US10130007B2
A fan control system includes a fan and a target device. The fan control system includes a controller to control the rotation speed of the fan. The controller controls the rotation speed according to a time-variable rate of current consumed by the target device. Particularly, when the time-variable rate of current exceeds a threshold, the controller controls the fan to operate at a maximum rotation speed.
US10130005B2
An electronic product, including: a housing, where an air vent is disposed on the housing; a PCB board that is located inside the housing, where a positive electrode and a negative electrode of a power supply are disposed on the PCB board; a fan that is located between the PCB board and the housing; and a switch bar that is located between the fan and the housing and is connected to the housing in a sliding manner, where the switch bar has a first state and a second state, where the switch bar includes a conductive area, when the switch bar is set to the first state, the conductive area is electrically connected to the positive electrode and the negative electrode of the power supply on the PCB board, the fan starts to run.
US10130003B2
A printed circuit board for use with a cooling device configured to cool at least one device is provided. The printed circuit board includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface; a ground plane on the first surface of the substrate, and circuitry in a circuit-region on the second surface of the substrate. The ground plane includes a patterned-region that is patterned with an array of holes. The circuitry is configured for use with the at least one device to be cooled. When a first side of the cooling device contacts the ground plane, and when the at least one device to be cooled contacts the circuitry, a reduced cross-sectional area of the patterned-region prevents heat from a second side of the cooling device from degrading performance of the at least one device.
US10130002B2
Provided are a heat-radiating adhesive member, a heat-radiating sheet using the heat-radiating adhesive member, and an electronic apparatus having the heat-radiating sheet. The heat-radiating adhesive member includes: an adhesive layer; first thermally conductive fillers that are dispersed inside the adhesive layer and spreads heat generated from a heat-generating component of an electronic apparatus in a horizontal direction of the adhesive layer; and second thermally conductive fillers that are dispersed inside the adhesive layer and transfer the heat generated from the heat-generating component of the electronic apparatus to the first thermally conductive fillers.
US10129999B2
A slam latch includes a retaining screw that is held in position by a distal upper support that constrains a distal portion of the retaining screw from moving upward, a middle lower support that constrains a middle portion of the retaining screw from moving downward, and a proximal upper support that constrains a proximal portion of the retaining screw from moving upward. The slam latch further comprises one or more L-shaped retaining members on the side that allow sliding the one or more L-shaped retaining members into a corresponding slot(s) of a device being secured, thereby preventing the slam latch from torqueing and bending with respect to the device.
US10129994B1
An electronic device includes a housing and a water tight display disposed within the housing. The display may include a light guide and a gasket coupled to at least a portion of the light guide. A cavity may be interposed between the gasket and the light guide. A flexible printed circuit assembly (FPCA) may couple to the light guide and the gasket to seal an opening of the cavity. Light sources may be connected to the flexible printed circuit assembly and disposed within the cavity. Adhesive tape may couple to the light guide and the gasket on a side opposite the FPCA to seal an opening of the cavity. Collectively, the light guide, the gasket, the flexible printed circuit assembly, and the adhesive tape may prevent water from reaching the cavity.
US10129991B2
A foldable electronic device and a linking assembly are provided. The foldable electronic device includes a host and a foldable display attached to the host. The host has a first portion, a second portion and a linking assembly connected therebetween. The linking assembly includes N+1 blocks (wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 2) and a plurality of linking sets. Each block has a body and a pair of fitting portions disposed at two opposite sides of the body in a sliding mirror symmetry manner along a first direction, and the fitting portion of the Nth block is fitted with the fitting portion of the N+1 block. Each linking set has two links, and two ends of the two links overlapping each other lean against the Nth block and can move relative to the Nth block. Other two ends of the two links without overlapping each other are respectively fixed to the N−1th and N+1th blocks. When the link assembly is bent, a virtual center of any two adjacent blocks locates within a scope of the foldable display.
US10129976B2
An electronic component, such as a circuit board, fabricated by coextruding an Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE) filament, such as a Dyneema® filament, and a conductive material, such as an Indalloy wire, using only a three-dimensional printer, such as an FDM machine.
US10129970B2
A nozzle for use with a plasma arc torch is provided. The nozzle has a nozzle body having a length that extends from a proximal end to a distal end, a central bore disposed within the nozzle body along a central axis having a feed orifice at the proximal end of the nozzle body, and a discharge orifice at the distal end of the nozzle body. The central bore has a series of internal sections that transition with one or more radial edges between the feed orifice and the discharge orifice. The series of internal sections have a first section beginning at the feed orifice transitioning to a converging section transitioning at a throat to a diverging section ending at the discharge orifice. The length of the converging section is longer than a length of the diverging section. A Venturi effect is created by the converging and diverging sections of the nozzle.
US10129937B1
Disclosed herein is a lighting device including a luminaire having a first light emitter configured to output image and a second light emitter configured to output illumination light. The first light emitter is oriented with the second light emitter such that an available output region of the second light emitter at least substantially overlaps an available output region of the first light emitter. The lighting device also includes a processing system coupled to a driver system, which is coupled to the luminaire. The processing system, via the driver system, is configured to operate the first light emitter to output the image and operate the second light emitter to output the illumination light; and during the operations of the first and light emitters to output a combined light via the substantial overlap, to control the output of at least one of the image or the illumination light to control flicker due to interaction of a portion of the image and a portion of the illumination light.
US10129924B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for utilizing non-overlapping time periods within one or more Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycles configured for a Device-to-Device (D2D) capable wireless device for different types of operations. In some embodiments, these different types of operations are cellular and D2D operations such that the D2D capable wireless device performs cellular and D2D operations (e.g., reception of cellular and D2D signals) during non-overlapping time periods during one or more DRX cycles. In this manner, a D2D capable wireless device that, for example, can only receive one type of signal at a time is enabled to receive both cellular and D2D signals.
US10129922B2
A communication apparatus may perform: establishing a first wireless connection with the external apparatus while a wireless interface is operating in a capable state; attempting a predetermined process including a receiving process and an establishing process in a case where the first wireless connection is established, the receiving process being for receiving setting information from the external apparatus, and the establishing process being for establishing a second wireless connection with an access point; controlling wireless interface to: in a case where the second wireless connection is established, operate in an incapable state, and in a case where the second wireless connection is not established, operate in the capable state, in a case where the second wireless connection is not established; re-establishing the first wireless connection with the external apparatus; and re-attempting the predetermined process.
US10129913B2
The invention pertains to a method for direct communication between mobile terminals by using GSM carrier frequencies, wherein each carrier frequency transmits TDMA frames with a TDMA frame duration of 4.615 ms and each TDMA frame comprises 8 time slots with a duration of 577 microseconds, with the invention being characterized in that a multiframe is agreed upon by combining multiple TDMA frames, preferably 26 TDMA frames, wherein the involved terminals operate in the simplex mode and always transmit and receive in separate time slots within an agreed TDMA frame of the multiframe.
US10129909B2
A wireless communication system performing wireless communication in carrier sense multiple access/collision avoidance system is provided. The wireless communication system includes: remote controllers that corresponding to control targets and transmitting control information for controlling each of the control targets through wireless communication; and an access point that receives and relays the control information to a control apparatus of the control target. The access point includes an access point side wireless communication control portion transmitting a beacon signal and performing wireless communication with each of the remote controllers. Each of the remote controllers includes a remote controller side wireless communication control portion performing wireless communication with the access point. The remote controller side wireless communication control portion performs a carrier sense for a predetermined carrier sense period. The remote controller side wireless communication control portion transmits the control information, and shortens the carrier sense period for a next carrier sense.
US10129907B2
A system and method for providing communications between a hub (medical controller) and a node (an implant) are disclosed. The hub selects an operating channel within a channel group in accordance with applicable regulations, and transmits signals to facilitate communications with nodes. A node sequentially tunes to individual channels within the group, monitoring each channel for a hub transmission during a monitoring period. If a hub transmission is detected, the node stays on the current channel. Otherwise, the node tunes to a next channel in the channel group. The hub transmission may be directed to unconnected nodes, to a single connected node, or to a group of connected nodes. The node transmits a first frame to the hub at a designated transmission time and receives a response. The node reports an emergency by sequentially transmitting emergency frames on each of the channels until receiving an acknowledgment from the hub.
US10129902B2
A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) may be operated in a first scheduling mode for device-to-device communication. In the first scheduling mode, a network entity may schedule resources to be used by the WTRU for device-to-device communications. The WTRU may detect that a radio link failure (RLF) timer is running or has been started. The WTRU may switch from the first scheduling mode for Data device-to-device communication to a second scheduling mode for device-to-device communication in response to detecting that the radio link failure timer is running or has been started. In the second scheduling mode, the WTRU may select a resource from a resource pool for the WTRU to use for one or more device-to-device communications.
US10129896B2
A method and apparatus for optimizing channel access by an access point (AP) in a wireless local area network is provided, the method comprises transmitting first information to a station, and receiving second information from the station while transmitting the first information to the station, wherein the first information and the second information includes at least one of a request to send (RTS) frame, clear to send (CTS) frame, acknowledgement information, and data, respectively.
US10129894B2
Systems and methods for performing traffic engineering in a communications network using a plurality of network slices are disclosed. The network slices are configured to manage a service including transmission of data along one or more flows along nodes of the communications network using a portion of physical link resources of the communications network. The method includes allocating the portion of physical link resources of the communications network associated with a first network slice of the plurality of network slices in accordance with instructions received from a traffic engineering entity associated with the first network slice.
US10129893B2
A method performed by a network node (110) for handling cellular communications and Device-to Device, D2D, communications of user equipments (121, 22, 123, 124) served by the network node (110) in a wireless telecommunications network (100) is provided. The network node determine, for at least one Physical Radio Resource, PRR, to be scheduled for both cellular and D2D communications of the user equipments (121, 122, 123, 124), a number of spatial streams to be used by the cellular and D2D communications of the user equipments (121, 122, 123, 124). The network node then transmits an indication of the number of spatial streams of said determined number of spatial streams to be used in D2D communication on the at least one PRR to at least one user equipment of at least one D2D pair of user equipments (123, 124) determined to be scheduled for D2D communication. A network node (110) for handling cellular communications and Device-to Device, D2D, communications of user equipments (121, 122, 123, 124), and a UE and method therein for configuring a Device-to-Device, D2D, communication with another user equipment (123, 124) are also provided.
US10129892B2
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and devices are described for reverse channel audio (RCA) session establishment and management. A sink device may identify a unidirectional communication channel with a source device. The sink device may determine that a trigger is present, where the trigger is associated with a RCA transmission to the source device, and establish a RCA session for transmitting the RCA transmission to the source device based at least in part on the identified trigger. A source device may identify a unidirectional communication channel with a sink device and receive an indication that a sink device supports RCA transmissions, such as via the unidirectional communication channel. The source device may transmit a trigger to the sink device to initiate the RCA transmission, such as via the unidirectional communication channel, and receive the RCA transmission from the sink device based at least in part on the trigger.
US10129884B1
This process utilizes multiple threads over multiple paths (towers and/or carriers) in order to improve the above noted problems by dynamically splitting multiple data streams, sending these multiple data streams over multiple data link paths over a cellular network and then combining some or all of the data streams to provide error free availability of relevant data and control while intelligently mitigating bandwidth limitations and “loss of link” or connection, for secure and safe UAS operations. Also described is a process to improve Throughput and/or Reliability of Video data when transmitted over multi-threaded, primarily but not limited to, cellular based communications systems, with a particular emphasis on video used in support of UAS missions.
US10129875B2
Disclosed are processes, devices and systems for exchanging messages between devices in support of measuring ranges between devices. In one particular implementation, a first wireless transceiver device may transmit one or more fine timing measurement (FTM) messages to a second wireless transceiver device, and receive a message acknowledging receipt of at least one of the one or more FTM messages. The first wireless transceiver device may authenticate the received message as being transmitted from the second wireless transceiver device.
US10129871B2
A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is configured to configure a set of hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) processes. The WTRU is configured to receive information which limits a particular MAC-d flow to accessing a limited set of H-ARQ processes. The WTRU is configured to determine whether a first H-ARQ process from the set of H-ARQ processes is available for transmitting EU data in a transmit time interval (TTI). The WTRU is configured to determine whether the particular MAC-d flow has access to the first H-ARQ process, based on the information received. The WTRU is configured to transmit data from the particular MAC-d flow in the TTI using the first H-ARQ process, on a condition that the first H-ARQ process is available for transmitting EU data in the TTI and that the particular MAC-d flow has access to the first H-ARQ process.
US10129870B2
A wireless device may identify a first subband in an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band used to communicate control traffic. The wireless device may identify a second subband in the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band used to communicate data traffic. The first subband and the second subband may be different. The wireless device may reserve the first subband for a first duration of time for a plurality of wireless devices. The reservation may be based at least in part on an enhanced self-clear-to-send (self-CTS) transmitted over the first subband.
US10129869B2
Where first and second reference signals for a first and second communication system, respectively, are transmitted, resources that affect a reception apparatus compatible only with the first communication system can be minimized, and the throughput can be prevented from being deteriorated. As resources for a reference signal CSI-RS for LTE-A, last half symbols in a time direction of a resource unit RB/Sub-frame defined in a frequency-time domain are used, and the CSI-RS is allocated in a position up to the last two symbols or in the last symbol, or the like, of a particular RB/Sub-frame and transmitted when a reference signal 4RS for LTE is transmitted to a reception apparatus in addition to transmitting CSI-RS for LTE-A. The reception apparatus receives CSI-RS allocated in the last half symbol of RB/Sub-frame based on CSI-RS allocation information, measures channel quality by using this CSI-RS, and transmits and reports feedback information.
US10129866B2
Technology for a user equipment (UE) configured for blind decoding downlink control information (DCI) from an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) is disclosed. The UE can receive, from a base station, the EPDCCH that includes the DCI. The UE can attempt one or more times to decode the DCI from enhanced control channel elements (ECCE) of the EPDCCH from physical resource block (PRB) region candidates in a PRB set using a selected set of enhanced resource element group (EREG) index maps for the ECCE until the DCI is successfully decoded.
US10129862B1
A base station of a time reversal communication system is provided. The base station receives a set of channel probing signals from a set of terminal devices, determines channel impulse responses based on the channel probing signals, and determines location-specific signature waveforms based on the channel impulse responses, in which each of the location-specific signature waveforms is associated with a particular location of the respective terminal device. The base station generates a set of medium access layer parameters, in which each medium access layer parameter is associated with a particular one of the terminal devices. For each terminal device, the base station generates transmit data signals based on data intended for the terminal device, and the medium access layer parameter and the location-specific signature waveform associated with the terminal device. The base station transmits the transmit data signals wirelessly to the terminal devices.
US10129861B2
A method and node for power efficient allocation of enhanced physical downlink control channel resources are disclosed. According one aspect, a method at a network node of allocating an enhanced control channel to a first wireless device is provided. The method includes determining a control channel subframe pattern for the first wireless device. The subframe pattern for the first wireless device includes at least an indication of a pattern of subframes during which the first wireless device is to monitor the enhanced control channel for downlink control information. The subframe pattern is based at least in part on enhanced control channel subframe utilization of other wireless devices. The method also includes transmitting the control channel subframe pattern to the first wireless device, and transmitting the downlink control channel information to the first wireless device over the enhanced control channel according to the enhanced control channel subframe pattern.
US10129859B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A wireless device such as a user equipment (UE) or a base station may identify a set of resource element groups (REGs) for low latency communication, and each REG may include a portion of a different resource block (RB) of a set of RBs (e.g., a set of non-contiguous RBs). The device may then map an uplink control channel to the selected REGs and communicate on the uplink control channel accordingly. Reference signals may also be transmitted in the same RBs, and the REGs may be mapped around the resources used for reference signals. In some cases, multiple UEs may transmit uplink control data using the same resources using code division multiplexing (CDM) (e.g., if the control payload is relatively small). In other cases, multiple UEs may be frequency division multiplexed (FDM).
US10129853B2
In a general aspect, a motion detection channel is operated in a wireless communication network. In some aspects, a first wireless network device communicates wireless network traffic on a first subset of wireless communication channels in a wireless communication network. The first wireless network device receives motion detection signals transmitted through a space by a second wireless network device. The motion detection signals are received on a second subset of wireless communication channels. The motion detection signals are processed to detect motion of an object in the space.
US10129846B2
An input unit inputs detected information that has been acquired by a sensor. By inserting time information into the detected information that has been input, a multiplexer generates an information sequence in which the detected information and the time information are multiplexed in a time-dividing manner. A transmission unit transmits the information sequence. The time information in the multiplexer is used to synchronize timing between detected information included in an information sequence transmitted from another transmitter and the detected information in the multiplexer.
US10129843B2
The present invention provides a synchronization signal sending method and apparatus and a synchronization signal receiving method and apparatus. The synchronization signal sending includes: a sending module, configured to send a first-type subframe, where the first-type subframe includes a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and a first synchronization channel, the first synchronization channel includes a first primary synchronization signal (PSS) and a first secondary synchronization signal (SSS); and a processing module, configured to control the sending module to switch from sending the first-type subframe to sending a second-type subframe. The sending module is further configured to send the second-type subframe under the control of the processing module, where the second-type subframe includes a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and a second synchronization channel, the second synchronization channel includes a second PSS or a second SSS.
US10129837B2
A variable capacitor is disclosed, having a variable capacitance between a first node and a second node. The variable capacitor comprises a switch having a first terminal and a second terminal, the impedance between the first terminal and the second terminal being controllable via a control node. The variable capacitor further includes a first capacitor coupled between the first terminal and the first node, and a second capacitor coupled between the second terminal and the second node.
US10129833B2
A power control method, apparatus, and system is described. First outer loop power control is performed according to an actual hard metric and a preset target hard metric to adjust a target soft metric required by second outer loop power control, to obtain an adjusted target soft metric. Therefore, this ensures that when the adjusted target soft metric is converged, the target hard metric can be correctly converged to achieve target quality required by a system.
US10129828B2
A user equipment device (UE) may transmit, in a packet to a base station, information associated with resource configuration/resource requirement corresponding to wireless uplink communications of the wireless communication device. The base station may assign resources to the UE based on the received information. The UE may receive an uplink grant from the base station, with the uplink grant specifying resources for use by the wireless communication device during the uplink communications based on the information previously transmitted to the base station by the wireless communication device. The UE may send the packet at the time a voice call with the UE is initiated, and/or the UE may transmit the information during voice calls in response the UE changing one or more resource configuration parameters during the voice call. The UE may use Robust Header Compression packets of various types to transmit the resource configuration information.
US10129827B2
Embodiments herein provide a method applying a common Discontinuous Reception (DRX) configuration at a User Equipment (UE) in a multi-connectivity mode. The method includes detecting, by the UE, a common DRX criterion. Further, the method includes forcing, by the UE, the DRX ON state of the first DRX cycle to a DRX OFF state. Further, the method includes forcing, by the UE, the first DRX cycle to wake up when one of a second DRX cycle transits from the DRX OFF state to the DRX ON state and a common DRX time period expires.
US10129824B2
The method for transmitting and receiving data at a base station in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of receiving a performance report from a terminal, determining whether the addition of a serving cell is necessary, when the addition of the serving cell is necessary, transmitting a request for receiving a cell identifying signal to one or more other base stations on the basis of the received performance report and transmitting a request for transmitting the cell identifying signal to the terminal. According to the embodiment, in a network in which a small cell and a macro cell are overlapped and operated, the terminal can minimize battery consumption and quickly recognize the small cell.
US10129821B2
A multichannel radio frequency apparatus and method are disclosed. The apparatus includes a digital baseband unit and at least one transmission subsystem, and the subsystem includes: digital up converters, configured to up-convert baseband signals generated; a digital combiner, configured to up-convert M channels of digital radio frequency signals into a high frequency band whose frequency is greater than or equal to 30 GHz, to obtain M channels of high frequency digital signals, and combine the M channels of high frequency digital signals into a channel of ultra-wideband high frequency digital signal; a DAC, configured to convert the ultra-wideband high frequency digital signal into an ultra-wideband high frequency analog signal; an analog splitter, configured to split the ultra-wideband high frequency analog signal into M channels of high frequency analog signals; and radio frequency transmitting circuits, configured to transmit the analog radio frequency signals by using radio frequency antennas.
US10129815B2
A method that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying, by a network device comprising a processor, a bearer path through a communication network for carrying internet protocol packets associated with a calling session between a first mobile device and a second mobile device and activating, by the network device, a bridging bearer path at a nearest network element to generate a direct tunnel for carrying the internet protocol packets associated with the calling session and to modify the bearer path to a shortest bearer path, where the nearest network element comprises a network element that is communicatively coupled to both the first mobile device and the second mobile device and that is closest to the first mobile device and the second mobile device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10129810B1
A system and method that enables an application to retrieve application update from the software vendor using one or more network connection. The application checks for updates when it is invoked by the user. The checking of updates is done by sending a request to the vendor server via one or multiple network connections. The network connection can be wired or wireless. By using multiple network connections, the update process can send and receive update data faster than using one network connections. Another aspect of the invention is if the checking for update request failed via the default or 1st network connection, the application will check for the next available network connection to send the update request. By checking for update from the vendor, the application will always have the most up to date patches, fixes, and/or new features.
US10129804B2
A base station comprises: a controller configured to control, in a case another base station performs efficient operation by which a part of functions regarding communication with a user terminal is stopped, so that the part of functions is performed in the base station, in place of in the other base station, while the base station utilizes a radio unit and an antenna unit of the other base station.
US10129800B2
There is provided methods that enables a User Equipment to adjust a playback buffer in the case of a potential handover to thereby mitigate problems with buffer underrun and freezing of playback of media content. There is also provided a User Equipment and a Network Controller configured to perform the steps of the methods as well as a computer program.
US10129797B2
A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) is configured to operate in an high speed data packet access (HSDPA) mode in a cell and/or state and to clear HSDPA resources when moving out of the cell and/or state. The WTRU is configured to clear HSDPA resources when conditions to perform high speed downlink shared channel reception are not met.
US10129795B2
A mobile communications system including a network with a source network node and a target network node that supports a handover procedure, and a mobile terminal that is allowed to access the source network node and access the target network node according to the handover procedure, in which information related to a reception status of user data is delivered between at least two among a group including the mobile terminal, the source network node, and the target network node such that the target network node may receive status information from the source network node and the target network node may receive a status report from the mobile terminal.
US10129793B2
The present invention relates to a method and a device for selecting a cell in a mobile communication system and, more particularly, to a method and a device for selecting a cell for transmitting data, by a base station, not only in a licensed frequency band but in an unlicensed frequency band. In order to achieve the described task, a method for configuring a cell of a base station in a mobile communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: connecting with a terminal through a first cell of a licensed band; transmitting, to the terminal, a message for configuring multiple second cells in an unlicensed band through the first cell; and monitoring the configured multiple second cells in the unlicensed band, wherein the number of the multiple second cells exceeds the number of cells, a Carrier Aggregation (CA) of which the terminal can support. The present disclosure relates to a 5G or a pre-5G communication system to be provided in order to support a higher data transmission rate after a 4G communication system such as an LTE.
US10129786B2
An access point of a radio network, a wireless device and methods therein, for controlling a radio communication of data from the access point to the wireless device. When detecting that the number of wireless devices in a user group for which downlink data is pending exceeds the number of wireless devices that can receive downlink data during an upcoming time period reserved for the user group, the access point selects a subset of the wireless devices to which it is possible to send downlink data during the upcoming time period, and transmits a beacon indicating that the subset of the wireless devices have pending data to receive. Thereby, any unsuccessful requests transmitted from devices for pending data may be avoided and the risk for collision of requests may also be reduced.
US10129783B2
Systems and methods for transmission of measurement reports are provided. In some cases, once a mobile station transmits a measurement report for a cell, such as an uncontrolled cell, then the mobile station transmits some further minimum number of measurement reports. In some cases, a mobile station can only transmit measurement reports for a cell up to some maximum or for some specified time. The mobile station transmits measurement reports using two formats. In the first, the cell is identified using routing parameters; in the second, the cell is not identified using routing parameters. The network is able to associate messages sent using the two formats.
US10129780B2
Provided is a technique related to a terminal apparatus, a base station apparatus, a communication system, a control method, and an integrated circuit which perform cell measurements efficiently. In a case where a measurement event which sets frequencies of a plurality of serving cells as a measurement object is configured by measurement configuration, the terminal apparatus determines each of an evaluation object cell and a neighbor cell from the plurality of serving cells at a frequency of the measurement object based on the measurement configuration configured by the base station apparatus, and evaluates the measurement event by using a measurement result of the evaluation object cell.
US10129776B2
The present specification provides a method and device for displaying the isolation or recovery of a base station in a wireless communication system. The second base station receives information indicating the state of a link with a first base station and an evolved packet core (EPC) from the first base station or a mobility management entity (MME), and determines whether to perform a handover on the basis of the received information.
US10129774B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe systems, devices, and methods for wireless local area network alarm notifications in cellular networks. Various embodiments may include an integration reference point agent in an element manager that receives an alarm notification according to a first format from an access point, converts the alarm notification to a second format, and send the converted alarm notification to an integration reference point manager. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.
US10129773B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for managing data use by a user device. In an embodiment, the resolution of media generation, media presentation, or both are altered to optimize the device's usage of data under a data allotment. In a further embodiment, the device may serve as a data conduit to a second device for reasons of improved resolution, improved battery life, or to optimize data allotment.
US10129772B1
Embodiments for performing an anticipatory networking are provided. These embodiments include detecting an action taken by a user of a wirelessly-enabled device, an automated action of the wirelessly-enabled device, or a current condition of the device; learning what future operations the wirelessly-enabled device will likely need to perform in order to carry out the desired user action or device action; creating a user profile based on the learned information; and proactively performing, based on the user profile, certain downstream operations before the data corresponding to those operations is actually needed. In some embodiments, the anticipatory networking techniques disclosed herein essentially represent the confluence of networking concepts and machine learning concepts, and as such, enable wireless communications having reduced latency, while also improving network reliability and device performance.
US10129764B2
Mechanisms for wireless directional transmission systems are proposed. In a first novel aspect, a mechanism for reference signal provisioning and channel information reporting is proposed. Two sets of measurement pilots are introduced for initial access and control signaling. In a second novel aspect, a beamwidth adaptation mechanism is proposed to deal with occasional channel variation without requiring constantly high overhead due to measurement pilot transmission. In a third novel aspect, a mechanism for backhaul link to activate/deactivate efficiently is proposed. New states of activated state and deactivated state are introduced.
US10129750B2
Disclosed are exemplary embodiments of apparatus and methods for provisioning a wireless-capable climate control system device for a wireless network. In an exemplary embodiment, a method of provisioning a wireless-capable target device for a wireless network includes providing, to the target device, wireless network authentication data for joining the wireless network. The providing is performed using a user-interface-equipped device. The target device attempts to join the wireless network using the wireless network authentication data. In some embodiments the user-interface-equipped device receives a signal from the target device indicating whether the attempt to join the wireless network was successful.
US10129749B2
A method and device for acquiring a response message, a method and device for routing the response message, and a system for acquiring the response message and routing the response message are disclosed. The method includes steps that: a source node sends a service request message to a second group of nodes via a first group of DRA nodes; and the source node acquires the service response message returned by the destination node via the second group of DRA nodes.
US10129739B2
The present invention provides a data transmission method and a device. In the method, in a case in which a first device is registered with a second device, the first device acquires a data transfer policy; and the first device sends data to the second device according to the data transfer policy, so that efficiency of data sharing and data analysis is improved by means of a DMR function of a network-side node.
US10129738B2
A method and an apparatus for reporting a capability of a User Equipment (UE) supporting advanced functions such as Carrier Aggregation (CA) are provided. The method includes checking, when a control message requesting a capability report is received, a Radio Access Technology (RAT) type and transmitting, when the RAT type is set to Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (EUTRA), at least one band combination information on at least one band combination supported by the terminal. The UE capability report method is capable of reporting the UE capability related to advanced functions, such as CA and Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO), to a network efficiently with the least amount of information, thereby resulting in an improvement of radio resource efficiency.
US10129735B2
A processor-based personal electronic device (such as a smartphone) uses combinatorial logic to automatically adjust alarms, notifications, reminders, and the like based on data from device event histories, on-board sensors, user-entered data, and similar information. One particular representative embodiment comprises a process for automatically deleting an unneeded reminder. For example, a user may have a personal electronic device that is set to issue a reminder for a meeting in a certain place, on a certain date at a certain time. If location sensors detect that the user is already at the certain place on the certain date at (or reasonably before) the certain time, the now superfluous reminder is automatically cancelled.
US10129729B2
Systems and methods are provided for allowing a user with a Smartphone to pair the Smartphone with another Bluetooth device to receive audio that is played to the user over headphones or through speakers on the Smartphone. Further, an audio processing module is used to modify the audio presented to the user, extract closed captioning text to be displayed to the user, find information relevant to the audio to be displayed to the user, and pause audio content sent to the Smartphone when phone calls or other Smartphone interruptions occur.
US10129723B2
A method and apparatus for coordinating applications between incident-area networks (IANs) are provided herein. During operation an application server (serving as an app store within an IAN) will monitor all IAN Apps stores that are on scene (at an incident). All app stores on scene will share information regarding the content/applications they can provide. When a connected radio requests particular content from an IAN, the application server will determine a best app store to provide the content. The connected radio will be directed to hand over to the appropriate IAN app store to retrieve the content.
US10129720B1
A graphical user interface (GUI) on a display of an electronic device visually presents to a user a group of voice bundles that are available for use on the electronic device. Each voice bundle includes a software application for performing a call flow that includes a sequence of prompt instructions and grammar instructions executable to result in a simulated multi-step spoken interaction between the electronic device and the user. An input is received from the user entered through the GUI indicating a selection of a voice bundle from the group of voice bundles. In response to the input, a remote server is identified that stores the selected voice bundle. Network communications is established between the electronic device and the remote server. The selected voice bundle is located on the remote server. A copy of the selected voice bundle is downloaded from the remote server onto the electronic device.
US10129717B2
A warning system in which users' devices performs a method including: receiving a broadcast message comprising message information in a first human language from a mobile telecommunication network or an indication of an alternative radio bearer or network for retrieval of the message information; storing information templates in one or more different human languages; and presenting to a user, according to a language preference of the user: the message information of the broadcast message; or one or more information templates corresponding to the message information, in a second human language other than the first human language.
US10129710B2
A method and apparatus for stopping receiving of a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) data in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE), which is receiving a MBMS data of group communication from a network, receives an indication of stopping receiving the MBMS data from the network, and stops receiving the MBMS data based on the indication.
US10129709B1
Fading profile detection may be used in many wireless communication system receivers to perform improved channel estimation and decoding. Delay spread may be very high for some fading profiles and hence the coherence bandwidth may be very limited for these fading profiles. It may not be possible to reliably differentiate high delay spread fading profiles from low and mid delay spread fading profiles by the conventional delay spread estimation techniques. A method and apparatus are disclosed that can identify and differentiate high delay spread fading profiles from the low and mid delay spread fading profile to perform improved channel estimation and decoding of the received data.
US10129688B2
The present invention relates to a mobile communication system, and more particularly relates to a method for transmitting a small-sized control signal (also known as “small data”) using a control plane in a MTC (machine-type communication) service in a mobile communication system. In the present invention, MTC data is encapsulated in an existing control procedure or control message or the like, on a control signal, without performing packet data bearer setup, and the control signal having the encapsulated MTC data is sent between a network and a terminal, thereby optimizing network resource efficiency and reducing the wireless channel load.
US10129666B2
A device including a prosthesis including an external component configured to output a signal in response to an external stimulus and a skin penetrating component configured to communicatively transfer the signal at least partially beneath skin of the recipient, wherein the device is configured such that the skin penetrating component can move in a plurality of degrees of freedom relative to the external component while retained to the external component.
US10129664B2
Disclosed herein, among other things, are systems and methods for a user adjustment interface using remote computing resources. Specifically, a system can include a mobile device in communication with a hearing assistance device or a remote server. The mobile device can interpret an acoustic environment and send information about the environment to a remote server. The remote server can determine and send information to the mobile device for use in a user interface. The mobile device can receive a user selection of hearing assistance parameter information to be sent to the hearing assistance device.
US10129662B2
A hearing system includes a hearing aid (10) and a personal communication device (20) being connected via a short range data communication link (15, 29). The hearing aid (10) has a signal processor (13) processing an input signal according to audio processing parameters, a sub-system applying respective sets of processing parameters for at least two modes, a classifier component (51) analyzing auditory environment statistically by comparing specific characteristics of the input signal to one or more thresholds. A program selector component (16) selects automatically an appropriate mode for the signal processing sub-system according to the classifier output. The personal communication device (20) offers the user a user interface (120) for controlling and interacting with the program selector component (16) of the hearing aid (10), and for generating and transmitting a notification to the hearing aid (10). Upon reception of the notification, the processor (13) adjusts at least one of said one or more thresholds used by the classifier component (51).
US10129654B2
Disclosed is a micro loudspeaker, which comprises a magnetic circuit system, a vibration system and a support system. The magnetic circuit system comprises a yoke, and a magnet and a washer accommodated within the yoke. The vibration system comprises a diaphragm and a voice coil adhesively fixed to the diaphragm. The support system comprises a front cover, and a housing matched and combined with the front cover. The housing comprises a bottom wall and a side wall. The bottom wall is provided with a mounting portion accommodating the magnetic circuit system, and is also provided with an assembly plane for assembly with a terminal. A height difference is provided between a position of the bottom wall of the housing corresponding to the assembly plane and a position of the side wall of the housing corresponding to the assembly plane, so as to cooperatively form an avoidance inclined surface.
US10129651B2
A MEMS microphone having a backplate, a spring, and a membrane. In one embodiment, the membrane is supported in an approximate center of the membrane via a support. The support is connected to the approximate center of the membrane and an approximate center of the backplate. The membrane is connected to a spring that provides an electrical connection. The membrane may be electrically biased via the electrical connection. One or more overtravel stops are fixed to the backplate and pass through an aperture of the membrane. The overtravel stops are configured to prevent movement of the membrane in a radial direction opposite to the backplate. The membrane includes a stress gradient, a corrugation, or another structure that sets or determines a stiffness of the membrane.
US10129624B2
At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a method and device for voice operated control with learning. The method can include measuring a first sound received from a first microphone, measuring a second sound received from a second microphone, detecting a spoken voice based on an analysis of measurements taken at the first and second microphone, learning from the analysis when the user is speaking and a speaking level in noisy environments, training a decision unit from the learning to be robust to a detection of the spoken voice in the noisy environments, mixing the first sound and the second sound to produce a mixed signal, and controlling the production of the mixed signal based on the learning of one or more aspects of the spoken voice and ambient sounds in the noisy environments.
US10129623B2
An electronic device in accordance with a particular embodiment of the present technology includes a rigid covering substrate, an acoustic port extending through the covering substrate, an acoustic transducer carried by the covering substrate, and another electronic component (e.g., a touch sensor or an antenna) also carried by the covering substrate. The electronic device can also include processing circuitry and an array of electrodes through which the acoustic transducer and the other electronic component are electrically connected to the processing circuitry. The array of electrodes can be part of a flexible circuit board extending between a contact region of the covering substrate and the processing circuitry. The transducer lead can extend between a region of the covering substrate including the acoustic port and the contact region.
US10129621B2
A connection device for setting up an arrangement of a plurality of loudspeaker boxes that are suspended beneath one another comprises a first assembly rail which is provided for assembly on a first loudspeaker box and to which a latching part is attached, and a second assembly rail which is provided for assembly on a second loudspeaker box and to which a retaining element that interacts with the latching part is attached. Herein, a free path length of a longitudinal displaceability of the latching part in relation to the first assembly rail is preselectable. Furthermore, the position of the retaining element in relation to the second assembly rail is preselectable.
US10129618B2
Multi-layer configurable timing switch fabrics and related methods are disclosed for selectively distributing multiple timing sources to multiple timing consumers. Configurable timing switches are used at central and multiple local levels within the housing for a network-connected processing system to selectively distribute the timing sources to the timing consumers. As such, significant flexibility is provided with respect to what timing sources can be received within the system and how these timing sources are distributed to different timing consumers. Further, timing information can be generated within the network-connected processing system based upon network communications received from timing consumers, and this generated timing information can also be used as timing sources for the multi-layer configurable timing switch fabric.
US10129617B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a link switching method, device, and system. The method comprises: an optical network unit (ONU) transmits a monitoring packet through a first Maintenance association End Point on a first link connected to the ONU and an aggregation side switch device, so as to monitor the first link; the ONU performs switching from a first sub-link of the first link to a first sub-link of a second link if it is detected that a link fault occurs on the first link; the ONU sends a notification message to a second optical line terminal (OLT), so that the second OLT enables a transmission port; and the ONU sends an automatic protection switching message to the aggregation side switch device through a second Maintenance association End Point on the second link.
US10129608B2
A solution is provided for detecting video highlights of a sports video. A video highlight of a sports video is a portion of the sports video and represents a semantically important event captured in the sports video. An audio stream associated with the sports video is evaluated, e.g., the loudness and length of the loudness of the portions of the audio stream. Video segments of the sports video are selected based on the evaluation of the audio stream. Each selected video segment represents a video highlight candidate of the sports video. A trained audio classification model is used to recognize the voice patterns in the audio stream associated with each selected video segment. Based on the comparison of the recognized video patterns with a set of desired voice patterns, one or more video segments are selected as the video highlights of the sports video.
US10129599B2
Example techniques for populating a preference database affiliated with a media playback system with preferences received for media items are provided. A preference may be associated with a media item from a service provider account, and may be stored in the preference database in association with the service provider account. The service provider account may be associated with multiple user profiles used to access a media playback device, and the preference may be associated with one of the user profiles associated with the service provider account, and stored in association with the user profile. Further, the preference may be received from a user account different from a user account used to access the media item. In this case, the preference may be stored in association with the user account providing the preference. The stored preferences may be used to manage media content playback by the media playback system.
US10129597B2
A video-on-demand (VOD) content delivery system has a VOD Application Server which manages a database of templates for presentation of video content elements of different selected types categorized in hierarchical order. A web-based Content Management System receives content uploaded online in file formats with metadata for title and topical area, and automatically converts it into video data format compatible with the VOD content delivery system indexed by title and topical area. A User Interface for the system delivers listings data to the viewer's TV indexed by title and topical area specified by the uploaded metadata.
US10129596B2
Embodiments provide techniques for presenting a user interface. An initial interface containing a first plurality of selectable elements is presented to a user. Embodiments assign the user to a first one of a plurality of preference groups. A plurality of selections made by the user of selectable elements from the plurality of selectable elements are detected. Embodiments then generate a second interface for the user that includes a second plurality of selectable elements, based on the first preference group to which the user is assigned and the selectable elements selected by the user.
US10129593B2
Apparatus and methods for enabling time-based secondary content scheduling and dynamic placement for users of a content distribution network. In one embodiment, the network comprises a managed network, and the secondary content comprises advertising which was scheduled at the time the primary content was stored/recorded. A management process is adapted to identify the originally scheduled advertisements and utilize a temporal reference (e.g., time stamp) or other data associated with the original recording provided to the management process when an advertisement call is made dynamically, thereby preserving such relationship when the recorded content is requested for playback with a certain period of time, without having to store the advertisements with each recording. In another embodiment, a Campaign Management System (CMS) is used to associate campaigns based on a time period “in the past” (e.g., via use of one or more historic records regarding the advertisement placement for each user individually).
US10129591B2
Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for signature retrieval and matching for media monitoring are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a hash table populator to store hash keys of reference signatures included in a reference signature block associated with reference media in entries of a hash table, and store qualifier data in the entry of the hash table, the qualifier data including a timestamp, an offset, and an identifier associated with the reference signature of the hash key. The apparatus further including a block table populator to store a block table key corresponding to the reference signature block in the entry of a block table, the block table key including the timestamp and the identifier, and store the reference signature block, a preceding reference signature block and a subsequent reference signature block in the first entry of the block table. The apparatus further including a signature matcher to access the hash table and the block table to retrieve candidate reference signatures to compare with site signatures to identify the monitored media.
US10129588B2
A digital broadcast receiver transmits a request for discovery information to a discovery information server, the request including receiver profile information associated with the current state of the digital broadcast receiver. The server identifies, on the basis of the receiver profile information, additional services that are available over an IP with a digital broadcasting receiver, and transmits discovery information for the additional services to the receiver. Then, the digital broadcast receiver determines a receiver channel number in order to locate the additional service at a channel guide on the basis of the received discovery information and logical channel numbers that are assigned to a plurality of broadcast services by a broadcast provider, and generates a channel guide by including the additional services in the determined receiver channel number and the plurality of broadcast services of the respective receiver channel numbers corresponding to the logical channel numbers.
US10129583B2
A user device may receive one or more signals in a particular sequence and within a threshold period of time from an accessory; determine a scrolling instruction corresponding to the one or more signals received in the particular sequence and within the threshold period of time; and execute the scrolling instruction to continuously scroll through a program guide, displayed by the user device, based on determining the scrolling instruction.
US10129581B2
Methods and systems for a transportation vehicle are provided. One method includes interfacing a PED with an IFE system that includes at least one of a function and a service associated with an object; capturing an image of an object by the PED, identifying the function or service associated with the object using the captured image and an application of the PED; presenting an option by the application to initiate the function or service; and upon selection of the option by a user, communicating a request in accordance therewith to the IFE system.
US10129572B2
The invention relates to encapsulating partitioned timed media data in a server, the partitioned timed media data comprising timed samples, each timed sample comprising a plurality of subsamples. After having selected at least one subsample from amongst the plurality of subsamples of one of the timed samples, one partition track comprising the selected subsample and one corresponding subsample of each of the other timed samples is created for each selected subsample. Next, at least one dependency box is created, each dependency box being related to a partition track and comprising at least one reference to one or more of the other created partition tracks, the at least one reference representing a decoding order dependency in relation to the one or more of the other partition tracks. Each of the partition tracks is independently encapsulated in at least one media file.
US10129567B2
Disclosed is a prediction method adopting in-loop filtering. According to the present invention, a prediction method for encoding and decoding video comprises the following steps: generating a residual block of the current block through an inverse quantization and inverse transform; generating a prediction block of the current block through an intra-prediction; performing in-loop filtering on the current block in which the residual block and the prediction block are combined; and storing the current block, on which the in-loop filtering is performed, in a frame buffer for an intra-prediction of the next block to be encoded. As described above, prediction is performed using an in-loop filter during processes for encoding and decoding video, thereby improving the accuracy of prediction and reducing errors in prediction, thus improving the efficiency of video compression and reducing the amount of data to be transmitted.
US10129566B2
Disclosed herein are innovations in decoding compressed video media data. The disclosed innovations facilitate decoding operations with improved computational efficiency, faster speeds, reduced power, reduced memory usage, and/or reduced latency. In one embodiment, for example, an encoded bitstream of video media data is input from an external video content provider, the encoded bitstream being encoded according to a video codec standard. A decoder is then configured to decode the encoded bitstream based at least in part on supplemental information that identifies a property of the encoded bitstream but that is supplemental to the encoded bitstream (e.g., supplemental information that is not part of the encoded bitstream or its associated media container and that is specific (or related) to the application for which the bitstream is used and/or the standard by which the bitstream is encoded and/or encrypted).
US10129565B2
A method for processing High Dynamic Range (HDR) video in order to improve the perceived visual quality of encoded content. An encoder receives an original image, wherein a contrast analysis is performed on said original image in order to highlight potential problematic areas. The original image is reduced to a decreased bit depth image in order to compute a predicted image, wherein the predicted image is then magnified to an increased bit depth image. A residual image is then computed from the original image and the increased bit depth image, and the residual image is transformed into a frequency signal. Quantized coefficients determined through the contrast analysis are then applied to the frequency signal to produce a reduced frequency signal. The encoder then inserts high-frequency components into the reduced frequency signal before encoding a compressed image from the reduced frequency image and the predicted image.
US10129561B2
Various embodiments for deriving a motion vector predictor for a current block are provided. At least one first candidate of a predictor of the motion vector for the current block is derived from a first motion vector of a first block that is adjacent to the current block in the current picture. At least one second candidate of the predictor is derived from a second motion vector of a second block that is included in a picture that is different from the current picture when a number of the first candidate is less than a maximum number. A zero motion vector is added as a third candidate of the predictor when a sum of the numbers of the first candidate and the second candidate is less than the maximum number. The third candidate is added until a total number of candidates is equal to the maximum number.
US10129557B2
Implementations are provided that relate, for example, to view tiling in video encoding and decoding. A particular method includes accessing a video picture that includes multiple pictures combined into a single picture (826), accessing information indicating how the multiple pictures in the accessed video picture are combined (806, 808, 822), decoding the video picture to provide a decoded representation of at least one of the multiple pictures (824, 826), and providing the accessed information and the decoded video picture as output (824, 826). Some other implementations format or process the information that indicates how multiple pictures included in a single video picture are combined into the single video picture, and format or process an encoded representation of the combined multiple pictures.
US10129555B2
A method for decoding a picture on an electronic device is described. The method includes obtaining a bitstream. The method also includes obtaining a current picture. The method further includes obtaining a relative reference picture set (RPS) parameter. The method additionally includes initializing an index value. Furthermore, the method includes processing another RPS parameter based on the index value. The method also includes decoding the current picture.
US10129554B2
Provided is an apparatus for processing a video. The apparatus for processing a video includes an image receiving module that is configured to receive encoded data, a filtering module that is configured to filter an image frame reconstructed from the encoded image, a block dividing module that is configured to divide the filtered image frame into a plurality of blocks, a compression module that is configured to compress each of the plurality of blocks, package the compressed plurality of blocks into a predetermined unit, and generate lookup table information corresponding to each of the packaged plurality of blocks, and a frame buffer memory that is configured to record the packaged data and the lookup table information.
US10129543B2
A prefetched-image memory stores a prefetched image of a prefetched area prefetched from a reference image memory that stores a reference image. A processor performs a motion search using a reduced image obtained by reducing an encoding target image and generates a search result for an encoding target block included in the encoding target image. The processor determines, based on the search result, that an area situated outside the prefetched area in the reference image is to be searched when the processor has predicted from the search result that a matching of the encoding target block and the prefetched image will be unsuccessful. Next, the processor performs a matching of the encoding target block and an image of a matching target area including the outside area in the reference image and generates an inter-prediction result. Then, the processor encodes the encoding target block based on the inter-prediction result.
US10129536B2
The present invention relates to a multi-view three-dimensional (3D) display apparatus including a display panel in which pixels (or subpixels) outputting an image are arranged and a parallax barrier disposed on a front surface of the display panel and including a plurality of apertures, wherein the apertures of the parallax barrier are set according to a Fresnel number.
US10129526B2
Methods for interfacing with an interactive application using a controller with an integrated camera
A computer implemented method for using a controller with at least one integrated camera is provided. The method includes identifying fixed points associated with objects disposed in a three-dimensional space using a depth camera that is part of with a controller. The method includes analyzing the identified fixed points captured by the depth camera and determining changes in position of the controller based on changes in position of the fixed points as determined from depth data captured by the depth camera. The method further includes triggering an input command when the controller is determined to in a particular positon based on the determined changes in position.
US10129516B2
Systems and methods for marking an event of interest within a spherical video segment are provided. The spherical video segment may define visual content viewable from a point of view. User input designating an event of interest within the visual content may be received. The user input may indicate a point in time in the spherical video segment and a viewing angle of the event of interest. Tag information associated with the event of interest may be generated. The tag information may identify the point in time and the viewing angle such that notification of alert information is effectuated based on a determination that the viewing angle, proximate to the point in time during a subsequent presentation of the spherical video segment, is outside a display field of view. The alert information may indicate that the event of interest is located outside the display field of view.
US10129511B2
An image processing apparatus includes an input image color space conversion unit that converts an input image signal of each frame of a moving image signal into a luminance image signal and a color difference image signal, a luminance image correction unit that adjusts a histogram equalization correction intensity of a histogram equalization process for each frame and applies the histogram equalization process to the luminance image signal of each frame to generate a luminance-corrected image signal, a color difference image correction unit that applies a saturation enhancement process to the color difference image signal of each frame, in parallel with the histogram equalization process, to generate a color-difference-corrected image signal, and an output image color space conversion unit that converts the luminance-corrected image signal and the color-difference-corrected image signal into an output image signal in the same format as the input image signal.
US10129509B2
An imaging apparatus and method for multi-spectral imaging is described. The imaging apparatus includes an imaging element that takes an image of a subject, a multi-spectral filter that has a plurality of spectral filters dispersing incident light on the imaging element by predetermined wavelength regions, and a drive unit that drives the multi-spectral filter without stopping the individual spectral filters and continuously switches the spectral filters to cover an opening in the imaging element. The imaging apparatus detects whether a boundary between adjacent ones of the plurality of spectral filters included in the multi-spectral filter is in a position to block the opening in the imaging element, and performs signal processing for invalidating an image output from the imaging element in a period in which it is detected that the boundary between the spectral filters is in the position to block the opening in the imaging element.
US10129508B1
The present disclosure describes structural inspection devices, methods, and systems. One inspection device includes a pole, a sensor coupled to an end of the pole and configured to capture a multispectral image of a roof, and a number of attachments coupled to the pole and configured to stabilize the pole on or within the structure.
US10129498B2
Transmitting audio and video signals, can include: detecting if the state of a video control signal has changed, where a video signal includes the video control signal and a video data signal; generating, if the state of the video control signal has not changed, a first serial data packet based on the video signal and an audio signal; generating, if the state of the video control signal has changed, a second serial data packet based on the video signal and the audio signal; transmitting over a serial link, an encoded data frame formed by encoding the first and second serial data packets in a predetermined encoding manner; decoding and de-serializing the encoded data frame to restore the video signal and the audio signal; and outputting the video signal to a video display circuit, and outputting the audio signal to an audio processor respectively.
US10129497B2
A CMOS type semiconductor image sensor module wherein a pixel aperture ratio is improved, chip use efficiency is improved and furthermore, simultaneous shutter operation by all the pixels is made possible, and a method for manufacturing such semiconductor image sensor module are provided. The semiconductor image sensor module is provided by stacking a first semiconductor chip, which has an image sensor wherein a plurality of pixels composed of a photoelectric conversion element and a transistor are arranged, and a second semiconductor chip, which has an A/D converter array. Preferably, the semiconductor image sensor module is provided by stacking a third semiconductor chip having a memory element array. Furthermore, the semiconductor image sensor module is provided by stacking the first semiconductor chip having the image sensor and a fourth semiconductor chip having an analog nonvolatile memory array.
US10129491B2
A system for providing active real-time characterization of an article under test is disclosed. An infrared light source, a first visible light source and a second visible light source each outputs and directs a beam of coherent light at a particular area on the article under test via respective optical fibers. A visible light camera and a visible light second harmonic generation camera, an infrared camera and an infrared second harmonic generation camera, a sum-frequency camera and a third-order camera are each configured to receive a respective return beam of light from the particular area on the article under test via respective optical fibers. A processor receives signals from the cameras and calculates in real time respective spectroscopic signals and compares each calculated signal with each other calculated signal and with a predetermined baseline signal to ensure that the article under test conforms to an expected value.
US10129490B2
A thermal imaging system includes a thermal imaging sensor configured to capture thermal images of assets in an environment, a non-thermal imaging sensor coupled to the thermal sensor and being configured to capture non-thermal images of the assets, an image alignment system, an image correction system, and a controller configured to control operation of the thermal and non-thermal imaging sensors, the image alignment system, and the image correction system. The controller is configured to determine, using the image correction system, that data representative of a reflective surface is present in a present thermal view of a particular asset, cause the thermal and non-thermal imaging sensors to capture pose-corrected images, generate pose corrected thermal and non-thermal images, with at least one having corrected thermal data corresponding to a location of the reflective surface, and associate the corrected thermal data with the at least one reflective surface.
US10129489B2
A multipoint audio processing method for processing audio streams originating from a plurality of audio clients is executed in a multipoint audio processing node. The method includes the steps of receiving control information on how to preselect audio streams from received audio streams, receiving audio streams from audio clients connected to the distributed multipoint audio processing node and generating evaluated audio streams by analyzing packets of the received audio streams in terms of at least one audio communication characteristic, and attaching an analysis result information of said analysis to said packets, in each audio stream. Audio streams are selected by deciding on whether or not any evaluated audio stream is to be transmitted further, based on the received control information and/or the analysis result information contained in said evaluated audio streams. Then selected audio streams are transmitted further while discarding evaluated audio streams decided not to be to be transmitted further, without mixing any transmitted audio streams. Corresponding steps may be executed by a central audio processing node. A system of audio clients distributed nodes and a central node and a software product are also disclosed.
US10129478B2
A method for supporting target tracking includes acquiring a target from one or more images captured by an imaging device carried by a movable object, obtaining a relative distance between the movable object and the target, and generating one or more control signals based on the relative distance to direct the movable object to track the target.
US10129475B2
An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor and a processor. The image sensor includes an imaging plane that receives an image of a shooting target field through color filters according to two or more wavelength regions and outputs a signal of the image of the shooting target field. The processor is configured to set a larger weight for a wavelength region having a higher image forming performance than for a wavelength region having a lower image forming performance in accordance with a high-resolution direction determined in the image of the shooting target field, generate image data based on the signal output by the image sensor, and detect an object in the generated image data.
US10129462B2
Augmented reality can be used to display previously captured images on a viewfinder of a camera as the camera's active position nears a position from which the picture was originally taken. A histogram file may associate the original image with positional information of the camera when the image was captured. When the cameras active position nears those coordinates, a transparent version of the digital image is displayed on the viewfinder of the camera. The positional information may include a spatial location of the camera (e.g., GPS coordinates, etc.) as well as an orientation of the camera (e.g., yaw, pitch, roll, etc.). Augmented reality can be used to guide the user to configure/re-configure the camera in order to correct (or avoid) an image quality issue/defect when re-taking a picture.
US10129451B2
A camera module, a molded circuit board assembly, a molded photosensitive assembly and manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The camera module includes a molded base which is integrally formed with a circuit board through a molding process, wherein a photosensitive element may be electrically connected on the circuit board and at least a portion of a non-photosensitive area portion of the photosensitive element is also connected by the molded base through the molding process. A light window is formed in a central portion of the molded base to provide a light path for the photosensitive element, wherein a cross section of the light window is configured to have a trapezoidal or multi-step trapezoidal shape which has a size increasing from bottom to top to facilitate demolding and avoiding stray lights.
US10129449B2
A flash band determination device capable of always detecting a flash band with high accuracy, and correcting the detected flash band. It is determined whether or not there is a high-luminance area in an image, which is an area having a luminance level exceeding a predetermined luminance level. When determining whether or not a flash band which is an area having a luminance level higher than a predetermined threshold level is present in a difference image which is a difference between two images which are continuously obtained, if it is determined that the high-luminance area is present, whether or not the flash band is present is determined, by excluding an area corresponding to the high-luminance area, as a determination excluded area, from the difference image.
US10129448B2
An imaging system, a method for imaging an object of interest, and an image of the object of interest. In one embodiment, an imaging system includes a channel configured to receive information from an object of interest, a 3DSS sub-system configured to capture information from the object of interest and generate at least one of 3D surface data or 3D position data based on the information captured by the 3DSS sub-system, and an OCT sub-system configured to perform a line scan of light reflected from the object of interest, generate OCT image data from the line scan, receive the at least one of the 3D surface data or the 3D position data, and generate one or more OCT images using the OCT image data and the at least one of the 3D surface data or the 3D position data.
US10129443B2
An imaging device of the present invention includes: a first case having an opening; a substrate on which a first terminal electrically connected to an imaging element is mounted, the substrate being provided in the first case; a second case covering the opening of the first case; and a connector. A first terminal accommodation portion accommodating the first terminal is fixed to the substrate. The connector includes a second terminal accommodation portion accommodating a second terminal electrically connected to the first terminal. The second case has a through hole. The first and second terminals are configured so that, in a process in which the first terminal accommodation portion and the second terminal accommodation portion are inserted to be accommodated in the through hole, the first and second terminals come into contact with each other while sliding on each other and the first and second terminals are elastically deformable upon contact with each other.
US10129442B2
An information processing apparatus includes a sound information obtaining unit, and a sound synthesizer unit. The sound information obtaining unit is configured to obtain a plurality of sound information items, the plurality of sound information items being on sounds indicating a plurality of user-selectable candidates, respectively. The sound synthesizer unit is configured to synthesize the plurality of sound information items such that output sounds indicating the plurality of candidates, respectively, at least partially overlap one another.
US10129438B2
A color conversion apparatus includes a hardware processor that obtains a scanner profile created on the basis of measured RGB values and corresponding measured colorimetric values of patches in a first color chart, and creates a table including correction amounts of RGB values, each according to the level of flare estimated for a patch and each associated with an RGB-value difference and a patch-size difference, on the basis of RGB values of patches in the first color chart and RGB values of patches in a specific chart. The specific chart is created by using a part of the patches in the first color chart with the RGB value or patch size being changed. The hardware processor further corrects measured RGB values of patches in a second color chart with the table, and convers the corrected RGB values into colorimetric values with the scanner profile.
US10129436B2
A image forming system of the present inventation includes a control section that causes a pattern image for image density control to be formed on an image carrier, and performs density correction control for correcting a density of a formed image on the basis of density information on the formed pattern image for image density control, wherein the control section determines a timing for performing the density correction control, on the basis of information corresponding to a density difference generated between images formed by the plurality of image forming apparatuses.
US10129419B2
An image forming apparatus which is capable of appropriately replaying movies to be displayed to the user. The image forming apparatus stores combinations of a plurality of movies for a plurality of maintenance procedures of the image forming apparatus and orders of replay for the plurality of movies according to each type of the plurality of maintenance procedures, specifies a type of the maintenance procedure to be executed to the image forming apparatus, and acquires a plurality of movies corresponding to the type of the specified maintenance procedure based on the stored information and replays the acquired movies as a series of movies according to the orders of relay.
US10129416B1
An image processing apparatus is configured to accept an operation instruction from an operation unit of the image processing apparatus and, via a network, an operation instruction from an information processing apparatus. A restriction is set on change in a setting of the image processing apparatus. Whether to permit cancellation of the restriction setting is set. A control is made in such a way that the cancellation of the restriction setting is permitted in a case where the cancellation of the restriction setting is set to be permitted. A control is made in such a way that the cancellation of the restriction setting is not permitted in a case where the cancellation of the restriction setting is set not to be permitted. An instruction from the information processing apparatus is accepted to cancel the restriction setting regardless of the setting of whether to permit the cancellation of the restriction setting.
US10129414B2
A printer that includes systems for detecting transparent medium may include a medium dispenser for transporting print medium along a transport pathway to a print station which receives the print medium. Transmitters and receivers may be positioned on opposite sides of the transport pathway for scanning the print medium with a light beam. The sensor arrangement may be configured to detect deflection of the light beam when a transparent print medium is transported on the transport pathway between the transmitter and the receiver. The results of the scan may be communicated to a controller to facilitate proper print settings.
US10129399B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media consistent with the present disclosure manage multiple telephone calls by managing a session record associated with the call, amending the session record according to a plurality of rules to reflect a plurality of instructed actions, evaluating an amended session record to derive at least one of the plurality of instructed actions, and implementing a derived instructed action on the call under the control of an automated apparatus.
US10129398B1
A system, method, and computer readable medium for abbreviated dialing in a femtocell network is provided. A user having authorized access to the femtocell network may dial another authorized user using an abbreviated code. On receipt of the call request, a femtocell system may evaluate the destination number to determine if it is an abbreviated code. If the dialed number is not an abbreviated code, the femtocell system may direct the call request to the telecommunication core network for processing thereby. If the dialed number is evaluated by the femtocell system as an abbreviated code, the femtocell system may direct the call request to an on-site PBX for call handling. If the abbreviated code is a valid code and the dialed user equipment is currently in the femtocell network service area, the PBX may then complete the call setup within the femtocell network.
US10129397B1
An inbound controlled-environment facility resident call server may route a non-resident inbound call to a controlled-environment facility resident media and/or communications device. The called resident device may confirm that the non-resident is associated with an Address Identifier (AID) of that resident device. The resident device may also receive data for verifying authentication of the resident operating the device, verify authentication of the resident operating the device, and verify that the resident operating the device is associated with the AID. The inbound resident call server, or the called resident device itself, may connect the inbound call to the called resident device in response to the device authenticating the non-resident is associated with the AID, verifying authentication of the resident operating the device, and verifying that the resident operating the device is associated with the AID.
US10129391B2
A method and apparatus for identifying a potential source of SMS spam are disclosed. For example, the method collects a plurality of call detail records, extracts at least one feature from each of the plurality of call detail records, and identifies the potential source of the short message service spam by analyzing the at least one feature that is extracted from each of the plurality of call detail records.
US10129390B2
The invention allows utilizing Caller Line Identification (CLI) feature in receiving test emergency calls from any kind of elevator emergency telephones. A call attempt including CLI information from an elevator emergency telephone is received at an elevator emergency call receiver unit. The CLI information is detected. Then, one of the following is performed: a) disconnecting the call attempt to complete the test call processing; b) in response to detecting the call attempt being released by the elevator emergency telephone within a predetermined time period, determining that the test call processing is completed; and c) in response to detecting the call attempt not being released by the elevator emergency telephone within the predetermined time period, answering the incoming call to enable the elevator emergency telephone to continue the test call processing.
US10129388B1
A method may include receiving, by a mobile device, signals periodically output by a plurality of beacon devices, wherein the beacon devices are positioned at known locations within a motor vehicle interior. The mobile device also receives vehicle operating condition information from a vehicle interface device operatively coupled to one or more electronic systems of the motor vehicle. The mobile device determines a position of the mobile device within the motor vehicle interior based on the received signals and determines whether a user of the mobile device is a driver of the motor vehicle based on the position of the mobile device and the vehicle operating condition information. When it is determined that the user of the mobile device is the driver of the motor vehicle, the mobile device restricts one or more features of the mobile device.
US10129380B2
A wearable device includes an output display device, a transceiver, a user-operable control, and a processor. The transceiver is configured to communicate over a wireless link with a phone. The processor is configured to generate a control signal in response to an operation of the user-operable control. The processor is also configured to cause the transceiver to transmit, over the wireless link, the control signal. In addition, the processor is configured to receive, via the transceiver and over the wireless link, a notification of a status change at a headset based on the control signal. Furthermore, the processor is configured to cause the output display device to indicate the status change at the headset based on the control signal. The headset is in wireless communication with the phone.
US10129379B2
A voice only phone and method of operation; the voice only phone having a microprocessor configured to operate an interactive voice respondent (IVR) that is used to verbally interact with a user. The IVR allows the user to interact with the voice only phone to place calls, receive calls, receive text messages, and respond to text messages using only voice commands. Furthermore, the IVR allows for the dynamic creation of a voice phone book that is progressively updated. In order to better recognize the voice of the user, the voice only phone creates a voice profile through a voice recognition setup sequence, wherein the user is prompted to dictate a plurality of audible calibration inputs.Once the voice profile is created, the user is able to place phone calls by either dictating a contact name or a plurality of digits for a phone number.
US10129372B2
Example methods are provided for a first endpoint to transfer a first data set and a second data set to a second endpoint using a multipath connection. The method may comprise detecting the first data set and the second data set from an application executing on the first endpoint for transfer to the second endpoint. The method may comprise, in response to determination that in-order transfer is not required for the first data set and the second data set, establishing a first subflow of a multipath connection with the second endpoint to send the first data set and establishing a second subflow of the multipath connection to send the second data set. The method may further comprise sending the first data set on the first subflow and the second data set on the second subflow to the second endpoint.
US10129364B2
A method, computer program product and computer system is provided. A processor receives a read request for a data entry from a client device, where the read request includes a first identifier. A processor retrieves a second identifier from a first storage device, where the second identifier is associated with the data entry as stored in the first storage device. Responsive to the first identifier and the second identifier not matching, a processor updates the data entry of the first storage device with a corresponding data entry from a second storage device.
US10129357B2
A mechanism is provided for managing data storage in a distributed virtual environment. A write access request to a virtual machine in the distributed virtual environment is received from a user, the virtual machine running on a hypervisor node in the distributed virtual environment. The data associated with the write access request is cached at the hypervisor node. The user is notified of a completion of the write access request. The cached data is transmitted to a storage node in the distributed virtual environment, the storage node providing physical storage to the virtual machine.
US10129356B2
Cooperative physical layer caching systems for base stations are described herein. Base stations include cache memories that store portions of content. Base stations receive requests for content files from mobile devices. Cooperative physical layer caching systems can determine contents of the cache memories and can coordinate physical transmissions of the content files based on the contents of the cache memories.
US10129345B2
Users of social networking computer systems provide location information that is transformed into geo-coded coordinates specifying user locations. Providers of content, such as messages or documents, also participate in the social networking system and use drawing tools or provide data files that define one or more geographical areas or regions of a map, which may define a larger geographical area that encompasses the users of the social networking system. Data specifying the areas is stored. The content providers create one or more messages and associate each of the one or more messages with one or more of the areas. The users communicate requests for messages to the social networking system; in response, the system associates the user location data with the stored areas and messages, and returns only those messages that have been associated with the particular areas in which the users are located. As a result, users receive only messages for their areas, and only messages that the content providers have designated as intended for or relevant to their areas.
US10129340B2
An approach is provided for performing multiple and hybrid forms of communication in the same communication session. A communication manager receives a to establish a communication session using a first form of communication, wherein the communication session supports multiple and simultaneous forms of communication. Next, the communication manager selects a second form of communication to conduct the communication session. Then, the communication manager transcodes the second form of communication to the first form of communication. The different forms can be converted to facilitate and enrich the communication capability, according to an embodiment of the invention.
US10129335B2
In general, embodiments of the invention relate to a method for transmitting messages. The method includes determining that a first device and a second device are members of a communication group based on the first device and the second device concurrently accessing a file, receiving a message from the first device, making a first determination, in response to receiving the message, that the first device is a member of the communication group, and based on the first determination, making a second determination that the second device is a member of the communication group, and based on the second determination, transmitting a second message to the second device, wherein the second message is generated, based at least in part, on the message.
US10129333B2
Workload, preferably as one or more partitions, is migrated from a source server to one or more target servers by computing a respective projected performance optimization for each candidate partition and target, the optimization being dependent on a projected processor-memory affinity resulting from migrating candidate workload to the candidate target, and selecting a target to receive a workload accordingly. A target may be pre-configured to receive a workload being migrated to it by altering the configuration parameters of at least one workload currently executing on the target according to the projected performance optimization.
US10129332B2
Various embodiments load balance service requests across one or more servers. In one embodiment, a service requestor directly accesses a shared metrics array stored in at least one server of a plurality of servers in a service cluster. Each of these servers includes one or more services. The shared metrics array is accessible by each of the plurality of servers, and includes a set of metrics for each of the plurality of servers. A determination is made based on the set of metrics associated with at least one server in the plurality of servers if a service request is to be sent to the at least one server. The service request is sent to the at least one server based on determining that the service request is to be sent to the at least one sever.
US10129331B2
A management server and method for load balancing a cluster of host computers analyzes load metrics of clients naming on the host computers in the cluster to select a first client that can be migrated from a first host computer in the cluster to a second host computer in the cluster to improve load balance for the cluster and a second client running on the second host computer that can be swapped with the first client running on the first host computer for a client swapping operation. The client swapping operation involves simultaneously migrating the first client from the first host computer to the second host computer and migrating the second client from the second host computer to the first host computer.
US10129324B2
Methods and systems for allowing interaction between devices are described. At a first device, an application is executed. The application operates interactively with a remote control application executing on a second device. One or more information items are transmitted to the second device for display as one or more selectable display items. Each respective information item is associated with an action definition. The action definition includes a command to be sent by the second device to the first device in response to a user selection of the respective information item. A command is received from the second device in response to a selection of a first one of the selectable display items by the user. A predefined action is performed in response to receiving the command.
US10129313B2
An example method is provided and includes receiving an input associated with sharing data in a virtual meeting involving a first endpoint and a second endpoint associated with a meeting in a network environment. A window associated with an application that is running on the endpoint is scanned to determine a dataset for sharing, via the virtual meeting, with the second endpoint. The method also includes identify a portion of the dataset to restrict based on analyzing the dataset against a metric. The method also includes preventing a window of the at least one window from being transmitted, via the virtual meeting, to the second endpoint based on a determination that the window includes the portion of the dataset to restrict.
US10129303B2
There is provided a transmission system transmitting at least one of image data and audio data among a plurality of transmission terminals. A first transmission terminal includes a state detector that detects whether a user is present therearound, and a controller that controls to transmit correspondence data corresponding to a result detected by the state detector to a second transmission terminal when a state detected by the state detector changes. The second transmission terminal changes quality of at least one of the image data and the audio data that is transmitted to the first transmission terminal in accordance with the correspondence data and transmits at least one of the image data and the audio data when the second transmission terminal receives the correspondence data.
US10129302B1
A processor-implemented method, computer system, and computer program product for managing a plurality of audio-visual teleconference distractions, including the detection of a new participant to a teleconference call; the monitoring of a stream of the detected new participant for a plurality of distraction markers; calculation of a level of distraction based on the plurality of distraction markers; and alterations performed on the monitored stream based on the calculated level of distraction satisfying a threshold.
US10129299B1
A variety of different mobile computing devices, such as a laptop, tablet or smartphone, may be used in a mixed set of computing environments. At least some of the computing environments may be hostile computing environments where users of the mobile computing devices may be exposed to unknown risks. Furthermore, the mobile computing devices may be unable to determine if a network in a particular computing environment is in fact the network the mobile device determines it to be. A beacon device may be attached to a network and provide mutual authentication for mobile devices in the computing environment. Various security policies may be adjusted as a result of the user device and the beacon device successfully authenticating the other device.
US10129297B2
A method and system for controlling multi-tiered mitigation of cyber-attacks. The method comprises monitoring at least availability and load of each protection resource in a multi-tiered communication network, wherein each tier in the multi-tiered communication network includes a plurality of protection resources having capacity and security capabilities set according to the respective tier; for each protection resource, computing a current aggregated load metric (ALM); determining based on at least one of the computed ALM and security capabilities of a respective protection resource, if the respective protection resource assigned to a protected entity can efficiently handle a detected cyber-attack against the protected entity; and selecting at least one new protection resource to secure the protected entity, upon determining the protection resource cannot efficiently handle the detected cyber-attack, wherein the selection is based on at least one of the computed ALM and a security capabilities of the at least one protection resource.
US10129281B2
A method and apparatus for detecting covert routing is disclosed. In the method and apparatus, data addressed to a remote computer system are forwarded over a first network path, whereby the data is associated with a computer system of a plurality of computer systems. Further, a plurality of first network performance metrics is obtained. A likelihood of covert routing is determined based at least in part on the plurality of first network performance metrics.
US10129278B2
Disclosed are various systems, methods, and other embodiments directed to detection of malware in content items. To detect the malware, for example, one or more content items are identified in association with the rendering of a network page in a simulated environment. A plurality of tests are applied to the one or more content items to detect an existence of malware associated with the content items.
US10129274B2
In some embodiments, a processor accesses a metrics dataset, which includes metrics whose values indicate data network activity. The metrics dataset has segments. Each segment is a respective subset of the data items having a common feature. The processor identifies anomalous segments in the metrics dataset. Each anomalous segment has a segment trend that is different from a trend associated with the larger metrics dataset. The processor generates a data graph that includes nodes, which represent anomalous segments, and edges connecting the nodes. The processor applies weights to the edges. Each weight indicates (i) a similarity between a pair of anomalous segments represented by the nodes connected by the weighted edge and (ii) a relationship between the anomalous segments and the metrics dataset. The processor ranks the anomalous segments based on the applied weights and selects one or more segments with sufficiently high ranks.
US10129267B1
A file is received. Contents of the file are transformed using a space-filling curve. One example of a space-filling curve that can be used for the transformation is a Hilbert curve. The result of the transformation is down-sampled. One example way of down-sampling is using a blur operation with anti-aliasing. A hashing operation is performed on the down-sampled result. One example of a hashing operation is locality sensitive hashing.
US10129264B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for implementing document sharing between user groups. The method comprises: receiving document sharing request information sent by a user in a first user group, the document sharing request information carrying an identifier of a target shared document and an identifier of a second user group; sending a shared document instruction to the second user group according to the identifier of the second user group, the shared document instruction carrying an identifier of a to-be-created shared document and an index of the to-be-created shared document and being used for instructing the second user group to create a shared document corresponding to the target shared document, the index of the to-be-created document being the same as the identifier of the target shared document, for associating the to-be-created document with the target shared document. A document is shared by applying the solutions provided by embodiments of this application, and after a user in a first user group edits a target document, the shared document can be synchronously updated in a second user group.
US10129256B2
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium has instructions executed by a processor to receive a query statement. The query statement is one of many distributed storage and distributed processing query statements with unique data access methods. Token components are formed from the query statement. The token components are categorized as data components or logic components. Modified token components are formed from the token components in accordance with a policy. The query statement is reconstructed with the modified token components and original computational logic and control logic associated with the query statement.
US10129252B1
A system and method of validating an identity of a user device is disclosed that includes registering a biometric signature with an authoritative identity source, transmitting an encrypted user identity element from the authoritative identity source to a user device, sending an identity request from a third party entity to the user device, transmitting the encrypted user identity element from the user device to the third party, sending an identity validation request from the third party to the authoritative identity source, transmitting a communication from the authoritative identity request to the third party entity, and informing the third party entity if the identity of the user is confirmed.
US10129248B2
An authentication system is provided using one-time passwords (OTPs) for user authentication. An OTP key may be stored on a different device than the device on which the OTP is generated. In an embodiment, the system described herein enables a combined authentication system, including the two separate devices communicating over a non-contact interface, to provide advantageous security features compared to the use of a single device, such as a hardware OTP token. One device may be a personal security device and the other device may be a reader device coupled to a host device via which access is being controlled.
US10129247B2
A behavioral characteristics authentication system and method (“BCA system”) that facilitates authentication of the identity of a user, registrant, or applicant of a website, application, or other accessible computer resource using a verification process that incorporates behavioral characteristics. In operation, the BCA system compares a single user's behavior with their previous behavior, a user's behavior with behavior generally attributed to non-fraudulent behavior, or a user's behavior with behavior generally attributed to fraudulent behavior. The population of other users that a user's behavior is compared with may be selected to have similar demographic or other characteristics as the user. By analyzing various behavioral characteristics associated with legitimate or fraudulent multi-factor authentication attempts, the BCA system adds another layer of security to online transactions.
US10129238B2
A distributed block chain network having at least a private block chain portion, and in some cases a public block chain portion, allows users to take actions (e.g., accessing, viewing, storing, disseminating, validating, or the like) with respect to event information associated with events. In some aspects of the invention the distributed block chain network with the private block chain portion may be utilized to verify events and separate the private information associated with the events from the public information associated with the events. As such, the present invention provides systems for centralized control of secure access to process data networks by utilizing a private block chain; and moreover, provide systems for control of secure access and communication with different process data networks with different security requirements by utilizing one or more block chains with private block chain portions and/or public block chain portions.
US10129231B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content searching, generating, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods automatically pair and unpair hardware devices that are logged into a single account. Once a user logs into their profile associated with an online account, the disclosed systems and methods perform the novel, computerized steps of auto-pairing any or all of the other devices that are also logged into the account. The disclosed systems and methods allow any number of devices to be automatically paired or unpaired through shared password-less credentials associated with a single profile.
US10129225B2
Disclosed are requesting party and responding party computer systems which perform a message level encryption for messages sent through the computer systems. Using the message level encryption, the computer systems may prevent those with access to an unsecured zone in one or more of the computer systems from viewing the messages.
US10129222B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a trusted database system that leverages a small amount of trusted storage to secure a larger amount of untrusted storage. Data are encrypted and validated to prevent unauthorized modification or access. Encryption and hashing are integrated with a low-level data model in which data and meta-data are secured uniformly. Synergies between data validation and log-structured storage are exploited.
US10129221B1
A transport facilitation system can manage a transportation arrangement service that links requesting users with available drivers throughout a given region. In doing so, the transport facilitation system can receive pick-up requests from users and transmit invitations to drivers to service those requests. For each ride, the transport facilitation system can initiate one or more recording mechanisms to record content within a passenger interior of the vehicle as the driver transports the requesting user from a pick-up location to a destination location. After the vehicle arrives at the destination location, the transport facilitation system can dual encrypt the content utilizing a first public key associated with the driver and a second public key associated with the requesting user, and store the dually encrypted content in a storage device. Decryption can require a pair of private keys associated with the rider and the driver.
US10129216B2
Systems, methods, and machine-readable media for low latency server-side redirection of User Datagram Protocol (UDP)-based transport protocols traversing a client-side Network Address Translation (NAT) are provided. A request may be sent from a client for a data resource to a first server. The data resource may be received from a second server that has not been previously connected to the client. Receiving the data resource from the second server may be facilitated by the first server through redirecting the request to the second server and providing for the second server to connect to the client and directly respond to the request. The first server may lack at least one of the requested data resource or resources for providing the requested data resource.
US10129213B2
This invention generally relates to a process and computer code for enabling users to create adapters that enable application automation processes that allow customers to define compliance boundaries using a rules-based compliance firewall for their service providers and allow service providers to perform automation on customer machines remotely while adhering to customer's compliance requirements.
US10129204B2
A method includes a management host server causing a power distribution unit to apply standby power to at least one server management module having at least one service processor; the management host server receiving an IP address request from the at least one server management module; the management host server network assigning the IP address and associates the at least one server management module with the assigned IP address; and the management host server issuing a command to the at least one server management module to store a client ID as a location sensor value wherein a geographic map can be created using the client ID.
US10129203B2
A method includes a management host server causing a power distribution unit to apply standby power to at least one server management module having at least one service processor; the management host server receiving an IP address request from the at least one server management module; the management host server network assigning the IP address and associates the at least one server management module with the assigned IP address; and the management host server issuing a command to the at least one server management module to store a client ID as a location sensor value wherein a geographic map can be created using the client ID.
US10129198B2
A method may include receiving, by a computing device associated with a user, a message from an origination source and receiving, by the computing device, an audio input. The method may also include determining, by the computing device and based at least in part on the audio input and contextual information, a probability that the user intends to send a response message to the origination source. The method may further include, responsive to determining that the probability the user intends to send the response message to the origination source satisfies a threshold probability, determining, by the computing device, that the user intends to send the response message to the origination source. The method may also include, responsive to determining that the user intends to send the response message to the origination source, generating, by the computing device and based on the audio input, the response message, and sending, by the computing device, the response message to the origination source.
US10129194B1
Information associated with a plurality of electronic communications associated with an entity is obtained. An entry including information associated with a given email address is generated in a whitelist. The entry including the information associated with the given email address is generated based at least in part on a determination, from the obtained information associated with the plurality of electronic communication associated with the entity, that at least a threshold number of electronic communications have been exchanged between the entity and the given email address, and that the at least threshold number of emails were exchanged during a period of time that exceeds a threshold period of time. Subsequent to generating the whitelist entry, an electronic communication to be classified is received. A classification of the received electronic communication is performed based at least in part on a determination of whether the received electronic communication corresponds to an entry in the whitelist.
US10129188B2
Method and device of facilitating user comments on webpages are disclosed. The method includes: a device displaying a visual object as part of a webpage; detecting a user request for commenting on the visual object displayed in the webpage, the user request comprising a predetermined user input directed to the visual object displayed on the webpage; in response to the user request for commenting on the visual object, displaying a comment entry region overlaying at least part of the webpage; receiving a user comment in a graphical form through the comment entry region; and revising the visual object displayed in the webpage by sending the user comment in the graphical form to a server managing the webpage.
US10129180B2
Some embodiments provide a method for handling failure at one of several peer centralized components of a logical router. At a first one of the peer centralized components of the logical router, the method detects that a second one of the peer centralized components has failed. In response to the detection, the method automatically identifies a network layer address of the failed second peer. The method assumes responsibility for data traffic to the failed peer by broadcasting a message on a logical switch that connects all of the peer centralized components and a distributed component of the logical router. The message instructs recipients to associate the identified network layer address with a data link layer address of the first peer centralized component.
US10129179B2
One exemplary embodiment is directed to an end node that includes functionality to read information stored on or in a segment of physical communication media that is attached to the end node and to communicate the read information over a network (for example, to an aggregation point). Another exemplary embodiment is directed a wall outlet that includes functionality to read information stored on or in a segment of physical communication media connected to it and communicate at least a portion of the information read from the segment of physical communication media to an aggregation point. Another exemplary embodiment is directed a wall outlet that includes a switch and functionality to read information stored on or in a segment of physical communication media connected to it and to communicate at least a portion of the information read from the segment of physical communication media to an aggregation point.
US10129177B2
A cloud broker gateway interfaces with an enterprise network and one or more public cloud networks, including a first public cloud and a second public cloud. The cloud broker gateway receives a request for one or more computing resources from a tenant associated with the enterprise network, and directs the request to the first public cloud based on a brokerage policy for the tenant. The cloud broker gateway receives a response indicating the first public cloud cannot provide the one or more computing resources, and redirects the request to the second public cloud based on the brokerage policy for the tenant. The cloud broker gateway also establishes a hybrid cloud that provides access to the one or more computing resources between the second public cloud and the enterprise network.
US10129174B2
In a multi-tiered simulation configuration, a combination of predictive models is executed such that each tier in the multi-tiered simulation configuration executes at least one predictive model to produce a corresponding set of predicted events, and a predicted event from a first tier in the configuration forms an input to a next tier in the configuration. Using a subset of a selected set of predicted events outputted from a corresponding selected tier in the multi-tiered simulation configuration, a set of features is extracted, each feature in the set of features having an effect on an outcome of the simulated process. The set of features is used in a demand level prediction model to predict a threshold demand, wherein reaching the threshold demand in an actual utilization of a computing resource is indicative of a likelihood of an unforeseen rise in a demand for the computing resource after a period.
US10129170B2
Techniques disclose managing cloud computing resources provisioned to processing elements of a distributed application (e.g., for a streams processing environment). A cloud manager determines changes in availability of cloud resources. The cloud manager notifies a runtime manager of a distributed application of the change in availability. The runtime manager in turn requests that the cloud manager adjust the provisions based on the notification. The cloud manager provisions the cloud resources based on the request.
US10129168B2
A method for anomaly identification and IT resource optimization includes retrieving, by a workload engine executing on a first computing resource, from a database populated by a client agent executing on a second computing resource, a metric associated with a process. The method includes analyzing, by the workload engine, the retrieved metric and the process. The method includes associating, by the workload engine, at least one workload with the process, responsive to the analysis. The method includes analyzing, by an exception engine executing on the first computing resource, the retrieved metric, the process, and the at least one workload; analyzing includes applying at least one workload rule to the at least one workload. The method includes identifying, by the exception engine, an operational anomaly within the process, responsive to the analysis by the exception engine. The method includes providing a recommendation for mitigating the operational anomaly.
US10129167B2
A method to schedule multiple traffic flows through a multiplexer server to provide fairness while minimizing the sizes of the associated queues, is proposed. The multiplexer server minimizes a quantity called the maximum Normalized Service Lag for each traffic flow. In each time-slot, the normalized service lag of every traffic flow may be updated by adding the normalized lag increment value, whether or not there is a packet in the queue associated with the flow. In each time-slot, a multiplexer server selects a traffic flow to service with an available packet and with the maximum normalized service lag. When the traffic rate requested by each traffic flow is stable, the multiplexer server schedule may repeat periodically. Efficient methods to compute periodic schedules are proposed. The methods can be applied to packet-switched Internet routers to achieve reduced queue sizes and delay.
US10129163B2
Methods and apparatus for processing and using TCP packets to communicate RTP packets are described. Head of line blocking is avoided by operating a TCP packet processing module to output RTP packet data to an application irrespective of whether or not a preceding TCP packet was received. Since output of packet data to an application using RTP packets is not delayed when there is a missing TCP packet, head of line blocking is avoided. RTP packet data is subjected to pattern matching in order to identify and process RTP packets in the case where RTP header information such as packet length information is missing due to the failure to receive a TCP packet. The methods are particularly well suited for the communication of audio and/or video by devices operating behind firewalls which block UDP or other types of packets other than TCP packets.
US10129161B2
A method for handling network jitter is provided. The method includes: receiving a plurality of data packets and recording a receiving time of each data packet; calculating time intervals between all adjacent data packets according to the receiving time of each data packet; identifying a probability distribution of the time intervals according to a plurality of preset intervals; calculating a target size of a buffer according to the probability distribution and an allowable jitter probability; and adjusting the buffer according to the target size of the buffer.
US10129154B2
A method, processor and system for controlling packet flow in a network provides for selecting a transmission scheme based on a payload rate for payloads arriving at a buffer. The transmission scheme includes data blocks comprising packets each having an associated payload, the data blocks have a variable packet transmission rate and a variable payload per packet ratio. The product of the variable packet transmission rate and the variable payload per packet ratio remains constant. The data blocks are sent to a network switch that deterministically routes the data blocks.
US10129145B2
Systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms or apparatus for routing packets between source and destination endpoints associated with different autonomous systems without requiring public advertising of the addresses of the source and destination endpoints to other autonomous systems (ASN).
US10129142B2
Some embodiments provide a method for implementing a logical router (LR) in a logical network. The method receives configuration data connecting a first LR to a second LR, which includes several logical routing components with separate routing tables. For each of one or more routes configured for the first LR, the method adds a route to the routing table of a distributed routing component of the second LR. The added route has a next hop address of an interface of the first LR. The method also adds, for each of the one or more routes configured for the first LR, a route to the routing tables of each of one or more centralized routing components of the second LR. The next hop address of the added route is an address of an interface of the distributed routing component that is internal to the second LR.
US10129120B2
Disclosed are systems, methods and devices for obtaining round trip time measurements for use in location based services. In particular implementations, a fine timing measurement request message wirelessly transmitted by a first transceiver device to a second transceiver device may permit additional processing features in computing or applying a signal round trip time measurement. Such a signal round trip time measurement may be used in positioning operations.
US10129119B2
An access data analytics system including a processor and a memory is provided. The processor stores an electronic report in the memory. The electronic report is generated based on an electronic report query include a plurality of parameters. The processor also collects access profile data including metadata associated with a user accessing the report, stores the access profile data within the memory, receives an access analytics data request requesting access analytics data associated with the stored report, retrieves the stored access profile data, generates an access analysis table including the access analytics data associated with the stored report based on the retrieved access profile data, and provides an extract including at least a portion of the access analytics data associated with the stored report from the access analysis table to a requestor of the access analytics data request.
US10129118B1
Real time detection of anomalies may be implemented for a data stream. A data stream may receive data records as input. An evaluation of the data records may be performed as the data records are received utilizing an anomaly detection model that is dynamically generated for a time period that includes the data records. A responsive action may be performed in response to detecting various anomalies, such as providing a notification of the anomaly, requesting a corrective action, invoking further analysis of the detected anomaly. Evaluations of the data record and responsive actions may be performed as specified by a user, in some embodiments.
US10129114B1
Techniques for exposing network health over network connections in service provider network are disclosed. Monitors such as connection tracking modules may be configured to process network information (e.g., TCP connection state information) relating to network traffic and to transmit the network information to a health manager for analysis. As an example, a customer may request network information relating to a virtual instance provided by a service provider. In response to the request, TCP connection state information relating to the virtual instance may be extracted and processed to determine a network health condition. Information relating to the determined network health condition may be provided to the requesting customer.
US10129112B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for workflow-based resource management. A process can execute a resource management application. The process can obtain load data that describes a resource load associated with resources. The processor can analyze the load data to detect a change in resource load associated with one of the resources and identify workflows that includes the resource. The workflows can include a description of how the resources are utilized during execution of a process by the resources. The processor can identify a relevant workflow that is associated with the process and issue commands to resources associated with the relevant workflow to proactively adjust capacity of the resources associated with the relevant workflow.
US10129107B2
An item sharing machine is configured to receive share requests submitted by requesters and specifying numerical values accorded to the shareable item by the requesters. The item sharing machine determines a distribution of the numerical values and generates an allocation plan based on the distribution of the numerical values, which include a first numerical value accorded by a first requester. The item sharing machine determines an allocated percentage at which the shareable item is allocated to the first requester and selects an alternative percentage at which the shareable item is allocable to the first requester. The item sharing machine calculates an alternative numerical value accordable to the shareable item and causes presentation of a notification that the shareable item is allocable to the first requester at the alternative percentage, conditioned upon a future share request indicating that the alternative numerical value is accorded to the shareable item.
US10129096B2
A server computer (DNPS) commissions/decommissions networks provisioned using one or more orchestration solutions (OS) in a client-server architecture. Program code instructions instructing the server computer to implement a user interface (UI) for remote management of the server computer, wherein the user interface provides access to data managed by the server computer and a web-based application programming interface (API) that supports service oriented architecture [“SOA”], and a network management logic (NME) that dynamically assigns and releases networks via the one or more orchestration solutions (OS) and the web-based application programming interface (API). In an alternative implementation, the network management logic cooperates with Software-Defined Networking Controller(s) SDNC to commissions/decommission networks. A physical embodiment may implement either or both of the SOA-based and the SDN-based.
US10129083B2
Methods, devices, and non-transitory computer readable media optimize an over-the-air update include identifying initiation of an over-the-air update for a client computing device. The update is retrieved from a content server based on the identifying and utilizing a first protocol. The update to the client computing device is divided into a plurality of data segments which are sequentially downloaded utilizing a second protocol which is different from the first protocol.
US10129073B2
A method of adding a server to, or removing a server from, a cluster of servers, and of transferring state information. A new server being added sends a message to all existing servers indicating that it is being added, the new server sends a request for state information, the existing servers in the cluster transfer state information to the new server, and the new server sends a commit message to finalize its addition. Acknowledge messages are exchanged during the process. An existing server being removed sends, to the remaining servers, an initiate message, a transfer of state information, and a commit message to finalize the removal, with acknowledge messages exchanged during the process.
US10129072B1
A distributed security information and event management system comprises a centralized portion and a plurality of remote portions, with the remote portions being implemented in respective applications within information technology infrastructure. Each of the remote portions comprises one or more remote components inserted into the corresponding application. At least a subset of the remote components of the remote portion are configured for interaction with one or more corresponding centralized components of the centralized portion of the system. The remote components may each be configured to process one or more specified eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) Obligations or other constructs.
US10129071B2
The present disclosure provides a symbol synchronization method and apparatus. By means of the symbol synchronization method and apparatus, a timing location is adjusted outside an adaptive loop. In addition, the adaptive loop proceeds to according to an original function of the adaptive loop. That is, the timing location is stabilized to an initial symbol-synchronization location, and the timing location is then further corrected and adjusted. Therefore, impact of an error of a timing location on symbol synchronization is eliminated by correcting the timing location, and positioning accuracy of a symbol-synchronization location is improved.
US10129065B2
Precoding, a symbol permutation operation, or pulse shaping may be used to suppress or cancel a tail or head of a symbol. Precoding may include utilization of a suppression vector. A unique word (UW) may be added to the suppression vector before spreading. The symbol and values of the suppression vector may be spread by a spreading function(s) and may be shaped prior to transmission.
US10129056B2
A group of data symbols for a current block of data symbols in multiple blocks received over a communication channel is equalized, based on a pilot block, to generate a group of equalized symbols. The group of equalized symbols is de-rotated as a function of a current phase estimate to determine initial de-rotated equalized symbols. The phase estimate is an estimate of phase caused by noise for blocks previous to the current block. Additionally, a phase metric is calculated from real and imaginary parts of the initial de-rotated equalized symbols, wherein the phase metric estimates phase caused by noise for the current block. The current phase estimate is updated with the phase metric. The initial de-rotated equalized symbols are de-rotated by the phase metric to determine final equalized and de-rotated symbol estimates. The final equalized and de-rotated symbol estimates are output. Apparatus, methods, and computer program products are disclosed.
US10129055B2
A power amplifier cell includes a first input arranged to receive an in-phase control signal, a second input arranged to receive a quadrature control signal, an input stage arranged to output a drive signal based at least partly on the received in-phase and quadrature control signals, and an output stage arranged to receive at an input thereof the drive signal output by the input stage, and to generate an output signal for the power amplifier cell in response to the received drive signal.
US10129054B2
Systems and methods for creating and using a first and second group of training sequences in a training-aided single-carrier frequency domain equalization system. The first group of training sequences are conventional training sequences and the second group of training sequences are 90°-rotated versions of the first group of training sequences.
US10129045B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for group-controlling devices. Group information on interoperable devices among a plurality of electronic devices is acquired. The interoperable devices indicated in the group information are controlled as a group.
US10129044B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for controlling a smart device. The method includes: when a screen of the terminal is locked and it is determined that a user performs a first preset operation on a control key on the lock screen of the terminal, acquiring information regarding at least one smart device through a preset smart-home Internet-of-Things (IoT) protocol and displaying the acquired information on a control interface of the terminal; and when it is detected that the user performs a second preset operation related to a smart device displayed on the control interface, controlling, according to the second preset operation, the smart device through the smart-home IoT protocol.
US10129042B2
The present invention relates to the field of communications. Disclosed are an MBMS error processing method, a communications node, and a communications system, which are designed for solving the problem in the prior art that data cannot be transmitted in time when an MBMS error occurs. The method comprises: receiving indication information of an MBMS error; establishing a unicast bearer according to the indication information; and sending data through the unicast bearer, the data being data that a user equipment is receiving through an MBMS bearer or data that the user equipment is interested in to receive when the MBMS error occurs. Also disclosed is a computer storage medium.
US10129040B2
A computing device including a processor device determines that a contact center agent (CCA) is in a non-contact session mode. A particular open conference session of a plurality of open conference sessions is identified. A CCA device associated with the CCA is connected to the particular open conference session.
US10129034B2
A signature authority generates a master seed value that is used to generate a seed tree of subordinate nodes. Each subordinate node of the seed tree is generated from the value of its parent node using a cryptographic hash or one-way function. The signature authority selects subordinate seed values from the seed tree which are distributed to one or more subordinates, each of which generates a set of one-time-use cryptographic keys from the provided seed. Each subordinate generates a hash tree from its set of one-time-use cryptographic keys, and returns the root of its hash tree to the signature authority. The signature authority integrates the hashes provided by the key generators into a comprehensive hash tree, and the root of the hash tree acts as a public key for the signature authority.
US10129030B2
A wearable device generates a temporary ID, generates an encrypted user ID, and transmits the temporary ID and the encrypted user ID to a shop system. The shop system receives the temporary ID and the encrypted user ID, transmits a temporary ID corresponding to the received temporary ID and the encrypted user ID to a server, and transmits the temporary ID transmitted by an identifier transmission unit and waiting state information to the server. The server stores the user ID in association with an information delivery destination of the user ID, receives the encrypted user ID and the temporary ID, associates the temporary ID and the information delivery destination of the user ID, receives the temporary ID and the waiting state information, and transmits the waiting state information to the information delivery destination of the user ID corresponding to the temporary ID.
US10129028B2
A method of equality verification using relational encryption including receiving a relational key that includes a first relational key component and a registration ciphertext that includes an encryption of a first plaintext data set. The method includes storing the registration ciphertext without decrypting the registration ciphertext. After the storing of the registration ciphertext, the method includes receiving an authentication request and communicating a safeguard data set that includes a random challenge in response to the authentication request. The method includes receiving an encrypted response that is generated based on the safeguard data set and a second plaintext data set. The method includes verifying a relationship between the encrypted response and the registration ciphertext using the relational key without decrypting the encrypted response and without decrypting the registration ciphertext. The relationship indicates that equality exists between the first and the second plaintext data sets.
US10129022B1
A key generation technique exploiting the randomness of a wireless channel to generate secret keys to secure automotive wireless communication using symmetric cryptography is presented. Moreover, the algorithm of the present technique solves the challenging key exchange problem in automotive wireless communication with low costs in terms of performance and code size. As demonstrated, the proposed algorithm can generate secret keys with 67% average min-entropy. Furthermore, the proposed technique can achieve up to 10× performance and 20× code size reduction in comparison to the state-of-the-art hybrid cryptographic algorithms.
US10129021B2
A photon pair generator includes a light source configured to emit light, and a nonlinear optical element configured to receive the light radiated from the light source and generate a quantum-entangled photon pair through spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), the nonlinear optical element including a polar material layer and a nonlinear material layer provided on the polar material layer.
US10129011B2
An apparatus comprising: a signal detection circuit determine a count reached by a counter between successive detected edge signals and to provide an indication of whether successive detected edge signals are separated from each other by at least a prescribed time interval; a clock circuit that produces clock signal pulses in response to a provided indication of an occurrence of a succession of detected edge signals each separated from a previous edge signal of the succession by at least the prescribed time interval; phase matching circuitry configured to align the produced clock signal pulses with detected edge signals; and a pattern matching circuit that that samples a sequence of detected edge signals aligned with the produced clock signal pulses to detect a data packet.
US10129010B2
Embodiments of a dual-mode radio system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the radio system includes a first radio unit including a transmitter, a receiver, an antenna, and switching circuitry adapted to couple either an output of the transmitter of the first radio unit or an input of the receiver of the first radio unit to the antenna of the first radio unit. In addition, the radio system includes a second radio unit including an antenna and either a transmitter having an output coupled to the antenna of the second radio unit, a receiver having an input coupled to the antenna of the second radio unit, or both a transmitter having an output selectively coupled to the antenna of the second radio unit and a receiver having an input selectively coupled to the antenna of the second radio unit. The radio system has both a full-duplex mode and a half-duplex mode.
US10129005B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for performing a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation while transceiving data using a plurality of carriers in a mobile communication system. The communication method for a terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving a control message, including setting information of a secondary serving cell (SCell) to be added and discontinuous reception setting information, from a primary serving cell (PCell); and applying, if the control message includes an indicator indicating that the first base station to which the SCell to be added belongs and the second base station to which the PCell belongs are different from each other, the DRX setting information to the serving cell of a first base station. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation is applied upon the occurrence of inter-base-station carrier aggregation, thus reducing the consumption of a battery.
US10129004B2
A method for allocating radio resources in a wide band radio communication network for uplink communications, the network including cells, each having a base station and terminals, the method including during connection of a first terminal to a first base station of a first cell: performing reference signal quality measurements, defined respectively for the terminals of the cells by each base station, analyzing the interference detected from the first terminal on the uplink communications from the terminals connected to the base stations, the analysis being carried out as a function of the reference signal quality measurements, by each base station, allocating radio resources by the first base station for an uplink communication from the first terminal, as a function of the analysis results on detection of interference from the first terminal on the uplink communications from the other terminals of the cells, the results coming from each cell.
US10128981B1
A message-passing decoder operates by storing, at a check node, a minimum value, a next-to-minimum value, an edge location of the minimum value, and information regarding the signs of incoming messages. For an edge which is not the location of a previous minimum value, the minimum value and the next-to-minimum value, and the location of the minimum value, are set based on the magnitude of an incoming message. For an edge which is the location of the previous minimum value, the minimum value and the next-to-minimum value are set based on the magnitude of an incoming message, and when the magnitude of the incoming message is at most equal to the previous next-to-minimum value, the location of the minimum value is set to the respective edge, and when the magnitude of the incoming message is greater than the previous next-to-minimum value, the location of the minimum value is approximated.
US10128975B2
There is provided a method to discriminate NLE-induced signal deformation from ASE-noise on polarization multiplexed signals, in order to measure the OSNR under NLE conditions and/or characterize the NLE-induced signal deformation. In accordance with one aspect, the method is based on the acquisition of optical spectrum traces when the (data-carrying) optical communication signal is partially or completely extinguished (ASE-noise only), as well as with a live optical communication signal. Comparing traces acquired with different conditions and/or at different dates allows discrimination of the signal contribution, the ASE-noise contribution and the NLE-induced deformations on the SUT.
US10128973B2
A method for activating an ONU in a multi-wavelength PON. Other ONUs may be already active and transmit upstream signals to the OLT on various upstream channels. The new ONU transmits an activation signal superimposed to such upstream signals. Since the ONU may include an uncalibrated tunable transmitter, initially the activation signal wavelength might be different from that upon which the ONU shall be activated. The activation signal optical power is lower than the other upstream signals, so as not to impair their reception at the OLT. The OLT operates the ONUs already active on the upstream channel on which the new ONU shall be activated to suspend transmission for one or more time gaps, during which the OLT detects the activation signal. This improves activation signal detection conditions, thereby allowing to increase its bitrate. An acceptable duration of the activation procedure can then be achieved.
US10128971B2
Example embodiments of the present invention relate to a multi wavelength-routing-plane optical architecture. Example embodiments include a Reconfigurable Optical Add Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) supporting a multi wavelength-routing-plane optical architecture, and optical networks supporting a multi wavelength-routing-plane optical architecture.
US10128970B2
A circuit board of the optical module comprises: a first electrical interface is configured to connect an electrical interface of a board or a second electrical interface of another optical module, and a second electrical interface is configured to connect a first electrical interface of another optical module; a first optical port is configured to connect an optical transmission device or a second optical port of another optical module, and a second optical port is configured to connect an optical receiving device or a first optical port of another optical module; and a optical transceiver assembly multiplexes downstream light and demultiplexes upstream light. The optical module provided in solutions of the present invention can be flexibly combined with another optical module, enabling flexible and gradual upgrade of an optical module bandwidth according to a user requirement by using various combination manners.
US10128965B1
A device including an input configured to receive an input signal in an operational mode and to receive a reference voltage in a calibration mode is provided. The device includes a capacitor to store a reference charge based on the reference voltage and an input inverter to capture a transition of the input signal. The input inverter is coupled in series with the capacitor so that the transition of the input signal occurs when a voltage of the input signal crosses the reference voltage. The device includes an output inverter coupled in series with the input inverter to provide an output signal having a parity of the input signal. A system including the above device, and a method for calibrating the above device, are also provided.
US10128963B2
A calibration architecture that enables accurate calibration of radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits (ICs) chips used in transceiver RF systems in a relatively simple testing environment. Embodiments of the invention include one or more on-chip switchable internal calibration paths that enable direct coupling of a portion of the on-chip circuit to an RF test system while isolating other circuitry on the chip. Periodic self-calibration of an RF IC can be performed after initial factory calibration, so that adjustments in desired performance parameters can be made while such an IC is embedded within a final system, and/or to take into account component degradation due to age or other factors.
US10128959B1
A method and structure for tap centering in a coherent optical receiver device. The center of gravity (CG) of the filter coefficients can be used to evaluate a proper convergence of a time-domain adaptive equalizer. However, the computation of CG in a dual-polarization optical coherent receiver is difficult when a frequency domain (FD) adaptive equalizer is adopted. In this case, the implementation of several inverse fast-Fourier transform (IFFT) stages is required to back time domain impulse response. Here, examples of the present invention estimate CG directly from the FD equalizer taps and compensate for an error of convergence based off of the estimated CG. This estimation method and associated device architecture is able to achieve an excellent tradeoff between accuracy and complexity.
US10128954B2
A transceiver comprising a chip, a semiconductor laser, and one or more photodetectors, the chip comprising optical and optoelectronic devices and electronic circuitry, where the transceiver is operable to: communicate, utilizing the semiconductor laser, an optical source signal into the chip, generate first optical signals in the chip based on the optical source signal, transmit the first optical signals from the chip via a light pipe with a sloped reflective surface coupled to the chip, and receive second optical signals from the light pipe and converting the second optical signals to electrical signals via the photodetectors. The optical signals may be communicated out of and in to a top surface of the chip. The one or more photodetectors may be integrated in the chip. The optoelectronic devices may include the one or more photodetectors integrated in the chip. The light pipe may be a planar lightwave circuit (PLC).
US10128953B2
An optical transceiver configured to operate in a host device includes an electrical interface communicatively coupled to the host device to interface electrically with the host device, wherein the optical transceiver is compliant with a Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) which is supported by the host device; optical transceiver components communicatively coupled to the electrical interface, wherein the optical transceiver components are configured to optically interface signals with a second optical transceiver to form an optical link; and electronic dispersion compensation circuitry communicatively coupled to the optical transceiver components and configured to electronically compensate for optical fiber chromatic and/or polarization mode dispersion associated with the optical link, separate and independent from the host device.
US10128949B2
A wide-field telescope and focal plane array (FPA) that look at Earth and satellites in low- and medium-Earth orbit (LEO and MEO) from a satellite in higher orbit, such as geostationary Earth orbit (GEO), can serve as a node in an on-demand, optical multiple access (OMA) communications network. The FPA receives asynchronous low-rate signals from LEO and MEO satellites and ground stations at a signal rate determined in part by the FPA frame rate (e.g., kHz to MHz). A controller tracks the low-rate signals across the FPA as the signal sources orbit Earth. The node also includes one or more transmitters that relay the received information to other nodes via wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) free-space optical signals. These other signals may include low-rate telemetry communications, burst transmissions, and continuous data relay links.
US10128936B2
Provided are methods for, in a wireless access system supporting device-to-device (D2D) communication, configuring a relay terminal and selecting a link through which the relay terminal can efficiently transmit a D2D signal, and devices for supporting same. A method for effectively transmitting a D2D signal by a relay terminal in a wireless access system supporting D2D communication, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving relay mode configuration information from a base station; receiving scheduling information about a first resource pool and a second resource pool from the base station; relaying a D2D signal through an access link in the first resource pool; and transmitting the D2D signal through a one-hop D2D link in the second resource pool. The relay terminal is connected to both of the access link and the one-hop D2D link, wherein the access link can be configured for D2D relay communication with the base station, and the one-hop D2D link can be configured for D2D direct communication with another terminal.
US10128935B2
For use with a cellular communication network having a base station transmitting downlink signals received by mobile device/s: a downlink signal reception enhancement system including partial repeater apparatus enhancing quality of reception of at least a portion of downlink signal/s by mobile device/s, the partial repeater apparatus including a downlink receiver receiving at least a portion of downlink signal/s arriving from the base station; a controller including a critical region selector, selecting only a portion of at least one individual downlink signal; and a partial transmitter generating signal/s by regenerating, according to characteristic/s of at least one of a downlink signal and the mobile device, at least the portion selected by the critical region selector, and to transmit a signal including at least the regenerated portion plus less than all of the individual downlink signal.
US10128923B2
Method and device for configuring a waveform at a transmitter are provided. The method includes: receiving at least one input signal, each input signal corresponding to a subcarrier spacing setting; performing IDFT pre-processing to each input signal, the IDFT pre-processing including DFT pre-coding or offset modulation; performing IDFT to each input signal which is subjected to the IDFT pre-processing, the IDFT including an IDFT with parameters including resource mapping and a corresponding IDFT size; performing IDFT post-processing to each input signal which is subjected to the IDFT to obtain at least one output signal, the IDFT post-processing including cyclic extension and time-domain windowing; adding the at least one output signal in time domain; and transmitting the added signal through a corresponding antenna port. Waveforms are configured flexibly according to practical scenarios at the transmitter to determine a most suitable waveform for current scenario, which meets practical requirements of 5G technology.
US10128917B2
Methods and apparatuses for communicating over a wireless communication network are disclosed herein. One method includes forming a message that includes a plurality of data tones and one or more direct current (DC) protection tones. The method further includes setting a value for a data tone of the plurality of data tones to carry a data portion of the message. The method further includes setting a value for a DC protection tone of the one or more DC protection tones by repeating the value for the data tone as the value for the DC protection tone. The method further includes transmitting the message to one or more wireless communication devices utilizing the plurality of data tones and the one or more DC protection tones.
US10128906B2
A main power line (+ and − lines) is coupled to a power supply, for example a car battery, grounded to a vehicle chassis. Positive and negative main power lines are coupled to a power line gateway module, and spliced to carry power for a segment, until receiving, by splices, RF power line communcations. The main power lines, now carrying power and RF power line communications are then coupled to remote modules. RF power line communication carries signal from the power line gateway module to a impedance matching network or a transformer are used to match impedances.
US10128902B1
Devices, systems, and methods utilize coexistence-based frequency hopping. Methods are performed at a user equipment including an antenna arrangement comprising a first plurality of antennas configured for use with a first connection and a second plurality of antennas configured for use with a second connection. The methods include determining, for each of a plurality of combinations of one of the first antennas and one of the second antennas, an individual expected interference limiting a number of usable channels for the first connection. The methods include determining a combined expected interference based at least in part on at least one of the individual expected interferences. The methods also include selecting, based at least in part on the combined expected interference, an operational antenna of the first plurality of antennas for communication associated with the first connection.
US10128894B1
Aspects of this disclosure relate to active antenna calibration. In some embodiments, a local oscillator signal can be injected into the receive path for misalignment measurement and calibration of the receive path, a transmit signal from a transmit path can be coupled to a receive path, and the transmit path can be calibrated relative to the receive path.
US10128892B1
Systems and methods of tuning SerDes links between transmitter SerDes channels and receiver SerDes channels are described. Generally, the SerDes links may be tuned using a generic SerDes tuner implementation and a tuning algorithm. The tuning algorithm may have a first tuner interface specific to the transmitter SerDes device and a second tuner interface specific to the receiver SerDes device. The tuning algorithm may define a sequence of operations from the first tuner interface and the second tuner interface that when executed result in calibration of the SerDes link.
US10128891B2
A mobile phone/tablet case with finger grasping ring comprises a box for receiving a body of the mobile phone or tablet, a finger grasping ring is provided on the box bottom; the finger grasping ring is provided a multiple of finger holes which are enterable by fingers. Another embodiment the finger grasping ring has an elastic valve and an elastic belt; the elastic valve has one side connected with the elastic bottom together and other sides are separated from the bottom; the elastic belt has two opposite ends connected with the elastic valve together and other two opposite sides separated from the elastic valve, the elastic belt is parallel to long sides of the box. When the middle finger of user enter the gap between the belt and valve, the case with a mobile phone/tablet is grasped without thumb.
US10128887B2
A support system which allows for the use and mounting of a smart phone, or similar electronic device, in a variety of ways. The support system may be adapted to function as a hand grip while supporting the smart phone during image acquisition, or while watching images on the smart phone. In another configuration, the support system may be adapted to attach to the user's belt. In another configuration, the support system may function as a support stand. In another configuration, the support system may be mounted on a tripod. The support system may include a kit of parts which allow for the modification of support accessories to allow for different configurations. The support system may include a removable shutter which may actuate the camera functions via wireless communication.
US10128884B2
A circuit includes a main connector and a single-pole double-throw switch. A common contact of the main connector is used as a port of a main receiver, and a normally-closed contact of the main connector is used as a port of a main antenna. Furthermore, a normally-open contact of the main connector is used as a port of an external antenna, and a common contact of the single-pole double-throw switch is used as a port of a diversity receiver. Additionally, a normally-closed contact of the single-pole double-throw switch is used as port of a diversity antenna, and a normally-open contact of the single-pole double-throw switch is connected to the normally-closed contact of the main connector.
US10128881B2
A time to digital converter has a counter, a first phase difference detector, a first capacitor, a second capacitor having capacitance N times a capacitance of the first capacitor, a comparator to compare a charge voltage of the first capacitor with a charge voltage of the second capacitor, a first charge controller, a first phase difference arithmetic unit, a second phase difference detector, a second charge controller, a second phase difference arithmetic unit to operate the phase difference between the first signal and the second signal, and a third phase difference arithmetic unit to detect a fractional phase difference between the first signal and the second signal. The first phase difference arithmetic unit operates the phase difference between the first signal and the second signal, based on a reference phase, when the counter suspends a measurement operation.
US10128878B1
A system and method for receiving a signal, comprising an input adapted to receive a radio frequency signal having a strong interferer; a signal generator, adapted to produce a representation of the interferer as an analog signal generated based on an oversampled digital representation thereof; and a component adapted to cancel the strong interferer from radio frequency signal based on the generated analog signal to produce a modified radio frequency signal substantially absent the interferer. The system typically has a nonlinear component that either saturates or produces distortion from the strong interferer, which is thereby reduced. The system preferably employs high speed circuits which digitize and process radio frequency signals without analog mixers.
US10128876B2
A digital microwave radio system includes a splitter that splits a common baseband input into two baseband outputs, first and second transmitters, each transmitter electrically connected to a baseband output of the splitter via a mixer, a common local oscillator electrically connected to the mixer of the first transmitter and the mixer of the second transmitter via an adjustable phase shifter, respectively, and a combiner. The common local oscillator is configured to up-convert each baseband output into a radio-frequency signal using a corresponding mixer. The combiner combines the two radio-frequency signals into a 0-degree phase-shift output and a 180-degree phase-shift output, respectively. A phase error control loop adjusts the phase shifter to minimize the 180-degree phase-shift radio-frequency output. A combiner gain control loop adjusts the output power level of the two transmitters in accordance with an actual power detector reading at the 0-degree phase-shift radio-frequency output.
US10128870B2
Systems and methods for maximizing read performance of error detection code are provided. More particularly, systems and methods for maximizing read performance of Reed Solomon Based code are provided.
US10128864B2
A non-linear converter comprising a non-linear voltage divider having a plurality of resistors representing a non-linear transfer function, an analog multiplexer having analog multiplexer inputs coupled to the non-linear voltage divider and configured to output an analog multiplexer output, the analog multiplexer chooses one of the plurality of resistors based on a logic signal and the non-linear transfer function, an analog comparator having an analog comparator first input configured to receive an analog input voltage, an analog comparator second input configured to receive the analog multiplexer output and the analog comparator configured to output a comparator voltage output and a logic loop coupled to the analog comparator and configured to receive the comparator voltage output and configured to output the logic signal, wherein the logic signal represents a linearized digital word.
US10128863B2
A configuration circuit for obtaining a digital code includes a controller circuit that generates a plurality of multibit control words. A digitally controlled current source circuit receives a multibit control word generated by the controller circuit. The digitally controlled current source circuit generates an output current that corresponds to the multibit control word in accordance with a predetermined output curve. A test voltage node receives the output current, and a test voltage develops in response to the output current. A reference voltage node develops a reference voltage, the level of which is independent of the multibit control word. A voltage comparison circuit (i) receives the test voltage and the reference voltage, (ii) compares the two voltages to produce a comparison result and (iii) sends the comparison result to the controller circuit. The digital code is obtained by the configuration circuit using the comparison result and the multibit control word.
US10128859B1
Techniques are described to cancel kT/C sampling noise and residue amplifier sampling noise while also reducing power consumption in a pipelined analog-to-digital converter circuit.
US10128858B2
Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods of operating such apparatuses. One of the apparatuses includes a first circuit included in a phase-locked loop (PLL) to receive an input clock signal and a feedback clock signal, and to generate an output clock signal; a second circuit included in the PLL to generate the feedback clock signal from the output clock signal; and a third circuit to prevent the output clock signal from toggling during a portion of a time interval when the PLL performs an operation of aligning phases of the input clock signal and feedback clock signal.
US10128856B1
A digital locking loop circuit (DLLC), such as a digital phase-locked loop or digital delay-locked loop, includes a digitally-controlled frequency generator, a digital loop filter configured to output a digital control signal for the frequency generator, and a multi-stage time-to-digital converter to detect phase error between an input reference clock signal and an output signal fed back from the frequency generator, to adjust the digitally-controlled frequency generator to decrease the phase error. Each phase-error detection stage detects a phase error component at a respective resolution, and combinatorial logic combines the components into a phase error signal. The plurality of stages may operate in parallel to provide different portions of the phase error signal. The DLLC may include a fractional phase interpolator to adjust the target frequency by a fractional amount, and one of the stages includes conversion circuitry to compensate for a fractional phase. A method also is provided.
US10128853B2
A delay-locked loop (DLL) circuit and an integrated circuit (IC) including the same are provided. The DLL circuit includes a pre-processing circuit configured to generate a first pulse signal and a second pulse signal based on a clock signal input, the first pulse signal and the second pulse signal having a phase difference of (s/2) times a clock period of the clock signal (where s is a positive integer), a delay line configured to generate a delay signal by delaying the first pulse signal by a delay amount corresponding to a selection value, a phase detector configured to detect a phase difference between the delay signal and the second pulse signal, and a control logic configured to adjust the selection value based on the phase difference between the delay signal and the second pulse signal as detected by the phase detector, so as to synchronize the delay signal with the second pulse signal.
US10128846B2
The disclosure relates to a data level shifter circuit including a boost circuit configured to generate a boosted input data signal based on a transition of an input data signal; a first input transistor including a first control signal configured to receive the input data signal; a second input transistor including a second control terminal configured to receive the boosted input data signal, wherein the first and second input transistors are coupled in parallel between a node and a lower voltage rail; and a latch circuit configured to generate an output data signal based on the input data signal, wherein the latch circuit is coupled between an upper voltage rail and the node.
US10128845B2
Voltage level shifter (VLS) circuits employing a pre-conditioning circuit for pre-conditioning an input signal to be voltage level shifted in response to a pre-charge phase are disclosed. A VLS circuit is configured to voltage level shift an input signal in a lower voltage domain on an output node in a higher voltage domain. The VLS circuit includes a pre-charge circuit configured to pre-charge the output node in a pre-charge phase. The VLS circuit also includes a pull-up circuit and a pull-down circuit that are configured to pull-up and pull-down the pre-charge phase of the output node, respectively, in an evaluation phase based on a logic state of the input signal to generate the output signal. To mitigate or avoid contention between the pull-up and pull-down circuits in the evaluation phase, the input signal is pre-conditioned such that the pull-down circuit is deactivated in response to the pre-charge phase.
US10128838B2
Example embodiments of a reflective switch and methods for preventing inadvertent actuation of the reflective switch are disclosed. Exemplary embodiments of the reflective switch comprise a plurality of photo emitters that emit light through a translucent zone and a plurality of photo detectors that detect light rays that are reflected back through the translucent zone by an operator input. Upon detecting reflected light rays, the photo detectors send reflective signals to a controller. The controller then monitors whether the unique addresses of the photo detectors are increasing or decreasing and whether the addresses have increased or decreased to a predetermined threshold to merit a change in switch state. An indicia may be configured to notify an operator that a new switch state has been achieved.
US10128835B2
An integrated circuit includes an IO node, and an IO driver coupled thereto. The IO driver has a first driving circuit with a first PMOS transistor having a source coupled to a supply node and a gate coupled to receive a PMOS driving signal, and a first NMOS transistor having a source coupled to ground, a drain coupled to the drain of the first PMOS transistor, and a gate coupled to receive a NMOS driving signal. The IO driver also has a second driving circuit with a second PMOS transistor having a source coupled to the supply node and a gate coupled to receive a first delayed version of the PMOS driving signal, and a second NMOS transistor having a drain coupled to the drain of the second PMOS transistor, a source coupled to ground, and a gate coupled to receive a first delayed version of the NMOS driving signal.
US10128831B1
The disclosed apparatus may include (1) a first transistor whose (A) first terminal is electrically coupled to an enable node, (B) second terminal is electrically coupled to a feedback node, and (C) third terminal is electrically coupled to a ground node, (2) a second transistor whose (A) first terminal is electrically coupled to the feedback node, (B) second terminal is electrically coupled to the enable node, and (C) third terminal is electrically coupled to the ground node, (3) a resistor that is electrically coupled between the feedback node and the ground node, and (4) a diode that is electrically coupled between the feedback node and another resistor, wherein the other resistor is electrically coupled between the diode and an output-voltage node that provides electrical power to a computing device. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US10128830B2
A track and hold circuit comprises an input buffer amplifier, a unit gain amplifier module, a sampling switch, a drive triode and a sampling capacitor. The input buffer amplifier receives an input signal. In a track phase, the sampling switch is electrically connected to an emitter electrode of the drive triode; the input signal charges the sampling capacitor after being buffered by the input buffer amplifier, amplified without distortion by the unit gain amplifier module and driven by the drive triode. In a hold phase, the sampling switch is electrically connected to a base electrode of the drive triode; the base voltage of the drive triode is pulled down until the drive triode is cut off; electrical charges on the sampling capacitor are thereby held, causing the signal to be held on the sampling capacitor.
US10128825B2
A ringing suppression circuit includes: a single line switching element, which is driven by a voltage, that is connected between a pair of signal lines; a controller that detects a change in a level of the differential signal and turns on the single line switching element to lower an impedance between the pair of signal lines; a period detector that detects a length of a suppressing period indicated by a setting signal, which is an input; and a suppressing period storage that stores the length of the suppressing period which is detected by the period detector. In addition, the pair of signal lines includes a high potential signal line and a low potential signal line. Moreover, the controller turns on the single line switching element for only the suppressing period having the length, which is stored in the suppressing period storage.
US10128814B2
Embodiments of a Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) device having a guided SAW structure that provides spurious mode suppression and methods of fabrication thereof are disclosed. In some embodiments, a SAW device includes a non-semiconductor support substrate, a piezoelectric layer on a surface of the non-semiconductor support substrate, and at least one interdigitated transducer on a surface of the piezoelectric layer opposite the non-semiconductor support substrate. A thickness of the piezoelectric layer, a SAW velocity of the piezoelectric layer, and an acoustic velocity of the non-semiconductor support substrate are such that a frequency of spurious modes above a resonance frequency of the SAW device is above a bulk wave cut-off frequency of the SAW device. In this manner, the spurious modes above the resonance frequency of the SAW device are suppressed.
US10128808B2
An imaging system includes an array of photodetectors and electronic circuitry associated with the photodetectors to read intensity values from the photodetectors. The electronic circuitry can include an integrator with an integrator capacitor having a nominal capacitance, wherein a gain of the electronic circuitry associated with a photodetector can depend at least in part on the actual capacitance of the integrator capacitor, the actual capacitance differing from the nominal capacitance. The imaging system can be configured to determine a gain factor that depends at least in part on the actual capacitance and/or a signal voltage input to the integrator. The imaging system can be configured to apply the gain factor based at least in part on the actual capacitance of the integrator capacitor calculated. The imaging system can be a thermal imaging system and may include an infrared camera core.
US10128802B2
Disclosed here is an apparatus that comprises an amplifier having first and second input nodes, first and second resistors, a first electrostatic discharge protection circuit coupled between the first input node and the first resistor, and a second electrostatic discharge protection circuit coupled between the second input node and the second resistor.
US10128800B2
A distortion compensation apparatus include: a feedback unit that generates a feedback signal containing a first frequency component in which a plurality of odd-order distortions are superimposed and a second frequency component in which a plurality of even-order distortions are superimposed according to output of a power amplifier which amplifies a transmission signal; and a signal processor that separates the first frequency component and the second frequency component from the generated feedback signal and performs signal processing.
US10128791B2
Structures and methods for supporting solar panels are provided. The structure includes a plurality of tee extrusions, a plurality of legs, a plurality of trusses, a plurality of ridge rails, and a plurality of clips. The tee extrusions form two parallel tracks upon which the legs are secured. The legs project upward from the extrusions and are coupled to the trusses, which are above and perpendicular to the trusses. At least four legs support each truss. The ridge rails sit on the truss and a parallel to the extrusions. The solar panels sit on the ridge rails and are secured to the ridge rails by the clips.
US10128790B2
In various representative aspects, an assembly for connecting and electrically bonding two solar panel rail guides is provided. More specifically, the assembly provides a novel and improved inner rail used as a splice that slides within the two solar panel rail guides and includes a serrated screw that is pre-installed within the splice. When installed, the two rail guides are brought together along the splice and meet at the point where the screw is located, the screw can then be tightened so that the serrations penetrate surface treatment layers on each of the rail guides so that the solar panel rail guides are secured and electrically coupled to each other. An alternate embodiment utilizes the inner splice to join two solar panel rail guides by sliding the splice within the inner contour of two solar panel rail guides, and utilizing a pair of bonding pins to electrically bond the splice and the two solar panel rail guides. A stop pin inserted into the splice provides a tactile connection point where the two solar panel guides can be joined together.
US10128788B2
An apparatus and method for extending component life in a motor drive having a stator heating mode is disclosed. The current supplied to stator windings is cycled through a set of primary stator power transistors to increase the overall lifespan of the drive, thus preventing premature failure of the stator power transistors by splitting the workload between them, rather than having a single transistor supply the bulk of the stator heating current.
US10128786B2
A vehicle may include an inverter, a motor coupled to the inverter, and a traction battery coupled to the inverter and having a terminal voltage equal to a rail voltage between rails of the inverter such that the rail voltage is unregulated. The vehicle may also include a voltage converter configured to reduce the terminal voltage below an intermediate bus voltage threshold on an intermediate bus, and an auxiliary converter configured to draw power from the intermediate bus to supply auxiliary loads.
US10128783B2
A drive circuit includes an internal oscillator and a pre-drive controller coupled to the internal oscillator. The pre-drive controller can have a switch control output configured to be coupled to a switch input. The pre-drive controller can receive switch control data, receive a clock signal, receive a synchronization signal, synchronize the internal oscillator based on the clock signal and the synchronization signal, and generate a pulse modulated switching signal at the switch control output based on the switch control data and the internal oscillator.
US10128782B2
Various embodiments include a variable frequency drive motor control apparatus. The apparatus includes a main controller having a first interface. A motor controller is coupled to and controls an electric motor, the motor controller further coupled to the main controller. A network switch is coupled to the main controller, the motor controller, and a remote controller over respective digital connections. The remote controller has a second interface. The network switches data between the first interface, the second interface, and the motor controller. A network coupler is coupled between a variable frequency drive controller and the motor controller.
US10128776B2
An inverter device includes a converter circuit unit, an inverter circuit unit, and a current detector. The inverter device includes a calculator that calculates a frequency command value based on output current detected by the current detector, and a pulse signal output unit that outputs a pulse signal based on the frequency command value calculated by the calculator. The calculator includes a calculator and a calculator. The calculator estimates a target frequency from a load torque and motor characteristics, and calculates a first frequency command value with the estimated target frequency as a target. The calculator calculates a second frequency command value to cause torque current detected based on the output current detected by the current detector to follow a torque current limit value calculated based on the output current. When a deviation of the first frequency command value from the target frequency becomes less than or equal to a determination value, output to the pulse signal output unit is switched from the first frequency command value to the second frequency command value.
US10128775B2
A motor drive apparatus driving a motor as a three-phase motor converting direct current into three-phase alternating current, includes: inverter modules and equivalent in number to phases of the motor; and a control unit generating PWM signals used to drive the inverter modules with PWM. The inverter modules each include a plurality of switching element pairs connected in parallel, each of the switching element pairs including two switching elements connected in series.
US10128766B1
Various embodiments relate to a method and circuit for maintaining zero voltage switching while having a fixed switching frequency, the method including switching on a first switch, on a primary side, at a beginning of a primary stroke of a time period at zero voltage and switching off the first switch at an end of the primary stroke, switching on a second switch, on a secondary side, at a beginning of a secondary stroke of a time period and switching off the second switch at an end of the secondary stoke of a time period and switching on a second switch at a beginning of a ringing period of the time period and switching off the second switch at an end of a bi-directional flyback action.
US10128765B2
A multi-stage power converter includes a first-stage power conversion circuit, a second-stage power conversion circuit, a second-stage analogic sampler, a pulse width modulator, a first isolator, a pulse width analyzer and a control unit. The second-stage analogic sampler samples power parameter from the second-stage power conversion circuit. The pulse width modulator converts the power parameter into a pulse width modulation signal. The pulse width analyzer receives the pulse width modulation signal through the first isolator in an isolation manner, calculates a duty ratio of the pulse width modulation signal according to a rising edge and a falling edge of the pulse width modulation signal, and calculates the power parameter according to the duty ratio. The control unit controls operations of the second-stage power conversion circuit according to the power parameter that is obtained by the pulse width analyzer.
US10128763B2
A method for regulating a power converter includes initiating a transition of a switch coupled to an input side of the power converter from an OFF to an ON state to regulate a transfer of energy from the input to an output side of the power converter after a switch control signal generator receives an enable signal and if a feedback signal representative of an output of the power converter indicates a change in an output of the power converter. The enable signal is generated to communicate a control signal from the output to the input side in response to a first signal representative of a voltage on an output terminal that oscillates in response to an ending of the transfer of energy. The transition of the switch from the OFF to the ON state occurs substantially at a time that the first signal reaches an extremum.
US10128758B1
Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a multi-phase voltage converter. The multi-phase voltage converter generally includes at least two converter stages coupled to an output node of the multi-phase voltage converter. Each of the at least two converter stages generally includes a switch disposed between an input node of the multi-phase voltage converter and the output node, the switch having a first resistance, and an inductive element coupled between the switch and the output node, the inductive element having a second resistance. In certain aspects, the first resistances of the at least two converter stages match and/or the second resistances of the at least two converter stages match.
US10128747B2
Voltage source circuits, asynchronous processing systems and methods are disclosed. A voltage source circuit includes a capacitor storing an operating voltage for an asynchronous processor. A frequency comparator compares a frequency reference and a feedback signal indicative of an operating frequency of the asynchronous processor to determine whether or not the operating frequency is less than a target frequency. When operating frequency is less than the target frequency, a charge pump adds charge to the capacitor.
US10128737B1
A constant on-time switching converter and a clock synchronization circuit are provided, which generate a synchronization signal according to a clock signal, an input voltage, and an output voltage. The synchronization signal will be synchronized with a period length of the clock signal, thereby acquiring the duty cycle of the constant on-time switching converter. People in the business can accordingly avoid the interference with the synchronization signal and other major clock signals, to prevent electromagnetic interference (BMI) generation.
US10128736B1
A rectifier device is described herein. In accordance with one exemplary embodiment, the rectifier device includes a semiconductor substrate doped with dopants of a first doping type and at least one well region arranged in the semiconductor substrate and doped with dopants of a second doping type. Accordingly, the at least one well region and the surrounding semiconductor substrate form a pn-junction. The rectifier device further includes an anode terminal and a cathode terminal connected by a load current path of a first MOS transistor and a diode connected parallel to the load current path. An alternating input voltage is operably applied between the anode terminal and the cathode terminal. The rectifier device further includes a control circuit and a biasing circuit. The control circuit is configured to switch on the first MOS transistor for an on-time period, during which the diode is forward biased. The first MOS transistor and the diode are integrated in the semiconductor substrate, and the control circuit is at least partly arranged in the at least one well region. The biasing circuit is configured to generate a biasing voltage that is applied to the at least one well region such that the pn-junction is reverse biased.
US10128730B2
A vibration motor includes a fixation part having a housing forming an accommodation space and at least one coil fixed in the accommodation space, a vibration part including a magnet and a weight for accommodating the magnet, an elastic connecting part for suspending the vibration part in the accommodation space; a damping element accommodated in the weight; a limiting column penetrating the damping element and extending along a direction from the magnet to the coil, two ends of the limiting column being fixed to the housing.
US10128728B2
A manufacturing method for a segment coil according to the invention includes forming an assembled wire by bundling a plurality of element wires, forming a stranded wire by twisting the assembled wire, forming a rectangular conductor by rolling the stranded wire, and forming a segment coil by cutting the rectangular conductor into a given length and bending the cut rectangular conductor. Before the rectangular conductor is bent, the plurality of element wires is fastened at a position where the coil end portion of the segment coil is formed.
US10128723B2
A power tool and a printed circuit board assembly (“PCBA”) for the power tool. The PCBA includes, for example, a printed circuit board (“PCB”), a heat sink, a spacer between the PCB and the heat sink, and a gap pad. The PCB and the heat sink are fastened to one another via fasteners so the spacer absorbs excess forces torsional forces from torques applied to the fasteners. The gap pad is placed within an opening or recess of the spacer to contact one or more FETs on the PCB. In some embodiments, the PCBA includes a second heat sink or rigid member on the opposite side of the PCB than the spacer to further distribute excess torsional forces from torques applied to the fasteners.
US10128718B2
In a stator, winding coil sections are formed at respective teeth, and pairs of winding terminal portions that are continuous to the respective winding coil sections are guided out from between base end portions of respective adjacent teeth toward one axial direction side of the stator core. A first retaining portion that retains a base end portion of one winding terminal portion of each pair of winding terminal portions, and a second retaining portion that retains another winding terminal portion of each pair of winding terminal portions, are provided between the base end portions of the respective adjacent teeth. The first retaining portions and the second retaining portions are disposed between the base end portions of the respective adjacent teeth so as to be offset from each other in a circumferential direction and a radial direction of the stator core.
US10128710B2
A linear compressor and a linear motor for a linear compressor are provided. The linear motor may include a first stator, a second stator spaced apart from the first stator, and at least one permanent magnet disposed between the first stator and the second stator. The first stator may include a bobbin around which a coil may be wound, and a plurality of core blocks that surrounds the bobbin. In at least one core block of the plurality of core blocks, a distance between a first surface that faces the second stator and a second surface of the second stator that faces the first surface varies in a circumferential direction of the second stator.
US10128708B2
There is provided an armature including a shaft; a core attached to the shaft; a commutator that is attached to the shaft, and includes a plurality of commutator segments; windings that are wound onto the core, and are connected to the respective commutator segments; and a short-circuit member that connects together a pair out of the plurality of commutator segments, and is disposed further to the commutator radial direction outside than an outer peripheral portion of the commutator.
US10128706B2
A rotary electric machine includes a stator having an open slot configuration and a plurality of stator poles with a coil positioned about each stator pole. Each coil has a plurality of electrically conductive wires defining a group of wires and the group of wires is wrapped generally around a stator pole to define a plurality of turns. At least a portion of the group of wires is twisted, and the portion of the group of wires has between approximately 1 and 5 twists per turn. A method of fabricating a stator assembly is also disclosed.
US10128703B2
The present invention relates to a shaft-embracing permanent magnet inter-shaft glued stator structure of a high-speed motor; the structure is a shaft-embracing permanent magnet integrated structure; the rotor structure comprises a permanent magnet (2), an output shaft (1) which is connected with one end of the permanent magnet (2) and embraces one part of the permanent magnet (2), and a rear shaft (4) which is respectively connected with the other end of the permanent magnet (2) and the output shaft (1), used for embracing the other part of the permanent magnet (2), and connected with the output shaft (1) to form a sealing mechanism of the permanent magnet (2). Compared with the prior art, the present invention has advantages of good electro-magnetic performance, high reliability, high productivity and good concentricity.
US10128700B2
A core segment linked body is configured by linking a plurality of core segments by inserting first shafts of first core segments into first slots of core segments near a first longitudinal end thereof, and inserting second shafts of core segments near the first longitudinal end thereof into second slots of the first core segments, the linked core segments are expandable and contractible between an expanded position in which an interval between the magnetic pole tooth is expanded and a contracted position in which the interval is reduced by the first shafts being guided by the first slots and the second shafts being guided by the second slots, and central axes of the first shafts and the second shafts are: offset in a longitudinal direction of the back yoke in the expanded position; and positioned collinearly in a direction of lamination in the contracted position.
US10128699B2
A method for wireless power transmission is performed at a wireless power transmitter. The method includes: (i) requesting sensor data from a receiver device; (ii) receiving sensor data from the receiver device in response to the request, wherein the sensor data is generated by one or more sensors of the receiver device; and (iii) determining whether the receiver device is in a proscribed state for wireless power reception based on the received sensor data. The method further includes, in accordance with determining that the receiver device is not in the proscribed state: transmitting, by antennas of the wireless power transmitter, a plurality of wireless power transmission waves to the receiver device so that each wireless power transmission wave of the plurality of wireless power transmission waves constructively interferes with at least one other wireless power transmission wave of the plurality of wireless power transmission waves.
US10128698B2
An assembly and method are provided for detecting an object within a wireless charging region of an electric vehicle. The method includes applying by a controller, a voltage to the wireless charging region to generate a capacitance value and measuring by the controller, the capacitance value of an electromagnetic shield disposed on the underside of the vehicle. Further, the controller monitors the capacitance value of the electromagnetic shield; and the controller detects a change in the capacitance value when the object enters the wireless charging region.
US10128689B2
Systems and methods for converting voltages between different voltage levels in a receiver are disclosed. In an aspect, a wireless power receiver apparatus for charging a chargeable device is provided. The apparatus includes a plurality of receive antennas disposed on a cover of the chargeable device, wherein at least one of the plurality of receive antennas is configured to wirelessly receive power according to a wireless charging protocol different from at least one other of the plurality of receive antennas. The apparatus includes a switching circuit disposed on the cover and configured to receive the wireless power from at least one of the plurality of receive antennas and selectively provide a respective voltage from a corresponding one of the plurality of receive antennas across an output configured to be connected to an input of the chargeable device.
US10128687B2
There is provided a non-contact power transmission apparatus which can supply stable power from a power transmitting side to a power receiving side even if a load is changed. The power transmission apparatus transmits power from a power transmitting device to a power receiving device in a non-contact manner. The power transmitting device includes a series circuit which is connected to a direct-current power source, and includes a parallel resonance circuit including a first capacitor and a first inductor, and a switch element, a drive source to drive on or off the switch element, and a first series resonance circuit connected to a connection point between the parallel resonance circuit and the switch element and including a second inductor, a second capacitor and a power transmission coil. The power receiving device includes a second series resonance circuit including a power receiving coil paired with the power transmission coil and a third capacitor connected in series to the power receiving coil, and a rectifying circuit to rectify a voltage generated in the second series resonance circuit and to supply the voltage to a load circuit.
US10128678B2
The present inventions, in one aspect, are directed to techniques and/or circuitry to applying a charge pulse to the terminals of the battery during a charging operation, measure a plurality of voltages of the battery which are in response to the first charge pulse, determine a charge pulse voltage (CPV) of the battery, wherein the charge pulse voltage is a peak voltage which is in response to the first charge pulse, determine whether the CPV of the battery is within a predetermined range or greater than a predetermined upper limit value and adapt one or more characteristics of a charge packet if the CPV is outside the predetermined range or is greater than a predetermined upper limit value.
US10128677B2
In embodiments of the present disclosure, after a mobile terminal has recognized a type of a power adapter, the mobile terminal actively initiates a quick charging request, and negotiates with the power adapter via handshake communication to determine charging parameters. The power adapter charges a battery of the mobile terminal via a multi-stage constant current mode.
US10128673B2
Disclosed is a portable device for aiding low temperature high power output of a battery pack, the device including a primary loop and a control unit, in which: the primary loop is configured as a working loop of the battery pack and comprises a power resistor, herein two ends of the power resistor are electrically connected with the positive/negative terminal of the battery pack respectively, and the battery pack discharges at low temperatures through the power resistor so that an internal temperature of the battery pack rises; and the control unit is configured to control on/off of the primary loop.
US10128672B2
An electric device including: a connecting unit connected to a connection line supplying an electric power of a predetermined rating and transmitting and receiving an information; a charging unit conducting a charging of a charging battery connected to an own device, by the electric power supplied by the connection line; an electric supplying unit supplying an electric power to a recording medium storing an information; a reading-and-writing unit performing a reading-and-writing operation of the recording medium; and an electronic source controlling unit performing a control of the electric power supplied to the charging unit, when the reading-and-writing unit performs the reading-and-writing operation of the recording medium, according to an access request to the recording medium via the connection line.
US10128670B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for determining whether an electronic device contacts a fluid or not. The electronic device may include: a housing; at least one sensor arranged in the housing; a coupling member connected to a part of the housing and configured to detachably couple the electronic device to a part of a body of a user; a conductive member arranged on a surface of the housing or on a surface of the coupling member and exposed to an outside while being electrically connectible to the at least one sensor; a processor electrically connected to the at least one sensor and the conductive member; and a memory electrically connected to the processor. The processor determines whether the conductive member has contacted a fluid or not using the at least one sensor and executes a second action at least partially based on the determination.
US10128659B2
Methods, devices, and systems for controlling energy generation interactions that bypass the grid may be provided. Flow control devices may be directly connected with one another independent of electrical connections to the utility grid. In some examples, the direct connections between the devices may enable sharing of power, controlling power flow over the direct connections, and/or recording relative power flows between the devices.
US10128658B2
Autonomous, self-adjusting, and distributed line flow processing for a network having nodes with branches coupling adjacent ones of the nodes and components coupled to the nodes. Systems, methods, and software made in accordance with this disclosure can be used to identify where power flows can exceed the maximum transfer limit in each line and to enable automated adjustments in order to avoid such conditions. These can be useful tools for both system operators of large electrical networks and for implementing automated schemes to ensure network feasibility in micro-grids or other networks with many smart components embedded with communications and/or computation capabilities.
US10128657B2
A system transmits electrical power between a first and a second alternating voltage network. A self-commutated converter can be connected to the second alternating voltage network, the converter being connected to an unregulated rectifier via a direct voltage connection. The unregulated rectifier can be connected to the first alternating voltage network on an alternating voltage side. The system has a network generation device, which can be connected to the first alternating voltage network and is provided for generating an alternating voltage in the first alternating voltage network. The network generation device is configured to exchange reactive power and active power with the first alternating voltage network. Furthermore, a method is provided which stabilizes a network frequency of the first alternating voltage network, in which the network frequency in the first alternating voltage network is regulated by changing a voltage at the direct voltage terminal of the self-commutated converter.
US10128655B2
A system tool merges different load forecasts for power grid centers. A plurality of load forecast engines are coupled to a load forecast interface and a relational data base that saves load forecast engine data as an input through the load forecast interface. A comprehensive operating plan is coupled to the load forecast engines and the relational database. The comprehensive operating plan is configured to integrate individual load forecasts into a composite load forecast to present a comprehensive, synchronized and harmonized load forecast. A program interface provides access to the composite load forecasting schedule.
US10128648B2
A diagnostic system for a DC-DC voltage converter having a low voltage bi-directional MOSFET switch is provided. The low voltage bi-directional MOSFET switch has first and second nodes. The microcontroller samples a first voltage at the first node at a first sampling rate utilizing a first common channel in a first bank of channels to obtain a first predetermined number of voltage samples. The microcontroller determines a first number of voltage samples in the first predetermined number of voltage samples in which the first voltage is less than a first threshold voltage. The microcontroller sets a first voltage diagnostic flag equal to a first fault value if the first number of voltage samples is greater than a first threshold number of voltage samples indicating a voltage out of range low fault condition for the analog-to-digital converter.
US10128645B2
An electrical accessory (1) for installing in a wall, includes: a support portion that is adapted to be fastened to the wall and that includes at least one electrical box (80); an electrical unit (50) including at least one base (51) that houses an electrical mechanism (52) and that is provided with at least one snap-fastener tab (60) that is adapted to be snap-fastened on the support portion; and a front portion (10, 30) including a front wall (11) and at least one tongue (20) that extends at the rear of the front wall so as to fasten to the electrical unit. The tongue is adapted to be interposed between the snap-fastener tab and a rigid portion of the base of the electrical unit.
US10128643B2
A flexible, electrically insulating insert fits in a slit of a split loom tube to substantially increase the electrical path length between cables contained within the split loom tubing and the outside environment to provide improved electrical resistance therebetween.
US10128630B2
A solar-pumped laser device includes: a light-guiding plate configured such that a fluorescence substance absorbing solar light and emitting fluorescence including a predetermined wavelength is dispersed in the light-guiding plate so as to bring the fluorescence to exit a predetermined surface; and an optical fiber disposed close to the predetermined surface, the optical fiber including: a core part in which a medium excitable by the fluorescence so as to emit a laser is dispersed; and a clad part that is formed by a material through which the fluorescence passes, is disposed around the core part, and has a smaller refractive index than a refractive index of the core part, wherein a light emitted by the medium is totally reflected by one end surface of the optical fiber, and is brought to pass through the other end surface of the optical fiber.
US10128627B1
A communication device includes a mechanical frame, which is configured to be inserted into a multi-channel Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) receptacle that is compliant with a first SFP standard and to receive inside the frame an SFP connector that is compliant with a second SFP standard, which is different from the first SFP standard. First electrical terminals, held by the mechanical frame, are configured to mate with respective first pins of the SFP receptacle, and second electrical terminals, electrically coupled within the mechanical frame to the first electrical terminals, are configured to mate with respective second pins of the SFP connector. A heat sink is mounted in the mechanical frame and configured to make a positive contact with the SFP connector when the SFP connector is inserted into the mechanical frame.
US10128624B2
A power connector system includes a header connector having a header housing mounted to a chassis. The header housing holds a header terminal comprising a plurality of contact members arranged side-by-side in a stacked arrangement. Each contact member has a pair of spring beams defining sockets at a mating end of the contact member. The sockets of the contact members are aligned to define a tab socket of the header terminal. The power connector system includes a plug connector having a plug housing holding a tab terminal. The tab terminal has a mating end and a cable end. The mating end is received in a mating direction into the tab socket of the header terminal during mating to electrically connect the tab terminal with the header terminal.
US10128613B2
A pin connector assembly has male connector and a female connector. The male connector has a first alignment slot formed on a first housing of the male connector and a mounting hole. The female connector has a second alignment slot formed on a second housing of the male connector and a mounting hole. The first and second alignment slots allows the male connector and the female to be coupled with each other without damaging metal contacts on the male connector. Moreover, the installation efficiency of the male connector and the female connectors are improved. The mounting holes of the male and female connectors are used for detachably mounting the male and female connectors on tubes of a trunk of an artificial Christmas tree.
US10128611B2
A ferrule assembly for terminating an electrical connector to a cable includes an inner ferrule, an outer ferrule and an inner ferrule sleeve. The inner ferrule has an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner ferrule is conductive and provides electrical shielding. The outer ferrule is positioned radially outside of the inner ferrule such that a cable shield of the cable is received between the inner ferrule and the outer ferrule. The outer ferrule secures the cable shield between the inner ferrule and the outer ferrule. The inner ferrule sleeve is positioned radially inside of the inner ferrule. The inner ferrule sleeve substantially fills the space between the inner ferrule and an inner jacket of the cable. The inner ferrule sleeve is dielectric and electrically isolating the inner ferrule from an inner conductor of the cable.
US10128608B2
A plug connector for an electronic device has a deformable seal positioned on it such that when the plug connector is mated to the electronic device a liquid-tight seal is formed between the plug connector and the electronic device. A seal may also be positioned within a receptacle connector cavity of the electronic device such that it forms a liquid-tight seal to a plug connector when the plug connector is mated to the electronic device.
US10128607B2
A receptacle connector includes an outer housing, an inner housing, and an interface seal. The outer housing defines a cavity configured to receive a plug connector through a mating opening of the outer housing. The inner housing is disposed within the cavity of the outer housing. The inner housing holds a contact subassembly that is connected to a cable. The inner housing includes a sleeve that surrounds a mating section of the contact subassembly. The sleeve is spaced apart from an interior surface of the outer housing by an annular gap. The interface seal is on an outer surface of the sleeve. The interface seal engages an inner surface of a nose of the plug connector within the annular gap to seal an interface between the sleeve of the inner housing and the nose of the plug connector.
US10128603B2
A high power electrical connector includes a plug and receptacle for use in a power transmission system. The plug includes a wire conductor attached to a mounting end and a circular contacting portion extending from a second end. The plug is configured to mate with a receptacle connector having a sleeve for engaging the circular extension and a mounting end for connection to a conductive wire. A contacting ring made from a braid provides a low resistance interface between the plug and receptacle minimizing the potential for heat buildup across the interface and minimizing electrical failure.
US10128601B1
A contactor device includes: a first body substrate; a second body substrate; a flexible membrane connected to the first body substrate and second body substrate, wherein the second substrate body is movable relative to the first substrate body by flexure of the flexible membrane; an electrical contact member carried by the second substrate body; a microfluidic-channeled substrate coupled to the first body substrate, the microfluidic-channeled substrate having a chamber and a microfluidic channel in fluid communication with the chamber; and a 3-dimensional flexible membrane enclosing the chamber, wherein the 3-dimensional flexible membrane flexes toward the second body substrate when a fluid pressure is applied to the chamber through the microfluidic channel whereby a force or a movement is transferred to the second body substrate by the 3-dimensional flexible membrane.
US10128598B2
A connector is provided which includes a stage having an arrangement surface for arranging the end portion of the flat cable, and an opposing portion formed so as to face the arrangement surface. An engaging protruding portion is formed in the arrangement surface for engaging the flat cable. The end portion of the flat cable is insertable from the front side to the rear side of the connector between the arrangement surface and the opposing portion. The opposing portion has an extending portion positioned in front of the engaging protruding portion, and an overhanging portion extending to the rear of a first section.
US10128597B2
An electrical contact pad for electrically contacting a connector includes first, second and third regions. The first region is connected to a trace. The second region is adjacent to the first region and has a width less than the first region. The third region is adjacent to the second region and has a width that is greater than the second region. The third region is sized to make contact with a connector. Having the width of the second region be smaller than the width of the first and third regions increases an impedance of the electrical contact pad.
US10128593B1
Embodiments of the present invention include a method for fabricating a hybrid land grid array connector and the resulting structures. A body is provided. The body includes a first plurality of holes and a second plurality of holes. A conductive layer is deposited on the top and bottom surfaces of the body and the wall surfaces of the first plurality of holes resulting in the top and bottom surfaces being electrically common. The conductive layer is removed from the wall surfaces of a first subset of the first plurality of holes. A portion of the conductive layer is removed from the top surface of the body and the bottom surface of the body from an area surrounding the first subset of the first plurality of holes.
US10128581B2
A crimp terminal (1) includes a barrel (13) on which a recessed serration (14) is formed, the barrel is to be bent and crimped to a conductor portion (21) of a wire (2), and the shape of an outer edge of the serration (14) is formed so that arcs (A1 to A4) each of which is convex outward continue to each other.
US10128576B2
A metal plate of small, reflective cells of varying, random (within a limited rage) heights that reflect radio frequency energy such that individual reflective paths are of random length, adding neither constructively nor destructively, and thus not creating a standing wave condition between the reflective plate and the emitter or receiver is disclosed.
US10128565B2
An antenna includes a first radiation element, a ground plate having a grounding point to which the first radiation element is grounded, and a second radiation element grounded to the ground plate and in a position where the grounding point is electrically shared with the first radiation element, and the second radiation element is disposed along the direction of current produced by the first radiation element and flowing in the ground plate.
US10128561B2
An antenna apparatus is provided. The antenna apparatus includes a first section including at least one slit spaced apart from an outer edge of the antenna apparatus by a predetermined distance, a second section distinguished from the first section through the slit, and a feeding module for supplying a current to at least one of the first section and the second section.
US10128560B2
A hybrid antenna and integrated proximity sensor is described wherein a commonly shared conductive structure is used for both antenna functions as well as a proximity sensor functions.
US10128558B2
Directional couplers having a chain configuration and devices incorporating same. In some implementations, a chain coupler assembly can include a plurality of couplers each having a driver arm configured to route a respective RF signal and a coupled arm disposed physically proximate to the driver arm to detect a portion of power of the respective RF signal. Portions of the driver arm and the coupler arm can form an overlapping region. At least one of the driver arm and the coupled arm can have a non-straight arm shape, and the coupled arms of the plurality of couplers can be connected together in series.
US10128535B2
A secondary battery includes: a cathode; an anode; and an electrolytic solution. The anode includes a carbon material and styrene-butadiene rubber. The electrolytic solution includes an unsaturated cyclic ester carbonate represented by the following Formula (1). (X is a divalent group in which m-number of >C═CR1R2 and n-number of >CR3R4 are bonded in any order. Each of R1 to R4 is one of a hydrogen group, a halogen group, a monovalent hydrocarbon group, a monovalent halogenated hydrocarbon group, a monovalent oxygen-containing hydrocarbon group, and a monovalent halogenated oxygen-containing hydrocarbon group. Any two or more of the R1 to the R4 are allowed to be bonded to one another. m and n satisfy m≥1 and n≥0.)
US10128530B2
The high thermal conduction resistances of a lithium-ion battery (LIB) severely limit the effectiveness of a conventional external thermal management system (TMS). A method for a new thermal management system for lithium-ion batteries that utilizes a multi-functional electrolyte (MFE) to remove heat locally inside the cell by evaporating a volatile component of the MFE is disclosed. These new electrolyte mixtures comprise a high vapor pressure co-solvent. The characteristics of a previously unstudied high vapor pressure co-solvent HFE-7000 (65 kPa at 25° C.) in an MFE (1 M LiTFSI in 1:1 HFE-7000/EMC), and other possible MFE compositions that can be utilized in a custom electrolyte boiling facility, are disclosed.
US10128528B2
A micro-hybrid battery system includes a lithium ion battery module configured to be coupled to an electrical load. The lithium ion battery module includes a housing. The lithium ion battery module also includes a first lithium ion battery cell disposed in the housing and having a first active material chemistry including a first cathode active material and a first anode active material. The lithium ion battery module also includes a second lithium ion battery cell electrically connected to the first lithium ion battery cell and disposed in the housing. The second lithium ion battery cell has a second active material chemistry including a second cathode active material and a second anode active material. The first and second active material chemistries are different such that the first and second lithium ion battery cells have different open circuit voltages.
US10128527B2
There is described a laminating apparatus for coupling electrodes of non-rectangular shape with a separating film for the manufacture of electric energy accumulating devices, wherein a pair of laminating rollers has a roller driven by an elastic arrangement loaded with a variable force adjusted by an endless screw conveyor controlled by a brushless motor, during the passage of the electrodes, so as to vary the laminating force according to the width of the electrode laminated instant by instant, in order for the laminating pressure to remain almost constant.
US10128522B2
The present invention is in the field of bioelectricity. The present invention provides energy generating systems, methods, and devices that are capable of converting chemical energy stored in sugars into useful electricity.
US10128517B2
A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell stack; a centrifugal compressor that compresses and supplies the oxidant gas to the fuel cell stack; a regulating valve that controls pressure at an outlet of the compressor; and a control unit that controls the compressor and the regulating valve, wherein the control unit determines a rotation speed of the compressor and an open degree of the regulating valve based on a target air flow rate corresponding to a current value instructed to the fuel cell stack, actuates the compressor based on the determined rotation speed, and actuates the regulating valve based on the determined open degree. The control unit executes feedback control to reduce the difference between an actual air flow rate and a target air flow rate by changing the open degree of the regulating valve while maintaining the rotation speed of the compressor.
US10128516B2
A control device for fuel cell includes, comprising a compressor configured to supply cathode gas to a fuel cell, a driving device including at least two compressor driving sources including a drive motor and a driving body using a power source other than the drive motor, the driving device configured to drive the compressor by the driving sources; and a control unit. The control unit configured to control a state of the power source on the basis of an operating state of the fuel cell, and the control unit selects the driving source to be used out of the compressor driving sources on the basis of the state of the power source.
US10128515B2
A fuel cell module includes a fuel cell unit and a casing. The casing has hollow surface members including a front surface member, a rear surface member, a right surface member, a left surface member, and a lower surface member. A single continuous air channel is formed by connecting spaces inside of these surface members. The air channel has a fluid inlet on the front surface member for allowing the air to flow initially in the front surface member. A first flange and a second flange are provided on the front surface member.
US10128500B2
A preparation method of a lithium nickel manganese oxide cathode material of a battery includes steps of providing a nickel compound, a manganese compound, a first quantity of lithium compound, a second quantity of lithium compound and a compound containing metallic ions, mixing the nickel compound, the first quantity of lithium compound, dispersant and deionized water to produce first product solution, adding the manganese compound into the first product solution and mixing to produce second product solution, performing a first grinding to produce first precursor solution, mixing the second quantity of lithium compound, the compound containing the metallic ions and the first precursor solution, then performing a second grinding to produce second precursor solution, and calcining the second precursor solution to produce the lithium nickel manganese oxide cathode material of the battery, the formula of which is written by Li1.0+xNi0.5Mn1.5MyO4. Therefore, the activation energy of reaction can be reduced.
US10128495B2
A positive electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery that does not undergo a decrease in discharge capacity in low-temperature discharge during charge and discharge after the battery is left standing at high temperature in a charged state, for example. The positive electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode active material. The positive electrode active material includes a mixture of lithium nickel cobalt manganate and lithium cobaltate having a compound adhered to part of a surface thereof, the compound containing fluorine and at least one selected from zirconium, magnesium, titanium, aluminum, and a rare earth element; and a ratio of the lithium nickel cobalt manganate relative to a total amount of the positive electrode active material is 1% by mass or more and less than 70% by mass.
US10128490B2
Example embodiments relate to an anode layer of a lithium secondary battery. The anode layer includes a three-dimensional carbon structure and a plurality of silicon particles. The three-dimensional carbon structure includes a plurality of cavities without a binder, and the plurality of silicon particles are disposed in the plurality of cavities.
US10128487B2
The present invention relates to processes that may be used singly or in combination to prevent lithium (or alkali metal) plating or dendrite buildup on bare substrate areas or edges of electrode rolls during alkaliation of a battery or electrochemical cell anode composed of a conductive substrate and coatings, in which the electrode rolls may be coated on one or both sides and may have exposed substrate on edges, or on continuous or discontinuous portions of either or both substrate surfaces.
US10128484B2
A rechargeable battery including: an electrode assembly including a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate, and a separator between the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate; a case accommodating the electrode assembly; a first electrode terminal and a second electrode terminal electrically connected to the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate, respectively, and protruding to the outside of the case; and a first terminal plate and a second terminal plate positioned outside the case and coupled to the first electrode terminal and the second electrode terminal, respectively, and a terminal plate of the first terminal plate and the second terminal plate includes a first fuse.
US10128483B2
A battery pack includes a battery cell including an electrode tab, a cell holder through which the electrode tab is inserted, a connection tab welded to the electrode tab and providing a welded portion above the cell holder, and a fume discharge groove located in a region of the cell holder under the welded portion.
US10128479B2
A method for manufacturing a separator of a fuel cell stack includes: forming a gasket on the separator of the fuel cell stack; masking a surface of the separator except for a region of the surface of the separator on which the gasket is formed; and inserting the partially masked separator into a chamber to cross-link the gasket.
US10128475B2
An integrated battery and shock and/or vibration isolation assembly broadly comprising a battery and an isolation assembly. The isolation assembly broadly comprises a battery support tray and a number of shock absorbing elements. The shock absorbing elements are positioned between the battery and battery support tray and each include a shock absorbing portion configured to mechanically isolate the battery from vibrations and/or shocks transferred from a vehicle, other machine, or operating environment.
US10128467B2
The invention relates to a method for depositing a target material onto an organic electrically functional material. The method includes the steps of: providing a substrate with an organic electrically functional material, like an emissive electroluminescent layer; creating a vapor plume of target material by pulsed laser deposition; depositing a first layer of target material on the organic electrically functional material, while maintaining the maximum particle velocity of the deposited particles below a preset value; and depositing a second layer of target material on the first layer of target material, while the maximum particle velocity of the deposited particles is above the preset value. The invention also relates to an intermediate product and to an organic light emitting diode.
US10128465B2
A display device, which includes a display region constituted by a plurality of pixels, includes a first substrate having a hygroscopic agent formed in a peripheral region outside the display region and a sealing film covering the hygroscopic agent, a second substrate disposed facing the first substrate, and an adhesive layer, at least a portion of which is disposed closer to the side of the display region than the hygroscopic agent, and which bonds the first substrate to the second substrate.
US10128458B2
A rollable display device includes a display panel having a flexible property, a roller configured to receive the display panel in a rolled-up configuration, and a handle coupled to an end portion of the display panel. The rollable display device further includes a housing configured to house the roller and the display panel in the rolled-up configuration. The housing includes an outlet, which the display panel passes through in an unrolled configuration, and a first coupling hole disposed apart from the outlet and is configured to receive the handle.
US10128451B2
Flexible display substrate, flexible display panel, and display apparatus, and their fabrication methods are provided. In an exemplary flexible display substrate, a motherboard is formed on a rigid substrate that is magnetisable. The motherboard includes a magnetic first flexible substrate and a plurality of flexible display panels on the magnetic first flexible substrate. When the rigid substrate is magnetized, the motherboard is cut to separate the plurality of flexible display panels from each other, followed by demagnetizing the rigid substrate.
US10128449B2
A metal complex represented by the following formula (1) is provided. In formula (1), M represents an iridium atom or a platinum atom; n1 represents 1, 2 or 3. n2 represents 0, 1 or 2; E1 to E4 represent a nitrogen atom or a carbon atom; R1 to R10 represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkoxy group, a cycloalkoxy group, an aryl group, an aryloxy group, a monovalent heterocyclic group or a halogen atom; Xa and Xb represent a direct bond, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, —C(═O)—, —CRXa2— or —NRXa—; A1-G1-A2 represents an anionic bidentate ligand; and G1 represents an atomic group constituting a bidentate ligand together with A1 and A2.
US10128448B2
The present invention relates to iridium and platinum carbene complexes of the general formula (I), to OLEDs (Organic Light-Emitting Diodes) which comprise such complexes, to a device selected from the group consisting of illuminating elements, stationary visual display units and mobile visual display units comprising such an OLED, to the use of such a metal-carbene complex in OLEDs, for example as emitter, matrix material, charge transport material and/or charge or exciton blocker.
US10128442B2
Provided are processes for preparing an electrically doped semiconducting material that includes a [3]-radialene p-dopant. Also provided are processes for preparing an electronic device containing a layer that includes a [3]-radialene p-dopant. The processes may include (i) loading an evaporation source with a [3]-radialene p-dopant and (ii) evaporating the [3]-radialene p-dopant at an elevated temperature and at a reduced pressure. The [3]-radialene p-dopant may be selected from compounds having a structure according to formula (I) herein.
US10128431B1
A multi-level piezoelectric actuator is manufactured using wafer level processing. Two PZT wafers are formed and separately metallized for electrodes. The metallization on the second wafer is patterned, and holes that will become electrical vias are formed in the second wafer. The wafers are then stacked and sintered, then the devices are poled as a group and then singulated to form nearly complete individual PZT actuators. Conductive epoxy is added into the holes at the product placement step in order to both adhere the actuator within its environment and to complete the electrical via thus completing the device. Alternatively: the first wafer is metallized; then the second wafer having holes therethrough but no metallization is stacked and sintered to the first wafer; and patterned metallization is applied to the second wafer to both form electrodes and to complete the vias. The devices are then poled as a group, and singulated.
US10128427B2
An apparatus for generating electricity. The apparatus comprises a collar arranged to couple to a pipe and a support having a first planar face, the support being attached to the collar such that it projects away from the collar. The apparatus also has at least one thermoelectric generator attached to the first planar face of the support and a cover attached to the at least one thermoelectric generator.
US10128423B2
Disclosed are a light emitting device and a lighting apparatus having the same. The light emitting device includes a plurality of lead frames, a first body having non-transmissive resin material on top surfaces of the lead frames, a second body having transmittance resin material on a top surface of the first body, a light emitting chip on at least one of the lead frames exposed in the first opening of the second body, and a first transmissive layer disposed in the first opening of the second body. The first body and the second body is disposed around the light emitting chip.
US10128422B2
Provided is a light emitting semiconductor device comprising a flexible dielectric layer, a conductive layer on at least one side of the dielectric layer, at least one cavity or via in the dielectric substrate, and a light emitting semiconductor supported by the cavity or via. Also provided is a support article comprising a flexible dielectric layer, a conductive layer on at least one side and at least one cavity or via in the dielectric substrate. Further provided is a flexible light emitting semiconductor device system comprising the above-described light emitting semiconductor device attached to the above-described support article.
US10128420B2
The present disclosure discloses an LED package structure and a chip-scale light emitting unit. The chip-scale light emitting unit includes an LED chip, a phosphor sheet, and at least one light guiding group. The phosphor sheet covers entirely a top surface of the LED chip. The phosphor sheet has a light emitting surface arranged away from the LED chip, and the light emitting surface has a central region and a ring-shaped region surrounding the central region. The light guiding group is disposed on the ring-shaped region and covers at least 60% of an area of the ring-shaped region of the phosphor sheet, and the central region is not covered by the light guiding group. The light guiding group includes a plurality of light guiding micro-structures.
US10128419B1
A method of manufacturing of a Light Emitting Device that has increased reliability and efficiency. Specifically, the disclosed methods uses Atomic Layer Deposition to improve the thermal conductivity between the ceramic plate and the LED, decrease the amount of organic contamination, and increase the efficiency of the optical output of the Light Emitting Device.
US10128418B2
An LED device has a cap containing one or more quantum dot (QD) phosphors. The cap may be sized and configured to be integrated with standard LED packages. The QD phosphor may be held within the well of the LED package, so as to absorb the maximum amount of light emitted by the LED, but arranged in spaced-apart relation from the LED chip to avoid excessive heat that can lead to degradation of the QD phosphor(s). The packages may be manufactured and stored for subsequent assembly onto an LED device.
US10128417B2
Embodiments of a display device including barrier layer coated quantum dots and a method of making the barrier layer coated quantum dots are described. Each of the barrier layer coated quantum dots includes a core-shell structure and a hydrophobic barrier layer disposed on the core-shell structure. The hydrophobic barrier layer is configured to provide a distance between the core-shell structure of one of the quantum dots with the core-shell structures of other quantum dots that are in substantial contact with the one of the quantum dots. The method for making the barrier layer coated quantum dots includes forming reverse micro-micelles using surfactants and incorporating quantum dots into the reverse micro-micelles. The method further includes individually coating the incorporated quantum dots with a barrier layer and isolating the barrier layer coated quantum dots with the surfactants of the reverse micro-micelles disposed on the barrier layer.
US10128415B2
A light source for a display device, includes: a first LED chip emitting a first light having a peak located within the range of wavelengths 380 nm to 500 nm, and a second LED chip emitting a second light having a peak located within the range of wavelengths 380 nm to 500 nm, wherein the peak wavelength of the second light is longer than the peak wavelength of the first light, and the difference between the peak wavelength of the second light and the peak wavelength of the first light is less than 40 nm and greater than or equal to 10 nm.
US10128412B2
A light emitting device is disclosed. The light emitting device includes a light emitting structure including a first conductive-type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductive-type semiconductor layer, a light-transmissive conductive layer disposed on the second conductive-type semiconductor layer and having a plurality of open regions through which the second conductive-type semiconductor layer is exposed, and a second electrode disposed on the light-transmissive conductive layer so as to extend beyond at least one of the open regions, wherein the second electrode contacts the second conductive-type semiconductor layer in the open regions and contacts the light-transmissive conductive layer in regions excluding the open regions.
US10128409B2
Provided herein are all-inorganic perovskite-based films, devices including all-inorganic perovskite-based films, and methods of forming all-inorganic perovskite-based films. The methods may include casting a precursor formulation that includes an all-inorganic perovskite, a liquid, and a polymer. The amount of polymer in the precursor formulation may be less than the amount of all-inorganic perovskite in the precursor formulation.
US10128405B2
A method of producing an optoelectronic component, comprising the method steps: A) providing a growth substrate (1); B) growing at least one semiconductor layer (2) epitaxially, to produce an operationally active zone; C) applying a metallic mirror layer (3) to the semiconductor layer (2); D) applying at least one contact layer (8) for electronic contacting of the component; E) detaching the growth substrate (1) from the semiconductor layer (2), so exposing a surface of the semiconductor layer (2); and F) structuring the semiconductor layer (2) by means of an etching method from the side of the surface which was exposed in method step E).
US10128404B2
A superlattice and method for forming that superlattice are disclosed. In particular, an engineered layered single crystal structure forming a superlattice is disclosed. The superlattice provides p-type or n-type conductivity, and comprises alternating host layers and impurity layers, wherein: the host layers consist essentially of a semiconductor material; and the impurity layers consist of a donor or acceptor material.
US10128402B2
To provide a method of manufacturing a display device having an excellent impact resistance property with high yield, in particular, a method of manufacturing a display device having an optical film that is formed using a plastic substrate. The method of manufacturing a display device includes the steps of: laminating a metal film, an oxide film, and an optical filter on a first substrate; separating the optical filter from the first substrate; attaching the optical filter to a second substrate; forming a layer including a pixel on a third substrate; and attaching the layer including the pixel to the optical filter.
US10128396B2
A photovoltaic cell may include a hydrogenated amorphous silicon layer including a n-type doped region and a p-type doped region. The n-type doped region may be separated from the p-type doped region by an intrinsic region. The photovoltaic cell may include a front transparent electrode connected to the n-type doped region, and a rear electrode connected to the p-type doped region. The efficiency may be optimized for indoor lighting values by tuning the value of the H2/SiH4 ratio of the hydrogenated amorphous silicon layer.
US10128394B2
The solar cell structure according to the present invention comprises a nanowire (205) that constitutes the light absorbing part of the solar cell structure and a passivating shell (209) that encloses at least a portion of the nanowire (205). In a first aspect of the invention, the passivating shell (209) of comprises a light guiding shell (210), which preferably has a high- and indirect bandgap to provide light guiding properties. In a second aspect of the invention, the solar cell structure comprises a plurality of nanowires which are positioned with a maximum spacing between adjacent nanowires which is shorter than the wavelength of the light which the solar cell structure is intended to absorbing order to provide an effective medium for light absorption. Thanks to the invention it is possible to provide high efficiency solar cell structures.
US10128392B2
Solar cell arrangement of a thin film solar cell array on a substrate; each solar cell being layered with a bottom electrode, a photovoltaic active layer, a top electrode and an insulating layer. A first trench and a second trench parallel to the first trench at a first side, separate a first solar cell and an adjacent second solar cell. The first and second trenches are filled with insulating material. The first trench extends to the substrate. The second trench extends into the photovoltaic active layer below the top electrode. A third trench extending to the bottom electrode is between the first and second trench. A fourth trench extending to the top electrode is at a second side of the first trench. The third and fourth trench are filled with conductive material. A conductive bridge connects the third trench and the fourth trench across the first trench.
US10128390B2
Semiconductor materials offer several potential benefits as active elements in the development of harvesting-energy conversion technologies. In particular, lead selenide (PbSe) semiconductors have been used and proposed to design solar energy harvesting devices, IR sensors, FET devices, amongst others. The present disclosure provides a lead selenide capped with an aromatic ligand. The use of an aromatic ligand, and more specifically benzoic acid, provides robustness and more durability to the lead selenide, and therefore prevents the lead selenide from breaking or cracking easily. Also the aromatic ligand prevents the degradation and oxidation of the lead selenide, without affecting any of the lead selenide electronic and chemical characteristics.
US10128377B2
A method of making a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of fins on a substrate, with the substrate including an oxide layer arranged beneath the plurality of fins. A sacrificial gate material is deposited on and around the plurality of fins. First trenches are formed in the sacrificial gate material. The first trenches extend through the oxide layer to a top surface of the substrate and are arranged between fins of the plurality of fin. First trenches are filled with a metal gate stack. Second trenches are formed in the sacrificial gate material, with a bottom surface of the second trenches being arranged over a bottom surface of the first trenches, and the second trenches being arranged between fins of the plurality of fins and alternating with the first trenches. The second trenches are filled with a metal gate stack.
US10128366B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a gate structure formed over the semiconductor substrate, and an epitaxial structure formed partially within the semiconductor substrate. The gate structure includes a gate dielectric layer formed over the semiconductor substrate, a gate electrode formed over the gate dielectric layer, and a spacer formed on side surfaces of the gate dielectric layer and the gate electrode. A laterally extending portion of the epitaxial structure extends laterally at an area below a top surface of the semiconductor substrate in a direction toward an area below the gate structure. A lateral end of the laterally extending portion is below the spacer.
US10128361B2
An insulated gate power semiconductor device has an (n−) doped drift layer between an emitter side and a collector side. A trench gate electrode has a trench bottom and trench lateral sides and extends to a trench depth. A p doped first protection pillow covers the trench bottom. An n doped second protection pillow encircles the trench gate electrode at its trench lateral sides. The second protection pillow has a maximum doping concentration in a first depth, which is at least half the trench depth, wherein a doping concentration of the second protection pillow decreases towards the emitter side from the maximum doping concentration to a value of not more than half the maximum doping concentration. An n doped enhancement layer has a maximum doping concentration in a second depth, which is lower than the first depth, wherein the doping concentration has a local doping concentration minimum between the second depth and the first depth.
US10128357B2
A homoepitaxial, ultrathin tunnel barrier-based electronic device in which the tunnel barrier and transport channel are made of the same material—graphene.
US10128353B2
Methods and systems for power semiconductor devices integrating multiple trench transistors on a single chip. Multiple power transistors (or active regions) are paralleled, but one transistor has a lower threshold voltage. This reduces the voltage drop when the transistor is forward-biased. In an alternative embodiment, the power device with lower threshold voltage is simply connected as a depletion diode, to thereby shunt the body diodes of the active transistors, without affecting turn-on and ON-state behavior.
US10128352B2
A gate tie-down structure includes a gate structure including a gate conductor and gate spacers and inner spacers formed on the gate spacers. Trench contacts are formed on sides of the gate structure. An interlevel dielectric (ILD) has a thickness formed over the gate structure. A horizontal connection is formed within the thickness of the ILD over an active area connecting the gate conductor and one of the trench contacts over one of the inner spacers.
US10128350B2
Systems and methods are described herein to include an epitaxial metal layer between a rare earth oxide and a semiconductor layer. Systems and methods are described to grow a layered structure, comprising a substrate, a first rare earth oxide layer epitaxially grown over the substrate, a first metal layer epitaxially grown over the rare earth oxide layer, and a first semiconductor layer epitaxially grown over the first metal layer.
US10128330B1
A semiconductor device having a novel buried junction architecture. The semiconductor device may have three terminals and a drift region between two of the terminals. The drift region includes an upper drift layer, a lower drift layer, and a buried junction layer between the upper and lower drift layers, wherein the upper and lower drift layers have a first type of doping. The buried junction layer comprises an interspersed pattern of a first material and a second material, the first material having a second type of doping opposite the first type of doping and the second material having the first type of doping and having a different doping concentration than the upper and lower drift layers.
US10128327B2
An interconnect structure for use in coupling transistors in an integrated circuit is disclosed, including various configurations in which ferroelectric capacitors exhibiting negative capacitance are coupled in series with dielectric capacitors. In one embodiment, the negative capacitor includes a dielectric/ferroelectric bi-layer. When a negative capacitor is electrically coupled in series with a conventional dielectric capacitor, the series combination behaves like a stable ferroelectric capacitor for which the overall capacitance can be measured experimentally, and tuned to a desired value. The composite capacitance of a dielectric capacitor and a ferroelectric capacitor having negative capacitance coupled in series is, in theory, infinite, and in practice, very large. A series combination of positive and negative capacitors within a microelectronic interconnect structure can be used to make high capacity DRAM memory cells.
US10128321B2
The present disclosure provides a pixel isolation wall and its manufacturing method. The pixel isolation wall includes an oleophilic layer arranged on a substrate on which a TFT array and a pixel electrode array is formed, and an oleophobic layer arranged on the oleophilic layer and configured to define, together with the oleophilic layer, a plurality of recess regions corresponding to the pixel electrode array.
US10128317B2
An OLED microdisplay comprising a substrate, a pixel array and a patterned conductive layer underneath the anode pad array to form an effective ground plane in order to greatly reduce or eliminate electrical cross-talk between pixels, and a method for fabricating same.
US10128313B2
In the present disclosure, a non-volatile memory cell comprises a data storage unit, a selection unit and a switching unit. The data storage unit is configured to store an information bit and has a first end and a second end. The first end is coupled to a bit line. The selection unit is configured to access the data storage unit, and the selection unit has a first end coupled to a select line, a second end coupled to the second end of the data storage unit, and a third end coupled to a source line. The switching unit is configured to perform a formation operation and has a first end coupled to a forming line and a second end coupled to the second end of the data storage unit.
US10128307B2
Crystalline (micro)LED display assemblies, methods of fabricating such display assemblies, crystalline LED source substrates from which the (micro)LEDs may be transferred to the display assembly, and methods of fabricating such source substrates. LED elements may be prepared for transfer by pick-n-place or other means to a bonding substrate. Anchor and release structures enable LED elements to be affixed and electrically coupled to a bonding substrate with conductive polymer. LED elements may be prepared for transfer to a bonding substrate with self-aligned LED electrode metallization structures enabling the elements to be affixed to a bonding substrate with an adhesive and electrically coupled with a self-aligned local interconnect metallization. After affixing the LED elements, material may be built-up around the LED elements and the display assembly separated from the bonding substrate.
US10128303B2
A light absorption apparatus includes a substrate, a light absorption layer above the substrate on a first selected area, a silicon layer above the light absorption layer, a spacer surrounding at least part of the sidewall of the light absorption layer, an isolation layer surrounding at least part of the spacer, wherein the light absorption apparatus can achieve high bandwidth and low dark current.
US10128279B2
Provided is a display apparatus including a substrate and a semiconductor layer including first and second semiconductor layers. A first gate insulating layer is formed on the semiconductor layer. A first gate wiring overlapping the first semiconductor layer is formed on the first gate insulating layer. A second gate insulating layer is formed on the first gate wiring. A second gate wiring overlapping the second semiconductor layer is formed on the second gate insulating layer. A third gate insulating layer covers the second gate wiring. A driving voltage line intersecting the first and second gate wirings is formed on the third gate insulating layer. A data line intersecting the first and second gate wirings is formed on the third gate insulating layer. A short circuit protection area is formed between the first gate wiring, the second gate wiring, the driving voltage line and the data line.
US10128269B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor structure having multiple semiconductor device layers is provided. The method comprises providing a bulk substrate and growing a first channel material on the bulk substrate wherein the lattice constant of the channel material is different from the lattice constant of the bulk substrate to introduce strain to the channel material. The method further comprises fabricating a first semiconductor device layer on the bulk substrate with the strained first channel material, fabricating a buffer layer comprising dielectric material with a blanket top surface above the first semiconductor layer, bonding to the blanket top surface a bottom surface of a second substrate comprising a buried oxide with second channel material above the buried oxide, and fabricating a second semiconductor device layer on the second substrate.
US10128264B2
The semiconductor device according to the embodiments of the present disclosure may include a contact line connecting a pair of channel pillars with a silt disposed therebetween. The contact line may extend in various directions, for example, a diagonal direction with respect to the slit. The contact line may contacts an upper surface or a side wall of the channel pillars.
US10128263B2
A memory device may include multiple channel regions extending in a direction perpendicular to an upper surface of a substrate, a plurality of gate electrode layers and a plurality of insulating layers stacked on the substrate to be adjacent at least a portion of the plurality of channel regions, an interlayer insulating layer disposed on the plurality of gate electrode layers, a plurality of cell contact plugs passing through the interlayer insulating layer. Each of the plurality of cell contacts is connected to each of the plurality of gate electrode layers. A vertical insulating layer extends from the interlayer insulating layer disposed between the plurality of channel regions and the plurality of cell contact plugs and has a portion surrounded by at least one of the plurality of gate electrode layers.
US10128262B2
An apparatus is described having a memory. The memory includes a vertical stack of storage cells, where, a first storage node at a lower layer of the vertical stack has a different structural design than a second storage node at a higher layer of the vertical stack.
US10128261B2
A memory film and a semiconductor channel can be formed within each memory opening that extends through a stack including an alternating plurality of insulator layers and sacrificial material layers. After formation of backside recesses through removal of the sacrificial material layers selective to the insulator layers, a metallic barrier material portion can be formed in each backside recess. A cobalt portion can be formed in each backside recess. Each backside recess can be filled with a cobalt portion alone, or can be filled with a combination of a cobalt portion and a metallic material portion including a material other than cobalt.
US10128257B2
Disclosed herein is a 3D memory with a select transistor, and method for fabricating the same. The select transistor may have a conductive floating gate, a conductive control gate, a first dielectric between the conductive floating gate and the conductive control gate, and a second dielectric between a body and the conductive floating gate. In one aspect, a uniform gate dielectric is formed using lateral epitaxial growth in a recess adjacent a crystalline semiconductor select transistor body, followed by forming the gate dielectric from the epitaxial growth. Techniques help to prevent, or at least reduce, a leakage current between the select transistor control gate and the select transistor body and/or the semiconductor substrate below the select transistor. Therefore, select transistors having a substantially uniform threshold voltage, on current, and S-factor are achieved. Also, select transistors have a high on-current and a steep sub-threshold slope.
US10128256B2
A one-time programming cell includes a first metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) structure and a second transistor having a common gate electrode electrically connected to a word line. The first MOS structure has a first gate dielectric layer and the second MOS structure has a second gate dielectric layer. The second gate dielectric layer is thicker than the first gate dielectric layer. Source nodes of the first MOS structure and the second MOS structure are electrically connected, and a drain node of the second MOS structure is electrically connected to a bit line.
US10128250B2
One method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming provisional active regions that are shaped such that active regions that are adjacent in an X direction are connected to each other, forming a sacrificial film, performing etching, including the sacrificial film, so as to form a plurality of first trenches that separate the active regions, embedding element-isolating insulating films in the first trenches and then removing the sacrificial film, forming first side-wall insulating films that cover the exposed side surfaces of the element-isolating insulating films and second side-wall insulating films that cover the side surfaces of the first side-wall insulating films, embedding cap insulating films in second trenches that appear due to the formation of the second side-wall insulating films, and forming a plurality of third trenches at the positions of the second side-wall insulating films and forming word lines thereunder.
US10128249B2
To provide a semiconductor device that can reduce power consumption and retain data for a long time and a memory device including the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a word line divider, a memory cell, a first wiring, and a second wiring. The word line divider is electrically connected to the first wiring and the second wiring. The memory cell includes a first transistor with a dual-gate structure. A first gate of the first transistor is electrically connected to the first wiring, and a second gate of the first transistor is electrically connected to the second wiring. The word line divider supplies a high-level potential or a low-level potential to the first wiring and supplies a predetermined potential to the second wiring, whereby a threshold voltage of the first transistor is changed. With such a configuration, a semiconductor device that can reduce power consumption and retain data for a long time is driven.
US10128245B2
Semiconductor devices may have a first semiconductor element including first active regions that are doped with a first conductivity-type impurity and that are on a semiconductor substrate, a first gate structure between the first active regions, and first contacts connected to the first active regions, respectively; and a second semiconductor element including second active regions that are doped with a second conductivity-type impurity different from the first conductivity-type impurity and that are on the semiconductor substrate, a second gate structure between the second active regions, and second contacts connected to the second active regions, respectively, and having a second length greater than a first length of each of the first contacts in a first direction parallel to an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US10128240B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including first to third regions, wherein the third region is positioned in a first direction between the first and second regions, a fin protruding on the substrate and extending in the first direction, first and second gate structures respectively formed on the fin in the first and second regions, first and second spacers formed with spacing apart from each other on the fin in the third region. The first and second spacers are sloped in a direction away from each other, and the first and second spacers and an upper surface of the fin define a plurality of acute angles, the first and second spacers defining a recess, the fin and the first and second spacers defining sidewalls of the recess, and a device isolating film substantially filling the recess.
US10128231B2
An integrated device includes a field effect transistor formed within and upon an active region of a substrate and a resistor formed on an isolation region of the substrate. The field effect transistor includes a gate stacked structure having respective portions of a dielectric layer, a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer arranged in order from bottom to top. The resistor includes a resistor body being an enclosure portion of the first conductive layer and resistor terminals being portions of the second conductive layer on distal ends of the resistor body. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a gate stacked structure and a resistor stacked structure at the same time by patterning a dielectric layer, a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer. The method also includes forming a resistor having a resistor body by patterning the resistor stacked structure.
US10128225B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards techniques and configurations of interconnect structures having a polymer core in integrated circuit (IC) package assemblies. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a first die having a plurality of transistor devices disposed on an active side of the first die and a plurality of interconnect structures electrically coupled with the first die, wherein individual interconnect structures of the plurality of interconnect structures have a polymer core, and an electrically conductive material disposed on the polymer core, the electrically conductive material being configured to route electrical signals between the transistor devices of the first die and a second die. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10128219B2
A Multi-Chip Module (MCM) package includes a substrate having a plurality of metal terminals and at least a first die attach area. An encapsulant is around the substrate including on at least a portion of the topside and at least a portion of the bottomside of the package. At least a first device including at least two device terminals is attached face up on the first die attach area. At least a second device including at least two device terminals is flip-chip attached and stacked on the first device. At least one of the first device and second device include a transistor. At least one metal clip is between the first device and second device including a plurality of clip portions isolated from one another connecting at least one device terminal of each of the first device and second device to respective metal terminals of the plurality of metal terminals.
US10128215B1
A package may include a plurality of stacked semiconductor devices (chips) is disclosed. Each chip may include through vias (through silicon vias—TSV) that can provide an electrical connection between chips and between chips and external connections, such as solder connections or solder balls. Electro static discharge (ESD) protection circuitry may be placed on a bottom chip in the stack even when through vias connect circuitry on a top chip in the stack exclusive of the bottom chip. In this way, ESD protection circuitry may be placed in close proximity to the ESD event occurring at an external connection. In particular, every chip in the stack of semiconductor chips may have circuitry electrically connected to the external connection and by placing ESD protection circuitry on the bottom chip closest to the electrical connection, instead of on all chips ESD protection may be more area efficient. Furthermore, by only placing ESD protection circuitry on a bottom chip in a stack of semiconductor chips, ESD protection circuitry may not be included on other chips, so that total area may be reduced and more chips may be produced on a single silicon wafer.
US10128209B2
A semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the same are introduced. In an embodiment, one or more passivation layers are formed over a first substrate. Recesses are formed in the passivation layers and one or more conductive pads are formed in the recesses. One or more barrier layers are formed between the passivation layers and the conductive pads. The conductive pads of the first substrate are aligned to the conductive pads of a second substrate and are bonded using a direct bonding method.
US10128200B2
A semiconductor device includes a first and second semiconductor chips, a resistive component, and a semiconductor chip including a first circuit coupled to electrodes on both ends of the resistive component. A sealing body has a first long side, a second side, a third short side, and a fourth short side. In a Y-direction, each of the first and second semiconductor chips is disposed at a position closer to the first side than to the second side, while the semiconductor chip is disposed at a position closer to the second side than to the first side. Also, in the Y-direction, the resistive component, the second semiconductor chips, and the first semiconductor chips are arranged in order of increasing distance from the third side toward the fourth side, while the semiconductor chip is disposed at a position closer to the third side than to the fourth side.
US10128196B2
A semiconductor device including: a semiconductor substrate a semiconductor element is formed; a first electrode layer stacked on the semiconductor substrate and connected to the semiconductor element; a first insulation film stacked on an upper face of the first electrode layer; and a second electrode layer stacked over the first electrode layer and the first insulation film, the second electrode layer including a material having a mechanical strength that is higher than a mechanical strength of a material included in the first electrode layer; wherein a groove portion is provided from the upper face in a direction toward a lower face of the first electrode layer, a protrusion portion protruding into the groove portion is provided on a lower face of the second electrode layer, and a lower end of the protrusion portion is positioned below the center position in a thickness direction of the first electrode layer.
US10128195B2
A package includes a package substrate, which includes a middle layer selected from the group consisting of a core and a middle metal layer, a top metal layer overlying the middle layer, and a bottom metal layer underlying the middle layer. All metal layers overlying the middle layer have a first total metal density that is equal to a sum of all densities of all metal layers over the middle layer. All metal layers underlying the middle layer have a second total metal density that is equal to a sum of all densities of all metal layers under the middle layer. An absolute value of a difference between the first total metal density and the second total metal density is lower than about 0.1.
US10128193B2
A package structure and methods for forming the same are provided. The package structure includes an integrated circuit die in a package layer. The package structure also includes a first passivation layer covering the package layer and the integrated circuit die, and a second passivation layer over the first passivation layer. The package structure further includes a seed layer and a conductive layer in the second passivation layer. The seed layer covers the top surface of the first passivation layer and extends into the first passivation layer. The conductive layer covers the seed layer and extends into the first passivation layer. In addition, the package structure includes a third passivation layer covering the second passivation layer. The seed layer further extends from the top surface of the first passivation layer to the third passivation layer along a sidewall of the conductive layer.
US10128181B2
A package structure includes a first carrier plate, a second carrier plate, a pin group and an encapsulant member. A power component is disposed on a first top surface of the first carrier plate. The second carrier plate is disposed on the first top surface of the first carrier plate. A driving circuit is disposed on a second top surface of the second carrier plate for driving the power component. An opening runs through the second carrier plate, and the power component is accommodated within the opening. The pin group is assembled on the first carrier plate and/or the second carrier plate. The encapsulant member encapsulates the first carrier plate, the second carrier plate, a part of the first pin group and a part of the second pin group, so that the first pin group and the second pin group are partially exposed outside the encapsulant member.
US10128170B2
Conductive clip connection arrangements for semiconductor packages are disclosed. Some examples provide electrically conductive clip connection arrangements for semiconductor packages that improve electrical performance and fabrication reliability while maintaining compatibility with existing quality control processes. Some examples provide innovative conductive clip structures and die pad arrangements that broaden the range of options available for tailoring the physical configurations of one or more of the constituent conductive clips and/or die pads to achieve specific electrical performance targets.
US10128155B2
An integrated circuit device includes: a first fin-type active region in a first area of a substrate, the first fin-type active region having a first recess filled with a first source/drain region; a first device isolation layer covering both lower sidewalls of the first fin-type active region; a second fin-type active region in a second area of the substrate, the second fin-type active region having a second recess filled with a second source/drain region; a second device isolation layer covering both lower sidewalls of the second fin-type active region; and a fin insulating spacer on the first device isolation layer, the fin insulating spacer covering a sidewall of the first fin-type active region under the first source/drain region.
US10128150B2
Implementations of the present disclosure generally relate to methods for forming thin films in high aspect ratio feature definitions. In one implementation, a method of processing a substrate in a process chamber is provided. The method comprises flowing a boron-containing precursor comprising a ligand into an interior processing volume of a process chamber, flowing a nitrogen-containing precursor comprising the ligand into the interior processing volume and thermally decomposing the boron-containing precursor and the nitrogen-containing precursor in the interior processing volume to deposit a boron nitride layer over at least one or more sidewalls and a bottom surface of a high aspect ratio feature definition formed in and below a surface of a dielectric layer on the substrate.
US10128114B2
A method of forming a metal-silicon contact is provided. Embodiments include forming a metal layer over a substrate; forming an amorphous silicon (a-Si) capping layer over the metal layer; implanting ions to induce an athermal migration of the a-Si capping layer into the metal layer; and annealing the metal layer and the a-Si capping layer to form a metal silicide layer over the substrate.
US10128106B2
When a defect region is present near the pn junction in a GaN layer, lattice defects are present in the depletion layer. Therefore, when a reverse bias is applied to the pn junction, the defects in the depletion layer cause the generated current to flow as a leakage current. The leakage current flowing through the depletion layer can cause a decrease in the withstand voltage at the pn junction. Provided is a semiconductor device using gallium nitride, including a gallium nitride layer including an n-type region. The gallium nitride layer includes a first p-type well region and a second p-type well region that is provided on at least a portion of the first p-type well region and has a peak region with a higher p-type impurity concentration than the first p-type well region.
US10128091B2
A filter apparatus for arc ion evaporator used in the cathodic arc plasma deposition system according to this invention is characterized by a set of multiple straight tubes placing in parallel to one another wherein the size and/or amount of large particles, which could contaminate the plasma beam, can be controlled. The filter apparatus further comprises a set of solenoid coils which coil around the filter to generate a magnetic field to drive plasma to the targeting object or material.The filter apparatus of this present invention can reduce a number of large particles in the plasma beam and can further be designed into compacted shapes with high flexibility for adaptation in order to suit engineering demands. In addition, the filter apparatus according to this invention does not hinder the line of sight and is in consistent with the direction of plasma movement so that large number of plasma can be obtained, resulting in a reduced electrical consumption for driving the plasma and a faster deposition rate to enable quick, high volume production of quality products at a reasonable cost.
US10128087B2
A gas delivery apparatus for supplying process gas to a processing chamber of a plasma processing apparatus includes a mixing manifold having a plurality of gas inlets on a surface thereof, the gas inlets being equally spaced from a center mixing point of the mixing manifold; and optionally a plurality of gas supplies in communication with the plurality of gas inlets on the surface of the mixing manifold. A method of supplying gas to a processing chamber of a plasma processing apparatus using such a gas delivery apparatus involves providing a plurality of gas supplies in communication with a plurality of gas inlets on a surface of a mixing manifold; flowing at least two different gases from the plurality of gas supplies to the mixing manifold to create a first mixed gas; and supplying the first mixed gas to a plasma processing chamber coupled downstream of the mixing manifold.
US10128085B2
A method of plasma etching includes an etching process that generates plasma from a process gas that includes fluorocarbon by using first high frequency power output by a first high frequency power source, and by the generated plasma, etches a low-k film with a metal-containing film as a mask. In the etching process, the first high frequency power is intermittently applied.
US10128083B2
The presently disclosed ion sources include one or more electromagnets for changing the distribution of plasma within a discharge space of an ion source. At least one of the electromagnets is oriented about an outer periphery of a tubular sidewall of the ion source and changes a distribution of the plasma in a peripheral region of the discharge space.
US10128082B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus to treat a substrate may include an extraction plate to extract a plasma beam from a plasma chamber and direct the plasma beam to the substrate. The plasma beam may comprise ions forming a non-zero angle of incidence with respect to a perpendicular to a plane of the substrate; and a gas outlet system disposed outside the plasma chamber, the gas outlet system coupled to a gas source and arranged to deliver to the substrate a reactive gas received from the gas source, wherein the reactive gas does not pass through the plasma chamber.
US10128077B2
The present invention relates to an electron gun for facilitating position adjustment, and an electron microscope including the same, the electron gun improving a vacuum structure so as to easily move a filament block or an electron tip of an electron gun without having bellows for maintaining a vacuum when the center axis of the filament block or the electron tip of the electron gun is mechanically misaligned with the center axis of a anode and a focusing lens.
US10128075B2
The present invention provides methods and systems for an ion generator device that includes a base, a generally circular sidewall projecting from the base forming an interior storage compartment and defining an upper edge, a top portion engaged to the upper edge, at least one high voltage wire extending from the device, and a power supply for providing a voltage to the high voltage wire for producing ions.
US10128069B1
A debris barrier is for an electrical switching apparatus. The electrical switching apparatus includes separable contacts and an arc chute. The separable contacts generate debris when tripping open in response to an electrical fault. The arc chute has a plurality of splitter plates each having an edge portion and a distal portion located opposite and distal the edge portion. The debris barrier includes a first leg, a second leg, and a middle portion connecting the first leg and the second leg. The middle portion is coupled to one of the separable contacts. At least one of the first leg and the second leg has a first barrier portion and a second barrier portion extending therefrom. The first barrier portion is located proximate the distal portion. The second barrier portion extends from the first barrier portion toward the edge portion in order to redirect the debris toward the edge portion.
US10128067B1
Switch gear for interconnecting a plurality of power transmission lines including a number of high voltage switches arranged in three phase unitized relationship for routing power in one or multiple directions. The switches are pre-mounted on a beam to form a unitized assembly which is attached in the field to a vertical support structure or substation structure. The unitized assembly includes a telescoping base design that permits the width of the unitized assembly to be reduced so that the assembly can be transported by truck to the installation site and then the switch assembly may be extended to the final width for installation at the site. The telescopic base design is preferably cantilevered and includes free rolling capability for easily manually reducing or expanding the width of the unitized assembly when the beam is lying on a ground surface.
US10128059B2
Provided is a switch that can be downsized. A switch is provided with a plunger, two upper torsion springs that bias the plunger in a returning direction, housing-side contacts, and plunger-side contacts. One of the upper torsion springs is arranged on one side of a plane that includes an axis passing through a central portion of the plunger, and that is perpendicular to perpendicular lines M connecting the plunger-side contacts and the axis, and the other one of the upper torsion springs is arranged on the other side of the plane.
US10128057B2
A supercapacitor including: a shell; a chamber in the shell; a first electrode and a second electrode on respective walls of the chamber; and a separator arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode through the chamber. The separator includes a first perforated membrane and a second perforated membrane, which is movable with respect to the first membrane between a first position, in which the first membrane and the second membrane are separate and a second position, in which the first membrane and the second membrane are in contact and coupled for rendering the separator impermeable.
US10128054B2
Provided herein is an improved capacitor and a method for forming an improved capacitor. The method includes providing an anode and forming a dielectric on the anode. A linear-hyperbranched polymer is formed and a conductive polymer dispersion is prepared comprising at least one conducting polymer, one polyanion and the linear-hyperbranched polymer. A layer of the conductive polymer dispersion if formed wherein said dielectric is between the anode and the layer.
US10128048B2
A multilayer capacitor includes a body including a capacitor body formed by layering a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of first and second internal electrodes in a width direction, the first and second internal electrodes including body portions overlapping each other and lead portions exposed to a mounting surface of the capacitor body and disposed to be spaced apart from each other, respectively; and first, second and third external electrodes disposed on the mounting surface of the capacitor body to be connected to the lead portions, respectively, wherein the first, second and third external electrodes each include first, second and third electrode layers which are sequentially stacked, the first and second electrode layers containing metal and glass particles, and the third electrode layer containing a conductive resin.
US10128044B2
A film capacitor is presented. The film capacitor includes a thermally conductive support. The thermally conductive support includes a core including a first end and a second end. The thermally conductive support further includes a protrusion extending from at least one of the first end and the second end of the core, where at least one of the core and the protrusion includes a phase change material. Further, the film capacitor also includes a plurality of films disposed on at least a portion of the thermally conductive support, where the plurality of films includes a plurality of electrode films and a dielectric film. Further, the thermally conductive support for the film capacitor and a method of forming the film capacitor are also presented.
US10128043B2
A chip-type electronic component 1a mounted on a board includes a chip element assembly 2 having an upper surface, a lower surface, and a side surface; inner electrodes 3a, 3b, and 3c formed inside the chip element assembly 2; and a cover layer 5 that is formed with an insulation material having a lower permittivity than the chip element assembly 2 and is so provided as to cover at least part of the side surface of the chip element assembly 2. With this structure, unnecessary stray capacitance between the inner electrodes 3a, 3b, and 3c formed inside the chip element assembly 2 and other electrode members arranged outside the cover layer 5 in a direction orthogonal to a thickness direction of the chip element assembly 2 can be reduced, whereby the chip-type electronic component 1a capable of realizing the desired characteristics can be provided.
US10128039B2
A core of a coil component is formed of a first flange, a second flange, and a winding core connecting the first flange and the second flange to each other. A winding is wound around the winding core. The core is formed of a first part and a second part, the second part having a smaller magnetic permeability and a higher rigidity than the first part. The second part is formed of an end portion of the first flange on one side in an extension direction of the first flange and an end portion of the second flange on one side in an extension direction of the second flange.
US10128030B2
A superconducting magnet coil system with high resistance to quench events includes a first coil portion (1) with a first superconducting material and a second coil portion (2) with a second superconducting material. The first superconducting material has a higher critical temperature than the second superconducting material. The first and the second coil portions are bridged by a common quench protection element (6) and together with the quench protection element form a first loop. The magnet coil system also includes a third coil portion (3) which is part of a second electrical loop with a second quench protection element (8, 8′, 8″)as well as a heating element (9) which is supplied with a heating voltage in response to a quench of the third coil portion. Among the series connected coil portions (1, 2) only the second coil portion is in thermal contact with the first heating element (9).
US10128028B2
A varistor device includes a main body, a conductive area, a specific-melting-point metallic pin, and an elastic unit. The main body has a first surface, and the conductive area is located at the first surface. The specific-melting-point metallic pin has a first section and a second section. The first and the second sections are one-piece formed. The first section is fixedly disposed on the conductive area. The second section has a specific melting point such that the second section melts when a current flows between the first surface and the second section so as to expose the second section to a temperature greater than the specific melting point. The elastic unit has an end connected to the second section, and the elastic unit provides an elastic force to the second section to break the second section so as to cut off the current when the second section melts.
US10128014B2
Methods and devices for controlling movement of a carriage of a multi-leaf collimator are provided. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a desired position of each of a set of leaves on the carriage in each of a plurality of segments from a field, determining an allowable moving range set of the carriage according to the desired position, the allowable moving range set including a respective allowable moving range of the carriage in each of the segments, determining a respective position of the carriage in each of the segments according to the allowable moving range set, and controlling the movement of the carriage according to the determined positions of the carriage in the segments.
US10128012B2
A packaging system for radioactive waste is robust, highly functional, and can be used for nearly all radioactive waste streams that require shielded packaging. The packaging system includes a modular container that is configured to receive modular shielding inserts. The packaging system can be used to store, transport, and dispose of radioactive waste.
US10128009B2
Fuel elements are moved between an upper pool and a lower pool of a nuclear plant by a conveyor tube having an upper end at the upper pool and a lower end at the lower pool and extending at an acute angle to the vertical between the ends. A plurality of transport baskets can move through the conveyor tube, each holding at least one of the fuel. An upper transfer device at the upper end in the upper pool loads the fuel elements into or unloads them from the transport baskets. A lower transfer device in the lower pool loads fuel elements into or unloads them from the transport baskets. Each transfer device can hold two of the transport baskets that are displaceable for positioning above or below the conveyor tube and movable during displacement through the tube between a vertical transfer position and an angled transport position.
US10128000B1
Various structures and methods are disclosed related to a computer system for delivering data for operational intelligence in support of optimizing health care delivery. Particular embodiments selectively extract various data sets for operational support from a large electronic medical record (“EMR”) system on schedules of varying frequency to efficiently refresh data during the operational day. Other embodiments enhance EMR extract data using other computerized data sources and/or computer analysis of the EMR data. Other embodiments provide efficient data delivery for operational intelligence to optimize integrated, team-based health care delivery as well virtual medicine and transitional care. These and other embodiments are further disclosed herein.
US10127998B2
A method of programming a memory includes selecting a logic state for programming a first bitcell of the memory. A first one-time-programmable (OTP) element of the first bitcell is programmed using a first set of conditions intended to achieve a first target resistance in accordance with the selected logic state which results in a first degree of programming of the first OTP element. A second OTP element of the first bitcell is programmed using a second set of conditions different from the first set of conditions intended to achieve a second target resistance in accordance with the selected logic state which results in a second degree of programming of the second OTP element, wherein the first and second degrees of programming are visually indistinguishable.
US10127982B2
A memory module includes an emergency power supplier, a plurality of ranks each including one or more volatile memories, a non-volatile memory, and a controller suitable for backing up data of the ranks into the non-volatile memory by using the emergency power supplier during a power failure, wherein the ranks are sequentially backed up, and while one rank is backed up among the ranks, the other ranks are controlled in a self-refresh mode.
US10127980B2
An integrated circuit according to an embodiment includes: first and second wiring lines; a memory device including a first and second terminals connected to the first and second wiring line respectively; a first transistor including a high-k metal gate; a first circuit applying a first write voltage between the first and the second terminals, and switch the resistance of the memory device from a high-resistance state to a low-resistance state; a second circuit reading the resistance of the memory device, and comparing a read value of the resistance with a predetermined value; a third circuit lowering a threshold voltage of the first transistor when the read value of the resistance is greater than the predetermined value; a fourth circuit applying a second write voltage between the first and second terminals after the threshold voltage is lowered; and a fifth circuit raising the threshold voltage of the first transistor.
US10127978B2
A method of operating a resistive memory system including a plurality of layers may include receiving a write request and first data corresponding to a first address, converting the first address into a second address and assigning n (n is an integer equal to or larger than 2) pieces of sub-region data generated from the first data to the plurality of layers, and writing the n pieces of sub-region data to at least two layers according to the second address.
US10127976B2
A static random access memory cell includes a controlling signal line unit, a latch and an access transistor unit. The first bottom transistor unit is controlled by the controlling signal line unit to change voltage levels of the first pseudo node and the second pseudo node. The second bottom transistor unit is controlled by the first internal node to perform connection and disconnection between the controlling signal line unit and the second pseudo node, and the second bottom transistor unit is controlled by the second internal node to perform connection and disconnection between the controlling signal line unit and the first pseudo node. The access transistor unit is controlled by the controlling signal line unit to perform connection and disconnection between the controlling signal line unit, the first pseudo node and the second pseudo node.
US10127973B2
A training controller, semiconductor device and a system including the same are disclosed, which relates to technology for training a phase of data. The training controller may include a read training circuit configured to control a read training operation based on a read signal and a control signal. The training controller may include a write training circuit configured to control a write training operation based on a write signal and a write training signal. The training controller may include a reset controller configured to generate a reset signal when a mismatch occurs in the read training operation or the write training operation.
US10127969B2
Systems, devices and methods are disclosed. In an embodiment of one such method, a method of decoding received command signals, the method comprises decoding the received command signals in combination with a signal provided to a memory address node at a first clock edge of a clock signal to generate a plurality of memory control signals. The received command signals, in combination with the signal provided to the memory address node at the first clock edge of the clock signal, represent a memory command. Furthermore, the signal provided to the memory address node at a second clock edge of the clock signal is not decoded in combination with the received command signals. The memory command may be a reduced power command and/or a no operation command.
US10127959B2
Embodiments include a sense amplifier circuit including first and second paths that may be selectively coupled to a memory cell or a reference cell as part of a two-phase read process. The sense amplifier may include a biasing circuit to provide an adaptive bias voltage to a transistor of the first and/or second path to cause the transistor to provide a voltage across the memory cell and/or reference cell that is substantially constant across process corners. Additionally, or alternatively, the sense amplifier may include a DC-coupled regenerative latch circuit to generate a digital output signal based on a voltage difference between nodes of the first and second paths at or near the end of the second phase. Additionally, or alternatively, trimmable offset resistors may adjust a resistance value provided to the sense amplifier by the memory cell and/or reference cells. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US10127957B2
A control method for a magnetoresistance effect element and a control device for the magnetoresistance effect element that provide a higher writing speed and lower power consumption. When the magnetization direction of a second magnetic layer is nearly parallel to the magnetization direction of a first magnetic layer, a first voltage is applied across the first and second magnetic layer so that the magnetization direction of the second magnetic layer is reversed by modifying the direction of the magnetization easy axis thereof, followed by the application of a second voltage. When the magnetization direction of the second magnetic layer is nearly antiparallel to the magnetization direction of the first magnetic layer, a third voltage is applied across the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer, followed by the application of a fourth voltage so that current flows from the second magnetic layer toward the first magnetic layer.
US10127955B2
A first memory access request is obtained, where the first memory access request is used to request to access a first sub-row in a memory. A to-be-scheduled queue of the memory is searched for a second memory access request, where the to-be-scheduled queue of the memory includes multiple memory access requests, the second memory access request is used to request to access a second sub-row in the memory. The first sub-row and the second sub-row are located in a same row in the memory. The first memory access request and the second memory access request are combined to generate a first activation instruction, where the first activation instruction is used to instruct to activate the first sub-row and the second sub-row in the memory. The first activation instruction is sent to the memory.
US10127950B1
A data storage device may be configured with a transducing head separated from a data storage medium by an air bearing. The transducing head and data storage medium are each contained within a housing. The transducing head can consist of a variable resistance sensor that is connected to a temperature module positioned within the housing. One or more operational variables can be measured by the variable resistance sensor to allow an ambient temperature within the housing to be calculated based on a measured operational variable.
US10127947B2
A data storage system assembly includes a rigid central plate with multiple data storage devices (DSDs) mounted on the central plate, where a first row of DSDs is coupled with a first side of the central plate, and a second row of DSDs is coupled with a second side of the central plate, both in a side-by-side arrangement. A plurality of flexible mounting grommets may be fastened to each DSD and coupled to the central plate, such as in an arrangement in which an even number of grommets are fastened to one side and an odd number of grommets are fastened to an opposing side of the DSD. Each respective DSD may be fastened to a corresponding adaptor plate, where each adaptor plate is coupled with the central plate. Flexible mounting grommets may be fastened to each adaptor plate and coupled to the central plate.
US10127932B2
A perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes a soft magnetic underlayer, an underlayer, an intermediate layer, and a perpendicular magnetic recording layer successively stacked on a nonmagnetic substrate. The soft magnetic underlayer includes a soft magnetic layer having an amorphous structure. The underlayer includes a first underlayer, and a second underlayer provided between the first underlayer and the intermediate layer. The first underlayer is made of a TiV alloy having an amorphous structure, and the second underlayer is made of an NiW alloy including at least one element selected from a group consisting of Co, Cu, Al, Cr, and Fe. The intermediate layer is made of Ru or an Ru alloy, and wherein the soft magnetic layer, the first underlayer, and the second underlayer are stacked in this order.
US10127927B2
A method for emotion or speaking style recognition and/or clustering comprises receiving one or more speech samples, generating a set of training data by extracting one or more acoustic features from every frame of the one or more speech samples, and generating a model from the set of training data, wherein the model identifies emotion or speaking style dependent information in the set of training data. The method may further comprise receiving one or more test speech samples, generating a set of test data by extracting one or more acoustic features from every frame of the one or more test speeches, and transforming the set of test data using the model to better represent emotion/speaking style dependent information, and use the transformed data for clustering and/or classification to discover speech with similar emotion or speaking style. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US10127924B2
In a communication apparatus, an encoder compresses telephone call voice which is transmitted from another communication apparatus. A voice accumulator preserves the telephone call voice, which is compressed by the encoder, as a message. A decoder expands the telephone call voice which is preserved in the voice accumulator. A signal memory temporarily maintains the telephone call voice which is expanded by the decoder. A speech speed convertor performs speech speed conversion on the telephone call voice, which is read from the signal memory, and outputs resulting voice from a speaker. A memory monitor temporarily stops to expand the telephone call voice in the decoder in a case where the memory monitor determines that an idle capacity of the signal memory approaches a predetermined lower limit value.
US10127921B2
An audio system is described that corrects for linear and nonlinear distortions. The system can include a physical loudspeaker system responsive to an audio input signal, an adaptive circuit, e.g., with a recurrent neural network, to correct for non-linear distortions from the loudspeaker.
US10127916B2
A method and apparatus for enhancing audio processing between a transmit radio (230) and a receive radio (240) are provided. Digitized audio frames (202) are applied to parallel inputs of both a vocoder encoder (204) and a trill encoder 212 of the transmit radio (230). The vocoder encoder (204) generates voice bits which are communicated over a voice bits channel (206) to a vocoder decoder (208) of the receive radio (240). Trill encoder (212) generates signaling bits which are communicated over a signaling bits channel (214) to a trill decoder (216) of the receive radio (240) for recovery of trill information (218). At the receive radio (240), a decoded audio signal (209) generated from the vocoder decoder (208), and the recovered trill information (218) are both provided as inputs to a trill reconstructor stage (220) to generate a recovered audio signal (222) having a reconstructed trill.
US10127915B2
An audio identification system determines whether a portion of a sample of an audio signal includes silence and generates a test audio fingerprint for the audio signal based on the presence of silence. In one embodiment, the audio identification system uses a value indicating silence for a portion of the test audio fingerprint corresponding to the portion of the audio signal that includes silence. When comparing the test audio fingerprint to reference audio fingerprints, the portion of the test audio fingerprint including the value indicating the presence of silence is not used. In another embodiment, the audio identification system replaces the portion including silence with additive audio and generates a test audio fingerprint for comparison based on the resulting modified sample.
US10127910B2
In a speech recognition apparatus, a speech driver fetches a guidance speech-data as a reference speech-data, and outputs the reference speech-data to a recognition core unit. A guidance speech into which the guidance speech-data is converted is outputted by a speaker to cause a microphone to receive the outputted guidance speech, which will be converted into an inputted guidance speech-data. Even in such case, a speech recognition engine removes the inputted guidance speech-data by using, as the reference speech-data, the guidance speech-data that is before being converted into the outputted guidance speech.
US10127909B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for natural language processing. One of the methods includes receiving a first voice query; generating a first recognition output; receiving a second voice query; determining from a recognition of the second voice query that the second voice query triggers a correction request; using the first recognition output and the second recognition to determine a plurality of candidate corrections; scoring each candidate correction; and generating a corrected recognition output for a particular candidate correction having a score that satisfies a threshold value.
US10127905B2
Described are an apparatus and method for generating to generate an acoustic model. The apparatus and method include a processor a processor configured to calculate a noise representation that represents noise data by using a noise model, and generate the acoustic model through training using training noisy speech data, which comprises speech data and the noise data, a string of phonemes corresponding to the speech data, and the noise representation.
US10127902B2
A method in a computing device for decoding a weighted finite state transducer (WFST) for automatic speech recognition is described. The method includes sorting a set of one or more WFST arcs based on their arc weight in ascending order. The method further includes iterating through each arc in the sorted set of arcs according to the ascending order until the score of the generated token corresponding to an arc exceeds a score threshold. The method further includes discarding any remaining arcs in the set of arcs that have yet to be considered.
US10127901B2
The technology relates to converting text to speech utilizing recurrent neural networks (RNNs). The recurrent neural networks may be implemented as multiple modules for determining properties of the text. In embodiments, a part-of-speech RNN module, letter-to-sound RNN module, a linguistic prosody tagger RNN module, and a context awareness and semantic mining RNN module may all be utilized. The properties from the RNN modules are processed by a hyper-structure RNN module that determine the phonetic properties of the input text based on the outputs of the other RNN modules. The hyper-structure RNN module may generate a generation sequence that is capable of being converting to audible speech by a speech synthesizer. The generation sequence may also be optimized by a global optimization module prior to being synthesized into audible speech.
US10127899B2
A system and method for interfacing and controlling multiple musical instrument effects modules and pedals on a common platform. The system includes: a system processor; a backplane coupled with the system processor; a plurality of musical instrument effects modules removably inserted into the backplane, a plurality of musical instrument effects pedals removably inserted into the backplane via looper channels, each of the plurality of musical instrument effects modules and pedals including an audio input signal interface and an audio output signal interface, at least one of the musical instrument effects modules including a programmable potentiometer and/or programmable switch to modify an audio output signal; and a user interface configured to enable a user to apply a desired setting on the programmable potentiometer of the musical instrument effects modules via the system processor and the backplane: and a user interface configured to enable a user to reorder the musical effects signal path by dragging and dropping a module or pedal icon to a desired position among a plurality of icons thus electrically reordering the effects signal path.
US10127898B1
Accumulated saliva, other liquid and/or debris is removed from the interior of a harmonica by placing the harmonica in a carrier and twirling the carrier in an orbital path. The saliva, other liquid and/or debris is ejected from the holes or the harmonica by centrifugal force.
US10127896B2
A musical instrument includes an instrument main body extending in a first direction, a first protruding portion that protrudes from one main side of the body, and at least one second protruding from the one main side and spaced from the first protruding portion in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The center of gravity of the main body is interposed between the first and second protruding portions in the second direction and located in a region defined by the first and second protruding portions. The region has a polygon shape.
US10127888B2
An electronic device includes a display and a processor coupled to the display. The display includes a plurality of zones distributed over a viewable display area. The processor is configured to (1) obtain source data for the image to be displayed in the viewable area of the display, (2) analyze the source data in selected zones of the plurality of zones to determine at least one characteristic of the image in each selected zone, and (3) adjust, separately in each zone of the plurality of zones, at least one type of subpixel in the subpixel matrix based on determined characteristics of the image in the selected, analyzed zones.
US10127886B2
A computing system, such as a head mounted display, is configured for dynamically modifying an occlusion, such as a hand occlusion, that is presented and moved within a mixed reality environment. The occlusion is associated with a movement attribute, such as a velocity or acceleration, corresponding with movement of the occlusion within the mixed reality environment. Upon detecting a movement of the occlusion, it is determined whether the movement attribute meets or exceeds a predetermined threshold. When the threshold is at least met, the visual appearance of the occlusion is modified by at least one of modifying a transparency attribute of the occlusion to cause increased transparency of the occlusion or by modifying an edge display attribute of the occlusion to cause feathering of one or more occlusion edges.
US10127885B2
According to an aspect, a display device includes an image display panel in which pixels are arranged; and a signal processing unit that converts input values of input signals including color information of a certain color represented in a reference color gamut into extended values in an extended color space to generate output signals. The signal processing unit corrects the input values of the input signals into input values of corrected input signals including color information of a corrected color so as to correct the certain color into the corrected color that is a color positioned in a direction away from a white point, determines an expansion coefficient, and obtains the output signals for first to fourth sub-pixels based on at least the corrected input signals and the expansion coefficient.
US10127879B2
A display device and a driving method thereof are disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixel rows, a data driver configured to transfer data voltages to the display panel, a gate driver configured to transfer gate signals to the display panel, and a signal controller configured to control the data driver and the gate driver. The pixel rows are divided into i (i is a natural number of 2 or more) pixel row groups including a plurality of pixel rows, respectively. The display panel displays one still image for one frame set including the i sequential frames, and each of the i pixel row groups is charged by receiving the data voltage for each frame of the frame set, and the frames in which the i pixel row groups are charged are different from each other.
US10127876B2
A gate driving circuit includes a plurality of stages, a k-th stage (where k is a natural number) of the plurality of stages being configured to receive a clock signal, a (k−1)-th carry signal from a (k−1)-th stage of the plurality of stages, a (k+1)-th carry signal from a (k+1)-th stage of the plurality of stages, a (k+2)-th carry signal from a (k+2)-th stage of the plurality of stages, a first ground voltage, a second ground voltage, and a third ground voltage, and to output a k-th gate signal and a k-th carry signal, the k-th stage including a first pull down circuit configured to discharge the k-th gate signal as the third ground voltage in response to the (k+1)-th carry signal, and the third ground voltage having a lower voltage level than the first ground voltage and having a higher voltage level than the second ground voltage.
US10127874B2
There is provided a scan driver including a plurality of stages coupled to respective scan lines, wherein a kth (where k is a natural number) stage of the plurality of stages includes: a first driver configured to supply a kth scan signal to a first output terminal, based on a first clock signal, and a second driver configured to supply a kth carry signal not overlapping the kth scan signal to a second output terminal, based on an inverse first clock signal.
US10127873B2
A display device including scan lines, data lines, k clock signal lines and pixel groups is provided. The pixel groups are respectively driven by the data lines, the corresponding scan lines and the corresponding clock signal lines. Each pixel group includes pixel units respectively configured at intersections of the data lines and the corresponding scan lines, where the scan lines in each pixel group receive a same scan driving signal. Each pixel unit includes two switches and a pixel electrode. Conduction states of the two switches are respectively controlled by the corresponding scan line and the corresponding clock signal line, where clock signals of the clock signal lines corresponding to the pixel units on the adjacent scan lines have a phase difference of 1/k cycle.
US10127861B2
A scan driver includes a plurality of scan driving blocks. Each of the scan driving blocks includes a first shift register including a plurality of driving transistors, the first shift register being configured to provide a first driving signal to a first driving node and to provide a second driving signal to a second driving node, a second shift register including a plurality of masking transistors, the second shift register being configured to provide a masking signal to a masking output node, and a buffer circuit including a plurality of buffer transistors, the buffer circuit being configured to provide scan signals. The buffer circuit outputs the scan signals that include the first pulse or the scan signals that include the first pulse and the second pulse based on the masking signal.
US10127855B2
The array substrate according to the present disclosure may include within its fanout region a plurality of signal transmission lines for transmitting signals between a driver chip and a display region of the array substrate, and each signal transmission line may correspond to one data transmission channel. The array substrate may further include at least one impedance balancing line arranged corresponding to a signal transmission line in the plurality of signal transmission lines, wherein the impedance balancing line is electrically connected to the signal transmission line, so that a difference between impedances of different data transmission channels within the fanout region meets a first predetermined condition.
US10127851B2
Disclosed is an image processing method for reducing power consumption of an OLED display device. A method of the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving image data; determining whether a frequency of a predetermined area of the image data is lower than a predetermined reference; deciding a minimum value among a plurality of blue data values of the predetermined area when the frequency of the predetermined area is lower than the reference as a result of the determination; and changing blue data of the predetermined area on the basis of the determined minimum value.
US10127848B2
A display device, including a display panel including a plurality of pixels coupled to scan lines and data lines, the display panel having a display area divided into a first display area at a first side thereof and a second display area at a second side opposite to the first side; a scan driver to supply a scan signal through the scan lines; and a data driver to supply a data signal through the data lines, the scan lines including first sub-scan lines corresponding to the first display area and second sub-scan lines corresponding to the second display area, and switching elements being coupled between the first sub-scan lines and the second sub-scan lines.
US10127847B2
A three-dimensional display method, a three-dimensional display device and a display substrate are provided, which can improve a PPI of an image, and enhance a three-dimensional display effect of the image. The three-dimensional display method is applied to the three-dimensional display device, the three-dimensional display device including a pixel array and a grating, the grating including light-shielding regions and light-transmitting regions arranged alternately; the pixel array including a plurality of pixels, each pixel including at least two sub-pixels, an odd-numbered column and an even-numbered column in the pixel array being staggered longitudinally by a preset length, and the preset length being less than a length of one sub-pixel in a longitudinal direction, the three-dimensional display method including: obtaining original luminance values of sub-pixels of respective colors in each pixel in an original signal of a to-be-displayed image; determining compensation pixels of each sub-pixel, part of the compensation pixels in the compensation pixels corresponding to the sub-pixel being located in a column where the sub-pixel is located, and part of the compensation pixels being located in a column adjacent to the column where the sub-pixel is located; calculating a target luminance value of the sub-pixel, for each sub-pixel in the pixel array, according to an original luminance value of a compensation sub-pixel having a same color as that of the sub-pixel in the compensation pixels corresponding to the sub-pixel, and a weight thereof; displaying the to-be-displayed image according to the target luminance value of each sub-pixel in the pixel array, and dividing the image displayed into two views by the grating.
US10127822B2
The disclosure relates to drone user equipment (UE) indications that may be conveyed to a wireless network. In particular, a UE that has flight capabilities (i.e., capabilities to operate as an unmanned aircraft system) and optional further capabilities to report a current height level may indicate such capabilities to the wireless network. As such, the wireless network may differentiate the drone UE from other UEs that only operate on the ground. Furthermore, the optional current height level may enable the wireless network to differentiate among drone UEs operating at different heights and/or from other UEs that are operating on the ground. The wireless network may further use the information indicating the flight capabilities either alone or in combination with the optional height information to configure power control parameters, manage interference, provide mobility management functions, generate neighbor lists, control beamforming, or implement a radio resource configuration or management procedure.
US10127820B2
A driver assistance apparatus is provided. The driver assistance apparatus includes a processor determining whether lanes are not identified based on at least one of image information, distance information, sensor information, navigation information, secondary information and adjacent vehicle information, and generating virtual lanes; and an output unit outputting the generated virtual lanes.
US10127802B2
An integrated security system that includes a security coprocessor coupled to a conventional security system panel and an interactive security system. The integrated security system enables conventional security system features as well as the consumer-oriented interactive features and functions of an interactive security system without sacrificing reliability or the significant burden and cost associated with frequent software updates associated with conventional security systems. The integrated security system also minimizes or eliminates the need for new battery backup circuitry or larger batteries.
US10127798B1
Techniques are described for providing control of a monitoring system (e.g., a home alarm or security system) using one or more mobile devices. In some implementations, a native mobile device application enables use of a mobile device as a security/automation system keypad and controller for a home security system. In these implementations, the mobile device, using the native mobile device application, checks real time status of system and sensors, arms/disarms system, turns lights on/off, looks in on live video of security cameras, reviews history of system events, reviews saved video clips, monitors/changes thermostat settings, and performs other features of a traditional security keypad in a home security system.
US10127797B2
A security system including a wireless alarm sensor that detects a threat within a secured geographic area, a cloud application that monitors the alarm sensor and reports threats detected by the alarm sensor within the secured area to a human user of the secured area and a wireless publically accessible communication system defined by a plurality of relatively low power communication devices and a local base station, the alarm sensor detects a nearby one of the plurality of low power communication devices and wirelessly connects to the cloud application through the nearby one low power communication device and local base station.
US10127794B1
A vehicle occupancy warning system includes a vehicle that has a door and a back seat. The back seat may have a child seated therein. The door is selectively positioned between an open position and a closed position. A sensing unit is coupled to the vehicle and the sensing unit is aligned with the door. The sensing unit senses when the door is positioned in the open position and the closed position. An alarm unit is positioned within the vehicle and the alarm unit is in electrical communication with the sensing unit. The alarm unit emits an audible alarm when the sensing unit senses that the door is in the open position. In this way the alarm unit reminds a driver to check for the child in the back seat thereby inhibiting the child from being left unattended in the vehicle.
US10127785B2
A sensor package is disclosed that includes a compass and/or an accelerometer. The compass may be activated by a microcontroller in response to an indication of movement detected by an accelerometer. The compass's data may be utilized to determine an orientation for the object such as a door on which the sensor package is situated. The orientation data may indicate that the door is ajar and/or that a second magnetic field is present, suggesting tampering. A notice may be dispatched to a controller for the home security system, a client device, a remote system, etc.
US10127776B2
A cash drawer has a weighing module comprising a plurality of cups; the cash drawer has a front and a rear. The cups are arranged such that four prone note cups, five coin cups and two vertical note cups are provided. The four prone note cups are arranged rearwards of the five coin cups and forwards of the two vertical note cups. A weighing module for a cash drawer is also provided, which comprises a plurality of note cups and coin cups arranged on respective load cells. At least some of the cups are movable relative to respective load cells on which they are arranged.
US10127772B2
Embodiments of the present invention set forth systems, apparatuses and methods for bonusing symbols in subsequent games of gaming devices based on a current game outcome. Accordingly, a gaming device can be configured to initiate and display a first gaming event on a game display of the gaming device. If one or more symbols appear as part of a predefined criterion, such as being part of a winning symbol combination, the one or more symbols may be associated with a modifier, such as a multiplier, in one or more subsequent gaming events.
US10127768B2
Systems and method for providing a gambling hybrid game having manual triggering of gambling events is disclosed. The systems and method involve providing a proposition of a gambling event to a user and receiving an input accepting the proposition from a user. The gambling event that is associated with the proposition is then resolved. The results of the gambling event are then determined and the wagers are resolved. The results of the gambling event are then used to change variables in a set of game variables that are applied in the game.
US10127762B2
Various embodiments of the gaming system, gaming device, and gaming method disclosed herein provide a primary game and a free activation bonus sequence, wherein the gaming system enables the player to select one or more of a plurality of different volatility options for use in the free activation bonus sequence. Each option is associated with a different number of free activations and a different pool of symbols or different symbol functionality. The gaming system provides this variation in the pool of symbols or symbol functionality in various embodiments by enabling the player to replace one or more symbols of a pool or set of symbols of the primary game (i.e., the primary set of symbols) with the symbol associated with a player selected option. The symbols of this modified set of symbols (i.e., the secondary set of symbols) are used in the free activation bonus sequence).
US10127757B2
The path switching structure according to the present disclosure includes a branch part from which a plurality of transfer paths along which a medium is transferred is branched, and a medium branch apparatus having a diverter guiding the medium introduced to the branch part along any one of the plurality of transfer paths to another transfer path among the plurality of transfer paths, wherein the plurality of transfer paths include a first transfer path along which the medium is introduced to the branch part, a second transfer path in which the medium is introduced to the branch part or the medium is discharged from the branch part, and a third transfer path in which the medium is introduced to the branch part or the medium is discharged from the branch part, and the diverter is rotated between a first position a second position.
US10127756B2
A medium processing apparatus is provided. The medium processing apparatus comprises a first cassette support to at least one first cassette, a second cassette support to support at least one second cassette, the second cassette support being connected to the first cassette support, a container in which the first and second cassette supports are received, and a first locking unit to lock the second cassette support and the first cassette support. When the first locking unit is released, the second cassette support is pulled out to the outside of the container in a state in which the first cassette support is disposed in the container.
US10127742B2
A portable controller device having an OBD-II port interface and a microcontroller that interacts with a vehicle network through the interface, including programming for querying successively the vehicle network for one or more parameter, and for retrieving values for the parameter returned from the network. The retrieving values for the parameter returned from the network is compared with an inferring response or parameter value, such as an absence of a response to query of the monitoring parameter, that if satisfied can infer that the journey status of the vehicle has changed from ‘underway’ to ‘ended’, and identifies the monitoring parameter as a candidate parameter. The journey status can be confirm as ‘ended’ when successive querying of the candidate parameter returns the same an absence of a response.
US10127726B2
Disclosed herein is a control method of an electronic apparatus. The control method of an electronic apparatus includes: calculating an average speed of a vehicle when a specific event occurs; generating an object indicating a relationship between the calculated average speed and an event speed corresponding to the specific event; and outputting the generated object through augmented reality.
US10127713B2
A method including defining a virtual space for immersing a user. The method further includes defining a field of view of a head mounted display. The method further includes generating an image of the field of view based on the virtual space that is visually recognizable by the user. The method further includes updating the image of the field of view in synchronization with movement of the head mounted display. The method further includes generating the image of the field of view including a guiding region which covers a part of the virtual space for guiding a sight line of the user when the image of the field of view is updated without synchronization with the movement of the head mounted display. The method further includes displaying the image of the field of view on the head mounted display.
US10127710B2
A processor and method for accelerating ray casting are disclosed herein. The processor for accelerating ray casting includes a computation unit, a sorting unit, an allocation unit, and an execution control unit. The computation unit calculates the length information of a section in which a ray corresponding to each of the pixels of a two-dimensional (2D) scene corresponding to a viewpoint intersects an effective volume in order to apply ray casting to the pixel. The sorting unit sorts the ray based on the length information of the section in which the ray intersects the effective volume. The allocation unit allocates the sorted rays to respective thread groups having a parallel multiprocessor structure in order of the sorting. The execution control unit transfers control instructions to the allocated thread groups so that the allocated thread groups execute ray casting for the sorted rays.
US10127703B2
One or more embodiments of this disclosure provide an image output method. The image output method includes receiving image data for a plurality of image frames and caption data linked with the plurality of image frames. The method also includes outputting parsing the caption data to extract link information according to a data type from the caption data. The method also includes outputting a connection object or a list, for verifying the link information while the plurality of image frames are output on a display of the electronic device.
US10127701B2
The image processing apparatus includes a determination unit that determines whether a plurality of input images are a plurality of divided images or a plurality of independent images, an adding unit that adds a margin image to an edge portion of each input image, an image processing unit that performs image processing on the plurality of input images to each of which the margin image has been added when the plurality of input images are the plurality of divided images, and performs image processing on the plurality of images to each of which the margin image generated from another input image has not been added when the plurality of input images are the plurality of independent, and a synthesizing unit that generates one synthesized image by synthesizing the plurality of input images on which image processing has been performed by the image processing unit.
US10127688B2
A computer implemented method, system and computer program product for identifying the Main Colors and the matching colors of a visual object, and then viewing on a mobile device select items comprising the matching colors, such as from a merchant's catalog. A visual object is analyzed for color content, and the results are stored on a system database located on the device or on a remote server. The color analysis of the objects comprise advanced image processing techniques, such as Main Color extraction using color space transformation comprising HSV, RGB and CYMK to map between pixels in the image. The user can subsequently view a display on their mobile identifying the visual object's Main Colors and at least one Harmonic Color; and then select and view all items (i.e. products in a database) comprising one Harmonic Color, and/or all items of a specific type and Harmonic Color.
US10127683B2
A short axis in a 3 dimensional image of a lesion is determined starting from voxels defining the long axis and voxels in the plane of the long axis. Voxels within the plane of the long axis are projected perpendicularly onto the long axis and receive an identifier indicative of the region on the long axis onto which they are projected. Distances between points (projected sub-voxels) in pairs of points within the same range and within adjacent ranges are evaluated in order to determine the longest distance.
US10127670B2
A computer vision system and method for detecting and modeling features of a building in a plurality of images is provided. The system includes at least one computer system in communication with a database of aerial imagery, and computer vision system code executed by the at last one computer system which automatically detects contours and infers interior roof features of the building. The system first processes the plurality of images to identify a plurality of two-dimensional (2D) line segments in each image. Then, the system processes the plurality of 2D line segments to generate a plurality of three-dimensional (3D) line segments. The plurality of 2D line segments are then processed to detect a contour of the structure, and the contour of the structure is utilized by the system to infer interior roof lines from the structure. A model of the roof of the structure is finally generated using the detected contour and interior roof lines. The system can execute a straight-skeleton algorithm to infer the interior roof lines from the detected contour. Additionally, the system can detect roof rakes from the images.
US10127668B2
There is provided a system including a memory and a processor configured to receive a first image depicting a first object and a second image depicting a second object, divide the first image into a first plurality of patches and the second image into a second plurality of patches, extract plurality of feature vectors from each of the first plurality of patches and a second plurality of feature vectors from the second plurality of patches, determine dissimilarities based on a plurality of patch metrics, each patch dissimilarity measure being a dissimilarity between corresponding patches of the first plurality of patches and the second plurality of patches, compute an image dissimilarity between the first image and the second image based on an aggregate of the plurality of patch dissimilarity measures, evaluate the image dissimilarity to determine a probability of whether the first object and the second object are the same.
US10127665B1
The present invention discloses an intelligent assistant judgment system for images of cervix uteri and a processing method thereof. This system comprises a colposcope device and an assistant judgment device. By combining the colposcope device and the assistant judgment device together to obtain the images of the cervix uteri to be detected by the colposcope device and to compare and analyze the images of the cervix uteri to be detected and its characteristic data by the assistant judgment device, the present invention can judge whether the current cervix uteri to be detected are normal cervix uteri, and can obtain, from the characteristic data of the images of the cervix uteri to be detected, the type of a lesion occurring in the current cervix uteri to be detected and characteristic parameters of the lesion. The doctors are assisted in making correct diagnosis and judgment.
US10127648B2
A pattern inspection apparatus includes a stage to mount thereon a substrate with patterns formed thereon and be able to move two-dimensionally, plural detectors of a two-dimensional scale, whose height positions are mutually different and arranged at positions on the stage different from the substrate position, to perform measurement, the body of the two-dimensional scale arranged fixed to a position facing the plural detectors, a sensor to acquire an optical image of the pattern on the substrate, in a state where the stage with the substrate is moving in one direction on a surface for the two-dimensional movement, a calculation circuitry to calculate an image acquiring position of the optical image by using position information measured by the two-dimensional scale, and a comparison circuitry to compare, using a reference image corresponding to the image acquiring position of the optical image, the optical image with the reference image for each pixel.
US10127647B2
Systems and methods for detecting cracks in an electronic device are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving an image of a front side of a mobile device and automatically identifying edges in the image. For given edges among the identified edges, the method includes determining whether another edge among the identified edges is present within a predetermined distance of the given edge. Next, straight line segments corresponding to the edges for which another edge is within the predetermined distance are identified, and then a crack evaluation assessment is assigned to the mobile device based at least in part on the identified straight line segments.
US10127644B2
A novel video system that detects events in a video sequence that causes such distortions and switch off optical flow based frame interpolation is provided. The system detects sudden changes in light intensity and switch to non-optical flow based frame interpolation when such sudden change is detected. When there is no such drastic change in light intensity, the system reverts back to using optical flow frame interpolation. Specifically, the system detects a flash event by computing a sum of differences in histograms of intensity levels between the pair of consecutive actual video frames. When the sum of differences is above a certain threshold, the video system switch to non-optical flow based frame interpolation. When the sum of differences is below the threshold, the video system reverts back to optical flow frame interpolation.
US10127642B2
A method for reducing image disturbances caused by reconstructed defective pixel clusters located in signal-gradient affected diagnostic image regions. An individually adapted central symmetrical pair reconstruction (CSP) kernel is composed for a defective image pixel based on a kernel-pair candidate order encoded in a model thereby using the pixel's validity state. The image impacted by defective pixels is corrected in real-time by statistical filtering or spatial convolution of the kernel-associated image data accessible via a predetermined CSP kernels image-offsets structure.
US10127634B2
A method for healing a target region on an input image is described. A preview image is received; the preview image may reflect a down-sampled image of an original image. The method determines a target region for the preview image. The target region indicates a segment of the preview image designated for healing. The method may then heal the target region associated with the preview image using a transformation. The method may store one or more parameters associated with the healed preview image. The method may then provide for display the healed preview image to a user on a mobile device.
US10127633B2
Embodiments provide systems and methods for generating a street map that includes a position identifier that identifies a location on the street map. The method and system may also generate and display a plurality of images representative of the location of the position identifier. A user may interact with a position identifier or one of several scroll icons to view images of other locations on the street map and/or to obtain driving directions between two locations.
US10127631B1
Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media to perform automatic image inpainting using local patch statistics. The method includes receiving a user input identifying a user-selected region of an image and determining a local region for the user-selected region. The local region includes a portion of the image outside of the user-selected region and that surrounds the user-selected region. The method may further include enlarging the local region by a predefined padding size, and scaling the user-selected region to a predetermined size. The method may further include identifying patch matches within the local region, and inpainting the user-selected region using some of the patch matches identified within the local region.
US10127629B2
A system and method of providing composite real-time dynamic imagery of a medical procedure site from multiple modalities which continuously and immediately depicts the current state and condition of the medical procedure site synchronously with respect to each modality and without undue latency is disclosed. The composite real-time dynamic imagery may be provided by spatially registering multiple real-time dynamic video streams from the multiple modalities to each other. Spatially registering the multiple real-time dynamic video streams to each other may provide a continuous and immediate depiction of the medical procedure site with an unobstructed and detailed view of a region of interest at the medical procedure site at multiple depths. A user may thereby view a single, accurate, and current composite real-time dynamic imagery of a region of interest at the medical procedure site as the user performs a medical procedure.
US10127620B2
A system, apparatus, and related methods for the collection, processing, evaluation, transformation, and reporting of individual health care information from diverse information systems and sources. A individual health record (IHR) of the present invention provides a structure for individuals to participate in, and manage, their health and their medical care, while still meeting the needs of health care organizations and caregivers. An IHR object may be formed by obtaining information from diverse health care information systems and sources, and transforming and re-purposing into a coherent account of the individual's overall health and care using a comprehensive health care ontology. As information from various sources is updated or available, the IHR is dynamically updated on a continuous or periodic basis. In one embodiment, the IHR system is contained in a self-contained package or “appliance” designed to “plug and play” in existing health care information technology systems and networks, with minimal effort and intervention.
US10127618B2
Systems and methods to determine trust scores and/or trustworthiness levels and/or connectivity are described herein. Trust and/or Trustworthiness and/or connectivity may be determined within, among or between entities and/or individuals. Social analytics and network calculations described herein may be based on user-assigned links or ratings and/or objective measures, such as data from third-party ratings agencies. The trust score may provide guidance about the trustworthiness, alignment, reputation, status, membership status and/or influence about an individual, entity, or group. The systems and methods described herein may be used to make prospective real-world decisions, such as whether or not to initiate a transaction or relationship with another person, or whether to grant a request for credit.
US10127610B1
Embodiments consistent with the present invention provide a credit enhancement structure for risk allocation between parties that minimizes the regulatory capital reserve requirement impact to an institution subject to capital reserve requirement. A subject pool of assets held by the institution, such as a pool of loans, is rated to determine its risk levels. Based on the rated risk levels, a guarantor party agrees to be responsible for a portion of the risk associated with the pool of assets, which may define the maximum risk exposure of the institution holding the asset pool. The risk-rated capital reserve requirements are applied to the asset pool based on the risk level rating and the guarantor's agreed upon risk responsibility such that the institution holds a reduced amount of reserve capital compared to what it would otherwise be required to hold.
US10127608B2
A networked computer arrangement and method in which a manufacturer or service provider may communicate to a plurality of traders the items, including goods and/or services, which may be available for purchase, the quantities of those available items, and any other conditions to be met for the purchase of the available items. Traders may apply guest bidder profiles or entitlement schema to the available goods lists to produce offerings for a plurality of guest brokers. Only bid-relevant product information is presented to each guest broker as needed in order to protect the offering party's overall position on the offered good(s). Guest broker profiles or entitlement schema may be based on perspective contractual arrangements between potential brokers, traders, and a manufacturer or service provider. Offerings are presented to the guest brokers, who are restricted from participating in the bidding process.
US10127601B2
Mesh node modules are associated with movable and fixed items in a building such as a grocery store or factory floor to maintain a database of the locations of those items as they are processed through the establishment. The items form a mesh network and relay location information through access points, when in range, to control/monitoring computers.
US10127600B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media providing shared online shopping lists and/or carts among users are disclosed. The method includes receiving a primary virtual shopping cart containing related items generated by a first user. A database entry for the primary shopping cart is created and correlated with a shopping cart identifier in response to a user request. The database entry includes one or more keywords associated with the first user of the primary virtual shopping cart. A query is received from a second user, and a list of primary virtual shopping carts is provided to the second user based on relevancy to the query. In response to a request by the second user, the contents of a selected primary virtual shopping cart is duplicated in a secondary virtual shopping cart associated with the second user.
US10127599B2
A system and a method are provided for assembling, and publishing, a persistent cart of products online. The cart can have products from a single vendor or a variety of different vendors. When the cart is published, various deals, discounts, and incentives can be offered. An individual who created the cart can be rewarded. A computer readable non-transitory storage medium stores instructions of a computer program that when executed facilitates creation of the cart of items to be purchased and selects the individual or group of individuals to whom the cart is published. The purchasing of a cart does not eliminate the availability of the cart for subsequent users.
US10127595B1
Item-level information of a particular item may be processed to categorize the particular item. In some instances, the particular item may be ranked across multiple merchants that are offering the particular item for acquisition. The ranking may be based on the item-level information that relates to an attribute of the particular item for the individual merchants. For example, the item-level information may include a cost of the particular item at a merchant, a rating of the particular item for a merchant, a number of calories of the particular item for a merchant, and so on. Information regarding the ranking may be displayed or otherwise output to enable the user to identify and order the particular item from a merchant that satisfies the user's needs.
US10127592B2
A subscription-based system for providing commerce information for one or more mobile devices for one or more merchants. Some techniques employed feature a subscription-based method for presenting commercial resources to a mobile device. The method involves receiving mobile device user information relating to a geographic location to locate one or more merchants within a subscription-based shopping network, and receiving mobile device user information relating to a merchant type within the subscription-based shopping network. The method also involves receiving, from a database over a communication network, information for one or more merchants associated with the mobile device user information for the geographic location and the merchant type, and presenting the associated merchant information on the mobile device. The associated merchant information can include a merchant name and address, a merchant telephone number, a merchant advertisement, a merchant coupon, or a merchant product or service offering to subscribers of the shopping network.
US10127591B1
The disclosure herein provides methods, systems, and devices for marketing and selling used vehicles during an extended sale period and dynamically matching used vehicle dealers to used vehicle transactions. A used vehicle marketing and sales platform allows vehicles to be marketed and sold through a dynamic user interface before its date of availability and/or before auction using a dynamic price listing generation system. The used vehicle marketing and sales platform also matches used vehicle dealers to complete transactions through a dealer matching system in order to provide a physical location for delivery of a used vehicle and to provide fulfillment of the transaction.
US10127588B2
Techniques for providing customer assistance with real-time feedback are presented herein. A request for customer assistance is generated by a customer using an application executing on a handheld mobile smart device. The request is transmitted to an employee using another handheld mobile smart device. The request is accepted by the employee and a response is transmitted back to the customer. The response includes the employee's expected arrival time at the customer's location and a floor plan map that depicts the progress of the employee as the employee travels to the customer's location.
US10127586B2
Aspects relate to methods, systems, and processes related to providing purchasing recommendations to a consumer including tracking and recording, by a processor, perishable product input related to a perishable product, tracking and recording consumption information related to the perishable product and the consumer, tracking and recording waste information related to the perishable product and the consumer, and providing a purchasing recommendation to the consumer based on the recorded perishable product input, the consumption information, and the waste information.
US10127585B1
A method and system that uses interactive wine lists and consumer driven advertising to increase search engine rankings for restaurants and wines through social media websites. A user may automatically display an interactive wine list having a graphical interface or “skin” that is unique to a restaurant through a single mobile application by entering the restaurant information or by using geolocation to determine the restaurant at which the electronic device is located. A unique badge system promotes wines on the interactive wine list to increases wine sales from vendors. In addition, tracking allows all user actions and information entered into the interactive wine list to be used for marketing data and for bounce back marketing.
US10127574B2
An internet marketing analytics system to quantify visitor website activity, the system including a database having a plurality of parameters having any portion of the following; site visits, total revenue, bounce rate, conversion rate, orders, average order value, value per visit, pages per visit, new visits, units, cart additions, cart removals, internal search, click through rate, revenue per visit, open rate, email list, impressions, visit duration, percent new visitors, percent return visitors, post volume, net promoter score, social referring traffic, total cost, search term, exit rate, page views, and product type, plus non website related visitor internet activity. The system producing a multi-variate visual spatial display of the database including at least three parameters being simultaneously displayed and modifying the display to selectively emphasize a parameter to be displayed as an X, Y, or Z axis for clarity, for modifying a component of the database to optimize website efficiency.
US10127573B2
An online system predicts, using a first targeting model, a first group of users as candidates to be in a targeting cluster, and predicts, using a second targeting model, a second group of users as candidates to be in the targeting cluster. The online system determines a first set of users that are not part of the first group of users, and a second set of users that are not part of the second group of users, and provides surveys to the first and second set of users. The online system determines a first subgroup of the first group of users and a second subgroup of the second group of users, and provides an ad preferences tool to the first subgroup and the second subgroup. The online system scores the first and second targeting models based in part on responses to the surveys and/or the ad preferences tools.
US10127570B1
Methods and systems for analyzing vehicle operation data associated with a temporary or periodic usage of a vehicle by a driver. In aspects, the driver may associate with an electronic device within the vehicle that may record or collect the vehicle operation data. After the vehicle operation has concluded, the vehicle operation data may be analyzed to assess a performance of the driver during operation of the vehicle, whereby the performance may be influenced by positive or negative driving events. Based on the performance of the driver, a profile or account of the user may be processed accordingly such that the user may be incentivized to modify certain driving behaviors.
US10127568B2
Systems and methods improve the forecast of electricity consumption, and/or refining such predictions. Predictions may be refined by accounting for factors such as preliminary predictions, pricing and cost information associated with future supply of energy, the extent of anticipated changes in the predictions, the time of day and/or anticipated daylight for the period of time. Coefficient values are calculated for a forecast error model that takes into account factors related to electricity consumption using existing historical electrical grid data. Using the calculated values, the forecast error model may be applied to current electricity demand forecasts.
US10127562B2
Any of various comparisons of computer folders from different points in time is performed. Such comparisons provide the ability to discover missing documents or documents with modification dates that have changed when there would otherwise have been no need to change them and thus allows discovery of missing documents to discover fraud or to search for evidence after a fraud is suspected. In another embodiment, deltas in accounting system vendor invoice accounts are compared at different points in time, potentially exposing the practice of moving fraudulent vendor transactions into a large group of legitimate transactions for a legitimate vendor. Per period transaction totals for specific periods for legitimate vendors are compared over historical time for suspicious activity. A comparison of reports from the two different periods, using exact data and software from those separate periods (instead of reporting from “current” data), may raise a red flag otherwise missed.
US10127560B2
Methods and systems are provided for responding to customer posts on a plurality of social media channels from a customer service portal of a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system of an organization. A retrieval system can retrieve, based on one or more rules specified by a rules engine, data from a first customer post on a first social media channel. The first customer post is identified using one or more rules that finds customer posts that warrant a customer service response from the organization. Based on the data from the first customer post, a parser of the CRM system creates a first case that can be displayed at the customer service portal, which automatically pre-populates a first response to the first customer post in compliance with protocols associated with the first social media channel that allow the first response to be communicated via the first social media channel.
US10127544B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and devices that provide a transactional payment system. In particular, the transactional payment system allows users of a messaging system to send and receive electronic payments to and from other users of the messaging system. A messaging application on a client device can receive payment information input (such as a payment amount and payment method) from a sender for making a payment to a recipient. The messaging application can send a payment message including the payment information to a messaging system, and the messaging system coordinates a payment process based on the payment information. During the payment process, the messaging system can provide status updates to the sender and receiver of the payment via status messages that are included in a message thread corresponding to the sender and the recipient.
US10127539B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for tokenization and token selection associated with wearable device transactions. The system is configured to receive an indication that a user is in possession of the wearable device; authenticate the wearable device; receive an indication from the user to execute a transaction; determine that the user continues to remain in possession of the wearable device; and complete execution of the transaction; initiate execution of the transaction using the first token received from the user; determine a second token based on at least the transaction information and the one or more limits associated with the second token; swapping the first token with the second token; and execute the transaction using one or more financial institution accounts of the user associated with the second token.
US10127530B1
Systems and methods are presented to intelligently and seamlessly provide services to a mobile subscriber on a network based on the subscriber's usage of that or other services. A provisioning mechanism is presented that is able to correlate subscriber profiles with a plurality of Service Level Agreements (SLA) in order to intelligently determine optimal service levels. A logic unit on a network distinguishes usage patterns for a subscriber of a service, correlates the usage patterns with an SLA related to the service, and optimizes the service by modifying the SLA to reflect the usage patterns of the subscriber. Usage patterns for multiple subscribers can be correlated and stored in a segment profile. The segment profile sheds further light on what quality, level, and type of service the subscriber will find relevant. This helps maintain efficient network usage while increasing subscriber satisfaction with their level of service.
US10127522B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for classifying users. In accordance with one embodiment, a plurality of messages posted by a user via a microblogging service may be obtained. A set of feature values associated with the user may be obtained, each of the set of feature values corresponding to a different one of a set of one or more features. One or more of the set of feature values may be obtained based, at least in part, on content of the plurality of messages posted by the user, messaging behavior of the user via the microblogging service, and/or social connections of the user established via the microblogging service. The user may be classified based upon the set of feature values associated with the user.
