US10070569B2
A system for assembling electronic devices includes at least one coating element for applying a moisture-resistant coating to surfaces of a device under assembly, or an electronic device under assembly. As components and one or more moisture-resistant coatings are added to the electronic device under assembly to form a finished electronic device, at least one surface on which the coating resides and, thus, at least a portion of the coating itself, is located internally within the finished electronic device. Methods for assembling electronic devices that include internally confined moisture-resistant coatings are also disclosed.
US10070568B2
Methods and apparatus for use in the manufacture of a display element. Some embodiments include a method for selective pick up of a subset of a plurality of electronic devices adhered to a handle layer. The method comprises modifying a level of adhesion between one or more electronic devices of the plurality of electronic devices adhered to the handle layer, such that the subset of the plurality of electronic devices has a level of adhesion to the handle layer that is less than a force applied by a pick up tool, PUT. This enables selective pick up of the subset of the plurality of electronic devices from the handle layer by the PUT.
US10070565B2
An electric power converter includes a laminated body, a capacitor, a case, and a pressing member. The laminated body is formed by laminating semiconductor modules and cooling pipes. The pressing member presses the laminated body in a laminating direction of the laminated body. The case has outer wall portions that form an outer shell, and partition wall portions formed in the case and are connected to the outer wall portions. The capacitor has capacitor elements and a sealing member. The sealing member is filled in a capacitor housing space in a state where the capacitor elements are sealed. Pressing force of the pressing member is applied to an interposing partition wall portion interposing between the laminated body and the capacitor among the partition wall portions. A thickness of the interposing partition wall portion is made thinner than any other parts of the outer wall portions.
US10070556B1
Methods and systems are disclosed for internal shock isolation in an information handling system. The method includes directing a tool to mold an outer frame of an information handling system, and directing the tool to mold an inner frame of the information handling system. The inner frame has a perimeter less than the perimeter of the outer frame. The method further includes directing the tool to construct a first plurality of braces in an interspatial area. The interspatial area is between the perimeter of the inner frame and the perimeter of the outer frame.
US10070549B2
A removal assembly includes a main body, a positioning element, an elastic element, an actuating element, and a wrench element. The positioning element is movably disposed in an inner space of the main body, including a clasp part and an oblique side surface, and the clasp part extends out of the main body. The elastic element is disposed between the main body and the positioning element. The actuating element is pivotally installed in the inner space of the main body, including a pressing part and an abutting part, the pressing part extends out of the main body, and the abutting part abuts against the oblique side surface of the positioning element. The wrench element is connected to the main body, including a fixing part and a pivoting part.
US10070542B2
An electronic circuit unit in which a mold exclusion part, having a rear surface side covered by mold resin and a front surface side exposed from an outer case, is provided at a part of a plate surface of a circuit board which is mounted with electronic components and is covered by the outer case formed by the mold resin. The outer case is multi-material molded using plural kinds of resin having different fluidities. A rear wall of the outer case located on the rear surface side of the mold exclusion part is made of one of the plural kinds of the resin having a fluidity higher than a fluidity of another one of the plural kinds of the resin constituting the other portion of the outer case.
US10070523B2
A printed wiring board includes a resin insulating layer, a wiring conductor layer embedded in the insulating layer such that the wiring layer has first surface exposed from the insulating layer, and a conductor post formed in the insulating layer and on second surface of the wiring layer on the opposite side with respect to the first surface of the wiring layer such that the conductor post has side surface covered by the insulating layer and end surface exposed from the insulating layer on the opposite side with respect to the wiring layer. The conductor post is formed such that the side surface of the conductor post is a roughened side surface having surface roughness of first roughness R1, the end surface of the conductor post is a roughened end surface having surface roughness of second roughness R2, and the first and second roughnesses R1, R2 satisfy R1>R2.
US10070511B2
A wiring board includes an insulating resin layer including resin material and filler, and a conductive circuit layer laminated on a surface of the insulating resin layer and having wiring patterns. The filler has particle diameters of 15% or less of a minimum width of the wiring patterns when the particle diameters of the filler is measured in a unit range defined such that the unit range has a width and a length where the length is measured from the surface of the insulating resin layer and is selected from a smaller of twice the minimum width of the wiring patterns and a plate thickness of the insulating resin layer, and the width is twice the minimum width of the wiring patterns.
US10070508B2
A portable electric fence kit for the erection of a temporary electric fence comprising: a primary fence section which is portable and non-electrified having two or more poles, a secondary fence section having two or more insulated poles secured to the poles of the primary fence section and having the ability to be electrified using a plurality of wires spanning the distance between the insulated poles, a plurality of wires spanning the distance between the insulated poles, system controls operationally associated with the fence sections, a power source operationally associated with the fence sections and the system controls, the power source providing electricity to the secondary fence sections and a coupling means which allows for one section of the fence kit and its wires to be coupled to another section of the fence kit and its wires.
US10070503B2
An LED based illumination device includes a receiver and a transmitter for communications adhering to a lighting control communications protocol and a high speed communications protocol. The LED based illumination device may be part of a lighting control network, wherein the data transmission rate of the high speed communications protocol is more than twice that of the lighting control communications protocol. The lighting control network may be coupled to a digital communications gateway, including a digital communications interface configured to be coupled to a network operating in accordance with an internet protocol and a lighting control network interface coupled to the lighting control network. A processor determines a summary status value of the LED based illumination device based on information stored in memory of the digital communications gateway. The digital communications gateway may periodically transmit the time of day to the LED based illumination device over the lighting control network.
US10070502B2
A light source control system includes a plurality of light sources, and a plurality of light source control devices. The light source control devices include a plurality of main light source control devices that transmits command signals to the other light source control devices. Each main light source control device includes a collision determination circuit that determines whether data of the command signal transmitted through a bus has collided with other data, and a restoration circuit that executes a restoration operation in the case of a collision. The collision determination circuit includes an edge detection circuit that detects change timing of a signal representing the data of the command signal, an area setting circuit that sets a collision determination area in accordance with the detected change timing detected, and a collision detection circuit that detects the presence or absence of a collision in the set collision determination area.
US10070499B2
A system to control an electrical device, such as a lighting component or set of components. The system includes a set of connection lines, a power control module and a load interface component. The power control module is responsive to an alternating current source being connected to one of a first connection line and a second connection line to provide a regulated voltage signal output. A load interface component receives the regulated voltage signal output to control the electrical device.
US10070493B2
A lighting device which supplies a light-emitting element with a current modulated based on a visible light communication signal includes: a DC power supply circuit which supplies the light-emitting element with a first voltage that is a DC voltage; and a current control circuit which (i) includes a current control element connected in series to the light-emitting element, (ii) switches the current control element between a first state and a second state based on the visible light communication signal, the first state and the second state differing in electrical impedance, and (iii) adjusts, to a constant current value corresponding to a constant current instruction signal, a current flowing through the light-emitting element in a period in which the current control element is in the first state, by controlling the current control element.
US10070491B2
A light system (FIG. 2) is disclosed. The light system includes a plurality of series connected light emitting diodes (240-246). Each of a plurality of switching devices (230-236) has a control terminal and each has a current path coupled in parallel with a respective LED. A plurality of fault detector circuits (220-226) are each coupled in parallel with a respective light emitting diode. Each fault detector circuit has a first comparator (FIG. 7, 704) arranged to compare a voltage across the respective light emitting diode to a respective first reference voltage (708). When a fault is detected, a control signal is applied to the control terminal to turn on a respective switching device of the plurality of switching devices.
US10070485B1
In various embodiments, an apparatus includes a top portion, a bottom portion adapted to receive the top portion to define a space enclosed within the top portion and bottom portion, where the bottom portion includes a conductive structure, the conductive structure configured to receive electromagnetic energy from an EM source. The apparatus may also include an electronic tag configured to encode information about contents of the space. In various embodiments, a heating apparatus includes an electromagnetic (EM) source and a controller configured to: receive data associated with a heatable load, determine heating instructions based at least in part on the received data, and control the EM source based on the determined heating instructions.
US10070481B2
The present invention relates to method for communicating in a network comprising the step a) of a primary station transmitting to at least one secondary station on a downlink control channel an indication related to a resource allocated to said secondary station in accordance with a semi persistent schedule, wherein the step a) comprises the step of transmitting to the secondary station at least two messages including at least part of the indication in one subframe.
US10070478B2
Devices and methods of reducing blind decoding attempts of user equipment (UE) suing carrier aggregation are generally described. The UE may determine at least one subframe in a modification period to monitor for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) formed in accordance with a Discontinuous Transmission Downlink Control Information (DTX DCI) format. The DTX DCI format may indicate whether the serving cell is in a DTX or non-DTX state. The UE may determine the DTX state of each serving cell from the DTX DCI format and monitor an enhanced PDCCH of each serving cell in the non-DTX state to provide a scheduling assignment for the UE, without monitoring each serving cell in the DTX state. The UE may receive higher layer signaling that indicates a repetition period and subframe offset for DTX DCI format transmissions or a bitmap of the DTX DCI format transmissions for subframes within each modification period.
US10070469B2
A method for communication, in a packet-mode communication network, between user equipment and a data network. A session is established between the user equipment and a data-network access gateway via an access network. The method includes: detecting a request for access to a service based on at least one packet transmitted by the user equipment via the established session; a first step of determining, based at least one criterion, that a new session is to be established; a step of sending, to the user equipment, a control to establish a new session, the user equipment initiating establishment of the new session; a second step of determining another access gateway, the other gateway being suitable for the service required by the user equipment; and establishing the new session initiated by the user equipment, from which the new session is established between the user equipment and the other gateway.
US10070466B2
Methods and systems for facilitating a voice over packet (VoP) call involving a VoP device are disclosed.
US10070464B2
The present invention provides a signal transmission method and apparatus, a communications system, a terminal, and a base station, where the method includes: determining a repetition factor or an extended sequence of a channel; determining a time domain resource according to the repetition factor or a length of the extended sequence, where the time domain resource is a transmission subframe; and sending a signal by using the transmission subframe of the channel. The signal transmission method, apparatus, communications system, terminal, and base station that are provided by the present invention can solve the technical problem of poor channel coverage in a signal transmission method in the prior art.
US10070463B2
A wireless telecommunications method, a computer program product and network nodes are disclosed. The wireless telecommunications network node method comprises on a failure to establish a connection after initiating a RACH procedure, repeatedly transmitting a RACH preamble signature using a defined set of resource blocks of an uplink channel. In this way, when a conventional RACH procedure fails to establish a connection with the network, a modified RACH procedure is instead initiated. This modified RACH procedure transmits a RACH preamble signature repeatedly using a repeating set of resource blocks which are repeatedly allocated from the uplink channel. This enables the RACH preamble signature to be repeatedly transmitted so that the energy from these repeated transmissions may be combined by the network in order to detect the presence of the RACH preamble signature transmitted by network nodes in a poor coverage area such as, for example, an MTC device located in a basement.
US10070462B2
A method for communication includes accessing all sub-channels in a communication frame, generating a counter that counts down beginning with a received first listen before talk (LBT) communication symbol, determining whether the counter reaches zero before receiving a second LBT communication symbol, determining whether a desired number N of contiguous sub-channels are available, and if the desired number N of contiguous sub-channels are available, transmitting an LBT symbol.
US10070460B2
In a method for clients to transmit data via a shared medium network, a schedule assigns time slots to individual clients. A collision avoidance scheme determines an offset time to begin transmitting data, which upon expiration, a client senses if any of the clients is transmitting. If a second client is transmitting, then each client sets a first time slot assigned to the second client on the transmission schedule as a starting time slot. The clients track the schedule and transmit to the access point during the next time slot assigned to each client. If no other client is transmitting, then a client transmits data to the access point, sets the first time slot assigned to it as the starting time slot. The schedule is tracked by the clients and they transmit data to the access point during each successive time slot assigned to them.
US10070455B2
A method and apparatus for prioritizing a device-to-device (D2D) transmission and a D2D reception in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE), which cannot perform the D2D transmission and the D2D reception at the same subframe simultaneously, detects both the D2D transmission and the D2D reception, which are scheduled at the same subframe, and determines whether to perform either the D2D transmission or the D2D reception at the same subframe.
US10070452B2
A multi-system priority scan process including maintaining, at a mobile station (MS), a scan list including channels associated with talkgroups, the talkgroups including one or more trunked radio system talkgroups and one or more conventional radio system talkgroups. The MS negotiates, with a trunked radio system, a working channel for a particular trunked radio system talkgroup out of the trunked radio system talkgroups, the working channel being a traffic channel that the trunked radio system will first attempt to assign a call for that talkgroup. During a subsequent scan for talkgroup for activity associated with the particular trunked radio system talkgroup, the MS switches to the working channel and determines if a carrier is present on the working channel, without switching to a control channel of the trunked radio system to scan for activity associated with the particular trunked radio system talkgroup.
US10070443B2
A wireless terminal device (30) is capable of operating both in a licensed radio frequency band and an unlicensed radio frequency band. The wireless terminal device (30) comprises processor circuitry (40) configured (1) to select a first requirement comprising at least a first rule governing utilization of the unlicensed radio frequency band and (2) to use a second requirement comprising at least a second rule for implementing the first rule of the selected first requirement. The first requirement may be a regional requirement and the second requirement may be an operator requirement.
US10070438B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a soft buffer processing method, comprising the steps of: first, receiving, by UE, D2D data and PDSCH data; and then performing soft buffer processing on the D2D data, and performing soft buffer processing on the PDSCH data. The present application further discloses a soft buffer processing apparatus. By the present application, the problem of soft buffer processing required for storing soft bits of D2D data and soft bits of PDSCH data can be solved, so that the link performance is improved.
US10070429B2
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for transmitting information in a low latency mobile communication system. Delay time requests are obtained from terminals, and time intervals for transmitting control information for the respective terminals are determined on the basis of the delay time requests. Control information is transmitted to the respective terminals according to the determined time intervals.
US10070417B2
A first wireless communication device receives device-to-device D2D control information from a base station in a cellular communication system and sends second device D2D control data to a second wireless communication device. The second device control data may comprise resources information and is used for establishing a D2D communication over a link between the first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication device; the second device D2D control data is at least partially based on the D2D control information.
US10070411B2
In one embodiment, a method, comprising: configuring a batch notification based on setting a first value, the first value corresponding to a specified number of notifications to be stored before providing a batch notification; responsive to setting the first value, setting a second value, the second value corresponding to a duration commencing from generation of a first notification and ending at a specified temporal value; and automatically providing one or more notifications over a network compliant with a oneM2M specification based on the first and second values.
US10070410B2
A communication apparatus includes: a setting unit that sets plural candidate points which are candidates of positions of a transmitter based on a position of one of plural receivers that receive radio waves from the transmitter; and a specifying unit that specifies a position of the transmitter from among the plural candidate points by using (i) strengths of the radio waves which one or more receivers including a receiver other than the one receiver receive from the transmitter and (ii) strengths of the radio waves which are inferred to be received by the one or more receivers from the transmitter when it is assumed that the transmitter exists at each of the plural candidate points.
US10070407B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system that receives a first notification indicating a first international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) is being registered. A communication device sends a first registration request that includes the first IMSI to a registration function. Further, an identity proxy function intercepts the first registration request and sends the first notification to the device. In addition, the system receives from a billing server a request for services for the communication device. Further, the system provides a first Over-the-Air (OTA) message to the communication device that includes a second IMSI that is provisioned onto the communication device. Also, the system sends a first registration message to the registration function. The registration function includes a registry. The first registration message includes first instructions to indicate to the registration function to add the second IMSI to the registry. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10070403B2
Technologies are described herein for time-synchronizing multiple remote network nodes concurrently with time beacons. A hub device in the network, at a preconfigured start time, begins to periodically broadcast time beacons containing current time values retrieved from an accurate time source over a beacon period, while other nodes of the network, at the same preconfigured start time, start listening for time beacons. When a node receives a time beacon broadcast by the hub device, the node sets a real-time clock of the node to the current time value in the received time beacon.
US10070401B2
A method for supporting a secondary cell (SCell) addition in a radio access system that supports a carrier aggregation (CA), the method is performed by a primary cell (PCell) of a first timing advanced group (TAG) and includes acquiring, from a SCell of a second TAG, random access channel (RACH) resource information related to a random access procedure, wherein the random access procedure is to be performed at the SCell in order to add the SCell to the first TAG; transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), SCell related information, wherein the SCell related information includes a cell identifier of the SCell and the RACH resource information; and receiving, from the UE, a message reporting that the random access procedure at the SCell has failed, wherein the RACH resource information includes RACH parameters required to perform the random access procedure, and wherein a timing advanced value of the first TAG is different from a timing advanced value of the second TAG.
US10070393B2
A method for control of data transmission in a wireless communication system includes receiving, by an application, from a modem, information indicative of a radio coverage condition, where a user equipment (UE) includes the application and the modem; based on the received information, determining that the UE is in an enhanced coverage state; and in response to the determining, controlling uplink data transmission by the modem to reduce power consumption of the UE.
US10070385B2
A system of multiple concurrent receivers is described to process multiple narrow bandwidth wireless signals with arbitrary bandwidth and center frequency separation. These multiple receivers may provide a downconverted signal at the baseband frequency to process signal bandwidth using the lowest power consumption while using fully modular signal processing blocks operating at the low frequency. The concurrent receivers may operate from a single high frequency amplifier and may be derived from a low impedance point to reduce loading and improve scalability. The center frequency and bandwidth of each of the channels as well as phases of each of the channels may be independently reconfigured to achieve scalability, and on-chip test and calibration capability.
US10070383B2
A system and method for using carrier aggregation and enhanced inter-cell interference coordination in carrier scheduling is disclosed. The method comprises scheduling a communication of control channel information from at least one low power node on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) over at least one of a first low power component carrier and a second low power component carrier. A sub-frame having a lowest level of interference caused by a corresponding macro component carrier is identified at each corresponding subframe of the component carriers. The identified sub-frame is selected to transmit the control channel information on the PDCCH from the at least one low power node to a mobile wireless device.
US10070381B2
A method for an energy-aware selective compression scheme (EASCS) for solar-powered wireless sensor networks is provided. The method includes calculating an amount of residual energy of a battery in each of sensor nodes in a wireless sensor network, selecting one operation mode between a compression mode and a latency mode in reply to the amount of the residual energy, wherein the compression mode is a mode that data is compressed and transmitted, and the latency mode is a mode that the data is transmitted without compression, and compressing and transmitting the data if the compression mode in the each of the sensor nodes is selected, or transmitting the data without compression if the latency mode in the each of the sensor nodes is selected.Accordingly, end-to-end latencies of sensor networks can be reduced while blackout times thereof do not increase by implementing energy optimization in the wireless sensor network.
US10070380B2
A cell access method and a cell access apparatus are provided. The cell access method includes steps of: measuring pilot signals for each of multiple cells that have been searched out, the pilot signals transmitted on a pilot resource for each cell being beam-formed using a set of beam-forming vectors configured for the cell; and selecting a cell corresponding to an optimum pilot signal measurement result from the multiple cells that have been searched and accessing the selected cell.
US10070379B2
Methods and apparatus for deploying and configuring WiFi capable devices are described. A WiFi capable device such as security camera, temperature monitor and/or other device intended for use with a home network including a gateway device is preconfigured with WiFi network connection information, e.g., a network identifier such as a first SSID corresponding to a first WiFi LAN network used to supply configuration information. The gateway device is preconfigured to act as an access point for the configuration network to which the first SSID corresponds. The gateway device also supports one or more additional LAN networks, e.g., home networks which can be used for data traffic. The additional LAN networks may include an Ethernet network, a coax cable network, a powerline network and/or an additional WiFi network corresponding to a second SSID. A WiFi capable device is configured via the first network to communicate traffic data via the second network.
US10070376B2
There is provided mechanisms for carrier frequency handling in a cluster based communications network. According to one aspect there is provided a method performed by a wireless device camping on or served by a cluster head device associated with a cluster head carrier frequency. According to one aspect there is provided a method performed by a cluster head device associated with a cluster head carrier frequency. A corresponding wireless device, a corresponding cluster head device, and corresponding computer programs and computer program products are also provided.
US10070375B2
In certain embodiments, a wireless device adapts a minimum number of a first type of cells, Min_type_1, and a minimum number of a second type of cells, Min_type_2, for which the wireless device is to perform radio measurements during an at least partly overlapping measurement time, T0, wherein the first type of cell transmits at least one type of reference signal in every subframe of the first type of cell over T0 and the second type of cell does not transmit any type of reference signal in at least one subframe of the second type of cell over T0. The wireless device performs the radio measurements on radio signals from at least Min_type_1 of the first type of cells and at least Min_type_2 of the second type of cells during T0 and uses the radio measurements for one or more radio tasks.
US10070372B2
A mobile device for communicating with aircraft related systems, a device system comprising a plurality of such mobile devices, a system comprising such a mobile device and one or more aircraft related systems, and an aircraft comprising such a device system. According to a device embodiment, a mobile device comprises: a system interface via which the device is connectable to aircraft-related systems including one or more onboard systems provided onboard an aircraft and one or more off-board systems; and a control unit operable in a first mode to communicate, via the system interface, with the one or more onboard systems and operable in a second mode to communicate, via the system interface, with the one or more off-board systems.
US10070367B2
A method for controlling a first node transmitting a transmission message to a plurality of second nodes may be provided. The method includes dividing the transmission message into at least one sub-message, encoding the at least one sub-message to a data stream, determining a first transmission direction of the data stream toward at least one of the plurality of second nodes, based on a polynomial of a channel gain between the first node and the at least one of the plurality of second nodes, and transmitting the data stream to the at least one of the plurality of second nodes, based on the determined first transmission direction.
US10070361B2
A user terminal includes a controller that performs selection of an access network in which the user terminal exchanges traffic from among a cellular RAN (Radio Access Network) and a WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network). The controller stores a RAN rule for determining traffic steering to a WLAN having a RAN provided identifier (ID), receives a WLAN ID broadcasted from a cellular base station (BS), applies the WLAN ID to the RAN rule to determine whether to perform traffic steering, roaming from the RAN to another RAN, determines whether to acquire another WLAN ID provided by the other RAN based on a policy established by the RAN, receives the other WLAN ID from a second BS of the other RAN, and applies the other WLAN ID to the RAN rule to determine whether to perform traffic steering to the WLAN having the other WLAN ID, in the second cellular RAN.
US10070360B2
A method and system is provided for device-to-device (D2D) offloading in long term evolution (LTE) networks. The present application provides a method and system for device-to-device (D2D) offloading in long term evolution (LTE) networks, comprising processor implemented steps of selecting an offloader by a eNodeB (eNB) for a user device out of a plurality of user devices based on location of the user device and other closed proximity user devices, corresponding load and channel conditions upon receiving the offloading request from the user device; exchanging a control messages between the user device and the eNB; and between the eNB and the offloader; and scheduling of resource blocks (RBs) by the eNB for the user device and the offloader in D2D offloading.
US10070355B2
Methods and apparatuses for signalling and use of information regarding coexisting radios is disclosed. In the method is it determined whether there is a change in information regarding the coexisting radios because of a handover of the device, and selectively signaling information regarding the coexisting radios from the device based on the determination. A target station can selectively provide control on the device such that if the target station receives information regarding the coexisting radios from the device the control is provided based on said received information, and if the target station does not receive information regarding the coexisting radios from the device the control is provided based on information provided earlier by the device to a source station.
US10070353B2
A method is provided for controlling radio measurements of a user equipment within a cellular network system served by a cell of a first cell type characteristic, the cell being assigned to a base station, wherein the cellular network system comprises the cell and at least one further cell of a second cell type characteristic, the method including providing a configuration to the user equipment indicative for parameters to be applied for radio measurements including different parameters being assigned to different cell type characteristics for a same frequency, and controlling the radio measurements of the user equipment based on the provided configuration, wherein the configuration comprises a list comprising information of the at least one further cell and an associated cell type characteristic of the at least one further cell, and wherein the list comprises information about a plurality of neighboring cells and associated cell types characteristics.
US10070345B2
The disclosure relates to a dual network access point capable of establishing a home wireless network and a further secondary wireless network for a number of wireless devices. The first wireless network is a private home WLAN while the second wireless network is a guest network or a hotspot network. To prevent secondary network users impacting the performance of the first network, the access point monitors the devices connected to the first network and adjusts the advertised minimum supportable rate on the second network.
US10070341B2
The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system to be provided in order to support higher data rates after a 4G communication system, such as an LTE system. A method for receiving buffer status information by an access point in a wireless communication system is provided. In the method, a contention sub-slot and a dedicated sub-slot are determined for each station connected to the access point, a data trigger action frame is generated based on a first element including allocation information on the dedicated sub-slot to be used by a related station in a buffer status report (BSR) phase where each of the stations transmits buffer status information to the access point, the generated data trigger action frame is broadcasted to the stations, and a BSR frame transmitted based on the data trigger action frame is received from each of the stations.
US10070339B2
Apparatus and methods for configuring wireless circuitry of a wireless device to optimize power consumption based on operating states of the wireless device are disclosed. When associating with or while associated with a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) capable wireless local area network (WLAN) access point (AP), the wireless device configures the wireless circuitry to use a MIMO mode that includes at least two spatial streams for communication with multiple radio frequency (RF) receive chains active, a single-input single-output (SISO) mode or a multiple-input single-output (MISO) mode that includes only one spatial stream and a single RF receive chain active, or a single-input multiple-output (SIMO) mode that includes only one spatial stream and multiple RF receive chains active, based on balancing application requirements for data throughput with power saving modes to conserve battery levels. MIMO modes can be used when an active application benefits from MIMO rates or when transferring large files.
US10070336B2
The present disclosure relates to coverage monitoring and in particular it relates to determining radio coverage, e.g. for small cell deployment in a building. The disclosure relates to methods for coverage determination as well as to corresponding devices and computer programs. According to one aspect, the disclosure proposes a method, performed in a wireless device 10, of determining radio coverage. The method comprises obtaining S1 at least one path along which radio condition measurements are to be performed and performing S2 radio condition measurements along the at least one path. The method further comprises determining S3 position estimates, wherein at least some of the position estimates correspond to the radio condition measurements. The method further comprises determining S4a radio coverage using the radio condition measurements and corresponding position estimates and/or reporting S4b the radio condition measurements and the corresponding position estimates to a radio network node for determination of radio coverage in the radio network node.
US10070326B2
A scheduling method of giving a chance for transmission to a plurality of terminals in the same time period, and a device therefor are provided. The scheduling method includes: transmitting first scheduling information to terminals in a network, the first scheduling information defining transmitting/receiving terminals and a transmission time period; receiving channel measurement information including inter-terminal interference information from the terminals in the network; and generating second scheduling information defining transmission time periods and a plurality of transmitting/receiving terminals that do not interfere with each other by using the channel measurement information.
US10070310B2
A method and system for provisioning access data in a second application on a mobile device using a first application on the mobile device. Authentication data may be input into the first application, and an authentication code may be requested from a remote server. After the authentication code is received by the first application in the mobile device, it can pass the authentication code to a second application that initiates an access data provisioning process.
US10070303B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system that manages utilization of mobile subscriber identity information including enabling use of such information by different communication devices. The use of a same generic mobile subscriber identity information by multiple devices can be based on intercepting registration requests and simulated registrations can be performed without providing a unique device identifier. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10070301B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for initiating signaling in mobile management entity pools using workflows. A processor can execute an orchestrator application. The processor can receive location data that indicates a geographic location at which a virtual mobility management entity has been instantiated and registered. The processor can obtain a mobility management entity topology that defines boundaries of two or more mobile management entity pools and identify, based on the location data, one of the mobility management entity pools in which the virtual mobility management entity is located. The processor can identify pool elements included in the mobility management entity pool, obtain a workflow for establishing and configuring the pool elements, and request establishment of signaling between the virtual mobile management entity and the pool elements.
US10070294B2
A system and method for processing and reporting situational information to emergency service providers in an emergency service communications network is disclosed. An emergency situation is monitored. Responsive to detecting the emergency situation, information relating to the emergency situation is collected. Then, the information is processed and stored in a database. The processed information is then reported to emergency service providers.
US10070293B2
The present invention provides a method for implementing Bluetooth automatic return link in Android system, which belongs to wireless communication field. The method includes: in a case that the a Bluetooth module is activated, when a mobile terminal detects that Bluetooth broadcast is a Bluetooth connecting request, executing steps of: determining whether a Bluetooth device address contained in the Bluetooth connecting request matches a Bluetooth device address in buffer, if yes, building connection with a current Bluetooth device corresponding to the Bluetooth device address contained in the Bluetooth connecting request, and updating Bluetooth connection state to connected state; otherwise, not responding to the Bluetooth connecting request. By a mechanism of Bluetooth automatic return link provided by the present invention, trouble of manually reconnecting after restarting a Bluetooth peripheral is reduced, which makes operations smarter and simpler and improves easy-using of the product and user experience.
US10070291B2
A candidate companion screen device is located by a primary display device as being in the same room as the primary device using low energy Bluetooth, and in response ancillary content related to content being shown on the primary display device is provided to the companion screen device. The ancillary content may be provided from the Internet based on information in the content being presented on the primary display device by, e.g., providing a link to a website to the companion device.
US10070290B2
A system (1) for scheduling background synchronization of application data (2) between a mobile communication device (3) and a cloud storage (4), comprising: —a collecting unit (100) estimating the size of application data (2); —a prediction unit (101) adapted to predict future locations (300) of the mobile communication device (3) at future times (301); —a cost module (102) adapted to calculate a cost of transfer (5) at future times (301) and future locations (300); and —a scheduler (103) adapted to schedule the background synchronization at a future time (311) based on cost of transfer (511).
US10070285B2
The method include receiving, by one or more computer processors, a request for data usage, the request for data usage being associated with a mobile device. The method further includes identifying, by one or more computer processors, a current data usage quantity, the current data usage quantity being associated with the mobile device. The method further includes determining, by one or more computer processors, whether the current data usage quantity is beyond a threshold data usage. The method further includes responsive to the data usage quantity being beyond the threshold data usage, receiving, by one or more computer processors, mobile device information associated with the mobile device. The method further includes analyzing, by one or more computer processors, the mobile device information. The method further includes determining, by one or more computer processors, access for the request based on the mobile device information and the current data usage quantity.
US10070283B2
In one embodiment, a mobile device application automatically identifies and annotates auditory data of a conversation between two or more parties. Digital auditory data is processed to identify mention of specific entities. An identified entity is annotated, based on context and relevance, to list one or more actions possible to perform with or on the identified entity, and the identified entity displayed while the conversation is ongoing. An action is selected by signals from an input interface.
US10070278B2
Disclosed herein are an electronic device and a method for processing messages. The electronic device includes a display unit, a communication unit configured to receive a message from an external device, a storage unit storing a message source list and an unregistered message box, and a control unit configured to determine whether source information of the received message is registered in the message source list, if the source information is not registered in the message source list, store the message in the unregistered message box, and if the source information is registered in the message source list, display by the display unit at least a part of the received message.
US10070265B1
A beacon location system includes a plurality of first broadcasters configured to broadcast first broadcasts to be received by a registered receiver device, and includes one or more second broadcasters configured to broadcast second broadcasts to be received by the registered receiver device. The beacon location system includes a controller communicatively and operatively coupled to the plurality of first broadcasters, and the one or more second broadcasters, wherein the controller comprises a memory and a processor configured to execute instructions stored on the memory. The instructions include generating one or more masked correspondences between the first broadcasts and locations of the plurality of the first broadcasters, wherein the one or more masked correspondences comprise one or more levels of accuracies. The beacon location system also includes a website accessible to the registered receiver device to obtain the one or more masked correspondences.
US10070259B1
A method is disclosed comprising: obtaining a plurality of pieces of estimation information, the obtaining comprising receiving or determining the plurality of pieces of estimation information, wherein each of the plurality of pieces of estimation information represents one or more respective absolute values of an altitude, wherein each of the one or more absolute values of an altitude is associated with a respective position information, each of the plurality of pieces of estimation information determined based, at least in part, on a respective relative altitude information and, at least in part, on a respective absolute altitude information associated with a data element of a database comprising map data representing an altitude map; and aggregating the plurality of pieces of estimation information in a spatial grid, wherein the spatial grid is divided into a plurality of grid points. It is further disclosed an according apparatus, computer program and system.
US10070250B2
Systems and methods for locating and providing public mobile device charging stations are disclosed. One or more charging stations may be configured to charge a battery of a mobile device. A database may be configured to store location information of the one or more charging stations as well as mobile device location and security credential information of the one or more respective mobile devices. A server communicatively coupled with the one or more charging stations and the database, may be configured to determine a proximity of the one or more charging stations to a location of the mobile device. This determination may be based on the station location information and the mobile device location information. Based on the determined proximity, provide the station location information of the respective one or more charging stations to the mobile device. The charging station further provides photo and/or video surveillance security to verify a user.
US10070244B1
An audio system has multiple loudspeaker devices to produce sound corresponding to different channels of a multi-channel audio signal such as a surround sound audio signal. The loudspeaker devices may have speech recognition capabilities. In response to a command spoken by a user, the loudspeaker devices automatically determine their positions and configure themselves to receive appropriate channels based on the positions. In order to determine the positions, a first of the loudspeaker devices analyzes sound representing the user command to determine the position of the first loudspeaker device relative to the user. The first loudspeaker also produces responsive speech indicating to the user that the loudspeaker devices have been or are being configured. The other loudspeaker devices analyze the sound representing the responsive speech to determine their positions relative to the first loudspeaker device and report their positions to the first loudspeaker device. The first loudspeaker uses the position information to assign audio channels to each of the loudspeaker devices.
US10070242B2
Various methods and devices for vehicles are provided, wherein directional output of sound is used. In some embodiments, speech signals assigned to different speakers in a telephone conference are reproduced with different directional characteristics. In other embodiments, menu items of a menu are reproduced using different directions. In some embodiments, a loudspeaker arrangement may be provided at a dashboard or in a backrest of a seat of the vehicle.
US10070237B2
Speakers do not always operate linearly. Linearity of the speaker can affect the quality of the sound produced by the speaker, i.e., causing distortions in the sound, if the nonlinearites are not accounted for. To determine nonlinearities of the speaker, the speaker is often modeled and measurements are made to estimate the characteristics of the speaker based on the model. By using an angle sensor and a light source, a speaker manager can make a direct measurement of excursion or displacement of the speaker. Moreover, when the angle sensor, the light source, and the light beam are configured appropriately with respect to the moving cone of the speaker, the measurement can be substantially linear with respect to the amount of excursion or displacement. Such measurements are far simpler to use and in some cases more accurate than measurements made by other types of systems.
US10070234B2
A hearing device comprising a first shell member and a second shell member constituting a housing when assembled is disclosed. The hearing device comprises a chassis provided with attachment structures for attachment of the first shell member and the second shell member to the chassis.
US10070232B2
A hearing device for augmenting the hearing of a user. The hearing device comprises an antenna unit having a slot is disclosed.
US10070228B2
A bending loudspeaker and an electronic wearing product using same. The bending loudspeaker comprises a vibrating system, a magnetic circuit system and a shell (1), wherein the vibrating system comprises a vibrating diaphragm (2) having a bending shape and a voice coil (3) having a bending shape which is in matched combination with the vibrating diaphragm; the magnetic circuit system comprises a washer, a magnet and a speaker frame (8) having a bending shape from top to bottom, wherein the washer comprises a central washer (4) having a bending shape and side washers (5) having a bending shape which are arranged at two sides of the central washer (4) having a bending shape, and the magnets comprises a central magnet (6) having a bending shape and side magnetic (7) having a bending shape which are arranged at two sides of the central magnet (6) having a bending shape.
US10070219B2
An acoustic feedback detection method and device. According to the method, whether acoustic feedback occurs is determined based on a frequency characteristic of an acoustic feedback signal. Specifically, a judgment value is determined using a power peak value and an average peak value, and it is determined whether acoustic feedback occurs in a signal based on a magnitude of the judgment value and a duration of the power peak value. In this case, whether acoustic feedback occurs can be determined based on the frequency characteristic of the signal.
US10070216B2
This invention provides a kind of acoustic structure that uses passive diaphragm unit, it includes speaker unit, passive diaphragm unit, radiant tube; said passive diaphragm unit is located at the back of the cone of said speaker unit; the speaker unit has radiant tube on the sides; the said radiant tube end which is exposed in the air is located at the periphery of the cone of said speaker unit. It has the same orientation as the speaker unit; the said passive diaphragm unit vibrates when it is driven by the said speaker unit, the sound waves produced by the vibration of the said passive diaphragm unit are emitted by the radiant tube and radiant opening, and share the similar vocal point of the said speaker unit. With this, the sound effect of the full range sound is almost identical to the sound point sources, it also reduces the phase difference between the sound effects produced by the cone of speaker unit and the passive diaphragm unit, further enhanced the sound positioning feature. This invention also provides compact audio radiant module and speaker box which are designed by the structural design above.
US10070208B2
A large-scale switching system deployed as a global network or a large-scale data center includes a large number of access nodes (edge nodes) interconnected through optical or electronic rotators. The rotators are logically arranged in a matrix and each access node has a channel to each rotator in a respective row and a channel from each rotator of a respective column of the matrix. A dual timing circuit coupled to a diagonal rotator pair exchanges timing data with edge nodes connecting to the diagonal rotator pair to facilitate temporal alignment of data received at input ports of each rotator. Each access node has a path to each other access node traversing only one of the rotators. The rotators may be arranged into constellations of collocated rotators to facilitate connectivity of access nodes to rotators using wavelength-division-multiplexed links.
US10070207B2
Technologies for optical communication in a rack cluster in a data center are disclosed. In the illustrative embodiment, a network switch is connected to each of 1,024 sleds by an optical cable that enables communication at a rate of 200 gigabits per second. The optical cable has low loss, allowing for long cable lengths, which in turn allows for connecting to a large number of sleds. The optical cable also has a very high intrinsic bandwidth limit, allowing for the bandwidth to be upgraded without upgrading the optical infrastructure.
US10070204B2
A method may include providing one or more telemetry transmission systems, the one or more transmission systems comprising one or more receivers and one or more transmitters. The method may also include transmitting a first synchronization sequence from the one or more telemetry transmission systems, the first synchronization sequence transmitted in a first channel, and the first synchronization sequence being at least a portion of a first telemetry signal. In addition, the method may include transmitting a second synchronization sequence the one or more telemetry transmission systems, the second synchronization sequence transmitted in a second channel, and the second synchronization sequence being at least a portion of a second telemetry signal. The first and second synchronization sequences may be transmitted simultaneously or at a predetermined time difference. The method may include receiving the first synchronization sequence at the one or more receivers, and receiving the second synchronization sequence at the one or more receivers.
US10070202B2
Electromechanical adapter having at least one controller, wherein the adapter comprises at least a first interface for communication with at least one monitoring unit at the battery, a second interface for communication with a monitoring unit that is superordinate to the monitoring unit at the battery, and a third interface for the connection of at least one sensor and/or actuator, wherein the controller converts signals between the first and second interfaces.
US10070189B2
A physical device, the possession of which may provide access to digital media content in a fashion similar to the possession of a DVD providing access to the media content stored thereupon on a suitable DVD player. The possession of the physical device grants access to digital content stored on a remote server using a suitable device such as e.g., a set-top box or media player having Internet connectivity. The physical device provides for convenient and possibly anonymous access to content stored on a remote server and has certain advantages over known techniques for storing rights to access the content.
US10070188B2
A method of processing a non-real time service of a broadcast receiver, which receives and processes a service being transmitted in non-real time, and a broadcast receiver are disclosed. Herein, the method of processing a non-real time service of a broadcast receiver includes receiving a signaling information table including additional information on contents configuring a non real time service and a content identifier for each content, acquiring the additional information on contents and the content identifier for each content from the signaling information table, storing contents being downloaded through a FLUTE or an internet in a storage medium, based upon the additional information on contents and the content identifier for each content, and displaying a list of recordings including the contents stored in the storage medium, wherein a list of recordings screen displaying the list of recordings includes at least one of a content name, a channel name, a date of recording, and a content size.
US10070186B1
Methods, systems, and computer readable media are implemented by a decoder associated with a STB to facilitate intelligent monitoring, detecting and displaying simultaneous independent videos on a display. A request is initiated to display a PiP window that presents a second content stream simultaneously with a first content stream. The request includes information as to input parameters and video input characteristics for each of the first and second content streams. Currently available resources, including memory and bandwidth, are monitored and upon initiation of the PiP window request a query is executed to determine if the available resources are sufficient. If yes, allocation of available resources is carried out to simultaneously display the first and second content streams. If no, an adjustment operation is carried out that modifies at least one input parameter or video input characteristic to simultaneously display content streams in optimal formats. User preferences may be considered for viewer consistency.
US10070180B2
Systems and methods for sorting media assets are provided. Playback information for each of a plurality of media assets is received, the playback information representing a percentage of a length of the corresponding media asset that each of a plurality of users previously viewed. Representations of the plurality of media assets are generated. The representations of the plurality of media assets are sorted based on the percentage of the length of the corresponding media asset that each of a plurality of users previously viewed. The sorted representations of the plurality of media assets are generated for display to a first user.
US10070161B2
Systems and methods are described for delivering regional content for a lineup over a national network. A content provider may select a particular regional broadcast for inclusion in a regional service lineup. The content provider may be able to broadcast multiple, or even all, services nationally. At regional distribution centers, a multiplexer may select only those services that are desired for the region in response to in-stream signals. In some instances, a single region-specific version of a given service may be selected from multiple versions broadcasted nationally. The regional lineup, including the selected services, can then be multiplexed and transmitted to customers throughout the region.
US10070157B2
Methods, systems, and media for generating an advertisement from a video stream are provided. In accordance with some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving, from a first user device, advertisement parameters associated with an advertisement campaign for placing an advertisement based on the advertisement parameters, wherein the advertisement parameters include one or more keywords; associating the advertisement parameters with an identifier of the first user device; receiving, from the first user device, a live video stream; receiving, from a second user device, a request to present an advertisement; identifying the live video stream based at least in part on the one or more keywords; generating the advertisement using the live video stream and the advertisement parameters; and causing the advertisement to be presented on the second user device as the advertisement.
US10070155B2
Apparatus and methods for managing content delivery in a packetized network. The network provide content to a plurality of clients via a plurality of nodes. A security threat associated with one of the nodes is detected and in response the host uses border gateway protocol to communicate non-forwarding table information informing one or more nodes of the network of the threat. In another variant, communication allows the nodes to take local action to protect themselves. This same local action occurs on the host, allowing it to continue serving content. The host utilizes BGP to dynamically inform nodes of changes in the network traffic delivery rules, such as causing traffic to different clients having different levels of reliability and/or provided on a best-effort basis. The BGP may be utilized to add/remove routes or nodes and to identify and respond to potentially malicious activities, changes in network configuration, and/or delivery requirements.
US10070152B2
A method for sample adaptive offset (SAO) filtering and SAO parameter signaling in a video encoder is provided that includes determining SAO parameters for largest coding units (LCUs) of a reconstructed picture, wherein the SAO parameters include an indicator of an SAO filter type and a plurality of SAO offsets, applying SAO filtering to the reconstructed picture according to the SAO parameters, and entropy encoding LCU specific SAO information for each LCU of the reconstructed picture in an encoded video bit stream, wherein the entropy encoded LCU specific SAO information for the LCUs is interleaved with entropy encoded data for the LCUs in the encoded video bit stream. Determining SAO parameters may include determining the LCU specific SAO information to be entropy encoded for each LCU according to an SAO prediction protocol.
US10070147B2
The present invention relates to a method for constituting a merge candidate list by using a view synthesis prediction (VSP) and the like in multi-view video coding. The method for constituting the merge candidate list according to the present invention comprises the steps of: determining a prediction mode for a current block; inducing, as a merge candidate, motion information from neighboring blocks of the current block when the prediction mode for the current block is a merge mode or a skip mode; and constituting the merge candidate list by using the motion information of the neighboring blocks and the deep parity information induced from the neighboring blocks of the current block.
US10070140B2
A method and apparatus of scaling list data signaling for inter-layer or inter-view sharing of the scaling list data from a reference layer or a reference view in a scalable or three-dimensional video coding system are disclosed. A first flag may be incorporated in the current bitstream to indicate the scaling list data sharing from a reference layer or view. When the first flag exists and the first flag has a first value, the scaling list data for the current layer or the current view is determined from a reference bitstream for a reference layer or a reference view. When the first flag exists and the first flag has a second value, the scaling list data for the current layer or the current view is determined from the current bitstream.
US10070139B2
In one example embodiment, a multimedia codec includes a reader configured to read a first frame in an image group according to a field mode indicated by a mode selection signal, and produce a top field and a bottom field for the first frame. The multimedia codec further includes an encoding component configured to encode the top field in an intra mode and encode the bottom field in an inter mode.
US10070134B2
Video analytics may be used to assist video encoding by selectively encoding only portions of a frame and using, instead, previously encoded portions. Previously encoded portions may be used when succeeding frames have a level of motion less than a threshold. In such case, all or part of succeeding frames may not be encoded, increasing bandwidth and speed in some embodiments.
US10070133B2
Disclosed are methods, apparatuses, systems, and/or non-transitory computer readable media for improving/optimizing image compression quality settings. A method of compressing an input image, using at least one processor, includes verifying a desired compression quality value desired for compressing the input image, determining an optimal image quality value that corresponds to a target peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) from a set image quality range based on the desired compression quality value, and outputting an image file encoded at the optimal image quality value as a compressed file of the input image.
US10070130B2
In one example, a method of coding video data includes coding, from an encoded video bitstream, a syntax element that indicates a number of lines of video data that are in one or more of a plurality of sub-PUs of a current prediction unit (PU) of a current coding unit (CU) of video data. In this example, the method further includes determining, for each respective sub-PU of the plurality of sub-PUs, a respective vector that represents a displacement between the respective sub-PU and a respective predictor block from a plurality of previously decoded blocks of video data. In this example, the method further includes reconstructing each sub-PU of the plurality of sub-PUs based on the respective predictor blocks of video data.
US10070123B1
A display calibration apparatus may include a display mounting assembly with a mounting platform and a multi-axis positioning device coupled to the mounting platform for adjusting an orientation of the mounting platform. The display calibration apparatus may also include a camera device positioned to receive light emitted by a plurality of sub-pixels of a display mounted on the mounting platform. The camera device may include an image sensor array that captures light emitted by the plurality of sub-pixels of the display. In addition, the display calibration apparatus may include a camera lens and a focuser. The camera lens may be positioned to direct light emitted by the plurality of sub-pixels of the display onto the image sensor array of the camera device, and the focuser may be disposed between the camera device and the camera lens to move the camera lens axially along an optical axis of the camera lens.
US10070122B2
A system is provided that facilitates achieving a goal associated with a particular video asset. The system may provide an interface through which a user may specify control parameters that are to be the targets of testing, and a goal or combination of goals. The system may control a controller that performs experiments in an attempt to identify optimal values, relative to the specified goals, for the control parameters. The optimal values may be determined and tested on a per-individual-video asset basis. Further, the controller may generate multiple sets of optimal values for a given video, where each set is associated with a different combination of request attributes. To estimate the optimal parameter values for one video, the controller may use usage information collected for that video, as well as usage information collected for similar videos.
US10070121B2
A method for calibrating a depth camera comprising the steps of: S1) using a depth camera (DC) to be calibrated for acquiring a plurality of depth maps (DMS) of a physical three-dimensional reference object (PO), corresponding to different positions of the depth camera relative to the is reference object; S2) computing a three-dimensional reconstruction (3DRi) of the reference object from said depth maps, depending on values assigned to a set of calibration parameters (SCPi) of the depth camera; S3) computing an error (ERRi) between the three-dimensional reconstruction computed at step S2) and a predetermined digital model (RM) of the reference object; said steps S2) and S3) being iterated by assigning different values to said set of calibration parameters of the depth camera; and S4) choosing values (SCP) of said set of calibration parameters which minimize the error computed at step S3); said steps S2) to S4) being performed by a computer.
US10070119B2
The device and method are intended for reconstructing in 3-Dimensions comprehensive representations of the head and torso of subject (S) with a portable stereophotogrammetry device which can operate at, at least, two predefined positions (A3, A4).The device is composed of a camera body (1), a double optics (2) and a measuring distance system (34) enabling the repositioning of subject (S) at position (A3) or (A4). The user can operate a switch (5) to select one of these at least two pre-defined positions. The method is further to process the stereo-pairs of the subject to reconstruct 3-Dimensional surfaces (400), match them (500) and then stitch them (600) in a comprehensive representation of the subject. By selecting a distance corresponding to a field of view of respectively approximately A4 dimension the device and method is enabling reconstructing the face and of approximately A3 dimension is enabling reconstructing the torso of subject (S).
US10070116B2
A method for scanning and measuring an environment is provided. The method includes providing a three-dimensional (3D) measurement device having a controller. Images of the environment are recorded and a 3D scan of the environment is produced with a three-dimensional point cloud. A video image of the environment is recorded. The video image is displayed on a first portion of a display. A portion of the three-dimensional point cloud is displayed on a second portion of the display, the second portion of the display being arranged about the periphery of the first portion of the display. Wherein a portion of the 3D point cloud displayed in the second portion represents a portion of the environment outside of a field of view of the video image.
US10070115B2
An innovative method for synthesis of compressed light fields is described. Compressed light fields are commonly generated by sub-sampling light field views. The suppressed views must then be synthesized at the display, utilizing information from the compressed light field. The present invention describes a method for view synthesis that utilizes depth information of the scene to reconstruct the absent views. An innovative view merging method coupled with an efficient hole filling procedure compensates for depth misregistrations and inaccuracies to produce realistic synthesized views for full parallax light field displays.
US10070098B2
A system, article, and method are provided for adjusting video quality based on viewer distance to a display.
US10070097B2
The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a recording medium that enable content having a wide dynamic range of brightness to be displayed with an appropriate brightness. A recording medium, on which the reproduction device of one aspect of the present technology performs reproduction, records coded data of an extended video that is a video having a second brightness range that is wider than a first brightness range, brightness characteristic information that represents a brightness characteristic of the extended video, and brightness conversion definition information used when performing a brightness conversion of the extended video to a standard video that is a video having the first brightness range. The reproduction device decodes the coded data and converts the extended video obtained by decoding the coded data to the standard video on the basis of the brightness conversion definition information.
US10070095B2
A media player may include a media reader to read media content from a recording medium inserted into the media reader. The media player may also include a media analysis component to identify one or more valid portions of the recording medium containing media content and one or more invalid portions of the recording medium without media content. In one embodiment, the media player includes an archival component to store the media content from the one or more valid portions in a storage medium and a playback component to play back the one or more valid portions of the media content from the storage medium concurrently with the identification of the one or more valid portions by the media analysis component and the storage of the media content by the archival component.
US10070076B2
A method reduces drift induced by environment changes when imaging radiation from a scene in two wavelength bands. Scene radiation is focused by two wedge-shaped components through a lens onto a detector that includes three separate regions. The wedge-shaped components are positioned at a fixed distance from the lens. The radiation from the scene is imaged separately onto two of the detector regions through an f-number of less than approximately 1.5 to produce a first pixel signal. Imaged radiation on each of the two regions includes radiation in one respective wavelength band. Radiation from a radiation source is projected by at least one of the wedge-shaped components through the lens onto a third detector region to produce a second pixel signal. The first pixel signal is modified based on a predetermined function that defines a relationship between second pixel signal changes and first pixel signal changes induced by environment changes.
US10070074B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide infrared imaging systems with improved electronics architectures. In one embodiment, an infrared imaging system is provided that includes an infrared imaging sensor for capturing infrared image data and a main electronics block for efficiently processing the captured infrared image data. The main electronics block may include a plurality of vector processors each configured to operate on multiple pixels of the infrared image data in parallel to efficiently exploit pixel-level parallelism. Each vector processor may be communicatively coupled to a local memory that provides high bandwidth, low latency access to a portion of the infrared image data for the vector processor to operate on. The main electronics block may also include a general-purpose processor configured to manage data flow to/from the local memories and other system functionalities. The main electronics block may be implemented as a system-on-a-chip.
US10070065B2
There is provided a camera apparatus, including circuitry configured to: output a first image signal for displaying a first image, output a second image signal for displaying a second image. The second image signal is an image signal transmitted as a return signal. Further, the second image is an image that includes one of a location of a focus adjustment in the first image and an enlarged image corresponding to a part of the first image.
US10070058B2
An audio/video (A/V) recording and communication doorbell, including a camera, a speaker, a microphone, a power manager, a battery, an AC/DC rectifier, and a DC/DC converter. The doorbell is configured for connection to an external AC power source through the AC/DC rectifier and the DC/DC converter. The power manager is configured to draw power, up to a threshold power, from the AC power source and to draw supplemental power from the battery such that the power drawn from the AC power source never exceeds the threshold power. The present A/V recording and communication doorbell can thus be connected to an existing household AC power supply and an existing doorbell signaling device without causing inadvertent sounding of the signaling device.
US10070057B2
A surveillance camera device receives power transmitted from an external power source and includes a camera for capturing images, a cable module coupled to the camera and the external power source, a casing disposed on the cable module, a temperature/moisture sensor and a circuit board. The temperature/moisture sensor is disposed in the casing for detecting a temperature/moisture value. The circuit board is disposed in the casing. The circuit board is coupled to the temperature/moisture sensor and coupled to the camera and the external power source via the cable module for transmitting the power transmitted from the external power source and the temperature/moisture value transmitted from the temperature/moisture sensor to the camera via the cable module.
US10070049B2
A method is disclosed of capturing an image of a wound on a subject for wound assessment. The method includes obtaining an image of a portion of the subject with one or more cameras; displaying the image on a display panel on an imaging device; obtaining a stored condition from a memory; obtaining a present condition; comparing the stored condition and the present condition; displaying a crosshair over the image on the display panel when it is decided that the present condition corresponds to the stored condition on the basis of the comparison; receiving an instruction for capturing; and capturing an image of the wound in response to the received instruction.
US10070048B2
A panorama photographing method, a panorama displaying method and an image capturing method are used in an electronic device. The photographing method includes the following steps. Firstly, a plurality of predefined target positions required to produce a panoramic image are determined. Then, a navigator comprising a plurality of indications representing the plurality of predefined target positions is shown. A plurality of target photographs corresponding to the plurality of predefined target positions are captured and appearance of the plurality of indications according to a capturing status of the plurality of target photographs is changed. Afterwards, the panoramic image is generated according to the plurality of target photographs.
US10070043B2
Provided are an image processing system, an image processing method, and a program capable of improving the user-friendliness upon implementing the operation input for controlling the imaging device. Provided are an image acquisition unit for receiving an image captured by a video camera, a display control unit for displaying the image on a display device, an input control unit for receiving an operation input for changing at least one of an image-capture direction and magnification of the video camera, and a camera control unit for changing at least one of the image-capture direction and magnification of the video camera according to the operation input. During a period after the operation input up to completion of the change in the image-capture direction or magnification by the video camera, the display control unit causes the display device to display an image which is created from a part of the image captured by the video camera, and which is an image of a structural outline corresponding to the image-capture direction or magnification according to the operation input.
US10070041B2
Various exemplary embodiments related to an electronic apparatus and a method for taking a photograph in the electronic apparatus are disclosed, and according to an exemplary embodiment, the electronic apparatus may include a display that displays a screen; a depth sensor that outputs a first image signal and depth information; an image sensor that outputs a second image signal; and a control unit that controls to display a preview screen on the display using the first image signal, obtain both depth information of a photographing moment and an image of the photographing moment using the second image signal in response to a request of photographing, and store the image and the depth information. Also, other various exemplary embodiments may be possible.
US10070035B2
An electronic system is described that receives data identifying a component of a monitoring system from a wearable electronic device that is associated with the monitoring system. The monitoring system is associated with a property and includes components that are fixed within the property and that are configured to sense attributes of the property. The wearable electronic device includes a heads-up display and communicates with the monitoring system over a wireless network. Based on the data identifying the component of the monitoring system, monitoring system data collected by the component of the monitoring system is accessed. At least a portion of the monitoring system data collected by the component of the monitoring system is provided to the wearable electronic device for display at the heads-up display of the wearable electronic device.
US10070034B2
An image capturing device includes: a display section attached to a head or a face of a user, and configured to display an image; a communication section configured to communicate with an external device; an image capturing section; a positional information acquisition section configured to acquire current positional information of the user; and a control section configured to capture an image of a dangerous place by the image capturing section in accordance with determination of a dangerous state, and transmit a captured image from the communication section to the external device together with the positional information acquired by the positional information acquisition section.
US10070032B2
A wireless communication assistant tool includes an electric wire disposed at one end thereof relative to an antenna of a first wireless communication device, a camera, in a contactless condition, and at the other end thereof relative to an antenna of a second wireless communication device, a smartphone, in a contactless condition. Disposition of such electric wire permits wireless communication between the camera and the smartphone through the electric wire acting as a transmission path, so that the camera and the smartphone can make communication with each other without being interfered with other radio signals.
US10070030B2
The technology disclosed here maximizes the size of the display area associated with the mobile device by various camera placement. In one embodiment, the camera is placed inside the mobile device, and can pop outside the mobile device when the camera is activated. When the camera is inactive the camera retracts inside the mobile device, and becomes unnoticeable to the user. In another embodiment, the camera is integrated into the mobile device display as a camera icon. The integrated camera serves two purposes: to record pictures, and to act as a camera icon, that when selected activates the camera. By removing the camera from the front side of the mobile device, or by integrating the camera into the display screen of the mobile device, the size of the mobile device display screen can be increased.
US10070028B2
An optical system with a base and an image sensor fixed to the base. The optical system includes a holder fixed to the base about the image sensor. The optical system includes a collar oriented about the image sensor and the holder. The optical system includes a lens barrel oriented about the image sensor, the holder, and the collar. The lens barrel includes at least one lens oriented therein. Two of the holder, collar, and lens barrel are threaded together.
US10070016B2
A scanning projector and method is provided that that uses at least one multi-stripe laser to generate the laser light for the scanned image. Specifically, the multi-stripe laser includes at least a first laser element and a second laser element formed together on a semiconductor die. The first laser element is configured to output a first laser light beam, and the second laser element is configured to output a second laser light beam. At least one scanning mirror is configured to reflect the first laser light beam and the second laser light beam, and a drive circuit is configured to provide an excitation signal to excite motion of the at least one scanning mirror. Specifically, the motion is excited such that the at least one scanning mirror reflects the first laser light beam and the second laser light beam in a raster pattern of scan lines.
US10069999B2
Content transmission between devices is to be appropriately performed. An information processing device includes a control unit. In addition, the control unit included in the information processing device performs control to select content to be transmitted from among content recorded on a recording medium and transmit the selected content to a second external information processing device when a contact with or proximity to the second external information processing device is detected by using short-distance radio communication. In this case, the control unit of the information processing device uses selection information, which is information for selecting content to be transmitted from among the content recorded on the recording medium and which is generated by the first external information processing device. Thus, the control unit of the information processing device performs control to transmit content recorded on the recording medium to the second external information processing device on the basis of the selection information.
US10069997B2
A reading module includes a light source, an optical system for forming an image of reflection light from a document illuminated by the light source, and a sensor including a plurality of sensor chips to convert the image light formed by the optical system into an electric signal. The optical system includes a mirror array including a plurality of reflecting mirrors connected in the main scanning direction, first aperture stops each of which adjusts light amount of the image light reflected from each of the reflecting mirrors, second aperture stops each extending from the opening edge of the first aperture stop toward the mirror array, first light shielding walls each of which extends from a boundary between the sensor chips toward the first aperture stops, and second light shielding walls extending from both sides in the main scanning direction of the first aperture stop toward the sensor chips.
US10069994B2
A printing system includes a printer and an information processing device that includes a processor and a memory storing processor-executable instructions, the instructions being configured to, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to accept a print instruction, in response to accepting the print instruction, determine whether to instruct the printer to start a pre-printing operation based on preparation instruction information, in response to determining to instruct the printer to start the pre-printing operation, transmit the preparation instruction information to the printer, in response to determining to instruct the printer to start the pre-printing operation and transmitting the preparation instruction information to the printer, generate print data based on specified contents data, and transmit print instruction information to the printer.
US10069982B2
A content distribution server according to an embodiment includes a storage unit that stores: store codes corresponding to stores that are targets of distribution, device codes corresponding to receipt issuing devices in each respective store, print specifications corresponding to each receipt issuing device, and additional information items, each including print specifications required for printing the respective additional information. A control unit identifies at least one additional information item for transmitting to one or more of the stores having one or more receipt issuing devices with corresponding print specifications that match the print specifications of the at least one additional information item. A communication interface transmits, to the corresponding one or more stores, the identified at least one additional information and instructions causing the one or more receipt issuing devices in the one or more stores to print receipts including an image corresponding to the transmitted at least one additional information item.
US10069981B2
A file transmission apparatus includes a mail producing section that produces an email for transmitting a transmission object file, a file name producing section that produces a file name of the transmission object file based a character string included in the email processed by the mail producing section and that assigns the produced file name to the transmission object file, and a transmission section that attaches, to the email, the transmission object file with the file name assigned at the file name producing section and that transmits the email, to make user's manipulation significantly simplified and the usability further improved.
US10069978B2
A system, smart device and method for apportioning costs of smart device operations between purposes. Operation information concerning operations performed by the smart device is recorded. The operations are apportioned between purposes based on categorization information and the operation information. The cost of the apportioned operations performed by the device is determined for the purposes based on the operation information and tariff information.
US10069974B1
A method and system for providing a service session using a call include: initiating a first call between a caller and a callee according to a callee address record; establishing a voice communication session during the call; modifying the caller address record; and initiating a second call between the caller and the callee according to the modified callee address record. A behavior of the second call differs from a behavior of the first call. In one embodiment, the callee address record is modified according to a modification request. In one embodiment, the callee address record includes at least one session initiation entry. The session initiation entry includes a session address attribute with information for establishing the communication session, a session communication method with a protocol used for the communication session, and a session data attribute with data information for sending over the communication session based on the session address attribute.
US10069972B1
One or more embodiments related to a method that includes querying a data store for current interaction data between call center personnel and customers. The call center personnel are grouped into call center groups. The method further includes determining, for at least some call center groups, a current interaction metric specific to the call center group. The current interaction method is provided for each of the at least some call center groups.
US10069969B1
An information transfer system and method are disclosed. When a call is received on a mobile device, the application on the mobile device can search local databases and server databases for a number associated with the caller. If there is a match in the local database or server databases, the information associated with the number can be copied into temporary folders. The information in the temporary folders can be displayed on the mobile device.
US10069963B2
A communication device includes: a signal generator configured to generate a first signal and supply the first signal to a telephone line; a terminator having a variable terminal impedance as seen from the telephone line; a detector configured to detect a difference between the terminal impedance and a line impedance of the telephone line; and a controller configured to determine the terminal impedance so that the difference is reduced.
US10069960B2
A method, electronic device, and accessory for carrying out functions based on reflected electromagnetic radiation are provided. According to one implementation, an electronic device transmits electromagnetic radiation (“EMR”) to an accessory and detects a reflection of the transmitted EMR off of the accessory. A characteristic of the reflected EMR maps to a predetermined function associated with the accessory, which the electronic device performs.
US10069954B2
An apparatus includes a first portion configured to carry one or more components of the apparatus and at least one wall extending between two or more sides of the first portion; an actuator located in the first portion adjacent to the at least one wall; and a movable section on the first portion and configured to be actuated by the actuator. At least the first portion and the movable section define a speaker.
US10069950B2
A mobility management entity device (MME) may receive a request from a user device to attach to a network. The request to attach to the network may include a user device identifier for the user device. The MME may receive, from a home subscriber server (HSS) and based on the user device identifier for the user device, information relating to the user device. The information may include at least one connection parameter. The at least one connection parameter may include at least information indicating whether a bearer should be allocated to the user device. The MME may establish a network connection for the user device based on the at least one connection parameter. The MME may cause traffic to be routed from the user device based on the at least one connection parameter.
US10069943B2
Described are methods, systems and computer readable media for providing a query dispatch and execution architecture.
US10069936B2
A system designed for increasing network communication speed for users, while lowering network congestion for content owners and ISPs. The system employs network elements including an acceleration server, clients, agents, and peers, where communication requests generated by applications are intercepted by the client on the same machine. The IP address of the server in the communication request is transmitted to the acceleration server, which provides a list of agents to use for this IP address. The communication request is sent to the agents. One or more of the agents respond with a list of peers that have previously seen some or all of the content which is the response to this request (after checking whether this data is still valid). The client then downloads the data from these peers in parts and in parallel, thereby speeding up the Web transfer, releasing congestion from the Web by fetching the information from multiple sources, and relieving traffic from Web servers by offloading the data transfers from them to nearby peers.
US10069932B2
According to one embodiment, a system includes a memory comprising instructions, an interface, and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and the interface. The interface is configured to receive one or more account access rules, the account access rules comprising restrictions on accessing an online account through one or more access methods, and receive, via a first access method, a request to access the online account. The processor is configured, when executing the instructions, to determine, based on the account access rules, whether the online account may be accessed using the first access method.
US10069931B2
Disclosed are a method and a system for pushing recommended friends to a user on a social networking site, wherein, the method includes: automatically analyzing usage information of each user on a current social networking site to obtain feature information of each user; matching feature information of a user on the current social network with feature information of other users on the current social networking site to obtain matching goodness-of-fit values of feature information between the user and the other users; determining users corresponding to matching goodness-of-fit values which are greater than a preset goodness-of-fit value as matching users of the user; sending friend recommendation information to the user, wherein the friend recommendation information includes information of each matching user. The present document can achieve that a social networking site actively recommends friends to a user.
US10069927B2
A method, computer program product, and/or system for facilitating communication between an origin machine and a target machine are provided. To facilitate communication, a reference to an original object of the origin machine is constructed within a remote object services level. Then reference is passed within the remote object services level from the origin machine to the target machine. The passing of the reference, in turn, causes a creation of a proxy and an invocation of a target method on the target machine.
US10069923B2
A device on a network is searched for by using the first protocol, and the first device information is acquired. The second device information about the second protocol is acquired from a device on the network. The second device information is preferentially processed over the first device information.
US10069920B2
The invention relates to a method for controlling an online service outside the vehicle by using an operating device of a motor vehicle. The method includes determining an operating input performed by a user on the operating device and selecting one of several service functions of the online service depending on the operating input. This selection capability should be adapted to the vehicle type-dependent operating concept of the motor vehicle. The operating elements available on the operating device are determined and converter data, which contain a control instruction for controlling the selection of the service function depending on operation signals of the determined operating elements, are provided. The selection of the service function then takes place depending on the operating element operated during the operating input and depending on the converter data.
US10069918B2
A process detects media dispersion. The process detects the dispersion of contaminants through distributed remote sensor platforms that connect one or more sensors on a remote device. The process transmits detection data from the distributed remote sensor platform to a radiation tolerant satellite router. A gateway connects the radiation tolerant satellite router to a hardware server and converts the detection data to a compatible form with a protocol used by a hardware server. The process generates a plume model in response to the detection data and meteorological data that models dispersion plumes and activates and deactivates selected sensors in response to a forecasted to dispersion area.
US10069916B2
This disclosure describes a method, device, and system related to filtering data requests. The system may determine a first data request from the at least one first server. The system may cause to send a second data request to the at least one first server for one or more first instructions. The system may further determine the one or more first instructions from the at least one first server. The system may cause to send a third data request to the at least one first storage device for data corresponding to the first data request. The system may determine the data from the at least one first storage device using the third data request. The system may further send a first data set of the data to the at least one first server.
US10069912B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for speedily upgrading (e.g., via service packs) components of a storage management system, such as media agents and data agents, which may number in the thousands. The disclosed methods and systems provide a lightweight and flexible approach. Executable files such as service packs are deployed to a network-shared file system and are served on demand to each targeted host computing device to launch a data agent and/or media agent component. New service packs (e.g., upgrades) are installed on another shared drive and the connection thereto is refreshed by each targeted storage management component to begin executing the new version on demand. The resultant overall upgrade process across the storage management system may be substantially shortened, and the network burden greatly reduced.
US10069909B1
Embodiments are directed to performing block-based backups of data using dynamic save streams by parsing, in a backup manager component, a data saveset to convert the data into blocks, analyzing the blocks in a stream engine component to define a number and respective size of save streams to assign certain blocks to respective streams, and transmitting the save streams to a backup storage media to perform a backup operation.
US10069908B2
Methods and apparatus for interfaces to manage last-mile connectivity and dynamic reconfiguration for direct network peerings. A system may include a data center, endpoint routers and a connectivity coordinator. The coordinator implements an interface defining connectivity operations. The coordinator receives a request for dedicated connectivity to data center resources, formatted according to the interface. The coordinator determines a connectivity provider to provide last-mile connectivity to the requester, and transmits a notification identifying the selected connectivity provider.
US10069871B2
A device may receive a first session initiation protocol (SIP) message from another device, and may determine a first timestamp associated with the first SIP message. The first timestamp may represent a receipt time of the first SIP message by the device. The device may determine a second timestamp associated with a second SIP message. The second timestamp may represent a transmission time of the second SIP message by the device, and may be a response to the first SIP message. The device may determine a device latency value representing a difference between the second timestamp and the first timestamp. The device may provide the second SIP message to the other device at the transmission time. The second SIP message may include the device latency value.
US10069863B2
A destination address is processed to determine if the destination address is a fake web address or hyperlink. The destination address may be compared with a database of known domain names to see if the domain name is legitimate or illegitimate. The designation address may also be compared to other domain names to see if it is an honest or dishonest transformation of the other domain names. Appropriate action may be taken if the designation address is a dishonest transformation of another domain name.
US10069862B2
Techniques for predicting and protecting spearphishing targets are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a system for predicting and protecting spearphishing targets. The system may comprise one or more processors communicatively coupled to a network. The one or more processors may be configured to identify one or more potential spearphishing targets based on information from an organization, receive additional information associated with the one or more potential spearphishing targets and the organization from publicly available sources, determine a threat level of a spearphishing attack on the one or more potential spearphishing targets based on the information from the organization and the additional information, and generate a report of the one or more potential spearphishing targets and the threat level associated with the one or more potential spearphishing targets.
US10069861B2
A current physical location value associated is incorporated with a communication device as part of internet protocol (IP). An IP management component obtains current physical location information of a wireless communication device and modifies the IP address to incorporate the current physical location value corresponding to the current physical location of the communication device as part of the IP address of the communication device to prevent undesired intrusions by hackers, as communications associated with the communication device are routed to/from the communication device that is at the current physical location. If the communication device moves to a new location, the IP management component can perform a new IP address modification to modify the IP address to incorporate a new physical location value associated with the communication device.
US10069860B1
A computing system may be protected from revoked system updates. A computing system receives an object and scans it for revocation updates to a security structure of the computing system. The security structure is a monotonically nondecreasing collection of segments containing data on whether a system update is revoked and a system update's status as revoked signifies the revoked system update can no longer be used by the computing system. Based upon scanning the object, the computing system identifies and validates a revocation update. The computing system resolves the revocation update by applying the revocation update to the security structure, by adding or changing one or more segments of the security structure identified by the revocation update, in response to determining that the revocation update is valid, or by denying application of the revocation update to the security structure in response to determining that the revocation update is invalid.
US10069859B2
Some embodiments provide distributed rate limiting to combat network based attacks launched against a distributed platform or customers thereof. The distributed rate limiting involves graduated monitoring to identify when an attack expands beyond a single server to other servers operating from within the same distributed platform distribution point, and when the attack further expands from one distributed platform distribution point to other distribution points. Once request rates across the distributed platform distribution points exceed a global threshold, a first set of attack protections are invoked across the distributed platform. Should request rates increase or continue to exceed the threshold, additional attack protections can be invoked. Distributed rate limiting allows any server within the distributed platform to assume command and control over the graduated monitoring as well as escalating the response to any identified attack.
US10069856B2
The present disclosure generally relates to information security and, more particularly, to systems and methods of comparative evaluation for phishing mitigation. Evaluating the anti-phishing approaches includes: initiating, on a computing device, a phishing attack; initiating, on the computing device, an anti-phishing approach against the phishing attack; and evaluating, using the computing device, different criteria of the anti-phishing approach to determine an overall effectiveness of the anti-phishing approach by applying a comparative framework of evaluation metrics to the different criteria of the anti-phishing approach.
US10069850B2
A system and method in a virtual universe system for triggering scans of virtual items and inventories of virtual items and for scanning the virtual items and inventories wherein the scans may be triggered by an avatar moving or teleporting from one region to another, or by an avatar picking up, dropping off, or accepting or purchasing an item. The degree of scanning may depend upon factors such as location where these scan triggers occur. The signature of the item may be identified by the scan process. The item signature may be compared against signatures of known malicious items stored in an inventory item signatures database and a summary of the signature comparison may be sent to a resident and stored in the resident's inventory.
US10069846B2
An internet service provider (ISP) is configured to analyze a subscriber's sent e-mail packets to determine a subscriber identity associated with the e-mail packets. A database is then queried to determine a current sending rate of e-mails by the subscriber. A sending rate above an allowed threshold causes the upstream transmission of the e-mail packets to be blocked by injecting connection destroying packets. A subscriber remains blocked from upstream transmission of e-mails until the sending rate as determined by the ISP drops below a second, more stringent threshold. This automatic process is also accompanied by automated messaging to the subscriber with information as to the measures taken and remedial options.
US10069842B1
Access to a secure resource is controlled. Data relating to social media history information, demographic information, and psychometric information regarding a user having access to a secure resource is mined by a computer system. Mined data that indicates a potential security risk that meets a predefined security criteria with respect to the secure resource is identified by the computer system. A security risk level based on the identified data is determined. A level of access to the secure resource by the user computing device is set, based on one or more predetermined threshold values that are met, in response to a determination regarding such. Access is granted to the secure resource in accordance with the set level of access, in response to receiving a request to access the secure resource by the computer system.
US10069837B2
Devices, systems, and methods of detecting whether an electronic device or computerized device or computer, is communicating with a computerized service or a trusted server directly and without an intermediary web-proxy, or indirectly by utilizing a proxy server or web-proxy. The system searches for particular characteristics or attributes, that characterize a proxy-based communication session or channel and that do not characterize a direct non-proxy-based communication session or channel; or conversely, the system searches for particular characteristics or attributes, that characterize a direct non-proxy-based communication session or channel and that do not characterize a proxy-based communication session or channel; and based on these characteristics, determines whether or not a proxy server exists and operates.
US10069836B2
Apparatus and methods for protected content access, browsing and transfer over a network. In one embodiment, the network comprises a premises (e.g., residential) Local Area Network (LAN), and the apparatus comprises a server and renderer consumer premise equipment (CPE). The renderer CPE scans the network to search for a server CPE that implements a compatible security framework. The renderer authenticates itself with the server, and the server allows content browsing and selection access only to an authorized and authenticated renderer. A negotiation and exchange protocol comprises messages exchanged between the renderer and the server that include one or more of device identification, encryption key exchange, digital certificates and information regarding security package used by each CPE.
US10069833B2
A computer security method including detecting access, by a computer in a first computer network, to a computer-readable document, determining whether the computer-readable document was retrieved from a second computer network, identifying a reference, associated with the computer-readable document, to a resource at a location within the first computer network, and preventing access by the computer to the resource at the location within the first computer network responsive to determining that the computer-readable document was retrieved from the second computer network.
US10069832B2
A method of executing an application in a direct launch mode includes receiving a user input to download an application from a remote server to a client computing device and to launch the application on the client computing device. Permissions requested by the application to utilize local resources of the client computing device during execution of the application by the client computing device are determined, and the determined permissions are compared to a list of predetermined permissions requiring modification of the execution of the application when the application is executed in a direct launch mode. The application is launched without additional input from the user, and the application is executed on the client computing device with at least one of the requested permissions not being granted in its entirety.
US10069824B2
A biometric authentication system may include a centralized database including stored biometric signature information for authenticating a user of one or more external systems. The biometric authentication system may extract data attributes from a biometric signature of the user and compare them to the stored biometric signature information in the database. The biometric authentication system may identify user identifier information associated with a signature key stored of the stored biometric signature information that matches the data attributes to authenticate the user to access secure information.
US10069823B1
Indirect access control is performed between a requestor computing device and a requestee computing device. Peer data is transmitted from the requestor to the requestee that asserts that the requestor is trusted by a peer computing device. It is verified that the requestor has a first degree of trust with the peer. Next degree peer data is received from the peer that asserts that the peer is trusted by a next degree peer computing device. It is verified that the peer has a next degree of trust with the next degree peer. A trust score is calculated for the requestor based on the verification of the peer data and the next degree peer data, and an access level is granted to the requestor based on the trust score.
US10069821B2
An operating method for a one-time password with an updatable seed. The method comprises: a one-time password entering a dormancy mode after being powered on and initialized; being woken up when an interrupt is detected; entering an interrupt processing flow; setting a wakeup flag; entering a key processing flow when a key wakeup flag is set; judging a system state and a key manner; and completing the functions of programming seed data and generating a password according to a judgment result. According to the present invention, on the premise of guaranteeing the security, a user is permitted to program and update seed data in a one-time password, thereby facilitating the use of the user.
US10069820B2
Secure registration of a new application with a server system is provided. An old application has been registered with the system. A first link between the new application and the system establishes a first key and first check data is communicated from the system to the new application and passed to the old application. A second link between the old application and the system establishes a second key based on input of a credential to the old application; the first check data is communicated from the old application to the system. Enciphered second check data is communicated from the system to the old application over the second link and further encrypted by the old application using a third key. This generates doubly-enciphered check data which is passed to the new application and decrypted using the first key and a fourth key, generated at the new application based on the first check data and input of the credential to the new application.
US10069816B2
A method and a system for testing an authentication server. The method comprises: installing a certificate of an authentication server to be tested in a monitor console and installing a certificate of the monitor console in the authentication server to be tested; constructing and sending, by the monitor console, based on a configuration type of the authentication server to be tested, according to a roaming authentication protocol, roaming authentication protocol data to the authentication server to be tested; capturing response data sent by the authentication server to be tested, and performing comparative analysis to determine whether field information in the response data is consistent with locally stored respective information; and displaying that the authentication server to be tested is tested successfully in a case that the field information in the response data is completely consistent with the locally stored respective information; otherwise, displaying comparative analysis information.
US10069813B2
The first authentication unit of an authentication apparatus decides whether first authentication data exists in a received message, and performs, if it is decided that the first authentication data exists, authentication based on the first authentication data. The second authentication unit of the authentication apparatus decides whether second authentication data exists in the received message, and performs, if it is decided that the second authentication data exists, authentication based on the second authentication data. If the second authentication unit decides that no second authentication data exists in the received message, and the first authentication unit decides that authentication has succeeded, it is decided that authentication for the received message has succeeded.
US10069807B2
A method and a system for encrypting a data stream are provided. The method includes receiving a multimedia data stream including multiple data elements; dividing the multimedia data stream into M data sub-streams based on sequence of the multiple data elements in the multimedia data stream, where the M data sub-streams follow a synchronous clock period which is M times of a clock period of the multimedia data stream, where M is a positive integer greater than 1; and generating a key at a predetermined time interval with a new pipeline algorithm, and encrypting the data elements in the M data sub-streams with the key and the complicated control logic, and the predetermined time interval is N times of the clock period of the M data sub-streams, where N is a positive integer.
US10069806B2
Aspects related to the secure transfer and use of secret material are described. In one embodiment, an encrypted secret key and encrypted revocation data are imported into a trusted execution environment and decrypted with private provider and vendor keys. In this manner, a provider of cryptographic processes is not exposed to the secret key or revocation data of a customer, as the secret key and revocation data are decrypted and stored within the trusted execution environment but not accessed in an unencrypted form. In turn, the provider can receive various instructions to perform cryptographic operations on behalf of the customer. Based on the outcome of a revocation check using the revocation data, the instructions can be performed by the trusted execution environment.
US10069794B2
A method for transmitting content data includes receiving content data, and passing at least a portion of the content data based on a size of the received content data. A method for transmitting content data includes receiving content data, and passing at least a portion of the content data based on a prescribed rate. A method for transmitting content data includes receiving content data, and passing at least a portion of the content data before performing policy enforcement on the content data.
US10069771B2
A digital device configured to check a notification of an application and a method of controlling therefor are disclosed. If an icon including an indicator is slid to a direction of a sub display area from a main display area by a slide touch input, the digital device according to the present specification can display notification information corresponding to the indicator on the sub display area.
US10069769B2
Provided are an electronic device and a method for providing a user preference program notification in the electronic device. The electronic device includes a communicator, and a controller configured to collect a user viewing history, determine a user preference program according to the collected user viewing history, and selectively output, to a user, a notification indicating a start of the broadcasting of the determined user preference program.
US10069768B2
A system and method for automatically matching a plurality of mobile subscribers is disclosed. The system includes at least one server for receiving from each mobile subscriber within the plurality of mobile subscribers a contact list. Said server is adapted to process the contact list to produce a set of normalised contact information for each subscriber in the system; compare the set normalised contact information for a selected subscriber with a subscriber network identification assigned to each subscriber with the system; identify subscriber network identifications that match entries contained in the set normalised contact information of said selected subscriber; compile a listing of the matched subscriber network identifications; and forward an invite to each subscriber within the listing of matched subscriber network identifications.
US10069765B2
A virtual network device includes several different virtual network device sub-units, which collectively operate as a single logical network device. An interface bundle includes interfaces in more than one of the different virtual network device sub-units included in the virtual network device. The interface bundle is coupled to a virtual link bundle, which connects the virtual network device to another device. The interface bundle is managed as a single logical interface.
US10069758B2
According to some embodiments, a historical request data store may contain electronic records representing historical requests and, for each historical request, a set of analysis variables including a request description, resource allocation data, and at least one outcome indication. An automated outcome tracker system computer may catalogue a subset of the electronic records, based on the at least one outcome indication for each electronic record, as representing positive outcomes. An operator terminal may provide an interactive graphical user interface display and a back-end application computer server may receive from the operator terminal a set of analysis filter criteria. The back-end application computer server may then calculate and display impactability scores. According to some embodiments, the computer server may also calculate and display negative outcome risk scores.
US10069756B2
Techniques are disclosed for integration, provisioning and management of entities and processes in a computing system such as, by way of example only, business entities and business processes. In particular, techniques are disclosed for implementing an extensible support system for multiple service offerings. For example, such a support system can be a business support system which may be employed in conjunction with a cloud computing environment.
US10069752B2
A system and method for performing remote resource allocation analyses on distributed computer systems utilizes a snapshot of a target distributed computer system obtained at a distributed computer system, which is transmitted to a remote resource allocation module so that a remote resource allocation analysis can be performed on the snapshot of the target distributed computer system. The snapshot includes configurations and resource usage information of at least some components of the target distributed computer system.
US10069749B1
Example embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, a system, and a computer program product for creating a dynamically composed compute node. The method includes receiving an application characteristic and generating an infrastructure allocation request according to the application characteristic. The infrastructure allocation request then may be forwarded to a management system associated with a disaggregated infrastructure.
US10069748B2
Communication apparatus includes multiple interfaces for connection to a packet data network and a memory configured to contain packets awaiting transmission to the network in multiple queues, which are assigned respective transmission priorities. Control logic assigns to the queues respective weighting factors, which vary inversely with the respective transmission priorities, and calculates for each egress interface a respective interface congestion level. The control logic calculates effective congestion levels for the queues as a weighted function of the respective queue lengths and the respective interface congestion level, weighted by the respective weighting factors, and applies congestion control to the queues responsively to the effective congestion levels.
US10069747B2
The disclosure relates to quality of service (QOS) features for a router. The router may determine whether a congestion level of a first interface of the set of network interfaces exceeds a threshold level. Responsive to the congestion level exceeding the threshold level, the router activates a traffic analyzer configured to identify a first session that is present in the data traffic and inserts a set of packets that are part of the first session into a first queue of the set of queues via an expedited communications path over a bus. The router also forwards the set of packets in accordance with the desired quality of service.
US10069746B2
A technology is provided for reducing network congestion. A data loss rate pertaining to a datastream between a client and a server may be determined. The datastream may comprise data packets sent and received between the client and the server. The client and the server may send to and receive from each other data packets encoded using random linear network coding (RLNC) in response to determining that the data loss rate is higher than or equal to a threshold.
US10069729B2
One embodiment provides a system that facilitates efficient communication based on a forwarding information base (FIB). The system receives, by an intermediate node, a first interest which includes a name and maximum interest information which indicates whether to forward a subsequent interest with a same name prefix as the first interest. In response to obtaining a first entry from a FIB based on the name for the first interest, the system adds to the first entry, for an outgoing interface corresponding to an arrival interface of the first interest, the maximum interest information included in the first interest as an interest limit for the first entry. In response to determining that the interest limit for the first entry is reached, the system refrains from forwarding the subsequent interest, thereby facilitating the intermediate node to manage traffic based on information in the forwarding information base provided by a content producer.
US10069725B1
In one embodiment, a service domain router (SDR) establishes a virtual fabric interface between the SDR and at least one peer SDR in a computer network. When the SDR receives a routing advertisement from the peer SDR, where the routing advertisement provides nexthop (NH) information for one or more network routes, the SDR may add the one or more network routes to a routing information base (RIB) listing the peer SDR as a next-to-nexthop (NNH) for the network routes. A forwarding information base (FIB) on the network device then resolves the NNH for the corresponding network routes to an egress interface of the peer SDR, such that packets received at the SDR and destined along a particular route of the one or more network routes may be forwarded via the egress interface of the peer SDR.
US10069724B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for verifying the functionality of network paths may include (1) constructing, at a source node within a network, a test packet that uniquely identifies a network path whose functionality is unverified, (2) sending the test packet to a target node within the network via the network path in an attempt to verify the functionality of the network path, (3) receiving, back from the target node, the test packet sent to the target node via the network path, and then (4) verifying, at the source node, the functionality of the network path based at least in part on the test packet received back from the target node. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10069722B2
Technical solutions for optimization of network resources are described. One general aspect includes a method, including measuring, by a controller, an attribute of network route being used to communicate a network flow between a first apparatus and a second apparatus. The method also includes comparing, by the controller, a predetermined threshold and the attribute. The method also includes in response to the attribute being non-compliant with the predetermined threshold, selecting, by the controller, an alternative network route to communicate the network flow between the first apparatus and the second apparatus. The method also includes routing, by the controller, the network flow to be communicated via the alternative route between the first apparatus and the second apparatus.
US10069719B2
A method, client device, and server for multipath data packet transmission and reception. The method for multipath data packet reception includes transmitting, by the client device, a message to the server. The message includes an identifier that is unique to a multipath transmission session and that identifies a group of two or more network access interfaces of the client device to receive one or more data packets from the server during the multipath transmission session. The method also includes receiving, by the client device, the one or more data packets from the server through each of the two or more network access interfaces of the client device during the multipath transmission session based on one or more characteristics of the two or more network access interfaces.
US10069715B2
In the field of network resource deployment technology, a method for deploying resource in a cloud computing environment comprises steps of: installing a distributed communication module and a resource deployment module on each one of a plurality of nodes; via a first resource deployment module on a first node in the plurality of nodes, sending a request for resource deployment to other nodes by a user; and transmitting the resource among the distributed communication module; if the first distributed communication module on the first node detects that a destination of the request for resource deployment comprises the first resource deployment module in local, sending the request to the first resource deployment module; deploying the resource by resource deployment modules of all destinations.
US10069704B2
A system for network monitoring and network traffic analysis includes a plurality of network devices and a management station. Each of the plurality of network devices is associated with corresponding ones of a plurality of ports. Each of the plurality of network devices is configured to determine network traffic analysis data associated with a characteristic of network data traversing each of the plurality of ports. The management station is configured to determine a ranking of the plurality of ports based on the network traffic analysis data in response to a search request implicating the characteristic, and is configured to display the plurality of ports based on the ranking.
US10069696B2
The present application discloses a data acquisition method and apparatus for a driverless vehicle. A specific implementation of the method comprises: selecting a sensor having the highest importance level among at least one sensor of the driverless vehicle as a first sensor and at least one sensor other than the first sensor to forma second sensor set; acquiring a start time of a current time window, and executing the following data processing steps: executing real-time acquiring and storing operations on data packets collected by each sensor among the at least one sensor after the start time of the current time window; determining whether any condition in the following condition group is met; and in response to determining that any condition in the condition group is met, setting the start time of the current time window to the current time, and continuing executing the data processing steps. This implementation realizes synchronized storage of the data packets collected by the at least one sensor of the driverless vehicle.
US10069695B1
Collecting bandwidth data includes producing master and slave text files in response to simultaneous collection of data samples from a network device by servers, generating a clean data file by sorting data in the master and slave text files by the network device port, sorting data samples for the port by collection time, and for each of the samples: adding a designated interval of time to a time on the network device resulting in a target network device time whereby the time on the network device corresponds to a time the data sample was collected, examining data samples in the master and slave text files corresponding to the time the respective data samples were collected, selecting from one of the master and slave text files the sample with a collection time most closely matching the target network device time, and storing the selected sample in the clean data file.
US10069690B2
This disclosure has reference to verifying records of system change events in a distributed network system providing cloud services. In one embodiment, the methods and systems observe system update messages sent and received among components of the distributed network system, generate a record of the state of the object in response to the update messages, and compare the record of the state of the object with information from a periodic system status message to verify the accuracy of the periodic system status message. Advantageously, the present embodiments provide increased reliability for system status tracking, resource management, and billing for consumption of resources in distributed network systems. Additional benefits and advantages of the present embodiments will become evident in the following description.
US10069683B2
Apparatus (110) for configuring network equipment or devices (101a-101n) during runtime is particularly applicable to network equipment based on QorIQ (trade mark) communication platforms for DPAA (Data Path Acceleration Architecture) optimization purposes and provides a way maintaining an optimal configuration which can change over time acccording to real traffic conditions. The invention may be implemented with any kind of adaptation algorithm for targeting different DPAA features. A flow characteristic function is determined from collected traffic statistics for a multiplicity of traffic flows classified by a common property such as protocol or destination or source. Flow properties are characterized over time, past present and future prediction and in relation to other existing flows based on assigned priorities. A computed flow characteristic function represents the basis for all adaptation algorithms which may be implemented in order to optimize the various DPAA features. In contrast with conventional methods which adapt traffic to system constraints, the apparatus of the present invention itself continuously adapts to traffic dynamics in order to maintain an optimal configuration over an extended period of time.
US10069681B2
A resource manager of a virtualized computing service indicates to a client that FPGA-enabled compute instances are supported at the service. From a set of virtualization hosts of the service, a particular host from which an FPGA is accessible is selected for the client based on an indication of computation objectives of the client. Configuration operations are performed to prepare the host for the application, and an FPGA-enabled compute instance is launched at the host for the client.
US10069680B1
A virtual computer system service receives a request from a customer to provision a dedicated server for the exclusive use of the customer. The dedicated server may be used to launch one or more virtual machine instances. The virtual computer system service subsequently selects, from a pool of available servers, a server that can be dedicated to the customer and that does not have capacity allocated to any other customer. The virtual computer system service may update a database to specify, in an entry corresponding to the selected server, that the server has been dedicated for the exclusive use of the customer. Once the database has been updated, the virtual computer system service will enable the customer to launch a virtual machine instance using the dedicated server.
US10069670B2
A transmission and reception circuit includes a transmission circuit, a reception circuit, and a signal feedback path. The transmission path includes an output section, a signal generating circuit generating an in-phase component signal and an orthogonal component signal, and a transmission analog baseband circuit configured to perform digital to analog conversion of the generated in-phase component signal and orthogonal component signal. The reception circuit includes an input section, a reception analog baseband circuit performing analog to digital conversion of the transmitted in-phase component signal and orthogonal component signal, and a signal detection circuit that detects the analog-to-digital converted in-phase component signal and orthogonal component signal converted by the reception analog baseband circuit. The signal feedback path has a first end which is connected to the output section of the transmission circuit, and a second end which is connected to the input section of the reception circuit.
US10069667B1
Systems and methods for data transfer using self-synchronizing quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM)
Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed.
US10069662B2
A pulse width modulation system comprises an analog component and a digital component. The analog component operates to separate a local oscillator signal with different phase shifts and introduce an offset (i.e., a time delay) to analog signals being receive at an input with a tuning operation that fine tunes in the analog signals in the analog (continuous time) domain. The analog component comprises a plurality of analog delay lines that respectively process carrier signals having a different phase shifts. Digital delay lines convert the analog signals to digital square waves with the same time delay and at the same resolution as the analog output signal.
US10069660B1
An illustrative multi-lane communication method includes: (a) receiving receive signals on different receive channels; (b) converting each of the receive signals into a lane of a multi-lane receive data stream, wherein said converting includes demodulation and error measurement; (c) determining remote pre-equalizer adaptation information based in part on the error measurement; (d) detecting alignment markers in the multi-lane receive data stream; (e) extracting local pre-equalizer adaptation information in, or proximate to, the alignment markers in the multi-lane receive data stream; (f) using the local pre-equalizer adaptation information to adjust coefficients of a local pre-equalization filter; (g) periodically inserting an alignment marker in a multi-lane transmit data stream, wherein the remote pre-equalizer adaption information is included in, or inserted proximate to, the alignment markers; and (h) transforming each lane of the multi-lane transmit data stream into a transmit signal, wherein said transforming includes modulating and applying the local pre-equalization filter.
US10069650B2
Systems, devices, and techniques relating to network upgrade and protocol selection in wireline communication networks are described. A described network device includes ports to connect with destination devices over wireline transmission mediums, wireline transmission mediums respectively comprising at least one pair of wires for transmitting and receiving data; a packet processor configured to forward packets to and from the ports; first transceiver circuitry configured to communicate using an Ethernet protocol over at least a portion of the wireline transmission mediums; second transceiver circuitry configured to communicate using an OFDM broadband protocol over at least a portion of the wireline transmission mediums; and a controller. The controller is configured to determine a protocol used by a destination device connected with the network device, and for communications with the respective destination device, select among the first transceiver circuitry and the second transceiver circuitry based on the protocol used by the destination device.
US10069646B2
Some embodiments provide a method for a controller for mapping and sharing up to date configuration information for a logical network comprising managed forwarding elements having multiple tunnel endpoints. The method identifies a data compute node for operation on a host machine that includes a managed forwarding element (MFE) having multiple tunnel endpoints. The data compute node belongs to a particular logical network. The method identifies multiple other data compute nodes belonging to the particular logical network. The method distributes to the MFE (i) a mapping of each data compute node of the other data compute nodes to an identifier for a group of tunnel endpoints associated with the data compute node and (ii) a mapping of each of the identifiers to a list of tunnel endpoints. The MFE uses the mappings to encapsulate packets sent from the data compute node for transmission to other MFEs.
US10069645B2
A flexible link system and approach for dynamically switching among wall modules of various types without re-engineering an associated controller application. Some of the types of wall modules may incorporate those of Sylk, BACnet and conventional types. A wall module type switching mechanism may incorporate a controller incorporating an application having a flexible link for the connection of wall modules of various types. The flexible link may enable a number of data points of the application to be applicable to various types of wall modules in that switching from a wall module of one type to a wall module of another type does not necessarily require another set of data points in the application.
US10069633B2
A secure programming system can receive a job control package having a security kernel and a target payload of content for programming into a pre-defined set of trusted devices. A device programmer can install a security kernel on the trusted devices and reboot the trusted devices using the security kernel to validate the proper operation of the security kernel. The target payload can then be securely installed on the trusted devices and validated.
US10069630B2
A system includes a target directory service, a domain mesh with a plurality of domains, and a synchronization host coupled to the domain mesh. The synchronization host is configured to synchronize password changes received in the domain mesh with the target directory service. Synchronizing the password changes includes receiving at the synchronization host a hash value representative of a plaintext password from the domain mesh, performing at the synchronization host an additional hash on the hash value to generate protected password data, and exporting the protected password data from the synchronization host to the target directory service.
US10069628B2
Technologies for a physically unclonable function with magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) is disclosed. An MTJ may have a fixed layer and a free layer. The MTJ may have two stable states: one in which the orientation of the magnetization of the fixed layer is parallel to the free layer, and one in which it is antiparallel. If the magnetic tunnel junction has a voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy, when a voltage is applied across the MTJ, the orientation of the magnetic field of the free layer of the MTJ may be perpendicular to that of the fixed layer. When the voltage is removed, the orientation of the magnetization of the free layer relaxes back to one of the two stable configurations. Which state the free layer ends up at may not be predictable at the time of manufacture, but may be repeatable due to influences from variations in the manufacturing process.
US10069626B2
A method includes, with a computing system, exiting a context of a virtual machine, the exiting in response to a request from a guest operating system of the virtual machine to switch from a first encryption key identifier for the virtual machine to a second encryption key identifier for the virtual machine. The method further includes, with the computing system, loading the second encryption key identifier into a virtual machine control module of a virtual processor of the virtual machine and after loading the second encryption key identifier, entering the context of the virtual machine.
US10069624B2
A satellite system comprises first and second devices, one of the first and second devices being a satellite and the other one of the first and second devices being a device arranged to send signals to the satellite. A session key can be distributed in the satellite system by obtaining the session key at the first device, protecting the session key at the first device, based on a private key of the first device and a public key of the second device, and transmitting the protected session key from the first device to the second device. Replay detection information can be transmitted with the protected session key, for determining whether the session key has been transmitted previously.
US10069620B2
A system side interface of a PHY chip used in conjunction with a 100GBASE backplane, sends and receives data using an NRZ signal format, but at a data rate of between about 26.5 Gbps/per lane to 27.2 Gbps/per lane, which is consistent with the PAM 4 signaling protocol. Thus, chip-to-chip communications between a PHY chip and a switch or controller chip can use an “overclocked” NRZ signaling format, reducing the amount of logic needed, which in turn can reduce signal latency, and reduce the chip area and power consumption required to implement the logic.
US10069600B2
There is provided a transmitting/receiving method performed by a user equipment (UE) including a dedicated radio frequency (RF) chain for a proximity service (ProSe). The method may comprise: receiving configuration information for a discovery resource pool, the discovery resource pool including a bitmap representing a subframe used for a discovery signal and information representing the number of times when the bitmap is repeated; turning on the dedicated RF chain based on a subframe corresponding to a first bit 1 in a bit string enumerated by the bitmap and the number of repetition times; turning on the dedicated RF chain and thereafter, transmitting/receiving a signal to/from an adjacent UE; and turning off the dedicated RF chain based on a subframe corresponding to a last bit 1 in the bit string.
US10069594B2
An apparatus for processing a signal depending on a received radio frequency signal is provided. The apparatus includes a first semiconductor circuit including a first part of a radio frequency receiver and a second semiconductor circuit including a second part of the radio frequency receiver. The apparatus further includes a digital interface configured to transmit data related to the signal depending on the received radio frequency signal from the first semiconductor circuit to the second semiconductor circuit. The first semiconductor circuit includes a first data converter configured to convert a data value of the signal depending on the received radio frequency signal from a first data format to a second data format and provide data representing the data value in the second data format to the digital interface. The second semiconductor circuit includes a second data converter configured to convert the data representing the data value in the second data format to the first data format.
US10069592B1
Systems and methods of friendly jamming for securing wireless communications at the physical layer are presented. Under the assumption of exact knowledge of the eavesdropping channel, a resource-efficient distributed approach is used to improve the secrecy sum-rate of a multi-link network with one or more eavesdroppers while satisfying an information-rate constraint for all links. A method based on mixed strategic games can offer robust solutions to the distributed secrecy sum-rate maximization. In addition, a block fading broadcast channel with a multi-antenna transmitter, sending two or more independent confidential data streams to two or more respective users in the presence of a passive eavesdropper is considered. Lastly, a per-link strategy is considered and an optimization problem is formulated, which aims at jointly optimizing the power allocation and placement of the friendly jamming devices for a given link under secrecy constraints.
US10069589B2
A hybrid wavelength division multiplexing system wherein one or more intensity modulated signals generated by optical amplitude modulators are co-propagated with one or more phase modulated signals generated by optical phase modulators, wherein a drive voltage of said optical amplitude modulator is adapted to reduce an extinction ratio of the intensity modulated signal to minimize a cross-phase modulation impact on the co-propagating phase modulated signals.
US10069586B2
The described implementations relate a Passive Optical Network (PON). In one implementation, the PON includes an Optical Network Unit (ONU) that has at least one transmitter subsystem component and an associated optical transmitter. The at least one transmitter subsystem component may be configured to be in an enabled state during a timeslot period assigned to the ONU for transmitting an upstream data burst and a disabled state after the timeslot ends.
US10069582B2
A memory of a parameter setting apparatus stores therein a current value of a signal processing parameter and an auxiliary value for temporarily adjusting the current value. Once an instruction for changing the current value of the parameter is given by an operation, by a user, of a manual operator when an edit mode is ON, a CPU of the parameter setting apparatus not only changes the current value but also changes the auxiliary value in response to the current value change instruction. When the edit mode is OFF, on the other hand, the CPU changes only the current value in response to the current value change instruction without changing the auxiliary value.
US10069581B2
The disclosure relates to a method for controlling an uplink noise figure and gain in a distributed antenna system network comprising at least one intermediate radio unit and one or more remote radio heads connected via a respective link to the at least one intermediate radio unit. The method comprises: establishing a target noise figure, an adjusting, for each link between the one or more remote radio heads and the intermediate radio unit, attenuation such as to obtain the target noise figure for each remote radio head connected to the at least one intermediate radio unit. The disclosure also relates to corresponding distributed antenna system network, devices, computer programs, and computer program products.
US10069580B2
Wireless radio device alignment tools and methods. Described herein are methods for point-to-point alignment of wireless radio devices and alignment tools to assist in aligning wireless radio devices. These alignment tools may automatically or manually receive location information and may use a local compass function to determine a rough or initial alignment and additional tools to provide further (fine) alignment based on calculated and actual signal strength between the two devices being aligned.
US10069576B2
An interference suppression system comprises an antenna, a control module, a receiving and sending module, a radio frequency (RF) sending channel, a power amplifier (PA), a RF receiving channel, a first filter module, and a power detecting module. The control module adjusts the first filter module frequency band to achieve filter feedback to the PA input end. The interference suppression system applies multiple feedbacks to enhance suppression capability, and reduces interference from RF sending channel to RF receiving channel because of PCB signal leakage and mutual interference between this system and adjacent systems.
US10069569B1
The present disclosure discloses a connectivity identification system for identifying connectivity in a OFC network (100) in a central office. The connectivity identification system comprises a transducer device (101) and an ultrasound communicator (107). When the transducer device (101) is connected to a first node (102), the ultrasound communicator (107) is configured to transmit an ultrasound signal modulated with a unique identifier, through an outer jacket of a Fiber Optic (FO) patch cord, connected between a transmitting port (105) of the first node (102) and a receiving port (106) of a second node (103). When the transducer device (101) is connected to the second node, the ultrasound communicator (107) is configured to receive the ultrasound signal from the transceiver unit (301), demodulate the ultrasound signal to retrieve the unique identifier and identify the receiving port (106) based on the demodulated unique identifier.
US10069559B2
Various embodiments of systems, apparatus, and methods are described for assembling at least one transport stream from satellite transponder signals. In one example, the method includes capturing at least one satellite feed, the at least one satellite feed including a plurality of transponder signals; demodulating each of the plurality of transponder signals, each demodulated transponder signal corresponding to a transport stream including a plurality of input streams; parsing one or more selected streams from the plurality of input streams; assembling at least one new transport stream from the one or more selected streams; modulating the at least one new transport stream to generate at least one new transponder signal; adding the at least one new transponder signal to a channel stack; and transmitting the channel stack to a receiving device.
US10069554B2
The present invention relates to a method by which a base station transmits a reference signal in a wireless communication system supporting a full-dimension antenna, and a device for the same. Particularly, the method comprises the steps of: transmitting, to a terminal, a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration indicating the number of antenna ports for transmitting a full-dimension antenna association reference signal; transmitting, to the terminal, a CSI-RS for at least one first antenna port among whole antenna ports for the full-dimension antenna; and receiving, from the terminal, channel information on all of the antenna ports on the basis of the at least one first antenna port.
US10069549B2
A wireless communication system includes a base station capable of communicating with a plurality of subscriber stations. The base station can transmit control information and data to a subscriber stations. The base station also can identify a set of RS patterns to be used to communicate with the subscriber station, assign a subset of antenna port numbers within the set of RS patterns to the subscriber stations. The base station can indicate the assigned states in a Downlink Control Information (DCI) format transmitted in a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH). The base station transmits the data using a subset of antenna ports corresponding to the subset of antenna port numbers. The base station also can map reference signals corresponding to the subset of antenna ports according to at least one RS pattern within the set of RS patterns.
US10069547B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a beamforming based communications method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining, by a transmit end, a transmit-end precoding matrix TrBB, a transmit-end intermediate-frequency beamforming matrix TrIF, and a transmit-end radio-frequency-end beamforming matrix TrRF according to feedback information that is from a receive end; acquiring a first data stream, and performing precoding processing on the first data stream according to TrBB, to generate a first analog signal; performing weighting and power amplification processing on the first analog signal according to TrIF, to generate a second analog signal; performing weighting and power amplification processing on the second analog signal according to TrRF, to generate a third analog signal; and determining an antenna array matching the third analog signal, and transmitting the third analog signal to the receive end by using the antenna array matching the third analog signal.
US10069546B2
Systems and methods for uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) communications can improve channel capacity between one or more access nodes and one or more terminal nodes. The communications may utilize, for example, multi-user multiple-input multiple-output techniques with cooperation between access nodes. A network node may determine an ordering combination and associated pre-weighting values, provide the pre-weighting values to one or more terminal nodes, receive signals transmitted from the terminal nodes using the pre-weighting values; and process the received signals using the ordering combination and the pre-weighting values. Two constraints can be jointly used: a minimum performance constraint and a maximum transmit power constraint. Example systems search all possible ordering combinations to find a best combination, for example, the ordering combination that maximizes communication rates. The ordering combination may be used with combinations of full or partial successive interference cancellation in receivers and full or partial iterative pre-cancellation pre-coding in transmitters.
US10069544B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting a signal from a base station to a first user equipment (UE) in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication system. Information on a movement speed of a second UE is acquired from the second UE. Channel information is determined based on the information on the movement speed. The channel information is previously measured by the first UE. A transmission and reception scheme is determined based on the determined channel information. At least one of the determined channel information or the determined transmission and reception scheme is transmitted to the second UE.
US10069543B2
A Multiple Input Multiple Output, MIMO, baseband apparatus with a baseband signal interface adapted to transmit or receive baseband signals comprising data mapped by a mapping unit of said baseband apparatus to a number, N, of MIMO layers which are coupled by a MIMO layer coupling unit of said baseband apparatus to different remote radio heads connected to said baseband apparatus.
US10069534B2
In one example embodiment, a system including a plurality of ports, a plurality of vectoring processors, each of the plurality of vectoring processors having a coefficient memory storing vectoring coefficients corresponding to different victim line and disturber line combinations of a plurality of communication paths connected to the plurality of ports, at least one victim line associated with two of the plurality of vectoring processors and a controller, the controller being configured to assign the victim line and disturber line combinations to the memories based on loads associated with the vectoring coefficients.
US10069532B2
Communication in a first spectrum and via a first transmission line of first data is according to a time-division duplexing scheme such as G.fast. Communication in a second spectrum and via a second transmission line of second data is according to a frequency-division duplexing scheme such as VDSL2. The first and second spectra both comprise an overlap spectrum. The first transmission line experiences first crosstalk from the second transmission line and the second transmission line experiences second crosstalk from the first transmission line.
US10069530B2
A transmit-and-receive module includes a duplexer, a power amplifier, and a low-noise amplifier. The duplexer includes a transmit filter and a receive filter. The power amplifier and the low-noise amplifier are integrated with each other. In a Smith chart, impedance in a receive band of the receive filter seen from a receive terminal intersects a line connecting a center point of noise figure circles and a center point of gain circles. The center point of the noise figure circles represents the impedance at which the noise figure of the low-noise amplifier is minimized. The center point of the gain circles represents the impedance at which the gain of the low-noise amplifier is maximized.
US10069522B2
The present invention teaches a system and method for improved signal recovery for range and coverage extension in a heterogeneous cooperative network of digital chaos transmissions with OFDM component signal transmission. The invention improves upon the state of art in side channel information from the transmit side containing information on the clipped amplitude. In-band transmission of the side information is achieved by exploiting the sparsity of the resulting clip amplitude position with improved levels of compression over the prior art using Gabor Transform Multiple Symbol Encoding transmitter. The information rate of the clipped amplitude is sub-Nyquist relative to the original OFDM component signal transmission, which allows very low power spreading by a cooperative digital chaos sequences at a transmit side and recovery of the clipped amplitude at a receive side. Further, an improved noise resistance side channel performance is achieved by decoding Gabor Transform symbols for symbol recovery.
US10069514B2
Methods and systems are provided for low-power decoding. An example system may include one or more storage circuits and a decoder circuit. The decoder circuit may implement a plurality of nodes for use during decoding, including at least one data generating node and at least one data checking node, and the storage circuits may store status information associated with the nodes, the status information indicating when each corresponding node is locked or unlocked. During decoding operations, the decoder circuit may set the status information to lock one or more of the nodes based on one or more locking conditions, and may cease decoding based on one or more ceasing conditions. The decoder circuit may locks a data generating node when a corresponding calculated value meets a particular condition, and may lock a data checking node when all data generating nodes associated with it are locked.
US10069513B2
Provided is a high-speed serial data receiving apparatus including: a clock converter configured to convert a serial clock into a parallel clock; a data converter configured to convert a serial data packet into N parallel data packets and outputting the N parallel data packets; a synchronization signal detector configured to receive the N parallel data packets and the parallel clock, and detecting a data start synchronization of the N parallel data packets output from the data converter by comparing the parallel data packets with a synchronization code of N bits set in advance; and an error compensation unit configured to detect and compensate for a skew between parallel clock and data.
US10069510B2
An apparatus and a method. The apparatus includes a plurality of polarization processors, including n inputs and n outputs, where n is an integer; and at least one permutation processor, including n inputs and n outputs, wherein each of the at least one permutation processor is connected between two of the plurality of polarization processors, and connects the n outputs of a first of the two of the plurality of polarizations processors to the n inputs of a second of the two of the plurality of polarization processors between which each of the at least one permutation processor is connected in a permutation pattern that maximally polarizes the n outputs of the second of the two of the plurality of polarization processors.
US10069508B1
Multiplexing circuitry and method for driving multiplexing circuits are provided. A circuit includes a multiplexer circuit having symmetrical data input paths driven by a half-rate clock signal and a first stage multiplexing circuit configured to provide input signals to the multiplexer circuit. The first stage multiplexing circuit is driven by quadrature clocks to generate time-shifted data.
US10069505B1
A circuit for digital-to-analog conversion includes a first digital-to-analog converter (DAC), a second DAC, and an output node. The first DAC provides charges from multiple first charge sources segmented into a first group for most significant bits of a digital input to the first DAC and a second group for least significant bits of the digital input. Dither is both added to the digital input to the first DAC and used as sole digital input to the second DAC. Analog output from the second DAC is subtracted from analog output of the first DAC at the output node so as to cancel the dither added to the first DAC.
US10069504B2
An atomic oscillator includes an atomic cell in which alkali metal atoms are encapsulated, a light source section configured to receive the supply of a bias and emit light including a resonance light pair for causing the alkali metal atoms to resonate, a temperature adjusting element configured to adjust the temperature of the light source section, a bias detecting section configured to detect information concerning the bias, and a light-source-temperature control section configured to control the temperature adjusting element using the information detected by the bias detecting section.
US10069503B2
To speed up output clock alignment in a digital phase locked loop wherein a controlled oscillator generates synthesizer pulses that are divided to produce output pulses at a predetermined normal spacing and time location, and wherein during an alignment procedure the output pulses are moved in time in response to a delay value obtained by comparing a phase of the output pulses with a phase applied to the controlled oscillator averaged over a number of synthesizer pulses in a feedback circuit to align said output pulses with a reference clock taking into account hardware delay, a group of the output pulses is advanced during the alignment procedure to reduce the spacing between them. After determining the delay value averaged over the group of output pulses subsequent output pulses are restored to their normal spacing and time locations.
US10069497B2
A circuit for implementing a scan chain in programmable resources of an integrated circuit is described. The circuit comprises a programmable element configured to receive an input signal and generate an output signal based upon the input signal; a selection circuit configured to receive the output signal generated by the programmable element at a first input and to receive a scan chain input signal at a second input, wherein the selection circuit generates a selected output signal in response to a selection circuit control signal; and a register configured to receive the selected output signal of the selection circuit.
US10069493B2
A circuit includes an electronic switch with an isolated gate, a measuring device for determining a charge at the isolated gate, and an energy supply for providing charge to the isolated gate based on the charge determined by the measuring device.
US10069492B2
A radio-frequency switch includes a series field-effect transistor, a shunt field-effect transistor having a gate node, and shunt arm control circuitry configured to receive an internal regulator voltage and provide the internal regulator voltage to the gate node of the shunt field-effect transistor when the radio-frequency switch is in a stand-by mode of operation.
US10069489B2
The disclosure discloses a multiplexer based frequency extender comprising a preamplifier to receive a RF input signal and output a pre-amplified RF signal, at least one frequency multiplier or at least one frequency divider, and a multiplexer. The multiplexer comprises multiple differential pairs, each differential pair comprises a corresponding bias current control circuit that switches ON or OFF a bias current flowing through a corresponding differential pair. The at least one frequency multiplier or the at least one frequency divider receives the pre-amplified RF signal and outputs a frequency-multiplied RF signal or a frequency-divided signal. The multiplexer couples to receive the pre-amplified RF signal, the frequency-multiplied RF signal and/or the frequency-divided signal, the multiplexer selects a signal from the received signals and outputs based on the selected signal a multiplexer output signal.
US10069488B2
A digitally controlled ramp generator has a constant current source, a first controllable switch coupled between the constant current source and an output node, a capacitor coupled with the output node, a second controllable switch coupled with the output node, a constant current sink coupled with the second controllable switch, and a control unit. The control unit is configured in a first operating mode to select control signals for the first and second controllable switch to generate a rising waveform by charging said capacitor through the first controllable switch and a falling waveform by discharging the capacitor through the second controllable switch wherein the control signals can be selected from the group of a time based control signal and a voltage based control signal. A variety of other control modes may be provided.
US10069483B1
A system may comprise a high-pass filter having an input for receiving an input signal, an output for generating an output signal, a capacitor coupled between the input and the output, a switched-capacitor resistor coupled between the output and a reference voltage, and control circuitry configured to control the reference voltage to cancel current leakage into a circuit coupled to the output. The input, the output, the capacitor, and the switched-capacitor resistor may be arranged to generate the output signal as a high-pass filtered version of the input signal and the high-pass filter may be configured to operate in a plurality of modes comprising at least a high-impedance mode and a low-impedance mode in which the resistance of the switched-capacitor resistor is significantly smaller than the resistance when in the high-impedance mode.
US10069479B1
A tunable filter is described where the frequency response as well as bandwidth and transmission loss characteristics can be dynamically altered, providing improved performance for transceiver front-end tuning applications. The rate of roll-off of the frequency response can be adjusted to improve performance when used in duplexer applications. The tunable filter topology is applicable for both transmit and receive circuits. A method is described where the filter characteristics are adjusted to account for and compensate for the frequency response of the antenna used in a communication system.
US10069469B2
A circuit includes a first transistor comprising a gate, a source, and a drain, and an inductor coupled between the gate and the source of the first transistor, wherein the source is further coupled to a current source and the gate is further coupled to an amplifier.
US10069446B2
A brushless servo includes: a DC brushless motor having an output shaft; a reduction gearbox including a speed reduction mechanism; and a control circuit board including a number of layers of PCBs that are spaced apart from each other, and two adjacent PCBs are electrically connected to each other via a flexible circuit boards. The output shaft of the DC brushless motor is connected to the speed reduction mechanism in the reduction gearbox, and the brushless DC motor and the control circuit board are arranged side by side at one side of the reduction gearbox.
US10069445B2
A motor controller to control a motor includes a position controller, a speed controller, a first integrator, and a second integrator. The position controller is configured to generate a speed command based on a position error between a position command and a motor position. The speed controller is configured to generate a torque command to be input to the motor based on a speed error between the speed command and a motor speed. The first integrator is configured to calculate an integral value of the position error to be added to the position error. The second integrator is configured to calculate an integral value of the speed error to be added to the speed error.
US10069437B2
Disclosed is a phase shift transformer for supplying voltage to a plurality of unit power cells in a medium voltage inverter system. The phase shift transformer according to the present invention comprises a first bushing arranged by the side of a tank and connected to a first winding to apply high voltage and a plurality of second bushings arranged on the top of a cover and connected to each of a plurality of second windings to output low voltage, wherein three outputs of the plurality of second bushings can be applied to unit power cells.
US10069431B2
The invention generally relates to power converters, and more particularly to a communications method for controlling at least one power switching device of a power converter, a communications system for a power converter, and a power converter comprising the communications system. For example there is provided a communications method for controlling at least one power switching device of a power converter, the method comprising: inputting a signal to a transmit end of a communications link; inputting data to the transmit end of the communications link; determining whether the signal comprises a transition; when said determination indicates that the signal comprises a transition, transmitting the signal comprising the transition into a communications channel of the communications link, wherein the transmitted signal is delayed by a predetermined time delay relative to the inputted signal, said predetermined time delay to allow said determining; transmitting the data on the communications channel, wherein when said determination indicates that the signal comprises a transition the transmitting the data is delayed until after said transmitting the signal; and if the signal has been transmitted, receiving the transmitted signal at the receive end of the communications link and controlling at least one said power switching device dependent on said received signal.
US10069427B2
A switching power supply apparatus includes a switching circuit, a resonance circuit, a rectifying circuit, and a control circuit. The switching circuit includes switching elements connected in series between input terminals of a source. The resonance circuit includes an excitation inductor of a primary winding of a transformer, a resonance inductor connected in series with the excitation inductor, and a variable resonance capacitor which is connected in series with the excitation inductor and whose electrostatic capacity changes according to a control voltage. The control circuit generates, on the basis of a feedback voltage, switching signals in which frequency diffusion is given to a switching frequency and the control voltage and outputs the switching signals and the control voltage to simultaneously change the switching frequency and the electrostatic capacity of the variable resonance capacitor.
US10069420B2
Example embodiments of the systems and methods of non-invasive continuous adaptive tuning of digitally controlled switched mode power supply based on measured dynamic response disclosed herein rely on time domain measurements for the tuning rather than on frequency response to automatically tune the system for stability and good dynamic performance. In particular, an algorithm directly measures overshoot and settling time to transients. Using this information, the algorithm minimizes both overshoot/undershoot and settling time by adjusting the parameters of a digital compensator. Since time domain measurements are directly used, the implementation does not require an additional perturbation in the system that otherwise would be necessary.
US10069419B2
Disclosed embodiments of a power converter include a power output stage for generating a first voltage output and an auxiliary power output stage for generating a second voltage output. The power converter further includes a pulse frequency modulation (PFM) controller for controlling the power output stage in response to the first voltage output generated by the power output stage during a first period of time in which the power output stage operates in a PFM mode, and a pulse width modulation (PWM) controller for controlling the auxiliary power output stage in response to the second voltage output generated by the auxiliary power output stage during a second period of time. At least a portion of the first period of time is concurrent with the second period of time.
US10069415B2
A trench MOSFET is disclosed that includes a semiconductor substrate having a vertically oriented trench containing a gate. The trench MOSFET further includes a source, a drain, and a conductive element. The conductive element, like the gate is contained in the trench, and extends between the gate and a bottom of the trench. The conductive element is electrically isolated from the source, the gate, and the drain. When employed in a device such as a DC-DC converter, the trench MOSFET may reduce power losses and electrical and electromagnetic noise.
US10069414B2
A voltage regulator includes a power stage configured to produce an output voltage from an input voltage at an input voltage terminal, a shunt resistor connected in series between the input voltage terminal and the power stage, a first level shifting resistor connected in series between a first terminal of the shunt resistor and a first sense pin of the controller, and a second level shifting resistor connected in series between a second terminal of the shunt resistor and a second sense pin of the controller. The input current of the regulator is sensed as a function of the voltage across the shunt resistor, as shifted down by the level shifting resistors and measured across the sense pins. The input voltage of the regulator is sensed as a function of the current flowing through either one of the level shifting resistors, as measured at one of the sense pins.
US10069412B2
A voltage converter includes a converting circuit and a switching control circuit, where the converting circuit includes an inductor connected to a switching node, a first switching device connected between the switching node and a common voltage and a second switching device connected to the switching node, where the first switching device charges the inductor and discharges the inductor in response to a control signal, and the switching control circuit generates the control signal by performing a PWM and a PFM based on a first sensing signal, a second sensing signal and a feedback signal, and adjusts a charging time of the inductor on a time basis, based on at least the input power supply voltage when the switching control circuit performs the PFM.
US10069411B2
One aspect relates to a method for operating a charge pump including comparing a drain voltage of a current sink transistor of the charge pump with a drain voltage of a current reference transistor, adjusting a gate bias voltage of the current sink transistor and the current reference transistor using a first error amplifier in a direction that reduces a difference between the drain voltage of the current sink transistor and the drain voltage of the current reference transistor, comparing a common-mode voltage of a loop filter with a reference voltage, and adjusting a gate bias voltage of a current source transistor of the charge pump using a second error amplifier in a direction that reduces a difference between the common-mode voltage of the loop filter and the reference voltage, wherein the first error amplifier includes a larger number of amplifying stages than the second error amplifier.
US10069410B1
An integrated circuit has at least two power domains. A first power domain has circuitry coupled between a first power supply terminal and a second power supply terminal. A second power domain has circuitry coupled between a third power supply terminal and a fourth power supply terminal. A complementary voltage regulator includes N-type and P-type voltage regulators. The N-type voltage regulator is coupled between the first and third power supply terminals and controls a first voltage level at the second power supply terminal. The P-type voltage regulator is coupled between the third and fourth power supply terminals and controls a second voltage level at the third power supply terminal. The N-type voltage regulator produces a mid-level supply voltage to the P-type regulator and a “ground” for the circuits in the first power domain. The P-type regulator circuit produces a “ground” for the N-type regulator and a mid-level supply voltage for the circuits in the second power-domain. Thus, a current consumed by the first power-domain is reused in the second power domain, thus enhancing power efficiency.
US10069402B2
The power supply apparatus includes a control unit configured to determine a stand-by time period from making a connection of a switch unit to subjecting a second voltage conversion unit to activation according to an input voltage of the alternating current power supply detected by a voltage detection unit.
US10069401B2
A protection circuit applied to a convertor including M pieces of driving switch modules each coupled to a power source, a load and one of M sets of driving signals. The ith driving switch module is controlled by the ith set of driving signals to selectively enable current paths between the power source and the load. A first sub protection circuit in the protection circuit includes a first protection switch module and a first detection module coupled to the first protection switch module. When the ith set of driving signals indicates an error event, the first protection switch module selectively couples the ith set of driving signals to a reference voltage according to a first detection signal. M and i are positive integers, and i is not larger than M.
US10069399B1
In some examples, a device includes a power switch, a sensing switch configured to conduct an electrical current based on an electrical current conducted by the power switch. In some examples, the device also includes trimming circuitry configured to generate a monitored electrical current based on an aspect ratio of the trimming circuitry and based on the electrical current conducted by the sensing switch, wherein the aspect ratio of the trimming circuitry is adjustable.
US10069396B2
A power system has a first control apparatus configured to generating a first command signal and a second command signal, to control the first converter on the basis of the first command signal, and to transmit the second command signal to a second control apparatus and the second control apparatus configured to control the second converter on the basis of the received second command signal. When it is requested that a state of each of the first and second converters is changed from a first state to a second state, the first control apparatus generates the first and second command signals so that the state of the second converter is changed to a third state in which both of the upper arm and the lower arm keep being in the OFF state, then the state of the first converter is changed from the first state to the second state, and then the state of the second converter is changed from the third state to the second state.
US10069395B2
A vibration motor, includes a fixed part having a housing with an accommodation space, and a coil fixed in the housing, the housing having an elongated direction; a vibration part comprising an elastic connector for suspending the vibration part in the accommodation space, a magnet assembly including a magnet and a weight for accommodating the magnet, the magnet having a magnetized surface. An extending direction of the magnetized surface is parallel to the elongated direction of the housing, and a vibration direction of the magnet assembly is vertical to the elongated direction of the housing.
US10069385B2
We describe a method of manufacturing a housing for the stator of an axial flux permanent magnet machine, in particular a Yokeless and Segmented Armature motor, the machine having a stator comprising a set of coils wound on respective stator bars and disposed circumferentially at intervals about an axis of the machine, and a rotor bearing a set of permanent magnets and mounted for rotation about said axis, and wherein said rotor and stator are spaced apart along said axis to define a gap therebetween in which magnetic flux in the machine is generally in an axial direction. The method comprises: fabricating a radial wall for said stator housing to be located in said gap between said rotor and said stator by: providing a membrane of fibre-reinforced polymer material; pressing a set of said stator bars into said membrane of fibre-reinforced polymer whilst said polymer is mouldable, wherein said reinforcement inhibits said stator bars from pushing through said membrane; solidifying said polymer to hold said set of stator bars in their respective positions; and manufacturing said housing using said radial wall.
US10069383B2
An electronically commuted electric motor with a stator and a rotor is disclosed that has permanent magnets distributed a circumferential direction to determine the magnetic field of the rotor, whereby at least one sensor makes the position or speed of the rotor recordable through direct sampling of the magnetic field of the rotor. The sensor is spaced from the stator in a way that the stator field is recorded by the sensor only to a low extent or not at all, and whereby magnetic flux-guiding elements are disposed on a front side of the rotor, which move along with the rotor and guide at least a part of the magnetic field of the rotor to the sensor. The flux-guiding elements viewed in the circumferential direction of the rotor are positioned respectively between two permanent magnets of the rotor.
US10069379B2
An electric motor system includes a stator and a cover. The stator has windings that are affixed to an end periphery of the stator. The cover is secured to stator and defines a channel and a plenum. The channel extends along the end periphery and is configured to direct cooling fluid about the windings. The plenum extends over at least twenty percent of an outer perimeter of the cover and is configured to direct cooling fluid into the channel.
US10069378B2
A turbine-generator device for use in electricity generation using heat from industrial processes, renewable energy sources and other sources. The generator may be cooled by introducing into the gap between the rotor and stator liquid that is vaporized or atomized prior to introduction, which liquid is condensed from gases exhausted from the turbine. The turbine has a universal design and so may be relatively easily modified for use in connection with generators having a rated power output in the range of 50 KW to 5 MW. Such modifications are achieved, in part, through use of a modular turbine cartridge built up of discrete rotor and stator plates sized for the desired application with turbine brush seals chosen to accommodate radial rotor movements from the supported generator. The cartridge may be installed and removed from the turbine relatively easily for maintenance or rebuilding. The rotor housing is designed to be relatively easily machined to dimensions that meet desired operating parameters.
US10069377B2
A flywheel assembly is provided which comprises a housing, a flywheel rotatably mounted in the housing and defining an inner and an outer circumferential surface, and an inner body spaced radially and inwardly from the inner circumferential surface of the flywheel. The flywheel rotates in use around and relative to the inner body, the assembly defines an engagement surface spaced radially and outwardly from the outer circumferential surface of the flywheel, and the inner body is flexibly coupled to the housing. If the flywheel mounting fails during rotation at speed leading to displacement of the flywheel, flexure of the coupling as a result of forces exerted on the inner body by the displaced flywheel allows the flywheel to contact the engagement surface.
US10069375B2
Embodiments of the invention provide an electric machine module. The module can include a housing that can define a machine cavity. The housing can include a sleeve member that can include a first axial sleeve member comprising a first flange, a second flange, and first recess at least partially defined between the first flange and the second flange. The sleeve member can also include a second axial sleeve member comprising a third flange, a fourth flange, and a second recess at least partially defined between the first flange and the second flange. The first axial sleeve member can be coupled to the second axial sleeve member to form the sleeve member and so that the first recess and the second recess form a coolant jacket. An electric machine can be positioned within the machine cavity so that it is substantially circumscribed by a portion of the coolant jacket.
US10069368B2
An outer rotor motor includes a stator, an end cap for use with the stator, and a stator mount operable to facilitate mounting of the stator to a machine. The end cap includes wire-routing structure facilitating routing of the stator wiring. The structure includes a wire-routing trough that defines a wiring pathway though which the wiring is routed. The trough is positioned at least in part radially inside the core and includes a bottom located between the core margins. The trough further includes a side that is spaced radially inward from the core and projects at least in part axially relative to the bottom. The stator mount is radially located within the wiring pathway.
US10069360B2
An electric rotary machine includes a stator, which Is fixed to a housing, composed of a stator core having a coil end protruding at an end face of the stator core, a rotor core formed by laminating core sheets, and a rotor having a pair of rotor side-plates sandwiching both end faces of the rotor core. The rotor core is rotatably supported in the housing facing an inner peripheral surface of the stator with a gap between the rotor core and the stator. Either one or both of the rotor side-plates has a concave surface in an outer surface of the side-plate that does not abut the rotor core. An axial distance from the end face of the rotor core to the concave surface increases from an inner diameter side to an outer diameter side.
US10069357B2
The present invention relates to a spoke-type permanent magnet rotor (1) used in brushless direct current electric motors (16), forming the rotating part inside a stator (17) that forms the stationary part thereof and having an air gap (18) between the inner surface of the stator (17) and itself, comprising a cylindrical core (2) produced from ferro-magnetic laminations or ferromagnetic powder metal, a shaft (3) fixed to the core (2) and forming the rotational axis of the rotor (1), a hub (5) disposed at the center of the core (2) and having a shaft hole (4) that bears the shaft (3), more than one pole segment (6) disposed all around the hub (5), more than one magnet slot (7) arranged between the pole segments (6), more than one magnet (8) tangentially magnetized, placed in the magnet slots (7) and extending outwards in the radial direction, and two end rings (9) produced from non-magnetic materials such as aluminum and plastic and fixed on the front and rear planar surfaces of the core (2) by the injection molding method.
US10069352B2
A stator seat of a motor includes a pillow, a connector, a waterproof element and cables. A sleeve is extended from the pillow. A cap covers the pillow and sleeve. A control chamber is formed and enclosed by the cap and pillow. The pillow has a through hole communicated with the control chamber. The connector corresponsive to the through hole is installed in the control chamber and includes a first connecting structure. The waterproof element covers the through hole and includes an annular groove and an O-ring clamped between the waterproof element and pillow, and a second connecting structure. The first and second connecting structures are passed through the through hole. An insertion hole is penetrated through the waterproof element. Each of the cables has an end connected to the connector and the other end passed out from the pillow through the insertion hole and through hole.
US10069350B2
An inductive power transfer system comprises a primary unit operable to generate an electromagnetic field and at least one secondary device, separable from the primary unit, and adapted to couple with the field when the secondary device is in proximity to the primary unit so that power can be received inductively by the secondary device from the primary unit without direct electrical conductive contacts therebetween. The system detects if there is a substantial difference between, on the one hand, a power drawn from the primary unit and, on the other hand, a power required by the secondary device or, if there is more than one secondary device, a combined power required by the secondary devices. Following such detection, the system restricts or stops the inductive power supply from the primary unit. Such a system can detect the presence of unwanted parasitic loads in the vicinity of the primary unit reliably.
US10069348B2
A control method for transmitting charging power to a wireless power receiver in a wireless power transmitter is provided. The control method includes receiving a Power Transmission Unit (PTU) searching signal for searching for a wireless power transmitter, from the wireless power receiver; obtaining information about an identifier of a signal in a communication scheme used by the wireless power receiver; and exchanging signals with the wireless power receiver based on the information about the identifier of the signal in the communication scheme used by the wireless power receiver.
US10069347B2
Provided are a power transmitting device, a power receiving device, a power supply system, and a power supply method able to supply electric power by emitting electromagnetic waves. A power transmitting device comprises: a calculating unit for calculating the maximum value for the emitted output of electromagnetic waves meeting exposure standards on the basis of a response delay time measured by the communication link between the power transmitting device and a power receiving device; a power transmitting unit for transmitting power via a power supply link with the power receiving device at an output not exceeding the maximum value; an anomaly detecting unit for detecting an anomaly in the power supply link on the basis of communication with the power receiving device via the communication link; and an output control unit for controlling the output on the basis of the detection of an anomaly in the power supply link.
US10069346B2
A wireless power receiver according to an embodiment wirelessly receives power from a wireless power transmitter. The wireless power receiver includes a printed circuit board; a receiving coil disposed on the printed circuit board, the receiving coil configured to receive power from the wireless power transmitter in a charging mode; a short-range communication antenna disposed on the printed circuit board surrounding the receiving coil, the short-range communication antenna configured to transmit and receive information in a communication mode; a shielding unit disposed on the receiving coil and the short-range communication antenna; and a controller configured to change an operating mode of the wireless power receiver into the charging mode or the communication mode.
US10069345B2
Disclosed are a method of managing power using a wireless charging system, and an apparatus and system therefor. The wireless power management method in a wireless power transmitter for supplying power to at least one user device including a wireless power receiver installed therein includes receiving first to nth state information items corresponding to the at least one user device, respectively, calculating first statistical information based on the first to nth state information items, and transmitting the first statistical information to a server connected via a network. Accordingly, an effective wireless power management method in a wireless charging system is provided.
US10069344B2
The embodiments of disclosure disclose a method and device for transmitting and receiving wireless power. The method includes: switching a state of a resonance element used for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic waves to an electromagnetic wave transmission state; boosting a first direct current output by a mobile device to a second direct current having a predetermined voltage; inverting the second direct current to an alternating current; converting the alternating current into an electromagnetic wave and transmitting the electromagnetic wave, wherein the electromagnetic wave is used for charging a to-be-charged device. The embodiments of the disclosure provide a solution for wirelessly charging peripherals through a terminal and thus solves a problem that there is no solution provided to wirelessly charge peripherals through the terminal in the related art.
US10069341B2
An inductively powered sensor system includes a primary conductive path 100 capable of being energised to provide an electromagnetic field in a defined space 1. An inductive power pick-up 120 is associated with a sensor 124 and is capable of receiving power from the field to supply the sensor 124. The system includes a first sensing means to sense the power available to the pick-up 120 and control means to increase or decrease the power available to the sensor dependant on the sensed power available. A method of inductively powering a sensor, an inductively powered sensor and an animal enclosure including one or more primary conductive path of an inductive power supply are also disclosed.
US10069335B2
A power transfer system that transfers electric power from a power transmission device to a power reception device through electrical coupling. The power transmission device and the power reception device structurally designed such that the power transfer system is able to stabilize reference potentials of the power transmission device and the power reception device when the power reception device is placed on the power transmission device.
US10069328B2
A method is provided that includes identifying, by a power transferring unit, a power receiving unit in a proximity of the power transferring unit. The method further includes determining whether the power receiving unit is in a near field range or in a far range of the power transferring unit, receiving a power status from the power receiving unit and generating, in the power transferring unit and based on the power status information, a directed energy signal from a power transferring unit to the power receiving unit when the power receiving unit is within a far range of the power transmitting unit. The method includes generating, in the power transferring unit and based on the power status, an inductively coupled field that is resonant with the power receiving unit, when the power receiving unit is within at least a near field range of the power transferring unit.
US10069326B2
A golf system with a wireless charging function includes a golf bag, an in-bag wireless rechargeable battery apparatus, an in-bag charging apparatus and an out-of-bag wireless charging apparatus. The in-bag charging apparatus includes an in-bag charging control circuit and an in-bag wireless charging module. The out-of-bag wireless charging apparatus converts an original voltage into an out-of-bag wireless charging signal. The out-of-bag wireless charging apparatus utilizes the out-of-bag wireless charging signal to wirelessly charge the in-bag wireless rechargeable battery apparatus. The in-bag wireless rechargeable battery apparatus sends a battery voltage to the in-bag charging control circuit. The in-bag charging control circuit sends the battery voltage to the in-bag wireless charging module. The in-bag wireless charging module converts the battery voltage into an in-bag wireless charging signal.
US10069324B2
Systems and methods to wirelessly transmit power are provided. A power delivery system may include a central controller assembly and a transmit assembly. The central controller assembly can form transmit coils in the transmit assembly. The central controller assembly can also receive information from devices coupled to the transmit assembly and optimize the transmit coils based on the received information and on information about the transmit assembly.
US10069321B2
Electronic device and method for disabling a power-on function and providing a notification for same
A delayed power-on function for an electronic device is disclosed. A charging unit charges a rechargeable battery with a pre-charge current when a voltage of the rechargeable battery is less than a voltage threshold value and with a current larger than the pre-charge current when the voltage of the rechargeable battery is greater than the voltage threshold value. A controller can disable power-on when the voltage of the rechargeable battery is less than the voltage threshold value. A user may also be notified when power-on is disabled.
US10069312B2
A charging discharging apparatus is applied to two super capacitor modules. The charging discharging apparatus includes a control unit, a first switch unit, a second switch unit, a third switch unit, a fourth switch unit, a first charging switch unit, a second charging switch unit and a charging unit. When an input power apparatus sends an input power to the charging discharging apparatus, the charging discharging apparatus enters a charging mode, so that the super capacitor module having the lower voltage is charged until the voltages of the two super capacitor modules are equal, and then the two super capacitor modules are charged simultaneously in parallel. When the input power apparatus stops sending the input power to the charging discharging apparatus, the two super capacitor modules discharge in series.
US10069311B2
A power storage device includes: power storage units each including at least one battery, the power storage units being connected in series; cell balance units connected in parallel to the respective power storage units via switches; and a control unit that performs control to charge the power storage units with a first constant current value, and, when the power storage unit having the highest voltage among the power storage units reaches a first potential, connect the corresponding one of the cell balance units to the power storage unit having the highest voltage, and switch the charging current to a second constant current value that is smaller than the first constant current value.
US10069310B2
A wireless power transmission apparatus which is charged in a short charging time and prevents the shortening of the life of a secondary battery is provided. A wireless power transmission apparatus includes a current-voltage detector configured to measure an input impedance Zin of the wireless power transmission apparatus including the power-supplied device and a control device configured to determine whether a constant current charging period (CC) is finished by utilizing a change in the input impedance Zin measured by the current-voltage detector and terminate the charging of the lithium ion secondary battery when it is determined that the constant current charging period (CC) is finished.
US10069308B2
In one embodiment, a solar cell installation includes several groups of solar cells. Each group of solar cells has a local power point optimizer configured to control power generation of the group. The local power point optimizer may be configured to determine an optimum operating condition for a corresponding group of solar cells. The local power point optimizer may adjust the operating condition of the group to the optimum operating condition by modulating a transistor, such as by pulse width modulation, to electrically connect and disconnect the group from the installation. The local power point optimizer may be used in conjunction with a global maximum power point tracking module.
US10069301B2
Various embodiments include a hybrid energy system that includes a gas-turbine generator configured to provide a up to a full-load power output and an energy storage device configured to store energy, and methods of operating such hybrid energy systems. A hybrid energy system includes a gas turbine generator or combined cycle gas turbine generator system configured to provide up to a full-load power output and a storage device for storing electric energy. The hybrid energy system includes a generator step-up transformer, in which the turbine generator and the storage device are electrically co-located on a low side of the step-up transformer. Methods of operation include controlling power output from the storage device and/or the gas-turbine generator to function as a spinning reserve during scheduled and unscheduled grid power demands to achieve economic and environmental performance advantages, and maintaining a charge state in the storage device.
US10069298B2
An inverter and a control method are disclosed herein. The inverter includes a first switching circuit, a second switching circuit, and a DC-AC converting circuit. The first switching circuit is configured to selectively switch between connecting a first input terminal receiving an AC source and an output terminal of the inverter, and connecting a second input terminal receiving a DC source and the output terminal of the inverter. The second switching circuit is configured such that the first input terminal and the output terminal are connected during the switching process of the first switching circuit. The DC-AC converting circuit is electrically coupled between the second input terminal and the first switching circuit and configured to be operated in a current control mode to convert the DC source to AC power when the first switching circuit is switched to connect the second input terminal and the output terminal.
US10069297B2
An electrostatic protection circuit includes a first power line and a second power line. The electrostatic protection circuit includes a trigger circuit connected between the first and second power lines and outputs a trigger signal in response to a fluctuation of a voltage difference between the first and second power lines. The electrostatic protection circuit further includes a shunt element that is controlled by the trigger signal, and includes a main current pathway connected between the first and second power lines. The electrostatic protection circuit further includes a control circuit that is connected between the first and second power lines and supplies a control signal for increasing the conductivity of the shunt element when the voltage difference between the first power line and the second power line exceeds a predetermined voltage.
US10069296B2
The present disclosure is directed to a surge limiting circuit electrically coupleable between a power source and a downstream component. The surge limiting circuit may include a transistor configured to operate in each of a first mode that allows an electric current to flow through the transistor, a second mode that cuts off an electric current from flowing through the transistor, and a third mode that only partially allows an electric current to flow through the transistor while partially cutting off the electric current. The surge limiting circuit may further include a control circuit coupled to the transistor and configured to control operation of the transistor in response to an electrical voltage at the transistor's output. The control circuit may further be configured to repeatedly cycle between controlling operation of the transistor in the first mode and the second mode such that the transistor operates in the third mode.
US10069295B2
A gaming system includes circuitry and associated methodology for detection of continuity along one or more sensing paths for determination of the presence and proper seating of one or more component boards to each other and a backplane, having an arbitrary number of couplings. The invention controls voltage to one or more components of the gaming system, enabling selective activation of various components, on one or more of the connected boards, based on the proper seating of component boards to each other and a backplane. The invention implements dynamic configuration of sensing paths (defined by signal paths and signal traversal) and subsequent continuity detection through interfacing connector/port pairs, in combination with specifically placed electronic components and local ground connections along the sensing paths, to control powering selective system components based upon a detection of the presence and proper seating of multiple component boards to each other and a backplane.
US10069285B2
A gas-insulated switchgear includes a grounded tank filled with insulation gas, a center conductor which is disposed in the grounded tank and to which a voltage is applied, an insulating support member which insulates and supports the center conductor, and a nonlinear resistive part disposed at least on a vertically lower side inner surface of the grounded tank and formed by an insulation material containing a nonlinear resistive material. If an electric field applied to the nonlinear resistive part is higher than an electric field value in a vicinity of a contact point between the nonlinear resistive part and a metallic foreign substance mixed in the grounded tank during an operation, a resistivity of the nonlinear resistive part at the center conductor side is lower than a resistivity at which a discharge delay time is equal to an electric field relaxation time constant.
US10069279B2
A self mode locking laser and corresponding method is described. The laser comprises a resonator (2) terminated by first (3) and second (4) mirrors and folded by a third mirror (5). The third mirror comprises a reflector (15) surmounted by a multilayer semiconductor gain medium (16) that includes at least one quantum well layer and an optical Kerr lensing layer (20). A perturbator is also included that provides a means to induce a perturbation on an intensity of one or more cavity modes of the resonator. The pertubator is employed to induce a small perturbation on the intensity of the cavity modes of the resonator which is sufficient for the optical Kerr lensing layer to induce mode locking on the output field. The second mirror (4) comprises an intensity saturable mirror that provides a means for reducing the pulse widths of the generated output field e.g. to around 100 fs. A diamond heat spreader (20) is attached to the top of the half VCSEL gain medium (13) for improved cooling as well as representing the Kerr medium. Further folding mirrors (6-8) may be inserted to adjust the degree of astigmatism to be compensated for by the Kerr effect used for mode-locking.
US10069271B2
A modular and scalable high-power fiber laser system is configurable to generate 1 kW or more of laser output, and includes one or more separable pump modules separately disposed from each other, each pump module including a plurality of fiber-coupled component pump sources optically combined by one or more fiber-based pump module pump combiners, each pump module providing one or more pump module fiber outputs, and a gain module separately disposed from the one or more separable pump modules and including one or more gain module pump fiber inputs optically coupled to corresponding ones of the pump module fiber outputs, and including a gain fiber optically coupled to the one or more gain module pump fiber inputs, the gain fiber configured to generate a gain module fiber output power scalable in relation to the number and power of said pump module fiber outputs coupled to the gain fiber.
US10069267B2
A method for installing a conduit in a liquid-tight fitting includes inserting a coated gland nut configured for insertion onto a conduit, wherein the gland nut includes an outer surface and internal threads. A grounding ring is placed onto external threads of a tubular fitting body having a coated intermediate portion, such that an inner surface of the grounding ring is conductively coupled to the external threads of the fitting body. The outer surface of the grounding ring includes a ground wire engaging portion projecting therefrom. The internal threads of the gland nut are loosely coupled to the external threads of the fitting body. The grounding ring is rotated to a desired position relative to the fitting body. The gland nut is tightened to the fitting body, such that the coated outer surface of the gland nut and the coated intermediate portion of the fitting body compressingly engage the grounding ring therebetween.
US10069262B2
A receptacle connector for two types of plug includes an insulative housing defining a front mating port and a rear connecting port along the front-to-back direction, the front mating port defining a plurality of upper passageways and a plurality of lower passageways with a receiving slot therebetween in the vertical direction, the upper passageways being respectively offset from the corresponding lower passageways in a transverse direction. An IMLA (Insert Molded Lead-Frame Assembly) assembled within a space of the rear connecting port and including a plurality of wafers stacked with one another along the transverse direction, each of said wafers including an insulator equipped with a front upper contact disposed in the corresponding upper passageway, a rear upper contact located behind the corresponding upper passageway, a front lower contact disposed in the corresponding lower passageway, and a rear lower contact located behind the corresponding lower passageway.
US10069261B2
A busbar terminal includes a fastening portion, a crimping portion, and a torsion portion. The fastening portion is electrically connected to a terminal base. The crimping portion is electrically connected to a conducting wire. The torsion portion electrically connects the fastening portion and the crimping portion. The torsion portion includes a twisted part between the fastening portion and the crimping portion.
US10069247B1
A connector capable of reducing signal interference between two rows of terminals by grounding pin of a grounding plate includes an insulating base, first terminals, second terminals, and the grounding plate; wherein the first and second terminals are embedded in the insulating base and are adjacent to its top and bottom respectively; and the grounding plate is embedded in the insulating base and lies between the first and second terminals. The connector is characterized in that the soldering portions of the second terminals as well as the first terminals are arranged horizontally and soldered to a circuit board; that the circuit board forms a separation area between the two rows of terminals; and that the grounding plate includes at least one grounding pin soldered to, and adjacent to the center of, the separation area to produce a shielding effect, and thereby prevent signal interference, between the two rows of terminals.
US10069237B2
In the case of a connector comprising two plug parts that can be plugged into one another with front housing parts adapted to one another (100, 200) as well as electrical contact elements (120, 220) adapted to one another, wherein the two front housing parts (100, 200) in the plugged together state overlap on regions facing one another (225), provision is made in particular that the two front housing parts (100, 200) outwardly seal the plug connection resulting from plugging the two plug parts together by means of a sealing lip (125) arranged on the one front housing part (100) as well as by means of an annular groove (230) arranged on the respective other front housing part (200), which is surrounded inwardly by annular rotary sealing surfaces (235, 235′) and surrounded outwardly by an annular rotary collar (225).
US10069227B2
An electrical connector device that connects a light source board and a driver board of an LED light electrically. The electrical connector device includes a connector board. The connector board is related to the conductive pins. The connector board is fixed on the light source board and connected to the light source board electrically through the conductive pins. The electrical connector device also includes two electrical connector pieces. Each electrical connector piece includes a whole set for the connection portion and the resistance portion. One end of the connection portion is fixed on the connection board. The resistance portion of the electrical connector piece closes to each other to become an elastic clipping portion and includes the bent and fastening structure. After bending, the fastening structure touches the other end of the connection portion to be fixed on the connection board. The electrical connector device owns the advantages of simple structure and easy to be assembled automatically.
US10069213B2
In one example, the present disclosure provides a dual-polarized antenna array that includes at least one unit cell. The at least one unit cell includes at least one radiating element of a first polarization state and at least two radiating elements of a second polarization state. The second polarization state is orthogonal to the first polarization state. The at least two radiating elements of the second polarization state are displaced on a first side and a second side of the at least one radiating element of the first polarization state.
US10069210B2
An orthogonal-mode junction coupler and an associated polarization and frequency separator, the junction coupler comprises three opening slots, referred to as coupling slots, which are made in the casing of the coupler and pass through a plane referred to as transverse with respect to the junction coupler. Two of the three coupling slots are aligned along a first axis referred to as transverse with respect to the junction coupler, the section of the two coupling slots being of the same dimensions and of the same orientation. The two coupling slots are configured to be coupled to one of the two orthogonal linear polarizations. The third coupling slot is situated on a second axis referred to as transverse with respect to the junction coupler, the second transverse axis being substantially orthogonal with respect to the first transverse axis.
US10069207B2
Disclosed herein is an antenna for WAVE communication, and more particularly, is an antenna for WAVE communication to which an electromagnetic bandgap is applied to a patch antenna. The antenna includes a dielectric substrate provided with conduction patterns formed on opposite surfaces thereof, first patches disposed on a first surface of the dielectric substrate at positions spaced apart from each other at regular intervals and conducted to each other, second patches disposed on a second surface of the dielectric substrate at positions spaced apart from each other at regular intervals and conducted to each other; a third patch provided in a bottom of the second surface of the dielectric substrate and conducted to the plurality of second patches, and a plurality of electromagnetic bandgap structures positioned on the first surface of the dielectric substrate and conducted to the second patches or the third patch by a through hole.
US10069205B2
A wireless sensor includes environment sensing structure, a radio frequency (RF) front-end, and a processing module. When the wireless sensor is positioned proximal to an object, a portion of the environment sensing structure senses an environmental condition in a remote area of the object that effects a characteristic of the RF front-end. The processing module generates a reference value representative of a known environmental condition in the remote area based on the effect on the characteristic of the RF front-end. The processing module generates a sensed value representative of an unknown environmental condition in the remote area based on the effect on the characteristic of the RF front-end when the environment sensing structure is sensing the unknown environmental condition. The processing module transmits, via the RF front-end, at least one of the reference value, the sensed value, or a difference between the reference value and the sensed value.
US10069202B1
A large bandwidth pcb patch antenna comprises an initial antenna patch comprising a main resonator, a first secondary resonator, a second secondary resonator, resonator, and wherein the first secondary resonator and the second secondary resonator are coupled together. By adding two non-connected patches on either sides of a rectangular patch antenna, a significantly larger antenna bandwidth is achieved and without loss of other characteristics.
US10069199B2
An antenna including an antenna structure disposed on a substrate is provided. The antenna structure includes a first radiation part, a second radiation part, a metal coupling part, a third radiation part and a feeding point. The first radiation part has a first bend, a second bend and an opening end. The first radiation part extends from a grounding point of a grounding plane and the opening end thereof is nearing the grounding plane. The second radiation part extends from a section between the first bend of the first radiation part and the grounding point. The metal coupling part is nearing the first radiation part and the second radiation part. The third radiation part is disposed between the second radiation part and the grounding plane, and extends from the metal coupling part. The feeding point is coupled to where the third radiation part and the metal coupling part connected.
US10069197B2
An ATC antenna device provided on a body of a lead car to receive signals from outside. In the ATC antenna device, a pair of ATC antenna coils is disposed symmetrically with respect to a center line of the body as viewed in a traveling direction of the body, and the paired ATC antenna coils are connected in series and are of opposite phase. An ATC antenna support device is attached to the body to support the paired ATC antenna coils, and is disposed asymmetrically with respect to the center line.
US10069186B2
A method and device and a system are disclosed. The method may include: obtaining, by a measurement device, a first image that is obtained by photographing an antenna at a first position (101); mapping M characteristic points included in the first image into a first three-dimensional spatial coordinate system, to obtain M three-dimensional space points that are in the first three-dimensional spatial coordinate system and that have a mapping relationship with the M characteristic points (102), where a first mapping photographing direction is parallel to a direction of an axis in the first three-dimensional spatial coordinate system, and the first mapping photographing direction is obtained by mapping a photographing direction of photographing the first image into the first three-dimensional spatial coordinate system; and obtaining a downtilt of the antenna according to a first angle and/or obtaining an azimuth of the antenna according to a second angle (103).
US10069180B2
An exemplary electrified vehicle assembly includes a first coolant loop extending from a battery pack to a radiator, and a second coolant loop extending from the battery pack to a thermoelectric device. At least one valve is configured to permit flow through the first coolant loop to cool the battery pack under a first operating condition, and configured to permit flow within the second coolant loop to cool the battery under a second operating condition.
US10069177B2
A method for charging a lithium ion secondary battery including at least a positive electrode, a negative electrode provided with a negative electrode active material layer that includes carbon as a negative electrode active material, an electrolytic solution, and a sheathing material that encloses the positive electrode, the negative electrode and the electrolytic solution; the negative electrode active material layer including carboxymethyl cellulose and the electrolytic solution including an additive that can be decomposed at a predetermined voltage includes: preliminary charging including constant-current charging in which charging is performed at a fixed current value and, following the constant-current charging, constant-voltage charging in which charging is performed at a fixed voltage; degassing in which gas is removed from within the sheathing material after the preliminary charging; and main charging that follows the degassing in which the lithium ion secondary battery is charged. The fixed voltage during the constant-voltage charging is at least 3.3 V per cell.
US10069176B2
A battery heater system for a battery used in cold weather operations and methods for using the battery heater system are described. Embodiments of the battery heater system may incorporate a heater switch with an indicator, a timer circuit, a controller, a voltage meter, a temperature transducer, and a heating element. In some methods of using the device, the battery powers the heating element for a fixed cycle time based on the time to discharge the battery at a cold-soaked temperature. In other methods of using the device, the battery powers the heating element for a varying cycle time as necessary to discharge the battery to a discharge cut-off voltage value. In other methods of using the device, the heating element is operated using a duty cycle that is varied based on the battery temperature.
US10069167B2
An electrolyte for a rechargeable lithium battery includes a non-aqueous organic solvent; a lithium salt; a first compound represented by Chemical Formula 1; and a second compound represented by Chemical Formula 2, wherein an amount of the first compound is about 0.05 wt % to about 10 wt % and an amount of the second compound is about 0.05 wt % to about 10 wt %. In Chemical Formulae 1 and 2, the substituents are the same as defined in the detailed description.
US10069162B2
A fuel cell according to one mode includes a plate-like interconnector having a front surface and a back surface; a single cell having a power generation function; a gas chamber provided between the interconnector and the single cell; and one or more gas inlet ports for causing a fuel gas to flow into the gas chamber, the fuel cell further including a buffer chamber provided between the gas inlet ports and the gas chamber; a flow direction changing portion provided between the buffer chamber and the gas chamber so as to be located corresponding to the gas inlet ports, the flow direction changing portion having at least one of a front surface and a back surface, and a side surface; and a fuel gas path provided on at least one of the front surface side and the back surface side of the flow direction changing portion.
US10069160B2
A fuel cell voltage recovery system includes a fuel cell stack having a fuel cell stack voltage between fuel cell stack terminals which is at a first voltage during normal fuel cell operation. The system also includes a high voltage electrical system operating at a first DC operating voltage that is generally higher than the first voltage of the fuel cell stack. A boost converter in electrical connection with the fuel cell stack and the high voltage electrical system operates in a normal control mode to transfer electrical power from the fuel cell stack to the high voltage electrical system through regulation and control of average stack output current (boost input current) during normal fuel cell operation. The boost converter can also operate in a voltage control mode to lower the fuel cell stack voltage to a second voltage that is lower than the first voltage. A FCS controller controls the operation of the boost converter.
US10069158B2
A fuel cell system and a method of controlling the fuel cell system are provided. The fuel cell system includes at least one bypass valve that is disposed between a passage in an inlet of a fuel cell stack and a bypass passage that is branched from the passage within the inlet and that is connected to a discharge port of the fuel cell stack. In addition, a controller bypasses air supplied from an air blower to the discharge port by adjusting an opening degree of the bypass valve.
US10069145B1
An electrode for use in a device such as a secondary battery may include a first layer having first active particles adhered together by a binder, a second layer having second active particles adhered together by a binder, and an interphase layer interposed between the first and second layers. In some examples, the interphase layer may include an interpenetration of the first and second particles, such that substantially discrete fingers of the first layer interlock with substantially discrete fingers of the second layer.
US10069144B2
Spherical particles of transition metal carbonates, transition metal hydroxides or transition metal carbonate hydroxides comprising cations of at least two transition metals selected from nickel, cobalt, manganese, titanium, vanadium, chromium and iron, wherein the concentration of at least one of the transition metal cations, plotted against the radius of the particle in question, has at least one relative extreme value which is neither in the center nor at the edge of the particle in question.
US10069142B2
The invention provides a rotary tubular furnace including a rotatable furnace tube having an inlet end through which silicon compound particles (SiOx where 0.5≤x<1.6) are put therein and an outlet end through which the particles coated with carbon are taken out therefrom; and a heating chamber having a heater to heat the furnace tube, wherein the furnace tube is composed of a heat portion inside the heating chamber and a non-heat portion outside the heating chamber, a length B of the heat portion and an overall length A of the furnace tube satisfy 0.4≤B/A<1, and a distance C between the heat portion and the outlet end and the overall length A satisfy 0.04≤C/A≤0.35. This furnace can inhibit clogging of the furnace tube and mass-produce a negative electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a high capacity with inhibited variations in the amount of carbon coating and crystallinity.
US10069136B2
A microporous lead-containing solid material is produced, which can serve as a carrier for desired materials into a reaction for various desired purposes. For example, if the microporous solid is impregnated with borax it tends to inhibit the growth of unduly large crystals of tetrabasic lead, which is useful in producing batteries having improved functional qualities.
US10069123B2
An exemplary securing method includes securing a battery pack relative to a portion of an electrified vehicle by engaging a retention feature inside a perimeter of a battery pack enclosure, and by fastening the battery pack enclosure to the portion with at least one fastener outside the perimeter. The perimeter is established by a plurality of sidewalls and endwalls of the battery pack enclosure.
US10069122B2
A power storage module in which rectangular power storage devices each having an electrode assembly and an electrolyte accommodated in a case are configured to be connected, wherein the power storage devices are arrayed in a predetermined array direction (a direction in which positive electrodes and negative electrodes are stacked) and bonded in an arrayed state, and thicknesses of surfaces (in particular, at least parts in contact with an adjacent member in the surfaces of the bonded sides) on bonded sides of the cases are less than thicknesses of surfaces of non-bonded sides.
US10069116B2
A battery comprising an anode comprising anode material in contact with a metal anode current collector. The battery further comprises a cathode comprising cathode material in contact with a cathode current collector comprising a transparent conducting oxide (TCO). The battery further comprises an electrolyte with a pH in a range of 3 to 7.
US10069113B2
An organic light emitting display device and a fabrication method comprising a touch electrode layer including touch electrodes and touch lines on an upper substrate which are directly formed on the upper substrate to secure a large distance between the touch electrodes and cathode as well as minimize a distance between the upper and lower substrates, thereby widening the viewing angle of an image while reducing a parasitic capacitance.
US10069111B2
Provided is an organic light emitting display device. An organic light emitting display device includes an organic light emitting element and a light scattering layer disposed on a bottom or a top of the organic light emitting element. The light scattering layer includes a photosensitive resin and dispersion particles dispersed in the photosensitive resin. The dispersion particles are configured to improve light extraction with respect to light emitted from the organic light emitting element and compensate a viewing angle with respect to the light emitted from the organic light emitting element.
US10069109B2
An organic light emitting device and a method of fabricating the same includes a first substrate; a thin film transistor (TFT) on the first substrate; a planarization layer on the TFT; an organic light emitting diode (OLED) on the planarization layer; a passivation layer on the OLED; a second substrate on the passivation; and a hydrogen capturing material between the first and the second substrates to prevent oxidation of materials forming the TFT.
US10069108B2
A display apparatus and a method of manufacturing a display apparatus, the apparatus including a substrate; a display on the substrate; and an encapsulation layer that seals the display, wherein the encapsulation layer includes a matrix including an organic material, and an inorganic material bonded to the organic material through functional groups of the organic material of the matrix, wherein the matrix includes an internal space adjacent to the organic material, the inorganic material being positioned in the internal space.
US10069106B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a lower substrate, an organic light-emitting device on the lower substrate, and a flexible film below the lower substrate, wherein the flexible film includes a base and a second barrier layer provided on the base to prevent infiltration of moisture and oxygen.
US10069100B2
An electronic device may have a display. The device and display may bend about a bend axis. The display may have layers such as an organic light-emitting diode layer or other layer with pixels, a touch sensor layer, a protective layer with a polarizer, and a support layer. Lubrication layers formed from textured surfaces, slippery coatings, and lubricants such as oil may be interposed between the layers of the display so that the display layers slip past each other during bending of the device and display and minimize display stress. A device housing may have a recess or other structures that retain the display within the housing while allowing the display layers to shift relative to each other during bending. Elastomeric gaskets and elastomeric lubricant retention structures may be used to mount the display layers in the housing and to retain liquid lubricant within the layers of the display.
US10069098B2
In one embodiment, a display device comprises: a substrate including an emissive area that emits light and a non-emissive area that does not emit light; a transistor over the substrate; a light emitting device over the transistor, the light emitting device including a first electrode, a light emitting layer on the first electrode, and a second electrode on the light emitting layer; a contact hole in the emissive area of the substrate, the contact hole positioned between the transistor and the light emitting device; and an auxiliary electrode in the contact hole, the auxiliary electrode electrically connecting together the first electrode of the light emitting device and the transistor.
US10069097B2
An inverted-structure light-emitting element is provided. One embodiment of the invention disclosed in this specification is a light-emitting element including a cathode, a layer serving as a buffer over the cathode, an electron-injection layer over the layer serving as a buffer, a light-emitting layer over the electron-injection layer, and an anode over the light-emitting layer. The electron-injection layer includes an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal. The layer serving as a buffer includes an electron-transport material. In the inverted-structure light-emitting element, contact of the alkali metal or alkaline earth metal included in a material of the electron-injection layer with the already formed cathode increases the driving voltage of an EL element and reduces emission efficiency. This problem becomes prominent particularly when the cathode includes an oxide conductive film. To prevent this, the layer serving as a buffer is provided between the cathode and the electron-injection layer.
US10069093B2
One example includes a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device include a carbon nanotube substrate, a self-assembled monolayer, and a gate oxide. The self-assembled monolayer overlies the carbon nanotube substrate and is comprised of molecules each including a tail group, a carbon backbone, and a head group. The gate oxide overlies the self-assembled monolayer, wherein the self-assembled monolayer forms an interface between the carbon nanotube substrate and the gate oxide.
US10069089B2
Provided is an organic metal complex having a structure represented by the following general formula (1): MLmL′n (1) where: M represents a metal atom selected from Ir, Pt, Rh, Os, and Zn; L and L′, which are different from each other, each represent a bidentate ligand; m represents an integer of 1 to 3 and n represents an integer of 0 to 2, provided that m+n is 3; a partial structure MLm represents a structure represented by the following general formula (2): and a partial structure ML′n represents a structure including a monovalent bidentate ligand.
US10069086B2
The present invention relates to a plurality of host materials and an organic electroluminescent device comprising the same. By comprising a specific combination of a plurality of host compounds, the organic electroluminescent device according to the present invention provides excellent lifespan characteristics while maintaining high luminous efficiency.
US10069083B2
A condensed cyclic compound and an organic light-emitting device including the same, the condensed cyclic compound being represented by Formula 1 below:
US10069079B2
The present invention relates to organic electroluminescent devices which comprise mixtures of at least one electron-conducting material and an emitting material which has a small singlet-triplet separation.
US10069064B1
A process flow for forming a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) cell that is self-aligned to an underlying bottom electrode (BE) is disclosed. The BE is comprised of a lower BE layer having a first width (w1), and an upper (second) BE layer with a second width (w2) where w2>w1. Preferably, the BE has a T shape. A stack of MTJ layers including an uppermost hard mask is deposited on the BE and has width w2 because of a self-aligned deposition process. A dummy MTJ stack is also formed around the first BE layer. An ion beam etch where ions are at an incident angle <90° with respect to the substrate is used to remove extraneous material on the sidewall. Thereafter, an encapsulation layer is deposited to insulate the MTJ cell, and to fill a gap between the first BE layer and dummy MTJ stack.
US10069062B2
A magnetoresistive element includes a laminated structure including a plurality of fixed layers, an intermediate layer formed of a non-magnetic material, and a recording layer, the plurality of fixed layers being laminated via a non-magnetic layer, the plurality of fixed layers having at least a first fixed layer and a second fixed layer, the following formula being satisfied: S1>S2 (wherein S1 is an area of a portion of the first fixed layer adjacent to the intermediate layer, which faces the intermediate layer, and S2 is an area of the fixed layer having the smallest area out of the fixed layers other than the first fixed layer).
US10069053B2
A light emitting device of the invention includes a substrate; a light emitting element mounted on the upper surface of the substrate; a wire that is electrically connected to the light emitting element; and a plate-shaped light-transmissive member that covers the light emitting element. The wire has a stack structure in which a first bonding ball, a bonding wire, and a second bonding ball are stacked in that order, the stack structure is disposed on the upper surface of the light emitting element, and the plate-shaped light-transmissive member is disposed above the stack structure.
US10069051B2
A semiconductor package device includes an electronic device. The electronic device includes a first carrier, a first electronic component, a second carrier, a second electronic component, an encapsulant, and a lens. The first electronic component is disposed on the first carrier. The second carrier defines an aperture and is disposed on the first carrier. The aperture is positioned over the first electronic component and exposes the first electronic component. The second electronic component is disposed on the second carrier. The encapsulant covers the second electronic component. The lens defines a cavity and is disposed on the aperture of the first carrier.
US10069049B2
The semiconductor light emitting element is a semiconductor light emitting element comprising a semiconductor layer including a light emitting layer, wherein a surface of the semiconductor light emitting element includes a light extraction surface. At least one of the light extraction surface and an interface between two layers having different refractive indexes in the semiconductor light emitting element is provided with a periodic recessed and projecting structure having a period that exceeds 0.5 times as great as a wavelength of light emitted from the light emitting layer, and a minute recessed and projecting structure located on a surface of the periodic recessed and projecting structure and having an average diameter that is not more than 0.5 times as great as the wavelength of the light.
US10069047B1
A LED device includes LED chips mounted on a substrate, a first fluorescent layer, a second fluorescent layer and a package housing. The LED chips emit a blue light. The first fluorescent layer has a first side facing to the LED chips for converting the blue light to a red light. The second fluorescent layer has a first side attached to a second side of the first fluorescent layer for converting the blue light to a red light emitted from a second side of the second fluorescent layer. The package housing holds the substrate and the first fluorescent layer.
US10069044B2
There are provided a microcapsular quantum dot-polymer composite, a method for producing the composite, optical elements, and a method for producing the optical elements. In order to produce the microcapsular quantum dot-polymer composite, a polymer having a functional group in the side chain is firstly heated in a first solvent to form a polymer solution. A quantum dot suspension consisting of quantum dots capped by a capping layer dispersed in a second solvent is added to the polymer solution to form a mixed solution. The mixed solution is cooled to form the quantum dot-polymer composite consisting of the quantum dots dispersed in the polymer matrix.
US10069031B2
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method of manufacturing polycrystalline silicon thin-film solar cell by a method of crystallizing a large-area amorphous silicon thin film using a linear electron beam, and the technical problem to be solved is to crystallize an amorphous silicon thin film, which is formed on a low-priced substrate, by means of an electron beam so as for same to easily be of high quality by having high crystallization yield and to be processed at a low temperature. To this end, one embodiment of the present invention provides a method of manufacturing polycrystalline silicon thin-film solar cell by means of a method for crystallizing a large-area amorphous silicon thin film using a linear electron beam, the method comprising: a substrate preparation step for preparing a substrate; a type 1+ amorphous silicon layer deposition step for forming a type 1+ amorphous silicon layer on the substrate; a type 1 amorphous silicon layer deposition step for forming a type 1 amorphous silicon layer on the type 1+ amorphous silicon layer; an absorption layer formation step for forming an absorption layer by radiating a linear electron beam to the type 1 amorphous silicon layer and thus crystallizing the type 1 amorphous layer and the type 1+ amorphous silicon layer; a type 2 amorphous silicon layer deposition step for forming a type 2 amorphous silicon layer on the absorption layer; and an emitter layer formation step for forming an emitter layer by radiating a linear electron beam to the type 2 amorphous silicon layer and thus crystallizing the type 2 amorphous silicon layer, wherein the linear electron beam is radiated from above type 1 and type 2 amorphous silicon layers in a linear scanning manner in which to reciprocate in a predetermined area.
US10069028B2
A method of forming a wavelength detector that includes forming a first transparent material layer having a uniform thickness on a first mirror structure, and forming an active element layer including a plurality of nanomaterial sections and electrodes in an alternating sequence atop the first transparent material layer. A second transparent material layer is formed having a plurality of different thickness portions atop the active element layer, wherein each thickness portion correlates to at least one of the plurality of nanomaterials. A second mirror structure is formed on the second transparent material layer.
US10069021B2
In general, the present invention relates to electro-conductive pastes with salt additives with anions consisting of halogen and oxygen, and solar cells with high Ohmic sheet resistance, preferably photovoltaic solar cells. More specifically, the present invention relates to electro-conductive pastes, solar cell precursors, processes for preparation of solar cells, solar cells and solar modules. The present invention relates to an electro-conductive paste at least comprising as paste constituents: a) metallic particles; b) a glass frit; c) an organic vehicle; and d) a salt with an anion comprising an oxygen atom and a halogen atom.
US10069018B1
Systems and methods of manufacturing compact camera assemblies for use in electronic device are provided. The camera assemblies include an image sensor and a camera component. The camera assemblies further include a molding compound transfer molded onto the image sensor and the camera component to form a camera component subassembly. A redistribution layer is formed on a surface of the camera component subassembly. The redistribution layer includes at least one dielectric layer and a first interconnect layer. The camera assemblies further include a lens module coupled to the redistribution layer and aligned with the image sensor along an optical axis.
US10069014B2
A base insulating film is formed over a substrate. A first oxide semiconductor film is formed over the base insulating film, and then first heat treatment is performed to form a second oxide semiconductor film. Then, selective etching is performed to form a third oxide semiconductor film. An insulating film is formed over the first insulating film and the third oxide semiconductor film. A surface of the insulating film is polished to expose a surface of the third oxide semiconductor film, so that a sidewall insulating film is formed in contact with at least a side surface of the third oxide semiconductor film. Then, a source electrode and a drain electrode are formed over the sidewall insulating film and the third oxide semiconductor film. A gate insulating film and a gate electrode are formed.
US10069013B2
Neural signal amplifiers include an operational amplifier and a feedback network coupled between an output and an input thereof. The feedback network includes a tunnel field effect transistor (“TFET”) pseudo resistor that exhibits bi-directional conductivity. A drain region of the TFET may be electrically connected to the gate electrode thereof to provide a bi-directional resistor having good symmetry in terms of resistance as a function of voltage polarity.
US10069012B2
A pixel array substrate including a substrate having at least one via, at least one conductor disposed in the at least one via, pixel units, scan lines electrically connected to the pixel units, at least one shift register and at least one bus line is provided. The pixel units, the scan lines and the at least one shift register are disposed on a first surface of the substrate. The at least one shift register is used to transmit a first gate signal to the corresponding scan lines. The at least one bus line is disposed on a second surface of the substrate. The at least one bus line is electrically connected to the at least one shift register by the at least one conductor.
US10069008B1
A semiconductor device including a fin structure present on a supporting substrate to provide a vertically orientated channel region. A first source/drain region having a first epitaxial material with a diamond shaped geometry is present at first end of the fin structure that is present on the supporting substrate. A second source/drain region having a second epitaxial material with said diamond shaped geometry that is present at the second end of the fin structure. A same geometry for the first and second epitaxial material of the first and second source/drain regions provides a symmetrical device.
US10069006B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type. A gate structure is supported by a surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a current carrying region (e.g., a drain region of an LDMOS transistor) is disposed in the semiconductor substrate at the surface. The device further includes a drift region of a second, opposite conductivity type disposed in the semiconductor substrate at the surface. The drift region extends laterally from the current carrying region to the gate structure. The device further includes a buried region of the second conductivity type disposed in the semiconductor substrate below the current carrying region. The buried region is vertically aligned with the current carrying region, and a portion of the semiconductor substrate with the first conductivity type is present between the buried region and the current carrying region.
US10069003B2
When a channel formation region is formed of GaN in a MOSFET, there are cases where the actual threshold voltage (Vth) is lower than the setting value thereof and the actual carrier mobility (μ) during the ON state is lower than the setting value thereof. The reason for threshold voltage (Vth) and the carrier mobility (μ) being lower than the setting values is unknown. A MOSFET including a gallium nitride substrate, an epitaxial layer made of gallium nitride provided on top of the gallium nitride substrate, a gate insulating film provided in direct contact with the epitaxial layer, and a gate electrode provided in contact with the gate insulating film. The gallium nitride substrate has a dislocation density less than or equal to 1E+6 cm−2, and the epitaxial layer has a region with a p-type impurity concentration less than or equal to 5E+17 cm−3.
US10069000B2
The invention relates to a bipolar non-punch-through power semiconductor device and a corresponding manufacturing method. The device comprises a semiconductor wafer and a first electrode formed on a first main side of the wafer and a second electrode formed on a second main side of the wafer opposite the first main side. The wafer comprises a pair of layers of different conductivity types, such as a drift layer of a first conductivity type, and a first layer of a second conductivity type arranged on the drift layer towards the first main side and contacting the first electrode.The wafer comprises an inner region wand an outer region surrounding the inner region. The drift layer has a thickness in the inner region greater or equal than a thickness in the outer region. A thickness of the first layer increases in a transition region between the inner region and the outer region from a thickness in the inner region to a maximum thickness in the outer region. The thickness of the first layer increases linearly over the transition region with a width of the transition region greater than 5 times a thickness of the first section of the first layer.
US10068995B2
In a method of fabricating a field effect transistor, a fin structure made of a first semiconductor material is formed so that the fin structure protrudes from an isolation insulating layer disposed over a substrate. A gate structure is formed over a part of the fin structure, thereby defining a channel region, a source region and a drain region in the fin structure. After the gate structure is formed, laser annealing is performed on the fin structure.
US10068986B1
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to an enhanced-mode high electron mobility transistor. The enhanced-mode high electron mobility transistor includes a substrate, a first III-V semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate, a second III-V semiconductor layer disposed on the first III-V semiconductor layer, a third III-V semiconductor layer disposed on the second III-V semiconductor layer, an amorphous region extending from the third III-V semiconductor layer into the second III-V semiconductor layer and the first III-V semiconductor layer to serve as an isolation region, and a gate electrode disposed in the amorphous region. The second III-V semiconductor layer and the third III-V semiconductor layer include different materials to form a heterojunction.
US10068982B2
A structure and a formation method of a semiconductor device structure are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a semiconductor substrate and a gate stack over the semiconductor substrate. The gate stack includes a work function layer and a metal filling over the work function layer. The semiconductor device structure also includes a dielectric structure over the semiconductor substrate and adjacent to the gate stack. The dielectric structure is in direct contact with the work function layer and the metal filling.
US10068978B2
At least one method, apparatus and system disclosed herein for suppressing over-growth of epitaxial layer formed on fins of fin field effect transistor (finFET) to prevent shorts between fins of separate finFET devices. A set of fins of a first transistor is formed. The set of fins comprises a first outer fin, an inner fin, and a second outer fin. An oxide deposition process is performed for depositing an oxide material upon the set of fins. A first recess process is performed for removing a portion of oxide material. This leaves a portion of the oxide material remaining on the inside walls of the first and second outer fins. A spacer nitride deposition process is performed. A spacer nitride removal process is performed, leaving spacer nitride material at the outer walls of the first and second outer fins. A second recess process is performed for removing the oxide material from the inside walls of the first and second outer fins. An epitaxial layer deposition processed upon the set of fins. A portion of the lateral over-growth of epitaxial layer on the outer walls of the first and second outer fins is suppressed by the spacer nitride material.
US10068977B2
A power MOSFET IC device including an array of MOSFET cells formed in a semiconductor substrate. The array of MOSFET cells comprises an interior region of interior MOSFET cells and an outer edge region of peripheral MOSFET cells, each interior MOSFET cell of the interior region of the array comprising a pair of interior MOSFET devices coupled to each other at a common drain contact. In an example embodiment, each interior MOSFET device includes a source contact (SCT) trench extended into a substrate contact region of the semiconductor substrate. The SCT trench is provided with a length less than a linear portion of a polysilicon gate of the interior MOSFET device, wherein the SCT trench is aligned to the polysilicon gate having a curvilinear layout geometry.
US10068974B2
A field plate power device comprises: a substrate; a multilayer semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate; a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a gate electrode located between the source electrode and the drain electrode disposed on the multilayer semiconductor layer; a dielectric layer disposed on the gate electrode, a part of the multilayer semiconductor layer between the gate electrode and the source electrode and another part of the multilayer semiconductor layer between the gate electrode and the drain electrode; a groove disposed in a part of the dielectric layer between the gate electrode and the drain electrode; and a field plate disposed on the groove. The field plate comprises a first portion away from the gate electrode in a horizontal direction, the first portion has an overall upward tilted shape in the horizontal direction away from the gate electrode.
US10068972B2
A semiconductor device is provided with a semiconductor substrate and a trench gate. The semiconductor substrate is provided with a drift region of a first conductive type, wherein the drift region is in contact with the trench gate; a body region of a second conductive type, wherein the body region is disposed above the drift region and is in contact with the trench gate; a source region of the first conductive type, wherein the source region is disposed above the body region, exposed on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate and is in contact with the trench gate; and a front surface region of the second conductive type, wherein the front surface region is disposed above the source region, exposed on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate and is in contact with the trench gate.
US10068958B2
In various embodiments, an organic light-emitting organic is provided. The organic light-emitting component may include a first electrode layer, an organic functional layer structure over the first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer over the organic functional layer structure. The second electrode layer and the organic functional layer structure are divided into subregions which are arranged laterally next to one another, which are respectively at least partially separated from one another. A plurality of the subregions are electrically connected to at least two neighboring subregions by at least two corresponding connecting elements with are formed by the second electrode layer and the organic functional layer structure.
US10068956B2
An organic light emitting display can include a substrate, a first capacitor formed on the substrate, the first capacitor including a first capacitor lower electrode, a first capacitor upper electrode, and a gate insulating layer between the first capacitor lower upper electrodes, a first passivation layer over the first capacitor, a second capacitor on the first passivation layer, the second capacitor including a second capacitor lower electrode, a second capacitor upper electrode, and a second passivation layer interposed between the second capacitor lower upper electrodes, an organic insulating layer over the second capacitor, a pixel electrode on the organic insulating layer, an organic layer on the pixel electrode, the organic layer including at least a light emitting layer, and an opposite electrode on the organic layer, and the width of the second capacitor lower electrode is greater than that of the second capacitor upper electrode.
US10068946B2
A magnetic memory of an embodiment includes: a first nonmagnetic layer including a first and second faces; a first and second wirings disposed on a side of the first face; a third wiring disposed on a side of the second face; a first transistor, one of the source and the drain being connected to the first wiring, the other one being connected to the first nonmagnetic layer; a second transistor, one of source and drain being connected to the second wiring, the other one being connected to the first nonmagnetic layer; a magnetoresistive element disposed between the first nonmagnetic layer and the third wiring, a first terminal of the magnetoresistive element being connected to the first nonmagnetic layer; and a third transistor, one of source and drain of the third transistor being connected to the second terminal, the other one being connected to the third wiring.
US10068940B2
An imaging apparatus includes a micro lens, a second photoelectric conversion element that is located adjacent to a first photoelectric conversion element in a first direction, and a third photoelectric conversion element that is located adjacent to the first photoelectric conversion in a second direction intersecting with the first direction, wherein the height of a potential barrier produced at a region between the first and third photoelectric conversion elements against a signal charge is less than the height of a potential barrier produced at a region between the first and second photoelectric conversion elements against a signal charge.
US10068937B2
This technology relates to an image sensor. The image sensor may include a substrate including a photoelectric conversion element; a pillar formed over the photoelectric conversion element and having a concave-convex sidewall; a channel film formed along a surface of the pillar and for having at least one end coupled to the photoelectric conversion element; and a transfer gate formed over the channel film.
US10068935B2
A CMOS image sensor pixel (200) comprising a photosensitive element (101) for generating a charge in response to incident light; a plurality of charge storage elements (103); a plurality of transfer gates (102) for enabling the transfer of charge between the photosensitive element and an associated one of the charge storage elements; and one or more first electrical connections (201) for placing at least two of the plurality of charge storage elements in mutual electrical contact.
US10068934B2
An electromagnetic wave detector includes: a substrate; an insulating layer provided on the substrate; a graphene layer provided on the insulating layer; a pair of electrodes provided on the insulating layer, with the graphene layer being interposed therebetween; and buffer layers interposed between the graphene layer and the electrodes to separate the graphene layer and the electrodes from each other. The electromagnetic wave detector array includes arrayed electromagnetic wave detectors that are the same as or different from each other.
US10068931B2
Presented here are manufacturing techniques to create an irregularly shaped electronic display, including a hollow within which a sensor, such as a camera, can be placed. The manufacturing techniques enable the creation of the hollow anytime during the manufacturing process. The resulting electronic display occupies the full side of the mobile device, with the sensors placed within and surrounded by the display.
US10068929B2
A display device can include a substrate including a display area, on which an input image is displayed, and a pad part including a convex portion and a concave portion that are alternately positioned outside the display area and have a height difference between them, and a circuit element attached to the pad part and including a bump inserted into the concave portion of the pad part. The pad part can further include a lower pad electrode electrically connected to a signal line extended from the display area, a first insulating layer disposed on the lower pad electrode in the convex portion, and an upper pad electrode disposed on the first insulating layer, connected to the lower pad electrode through a first contact hole penetrating the first insulating layer and extending into at least a portion of the concave portion.
US10068925B2
A thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, a semiconductor layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode. The semiconductor layer overlaps the gate electrode and includes a channel layer comprising an oxide semiconductor and an auxiliary layer comprising amorphous silicon. The source electrode and the drain electrode are separated from each other and connected to the semiconductor layer. A thin film transistor array panel and method of manufacturing same also is disclosed.
US10068922B2
A continuous fin having a first segment and a second segment in a semiconductor layer, the first segment is arranged at an angle relative to the second segment, and a first gate and a second gate substantially parallel to each other, the first gate substantially covering sides and a top of a portion of the first segment of the continuous fin, the second gate substantially covering sides and a top of a portion of the second segment of the continuous fin.
US10068916B2
A semiconductor memory device comprises: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of memory units provided on the semiconductor substrate and each including a plurality of memory cells that are stacked; and a plurality of bit lines formed above each of a plurality of the memory units aligned in a column direction, an alignment pitch in a row direction of the plurality of bit lines being less than an alignment pitch in the row direction of the memory units, and an end of each of the memory units aligned in the column direction being connected to one of the plurality of bit lines formed above the plurality of the memory units aligned in the column direction.
US10068915B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a stacked body of N (N is an integer of 2 or more) layers stacked on a semiconductor substrate and openings different in depth surrounded by the stacked body and separated from each other.
US10068912B1
A memory apparatus that has at least two non-volatile memory (NVM) cells disposed side by side overlying a substrate and an isolation structure disposed between the first and second NVM cells in the substrate. The first and second NVM cells share a common charge trapping layer that includes a continuous structure, and the portion of the common charge trapping layer that is disposed directly above the isolation structure includes a higher oxygen and/or nitrogen concentration than the portions of the common charge trapping layer that are disposed within the first and second NVM cells.
US10068903B2
Methods and apparatus for artificial exciton devices. An artificial exciton device includes a semiconductor substrate; at least one well region doped to a first conductivity type in a portion of the semiconductor substrate; a channel region in a central portion of the well region; a cathode region in the well region doped to a second conductivity type; an anode region in the well region doped to the first conductivity type; a first lightly doped drain region disposed between the cathode region and the channel region doped to the first conductivity type; a second lightly doped drain region disposed between the anode region and the channel region doped to the second conductivity type; and a gate structure overlying the channel region, the gate structure comprising a gate dielectric layer lying over the channel region and a gate conductor material overlying the gate dielectric. Methods are disclosed.
US10068901B2
A semiconductor device including a substrate includes a first region and a second region and first and second transistors in the first and second regions, respectively. The first transistor includes a first gate insulating layer on the substrate, a first lower TiN layer on and in contact with the first gate insulating layer, a first etch-stop layer on the first lower TiN layer and a first upper gate electrode on the first etch-stop layer. The second transistor includes a second gate insulating layer on the substrate, a second lower TiN layer on and in contact with the second gate insulating layer, a second etch-stop layer on the second lower TiN layer and a second upper gate electrode on the second etch-stop layer. A thickness of the first lower TiN layer is less than a thickness of the second lower TiN layer.
US10068897B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes providing a semiconductor substrate including a source/drain region, an active transistor region, and a substrate contact region coupled to a body region. A shallow trench isolation (STI) area is formed in a major surface of the semiconductor substrate in between the active transistor region and the substrate contact region. The method further includes at least partially burying at least one capacitor in the STI area.
US10068878B2
Provided are a printed circuit board (PCB) capable of blocking introduction of impurities during a molding process so as to reduce damage on a semiconductor package, a method of manufacturing the PCB, and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor package by using the PCB. An embodiment includes an apparatus comprising: a substrate body comprising an active area and a dummy area on an outer portion of the active area, the substrate body extending lengthwise in a first direction; a plurality of semiconductor units mounted on the active area; and a barrier formed on the dummy area, wherein the barrier extends in the first direction.
US10068868B2
A method includes performing a first strike process to strike a metal bump of a first package component against a metal pad of a second package component. A first one of the metal bump and the metal pad includes copper. A second one of the metal bump and the metal pad includes aluminum. The method further includes performing a second strike process to strike the metal bump against the metal pad. An annealing is performed to bond the metal bump on the metal pad.
US10068861B2
Provided is a semiconductor device including a substrate, a pad, a protective layer, a plurality of convex patterns, a redistribution layer (RDL), and a bump. The pad is disposed on the substrate. The protective layer is disposed on the substrate. The protective layer has a first opening exposing a portion of a surface of the pad. The convex patterns are disposed on the protective layer. The RDL is disposed on the convex patterns. The RDL extends from the pad to the convex patterns. The bump is disposed on the convex patterns.
US10068855B2
A semiconductor package includes a frame including a through-hole, an electronic component disposed in the through-hole, a redistribution portion disposed below the frame and the electronic component, a metal layer disposed on an inner surface of the frame, and a conductive layer disposed between the metal layer and the electronic component, and covering the frame and the electronic component.
US10068854B2
A semiconductor package device includes a substrate, a passive component, an active component and a package body. The passive component is disposed on the substrate. The active component is disposed on the substrate. The package body is disposed on the substrate. The package body includes a first portion covering the active component and the passive component, and a second portion covering the passive component. A top surface of the second portion of the package body is higher than a top surface of the first portion of the package body.
US10068852B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an integrated circuit (IC) package having first and second dies with first and second input/output (I/O) interconnect structures, respectively. The IC package may include a bridge having first and second electrical routing features coupled to a portion of the first and second I/O interconnect structures, respectively. In embodiments, the first and second electrical routing features may be disposed on one side of the bridge; and third electrical routing features may be disposed on an opposite side. The first and second electrical routing features may be configured to route electrical signals between the first die and the second die and the third electrical routing features may be configured to route electrical signals between the one side and the opposite side. The first die, the second die, and the bridge may be embedded in electrically insulating material. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10068846B2
Conductive contacts include a first conductor disposed within a first dielectric layer, the first conductor having a recessed area in least one surface. A second dielectric layer is formed over the first dielectric layer, comprising a trench positioned over the first conductor. A second conductor is formed in the trench and the recessed area to form a conductive contact with the first conductor.
US10068838B2
A glass fiber layer is embedded in a thin film package substrate to reinforce the strength of the thin film package substrate. The thin film package substrate has a bottom redistribution circuitry and a top redistribution circuitry. The glass fiber layer is configured between the bottom redistribution layer and the top redistribution layer. A topmost metal pads of the bottom redistribution layer and a bottommost metal vias of the top redistribution layer are embedded in the glass fiber layer.
US10068835B2
A method of forming a TSV isolation layer and a transistor-to-BEOL isolation layer during a single deposition process and the resulting device are disclosed. Embodiments include providing a gate stack, with source/drain regions at opposite sides thereof, and an STI layer on a silicon substrate; forming a TSV trench, laterally separated from the gate stack, through the STI layer and the silicon substrate; forming an isolation layer on sidewalls and a bottom surface of the TSV trench and over the gate stack, the STI layer, and the silicon substrate; forming a TSV in the TSV trench; forming a dielectric cap over the isolation layer and the TSV; and forming a source/drain contact through the dielectric cap and the isolation layer down to the source/drain contract regions.
US10068832B2
An electromagnetic interference shielding structure is disclosed. The electromagnetic interference shielding structure includes an insulating member covering at least one circuit element mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB), a shielding member covering the insulating member, and a heat dissipator having a surface adhering to the shielding member to transfer heat emitted from the at least one circuit element to a place where temperature is relatively low.
US10068826B2
Provided is a package device, relating to the technical field of lamp beads. The package device comprises an SMD holder, wherein the SMD holder is a hollow housing with one end opened; and the material of sidewalls of the SMD holder is transparent plastic. In the package device provided by the present invention, a transparent material is provided as the material of the sidewalls of the SMD holder, and light generated after a chip is powered on can be partially transmitted out through the sidewalls of the SMD holder, avoiding blocking of the light generated after the chip is powered on by the sidewalls of the SMD holder, thereby increasing transmittance of light from the chip.
US10068817B2
A semiconductor package and die assembly with a package having an exterior surface and an interior space, the interior space defined by a first side wall, and a second side wall that opposes the first side wall. Also part of the assembly is a package floor and a package ceiling. The package floor includes package floor conductors. The package ceiling opposes the package floor and includes package ceiling conductors in the package ceiling. One or more semiconductor dies are on the floor of the package floor. Electrical conductors electrically connect the one or more floor dies to the package floor conductors. One or more semiconductor dies are located on the package ceiling. Electrical conductors are configured to electrically connect the one or more ceiling dies to the package ceiling conductors. An air space is located between the package floor and the package ceiling.
US10068813B2
According to the present disclosure, there is disclosed an array substrate, a liquid crystal display panel and a broken-line repairing method thereof. The array substrate comprises: signal lines, which includes a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines intersecting with each other; and a plurality of pixel units defined by the gate lines and the data lines, wherein a thin film transistor, a common electrode and a pixel electrode, which is connected to a drain of the thin film transistor, are formed in each of the pixel units, for each of the pixel units, at the positions of two corners which are adjacent to one of the data lines, a first repair area and a second repair area are formed, respectively; within the first repair area and the second repair area, patterns of the pixel electrode and the data line overlap, and there is no pattern of the common electrode.
US10068812B2
Flip-chip package reliability monitoring and systems of monitoring using capacitive sensors are disclosed. The monitoring is conducted in situ and in real-time without the need for destructive testing of the packages. The capacitive sensors can be used for flip-chip package reliability monitoring.
US10068804B2
A method and system are disclosed herein for an adjustable effective fin height in a gate region of a finFET device. Fin structures, each having a first height, a fin, an oxide liner, and a nitride liner, are formed. A first portion of the nitride liner is removed. A first portion of the oxide liner is removed. A second portion of the nitride liner in a gate portion of the finFET. Source/drain(s) are formed, and a nitride spacer between the source/drain and the gate portion is formed. A second portion of the oxide liner is exposed by removing the second portion of the nitride liner, exposing a second portion of the fin, wherein the first and second exposed portions of the fin being an effective fin height in the gate portion.
US10068797B2
A semiconductor process for forming a plug includes the following steps. A dielectric layer having a recess is formed on a substrate. A titanium layer is formed to conformally cover the recess. A first titanium nitride layer is formed to conformally cover the titanium layer, thereby the first titanium nitride layer having first sidewall parts. The first sidewall parts of the first titanium nitride layer are pulled back, thereby second sidewall parts being formed. A second titanium nitride layer is formed to cover the recess. Moreover, a semiconductor structure formed by said semiconductor process is also provided.
US10068796B2
A semiconductor device manufacturing method includes forming a first hole in a first processed layer. A first sacrificial film is formed in the first hole. A hole portion is formed in the first sacrificial film. A second sacrificial film is formed in the hole portion. A second processed layer is formed above the first sacrificial film and the second sacrificial film, and a second hole is formed in the second processed layer to expose the second sacrificial film. A third sacrificial film is formed on an inner side surface of the second hole, and a fourth sacrificial film is formed on the third sacrificial film. The second sacrificial film is etched using the fourth sacrificial film as a mask. The third sacrificial film exposed by etching the second sacrificial film is etched. The second processed layer is etched using the third sacrificial film as a mask.
US10068795B2
Methods for preparing layered semiconductor structures are disclosed. The methods may involve pretreating an ion-implanted donor wafer by annealing the ion-implanted donor wafer to cause a portion of the ions to out-diffuse prior to wafer bonding. The donor structure may be bonded to a handle structure and cleaved without re-implanting ions into the donor structure.
US10068779B2
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an integrated circuit may include at least one region of shallow-trench isolation field oxide, at least one region of dummy diffusion, and a polycrystalline semiconductor resistor. The at least one region of shallow-trench isolation field oxide may be formed on a semiconductor substrate. The at least one region of dummy diffusion may be formed adjacent to the at least one region of shallow-trench isolation field oxide on the semiconductor substrate. The polycrystalline semiconductor resistor may comprise at least one resistor arm formed with a polycrystalline semiconductor material, wherein the at least one resistor arm is formed over each of the at least one region of shallow-trench isolation field oxide and the at least one region of dummy diffusion.
US10068778B2
This plasma processing method includes a film formation step, a plasma processing step and a removal step. In the film formation step, a silicon oxide film is formed on the surface of a member within a chamber by means of plasma of an oxygen-containing gas and a silicon-containing gas at a flow rate ratio of the oxygen-containing gas to the silicon-containing gas of 0.2-1.4. In the plasma processing step, after the formation of the silicon oxide film on the surface of the member, an object to be processed that has been carried into the chamber is subjected to plasma processing with use of plasma of a processing gas. In the removal step, after carrying the plasma-processed object out of the chamber, the silicon oxide film is removed from the surface of the member by means of plasma of a fluorine-containing gas.
US10068765B2
A multi-step system and method for curing a dielectric film in which the system includes a drying system configured to reduce the amount of contaminants, such as moisture, in the dielectric film. The system further includes a curing system coupled to the drying system, and configured to treat the dielectric film with ultraviolet (UV) radiation and infrared (IR) radiation in order to cure the dielectric film.
US10068758B2
An apparatus which has the capability of filtering unwanted species from an extracted ion beam without the use of a mass analyzer magnet is disclosed. The apparatus includes an ion source having chamber walls that are biased by an RF voltage. The use of RF extraction causes ions to exit the ion source at different energies, where the energy of each ion species is related to its mass. The extracted ion beam can then be filtered using only electrostatic energy filters to eliminate the unwanted species. The electrostatic energy filter may act as a high pass filter, allowing ions having an energy above a certain threshold to reach the workpiece. Alternatively, the electrostatic energy filter may act as a low pass filter, allowing ions having an energy below a certain threshold to reach the workpiece. In another embodiment, the electrostatic energy filter operates as a bandpass filter.
US10068757B2
An ion source for a mass spectrometer comprises: an evacuated chamber having an interior receiving a gaseous sample effluent stream; a source of light pulses of pulse width 150 femtoseconds or less; a window of the evacuated chamber through which the light pulses pass into the evacuated chamber interior; one or more mirrors within the evacuated chamber disposed such that the light pulses are reflected from each of the one or mirrors such that the reflected pulses are caused to focus at one or more focal regions within the effluent stream within the evacuated chamber interior; and a pair of electrodes disposed at opposite sides of the one or more focal regions.
US10068748B2
A method for scanning an object, the method may include moving an object by a first mechanical stage that follows a first scan pattern; introducing multiple movements, by a second mechanical stage, between the object and the first mechanical stage while the first mechanical stage follows the first scan pattern; and obtaining, by optics, images of multiple suspected defects while the first mechanical stage follows the first scan pattern; wherein a weight of the first mechanical stage exceeds a weight of the second mechanical stage.
US10068742B2
The present invention relates to a radiation generating tube. The radiation generating tube includes an envelope including an insulating tubular member having at least two openings, a cathode connected to one of the openings of the insulating tubular member, and an anode connected to the other of the openings of the insulating tubular member. At least one of the cathode and the anode and the insulating tubular member are bonded at a bonded portion with an electrically conductive bonding member; and the bonded portion bonded with the electrically conductive bonding member is coated with a dielectric layer.
US10068741B2
In a vacuum chamber (1), an emitter (3) and a target (7) are opposed to each other. A guard electrode (5) is disposed around an outer circumference of an electron generating portion (31) of the emitter (3). A supporting part (4) supports the emitter (3) movably in an end-to-end direction of the vacuum chamber (1). Reforming treatment is performed on the guard electrode (5) by operating the supporting part (4), moving the emitter (3) to an open end (21) side (non-discharge position) and applying a voltage to repeatedly effect discharge on the guard electrode (5) in a state where field emission from the electron generation portion (31) is suppressed. After the reforming treatment, the supporting part (4) is again operated. The emitter (3) is moved to an open end (22) side (discharge position) and placed in a state where field emission from the electron generation portion (31) is allowed.
US10068740B2
An x-ray source for use in Phase Contrast Imaging is disclosed. In particular, the x-ray source includes a cathode array of individually controlled field-emission electron guns. The field emission guns include very small diameter tips capable of producing a narrow beam of electrons. Beams emitted from the cathode array are accelerated through an acceleration cavity and are directed to a transmission type anode, impinging on the anode to create a small spot size, typically less than five micrometers. The individually controllable electron guns can be selectively activated in patterns, which can be advantageously used in Phase Contrast Imaging.
US10068731B2
A framework part of a relay and a relay. An inner hollow portion and peripheral windows are formed by the framework. The windows are communicated with the exterior of the framework and the hollow portion. At least one group of contactors that can correspondingly contact are accommodated in the hollow portion. An arc gap is formed between the contactors that can correspondingly contact. The windows are aligned with the arc gap from an outer side. A main body of the framework is a hollowed injection molding framework, and has multiple windows that are aligned with the arc gap from the outer side, so that, under the precondition of ensuring the structural strength, materials can be reduced and the cost can be reduced. The windows can be used for installing functional components such as magnetic steel, a resistant act clip or an arcing and are extinguishing piece. The framework is made be applicable to relays and breakers having more functions and requirements, so as to improve a scope of application of products to a great extent and facilitate reduction of molds and other manufacturing costs.
US10068727B2
An illuminator may be coupled to the key cap of a key. The key cap may include a portion that is operable to be illuminated and one or more illuminators may be coupled thereto. In particular embodiments, keys may include power delivery systems that are operable to wirelessly transmit power from a power source to illuminators. Such power delivery systems can include inductive transmitters and/or receivers, ultrasonic transmitters and/or receivers, laser diodes and photodiodes, electrodes that capacitively couple to wirelessly transfer power, and so on. In various embodiments, keys may include interconnects that connect an illuminator with a power source. The interconnect may be a flexible material that includes one or more traces and is configured with a shape that bends and twists to allow movement without stretching. The interconnect may also be part of a movement or support mechanism of a key.
US10068726B2
A keyswitch uses a combination of springs connected in serial for providing a return force to a keycap of the keyswitch. When the keycap moves toward a base of the keyswitch beyond a transition position, one of the springs stops continuously deforming. It leads to an increment of the elastic coefficient of the combination of springs and an increment of the elastic stored energy by the combination of springs. Therefore, during a pressing on the keycap, the keycap can provide a light force feedback and then a heavy force feedback to a user. Further, the keyswitch can use a switch with a lateral motion, which can reduce influence of a resilient force produced by the switch on the up and down movement of the keycap. The keyswitch also can use an elastic piece disposed beside the keycap, which can provide a tactile feedback to the user.
US10068725B2
An electric switch includes a base which receives a plurality of fixed electrical contacts and a movable electrical contact. The switch also includes an actuating body made of elastic material. The switch also includes a central, top, pushbutton. The body includes a lateral part, surrounding a top force-receiving portion. The pushbutton includes a lateral actuating surface for acting on this top lateral part of the body. When operated, successively, the central actuating surface of the pushbutton acts on the top force-receiving portion and elastically deforms a wall part of the body, and then the lateral actuating surface of the pushbutton acts on the top lateral part.
US10068718B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards Faradaic energy storage device structures and associated techniques and configurations. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an apparatus comprising a substrate having a plurality of holes disposed in a surface of the substrate, the plurality of holes being configured in an array of multiple rows and an active material for Faradaic energy storage disposed in the plurality of holes to substantially fill the plurality of holes. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10068712B2
The present invention relates to a glass material for sealing a large-area dye-sensitized solar cell and, more specifically, to a glass material which does not react with an electrolyte and allows uniform and high-strength binding even on a large area. According to the present invention, the glass material is expected to produce action effects of improving reliability and lifetime of solar cell products since it can uniformly seal a dye-sensitized solar cell, is chemically stable due to the absence of the reaction with an electrolyte, and has physical strength appropriate for large-area binding.
US10068709B2
A method for manufacturing an electronic component includes preparing a rectangular or substantially rectangular parallelepiped multilayer body made of dielectric ceramic containing Ti and Ba. The multilayer body includes inner electrodes embedded therein, a pair of opposite end surfaces, and four side surfaces connecting the end surfaces to each other. The method further includes forming an oleophobic coating film containing BaF on the surface of the multilayer body, and immersing the end surfaces of the multilayer body having the coating film formed thereon into a conductive paste having a viscosity of about 15 Pa·s or less.
US10068708B2
A method of forming a stacked electronic component, and an electronic component formed by the method wherein the method includes: providing a multiplicity of electronic components wherein each electronic component comprises a first external termination and a second external termination; providing a first lead frame plate and a second lead frame plate wherein the first lead frame plate and the second lead frame plate comprises barbs and leads; providing a molded case comprising a cavity and a bottom; and forming a sandwich of electronic components in an array between the first lead frame plate and the second lead frame plate with the barbs protruding towards the electronic components and the leads extending through the bottom.
US10068703B1
Integrated antenna structures described herein may include planar inverted-F antennas (PIFAs) integrated with artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) metamaterials. The integrated metamaterial operatively coupled with the PIFA may function as an artificial magnetic reflector, sending all the energy radiated upwards, and thereby changing the original omnidirectional radiation pattern of the PIFA to a directional radiation pattern. The integrated antenna structures that include PIFAs and metamaterials may maintain a smaller form factor as compared to similar directional antennas, while exhibiting a suitable performance in terms of radiation efficiency, radiation pattern and impedance bandwidth.
US10068687B2
A superconductive wire conductor is produced by: embedding a plurality of deposition substrates formed to have a predetermined size in parallel with each other to a connection base material to connect and integrate therewith; depositing an intermediate layer, a superconductive layer and a protective layer on a deposition surface side of the deposition substrate; and winding a single or multiple integrated superconductive conductors around a desired core material, separating each single superconductive wire from the integrated superconductive conductor and winding each superconductive wire around the core material or winding the integrated or separated wire alternately, whereby a superconductive conductor having a good superconductive characteristic without a problem regarding a shape thereof such as local protrusions.
US10068684B2
A fire resistant cable comprising: at least one conducting element; at least one layer, surrounding said conducting element, made of a ceramifiable composition comprising: a polymeric material comprising an ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer as main polymer; at least 25 wt % of silica; a fluxing agent selected from alkaline metal oxides or precursors thereof; a stabilizing agent comprising at least one of MgO, CaO, PbO, B2O3, or a precursor thereof; from 0.1 wt % to 5 wt % of a hydroxide selected from magnesium hydroxide, aluminum hydroxide and mixtures thereof; the above percentages being expressed with respect to the weight of the ceramifiable composition. Upon exposure to elevated temperatures such as those encountered in case of fire, the ceramifiable composition is transformed into a ceramic material capable of protecting the conducting element from fire and mechanical stresses. The fire resistant cable of the present invention can continue operating under fire conditions for a certain period of time.
US10068678B2
An X-ray imaging system including an X-ray source, a motorless real-time controllable 3D X-ray collimator, a digital X-ray detector, and a system controller coupled to the X-ray radiation source, the motorless real-time controllable 3D X-ray collimator, and the digital X-ray detector for controlling the motorless real-time 3D X-ray collimator to reduce X-ray radiation dose and improve image quality. The motorless real-time controllable 3D X-ray collimator includes a top panel, a bottom panel, at least one sidewall joining the top panel to the bottom panel, an open area between the top panel, bottom panel, and at least one 2D pixel array coupled to at least one of the top panel and the bottom panel, the at least one 2D pixel array having a plurality of pixels of thin film electric coils and switching thin film field-effect transistors, wherein the open area is at least partially filled with a mixture of ferromagnetic material and high X-ray attenuation material.
US10068670B2
A method and system for modeling behavior and depression state of an individual, the method comprising: receiving a log of use dataset associated with communication behavior of the individual during a time period; receiving a supplementary dataset characterizing activity of the individual during the time period; receiving a survey dataset including responses, to at least one of a set of depression-assessment surveys, associated with a set of time points of the time period; generating a predictive analysis of a depression-risk state of the individual associated with at least a portion of the time period, from at least one of the log of use dataset, the supplementary dataset, and the survey dataset; and generating an alert upon detection that a set of parameters from the predictive analysis of the depression-risk state satisfy a threshold condition.
US10068664B1
Apparatuses and methods related to column repair in memory are described. An apparatus can include sensing circuitry. The sensing circuitry can include a first sensing component, a second sensing component, and a third sensing component. The second sensing component can include a defective sense amplifier that is column repaired. The apparatus can include a controller configured to use the sensing circuitry to shift data from the first sensing component to the third sensing component by transferring the data through the second sensing component. The second sensing component can be physically located between the first sensing component and the third sensing component.
US10068662B2
A semiconductor device that includes a plurality of memory cells assigned with addresses that are different from each other, a redundant memory cell replacing a defective memory cell among the memory cells, a fuse circuit storing an address of the defective memory cell, an access control circuit accessing the redundant memory cell when the address of the defective memory cell stored in the fuse circuit is supplied, and a roll call circuit outputting the address of the defective memory cell to outside the semiconductor device in a serial manner.
US10068654B2
Serial NAND flash memory may be provided with the characteristics of continuous read of the memory across page boundaries and from logically contiguous memory locations without wait intervals, while also being clock-compatible with the high performance serial flash NOR (“HPSF-NOR”) memory read commands so that the serial NAND flash memory may be used with controllers designed for HPSF-NOR memory. Serial NAND flash memory having these compatibilities is referred to herein as high-performance serial flash NAND (“SPSF-NAND”) memory. Since devices and systems which use HPSF-NOR memories and controllers often have extreme space limitations, HPSF-NAND may also be provided with the same physical attributes of low pin count and small package size of HPSF-NOR memory for further compatibility. HPSF-NAND memory is particularly suitable for code shadow applications, even while enjoying the low “cost per bit” and low per bit power consumption of a NAND memory array at higher densities.
US10068652B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to determining population count. An example apparatus comprises an array of memory cells coupled to sensing circuitry. The apparatus can include a controller configured to cause: summing, in parallel, of data values corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of first vectors stored in memory cells of the array as a data value sum representing a population count thereof, wherein a second vector is stored as the plurality of first vectors, and wherein each first vector of the plurality of first vectors is stored in respective memory cells of the array that are coupled to a respective sense line of a plurality of sense lines; and iteratively summing, in parallel, of data value sums corresponding to the plurality of first vectors to provide a single data value sum corresponding to the second vector.
US10068646B2
The consumption current of a TCAM device is reduced. A semiconductor device includes multiple sub-arrays each including a TCAM cell array. Each sub-array searches the corresponding part of the input search data. Each sub-array outputs the search result indicative of a match for every entry without searching, when the corresponding first control signal is activated.
US10068644B2
A method of controlling a cycle for writing at least one data item to at least one memory slot of the electrically programmable and erasable read-only memory type disposed in an electronic circuit supplied by a supply voltage includes a controlled increase of the duration of the write cycle in the presence of a decrease in the supply voltage.
US10068634B2
To calibrate an electronic circuit, a calibration controller tests the electronic circuit with an initial separate read check allowing for a read delay and with an initial separate write check allowing for a write delay. The calibration controller, responsive to passing the initial read check and the initial write check, for each condition of a range of conditions, iteratively performs a write test with the write delay concurrent with a read test with the read delay on the electronic circuit over the range of conditions while simultaneously adjusting the write delay and adjusting the read delay for each iteration until one or more of a read edge and a write edge are detected.
US10068625B2
A buffer memory and display drive device are described herein. In one example, a buffer memory is arranged so that write and read address counters are controlled according to a wraparound method, and subjected to no reset in count value, which enables the avoidance of data destruction in a boundary portion of a block. In the buffer memory, block head addresses of the write and read address counters are managed centrally. So, even in the event of undesired change in count value, the influence thereof can be intercepted halfway. While reducing the memory capacity of the buffer memory which is supplied with data in blocks, the following are made possible: to prevent the deviation in read data owing to an undesired change in the address counter from lasting; and to prevent data, handled in blocks, from disappearing near a block boundary.
US10068620B1
In order to affect the mood of a vehicle operator (for example, to increase attentiveness), embodiments of the invention automatically sequence appropriate audio cues into the sound playback from a vehicle's sound system. These cues represent events related to the vehicle or taking place in the vicinity of the vehicle, and can be modulated or effected so as to better convey the vehicle event. These cues may also be part of a coherent soundscape representing a fantasy scenario, such as motocross, sailing, or stand-up paddle boarding. Both the soundscape and the mapping of vehicle events to sound cues are configurable by the user.
US10068619B1
A hand held data storage apparatus includes a disk-based storage device, an interface configured for data transfer with the storage device, and an enclosure that encapsulates the storage device and the interface, wherein the enclosure is configured with a rectangular mobile phone form factor.
US10068614B2
The subject disclosure is directed towards a technology in which highlight (curated) videos are automatically generated for users to watch based upon estimated interest levels with respect to segments of a longer video or set of videos. In one aspect, statistics are collected with respect to actions of viewers of the video or set of videos. These may include playback-related actions such as the number of times a particular segment is played, and/or behavioral actions of viewers during the playback. Based upon which segments have the highest estimated interest levels, a subset of the segments are selected for a playback list, which when played provides the highlight/curated video.
US10068599B2
In one general embodiment, a method includes calculating a differential position value based on readback signals from at least two servo readers of a magnetic head reading servo tracks of a magnetic recording tape. The differential position value is compared to a previously-calculated differential position value. An action is performed in response to determining that the difference between the differential position value and the previously-calculated differential position value is in a predefined range. In another general embodiment, an apparatus includes a magnetic head having at least two servo readers, and a controller in communication with the servo readers. The controller is configured to detect a sudden change in a width of a magnetic recording tape based on a differential position value derived from relatively more current servo readback data and a second differential position value derived from relatively older servo readback data.
US10068590B2
A method according to one embodiment includes forming a lower shield of a shield structure; forming a portion of a magnetic yoke for each of at least two write transducers above the lower shield of the shield structure; and forming an upper shield of the shield structure above the portions of the yokes of each of two of the at least two write transducers, the shields being formed of a magnetically permeable material, wherein the upper and lower shields are magnetically connected.
US10068589B1
A system includes a controller and a detector. The controller is configured to read servo spirals written on a magnetic surface of a disk drive. The servo spirals are written on the magnetic surface of the disk drive based on seed wedges. The seed wedges are written on the magnetic surface of the disk drive prior to writing the servo spirals on the magnetic surface of the disk drive. The controller is configured to write a servo pattern on the magnetic surface of the disk drive based on reading the servo spirals written on the magnetic surface of the disk drive. The detector is configured to detect, while reading the servo spiral written on the magnetic surface of the disk drive, interference caused by the seed wedges written on the magnetic surface of the disk drive.
US10068586B2
A sound processing system, method and program product for estimating parameters from binaural audio data. A system is provided having: a system for inputting binaural audio; and a binaural signal analyzer (BICAM) that: performs autocorrelation on both the first channel and second channel to generate a pair of autocorrelation functions; performs a first layer cross-correlation between the first channel and second channel to generate a first layer cross-correlation function; removes the center peak from the first layer cross-correlation function and a selected autocorrelation function to create a modified pair; performs a second layer cross-correlation between the modified pair to determine a temporal mismatch; generates a resulting function by replacing the first layer cross correlation function with the selected autocorrelation function using the temporal mismatch; and utilizes the resulting function to determine ITD parameters and interaural level difference ILD parameters of the direct sound components and reflected sound components.
US10068584B2
An objective of the present invention is to correct a temporal envelope shape of a decoded signal with a small information volume and to reduce perceptible distortions. An audio decoding device which decodes a coded audio signal and outputs an audio signal comprises: a coded series analysis unit that analyzes a coded series which contains the coded audio signal; an audio decoding unit that receives from the coded series analysis unit the coded series which contains the coded audio signal and decodes same, obtaining an audio signal; a temporal envelope shape establishment unit that receives information from the coded series analysis unit and/or the audio decoding unit, and, on the basis of the information, establishes a temporal envelope shape of the decoded audio signal; and a temporal envelope correction unit that, on the basis of the temporal envelope shape which is established with the temporal envelope shape establishment unit, corrects the temporal envelope shape of the decoded audio signal and outputs same.
US10068583B2
Method and systems are provided for interpreting speech data. A method and system for recognizing speech involving a filter module to generate a set of processed audio data based on raw audio data; a translation module to provide a set of translation results for the raw audio data; and a decision module to select the text data that represents the raw audio data. A method for minimizing noise in audio signals received by a microphone array is also described. A method and system of automatic entry of data into one or more data fields involving receiving a processed audio data; and operating a processing module to: search in a trigger dictionary for a field identifier that corresponds to the trigger identifier; identify a data field associated with a data field identifier corresponding to the field identifier; and providing content data associated with the trigger identifier to the identified data field.
US10068580B2
An oversampling LPF unit receives a sound signal. A differentiator differentiates the sound signal. An overtone computation unit generates an overtone signal by multiplying a signal differentiated by the differentiator by the sound signal from the oversampling LPF unit. A HPF unit filters the overtone signal generated by the overtone computation unit. A combiner combines the overtone signal filtered by the HPF unit and the sound signal from the oversampling LPF unit.
US10068579B2
An encoding/decoding apparatus and method for controlling a channel signal is disclosed, wherein the encoding apparatus may include an encoder to encode an object signal, a channel signal, and rendering information for the channel signal, and a bit stream generator to generate, as a bit stream, the encoded object signal, the encoded channel signal, and the encoded rendering information for the channel signal.
US10068571B2
A voice control method and a voice control system are provided. The voice control method is adapted to a voice control apparatus connected to a local area network. The voice control method includes following steps. Voice data is received. A voice recognition is executed for the voice data to obtain voice print information and a prompt command corresponding to the voice data. Permission information corresponding to the voice print information is determined according to the voice print information and the prompt command. At least one electronic apparatus is controlled through the local area network according to at least one of the permission information, the prompt command and environment information.
US10068568B2
Systems, devices and methods are described herein for segmentation of content, and more specifically for segmentation of content in a content management system. In one aspect, a method may include receiving content associated with speech, text, or closed captioning data. The speech, the text, or the closed captioning data may be analyzed to derive at least one of a topic, subject, or event for at least a portion of the content. The content may be divided into two or more content segments based on the analyzing. At least one of the topic, the subject, or the event may be associated with at least one of the two or more content segments based on the analyzing. At least one of the two or more content segments may then be published such that each of the two or more content segments is individually accessible.
US10068556B2
A content server generates sponsored audio including procedurally generated background music. The content server obtains reference music features describing musicological characteristics of reference songs as well as sponsored audio information received from a third-party. The content server determines music generation parameters based on the sponsored audio information and based on a music model mapping the reference music features to music generation parameters. The music model may incorporate machine learning techniques to improve the mapping. The content server generates background music by using the determined music generation parameters as input to a procedural music algorithm, and generates sponsored audio by combining the generated background music concurrently with an audio voiceover obtained from the sponsored audio information. The sponsored audio is provided to a client device, which presents the sponsored audio to a user.
US10068535B2
A display apparatus comprises a display panel comprising a plurality of dimming areas, a light source unit configured to supply light to the display panel, a timing controller configured to receive a control signal and input data and to generate a gate control signal, a data control signal, and a light source control signal, a display panel driving unit configured to drive the display panel based on the gate and data control signals, and a light source driving unit configured to drive the light source unit based on the light source control signal, wherein based on the input data, the timing controller is configured to determine a first color of at least any one dimming area among the dimming areas and a second color in a complementary color relationship to the first color and to supply information on the first and second colors to the light source driving unit.
US10068532B2
A display device includes: a display panel including a display screen; a backlight having a light emission surface that illuminates the display screen of the display panel from behind; a second processor that superimposes the visible light communication signals on backlight control signals generated based on the image signal; and a second controller that divides the light emission surface of the backlight into regions and establishes a period during which control of light emission in each of the regions and control for turning off the backlight in each of the regions a different time are performed based on the backlight control signals outputted by the second processor. When superimposing the visible light communication signals on the backlight control signals, the second processor does not superimpose a visible light communication signal in a period indicating an OFF state of the backlight in the backlight control signals.
US10068531B2
A pixel circuit includes an organic light emitting diode including an anode and a cathode connected to a low power voltage, a first transistor including a gate electrode, a first electrode connected to a high power voltage, and a second electrode connected to the anode, a storage capacitor connected between the high power voltage and the gate electrode of the first transistor, a second transistor including a first electrode which receives a data signal corresponding to an emission sustaining voltage or an emission finishing voltage, a second electrode connected to the gate electrode of the first transistor, and a gate electrode which receives an erase scan signal, and a third transistor including a first electrode connected to an emission starting voltage, a second electrode connected to the gate electrode of the first transistor, and a gate electrode which receives a write scan signal.
US10068528B2
An apparatus and a method for sensing a display panel are provided. The apparatus includes a gate driving circuit and a sensing circuit. The gate driving circuit may scan the scan-lines during a plurality of scan-line periods within a frame period. The sensing circuit is coupled to a plurality of pixel circuits. A corresponding scan-line period of the scan-line periods is divided into a test data period and a display data period. In the test data period, the sensing circuit controls a corresponding pixel circuit to receive the test data, and the sensing circuit senses the electrical characteristic of the corresponding pixel circuit. In the display data period, the sensing circuit controls the corresponding pixel circuit to receive the display data from a corresponding data line, and the sensing circuit does not sense the corresponding pixel circuit.
US10068521B2
A pixel driving technique for an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display. A frame of image data is shifted into an OLED panel and activated for global illumination. During the time period of global illumination for the frame of image data, pixel data for a next frame of image data is buffered in a partial memory. After the period of global illumination for the frame of image data, the next frame of image data being buffered in the partial memory is read out of partial memory to the OLED panel and updates the previous frame of pixel data with the new pixel data.
US10068518B2
A method of dithering pixels of a graphical representation is described, the method comprising the steps of receiving the graphical representation which comprises a plurality of regions each being characterized by an attribute type associated with content of the region; selecting, from a group of processors comprising at least a central processing unit (CPU) and a graphics processing unit (GPU), at least one processor to dither pixels of the regions depending upon corresponding sizes and attribute types of the regions; and dithering pixels of the graphical representation using the selected processor.
US10068515B2
A display device includes a signal receiver, a signal generator, and a signal corrector. The signal receiver receives an image signal. The signal generator generates a data signal for each of a first color pixel and a second color pixel based on the image signal. The signal corrector generates corrected data for the first color pixel based on the data signal for the second color pixel in a single driving mode. The first color pixel and the second color pixel emit light of different grayscale values of a same color. The first color pixel is driven and the second color pixel is not driven in the single driving mode.
US10068507B2
An image forming apparatus 1 includes an image forming unit 12 that forms an image on a recording medium, a visible image forming unit 50 that forms a visible image in the air, a controller 100 that causes the visible image forming unit 50 to form the visible image representing a print image, an operation detection unit 60 that detects an operation of an operator performed on the print image displayed as the visible image by the visible image forming unit 50, and a print image processing unit 101 that processes the print image according to the operation detected by the operation detection unit 60. The controller 100 causes the visible image forming unit 50 to form, in the air, the visible image representing the print image processed by the print image processing unit 101.
US10068502B1
A container includes a substrate including a brightening agent on its upper surface and a photoluminescent layer on, or impregnated into, the upper surface. The photoluminescent layer on said upper surface absorbs radiant energy and emits radiant energy in the form of light. The substrate is optionally formed from a moisture absorbent material, a moisture resistant material, or a combination thereof. Optionally, an overlay that is substantially light transmissive, that includes an overlay image that is at least partially light transmissive, overlies the substrate. Optionally, a case may be provided to receive and at least partially encase the substrate and, optionally, at least one overlay.
US10068493B2
This disclosure generally relates to automated execution and evaluation of computer network training exercises, such as in a virtual machine environment. An example environment includes a control and monitoring system, an attack system, and a target system. The control and monitoring system initiates a training scenario to cause the attack system to engage in an attack against the target system. The target system then performs an action in response to the attack. Monitor information associated with the attack against the target system is collected by continuously monitoring the training scenario. The attack system is then capable of sending dynamic response data to the target system, wherein the dynamic response data is generated according to the collected monitor information to adapt the training scenario to the action performed by the target system. The control and monitoring system then generates an automated evaluation based upon the collected monitor information.
US10068488B2
Systems and methods of providing a data update to an aircraft including requesting a data update related to a route to be flown by the aircraft, receiving flight procedure data in a data update into a component of the aircraft from a ground station in response to the request and updating the route to be flown utilizing the flight procedure data in the data update.
US10068487B2
a mobile application is disclosed for providing a flight planning tool on a client device. The mobile application may include a data input module configured to receive, via interface hardware on the client device, a selection of one of a plurality of selectable tools. The mobile application may further include a graphics module configured to display, via the interface hardware, a user interface associated with the selection. The mobile application may further include a flight planning communication module configured transmit a request for information associated with the selection, via an API, to a flight planning system, and receive, from the flight planning system via the API, responsive information that fulfills the request, wherein the responsive information was generated by the flight planning system based on information from a third-party device.
US10068485B2
A vehicle system includes a communication interface programmed to communicate with a plurality of platooning vehicles, including a rear vehicle, and receive sensor signals transmitted from the rear vehicle. The vehicle system further includes a processor programmed to command the rear vehicle to turn around and programmed to output control signals to the plurality of platooning vehicles. The control signals control at least one of the plurality platooning vehicles to travel in a reverse direction according to the sensor signals received from the rear vehicle.
US10068483B2
A parking assistance device includes: a ground object detection unit configured to, in a predetermined detection region set in advance in at least a portion of the vehicle periphery, perform detection of a ground object defining a parking stall in which garage parking is to be performed; an end portion specification unit configured to specify an end portion of the ground object detected by the ground object detection unit, the end portion being located on an entrance side of the parking stall; and a target parking stall setting unit configured to set, based on the end portion on the entrance side specified by the end portion specification unit, a corner portion of a rectangular parking frame that defines a target parking stall in which the vehicle is to be parked, and set the parking frame to extend from the corner portion in the depth direction of the parking stall.
US10068480B2
When an own vehicle is highly likely to collide with an obstacle, a notification of prompting a driver to carry out a collision avoidance operation is appropriately given. When an output request for collision avoidance support information exists, a notification ECU notifies of the collision avoidance support information irrespective of absence/presence of an output request for vehicle-infrastructure cooperation support information. When the output request for the collision avoidance support information does not exist and the output request for the vehicle-infrastructure cooperation support information exists, the notification ECU notifies of the vehicle-infrastructure cooperation support information. Thus, when the conditions for the notification of the vehicle-infrastructure cooperation support information and the collision avoidance support information are simultaneously satisfied, the vehicle-infrastructure cooperation support information is inhibited from being notified and the collision avoidance support information is notified.
US10068479B2
The invention relates to a communication device for vehicle-to-X communication for a vehicle, comprising: at least four antennas for transmitting and receiving wireless information and at least one electronic control unit (ECU) for transmitting and receiving information via the antennas and for processing the information received or to be transmitted via the antennas, wherein the at least four antennas are arranged on the vehicle in such a way that the directional characteristics of antennas among the at least four antennas which are arranged directly opposite each other on the vehicle exhibit a spatial overlap.
US10068478B2
A communication terminal operating with electric power stored in a battery to execute information communication with an external communication device is provided. The communication terminal repetitively acquires specific information including a present position of the communication terminal and transmits the specific information in a transmission period. The communication terminal includes a detection section for detecting a total number of external communication devices present within an area of a pre-specified distance and a setting section for setting the transmission period in accordance with the total number of external communication devices detected by the detection section.
US10068475B2
A system for providing data for vehicles includes a region server for providing information data for vehicles in a region. A first and second of the vehicles predict path data, which indicate at least one route that the first and second vehicles will drive with a probability. The first and second vehicles are registered in the region server if the route of the first and second vehicles indicated by the predicted path data lies in the region. The region server produces the information data in dependence on received sensor data of the first vehicle. The produced information data are sent by the region server to the second vehicle if the predicted path data of the second vehicle overlap with the predicted path data of the first vehicle and the second vehicle is registered in the region server.
US10068470B2
Navigation devices, services, and methods are provided for determining an average traffic speed for a path segment using probe data from a plurality of navigation devices. The method for determining an average traffic speed may include retrieving probe data from a plurality of navigation devices, each navigation device traveling over at least a portion of a defined path segment for at least a portion of a defined time interval, wherein the probe data for each navigation device comprises an instantaneous velocity of the navigation device. The method may further include calculating a total distance traveled and a total time traveled by the plurality of navigation devices over the path segment and within the time interval using the instantaneous velocities from the retrieved probe data. The average traffic speed may then be determined based on the calculated total distance traveled and total time traveled.
US10068469B2
Precision traffic flow indication may involve receiving device data over a period of time representing a plurality traffic flow readings associated with a road involving a plurality of subsections. Calculating traffic flows and determining road subsections having similar traffic flows may also be involved. Also, indicating a different traffic flow level for a first subsection and a second subsection of road may be involved.
US10068463B2
A method for determining a piece of equipment to be controlled by a transportable control object disposed in a space having at least one positioning unit capable of determining the relative position of the control object relative to the positioning unit, the method including: a step of determining the position and the orientation of the control object in the space from the position of the at least one positioning unit, a step of determining a direction and a sense pointed at by the control object from the position and orientation of the control object determined in this way, and a step of determining a piece of equipment to be controlled in the space from the direction and sense determined in this way.
US10068460B2
An interactive media device comprises a remote control interface that receives a wireless signal from a corresponding remote control with an emergency button. A controller decodes the wireless signal to determine if the user has pressed a button of the remote control to operate an associated television or if the user has pressed the emergency button on the remote control. If the user has pressed a button of the remote control to operate the associated television, then a television interface that issues an instruction based on the wireless signal to the associated television. However, if the user has pressed the emergency button, a medical emergency interface that issues an alert to a local or remote response unit.
US10068459B2
A universal reminder device in the form of a series circuit including a power source, a warning indicator, a pressure-sensitive normally closed momentary switch, and a pressure-sensitive normally open momentary switch.
US10068450B2
An arrangement, system and method for reducing the effect of interference at radio frequencies in an electronic price label system. The arrangement includes an electronic price label system, which includes a base station equipped with at least a radio transmitter and a radio receiver as well as a set of electronic price labels that receive and reflect back radio signals from the base station. The electronic price label system is connected to an electronic article surveillance system which includes a detector device which is able to detect electronic article surveillance tags, and which electronic article surveillance system further includes an activation device for changing a state of the detector device between an activated-state and a deactivated state. The electronic price label system is configured to start transmitting transmissions from base stations and/or electronic labels only when the detector device of the electronic article surveillance system is in the deactivated state.
US10068447B1
Light emitting modules are provided in which light emission and sensing functions are integrated into a single module. Example embodiments utilize a non-planar light guide to create a cavity within which sensing components are configured. Some embodiments provide for collection of directional information regarding light incident to the lighting module.
US10068445B2
Systems and methods of a security system are provided, including detecting, by a sensor, a sound event, and selecting, by a processor coupled to the sensor, at least a portion of sound data captured by the sensor that corresponds to at least one sound feature of the detected sound event. The systems and methods include classifying the at least one sound feature into one or more sound categories, and determining, by a processor, based upon a database of home-specific sound data, whether the at least one sound feature is a human-generated sound. A notification can be transmitted to a computing device according to the sound event.
US10068442B2
A light fixture includes a housing having a first portion and a second portion. The light fixture further includes a first light emitting element supported within the first portion of the housing, and a second light emitting element supported within the second portion of the housing. The second light emitting element is controlled such that the second light emitting element provides a different color than the first light emitting element.
US10068441B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for guiding emergency personnel to a location in a facility proximate to an alarm that has been generated. In one aspect, a method may include detecting an alarm condition at a facility protected by a security system and determining a location at the facility of the alarm condition. The method may further include causing at least one indicator at the facility, which is proximate to the determined location of the alarm condition, to generate an identifying alert that is humanly perceivable from an exterior of the facility such that emergency personnel can identify the facility based at least in part on the identifying alert. In some aspects, the method may also include notifying a security representative of the alarm condition, and receiving a notification from the security representative indicating that emergency personnel are dispatched to the facility.
US10068428B1
A method implemented on a first electronic computing device includes determining available lotteries for a user of the first electronic computing device. The user is authenticated on the first electronic computing device. An area of residence is confirmed for the user. First lotteries that are available in the area of residence of the user are identified. Second lotteries for which the user can qualify are identified. The second lotteries are a subset of the first lotteries. When one or more of the second lotteries are identified, identification information for the second lotteries is sent to a second electronic computing device for display to the user on the second electronic computing device.
US10068427B2
A recommendation module interleaved wagering system is disclosed, including an interactive processing device constructed to: receive recommendation data; display one or more recommendations; communicate selection data and application telemetry data; receive wagering telemetry and application resource data; configure a wagering user interface; and incorporate the application resource data; wager controller constructed to: communicate user wager data; receive wager request data; determine and communicate wager outcome; recommendation module constructed to: receive recommendation request data; receive user wager data; determine recommendations; and communicate recommendation data; process controller operatively connecting interactive processing device and wager controller, constructed to: communicate recommendation request data; receive recommendation data; communicate recommendation data; receive selection data; receive application telemetry data; determine whether to trigger wager request; generate wager request data; communicate wager request data; receive wager outcome data; communicate wagering telemetry data and application resource data.
US10068424B2
The present invention provides a reception device, which comprises an operation device which is used to perform a variety of operations, a camera device which is used to take dynamic images for the operation area of the operation device, and a control device determining whether there is an abnormal state in the operation area according to the dynamic images taken by the camera device, and if it is determined that there is an abnormal state, performing a control to cause the operation device to perform an operation corresponding to the abnormal state.
US10068421B2
A server may provide activities and/or services through a first device. To verify whether the first device is communicating with the server, a value may be determined and sent to the first device, via the server. The value may be sent in response to receiving a request/command from a second device, and may be determined using another value received from the second device.
US10068417B2
A wagering game system and its operations are described herein. In some embodiments, the operations can include detecting a request to pair a mobile device with a secondary content controller that is communicatively coupled to a wagering game machine. In some examples the secondary content controller is independent of a primary content controller for the wagering game machine. The operations can further include determining, by the secondary content controller, that primary wagering game content of the wagering game machine is in a state that would permit secondary wagering on the primary wagering game content. Further, the operations can include pairing the mobile device with the secondary content controller after determining that the primary wagering game content is in the state that would permit the secondary wagering.
US10068415B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a gaming system and method providing a multiplayer secondary game having an outcome determined based on play of a primary game of at least one, but not all, of the secondary game players. In various embodiments, play of a primary game of a designated one of a plurality of players of a secondary game controls play of the secondary game independent of any play of any primary games of the other players of the secondary game. Put differently, play of the secondary game depends on play of the primary game of the designated player and does not depend on any play of any primary games of the other. Thus, while multiple players participate in the secondary game and may concurrently play individual primary games, play of the primary game of one, but not all, of those players controls play of the secondary game.
US10068412B2
In some embodiments, a method includes detecting, by the first emotive lighting controller, the wagering game event for which to present the coordinated media show. The method can include executing, by the first emotive lighting controller, an instruction script identifying a first group of media effects for the coordinated media show, and in response to executing the instruction script, causing presentation of the first group of media effects by at least one media device connected, via a network, to the first emotive lighting controller. The method can include detecting a synchronization trigger associated with the coordinated media show, and in response to the synchronization trigger, transmitting a synchronization marker to at least a second emotive lighting controller in the network, wherein the synchronization marker causes the second emotive lighting controller to transition to a second group of media effects for the coordinated media show.
US10068408B2
A vending machine is provided with an internal product holding assembly where product to be vended is held or stacked within each of a plurality of product holding compartments formed by a plurality of spaced apart stacking walls. Compartment depth is variable, so as to dispense varying length products, by a movable rear wall movably mounted to one side of a stacking wall so as to be incrementally adjustable within the compartment between a plurality of selected fore and aft positions. The stacking walls have a hollow interior housing an adjusting mechanism for incrementally moving the depth controlling rear wall, with the adjusting mechanism being operable from the front of the product holding assembly and retainable at a selected position.
US10068404B2
A coin conveying device for a coin processing apparatus configured to store an input coin according to denomination, and dispense a coin stored therein in accordance with a payout instruction is provided. The coin conveying device includes: a rail portion configured to form a conveyance path to convey a coin; a conveying portion including holders connected endlessly, each holder being configured to hold one coin, the conveying portion being configured to convey the input coin from below to above by displacing the conveying portion in one direction along the rail portion; and a controller configured to, when the input coin is put in the conveying portion, displace the conveying portion in a reverse direction that is opposite to the one direction for a predetermined time, and displace the conveying portion in the one direction after the predetermined time has elapsed.
US10068396B2
Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for light-based communication. One representative embodiment includes: messaging units disposed at different locations within a space, each including at least one light source (e.g., light-emitting diode or LED); at least one messaging/modulation controller coupled to the light sources and configured to turn the light sources on and off so as to broadcast input digital messages; a central server coupled to the messaging/modulation controller(s) and configured to selectively provide messages to the messaging/modulation controller(s) for broadcast by different messaging units; and an associate device coupled to the central server and configured to: (a) display a user interface for manually inputting information about individuals within the space and (b) provide such information to the central server, where the central server selects messages to be broadcast by the messaging units based on the information received from the associate device.
US10068395B2
An access control method can include sending an identification code to an access node using a mobile telephone. If the identification code is recognized as valid, an access code is sent from the access node to the mobile telephone and presented on the display of the mobile telephone. The access code is detected using a camera, and if the access code is recognized as valid, the access is granted.
US10068394B2
A task to be performed using an industrial vehicle is defined and segmented into segments including a start segment and an end segment. The performance of the industrial vehicle while the industrial vehicle performs the segments is measured, and a target score for the task based on an extrinsic factor that is in effect at least one time during performance of the task is defined. The measured performance of the industrial vehicle during the segments is aggregated to create a task performance score, which is evaluated to the target score to create a task evaluation.
US10068391B2
An onboard device comprising a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter. The onboard device also comprises a transceiver and a global positioning system (GPS) receiver. In some embodiments, the memory of the onboard device stores a program that, when executed causes the processor to monitor voltage levels of a main battery of a vehicle for presence of a start sequence of a vehicle, detect movement of the vehicle, and send a message to an operations center indicating movement of the vehicle without occurrence of the start sequence.
US10068390B2
A feedback system for a motor vehicle infotainment system is disclosed in which information about the state of the motor vehicle, including the infotainment system, and the mobile device may be collected and sent to a remote server that is responsible for receiving and/or organizing such feedback. A user may initiate a feedback process by pressing a dedicated button, issuing a voice command, performing a specific gesture, or other input action. The feedback system may collect a variety of data and create a notice on the mobile device so that a user may submit feedback at a time during which the user will not be operating the motor vehicle.
US10068378B2
Digital content interaction and navigation techniques and systems in virtual and augmented reality are described. In one example, techniques are employed to aid user interaction within a physical environment in which the user is disposed while viewing a virtual or augmented reality environment. In another example, techniques are described to support a world relative field of view and a fixed relative field of view. The world relative field of view is configured to follow motion of the user (e.g., movement of the user's head or mobile phone) within the environment to support navigation to different locations within the environment. The fixed relative field of view is configured to remain fixed during this navigation such that digital content disposed in this field of view remains at that relative location to a user's field of view.
US10068372B2
A method, a system, and a computer-readable storage medium directed to performing high-speed parallel tessellation of 3D surface patches are disclosed. The method includes generating a plurality of primitives in parallel. Each primitive in the plurality is generated by a sequence of functional blocks, in which each sequence acts independently of all the other sequences.
US10068369B2
To integrate a sensory property such as occlusion, shadowing, reflection, etc. among physical and notional (e.g. virtual/augment) visual or other sensory content, providing an appearance of similar occlusion, shadowing, etc. in both models. A reference position, a physical data model representing physical entities, and a notional data model are created or accessed. A first sensory property from either data model is selected. A second sensory property is determined corresponding with the first sensory property, and notional sensory content is generated from the notional data model with the second sensory property applied thereto. The notional sensory content is outputted to the reference position with a see-through display. Consequently, notional entities may appear occluded by physical entities, physical entities may appear to cast shadows from notional light sources, etc.
US10068368B2
The inner volume of an inhomogeneous three-dimensional object is visualized by a plurality of simulated visual rays. For a respective visual ray entering the object volume, i) a scatter position is determined along the visual ray, ii) a scatter direction is selected in dependence on a random process, and iii) the visual ray is scattered at the scatter position in the selected scatter direction. Steps i) to iii) are repeated until the visual ray is absorbed in the object volume or exits the object volume, wherein the exiting visual ray is incident on an illumination source and, in dependence on a brightness and/or color value of the illumination source, an illumination contribution of the visual ray to a respective visualization pixel is ascertained.
US10068360B2
A display device includes: an acquisition unit which acquires a first image from an image supply device; a detection unit which specifies a position of the indicator and whether the indicator is a first indicator or a second indicator; a generation unit which generates a second image based on the specified position and generates a third image by superimposing the second image on the first image; a display unit which displays the third image; a designation unit which designates either the generation unit or the image supply device as a supply destination of information indicating a position of the second indicator; and a control unit which supplies the information indicating the position of the indicator to the generation unit if the detected indicator is the first indicator, and supplies the information indicating the position of the indicator to the supply destination if the detected indicator is the second indicator.
US10068356B2
According to some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for displaying a created map for a plurality of characters in a story is described. The computer-implemented method may include creating a map for a story plot, receiving an indication of a user position in the story plot, determining a set of coordinates on the map for a character in the story plot with respect to the user position, and displaying the map with the character in the story plot represented on the map according to the set of coordinates.
US10068350B2
The present invention provides a measurement apparatus for measuring at least one of a position and an attitude of a work using an image obtained by capturing the work onto which pattern light having periodically arrayed lines is projected, including a determination unit configured to determine, based on luminance information about a period direction of luminance unevenness generated, due to periodic shape unevenness of the work, in the image obtained by an image capturing unit, a base-line direction defined by a relative tilt direction between an optical axis of a projection unit and an optical axis of the image capturing unit with respect to the work so that a period direction of the pattern light is different from a period direction of the shape unevenness of the work.
US10068346B2
A method for evaluating color differences of pixels is provided. The method comprises obtaining color information of a first pixel in a color opponent space obtaining color information of a second pixel in the color opponent space, defining a half-line in the color opponent space based on the color information of the first pixel, and determining distance between color information of the second pixel and half-line in the color opponent space.
US10068343B2
The present invention is applicable to the technical field of video monitoring. Provided are a method and an apparatus for recognizing a moving target. The method comprises: A: acquiring a video image with a background and a moving target; B: modeling a first video image to obtain a first background model; C: calculating a first differential image according to a second image and the first background model; D: modeling a second video image to obtain a second background model; E: calculating a second differential image according to a third image and the second background model; F: separately calculating a first binary image and a second binary image according to the first differential image and the second differential image; G: obtaining a variation region of the moving target according to the first binary image and the second binary image; and H: repeatedly performing steps A to G sequentially, and detecting variation regions of all moving targets. The present invention has good adaptability to a vehicle-mounted camera and has a high recognition rate of the moving target.
US10068338B2
Structured light active sensing systems transmit and receive spatial codes to generate depth maps. Spatial codes can't be repeated within a disparity range if they are to be uniquely identified. This results in large numbers of codes for single transmitter/single receiver systems, because reflected ray traces from two object locations may be focused onto the same location of the receiver sensor, making it impossible to determine which object location reflected the code. However, the original code location may be uniquely identified because ray traces from the two object locations that focus onto the same location of the first receiver sensor may focus onto different locations on the second receiver sensor. Described herein are active sensing systems and methods that use two receivers to uniquely identify original code positions and allow for greater code reuse.
US10068336B1
Generic frontal and side doorway detection with line tracking and vanishing point based verification
Described is a system for frontal and side doorway detection. Salient line segments are extracted from an image frame captured of an indoor environment. Existence of a vanishing point in the image frame is determined. If a vanishing point is detected with a confidence score that meets or exceeds a predetermined confidence score, then the system performs side doorway detection via a side doorway detection module. If a vanishing point is detected with a confidence score below the predetermined confidence score, then the system performs frontal doorway detection via a frontal doorway detection module. A description of detected doorways is output and used by a mobile robot (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) to autonomously navigate the indoor environment.
US10068335B2
A moving-object counter apparatus includes a first captured-image acquisition unit, a moving-object moving-path specifying unit, a virtual-line setting unit, and a first moving-object counter unit. The first captured-image acquisition unit acquires multiple images captured at respective times different from each other by a first imaging apparatus capturing images of a predetermined region. The moving-object moving-path specifying unit specifies, on the basis of the acquired images, one or more moving paths along which one or more respective moving objects have moved in the predetermined region. The virtual-line setting unit sets a virtual line on the basis of the specified one or more moving paths. The first moving-object counter unit counts, by counting one or more moving paths that cross the set virtual line among the specified one or more moving paths, one or more moving objects that have passed through the predetermined position.
US10068329B2
A method for analyzing a dipstick using a smartphone is provided herein. The method includes: capturing an image containing: a dipstick having colored test reagents, and a color board having a grid of grey patches and a plurality of reference color patches; deriving, based on the grid, local illumination parameters associated with the colored test reagents and the plurality of reference color patches; determining whether illumination parameters are sufficient for interpreting the colored test reagent; in a case the illumination parameters are insufficient, notifying a user that an interpretation of the colored test reagents is not possible, otherwise, applying one or more image enhancement operation to the captured image, based on an analysis of the grid of grey patches, to yield enhanced reference color patches; and interpreting the one or more colored test reagents, by projecting the colored test reagents onto a vector of the enhanced reference color patches.
US10068315B2
A display operating electronic device is provided. The display operating electronic device includes a display configured to include a first output area and a second output area, a sensor module configured to detect whether the display rotates, and a processor configured to output an execution screen in the first output area and output at least one item in the second output area, and configured to replace the at least one item with at least one new item in the second output area if a pre-defined amount of rotation is detected.
US10068304B1
A vendor matching engine and method of use, which may be used by a prospective bidder on a government contract or another prospective selectee in order to determine which bids or applications are most worthwhile to pursue. The engine may perform steps of retrieving transactional or vendor registry information, such as Federal Procurement Data System data or System for Award Management data, and may then use this data to generate matchability scores characterizing the compatibility between the selector and selectee. To generate these scores, the distances between selector and selectee coordinates in n-dimensional space may be used in order to determine how similar the prospective selectee is to the selector's desired selectee, allowing a vendor to prioritize government contracts for which they may be best suited. The system may also be used for other pairings of applicants and awarding parties, such as universities and research granting organizations.
US10068300B2
An example embodiment includes a method for creating a family of related intellectual asset (IA) records. The method may include obtaining IA data for a current filing. The method may include creating an IA record for the current filing. The method may include obtaining IA data for one or more related filings. The current filing and the one or more related filings belong to a family of intellectual assets. The method may also include preparing for creation of a plurality of IA records for the one or more related filings based on the IA data for the current filing and the IA data for the one or more related filings. The method may further include creating a plurality of new IA records for the one or more related filings.
US10068298B2
Embodiments include methods and systems for forecasting electrical demand of a building. Aspects include receiving a weather forecast for an upcoming day and receiving a historical data file comprising historical weather data and historical electrical load data for the building for a plurality of previous days. Aspects also include comparing the historical weather data for each of the plurality of previous days to the forecast and calculating a baseline electrical consumption of the building for the upcoming day based on the comparison.
US10068294B1
A method, system and program product, the method in one embodiment comprising: A method, comprising: accessing databases comprising: client information for each of a plurality of respective clients, comprising a balance of funds of the client; a distribution percent value, Xi, for tranches; information for each of multiple government backed-insured aggregated time deposit instruments holding a tranche of client funds, comprising: a rate; an identification of the depository institution; a term; and determining a given client available distribution amount, Di; determining an amount of a client tranche to be deposited in each of Ni depository institutions based at least in part on the percentage, Xi, in order that the client tranches are approximately equal and are insured; determining Ni depository institutions to distribute the client tranches; allocating substantially equally respective client tranches to the Ni depository institutions; generating data for instructions to transfer the respective client tranches; updating, the databases.
US10068293B2
Various embodiments of a trading screen allow a market value indicator to go out of view without necessarily triggering a command to reposition a value axis. The value axis may be repositioned to bring the market value indicator back in view when the market value indicator satisfies a threshold condition. The threshold condition is defined such that it is possible for the market value indicator to go out of view and not trigger a command to reposition the value axis. Various embodiments automatically reposition the value axis in a way that can provide the user with more overall control of the trading screen than previous trading screens. Further, the user may gain increased confidence in using the trading display, particularly with respect to single action order entry, because there is less risk of the value changing on the display during order entry. These advantages and others will be evident to a person of ordinary skill in the art of the embodiments described herein.
US10068290B2
Identification of a stable quoting quantity is disclosed. An example method includes setting a quoting quantity for a trading strategy based on a distribution associated with a tradable object of the trading strategy; defining a range having first and second boundaries based on the distribution; updating a first tracked value according to changes in the distribution; and changing the quoting quantity in response to the first tracked value falling outside the range.
US10068289B2
A method for offering at least one credit product by at least one credit issuer to a consumer at a point-of-sale between a merchant and the consumer. The method includes the steps of: providing a credit issuer data set including a plurality of data fields to a central database; initiating a transaction between the consumer and the merchant at the point-of-sale; offering, to the consumer at the point-of-sale, the at least one credit product; and presenting, to the consumer at the point-of-sale, at least one data field in the credit issuer data set. The at least one data field presented to the consumer is populated with data directed to the credit product, the credit issuer, or any combination thereof. An apparatus and system are also disclosed.
US10068285B2
Embodiments relate to multi-dimensional surface-based bid matching. An aspect includes receiving a bid from a first user, the bid comprising a plurality of ranges, wherein each range of the plurality of ranges corresponds to a respective dimension of a plurality of dimensions. Another aspect includes determining a first bid surface in the plurality of dimensions based on the plurality of ranges of the bid of the first user. Another aspect includes modifying the first bid surface based on a match to the bid of the first user, the match comprising a point on a second bid surface corresponding to a bid from a second user. Another aspect includes wherein, if the first user comprises a work requester, the second user comprises a work producer, and if the first user comprises a work producer, the second user comprises a work requester.
US10068282B2
A method for preventing redundant purchases of limited items includes steps for providing a commerce client to a user, receiving (a) financial information of the user and (b) a device identifier from a device the user is using to run the commerce client, the device identifier being based on one or more of user-configurable and non-user-configurable parameters of the user device, determining whether a previous transaction has been made with the device associated with the received device identifier, and disallowing the device from executing further transactions for a predetermined period of time. The method may be executed by an apparatus such as a computer server or stored as a series of instructions on a computer readable medium.
US10068257B1
A method and system for establishing a group of users and providing item recommendations tailored for the group are described. Users can join a recommendation huddle for the purpose of viewing collective item recommendations tailored for the users participating in the recommendation huddle. The item recommendations can be based on the recommendation profiles of participating users, the nature of the item recommendations to be provided (e.g., movies, restaurants, activities, songs, or the like), and other context information. Recommendations, including information about the recommended items, are provided to users participating in the recommendation huddle. In some embodiments, participating users can vote or otherwise provide feedback on the provided recommendations. One or more final selections can be made based on the recommendations and feedback.
US10068256B2
Systems and methods for creating and/or displaying a user information collection are described herein. The user information collections include relevant information for a user of one or more devices. More specifically, the relevant information in the user information collections can include user directed advertisements. User information collections improve a user's ability to accomplish tasks, save money, and/or get desired products and/or services as opposed to just viewing content. Additionally, the user information collections reduce or prevent unwanted data from being added to the user information collections improving the usability of the data in the user information collections and improving user interactions with the device.
