US10178816B2
A copper foil composite comprising a copper foil and a resin layer laminated, the copper foil containing at least one selected from the group consisting of Sn, Mn, Cr, Zn, Zr, Mg, Ni, Si and Ag at a total of 30 to 500 mass ppm, a tensile strength of the copper foil having of 100 to 180 MPa, a degree of aggregation I200/I0200 of a (100) plane of the copper foil being 30 or more, and an average grain size viewed from a plate surface of the copper foil being 10 to 400 μm.
US10178801B2
A cabinet liquid cooling system is configured to dissipate heat of a cabinet. A flow allocation unit is installed on a single side of the cabinet, is located in space between a side wall of the cabinet and a mounting bar of the cabinet, and is provided with a liquid inlet and a liquid outlet. A liquid cooling system (LCS) control unit is installed at the bottom of the cabinet and cyclically supplies liquid to the flow allocation unit using the liquid inlet and the liquid outlet. A liquid supply branch includes a liquid delivery pipe and a liquid return pipe. A node pipe includes a liquid inlet pipe and a liquid outlet pipe. Both the liquid inlet pipe and the liquid outlet pipe are connected to the corresponding liquid delivery pipe and liquid return pipe using the quick male connector and the quick female connector.
US10178792B2
A command and control system and related methods are provided including an integrated shipping case/equipment mounting structure, a multi-application information fusion work station, a communication system, an expandable display array, a location determining system, and a data center section with data servers and network hub capability. Embodiments of the system includes design configurations enabling operation with reduced or passive environmental and temperature control capabilities including a compact cooling system usable with a compact layout and close proximity components that provide needed low power consumption cooling capability. Embodiments provide a portable, compact, rapid employable, reduced power consumption and lightweight information command and control capability operable in austere environments.
US10178791B1
A latch apparatus may include an L-shaped latch coupled to a frame such that a proximal end of the L-shaped latch secures a computing component to a printed circuit board. The latch apparatus may also include a pivot point coupled to a bend of the L-shaped latch to facilitate a rotation of the L-shaped latch around the pivot point within the frame. In addition, the latch apparatus may include a spring coupled to the frame to exert a force on the rotation of the L-shaped latch toward a locked position. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US10178790B2
A terminal block for an electronic device, which block can be attached to an electronics housing of the electronic device, includes at least one base strip comprising a plurality of connector sockets; and a plurality of connector modules that can be attached to the connector sockets of the at least one base strip in at least one insertion direction, are held on the connector sockets in an inserted position, and can be released from the connector sockets to be removed from the at least one base strip; and a locking device. The locking device includes: an actuating part that can be moved relative to the at least one base strip in an actuation direction; and a plurality of locking elements that are engaged in a locking manner in mating elements of the connector modules in a locked position.
US10178782B2
An electronics module includes a housing, a connector, and a baseplate. The housing and connector are attached to each other and mounted to the baseplate. The housing includes a protrusion that is received between an inner flange and an outer flange of the connector. The housing and connector combine to define a sealing plane that extends to co-planar bottom surfaces of the housing and connector. The housing and connector, when assembled, define a water intrusion path between an outer protrusion of the housing and the outer flange of the connector. The water intrusion path includes a plurality of chicanes that reduces the pressure of water that enters the path. The bottom surface of the housing defines a recessed channel to receive water.
US10178777B2
Methods are disclosed which discourage formation of destructive corrosion on or about circuit traces of printed circuit boards, and/or mitigate electronic circuit degradation and or destruction through corrosion of the circuit traces, whereby said corrosion produces changing characteristics of the circuit, and/or shorting to other adjacent circuit traces. Aspects and embodiments of the present disclosure include or provide for forming at least a portion of a circuit trace or traces with fractal and/or self-complementary geometries, or self complementary geometry alone.
US10178776B2
A method for wiring differential signal lines and a PCB are disclosed. The wiring method includes: providing a rectangle-shaped glass fiber fabric formed of glass fibers which are woven and interlaced with each other and an adhesive filled therebetween; determining a wiring direction and obtaining a glass fiber bundle number of the glass fiber fabric in the wiring direction; equally dividing the glass fiber fabric into glass fiber units, and obtaining a width of each glass fiber unit according to a size of the glass fiber fabric in a direction perpendicular to the wiring direction and the number of the glass fiber units; determining a line distance and line widths of the differential signal lines; and according to the line distance and the line widths, forming the differential signal lines on a metal layer along the wiring direction to make the differential signal lines meet predetermined requirements.
US10178773B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing a metal printed circuit board, the method including: printing a circuit pattern on a release film; applying a heat conductive insulating layer on the circuit pattern; laminating a heat conductive base layer on the heat conductive insulating layer and hot pressing the laminated heat conductive base layer and the heat conductive insulating layer; and removing the release film therefrom.
US10178771B2
The embodiments of present invention disclose a circuit board and a manufacturing method thereof and a display apparatus comprising the circuit board. The circuit board comprises a base substrate, a device to be soldered, a bonding pad and a support, wherein the bonding pad and the support are provided on the base substrate, and the device to be soldered is provided on the support and is connected with the bonding pad. By providing the device to be soldered on the support, the embodiments of present invention can effectively prevent the short circuit of the device to be soldered during the process of soldering and thus improve product yield.
US10178768B2
A mounting substrate includes a substrate, a connection electrode, which is formed on a front surface of the substrate and on which an electronic component is mounted via a conductive bonding material, a resist film, formed on the front surface of the substrate so as to cover a peripheral edge portion of the connection electrode, and a receiving portion, formed in the resist film so as to expose a portion of the peripheral edge portion of the connection electrode and arranged to receive an excess portion of the conductive bonding material.
US10178764B2
A Printed Circuit Board (PCB) includes a via extending through at least one layer of the PCB. The PCB may also include a first catch pad connected to the via and located within a first metal layer of the PCB. The first catch pad may have a first size. The PCB may further include a second catch pad connected to the via and located within a second metal layer of the PCB. The second catch pad may have a second size greater than the first size. The second catch pad may overlap horizontally with a portion of a metallic feature in the first metal layer to obstruct light incident on a first side of the PCB from transmission to a second side of the PCB through a region of dielectric material near the via.
US10178761B2
A multiple-layer circuit board has a signaling layer, an exterior layer, and a ground layer. A pair of differential signal lines implemented as strip lines are within the signaling layer, and propagate electromagnetic interference (EMI) along the signaling layer. An element conductively extends inwards from the exterior layer, and as an antenna radiates the EMI propagated by the strip lines along the signaling layer outwards from the circuit board. A defected ground structure within the ground layer has a size, shape, and a location in relation to the element to suppress the EMI propagated by the strip lines to minimize the EMI that the element radiates outwards as the antenna.
US10178760B1
A flexible cable may include: a flexible substrate having a first surface and a second surface that are on opposite sides of the flexible substrate; a first conductive line formed on the first surface of the flexible substrate, and structured to transmit a signal having a first frequency; a second conductive line formed on the first surface of the flexible substrate, and structured to transmit a signal having a second frequency lower than the first frequency; and a ground line formed on the second surface of the flexible substrate, and comprising a first region overlapping the first conductive line and a second region overlapping the second conductive line. The first and second regions may have different shapes.
US10178759B2
Disclosed herein is a board apparatus including a printed circuit board, including a first ground wiring disposed on one surface of the printed circuit board; a second ground wiring disposed on the other surface of the printed circuit board; and a switch module disposed in an overlapped region between the first ground wiring and the second ground wiring, and including a bolt which penetrates through the printed circuit board and a nut which is in contact with the second ground wiring and is coupled to a screw of the bolt.
US10178752B2
Disclosed is a method for measuring an external parameter by atomic interferometry, using two sets of atoms that belong to different species. Two measurements are taken simultaneously at the same location, but independently from one another, in order to obtain two measurement results. One of these measurement results removes an indeterminacy among several possible values of the external parameter, by taking into account only the other measurement result. A method of this kind can be used to measure a coordinate of a gravitational field or a coordinate of an acceleration of the atoms.
US10178743B2
A portable lamp, such as a headlamp, comprising wireless bidirectional communication means for exchanging configuration instructions, parameters and/or data with at least one mobile information processing system. This mobile processing system establishes a downlink for the transmission of said configuration instructions, parameters and/or data to the lamp. The lamp can establish an uplink for the transmission of configuration instructions, parameters and/or data from the lamp to said mobile information processing system.
US10178740B2
A system comprising: one or more road-side illumination sources arranged to emit illumination to illuminate at least part of a road; one or more detectors arranged to detect a value of one or more parameters of a vehicle travelling on this road or this part of the road, the one or more parameters comprising a type of the vehicle and/or an identity of one or more users of the vehicle; and a controller arranged to control the illumination emitted by the one or more illumination sources, wherein the controller is configured to adapt the illumination in dependence on the detected value or values of the one or more detected parameters.
US10178737B2
An apparatuses, methods and systems for a desktop occupancy sensing device are disclosed. One desktop apparatus includes an occupancy sensor, a mobile device charging interface, a controller, and a structure. The occupancy sensor operates to sense occupancy proximate to the desktop apparatus. The controller operates to determine occupancy of a desktop based on the sensed occupation, and the controller operates to communicate the determined occupancy to an upstream network. The occupancy sensor, the mobile device charging interface, and an interface to the upstream network are disposed within the structure as a single unit, and the structure is adapted to be placed on or affixed to the desktop.
US10178736B2
A light emitting apparatus includes: a semiconductor layer including a light emitting region that generates modulation light modulated with a first signal, and a feedback region that is configured so that a feedback mode to feed back a part of light generated in the light emitting region to the light emitting region and a monitor mode to monitor a light amount of the light generated in the light emitting region are switchable; and a controller, wherein when the modulation light is generated in the light emitting region, the controller sets the feedback region to the feedback mode, and the controller switches the feedback region to the monitor mode during at least a part of a period in which there is no first signal.
US10178731B2
Systems and methods of driving a light source, such as a light emitting diode (LED), while minimizing power consumption. Different techniques can be implemented in circuits that eliminate the traditional need for a sense resistor. By eliminating the sense resistor, a LED driving circuit's efficiency can be improved by up to and exceeding 30%. A pulse-width modulator can be used to control current flow in a buck, boost, or buck-boost circuits. Many of the configurations discussed eliminate the need for a sense resistor, which needlessly dissipates power. Others use a sense resistor minimally compared to traditional LED driving circuits.
US10178728B2
Provided is a direct current negative dimming circuit, comprising a first electrical switch, a second electrical switch and first to third resistors, a control end of the first electrical switch is connected to a dimming signal output end of a main chip to receive the first dimming signal, and a first end of the first electrical switch is connected to a voltage end to receive a first high voltage level signal, and a second end is connected to a control end of the second electrical switch, and a first end of the second electrical switch is connected to a dimming signal receiving end of a backlight module to output the second dimming signal, and a second end receives a second high voltage level signal, and a voltage level of the first dimming signal is opposite to a voltage level of the second dimming signal.
US10178727B2
A control circuit includes an input terminal for receiving an input signal, which maybe either a digital input signal or an analog input signal, and the control circuit is configured to provide a digital control signal in response to the input signal. The control circuit may include a mode detection circuit for determining whether the input signal is a digital signal or an analog signal and providing a mode signal, a multiplexer circuit configured to select either a digital reference signal or an analog reference signal in response to the mode signal, and a comparator configured for comparing the input signal with the reference signal selected by the multiplexer to provide the PWM control signal.
US10178725B2
Provided is an ultra-high efficiency LED lamp driving device comprising: a plurality of shift switches connected to tabs between LED lamps; and an LED shift control unit for driving the shift switches so that lighting of the LED lamps is shifted to an end terminal when a total operation threshold voltage value of the LED lamp is equal to or greater than a maximum value of an input voltage, and thus, an unlighted LED lamp exists. The present invention can make the power loss be zero to thereby increase the efficiency.
US10178722B2
A lighting device (1) and an operating method for the lighting device (1), which comprises at least one base chip (21) and a plurality of cover emitter regions (22). The base chip or chips (21) and the cover emitter regions (22) are realized by light-emitting diode chips and are electrically controlled independently of one another. Main emission directions (M) of these light-emitting diode chips are oriented parallel to one another. The cover emitter regions (22) are partially overlapping with the at least one base chip (21), so that an overlap region (3, B) is formed and the at least one base chip (21) radiates through the cover emitter regions (22) during operation. The cover emitter regions (22) are arranged in a common plane perpendicular to the main emission directions (M).
US10178720B1
An LED driver is configured to minimize power consumption during standby operating modes. The LED driver includes power factor correction (PFC) and isolated DC-DC conversion stages, driven by respective first and second regulators. An auxiliary sensor detects environmental conditions for a controller which generates standby or normal operating mode signals based thereon. A low standby isolated power supply circuit receives operating mode signals and is configured: responsive to normal operating mode signals to enable the voltage regulators; responsive to standby mode signals to disable the voltage regulators, and in both modes to supply power to the controller and auxiliary sensor. Accordingly, the controller and auxiliary sensor are continuously enabled whereas the PFC and DC-DC stages of the LED driver are disabled during standby modes. Additional circuitry may selectively disconnect voltage sensing resistance networks from the LED driver for further reductions in power consumption during standby mode.
US10178718B2
The present invention discloses a system and method for active power factor correction and current regulation in led circuit. The system (100) used in the LED driver circuit performs active PFC and current regulation through the dynamic input current wave shaping by limiting peak currents. The dynamic wave 5 shaping scheme is realized through hardware and firmware and is used to strike an optimal balance between current accuracy, Power factor, THD and peak inductor currents. The system (100) is versatile enough to improve PF and current accuracy in LED circuits and indimmers circuits.
US10178707B2
A communications system and method of operation thereof. The communications system includes a communication network, a plurality of subscriber units and accessories, and a communications server. Each of the plurality of accessories are associated with and linked to one of the of subscriber units by a wireless connection. The communications server communicates with the plurality of subscriber units via the communication network, and is configured to obtain and maintain a plurality of data on each of the plurality of subscriber units, and generate a backup list identifying secondary subscriber units to which each of the plurality of accessories can link. Upon detecting a condition where communication drops below a desired level of service, the communication server is configured to identify a secondary subscriber unit from the first accessory's backup list and instruct the secondary subscriber unit to link with the first accessory.
US10178702B2
A method for operating a first distributed unit (DU) includes participating in a link layer context transfer with a second DU, establishing a user data path for a mobile device, the user data path connecting the mobile device with a centralized unit (CU) including a radio control protocol entity communicating with the mobile device, and storing first user data for the mobile device received from the CU and second user data for the mobile device received from the second DU. The method includes establishing a connection with the mobile device, sending the first user data and the second user data to the mobile device, and adapting the link layer context to operate in the first DU for exchanging data between the CU and the mobile device, wherein adapting the link layer context includes associating an uppermost protocol layer of the first DU with a lowest protocol layer of the CU.
US10178698B2
A method for dynamically dividing or consolidating sub-bands in-between Clear Channel Assessment (CCA) status measurements upon detection of a CCA bandwidth adjustment condition is provided. The method includes determining at least a single CCA status for at least a single sub-band during a first period, and detecting a CCA bandwidth adjustment condition for dividing the single sub-band into two or more separate sub-bands, where a combination of the two or more separate sub-bands occupies the same frequency band as the single sub-band. The method also includes determining a separate CCA status for each of the two or more separate sub-bands during a second period. An apparatus for performing this method is also provided.
US10178691B2
Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for requesting scheduling in a wireless communication system. More specifically, a method of requesting scheduling for transmitting uplink data in a wireless communication system may include transmitting, by user equipment (UE), a Scheduling Request (SR) of an SR type selected from multiple SR types to an eNB, receiving, by the UE, an uplink grant determined according to the selected SR type from the eNB, and transmitting, by the UE, uplink data to the eNB through a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource allocated by the uplink grant.
US10178688B2
A method and apparatus for scheduling short uplink transmissions on a mobile communication device. Embodiments of the invention include a method of scheduling an uplink transmission on a mobile communication device. In one exemplary embodiment, the method includes establishing a predetermined uplink delay time, and generating an uplink message. The method further includes determining that an audio event is occurring on the mobile communication device, and monitoring an audio amplitude of the audio event. The method further includes transmitting the uplink message when the first of either a pause in the audio event is detected or when the predetermined uplink delay time has elapsed.
US10178684B2
The present disclosure relates to a technology for a sensor network, a machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, machine type communication (MTC), and the Internet of things (IoT). The present disclosure can be utilized for the intelligent service (a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or a connected car, healthcare, digital education, a retail business, a security and safety-related service or the like) on the basis of the technology. Embodiments of the present invention provide a device and a method for minimizing an overhead of a mobile communication network in a machine type communication (MTC) system and minimizing power consumption in devices for MTC. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a base station device of a mobile communication network for M2M communication comprises: a transceiver for transmitting and receiving a signal to/from a leader device among a plurality of devices for M2M communication; and a control unit for transmitting, to the reader device, a downlink control signal through the transceiver in at least one predetermined interval within a scheduling interval and receiving, from the reader device, an uplink signal through the transceiver at a specific time point determined from the predetermined interval within the scheduling interval.
US10178682B2
The invention relates to methods for improving a scheduling request transmission between a UE and a base station. The transmission of the scheduling request is postponed, by implementing a threshold that the data in the transmission buffer has to reach, before a transmission of the scheduling request is triggered. In one variant, the data in the transmission buffer needs to reach a specific amount, to trigger a scheduling request. The invention refers to further improvements: the PDDCH monitoring time window is delayed after sending a scheduling request; the dedicated scheduling request resources of the PUCCH are prioritized differently such that low-priority scheduling requests are transmitted less often.
US10178681B2
A method includes receiving information identifying one or more power constraint violations in a hierarchy of computing devices. The hierarchy has multiple levels, and the computing devices are grouped into different collections in one or more levels of the hierarchy. The one or more power constraint violations are associated with at least one of the levels. The method also includes classifying each power constraint violation by identifying, for each power constraint violation, one or more of the computing devices that potentially contribute to that power constraint violation. In addition, the method includes resolving the one or more power constraint violations by throttling power consumption of at least one of the one or more computing devices identified as potentially contributing to the one or more power constraint violations.
US10178678B2
Techniques for congestion management in a communication network are contemplated. For example, a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) may include a Radio Resource Control (RRC) layer and a Non-Access Stratum (NAS) layer. The RRC layer may receive an indication for a service, for example from the NAS. The indication may be interpreted as a request for the particular service indicated. For example, the indicated service may correspond to at least one of: a mobile originated (MO) voice communication, a circuit switched fallback (CSFB) supplementary service (SS), or a MO short message service (SMS). The RRC layer may receive a signal from a network indicating that one or more services provided by the network are allowed. The RRC layer may send a connection request to the network for the service sought by the NAS if that service is one of the one or more services allowed.
US10178672B2
A base station allocates at least one control channel element (CCE) to a first control channel earlier than allocating to the rest control channels other than the first control channel among a plurality of control channels corresponding to a first beam, when CCEs are allocated to the plurality of control channels corresponding to the first beam. Further, the base station allocates at least one CCE to the first control channel earlier than allocating to the rest control channels other than the first control channel among a plurality of control channels corresponding to a second beam, when CCEs are allocated to the plurality of control channels corresponding to the second beam.
US10178637B2
In dual connectivity or inter-base station carrier aggregation, synchronization between base stations is achieved while preventing processing load from increasing in user equipment. A method of acquiring broadcast information when configuring or performing inter-base station carrier aggregation in a mobile communication system including a first base station, a second base station, and a mobile device connected to the first base station, includes the steps of, at the first base station, creating first broadcast information about the second base station, except for information as to synchronization between base stations and supplying the first broadcast information to the mobile device on a dedicated radio resource control signal; and at the mobile device, after receiving the dedicated radio resource control signal, receiving the information as to synchronization between base stations over a physical broadcast channel of a first cell of the second base station based upon the first broadcast information.
US10178636B2
An embodiment includes a method. The method includes determining, by a first node device in a network, a first master clock according to a first clock data set of the first node device and a first clock data set of another node device in the network, and synchronizing to the first master clock, where the first clock data set includes a first clock domain selection parameter of a node device. The method also includes determining, by the first node device, a second master clock according to a second clock data set of the first node device and a second clock data set of another node device that belongs to a same first node clock domain as the first node device does, and synchronizing to the second master clock, where the second clock data set includes a second clock domain selection parameter of a node device.
US10178634B2
Methods, computer readable media, and wireless apparatuses are disclosed for a TXOP duration field. An apparatus is disclosed comprising processing circuitry configured to: encode a first high efficiency (HE) physical-layer convergence procedure (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) comprising a transmission opportunity (TXOP) duration field in a first physical-layer portion of the first HE PPDU. The processing circuitry may be further configured to set the TXOP duration field value to indicate a largest duration value representable by the TXOP duration field that is equal to or less than a duration value indicated by the first MAC duration field, if the first HE PPDU is to include a first media access control (MAC) duration field in a first MAC-layer portion of the first HE PPDU.
US10178632B2
The present disclosure relates various embodiments for improving power headroom reporting for UEs being in an enhanced coverage mode. The UE may be configured to always transmit a virtual power headroom report to the eNB, when operating in the enhanced coverage mode. Or, the UE may be configured to always transmit a virtual power headroom report to the eNB, when operating in the enhanced coverage mode and at the same time being power limited. Moreover, the UE may determine a repetition level for transmissions in the uplink and/or may determine a repetition level for transmissions in the downlink. The power headroom report can then be used to transport this information (either one of, or both of, the uplink/downlink repetition levels), by using predefined codepoints in the power headroom report.
US10178630B2
Provided is a terminal apparatus in which, a transmission control unit (204) controls the transmission power of a sounding reference signal (SRS) by use of an offset value relative to the transmission power of a data signal, and a transmission unit (206) transmits the SRS by use of the transmission power as controlled. If a subframe to be used for transmitting the SRS is a predetermined subframe, the transmission control unit (204) uses a first offset value to control the transmission power of the SRS. Otherwise, the transmission control unit (204) uses a second offset value to control the transmission power of the SRS. The second offset value is an offset value that has been established so as to be transmitted to the serving cell of the terminal (200), and the first offset value is greater than the second offset value.
US10178627B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for using a monitoring application to measure channel state information during idle cycles in a mission-critical application. A first wireless communication device determines whether there is a mission-critical data packet to be transmitted to a second wireless communication device. If not, the first wireless communication device determines whether a monitoring packet should be transmitted to the second wireless communication device. If the first wireless communication device determines a monitoring packet should be sent, the first wireless communication devices transmits a monitoring packet containing an identifier and a reference signal to the second wireless communication device.
US10178619B1
Methods and apparatus relating to advanced graphics Power State management are described. In one embodiment, measurement logic detects information about idle transitions and active transitions of a power-well of a processor. In turn, determination logic determines performance loss and/or energy gain based at least in part on the detected information and power-on latency of the power-well of the processor. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US10178617B2
A method of performing a hail communication attempt includes checking capacitor voltage of a capacitor in a battery pack powering a hailing device to determine whether the capacitor voltage equals or exceeds a threshold voltage, and responsive to determining that the capacitor voltage equals or exceeds the threshold voltage, transmitting a hail (ping) message to a target device, determining whether the hailing device has received a responsive pong message from the target device, and responsive to determining that the hailing device has received a responsive pong message, terminating the hail communication attempt in preparation for sending data to the target device. Hail communication attempts are limited according to a predetermined number of consecutive groups of consecutive hail messages, with the capacitor voltage check occurring before the sending of each group. The method is compatible with target devices having different sniffing intervals, so long as those sniffing intervals have predefined relationships.
US10178616B2
The present invention relates to methods, apparatuses and a computer program product for an enhanced discovery channel for interworking between a cellular wide-area communication system and a wireless local-area communication system. The present invention includes inserting, in a discovery channel, information indicating an interworking capability of a small cell base station between a cellular wide-area communication system and a wireless local-area communication system, and transmitting, by the base station, the discovery channel including the information to a user equipment located in the small cell.
US10178613B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a wireless access method and a related device and system, where the method includes: reading, by a terminal device, access point information stored in an external near field communication tag; and acquiring, by the terminal device, one piece of target access point information according to the read access point information, and establishing, according to the target access point information, a wireless connection to an access point to which the target access point information belongs.
US10178611B2
A method for performing a data session via a Wi-Fi access of a user equipment (UE) in a cellular network is provided. The method includes maintaining a look-up table including at least an entry, the entry including a Wi-Fi identifier of a Wi-Fi access point (AP) and location information of the Wi-Fi AP, determining whether a user preference for a Wi-Fi connection is set to ON or OFF, checking whether at least one matched entry of the look-up table is found based on current location information of the UE, scanning to discover the Wi-Fi AP, connecting to a Wi-Fi AP corresponding to the matched entry based on a result of the determining, and performing a data session via a Wi-Fi access to the connected Wi-Fi AP.
US10178609B2
A system and method is provided for operating a user equipment (“UE”) connected to a first wireless local access network (“WLAN”) access point (“AP”). In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a first policy from a radio access network (“RAN”) defining when to report a first difference between values for a first communication characteristic for communication with the first WLAN AP and a second WLAN AP, respectively, and searching for the second WLAN AP. The method also includes determining values for the first communication characteristic for communication with the first WLAN AP and the second WLAN AP, respectively, and reporting the first difference between values for the first communication characteristic for the first WLAN AP and the second WLAN AP to the RAN when the first difference crosses a first threshold in accordance with the first policy.
US10178605B2
Embodiments of an eNB and method of transmitting PDCCHs are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the eNB may be configured to transmit PDCCHs that are based on a UE-specific reference signal (i.e., a UE-RS). In these embodiments, the UEs may be able to demodulate their PDCCH using a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) that is specific to the UE (e.g., instead of a common reference signal). The PDCCHs disclosed herein may be suitable the Uu interface of an LTE-A system.
US10178601B2
Communication network architectures, systems and methods for supporting a network of mobile nodes. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide communication network architectures, systems, and methods for supporting a dynamically configurable communication network comprising a complex array of both static and moving communication nodes (e.g., the Internet of moving things). More specifically, systems and methods for managing the routing and replication of data in the upload direction in a network of moving things.
US10178600B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for a call routing application. Routes are evaluated according to selection scores of call routes. The selection scores are calculated based on weighted call quality data corresponding to past calls on the call routes. A call route is selected according to an evaluation including call costs or other criteria. A call is then routed via the selected call route to the call endpoint.
US10178596B2
A method at a user equipment for handover from a serving cell to a target cell, the method sending a measurement report to the serving cell; and transmitting a reconfiguration complete message to the target cell; wherein the measurement report includes downlink timing measurements for the target cell. Further, a method at a source network element for handover of a user equipment from the source network element to a target network element, the method receiving a measurement report from the user equipment; sending a handover request to the target network element; receiving a handover request acknowledgement from the target network element, the handover request acknowledgement including a reconfiguration message and at least one downlink subframe in which an uplink grant is expected at the target network element for the user equipment; and forwarding the reconfiguration message and at least one downlink subframe to the user equipment.
US10178593B2
A computer device may include a memory configured to store instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to determine a service requirement for a client device connected to a WiFi access point in a customer premises network that includes a plurality of WiFi access points. The processor may be further configured to monitor a service requirement parameter, associated with the determined service requirement, for the client device; detect that the service requirement parameter is within a threshold of the determined service requirement; and perform a self-organizing network (SON) action on the customer premises network, in response to detecting that the service requirement parameter is within the threshold of the determined service requirement.
US10178588B2
A method performed by a first wireless device for handling a device-to-device (D2D) communication with a second wireless device during handover of the first wireless device from a source network node to a target network node in a wireless telecommunications network is provided. The first wireless device interrupts the D2D communication. Then, the first wireless device determines a first uplink timing difference as the difference between the uplink timing to the source network node and the uplink timing to the target network node. Further, the first wireless device reconfigures the D2D communication based on the first uplink timing difference. Then, the first wireless device restarts the D2D communication as reconfigured. A first wireless device is also provided, along with a target network node, a source network node and methods therein for handling a D2D communication.
US10178580B2
A system for optimizing the use of network bandwidth by a mobile device including a mobile application client, which resides on the mobile device, and is connected to a cloud server, wherein the system analyzes user content consumption, provides a prefetching schedule to the mobile device, and the mobile device prefetches content partially in accordance with the schedule. A method of optimizing the use of network bandwidth using the system is also provided.
US10178578B1
Systems and methods of optimizing a distributed Wi-Fi network considering thermal management of a plurality of access points in the distributed Wi-Fi network include periodically obtaining temperature measurements from the plurality of access points; performing an optimization to configure the distributed Wi-Fi network with the temperature measurements as thermal inputs used in the optimization, wherein the optimization determines configuration parameters including one or more of a topology of the distributed Wi-Fi network, band and channel of each hop in the topology, and which clients associate with which access point on which band, based in part on the temperature measurements and thermal constraints; and providing the configuration parameters to the distributed Wi-Fi network for implementation thereof.
US10178574B2
A method for reporting a channel state in a wireless communication system is performed by a terminal and comprises the steps of: receiving a configuration with respect to a zero-power transfer resource for a channel state measurement, wherein the zero-power transmission resource corresponds to a portion of a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) resource element (RE) of a serving base station or a CRS RE of a main interference base station; determining whether the zero-power transfer resource is set in a subframe to which a reference resource for the channel state measurement belongs; if the zero-power transfer resource is set in the subframe to which the reference resource belongs, calculating a value of a first-type or second-type channel state in the zero-power transfer resource; and reporting the calculated value of the first-type or second-type channel state to the serving base station, wherein the value of the first-type or second-type channel state can be a value from which the influence of an interference signal from the main interference base station has been removed.
US10178572B2
A communication system that includes at least a terminal apparatus and a base station apparatus. The terminal apparatus communicates with a base station apparatus by carrier aggregation using a plurality of serving cells, wherein each serving cell of the plurality of serving cells has a different frequency. The terminal apparatus receives (from the base station apparatus) a measurement configuration which includes a reporting configuration, a measurement object to indicate a measurement frequency and a measurement identity which links the measurement object to the reporting configuration. The terminal apparatus, in a case that an entry condition of the event corresponding with an event identity of the reporting configuration is fulfilled, transmits (to the base station apparatus) a measurement report which includes measurement results of all of the serving cells.
US10178568B2
A method and apparatus for performing measurements in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving an indication on measurements based on a discovery signal from a network, and performing measurements only in discovery signal occasions. In another aspect, a user equipment (UE) includes a memory, a transceiver, and a processor coupled to the memory and the transceiver, and configured to control the transceiver to receive an indication on measurements based on the discovery signal from the network, and perform measurements only in discovery signal occasions.
US10178563B2
A method and an apparatus for processing a fault in a multi-operator core network are disclosed. The method is applied to a first base station, where multiple operators share a network within coverage of the first base station, and the method includes: acquiring an identifier of a faulty operator, where the faulty operator is an operator whose network is faulty within coverage of the first base station; and notifying UE served by the first base station of the identifier of the faulty operator by using a specified message, so that the UE served by the first base station no longer accesses the network of the faulty operator within coverage of the first base station.
US10178560B2
Holographic beamforming antennas may be utilized for adaptive routing within communications networks, such as wireless backhaul networks. Holographic beamforming antennas may be further utilized for discovering and/or addressing nodes in a communication network with steerable, high-directivity beams. Holographic beamforming antennas may be further utilized for extending the range of communications nodes and providing bandwidth assistance to adjacent nodes via dynamic adjacent cell assist. In some approaches, MIMO is used in concert with holographic beamforming for additional channel capacity.
US10178556B2
A method, system and device for allocating resources of a base station node (Node B) are disclosed to enable F-DPCH resources of a local cell to be sufficiently used. In this invention, Node B reports to the RNC the F-DPCH capability of the local cell so as to provide a decision-making basis about using or not using the F-DPCH to the RNC. If the local cell supports F-DPCH, when the UE initiates an RRC connection establishment request, the RNC instructs the Node B to distribute the F-DPCH and HSDPA resources to the UE, otherwise the RNC instructs the Node B to distribute DPDCH and DPDCCH resources to the UE. The F-DPCH capability of the local cell can be reported in a newly added IE or extended existing IE of the Audit Response message and Resource Status Indication message.
US10178551B2
A communication apparatus includes a first notification unit, a second notification unit, a reception unit, and a sharing unit. The first notification unit provides first information containing information unique to the communication apparatus and information on a predetermined channel for use in sharing a communication parameter for wireless communication with a different communication apparatus. The second notification unit provides second information containing the information unique to the communication apparatus but not containing information on the predetermined channel. When the first information is provided, the reception unit waits to receive a predetermined signal containing information corresponding to the information unique to the communication apparatus without shifting to another channel. When the second information is provided, the reception unit waits to receive the predetermined signal using a plurality of channels. When the predetermined signal is provided, the sharing unit shares the communication parameter with the different communication apparatus.
US10178549B2
Systems and methods for providing authentication key agreement (AKA) with perfect forward secrecy (PFS) are disclosed. In one embodiment, a network according to the disclosure may receive an attach request from a UE, provide an authentication request including a network support indicator to a network resource, receive an authentication token from the network resource, such that the authentication token includes an indication that a network supports PFS, provide the authentication token to the UE, receive an authentication response including a UE public key value, obtain a network public key value and a network private key value, determine a shared key value based on the network private key value and the UE public key value, bind the shared key value with a session key value to create a bound shared key value, and use the bound shared key value to protect subsequent network traffic.
US10178541B2
A method for powering voice over long term evolution (VoLTE) in long term evolution networks. A VoLTE/VoWiFi is centrally enabled for any sized network without implementing an IMS core, but rendering almost the same user experience as standard VoLTE (except voice call continuity). A conventional 2G/3G CS roaming model is enabled for both signaling and media routing. A subscriber profile is cached at a carrier VoLTE platform to enable optimized call routing. A validation mechanism is provided in case IMS AKA authentication is not possible due to an operator not being able to provision authentication vectors via Cx, S6a or MAP interfaces. Terminating access domain selection is implemented whenever an MT call arrives, whereby a T-ADS application server is eliminated. Voice call continuity is implemented whenever a VoLTE customer in a call leaves LTE coverage in favor of 2G/3G coverage. A novel method to actuate call continuity is proposed using a call back and call merge method.
US10178524B2
The disclosure includes an apparatus comprising a diagnostic unit configured to communicate with a rules engine to determine whether a transmission detected in a vehicle is classified as unauthorized wireless device usage based on characteristics of RF signals received by a Detector Module collocated with the vehicle, geographic location data, and, optionally, additional secondary data, such determination being made by an external Rules Engine that is in communication with the Detector Module. The Rules Engine can provide instructions to and modify various threshold values used for preliminary RF signal analysis by the Detector Module.
US10178521B2
A base station may include logic configured to determine system throughput values for a plurality of modulation and coding schemes based on data throughput values and based on a number of user equipment (UE) devices serviced by the base station; determine a modulation and coding scheme, of the plurality of coding schemes, that is associated with a highest system throughput; and determine radio frequency (RF) conditions associated with the base station. The logic may further be configured to define a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) area based on the determined RF conditions and the selected modulation and coding scheme and provide an update to the UE devices serviced by the base station, wherein UE devices located within the defined MBMS area are sent the update using MBMS and UE devices located outside the defined MBMS area are sent the update using unicast.
US10178520B2
Call processing can include receiving a call directed to a first destination device associated with a called party, determining, using a processor, an attribute of the call, and determining a location of the called party. A call processing rule can be selected that matches the attribute of the call and the location of the called party. The call can be redirected to a second and different destination device according to the matched call processing rule.
US10178519B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable mediums for managing a subset of contacts on a telecommunications device are provided. In one embodiment, a software application executed by a processor of a telecommunications device identifies a subset of contacts selected at least in part by a user of the telecommunications device. The subset of contacts includes a portion of the user's contacts accessible by the telecommunications device. The software application causes display of a first portion of graphical identifiers associated with a first portion of the subset of contacts along a first path on a display of the telecommunications device about an axis positioned external to the display of the telecommunications device. The software application further causes display of a second portion of graphical identifiers associated with a second portion of the subset of contacts along a second path on the display of the telecommunications device about the external axis.
US10178504B2
A computer program product and a computer system for monitoring an operation status of a disconnected device by a mobile device and an audio analysis system in an infrastructure. The mobile device has connectivity to the infrastructure while the disconnected device has no connectivity to the infrastructure. The audio analysis system receives from the mobile device audio with information of a location of the mobile device. The audio analysis system determines whether the audio is recorded from the disconnected device based on the information of the location of the mobile device, compares the audio with pre-recorded sounds of the disconnected device, determines the operation status of the disconnected device, and sends to the mobile device a notification of the operation status of the disconnected device.
US10178491B2
The disclosure relates to an apparatus for manipulating an input audio signal associated to a spatial audio source within a spatial audio scenario, wherein the spatial audio source has a certain distance to a listener within the spatial audio scenario. The apparatus comprises an exciter adapted to manipulate the input audio signal to obtain an output audio signal, and a controller adapted to control parameters of the exciter for manipulating the input audio signal based on the certain distance.
US10178484B2
A bone conduction device configured to couple to an abutment of an anchor system anchored to a recipient's skull. The bone conduction device includes a vibrating electromagnetic actuator configured to vibrate in response to sound signals received by the bone conduction device, and a coupling apparatus configured to attach the bone conduction device to the abutment so as to impart to the recipient's skull vibrations generated by the vibrating electromagnetic actuator. The vibrating electromagnetic actuator includes a bobbin assembly and a counterweight assembly. Two axial air gaps are located between the bobbin assembly and the counterweight assembly and two radial air gaps are located between the bobbin assembly and the counterweight assembly. No substantial amount of the dynamic magnetic flux passes through the radial air gaps.
US10178481B2
A sound producing device comprising: a speaker unit and a housing, wherein the speaker unit comprises a vibration system which comprises a vibrating diaphragm and a voice coil; a front and rear acoustic cavities are formed between the vibrating diaphragm and the housing, respectively; the side surface of the housing is provided with a sound hole communicating with the front acoustic cavity; the vibrating diaphragm comprises a dome portion and a suspension ring portion; the side of the suspension ring portion connected to the dome portion is provided with a dome connecting portion, and the side of the suspension ring portion combined with the housing is provided with a housing bonding portion; and a height difference exists between the housing bonding portion and the dome connecting portion. The present invention increases the size of the sound hole and the speaker unit, thus improving the acoustic performance of a product.
US10178479B2
A speaker driver with a high degree of symmetry for use in a loudspeaker is disclosed. The disclosed motor assembly may be symmetrical about its long and radial axes. A voice coil disclosed may be supported by opposing upper and lower suspension members on the voice coil upper and lower ends. The upper and lower voice coil suspension members disclosed may be adhered to a frame above and below the motor assembly, respectively in a mirror like fashion being symmetrical about their long and radial axes. An open voice coil frame disclosed may use elongate structural members having a shape similar to the letter “j” (j-beams) defining large interconnected air gaps to promote cooling of the voice coil.
US10178473B2
Apparatus having corresponding methods comprise a microphone configured to produce audio; a mute control configured to select a microphone open selection or a microphone muted selection; a processor configured to identify the audio produced during the microphone open selection as primary audio, and to identify the audio produced during the microphone muted selection as secondary audio; and a transceiver configured to transmit the primary audio and the secondary audio.
US10178464B2
An earpiece comprising an earbud, which is arranged such that it may be inserted into the ear canal of a user, and a housing, which houses at least one microphone that is arranged to sample the ambient environment, the housing comprising a port through which sound may be received by the microphone, the earpiece being arranged such that when the earbud is inserted into the ear canal of a user the microphone samples the ambient environment between the earpiece and the concha.
US10178459B2
A loudspeaker assembly may be configured with at least one driver disposed between first and second acoustic impedance structures. The first and second impedance structures can be arranged with one or more layers that have similar, or dissimilar, thicknesses. The first and second impedance structures can respectively be configured to maintain symmetric acoustic impedance on opposite sides of the driver during operation of the driver.
US10178456B2
A zipper system includes a zipper mechanism having interlocking teeth, the teeth, when interlocked, closing a signal circuit to an audio playback circuit, the audio playback circuit. The audio playback circuit includes a microprocessor. The microprocessor includes an audio track storage and control instructions that, when executed by the microprocessor, cause playback of an audio track from the audio track storage. The audio playback circuit further includes a speaker device coupled to the microprocessor that broadcasts the audio track.
US10178446B2
A local network call handling device is configured to establish multiple concurrent call sessions between local network end devices and an external network. When a prioritized end device attempts to establish a call session, the call handling device may initially determine if a first call session identifier is available. If so, the call session can be established using that first identifier. If the first identifier is in use for a call session of another end device, the call handling device may either use a different call session identifier for the prioritized end device session or may drop a pre-existing call session to free an identifier for use in connection with the prioritized end device.
US10178439B2
Embodiments of the present application relate to a method, apparatus, and system for processing subtitle data. The method includes dividing subtitle data into multiple subtitle groups according to subtitle data display time information related to a played object, wherein a subtitle group comprises at least one subtitle data entry, and wherein a subtitle data entry comprises subtitle content, a subtitle display time in relation to the played object, and a speed of subtitle motion, selecting a piece of subtitle data from a subtitle group according to the display time information of the played object, and causing the selected piece of subtitle data to be displayed on a track such that the selected piece of subtitle data does not overlap with or pass another piece of subtitle data displayed on the track.
US10178435B1
Methods and apparatus for providing unified access to interactive media applications and services in a network. In one embodiment, the network comprises a content-based network such as a cable television or satellite network, and the applications are disposed at the network headend. A servlet is provided to facilitate communication between the applications and client devices. The servlet acts as a proxy for applications utilizing a different content format than the client devices. The applications obtain data from e.g., an internet host server via a gateway device. The client application(s) may comprise Enhanced TV Binary Interchange Format (EBIF) pages, and are configured so as to permit use via a common interface (e.g., the user's set top box and television display). These client applications enable a user to, for example, search the internet for data relating to displayed content, post and navigate micro-blogs, instant messaging or SMS, making telephone calls (e.g., VoIP), address/contact management, or provide the user with additional information about a product or service. An application providing internet content to the client device is also provided.
US10178431B2
Hybrid stream delivery techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a multicast stream of primary content is received at a computing device for output by the computing device. Timing information in the multicast stream is identified indicating when a break in the primary content is to occur. Responsive to the identification and before output of the primary content attains to the break, supplemental content is requested by the computing device that is available via a single dedicated stream. The supplemental content received via the single dedicated stream is cached during output of the primary content and the cached supplemental content is output upon completion of the output of the primary content up to the break.
US10178430B2
The present application discloses an intelligent processing method and system for video data, wherein, in the method an intelligent camera set a warning rule, the method comprises: the intelligent camera collecting video data and analyzing the collected video data in real time, generating intelligent data if the warning rule is met, which intelligent data contain an encoder identifier and motion trajectory information; the intelligent camera packaging the video data and the intelligent data into a program stream and sending it to a frame analyzing component in a cloud storage system; the frame analyzing component unpacking the received program stream to obtain the video data and the intelligent data, and storing the video data and the intelligent data in storage components respectively; the storage components sending storage address information of the video data and the intelligent data to an index server for recording respectively. The solutions of the present application can perform intelligent processing for the collected video data in real time.
US10178429B2
Systems and methods are described for aggregating media content from multiple sources for viewing on a local display or for placeshifting to a remote display. The aggregation system responds to instructions received from a remote device via the digital network to provide the video output incorporating the media content received from any of the media sources to the locally-connected display. The media aggregation system also simultaneously provides a placeshifted video stream to the remote device via the digital network that incorporates media content received from any of the plurality of media sources selected in response to the instructions received from the remote device.
US10178428B2
Chunks (12, 14) of encoded video data of a streamed video bitstream (1) are stored and encoded video data is decoded to form decoded video data to be output for display. A selected portion (12) of the stored chunks (12, 14) or selected sub-chunks (25, 27) of the stored chunks (20, 22) for a previous, already played out part (3) of the streamed video bitstream (1) is or are discarded while keeping selected stored chunks (14) or selected sub-chunks (21, 23) stored as navigation tune-in points. The usage of selected stored chunks (14) or sub-chunks (21, 23) that are not discarded from the already played out part (3) of the streamed video bitstream (1) enables a low delay solution during video navigation when a user wants to jump to a previously played out position (5) within the streamed video bitstream (1).
US10178426B2
A method for conducting a media consumption study, includes at a processor of a position marker placed in a study site in a vicinity of a fixed media device; receiving a signal broadcast from a personal measurement device; determining signal information of the received broadcast signal, the signal information including identification information of the personal measurement device, and one or mora signal characteristics; comparing the one or more signal characteristics to threshold values; and based on the comparison, determining the personal measurement device is in proximity to the fixed media device.
US10178404B2
By the moving picture coding method and the moving picture decoding method, it is possible to improve coding efficiency. The moving picture coding apparatus includes a merge block candidate calculation unit that (i) specifies merge block candidates at merge mode, by using colpic information such as motion vectors and reference picture index values of neighbor blocks of a current block to be coded and a motion vector and the like of a collocated block of the current block which are stored in a colPic memory, and (ii) generates a combined merge block by using the merge block candidates.
US10178398B2
In a method of transcoding of a video bitstream by a transcoder arrangement, performing the steps of receiving a video bitstream with a predetermined input video format, receiving side information related to the video bitstream, the side information comprising at least one of mode or motion or in-loop filter information relating to at least one other predetermined video format for the video bitstream. Further, performing the steps of decoding the received side information to generate transcoding guiding information, and encoding a representation of the received video bitstream based at least on the generated transcoding guiding information, to provide a transcoded video bitstream with a predetermined output video format.
US10178395B2
A method of decoding video data, the method comprising receiving a run-length sequence indicative of a binary vector, the binary vector comprising indications of locations of escape samples in a block of video data encoded using a palette-based coding mode, decoding the run-length sequence to obtain the binary vector, and decoding the block of video data using the binary vector. The method of claim 1 may further comprise receiving palette entries for the block of video data receiving one or more escape samples, and receiving a plurality of flags indicating the palette mode for each respective pixel in the block of video data.
US10178391B2
An encoding method for encoding video data by adjusting a quantization parameter, the video data being partitioned into blocks comprising sets of quantized transform coefficients. The method includes, for a set of quantized transform coefficients corresponding to one of the blocks, collecting statistics, wherein the statistics comprise the number of quantized transform coefficients and the sum of the non-rounded quantization value of the quantized transform coefficients in the set. The method also includes deriving a step size based on the statistics, mapping the derived step size to a closest quantization parameter value, and quantizing a next block using the mapped quantization parameter value.
US10178386B2
An image decoding apparatus that includes a motion compensation prediction circuit configured to conduct motion compensation prediction for each of blocks to be decoded by using the reconstructed image, an inverse transformation circuit configured to conduct inverse orthogonal transformation for the data of the blocks to be decoded, and a determination circuit configured to determine a filtering strength and whether or not to conduct filtering, with respect to each of the boundaries. In addition, the determining circuit is configured to determine filtering is conducted when at least one of the two adjacent blocks is intra-coded, and filtering is not conducted when both of the two adjacent blocks are not intra-coded, a non-zero transformation coefficient is not coded in both of the two adjacent blocks, the two adjacent blocks are predicted by the same reference frame, and an absolute value of a difference between motion vectors of the two adjacent blocks is smaller than a specified threshold value.
US10178383B2
An image decoding method and an image decoding apparatus is provided. The method comprises recovering a first motion vector corresponding to a first decoding reference picture based on the entropy decoded bit stream, calculating a second motion vector corresponding to a second decoding reference picture by scaling the first motion vector based on a first temporal distance between the current picture and the first decoding reference picture and a second temporal distance between the current picture and the second decoding reference picture, generating a prediction block relating to a current block in the current picture, based on the calculated second motion vector, generating a residual block relating to the current block through a residual data decoding process based on the entropy decoded bit stream, and recovering the current block based on the prediction block and the residual block.
US10178379B2
A method and an apparatus are provided for testing a virtual reality head display device. The method includes: analyzing an acquired pair of images which corresponds to a test image to acquire sets of feature point positions; a left-eye feature point and a right-eye feature point for each set having the same preset color value which is a unique color value in the test image; determining a difference between a first relative position of the left-eye feature point in the left-eye image and a second relative position of the right-eye feature point in the right-eye image according to each set of feature point positions; and determining a result regarding whether the virtual reality head display device is capable to generate a stereoscopic image observable by human eyes according to the difference.
US10178362B2
A host device supplying, via a hub, different picture signals to projectors connected to ports, respectively, of the hub, executes a correlation process to obtain port numbers of the ports, respectively, and serial numbers of the projectors, with the port numbers correlated with the serial numbers; an enumeration process to enumerate display devices, respectively, to obtain display device information of each of the display devices, and to obtain the serial numbers of the projectors in accordance with an order in which the display devices were enumerated; and an array generation process to collate the serial numbers obtained by the correlation process to the serial numbers obtained by the enumeration process to store, in array elements, the display device information in an order identical to an order of the collated serial numbers, based on a numerical order of the port numbers obtained by the correlation process.
US10178361B2
To achieve an image pickup element that can utilize polarized light as well as non-polarized light to image or capture an object, an image pickup element is provided to an imaging apparatus that forms an image of an object to be imaged onto a light-receiving surface of an image sensor, acquires a polarized filter image together with a regular luminance image, and executes image processing on the acquired images. The image pickup element includes, on a light-receiving surface LRS of the image sensor IMS, a polarizing filter PFL including at least two kinds of pixels having different transmission and polarization properties from each other.
US10178338B2
An electronic apparatus includes: a processing unit that processes an image capture signal captured by an image capturing unit; a communication unit that is capable of transmitting the image capture signal captured by the image capturing unit to an external apparatus; and a determination unit that determines whether or not to transmit the image capture signal to the external apparatus, according to a capture setting for the image capturing unit.
US10178337B1
Methods and systems are provided for providing vehicles with video feed for making a turn. In one example, a vehicle includes sensors, a transceiver, a processor, and a display device. The sensors are configured to generate sensor data pertaining to operation of the vehicle. The processor is configured to determine when the vehicle is about to make a turn at an intersection, based at least in part on the sensor data. The transceiver is configured to receive a video feed from one or more cameras of a second vehicle, the second vehicle disposed proximate the intersection, when the vehicle is about to make a turn, for use in assistance with making the turn of the vehicle at the intersection. The display device is configured to display the video feed in accordance with instructions provided by the processor.
US10178329B2
In an integrated-circuit image sensor having a pixel array, a first subframe readout policy is selected from among a plurality of subframe readout policies, each of the subframe readout policies specifying a first number of subframes of image data to be readout from the pixel array for each output image frame and respective exposure durations for each of the first number of subframes of image data, wherein a shortest one of the exposure durations is uniform for each of the subframe readout policies. Each of the first number of subframes of image data is read out from the pixel array following the respective exposure durations thereof while applying a respective analog readout gain. The analog readout gain applied during readout of at least a first subframe of the first number of subframes is scaled according to a ratio of the shortest one of the exposure durations to the exposure duration of the first subframe.
US10178327B2
An imaging unit causes each exposure corresponding to one frame period of respective second image signals in a first mode, and causes each exposure in divided sections of one frame period of the respective second image signals under different imaging conditions in a second mode. An image processing unit generates frames of respective first image signals based on each imaging signal read out in such a manner as to correspond to each exposure corresponding to one frame period in the first mode, and generates frames of the respective first image signals based on each imaging signal read out in such a manner as to correspond to each exposure of the divided sections in the second mode. An image output unit sequentially outputs frames of the second image signals set to a signal format common to the first mode and the second mode.
US10178324B2
A method for operating an imaging apparatus includes transmitting and shooting. The imaging apparatus can perform normal shooting or infrared shooting based on adjustment information received from a client device via a network. Information, transmitted to the client, indicates whether adjustment information for performing switching from the normal shooting to the infrared shooting and adjustment information for performing switching from the infrared shooting to the normal shooting can be individually set. A subject's image is shot by performing switching between the normal shooting and the infrared shooting based on the adjustment information received from the client device.
US10178311B2
A display apparatus and a control method thereof include a display and a camera configured to be provided at an upper portion of the display apparatus to generate an image signal, the camera being movable to an up position or a down position. Also included are a voice sensor configured to receive a voice of a user, a power supply configured to supply electric power to the camera and a controller configured to control the camera to generate the image signal when the camera is in the up position. The controller is also configured to control the camera to disable the generation of the image signal and to output a message indicating that the camera is in the down position, when the camera is in the down position.
US10178289B2
A camera module configured to be mounted at a vehicle includes a housing, a lens, an imager, circuitry and an electrical connector. A wireless communication device is operable to wirelessly communicate with a remote device. The wireless communication device is operable to wirelessly communicate an OEM part number associated with the camera module and at least one of (i) a build date of the camera module and (ii) a serial number of the camera module. Circuitry of the camera module is programmable via wireless communication received from the remote device. The camera module may be wirelessly tracked at least one of (i) during shipping of the camera module to a vehicle assembly plant, (ii) while the camera module is at a vehicle assembly plant and (iii) while the camera module is mounted at a vehicle.
US10178284B2
A device for acquiring a characteristic image of a body, including: an image sensor including a plurality of photosensitive cells; and a layer of a material having its color varying according to a physical parameter characteristic of said body, coating a surface of the sensor.
US10178278B2
An image forming apparatus includes a printing device, a storage device, in which unevenness correction data indicating a corrected pixel value in association with each input pixel value are stored, and a processor. The processor is configured to determine, among pixels indicated by raster image data of an image to be printed, edge pixels corresponding to an edge image portion and non-edge pixels corresponding to a non-edge image portion, carry out unevenness correction on the raster image data selectively with respect to the determined non-edge pixels, using the unevenness correction data stored in the storage device, generate print image data based on the raster image data subjected to the unevenness correction, and control the printing device to print the image based on the generated print image data.
US10178270B2
A printing apparatus includes a printer, a first wireless communicator, and a second wireless communicator. The first wireless communicator performs wireless local-area network (LAN) communication. The second wireless communicator transmits, to the information terminal, information required to perform the wireless LAN communication between the printing apparatus and an information terminal. The first wireless communicator receives print data from the information terminal. The printer performs printing based on the print data.
US10178269B2
An information processing system includes a display unit, a detector, plural vibration sources, and a vibration controller. The display unit displays a document on a display screen. The detector detects an operation by an operator on the document displayed on the display screen. The plural vibration sources deliver vibrations to different parts of the operator. The vibration controller performs control to selectively vibrate the plural vibration sources in accordance with contents of the operation detected by the detector.
US10178265B2
An image formation apparatus includes a flash memory as an image data buffer, and a control section, where data writing to each memory block of the flash memory is controlled by using wear leveling. The control section predicts whether writing of a certain amount of image data such that the amount of image data to be written into the flash memory in a predetermined period exceeds a predetermined value, will occur, and on predicting that the writing of the certain amount of image data will occur, restricting an input of image data and/or a speed of buffering the image data, to reduce the amount of image data to be written into the flash memory in the predetermined period.
US10178258B2
An image display apparatus includes an image display that displays an image, and a change processing section that, if the image display is present in a user's gaze direction and if a distance between the user and the image display is shorter than a predetermined distance, performs a change process on the image displayed on the image display.
US10178250B2
An information processing apparatus includes a display, a position detector that detects a position in a display surface of the display and a hardware processor. The hardware processor, in response to detection of the position with which an object has been in contact, detects a portable device; establishes a communication path with the portable device; detects a continuation state based on a state of the portable device or a state of the information processing apparatus; in the case where the communication path is established with the portable device, and the portable device is detected, switches to a cooperation mode; in the case where the portable device is no longer detected, if the continuation state is detected, maintains the cooperation mode; and in the case where the portable device is no longer detected, if the continuation state is not detected, switches from the cooperation mode to the single mode.
US10178245B2
A terminal device includes an acquisition unit that acquires image information of a read-out original, a display unit that displays the image information acquired by the acquisition unit, a detection unit that detects pitch information by performing frequency analysis of the image information displayed by the display unit, and a control unit that controls the image information so as to be enlarged or reduced in accordance with a size of the original and controls to display the pitch information so as to be superimposed on the image information which is enlarged or reduced.
US10178243B2
A mobile communications device receives an indication of a balance from a server when establishment of a voice call or sending of a message is requested. The mobile communications device determines whether the balance is sufficient to place the voice call or send the message over a mobile network. If the balance is sufficient to place the voice call or send the message over the mobile network, the voice call is established or the message is sent under normal operating conditions. If the balance is insufficient to place the voice call or send the message over the mobile network, a grace period is activated and the voice call is established or the message is sent during the grace period over an available wireless local-area network.
US10178237B2
A method at a user equipment to facilitate splitting of data billing between at least two parties, the method assigning a first subset of application to a first forwarding information base (“FIB”) on the user equipment; associating the first FIB with a first cellular data interface; activating the splitting of data billing on the user equipment; and replacing the association in the first FIB to the first cellular interface with an association between a second cellular data interface and the first FIB.
US10178236B2
Technology for initiating emergency calls is disclosed. A minimum set of emergency related data (MSD) associated with the emergency call may be identified at a terminal equipment (TE) of a mobile terminal. An attention (AT) command may be generated that includes the MSD and selected configuration information related to the emergency call. The AT command may be sent from the TE of the mobile terminal to a mobile termination (MT) of the mobile terminal in order to setup the emergency call, wherein the mobile terminal (MT) routes the emergency call to a public safety answering point (PSAP) in a communication network.
US10178233B1
Methods and systems for routing multimedia traffic are described. A method may include receiving a communication originating from a user, transposing an alias transport network over one or more existing networks to route the communication, and routing the communication based on mapping rules.
US10178232B1
A system and method of navigating an automated telephone answering system (TAS) may include recording incoming and outgoing portions of a call with the TAS, separating the recording into a series of prompt-response segments, customizing at least one response, and storing the segments as a script for use in subsequent calls to the TAS.
US10178231B2
Disclosed embodiments provide improved communication between a caller and multiple parties. A caller performs a call spray operation on a group of contacts using an electronic communication device such as a mobile telephone. The call spray operation attempts to contact an electronic device associated with each contact in the group of contacts. If one of the contacts answers and is deemed to be a live user, then the remaining contacts that did not answer each receive a message on their associated electronic device indicating which of the contacts answered the caller with a live user. In this way, a group of people can be conveniently contacted and kept up to date with the status of the communication with the caller.
US10178222B1
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for controlling content and/or sound provided to a user including generating content data configured for presentation on a display, transmitting the content data to one of the display, a speaker, or both, collecting behavior data of the user sensed by the tracking sensor, and determining whether behavior data represents a value that satisfies a threshold value. When the value satisfies the threshold value, generating, by the processing module of the device, a change in the content data presented on at least one of the display, the speaker, or both, and when the value does not satisfy the threshold value, presenting, by the processing module, the same content data on at least one of least one of the display, the speaker, or both.
US10178214B2
A method and an apparatus are provided for binding with a device. The method includes: determining whether the device is connected to a designated wireless network; and when the device is connected to the designated wireless network, sending to a server a binding request for binding a user account with the device. The binding request carries the user account and is configured to trigger the server to start a binding process within a preset time period. The server establishes a binding relationship between the user account and the device when the server receives a binding confirmation message sent by the device within the preset time period.
US10178212B2
A mobile terminal and an antenna determining method are provided. The mobile terminal includes a housing, a processor, at least two antennas and at least two pressure sensors. The pressure sensors are configured to acquire values of pressures applied to a surface of the housing and send the acquired pressure values to the processor; the processor is configured to receive pressure values sent by the pressure sensors, to determine at least one contact position between a user and the mobile terminal based on pressure values sent by at least one of one or more first side pressure sensors and at least one of one or more second side pressure sensors, to determine an antenna to receive or send signals from the at least two antennas based on the at least one contact position.
US10178207B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, for receiving, by an optical line terminal, an upstream communication frame from an optical network terminal, the upstream communication frame including a data packet and a last fragment bit; determining, by the optical line terminal, a fragmentation of the data packet of the upstream communication frame; and processing, by the optical line terminal, the data packet of the upstream communication packet based on the fragmentation of the data packet, including: when the data packet is fragmented, examining a last fragment bit of the upstream communication frame, and storing, in a memory device, the data packet when a state of the last fragment bit indicates that the data packet is not a completion; and when the data packet is not fragmented, transmitting the data packet upstream without storing the data packet in the memory device.
US10178206B2
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for connecting sensor devices to cloud servers by a gateway device. The gateway device includes a plurality of sensor adaptors, a sensor data processor, and a network communication interface. The sensor adaptors are configured to receive sensor data in communication signals from sensor devices. Each sensor adaptor is configured to extract sensor data encapsulated according to a respective sensor communication protocol. The sensor data processor is configured to process the extracted sensor data for transmission to a cloud service, such as by extracting unneeded messages data, or inserting additional data such as a time stamp. The network communication interface is configured to transmit the processed sensor data to the cloud service over a network according to a network communication protocol. Sensor data of different types may be transmitted according to corresponding types of network communication protocols.
US10178204B2
It is described an information processing method and device. It is received a request for service data from a client device. In response to the request for service data, it is sent at least two probing packets which contain the service data to the client device on a forward path which is from a server to the client device. It is obtained timing information, which includes: a time stamp corresponding to the service data, a time stamp corresponding to the request for the service data, and time stamps corresponding to at least two backward-path packets sent by the client device on a backward path, the backward path being from the client device to the server. It is determined according to the timing information a one-way path metric.
US10178203B1
A server complex (102) includes an interface portal (116). The server complex exposes (401) a generic resource locator (402) pointing to the media content in a generic format at the interface portal. The server complex receives requests for media content (101) from at least a first client device (601) to receive the media content in a first format (603) and at least a second client device (602) to receive the media content in a second format (604). The server complex determines (405), from a header (407) of the request, whether the request is from the first client device or the second client device, generates (409) a response message (108) comprising a manifest file (109) comprising a device specific resource locator (410) pointing to the media content cached (412) in one of the first format or the second format, and transmits (411) the response message to the requesting client.
US10178199B1
Systems and methods for tracking resources used by triggers such as alarms and timers that are used by mobile applications to schedule tasks and intelligently manipulating the timing of the triggers to optimize usage of resources such as, but not limited to: network, battery, CPU and/or memory are disclosed. In one embodiment, an intelligent alarm manipulator and resource tracker tracks triggers from multiple applications on a mobile device and corresponding use of resources resulting from the triggers on a mobile device. The intelligent alarm manipulator and resource tracker further determines correlations between the triggers and the corresponding use of the resources on the mobile device and manipulates, based on the correlations, timing or frequency of some or all of the triggers to optimize the use of the resources on the mobile device.
US10178193B2
An online system associates a user with a characteristic attribute of a geographic area in response to the user visiting the geographic area. The geographic area is identified based on visits by users of the online system, and attributes of entities associated with locations within the geographic area. A characteristic attribute is identified from the obtained attributes. A visit to the geographic area by a first user not associated with the characteristic attribute is identified. In response to identifying that the first user has visited the geographic area, the first user is associated with the characteristic profile attribute. Based at least in part on the association between the characteristic profile attribute and the first user, a content item is sent to a client device for presentation to the first user.
US10178190B2
A method for extracting user features based on user behaviors. The method uses webpage clickstream data of a current user to compute a path correlation between the current user and other users, selects a number of other users whose path correlation with the current user ranks among the highest, and then configures weights in connection to preset tags of websites visited by the selected other users, and computes a user correlation between the current user and the selected other users based on the preset tags and the weights. The method constructs weighted-directed graphs of webpage click paths based on click stream data, and converts computing user correlation to computing a similarity of weighted-directed graphs. The method further combines computing correlation of webpage tags to discover the user's clicking habits and personal preferences, and improve the accuracy and efficiency of user clustering.
US10178189B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, for providing content, comprising: identifying a social action that includes a preference designation for an object; determining a location of an individual user associated with the social action or a location associated with the object that is the subject of the preference designation; attributing the preference designation to both the location and to the individual user, where the attributed preference designation can be used to target further content to either the individual user or other users; and receiving a request for content that is related to the location and providing, responsive to the request, one or more content items based on the attributed preference designations.
US10178184B2
In accordance with an embodiment, systems and methods for session handling in a multitenant application server environment are provided. The ability to replicate a session is important but equally so is the ability to ensure the session is successfully deserialized on some server in order to serve the request. After a server has been shut down, the front end can fail over the request to one of the remaining server members in a cluster. Once the server receives the request it can attempt to grab the session from a server that holds a copy of that session. When a patched or unpatched server attempts to load the session that originated from a server of the opposite state, it can fail to deserialize the session, and inform the traffic director of severs in the cluster that are capable of deserializing the session.
US10178173B2
Cloud services may be utilized by implementing an I/O hook that can intercept a data access from an application, migrating data accessed by the application to a cloud server that provides a cloud service, receiving, from the I/O hook, a data access intercepted from the application, and redirecting the intercepted data access to the cloud server.
US10178164B2
Techniques for securely binding a software application to a communication device may include sending a set of device identifiers associated with the computing device to a server, receiving a server-generated dynamic device identifier that is generated based on the set of device identifiers; and storing the server-generated dynamic device identifier during initialization of the application. During runtime execution of the application, the application may receive a request to execute an application specific task. In response to receiving the request, the application may generate a runtime dynamic device identifier, determine whether the runtime dynamic device identifier matches the server-generated dynamic device identifier, execute the application specific task when the runtime dynamic device identifier matches the server-generated dynamic device identifier; and prevent the application specific task from being executed when the runtime dynamic device identifier does not match the server-generated dynamic device identifier.
US10178162B2
A message transfer system, method of transferring message and a software product. A message transfer system (10) comprising: an interface to a send agent (70), arranged to facilitate an input of an at least one message to the message transfer system, an interface to a delivery agent (80), arranged to facilitate an output of the at least one message from the message transfer system, a message queue, arranged to facilitate a processing of the at least one message through the message transfer system (10) between the interface to a send agent (70) and the interface to a delivery agent (80), wherein, the message transfer system (10) further comprises a message transfer node (20 22 23 24 25 26 27), arranged to comprise the message queue (90) such that the message queue (90) is arranged as distributed.
US10178155B2
A system and method for converting static/still medical images of a particular patient into dynamic and interactive images interacting with medical tools including medical devices by coupling a model of tissue dynamics and tool characteristics to the patient specific imagery for simulating a medical procedure in an accurate and dynamic manner.
US10178148B2
The present disclosure relates to a content supply device, a content supply method, a program, and a content supply system, wherein an adaptive streaming technique based on DASH is extended to enable the use of broadcast distribution and multicast distribution.A content supply device according to a first aspect of the present disclosure is a content supply device that supplies streaming data of content in accordance with an adaptive streaming technique, the device including: an HTTP distribution unit that makes the streaming data into a file for each segment and distributes by HTTP the obtained segment file through a bidirectional communication network; a multicast distribution unit that distributes the segment file by multicast; and a meta file generation unit that generates a meta file in which information for receiving the segment file to be subjected to the HTTP distribution or the multicast distribution is described. The present disclosure is applicable to the system for streaming the content.
US10178144B1
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for scattering audio streams. The method can include receiving a set of audio data transmission signals indicating a format of audio data, determining a set of format parameters corresponding to the format of the audio data based on the set of audio data transmission signals, determining whether the set of format parameters are different from a set of previously determined format parameters, searching a lookup table for a build entry identified by the set of format parameters when the set of format parameters are different from the set of previously determined format parameters, and generating a media packet carrying audio samples of the audio data according to the build entry.
US10178134B2
A device management apparatus sets a first password required to reflect a security policy managed by the device management apparatus on a device or change the security policy in a device, generates distribution data including the security policy and the set first password, and distributes the generated distribution data to a selected device.
US10178130B2
Systems and methods for managing network security events with the assistance of augmented reality are provided. According to one embodiment, a reality image of a network object is captured by an augmented reality device. The network object is identified from the reality image by the augmented reality device. Dynamic network security information is received by the augmented reality device from a network security appliance associated with a network that is managing the network object. An augmented overlay image is generated by the augmented reality device based on the reality image and the dynamic network security information. The augmented overlay image is displayed by the augmented reality device.
US10178124B2
Channel based authentication schemes for intrusion detection that operates at the physical layer are described that apply the capabilities of a pattern reconfigurable antenna for improved performance. Performance gains are achieved by the schemes as a function of the number of antenna modes. The first scheme relies on a channel based fingerprint for differentiating between transmitters whereas another scheme poses the intruder detection problem as a generalized likelihood ratio (GLR) test problem that operates on the channel realizations corresponding to different modes present in a reconfigurable antenna. The benefits of these two schemes over single element antennas are demonstrated. General guidelines are provided on how to choose the different elements of the decision metric in order to realize better performance for physical layer based authentication schemes based on any diversity scheme.
US10178120B1
Described is a system for predicting temporal evolution of contagions on multilayer networks. The system determines a functional epidemic threshold for disappearance of a contagion on a multilayer network model according to a score value s=λβ/δ, where λ corresponds to an adjacency matrix of the first layer of the multilayer network model, β represents a spread rate of the contagion, and δ represents a recovery rate. A prediction of future behavior of the contagion on the multilayer network model using the functional epidemic threshold is output and utilized to inform decisions regarding connectivity within a multilayer network in order to prevent spread of the contagion on a multilayer network.
US10178119B1
Customers of a computing resource service provider may operate one or more computing resource provided by the computing resource service provider. In addition, the customers may implement security applications and/or devices using the one or more computing resources provided by the computing resource service provider. Operational information from customer operated computing resources may be correlated with operational information from computing resources operated by the computing resource service provider or other entities and correlated threat information may be generated. Anomalous activity may be detected based at least in part on the correlated threat information.
US10178103B2
According to one example of the present invention, there is provided, a method of accessing a service. The method comprising: receiving, from a requesting user, a request for a number of accessing users to have access to the service, generating service access data associated with the service, providing, to the requesting user, the generated service access data for distribution to the accessing users, receiving, from an accessing user, service access data, determining, based in part on the received service access data, whether the service can be provided, and where it is so determined, providing the service to the accessing.
US10178100B2
Implementations of PDB Sandboxing in layers and mapping to different operating systems are described. In exemplary implementations, one or more pluggable databases (PDBs) are encapsulated on common container databases to form one or more PDB sandboxes. Encapsulating PDBs forms an isolation boundary layer configured to dynamically regulate security and isolation of the PDB sandboxes. Access by processes and resources to and from the PDBs inside respective PDB sandboxes through the isolation boundary layer, and access within PDB sandboxes, is regulated using dynamic access processes that dynamically vary access to resources and process disposed within and external to the PDB sandboxes.
US10178097B2
Methods and systems for providing a third party application with access to files stored on a server are disclosed. A method may include receiving, from a browser at a client device, a request for a file stored on the server, wherein the request is received via a web page provided by the third party application and rendered by the browser, the web page comprising an embedded user interface (UI) component associated with the server to access the file stored on the server, wherein the request includes a document identifier associated with the file, an application identifier of the third-party application, and an origin identifier, wherein the origin identifier is associated with the web page provided by the third party application and rendered by the browser. The method may further include authenticating the application identifier at the server, wherein authenticating the application identifier comprises determining whether the application identifier references a valid application, and based on the document identifier, the authenticated application identifier and the origin identifier, granting access to the file for the third party application via the embedded UI component.
US10178092B2
Methods and apparatus in accordance with various embodiments provide for private service IDs for utilization in wireless devices in neighbor aware networks. One aspect of the subject matter described in the disclosure provides a method of transmitting service information in a wireless neighborhood aware network. The method includes generating a first message having a first service identifier. The first service identifier includes a first hash value based on a service name and timing information. The first hash value is generated by applying a first hash function. The method further includes transmitting the first message.
US10178085B2
Systems, devices and techniques for establishing a secure file transfer session for secure downloading of configuration files to a Demarcation device are disclosed. Communication is established with a first network device. A password challenge message is received from the first network device. A username is generated. A password is generated using the password challenge message and a locally stored salt key. The username and the password are communicated to a second network device via the first network device, to facilitate establishing a secure file transfer connection with the second network device.
US10178078B1
A secure and transparent digital credential sharing arrangement which utilizes one or more cryptographic levels of indirection to obfuscate a sharing entity's credentials from those entities authorized to share the credentials. A security policy table is provided which allows the sharing entity to selectively authorize or revoke digital credential sharing among a plurality of entities. Various embodiments of the invention provide for secure storage and retrieval of digital credentials from security tokens such as smart cards. The secure sharing arrangement may be implemented in hierarchical or non-hierarchical embodiments as desired.
US10178070B2
Systems for providing security to distributed microservices are provided herein. In some embodiments, a system includes a plurality of microservices, each of the plurality of microservices having a plurality of distributed microservice components. At least a portion of the distributed microservice components execute on different physical or virtual servers in a data center or a cloud. The system also includes a plurality of logical security boundaries, with each of the plurality of logical security boundaries being created by a plurality of enforcement points positioned in association with the plurality of distributed microservice components. Each of plurality of microservices is bounded by one of the plurality of logical security boundaries.
US10178067B1
Techniques are described for monitoring resource consumption, detecting faults, and predicting future faults with internal or customer-facing portal applications that engage data center operations for supporting co-location and, in some cases, interconnection by customers of a co-location provider. For example, an operational intelligence engine for portal applications deployed by a co-location provider stitches together transactions records and logs based on a unique identifier inserted into transactions performed by multiple system applications that execute the portal transactions through a lifecycle of requests and events for the portal and system applications.
US10178065B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and software for operating content delivery networks are provided herein. In one example, a method of operating a domain name translation node in a first point-of-presence of a content delivery network is presented. The method includes receiving a translation message issued by an end user device for translation of a domain name into a content network address, and processing the translation message to identify a network address of a node that transferred the translation message. The method also includes selecting the content network address based at least in part on correlations between network addresses and performance factors to direct the end user device to a target cache node at a point-of-presence different than the point-of-presence of the domain name translation node, and transferring a response message indicating the content network address which directs the end user device to the target cache node at the second point-of-presence.
US10178063B2
A system and method for synchronizing messages between client application instances and a message service provider includes a connection service communicatively coupled to a plurality of client messaging application instances; a first intermediary transfer layer with an inbound message data queue that queues message updates of a client application instance and an outbound message data queue that queues message updates and notifications from a mailbox service layer; a mailbox service layer communicatively coupled to the connection service through the first intermediary transfer layer; a second intermediary transfer layer with an mailbox message data queue that contains queued message data directed at the mailbox service layer and a message service data queue that contains queued message updates directed at a message service layer; and a message service layer configured for message interactions with an outside message service provider.
US10178061B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for sending, from a first computing device, an email digest in an email message to a second computing device at a first point in time, wherein the email digest includes one or more content items for display at the second computing device when the email digest in the email message is accessed. An action is determined to be performed on a content item of the one or more content items at a second point in time that is after the first point in time. The content item of the one or more content items in the email digest is filtered from the email message based upon, at least in part, determining that the action is performed on the content item of the one or more content items at the second point in time.
US10178052B2
A parallel information processing apparatus includes a group of switches configured to have a topology of a Latin square, and nodes connected with a switch among the group of switches. The parallel information processing apparatus also include a memory and a processor configured to designate (n×k) units of blocks in the group of switches included in a lattice structure in the topology of the Latin square; to generate information about communication protocol that includes communication directions having different slopes for m (m≤k) units of the nodes, and the number of hops set for the respective communication directions having the different slopes; and to execute communication for the m units of the nodes of the units of the block, based on the information about communication protocol, so as to execute part-to-part communication between the m units of the nodes of the respective units of the blocks.
US10178050B2
Methods and apparatus for mediating user access to services over a network are described. Access is provided by a service network host to a plurality of connectors providing access to a plurality of services over the network. The services are provided by entities independent from the service network host. The connectors including a first connector are configured to communicate with a first service using a first format to retrieve or modify data associated with the first service. The first connector is further configured to identify one or more methods or data fields of the first service. The service network host is further configured to provide, to a computer associated with a user over the network, one or more directions for using the first connector to display and/or modify data from the first service over the network.
US10178047B2
This specification discloses a protocol agnostic networking apparatus and method of networking. The networking apparatus receives physical layer signal through a plurality of communications ports that interface with external computing systems. A crosspoint switch interconnects the communications ports with discrete reconfigurable data conduits. Each of the data conduits defines a transmission pathway between predetermined communications ports. A management module maintains the data conduits based on configuration commands received from an external computing system. The management module interfaces with the crosspoint switch to make and/or break data conduits responsive to received configuration commands.
US10178046B1
Within a time period, a plurality of selected requests that are each associated with a weight is received. For the plurality of received selected requests, a single quota request is synchronously provided for a quota associated with all of the plurality of received selected requests. The quota is received. The selected requests are sorted in an order based on the weights of the received selected requests. Based on the order of the sort, only a number of the selected requests that meets the quota is allowed.
US10178044B2
Providing a guest with access to content of a social network includes identifying a guest associated with content posted by a user on a social network, sending, via electronic mail (email), a notification to the guest's email address to notify the guest of the content on the social network, receiving, via an identity provider, an identity assertion associated with the guest's email address, and providing, based on the identity assertion, access to the content posted by the user on the social network to allow the guest to view the content, in which the identity provider is identified by a domain of the guest's email address.
US10178041B2
Technologies for aggregation-based message processing include multiple computing nodes in communication over a network. A computing node receives a message from a remote computing node, increments an event counter in response to receiving the message, determines whether an event trigger is satisfied in response to incrementing the counter, and writes a completion event to an event queue if the event trigger is satisfied. An application of the computing node monitors the event queue for the completion event. The application may be executed by a processor core of the computing node, and the other operations may be performed by a host fabric interface of the computing node. The computing node may be a target node and count one-sided messages received from an initiator node, or the computing node may be an initiator node and count acknowledgement messages received from a target node. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10178038B1
A system and method for improving the functioning of a data storage array by allowing for dynamically changing a speed of a communications port receiving data from a server via a fiber channel network managed by a network switch. The switch is queried to determine which server is sending data to each port, and to determine the speed and flow rate of the data through each port. The port experiencing the highest speed of data is identified, and if the cache write pending is above a threshold or if the array is otherwise unable to save the data at the speed at which it is being received, then the switch is set to limit the speed through that port, thereby avoiding a backup of data which could cause the port to be taken offline. A record of the change and an alert that the change was made are then generated.
US10178037B2
Examples of the present invention present a method of controlling content delivery in a network. A global quality of experience measure, QoEmax, is calculated based on the packet loss rate in the network. As packet loss rate varies as a result of congestion conditions in the network, so will QoEmax. A server delivering content over the network will attempt to reach QoEmax for the content in its respective session. Those sessions with a quality of experience, QoE, less than QoEmax will have its packet dispatch rate increased, and those with a QoE higher than QoEmax will reduce its packet dispatch rate, subject to any delivery deadlines associated with the session. If the delivery deadlines of the sessions can be met without exceeding QoEmax, then all sessions will end up achieving QoEmax. Since QoEmax is only a function of packet loss rate that all sessions miming over the same shared network agree upon, all sessions should converge on the same QoE.
US10178034B1
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computing system program products for iteratively calculating autocorrelation function for streamed data in real time by iteratively calculating one or more components of autocorrelation function. Embodiments of the invention include iteratively calculating one or more components of autocorrelation function at a specified range of lags in an adjusted computation window based on the one or more components of the autocorrelation function at the specified range of lags calculated for a previous computation window and then calculating the autocorrelation function at the specified range of lags using the iteratively calculated components. Iteratively calculating autocorrelation function avoids visiting all data elements in the adjusted computation window and performing redundant computations thereby increasing calculation efficiency, saving computing resources and reducing computing system's power consumption.
US10178030B2
A system for providing content delivery network selection is disclosed. In particular, the system may include receiving a request for content from a user device and determining a location of the user device based on the request for the content. Based on the location of the user device and based on one or more desired parameters, the system may include selecting a suitable content delivery network from a plurality of content delivery networks to service the request for the content. Once the suitable content delivery network is selected, the system may include providing the content to the user device by using the suitable content delivery network that was selected by the system.
US10178018B2
A method and devices for reducing the delay in end-to-end delivery of network packets may be achieved by having the transmission (TX) side of the device, tag each cell with a unique packet identifier and with a byte offset parameter where the tagging allows the reception (RX) side of the destination device to perform on-the-fly assembly of cells into packets by directly placing them at corresponding host buffer, and the method may be done for multiple packets concurrently, and hence store and forward buffering is not needed in either the source or the destination devices and the lowest possible end-to-end cut-through latency is achieved.
US10178016B1
Disclosed herein are wireless devices operable at intermediate wireless at ranges of thousands of meters, utilizing packets that include a preamble and a data payload. Devices may be such things as keypads, door latches, occupancy monitors, sprinkler controllers and other devices needing a communications link. Devices include an intermediate-range transceiver and a separate short-range wireless transceiver accessible from a mobile device such as a cellular telephone or portable tablet. Devices may bear a scannable label bearing a code providing a means of identification, and can be registered in a database and deployed for use by means of an application running on the mobile device. Intermediate-range communications may be tested during deployment as directed from a mobile device. Detailed information on various example embodiments of the inventions are provided in the Detailed Description below, and the inventions are defined by the appended claims.
US10178015B2
The subject matter described herein relates to methods, systems, and computer readable media for testing network equipment devices using connectionless protocols. In some examples, a method for testing a network equipment device under test (DUT) includes transmitting a first message using a connectionless protocol for a network flow to the network equipment DUT according to a test script. The method includes storing a record for the network flow including a first flow identifier for the flow based on a first payload of the first message. The method includes receiving a second message from the network equipment DUT and determining that the second message belongs to the network flow by determining a second flow identifier based on a second payload of the second message and matching the second flow identifier to the first flow identifier.
US10178011B2
Some examples disclosed herein relate to traffic management via network switch QoS parameters analysis. In one example, a set of actual QoS parameters maybe analyzed using a set of configured QoS parameters of each network switch. A set of modified QoS parameters for each network switch maybe determined based on the analysis of the set of actual QoS parameters. The set of modified QoS parameters maybe recommended to configure each network switch for improved traffic management.
US10178008B2
Monitoring packets can be sent periodically across IP network tunnels that traverse internet connections to a customer location, and the monitoring packets used to determine current packet-loss, latency, and jitter metrics in each direction for each available circuit. Circuits may be assigned to circuit sets, each most appropriate to various classes of user traffic, and user traffic assigned to circuit sets based on traffic class. If monitored metrics change beyond set thresholds, a determination is made as to whether the changes are due to circuit saturation or some other cause. If saturation is the problem, logic at either or both tunnel endpoints dynamically adjusts QOS rate limits to optimum values (the highest rate that does not cause threshold violations) in near-real time.
US10177998B2
Flow data can be augmented with features or attributes from other domains, such as attributes from a source host and/or destination host of a flow, a process initiating the flow, and/or a process owner or user. A network can be configured to capture network or packet header attributes of a first flow and determine additional attributes of the first flow using a sensor network. The sensor network can include sensors for networking devices (e.g., routers, switches, network appliances), physical servers, hypervisors or container engines, and virtual partitions (e.g., virtual machines or containers). The network can calculate a feature vector including the packet header attributes and additional attributes to represent the first flow. The network can compare the feature vector of the first flow to respective feature vectors of other flows to determine an applicable policy, and enforce that policy for subsequent flows.
US10177997B1
A network device and a method for maintaining a count of network events in a network device are provided. A first memory is configured as a first counter, where the first counter is configured to store a least significant bit (LSb) portion of a count value. A second memory is configured as a second counter, where the second counter is configured to store a most significant bit (MSb) portion of the count value. Update circuitry is configured to (i) selectively increment or decrement the LSb portion of the count value stored in the first memory upon occurrence of an event, and (ii) selectively increment or decrement the MSb portion of the count value stored in the second memory upon occurrence of a wrap-around event in the first memory.
US10177996B2
A validation tool is provided for a representational state transfer (REST) service. In one embodiment, a method for validating documentation of a REST service includes including detecting one or more messages for a REST service by a validator, wherein the one or more messages are intercepted for the REST service, translating documentation of the REST service, by the validator, into a representation of an automaton, and validating the one or more messages by the validator based on the automaton, wherein validation of the messages determines conformance of the REST service to the documentation of the REST service.
US10177993B2
Event-based data transfer scheduling using elastic network optimization criteria is provided. Bandwidth optimization criteria corresponding to different types of data transfer event scenarios are maintained, and based on recognizing a data transfer event scenario, a bandwidth optimization criteria is selected based on a type of the data transfer event scenario. A schedule for transferring data from a source to a target across the elastic network is determined according to the selected bandwidth optimization criteria, and the elastic network is used in transferring the data to the target storage location, where the using includes dynamically configuring elastic network bandwidth allocation from an elastic network service provider and initiating transfer of the data to the target storage location according to the schedule.
US10177992B2
Example embodiments relate to an application store interface provided to enable remote management of client devices. In example embodiments, a server transmits an application store interface identifying applications available for installation by an administrative user associated with a number of client devices. The application store interface may then receive a selection of an application to be installed from the administrative user. In response, the application store interface may trigger installation of the selected application on each of the client devices by an agent executing on each device.
US10177988B2
A topology remediation method includes with a remediation engine, deriving a number of remediation actions based on a number of incidents within an instantiated topology, and with a lifecycle management engine, modifying the instantiated topology based on a number of lifecycle management actions (LCMAs) determined to remediate the incidents.
US10177977B1
A method for deployment and upgrade of network devices in a network environment includes receiving (for example, at a switch being activated in the network environment), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) information (for example, from a DHCP server in the network environment). The DHCP information includes a filename and location of a script file. The method further includes downloading the script file from a script server in the network environment and executing the script file. Executing the script file includes copying a configuration file and one or more software images to a memory element of the switch, where the configuration file includes configuration settings relevant to at least a switch identity, and a switch location in the network environment, installing the software images on the switch, rebooting the switch, applying configuration settings from the configuration file to the software images, and saving the configuration file to the memory element.
US10177971B2
An operation management device includes a processor that executes a procedure including: for plural nodes that includes plural nodes operating as virtual computers on one or more computers and that plural nodes that have a dependency relationship, deriving group information indicating the plural nodes having the dependency relationship on a basis of communication information from when the inter-node communication; and based on location information of the respective plural nodes included in the derived group information, determining operation information indicating that plural nodes included in the group information operate on a single computer, or operation information indicating that the plural nodes included in the group information respectively operate on plural computers, for the plural nodes included in the group information.
US10177970B2
The present application discloses a method and apparatus for controlling a database connection. A specific embodiment of the method comprises: receiving an access request for a database sent by a terminal; determining whether a database connection pool comprises an idle database connection for the database; reusing the idle database connection to connect the terminal with the database if the database connection pool comprises the idle database connection for the database; and establishing a new database connection, in order to connect the terminal with the database by utilizing the new database connection if the database connection pool comprises no idle database connections. This embodiment effectively utilizes fewer database connections to support database access requests.
US10177969B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for troubleshooting interruptions of service from a telecommunications network and providing potential remedies to restore the interrupted service to the customer. The system may utilize a service path mapping system to determine the network elements, components, connections, and/or ports included in providing a particular service to a customer and obtain data from several databases of the telecommunications network related to the service path. Once collected, the data may be correlated utilized to diagnose or identify a source of the service interruption in the service path to begin to restore the interrupted service. In one embodiment, an analysis of the provided information provides an output a probability of potential sources of the service interruption. This information may then be utilized to restore the service to the customer with minimal or no involvement with network engineers or field technicians.
US10177968B2
An aspect includes detecting a recurring intermittent error in a path of a network in a system that includes at least one data transmission port configured for connection to at least one shared data storage device via a plurality of paths of the network. It is determined whether a cause of the recurring intermittent error is a previous path recovery action. In response to determining that the cause of the recurring intermittent error is not a previous path recovery action, the data transmission port is prevented from accessing the path for a specified time period by moving the path into a degraded sub-state, and subsequent to the specified time period the data transmission port is provided access to the path. In response to determining that the cause of the recurring intermittent error is a previous path recovery action, the data transmission port is provided access to the path.
US10177967B2
A system can include circuitry that processes a URL for information; circuitry that transmits at least a portion of the information via a network interface; circuitry that receives metadata via the network interface responsive to the transmission of at least a portion of the information; circuitry that associates at least a portion of the metadata with a short URL; and circuitry that transmits the short URL. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
US10177966B2
A vehicle control system includes electronic controllers and first and second communications networks. The electronic controllers control a vehicle including an internal combustion engine and a drive motor. The electronic controllers include a management controller to manage travel control of the vehicle and a motor drive controller to control the drive motor. The first and second communications networks connect the electronic controllers together. The electronic controllers communicate via the first and second communications networks. The motor drive controller is configured to stop the drive motor when it is determined that a fault has occurred in the first communications network and configured to transmit information indicating that the fault has occurred in the first communications network to the management controller via the second communications network. The management controller is configured to control the electronic controllers not to communicate via the first communications network in response to the information.
US10177964B2
A system and method to identify a call end associated with a problem that caused failure of an internet protocol-based call. The method includes accessing a first call detail record (CDR) set including at least one CDR associated with a first call end of the failed call, determining from the first CDR set indicators of failure attribution of the failed call, determining whether fault for failure of the failed call is attributed to the first call end based on the indicators of failure attribution; outputting an indication that the fault is attributed to the first call end if it was determined that the fault is attributed to the first call end, and outputting the indication to indicate the first call end is acquitted of the fault if it was determined the fault is not attributed to the first call end.
US10177961B2
A method for the recognition of spatial proximity relationships in a modular system having module assemblies, each module assembly having a transmitter and a receiver arranged so that the transmitter of a first module assembly corresponds to the receiver of a second module assembly, and each of the module assemblies having a network connection for connection via a communication network to other of the module assemblies, includes: automatically requesting and allocating a network address for each of the respective network connections via the communication network so as to enable an addressing of the module assemblies via the network; and determining spatial proximity relationships of the module assemblies by triggering and evaluating the transmitters and receivers using the communication network via the network connection.
US10177960B2
The present invention provides a system and method for multi-tiered data synchronization. Data is synchronized between a master synchronization server, one or more proxy synchronization servers, and client devices. Client devices establish synchronization sessions with either a proxy synchronization server or a master synchronization server, depending on which server provides the “best” available connection to that client device. Each proxy synchronization server synchronizes data with client devices that have established a synchronization session with such proxy synchronization server. The master synchronization server synchronizes data with client devices that have established a synchronization session with the master synchronization server. Each proxy synchronization server synchronizes data with the master synchronization server. Metadata associated with synchronized files is synchronized throughout the system in real-time. Files may be synchronized in real-time or at a delayed time.
US10177950B2
A receiver for spread spectrum signals comprising a first part for preprocessing and digitizing a received signal, and a second part for tracking the digitized signal comprising a carrier loop and a code loop. The code loop comprises a generator for a reference receiver signal for correlation with the received signal and the code loop is configured to modify the reference signal to shape a correlation function between the received signal and the reference receiver signal. The first part is adapted to multiply the received spread spectrum signal with a first analog spectral offsetting signal provided for down-converting the received signal to an intermediate frequency and a sub-carrier frequency, selected from a set of sub-carrier frequencies, such that the received signal is down-converted and spectrally offset in the analog domain during a time interval covering at least one chip of a spreading code of the received signal.
US10177945B1
A method and apparatus for adapting, in parallel, two operating parameters associated with an equalizer circuit is disclosed. A control circuit may be configured to initialize a first operating parameter to an initial value, and modify a second operating parameter based upon the initial value of the first parameter. In response to determining a peak amplitude of an output signal of the equalizer circuit is less than a threshold value, the control circuit may be further configured to select a new value for the first operating parameter and adapt, in response to the change in the first operating parameter, the second operating parameter based on a performance metric of the equalizer circuit.
US10177944B2
An electronic device includes a clock recovery circuit, a converter circuit, and a decoder circuit. The clock recovery circuit generates a reference clock. The converter circuit generates a conversion value that corresponds to a difference between a phase of reception data and a phase of the reference clock. The decoder circuit analyzes a reception characteristic of an antenna based on conversion values that corresponds to a start-of-frame (SOF) marker. The decoder circuit decodes a conversion value that corresponds to encoded data following the SOF marker in the reception data, with reference to the analyzed reception characteristic, into a digital value.
US10177943B2
Systems and techniques relating to channel degradation detection for communication systems are described. A described system includes a processor and an interface to transmit signals and receive signals via a channel that includes a cable. The processor can be configured to perform echo cancellation based on echo tap values to remove portions of the transmitted signals that appear as echoes within the received signals, signal equalization based on equalizer tap values, or both. The processor can be configured to determine a channel quality indicator of the channel based on one or more of the echo tap values, one or more of the equalizer tap values, or both. The processor can be configured to generate a warning indication based on the channel quality indicator indicating a degradation of the cable or the channel.
US10177935B2
Disclosed is a data transfer system capable of efficiently transferring broadcast and multicast packets when a virtual network is configured in a network arranged over multiple domains. The data transfer system is equipped with: a first data transfer server for tunnel end points which belong to a first domain; and a second data transfer server for tunnel end points which belong to a second domain. The first data transfer server, upon receiving a packet from a tunnel end point in the first domain, transfers the packet to the second data transfer server and to the tunnel end points in the first domain other than the packet transfer source tunnel end point, and the second data transfer server, upon receiving the packet from the first data transfer server, transfers the packet to the tunnel end points in the second domain.
US10177933B2
Controllers can be used to control the operation of various accessories. Controllers with access to a particular accessory (or group of accessories) can be organized into a controller network to facilitate control. The controller network can include various proxy devices including bridge and tunnel proxies that can relay messages to and from accessories, perform protocol translations, and/or provide communication security. Some proxy devices can include decision logic to enable coordinated control over one or more accessories by the controllers in the controller network.
US10177919B2
Various systems and methods for providing a mechanism for using fuzzy hashes for code signing are described herein. A build system for using fuzzy hashes for code signing including a file system to access a binary file; a signing engine to: generate a one-way hash of the binary; calculate a fuzzy hash of the binary; obtain a fuzzy hash of a second binary; and conditionally sign the one-way hash of the binary when the fuzzy hash of the binary differs less than a threshold amount from the fuzzy hash of the second binary.
US10177917B2
A technique is provided for extending a handshake communication between a communication device and an application server. The application server receives at least two messages from the communication device, each message comprising a handshake index and triggering a handshake session so that the application server negotiates with the communication device a set of cryptographic parameters. For each received message, the application server stores a negotiated set of cryptographic parameters in correspondence with a connection state index depending on the handshake index. The application server activates one of the stored sets of cryptographic parameters to establish a secured connection with the communication device.
US10177912B2
Content individualization, including: encrypting a first part of a source data set using a first key creating a first encrypted data set; encrypting a second part of the source data set using a second key creating a second encrypted data set; encrypting the second part of the source data set using a third key creating a third encrypted data set; and combining the first encrypted data set, the second encrypted data set, and the third encrypted data set to form a final encrypted data set. Key words include watermarking and content individualization.
US10177910B2
Obtaining a sealed secret. The method includes decrypting one or more BLOBs at a computing system from among a plurality of different BLOBs. Each of the BLOBs in the plurality of BLOBs contains the secret. Each of the BLOBs in the plurality of BLOBs is sealed to a different condition from among a plurality of conditions. A given condition is a reflection of a system state where the system state is indicative of whether or not the system can be trusted to receive the secret. The method further includes evaluating one or more of the conditions to determine if at least one of the one or more conditions is met. The method further includes, if at least one of the one or more conditions is met, then providing the secret to an external entity.
US10177906B2
The method for performing encryption including generating a secret key or a parameter for encrypting plaintext; converting the plaintext into ciphertext by using the secret key or the parameter; and transmitting the ciphertext to a database.
US10177904B2
Disclosed is a method of synchronization signal correlation, comprising receiving a synchronization signal (“SS”) on a plurality of receive antennas; performing a signal revision on the SS received on a first receive antenna, the signal revision comprising performing an element-wise squaring of the SS; calculating a complex coefficient by summing the element-wise squared SS; estimating a phase angle of the complex coefficient; and performing an element-wise phase correction of the SS; the method synchronization signal correlation further comprising performing the signal revision on the SS received on a second receive antenna; conditioning the revised signals by constructively and destructively combining the revised signals; selecting an optimized conditioned signal, wherein the optimized conditioned signal is the constructive or destructive combination with the largest Euclidian norm; correlating the optimized conditioned signal with a series of candidate SSs; and selecting the correlation with the largest magnitude as a transmitted SS.
US10177899B2
A receiver receives a first data stream and a second data stream from a transmitting device over a packet-based communication network, the first data stream being of a first media type (e.g. audio) and the second data stream being of a second media type (e.g. video). The first jitter buffer will buffer each of a plurality of portions of the first data stream as they are received via the receiver, and apply a de-jittering delay before outputting each portion of the first data stream (e.g. audio stream) to be played out through the receiving device. The jitter buffer controller receives information on the second data stream (e.g. video stream), and adapts the de-jittering delay of the first jitter buffer (e.g. audio jitter buffer) in dependence on the information on the second data stream (e.g. information on the video stream).
US10177890B2
A dual band spectrum allocation system and method for wireless data communications uses discrete bands for upstream and downstream data communications. A preferred embodiment uses unlicensed UNII bands for license-free data transmissions from a subscriber to a hub, and uses relatively interference free licensed bands for data transmissions from a hub to subscribers, thereby allowing use of greater bandwidth, simplifying system licensing and reducing filtering requirements for subscribers.
US10177887B2
A radio base station that communicates with a user terminal, and has a control section that executes control so that signals are time-division-multiplexed over a first radio resource region where symbols are multiplexed at a rate equal to or below a Nyquist rate and a second radio resource region where symbols are multiplexed at a faster rate than the Nyquist rate. The radio base station also includes a transmission section that transmits the signals that are time-division-multiplexed in the first radio resource region and the second radio resource region, to the user terminal to reduce the interference against predetermined signals in a radio communication system in which Faster-Than-Nyquist (FTN) is used.
US10177886B2
A method for configuring a cluster for a terminal device in a wireless network. The method is performed at a network node, such as a base station or a radio network controller. The terminal device can establish at least two concurrent connections to at least one network node in the cluster. The method comprises dynamically adjusting a configuration of the cluster and informing the terminal device of the adjusted configuration so that connectivity of the terminal device in the cluster is adapted to the adjusted configuration. Correspondingly, there is also provided an apparatus embodied at or as at least part of the network node.
US10177883B2
A signal transmission method and apparatus of a user equipment for a mobile communication system is provided for improving data transmission reliability and efficiency by transmitting data based on precise discrimination of the uplink transmission resource assignment messages indicative of initial transmission and retransmission. A signal transmission method of a user equipment for a mobile communication system receives an uplink transmission resource assignment message from a base station determines whether a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) buffer is empty, and when the HARQ buffer is empty, transmits to the base station a Media Access Control Protocol Data Unit (MAC PDU) generated with reference to information contained in the uplink transmission resource assignment message.
US10177881B2
An infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network is configured to transmit signals to one or more communications devices via a wireless access interface, and to receive signals from one or more of the communications devices via the wireless access interface. The wireless access interface provides communications resources arranged in time divided units of a carrier frequency bandwidth providing a plurality of blocks of communications resources, each of the time divided units comprising on a downlink of the wireless access interface a control channel for transmitting control channel messages and a shared channel, the control channel message allocating communications resources of the shared channel to the communications devices to receive the signals from the one or more infrastructure equipment. The infrastructure equipment is configured to transmit data, as a plurality of data units, to the one or more communications devices, each data unit being encoded for transmission in accordance with a repeat request-type process, the encoding providing an indication of whether the data has been received correctly by a communications device. Each of the data units is transmitted in one of a repeating number of consecutive time divided units according to a separately controlled repeat request-type process. The transmitter is configured to transmit a control message allocating resources of the shared channel for receiving a data unit of a repeat request-type process which is one or more time divided units after a time divided unit in which the control message is transmitted, and the number of repeat request-type processes in the repeating pattern of time divided units is increased from a first number in the first mode to a second number in the second mode.
US10177870B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems of assigning codes are disclosed. One method includes selecting a plurality of available codes, grouping links of a wireless network into a plurality of groups based on connectivity of the links between sectors of the wireless network, characterizing interference between at least one link of a first group of the plurality of groups and at least one link of a second group of the plurality of groups, and assigning at least one code of the plurality of available codes to the first group and at least one other code of the plurality of available codes to the second group based on the characterizing of the interference.
US10177868B2
Systems and methods to synchronize wireless device nodes in the presence of a FMCW radio altimeter are provided. In one embodiment, a wireless device network comprises: a plurality of device nodes that share a radio frequency spectrum using time-division multiple accesses; a network synchronizing device in wireless communication with the plurality of device nodes, the network synchronizing device coupled to a timeslot allocation function, wherein the timeslot allocation function allocates to the network synchronizing device a timeslot on a first designated synchronization channel within the radio frequency spectrum; wherein the network synchronizing device broadcasts an arbitrary timeslot synchronization beacon to the plurality of device nodes on the first designated synchronization channel in the timeslot; wherein the arbitrary timeslot synchronization beacon comprises a Sync Timeslot identifier that identifies the timeslot, and a Sync Time indicator that includes a time that the arbitrary timeslot synchronization beacon was transmitted.
US10177858B2
A method of encoding a plurality of data signals is disclosed. The method includes selecting a set of M ultrasonic frequencies, wherein each of the M ultrasonic frequencies differs from an adjacent frequency by at least a first frequency spacing, and wherein M is a positive integer. An encoder receives the plurality of data signals. Each of the plurality of data signals is encoded by a respective set of Q of the M ultrasonic frequencies, wherein Q is a positive integer less than M. A minimum frequency separation between any pair of the Q ultrasonic frequencies of any respective set is greater than the first frequency spacing.
US10177855B2
An amplitude adjustment circuit includes a memory that stores correspondence information between frequency distributions of an amplitude and adjustment coefficients, a processor configured to generate a frequency distribution of amplitude of data for which adaptive equalization processing has been executed, acquire the correspondence information between frequency distributions of the amplitude and adjustment coefficients from the memory, select the adjustment coefficient based on a result of comparison between the frequency distributions included in the correspondence information acquired by the acquiring unit and the frequency distribution generated by the generating unit, and adjust a gain of the data based on the adjustment coefficient selected by the selecting unit.
US10177854B2
A control circuit coupled to a light source and an optical modulator receives an electrical modulating signal with alternating active and idle temporal segments; the active temporal segments encode corresponding information. A portion of a source optical signal produced by the light source is transmitted by the modulator as the output optical signal. During idle temporal segments, the light source produces a non-zero source idle power level, and the modulator transmits at a constant idle transmission level. During active temporal segments, the light source produces a source average active power level, the modulator transmits at an average active transmission level that is higher than the idle transmission level, and the output optical signal is modulated in accordance with the electrical modulating signal, so that each active temporal segment of the output optical signal encodes the information of the corresponding active temporal segment of the electrical modulating signal.
US10177846B2
A transceiver device includes a time of flight circuit configured to emit a modulated light transmit signal and to receive a modulated light receive signal. The transceiver device includes a control module configured to control a transmission of a modulated light transmit signal by the time of flight circuit to an access control device. The modulated light transmit signal includes information related to a transmission access request. The control module is further configured to control an establishment of a wireless transmission channel based on a modulated light receive signal received by the time of flight circuit from the access control device. The modulated light receive signal includes information for establishing the wireless transmission channel.
US10177841B2
An electro-optic transceiver module, method of manufacturing, and method of transmitting signals are provided that allow multiple optical signals at different wavelengths (e.g., according to CWDM) to be combined for transmission via a number of optical fibers that is smaller than the number of electrical channels according to which the optical signals were generated. Thus, CWDM may be used in connection with lower-cost VCSEL technology (e.g., as opposed to higher-cost edge-emitting lasers) by providing for wavelength compensation at the VCSEL driver to offset any changes in wavelength that may have otherwise occurred at the VCSELs. In particular, a microcontroller of the electro-optic transceiver module correlates a monitored temperature of the VCSELs to an actual wavelength of the corresponding optical signals transmitted by the respective VCSELS and determined an adjustment in a current supplied by the VCSEL driver to each VCSEL to achieve more precise and consistent wavelengths at the VCSELs.
US10177836B2
A relay including a first transmitter that converts a first digital transmit signal to a first analog transmit signal, a first receiver that converts a first analog receive signal to a first digital receive signal, a second transmitter that converts a second digital transmit signal to a second analog transmit signal, a second receiver that converts a second analog receive signal to a second digital receive signal, and a self-interference canceller that generates a first self-interference cancellation signal based on at least one of the first digital transmit signal and the first analog transmit signal, and combines the first self-interference cancellation signal with at least one of the first digital receive signal and the first analog receive signal.
US10177828B2
A calibration system, in a transmitter chip, selects a first transmit path for a first transmit signal and a second transmit path for a second transmit signal. The plurality of transmit paths are associated with a plurality of antenna elements. A first signal parameter of the second transmit signal is adjusted relative to the first signal parameter of the first transmit signal to maximize a first signal strength value of an added signal or minimize a second signal strength value of a subtracted signal. An offset of the first signal parameter is calibrated based on the adjusted first signal parameter in the second transmit path. A value of a second signal parameter is calibrated based on a matching of the second signal parameter in the second transmit path relative to the second signal parameter in the first transmit path.
US10177825B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of beamformed communication with space block coding. For example, an apparatus may include a controller to control a plurality of antenna subarrays to form a plurality of directional beams directed in a plurality of different directions for communicating a multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) wireless transmission, which is encoded according to a space-block coding scheme.
US10177824B2
A signal processing method and a related device are provided. The signal processing method includes: determining that there are N directions for received signals corresponding to a same signal source; configuring beam directions of an antenna as the N directions; estimating delays of the N received signals received by using the antenna, and separately performing, by using the estimated delays of the N received signals, delay compensation on the N received signals to obtain N received signals obtained after delay compensation, where the N received signals are in a one-to-one correspondence with the N directions, and N is an integer greater than 1; and performing combining processing on the N received signals obtained after delay compensation. The technical solutions in embodiments of the present invention help increase a signal reception gain in a multipath scenario.
US10177822B2
In examples, Radio Frequency nodes of an array are synchronized using Time-Reversal. A Master node (“Master”) of the array receives and captures a sounding signal emitted by a Slave node (“Slave”) of the array, downconverts it to baseband, Time-Reverses the downconverted signal, upconverts the Time-Reversed signal to the carrier frequency using the Master's clock so that the upconverted signal has phase property of the Master's clock, and transmits the resulting signal to the Slave. The Slave receives the signal from the Master, and adjusts the phase of the Slave's clock so that the phases of the two nodes are aligned. Once phases, frequencies, and time references of the array's nodes are aligned, the array may be used for coherent operation. In examples, the array is used to transmit Time-Reversed signals so that the signals from the array's nodes are spatially and temporally focused on a target.
US10177807B2
A communication module includes a power amplifier that amplifies a transmission signal having a first communication system or a second communication system and outputs an amplified signal to a signal path, a switch circuit that switches between a signal path for the first communication system and a signal path for the second communication system and outputs the amplified signal to one of the signal paths for the first communication system and the second communication system in accordance with a control signal supplied in accordance with the communication system of the transmission signal, and an impedance-matching network disposed between the power amplifier and the switch circuit, the impedance-matching network including a first variable capacitance element. The first variable capacitance element has a capacitance value that is controlled in accordance with the communication system of the transmission signal.
US10177806B2
A system is disclosed, comprising: a wireless fronthaul access point coupled to a radio mast and in communication with a remote baseband unit, the wireless fronthaul access point further comprising a first millimeter wave wireless interface; and an antenna-integrated radio for providing access to user equipments (UEs), mounted within line of sight on the radio mast with the wireless fronthaul access point, the antenna-integrated radio further comprising: a second millimeter wave wireless interface configured to receive the digital I and Q signaling information from the remote baseband unit wirelessly via the wireless fronthaul access point, wherein the wireless fronthaul access point thereby wirelessly couples the remote baseband unit and the antenna-integrated radio.
US10177802B2
The terminal housing includes a first panel and a second panel, where a material of the first panel or a material of the second panel is glass. The first panel includes a first main face that is flat and straight and a first side face. The first main face has at least one first vertex angle, the first main face has two margins on two sides of the first vertex angle and connected to the first vertex angle, and cross sections in a through-thickness direction of the first panel and respectively vertical to the two margins connected to the first vertex angle are respectively a first through-thickness cross section and a second through-thickness cross section.
US10177801B2
A flip device case for an electronic device is described herein. The flip device case includes a recess and a border. The recess is to receive the electronic device via an opening in the recess. The border is to be coupled with the recess and includes a plurality of flexible points. Manipulation of the border at one or more of the flexible points is to configure the flip device case in a position.
US10177799B2
A computer mount is provided for securing a hand-held computer to a hand-held electronic scanner, such as a bar code or QR code scanner, or an RFID chip scanner. The computer mount includes an upper mount portion with a computer chamber for receiving and providing user access to the hand-held computer, and further includes a lower attachment portion for securing to the hand-held scanner. At least two upstanding sidewalls form the mount portion, optionally with a base wall extending therebetween, the sidewalls configured to engage in secure the hand-held computer. The attachment portion has at least two downwardly-extending sidewalls defining a scanner chamber at the lower attachment portion, the scanner chamber configured to receive a head of the hand-held scanner, while permitting normal functioning of the scanner.
US10177787B1
An apparatus having an interface and a control circuit is disclosed. The interface may be configured to process a plurality of read/write operations to/from a memory. The control circuit may be configured to (i) access information that characterizes a plurality of trapping sets of a low-density parity check code in response to receiving data, (ii) encode the data using the low-density parity check code to generate a codeword and (iii) write the codeword in the memory. The generation of the codeword may include at least one of a shortening and a puncturing of a plurality of bits in the codeword. The plurality of bits may be selected based on the information that characterizes the plurality of trapping sets. The bits selected generally reduce a probability that an error correction of the codeword after the codeword is read from the memory fails due to the plurality of trapping sets.
US10177786B2
A system implements adaptive desaturation for the min-sum decoding of LDPC codes. Specifically, when an-above threshold proportion of messages from check nodes to variable nodes (CN-to-VN messages) are saturated to a maximum fixed-precision value, all CN-to-VN messages are halved. This facilitates the saturation of correct messages and boosts error correction over small trapping sets. The adaptive desaturation approach reduces the error floor by orders of magnitudes with negligible add-on circuits.
US10177782B2
Methods and apparatuses relating to data decompression are described. In one embodiment, a hardware processor includes a core to execute a thread and offload a decompression thread for an encoded, compressed data stream comprising a literal code, a length code, and a distance code, and a hardware decompression accelerator to execute the decompression thread to selectively provide the encoded, compressed data stream to a first circuit to serially decode the literal code to a literal symbol, serially decode the length code to a length symbol, and serially decode the distance code to a distance symbol, and selectively provide the encoded, compressed data stream to a second circuit to look up the literal symbol for the literal code from a table, look up the length symbol for the length code from the table, and look up the distance symbol for the distance code from the table.
US10177769B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to logic devices, and more particularly, to magnetoelectric magnetic tunneling junction computational devices. Aspects of the disclosed technology include a stand-alone voltage-controlled magnetoelectric device that satisfies essential requirements for general logic applications, including nonlinearity, gain, concatenability, feedback prevention, and a complete set of Boolean operations based on the majority gate and inverter. Aspects of the present disclosed technology can eliminate the need for any auxiliary FETs to preset or complicated clocking schemes and prevents the racing condition.
US10177762B2
A control element comprising a support; a control part which defines at least one operating surface, which is movable or elastically yielding if an operating force F acts upon the operating surface; a layer structure that is disposed between the control part and the support and that is elastically deformed if an operating force F acts on the operating surface. The layer structure has at least one first electrode associated with the support and a second electrode, which is associated with the control part and disposed underneath the operating surface, for the definition of a measuring capacity varying in accordance with the operating force. The layer structure further has an intermediate layer having a recess which is disposed between the first and second electrodes for defining a hollow chamber; and means for venting the hollow chamber. The means for venting is integrated at least partially into the intermediate layer.
US10177760B1
A method to generate a circuit instance to include a plurality of pMOSFET instances, where each pMOSFET instance has a source terminal instance connected to one or more supply rail instances. The circuit instance includes impedance element instances, where each impedance element instance is connected to a source terminal instance and a drain terminal instance of a corresponding pMOSFET instance. Depending upon a set of requirements, one or more of the impedance element instances are in a high impedance state or a low impedance state.
US10177759B2
Switching circuitry includes first and second transistors in series between two terminals and including a common control node with a capacitance between the common control node and an intermediate point. A control circuit includes first and second circuits configured to charge and discharge the capacitance as a function of first and second control signals. The control circuit includes a third circuit having a plurality of diodes and a switch that operates when the voltage at the capacitance is greater than a threshold two diodes in cascade between the intermediate point and the common control node to enable current flow from the intermediate point to the common control node. When the voltage at the capacitance is smaller than the given threshold two diodes are connected in series between the common control node and the intermediate point to enable current flow from the common control node to the intermediate point.
US10177747B2
A high resolution capture circuit and integrated circuit chip are disclosed and include first and second capture delay lines and an oscillator delay line. The oscillator delay line includes N timing delay elements sequentially coupled in a ring to generate a first clock signal. The first and second capture delay lines each include M capture delay elements sequentially coupled to pass a received signal in a first direction along a first signal path and to pass a clock signal in a second direction opposite to the first direction along a second signal path. The first capture delay line uses the first clock signal and the second capture delay line uses an inverse of the first clock signal. Each capture delay element forms a flip-flop and provides a one-bit output. All delay elements have essentially identical timing and M is equal to either N or to N/2.
US10177740B2
A ladder filter includes a piezoelectric substrate, an insulating film on the piezoelectric substrate, first and second electrodes provided on the piezoelectric substrate and including a pair of busbars and plurality of electrode fingers, a first line electrode at least a portion of which is defined by the busbar at one side of the first electrode, a second line electrode at least a portion of which is defined by the busbar at one side of the second electrode, and a third line electrode laminated on the second line electrode. The first line electrode and the second line electrode are electrically connected to different electric potentials. The first line electrode is separated from the second line electrode by a predetermined distance. At least a portion of the third line electrode is overlapped with at least a portion of the first line electrode with the insulating film interposed therebetween in a laminating direction.
US10177738B2
An elastic wave device includes a longitudinally-coupled resonator surface acoustic wave filter including first to third IDTs and a parallel trap including a surface acoustic wave resonator. The longitudinally-coupled resonator surface acoustic wave filter is asymmetric with respect to a central axis of the second IDT, the central axis extending in a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the elastic-wave propagation direction on the piezoelectric substrate. When the duty ratio of an IDT of the surface acoustic wave resonator is denoted by D0 and the duty ratios of the first to third IDTs are respectively denoted by D1 to D3, the duty ratio D0 is between the highest of the duty ratios D1 to D3 and the lowest of the duty ratios D1 to D3.
US10177737B1
A high quality-factor electromechanical resonator that includes a tapered quartz crystal member having a first tapered portion, a second tapered portion, and an active portion between the first and second tapered portions, the active portion having a first edge portion and a second edge portion extending from the first tapered portion to the second tapered portion, each of the first and second portions being tapered along a longitudinal axis away from the active portion, a first electrode coupled to the first edge portion of the active portion and configured to apply a first voltage to the active portion, and a second electrode coupled to the second edge portion of the active portion and configured to apply a second voltage to the active portion, wherein the first and second electrodes are spaced apart along a lateral axis.
US10177736B2
A bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator includes: a plurality of acoustic reflectors disposed in a substrate; a lower electrode disposed over the plurality of acoustic reflectors; a piezoelectric layer disposed over the lower electrode; and a plurality of upper electrodes, disposed over the piezoelectric layer. One of the plurality of upper electrodes is formed over a respective one of the plurality of acoustic reflectors. Each of the plurality of upper electrodes, the piezoelectric layer, the lower electrode, and each of the acoustic reflectors form an individual active area.
US10177732B2
A piezoelectric thin film resonator includes: a substrate; a piezoelectric film located on the substrate and having a Poisson's ratio of 0.33 or less; a lower electrode and an upper electrode facing each other across the piezoelectric film; and an insertion film that is located in the piezoelectric film or on a lower surface or an upper surface of the piezoelectric film in an outer peripheral region within a resonance region, in which the lower electrode and the upper electrode face each other across the piezoelectric film, and is not located in a center region of the resonance region, wherein at least one of the lower electrode, the piezoelectric film, and the upper electrode in the outer peripheral region within the resonance region is thinner than the at least one of the lower electrode, the piezoelectric film, and the upper electrode in the center region of the resonance region.
US10177728B2
An electronic apparatus and a method for controlling the electronic apparatus are provided. The electronic apparatus includes an audio processor that outputs an audio including a first audio component and a second audio component and a controller that controls the audio processor to change a ratio of the first audio component to the second audio component according to the changed audio level, in response to receiving an instruction to change a level of the output audio.
US10177727B2
Mechanisms for controlling an audio level of an HDMI audio system are provided, the mechanisms comprising: causing audio data to be presented by an HDMI audio system at a current system volume level; receiving a requested volume level from a second screen device; and controlling a system volume level by: (a) determining the current system volume level; (b) determining a change in volume based on a difference between the requested volume level and the current system volume level; (c) determining a direction in which to cause the system volume level to change; (d) sending a volume control message to the system using a consumer electronic control bus connected to the system indicating whether to increase or decrease the system volume level based on the determined direction of system volume change; and (e) repeating (a)-(d) until the current system volume level reaches a predetermined value.
US10177722B2
A device includes a low-noise amplifier (LNA) and a matching circuit. The matching circuit is coupled to an output of the LNA and switchably coupled to at least one of a first and a second output of the device. The device may further include a power splitter switchably coupled between an output of the matching circuit and the first and/or the second output of the device.
US10177720B2
An electronic circuit for amplifying signals with two components in phase quadrature, which includes: a feedback amplifier with a feedback capacitor; a switch that drives charging and discharging of the feedback capacitor; an additional capacitor; and a coupling circuit, which alternatively connects the additional capacitor in parallel to the feedback capacitor or else decouples the additional capacitor from the feedback capacitor. The switch opens at a first instant, where a first one of the two components assumes a first zero value; the coupling circuit decouples the additional capacitor from the feedback capacitor in a way synchronous with a second instant, where the first component assumes a second zero value.
US10177718B2
This application relates to audio amplifier circuitry (100). An amplifier module (103) is located in a signal path between an input (101) and an output (102). A detection module (106) is configured to detect a characteristic of a load (104) electrically coupled, in use, to the output. A distortion setting controller (107) is provided for selecting one of a plurality of stored distortion settings {pi} based on the detected characteristic of the load; and a pre-distortion module (105) is configured to apply a first transfer function to a signal in the signal path prior to said amplifier module. The first transfer function is based on the selected distortion setting and for at least one of the stored distortion settings the corresponding first transfer function comprises a non-linear distortion function.
US10177712B2
A method and network equipment for controlling power amplification are disclosed. The method for controlling power amplification includes outputting a voltage signal according to the state of network equipment. When the network equipment is in an idle state, at least one power amplifier transistor is switched off according to a voltage signal.
US10177704B2
A mounting assembly to mount frames on a mounting surface, the mounting assembly having rails that supports the frames, each rail having an internal side adjacent with an internal recess, and an external side opposite to the internal side with lip; and roof mounting assemblies to affix the rails onto the mounting surface. Each mounting assembly having a mounting block that is fixable to the mounting surface, a mounting plate that is fixable to the mounting block, and a pair rail snap brackets formed at extremities of the mounting plate that receives and locks the rails in place, each rail snap bracket of the pair of rail snap brackets having a pair of notches that lodges in the internal recess of the rail to lock the rail in place and a hook that receives the lip.
US10177699B2
A motor control unit that extracts a higher harmonic component, which is contained in back-EMFs of the dq-axis control system, by means of Taylor expansion (Maclaurin expansion), and suppresses a torque variation by precisely correcting a gain and a phase of the higher harmonic component for a q-axis current command value and the electric power steering apparatus equipped with the same. The motor control unit drives a brushless motor having three or more phases by using a vector control on a dq-axis rotary coordinate system.
US10177696B1
An embodiment of an apparatus for adjusting a distance between an electrode and a liquid includes a control circuit and a sense circuit. The control circuit is configured to couple an applied calibration signal to the electrode, and to cause a motor to position the electrode a distance from the liquid in response to a sense signal. And the sense circuit is configured to generate the sense signal in response to the applied calibration signal. For example, such an apparatus can be configured for use as part of a system for producing a stable solution of suspended silver. As silver-containing electrodes shorten over time, and as the level of solution changes over time, the apparatus can move the electrodes toward or away from the solution to maintain the respective distance between each electrode and the solution within a range that has been shown to produce a solution of suitable quality.
US10177693B2
A motor drive device determines whether or not a combination of logic levels of sensor signals S1 to S3 is normal, whenever the logic levels of the sensor signals S1 to S3 are changed. Each of the sensor signals S1 to S3 indicates a rotation position of a rotor. When the combination is not normal, the number of the level changes in each of the sensor signals S1 to S3 is counted. When the count value of any one of the sensor signals reaches a threshold value Cth, supply of power to a motor is stopped.
US10177680B2
An electrical service interface system include a configurable device and inverter mounted to an equipment tower, wherein each of the configurable device and inverter include alignment devices configured to rollably mount the configurable device and inverter to corresponding guides mounted to a support pad, and to align the configurable device to the inverter, and the inverter to the equipment tower. In an installed configuration, the configurable device electrically and mechanically couples to the inverter via a DC connector and one or more mounting systems, and the inverter mechanically and electrically couples to the equipment tower via an AC connector and one or more mounting systems.
US10177678B2
Arrangements (1) for buffering energy comprise buffer capacitor circuits (10) with one or more buffer capacitors (11), first circuits (20) for guiding charging currents for charging the buffer capacitor circuits (10), and second circuits (30) with current source circuits (31-34) for defining amplitudes of de-charging currents for de-charging the buffer capacitor circuits (10), to better control the de-charging of the buffer capacitor circuits (10). The second circuits (30) may further comprise trigger circuits (51-53) for bringing the current source circuits (31-34) into activated modes, and latch circuits (61-63) for latching the current source circuits (31-34). The arrangements (1) may further comprise smoothing capacitor circuits (40) with one or more smoothing capacitors (41). The buffer capacitor circuits (10) may be coupled serially to the first circuits (20), and the first and second circuits (20, 30) may be coupled in parallel to each other.
US10177677B2
An inverter structure for a vehicle is provided. The inverter includes a capacitor for receiving direct current supplied from a battery, a power module assembly including a plurality of power modules and a plurality of coolers, and an output bus-bar connected to the plurality of power modules to output three-phase alternating current to a motor. In particular, inside of the power module, power modules of a plurality of power modules are connected to the capacitor to convert the direct current into the three-phase alternating current, and coolers of a plurality of coolers are alternately stacked one above another such that each cooler comes into contact at its upper and lower surfaces with adjacent power modules to enable heat transfer.
US10177676B2
An object of the present invention is to reduce wire inductance without damaging manufacturability of a power converter. A power converter according to the present invention includes a power semiconductor module, a capacitor, and DC bus bars and. The capacitor smooths a DC power. The DC bus bars and transmit the DC power. The DC bus bars and include a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal connects to the power semiconductor module. The second terminal connects to the capacitor. The DC bus bars and form a module opening portion to insert the power semiconductor module. The DC bus bars and form a closed circuit such that a DC current flowing between the first terminal and the second terminal flows to an outer periphery of the module opening portion.
US10177666B2
A method for regulating an output of a power converter includes receiving a signal from an auxiliary winding of an energy transfer element of the power converter. The energy transfer element includes an input winding coupled to an input of the power converter, an output winding coupled to the output of the power converter, and the auxiliary winding. The signal represents a line input voltage of the power converter during at least a portion of an on time of a power switch coupled to the input winding. The signal represents an output voltage of the power converter during at least a portion of an off time of the power switch. The power switch is switched in response to the signal to regulate the output of the power converter.
US10177665B2
Systems and methods are provided for signal processing. An example error amplifier for processing a reference signal and an input signal associated with a current of a power conversion system includes a first operational amplifier, a second operational amplifier, a first transistor, a second transistor, a current mirror component, a switch, a first resistor and a second resistor. The first operational amplifier includes a first input terminal, a second input terminal and a first output terminal, the first input terminal being configured to receive a reference signal. The first transistor includes a first transistor terminal, a second transistor terminal and a third transistor terminal, the first transistor terminal being configured to receive a first amplified signal from the first output terminal, the third transistor terminal being coupled to the second input terminal.
US10177657B2
A switching power stage for producing an output voltage to a load may include a configurable switched mode power converter and a controller. The power converter may include a power inductor, a plurality of switches arranged to sequentially operate in a plurality of switch configurations, and an output for producing the output voltage, the output comprising a first output terminal and a second output terminal. The controller may be configured to, for at least one range of magnitudes of the output voltage, control the plurality of switches to operate in at least three switching phases per switching cycle of the power converter in order to generate the output voltage, wherein switching cycles of the power converter are substantially approximately equal in period and control the plurality of switches to apply for each of the at least three switching phases a respective switch configuration of the plurality of switch configurations.
US10177654B1
In one or more embodiments, a method comprises comparing an output voltage for a multi-phase DC-DC switching power converter to a reference voltage to produce an error voltage. The method further comprises, for a first inductor, generating a first dual-ramp voltage signal having a first DC voltage level, and level-shifting the first dual-ramp voltage signal to form a second dual-ramp voltage signal having a second DC voltage level different from the first DC voltage level. Further, the method comprises switching on a first power switch coupled to the first inductor according to a duty cycle determined responsive to a comparison of the second dual-ramp voltage signal to the error voltage, where the level-shifting of the first dual-ramp voltage signal adjusts the duty cycle of the first power switch to balance a current in the first inductor with a current in a second inductor for the multi-phase DC-DC switching power converter.
US10177639B2
An actuator includes a movable body including a cylindrical magnet portion, an immovable body including pole tooth faces and a coil, and a torsion coil spring supporting a movable body to the immovable body. The coil receives an alternating current of a frequency substantially equal to a resonance frequency of the movable body and excites the pole tooth faces to have alternately different polarities in the circumferential direction. One end of the torsion coil spring is fixed to one end of a rotary shaft of the movable body and other end is fixed to the immovable body. The torsion direction of the torsion coil spring is arranged to be coaxial with the rotary shaft. The torsion coil spring supports the movable body to enable the movable body to vibrate at the resonance frequency of the movable body.
US10177636B2
A method of manufacturing a laminated core includes inserting permanent magnets 14 into magnet insertion holes 12, 12a of a core body 13; injecting a resin 18 into the holes 12, 12a from resin reservoir pots 17 in the die 15 (16) to fix the magnets 14; placing a dummy plate 19 between the die 15 having the pots 17 and the body 13, the plate 19 having gate holes 35, 35a guiding the resin 18 from the pots 17 into the holes 12, 12a, the hole 35 (35a) overlapping with both of a part of the hole 12 (12a) and a surface of the body 13; poring the resin 18 via the holes 35, 35a and curing the resin 18 in the holes 12, 12a; and separating the plate 19 from the body 13 to remove the resin 18 overflowed from the holes 12, 12a.
US10177627B2
Described is a bearingless motor based upon a homopolar flux-biased magnetic bearing for force generation and a hysteresis motor for torque generation. The bearingless slice motor levitates and rotates a ring-shaped rotor made of a semi-hard magnetic material. The rotor is biased with a homopolar permanent-magnetic flux, on which 2-pole flux can be superimposed to generate suspension forces. Torque is generated by a hysteretic coupling between the rotor and a rotating multi-pole stator field.
US10177613B2
A rotor includes a circular rotor core, a plurality of θ magnets, and ring-shaped Z magnets. The rotor core has a plurality of magnet holding sections formed radially with a rotating shaft as the center. The θ magnets are contained in and held by the magnet holding sections such that the same magnetic poles of adjacent magnets face each other in a circumferential direction of the rotor core. The rotor core is such that N-poles and S-poles are alternately formed in a circumferential direction of an outer circumferential surface of the rotor core. The Z magnets are such that N-poles and S-poles are alternately formed circularly on an opposed face of the auxiliary magnet facing an end face of the rotor core in a direction of the rotating shaft.
US10177610B2
A stator includes a stator core, an insulating body, a coil, and a resin-molded product. The stator core includes a circumferentially side surface and an axially upper surface. The insulating body includes a side wall and an upper wall. The side wall covers the circumferentially side surface of the stator core. The upper wall covers the axially upper surface of the stator core. A radially inner side end surface of the upper wall is positioned farther toward a radially outer side than a radially inner side end surface of the side wall. The resin-molded product covers the coil.
US10177604B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for controlling wireless power transfer systems. A wireless power transfer system includes a transmitter driven by a power source and a transmit controller, wherein the transmitter is configured to control delivery of wireless power, and a receiver inductively coupled to the transmitter, the receiver configured to receive the wireless power from the transmitter and deliver the received wireless power to a load. The receiver includes receiver electronics configured to determine a Thevenin equivalent impedance of the wireless power transfer system, determine a Thevenin equivalent source voltage of the wireless power transfer system, and control, based on the determined Thevenin equivalent impedance and the determined Thevenin equivalent source voltage, an ideal source voltage of the receiver to vary the amount of the wireless power transferred from the transmitter to the receiver.
US10177602B2
A synchronous rectifier using only n-channel devices in which the low-side switches are effectively cross-coupled using low-side comparators and the high-side switches perform an accurate zero-voltage-switching (ZVS) comparison. The charging path of each bootstrap domain is completed through the low-side switches, which are each always on for every half-cycle independent of loading. This scheme gives rectifier efficiency gain because a) each bootstrap domain receives maximum charging time, and b) the charging occurs through a switch rather than a diode. Both these factors ensure the bootstrap domain is fully charged, thereby reducing conduction losses through the rectifier switches. Furthermore, settings may be adjusted by software to optimize the resistive and capacitive losses of the rectifier. Using data for die temperature and operating frequency, software can create a feedback loop, dynamically adjusting rectifier settings in order to achieve the best possible efficiency.
US10177595B2
A portable wireless sensor includes a power source, a sensor, a wireless communication circuit and a sensor control circuit obtaining data from the sensor and transmitting the data to outside through the wireless communication circuit, in which the power source includes a secondary battery, a power reception circuit receiving electric power supply in a non-contact manner, and a power source control circuit controlling charging of the secondary battery with the electric power received by the power reception circuit. The wireless sensor includes a standard mode to transmit the data obtained from the sensor to outside through the wireless communication circuit, and a diagnosis mode to diagnose at least one of the secondary battery and the sensor portion in a case where the power reception circuit receives electric power supply in a non-contact manner.
US10177593B2
A method establishes a wireless communication connection between a vehicle communication unit of a vehicle and a charging station communication unit of a charging station. The method includes the transmission of a low-frequency signal via a LF transmission unit of the vehicle, wherein the LF request signal displays an identifier relating to the vehicle. The method also includes the receiving of the LF request signal via an LF receiving unit of the charging station. The method further includes the transmission of information relating to the identifier in a broadcast message via the charging station communication unit, as well as the receiving of the broadcast message via the vehicle communication unit. In addition, the method includes the checking of whether the broadcast message comprises the information relating to the identifier, and the establishing of a wireless communication connection between the vehicle communication unit and the charging station communication unit, if the broadcast message comprises the information relating to the identifier.
US10177592B2
A wireless power transmitter is disclosed. The wireless power transmitter, which is capable of charging a plurality of wireless power receivers, includes: a plurality of coil cells; a main half-bridge inverter to which a main pulse signal is applied; a plurality of sub half-bridge inverters to which a first sub pulse signal or second sub pulse signal is applied; a current sensor that monitors the current through the coil cells; and a communications and control unit that controls the pulse signals applied to the main half-bridge inverter and sub half-bridge inverters and that communicates with the wireless power receivers, wherein the sub half-bridge inverters may be respectively connected to the coil cells.
US10177591B2
A power-transmitting device transmits AC power generated in an inverter circuit to a power receiving device in a wireless manner by magnetically coupling a power-transmitting coil to a power-receiving coil of the power receiving device. The power-transmitting device is provided with a power transmission controller which controls the aforementioned inverter circuit to change the AC power in accordance with information relating to the state of power transmission to a load connected to the power-receiving device.
US10177585B2
A mechanism for charging an electronic device with a retractable cord reel. The device maintains a substantially continuous converted power source connection during operation, including operations adjusting the length of the retractable cord.
US10177584B2
Electrical charging devices and assemblies are provided herein. An example apparatus includes an electronics tray including a forwardly disposed locking platform, an electronics assembly in sliding relationship with the electronics tray, the electronics assembly having locking members that mate with the forwardly disposed locking platform when the electronics assembly is translated forwardly, and a stabilizer that pivots downwardly when the electronics assembly is translated forwardly.
US10177575B2
When one operates an energy system at its maximum energy utilization point (MEUP) consistently, one can receive the most amount of energy benefit from the system. The practical MEUP tracking technologies operate a generator at a voltage for maximum power extraction and to produce near-maximum power; incorporate the invented surplus energy extraction devices to near-perfectly extract all power generated; temporarily store the surplus energy into designed energy reservoirs; add the invented supply devices to combined the energy from the extractor and from the reservoirs; prepare and deliver the right amount of power to exactly satisfy the instantaneous demand. Thus effectuates finding and tracking the MEUP of the energy system.
US10177567B2
A power supply apparatus and an electronic apparatus are provided. The power supply apparatus includes: a plurality of power supplies arranged as a single array; a switch disposed between the plurality of power supplies configured to control connection states of the plurality of power supplies; and a controller configured to control the switch to connect the plurality of power supplies in parallel when a first event requiring a voltage less than a predetermined reference voltage occurs, and configured control the switch to connect the plurality of power supplies in series when a second event requiring a voltage exceeding the predetermined reference voltage occurs.
US10177556B2
A power supply clamp connectable between power rails of an electronic circuit comprises a switching component which is switchable to provide a connection path between the power rails of the electronic circuit; a first detector configured to detect an electrostatic discharge event having a first characteristic time period and to generate a detector output signal in response to the detection; a series of one or more successive intermediate amplification stages between the first detector and the switching component, the series of amplification stages providing a control signal path for a control signal to control switching of the switching component in response to the detector output signal; and a second detector configured to detect an electrostatic discharge event having a second characteristic time period, shorter than the first characteristic time period, the second detector being provided at a node in the control signal path subsequent to the first detector (for example, at a second or subsequent one of the series of intermediate amplification stages) so that a detection by the second detector causes the control signal to control switching of the switching component.
US10177549B2
An interconnection and insulation module is provided that is arranged to locate about a plurality of busbar pairs. Each busbar pair includes first and second busbars with an inter-busbar gap in between. The module includes opposed sides which accommodate the busbar pairs between them. Corresponding windows are formed through the opposed sides of the module and busbar separators extend from interior surfaces of the opposed sides. The bus bar separators locate inter-busbar gaps for each busbar pair between one or more of the corresponding windows. Passages are defined between the corresponding windows of the opposed sides via the inter-busbar gaps for insertion of an electrical interconnection member. In use busbars can be readily interconnected by aligning their respective modules against each other and applying electrical interconnection members through the windows.
US10177546B2
A communications cable (11) is provided with a pliant sleeve (12, 21, 31) to allow it to be more easily inserted into a conduit (50). One form of the sleeve (12) has hook (14) and loop (15) connected to each other so that the sleeve (12) can engage the cable (11). Another form of the sleeve (21) is spring-loaded to engage the cable (11). In a third form of the sleeve (31) has an adhesive (33) which attaches the sleeve (31) to the cable (11). Whatever form the sleeve cable takes, when in the conduit (50), the conduit (50) is divided for the ease of insertion of a second sleeved cable and it is not necessary to install a separate conduit divider into the conduit.
US10177544B2
Withdrawable contactor trucks for a circuit breaker have a cradle with a motorized drive system comprising an electric motor in the cradle. The motorized drive system is configured to move the contactor truck in a controlled path between a withdrawn position and a levering-in position in a switchgear compartment.
US10177532B2
A light emitting element array includes plural light emitting elements connected in parallel to each other by a wiring connected to a terminal configured to supply a current. The number of light emitting elements which have the shortest path length among path lengths on the wiring from the terminal to the respective light emitting elements along a path of the current is one.
US10177528B1
A light-emitting device mounting package includes a substrate, a lead pin supported on the substrate, and an insulating member having a facing front surface which faces the front surface of the substrate and a facing back surface. The substrate has a first through hole and the ceramic plate has a second through hole. The lead pin has a shaft portion which penetrates the first and second through holes, a head portion provided at one end of the shaft portion, and a collar portion which extends from the shaft portion in the radial direction. The lead pin is fixed, via the collar portion, to a region of the facing back surface of the ceramic plate around an opening of the second through hole, and the ceramic plate is fixed to a region of the front surface of the substrate around an opening of the first through hole.
US10177526B1
Light beams from multiple emitters, such as lasers, arranged in two or more arrays are combined by beam-superposition using a dispersive element, such as a diffraction grating, to provide a combined output beam with increased power. Each emitter produces light of a controlled wavelength that is incident upon the diffraction grating at a corresponding selected incidence angle to produce a diffracted wave that propagates in an output direction and forms a component of the combined output beam. First and second arrays are located on opposing sides of the combined output beam and are arranged such that light from all of the emitters overlaps to form the combined output beam. The wavelengths may be controlled by an external resonator, for example. As many as four arrays may be combined using a two-dimensional diffraction grating.
US10177522B2
Disclosed is a method of Controlling a gain of an optical amplifier comprising a gain medium and at least one pumping device. The method comprises the following steps: determining or predicting a change of input signal power to the amplifier, changing the pump power from an initial pump power level to a new pump power level at a first time instant, the initial pump power level being the pump power level applied to the amplifier prior to the change in input signal power, setting the pump power to a second pump power level at a second time instant, wherein the pump power level is varied in an oscillatory manner for at least one period of time starting at a third time instant and ending at a fourth time instant, wherein said third time instant is identical with or later than said first time instant and said fourth time instant is identical with or earlier than said second time instant.
US10177509B1
An electrical receptacle mounting apparatus, having a base portion, made of insulating material, and including a partial enclosure, defining a cavity having a mouth and a through-hole, and being positioned and shaped to prevent water flowing through the through-hole out of the cavity. Also, a panel, extends outwardly for more than 4 cm about the mouth and a telescoping tubular extension, made of insulating material, is fitted into the cavity, so that cavity and extension together are sized to fit a one, two or three electrical receptacles. Additionally, a bolt has a longitudinal segment that is rotatably engaged to a first one of the base portion and the extension, and has a threaded portion being in threaded engagement to a second one of the base portion and the extension, so that rotation of the threaded element causes the extension to move in telescoping manner relative to the cavity.
US10177504B2
An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a base and a tongue; an upper and lower rows of contacts secured to the housing and exposed respectively to an upper and lower surfaces of the tongue; a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing, the shielding shell having a pair of holes; and a metallic shield attached to the shielding shell, the metallic shield having a main part, the main part having a pair of spring tangs extending rearward through the pair of shielding shell holes, respectively; wherein the metallic shield main part is spaced a distance from the shielding shell.
US10177496B2
A plug connection for coupling a first and a second electrical connection of a first high-voltage component to a first and a second electric connection of a second high-voltage component, wherein the plug connection is provided with a housing in which is arranged as a first pair of high-volt terminals for coupling to the first and the second electric connection of the high-voltage component as well as a second pair of high-voltage terminals for coupling to the first and to the second electric connection of the second high-voltage component, wherein at least the first and the second high-voltage terminal are mounted so that they are movable relative to the second pair of connections of the plug connection in the housing.
US10177479B2
A terminal pair including a first terminal provided with a first contact portion and a second terminal provided with a second contact portion. The first contact portion includes a composite covering layer having a Sn—Pd based alloy phase and a Sn phase, and has a surface including the Sn—Pd based alloy phase and the Sn phase. The second contact portion includes a Cu—Sn alloy layer and a Sn layer covering part of the Cu—Sn alloy layer, and has a surface including a Cu—Sn alloy region corresponding to an exposed portion of the Cu—Sn alloy layer and a Sn region corresponding to an exposed portion of the Sn layer. A coefficient of friction for sliding movement between the first contact portion and the second contact portion is lower than a coefficient of friction for sliding movement between the two first contact portions and between the two second contact portions.
US10177468B2
A heat-shrinkable protective element having at least one protective layer is obtained from a polymeric composition having a polymer material, where the polymeric composition additionally has an electrically conducting filler having a BET specific surface of at least 100 m2/g according to Standard ASTM D 6556.
US10177466B2
The present invention provides a piercing-through structure for a connector, comprising a hollow-core body, a lead, and a receptacle. Wherein a front connection portion is disposed at a front end of the hollow-core body; a plurality of wires extending forward is disposed at a front end of the lead disposed at a rear segment in the hollow-core body; and a plurality of metallic spikes is disposed at a front end of the connector of the receptacle and a connection sleeve movably fits around a front end of the body. So that connecting the hollow-core body and the receptacle together enables the connection sleeve of the receptacle to fit around the front connection portion of the hollow-core body, allowing the metallic spikes to pierce across surfaces of the wires such that, after piercing insulating sheaths of the wires, the metallic spikes come into contact with metallic cores of the wires, so as to achieve electrical connection of the connector of the receptacle and the wires of the hollow-core body.
US10177463B2
The present disclosure discloses an antenna system that includes a first antenna for transmitting and receiving data and having an electrical length that is equal to its resonant electrical length; a second antenna for receiving data and having an electrical length that is less than its resonant electrical length. The present disclosure also discloses a corresponding electronic apparatus.
US10177460B2
A satellite system can include one or more satellites that orbit the Earth. The one or more satellites may have satellite buses that support antenna arrays. The antenna arrays may include space fed arrays. Each space fed array may have an antenna feed array and an inner array that is coupled to a direct radiating array. The direct radiating array may operate in the same satellite band as the space fed array, or upconversion and downconversion circuitry may be used to communicatively couple a direct radiating array that operates in a different satellite band to the space fed array. The satellites may have peripheral walls with corner fittings that can be selected to provide the satellite bus with particular leg strengths. This can reduce overall mass of the satellites in a payload fairing while accommodating different types of antenna arrays.
US10177458B2
A radio system includes: a radio device; an antenna device; and a polarization converting circuit for changing the directions of polarized waves, inserted at a position between the radio device and the antenna device. The polarization converting circuit is installed inside a holder in a device interface portion, and the device interface portion has a through hole that penetrates from the outer wall of the device interface portion to the outer periphery of the polarization converting circuit and is used to confirm the rotating angle of the polarization converting circuit inside the holder.
US10177456B2
A log-periodic antenna including one set of three radiating elements with log-periodic patterns, each radiating element including a succession of radiating dipoles distributed on either side of a rectilinear electrically conducting line, perpendicular to the line, a first radiating element having a rectilinear electrically conducting line substantially perpendicular to the first face of the substrate, the first ends of the electrically conducting lines of the various radiating elements being substantially aligned along a direction parallel to the first face, the rectilinear electrically conducting lines of the second and third radiating elements being situated in a same plane as the rectilinear electrically conducting line of the first radiating element and inclined with respect to the electrically conducing line of the first radiating element, the radiating dipoles of the three radiating elements being substantially perpendicular to the plane which contains the rectilinear electrically conducting lines of the three radiating elements.
US10177451B1
Wide band adaptive beam forming methods and systems are provided. The beam forming methods can include receiving signals at multiple antenna elements and digitizing samples of the received signals for some period of time. The samples are divided into sub-channels according to frequency, and interferers are identified as signals appearing across at least some minimum number of the sub-channels. After removing signals not identified as interferers from the collected signal information, that information is used to calculate weights for forming a beam having a null at the identified location of the interferer. The beam forming systems include multiple element antennas having arms in the form of a spiral, and processing hardware for performing adaptive beam forming.
US10177450B2
An electronic device includes a frame, a baseboard, and at least one ground portion. The frame is formed of at least one conductive material. The baseboard is received in the frame and is spaced from the frame. The baseboard and the frame cooperatively form a gap. The baseboard includes a feed point electrically connected to the frame. One end of each ground portion is electrically connected to the frame and another end of each ground portion is grounded through a high pass filter (HPF).
US10177445B1
Communication structure for communication with a mobile communication apparatus includes a signal conduction module having an array of antenna units; and a signal transceiving module including a signal transceiving unit, control unit, and power control unit. The control unit generates a driving signal to the power control unit, which generates a voltage to the signal transceiving unit; the signal transceiving unit generates a corresponding spectrum signal, transferred by the signal conduction module. The mobile communication apparatus receives the spectrum signal and transfers a first feedback signal. The first feedback signal, after being received by the signal conduction module, is transferred to the signal transceiving unit, which generates a second feedback signal to the control unit, the control unit identifies the second feedback signal and generates a control signal to the signal conduction module; the array of antenna units is controlled by the control signal correspondingly to enhance communication quality.
US10177439B2
An antenna structure includes a metallic member, a first matching circuit, and a second matching circuit. The metallic member includes a front frame, a backboard, and a side frame. The side frame defines a slot. The front frame defines a first gap and a second gap communicating with the slot and extending across the front frame. A portion of the front frame between the first gap and the second gap forms a first radiating section. One end of the first feed portion connects to the first radiating section, the other end connects to a first feed source and a second feed source through an extractor of the first matching circuit; an end of the first radiating section adjacent to the second gap connects to a ground through an third inductor and an third capacitor of the second matching circuit. A wireless communication device using the antenna structure is provided.
US10177433B2
The disclosure concerns a low-profile mounting apparatus for use with installation and aesthetic positioning of distributed antenna systems (DAS) and other similar antenna modules. The mounting apparatus is used to minimize the exposed profile of an installed antenna module.
US10177432B2
A disclosed example embodiment includes an antenna assembly for use in a well logging system. The antenna assembly includes a flexible, non-conductive cylindrical core having an outer surface and an electrically conductive path positioned on the outer surface of the core. The electrically conductive path forms an electromagnetic coil operable to transmit or receive electromagnetic energy. The electrically conductive path is formed on the core without winding a wire around the core using, for example, a removal process selected from the group consisting of milling, machining, etching and laser removal, an additive process selected from the group consisting of printing with conductive and dielectric inks and silk screening with conductive and dielectric epoxies or an integrated material deposition process such as a multi-material 3D printing process. The antenna assembly may be flexible mounted on a tubular member during assembly of a well logging tool.
US10177426B2
An air battery includes a negative electrode, an air electrode, and an electrolyte that is interposed between the negative electrode and the air electrode. The air electrode includes: an oxygen evolution reaction layer for charging that is provided on an electrolyte side of the air electrode and contains an oxygen evolution reaction catalyst containing no carbon; an oxygen reduction reaction layer for discharging that is provided on an opposite side of the air electrode from the electrolyte and contains an oxygen reduction reaction catalyst containing carbon; and a current collector that is provided between the oxygen evolution reaction layer and the oxygen reduction reaction layer or in the oxygen evolution reaction layer.
US10177423B2
A temperature control device for a battery may include a fluid duct being flowable at least one of through and around by a fluid. The fluid duct may be delimited by at least one duct wall composed of an electrically conductive material. An outer side of the duct wall facing away from the fluid may include at least one electrically insulating insulation layer disposed thereon via at least one of a screen printing process and a stencil printing process. The at least one insulation layer may be composed of a plastic material.
US10177422B2
Provided is a battery module including: a case partitioned by a plurality of separation walls disposed in parallel with each other to be spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance and having a plurality of space parts formed therein; at least one battery cell included in each of the space parts of the case; at least one cooling member having an opened one side coupled to the case, having a passage formed therein when being coupled to the case, and having an inlet in communication with a start point of the passage and an outlet in communication with an end point of the passage; an injecting pipe in communication with the inlet of the cooling member; a discharging pipe in communication with the outlet of the cooling member; and a plurality of cooling fins attached to the other side of the cooling member in parallel with each other.
US10177419B2
Methods and systems are described of managing a battery system. The battery system including at least one battery cell and one or more sensors configured to measure a temperature of the at least one battery cell. The method includes receiving a measurement of the temperature of the at least one battery cell, estimating an open circuit potential of the at least one battery cell, estimating a capacity fade of the at least one battery cell based on the open circuit potential of the at least one battery cell and a ratio of a change in the open circuit potential relative to a change in the temperature of the at least one battery cell, and regulating at least one of charging or discharging of the at least one battery cell based on the estimation of the capacity fade.
US10177416B2
A drying method includes a step of heating an object to be dried provided in a drying chamber to a predetermined temperature, a step of maintaining the predetermined temperature, a step of increasing an air pressure inside the drying chamber to a predetermined air pressure that is higher than an atmospheric pressure, and a step of decreasing the air pressure inside the drying chamber to be lower than the predetermined air pressure.
US10177407B2
Provided is a secondary battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte solution. The nonaqueous electrolyte solution includes a boron compound having a quaternary structure expressed by Formula (1).
US10177405B2
An electrochemical cell and its method of operation includes an electrolyte having a binary salt system of an alkali hydroxide and a second alkali salt. The anode, cathode, and electrolyte may be in the molten phase. The cell is operational for both storing electrical energy and as a source of electrical energy as part of an uninterruptible power system. The cell is particularly suited to store electrical energy produced by a renewable energy source.
US10177396B2
A method for generating electricity comprising the steps:(A) passing a concentrated ionic solution through a first pathway in a reverse electrodialysis unit comprising a membrane stack having electrodes and alternating cation and anion exchange membranes; and(B) passing a dilute ionic solution through a second pathway in said reverse electrodialysis unit, whereby solute from the concentrated solution in the first pathway passes through the membranes to the dilute solution in the second pathway, thereby generating electricity; wherein the concentration of solute in the dilute ionic solution as it enters the reverse electrodialysis unit is at least 0.03 mol/l.
US10177394B2
In a fuel cell system, a preceding-stage fuel cell and a following-stage fuel cell are connected via a fuel flow path. The fuel cell system includes a reformer that supplies reformed gas to the preceding-stage fuel cell; an acquisition unit that acquires the amount of heat generation and the amount of heat absorption of the preceding-stage fuel cell; and a control unit that controls at least one of the amount of current of the preceding-stage fuel cell, the flow rate of air to be supplied to the reformer, and the temperature of the preceding-stage fuel cell if the amount of heat absorption acquired by the acquisition unit is larger than the amount of heat generation acquired by the acquisition unit.
US10177393B2
A method for controlling a fuel cell (12) includes the following steps: measuring the fluid pressure in a first compartment from the anode and cathode compartments of the fuel cell (12); calculating a first target pressure for the fluid pressure in the second compartment of the fuel cell (12), the first target pressure depending on the fluid pressure measured in the first compartment; stabilizing the fluid pressure in the second compartment to the first target pressure; measuring the fluid pressure in the second compartment; calculating a second target pressure for the fluid pressure in the first compartment, the second target pressure depending on the fluid pressure measured in the second compartment; and stabilizing the fluid pressure in the first compartment at the second target pressure.
US10177381B2
A cathode material for an alkali metal/sulfur cell, which encompasses at least one sulfur-containing cathode active material and at least one transition metal sulfide and/or at least one metal sulfide of at least one metal of the third, fourth, and/or fifth main group. Also described is a cell and a battery equipped therewith.
US10177374B2
A silicon-containing negative active material may include a silicon particle and a coating layer surrounding the silicon particle, and the coating layer may include carbon and a metallic particle.
US10177373B2
A positive electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, including primary particles of a lithium nickel composite oxide represented by the formula: LibNi1-x-yCoxMyO2 wherein M represents at least one element selected from Mg, Al, Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Nb, Zr and Mo; b represents a number satisfying 0.95≤b≤1.03; and x represents a number satisfying 0
US10177370B2
A positive electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode combination material having a positive electrode active material that produces a potential of 4.5 V or higher on the basis of metal lithium, a first conduction aid of carbon black, a second conduction aid of non-graphitizable carbon, and a binder. A ratio (SC1/SC2) of a surface area SC1 of the first conduction aid to a surface area SC2 of the second conduction aid is 6.5 to 70, and a sum SE of a surface area SA of the positive electrode active material in the positive electrode combination material and a surface area SC of the first conduction aid and the second conduction aid is 90 cm2/cm2 to 400 cm2/cm2 or less per unit coated area of the positive electrode combination material.
US10177362B2
Provided is a composition for a non-aqueous secondary battery functional layer capable of forming a functional layer for a non-aqueous secondary battery that can provide a battery component with high blocking resistance and cause excellent adhesiveness to be displayed before and after immersion in electrolysis solution. The composition contains a particulate polymer having a core-shell structure including a core portion and a shell portion partially covering an outer surface thereof. The core portion is formed by a polymer having a glass transition temperature of −50° C. to 60° C. and a degree of swelling in electrolysis solution of at least a factor of 5 and no greater than a factor of 30. The shell portion is formed by a polymer having a glass transition temperature of 50° C. to 200° C. and a degree of swelling in electrolysis solution of greater than a factor of 1 and no greater than a factor of 4.
US10177356B1
An automotive battery mounting structure may include a battery tray connected to one of a pair of front side members disposed on a lower side of an engine compartment, and a battery secured to the battery tray. A transmission mount and a leg bracket may be coupled to the front side member, and the battery tray may be coupled to the transmission mount and the leg bracket by a plurality of fasteners.
US10177355B2
A battery pack includes a first frame, a second frame, and assembled batteries. The first frame includes a top edge and a bottom edge. The top edge includes an inner projecting piece, an outer projecting piece distanced from the inner projecting piece, an outer depressed part, and an inner depressed part. The bottom edge includes a center projecting piece that is disposed in a position corresponding to a gap between the inner projecting piece and the outer projecting piece when the bottom edge is engaged with the top edge of another first frame and that has a thickness fitting this gap, and an outer engagement projection and an inner engagement projection provided in positions corresponding to the outer depressed part and the inner depressed part.
US10177349B2
Provided is a secondary battery, including a bare cell including a terrace-shaped part on a side thereof; an insulation film attached to the terrace-shaped part; and a thermal protection device on the insulation film. The thermal protection device includes a transfer part; and a first lead terminal and a second lead terminal on both sides of the transfer part. The insulation film includes an opening overlapping the transfer part. The transfer part directly contacts the terrace-shaped part through the opening.
US10177346B2
A substrate unit, a display device, and a method for manufacturing the display device are disclosed. The method for manufacturing the display device includes the steps of: providing a first carrier plate and forming a first interlayer on the first carrier plate; disposing a first glass substrate on the first interlayer to form a first substrate unit; forming a first device layer on the first glass substrate to obtain a first device substrate; providing a second carrier plate and forming a second interlayer on the second carrier plate; disposing a second glass substrate on the second interlayer to form a second substrate unit; combining the first device substrate with the second substrate unit; separating the first glass substrate from the first interlayer; and separating the second glass substrate from the second interlayer to obtain the display device.
US10177344B2
A display panel and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The display panel includes: a substrate, a display element located on the substrate, and a thin-film encapsulation layer located on the display element. The thin-film encapsulation layer includes at least one first encapsulation material layer and at least one second encapsulation material layer; the refractive index of the first encapsulation material layer is different from that of the second encapsulation material layer; wherein, at least one of the first encapsulation material layers is provided with a plurality of grooves; the grooves are filled with the second encapsulation material layer above the first encapsulation material layer provided with a plurality of grooves.
US10177342B2
A display device includes a substrate, a barrier layer, a transistor, and a first impact buffer layer. The barrier layer is disposed on the substrate. The transistor is disposed on the barrier layer. The first impact buffer layer is disposed between the barrier layer and the transistor. The first impact buffer layer includes a nanostructure. The nanostructure includes pores.
US10177341B2
The present application relates to a laminate for encapsulation, an organic light emitting apparatus, and methods for manufacturing the same, and process costs may be reduced and productivity may be significantly enhanced by manufacturing the organic light emitting apparatus using the laminate for encapsulation through a roll process.
US10177332B2
Disclosed are an organic light-emitting display panel and an organic light-emitting display device. The organic light-emitting display panel comprises: a substrate, a second electrode, a light-emitting layer, a first hole transport layer and a first electrode that are successively laminated, wherein, the materials of both the first electrode and the second electrode are silver or silver-containing metallic materials, the material of the first hole transport layer is a conductive material doped with a P-type semiconductor material and a P-type semiconductor material layer is set between the first hole transport layer and the first electrode.
US10177330B2
An organic light emitting display device comprises two emission portions between first and second electrodes, wherein at least one among the two emission portions includes two emitting layers, whereby efficiency and a color reproduction ratio may be improved.
US10177329B2
Provided are an organic light-emitting diode (“OLED”) including a bottom electrode, a top electrode disposed opposite to the bottom electrode, and an organic layer that is interposed between the bottom electrode and the top electrode and includes a hole-transporting host and an electron-transporting host forming an exciplex and a phosphorescent dopant having a triplet energy which is lower than the triplet energy of the hole-transporting host, the triplet energy of the electron-transporting host, and the triplet energy of the exciplex, and a lighting device and a display apparatus including the OLED. Instead of a phosphorescent dopant, the fluorescent dopant having a singlet energy which is lower than the singlet energy of the exciplex may be also used.
US10177328B2
An electronic device includes: a nanocarbon material; a pair of electrodes that is electrically connected to the nanocarbon material; a lower layer that is formed under the nanocarbon material and is made of at least one kind of a molecular material having a doping function; and an upper layer that is formed on the nanocarbon material and is made of at least two kinds of molecular materials having doping functions whose polarities are reverse to each other, in which the nanocarbon material constitutes one type selected from among an NPN structure, a PNP structure, an N+P−P+ structure, and a P+N−N+ structure in a region between the pair of electrodes by the lower layer and the upper layer. By this constitution, a highly reliable electronic device including a band gap formed by the molecular materials and using the nanocarbon material as a channel with a relatively simple structure is fabricated.
US10177325B2
Inorganic-organic hybrid IB-VII semiconductor compounds, in which a Group IB transition metal halide salt is coordinated with an organic heteroaromatic ligand, wherein at least one ring atom of said heteroaromatic ligand is a heteroatom independently selected from N, O and S and the Group IB metal of the halide salt is coordinated to a ring heteroatom. Also disclosed are semiconductor and light emitting devices comprising these materials, including light emitting diodes, and methods of preparing these materials and devices.
US10177324B2
Provided is a white organic electroluminescent device, composed of a substrate, an anode layer, an anode modification layer, a hole transporting-electron blocking layer, a hole-dominated light-emitting layer, an electron-dominated light-emitting layer, a hole blocking-electron transporting layer, a cathode modification layer, and a cathode layer arranged in turn, wherein the electron-dominated light-emitting layer is composed of an organic sensitive material, a blue organic light-emitting material, and an electron-type organic host material. A rare earth complex having a matched energy level, such as Tm(acac)3Phen or Dy(acac)3phen is selected as the organic sensitive material, and a trace amount of the same is doped into the electron-dominated light-emitting layer, which has the function of an energy transporting ladder and a deep binding center for charge carriers, so as to improve the light-emitting effectiveness, spectral stability, and service life of the device, reduce the operating voltage of the device, and delay the attenuation of the effectiveness of the device.
US10177321B2
A metal complex and an organic light-emitting component are disclosed. In an embodiment, the metal complex includes the following structural formula I:
US10177318B2
Bis-Indole compounds are disclosed and used as hosts to improve the organic electroluminescent devices (OLEDs) performance.
US10177317B2
An organic light emitting display device is provided. The organic light emitting display device includes at least two or more light emitting parts each having a light emitting layer and an electron transport layer; and a charge generation layer between the at least two or more light emitting parts. The charge generation layer comprises a compound that includes a core with two nitrogen atoms and a functional group having crystallinity.
US10177311B1
A resistive random access memory (RRAM) cell includes a substrate, a transistor having a gate on the substrate and a source/drain region in the substrate, a first inter-layer dielectric layer covering the transistor, a contact plug disposed in the first inter-layer dielectric layer and landing on the source/drain region, a resistive material layer conformally covering a protruding upper end portion of the contact plug, and a top electrode on the resistive material layer.
US10177307B2
Disclosed is a method of fabricating a magnetic memory device. The method of a fabricating a magnetic memory device includes forming an interlayer dielectric layer on a substrate, forming a sacrificial pattern in the interlayer dielectric layer, forming a magnetic tunnel junction pattern on the sacrificial pattern, after forming the magnetic tunnel junction pattern, selectively removing the sacrificial pattern to form a bottom contact region in the interlayer dielectric layer, and forming a bottom contact in the bottom contact region.
US10177304B1
Methods of forming a high sensitivity Hall effect sensor having a thin Hall plate and the resulting devices are provided. Embodiments include providing a SOI substrate having a sequentially formed Si substrate and BOX and Si layers; forming a first STI structure in a first portion of the Si layer above the BOX layer, the first STI structure having a cross-shaped pattern; forming a second STI structure in a frame-shaped pattern in a second portion of the Si layer; the second STI structure formed outside and adjacent to the first STI structure; removing a portion of the Si layer between the first and second STI structures down to the BOX layer; removing the first STI structure, a cross-shaped Si layer remaining; and implanting N+ dopant ions into each end of the cross-shaped Si layer to form N+ implantation regions.
US10177301B2
A method of fabricating a piezoelectric/conductive hybrid polymer thin film is provided, which is promoting an electric output of a piezoelectric polymer and includes: a mixing step including: forming a piezoelectric solution by dissolving a PVDF-TrFE in an active solvent; forming a conductive solution by dissolving a PEDOT:PSS in a water; and forming a piezoelectric/conductive hybrid polymer solution by mixing the piezoelectric solution and the conductive solution; a filming step, wherein the piezoelectric/conductive hybrid polymer solution is heated, thus the piezoelectric/conductive hybrid polymer thin film is formed; and an anneal step, wherein the piezoelectric/conductive hybrid polymer thin film is recrystallized and a nano-sized protruding structure is formed on a surface of the piezoelectric/conductive hybrid polymer thin film.
US10177300B2
A piezoelectric ceramic may be slightly deformed by firing, and a manufacturing method therefor, and an electronic component are disclosed. There is provided a piezoelectric ceramic including a plurality of crystal grains including a lead zirconate titanate-type crystal containing Zn, and Bi, and crystal grain boundaries existing between a plurality of the crystal grains, wherein a plurality of the crystal grains include first crystal grains, and wherein the first crystal grains have a content of at least one element of Zn and Bi present in the inside of the first crystal grains that is smaller than the content of the at least one element present in an area including the crystal grain boundaries that are in contact with the crystal grains. The piezoelectric ceramic is slightly deformed by firing and is capable of forming an electronic component which has little warp or deformation even if it is thin.
US10177298B1
A Josephson junction device and methods for manufacture can include an untwinned YBa2Cu3Ox nanowire having crystallographic a- and b-axes. The nanowire can be established from YBa2Cu3Ox film (6.0≤x≤7.0) using a photolithography process, followed by an ion milling process, to yield the YBa2Cu3Ox nanowire. The crystallographic b-axis of the nanowire can be parallel to the long dimension of the nanowire. First and second gate structures can be placed on opposite sides of the nanowire across from each other, to establish first and second microgaps. A gate voltage can be selectively applied across the first and said second gate structures, which can further establish a selective electric field across the first and second microgaps. The electric field can be parallel to the nanowire crystallographic a-axis, to selectively cause an at will Josephson junction effect.
US10177294B2
Embodiments provide an illumination apparatus including a light emitting module including a board, at least one light emitting device disposed in a first region of the board and drive devices disposed in a second region of the board, a heat dissipation member, and dummy pads disposed around the at least one light emitting device, the heat dissipation member including a base, a core, and heat dissipation fins connected to the side surface of the core and the lower surface of the base. The first region is one region of the upper surface of the board, located within a designated range from the center of the board, and the second region is another region of the upper surface of the board, spaced apart from the first region by a first distance and spaced apart from the edge of the upper surface of the board by a second distance.
US10177289B2
A mounting substrate that includes external connection electrodes on a rear surface of a base material, and mounting electrodes on a front surface of the base material. In-hole electrodes connect the external connection electrodes and the mounting electrodes. A reflective film containing Al is located between the base material and the mounting electrodes. The reflective film is covered with an insulating film layer.
US10177283B2
An LED package with trenches traversing a die pad to provide a mechanical interlock mechanism to strengthen bonding between the die pad and an insulator such that de-lamination is less likely to occur between the die pad and the insulator. A chip carrying region is defined by a barrier portion formed by the insulator in the trenches and in gaps between electrodes and the die pad, such that a light converting layer is confined within the barrier portion.
US10177282B2
A method for manufacturing a package includes a step of injecting a first resin through an injection port of a dies in which a lead frame has been placed. The method includes a step of cutting out a portion of a border between a first electrode and a first connection portion running through a first through hole, and cutting out a portion of a border between a second electrode and a second connection portion running through a second through hole after molding the first resin. The method includes a step of electroplating the first and second electrodes. The method includes a step of cutting out a remaining portion of the border between the first electrode and the first connection portion, and cutting out a remaining portion of the border between the second electrode and the second connection portion.
US10177280B2
A light emitting diode include a light emitting chip, a first reflecting layer surrounding the light emitting diode chip, a first encapsulation layer and a second encapsulation layer covering on the light emitting diode chip. The light emitting chip has a light exiting surface, a first electrode and a second electrode. the first electrode and the second electrode are located opposite to the light exiting surface. Further, a second reflecting layer surrounds the periphery of the light emitting chip and also locates between the first encapsulation layer and the second encapsulation layer. A reflectivity of the first reflecting layer is greater than a reflectivity of the first reflecting layer. A bottom surface of the first electrode and the second electrode are exposed from the first reflecting layer.
US10177277B2
In a flip chip type light-emitting diode, a light-emitting diode structure possesses one unique layer with properties of both thermal conduction and electrical isolation disposed on its second contact metal layer. A first dielectric layer covers the light-emitting diode structure. A first-level metal interconnect is divided into three blocks, which are disposed on the first dielectric layer and are respectively connected to a first contact metal layer, the second contact metal layer, and the insulated heat-transfer layer. A first bonding pad structure, a second bonding pad structure, and a heat-dissipating pad structure, forming a second-level interconnect metal layer, are disposed on a second dielectric layer and respectively connected to the blocks of the first-level metal interconnect. The first bonding pad structure, the second bonding pad structure, and the heat-dissipating pad structure are respectively disposed on a first electrode, a second electrode, and a heat-dissipating electrode of a circuit board.
US10177276B2
There is provided a Group III nitride semiconductor light-emitting device exhibiting improved crystallinity while suppressing abnormal growth of semiconductor layer due to pits and a production method therefor. In forming an n-side electrostatic breakdown preventing layer, pits are generated from the n-side electrostatic breakdown preventing layer. In forming an n-side superlattice layer, the layer is formed by alternately depositing a first InGaN layer and a GaN layer having an In composition ratio lower than that of the first InGaN layer, so that the In composition ratio and the total thickness of the first InGaN layers satisfy the following equation: 0
US10177273B2
A UV light emitting device includes: an n-type contact layer including an AlGaN layer or an AlInGaN layer; a p-type contact layer including a AlGaN layer or an AlInGaN layer; and an active layer of a multi-quantum well structure placed between the n-type contact layer and the p-type contact layer. The active area of the multi-quantum well structure includes barrier layers and well layers. The well layers include electrons and holes present according to probability distributions thereof. The barrier layers are formed of AlInGaN or AlGaN and have an Al content of 10% to 30%. At least one of the barrier layers disposed between the well layers has a smaller thickness than of the well layers and at least one of the barrier layers placed between the well layers has a thickness and a band gap preventing electrons and holes injected into and confined in a well layer adjacent to the barrier layer from spreading into another adjacent well layer.
US10177268B2
An optical device includes: (1) an emitter; (2) a detector disposed adjacent to the emitter; (3) an encapsulation layer encapsulating the emitter and the detector; (4) a dielectric layer disposed on the emitter, the detector and the encapsulation layer; (5) a redistribution layer disposed on the dielectric layer and electrically connected to the emitter and the detector; and (6) a light shielding structure disposed on the encapsulation layer and corresponding to a location between the emitter and the detector.
US10177265B2
An anisotropic conducting adhesive is improved in conductivity without increasing the density of admixed conductive particles by inducing metallic fusion between the surfaces of the conducting particles and the surfaces being bonded. The metallic fusion may be promoted by physical/chemical interaction characteristic of certain materials at a compressed interface; by compression sufficient to deform the conductive particles in a manner that increases the mechanical contact area; by heating (with or without melting of a material), which may also serve to cure the adhesive matrix; or by acoustic vibration, e.g., ultrasonic vibration. The resulting metallic-fusion joint is stronger, as well as more conductive, than a joint in which the particles and surfaces are held in unfused mechanical contact.
US10177263B2
Materials and methods for preparing Cu2XSnY4 nanoparticles, wherein X is Zn, Cd, Hg, Ni, Co, Mn or Fe and Y is S or Se, (CXTY) are disclosed herein. The nanoparticles can be used to make layers for use in thin film photovoltaic (PV) cells. The CXTY materials are prepared by a colloidal synthesis in the presence of labile organo-chalcogens. The organo-chalcogens serves as both a chalcogen source for the nanoparticles and as a capping ligand for the nanoparticles.
US10177260B2
Laser foil trim approaches for foil-based metallization of solar cells, and the resulting solar cells, are described. For example, a method of fabricating a solar cell includes attaching a metal foil sheet to a surface of a wafer to provide a unified pairing of the metal foil sheet and the wafer, wherein the wafer has a perimeter and the metal foil sheet has a portion overhanging the perimeter. The method also includes laser scribing the metal foil sheet along the perimeter of the wafer using a laser beam that overlaps the metal foil sheet outside of the perimeter of the wafer and at the same time overlaps a portion of the unified pairing of the metal foil sheet and the wafer inside the perimeter of the wafer to remove the portion of the metal foil sheet overhanging the perimeter and to provide a metal foil piece coupled to the surface of the wafer.
US10177258B2
A semiconductor device comprising at least two holes (18, 20) realized in a substrate (6), having each a width and a depth, and forming a diode (4), wherein the substrate (6) has a determined type of doping, wherein the inner wall of each hole (18, 20) is doped so that its doping is of the other type than the doping of the substrate (6), and wherein the width and/or the depth of a hole (18, 20) is different from the width and/or the depth of a neighboring hole.
US10177255B2
A semiconductor device may include a substrate, a fin above the substrate and having a channel region therein, and source and drain regions adjacent the channel region to generate shear and normal strain on the channel region. A semiconductor device may include a substrate, a fin above the substrate and having a channel region therein, source and drain regions adjacent the channel region, and a gate over the channel region. The fin may be canted with respect to the source and drain regions to generate shear and normal strain on the channel region.
US10177248B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body including a base region and two semiconductor mesas separated from each other by an insulated trench gate structure extending from a first side into the base region, and including a dielectric layer separating a gate electrode from the semiconductor body. Each semiconductor mesa includes, in a cross-section perpendicular to the first side, a body region forming a pn-junction with the base region, a latch-up-safety region of the same conductivity type as the body region arranged between the body region and the first side, and having a higher doping concentration than the body region, and an emitter region between the dielectric layer and the latch-up-safety region and forming a pn-junction with the body region. At least one semiconductor mesa includes an emitter contact arranged between the emitter region and the latch-up-safety region and forming with the latch-up-safety and emitter regions an Ohmic contact.
US10177245B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is disclosed. A substrate is provided. A dummy gate stack is formed on the substrate. The dummy gate stack includes a gate dielectric layer and an amorphous silicon dummy gate on the gate dielectric layer. The amorphous silicon dummy gate is transformed into a nano-crystalline silicon dummy gate. A spacer is formed on a sidewall of the nano-crystalline silicon dummy gate. A source/drain region is formed in the substrate on either side of the dummy gate stack.
US10177242B2
A semiconductor arrangement and method of formation are provided. The semiconductor arrangement comprises a conductive contact in contact with a substantially planar first top surface of a first active area, the contact between and in contact with a first alignment spacer and a second alignment spacer both having substantially vertical outer surfaces. The contact formed between the first alignment spacer and the second alignment spacer has a more desired contact shape then a contact formed between alignment spacers that do not have substantially vertical outer surfaces. The substantially planar surface of the first active area is indicative of a substantially undamaged structure of the first active area as compared to an active area that is not substantially planar. The substantially undamaged first active area has a greater contact area for the contact and a lower contact resistance as compared to a damaged first active area.
US10177236B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: setting a plurality of main semiconductor wafers and a plurality of sub semiconductor wafers in a load lock chamber of an electrode forming equipment; repeating a wafer-transfer and electrode-formation process of transferring at least one of the main semiconductor wafers from the load lock chamber to the film formation chamber in a state where the load lock chamber and the film formation chamber are decompressed and then forming a surface electrode on a surface of the at least one main semiconductor wafer transferred in the film formation chamber; removing the main semiconductor wafers on which the surface electrodes have been formed and the sub semiconductor wafers from the electrode forming equipment without forming an electrode on the sub semiconductor wafers by the electrode forming equipment; and making the surface electrodes Schottky-contact the main semiconductor wafers.
US10177235B2
A method of forming two or more nano-sheet devices with varying electrical gate lengths, including, forming at least two cut-stacks including a plurality of sacrificial release layers and at least one alternating nano-sheet channel layer on a substrate, removing a portion of the plurality of sacrificial release layers to form indentations having an indentation depth in the plurality of sacrificial release layers, and removing a portion of the at least one alternating nano-sheet channel layer to form a recess having a recess depth in the at least one alternating nano-sheet channel layers, where the recess depth is greater than the indentation depth.
US10177233B2
A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a gate insulating film and a gate electrode. A first main surface is provided with a trench defined by a side surface penetrating a third impurity region and a second impurity region to reach a first impurity region, and a bottom provided continuously with the side surface. In a stress test in which a gate voltage of at least one of −10 V and 20 V is applied to the gate electrode for 100 hours at a temperature of 175° C., where a threshold voltage before the stress test is defined as a first threshold voltage and a threshold voltage after the stress test is defined as a second threshold voltage, an absolute value of a difference between the first threshold voltage and the second threshold voltage is not more than 0.25 V. The second threshold voltage is not less than 2.5 V.
US10177227B1
The present disclosure provides methods for forming horizontal gate-all-around (hGAA) structure devices. In one example, a method includes selectively and laterally etching a first group of sidewalls of a first layer in a multi-material layer, wherein the multi-material layer comprises repeating pairs of the first layer and a second layer, the first and the second layers having the first group and a second group of sidewalls respectively, the first group of sidewalls from the first layer exposed through openings defined in the multi-material layer and a group of inner spacers formed atop of the second group of sidewalls from the second layer, forming a recess from the first group of sidewalls of the first layer and defining a vertical wall inward from an outer vertical surface of the inner spacer formed atop of the second layers, and forming an epi-silicon layer from the recess of the first layer.
US10177205B2
A display device including a plurality of first electrodes arranged in a display region above a substrate, each of the plurality of first electrodes being in common with n (n is an integer of 2 or more) number of light emitting elements, a bank having a recess part and partitioning the n number of light emitting elements with the recess part as a boundary in each of the plurality of first electrodes, a light emitting layer arranged above the plurality of first electrodes throughout the display region, and n groups of second electrodes arranged above the light emitting layer and electrically separated with the recess part as a boundary.
US10177202B2
A double-sided emissive organic display device includes a carrier, a control element layer structure above the carrier, a plurality of first organic light emitting components, which are formed above the carrier, which are electrically connected to the control element layer structure and which are driven by means of the control element layer structure during the operation of the double-sided emissive organic display device and emit first light substantially in a direction toward the carrier, and a plurality of second organic light emitting components, which are formed above the control element layer structure and which are electrically connected to the control element layer structure and which are driven by means of the control element layer structure during the operation of the double-sided emissive organic display device and emit second light substantially in a direction away from the carrier.
US10177192B2
An image sensor is provides. The image sensor may include first and second photodiodes, a first color filter shared by the first and the second photodiodes, and first and second floating diffusion regions coupled to the first and the second photodiodes, respectively.
US10177191B1
A method for forming an image sensor device is provided. The method includes providing a substrate. The substrate has a front surface and a back surface, and the substrate has a light-receiving region and a device region. The method includes forming a first transistor and a first source/drain structure respectively in the light-receiving region and the device region. The first transistor includes a first gate structure, a light-sensing structure, a second source/drain structure, the first gate structure is over the front surface, the light-sensing structure and the second source/drain structure are formed in the substrate and are respectively located at opposite first sides of the first gate structure, the first source/drain structure is formed in the substrate, and the first source/drain structure is electrically connected to the second source/drain structure. The method includes forming a light-blocking layer over the back surface.
US10177188B2
A semiconductor package including a substrate, a memory chip on the substrate, a mold layer on the substrate to cover a side surface of the memory chip, an image sensor chip on the memory chip and the mold layer, and a connection terminal between and electrically connecting the memory chip to the image sensor chip may be provided.
US10177185B2
A method for forming a high dielectric constant (high-κ) dielectric layer on a substrate including performing a pre-clean process on a surface of the substrate. A chloride precursor is introduced on the surface. An oxidant is introduced to the surface to form the high-κ dielectric layer on the substrate. A chlorine concentration of the high-κ dielectric layer is lower than about 8 atoms/cm3.
US10177176B2
To prevent light leakage and compensate for a step between a display region and a non-display region, a thin film transistor array substrate can include a base substrate having a display region and a non-display region, a plurality of pixel regions defined by gate lines and data lines crossing each other in the display region of the base substrate, a common line corresponding to between adjacent pixel regions, a thin film transistor and a color filter in each pixel region, a first dummy color filter between the adjacent pixel regions, a second dummy color filter in the non-display region on the base substrate, the second dummy color filter being provided at an upper surface thereof with at least one recess, and a protective film over the entire surface of the base substrate to cover the first and second dummy color filters and fill the recess.
US10177173B2
A touch drive circuit and a driving method therefor, an array substrate and a touch display apparatus relate to a field of display. The driving method includes: during touch scanning time period in one frame, by each of output control unit (2), receiving a touch enable signal, a common voltage signal and a touch scanning signal, and receiving an output signal of an shift register unit connected with the output control unit; and outputting, by each of the output control units, the touch scanning signal to a touch drive electrode connected with the touch control unit in a first time period according to the touch enable signal and the output signal of the shift register unit connected with the output control unit, wherein the first time period is scanning time allocated to the touch drive electrode in one frame of time.
US10177169B2
A FinFET comprises a hybrid substrate having a top wafer of (100) silicon, a handle wafer of (110) silicon, and a buried oxide layer between the top wafer and the handle wafer; a first set of fins disposed in the top wafer and oriented in a <110> direction of the (100) silicon; and a second set of fins disposed in the handle wafer and oriented in a <112> direction of the (110) silicon. The first set of fins and the second set of fins are aligned.
US10177163B1
One illustrative device disclosed a floating gate capacitor located in and above a first region of an SOI substrate located on a first side of an isolation trench and a transistor device located in and above a second region of the SOI substrate that is on the opposite side of the isolation trench. The device also includes a control gate formed in the bulk semiconductor layer in the first region and a gate structure that extends across the isolation trench and above the first and second regions. A first portion of the gate structure is positioned above the first region and the control gate and a second portion of the gate structure is positioned above the second region, wherein the first portion of the gate structure constitutes a floating gate for the floating gate capacitor and the second portion of the gate structure constitutes a transistor gate structure for the transistor device.
US10177158B1
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a first fin structure, a second fin structure and a third fin structure, which extend in a first direction, are formed over a substrate. A first gate structure is formed over the first to third fin structures. The first gate structure extends in a second direction crossing the first direction. The first fin structure and the second fin structure are arranged adjacent to each other, and widths of the first and second fin structures in the second direction are smaller than a width of the third fin structure in the second direction.
US10177156B2
A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of: providing a substrate having a first region and a second region and the substrate includes a semiconductor layer on top of an insulating layer; forming a first front gate on the first region of the substrate and a second front gate on the second region of the substrate; removing part of the insulating layer under the first front gate; forming a first back gate on the insulating layer under the first front gate; and forming a second back gate under the second front gate.
US10177149B2
A semiconductor device may include a substrate, a first nanowire, a second nanowire, a first gate insulating layer, a second gate insulating layer, a first metal layer and a second metal layer. The first gate insulating layer may be along a periphery of the first nanowire. The second gate insulating layer may be along a periphery of the second nanowire. The first metal layer may be on a top surface of the first gate insulating layer along the periphery of the first nanowire. The first metal layer may have a first crystal grain size. The second metal layer may be on a top surface of the second gate insulating layer along the periphery of the second nanowire. The second metal layer may have a second crystal grain size different from the first crystal grain size.
US10177146B2
A semiconductor structure and a fabrication method are provided. A fabrication method includes providing a plurality of fins on a substrate including an NMOS region and a PMOS region adjacent to the NMOS region; forming an N-type well in the PMOS region and a P-type well in the NMOS region of the substrate; forming a protective sidewall to cover an upper portion of a sidewall surface of each fin in each of the NMOS region and PMOS region and to expose a lower portion of the sidewall surface of each fin; removing a partial width of the lower portion of the fin using the protective sidewall as an etch mask; removing the protective sidewall; and forming an isolation structure at least by oxidizing the remaining lower portion of the fin and having a top surface lower than the neighboring upper portions of the fins.
US10177145B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor structure includes providing a substrate including a device region, an isolation region, and a transition region between the device region and the isolation region, forming a plurality of fin structures on the device region of the substrate, forming a plurality of dummy fin structures on the transition region of the substrate, and forming an isolation structure on the device region, the isolation region, and the transition region of the substrate. The isolation structure further covers a portion of sidewall surfaces of the fin structures and the dummy fin structures. Moreover, the method includes forming a plurality of semiconductor devices on the fin structures in the device region after forming the isolation structure.
US10177136B2
A circuit for protecting against electrostatic discharge events has a semiconductor substrate (200) of first conductivity embedding a first diode in a well (260) of opposite second conductivity, the diode's anode (111) tied to an I/O pin-to-be-protected (101) at a first voltage, and the first diode's cathode (112) connected to the first drain (123) of a first MOS transistor in the substrate. The first MOS transistor's first gate (122) is biased to a second voltage smaller than the first voltage, thereby reducing the first voltage by the amount of the second voltage. In series with the first MOS transistor is a second MOS transistor with its second drain (670) merged with the first source of the first MOS transistor, and its second source (131), together with its second gate (132), tied to ground potential (140).
US10177130B2
A semiconductor assembly includes an anti-warping controller, a semiconductor device, a balance layer and a first routing circuitry positioned within a through opening of a stiffener and a second routing circuitry positioned outside of the through opening of the stiffener and electrically connected to the first routing circuitry and a vertical connecting element of the stiffener. The mechanical robustness of the stiffener and the anti-warping controller can prevent the assembly from warping, whereas the vertical connecting element of the stiffener provides electrical connection between two opposite sides of the stiffener. The first routing circuitry can enlarge the pad size and pitch of the semiconductor device, whereas the second routing circuitry not only provides further fan-out wiring structure, but also mechanically binds the first routing circuitry with the stiffener.
US10177128B2
A semiconductor device, and a method of its manufacture, are disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a substrate having a solder mask. A plurality of pillar bases are formed on the solder mask, and a plurality of solder pillars are applied to the pillar bases. The plurality of solder pillars support one or more semiconductor die above the substrate and the number of solder pillars prevent stresses in the one or more semiconductor die which could otherwise damage the semiconductor die.
US10177126B2
Described herein are devices and methods related to lighting systems that are color tunable and have a long lifetime. In certain embodiments, the device comprises two independently controlled phosphorescent OLED lighting panels coupled together in one package to emit light in one direction. In certain embodiment, aspects of the device are tunable, such as RGB color, color temperature, and luminance.
US10177114B2
Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide a hybrid interposer for 3D or 2.5D package arrangements. A quantity of pockets is formed on a surface of a carrier in a predetermined pattern. The pockets are filled with a reflowable conductive material. Chip dice are coupled to the interposer carrier by fixing terminals of the dice into the pockets. The carrier may include topside and backside redistribution layers to provide fanout for the chip dice, for coupling the interposer to another carrier, board, etc. having a pitch greater than that of the chip dice.
US10177109B2
The present invention includes: preparing a semiconductor substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface that is located on an opposite side of the first main surface; forming a first electrode on the first main surface; forming a solder-bonding metal film (a first solder-bonding metal film) on the first electrode; forming a sacrificial film on the first solder-bonding metal film; grinding the second main surface after forming the sacrificial film; performing heat treatment after the grinding (forming an element structure on the third main surface side); removing the sacrificial film after the performing heat treatment; and solder-bonding the first solder-bonding metal film and a first external electrode.
US10177105B2
A device package and methods of forming are provided. The device package includes a logic die and a first passivation layer over the logic die. The device package also includes a memory die and a molding compound extending along sidewalls of the logic die and the memory die. The device package also includes a conductive via extending through the molding compound, and a first redistribution layer (RDL) structure over the molding compound. The molding compound extends between a top surface of the memory die and a bottom surface of the first RDL structure. A top surface of the first passivation layer contacts the bottom surface of the first RDL structure.
US10177101B2
An integrated circuit includes a semiconductor substrate and a multitude of electrically conductive pads situated between component zones of the semiconductor substrate and a first metallization level of the integrated circuit, respectively. The multitude of electrically conductive pads are encapsulated in an insulating region and include: first pads, in electrical contact with corresponding first component zones, and at least one second pad, not in electrical contact with a corresponding second component zone.
US10177099B2
A semiconductor package structure includes a substrate, a first semiconductor device, a first encapsulant and a second encapsulant. The substrate has a first coefficient of thermal expansion CTE1. The first semiconductor device is disposed adjacent to a first surface of the substrate. The first encapsulant is disposed on the first surface of the substrate, and covers at least a portion of the first semiconductor device. The first encapsulant has a second coefficient of thermal expansion CTE2. The second encapsulant is disposed on a second surface of the substrate and has a third coefficient of thermal expansion CTE3. A difference between CTE1 and CTE2 is substantially equal to a difference between CTE1 and CTE3.
US10177098B2
A method for fabricating an electronic device includes fixing a rear face of an integrated-circuit chip to a front face of a support wafer. An infused adhesive is applied in the form of drops or segments that are separated from each other. A protective wafer is applied to the infused adhesive, and the infused adhesive is cured. The infused adhesive includes a curable adhesive and solid spacer elements infused in the curable adhesive. A closed intermediate peripheral ring is deposited on the integrated-circuit chip outside the cured infused adhesive, and an encapsulation block is formed such that it surrounds the chip, the protective wafer and the closed intermediate peripheral ring.
US10177089B2
An advanced e-Fuse structure is described. An e-Fuse device includes an anode region, a cathode region and a fuse element which interconnects the anode and cathode regions in a dielectric material on a first surface of a substrate. The fuse element has a smaller cross section and a higher aspect ratio than the anode and cathode regions. The anode and cathode regions are comprised of a large grained copper structure and the fuse element is comprised of a fine grained copper structure.
US10177085B2
A power commutation module includes a printed circuit board, a first plate-shaped bus bar, and a first plurality of power switches each including a plurality of connection pins which are connected on the upper face of the printed circuit board and a metal base plate which is applied against the bus bar. The first plurality of power switches is mounted on the first bus bar. The power switches are generally aligned along a longitudinal edge of the first bus bar, in that said longitudinal edge of the first bus bar is arranged along a first longitudinal edge of the printed circuit board, and the portion of the first bus bar on which the power switches are mounted is arranged next to the printed circuit board.
US10177084B2
An object of the invention is to manufacture a semiconductor module small. A metal wire (212) connecting a control electrode (101) and a control terminal (21) rises to form a first angle (θ1) from the control electrode (101) toward a first conductive portion (202), gradually goes in substantially parallel to the first conductive portion (202) as the metal wire approaches the first conductive portion (202), and is connected to the control terminal (21) to form a second angle (θ2) smaller than the first angle (θ1).
US10177079B2
A conductive connecting member formed on a bonded face of an electrode terminal of a semiconductor or an electrode terminal of a circuit board, the conductive connecting member comprising a porous body formed in such manner that a conductive paste containing metal fine particles (P) having mean primary particle diameter from 10 to 500 nm and an organic solvent (S), or a conductive paste containing the metal fine particles (P) and an organic dispersion medium (D) comprising the organic solvent (S) and an organic binder (R) is heating-treated so as for the metal fine particles (P) to be bonded, the porous body being formed by bonded metal fine particles (P) having mean primary particle diameter from 10 to 500 nm, a porosity thereof being from 5 to 35 volume %, and mean pore diameter being from 1 to 200 nm.
US10177078B2
Chip package structures and methods for forming the same are provided. The chip package structure includes a first protection layer and a first chip disposed over the first protection layer. The chip package structure further includes a first photosensitive layer surrounding the first chip and covering the first chip and a redistribution layer formed over the first photosensitive layer.
US10177068B2
A method for manufacturing, by a transfer mold method, a power module equipped with a heat conductive insulating sheet in which an inorganic filler including secondary aggregated particles formed by aggregation of primary particles of scaly boron nitride is dispersed in a thermosetting resin, where curing of an uncured or semi-cured heat conductive insulating sheet during transfer molding is advanced under specific conditions. The method for manufacturing a power module equipped with a heat conductive insulating sheet has excellent thermal conductivity and electric insulation ability.
US10177067B2
A manufacturing method including following steps is provided. A substrate that includes a core layer, a first conductive layer, and a second conductive layer is provided. A heat conducting channel is formed in the substrate, and an adhesion layer is formed on the second conductive layer to cover a side of the heat conducting channel. A heat conducting element and a buffer layer are placed into the heat conducting channel, and a gap is formed between either the heat conducting element or the buffer layer and an inner side surface of the heat conducting channel. The gap is filled with a first insulant material, and the adhesion layer and the buffer layer are removed to form a cavity and expose the heat conducting element. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are patterned to form a first patterned circuit layer and a second patterned circuit layer, respectively.
US10177066B2
A thermal management solution may be provided for a microelectronic system including a flexible integrated heat spreader, wherein the flexible integrated heat spreader may comprise a plurality of thermally conductive structures having a flexible thermally conductive film attached to and extending between each of the plurality of thermally conductive structures. The flexible integrated heat spreader may be incorporated into multi-chip package by providing a microelectronic substrate having a plurality of microelectronic devices attached thereto and by thermally contacting each of the plurality of thermally conductive structures of the flexible integrated heat spreader to its respective microelectronic device on the microelectronic substrate.
US10177062B2
Embodiments are directed to a method of passivating a surface of a high-mobility semiconductor and resulting structures having a reduced interface defect density. A semiconductor layer is formed on a substrate. A surface of the semiconductor layer is contacted with a sulfur source including thiourea at a temperature of up to about 90 degrees Celsius to form a sulfur passivation layer on the surface of the semiconductor layer. A dielectric layer is formed on the sulfur passivation layer and a minimum of interface trap density distribution at an interface between the semiconductor layer and the dielectric layer is less than about 2.0×1011 cm−2eV−1.
US10177061B2
In an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a substrate, a Group III nitride-based semiconductor layer formed on the substrate, a first current electrode and a second current electrode formed on the Group III nitride-based semiconductor layer and spaced from each other, and a control electrode formed on the Group III nitride-based semiconductor layer between the first current electrode and the second current electrode. The control electrode includes at least a middle portion, configured to switch off a channel below the middle portion when a first voltage is applied to the control electrode, and second portions adjoining the middle portion. The second portions are configured to switch off a channel below the second portions when a second voltage is applied to the control electrode, the second voltage being less than the first voltage and the second voltage being less than a threshold voltage of the second portions.
US10177055B2
Provided are an encapsulation structure and encapsulation method for an integrated sensor. The encapsulation structure comprises: a first substrate (1) and a first outer housing (2), the first outer housing and first substrate enclosing a first encapsulation cavity; a plurality of sensors arranged inside the first encapsulation cavity, each of the sensors comprising MEMS sensor chips (3, 8) and ASIC chips (5, 7) electrically connected to the MEMS sensor chips; inside the first encapsulation cavity, the exterior of the ASIC chip of at least one of the sensors is provided with a shielding structure. Arranging a shielding structure on the exterior of the ASIC chip in the integrated sensor and likely to be subjected to interference causes the ASIC chip to be encapsulated in isolation from other sensor units, preventing the other sensor units in the integrated sensor from interfering with the ASIC chip, and effectively improving the performance of the sensor unit and the overall performance of the integrated sensor.
US10177052B2
The dies of a stacked die IC are tested and, in response to detection of a defect at one of the dies, the type of defect is identified. If the defect is identified as a defective module repairable at the die itself, a redundant module of the die is used to replace the functionality of the defective module. If the defect is identified as one that is not repairable, a replacement die in the die stack is used to replace the functionality of the defective die.
US10177041B2
Disclosed are method embodiments for forming an integrated circuit (IC) structure with at least one first-type FINFET and at least one second-type FINFET, wherein the first-type FINFET has a first replacement metal gate (RMG) adjacent to a first semiconductor fin, the second-type FINFET has a second RMG adjacent to a second semiconductor fin, and the first RMG is in end-to-end alignment with the second RMG and physically and electrically isolated from the second RMG by a dielectric column. The method embodiments minimize the risk of the occurrence defects within the RMGs by forming the dielectric column during formation of the first and second RMGs and, particularly, after deposition and anneal of a gate dielectric layer for the first and second RMGs, but before deposition of at least one of multiple work function metal layers. Also disclosed herein are IC structure embodiments formed according to the above-described method embodiments.
US10177037B2
A method includes providing a semiconductor structure having a substrate and a plurality of fins extending upwards from the substrate. A CT pillar layer is disposed over the semiconductor structure. A CT mask is lithographically patterned over the CT pillar layer. The CT mask is anisotropically etched to remove exposed portions of the CT pillar layer and to form a CT pillar between the fins. A dummy gate structure is disposed across the CT pillar. The dummy gate structure is replaced with first and second metal gate structures that are electrically isolated from each other by the CT pillar.
US10177029B1
Interconnect structures and methods for forming an interconnect structure. A sacrificial layer is formed on a substrate and an interconnect opening is formed that extends vertically through the sacrificial layer into the substrate. The interconnect opening is filled with a conductor to form a conductive feature. After filling the interconnect opening with the conductor, a dielectric layer is formed on the sacrificial layer. After the dielectric layer is formed on the sacrificial layer, the sacrificial layer is removed to form an air gap layer arranged vertically between the dielectric layer and the substrate.
US10177021B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to methods and apparatuses involving a chip carrier having openings therein that align integrated circuit (IC) chips relative to an alignment feature. The IC chips and carrier are tested, such as by final testing the affixed IC chips after manufacture, and further testing after subjecting the affixed IC chips to one or more stress conditions. A test probe is aligned to one or more contacts on each chip based on the location of an alignment feature of the carrier relative to the opening in which the IC chip being tested is located. Responsiveness of the IC chip, before and after application of the one or more stress conditions, can be assessed by probing the IC chip via the aligned test probe, and assessing electrical signals received over the test probe.
US10177015B2
A method of transferring light-emitting diodes including picking up the light-emitting diodes from a base substrate by using a first stamper; rotating the light-emitting diodes by about 90 degrees and arranging the light-emitting diodes over the first stamper or a sacrificial substrate; picking up the rotated light-emitting diodes arranged over the first stamper or the sacrificial substrate by using a second stamper; and releasing the light-emitting diodes from the second stamper towards a display substrate.
US10177006B2
In a gate last metal gate process for forming a transistor, a dielectric layer is formed over an intermediate transistor structure, the intermediate structure including a dummy gate electrode, typically formed of polysilicon. Various processes, such as patterning the polysilicon, planarizing top layers of the structure, and the like can remove top portions of the dielectric layer, which can result in decreased control of gate height when a metal gate is formed in place of the dummy gate electrode, decreased control of fin height for finFETs, and the like. Increasing the resistance of the dielectric layer to attack from these processes, such as by implanting silicon or the like into the dielectric layer before such other processes are performed, results in less removal of the top surface, and hence improved control of the resulting structure dimensions and performance.
US10176998B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a dielectric layer and a floating gate. The dielectric layer disposed on the substrate. The floating gate disposed on the dielectric layer. After a first programming process, the floating gate is configured to store first electrons that are to be combined with ions from the dielectric layer. After a second programming process, the floating gate is configured to store second electrons, and a number of the second electrons is larger than a number of the first electrons.
US10176995B1
At least one method, apparatus and system disclosed herein involves a gate cut process using a stress material for a finFET device. A set of fins are formed on a semiconductor substrate. A gate region is formed above a portion of the set of fins. A gate cut trench is formed within the gate region. A dielectric material comprising an intrinsic stress is deposited into the gate cut region. A replacement metal gate process is performed in the gate region. Residue metal features are removed about the gate cut region.
US10176992B2
In a mask pattern forming method, a resist film is formed over a thin film, the resist film is processed into resist patterns having a predetermined pitch by photolithography, slimming of the resist patterns is performed, and an oxide film is formed on the thin film and the resist patterns after an end of the slimming step in a film deposition apparatus by supplying a source gas and an oxygen radical or an oxygen-containing gas. In the mask pattern forming method, the slimming and the oxide film forming are continuously performed in the film deposition apparatus.
US10176983B1
A method for produce a boron containing film by admitting a gaseous boron precursor into a vacuum chamber containing a substrate and directing an electron beam or ion beam into the vacuum chamber onto to the surface of the substrate. The electron beam or ion beam dissociates the gaseous boron precursor at the surface of the substrate creating non-volatile fragments that bind to the substrate surface forming a boron containing film.
US10176978B2
A control system for controlling a magnet of a magnetic sector mass spectrometer comprises a magnetic field sensor for sensing the magnetic field of the magnet and generating an output representative thereof; a set point generator configured to generate an output representative of, or related to, a desired magnetic field of the magnet; and a digital controller configured to receive a variable digital input signal from the output of the magnetic field sensor and a set point digital input signal from the output of the set point generator, and to generate a digital output from which is derived a control signal for controlling a current to the magnet so as to control the magnetic field thereof. The control system is arranged to apply to the digital controller a selected one of a plurality of different controller settings, in accordance with the desired magnetic field of the magnet.
US10176976B2
The invention relates to an ion source (50) for generating elemental ions and/or ionized metal oxides from aerosol particles, comprising: a reduced pressure chamber (61) having an inside; an inlet (56) and a flow restricting device (60) for inserting the aerosol particles in a dispersion comprising the aerosol particles dispersed in a gas, in particular in air, into the inside of the reduced pressure chamber (61), the inlet (60) fluidly coupling an outside of the reduced pressure chamber (61) via the flow restricting device (60) with the inside of the reduced pressure chamber (60); a laser (62) for inducing in a plasma region (63) in the inside of the reduced pressure chamber (61) a plasma in the dispersion for atomizing and ionizing the aerosol particles to elemental ions and/or ionized metal oxides; wherein the reduced pressure chamber (61) is adapted for achieving and maintaining in the inside of the reduced pressure chamber (61) a pressure in a range from 0.01 mbar to 100 mbar. The invention further relates to a method for generating elemental ions and/or ionized metal oxides from aerosol particles, comprising the steps of inserting aerosol particles in a dispersion comprising the aerosol particles dispersed in a gas, in particular in air, through an inlet (56) via a flow restricting device (60) into an inside of a reduced pressure chamber (61), while maintaining in the inside of the reduced pressure chamber (61) a pressure in a range from 0.01 mbar to 100 mbar, preferably from 0.1 mbar to 100 mbar or from 1 mbar to 100 mbar, particular preferably from 0.1 mbar to 50 mbar or from 1 mbar to 50 mbar, most preferably from 0.1 mbar to 40 mbar or from 1 mbar to 40 mbar; and inducing with a laser (62) in a plasma region (63) in the inside of the reduced pressure chamber (61) a plasma in the dispersion for atomizing and ionizing the aerosol particles to elemental ions and/or ionized metal oxides, wherein the laser (62) is adapted for inducing in the plasma region (63) in the inside of the reduced pressure chamber (61) the plasma in the gas of the dispersion for atomizing and ionizing the aerosol particles to elemental ions.
US10176972B2
A plasma etching apparatus includes: a vacuum chamber; a rotatable electrostatic chuck table for holding a workpiece in the vacuum chamber; a nozzle for supplying a plasma etching gas to part of the workpiece held on the electrostatic chuck table; a nozzle oscillating unit for oscillating the nozzle in such a manner as to describe a horizontal arcuate locus between a region corresponding to the center of the electrostatic chuck table and a region corresponding to the outer periphery of the electrostatic chuck table; and a control unit that controls the rotation amount of the electrostatic chuck table and the position of the nozzle to thereby position the nozzle into a region corresponding to an arbitrary part of the workpiece held on the electrostatic chuck table.
US10176959B1
A switchgear unit includes an enclosure having a first compartment and a second compartment and a fuse assembly mounted on a wall that separates the first compartment and the second compartment, the fuse assembly comprising a fuse housing disposed in the second compartment and accessible from the first compartment via an opening in the wall. The fuse assembly may include a cover configured to separate a fuse in the fuse housing from the first compartment and that is removable to provide access to the fuse from the first compartment. The fuse assembly may further include a power input terminal supported by the fuse housing and accessible from the second compartment and a switch disposed in the first compartment and configured to electrically connect the power input terminal to the first fuse connection terminal.
US10176956B2
A safety tripping device for a frame-type ACB drawer seat, which includes a special gear, a first lever, a tension spring, a second lever, and a tripping shaft. The special gear includes the first rotation shaft and the first irregular convex flange feature. The irregular convex flange is lapped with a bending edge of one end of the first lever. The other end of the first lever is connected to the tension spring. An arc-shaped notch is provided at one end of the first lever which corresponds to the connecting spring. An arc-shaped protrusion matching the arc-shaped notch is provided at one end of the second lever. The arc-shaped protrusion engages with or separates from the arc-shaped notch to achieve the tripping operation. The frame-type ACB drawer seat according to the present invention is suitable for large-scale production applications.
US10176954B2
A switching device for opening and closing an electrical line, including: two fixed contact terminals separated from one another, an operating member, comprising a contact piece, at least one flexible strip comprising at least one end part attached to a fixed support, the flexible strip or strips being adapted to exert a return force on the contact piece to return it from its closed position to its open position in the absence of a motive force on the operating member, the operating member comprising two electrically insulating pusher arms, spaced apart from one another and each attached to an end part of the contact piece; each flexible strip comprising two other end parts, each attached to one of the two push arms or to a part of the operating member that is itself attached to, or forms an integral part of, one of the pusher arms.
US10176951B2
The constant voltage supplying circuit for a circuit breaker according the invention comprises: a first switching device; a constant current source configured to supply a constant current; a feedback circuit section commonly connected to an output terminal of each of the first switching device and the constant current source; a constant voltage source connected to the feedback circuit section, and configured to supply a constant voltage; a current adjusting circuit section connected to the output terminal of the first switching device, and configured to adjust an output current of the first switching device; and a divided voltage resistor section including a first resistor and a second resistor, and configured to provide a divided voltage of an output voltage of the constant voltage supplying circuit, to the feedback circuit section, through a connection node between the first resistor and the second resistor.
US10176945B2
A DC electrical circuit breaker includes first and second movable electrical contacts. The circuit breaker includes a magnetic circuit including a magnet and generating a magnetic field able to guide an electrical arc in the direction of a quenching chamber, and having for this purpose curved field lines extending perpendicularly to opposite lateral walls of an electrical arc formation chamber, these field lines converging, in a central region of the arc formation chamber containing the contact zones, toward the quenching chamber while extending parallel to the longitudinal plane.
US10176944B2
A rotational movement detection device includes a rotating member including a through hole passing therethrough from a first surface to a second surface opposite the first surface, the rotating member rotating around the through hole to generate a magnetic field around the rotating member, a rotation angle detection part that detects a rotation angle of the rotating member, a movement detection part that detects a movement along a rotational axis of the rotating member, and a holding part including a guide part and an arrangement part formed integrally therein, the guide part being inserted into the through hole to guide the rotation of the rotating member and to hold the rotating member, the arrangement part having thereon the movement detection part arranged facing a side surface of the rotating member.
US10176942B2
A liftable keyboard for a portable electronic device is provided. The portable electronic device includes a top cover and a base. The liftable keyboard includes a key unit, a membrane switch circuit layer, a vent valve and a pump. The key unit includes a keycap and an elastomer. The vent valve includes an inlet, an outlet and a gas exhaust chamber. The inlet and the outlet are in communication with a gas-inputting port and a gas-outputting port of the membrane switch circuit layer, respectively. The gas exhaust chamber is in communication with the pump. When a sensing element of the base senses that the top cover is close to the base, the pump is enabled to perform a gas-extracting action. The elastomer is subjected to compressed deformation and the keycap is moved downwardly. Consequently, an altitude of the key unit is reduced.
US10176940B2
A cable section detection circuit breaker and a method of control making it possible notably to automatically calibrate the circuit breaker according to the section detected. For this purpose, the circuit breaker, provided for the protection of at least one electrical line comprising at least one electrical cable, comprises: an electrical cable diameter sensor; and a data processing unit connected to the diameter sensor for receiving a value of said diameter. The processing unit is capable of verifying that the value of said diameter is greater than or equal to a limit value determined from an assigned current of said circuit breaker.
US10176939B2
Provided is a high-voltage direct current (DC) circuit breaker which interrupts a fault current flowing in a power transmission or power distribution DC line when a fault occurs in the DC line. The high-voltage DC circuit breaker includes: a main switch, installed in the DC line, for interrupting a current in the DC line by being opened when a fault occurs in one side or the other side of the DC line; a nonlinear resistor, connected in parallel to the main switch, for consuming overvoltage; and an LC circuit connected in parallel to the main switch and comprising a capacitor and an inductor that are connected to each other in series to generate LC resonance.
US10176937B2
Electrical switches or sensors that comprise (a) a first electrical pole, (b) a layer of a variable resistance material in electrical contact with the first electrical pole, and (c) a second electrical pole that is in electrical contact with the variable resistance material and is not in electrical contact with the first pole, wherein the variable resistance material comprises at least one polymer having a glass transition temperature of no higher than about 10° C.
US10176934B2
The present invention relates to a carbon nanotube/manganese dioxide yarn electrode comprising: a yarn type carbon nanotube yarn which is prepared by twisting a carbon nanotube sheet and has a plurality of pores therein; and manganese dioxide deposited on a surface or in inner pores of the carbon nanotube yarn, and to a yarn type super capacitor comprising the same. The super capacitor has excellent mechanical strength and flexibility while having high specific capacity, energy density, and power density, and thus can retain superior electrochemical performances even under several modifications, such as twisting, bending, and weaving.
US10176921B2
The present invention provides a method for producing a rare earth sintered magnet and a molding device therefor that can stably mold molded bodies with less variation in unit weight. The method includes: 1) preparing a slurry including an alloy powder and a dispersion medium, the alloy powder containing a rare earth element; 2) disposing an upper punch and a lower punch in respective through holes provided in a die, thereby preparing a plurality of cavities; 3) applying a magnetic field in each of the cavities by an electromagnet in a direction substantially parallel to a direction in which at least one of the upper punch and the lower punch is movable, and then supplying the slurry into the plurality of cavities; 4) producing a molded body of the alloy powder in each of the cavities by press molding in the magnetic field; and 5) sintering the molded body.
US10176919B2
An electrical system (1) for a three-phase alternating current network, comprising a transformer (20U, 20V, 20W) with a primary side (30U, 30V, 30W) and a secondary side for each phase (U, V, W) of the alternating current network; a separate transformer housing (60U, 60V, 60W) for each transformer (20U . . . W); and a switching assembly (100) connected to the transformers (20U . . . W); wherein the primary side (30U . . . W) and/or the secondary side has a main winding (21, 22, 23) and a regulating winding (31, 32, 33) in each phase; the switching assembly (100) is designed such that it can connect each regulating winding (31, 32, 33) with each of the main windings (21, 22, 23); and the switching assembly (100) is arranged in one of the transformer housings (60U . . . W) or in an own switch housing (70).
US10176918B2
An electronic component includes a first ceramic substrate having a first principal surface on the upper side and a second principal surface on the lower side, a multilayer body constituted by a plurality of insulator layers each made of a material containing resin and laminated on the first principal surface, a first coil disposed in and/or on the multilayer body, a first relay conductor connected to the first coil, and a first outer electrode disposed on the first ceramic substrate and electrically connected to the first relay conductor. The plurality of insulator layers include one or more first insulator layers in each of which a first corner has a shape cut away as a first cut-away portion, the first relay conductor is disposed in the first cut-away portion, and the plurality of insulator layers include a second insulator layer that is contacted with the first relay conductor from below.
US10176908B2
Provided are a core electric wire for multi-core cable that is superior in flex resistance at low temperature, and a multi-core cable employing the same. A core electric wire for multi-core cable according to an aspect of the present invention comprises a conductor obtained by twisting element wires, and an insulating layer that covers an outer periphery of the conductor, in which, in a transverse cross section of the conductor, a percentage of an area occupied by void regions among the element wires is from 5% to 20%. An average area of the conductor in the transverse cross section is preferably from 1.0 mm2 to 3.0 mm2. An average diameter of the element wires in the conductor is preferably from 40 μm to 100 μm, and the number of the element wires is preferably from 196 to 2,450. The conductor is preferably obtained by twisting stranded element wires obtained by twisting subsets of element wires. The insulating layer preferably comprises as a principal component a copolymer of ethylene and an α-olefin having a carbonyl group.
US10176902B2
The present invention is a scintillator panel including: a substrate, a barrier rib formed on the substrate, and a scintillator layer containing a phosphor filling cells divided by the barrier rib, wherein the scintillator layer is formed of a plurality of layers having different phosphor concentrations. The present invention provides a scintillator panel in which formation of the barrier rib makes it possible to improve image clarity and obtain a sufficient amount of emitted light.
US10176900B2
Biomass (e.g., plant biomass, animal biomass, and municipal waste biomass) is processed to produce useful intermediates and products, such as energy, fuels, foods or materials. For example, systems and methods are described that can be used to treat feedstock materials, such as cellulosic and/or lignocellulosic materials, in a vault in which the equipment is protected from radiation and hazardous gases by equipment enclosures. The equipment enclosures may be purged with gas.
US10176891B1
A system includes a plurality of tracking devices, such as RFID tags, affixed to items, such as vehicles, a data collection engine, client devices and backend devices. The backend devices include trained machine learning models, business logic, and attributes of a plurality of events. A plurality of data collection engines and systems send attributes of new events to the backend devices. The backend devices can track the items and predict particular outcomes of new events based upon the attributes of the new events utilizing the trained machine learning models.
US10176886B1
A data storage system can consist of a number of data storage devices each having a non-volatile memory, a memory buffer, and an error detection module. The memory buffer may store a first data block comprising a front-end first-level error detection code assigned by the error detection module. The non-volatile memory can consist of a second data block having a back-end first-level error detection code and a second-level error detection code each assigned by the error detection module.
US10176884B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell, a bit line connected to the memory cell, and a sense amplifier. The sense amplifier is connected to the bit line, receives a first control signal, and detects and amplifies a bit line signal of the bit line. The sense amplifier includes a precharge device that is turned on or turned off based on a read control signal, and a transistor output unit that outputs an output voltage based on the bit line signal when the precharge device is turned off.
US10176881B2
A non-volatile memory device includes: a memory cell array including a memory cell string including a ground selection transistor and a plurality of serially connected non-volatile memory cells; a ground selection line connected to the ground selection transistor and a plurality of word lines connected to the plurality of memory cells; a voltage generator configured to generate a program verification voltage and a read voltage applied to the plurality of word lines; and a control circuit configured to control a compensation for the program verification voltage based on a program verification temperature offset, and control a to compensation for the read voltage based on a read temperature offset.
US10176878B2
A single-ended sense amplifier and a memory device including the same are presented. A sense amplifier, which senses and amplifies data of a memory cell, may include a precharge circuit pre-charging a data line which is connected to the memory cell and provides a sensing voltage, and a reference line which provides a reference voltage, with a power supply voltage; a reference voltage generating circuit which generates the reference voltage by discharging the reference line based on a reference current, and adjusts an amount of the reference current based on the data of the memory cell; and a comparator which compares the sensing voltage and the reference voltage, and outputs a comparison result as the data of the memory cell.
US10176869B2
A method is provided for operating a memory device that includes an array of memory cells coupled to a plurality of bitlines. A memory cell is selected from among the array of memory cells. The selected memory cell is coupled to a selected bitline. During a program operation, a program current pulse is injected into the selected memory cell via a first switch coupled to the bitline. At an end of the program current pulse, the selected bitline is discharged via a second switch coupled to the bitline.
US10176868B2
Memory systems and memory programming methods are described. According to one arrangement, a memory system includes a plurality of memory cells individually configured to have a plurality of different memory states, a plurality of bitlines coupled with the memory cells, access circuitry coupled with the bitlines and configured to apply a plurality of program signals to the bitlines to program the memory cells between the different memory states, a controller configured to control the access circuitry to provide a first program signal and a second program signal to one of the bitlines coupled with one of the memory cells to program the one memory cell from a first of the memory states to a second of the memory states, wherein the second program signal has an increased electrical characteristic compared with the first program signal, and selection circuitry configure to couple another of the bitlines which is immediately adjacent to the one bitline to a node having a first voltage which is different than a second voltage of the one bitline during the provision of the first and second program signals to the one bitline.
US10176863B2
An integrated circuit structure includes an SRAM array including a first sub-array having a first plurality of rows and a plurality of columns of SRAM cells, and a second sub-array having a second plurality of rows and the plurality of columns of SRAM cells. A first bit-line and a first complementary bit-line are connected to the first and the second pass-gate MOS devices of SRAM cells in a column in the first sub-array. A second bit-line and a second complementary bit-line are connected to the first and the second pass-gate MOS devices of SRAM cells in the column in the second sub-array. The first bit-line and the first complementary bit-line are disconnected from the second bit-line and the second complementary bit-line. A sense amplifier circuit is electrically coupled to, and configured to sense, the first bit-line, the first complementary bit-line, the second bit-line, and the second complementary bit-line.
US10176860B1
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to refresh in memory. An example apparatus can refresh a memory cell of an array of memory cells in response to the array of memory cells being accessed a threshold number of accesses.
US10176848B2
In a recording and reproducing apparatus and a recording and reproducing method for the recording and reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing image information on a scene obtained through photographing, relative to a predetermined first recording medium and being capable of setting one or more chapters to each scene, a face recognizing process is executed for a photographed image based on the image information, an importance level of each chapter is set in accordance with a result of the face recognizing process for a very important person (VIP) set by a user, and each chapter having a relevant importance level among importance levels of respective chapters is selectively reproduced. A user can therefore find an object chapter and scene quickly and easily.
US10176847B2
The disclosure discloses a printer including a memory storing computer-executable instructions. When the instruction is executed by a processor, a printer perform a read process and a printed matter production process. In the read process, process setting information stored in a cartridge memory of a cartridge of the specific type is read, triggered by attachment of the cartridge of the specific type to a cartridge holder. In the printed matter production process, at least a feeder and a printing head is controlled on the basis of a setting state included in the process setting information read in the read process.
US10176844B2
The system and corresponding process includes a system for producing a mechanical image of original audio source media and a system for encoding the mechanical image information into a digital file. A processing system recovers the mechanical image information from the digital file at a receiving end. Audio processing is used to produce the original audio source material without the standard losses associated with digital encoding of audio material.
US10176843B2
Systems and methods for determining an occurrence of non-operation shock (NOS) in a disc drive are described. Such determining may be used to determine whether or not the disc drive should be recalibrated or compensated to account for changes induced by NOS. Determining NOS may be based at least in part on a harmonic of the spindle of the disc drive other than the first harmonic, such as a third harmonic of the spindle. In some embodiments, determining NOS may be based on the first harmonic of the spindle and at least one other harmonic of the spindle.
US10176837B2
An optical storage system includes an optical head configured to split a light beam into a higher power main beam and at least one lower power side beam. The optical storage system also includes a controller configured to alter an optical medium, via modulation of the higher power main beam according to a writing strategy waveform that defines at least n pulses for every n bits of data to be written to the medium, while processing a first signal resulting from the at least one lower power side beam being reflected from the medium and a second signal indicative of the writing strategy waveform to remove noise from the first signal caused by the higher power main beam to generate output indicative of the data directly after writing.
US10176814B2
Systems and techniques for compression and decoding of audio data are generally disclosed. An example device for compressing higher order ambisonic (HOA) coefficients representative of a soundfield includes a memory configured to store audio data and one or more processors configured to: determine when to use ambient HOA coefficients of the HOA coefficients to augment one or more foreground audio objects obtained through decomposition of the HOA coefficients based on one or more singular values also obtained through the decomposition of the HOA coefficients, the ambient HOA coefficients representative of an ambient component of the soundfield.
US10176801B2
A system and method are provided for improving speech recognition accuracy. Contextual information about user speech may be received, and then speech recognition analysis can be performed on the user speech using the contextual information. This allows the system and method to improve accuracy when performing tasks like searching and navigating using speech recognition.
US10176796B2
Systems and techniques of voice personalization for machine reading are described herein. A message with textual content may be received. A sender of the message may be identified. A voice model that corresponds to the sender may be identified. An audio representation of the textual content may be rendered using the voice model.
US10176790B2
A guitar support for supporting a guitar during a performance includes a base, a stand having an upper portion, a lower portion, and a curved middle portion. A lower end of the lower portion is connected to the base. A shaped support element is connected to a top end of the upper portion, the shaped support element having a top surface shaped to support a guitar body.
US10176788B2
On a worm drive the second bushing of the worm is replaced with an oblique thrust surface or made to follow a path constraining the worm to move closer to the gear as it is pushed forward by the gear itself as a result of the torque applied by the load. The oblique forces thus generated push the worm towards the gear and constitute a meshing force that makes the system self-adjusting with zero play between the parts, eliminating backlash and dependency from manufacturing tolerances and from the effects of wear. It also results in freedom of movement between worm and gear allowing them to be easily disengaged. The meshing force is predictable and independent from the deformability of the parts, and makes possible the use of stronger triangular teeth, allowing much higher gear ratios.
US10176786B2
For preventing a display from automatically rotating while receiving input from a user, an apparatus, method, and computer program product are disclosed. The apparatus includes a display device for presenting the user interface, a processor, and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The processor (by executing the code) monitors for a user input event, prevents rotation of the user interface for a predetermined amount of time responsive to detecting the user input event, and allows rotation of the user interface responsive to expiration of the predetermined amount of time. The processor may initiate a timer to measure the predetermined amount of time. The processor may further detect an additional user input event during the predetermined amount of time and reset that the predetermined amount of time, responsive to detecting the additional user input event.
US10176773B2
A semiconductor device and a mobile terminal are described herein. In one example, a semiconductor device is provided that includes: a power-source part; an interface part; a logic part; and a driving part. In the semiconductor device, the power-source part includes a power-source-cutoff-detection circuit operable to detect a first state in which supply of an external power source is cut off. The logic part includes: a data-cutoff-detection circuit operable to detect a second state in which supply of stream data accompanied by synchronizing signals from outside the semiconductor device is cut off undesirably; and a control circuit operable to perform control for having the driving part cope with the power source cutoff with the power-source-cutoff-detection circuit detecting the first state or the data-cutoff-detection circuit detecting the second state.
US10176769B2
The present disclosure discloses a liquid crystal display method and device, and a storage medium, and it relates to the field of liquid crystal display. The method include acquiring a grayscale value of each row of a content displayed on a liquid crystal panel, determining whether the pixel grayscale values of a plurality the pixels in the i-th row of the displayed content are lower than a predetermined value, setting a refresh rate of the i-th row of the displayed content to a first refresh rate when the grayscale values of the plurality of pixels in the i-th row are below the predetermined value, determining whether at least one pixel grayscale value of the pixels in the j-th row is not lower than the predetermined value, and setting a refresh rate of the j-th row in the displayed content to a second refresh rate if at least one pixel grayscale value of the pixels in the j-th row is not lower than a predetermined value. The first refresh rate is lower than the second.
US10176765B2
The examples relate to various implementations of a software configurable lighting device, having an enhance display device that is able to generate light sufficient to provide general illumination of a space in which the lighting device is installed and provide an image display. The general illumination is provided by additional light sources and/or improved display components of the enhanced display device.
US10176764B2
A display apparatus supplies different driving powers according to a driving status of a backlight.
US10176758B2
The invention provides an AMOLED pixel driver circuit and pixel driving method. The AMOLED pixel driver circuit has a 6T2C structure, comprising a first thin film transistor (TFT) (T1), a second TFT (T2) forming mirror relation with the first TFT (T1), a third TFT (T3), a fourth TFT (T4), a fifth TFT (T5), a sixth TFT (T6), a first capacitor (C1), a second capacitor (C2) and an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) (D1), and receiving a first scan signal (Scant), a second scan signal (Scan2), a third scan signal (Scan3), a data signal (Data), and a predefined voltage (Vpre). The circuit can effectively compensate the threshold voltages of the driving TFT and the OLED, simplify the data signal, stabilize the current flowing through the OLED to ensure uniform light-emission of the OLED and improve display quality.
US10176756B2
An organic light emitting display device includes a display panel including pixels that includes an organic light emitting diode that emits light based on a driving current, a data driver providing a data signal to the pixels through a data line, a scan driver providing a scan signal to the pixels through a scan line, an emission control driver providing an emission control signal to the pixels through an emission control line, a first power provider providing a first high power voltage to the pixels through a first power providing line and a second power provider providing a second high power voltage to the pixels through a second power providing line and coupled to the first power provider. The second power provider includes a static current circuit that maintains the driving current having uniform value when the display panel is operated in a low frequency driving mode.
US10176755B2
A pixel driving circuit is disclosed, including: a driving switch, connected between a driving power source and an OLED; a first switch, connected between the drain of the driving switch and the driving power source for inputting a first control signal; a control circuit, connected between the drain and gate of the driving switch, for inputting a second control signal and outputting a compensation current to compensate threshold voltage drift of the driving switch; a storage unit, connected between the source of a second switch and gate of the first switch, for storing a compensation voltage of compensation current compensating the driving switch. A display panel and pixel driving method are also disclosed.
US10176751B2
A drive circuit having an output terminal includes a buffer circuit including a first transistor and a second transistor that are connected in parallel between a power supply and the output terminal. The first transistor and the second transistor are controlled such that after the first transistor and the second transistor are simultaneously turned on, the second transistor is turned off earlier than the first transistor.
US10176750B2
A display device is provided, which includes a light emitter including an LED array; a current detector configured to detect current that flows through the LED array; a driving circuit configured to provide constant current to the LED array; and a cable including a first line configured to provide the constant current that is provided from the driving circuit to the light emitter, and a second line configured to connect a node, to which the current detector and the driving circuit are commonly connected, and the driving circuit to each other.
US10176749B2
An electronic book is disclosed in which a spine housing system electronics supports one or more display panels, each display panel being configured with a transparent layer such as E-ink, and a light-emitting layer, such as an organic light-emitting diode layer. In embodiments of the invention, the layers may be stacked and fitted to a substrate. In further embodiments, multiple display panels may be joined to the spine to provide the appearance of a traditional book or notebook. A microprocessor in the spine may control the display panels and receive user input to alternately activate the layers in a display panel. A pen may be provided for interacting with the device and activating specific layers within a display panel.
US10176738B2
A method for characterizing and eliminating the effect of propagation delay on data and monitor lines of AMOLED panels is introduced. A similar technique may be utilized to cancel the effect of incomplete settling of select lines that control the write and read switches of pixels on a row.
US10176735B2
A packaged medication assembly includes a packaged medication, a bag, and an information insert. The packaged medication includes a container and medication enclosed within the container. The bag defines a first panel, a storage chamber, and an opening to the storage chamber. The information insert includes patient information, which provides identification of a patient that the medication was packaged for, and medication information providing at least one of an identity of and a description of the medication. The information insert includes a patient identifying section including the patient information adjacent the first edge. The information insert is placed in the storage chamber such that substantially only the patient identifying section extends and remains exposed above the first panel such that a remainder of the information insert is covered by the first panel of the bag. The packaged medication is positioned within the storage chamber.
US10176733B1
The permit holder for a vehicle sun visor is configured for use with a vehicle. The permit holder for a vehicle sun visor attaches a parking placard to a sun visor within the vehicle. The parking placard may be: 1) stored in a non-visible manner during the operation of vehicle; and, 2) positioned in a visible manner when the vehicle is parked. The permit holder for a vehicle sun visor comprises a visor clip, a master shaft, a master clip, and a plurality of pivots. The master clip attaches to the parking placard. The master shaft attaches the master clip to the plurality of pivots. The plurality of pivots attaches the master shaft to the visor clip. The visor clip attaches to the sun visor. The plurality of pivots are arranged such that the orientation of the placard is adjustable.
US10176731B2
An adhesive label is provided. The adhesive label includes an adhesive patch that covers at least 50% but less than 85% of a backside surface of the adhesive label and that is at least partially horizontally and vertically centered on the backside surface.
US10176729B2
Disclosed herein are methods of providing location-based information with respect to a topological map. A method may include (a) receiving a query for location-related information, (b) optionally generating data representing the topological map, (c) accessing the location-related information in a map-to-scale, (d) optionally determining an association between one or more points (or links) in the map-to-scale and one or more corresponding points (or links) in a topological map, (e) identifying one or more points (or links) in the map-to-scale that relate to the location-related information and that correspond to one or more points (or links) in the topological map, (f) optionally determining a relative position of the location-related information with respect to the identified one or more map-to-scale points (or links), and (g) displaying the location-related information with respect to the corresponding one or more points (or links) in the topological map.
US10176727B2
A system for simulating an image-guided medical procedure on a computerized anatomy is provided. The system includes a foldable base having two portions connected by a hinged connector, each portion of the foldable base is provided with one or more docking stations. The system further includes two or more working units, each connectable to any one of the docking stations. Each working unit comprises a chamber capable of receiving an operation tool, a diameter sensor to detect diameter information related to the operational tool and a tracking unit configured to detect tracking information related to the operational tool.
US10176722B1
A location marker that may be used to provide information to a vehicle, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The location marker may include a plurality of lights that may be individually sequenced on and off at different times to create a time domain signal sequence that is readable by the vehicle. The lights may provide information in various different ways. The specific lights that are illuminated at a certain time may form a light pattern that includes or is associated with information. Different light patterns may be displayed over time to provide different information to the vehicle. In some embodiments, the amount of time that a light is on or off (or both) may provide information as a time domain signal sequence (e.g., flashing lights) to the vehicle. In various embodiments, the location marker may include retroreflectors arranged in a pattern used to identify the location marker.
US10176721B2
Systems and methods are provided for displaying portions of a route on a coverage map that are non-compliant for a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) navigation system in an aircraft. A route compliance module defines a geodetic reference datum standard based on the GNSS navigation system. A navigation system database has compliance information corresponding to each of a plurality of airports. A flight management system determines the route of the aircraft and a visual display displays the route and the coverage map. The route compliance module identifies a non-compliant region of the coverage map that is not compliant with the geodetic reference datum standard based on the compliance information and adjusts the visual display to differentiate a non-compliant portion of the route extending within the non-compliant region of the coverage map.
US10176718B1
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a method for determining the location of a device. The current disclosure presents a technique for identifying the location of the device using a secondary device. In one embodiment, the secondary device retrieves the location of a parked vehicle. Using the location of the parked vehicle in conjunction with its own location, the secondary device is able to determine a route to the parked vehicle. Sensors are used to parametric data. Wireless networks are also used to obtain localization information.
US10176716B1
The present disclosure generally relates to generating emergency vehicle warnings, alternate vehicle routing recommendations and/or insurance-related data based upon emergency vehicle warning data. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to generating data representative of emergency vehicle warnings and/or alternate routing based upon real-time information related to an emergency vehicle. The information related to the emergency vehicle may include emergency vehicle origination location data, emergency vehicle current location data, emergency vehicle route data, and/or emergency vehicle destination location data. An emergency vehicle warning and/or alternate vehicle routing for non-emergency response vehicles may be generated based further on information related to a non-emergency vehicle. In one aspect, an emergency vehicle may wirelessly communicate with the non-emergency vehicle and/or an insurance provider remote server. The insurance provider may adjust auto insurance for insureds having vehicles with the vehicle safety functionality discussed herein to reflect lower risk and provide insurance savings to customers.
US10176706B2
A device and method for analyzing an event at a premises is provided. In one embodiment the device includes a processor and a memory configured to store executable instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive first event data related to the event at the premises, receive verification data related to the event at the premises, analyze the first event data in conjunction with the verification data, generate, based on the analysis, an indication of a probability that the event is an alarm event, and initiate at least one action based on the indication.
US10176696B2
A process for measuring methane emissions by an internal combustion engine includes connecting a methane sensor to an exhaust line of the internal combustion engine such that a portion of the gas in the exhaust line can enter the methane sensor, operating the internal combustion engine so as to produce the exhaust, measuring a methane concentration of the gas from the portion of the gas from the exhaust line with the methane sensor, and producing an output from the methane sensor corresponding to the methane concentration. The methane sensor is plumbed to the exhaust line. The methane concentration is continuously sampled by the methane sensor. The methane sensor can be an electrochemical cell, a catalytic methane sensor, or an infrared methane sensor.
US10176695B2
Some embodiments include a method for identifying, by an electronic water safety system, distressed swimmers in a body of water. The method can include capturing, by a video capture device, video frames of the body of water. The method can include identifying, by the video capture device, a color-code in the video frames. The method can include determining, by the video capture device, a location of the color-code in each of the video frames. The method can include determining, by a movement controller, movement of the color-code in the video frames based on the location of the color-code in each of the video frames. The method can include determining that the swimmer is in distress based on the movement of the color-code in the video frames. The method can include alerting, by an alert controller, water safety personnel about the swimmer in distress.
US10176690B2
Methods, computer systems, and computer-storage medium are provided for managing patient alerts using a mobile device. A mobile device associated with a patient caregiver receives a critical alert related to the patient, and the alert is presented on the mobile device. The alert includes important contextual information that enables the caregiver to make a quick assessment of how to effectively address the alert. The alert includes options for accepting the alert or rejecting the alert. Acceptance of the alert enables the caregiver to communicate the alert to selected caregivers that can assist in managing the alert. Rejecting the alert causes the alert to be automatically communicated to additional caregivers associated with the patient.
US10176684B2
A system and method to determine a flow direction automatically so that counter-flow motion may be detected without user calibration is disclosed. The system and method utilize information available from existing video compression algorithms to sense motion and determine a flow direction. Once a flow direction for an area is determined, the system and method can detect counter-flow motion using compressed video without any decompression, thereby improving the speed of detection and simplifying the computational complexity. These improvements facilitate counter-flow alarms and expand the information available to a user monitoring the video.
US10176682B1
A system and method for securing an edge zone in a space, while not restricting normal activities in the space, is provided. The system and method comprises an infrared detection device and a data processing means. The infrared detection device monitors a space using two or more fields of view. Some of the fields of view cover an edge zone of the space, while the rest of the fields of view cover an adjacent zone to the edge zone. The infrared detection device produces a signal when one or more infrared sources, such as human beings, enter one of its fields of view, in which the signal is unique for identifying the field of view being entered. The data processing means processes the signals from the infrared detection device for securing the edge zone with either intrusion detection or escape detection. The data processing means produces an alarm signal when an intrusion or escape is detected, but does not produce such a signal for normal activities in the monitored space, including the edge zone.
US10176680B2
A method of generating event identifiers includes receiving sensor information from tracked entities. Based on the sensor information for tracked entities, an event can be determined. An event ID can be assigned to the event based on the type of event that was determined. The event ID can be sent to a haptically enabled device, the device outputting a haptic effect determined from the event ID.
US10176677B2
Method, computer program product, and system to facilitate an audit of a checkout transaction, where the checkout transaction is associated with a virtual transaction record reflecting interactions of a person with a first set of one or more items of a plurality of items within an environment. The method includes acquiring image information including a shopping receptacle associated with the checkout transaction, and identifying a second set of one or more items of the plurality of items that are included in the shopping receptacle using the acquired image information. The method further includes comparing the first and second sets of items, and determining, based on the comparison, whether to perform an audit of the checkout transaction.
US10176671B1
Various embodiments of a gaming system and method are disclosed as having secondary symbol sets that are used to enhance initial payout awards associated with winning symbol combinations. The gaming system may generate and display one or more symbols from the secondary symbol set in symbol display positions associated with symbols that formed a winning symbol combination. The generated symbols from the secondary symbol set and the symbols that formed winning symbol combinations can be displayed in the same symbol display positions at substantially the same time. In some embodiments, the symbols in the secondary symbol set comprise a plurality of different color symbols, where the color symbols are each associated with awards that may enhance a payout award associated with the winning symbol combination. Thus, generating the secondary symbols in association with the symbol display positions of the winning symbol combination may enhance or improve an initial payout award.
US10176669B2
An electronic gaming system adapted for the use of multiple users is connectable to a casino management system, is connected to the casino management system via a game interface card, performs data exchange according to an internal casino management system protocol, and allows data exchange between the game interface card and a game server according to a public gaming machine communication protocol. Through a network connection interface of the game server, the electronic gaming system may be used by a plurality of players through wireless connection, and is connected to a mobile member database for logging and comparing member data. The data of the game server is transmitted to the casino management system via the game interface card. Thus, the players are allowed to simultaneously connect to the game server to play games and transmit data to the casino management system for further control.
US10176668B2
A slot-type game and a gaming machine configured to present a slot-type game include a symbol replacement feature. A first set of game symbols is displayed. If a replacement symbol triggering event occurs, such as the appearance of at least one replacement symbol, the symbol replacement is triggered. At least two symbols of the first set of symbols, such as two symbols adjacent to the replacement symbol, are evaluated to determine a highest ranking and a lowest ranking symbol. A second set of symbols is then displayed, the second set of symbols comprising the first set of symbols with occurrences of the lowest ranking symbol replaced with the highest ranking symbol.
US10176667B2
A distributed anonymous payment interleaved wagering system is disclosed, including an interactive processing device constructed to receive a request for processing a payment; communicate interactive processing device data and a request for an anonymous payment identifier; receive the anonymous payment identifier; lock the interactive processing device for a period of time; communicate anonymous payment identifier; receive gaming session data; unlock the interactive processing device; the process controller or wager controller constructed to: create an anonymous payment identifier; associate the anonymous payment identifier with the interactive processing device data; communicate the anonymous payment identifier; create a gaming session based on the anonymous payment data, the anonymous payment identifier, and the interactive processing device data; communicate gaming session data; the interactive payment controller constructed to: receive a value bearing item; communicate TITO data and anonymous payment identifier; the payment controller constructed to: communicate TITO data, anonymous payment data and anonymous payment identifier.
US10176666B2
Gaming machines and systems are configured to distribute of viral events, such as viral gaming events, amongst devices. The devices can present the viral events. The devices can, for example, be gaming machines and/or mobile devices. According to one embodiment, once a viral event is triggered, it is presented at one or more first devices at a first time. The viral event spreads to other devices, such as one or more second devices where it can be presented at a later time. The viral event may continue to spread to numerous other devices. Feedback or metrics may be used to control the devices to which the viral event spreads and/or the rate of spread.
US10176655B2
A technique for controlling lockable devices includes a key device wirelessly transmitting a first request to a server apparatus. The server apparatus receives the first request and proceeds to identify a controllable lock whose location the server apparatus has measured to be within a physical space mapped by the server apparatus, causing the identified controllable lock to emit a human-detectable indication. In response to an action by a user, the key device wirelessly transmits a second request that directs the server apparatus to toggle a lock state of the identified controllable lock, such as to lock the controllable lock or to unlock it.
US10176649B2
Disclosed is an electronic apparatus for assisting an aircraft pilot. The aircraft includes avionics equipment implementing operational capacities and a monitoring system configured to determine monitoring information from operational capacities and operating parameters of the avionics equipment. The assistance apparatus includes in an acquisition module configured to acquire the monitoring information and an anomaly detection module configured to detect at least one anomaly from among a breakdown of an avionics equipment and a failure of an operational capacity, from monitoring information and anomaly detection rules contained in a predefined database. The assistance apparatus includes an inference module configured to identify, for each anomaly, one or several causes that may have caused the anomaly, based on relationships between breakdowns and failures, the relationships being contained in the database.
US10176642B2
An augmented reality method includes selecting an image of an object to be installed; converting the image into a 3D model; capturing a view of an environment and selecting a place to insert the 3D model; overlaying the 3D model with the view of the environment in a mashed-up and aligned manner wherein the 3D model view is displayed contemporaneously and contiguously to form an augmented reality view; and enabling user interaction with the displayed 3D model view to update the 3D model of the environment in the 3D modeling system.
US10176637B2
A device can receive live video of a real-world, physical environment on a touch sensitive surface. One or more objects can be identified in the live video. An information layer can be generated related to the objects. In some implementations, the information layer can include annotations made by a user through the touch sensitive surface. The information layer and live video can be combined in a display of the device. Data can be received from one or more onboard sensors indicating that the device is in motion. The sensor data can be used to synchronize the live video and the information layer as the perspective of video camera view changes due to the motion. The live video and information layer can be shared with other devices over a communication link.
US10176630B2
Described embodiments include a system for updating a mesh, which includes a plurality of vertices, representing a surface of a heart. The system includes an electrical interface and a processor. The processor is configured to define a plurality of sample points on the mesh, such that a density of the sample points is greater than a density of the vertices, to receive, via the electrical interface, a plurality of signals from a catheter, the signals indicating an electrical property of each of a plurality of locations on the surface, and to update the mesh in accordance with the electrical property, by, for each of the locations, identifying a closest sample point to the location, subsequently, identifying, in a portion of the mesh in which the closest sample point is located, a closest point to the location, and, subsequently, associating the closest point with the electrical property of the location.
US10176627B2
A set of primitives is divided into plural sub-sets of primitives, and a tree representation for representing the set of primitives in which each leaf node of the tree represents one of the sub-sets, and each parent node of the tree represents a sub-set of primitives corresponding to the combination of the sub-sets of primitives of all of its child nodes, is generated. For each node of the tree representation data indicating: the sub-set of primitives that the node represents; the vertices that are used by the primitives in the sub-set of primitives that the node represents; and the volume of space that the sub-set of primitives that the node represents falls within, is determined. The tree representation is then used to determine a set of primitives and a set of vertices to be processed when processing the set of primitives for the output frame.
US10176620B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method that receives a selection of an animation to apply to two or more graphical objects in a scene over a particular time duration. The method identifies parameters for each of the graphical objects. Based on the selected animation, the method generates modifications to at least one parameter for each of the graphical objects over the particular time duration. The parameter of a first graphical object is modified differently than the parameter of a second graphical object. The method stores the modifications as data for the scene.
US10176613B2
A drawing system and method is provided for drawing objects and maps in a virtual world editor. The drawing method performs object checking to determine if a particular object can be drawn in the virtual world editor. When drawing the object, if the drawing method for the object does not satisfy a specific condition, the method will not allow the object to “set.” If the object satisfies the specific condition, the method will allow the object to set and be drawn onto the terrain. If the object is obstructed as it is being drawn, the drawing system will adjust the object so it is appropriately drawn in the software environment.
US10176610B1
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with density gradient analysis tool for heat mapping systems. According to one embodiment, a method includes receiving data points. The method further includes calculating a data distribution of the data points. The data distribution has bins, and the bins represent intervals. The method further includes rendering a heat map based, at least in part, on the data distribution. The heat map includes regions corresponding to the bins.
US10176608B2
A computer implemented method of displaying a virtual patient chart. The method includes receiving data relating to a patient and generating, using a processor, a graphic representing at least one attribute related to a characteristic of the patient, wherein the generating uses a plurality of consistent visual modification rules that convey additional information to the graphic. The method also includes displaying the graphic on a virtual patient chart.
US10176606B2
A method includes obtaining information defining a diagram that contains a diagram element graphically representing a component of an industrial process control and automation system. The method also includes generating a graph representing the diagram element by identifying reference points in the diagram element, identifying at least one direction of each of multiple lines in the diagram element, and forming the graph using the at least one direction of each line and the reference points. The method further includes comparing the graph of the diagram element to one or more graphs of one or more application engineering elements. In addition, the method includes generating a meta file identifying a position of the diagram element in the diagram and the application engineering element that most closely matches the diagram element.
US10176596B1
Systems and method are provided for controlling a vehicle. In one embodiment, a vehicle includes a camera onboard the vehicle, a lidar device onboard the vehicle, a data storage element onboard the vehicle maintaining one or more transformation parameter values associated with a pairing of the camera and the lidar device, one or more sensors onboard the vehicle, and a controller. The controller detects a stationary condition based on output of the one or more sensors, obtains a first set of image data from the camera during the stationary condition, filters horizontal edge regions from the first set, obtains a second set of the ranging data during the stationary condition, and validates the one or more transformation parameter values based on a relationship between the filtered set of the image data and the second set of the ranging data.
US10176589B2
Systems for completing missing points in a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud. The systems include a 3D sensor for measuring point data of objects in a scene, a processor in connection with the 3D sensor and a memory storing a program and the point data, and a display monitor connected to the processor and the 3D sensor for displaying a completed 3D point cloud, wherein the processor executes instruction steps of the program. The instruction steps include acquiring the point data of the objects to generate the 3D point cloud, wherein the point data include a set of points on the objects, extracting planar segments from the 3D point cloud, identifying connectivity relations and missing points among the planar segments, and filling the missing points in the 3D point cloud to generate the completed 3D point cloud using the planar segments and the connectivity relations.
US10176588B2
Embodiments described herein relate to systems and methods for specular surface inspection, and particularly to systems and methods for surface inspection comprising inverse synthetic aperture imaging (“ISAI”) and specular surface geometry imaging (“SSGI”). Embodiments may allow an object under inspection, to be observed, imaged and processed while continuing to be in motion. Further, multiple optical input sources may be provided, such that the object does not have to be in full view of all optical sensors at once. Further, multi-stage surface inspection may be provided, wherein an object under inspection may be inspected at multiple stages of an inspection system, such as, for an automotive painting process, inspection at primer, inspection at paint, inspection at final assembly. SSGI imaging modules are also described for carrying out micro-deflectometry.
US10176579B2
A facility includes systems and methods for providing a learning-based image analysis approach for the automated detection, classification, and counting of objects (e.g., cell nuclei) within digitized pathology tissue slides. The facility trains an object classifier using a plurality of reference sample slides. Subsequently, and in response to receiving a scanned image of a slide containing tissue data, the facility separates the whole slide into a background region and a tissue region using image segmentation techniques. The facility identifies dominant color regions within the tissue data and identifies seed points within those regions using, for example, a radial symmetry based approach. Based at least in part on those seed points, the facility generates a tessellation, each distinct area in the tessellation corresponding to a distinct detected object. These objects are then classified using the previously-trained classifier. The facility uses the classified objects to score slides.
US10176576B2
A medical image processing apparatus includes a core line identifying unit that identifies a core line of a predetermined region of a tubular structure from medical three-dimensional image data, a center position identifying unit that identifies a center position of the tubular structure from a plurality of points forming the core line identified by the core line identifying unit, an obtaining unit that obtains positions where straight lines intersecting at the center position and the tubular structure in the medical three-dimensional image data are in contact with each other, and a calculating unit that calculates a length of the tubular structure based on the positions obtained by the obtaining unit.
US10176568B2
A tomography apparatus includes an image processor configured to obtain a first image, which is a partial image of an object, by using data obtained from a first angle section corresponding to a first point, and to obtain a second image, which is a partial image of the object, by using data obtained from a second angle section corresponding to a second point subsequent to the first point; and a controller configured to obtain first information representing a brightness change, to obtain second information representing a rate of change in a Hounsfield unit (HU) value between the first point and the second point based on the first information, and to determine a tomography start point of the object based on the second information.
US10176563B2
A mobile device comprises a sensor and a processor. The sensor is configured to wirelessly receive an identification signal including an item identifier code, the identification signal being emitted by a low-rate transmission device associated with an item, wherein the sensor receives the identification signal from a direction of the item. The processor is configured to generate an output signal based on the item identifier code.
US10176561B2
Innovations in rendering of high dynamic range (“HDR”) content are described. A playback system can adjust a tone mapping function used when rendering the HDR content, thereby improving quality when rendering the HDR content. For example, the playback system includes decision logic, which is configured to receive summary information (e.g., histogram information) for sample values of a picture of HDR content, and set a tone mapping function based at least in part on the summary information. The tone mapping function can be selected from among multiple available tone mapping functions, and parameters of the selected tone mapping function can be determined based at least in part on the summary information. A tone mapper is configured to apply tone mapping to input values for the sample values of the picture of HDR content, according to the tone mapping function, and thereby produce output values.
US10176552B2
A computer program product for being executed on a computer causes an information processing apparatus to execute a process including reading an image data item from an image storage unit, and reading object information from an object information storage unit in which the object information relating to an object shown in the image data item is stored in association with identification information for identifying the object; displaying, by a display device, the image data items that have been read and the object information; accepting a selection of the object based on the object information, and accepting a specification of a position of the object with respect to the image data item; and displaying, in association with each other, the specified positions of the objects that have the same identification information, among the objects shown in different image data items for which the specifications of the positions have been accepted.
US10176551B2
Embodiments relate to a configurable convolution engine that receives configuration information to perform convolution and other deep machine learning operations on streaming input data of various formats. The convolution engine may include two convolution circuits that each generate a stream of values by applying convolution kernels to input data. The stream of values may each define one or more channels of image data. A channel merge circuit combines the streams of values from each convolution circuit in accordance with a selected mode of operation. In one mode, the first and second streams from the convolution circuits are merged into an output stream having the combined channels of the first and second streams in an interleaved manner. In another mode, the first stream from the first convolution circuit is fed into the input of the second convolution circuit.
US10176544B2
A system, method, and a physical figure for presenting user progress in a virtual space are disclosed. The presented user progress may indicate user advancements in the virtual space and/or user development in the real-world. Based on information indicating such user progress, character representation may be determined to reflect the user progress for presentation on the physical figure. In some implementations, specific location(s) on the physical figure may be determined for presenting specific aspect(s) of user progress in the virtual space. The physical figure may receive the determined character representation information and present the character represent on one or more screens thereon.
US10176534B1
A method and system improve retention of a user of a tax return preparation system by personalizing a tax return preparation interview with questions that are at least partially based on user data processed by one or more predictive models, according to one embodiment. The method and system include receiving user data that is associated with a user, and applying the user data to one or more predictive models to cause the one or more predictive models to generate predictive output data, according to one embodiment. The predictive output data are scores for a subset of questions, and scores represent a relevance to the user of each of the subset of questions, according to one embodiment. The method and system include presenting selected ones of the subset of questions to the user, at least partially based on the scores, to personalize a tax return preparation interview for the user.
US10176531B2
Some aspects of the invention relate to a mobile apparatus including an image sensor configured to convert an optical image into an electrical signal. The optical image includes an image of a vehicle license plate. The mobile apparatus includes a license plate detector configured to process the electrical signal to recover information from the vehicle license plate image. The mobile apparatus includes an interface configured to transmit the vehicle license plate information to a remote apparatus and receive an insurance quote for a vehicle corresponding to the vehicle license plate in response to the transmission.
US10176529B2
An activity evaluator includes an evaluation module configured to collect human activity data from at least two sensors, which may include a sensor on equipment, a location sensor, an RFID sensor, a physiological sensor, a weight sensor, a chemical sensor, a heat sensor, a pressure sensor and a camera, and analyze the collected data to determine an activity evaluation indicative of an activity safety level. A communications module is configured to communicate at least one of the activity evaluation and the collective activity level-related data to a distinct computer system. The activity evaluation may be employed in providing feedback to an individual.
US10176523B1
An order management system and method are provided for automated management of the trading activity between a buy-side firm and sell-side firm. A trade rotation list is defined that governs trades. Items on the trade rotation list are defined by at least one characteristic that is used to match a trade by assigning a sequence number to that trade. An eligibility policy and a rotation method can be defined for each trade list. The rotation method rotates the sequence in which sponsors receive block trades, so that sponsors alternate the advantage of trading first. A trade route within an order management system comprises a trade context and an allocation context. One of the trade context or allocation context or both are referenced by metadata characteristics. If the trade route references a context by name, then the trade order is routed to the trade proxy associated with the context. If the trade route references the context by metadata, then the context to be used is determined by looking up metadata of a trade order using the metadata specified in the trade route and matching that to the metadata of the context.
US10176521B2
A method includes receiving from a shopping device an image of a shopping target corresponding to a product for sale, identifying a virtual model of the product, obtaining the virtual model of the product, and displaying the virtual model of the product on the shopping device.
US10176511B2
Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable media for placing an order for a user. The method includes receiving a search from a user, identifying a product category based on the search, presenting to the user a general ordering screen based on the identified product category, selecting and activating a speech recognition grammar tuned for the identified product category, recognizing a first received user utterance with the activated tuned grammar to identify a vendor who offers items in the identified product category, recognizing a second received user utterance with the activated tuned grammar to identify a specific item from the identified vendor, and placing an order for the specific item with the identified vendor for the user. In one aspect, the method further offers to sell the user additional items ancillary to the specific item.
US10176509B1
An electronic invoicing system includes an integrated method of searching both purchase order based electronic invoices and electronic invoices not associated with a purchase order or transaction receipt. A portal is provided. The portal has respective views for a supplier submitting purchase order based electronic invoices and electronic invoices not associated with a purchase order or transaction receipt, and a user of an enterprise submitting and/or reviewing electronic invoices. The supplier can search for both purchase order based and non-purchase order based invoices in a single criteria screen and interface in the portal.
US10176507B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods are provided herein for a self-service drug locator interface. In one embodiment, a method of providing a self-service drug locator includes, receiving, from a customer, one or more identifiers associated with one or more drugs through a customer self-service drug locator interface. The system then selects a plurality of pharmacies meeting one or more search parameters, wherein the one or more search parameters comprise a maximum distance from a location or a geographical region. Inventories of the plurality of pharmacies are queried to determine whether the one or more drugs are in stock in each of the plurality of pharmacies. A list of recommended pharmacies is generated based on the querying of the inventories of the plurality of pharmacies and provided to the customer.
US10176502B2
Computer implemented methods, according to various embodiments, comprise: (1) integrating a privacy management system with DLP tools; (2) using the DLP tools to identify sensitive information that is stored in computer memory outside of the context of the privacy management system; and (3) in response to the sensitive data being discovered by the DLP tool, displaying each area of sensitive data to a privacy officer (e.g., similar to pending transactions in a checking account that have not been reconciled). A designated privacy officer may then select a particular entry and either match it up (e.g., reconcile it) with an existing data flow or campaign in the privacy management system, or trigger a new privacy assessment to be done on the data to capture the related privacy attributes and data flow information.
US10176497B2
An Internet advertisement method and system that issues an authentication key for enabling selected target customers to receive a commercial sample at a membership-based offline store by performing an advertisement in the form of a banner on a web page of an online market, such as an Internet shopping mall, such that an advertiser can conveniently satisfy needs of customers desiring to purchase goods after receiving the sample without delivering the sample, a targeting goods advertisement can be effectively performed, membership-based offline stores can be publicized, and increasing visits from customers can lead to an increase in sales. The Internet advertisement method includes providing an advertisement including information on providing a sample, and generating an authentication key for enabling a customer terminal selecting the advertisement and requesting a sample of advertised goods to receive the sample at an offline store.
US10176483B2
A system and method for providing a user interface to facilitate the purchase of unique items by presenting past purchase information of unique items to consumers. The user interface is a two-dimensional chart, with each axis of the chart representing a variation of values of an attribute that characterize an item that was previously sold. The system populates the chart with sales data that reflects the past sales of items having attribute values that fall within the chart. By visually presenting to consumers the distribution of past purchases, the consumer is better able to assess whether an item that they are purchasing falls within “typical” purchase behavior of other consumers. In some embodiments, the system allows a user to select a region of the chart and initiate a search for items that are available for purchase that satisfy the attribute values that are associated with the selected region.
US10176480B1
A method, system and computer-readable storage medium provide for managing stranded assets of a customer service call center. The system includes an interface component that identifies an opportunity event of an established customer service session initiated by a user that is in a waiting queue for a customer service representative. The system includes an ingestion component that ingests one or more characteristics of the opportunity event that characterize at least one of: (i) the identity of the user; (ii) subject of the established customer service session; and (iii) situational context of the user. The system includes a correlation component that correlates the one or more ingested characteristics and an estimated duration of the waiting queue with at least one transaction-related content item. The system includes a publishing component that publishes a selected transaction-related content item via the established customer service session to the user while in the waiting queue.
US10176471B2
The invention generally relates to systems and methods for providing product information via an interactive display device in a dynamic format. The present invention implements a system for defining product variations and assigning references to them at the point of sale or delivery. The system further includes an interactive display device for providing informational data associated with a product variation assigned to a product upon recognition of the product in contact therewith. The present invention is unique in allowing a seller to assign or modify a reference associated with a unique identifier, such as a barcode label, at the point of sale or delivery, thereby changing the information delivered to the buyer based on details about the specific unit sold, the circumstances of the transaction, or the identity of the buyer.
