includes steps of determining a maximum number of motor vehicles able to be parked in the parking lot, of counting of arriving and departing motor vehicles, of determining a number of motor vehicles parked in the parking lot on the basis of the counted motor vehicles, and of determining a number of motor vehicles that are additionally able to be parked in the parking lot.
US10062277B2
Verifying shared event information is provided. Communication with a nearby mobile or immobile apparatus is established to generate an event existence proof in response to encountering the nearby mobile or immobile apparatus. Existence of an incident event is verified in response to arriving at a geographic location of the incident event. A verified incident event is published to add to an incident event distributed ledger for managing incident event information corresponding to the incident event.
US10062268B2
The present disclosure provides a terminal alarm method and device. The method comprises: receiving (S102) a pressing operation of a finger corresponding to a first fingerprint at a touch position for recognizing the first fingerprint, the first fingerprint matching a fingerprint previously stored locally in the terminal, and triggering (S104) an alarm function of the terminal, when the pressing duration time of the pressing operation reaches a predetermined time period and/or the number of pressing times of the pressing operation reaches a predetermined number of times. The present disclosure solves the problem that the function of the fingerprint recognition is monotonous in the related art and improves the user experience.
US10062265B2
A security system includes a plurality of sensors installed at a premises to capture data from an environment in or around the premises, a memory configured to store data captured spanning at least a first period of time, and a processor configured to arm the plurality of sensors in an order determined based on a history of detected activity in the premises as indicated by the stored data.
US10062259B2
A pool floatation device including a body configured to float on the surface of water of a pool. A sonar device may be coupled to the body and configured to detect movement of an object beneath the surface of the water of the pool. A wireless communication device may be coupled to the body and configured to transmit a wireless signal for indicating to a terminal device that the sonar device has detected movement of the object beneath the surface of the water of the pool.
US10062255B1
A system or method for a physical intrusion detection and assessment system is provided for determining a deliberate motion intrusion. The system includes first and second sensing device to sense physical data set within a predetermined space. A transducer module receives the first sensor physical data set and the second sensor physical data set and converts the first and second physical data sets into analog signals representative of the first and second physical data sets. A signal conditioning layer converts the first and second physical data analog signals to digital signals. A processor device correlates the first physical data set and the second physical data set and generates an alarm in response to identification of an intrusion in the space. A method and algorithms are applied to the data sets for determining whether a detected intrusion is associated with deliberate motion rather than random motion.
US10062253B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to security systems and methods for securing an item of merchandise from theft or unauthorized removal. For example, the security system may include a sensor configured to be coupled to the item of merchandise and a charging circuit for providing power to the sensor and/or the item of merchandise. The security system may also include a cable connected to the sensor and at least one optical transceiver for defining a sense loop between the cable and the sensor.
US10062251B2
Doorbell systems can communicate wirelessly with remotely located computing devices such as smartphones, laptops, gaming consoles, and streaming media players. In some embodiments, doorbells comprise a camera, a speaker, and a first battery. In several embodiments, a battery pack comprises a second battery and is electrically coupled to the doorbell. A battery charging system can electrically couple the second battery to the first battery such that the second battery is configured to recharge the first battery.
US10062237B2
An apparatus comprises a wheel and an indicator. The wheel includes a plurality of wedges and a linking element. The plurality of wedges bear respective awards, and the linking element is configured to link a subset of at least two wedges of the plurality of wedges. The indicator is configured to designate a wedge within the plurality of wedges. In response to the designated wedge being within the subset, a combination of the awards associated with the at least two wedges of the plurality of wedges are awarded.
US10062234B2
A system for regulating access to a resource by a plurality of users is provided. The system comprises: a plurality of portable access keys, each being provided to one of the users and having an associated variable access parameter; an access barrier, having an open state allowing passage through and a closed state denying access to the resource, and defining an access queue; a sensor that determines an access queue characteristic related to a number of users in the access queue; a controller, which sets an access criterion based on the determined access queue characteristic; and a detector, located at the access barrier and which determines the variable access parameter of a portable access key when it is brought into the vicinity of the detector. The controller sets the access barrier in its open state if the variable access parameter determined by the detector meets the access criterion.
US10062226B2
A method of initializing a mobile device to operate in a mobile credentialing system, the method including sending an authorization code and host URL from a hotel loyalty application to a mobile credential library of a mobile application on a mobile device, the mobile device operable to perform a first sync with a credential service to establish an ongoing trust relationship between the mobile credential library and the credential service such that the mobile application is operable to interact with an access control without the user of the mobile device knowing either an authorization code or a host location of the credential service.
US10062220B2
A method for operating a drive device of a motor vehicle which has at least one electric machine with a phase angle detector and an output shaft operatively connectable with the electric machine, includes: when a return value of the phase angle detector of the electric machine is constant, performing a first diagnostic operating mode of the drive device, in which the operative connection between the electric machine and the output shaft is interrupted, subsequent, the electric machine is controlled by open lop control to a defined rotational speed, and when the return value continues to be constant after controlling the electric machine to the defined rotational speed, a first operating state of the phase angle detector is recognized and otherwise a correct function of the phase angle detector is recognized.
US10062219B2
A method for determining a cause of fault in a vehicle. The method involves a fault report being received on a server outside the vehicle and a cause of fault being determined in the server based on the fault report and load collective data from the vehicle and/or based on the fault report and vehicle condition variables from the vehicle.
US10062206B2
A parallel adaptable graphics rasterization system in which a primitive assembler includes a router to selectively route a primitive to a first rasterizer or one of a plurality of second rasterizers. The second rasterizers concurrently operate on different primitives and the primitive is selectively routed based on an area of the primitive. In some variations, a bounding box of the primitive is reduced to a predetermined number of pixels prior to providing the primitive to the one of the plurality of second rasterizers. Reducing the bounding box can include subtracting an origin of the bounding box from coordinates of points that represent the primitive.
US10062200B2
A visualization system for displaying volumetric renderings includes a display, a user input actuator that is movable over a first range, a second range, and a third range, and a processor. The second range is located between the first range and the third range. The processor is configured to generate a first volumetric rendering according to a first transfer function when the user input actuator is positioned in the first range, and generate the first volumetric rendering according to a second transfer function when the user input actuator is positioned in the third range. The second transfer function is different than the first transfer function. The processor is further configured to generate the first volumetric rendering according to a blending of the first transfer function and the second transfer function when the user input actuator is positioned in the second range, and display the first volumetric rendering on the display.
US10062199B2
A method and system for rendering a three-dimensional (3D) scene by excluding non-contributing objects are disclosed. A preliminary object analysis using relatively few rays can be performed to determine which off-camera objects are to be excluded or included in the rendering process. The preliminary object analysis may involve performing an initial ray path tracing to identify intersections between a plurality of rays and one or more objects in the 3D scene. The object analysis can include identifying whether a first object in the 3D scene can be identified as an off-camera object. When the first object is identified as an off-camera object, a number of intersections between the plurality of rays and the first object can be counted. If the number of intersections is less than a corresponding threshold, the first object can be identified as being excluded from a future rendering process to render the first frame.
US10062197B2
A computer implemented method for use in animating parts of a virtual object in a virtual world, the method comprising obtaining joint data for each joint of a chain of joints associated with parts of a virtual object, joint data including length data defining a vector length for a vector from the joint to a next joint, the length data corresponding to a length of a part in the virtual world, the joint data for at least one joint including vector constraint data defining a rotational constraint for the vector; accessing data for a target curve defining target locations for the joints of the parts of the virtual object; and processing the joint data to rotate the vector for a joint towards a target location on the curve for a next joint in the chain; and if constraint data for the joint prevents the rotated vector from reaching the target location: set the vector angle for the joint at an angle dependent on the rotational constraint; and rotate an immediately preceding joint in the chain to move the vector for the joint towards the target location on the curve.
US10062195B2
A method for processing a picture comprising at least one face is provided. The method comprises: —obtaining (S10) a cropping window in the picture; —processing (S18) the picture by cropping the picture part delimited by the cropping window; wherein the method further comprises detecting (S12) the at least one face, determining (S14) a weight for the detected at least one face and modifying (S16) the position of the cropping window in the picture based on the weight, wherein the weight is determined at least based on the size of the corresponding detected face.
US10062191B2
Various systems and methods disclosed herein are directed to rendering point-based graphics on a computing device with the spaces between points filled in with color to produce the appearance of surfaces without gaps or holes. According to one method, one or more rasterization passes are performed on an image space. One or more filling passes are performed on the pixels in the image space in which the spaces between the pixels are filled with color to form a contiguous surface in a new image plane. One or more blending passes are performed on the image space after the filling passes, in which wherein the color of a group of pixels is a blended together. A new image space is rendered from the image space in the image buffer.
US10062186B2
Methods and systems are proposed herein for generative adaptive, multi-resolution images efficiently without intensive processing and/or memory consumption or hardware requirements. According to one aspect of the claimed subject matter, a system is provided that includes a computing workstation, communicatively coupled to both a data storage device and an image acquisition device. Real time images acquired by the image acquisition device are presented to the user along with one or more digitally reconstructed radiographs (DRRs)—generated using dynamically selected rendering techniques—from previously acquired image data. The user is able to verify the DRRs as a match to the verification image, and subsequently to dynamically generate additional DRRs more suitable by actuating a portion of the generated DRR. Based on the user actuation, a new DRR is generated and presented to the user for verification.
US10062180B2
Various technologies described herein pertain to correction of an input depth image captured by a depth sensor. The input depth image can include pixels, and the pixels can have respective depth values in the input depth image. Moreover, per-pixel correction values for the pixels can be determined utilizing depth calibration data for a non-linear error model calibrated for the depth sensor. The per-pixel correction values can be determined based on portions of the depth calibration data respectively corresponding to the pixels and the depth values. The per-pixel correction values can be applied to the depth values to generate a corrected depth image. Further, the corrected depth image can be output.
US10062177B1
In some implementations, a system may include a camera, a display, one or more memories, and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the one or more memories. The system may output a guide marker for presentation on the display. The guide marker may be superimposed on an image being captured by the camera and presented on the display. The system may determine three-dimensional (3D) coordinates of an intersection point associated with the guide marker. The intersection point may be a point where a projection of the guide marker into 3D space intersects with a horizontal plane identified in the image. The system may determine two-dimensional (2D) coordinates for presentation of an augmented reality object on the display based on the 3D coordinates of the intersection point. The system may superimpose a representation of the augmented reality object on the image based on the 2D coordinates.
US10062175B2
A multiple target tracker and beam steerer utilizes liquid crystal waveguide (LCWG) beam steering to illuminate multiple tracked targets per frame one target at a time for designation, range finding or active imaging. The steering rate and range afforded by the LCWG supports various tracker configurations (out-of-band, in-band or dual-band video cameras), LADAR detectors (single pixel or pixelated) and prioritization of tracked targets to vary the revisit rate or dwell time for an illuminated target. A user interface accepts commands from an operator to select the targeting mode, control cue-box size and position within the FOV and target selection.
US10062167B2
A medical image data processing apparatus comprises a registration unit configured to perform a non-rigid registration of a first set of medical image data and a second set of medical image data thereby to determine a deformation field, and a region identification unit configured to identify at least one region for which the deformation field is approximately homogeneous, and, for at least part of at least one identified region, to obtain a substantially homogeneous approximation of the deformation field.
US10062166B2
Disclosed are systems, devices, and methods for marking a main carina and a trachea of a patient, an exemplary method comprising importing slice images of a chest of the patient, generating a three-dimensional (3D) model based on the imported slice images, displaying the 3D model in a graphical user interface (GUI), locating the main carina by viewing 2D images of the 3D model in an axial orientation, marking the main carina in one of the 2D images of the 3D model, adjusting a view plane of the 3D model around a rotation axis defined by the marked location of the main carina to adjust the view plane from an axial orientation to a coronal orientation while keeping the main carina in the view plane to thereby display the entire trachea on the GUI, and marking an upper end of the trachea in one of the 2D images of the 3D model.
US10062164B2
In the context of a method for the analysis of image data representing a three-dimensional volume (10, 20) of biological tissue, for each of a number of subvolumes at least two error probability values (41, 42, 43, 44) are generated, each of the values (41, 42, 43, 44) indicating a probability of a type of imaging error, the totality of subvolumes constituting the three-dimensional volume (10, 20). A single consolidated error probability value (51) is determined for each of the number of subvolumes, based on the at least two error probability values (41, 42, 43, 44). Subsequently, the image data is analyzed to obtain a physiologically relevant conclusion applying to a plurality of subvolumes, weighting in the analysis the image data of a given subvolume of the plurality of subvolumes according to the consolidated error probability (51) of the subvolume.
US10062160B2
Tracking patterns during a semiconductor fabrication process includes: obtaining an image of a portion of a fabricated device; extracting contours of the portion of the fabricated device from the obtained image; aligning the extracted contour to a matching section of a reference design; decomposing the matching section of the reference design into one or more patterns; and updating a pattern tracking database with information pertaining to at least one pattern in the one or more patterns generated as a result of the decomposition.
US10062153B2
An image processing apparatus acquires an input image generated by image pickup via an optical system, and perform unsharp mask processing for the input image using a filter generated based on information of a PSF of the optical system. The filter is generated based on an unsharp mask used for the unsharp mask processing, and includes two-dimensional data having filter coefficients that are arranged rotationally asymmetrically with respect to a filter coefficient corresponding to a target pixel in the input image in convoluting the filter with the input image. A peak position or a center of gravity position of the unsharp mask accords with a position of the filter coefficient corresponding to the target pixel in the filter.
US10062150B2
An image processing method includes the steps of obtaining information on an optical transfer function used for image capturing, generating correction information used to correct the optical transfer function based on a first image generated by the image capturing and a second image that is focused on a defocus area in the first image, and performing a filter process for the first image using the correction information and information on the optical transfer function.
US10062146B2
A system and method for morphing a design element which precisely and efficiently morphs a design element within a data file to new target parameters by changing its general proportions, dimensions or shape. The present invention is generally a computer software program which loads an existing data file which includes one or more design elements, such as parts or an assembly of parts, and then automatically morphs the design element's dimensions, proportions and/or shapes to meet target parameters input by a user. The present invention will create several groups of points corresponding to each surface and associated bounding curves of the existing design. It will then morph each group into a new shape as per the input requirements by the user, fit the morphed group into an infinite surface, create boundary curves for each morphed group and then trim the infinite surface to create the new, morphed design element.
US10062142B2
Data transfer techniques include transferring display surface data from a memory subsystem into a stutter buffer at a first rate until the stutter buffer is substantially full. The memory interface and/or memory of the memory subsystem may then be placed into a suspend state until the stutter buffer is substantially empty. The display surface data is transferred from the stutter buffer to display logic at a second rate even when the memory subsystem is in a suspend state. The second rate, which is typically the rendering rate of the display, is substantially slower than the rate at which data is transferred into the stutter buffer.
US10062137B2
The communication between integrated graphics processing units (GPUs) is disclosed. A first integrated GPU of a first computing device obtains a tuple pertaining to data to be transmitted to a second integrated GPU of a second computing device. The tuple comprises at least a length of the data. The first integrated GPU allocates a virtual address space to the data based on the length of the data, where the virtual address space has a plurality of virtual addresses. Further, a mapping table of a mapping between the plurality of virtual addresses and a plurality of bus addresses is provided by the first integrated GPU to a communication module of the first computing device to transmit the data, where the plurality of bus addresses indicate physical locations of the data.
US10062125B2
A method and system are provided for presenting rates for travel services using dynamic pricing bands. The dynamic pricing bands represent approximate rates for travel services relative to available rates during or close to the proposed dates of travel, or at or near the proposed travel destination. Each dynamic pricing band is keyed to a particular color, intensity, pattern, sound, or other graphical and/or audio characteristic, thereby providing the consumer a sense of the seasonal, regional, day of week, or other variability of rates for travel services without having to compare actual numbers. The dynamic pricing bands are applied to an interactive presentation of rates for travel services to allow the consumer to explore possible rate variations for particular travel services in a manner that provides a birds-eye view, is intuitive and user-friendly.
US10062122B2
Audit performance systems and methods can be used to provide objective assessment of the performance of claim administrators. Data from audits performed by one or more insurance broker consultants can be input into the audit performance system, and analyzed, to generate reports that compare the performance of a selected claim administrator to an industry standard level of performance or to one or more other claim administrators.
US10062121B2
According to some embodiments, account information may be received in connection with a potential insurance policy. A premium indication portal processor may receive, from a risk score model application, an account score matrix for the potential insurance policy, including grade values comparing the account information with other insured policies in a risk database, along with a benchmark premium value calibrated to a target return on equity based on the account information and information in the risk database. The account score matrix may be displayed on an underwriter device, and guide indication adjustments may be received from the underwriter device for the potential insurance policy. The premium indication portal processor may then automatically calculate an adjusted premium value calibrated to the target return on equity based at least in part on the guide indication adjustments.
US10062120B1
Methods and apparatus provide for an automated system for analyzing damage to insured property. A server may receive images of a scene (e.g., a room, house, apartment, etc.) from a user at a mobile device. The server may analyze the images to create a holistic view of the scene. The server and/or mobile device may be able to generate dimensions of the scene and compare those dimensions to the dimensions of a damaged property at the scene to determine the extent of damage to the property. The server may also be able to detect gaps between images as it creates the holistic view of the scene.
US10062117B2
Providing a property replacement loan offer to a customer that has lost property in a total loss event where the offer is provided automatically in response to an indication of the total loss event. The invention includes computer-based processes that collect customer-specific data for the customer whose property is involved in the total loss event and using this data to prequalify the customer for the property replacement loan. The processing includes accessing a credit bureau to receive data related to the customer's credit.
US10062113B2
A graphical interface and method are provided for displaying market information corresponding to a tradeable object. According to one example embodiment, a market depth indicator is displayed in relation to a value axis in a market overview interface. Then, detailed market depth is displayed in a market depth interface, and a plurality of market depth prices displayed in the market depth interface are adjustable based on a position of the market depth indicator in relation to the value axis.
US10062105B2
A stylus may include a body, a display, a scanner module, and a control knob. The body may have an outer surface and a first and second end. The outer surface may define a volume that may contain a processor and a memory. The display may be proximate the outer surface and may be in electrical communication with the processor. The scanner module may be in electrical communication with the processor and may be proximate the first end. The scanner module may include a scanner. The control knob may be in electrical communication with the processor and may be proximate either the first or second end. The control knob may be operative to cycle through and select digital menu options that may be displayed on the display.
US10062104B2
A system is configured to perform a method of customizing an application. The method includes receiving a connection from a client machine that is executing an application configurable by configuration information. The method also includes determining that the application has not been customized by the configuration information. The method further includes transmitting the configuration information to the client machine in response to the determining that the application has not been customized by the configuration information. In response to the transmitting of the configuration information, the application is configured to include a category structure for the application. In some example embodiments, the configuration information includes a software module upgrade of the application.
US10062098B2
A computer method and system provide means for recommending an organization to a user. The system includes a database of business relationships between organizations. A user may search for an organization according to search criteria and the system will select a set of organizations that match the criteria. The organizations may be displayed based on the relevance of the selected organization and the similarity of organizations connected to the selected organizations.
US10062083B2
A scalable system to provide a means for a brand manager, marketer, consultant, or researcher to identify, monitor, measure, and rank the propagation of a brand's digital imagery across the web, including the social web, the system configured to implement a novel process in which digital image files obtained from social networks that are perceptually similar (i.e., appear identical to the human visual system), but whose digital representation differs, are identified, data associated with the images files is clustered into groups, each group representing a common single piece of content that originated from the user, and enabling a user to access and organize the clusters of brand image data to measure and track the engagement of users on the social network with that brand image content, thereby providing measurable statistics for the user.
US10062072B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and devices for enabling peer to business payments using an integrated payment and messaging system. In particular, the integrated payment and messaging system allows users to send electronic payments as well as exchange messages with a merchant. The integrated payment and messaging system can improve security by allowing a user to make a purchase without having to provide sensitive financial information to the merchant. In addition, the integrated payment and messaging system can allow a user to make a payment for an order seamlessly during a conversation with the merchant.
US10062067B2
An object recognition device includes an operation unit configured to receive a user input about an item, a storage unit that stores image data of the item, an imaging unit configured to acquire an image of the item and generate image data therefrom, and a control unit configured to compare the generated image data with the stored image data, and cause information about updating the stored image data to be presented to a user, based on a comparison result.
US10062066B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for processing transactions at an in-store POS where some of the items of the transaction have not been retrieved, i.e. the customer neglected to add a needed item to a shopping cart. A customer selects a product on a user computing device and invokes display of an optical code corresponding to an unretrieved product. A point of sale (POS) device then scans the optical code to add the product to the transaction. The POS device or user computing device may transmit an alert to a representative computing device instructing a store representative to retrieve the product and deliver it to the POS or some other location.
US10062062B1
An automated teller (ATM) machine providing unattended financial functions comprising financial account access to authorized ones of the users' financial accounts, withdraws from authorized ones of the users' financial accounts, deposits into authorized ones of the user's financial account. The ATM also provides unattended non-negotiable account functions including interactive account access to authorized ones of a set of non-negotiable fund accounts, conversions between value stored in authorized ones of the non-negotiable fund accounts and authorized ones of the user's financial accounts, and/or withdrawals of negotiable funds resulting from ATM machine conversions of a quantity of non-negotiable funds in authorized ones of the non-negotiable fund accounts into paper currency.
US10062060B2
A system for optical character recognition pre-verification is provided. The system may review payment documents. The payment documents may include remit stubs and paper checks. The system, utilizing optical character recognition software, may determine dollar amounts on the remit stubs and the paper checks. The optical character recognition software may determine a confidence level of whether the determined amount is the same amount that the writer of the check. If the confidence level is above first predetermined threshold level of confidence and below a second predetermined threshold level of confidence, the system may present an operator with a pre-verification GUI. The pre-verification GUI may include a view of the remit stub, a view of the check, the dollar amount due, a match button and a do not match button. Upon selection of either the match or do not match button, the payment may be processed in another check-processing system.
US10062055B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for locating previously communicated electronic messages (e.g., emails, etc.). The request is initiated by a first party on behalf of a second party. Specifically, the system will receive a request to locate/retrieve a previously communicated electronic message (“message”). The request can be issued by a sender or a recipient of the message. In any event, the request will include a set (one or more) of characteristics pertaining to the message such as a set of recipients thereof. One or more electronic messaging databases will then be searched based on the message located. Once located, an alert will be sent to the second party alerting the second party that the first party would like to recall the electronic message on their behalf. If the alert is validated (e.g., the message recall was accepted), the message will be displayed to the second party.
US10062053B1
A system and method according to which a recommended quantity of spare engine components is generated. In several exemplary embodiments, the components support aircraft maintenance and flight operations and are designed to be repaired periodically. In an exemplary embodiment, the recommended quantity is a number of available spare engine components that supports the aircraft maintenance operations but avoids excess spare engine components in inventory.
US10062051B2
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems receive a browsing request to view an item offered by a first third party retailer. An estimated inventory value for the item at the first third-party retailer is retrieved. The estimated inventory value is maintained using a combination of a history of purchases of the item and a history of inventory values for the item received from one or more third party retailers. A representation of the item as being available for purchase is transmitted to a user device based upon the estimated inventory value for the item. In response to receiving a request to initiate a purchase of the item, a request for a current inventory value for the item is transmitted to a retail server. The purchase of the item is initiated in response to determining the item is available based upon the received current inventory value.
US10062050B2
Systems for monitoring an inventory condition of objects based on captured images are described. An exemplary system includes at least one storage drawer, each storage drawer including a plurality of storage locations for storing objects; and an image sensing device configured to capture an image of one of the storage locations. A radio-frequency identification (RFID) sensor sub-system senses attributes of objects located in the inventory control system. A data storage system stores, for each storage location, reference data including identification of the object associated with each storage location. A data processor determines the inventory condition of each storage location of the captured image based on the image data of the captured image in conjunction with the sensing data of attributes of objects located in the inventory control system.
US10062047B2
Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for automated loading and retrieval of items. In various embodiments, items are received at a loading station where identification data may be captured for each item and handling instructions may be generated. In some embodiments, a label having indicia associated with the item may be generated and affixed to the item. The items may then be deposited through an access door into the vehicle identified in the handling instructions. Once the items are loaded into the access door, an automated load/unload device may deposit the item in the appropriate storage location. The automated load/unload device may also retrieve and rearrange items as desired.
US10062046B2
A method and apparatus for supplying a unit of work in a material-handling process includes a set-point of work units desired at a material-processing station and an actual measure of work units at the material-processing station. A feedback control algorithm is performed to establish the set point of work units at the material-processing station and an error between the work units at the material-processing station and the set-point of work units at the material-processing station. The feedback control algorithm also determines a desired amount of units that should be supplied to the material-processing station as a function of the error. The feedback control algorithm causes a work unit to be released from the inventory store for a particular processing station when the actual amount of work units supplied to that processing station is less than the amount of work units that should be supplied to that processing station.
US10062042B1
A technique assigns tasks to workers within a work area. The technique utilizes electronic circuitry which can be disposed at a single location (e.g., a server), or distributed among multiple locations (e.g., in the cloud). The technique involves receiving task entries which (i) identify tasks in need of attention and (ii) define task requirements for performing the tasks. The technique further involves generating task assignments based on matching the task entries to worker profiles which (i) identify workers who are available for task assignment and (ii) define worker characteristics of the workers. The technique further involves providing the task assignments to the workers while the workers are distributed among different locations within the work area. The task assignments direct the workers to perform the tasks identified by the task entries in accordance with the task requirements defined by the task entries.
US10062039B1
A machine learning system continuously receives tag signals indicating membership relations between data objects from a data corpus and tag targets. The machine learning system is asynchronously and iteratively trained with the received tag signals to identify further data objects from the data corpus predicted to have a membership relation with the single tag target. The machine learning system constantly improves its predictive accuracy in short time by the continuous training of a backend machine learning model based on implicit and explicit tag signals gathered from a non-intrusive monitoring of user interactions during a review process of the data corpus.
US10062031B2
A method, system and computer-usable medium for performing cognitive computing operations comprising receiving streams of data from a plurality of data sources; processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources, the processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources performing data enriching for incorporation into a cognitive graph; defining a cognitive persona within the cognitive graph, the cognitive persona corresponding to an archetype user model, the cognitive persona comprising a set of nodes in the cognitive graph; associating a user with the cognitive persona; defining a cognitive profile within the cognitive graph, the cognitive profile comprising an instance of the cognitive persona that references personal data associated with the user; associating the user with the cognitive profile; and, performing a cognitive computing operation based upon the cognitive profile associated with the user.
US10062030B2
A transformation process determines whether a predicate of a rule matches a given node of tree structured data containing a set of nodes and, when the predicate of a rule matches the given node, applies a function of an identified rule to the node to generate a compound result and an interim mutated output document, and when the compound result contains a next node, determines whether the next node is compared with the predicate of a next rule. The transform process includes determining that the next node is processed by a next rule, using the interim mutated output document as input, and determining whether a predicate of a rule matches the next node in a set of nodes. When the predicate of a rule matches the next node, a function of an identified rule is applied to the next node to generate a compound result and interim mutated output document. When the compound result does not contain a next node, a final mutated output document is generated.
US10062028B2
A system and method for counting persons using passages entering or exiting an area by analyzing vibrations in the floor with sensors and a machine learning system. The machine learning system uses a model, usually implemented as a neural network on a processor. The network is trained in levels and implemented in layers. Different levels classify and analyze vibrations by timing and frequency, by movements of persons, and by identity of persons The same person is identified by patterns in the vibrations and the vibrations are correlated to determine when a person uses a combination of passages and is thereby counted. Location information for the person is used to identify persons in places and doing activities of interest. The model may be trained on one processor and then downloaded to another processor for evaluation. Additional sensors and levels of training may be implemented on the latter processor.
US10062025B2
An RFID tag and a method of its use are disclosed. One such RFID tag includes first, second, and third RFID inlays included on a tag housing, the first, second, and third RFID inlays each corresponding to a different rate identifier. The tag also includes a panel engaged with the housing and movable among first, second and third positions. The panel includes RFID shorting structures each positioned to electrically contact one of the first, second, and third RFID inlays such that, in any of the first, second, and third positions, only one of the first, second, and third RFID inlays remains active.
US10062018B2
A print control system that controls a printing apparatus having a paper feed unit, the system includes one or more processors operating, to determine whether printing using print data can be performed, based on first paper information included in a print setting in the print data, second paper information that is set in the printing apparatus, and printability information indicating a printable combination of the first paper information included in the print setting and the second paper information set in the printing apparatus. The first paper information included in the print setting and the second paper information set in the printing apparatus each includes both of (i) information regarding a type of paper and (ii) information regarding a size of paper. The printing is controlled using the print data, based on a result of the determination.
US10062010B2
SLAM systems are provided that utilize an artificial neural network to both map environments and locate positions within the environments. In some example embodiments, a sensor arrangement is used to map an environment. The sensor arrangement acquires sensor data from the various sensors and associates the sensor data, or data derived from the sensor data, with spatial regions in the environment. The sensor data may include image data and inertial measurement data that effectively describes the visual appearance of a spatial region at a particular location and orientation. This diverse sensor data may be fused into camera poses. The map of the environment includes camera poses organized by spatial region within the environment. Further, in these examples, an artificial neural network is adapted to the features of the environment by a transfer learning process using image data associated with camera poses.
US10062009B2
Data from one or more sensors is input to a workflow and fragmented to produce HyperFragments. The HyperFragments of input data are processed by a plurality of Distributed Experts, who make decisions about what is included in the HyperFragments or add details relating to elements included therein, producing tagged HyperFragments, which are maintained as tuples in a Semantic Database. Algorithms are applied to process the HyperFragments to create an event definition corresponding to a specific activity. Based on related activity included in historical data and on ground truth data, the event definition is refined to produce a more accurate event definition. The resulting refined event definition can then be used with the current input data to more accurately detect when the specific activity is being carried out.
US10062003B2
A system includes a memory and a processor configured to select a set of scene point pairs, to determine a respective feature vector for each scene point pair, to find, for each feature vector, a respective plurality of nearest neighbor point pairs in feature vector data of a number of models, to compute, for each nearest neighbor point pair, a respective aligning transformation from the respective scene point pair to the nearest neighbor point pair, thereby defining a respective model-transformation combination for each nearest neighbor point pair, each model-transformation combination specifying the respective aligning transformation and the respective model with which the nearest neighbor point pair is associated, to increment, with each binning of a respective one of the model-transformation combinations, a respective bin counter, and to select one of the model-transformation combinations in accordance with the bin counters to detect an object and estimate a pose of the object.
US10061999B1
An example method is disclosed that includes identifying a training set of images, wherein each image in the training set has an identified bounding box that comprises an object class and an object location for an object in the image. The method also includes segmenting each image of the training set, wherein segments comprise sets of pixels that share visual characteristics, and wherein each segment is associated with an object class. The method further includes clustering the segments that are associated with the same object class, and generating a data structure based on the clustering, wherein entries in the data structure comprise visual characteristics for prototypical segments of objects having the object class and further comprise one or more potential bounding boxes for the objects, wherein the data structure is usable to predict bounding boxes of additional images that include an object having the object class.
US10061993B2
An obstacle warning method includes the steps of: acquiring scenario images at a current sampling time and a previous sampling time, and a map about first relative distances between respective viewing points in a viewing field and a vehicle; acquiring a profile and marking information of an obstacle and a map about a second relative distance between the obstacle and the vehicle in accordance with the map about the first relative distances; calculating a map about a third relative distance between the obstacle and the vehicle at a previous sampling time in accordance with the map about the first relative distances at the previous sampling time, the profile and the marking information of the obstacle at the current sampling time and a motion vector of the obstacle from the current sampling time to the previous sampling time.
US10061990B2
A computer-implemented method for entity detection is described. In one embodiment, an entity passing through a perimeter of a predefined area is detected via a camera. Upon detecting the entity passing through the perimeter of the predefined area, a type of the entity is classified from an image of the entity captured by the camera. Upon classifying the type of the entity, a feature of the entity is detected from the image of the entity. An identifier is assigned to the entity based on the type and the detected feature of the entity. The identifier distinguishes the entity from another entity of a same type.
