US10194566B2
A feed-through provides electromagnetic shielding where one or more signal leads pass through an enclosure. It comprises a frame, having at least one opening, and an assembly comprising two or more joining parts, forming one or more elongated waveguides. The joining parts are divisible along the length of the waveguides, thereby being capable of surrounding a signal lead. The assembly is adapted to be attached to the frame such that one or more signal leads can pass through an opening in the frame and through one of the waveguides. Installation is of the feed-through is made easier by the opening in the frame having a larger maximum extension than the maximum extension of a waveguide.
US10194560B2
In one embodiment, a printed circuit board has a hole. The hole has a longest extent on a surface of the printed circuit board. A clip is held in the hole by feet of prongs. The feet are extensions each having a length that is more than half the longest extent of the hole. A heat sink is held, in part, relative to the printed circuit board by the clip. A part of the heat sink contacts a loop of the clip and applies a force on the clip directed away from the printed circuit board. The feet of the clip on an opposite side of the printed circuit board than the heat sink hold the clip to the printed circuit board to counteract the force. The prongs are configured to offset the feet such that the extensions overlap with the lengths extending along the longest extent of the hole by less than a sum of the lengths of the feet and less than the longest extent for insertion through the hole.
US10194556B2
A slide rail mechanism includes a rail member, a supporting frame and a bracket. The supporting frame is movable relative to the rail member and the bracket. The bracket includes a side wall and at least one mounting member adjacent to the side wall. The at least one mounting member configured to pass through a mounting hole of a post. When the supporting frame is moved relative to the bracket from a first position to a second position, the supporting frame is configured to drive the at least one mounting member to move relative to the side wall.
US10194549B2
A system and a method for supporting a hierarchical connection of an accessory apparatus to a terminal and other accessory apparatuses are provided. The accessory apparatus includes a terminal connection interface connecting to a terminal, at least one connection interface connecting at least one other accessory apparatus, and an apparatus controller setting and controlling the terminal to identify a resistance value corresponding to a particular accessory apparatus according to whether the at least one other accessory apparatus is connected.
US10194548B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a control unit whereby the quantity of a seal material to be used can be reduced, while ensuring waterproof performance. This electronic control device is provided with: a housing, wherein a plurality of members are bonded, and a peripheral end portion thereof is configured from a plurality of sides; a circuit board housed in the housing; and seal structures that are disposed along the sides at the peripheral end portion. A seal material is provided to the seal structures such that the members are connected to each other. The seal structures disposed on one side of the peripheral end portion are configured such that each of seal cross sectional areas at end portions of the side is smaller than a seal cross sectional area at a center portion of the side.
US10194546B2
A display device includes a display unit provided with a display screen on a front side, and a stand that supports the display unit from below. The stand includes a base that supports the display unit at a rear side of the display unit and extends in a lateral width direction of the display unit, and a pair of legs that supports both longitudinal ends of the base from below respectively and extends across a lower edge of the display unit in a front-rear direction.
US10194542B2
Provided is a display device which may include a display panel having a long side in a first direction, a short side in a second direction, and a thickness in a third direction, a back cabinet disposed in the rear of the display panel, and a case that covers an edge of a front surface of the display panel. The case may include a horizontal case that covers an edge of the front surface of the display panel on a long side of the display panel and a vertical case covering an edge of the front surface of the display panel on a short side of the display panel. The horizontal case and the vertical case may be coupled to each other in a region corresponding to a corner of the display panel, and the horizontal case and the vertical case may be formed of different materials.
US10194540B2
A supporting device of a flexible display panel, and display apparatus are provided. The supporting device includes a plate-like support component and a curvature adjusting component combined with the plate-like support component, wherein the plate-like support component includes two opposite outer peripheral portions, at least one portion of the curvature adjusting component is disposed between the two outer peripheral portions, and a structure of the curvature adjusting component is configured to enable the two outer peripheral portions of the plate-like support component to be bent toward the side of the plate surface provided with the plate-like support component, such that a curved support surface having a varying curvature can be obtained.
US10194538B2
A method of manufacturing a display device includes mounting a cover window including a curved portion on a first jig including a curved portion, mounting a panel member on a second jig that conforms to a surface of the first jig, and laminating the cover window to the panel member by moving a first one of the first jig or the second jig to a first other one of the first jig or the second jig. An apparatus for manufacturing a display device includes a first jig including a mount surface that is partially curved to conform to a surface of a cover window, a second jig including a surface conforming to the mount surface and configured to contact a panel member, and a driving unit.
US10194534B2
Provided herein is a printed wiring board that can desirably dissipate the heat of a heat-generating component. The printed wiring board includes one or more wires, and one or more heat-generating components. The one or more wires include a rolled copper foil, either partly or as a whole. The one or more heat-generating components and the one or more wires are directly or indirectly connected to each other.
US10194516B2
A torch extender for a plasma arc cutting system is provided. The plasma torch extender includes an elongated substantially dielectric body that defines a first end and a second end and includes a flexible section that is poseable across a plurality of orientations. The torch extender also includes a first connector, at the first end of the elongated substantially dielectric body, which mates with a consumable set, and a second connector, at the second end of the elongated substantially dielectric body, which mates with a torch mount. The torch extender further includes a consumable detection medium that communicates the presence of the consumable set. The consumable detection medium is disposed within the elongated substantially dielectric body and extends between the first end and the second end of the elongated substantially dielectric body.
US10194515B2
A beam delivery system may include: beam adjusters configured to adjust a divergence angle of a pulse laser beam; a beam sampler configured to separate a part of the pulse laser beam outputted from a first beam adjuster provided at the most downstream among the beam adjusters to acquire a sample beam; a beam monitor configured to receive the sample beam and output a monitored diameter; and a beam delivery controller configured to control the beam adjusters based on the monitored diameter. The beam delivery controller may adjust each of beam adjusters other than the first beam adjuster selected one after another from the most upstream so that the monitored diameter at the beam monitor becomes a predetermined value specific to the beam adjuster, and adjust the first beam adjuster so that the pulse laser beam becomes focused at a position downstream of a target position.
US10194514B2
Electrostatic charge grounding is achieved by connecting an outer surface touchscreen conductive coating to a grounded conductor in a graphics terminal using an electrostatic charge routing system that provides a path for electrons that accumulate on the conductive coating to pass through one or more non-conductive elements in the graphics terminal. The grounded conductor can be a bezel made of metal or another conductor, a conductive paint layer applied to a bezel or other graphics terminal element, a metal spline pin or a metal screw. The electron path defined by the electrostatic charge routing system can include conductive and dissipative elements such as metal spline pins, metal screws, conductive epoxy, conducting plastic elements providing a short, closed electron bridge.
US10194508B2
The present invention relates to a system, method, and apparatus for powering intelligent lighting networks. The power for the intelligent lighting network is supplied by Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) switches and/or Mid-Spans, which are conditioned by a powered device to distribute power tuned specifically for each, at least one light emitting diode (LED) fixture. The Power-over-Ethernet switch and/or Mid-Span with associated router and wireless access point is used to communicate with and power a sensor network that collects data relevant to the intelligent lighting network. Optionally, the Power-over-Ethernet switch and/or Mid-Span is used to communicate with and power a network of sensors that collects data relevant to the space the intelligent lighting network is operating in or is used to communicate with and power a network of AC wall plugs that is turned on and off and various switches, relays, and PLCs, RFID systems, USB hubs, etc.
US10194505B1
The present disclosure relates to systems, devices and methods for lighting control by an audio bus lighting control device. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving audio bus data generated by a source in a vehicle, and generating a lighting control signal for at least one lighting element of the vehicle based on the audio bus data. The method also includes controlling operation of the at least one lighting element of the vehicle based on the lighting control signal. According to another embodiment, a lighting control device is provided including a transceiver for a vehicle audio bus, a controller and at least one lighting unit.
US10194500B2
System and method for dimming control of one or more light emitting diodes. An example system includes one or more signal processing components configured to receive a first signal associated with a TRIAC dimmer, process information associated with the first signal, determine whether the TRIAC dimmer is in a first condition or a second condition, generate a second signal based on at least information associated with the first signal, and send the second signal to a switch. The one or more signal processing components are further configured to, if the TRIAC dimmer is determined to be in the first condition, generate the second signal to cause the switch to be opened and closed corresponding to a modulation frequency.
US10194497B2
A control circuit for generating a switching control signal to control switching operations of a power switch in a power stage circuit, can include: a first control loop configured to receive a first voltage feedback signal, and to generate a first compensation signal; a voltage regulating circuit configured to receive an output voltage signal of the power stage circuit, and to generate a second compensation signal according to a difference between an output voltage signal of the power stage circuit during different time periods; and control and driving circuit configured to receive the first and second compensation signals and a sense voltage signal that represents a current through an inductor of the power stage circuit, and to generate an OFF signal, and a switching control signal according to the OFF signal and an ON signal.
US10194496B2
An LED strip operable with a single input source of current providing for an extended length LED strip of continuous illumination. The LED strip includes a repeating pattern of LED circuits along a printed circuit board; each LED circuit having a constant current regulator and a plurality of LEDs in serial configuration with the constant current regulator.
US10194492B2
An induction coil assembly for an induction cooking hob has a coil winding, a lower electrically isolating sheet and optionally a thermally insulating sheet. The induction coil assembly further includes a carrier plate for supporting the lower electrically isolating sheet, the coil winding and the thermally insulating sheet. At least two power cables are provided for each coil winding. The power cables are at least partially arranged at a bottom side of the carrier plate and act as spring elements, so that the induction coil assembly can be pressed or is pressed against a glass ceramic panel of the induction cooking hob.
US10194484B2
A vehicle system includes a controller configured to receive a vehicle state signal indicative of a vehicle being in an emergency state, repeatedly transmit a request, via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), to a personal communication device (PCD) to contact an emergency provider in response to receiving the vehicle state signal, and stop transmitting the request to contact the emergency provider in response to receiving an acknowledgement from the PCD that the emergency provider was contacted.
US10194471B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a data transmission method, including: receiving, by second UE, a first message sent by first UE or a base station, where the first message includes relay request information; sending, by the second UE, a second message to the base station according to the first message, where the second message includes information indicating that the second UE requests to act as relay UE for data transmission between the first UE and the base station; and receiving, by the second UE, a third message sent by the base station, where the third message instructs the second UE to act as the relay UE.
US10194463B2
An apparatus and method for transmitting an indicator of channel quality while minimizing the use of a broadcast channel is described. A metric of forward link geometry of observed transmission signals is determined. An indicator of channel quality value is determined as a function of the observed transmission signals. An access sequence is selected, randomly, from one group of a plurality of groups of access sequences, wherein each of the plurality of groups of access sequences correspond to different ranges of channel quality values.
US10194460B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a user equipment, a network side device, and a method for sending a DPCCH, which relate to the field of communications, so as to implement that the network side device knows a moment at which a DPCCH is sent and a DPCCH is periodically sent. Solutions provided in the embodiments of the present invention include: receiving indication information sent by the network side device by using the user equipment; activating a second carrier of DC-HSUPA according to the indication information; acquiring uplink DTX parameters; and periodically sending an uplink DPCCH on the second carrier of the DC-HSUPA according to the indication information and the uplink DTX parameters. The present invention is used to send a DPCCH.
US10194458B2
A system and a method minimize power consumption, signalling overhead, and processing load in blind scheduling in a mobile communication system. A User Equipment (UE) detects a type of an uplink (UL) grant while it is periodically allocated the UL grant. If there is no data to transmit using the UL grant, the UE determines whether to transmit a padding Medium Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Unit (PDU) to an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) Node B (eNB) using the UL grant according to the type of the UL grant.
US10194456B2
A communication device for handling data transmission in an unlicensed band comprises a storage unit for storing instructions and a processing means coupled to the storage unit. The processing means is configured to execute the instructions stored in the storage unit. The instructions comprise receiving an uplink (UL) grant in the unlicensed band from a network, wherein the UL grant indicates a first plurality of resource blocks for transmitting data; transmitting the data in the first plurality of resource blocks of the unlicensed band to the network according to the UL grant; and transmitting a preamble in a second plurality of resource blocks of the unlicensed band to the network, wherein the preamble indicates the transmission of the data.
US10194449B2
A base station receives signals transmitted from one terminal in cooperation with another base station and performs synthesis processing of the received signals of the other base station and the received signals of the local base station. In the base station, a determination circuit determines necessity of synthesis processing using the received signals of the local base station at the time of the first transmission of the terminal. A base station-to-base station communication circuit transmits a message requesting forwarding of the received signals to the other base station in a case where the synthesis processing is determined to be necessary and receives the forwarded signals that are forwarded from the other base station at the time of retransmission of the terminal. A synthesis circuit synthesizes the forwarded signals from the other base station and the received signals of the local base station in a case where the synthesis processing is determined to be necessary.
US10194448B2
A mobile telecommunications network includes: a radio access network having radio means (2000) for wireless communication with a plurality of terminals (10) registered with the telecommunications network and control means (700) operable to control interaction of the terminals with the radio access network; and a core (2030) including a store of policy information comprising group policy data (2210) applicable to a group of the terminals and individual policy data applicable to respective ones of the terminals (10), and distribution means operable to provide to the control means associated with each of the terminals an indicator of the group policy data applicable to each of the terminals and the individual policy data applicable to each of the terminals.
US10194444B2
Methods and apparatus are described for a User Equipment (UE) to determine a set of resources available for transmitting an acknowledgement signal in an UpLink (UL) Component Carrier (CC) in response to reception of multiple DownLink (DL) Scheduling Assignments (SAs) transmitted from a base station with each DL SA being associated with a respective DL CC. The UL CC and a first DL CC establish a communication link when the UE is configured for communication over a single UL CC and a single DL CC.
US10194443B2
A transmitter of the present disclosure includes: an output terminal; a driver that performs transition of a voltage of the output terminal among a plurality of voltages; and a controller that controls the driver to cause transition start timing in one voltage transition in voltage transition among the plurality of voltages to be later than transition start timing in another voltage transition.
US10194441B2
Described are techniques for limiting bandwidth requirements for user equipment UE data sent on a front haul link between a remote radio head RRH and a baseband unit BBU. For a given UE a subset of a plurality of beams is selected based on received energies of the plurality of beams, and for the given UE only data from the selected subset of beams transmitting on a front haul link. Multiple techniques are detailed for how the subset is selected, including (when UE allocation information is available) averaged received beam energy, total received beam energy, maximum received beam energy and also (when UE allocation information is not available). For further bandwidth reduction a special data compression technique uses the received energies of each beam to select a minimum gain offset value after dividing the data into I and Q components.
US10194439B2
A base station transmits at least one message comprising one or more first parameters identifying one or more subframes as a listen-before-talk (LBT) subframe. The base station performs an LBT procedure in a subframe in the one or more subframe. A burst is transmitted when the LBT procedure indicates a clear channel. The burst is configurable to start in the subframe if the subframe is identified as an LBT subframe.
US10194438B2
A system for sharing a shared frequency band including one or more processors, memory, and one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for receiving a request for use of the shared frequency band from a first transceiving system operating at least partially in the shared frequency band, in response to receiving the request for use of the shared frequency band, determining one or more second transceiving systems within a coverage area of the first transceiving system, wherein the one or more second transceiving systems operate at least partially in the first frequency band, and sending a request to at least one of the one or more second transceiving systems to cease at least transmission in the first frequency band.
US10194436B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications and, more particularly, to Wi-Fi systems including frame extensions in transmission frames. Lengths of frame extensions may be determined based on transmission bandwidths and transmission data rates of the frames. Lengths of frame extensions may also be determined based on an amount of useful data in a final symbol of the frame. An access point (AP) may determine frame extension lengths for use in transmitting to stations (STAs) based on reception capabilities of the STAs. An AP may determine frame extension lengths for STAs to use in transmitting frames.
US10194435B2
Disclosed is a method for performing, by a device, device-to-device direct communication in a wireless communication system. In particular, the method comprises the steps of: transmitting a device-to-device direct communication signal via a first resource block having a resource structure for device-to-device direct communication at a first point in time; and transmitting the device-to-device direct communication signal via a second resource block having a resource structure for the device-to-device direct communication at a second point in time, wherein the first resource block and the second resource block are defined by a time unit index and a resource unit index, respectively, and wherein the time unit index of the second resource block is determined on the basis of the resource unit index of the first resource block index, and the resource unit index of the second resource block is determined on the basis of the time unit index of the first resource block index.
US10194432B2
A wireless device receives downlink control information comprising: an allocation of resource blocks for transmission of uplink data in a first subframe of licensed assisted access (LAA) cell; an index indicating a starting position for the uplink data in the first subframe; and a field indicating an ending symbol for the uplink data. The wireless device transmits the uplink data on the LAA cell, starting at the starting position in the first subframe and ending at the ending symbol.
US10194415B2
Venue information is stored, the venue information including a first location portion of the venue and a second location portion of the venue. An actual presence of a location sensing mobile device is identified within the venue, the actual presence identified based on beacon signals received from a beacon associated with the first location portion of the venue. A first drone associated with the first location portion of the venue is selected based on the actual presence. First sensor data is received from the first drone. A virtual presence of the location sensing mobile device is received, the virtual presence being different from the actual presence. A second drone associated with the second location portion of the venue is selected based on the virtual presence. Second sensor data is received from the second drone. The first and second sensor data is transmitted to the location sensing mobile device.
US10194410B2
A base station may transmit a plurality of synchronization signals in a wireless communication system. The synchronization signals may be multiplexed to form a SS block that is transmitted as part of an SS burst. Each SS block may be identifiable based on SS block index information carried by its corresponding synchronization signals. In one aspect, a synchronization signal that carries SS block index information is frequency division multiplexed with a secondary synchronization signal of the SS block. In one aspect, the synchronization signal that carries the SS block index information comprises a DM-RS for a PBCH of the SS block. A UE may use the SS block index information to identify a beam on which the SS block is transmitted. The UE may use the synchronization signals as part of a cell search procedure by which it acquires time and frequency synchronization with the base station.
US10194409B2
A near field communication device includes an antenna, a matching circuit connected to the antenna, a clock extraction block that extracts a clock from a signal received by the antenna and outputs the extracted clock, a frequency compensation block that compensates for a frequency of the extracted clock and outputs a compensated clock, and a modulation and amplification block that performs modulation and amplification by using the compensated clock and outputs a transmit signal to the matching circuit. A first extracted clock has a first frequency that is extracted when the transmit signal is not output and a second extracted clock has a second frequency that is extracted when the transmit signal is output, the frequency compensation block compensates for the second frequency of the second extracted clock based on a difference between the first frequency of the first extracted clock and the second frequency of the second extracted clock.
US10194407B2
[Object] To provide a mechanism that makes it possible to perform synchronization control that is different in accordance with synchronization signals.[Solution] There is provided a terminal device including: a synchronization processing unit configured to perform synchronization processing on the basis of a synchronization signal for radio communication; and a control unit configured to control a monitoring period of a synchronization state of the synchronization signal in accordance with a transmission path of the synchronization signal that is subjected to the synchronization processing, and to control processing that is different in accordance with a monitoring result of a synchronization state for the monitoring period.
US10194393B2
The invention provides for mobile radio communications device (10) for operation within a mobile radio communications network and arranged to employ one of a plurality of possible power saving modes, and arranged to send non-access stratum or access stratum signalling (14) to the network including an indication of at least one of the said plurality of possible power saving modes, and responsive to which indication the network (12) is arranged to return confirmation (16) of the power saving mode to be employed by the mobile radio communications device (10), the mobile radio communications device (10) further being arranged to receive the said confirmation (16) and to initiate operation of the confirmed power-saving mode (26; 38; 44).
US10194392B2
When a terminal device initiates a wireless communication when it has not established a wireless link between itself and another wireless device, it transmits, as a management frames in active scanning, a plurality of activation probe requests having frame lengths representing an identifier of a wireless base station to which connection is being made and which is intended to transition from sleep mode to operating mode. Then, the wireless base station receives the plurality of activation probe requests transmitted by the terminal device as management frames in active scanning in a wireless LAN, and, when a plurality of dummy network identifiers detected based on the received plurality of activation probe requests represent the identifier of its own, transitions from sleep mode to operating mode.
US10194377B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a network device and a data backhaul implementation system and method, which can implement centralized and dynamic allocation of backhaul resources in a network and improve a data backhaul capacity of the entire network. The method includes: obtaining, according to channel state information, a backhaul request of a second network device, and residual backhaul capability information of a third network device, backhaul control information used for controlling the second network device and the third network device to backhaul data, where the backhaul control information includes backhaul network topology control information and physical resource allocation information; and sending the backhaul control information to the second network device and the third network device, so that the second network device and the third network device backhaul data according to the backhaul control information.
US10194370B2
Cluster management techniques for wireless data links are described. According to some such techniques, a wireless communication device may maintain proximity information for consideration in conjunction with assigning NAN data links to NAN data clusters. In some embodiments, a wireless communication device may store proximity information for a given NAN data link in an NDL attribute associated with that NAN data link, and may store proximity information for a given NAN data cluster in an NDC attribute associated with that NAN data cluster. In various embodiments, two wireless communication devices may utilize/consider such proximity information in conjunction with assigning a newly-created NAN data link to a NAN data cluster. In some embodiments, two wireless communication devices may utilize/consider such proximity information in conjunction with transferring an extant NAN data link from one NAN data cluster to another NAN data cluster.
US10194369B2
An apparatus and method for communicating via a routing protocol in a wireless network having directional transmission capabilities. Reliable peer stations are identified using Beamforming (BF) training feedback metrics. Routing discovery messages are transmitted by unicast to reliable peer stations, with neighborhood discovery lists disseminated among peer stations in a unicast mode. From the above information, routing tables are constructed with best routing between a source and a destination station, wherein messages can be routed using said routing table from a source peer station, through intermediate peer stations, to a destination peer station. In addition, other embodiments are described, including a simplified two-hop routing apparatus and method.
US10194366B1
As the variety and number of wireless client devices have increased, often there may be multiple client devices in close proximity of each other. In addition to the connectivity to the wireless wide area network (WWAN), the client devices may have a short range link to directly connect with each other. Two or more client devices in a given area may be camped on the same or neighboring cells of the same WWAN, and the client devices may be performing measurements on the same set or subset of cells. A method and apparatus are disclosed such that a client device may perform serving and neighbor cells measurements and relay the measurements information to other client devices over the short range link. This may enable other client devices to avoid having to perform measurements directly on the WWAN cells which may reduce their power consumption.
US10194365B2
Notifying served user equipments (UEs) of the presence or absence of cell-specific reference signal (CRS) symbols transmitted by neighboring base stations in the physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) region of a subframe can be achieved through various of signaling techniques. The served UE may be notified by communicating a one or multi-bit indicator in a physical layer signaling channel of the serving cell, such as the physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) of the subframe. Alternatively, the served UE may be notified through higher layer signaling.
US10194354B1
A control element of a first wireless communication network, such as a mobility management entity, determines that a wireless device is being served by a second wireless communication network. The control element also receives an indicator associated with the availability of a base station in the first wireless communication network to serve the wireless device. Based on the indicator, the control element initiates a handover of the wireless device from the second wireless communication network to the first wireless communication network. The control element may also initiates a handover of the wireless device based on the indicator and based on a signal strength reported by the wireless device.
US10194349B2
The present invention concerns a method for optimizing ROHC RTP (Robust Header Compression Real Time Protocol) compression applied to IP header of data packets stream so as to use more compact formats enable to remain in a steady state, to never discard received packet, and to serve radio resources without requiring to modify ROHC specification. In the method, when handover or mobility procedure is started, new reference values are normally added to a sliding compression window, but no reference value is removed from the window as long as the handover or mobility procedure is on going. After the handover or mobility procedure is complete, when the number of values transmitted on the new radio link are appropriate to cope against the error properties on the new link, all older values can be removed at once from the compression window, thereby reverting to normal window operation.
US10194348B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may determine a decompression failure associated with a header of a received packet and a first real-time transport protocol (RTP) sequence number (SN) interpretation window. In some aspects, the wireless communication device may perform a decompression of the header of the received packet using a second RTP SN interpretation window. The second RTP SN interpretation window may be selected based on at least one of one or more values for the first RTP SN interpretation window or a size of the first RTP SN interpretation window.
US10194346B2
Systems and methods are described for exploiting inter-cell interference to achieve multiplexing gain in a multiple antenna system (MAS) with multi-user (MU) transmissions (“MU-MAS”). For example, a MU-MAS of one embodiment comprises a wireless cellular network with multiple distributed antennas operating cooperatively to eliminate inter-cell interference and increase network capacity exploiting inter-cell multiplexing gain.
US10194339B1
Methods and systems are provided for enabling a base station to receive signals and synchronization information from neighboring base stations over a frequency band designated for transmissions to mobile devices. In embodiments, a cancellation signal is used to cancel antenna overload resulting from a base station's own transmission. By negating antenna overload, the base station may listen for synchronization signals output by neighboring base stations over the frequency band designated for transmission to mobile devices, such as a downlink band, for example. In embodiments, synchronization signals are used by the base station and/or a server to detect when synchronization failures occur at the base station and/or neighboring base stations. Synchronization signals from a neighboring base station may be used to re-synchronize a base station that have experience such a failure, in some embodiments.
US10194338B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a network optimization method and apparatus, and a base station. The method includes: collecting statistics on a load index of a cell within a coverage area; determining a load level of the cell according to the load index of the cell; obtaining a network key performance indicator of the cell; determining a performance status of the cell according to the load index and the network key performance indicator of the cell; determining a cause for overload of the cell according to the performance status of the cell when the load level of the cell is overload; and sending a message to a self-organized network SON entity, where the message carries an identifier that is used to indicate the cause for overload of the cell.
US10194337B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for offloading checksum processing in a user equipment (UE) (e.g., from an application processor to a modem processor). Such offloading may speed up packet processing, increase data rate, and/or free up resources of the application processor for other tasks.
US10194332B2
The present disclosure provides a Light Emitting Diode (LED) illuminating apparatus. The illuminating apparatus includes a first antenna, a second antenna, a signal amplifying unit, an LED lighting unit, and an LED driving power supply. The LED driving power supply is connected with the signal amplifying unit and the LED lighting unit to drive the LED lighting unit to emit light and to provide power to the signal amplifying unit. The first antenna and the second antenna are connected to the signal amplifying unit. The first antenna receives a base station signal, and transmits the base station signal to the signal amplifying unit. The signal amplifying unit amplifies the base station signal, and transmits the amplified base station signal to the second antenna. The second antenna transmits the amplified base station signal to a terminal. The second antenna further receives a terminal signal, and transmits the terminal signal to the signal amplifying unit. The signal amplifying unit further amplifies the terminal signal, and transmits the amplified terminal signal to the first antenna. The first antenna further transmits the amplified terminal signal to a base station.
US10194326B2
Techniques are described for wireless communication. A first method includes performing a clear channel assessment (CCA) for a first node associated with a first operator in a deployment of operators over an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band, and transmitting data over the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band when the CCA is successful. The data may be transmitted by the first node in accordance with an agreement between the first operator and a second operator in the deployment of operators. A second method includes receiving over an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band, at a user equipment (UE), a first transmission from a first node associated with a first operator in a deployment of operators. The first transmission may include data originating from a second operator in the deployment of operators.
US10194322B2
A method in a network node for handling a transmission between a plurality of Transmission Points, TPs, and User Equipments, UEs, in a wireless network. The network node receives information from each respective UE out of a number of first UEs served by the network node, which information is related to the location of the UE. The network node then identifies a hot spot, based on the information received from the UEs. The hot spot is an area where the load density of UEs is above a first threshold. When a hot spot is defined the network node selects a plurality of TPs dedicated to serve the UEs 130 located in the hot spot and establishes a coordinated transmission mode from the plurality of dedicated TPs to the UEs located in the hot spot.
US10194321B2
A forensics analysis is conducted on each of multiple mobile devices in an enterprise system to detect malicious activity. The systems and methods described include storing a single baseline image for the multiple mobile devices at a server. A client-side application on each mobile device scans storage locations to identify changes in data compared to a previous scan. At least a portion of the information about the changes is sent to the server. The server reconstructs snapshot images for each mobile device based on the baseline image and the received information. Malicious activity is detected by comparing the reconstructed snapshot image to a previous snapshot image for each mobile device.
US10194317B2
The present invention discloses methods and systems for performing at least one action at a system according to a user's gesture information. The required steps comprises of capturing the user's gestures information by a mobile apparatus, wherein the apparatus comprises an antenna, a processor, a storage medium, at least one accelerometer, wherein the accelerometer has at least 3 axis; comparing gesture information against one or more predefined gesture information at the mobile apparatus and when the gesture information matches a predefined gesture information, the mobile apparatus selects a first identity based on the predefined gesture information, sends encrypted information to a system through a reader wherein the encrypted information comprises the predefined gesture information, the first identity, a timestamp, and a device identity. The system performs at least one action according to the encrypted information. When the gesture information does not match any pre-defined gesture information, the mobile apparatus sends a failure notice to the user. The mobile apparatus or device does not send the encrypted information unless the device is physically close to the reader by a first wireless signal strength.
US10194313B1
Embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) profile provisioning between proximate devices is described. In at least one example, a first device can broadcast expression data to one or more other devices. Based on determining a presence of a second device within a particular region, the first device can send a request for a profile associated with an eSIM of the second device to the second device. The second device can provision the profile to the first device via a direct connection with the first device. Based on receiving the profile from the second device, the first device can associate the profile with its eSIM and can access at least one service based at least in part on the profile.
US10194311B2
A method for performing tracking area (TA) update by a UE in a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) includes: receiving at least one of neighbor radio remote unit (RRU) information and neighbor baseband unit (BBU) information from a primary BBU; setting a TA based on the received information and characteristics of the UE; and transmitting information on the set TA to the primary BBU during a radio resource control (RRC) connection release procedure.
US10194303B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product are provided. The apparatus may be a UE configured to receive from a base station access parameters corresponding to respective types of access controls for different types of data services, receive a TFT established at a core network based on mapping a packet filter to access control information for each type of access control, receive a data packet from an application, match the data packet to the packet filter to determine access control information corresponding to the data packet, and establish communication for the data packet based on access parameters for the determined access control information. Alternatively, the apparatus may be policy server configured to receive a request for traffic control regarding data being communicated to an application server, determine a policy update for the application server based on the request, and transmit the policy update to a UE.
US10194301B2
A method of tracking at least one emergency service provider is disclosed. An electronic history is compiled that includes at least one identifier of a service provider, at least one identifier of an event to which the service provider responded, and GPS data identifying the geographic location of the service provider at each time interval within the duration of the event. A user interface within which is displayed a first identifier of a first event is generated to a display device. A selection of the event identifier is received from a user. In response to the selection of the identifier, an aerial view of a geographic region within which the first event took place is generated. At least one icon is displayed in the aerial view representing the service provider at the geographic location corresponding to at least one time interval during the event.
US10194283B1
A method of controlling a portable radio communication device to participate in a talk group call. The method includes receiving, at the portable radio communication device, a signal including a first hash value transmitted by at least one other portable radio communication device; selecting a wireless access point that is within a communication range of the portable radio communication device; applying a hash function to a device identifier that is uniquely associated with the wireless access point to generate a second hash value; comparing the first hash value with the second hash value; and controlling the portable radio communication device to participate in a talk group call with the at least one other portable radio communication device when the first hash value matches with the second hash value.
US10194279B2
Location may be determined based on electrical outlets in a home or business. One or more of the electrical outlets may wirelessly communicate with a mobile device, thus updating a database with the location of the mobile device. As the mobile device moves within the home or business, a current location of the mobile device may be continually logged by passing one of the electrical outlets. Rules and operations may then be performed, based on the current location.
US10194278B1
A system and method for identifying a person's location at a school, hotel, office, business, restaurant or other venue and tracking the movements of that person during their visit to the venue. One or more wireless virtual beacons communicate with the person's electronic device. The virtual beacons provide the system with real-time data about the person's whereabouts, allowing for the confirmation and tracking of the person at the location. A first non-limiting example of use, include a company that provides food and beverage allowing the person to place an order for food and beverages on their electronic device and having the order delivered to the person at their current location as determined by the system. Another non-limiting example includes a company performing analytics on the time and movement of it's employees and customers.
US10194271B2
A system can include a mobile computing device and a wearable computing device. The wearable computing device can include a sensor that outputs an indication that the wearable computing device is not being worn. Responsive to receiving the indication that the wearable computing device is being not being worn, one or both of the devices can be operable to change an access mode of computing environment provided by the respective device from an increased access mode to a reduced access mode.
US10194263B2
A recognition system is employed in conjunction with a subscriber's cellular phone and the network serving the subscriber. According to an embodiment, a subscriber can use a cellular phone to receive and capture data signals, from, for example, an audio output. The captured data signals can be transmitted to a remote network element that receives and translates the captured data and performs a plurality of functions. A promotion can be selectively tailored to a user based in part on the user location.
US10194259B1
Various implementations include wearable audio devices and related methods for controlling such devices. In some particular implementations, a computer-implemented method of controlling a wearable audio device includes: receiving an initiation command to initiate a spatial audio mode; providing a plurality of audio samples corresponding with spatially delineated zones in an array defined relative to a physical position of the wearable audio device, in response to the initiation command, where each audio sample is associated with a source of audio content; receiving a selection command selecting one of the plurality of audio samples; and initiating playback of the source of audio content associated with the selected audio sample.
US10194245B1
Circumferential mode vibrations, in a diaphragm of an acoustic transducer, are damped by defining at least one elongated opening extending radially along a portion of a length from the central area to the outer perimeter being covered by a material having higher damping properties than the material of the cone.
US10194243B1
A method captures binaural sound of a voice of a first user with microphones located at left and rights ears of a dummy head. The dummy head transmits the voice of the first user to a portable electronic device with or near the first user. This portable electronic device transmits the binaural sound over one or more networks to another electronic device being used by a second user to communicate with the first user during the electronic call.
US10194242B2
A content reproduction apparatus includes a content reproducer configured to reproduce content, a user identifier configured to identify a specific user, a determiner configured to determine a place to which the specific user belongs, based on information of a distance with respect to a terminal carried by the specific user, and a result of identification performed by the user identifier, and a controller configured to, based on the information of the distance with respect to the terminal, cause the content to be output in the place to which the specific user belongs, and inhibit the content from being output in another place.
US10194241B2
Systems, devices, and methods are described for providing loudspeaker protection. An upstream loudspeaker model estimation component receives sensed electrical characteristics of a loudspeaker and generates an impedance model from which an excursion model, and associated parameters, of the loudspeaker as well as a gain change parameter may be generated. The impedance components are fitted to features of an estimated impedance, based on the voltage and current sense data, to generate the estimated impedance model that is converted to an excursion model of the loudspeaker. A downstream audio signal processing component, based on the excursion model, or parameters thereof, limits a predicted excursion of the loudspeaker utilizing excursion-constraining processing circuitry that includes a non-linear constraint filter. Processed audio signals associated with the limited excursion are subject to distortion suppression prior to releasing the output audio signals for playback on the loudspeaker.
US10194237B2
An electronic device is provided which includes a sliding groove, a speaker and a sound conditioner. The first sound outlet and the second sound outlet are connected to the sliding groove and respectively positioned adjacent to the first side wall and the second side wall of the sliding groove. The speaker is positioned relative to the first sound outlet. The sound conditioner extends along the sliding groove for a length that is greater than the distance between the first sound outlet and the second sound outlet. The sound conditioner is slidably positioned in the sliding groove so as to allow the sound produced by the speaker to be transmitted to the outside via either the first sound outlet or the second sound outlet.
US10194230B2
Methods and systems are provided for earphones with motion sensitive inflation. In an audio system that comprises an audio output element that is applied directly to or is in contact with at least a portion of an ear of a user of the audio system, one or more adjustments to positioning of the least portion of the audio output element relative to the ear of the user may be determined and applied. The one or more adjustments may be determined as to account for or counteract one or more conditions affecting the outputting of the audio signals and/or contact between the audio output element and the one ear of the user. The one or more adjustment may be applied by modifying characteristics of one or more positioning components of (or coupled to) the audio output element. The one or more positioning components comprise at least one inflation-based component.
US10194229B2
A wearable audio component includes a first cable and an audio source in electrical communication with the first cable. A housing defines an interior and an exterior, the audio source being contained within the interior thereof. The exterior includes an ear engaging surface, an outer surface, and a peripheral surface extending between the front and outer surfaces. The peripheral surface includes a channel open along a length to surrounding portions of the peripheral surface and having a depth to extend partially between the front and outer surfaces. A portion of the channel is covered by a bridge member that defines an aperture between and open to adjacent portions of the channel. The cable is connected with the housing at a first location disposed within the channel remote from the bridge member and is captured in so as to extend through the aperture in a slidable engagement therewith.
US10194228B2
A system includes a first device comprising a housing, a battery disposed within the housing, an intelligent control disposed within the housing, a transceiver disposed within the housing and operatively connected to the intelligent control, and a plurality of sensors operatively connected to the intelligent control. The system further includes a second device comprising a housing, a battery disposed within the housing, an intelligent control disposed within the housing, a transceiver disposed within the housing and operatively connected to the intelligent control, and a plurality of sensors operatively connected to the intelligent control. The first device and the second device provide for balancing load by powering one or more of the biosensors in one of the first device or the second device and shifting functions to the other of the first device and the second device.
US10194226B2
A device for detecting acoustic waves may include a housing having a housing wall with an inner surface, and an acoustic wave sensor provided at least partially inside the housing and configured to detect acoustic waves. The inner surface of the housing wall is made in at least half of its entire area of a thermally insulating material.
US10194223B2
Disclosed is a loudspeaker module, comprising a housing and a loudspeaker unit accommodated in the housing. A sound hole is provided on the housing, and a protective net is provided at a position of the housing corresponding to the sound hole, wherein the protective net has a non-planar structure. In the loudspeaker module of the present invention, the protective net has a non-planar structure, and cancels, via deformation thereof, stress of the housing such that the stress does not act on the protective net to cause tearing or deformation of the net holes, thus improving reliability of the protective net, preventing external foreign matter from entering the interior of the loudspeaker module, and improving reliability of the loudspeaker module.
US10194222B2
An optical switching control method and apparatus. The method includes generating an optical switching path corresponding to a destination node of service traffic flowing from an external service network, generating an optical frame corresponding to the generated optical switching path, transmitting, to a control server, a request message for requesting an allocation of a time slot to transmit the generated optical frame, generating an optical signal having a predetermined wavelength to transmit the optical frame in response to an admission message being received as a result of admission with respect to the request message, and transferring the optical frame to the destination node based on the optical switching path using the generated optical signal.
US10194220B2
Antenna apparatus that utilizes a utility line in order to improve performance of the antenna apparatus. In one embodiment, a smart meter that utilizes the aforementioned antenna apparatus is disclosed. The smart meter includes a utility meter housing configured to house a smart metering module, the utility meter housing enclosing: a wireless reporting portion comprising a helical coil radiator, the helical coil radiator being coupled to an RF transmission path, the RF transmission path configured to couple the helical coil radiator to an RF transceiver integrated circuit; an enclosure configured to house the RF transceiver integrated circuit, the enclosure further comprising a distribution portion comprising one or more meter sensing electronics; and a utility line port, the utility line port configured to position a utility line adjacent and parallel with the helical coil radiator.
US10194215B2
A system and method for broadcasting an advertisement of a product in a network is disclosed. The system includes a first interface unit for receiving transaction data of large number of customers from a financial service provider system, a second interface unit for receiving a viewership data from a network service provider system, a configuration database which stores a master rule, first and second sets of rules and a processing unit. The method includes (i) receiving the transaction data, (ii) processing the transaction data based on the first set of rule to obtain a potential customer base, (iii) receiving the viewership data, (iv) mapping the viewership data with the potential customer base to obtain an user database, (v) processing and aggregating the user database to obtain an optimal user database, and (vi) broadcasting the advertisement through the network service provider system in accordance to a second set of rule.
US10194205B2
A method that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, accessing, by a system comprising a processor, a content display configuration corresponding to a plurality of feed selections from a plurality of media content feeds, a plurality of display selections from a plurality of available displays, and a plurality of pairing selections assigning each feed selection of the plurality of feed selections to at least one display selection of the plurality of display selections, and transmitting a plurality of displayable content streams according to the content display configuration. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10194204B1
Systems and methods are provided for controlling playback of a media asset based on whether events are delayed. This may be accomplished by a media guidance application responding to a suspend playback command by determining whether a user is imminently scheduled to attend an event. If the user is imminently scheduled to attend an event, the media guidance application may query an event database to determine a most current start time of the event and compare the most current start time to a start time from the user's profile associated with the event to determine if the event has been delayed. In response to determining the event is delayed, the media guidance application may continue playback of the media asset notwithstanding the suspend command.
US10194200B2
A method for removing transitional noise in an audio data stream is performed by a computing device. After obtaining first and second audio frames in a time sequence of the audio data stream, the computing device determines a frame segmentation position in the audio frames based on predefined closeness criteria that require a predefined distance between the sampling point values at the frame segmentation position in the first and second audio frames to satisfy a predefined closeness condition. Next, the computing device obtains respective sampling point values preceding the frame segmentation position in the second audio frame and ones following the frame segmentation position in the first audio frame. The computing device then sequentially stitches the respective sampling point values obtained from the first and second audio frame to generate a third audio frame and inserts the third audio frame between the first audio frame and the second audio frame.
US10194198B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a display device having a controller to wirelessly receive media; wirelessly receive control signals for presentation of the media from a mobile communication device; and selectively disable control by the display device over presentation of the media on the display device. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US10194197B2
Disclosed is a broadcasting signal transmission device, a broadcasting signal reception device, and a method for transmitting/receiving a broadcasting signal using same. The method for receiving the broadcasting signal comprises the following steps: receiving the broadcasting signal, which includes a transmission frame, wherein the transmission frame includes a plurality of PLPs, which transmit components that constitute a broadcasting service, first signaling information and second signaling information, which include the signaling information of the plurality of PLPs, a first preamble signal, which has been signaled with a preamble format, and a second preamble signal, which has been signaled with pilot pattern information, wherein one of the plurality of PLPs is a base PLP, which includes a program number that corresponds to the broadcasting service and program map table information, which has been signaled with identifying information for each of the PLPs; demodulating the broadcasting signal based on the first and the second preamble signals; FEC decoding the demodulated broadcasting signal; and identifying a PLP group that includes the plurality of PLP from the FEC decoded broadcasting signal based on the first and the second signaling information, decoding at least one PLP of the identified PLP group, and providing the broadcasting service.
US10194194B2
The disclosure provided a tuner circuit having a zero power loop through (ZPLT) circuit that is capable of providing a loop through path even when no power is being supplied or without a standalone power supply. The tuner circuit includes an input terminal, an output terminal, a ZPLT circuit, and an internal resistor. The input terminal receives a radio frequency (RF) signal. The output terminal is connected to a subsequent tuner. The ZPLT is connected between the input terminal and the output terminal. The internal and an external resistor connected between the turner circuit and subsequent tuner form a voltage divider to divide a bias found at the output terminal to enable the ZPLT circuit for providing a loop through path to deliver the RF signal to the output terminal when the tuner circuit is not powered by a standalone power or a low noise amplifier is enabled.
US10194187B2
A media device generates a digital fingerprint of perceptual features of a segment of a work. The segment is less than an entirety of the work and includes at least one of audio or video media content. The media device sends a query to a lookup server for data associated with the work, the query including said digital fingerprint. The media device receives the data associated with said work from said lookup server in response to said query, wherein the data was identified based on a comparison of the digital fingerprint to a collection of digital fingerprints of known works. The media device then processes the received data.
US10194186B1
In the dynamic generation of video, a video service provider receives a video request from a video player over a data network. The video service provider matches the video request with a given video descriptor record of a plurality of video descriptor records. a video media file including a plurality of cue slots is generated according to the given video descriptor record using the video request. A plurality of video clip files in a video clip library is selected for the plurality of cue slots, and the plurality of video clip files are copied to the plurality of cue slots in the video media file. The video service provider then sends the video media file to the video player.
US10194184B2
A method of synchronizing first and second streams of a multimedia content program is operable for determining a temporal difference indicative of a relative timing between first and second streams of the program, the first stream being provided to a first multimedia processing resource (MPR) and the second stream being provided to a second MPR. The method includes manipulating at least one of the streams to reduce the temporal difference until the temporal difference is less than a predetermined threshold and enabling a viewer of the first stream to interact with a viewer of the second stream regarding the program. Interactions are visually detectable on a first display screen corresponding to the first MPR.
US10194182B2
The present invention relates to a signal transmission and reception apparatus and a signal transmission and reception method. An embodiment of the present invention provides a signal transmission method comprising: a step (S110) of encoding video data; a step (S120) of encoding a file format including the encoded video data, wherein the file format includes pre-filtering information for trick play; and a step (S130) of transmitting data including the encoded file format. According to an embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to provide trick play for an encoded stream more efficiently.
US10194179B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an encoder having a controller adapted to receive a digital video stream with metadata, retrieve from at least a portion of the metadata a native video format, configure encoding of at least a portion of the digital video stream according to the retrieved native video format, generate from at least the portion of the digital video stream an encoded video stream conforming to a moving picture experts group format and the native video format, and submit the encoded video stream to an acquisition server for multicast distribution. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10194176B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, sampling a variable effect distribution of viewing preference data to determine a first set of effects comprising a plurality of first distortion type effects associated with a first distortion type of a first image and to determine a second set of effects comprising a plurality of second distortion type effects associated with the second distortion type of a second image, calculating a preference estimate from a logistic regression model of the viewing preference data according to the first set of effects and the second set of effects, wherein the preference estimate comprises a probability that the first image is preferred over the second image, and selecting one of the first distortion type or the second distortion type according to the preference estimate. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10194171B2
There are provided methods and apparatus for multi-view video coding. A video encoder includes an encoder for encoding a block in a picture by choosing between temporal prediction and cross-view prediction to enable a prediction for the block. The picture is one of a set of pictures corresponding to multi-view video content and having different view points with respect to a same or similar scene. The picture represents one of the different view points. A high-level syntax is used to indicate the use of cross-view prediction for the block.
US10194164B2
A moving picture coding method includes: coding a coding target block using a motion vector; generating motion vector predictors; and coding the motion vector using one of the motion vector predictors generated in the generating of the motion vector predictors. In the generating of the motion vector predictors, a replacement vector which replaces a temporal motion vector predictor is added to the motion vector predictors when it is impossible to obtain the temporal motion vector predictor from a block which is included in a coded picture different from the coding target picture and corresponds to the coding target block.
US10194161B2
A reference picture information decoding unit (13) omits decoding of a reference list sorting presence or absence flag and/or a reference list sorting order based on the number of current picture referable pictures.
US10194154B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for embedded quantization parameter adjustment in video encoding and decoding. An apparatus includes an encoder for encoding picture data for at least a block in a picture. A quantization parameter, applied to one or more transform coefficients obtained by transforming a difference between an original version of the block and at least one reference block, is derived from reconstructed data corresponding to at least the block.
US10194146B2
An apparatus configured to code (e.g., encode or decode) video information includes a memory unit and a processor in communication with the memory unit. The memory unit is configured to store video information associated with a reference layer and an enhancement layer, the enhancement layer comprising an enhancement layer (EL) picture and the reference layer comprising a reference layer (RL) picture. The processor is configured to generate an inter-layer reference picture (ILRP) by resampling the RL picture; and determine whether, at a predetermined time, a reference picture of the ILRP was a short-term or long-term reference picture with respect to the ILRP. The processor may encode or decode the video information.
US10194140B2
A binocular stereo vision device, adjusting method and apparatus thereof and a display device are provided. The binocular stereo vision device includes: an acquisition system including two acquisition units (1) arranged at intervals and being configured to acquire a depth distance from a measured object to the acquisition system; an adjustment mechanism (3) configured to adjust a distance between the two acquisition units (1); a sensor (2) configured to acquire an initial distance between the two acquisition units (1); and a processing unit (4) configured to obtain a standard distance between the two acquisition units (1) according to the acquired depth distance from the measured object to the acquisition system and output a control signal according to a difference between the standard distance and the initial distance, wherein the adjustment mechanism (3) adjusts the distance between the two acquisition units (1) to be equal to the standard distance according to the control signal outputted by the processing unit (4). The binocular stereo vision device, adjusting method and apparatus thereof and the display device can improve the recognition range and the recognition accuracy of the binocular stereo vision device.
US10194138B2
The present invention discloses a structured light encoding-based vertical depth perception apparatus, the apparatus comprising: a laser pattern projector, an infrared receiving camera, a RGB receiving camera, and a depth perception module; the laser pattern projector, the RGB receiving camera, and the infrared receiving camera are disposed along a straight line vertical to a horizontal plane; the laser pattern projector is for projecting a laser encoded pattern; the infrared receiving camera is for consecutively acquiring the encoded patterns and generating an input encoded image sequence; the RGB receiving camera is for acquiring RGB video stream; and the depth perception module is for generating a depth map sequence. The apparatus according to the present invention may not only generate high-resolution and high-precision depth information in real-time, and but also solve the cavity issue existing at the horizontal direction edge of the to-be-measured object when a horizontal depth perception device performs a depth measurement; besides, it facilitates uniform extraction of the depth map sequence and the to-be-measured object in the RGB video stream.
US10194135B2
A three-dimensional depth perception apparatus includes a synchronized trigger module, an MIPI receiving/transmitting module, and a multiplexing core computing module, a storage controller module, a memory, and an MUX selecting module. The synchronized trigger module is for generating a synchronized trigger signal transmitted to an image acquiring module; the MIPI receiving/transmitting module is for supporting input/output of the MIPI video streams and other formats of video streams; the multiplexing core computing module is for selecting a monocular structured or a binocular structured light depth perception working mode. The apparatus flexibly adopts a monocular or binocular structured-light depth sensing manner, so as to leverage the advantages of different modes: the MIPI in, MIPI out working manner is nearly transparent to the user, so as to facilitate the user to employ the apparatus, directly obtaining the depth graph.
US10194127B2
Systems, apparatus and methods are provided to map a video range of image data to the video range of a display. Embodiments apply a weighted combination of values in input image data streams to generate image data having a range which matches the display capabilities. The weighted combination may be determined based on relative capabilities of the display and input image data. The video range of the image data and display may be a range of colors (gamut) and/or luminance (dynamic range).
US10194122B2
The present invention provides a method for controlling a projector and a projector applicable to the method. The method for controlling a projector comprises steps: enabling a projector, and projecting on a screen; enabling a sensing module, and obtaining an output image or a current environment image; processing the output image or the current environment image to obtain an RGB component, and calculating the gain coefficients of three channels RGB according to an automatic white balance algorithm; and adjusting the gains of the three channels RGB in the projector according to the gain coefficients. Using the method and the projector enables a projection screen not to be limited by colors, that is, screens with various colors can be chosen at ease, and the imaging effect of projection is not influenced.
US10194121B1
A computing device configured to dynamically capture and store experience data received the by the computing device. An example method involves: (a) receiving first experience data that indicates at least one environmental condition; (b) selecting a capture mode from a plurality of capture modes based on the at least one environmental condition, where the capture mode defines a manner of capturing experience data; and (c) causing the computing device to operate in the selected capture mode, where operating in the selected capture mode includes capturing second experience data in the manner defined by the capture mode. The method may optionally additionally involve: (d) after entering the capture mode, receiving third experience data; (e) determining that the capture mode should be exited based on at least the received third experience data; and (f) based on the determination that the capture mode should be exited, exiting the capture mode such that at least one type of experience data is not captured.
US10194104B2
An imaging device includes a pixel cell including a photoelectric conversion layer having first and second surfaces, a pixel electrode on the first surface, an auxiliary electrode on the first surface, the auxiliary electrode surrounding the pixel electrode and being electrically insulated from the pixel electrode, a counter electrode on the second surface, and a charge detection circuit connected to the pixel electrode; a voltage supply circuit; a first switch switching between electrical connection and disconnection; a first capacitor having one end connected to the auxiliary electrode and the other end held to a predetermined voltage; and a first control circuit connected to the first switch, the first control circuit causing the first switch to switch between electrical connection and disconnection. The voltage supply circuit is connected, through the first switch, to the auxiliary electrode of the first pixel cell and to the one end of the first capacitor.
US10194102B2
An image pickup apparatus includes: a polarization removing element layer including a plurality of polarization removing elements, each of the plurality of polarization removing elements being configured to polarize an incident light to thereby obtain light having a polarization axis in a predetermined direction and to transmit the polarized light; a polarizer layer provided in front of the polarization removing element layer, the polarizer layer being configured to twist polarization axes of light having a plurality of polarization axes by predetermined angles, respectively, and to transmit the light; an inclination detecting device configured to detect inclination of the incident light to an optical axis; a controller configured to control and drive the polarizer layer such that the polarizer layer twists the polarization axis of light depending on the inclination detected by the inclination detecting device and transmits the light; and an image pickup device configured to detect the light.
US10194092B2
There are provided a photographing apparatus and a method capable of photographing a subject a plurality of times sequentially and calculating exposure time periods in consideration of temporal change in light from the subject of the photography. The photographing apparatus includes: a photographing section; a photographic subject light information acquisition section; an exposure time calculation section and an image processing section that adds images sequentially captured through the shots of the photography. Assuming that n is an integer equal to or greater than 2, the exposure time calculation section calculates an exposure time period of an n-th shot on the basis of images captured through an (n−1)th shot or previous shots than the (n−1)th shot of the photography. The photographing section takes each shot of the photography, on the basis of each exposure time period which is calculated by the exposure time calculation section for each shot of the photography.
US10194088B2
Disclosed are a photographing method and apparatus. The photographing method includes the steps as follows. Images are continuously acquired during photographing, a currently acquired image is synthesized with a current basic image into a synthesized image, and the synthesized image is taken as a basic image in next synthesis. Synthesized images during photographing are cached. A synthesized image is extracted, according to an operation instruction from a user, from the cached synthesized images to serve as a current basic image, so as to return a photographing progress to a photographing state displayed by the extracted synthesized image. Thus, a certain part of the photographed content is erased or deleted equivalently, light-painted images can be modified in real time, a user may complete one light-painting action with multiple pauses accordingly, a more perfect and complex effect is achieved, the light-painting creation effect is improved, and the user experience is improved.
US10194084B2
An image processing device including: one or more processors comprising hardware, wherein the one or more processors are configured to: calculate an estimated movement amount of a subject in each image of a plurality of images; perform, based on the estimated movement amounts, one of: select and output an image that is most recently captured among the plurality of images; and select a reference image from the plurality of images based on the estimated movement amounts of the subject in the plurality of images; in response to selecting the reference image, determine a gain of the reference image; and perform, based on the gain, one of: select and output the reference image; and a synthesis process including: select a synthesis target image from the plurality of images; and generate and output a synthesized image by synthesizing the synthesis target image and the reference image.
US10194082B2
An image pickup apparatus which is capable of shooting a plurality of still images as instructed within a predetermined time period without a plurality of moving image encoders and a large-capacity memory. When a second still image shooting instruction has been received within a predetermined time period since a first still image shooting instruction was received, a moving image picked up before lapse of the predetermined time period after the second still image shooting instruction from a moving image shooting starting timing corresponding to the first still image shooting instruction is recorded as a sequence of moving images.
US10194079B2
A vehicle surveillance system is disclosed and includes a plurality of image capturing units, an image processing unit, and a display unit for monitoring a position of at least one target around a vehicle and measuring a distance between the at least one target and the vehicle. The vehicle surveillance system utilizes a space domain determination module, a time domain determination module, and a ground surface elimination module to transform original images of the target around the vehicle into the bird's-eye-view panorama, and further detects variation of an optical pattern incident onto the target through a light beam emitted by a light source so as to effectively remind a driver on the on-going vehicle of the position of the target and the distance, and real-time detect and capture an image of any person approaching the vehicle, thereby achieving driving safety and securing lives and personal properties.
US10194074B2
The present technology relates to an imaging system, a warning generation device and method, an imaging device and method, and a program capable of more simply checking an imaging situation.A camera-control detection processing unit of the imaging device performs a detection process for various types of control based on a captured image, and an image quality control processing unit detects occurrence of abnormality corresponding to each cause based on the result of the detection process. A warning determination processing unit generates a warning flag indicating whether or not abnormality occurs based on the detection result by the image quality control processing unit, and a wireless transmission unit transmits the warning flag to a warning generation device. A wireless reception unit of the warning generation device receives the warning flag, and a warning means control processing unit instructs warning according to the warning flag. A display processing unit displays a warning icon on a display unit according to the instruction of the warning means control processing unit. The present technology can be applied to an action camera.
US10194063B2
A device for capturing at least three views of an object with a camera includes a housing having a cavity. A slot in the housing communicates with the cavity and is adapted to accept an object. A plurality of mirrors in the cavity reflects at least three views of the object towards the camera, allowing the camera to capture an image of the views. A system for capturing multiple views of an object includes a housing having a cavity. A slot in the housing communicates with the cavity and is adapted to receive an object. A camera, a light source, and a plurality of mirrors in the cavity reflect at least three views of the object towards the camera, allowing the camera to capture an image three views.
US10194043B2
According to an embodiment, a detection apparatus for detecting a decoloration ink image includes an image reading unit, a decoloration unit, and a controller. The controller acquires image data using the image reading unit before decoloration that is the image data on the sheet before decoloration processing is executed by the decoloration unit. In addition, the controller determines whether or not there is a difference between the image data to be decolored and the decolored image data, thereby determining whether or not the decoloration ink is used in the sheet.
US10194042B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form a predetermined pattern image on a sheet, a notifying unit configured to provide a notification of an orientation for placing the sheet on which the predetermined pattern image is formed by the image forming unit, on a placement portion, a reading unit configured to read the sheet on a line to line basis, to generate image data, and a detection unit configured to detect a streak-shaped image extending in a direction along a predetermined edge of the sheet, by analyzing the image data generated by reading the sheet by the reading unit, wherein the notifying unit provides a notification of a placement orientation for allowing the sheet, on which the predetermined pattern image is formed, to be read on a line to line basis, the line extending in a direction along the predetermined edge.
US10194036B2
Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: a read section configured to read a plurality of data items as well as date and time information related to the data items; a slider configured to generate a first operation signal on accepting the input of an operation of a movable knob part of the slider by a user to a position corresponding to the length of a time period; a grouping section configured to divide the plurality of data items into groups based on the time period determined from the first operation signal as well as on the read date and time information; and a display control section configured to display a list of representative pictures representing the data items in each of the groups, on a screen of a display portion.
US10194035B2
Calibration of a target imager. Responses of the target imager and a reference imager to predetermined importance-weighted color sample data are modeled using a predetermined target and reference imaging attributes. A calibration for the target imager is determined using the modeled responses and a predetermined calibration for the reference imager.
US10194019B1
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for initiating a phone call from a wireless communication device based on physical interaction with the wireless communication device. In one example, a method for initiating a call from a wireless communication device, includes: receiving sensor data from a first sensor in the wireless communication device during a user interaction time interval; detecting a number of user interactions on the wireless communication device during the user interaction time interval based on the sensor data; determining a contact number associated with the number of user interactions; and causing the wireless communication device to dial the contact number at an end of the user interaction time interval.
US10194017B2
Certain configurations described herein are directed to a system configured to detect the presence of at least one mobile device within a vehicle and determine if the detected mobile device is an authorized mobile device. In some instances, the system comprises a processor separate from a vehicle engine control unit, in which the processor is electrically coupled to a first antenna configured to receive a wireless transmission from the mobile device when the mobile device is present in the vehicle and transmitting wirelessly. The processor may also be configured to determine if the detected mobile device is an authorized mobile device.
US10194015B2
Systems and methods are provided for displaying a graphical input stream comprising a plurality of keys, a first subset of which is a character set source and a second subset of which provides a message effect source. A first user input from the character set source forms an original multi-word message that is displayed in a message area. A second user input from the message effect source applies a corresponding message effect to only the multi-word message thereby forming a transformed representation. The multi-word message displayed in the message area is replaced with the transformed representation. Upon receipt of a third user input to transmit the contents of the message area, the original multi-word message and an indication of the message effect is transmitted.
US10194014B2
Systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable media for allowing a user to switch between watches that have been paired with a device such as a smartphone are described. In one embodiment, the watches automatically detect a removal of a first watch from a user's wrist and an attachment of a second watch to the user's wrist. Messages from the watches are transmitted to the device to allow the device to switch the active watch from the first watch to the second watch. The switch can occur while the device is in a locked state, and the device can synchronize the second watch with data received from the first watch. Other embodiments are also described.
US10193998B2
To enable a communication apparatus, which transmits and receives data with a partially reconfigurable logic circuit, to configure a module while continuing a communication process. A communication apparatus transmits and receives data and includes a partially reconfigurable logic circuit and a management unit for managing a circuit configuration of the logic circuit. The logic circuit includes a plurality of modules and a data distribution unit. The management unit fixedly arranges a plurality of coupling interfaces, which are used for sending data to a module determined as a distribution destination of data by the data distribution unit and which are respectively linkable to the plurality of modules, at prescribed positions on the logic circuit, and creates the module in the partially reconfigurable area of the logic circuit so as to be linked to any of the plurality of coupling interfaces.
US10193997B2
A RESTful API suitable for distributed management tasks implements an aggregator that receives a client request including a URI corresponding to a requested service. The aggregator generates and forwards a proxy request, requesting the same requested service from multiple aggregated resources associated with the aggregator. The aggregator includes, in each proxy request, prefix information that may be used by the aggregated resource to create encoded information that is included in a proxy request response. The aggregator receives the proxy request responses, including the encoded information, and forwards them to the client. The client may then generate a subsequent request for additional information about a resource or service on any one of the aggregated resources. The subsequent request conveys the encoded information to the aggregator, which may then decode the information to identify the appropriate aggregated resource for the request.
US10193992B2
A system for processing application programming interface (API) calls and event messages may include a gateway subsystem and an events hub. The gateway subsystem can route API calls submitted by user agents connected to the gateway subsystem to appropriate service subsystems. The events hub can receive event messages from at least some of the service subsystems and publish the received event messages for consumption by one or more consuming subsystems including the gateway subsystem. A first published event message may specify a first user and the the gateway subsystem can (i) determine every user agent that is associated with the first user and that is currently connected to the gateway subsystem and (ii) transmit information that represents the first published event message to every user agent that is determined to be associated with the first user and currently connected to the gateway subsystem.
US10193990B2
A system and method for creating user profiles based on multimedia content. The method may include identifying a plurality of multimedia content elements associated with a user; generating at least one signature for each of the plurality of multimedia content elements; analyzing the at least one signature to identify at least one concept matching the multimedia content elements; generating, based on the at least one matching concept, at least one contextual insight, wherein each contextual insight indicates a preference of the user; and generating, based on the at least one contextual insight, a user profile for the user.
US10193988B2
Methods and systems for setting first-party cookies are disclosed. A first request for a first webpage is sent by a user device to a first web server on a first domain. The first webpage includes first ad system call instructions. The first ad system call instructions are executed to send a second request to an ad system on a second domain to initiate determining a supply side platform (SSP) user ID. First SSP call instructions are received by the user device. The first SSP call instructions are executed to send a third request to an SSP server on a third domain. Second ad system call instructions including the SSP user ID are received by the user device. The second ad system call instructions are executed to send a fourth request comprising the SSP user ID to the ad system. First storing instructions for the SSP user ID are received.
US10193982B2
There is provided a method performed by a server, comprising: detecting a dropping of a bidirectional voice communication on a communication segment between a first client terminal and the server, the communication segment part of the bidirectional voice communication established between the first client terminal and a second client terminal using respective communication segments with the server, the dropping triggered by insufficient resources for maintaining the bidirectional voice communication in a desired quality for the first client terminal, receiving at least one message from the first client terminal, the at least one message including instructions for restoring the bidirectional voice communication, the at least one message received over available resources sufficient for transmission of the at least one message over the affected communication segment; and restoring the bidirectional voice communication according to the received instructions when sufficient resources are available for maintaining the bidirectional voice communication at the desired quality.
US10193978B2
A distributed network node operation system based on an operation control unit. The operation system operates on a network node and interacts with a data link layer, and includes: an application interface unit, a network information management unit, a file unit, a task scheduling unit and a device drive management unit. The application interface unit packages the services provided by the file unit, the task scheduling unit and the network information management unit into an interface for interacting with the protocol stack management unit; the network information management unit interacts with the data link layer to perform link scheduling for transmitting information and updating node data; the file unit manages and stores file information; the task scheduling unit manages hardware resources; the device drive management unit manages underlying device application drives, and invokes different protocol stack library functions through different application drives.
US10193974B2
Methods, media, and systems for managing access to shared content in a cloud-based service platform. Embodiments operate in a cloud-based environment that comprises storage devices that store content objects accessible by two or more users. The content objects have respective object path attributes and one or more object parent attributes. A server processes collaboration transactions to associate content object sharing between two or more users. Upon receipt of a collaboration transaction such as an invitation, a server generates a set of collaborator index attributes to relate the two or more users to share the selected content object, and the generated collaborator index attributes are added as rows in a collaborator index. Pre-existing rows in the collaborator index that pertain to the two or more users are not updated. Very large sets of collaboration objects and/or very large sets of users can be managed efficiently by re-indexing only the added rows.
US10193971B2
A method is provided for application synchronization. The method includes: establishing a communication connection between an originating terminal and a destination terminal, where the originating terminal and the destination terminal log in the server through a same login account, and receiving a synchronization request message sent by the originating terminal, where the synchronization request message includes a program identification of a target application and a terminal identification of the destination terminal. The method also includes: based on the terminal identification of the destination termini, obtaining device information and address information of the destination terminal, querying an installation file matching with the program identification of the target application and the device information of the destination terminal, and sending the installation file to the destination terminal specified by the address information.
US10193968B2
Systems and methods for dynamically offloading network traffic flows in one or more virtual networks are disclosed. An example method begins with identifying a virtual router through which to route network traffic of a specific network flow, wherein the specific network flow has a source endpoint existing on a source host machine and a destination endpoint existing on a destination host machine. Flow statistics including statistics about the specific network flow are received. A determination is made as to whether the specific network flow meets an offload rule using the received flow statistics. In response to determining that the specific flow meets the offload rule, the specific network flow is offloaded from the virtual router.
US10193966B2
A method for a user to access a communication service via a first data center of a cloud computing system. The first data center is located in a first geographical area. The first data center performs acts of: following connection of a terminal of the user to a web portal for accessing the service, receiving a message containing location information of the terminal; determining a geographical position of the terminal from the received location information, and, if the geographical position corresponds to a second geographical area different from the first area: searching for a second data center, capable of providing the service within the second area; if such a second data center exists, transferring computing functions to the second data center that are suitable for providing the service to the user, in order to implement the service in the user terminal from the second data center.
US10193965B2
A management server includes a storage unit, a sub-server and a load balancing unit. The storage unit stores a datum. The sub-server is corresponded to the storage unit and obtains the datum from the storage unit according to a request signal. The load balancing unit is coupled to the sub-server and receives the request signal from the client. The load balancing unit distributes the request signal to the corresponding sub-server according to a request number of the request signal. The management server outputs the datum obtained by the sub-server from the storage unit according to the request number.
US10193948B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and protocols for a media management application to be used by a supervisor to monitor, manage, and control what a subject is watching, listening to, or interacting with on a media delivery device. A media interaction application executes on a media delivery device and is configured to collect media interaction data based on tracked user interactions with media content on the media delivery device. A remote media management application executes on a portable electronic device and is configured to monitor the media interaction data and further configured to issue media management instructions to the media interaction application. A communications broker executes on a first network server and is configured to provide secure communications between the media interaction application and the remote media management application. A media interaction analysis application executes on a second network server and is configured to receive the media interaction data from the media interaction application, to transform the media interaction data into summary media interaction data, and to provide the summary media interaction data to the remote media management application. The media interaction application is further configured to transmit the media interaction data to the remote media management application via the communications broker. The remote media management application is further configured to issue the media management instructions to the media interaction application via the communications broker. And the media interaction analysis application is further configured to receive the media interaction data via the communications broker.
US10193944B2
A controller may preview media streams from a plurality of source devices, and may select between the streams, add processing or additional content to the streams, and provide an edited or mixed stream to one or more client or recipient devices. In many implementations, mixing or selective presentation of streams may be accomplished with little to no delay via a lightweight signaling and chunk identification change protocol. In other implementations, processing and mixing instructions may be provided to client devices, which may retrieve the streams and process them locally, reducing or eliminating delay from an intermediary processor or mixer.
US10193942B2
Methods and devices provide access to a sponsored data service (SDS) from a mobile device. A method may include generating a play media command that includes a remote media address and an SDS identifier, and converting the remote media address into a local media address. The method may further include requesting media from an internal content server via the local media address, where the internal content server resides within the mobile device. The method may include determining if the requested media is stored on the internal content server, obtaining the requested media from the internal content server upon determining that the requested media is stored within the internal content server, and playing the requested media on a mobile media player.
US10193941B2
A method for interworking between a first protocol entity adapted to operate in accordance with a stream reservation protocol for reserving resources for a data stream along a stream path of the data stream and a second protocol entity adapted to operate in accordance with a routing protocol for distributing information in a communication network is described. The method comprises sending, from the first protocol entity to the second protocol entity, a request for stream path information indicating, for a data stream to be sent, a stream path in the communication network. The method also comprises determining, by the second protocol entity, the stream path information for the stream path based on the request, sending, from the second protocol entity to the first protocol entity, the determined stream path information, and initiating, by the first protocol entity, a resource reservation procedure for reserving resources in response to receiving the stream path information.
US10193937B2
The present invention provides apparatuses, methods, computer programs, computer program products and computer-readable media regarding IMS (Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem) restoration support for temporary GRUU (Globally Routable User Agent Uniform Resource Identifier). Certain aspects of the present invention include creating, at a registrar, a registration identified by a registration identifier, and storing, by the registrar, the registration identifier, a call identifier and an initial command sequence related to the registration identified by the registration identifier in a persistent database during the registration.
US10193928B2
A master policy server manages security polices for client computers through a network of local policy servers. Each local policy server is responsible for the security policies on a group of clients and maintains a data store containing the security policies and security information pertaining to the clients. Periodically, the master policy server and the local policy server synchronize, at which time the master policy server replicates updated policies to the local policy servers and the local policy servers upload client security statistics to the master policy server for consolidation into a global status.
US10193925B2
An anti-replay method and apparatus are provided. The same maximum agreed value is set at a transmit end and a receive end. The receive end receives an Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) packet, where the IPSec packet includes a sequence number, and acquires an upper limit value of an anti-replay sliding window. If the upper limit value of the anti-replay sliding window is the maximum agreed value, the receive end sets an interval of the anti-replay sliding window to M1 to M2, where M1 is a minimum value of the packet sequence number, and M2 is a sum of M1 and a size of the anti-replay sliding window. When a sequence number of a packet sent by the transmit end reaches a maximum value, a sequence number of a next sent packet starts from the minimum value, thereby resolving a problem that a packet is falsely discarded because of anti-replay.
US10193907B2
In an embodiment, a central computer performs a data processing method. The central computer receives telemetry data from intrusion sensors. The central computer stores authentication records in a hosts database. Each authentication record is based on the telemetry data and comprises a thumbprint of a public key certificate and a host identifier of a sender computer. The central computer receives a suspect record that was sent by a first intrusion sensor. The suspect record has a first particular thumbprint of a first particular public key certificate and a first particular host identifier of a suspect sender. From the hosts database, the central computer searches for a matching record having a same host identifier as the first particular host identifier of the suspect record and a same thumbprint as the first particular thumbprint of the suspect record. The central computer generates an intrusion alert when no matching record is found.
US10193899B1
Methods, apparatuses, and systems relating to narrow beam communications and wireless networking are disclosed. Exemplary methods for wireless networking and communications may include identifying a geographic area, receiving topography data related to the geographic area, analyzing the topography data, identifying a first line of sight path related to a first access point location and one or more customer premises device locations based at least in part on the analyzing, and identifying a second line of sight path based at least in part on a predetermined amount.
US10193895B2
A method and apparatus for authenticating a user for access to a service provider over a network is disclosed. It includes a first device configured to receive a request for a ticket, generate the ticket, send the ticket to at least one additional device, generate a first partial signature of the ticket, receive additional partial signatures of the ticket, generate a complete signature of the ticket, encrypt the ticket and the complete signature of the ticket, send the encrypted ticket and encrypted complete signature of the ticket to the service provider, receive an encrypted verification code from the service provider, decrypt the encrypted verification code, and display the decrypted verification code.
US10193892B2
In one implementation, a data sharing system can comprise a trust engine to identify an environment that satisfies a level of trust, an access engine to request access to a set of data, a procedure engine to receive a procedure, a restriction engine to receive a restriction associated with a resource of the environment, a monitor engine to maintain resource utilization information, and a control engine to limit execution of the procedure based on the restriction and the resource utilization information. In another implementation, a method for sharing a set of data can comprise validating an environment satisfies a level of trust, receiving a restriction associated with a resource of the environment, receiving a procedure to access the set of data, ascertaining resource utilization information, and providing a view of the set of data based on the restriction and the resource utilization information.
US10193883B2
The present invention relates to both systems and methods for product authentication. Unique identifiers are associated with products. Said identifiers are captured through a camera of the client device and transmitted to authentication server; whereupon said authentication server authenticates the products by contacting an authentication database would manufacturer-provided authentication information.
US10193878B2
In general, in one aspect, embodiments relate to receiving, by a system comprising one or more network devices, a first client authentication information comprising a first indication that a first client device was successfully authenticated by a first authentication server based on credentials provided by the first client device, and forwarding, by the system, the first client authentication information to a second authentication server without determining that the client device was already successfully authenticated by the first authentication server based on the credentials provided by the first client device. The operations further include receiving, by the system from the second authentication server, a second indication that the first client device was successfully authenticated, and based on the second indication received by the system from the second authentication server, granting, by the system, network access to the first client device.
US10193864B2
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses are disclosed for providing a user seamless access to cloud services made available by multiple different cloud providers. In some embodiments, a computing device may receive a request from a user to access a variety of cloud services. The computing device may retrieve cloud services from each of the cloud providers and cause display of a user interface that includes each of the cloud services from the different cloud providers so that the user interface is a uniform point of contact with the cloud providers. Further, in some embodiments, various interfaces, cloud service connections, and cloud service connection termination points may be defined.
US10193863B2
A computer system enforces network security policy by pre-classifying network traffic. Unidimensional pre-classifier filters analyze network traffic to populate a pre-classifier bit array. Rather than having filter explosion with the creation of multidimensional filters, the pre-classifier bit array is used by other layers and/or filters to enforce network security policy. Further, reclassification of network traffic due to network security changes is streamlined due to the inclusion of pre-classifier layers and the pre-classifier bit array.
US10193860B2
A system is provided to deliver an application, hosted by a private application provider system, over a network to a user device, comprising: an application delivery system that includes a first network interface, a network security interface and a second network interface; wherein the network security interface is configured to determine whether a user or device request for access to an application is valid, and in response to determining that the user or device request for access to the first application is valid, to send the user or device request to the application agent.
US10193842B1
Customer orders and other service related events require multiple operations to fulfill and process. One example may include receiving a request message from a user device, identifying the request message as being a particular message type, pre-processing the request message to identify message content, and forwarding the identified message content to an active user interface. The request may be identified as a service request and processed by multiple entities prior to fulfilling the request(s).
US10193837B2
Information is presented over a communications network. The presence of a party on a device is detected in real time. Identity of the party is confirmed based on detecting the presence of the party on the device in real time. Information to offer to the party is identified based on confirming identity of the party. A communication is pushed to the party on the device as a push communication in real time while the party is still present on the device. The information is offered in the push communication while the party is still present on the device.
US10193836B2
Systems and methods for delivering physical mail via email are provided. A mail delivery service provider scans the front and back of physical mail items and converts the physical mail to an email message. From the email inbox, a user can trash the email and not allow it to reach the user's physical mailbox and/or respond to the physical mail virtually.
US10193830B2
A subscriber of a deterministic Ethernet communication network using virtual links including a first receiver, a first transmitter, a first memory to record a configuration table relating to a set of virtual links that the subscriber can receive and/or retransmit. A processing unit is configured to implement at least one application, a reception function to receive data frames received by the first receiver, to accept the reception only of the frames corresponding to virtual links belonging to the set of virtual links and to transmit these frames to a sorting function to transmit the data frames received to the application and/or to a transmission function to dispatch the data frames received to the first transmitter while complying with Bandwidth Allocation Gap (BAG) constraints associated with the corresponding virtual links.
US10193824B2
A method is described that comprises collecting communication data travelling among a plurality of computing nodes in a networked environment. The method includes using the communication data to create a plurality of connectivity records, wherein each connectivity record comprises a communication between a source computing node and a destination computing node of the plurality of computing nodes. The method includes associating the communication with an application context and protocol. The method includes processing the plurality of connectivity records to eliminate connectivity records that meet at least one criteria, wherein the plurality of connectivity records includes associated application contexts and protocols, wherein a first portion of the plurality of connectivity records comprises the eliminated connectivity records, wherein a second portion of the plurality of connectivity records comprises the remainder of the connectivity records. The method includes building a graph using the second portion of the connectivity records.
US10193807B1
In general, techniques are described for dynamically controlling host-bound traffic by dynamically adding and updating, within the forwarding plane of a network device, network packet policers that each constrains, for one or more packet flows, an amount of host-bound traffic of the packet flows permitted to reach the control plane in accordance with available resources. In one example, a control plane of the network device detects internal congestion in the communication path from the forwarding plane to control plane (the “host-bound path”), identifies packet flows utilizing an excessive amount of host-bound path resources, computes limits for the identified packet flows, and adds “penalty-box policers” configured with the computed limits for the identified packet flows to the forwarding plane. The forwarding plane subsequently applies the policers to the identified packet flows to constrain the amount of traffic of the packet flows allowed to reach the control plane to the computed limits.
US10193801B2
In general, techniques are described for automated traffic mapping for multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) networks. A network device comprising a processor and an interface card may perform the techniques. The processor may generate an advertisement that conforms to a routing protocol. The advertisement may advertise a mapping between a network flow and a label switched path (LSP) tag. The processor may also generate a communication associating the label switched path tag with an LSP. The interface card may transmit the advertisement to a head-end label edge router that admits traffic into the LSP identified by the LSP tag. The interface card may also transmit the communication to the label edge router such that the label edge router is able to process the communication in conjunction with the advertisement to map the network flow to the LSP identified by the LSP tag.
US10193794B2
A multiparty call method and an apparatus. A transmit end acquires communications data to be transmitted to at least two receive ends and identifiers of the at least two receive ends. The transmit end sends the communications data and the identifiers of the at least two receive ends to a network side device. The network side device forwards the communications data to the receive ends that correspond to the identifiers of the at least two receive ends.
US10193783B2
Some embodiments provide a statistics collection framework that is used to aggregate statistic for interfaces such as logical ports and logical port pairs. Flows that are related with these interfaces are tagged with the identifier of the logical entities for which statistics are being collected. The interface statistics is periodically sent in the background to a statistics aggregator. The read queries for the interface statistics are directed to the statistics aggregator. The statistics aggregator, therefore, acts as a cumulative cache for the interface statistics.
US10193778B2
A communication device detects whether anomalous events occur with respect to at least one node in a utility network. The communication device has recorded therein threshold operating information and situational operating information. The threshold operating information includes data indicative of configured acceptable operating parameters of nodes in the network based on respective locational information of the nodes. The situational information includes data indicative of configured operation data expected to be received from nodes in the network during a predetermined time period, based on a condition and/or event occurring during the time period. The communication device receives operation data from nodes in the network, and determines whether the operation data from a node constitutes an anomalous event based on a comparison of the received operation data with (i) the threshold operating information defined for the node and (ii) the situational information. The communication device outputs notification of any determined anomalous event.
US10193773B2
A method for distributed network packet statistics collection includes instantiating first and second operations that implement different portions of a network packet statistics collection task on processing nodes implemented on different processors in a network packet statistics collection system. The method includes utilizing an auto-discovery mechanism for the second operation to subscribe to a set of capabilities and identify the first operation as a matching operation. The method further includes establishing a channel between the first and second operations. The method further includes executing the network packet statistics collection task, where the first and second operations perform the different portions of the network packet statistics collection task.
US10193767B1
Providing multiple witnesses that manage resources for at least two different sites includes one of the sites choosing a particular one of the witnesses, the one of the at least two different sites confirming that the particular one of the witnesses is available to manage resources, the one of the at least two different sites communicating with other ones of the at least two different sites to determine if the particular one of the witnesses is acceptable to the other ones of the at least two different sites, and choosing the particular one of the witnesses in response to the particular one of the witnesses being available to manage resources and the particular one of the witnesses being acceptable to all of the other ones of the at least two different sites. The managed resources may correspond to data storage and the sites may be mirrored storage devices.
US10193763B2
Multicast packets from streaming services on a data network are reduced. A packet conversion policy distributes OpenFlow rules to network components involved in multicasting services. In coordination with, and responsive to, detecting a matching service provider advertisement and service receiver request, executing an SDN policy governing a multicast streaming service. Specifically, multicast packets from a flow for streaming the multicast service are converted from multicast to unicast when sent from the network component associated with the service provider, and then are converted from unicast to multicast when received at the network component associated with the station.
US10193759B2
The present application provides a control method in a communications network, a centralized controller, and a wireless communications network system, where the method includes: generating a to-be-confirmed processing type list according to a service type of a service flow and a data path type template, where the to-be-confirmed processing type list includes all processing function types that may be needed by the service flow; then filtering the to-be-confirmed processing type list, and generating a processing type list, where the processing type list includes processing function types that are essential to the service flow; further, sequentially selecting a working policy and a working parameter for each processing instance, generating a full path policy, and sending the full path policy to an instance of each function node. Therefore, a corresponding service flow path is selected according to a service type corresponding to a different service flow, network resource utilization is improved.
US10193740B1
Modern mobile communication devices have a number of features that enable the users to stay connected with people, stay informed about various local and global events. While these features are useful, they can be intrusive or may cause distraction under some conditions. To reduce the disturbance and intrusion, the various notifications that inform the user about the new events on the mobile device may be temporarily disabled. However, the event notifications must be explicitly re-enabled by the user when it is acceptable to receive the notifications. The user may forget to re-enable the event notification which may lead to missed calls, missed event notifications, etc. A method and apparatus are disclosed that disable and enable the event notifications on the mobile device adaptively depending on the user's location and time to reduce the intrusiveness of the mobile device notification when not required while reducing any missed event notifications.
US10193739B2
Provided is a communication device that includes a plurality of ports, through which a frame is transmitted and received, and that forms a network together with at least one adjacent device connected via at least one port among the plurality of ports. The communication device includes an information acquisition unit that acquires information on the at least one adjacent device; a setting execution unit that executes, upon receipt of a setting command specified in advance, a setting processing for changing a setting of the communication device in accordance with the setting command; and a propagation execution unit that executes a propagation processing for transferring the setting command to the at least one adjacent device.
US10193721B2
Methods, apparatus and computer programs for transmitting and/or receiving information are described. Information encoded in a carrier signal comprising a modulation pattern superimposed on a grid frequency at which electricity flows in a synchronous area of an electric power grid, is decoded by measuring, at a receiving device, a characteristic relating to a frequency of electricity flowing in the electric power grid, accessing data indicative of one or more predetermined code patterns and performing a correlation process to determine a correlation between the modulation pattern and one of the one or more predetermined code patterns. The information is decoded on the basis of the determined correlation. This enables information to be easily transmitted within a synchronous area of the electric power grid.
US10193720B1
Various embodiments are described that relate to a switched-capacitor in a chaotically modulated communication device. For one chaotically modulated communication device to communicate with another chaotically modulated communication device, the devices should be finely tuned with one another. To achieve this fine tuning, the devices can employ a switched-capacitor set that can function as a variable resistor set. Employing the switched-capacitor set can cause achievement of precise resistances that allow the devices to successfully communicate with one another.
US10193714B2
To improve on power and bandwidth limitations associated with conventional feedforward equalizer (FFE) implementations, the present disclosure provides intersymbol interference (ISI) compensation circuits that do not use delay cells common to FFE structures. In one example, the compensation circuit of the present disclosure comprises a two stage amplifier. Each stage of the amplifier is implemented using a differential pair with degeneration. One of the amplifier stages has a transfer function with a zero in the left half of the s-domain, also called the s-plane, and the other amplifier has a transfer function with a zero in the right half of the s-domain. The amplifier stage with the zero in the left half of the s-domain can be used to provide post-cursor ISI compensation, and the amplifier stage with the zero in the right half of the s-domain can be used to provide pre-cursor ISI compensation.
US10193696B2
Provided is a process including: receiving with one or more processors, a first request to store a record from a computing entity; encoding, with one or more processors, the record in a first plurality of segments; arranging, with one or more processors, the first plurality of segments in respective content nodes of a first content graph, wherein at least some content nodes of the first content graph have two or more content edges of the first content graph pointing to two or more respective other content nodes of the first content graph; and storing, with one or more processors, the content nodes of the first content graph in a verification graph.
US10193694B1
Embodiments include a method comprising: receiving, by a system-on-a-chip (SOC) from a host, a public key of a public/private key pair; generating a first hash value of the public key; authenticating the first hash value; in response to authenticating the first hash value, transmitting, by the SOC, a first nonce to the host; receiving a signed nonce from the host, the signed nonce being signed using a private key of the public/private key pair; decrypting, using the received public key, the signed nonce to generate a second nonce; based on the first nonce and the second nonce, authenticating the host; in response to authenticating the host, receiving, from the host, a command to configure one or more parameters of the SOC; and configuring the one or more parameters of the SOC.
US10193693B2
According to one embodiment, a system program determines whether a boot mode of an information processing device is set to a first mode for booting an operating system from a storage device initialized by a master boot record (MBR) or a second mode for booting an operating system from a storage device initialized by a GUID partition table (GPT). The system program enables a first or second trusted platform module based on a result of determination of the boot mode.
US10193690B1
Systems and methods of the present disclosure are directed to a computing system configured to provide seamless protection to data (which can include, without limitation, data files, executable files, system configuration files, program files, and other data) stored in the computing system, while making it nearly impossible for attackers to be able to access the data outside of the computing system. The computing system uses targeted encryption and decryption, in which values of one or more system attribute are used to generate a cryptographic key used for encryption and decryption of data stored in the computing system.
US10193688B2
Systems and methods for Physical Coding Sublayer (PCS) encryption implemented by a first network element communicatively coupled to a second network element include utilizing an encryption messaging channel to establish an authenticated session and exchanging one or more encryption keys with a second network element; encrypting a signal, based on the one or more encryption keys; and transmitting the encrypted signal to the second network element.
US10193683B2
A communication circuit arrangement includes a signal path circuit configured to separately apply a kernel dimension filter and a delay tap dimension filter to an input signal for an amplifier to obtain an estimated interference signal, a cancelation circuit configured to subtract the estimated interference signal from a received signal to obtain a clean signal, and a filter update circuit configured to alternate between updating the kernel dimension filter and the delay tap dimension filter using the clean signal.
US10193679B2
A wireless communication base station apparatus which is able to prevent deterioration in the throughput of LTE terminals even when LTE terminals and LTE+ terminals coexist. In this apparatus, based on the mapping pattern of the reference signals used only in LTE+ terminals, a setting unit sets, in each subframe, the resource block groups where the reference signals used only by the LTE+ terminals are mapped. For symbols mapped to the antennas, an mapping unit maps, to all the resource blocks within one frame, cell specific reference signals used for both LTE terminals and LTE+ terminals. For the symbols mapped to the antennas, the mapping unit maps, to the plurality of resource blocks, of which part of the resource block groups is comprised, in the same subframe within one frame, the cell specific reference signals used only for LTE+ terminals, based on the setting results inputted from the setting unit.
US10193677B2
Disclosed is a method for receiving a downlink signal by a terminal in a wireless communication system from a base station. More particularly, a method for receiving a downlink signal comprises receiving, from a base station, information about a second reference signal being quasi co-located (QCL) and a first reference signal for demodulating a downlink signal; determining the quasi-continuity of the second reference signal on the basis of the average density of the second reference signal, which exists in a window, for determining a quasi-continuity; and receiving the downlink signal from the base station on the basis of the existence of the quasi-continuity of the second reference signal.
US10193676B2
A pilot allocation method for a multi-antenna system and a pilot allocation apparatus are provided. The method comprises: determining the number of pilots to be allocated and the number of training cycles at least according to the number of users in each cell, and determining a pilot allocation scheme of the each cell according to the number of pilots to be allocated and the number of training cycles. The determining a pilot allocation scheme of the each cell can comprise determining pilots allocated for users in the l-th cell used during each training cycle, and during each training cycle, allocating pilots of at least the k-th user of the l-th cell to different users in other cells of the system. By allocating pilots allocated to a desired user to different users during each training cycle, pilot contamination can be randomized during several different continuous training cycles, thereby providing a basis for the later accurate channel estimation.
US10193675B2
A method and a device for notifying reference signal configuration information are disclosed. Channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration information is coded, to obtain a CSI-RS configuration information code. A mapping relation between the CSI-RS configuration information code and the CSI-RS configuration information is stored. A CSI-RS configuration information code corresponding to CSI-RS configuration information to be notified is searched in the stored mapping relation between the CSI-RS configuration information code and the CSI-RS configuration information. The searched CSI-RS configuration information code is sent to a user equipment (UE), so that the UE determines CSI-RS configuration information according to the received CSI-RS configuration information code and the mapping relation between the CSI-RS configuration information code and the CSI-RS configuration information.
US10193672B2
A mobile communication system includes a plurality of eNBs that perform radio communication with an UE and an MCE that controls the eNBs. The MCE indicates an MBSFN subframe (MCE) serving as radio resources that transmit a reference signal for power measurement to the UE less frequently than normal to the eNB, the eNB, in addition to the MBSFN subframe (MCE) indicated by the MCE, designates the MBSFN subframe (eNB) serving as the radio resources that transmit a reference signal to the UE less frequently than normal, and in the MBSFN subframe (MCE) and the MBSFN subframe (eNB) the reference signal is transmitted to the UE. In this manner, the reference signal for measuring a power can be transmitted less frequently than normal, and a power consumption of the infrastructure can be reduced.
US10193664B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to enhanced retry count for an uplink (UL) multi-user (MU) transmission. A device may identify a trigger frame received from a first device on a wireless communication channel. The device may determine a quality of service counter associated with an access category. The device may cause to send a frame to the first device based at least in part on the trigger frame. The device may determine an error condition associated with the frame. The device may refrain from incrementing the quality of service counter based on the error condition.
US10193660B2
A header processing device includes an error detector, a controller, and a reallocator. The error detector detects an error in a header in a packet and outputs a header error detection result. The controller selects first and second information from the header based on information corresponding to a type of the header and the header error detection result. The reallocator merges the first and second information and generates a header with a common format different from a format of the header.
US10193659B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for channel estimation between a transmitter and a receiver in a wireless communications system. In one arrangement, the method comprises: receiving at the receiver a first sequence of bits representing a first sequence of coded symbols transmitted over the communications channel; decoding the first sequence of coded symbols using maximum-likelihood based decoding including: generating traceback outcomes by tracing backwards the first sequence of bits through a maximum-likelihood based traceback path, the traceback outcomes including a first portion associated with a first traceback depth and a second portion associated with a second traceback depth that is deeper than the first traceback depth; generating a channel estimate of the communications channel based on the first portion of the traceback outcomes; and generating an estimate of at least some information bits coded in the first sequence of coded symbols based on the second portion of the traceback outcomes.
US10193654B2
A frame transmission method and a wireless communication apparatus performing the same. A frame transmission method performed by a first wireless communication apparatus includes receiving subframe unit length information of a second wireless communication apparatus from the second wireless communication apparatus, determining a subframe unit length of the first wireless communication apparatus based on the received subframe unit length information, generating a plurality of subframes based on the determined subframe unit length, and transmitting a frame in which the generated subframes are aggregated to the second wireless communication apparatus, and wherein, when at least one of the subframes includes a padding, a length of the padding allows a length of the at least one of the subframes including the padding to be a multiple of a natural number of the determined subframe unit length.
US10193651B2
It is difficult to improve the wavelength-band utilization rate of an optical network as a whole while operating the optical network stably; and therefore, an optical network controller according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes optical wavelength region setting means for setting a wavelength region in an optical transmission line between a plurality of optical nodes composing an optical network using wavelength division multiplexing system dividing the wavelength region into consecutive regions of a first wavelength region and a second wavelength region; optical path setting means for setting a first optical path in the first wavelength region and a second optical path in the second wavelength region, the second optical path differing from the first optical path in a route; and control unit for instructing the plurality of optical nodes on a central wavelength and a usable band of signal light for the optical node to transmit based on a setting by the optical path setting means.
US10193647B2
The present invention relates to generating an interference pattern for controlling inter-cell interference, a method for signaling therefor, and an apparatus utilizing the method. The method for signaling an interference pattern according to the present invention may comprise the steps of: determining the length and cyclic shift offset for a first interference pattern to be allocated to a set reference resource from among interference pattern sets; generating a cell-specific sequence to which the cyclic shift offset of the first interference pattern has been applied; and allocating the first interference pattern and cell-specific sequence to a resource and transmitting same.
US10193641B2
A method and an apparatus for estimating an expected reception quality in an interval of time for car-to-X communication including a receiving device for acquiring data packets and a memory, wherein the memory stores at least one empirically determined variable for reception patterns of data packets in a first interval of time, which variable indicates or can be used to determine how high the probability is of a data packet or n data packets being successfully received in a subsequent, second interval of time, wherein the apparatus is designed so that the reception pattern is determined for a first interval of time before the interval of time and the associated probability for the interval of time is read from the memory, wherein a warning message is generated and/or a transmission parameter and/or a functionality of a driver assistance function is/are changed on the basis of the probability.
US10193627B1
A visible light communication (VLC) receiver captures frames of a scene with a camera to detect flashing light signals from a VLC transmitter such as an array of LEDs. The method assembles an enhanced dynamic range image sequence from the frames. At least one VLC source is detected in the enhanced sequence, wherein the source occupies a respective subwindow within the scene. An imaging exposure such as the exposure time used for capturing images at the subwindow is optimized according to a brightness of the respective VLC source. Then a plurality of subwindow images are captured using the optimized exposure. VLC data visible in the subwindow images is then decoded.
US10193614B2
A method for receiving data by a relay station (RS) in a wireless communication system includes: receiving radio resource allocation information via an R-PDCCH (R-Physical Downlink Control Channel); and receiving data from a base station (BS) via an R-PDSCH (R-Physical Downlink Shared Channel) indicated by the radio resource allocation information, wherein the radio resource allocation information includes information regarding an allocation of resource blocks in a frequency domain and information regarding an allocation of OFDM symbols in a time domain. Since the radio resource allocation information providing information regarding a time relationship between a control channel transmitted by the BS to a UE and a control channel transmitted by the RS to a UE connected to the RS is provided, the RS can reliably receive a signal transmitted from the BS in a backhaul link between the BS and the RS in a wireless communication system including the RS.
US10193611B2
A system and method for focusing an orthogonal function multiplexed beam receives an orthogonal function multiplexed signal from a data processing source. The orthogonal function multiplexed signal includes a plurality of data streams each having a unique orthogonal function applied thereto and multiplexed together within the orthogonal function multiplexed signal. The orthogonal function multiplexed signal passes through a pair of focusing lenses to focus the orthogonal function multiplexed signal on a predetermined focused point. A distance between the pair of focusing lenses is controlled to cause the orthogonal function multiplexed signal to focus at the predetermined focus point. The orthogonal function multiplexed signals are transmitted from a transmitter toward the focus point at a receiver aperture of a receiver as a transmission beam.
US10193606B2
A beam configuration method and a device are provided and can resolve problems that a signal gain is a relatively low and utilization of an antenna array unit is low in a process of implementing omnidirectional coverage of a millimeter wave. A specific solution is as follows: determining whether an included angle between a ray that is perpendicular to a first plane and that extends outward from an electronic device and a ray pointing from the electronic device to a peer device is less than or equal to a preset angle, and when the included angle between the ray that is perpendicular to the first plane and that extends outward from the electronic device and the ray pointing from the electronic device to the peer device is less than or equal to the preset angle, performing end-fire state configuration on antenna array units in the first plane.
US10193605B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems for wireless communications are disclosed. A first base station may be configured to receive, from a second base station, one or more messages. The messages may include downlink beamforming information elements for a downlink cell. Each downlink beamforming information element of the plurality of downlink beamforming information elements may be associated with a respective resource block of a plurality of resource blocks in the downlink cell. The first base station may select a first beamforming codeword for at least one resource block of the plurality of resource blocks based on the downlink beamforming information associated with the at least one resource block. The first base station may transmit, to a wireless device, signals on the at least one resource block employing the first beamforming codeword.
US10193596B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a coupling device including a receiving portion that receives a radio frequency signal conveying data from a transmitting device. A magnetic coupler magnetically couples the radio frequency signal to a transmission medium as a guided electromagnetic wave that is bound by an outer surface of the transmission medium. A cap includes a dielectric portion that secures the transmission medium adjacent to the magnetic coupler and a reflective plate that reduces electromagnetic emissions from the magnetic coupler. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10193594B2
A method of transmitting data from a transmitter device to a plurality of receiver devices each of which is connected to the transmitter device via a respective wire connection the method comprising transmitting a common signal onto all or both of the respective wire connections and using a multiple access technique to enable respective virtual data channels to be generated for transmitting data from the transmitter device to each of the receiver devices via its own respective virtual data channel.
US10193588B2
A head protection device, e.g., a gas mask or a safety helmet, has a communication interface for sending a first communication signal and for receiving a second communication signal. Further, the gas mask has a signal processor providing an interface for sending the first communication signal, for detecting a microphone signal, for detecting the second communication signal and for sending an ear speaker signal. The signal processor is configured such that the first communication signal is sent as a function of the microphone signal, and that the ear speaker signal is further sent as a function of the second communication signal.
US10193586B1
A direct conversion radio frequency receiver comprising: a clock generator to provide a first clock signal and a second clock signal; a first node; a second node; a zero-intermediate frequency (zero-IF) mixer coupled to the first and second nodes, clocked by the first and second clock signals, and comprising a first transimpedance amplifier and a second transimpedance amplifier to provide a direct-conversion voltage; a current injector, coupled to the first and second nodes, configurable to inject into the first and second nodes a common mode current or a differential mode current; and a controller, coupled to the zero-IF mixer and the current injector, to adjust at least one of the first and second transimpedance amplifiers based on the direct-conversion voltage when the current injector is to inject the common mode current.
US10193580B2
Devices and techniques are described to extract specific frequency band signals from a wide-band radio-frequency signal. A network entity may include an antenna for receiving the wide-band radio-frequency signal and may include a receiver circuit for processing the wide-band radio-frequency signal. The receiver circuit may include a transconductance amplifier and a plurality of single-band circuits. The transconductance amplifier may be configured to generate an amplified wide-band radio-frequency signal and send it to one or more of the single-band circuits. Each single-band circuit may be configured to extract a different frequency band signal from the amplified wide-band radio-frequency signal.
US10193579B2
According to an embodiment, a storage control device includes a controller, a compression condition determiner, a compressor, and an error correction encoder. The controller receives a write request for a data item and determines whether or not the wear degree of a target region in a storage device to which the data item is to be written is less than a threshold value. The compression condition determiner determines, based on the wear degree, an optimal compression condition out of compression conditions that include lossy compression. The compressor generates, based on the compression condition, compressed data. The error correction encoder subjects the data item to error correction and generates encoded data.
US10193578B2
Modern communication systems must cope with varying channel conditions and differing throughput constraints. Polar codes despite being the first error-correcting codes with an explicit construction to achieve the symmetric capacity of memoryless channels are not currently employed against other older coding protocols such as low-density parity check (LDPC) codes as their performance at short/moderate lengths has been inferior and their decoding algorithm is serial leading to low decoding throughput. Accordingly techniques to address these issues are identified and disclosed including decoders that decode constituent codes without recursion and/or recognize classes of constituent directly decodable codes thereby increasing the decoder throughput. Flexible encoders and decoders supporting polar codes of any length up to a design maximum allow adaptive polar code systems responsive to communication link characteristics, performance, etc. while maximizing throughput. Further, designers are provided flexibility in implementing either hardware or software implementations.
US10193577B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to stopping criteria for layered iterative error correction. A number of methods can include receiving a codeword with an error correction circuit, iteratively error correcting the codeword with the error correction circuit including parity checking the codeword on a layer-by-layer basis and updating the codeword after each layer. Methods can include stopping the iterative error correction in response to a parity check being correct for a particular layer.
US10193575B2
A method of transmitting a broadcast signal includes encoding mobile data for FEC (Forward Error Correction); encoding signaling information for signaling the mobile data; allocating the encoded mobile data and signaling data into a transmission frame; and transmitting the broadcast signal including the transmission frame, wherein the transmission frame includes a service signaling table having service_type information identifying a type of a service of the mobile data and hidden information indicating whether the service of the mobile data is hidden or not.
US10193574B1
An apparatus includes an interface, main and secondary processing modules, and circuitry. The interface is configured to receive input data to be processed in accordance with a GLDPC code defined by a parity-check-matrix including multiple sub-matrices, each sub-matrix including a main diagonal and one or more secondary diagonals, and each of the main and secondary diagonals includes N respective block matrices. The main processing module is configured to calculate N first partial syndromes based on the input data and on the block matrices of the main diagonals. The secondary processing module is configured to calculate N second partial syndromes based on the input data and on the block matrices of the secondary diagonals. The circuitry is configured to produce N syndromes by respectively combining the N first partial syndromes with the N second partial syndromes, and to encode or decode the input data, based on the N syndromes.
US10193571B2
The present technology relates to a data processing device and a data processing method which can ensure high communication quality in data transmission using LDPC codes.In group-wise interleaving, an LDPC code having a code length N of 64800 bits and a coding rate r of 13/15 is interleaved in a unit of a bit group of 360 bits. In group-wise deinterleaving, a sequence of bit groups of the LDPC code which has been subjected to the group-wise interleaving is returned to an original sequence. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a case in which data transmission is performed using LDPC codes.
US10193569B2
A decoding method, a memory storage device and a memory control circuit unit are provided. The decoding method includes: executing at least one first iteration decoding procedure of an LDPC on a first codeword according to a first clock signal by a correcting circuit; generating a control parameter according to a first iteration count of the first iteration decoding procedure; outputting a second clock signal to the correcting circuit according to the control parameter; and executing at least one second iteration decoding procedure of the LDPC on a second codeword according to the second clock signal by the correcting circuit.
US10193568B2
It is disclosed an optical coherent receiver comprising a number of decoding blocks configured to implement iterations of a FEC iterative message-passing decoding algorithm. The decoding blocks are distributed into two (or more) parallel chains of cascaded decoding blocks. The receiver also comprises an intermediate circuit interposed between the two parallel chains. The optical coherent receiver is switchable between (i) a first operating mode, in which the intermediate circuit is inactive and the two parallel chains separately implement the FEC message-passing decoding algorithm on respective client channels; and (ii) a second operating mode, in which the intermediate circuit is active and the two parallel chains jointly implement the FEC message-passing decoding algorithm on a same client channel, by cooperating through the intermediate circuit.
US10193563B2
An object is to reduce power consumption of an analog-digital converter circuit. An analog potential obtained in a sensor or the like is held in a sample-and-hold circuit including a transistor with an extremely low off-state current. In the sample-and-hold circuit, the analog potential is held in a node which is able to hold a charge by turning off the transistor. Then, power supply to a buffer circuit or the like included in the sample-and-hold circuit is stopped to reduce power consumption. In a structure where a potential is held in each node, power consumption can be further reduced when a transistor with an extremely low off-state current is connected to a node holding a potential of a comparator, a successive approximation register, a digital-analog converter circuit, or the like, and power supply to these circuits is stopped.
US10193554B1
A half bridge GaN circuit is disclosed. The circuit includes a low side power switch configured to be selectively conductive according to one or more input signals, a high side power switch configured to be selectively conductive according to the one or more input signals, and a high side power switch controller, configured to control the conductivity of the high sigh power switch based on the one or more input signals. The high side power switch controller includes a capacitor, and a logic circuit, wherein the capacitor is configured to capacitively couple a signal based on the input signals to the logic circuit, and the logic circuit is configured to control the conductivity of the high sigh power switch based on the capacitively coupled signal.
US10193552B1
The termination resistor calibration circuit and a control method thereof are provided. The resistance of the termination resistor of the CML transmitter is directly calibrated, so that the error caused by duplicating the resistor can be avoided, which improves the calibration accuracy. In addition, no duplicated resistor and constant current source is required, which reduces the area occupied by the circuit. Further, the absolute current and the relative current are obtained from the bandgap module and thus have high accuracy. The output signal control module, the constant current source, and the termination resistors of the CML transmitter can be used for transmitting signals after the resistance calibration is finished, which improves the utilization of the circuit module.
US10193538B2
A semiconductor device includes a first circuit block that is connected between a first power supply voltage line and a first reference voltage line, a second circuit block that is connected between a second power supply voltage line and a second reference voltage line and transmits and receives signals with the first circuit block, a first clamp circuit that clamps a potential difference between the second power supply voltage line and the first reference voltage line, a resistor circuit that is connected between the second power supply voltage line and the second circuit block and includes a resistance value that is greater than an impedance of the first clamp circuit, and a second clamp circuit that clamps a potential difference between a line connected between the resistor circuit and the second circuit block and the first reference voltage line.
US10193537B2
An exemplary embodiment of the disclosure provides a random data generation circuit which includes a phase difference detection circuit and a random data output circuit. The phase difference detection circuit detects a phase difference between a first clock signal and a second clock signal and outputs phase difference information. The random data output circuit is coupled to the phase difference detection circuit and outputs random data according to the phase difference information. Thereby, ideal and unpredictable random data is generated.
US10193534B2
A wireless power transmission system comprising a wireless transmitter capable of transmitting power and a wireless receiver capable of receiving power such that the transmitter or receiver comprises a controller and resonant tank, and the resonant tank comprises a capacitor and an electrically tunable inductor.
US10193525B2
An SAW device (1) has a piezoelectric substrate (3) propagating acoustic waves, and a comb-shaped electrode (6) arranged on a first surface (3a) of the piezoelectric substrate (3). The SAW device (1) has a columnar terminal (15) located on the first surface (3a) and electrically connected to the comb-shaped electrode (6), and a cover member (9) covering the a side surface of the terminal (15). The terminal (15) comprises, in a first region in the height direction of height thereof, a larger diameter on the side of the first surface (3a) compared with the diameter on the side opposite to the first surface (3a).
US10193524B2
A solidly mounted resonator structure includes an multi-layer acoustic reflector structure and a piezoelectric material layer arranged between the first and second electrode structures to form an active region, with the acoustic reflector structure providing enhanced reflection of shear and longitudinal modes of acoustic vibrations. The solidly mounted resonator structure is configured for transduction of an acoustic wave including a longitudinal component and a shear component. The acoustic reflector structure includes multiple sequentially arranged differential acoustic impedance layer units each including a low acoustic impedance material layer in contact with a high acoustic impedance material layer. A frequency corresponding to a minimum transmissivity of a second harmonic resonance of a longitudinal response is substantially matched to a frequency corresponding to a minimum transmissivity of a third harmonic resonance of a shear response.
US10193522B2
The present application provides a single port wide band impedance matching circuit and method for providing antenna matching. The single port wide band impedance matching circuit includes a single signal port adapted for receiving a wide band signal. The single port wide band impedance matching circuit further includes an impedance matching circuit including a narrow band harmonic bypass. Still further, the single port wide band impedance matching circuit includes an antenna port coupled to the single signal port via the impedance matching circuit.
US10193513B2
An amplifier for amplification of an electrical signal comprises an electro-optic (EO) medium for receiving the electrical signal, wherein applying the electrical signal to the EO medium causes a change to an effective index of refraction, a device configured for measuring a light phase change for measuring the change to the effective index of refraction, and a photodetector configured to convert the change to the effective index of refraction into an amplified electrical current output signal.
US10193508B2
A multi-level, multi-branch outphasing amplifier (20-1) includes a first branch group circuit (22-1) including a first branch circuit (11) receiving a first RF input signal (S1(t)) and first control information (S11_Ctrl=VDD) and a second branch circuit (12) receiving the first input signal and second control information (S12_Ctrl). Each of the first (11) and second (12) branch circuits includes a power amplifier. The second control information enables the second branch circuit to be switched on or off while the first branch circuit (12) remains on. A second branch group circuit (22-2) includes a third branch circuit (21) receiving a second RF input signal (S2(t)) and third control information (S21_Ctrl=VDD) and a fourth branch circuit (22) receiving the second input signal (S2(t)) and fourth control information (S22_Ctrl). Each of the third and fourth branch circuits includes a power amplifier. The fourth control information enables the fourth branch circuit to be switched on or off while the third branch circuit remains on. A combiner (24) combines output signals of the power amplifiers to produce an output signal (SOUT(t)).
US10193500B2
A supply modulator includes: a voltage generator including output terminals respectively outputting voltages having different levels, and configured to select, in response to a selection control signal corresponding to an envelope signal, at least one of the voltages as a selection supply voltage and to generate the selection supply voltage by performing DC-DC conversion on a power supply voltage; and a switch unit configured to connect an output terminal through which the selection supply voltage is output to a power amplifier, in response to a connection control signal corresponding to the envelope signal.
US10193494B2
A glass roof system includes a first glass layer, a photovoltaic module, a switching film powered by the photovoltaic module, and a control module configured to selectively control the switching film based on a passenger cabin temperature.
US10193487B2
There are provided a voltage command calculator that calculates a voltage command value that is a command value of an AC voltage to be applied to a rotary electric machine that is driven by a power conversion device, a carrier wave generator that generates a carrier wave, a comparator that generates a pulse signal to be supplied to the power conversion device on the basis of a comparison result between the voltage command value and the carrier wave, and a reset signal receiving unit that changes a value of the carrier wave into a predetermined value when a predetermined reset signal is input.
US10193485B2
A short pitched switched reluctance motor control apparatus comprising a voltage provider comprising a first coupling and a second coupling configured to be coupled to a phase winding of the switched reluctance motor for applying a voltage to drive current in the winding between the first and second coupling is disclosed. The apparatus further comprises a controller configured to apply a first voltage pulse to the first coupling, and to apply a second voltage pulse to the second coupling, wherein the start of the second pulse is delayed with respect to the start of the first pulse, and the end of the first pulse is delayed with respect to the end of the second pulse.
US10193483B2
In a method and device for the cyclic digital transmission of a position value of a moving object with inertial mass, the value range of the transmitted position value is restricted such that no complete rotation or, in the case of a linear motion, other complete period caused by mechanical conditions may be mapped, and the actual position is formed by detecting value-range exceedances in an evaluation unit.
US10193481B2
A variable speed wind turbine is arranged to provide additional electrical power to counteract non-periodic disturbances in an electrical grid. A controller monitors events indicating a need to increase the electrical output power from the wind turbine to the electrical grid. The controller is arranged to control the wind turbine as follows: after an indicating event has been detected, the wind turbine enters an overproduction period in which the electrical output power is increased, wherein the additional electrical output power is taken from kinetic energy stored in the rotor and without changing the operation of the wind turbine to a more efficient working point. When the rotational speed of the rotor reaches a minimum value, the wind turbine enters a recovery period to re-accelerate the rotor to the nominal rotational speed while further contributing to the stability of the electrical grid by outputting at least a predetermined minimum electrical power.
US10193480B2
A regulating loop for a digital regulator of an excitation rotating electric machine for operation as a generator delivering an output voltage tailored by an excitation current. The digital regulator comprises a control device for controlling the excitation current and the regulating loop comprises, at input, a measuring device for measurement by sampling the output voltage generating a measurement signal (Um), an calculation device generating an error signal (e) equal to a difference between the measurement signal (Um) and a setpoint (U0), a processing system for processing of the error signal (e) generating a regulating signal (Ysat) comprising in parallel a first amplifier, an integrator and an anti-saturation system, and comprising, at output, a generation system for generation of a control signal (PWM) controlling the control device as a function of the regulating signal (Ysat). The anti-saturation system is a conditional detection system.
US10193478B2
A motor driving device and driving method of the same used to surely suppress the influence of counter electromotive force is provided. The motor driving device 100 includes an auto-decay portion 141. The auto-decay portion 141 controls a path of a electric current flow in a motor coil when supplying the electric current and when decaying the electric current. The influence of counter electromotive force generated in a stepping motor 200 can be suppressed by the auto-decay portion 141 configured to control so that a ratio or an decay time of a slow decay mode and a fast decay mode of previous cycle is different from a ratio or an decay time of the slow decay mode and the fast decay mode of current cycle.
US10193475B2
A method for determining rotor position of a switched reluctance (SR) machine having a rotor and a stator is provided. The method may include injecting a test pulse into one or more idle phases of the SR machine, determining a decoupled flux value based at least partially on a total flux value corresponding to the test pulse and a mutual flux value, and determining the rotor position based at least partially on the decoupled flux value.
US10193474B2
An electric motor vehicle auxiliary unit includes an electronically commutated drive motor comprising motor coils and an electronic commutator arrangement which energizes the motor coils. The electronic commutator arrangement includes a control unit, multiple power semiconductors each of which is controlled by the control unit, a motor current path, a motor current tap arranged in a course of the motor current path, and a high-pass filter arranged between the motor current tap and the control unit. The motor current tap is arranged so that a voltage signal proportional to a motor current IM drops at the motor current tap during a motor energization. The high-pass filter includes an input signal and an output signal. The input signal is the voltage signal and the output signal is a control signal for the control unit. The high-pass filter triggers a pole reversal after a delay following an input of a peak signal.
US10193471B2
An insulated DC/DC converter includes: a transformer; a switching transistor; a rectifier circuit; a photocoupler; a feedback circuit configured to drive a light emitting element of the photocoupler such that an output voltage of the DC/DC converter approaches a target voltage; a primary side controller having a feedback terminal which is connected to a light receiving element of the photocoupler and receives a feedback signal from the photocoupler, a zero current detection terminal which receives a zero current detection signal corresponding to a voltage generated at one end of an auxiliary winding of the transformer, and a pulse modulator of a quasi-resonant mode configured to generate a pulse signal depending on the feedback signal and the zero current detection signal; and a starting control circuit which, in start-up of the DC/DC converter, electrically affects the zero current detection terminal such that an OFF time of the switching transistor lengthens.
US10193466B2
A method for controlling a modular multilevel converter to reduce the lower order harmonics generated by the converter is provided. The method may also reduce the overall switching loss of the converter by switching the switches close to fundamental switching frequencies while still reducing the lower order harmonics that are generated.
US10193464B2
A DC-DC converter includes: an output terminal, wherein the output terminal has a first output terminal pin and a second output terminal pin; a number of rectifier elements; a voltage limiting unit having an electrical energy store, wherein the voltage limiting unit is designed to limit voltages across the rectifier elements; and a clocked energy regulator unit which is designed to regulate at a setpoint value energy which is stored in the electrical energy store.
US10193462B1
Power converters that use bi-directional switches to rectify an AC power source, rather than diode bridges, are provided. In additional to performing rectification, the bi-directional switches also control power flow through the power converter, i.e., the switches effectively implement a switching power supply to provide a desired DC voltage to a load. The use of bi-directional switches that can block current flow in either direction enables a power converter that uses minimal circuitry, has low conduction losses (high efficiency), and can operate in buck and boost modes. Furthermore, via appropriate control, the described power converter circuitry may be used both for converting from AC voltage to DC voltage, and from DC voltage to AC voltage.
US10193433B2
A primary circuit and a secondary circuit each have a switching element, each operate as a power conversion circuit while the switching element is activated, and each operate as a rectifier circuit while the switching element is deactivated. While a generator provided at the primary side of a first power conversion device is stopped, a controller activates the switching element of the secondary circuit and deactivates the switching element of the primary circuit. Accordingly, the first power conversion device converts electric power input from the secondary side and supplies electric power for causing the generator to operate. While the generator is operated, the controller activates the switching element of the primary circuit and deactivates the switching element of the secondary circuit such that the first power conversion device converts electric power supplied from the generator and outputs the converted electric power to the secondary side.
US10193430B2
An electromagnetic device includes discrete wires for its poles or teeth. In another aspect, an electromagnetic device includes a stator unit and an adjacent movable unit, at least one of which includes magnetic flux-carrying poles, with a majority of each pole including multiple discrete wires. In another aspect, the movable unit is an electric motor rotor, a linear electric motor armature, a solenoid armature, or an electric generator rotor.
US10193424B2
A process and a system for welding rotor coils are presented. A plurality of rotor coils are arranged on a table of a machine. A welding tool welds the rotor coils on one end using a Friction Stir Welding process. Transition pieces are each arranged between the rotor coils to create a continuous welding path. A run-off tab is placed at an end of the welding path. The welding tool is changed to a milling tool after completion of the welding. The milling tool traces back along the welding path to separate the rotor coils. The milling tool may be changed to the welding tool to repeat the process for another end of the rotor coils. The process is completely automatic and controlled by a control unit.
US10193412B2
A board includes a separating zone in an area closer to the edge than to the center of the board, the separating zone including one elongated through hole. A first group of electronic components that is a source of heat or electric noise is placed in a first area on the center side with respect to the separating zone of the board. On the other hand, a second group of electronic components from which influence of heat or electric noise from other components needs to be eliminated to a maximum extent is placed in a second area on the edge side with respect to the separating zone of the board.
US10193411B2
An outer rotor motor includes a mounting seat portion provided inside a motor case, and a protruding portion protruding from the mounting seat portion. An inner stator has a stator opening portion formed centrally thereof, and a mounting portion is formed adjacent the stator opening portion. A vibration isolating member is interposed between the mounting seat portion and the mounting portion with the stator opening portion telescopically fitting over the protruding portion. The vibration isolating member includes a pair of foam rubber layers and a metal base material sandwiched between the pair of foam rubber layers. A bolt fastens the mounting seat portion and the mounting portion together while compressing the vibration isolating member.
US10193406B2
Rotating machinery includes a rotor of 2n poles, 84n slots, and three-phase stator windings, where n is an integer equal to or greater than 1. A top coil and a bottom coil accommodated at the diametrically inner and outer sides of the slot are connected to each other to form the stator winding. The stator windings have 2n phase belts per one phase, the phase belt including two parallel windings. In at least one of the phase belts, the one coils are disposed in the order of the second, first, first, second, first, second, first, second, second, first, second, first, second, and first parallel windings; the other coils connected to the one coils are disposed in the order of the first, second, second, first, second, first, second, first, second, first, first, second, first, and second parallel windings.
US10193405B2
In the rotary electric machine, bus-bar lead terminals of bus bars, which are held by a connection component, are formed in such a way that the bus-bar lead terminals are protruded from the bus bars to an axis direction of a stator, and a plurality of bus-bar storage grooves are formed by using a plurality of partitions which are concentrically arranged in a diameter direction of the stator via gaps, and in the plurality of partitions, lengths, in the axis direction, of the most outer circumference partition, which is positioned at the most outer circumference side in the diameter direction, and the most inner circumference partition, which is positioned at the most inner circumference side in the diameter direction, are longer than lengths, in the axis direction, of a plurality of middle partitions, which are positioned between the most outer circumference partition and the most inner circumference partition.
US10193400B2
A method for detecting induction coil alignment error in resonant induction wireless power apparatus includes an eddy current coil array superimposed upon the primary induction coil, a switching device for each eddy current coil, a voltage detector such as a low power rectifier connected to the secondary induction coil, an analog-to-digital converter, primary and secondary side micro-controllers, and, in a vehicle charging embodiment, a vehicle operator interface. During coil alignment, the primary side induction coil operates at low power. Eddy current flows in an eddy current coil only if the associated switching device is switched on.
US10193387B2
A wireless power transmission device is disclosed. The wireless power transmission device, which is a medium-power wireless power transmission device that transmits power to a low-power wireless power reception device or a medium-power wireless power reception device, includes: a power conversion unit that converts electrical energy to a power signal; and a communications and control unit that communicates with the wireless power reception device and controls power transfer, the power conversion unit including: an inverter that converts DC input to an AC waveform that drives a resonant circuit; a primary coil that creates a magnetic field; and a current sensor that monitors the current in the primary coil, wherein the inverter operates in a full-bridge mode that drives a plurality of bridges or in a half-bridge mode that drives a single bridge.
US10193374B2
Techniques for implementing a multifunction device with battery charging and haptic feedback capabilities are described. An example of an electronic device includes a multifunction charger and a control circuitry configured to activate one of a plurality of available operating modes of the multifunction charger. The plurality of operating modes includes a wireless charging mode and a haptic feedback mode.
US10193369B2
A method for charging a battery cell includes first transferring of energy from a power source to a plurality of capacitive regions in the battery cell followed by transferring of charge stored in the plurality of capacitive regions of the battery cell into at least an electrolytic mixture that comprises the battery cell and electrodes immersed in the electrolyte mixture. The capacitive regions in the battery cell comprise capacitive double layers between the electrolyte mixture and particles of active material that comprise the battery cell. The transferring of energy from the power source to the capacitive regions occurs for a first duration of time sufficient to substantially fully charge the capacitive regions.
US10193358B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable and executable instructions are provided for moderating a charging for a number of power resources. Moderating a charging for a number of power resources can include calculating a distinct charging window for each of the number of power resources. Moderating a charging for a number of power resources can also include selecting a first power resource from the number of power resources based on a current time and the distinct charging window for the first power resource. Furthermore, moderating a charging for a number of power resources can include charging the first power resource within the distinct charging window before charging a second power resource.
US10193352B2
A wireless power transmission apparatus is described that comprises a mounting member, an upper transmission coil disposed on the mounting member, and first and second terminals disposed in the mounting member. The upper transmission coil comprises an outer coil part connected to the first terminal and formed in one-turn with respect to a central axis between the first and second terminals, a first inner coil part connected to the outer coil part and formed in a half-turn on a first side of the central axis, a second inner coil part connected to the first inner coil part, formed in a half-turn on a second side of the central axis, a third inner coil part connected to the second inner coil part, formed in a half-turn on the first side of the central axis, and a fourth inner coil part connected to the third inner coil part and the second terminal, formed in a half-turn on the second side of the central axis.
US10193349B2
Provided is a power system 1 including a central distributor 3, to which power is supplied from a power generator 2 of an aircraft 100, and a distal distributor 5. The distal distributor 5 is away from the central distributor 3 in the aircraft 100, so that the distal distributor 5 receives a power supply from the central distributor 3, the distal distributor 5 distributing the supplied power to electric actuators 15 and a wing illuminator 18.
US10193347B2
A method for converting DC input power into AC output power comprising operating in a continuous mode, while the DC input power is at a first level, wherein DC input power is continuously converted into AC output power and applied to an AC power grid and upon detecting the DC input power is at a second level, operating in a burst mode, wherein a burst of AC output power for a half grid cycle is followed by a period of energy storage lasting an integer number of grid cycles.
US10193337B2
A semiconductor device includes: a voltage regulator generating, based on a power supply voltage, an internal power supply voltage having a voltage value lower than that of the power supply voltage and to apply the internal power supply voltage to a power supply line; an internal circuit receiving the internal power supply voltage via the power supply line and a grounding line; and a protection circuit in which first to n-th transistors of PNP type which are Darlington-connected. A collector terminal of each of the first to the n-th transistors is connected to the grounding line. An emitter terminal of the first transistor within the first to the n-th transistors is connected to the power supply line while a base terminal of the n-th transistor within the first to the n-th transistors is connected to the grounding line.
US10193334B2
Circuits, integrated circuits, apparatuses, and methods, such as those for protecting circuits against electrostatic discharge events are disclosed. An example apparatus comprises a thyristor coupled to a node and configured to limit the voltage and discharge the current associated with an over-voltage event at the node. The over-voltage event includes a negative voltage having a magnitude that exceeds a trigger voltage of the thyristor. The example apparatus further comprising a transistor coupled to the thyristor and configured to adjust the magnitude of the trigger voltage.
US10193331B2
A method of containing arc faults in a power distribution unit includes in response to a bus bar temperature exceeding a bus bar temperature threshold, thermally opening a conductive element extending between an energizing coil of a contactor, a bus bar, and a controller. The controller is configured to selectively open and close the contactor. The conductive element is electrically connected to the energizing coil of the contactor and the controller. The conductive element is electrically isolated from a power source electrically connected to the first bus bar through the contactor.
US10193327B2
The object of the present application is to ensure the security of a device when a precharging relay is not closed and a load current passes through a precharging resistor, so as to ensure the customer's security. Provided is a security control method for a system with a precharging circuit, comprising: giving out an error alarm and stopping operating the system when the number of times of undervoltage of a precharging circuit achieves m times and the duration between the first undervoltage and the mth undervoltage is less than or equal to τ seconds, where m and τ are positive integers. Compared with the previous method, the present invention has the following advantages of no danger of combustion and high reliability; and cost saving and no need of adding additional hardware.
US10193326B2
Non-ideal diodes have a non-zero resistance across a PN junction when the junction is forward biased. When a diode comprising a power supply has a voltage drop across the junction that exceeds a predetermined threshold, the threshold-exceeding voltage drop trips a comparator, the output of which controls a switch between a power supply and a load.
US10193325B2
A power supply circuit for a trip unit of a circuit interrupter includes a current transformer, a startup circuit receiving a regulated voltage and a DC/DC converter. The startup circuit is structured to: (i) burden the current transformer with an impedance approximating the trip unit and cause the DC/DC converter to enter the shutdown mode when the regulated voltage is below a predetermined value, (ii) remove the burden and cause the DC/DC converter to exit the shutdown mode and provide power to the trip unit responsive to the regulated voltage reaching the predetermined value, and (iii) remove the burden and cause the DC/DC converter to exit the shutdown mode and provide power to the trip unit responsive to a rate of change of the regulated voltage being at least a predetermined level.
US10193319B2
An asymmetric Stockbridge damper having at least six and as many as ten resonant frequencies. The damper includes two assemblies, each having a primary weight at the end of a messenger cable and two secondary weights at the ends of thin beams. The thin beams are mounted at one end to the primary weight and each support a secondary weight at an opposite end. The thin beams extend parallel to the messenger cable. The messenger cable is affixed to a clamp assembly which clamps to an overhead transmission line. The clamp assembly includes a toggle crank generating a theoretically infinite clamping force on the transmission line.
US10193313B2
A corona ignition system including a corona igniter, switches, and a programmable controller capable of rapidly adjusting to changes in resonant frequency is provided. Energy at a drive frequency and an output current is provided to the corona igniter. Switches provide energy to the corona igniter at the drive frequency and are activated at different times. The controller obtains the output current provided to the corona igniter, typically once every half cycle, and activates the first switch a predetermined amount of time after a first zero crossing of the output current, wherein the first zero crossing is a zero crossing of the most recent full cycle of the output current. The second switch is activated a predetermined amount of time after a second zero crossing occurring after the first zero crossing. The delay of the system is accounted for by the controller, rather than other components.
US10193309B1
A method for fabricating a laser diode device includes providing a gallium and nitrogen containing substrate member comprising a surface region, a release material overlying the surface region, an n-type gallium and nitrogen containing material; an active region overlying the n-type gallium and nitrogen containing material, a p-type gallium and nitrogen containing material; and a first transparent conductive oxide material overlying the p-type gallium and nitrogen containing material, and an interface region overlying the first transparent conductive oxide material. The method includes bonding the interface region to a handle substrate and subjecting the release material to an energy source to initiate release of the gallium and nitrogen containing substrate member.
US10193306B2
A laser including: a gain chip; an external cavity incorporating a Bragg grating; and a baseplate; wherein a first end of the gain chip has a high reflectivity facet forming a first end of the laser cavity; a second end of the gain chip has a low reflectivity facet; and a second part of the external cavity comprises a Bragg grating, supported by the baseplate, the temperature of the baseplate being maintained through a feedback loop; wherein the optical length of the external cavity is at least an order of magnitude greater than the optical length of the gain chip; wherein the Bragg grating is physically long and occupies a majority of the length of the external cavity and is apodized to control the sidemodes of the grating reflection.
US10193302B2
A light engine is disclosed that includes an optical bench with a mirror etched therefrom to form a single, unitary structure. The integrated mirror may therefore be pre-aligned with an associated light path to reduce light path alignment errors. In an embodiment, the optical bench includes a first end extending to a second end along a longitudinal axis, a laser diode disposed on a mounting surface adjacent the first end of the optical bench and configured to output laser light along a first light path that extends substantially along the longitudinal axis, and an integrated mirror device disposed along the light path to receive and direct the laser light along a second light path to optically couple the laser light to a photonically-enabled complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) die, the second light path being substantially orthogonal relative to the first light path.
US10193295B2
A fiber laser system comprises a main body, wherein the main body includes one or more fiber laser system components and a first wall hingedly attached to the main body along a first edge, the first wall having a first wall open position and a first wall closed position and a plurality of feed fiber management and splicing components mounted to the first wall. Additionally and/or alternatively, the laser system may comprise a cooling plate hingedly attached to the main body, the cooling plate has a cooling plate open position and a cooling plate closed position. Additionally and/or alternatively, the laser system may include a fiber management tray hingedly mounted to the cooling plate, the fiber management tray having a fiber management tray open position and a fiber management tray closed position.
US10193294B2
A light emitting device includes a base member, a laser element, a retaining member, a fluorescent member, and first and second fixing members. The retaining member has a first surface on a laser element side and a second surface not on the laser element side. The fluorescent member is fixed to a through hole of the retaining member. The first and second fixing members clamp the retaining member. The first and second fixing members have first and second contact surfaces in contact with the first and second surfaces of the retaining member, respectively. A distance between the first and second contact surfaces becomes smaller as the first and second contact surfaces become farther from the through hole. The retaining member, the first and second fixing members are arranged such that a space surrounded by the retaining member, and the first and second fixing members exists around the retaining member.
US10193288B2
Embodiments are generally directed to a snap button fastener providing electrical connection. An embodiment of a fastener includes a first mechanical part, the first mechanical part including at least a stud portion, the first mechanical part including a first electrical connector; a second mechanical part, the second mechanical part including at least a socket portion with a spring element and the socket portion, the second mechanical part including a second electrical connector. The stud portion of the first mechanical part and the socket portion of second mechanical part, if separated, are to interlock upon the application of a first force towards each other, and, if interlocked, to separate upon the application of a second force away from each other. The first electrical connector and the second electrical connector are to be electrically connected when the first mechanical part and the mechanical part are interlocked, and first electrical connector and the second electrical connector are to be disconnected when the first mechanical part and second mechanical part are separated.
US10193285B1
An electrical outlet includes a base and further includes a power module that is movably situated on the base. The power module is movable among a plurality of different orientations on the electrical outlet. The power module includes different electronic devices on each of a plurality of surface portions of the power module. As the power module is moved with respect to the electrical outlet among the different orientations, a different exposed surface portion faces away from the electrical outlet, and a different electrical device that is situated on or adjacent the exposed surface portion is operable to output electrical power or to perform some other function. The various electrical devices can be selected to provide a balance of electrical services, such as multiple types of USB ports, wireless recharging, a nightlight, and the like, without limitation.
US10193281B1
A connector assembly for terminating a cable having a cable shield is provided including an electrically conductive backshell and a shield assembly. The backshell includes a body that extends from a mating end to a cable end along a mating axis. The cable end includes a cable channel that extends through the body and holds an end segment of the cable therein. The connector assembly includes a shield assembly having a clamp system that is held within the cable end of the backshell and includes front and rear clamping members. The cable shield is terminated to the clamp system between the front and the rear clamping members. The connector assembly includes an EMI gasket that is electrically coupled to the backshell and held within the cable end of the backshell. The EMI gasket includes a backshell interface that engages the backshell and a clamp interface that engages the clamp system.
US10193276B1
A connector housing assembly configured to ensure proper coupling of components to align terminal cavities and terminal slots, lowering the chances that terminal cavities and terminal cavities obstruct, or possibly bend, terminal blades from a male connector is provided. The connector housing assembly includes a connector housing, a terminal position assurance (TPA), and a male blade stabilizer (MBS). The connector housing, includes a plurality of terminal cavities. The TPA and MBS include a plurality of terminal slots. The TPA includes walls that are slidingly received by an aperture in the MBS. The walls and aperture are configured to ensure that the MBA is coupled with the proper TPA and in a proper orientation. When the components of the connector housing assembly are properly coupled, the terminal cavities of the connector housing and the terminal slots of the TPA and the MBS align allowing a terminal to be seated there within.
US10193275B2
An electrical connection device includes a connector unit (2) having first connectors aligned in an arrangement direction, second connectors and a connecting tool (30). The connecting tool (30) detachably holds the second connectors in an alignment corresponding to that of the first connectors. One of the connector unit (2) and the connecting tool (30) includes a guided portion (5), and the other includes a guiding portion (50). The guiding portion (50) includes a receiving portion for receiving the guided portion (5) in a receiving direction, a connection guiding portion for guiding the guided portion (5) to displace the connector unit (2) and the connecting tool (30) in a connector connecting direction as the connector connecting tool (30) is operated with respect to the connector unit (2) in the arrangement direction, and a separation allowing portion for allowing separation of the guided portion (5) from the connection guiding portion.
US10193274B2
An assembly for attaching and detaching an electronics module from a base includes a feedback assembly that provides an operator with tactile feedback on the relative positioning of the module with the base during attachment or detachment of the module to or from the base. The feedback assembly includes cams on the electronics module and a follower attached to an end of a spring arm on the base. The spring arm forms a portion of a wall that guides movement of the module along the base during attachment or detachment of the module.
US10193273B2
The invention relates to a plug-in connection, comprising a plug connector having a plug connector housing (1) and comprising a mating plug connector that can be plugged together with the plug connector, wherein the plug connector has a superstructure (4) and the superstructure (4) accommodates a locking element (8) in a preliminary latching position and a final latching position, wherein the plug connector has first latching means and the locking element (8) has first latching means corresponding thereto and the mating plug connector has further latching means and the locking element (8) has further latching means corresponding thereto, wherein the locking element (8) is first fastened to the plug connector in the preliminary latching position by means of the first latching means corresponding to each other before the mating plug connector is inserted into the plug connector, and the further latching means corresponding to each other are actuated by means of the insertion of the mating plug connector into the plug connector, whereby the locking element (8) can be moved into the final latching position thereof, characterized in that the plug connector housing (1) and the locking element (8) have third latching means corresponding to each other, by means of which additional locking of the locking element (8) to the plug connector occurs when the locking element has been moved into the final latching position thereof.
US10193268B1
An SFP cable connector capable of protecting solder joints includes a lower case, a cable, a circuit board that is soldered with one end of the cable to form a plurality of solder joints, an insulator being formed on the circuit board and covering said solder joints, and an upper case being mounted on the lower case and being capable of pressing the insulator. The SFP cable connector can provide a direct protection for said solder joints by employing the upper case to press the insulator downward, thereby preventing said solder joints between the cable and the circuit board from being damaged and ensuring the quality of the SFP cable connector.
US10193249B2
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a connector component is provided. The connector component includes a first connector portion comprising a plurality of contacts to couple with a printed circuit board, and a second connector portion comprising a plurality of contacts to couple with an M.2 form factor module. The second connector portion is to receive the M.2 form factor module in an upright orientation such that neither a front surface nor a rear surface of the M.2 form factor module substantially faces the printed circuit board. In addition, the second connector portion is to retain the M.2 form factor module in the upright orientation without a retention mechanism external to the connector component.
US10193243B2
The present disclosure relates to a high voltage power cable joint device including: an elongated conductive connector having a first and second end faces, a field control body having a first semiconducting layer arranged circumferentially around the entire connector, and extending beyond the end faces, wherein the first and second end faces are provided with first and second bore sections which extend parallel with and are arranged offset from the central axis of the connector. The connector has an outer surface that has a first and second outer portions where the connector wall is generally the thinnest towards the first and second bore sections. Furthermore, the connector has a straight first through-opening which extends from the first outer surface portion to the first bore section, wherein a straight second through-opening is axially displaced from the first through-opening and extends from the second outer surface portion to the second bore section. There is also disclosed a high voltage power cable including a high voltage power cable joint device.
US10193238B2
A first-band radiating element configured to operate in a first frequency band may be designed for reducing distortion associated with one or more second-band radiating element configured to operate in a second frequency band. The first-band radiating element may include a first printed circuit board. The first printed circuit board may include a first surface including a first feed line connected to a feed network of a feed board of an antenna. The radiating element may also include a second surface opposite the first surface. The second surface may include one or more first conductive planes connected to a ground plane of the feed board; and one or more first open-end traces coupled to the one or more conductive planes.
US10193235B2
The radar system include a plurality of radiating elements arranged in a linear array configured to radiate electromagnetic energy. The radar system also includes a waveguide configured to guide electromagnetic energy between (i) each of the plurality of radiating elements and (ii) a waveguide feed. The radiating elements are coupled to a first side of the waveguide. The radar system additionally includes a waveguide feed configured to couple the electromagnetic energy between the waveguide and a component external to the waveguide. The waveguide feed is coupled to the second side of the waveguide at a position between two of the radiating elements. Further, the radar system includes a power dividing network defined by the waveguide and configured to divide the electromagnetic energy injected by the waveguide feed based on a taper profile.
US10193228B2
An antenna includes a first electrical conductor that is shaped to form a spiral between its first and second ends that remain electrically unconnected such that the first electrical conductor so-shaped is maintained as an unconnected single-component open-circuit having inductance and capacitance. In the presence of a time-varying electromagnetic field, the first electrical conductor so-shaped resonates to generate a harmonic electromagnetic field response having a frequency, amplitude and bandwidth. A second electrical conductor includes a loop portion overlapping at least a portion of the spiral. The second electrical conductor is electrically isolated from the first electrical conductor. A radio frequency transceiver capable of transmitting and receiving electromagnetic energy is electrically coupled to the second electrical conductor.
US10193226B2
A wireless communication apparatus includes a wireless communication device configured to be capable of executing wireless communication using radio waves, an optical space communication device configured to be capable of executing optical space communication using spatial light, and a communication controller that causes secure communication with another wireless communication apparatus to be executed in a data link layer by performing parallel control on the wireless communication device and the optical space communication device.
US10193222B2
A ground layer is disposed within a dielectric substrate. An antenna pattern that operates as an antenna is disposed so as to be closer to a first surface of the dielectric substrate than the ground layer is. A high-frequency device that supplies a high-frequency signal to the antenna pattern is mounted in or on a second surface of the dielectric substrate, which is opposite to the first surface. A plurality of signal conductor columns and a plurality of ground conductor columns that are made of a conductive material project from the second surface. Each of the signal conductor columns is connected to the high-frequency device by a wiring pattern, which is provided in or on the dielectric substrate, and the ground conductor columns are connected to the ground layer.
US10193220B2
Disclosed is an antenna array, including: a first antenna; a second antenna; and a dielectric substance, of which a height is determined based on a distance between the first and second antennas and forms of beam patterns of the first and second antennas. According to the antenna array according to the exemplary embodiments of the present invention, it is possible to decrease coupling between the antennas.
US10193215B2
The present disclosure provides an antenna device. The antenna device includes a metal back plate, a metal frame surrounding a periphery of the metal back plate and is connected with the metal back plate, and a radiator configured to receive and radiate electromagnetic waves, the metal back plate and the radiator are spaced so as to from a gap, the gap includes a first gap provided along a short axis direction of the metal back plate and a second gap and a third gap which are bended and extend from two ends of the first gap, respectively, a length of the first gap is smaller than a width of the metal back plate along its short axis. The antenna device of the present disclosure has less influence to antenna performance when being hand-held, and the antenna radiating performance is good.
US10193206B2
The present invention relates to a microwave signal transition component (1) having a first signal conductor side (2) and a second signal conductor side (3). The signal transition component (1) is arranged for transfer of microwave signals from the first signal conductor side (2) to the second signal conductor side (3). The transfer component (1) comprises at least one, at least partly circumferentially running, electrically conducting frame (4), a dielectric filling (5) positioned at least partly within said conducting frame (4), at least one filling aperture (6; 6a, 6b) miming through the dielectric filling, and, for each filling aperture (6; 6a, 6b), an electrically conducting connection (7; 7a, 7b) that at least partly is positioned within said filling aperture (6; 6a, 6b). The present invention also relates to a method for manufacturing a microwave signal transition component according to the above.
US10193197B2
To provide a battery device including a battery; a first cooling system having a first cooling fan and a first temperature sensor; a second cooling system having a second cooling fan and a second temperature sensor; and a controller, wherein the controller carries out abnormality determination with respect to a temperature sensor when a difference between the first cooling air temperature and the second cooling air temperature, detected by the first temperature sensor and the second temperature sensor, respectively, after elapse of a predetermined set period after a start switch of the vehicle is turned off while the first cooling fan and the second cooling fan remain stopped, is equal to or greater than a predetermined amount.
US10193196B1
A passive battery cooling system for removing heat generated during battery charging and discharging and a method for production of such a system are disclosed. The passive system transfers heat from the internal heat-generating portions of the battery cell using a heat pipe which is incorporated inside a cylindrical or flat battery cell to reduce peak cell temperatures and improve temperature uniformity within the cell.
US10193194B2
A battery assembly controller controls terminal voltages of a plurality of series-connected secondary batteries to be equal. The controller includes a discharge circuit selectively reducing the terminal voltages of the secondary batteries; and a monitoring circuit directly connected to positive and negative electrodes of the secondary batteries to monitor the terminal voltages of the secondary batteries.
US10193183B2
The invention provides nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries having excellent output characteristics during large-current charging and discharging. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to one aspect of the invention includes a positive electrode including a lithium transition metal oxide, a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material capable of storing and releasing lithium ions, and a nonaqueous electrolyte, the negative electrode active material including a carbon material as a main component, the negative electrode including a tungsten compound and/or a molybdenum compound. The tungsten compound and/or the molybdenum compound is preferably attached to the surface of the carbon material.
US10193177B2
A fuel cell system and method that enables warm-up power generation corresponding to the residual water volume in the fuel cell stack without using auxiliary devices for measuring the residual water volume in the fuel cell stack. A controller computes total generated electrical energy Q by integrating of the generated current detected by current sensor during the period from start-up to shutting down of the fuel cell system, and stores the result in total generated electrical energy storage part. Also, controller measures fuel cell temperature Ts at the last shutting down cycle with temperature sensor, and stores it in power generation shutting down temperature storage part. When the fuel cell system is started, controller estimates residual water volume WR that remains in fuel cell stack 2 on the basis of fuel cell temperature Ts when power generation is shut down, total generated electrical energy Q, and fuel cell start-up temperature Tn, and sets the generated electrical power for warm-up at start-up on the basis of said residual water volume Wr.
US10193172B2
The invention relates to a method (40) for starting up a fuel cell (11), wherein hydrogen is introduced into an anode chamber (15) of the fuel cell (11), and at the beginning of the start-up process oxygen is present in the anode chamber (15) of the fuel cell (11). According to the invention, at the beginning of the hydrogen introduction stage enough hydrogen is introduced to ensure that upon entry into the anode chamber (15) hydrogen and oxygen are present in no more than a stoichiometric ratio.
US10193171B2
Fabrication method of a fuel cell comprising the following successive steps: providing a substrate comprising: at least one membrane-electrode assembly, formed by an electrolytic membrane arranged between a first electrode and a second electrode, a first current collector arranged on the first electrode, depositing a fluoropolymer solution on the first current collector, making the solvent of the solution evaporate so as to form a porous thin layer of fluoropolymer.
US10193168B2
A fuel cell system that generates electric power by supplying anode gas and cathode gas to a fuel cell includes a control valve adapted to control the pressure of the anode gas to be supplied to the fuel cell; a buffer unit adapted to store the anode-off gas to be discharged from the fuel cell; a pulsation operation unit adapted to control the control valve in order to periodically increase and decrease the pressure of the anode gas at a specific width of the pulsation; and a pulsation width correcting unit adapted to correct the width of the pulsation on the basis of the temperature of the buffer unit.
US10193166B2
A fuel cell system (1) includes a reformer (2), for generating a reformate gas, a fuel cell (3) for generating electric current from cathode air and reformate gas, an air supply (4), which draws in ambient air and splits this at least into reformer air and cathode air, sends the reformer air via a reformer air line (15) in the direction of the reformer and sends the cathode air via a cathode air line (16) in the direction of a cathode side (11). A recirculating line (20) connects an anode side (10) to the reformer (2). A hot gas delivery (24), which contains a hot gas path (26), is arranged in the recirculating line for driving the anode waste. A cooling air path (27), which is integrated into the cathode air line, through which the reformer air or cathode air flows, reduces thermal load of the hot gas delivery.
US10193157B2
A negative electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery, which has high energy density and which can suppress a crease (form change) of a negative electrode active material layer and a negative electrode current collector caused by the expansion and contraction occurring along with the quick charging and discharging and also suppress the falloff of the negative electrode active material layer after the quick charging and discharging cycle, and a lithium ion secondary battery using the negative electrode. The negative electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery and the lithium ion secondary battery include: a negative electrode active material including 5% or more of silicon or silicon oxide; a binder that is polyacrylate whose carboxylic groups at terminals of side chains of polyacrylic acid are cross-linked with magnesium or alkaline earth metal; and a negative electrode current collector.
US10193152B2
A lithium ion secondary battery including: a cathode including a plurality cathode active material particles; an electrolyte; and an anode, wherein a cathode active material particle of the plurality of cathode active material particles has a plate-shaped crystal structure having an aspect ratio of 2 to 1000, wherein a major surface in at least one direction of the plate-shaped crystal structure is a 111 face, wherein the cathode active material particle also has a spinel-type crystal structure, and wherein the cathode active material particle has a composition represented by the formula LiCo2-xNixO4, wherein 0
US10193150B2
Provided are a cathode material for lithium ion secondary battery having excellent rate characteristics and cycle characteristics while a cathode active substance has high density, and a lithium ion secondary battery cathode and a lithium ion secondary battery that use the above cathode material. The cathode material for lithium ion secondary battery (1), represented by Li1+xM11−x−yM2yO2 [where −0.1≤x≤0.3, 0≤y≤0.1; M1 is Ni, Co, Mn; and M2 is Mg, Al, Ti, Zr, Mo, Nb, Fe, B], is an agglomerate including secondary particles (50, 60) both formed via aggregation of lithium metal composite oxide primary particles (10) having a layered structure. A mean porosity of the secondary particles having a particle size of more than 10 μm and equal to 50 μm or less is higher than that of the secondary particles having a particle size of 0.5 μm to 10 μm.
US10193146B2
A method for manufacturing graphene-based material is disclosed. A graphene oxide dispersion includes graphene oxide dispersed in solvent. A hydrogen sulfide gas is introduced to the graphene oxide dispersion at a reacting temperature to achieve a graphene dispersion. The hydrogen sulfide reduces graphene oxide into graphene, and elemental sulfur produced from the hydrogen sulfide is deposited on surfaces of the graphene. The solvent and elemental sulfur are removed to achieve a graphene composite material.
US10193145B2
A process for the preparation of carbon-coated particles, where the particles include an electrochemically active material. The process includes the steps of emulsion polymerization, drying and thermally treating the polymer to obtain a nano-layer of carbon on the particles, where the carbon layer includes fibers and nitrogen-containing polyaromatics have a graphene-like structure. Also, the particles produced by the method as well as to electrode materials, electrodes and electrochemical cells including the particles.
US10193140B2
A positive electrode for a rechargeable lithium battery includes a positive active material and activated carbon, wherein an average particle diameter of the activated carbon is about 100% to about 160% relative to 100% of an average particle diameter of the positive active material.
US10193139B1
Provided herein are energy storage devices comprising a first electrode comprising a layered double hydroxide, a conductive scaffold, and a first current collector; a second electrode comprising a hydroxide and a second current collector; a separator; and an electrolyte. In some embodiments, the specific combination of device chemistry, active materials, and electrolytes described herein form storage devices that operate at high voltage and exhibit the capacity of a battery and the power performance of supercapacitors in one device.
US10193129B2
The present disclosure provides a parallel battery module comprising a plurality of battery cells, a first current collection connector, and a second current collection connector. The plurality of battery cells are in parallel connection. Each battery cell comprises a conducting top cover plate, a first terminal, a conducting connector, a second terminal, a bare cell, a fuse, and a conducting deformable piece. The first current collection connector and the second current collection connector are disposed on the top of the plurality of battery cells, and are electrically connected to the first terminal and the second terminal of the plurality of battery cells, respectively. When the conducting deformable piece of a battery cell deforms and becomes electrically connected to the conducting connector, the electrical connection between said battery cell and other battery cells is broken by blowing the first current collection connector and/or the second current collection connector.
US10193110B2
An electrochemical device, such as a microbattery or an electrochromic system, including at least one stack of active layers containing lithium, said stack being arranged on a substrate and being covered by an encapsulation layer. The encapsulation layer includes at least: a barrier film presenting at least one electrically insulating surface and including at least one layer hermetic to oxidising species, said adhesive film including a juxtaposition of electrically conducting adhesive strips and of electrically insulating adhesive strips, and an adhesive film, provided with a first surface and a second surface, the first surface being in contact with the electrically insulating surface of the barrier film and the second surface covering the stack of active layers and a part of the substrate.
US10193101B2
An electronic device includes: a flexible substrate, a device portion supported on the flexible substrate, and a driver circuit portion; and a flexible tube having a water vapor transmission rate of less than 10−3 g/(m2·24 h) and an oxygen transmission rate of less than 10−2 ml/(m2·24 h·MPa), wherein: the flexible tube forms a first seal structure and a second seal structure at both ends thereof, and has a sealed space therein; a part of the flexible substrate and the device portion are inside the sealed space; and a rest of the flexible substrate, other than the part, is outside the sealed space.
US10193096B2
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) array substrate and a display apparatus are disclosed. The OLED array substrate includes a plurality of OLEDs. The OLED includes an anode, a light-emitting layer and a cathode which are provided in this order, and further includes an exciton barrier layer which is arranged between the anode and the light-emitting layer and is in contact with the light-emitting layer. A forming material of the light-emitting layer includes a host material and a guest material which is doped in the host material, and the light-emitting layers of the OLEDs are configured for emitting light of a plurality of colors. A forming material of the exciton barrier layer includes a host material of one light-emitting layer that has a maximum highest occupied molecular orbital energy level amongst the host materials of all light-emitting layers.
US10193094B2
The present application relates to an organic electroluminescent device (OLED) which has an emitting layer comprising a compound having a small difference between the energies of the S1 and T1 states, and in which certain conditions apply to the HOMO and LUMO energy levels of the emitting layer and the layers between the anode and the emitting layer.
US10193090B2
In a method of manufacturing a gate-all-around field effect transistor, a trench is formed over a substrate. Nano-tube structures are arranged into the trench, each of which includes a carbon nanotube (CNT) having a gate dielectric layer wrapping around the CNT and a gate electrode layer over the gate dielectric layer. An anchor layer is formed in the trench. A part of the anchor layer is removed at a source/drain (S/D) region. The gate electrode layer and the gate dielectric layer are removed at the S/D region, thereby exposing a part of the CNT at the S/D region. An S/D electrode layer is formed on the exposed part of the CNT. A part of the anchor layer is removed at a gate region, thereby exposing a part of the gate electrode layer of the gate structure. A gate contact layer is formed on the exposed part of the gate electrode layer.
US10193088B2
Provided are perovskite nanocrystalline particle and an optoelectronic device using the same. The perovskite nanocrystalline particle may include a perovskite nanocrystalline structure while being dispersible in an organic solvent. Accordingly, the perovskite nanocrystalline particle in accordance with the present invention has therein a perovskite nanocrystal having a crystalline structure in which FCC and BCC are combined; can form a lamellar structure in which an organic (or A site) plane and an inorganic plane are alternately stacked; and can show high color purity since excitons are confined to the inorganic plane.
US10193083B2
The present invention provides a series of spirally configured cis-stilbene/fluorene hybrid compounds and an optoelectronic device comprising the same. The compound comprises a seven-membered ring portion. The seven-membered ring portion is composed of a cis-stilbene fragment, and a tetrahedral coordination bridging atom fragment, wherein the cis-stilbene fragment has at least one substituent, the substituent is independently a substituted or unsubstituted triazine group, pyrimidine group or phenyl group. The compounds have glass transition temperatures ranged from 156° C. to 202° C., decomposition temperatures ranged from 419° C. to 509° C., reversible electron transport property, and balanced charges motilities. In addition, a variety of experimental data have proved that these spirally configured cis-stilbene/fluorene hybrid materials can indeed be used as a hole-blocking type electron-transporter for phosphorescent OLEDs.
US10193066B2
A method may include generating a plasma in a plasma chamber, the plasma comprising an etchant species and extracting a pulsed ion beam from the plasma chamber and directing the pulsed ion beam to a substrate, where the pulsed ion beam comprises an ON portion and an OFF portion. During the OFF portion the substrate may not be biased with respect to the plasma chamber, and the duration of the OFF portion may be less than a transit time of the etchant species from the plasma chamber to the substrate.
US10193061B2
A spin-orbit torque magnetization rotational element includes: a ferromagnetic metal layer, a magnetization direction of which is configured to be changed; a spin-orbit torque wiring bonded to the ferromagnetic metal layer; and an interfacial distortion supply layer bonded to a surface of the spin-orbit torque wiring on a side opposite to the ferromagnetic metal layer.
US10193043B2
A light-emitting device is disclosed that includes a semiconductor structure having an active region disposed between an n-type layer and a p-type layer; a wavelength converter formed above the semiconductor structure; an insulating side coating formed around the semiconductor structure; and a reflective side coating formed around the wavelength converter above the insulating side coating, the reflective side coating having a top surface that is flush with a top surface of the wavelength converter.
US10193036B2
A light emitting device includes a semiconductor light emitting element; and a light reflective member having a multilayer structure and covering the side faces of the semiconductor light emitting element. The light reflective member includes: a first layer disposed on an inner, semiconductor light emitting element side, the first layer comprising a light-transmissive resin containing a light reflective substance, and a second layer disposed in contact with an outer side of the first layer, the second layer comprising a light-transmissive resin containing the light reflective substance at a lower content than that of the first layer.
US10193030B2
A lighting apparatus includes an LED light source radiationally coupled to a composite material including a phosphor of formula I and a thermally conductive material dispersed in at least a portion of a binder material. The thermally conductive material includes a material selected from the group consisting of indium oxide, tin oxide, indium tin oxide, calcium oxide, barium oxide, strontium oxide, aluminum hydroxide, magnesium hydroxide, calcium hydroxide, barium hydroxide, strontium hydroxide, zinc hydroxide, aluminum phosphate, magnesium phosphate, calcium phosphate, barium phosphate, strontium phosphate, diamond, graphene, polyethylene nanofibers, carbon nanotubes, silver metal nanoparticles, copper metal nanoparticles, gold metal nanoparticles, aluminum metal nanoparticles, boron nitride, silicon nitride, an alkali metal halide, calcium fluoride, magnesium fluoride, a compound of formula II, and combinations thereof.
US10193021B2
A light-emitting layer includes: a base layer with a plurality of base segments that have a composition subject to stress strain from a first semiconductor layer and are formed in a random net shape; and a quantum well structure layer including at least one quantum well layer and at least one barrier layer that are formed on the base layer. The base layer includes: a first sub-base layer; a trench that partitions the first sub-base layer for each of the plurality of base segments; and a second sub-base layer formed to bury the first sub-base layer.
US10193019B2
A light emitting diode chip including a substrate and a light emitting diode element layer is provided. The substrate has a growth surface and a plurality of microstructures on the growth surface. An area of the growth surface occupied by the microstructures is A1 and an area of the growth surface not occupied by the micro-structures is A2, such that A1 and A2 satisfy the relation of 0.1≤A2/(A1+A2)≤0.5. The light emitting diode element layer is disposed on the growth surface of the substrate.
US10193003B2
A solar cell unit comprises a cell. The cell includes a cell substrate and a plurality of secondary grid lines disposed on a front surface of the cell substrate. The secondary grid lines comprises an edge secondary grid line adjacent to an edge of the cell substrate and a middle secondary grid line disposed inside of the edge secondary grid line. The secondary grid line comprises a welding portion. At least one welding portion of the edge secondary grid line has a projection area in the cell substrate larger than a welding portion of the middle secondary grid line. The solar cell unit also comprises a plurality of conductive wires spaced apart from each other and welded with the secondary grid lines in the welding portion.
US10193002B2
A metal oxide semiconductor varactor includes an active area doped well that is disposed within a semiconductor substrate and a gate structure including a first portion that extends over the active area doped well and a second portion that extends over the semiconductor substrate outside of the active area doped well. The varactor further includes at least one active area contact structure formed in physical and electrical connection with the active area doped well, in a three-sided contact-landing area of the active area doped well. Still further, the varactor includes a gate contact structure that is formed in physical and electrical contact with the gate structure in the second portion of the gate structure such that the gate contact structure overlies the semiconductor substrate outside of the active area doped well.
US10192993B2
The present disclosure provides a TFT, a manufacturing method thereof, an array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof. The TFT includes a substrate, a p-Si active layer arranged on the substrate, and a first a-Si layer arranged on a surface of the p-Si active layer at a side adjacent to the substrate. An orthogonal projection of the p-Si active layer onto the substrate at least partially overlaps an orthogonal projection of the first a-Si layer onto the substrate.
US10192978B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes: a p-type base layer provided on a top surface side of an n-type drift layer; an n-type emitter layer provided on a top surface side of the p-type base layer; a first control electrode having a trench gate electrode embedded so as to reach from a surface layer of the n-type emitter layer to the n-type drift layer; a second control electrode having a trench gate electrode embedded so as to reach from the p-type base layer to the n-type drift layer; a p-type collector layer provided on a bottom surface side of the n-type drift layer; and a diode whose anode side and cathode side are connected to the first control electrode and the second control electrodes, respectively. It is possible to improve the controllability of dV/dt by a gate resistor.
US10192971B2
A top-gated graphene field effect transistor can be fabricated by forming a layer of graphene on a substrate, and applying an electrochemical deposition process to deposit a layer of dielectric polymer on the graphene layer. An electric potential between the graphene layer and a reference electrode is cycled between a lower potential and a higher potential. A top gate is formed above the polymer.
US10192968B2
Provided are a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the same. The semiconductor device includes an active fin protruding upwardly from a substrate and extending in a first direction and a gate structure extending in a second direction intersecting to cross the active fin, where a first width of a lower portion of the gate structure that contacts the active fin is greater than a second width of the lower portion of the gate structure that is spaced apart from the active fin.
US10192965B2
A semiconductor substrate (1) includes a region (AR3) between a region (AR1) and a region (AR2), a control gate electrode (CG) is formed on an upper surface (TS1) of the region (AR1), and a memory gate electrode (MG) is formed on an upper surface (TS2) of the region (AR2). The upper surface (TS2) is lower than the upper surface (TS1), and the region (AR3) has a connection surface (TS3) connecting the upper surface (TS1) and the upper surface (TS2). An end (EP1) of the connection surface (TS3) which is on the upper surface (TS2) side is arranged closer to the memory gate electrode (MG) than an end (EP2) of the connection surface (TS3) which is on the upper surface (TS1) side, and is arranged lower than the end (EP2).
US10192963B2
The present invention discloses a composite gate dielectric layer for a Group III-V substrate and a method for manufacturing the same. The composite gate dielectric layer comprises: an AlxY2-xO3 interface passivation layer formed on the group III-V substrate; and a high dielectric insulating layer formed on the AlxY2-xO3 interface passivation layer, wherein 1.2≤x≤1.9. The composite gate dielectric layer modifies the Al/Y ratio of the AlxY2-xO3 interface passivation layer, changes the average number of atomic coordination in the AlxY2-xO3 interface passivation layer, and decreases the interface state density and boundary trap density of the Group III-V substrate, increases the mobility of the MOS channel. By cooperation of the AlxY2-xO3 interface passivation layer and high dielectric insulation layer, it reduces leakage current and improves tolerance of the dielectric layer on the voltage, and improves the quality of the MOS capacitor of the Group III-V substrate and enhances its reliability.
US10192957B2
a thin-film transistor according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises an active layer; an intermediate layer; a gate insulating film; a gate electrode; an interlayer insulating film; and source and drain electrodes. The active layer is positioned on a substrate, and the gate insulating film is positioned on the active layer. The gate electrode is positioned on the gate insulating film, and the interlayer insulating film is positioned on the gate electrode. The source and drain electrodes are positioned on the interlayer insulating film and connected to the active layer. The intermediate layer is positioned between the active layer and the gate insulating film, and made of an oxide semiconductor comprising a Group IV element.
US10192951B2
An inductor element is formed in a multiple layer lead structure including a lead, an insulative layer that insulates leads above and below, and a via provided in the insulative layer and connecting leads above and below wherein lead layers are multiply laminated layers, characterized in that: at least a portion of at least a pair of vertically adjacent leads are coiled leads; the coiled leads are connected in series, wherein current directions of vertically adjacent coiled leads are the same by a via provided on an end portion thereof, and form a serial inductance; and an inter-lead capacitance of the vertically adjacent coiled leads is larger than an inter-lead capacitance between other coiled leads formed in the same lead layer.
US10192946B2
The present invention provides a light-emitting device comprising a first light-emitting element that emits red light, a second light-emitting element that emits green light, a third light-emitting element that emits blue light, and a color filter, where the color filter comprises a first coloring layer that selectively transmits red light, a second coloring layer that selectively transmits green light, and a third coloring layer that selectively transmits blue light, the first to third light-emitting elements respectively correspond to the first to third coloring layers, wherein each of the first to third light-emitting elements has a first electrode, an electroluminescent layer on the first electrode, and a second electrode on the electroluminescent layer, and wherein the electroluminescent layer includes a layer in contact with the second electrode, and a metal oxide or a benzoxazole derivative is included in the layer in contact with the second electrode.
US10192940B2
The present application discloses a double sided organic light-emitting display apparatus, including: a rigid substrate; a transmission flexible substrate and a reflective flexible substrate formed on the rigid substrate; a display substrate having a plurality of switching elements formed on the transmission flexible substrate and the reflective flexible substrate; and a top-emission OLED light-emitting layer and a bottom-emission OLED light-emitting layer formed on the display substrate, wherein the top-emission OLED light-emitting layer is corresponding to the reflective flexible substrate and the bottom-emission OLED light-emitting layer is corresponding to the transmission flexible substrate. The present application also provides a method of manufacturing the OLED display apparatus. The OLED display apparatus can achieve the double sided display, and because of its use of the flexible substrate, it also has the advantage of ease of carrying and flexible property.
US10192931B2
A complementary thin film transistor and manufacturing method thereof are provided. The complementary thin film transistor has a substrate, an n-type semiconductor layer, a p-type semiconductor layer, and an etched barrier layer. The substrate defines an n-type transistor region and a p-type transistor region adjacent to the n-type transistor region. The n-type semiconductor layer is disposed on the substrate and within the n-type transistor region, and has a metal oxide material. The p-type semiconductor layer is disposed on the substrate and within the p-type transistor region, and has an organic semiconductor material. The etched barrier layer is formed on the n-type semiconductor layer and disposed within the n-type transistor region and the p-type transistor region, and the p-type semiconductor layer is formed on the etched barrier layer.
US10192930B2
A metal oxide semiconductor carbon nanotube thin film transistor circuit includes a p-type carbon nanotube thin film transistor and an n-type carbon nanotube thin film transistor stacked on one another. The p-type carbon nanotube thin film transistor includes a first semiconductor carbon nanotube layer, a first drain electrode, a first source electrode, a functional dielectric layer, and a first gate electrode. The n-type carbon nanotube thin film transistor includes a second semiconductor carbon nanotube layer, a second drain electrode, a second source electrode, a first insulating layer, and a second gate electrode. The first drain electrode and the second drain electrode are electrically connected with each other. The first gate electrode and the second gate electrode are electrically connected with each other.
US10192928B2
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes: a stacked body including a plurality of first conductive films stacked via an inter-layer insulating film; a first conductive body contacting the stacked body to extend in a stacking direction; and a plurality of first insulating films in the same layers as the first conductive films and disposed between the first conductive body and the first conductive films, the first conductive body including a projecting part that projects along tops of one of the first insulating films and one of the first conductive films, and a side surface of the projecting part contacting an upper surface of the one of the first conductive films.
US10192927B1
A method for forming a resistive switching device. The method includes providing a substrate having a surface region and forming a first dielectric material overlying the surface region. A first wiring structure is formed overlying the first dielectric material. The method forms one or more first structure comprising a junction material overlying the first wiring structure. A second structure comprising a stack of material is formed overlying the first structure. The second structure includes a resistive switching material, an active conductive material overlying the resistive switching material, and a second wiring material overlying the active conductive material. The second structure is configured such that the resistive switching material is free from a coincident vertical sidewall region with the junction material.
US10192921B2
A solid state imaging device having a light sensing section that performs photoelectric conversion of incident light includes: an insulating layer formed on a light receiving surface of the light sensing section; a layer having negative electric charges formed on the insulating layer; and a hole accumulation layer formed on the light receiving surface of the light sensing section.
US10192918B2
An image sensor includes a substrate having a pixel region and a periphery region. The image sensor further includes a first isolation structure formed in the pixel region; the first isolation structure including a first trench having a first depth. The image sensor further includes a second isolation structure formed in the periphery region; the second isolation structure including a second trench having a second depth. The second depth is greater than the first depth.
US10192916B2
Methods of fabricating solid-state imaging devices having a flat microlens array are provided. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate having a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. A color filter layer is formed above the semiconductor substrate. A lens material layer is formed on the color filter layer. A hard mask having a lens-shaped pattern is formed on the lens material layer. The method further includes etching both the hard mask and the lens material layer to form a microlens with a flat top surface that is formed from the lens material layer, and to leave a portion of the hard mask on the flat top surface of the microlens. The method also includes removing the portion of the hard mask that remains on the microlens.
US10192914B2
A camera module and array camera module with circuit board unit and photosensitive unit and manufacturing method thereof is provided. The array camera module comprises two or more camera lenses and a circuit unit. The circuit unit comprises a circuit board portion for electrically connecting two or more photosensitive sensors of the array camera module, and a conjoined encapsulation portion integrally encapsulated on the circuit board portion. The camera lenses are respectively arranged along the photosensitive paths of the photosensitive sensors.
US10192912B2
The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device, a manufacturing method of a solid-state imaging device, and an electronic device, in which degradation of transfer characteristics of a photo diode can be suppressed. A floating diffusion is formed to reach the same depth as a layer of a photo diode formed on a silicon substrate, and a transfer transistor gate is formed therebetween. A channel that is opened/closed by control of the transfer transistor gate is formed in the silicon substrate formed with the photo diode. With this configuration, charge accumulated in the photo diode can be transferred to the floating diffusion in a vertical direction relative to the depth direction, and degradation of transfer characteristics caused by elimination of the transfer channel can be suppressed by setting the transfer channel in the depth direction. The present technology can be applied to a solid-state imaging device.
US10192906B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a touch display substrate and manufacturing method thereof. The method includes forming a touch signal line on a base substrate through patterning process; depositing a photoresist layer, and forming a first thickness photoresist layer, a second thickness photoresist layer and a photoresist layer opening area through patterning process, the touch signal line being located in the photoresist layer opening area; depositing a first insulating layer on the photoresist layer, the first insulating layer comprising a first area and a second area, wherein the first area is located on the first thickness photoresist layer, the second area is located on the second thickness photoresist layer and the photoresist layer opening area, the first area and the second area of the first insulating layer are disconnected; removing the photoresist layer and the first insulating layer located on the photoresist layer; and depositing a second insulating layer.
US10192905B2
The present disclosure relates to a manufacturing method of array substrates, wherein a second masking process forming an active layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode further includes: forming a semiconductor thin-film layer, N+ doping thin-film layer, a metal thin-film layer, and a photo-resistor layer on a gate insulation layer in sequence; applying a gray-tone-mask process to expose and develop the photo-resistor layer to obtain a first photo-resistor mask; applying a first wet etching process and a first dry etching process to etch the metal thin-film layer, the semiconductor thin-film layer, and the N+ doping thin-film layer; applying a plasma ashing process to the first photo-resistor mask to obtain a second photo-resistor mask; applying a second wet etching process to etch the metal thin-film layer; and peeling off the second photo-resistor mask, applying a second dry etching process to etch the N+ doping thin-film layer. The present disclosure also relates to the array substrate formed by the above manufacturing method and the display device having the array substrate.
US10192902B2
A method for manufacturing a LTPS array substrate includes: forming a source electrode and a drain electrode on a substrate, forming a poly-silicon layer in a first region and a second region of the substrate including the source electrode and the drain electrode, such that the poly-silicon layer of the first region has a thickness greater than that of the second region and the poly-silicon layer of the first region partially covers the source electrode and the drain electrode; passivating a surface of the poly-silicon layer in order to turn a part of the poly-silicon layer of the second region and the first region that is adjacent to the surface into an insulating layer; and forming a gate electrode on the insulating layer between the source electrode and the drain electrode. The LTPS technical process is simple and can reduce the producing costs.
US10192897B2
An array substrate includes a substrate, a first TFT, a second TFT, and a third TFT. The first TFT includes a first channel layer on the substrate, a first gate insulator layer, a first gate electrode, a first dielectric layer, and a second dielectric layer. The second TFT includes a first semiconductor layer on the substrate, a second gate insulator layer, a second gate electrode, a third dielectric layer, and a second channel layer. The first channel layer is made of a semiconducting material containing polycrystalline silicon. The second channel layer is made of a semiconducting material containing metal oxide. The first dielectric layer is made of silicon nitride; the second dielectric layer and the third dielectric layer are made of silicon oxide.
US10192894B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a thin film transistor and a method of manufacturing the same, an array substrate and a display panel. The thin film transistor comprises, successively from the bottom up, a gate, a first common electrode located in the same layer as the gate, a gate insulating layer, an active layer, a pixel electrode, a source-drain electrode layer and a passivation layer located above the layer where the gate is located, and a second common electrode located on the passivation layer, and the thin film transistor further comprises at least one connection electrode located in a same layer as the pixel electrode, wherein at least two via holes are provided between the first common electrode and the second common electrode so as to connect the first common electrode and the second common electrode through the connection electrode.
US10192887B2
The migration of dislocations into pristine single crystal material during crystal growth of an adjacent conductive strap is inhibited by a conductive barrier formed at the interface between the layers. The conductive barrier may be formed by implanting carbon impurities or depositing Si:C layer that inhibits dislocation movement across the barrier layer, or by forming a passivation layer by annealing in vacuum prior to deposition of amorphous Si to prevent polycrystalline nucleation at the surface of single crystalline Si, or by implanting nucleation promoting species to enhance the nucleation of polycrystalline Si away from single crystalline Si.
US10192884B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for an improved body tie construction are described. The improved body tie construction is configured to have a lower resistance body tie exists when the transistor is “off” (Vg approximately 0 volts). When the transistor is “on” (Vg>Vt), the resistance to the body tie is much higher, reducing the loss of performance associated with presence of body tie. Space efficient Body tie constructions adapted for cascode configurations are also described.
US10192883B2
A memory device may include a peripheral region and a cell region. The peripheral region may include a first substrate, a plurality of circuit elements disposed on the first substrate, a first insulating layer disposed on the plurality of circuit elements, and a first protective layer disposed in the first insulating layer. The cell region may include a second substrate disposed on the first insulating layer, wherein the ceil region includes a first impurity region, a channel region extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to an upper surface of the second substrate, a plurality of gate electrode layers stacked on the second substrate and adjacent to the channel region, and a first contact electrically connected to the first impurity region, wherein the first protective layer is disposed below the first impurity region, and has a shape corresponding to a shape of the first impurity region.
US10192879B2
An improvement is achieved in the performance of a semiconductor device having a nonvolatile memory. A memory cell of the nonvolatile memory includes a control gate electrode formed over a semiconductor substrate via a first insulating film and a memory gate electrode formed over the semiconductor substrate via a second insulating film to be adjacent to the control gate electrode via the second insulating film. The second insulating film includes a third insulating film made of a silicon dioxide film, a fourth insulating film made of a silicon nitride film over the third insulating film, and a fifth insulating film over the fourth insulating film. The fifth insulating film includes a silicon oxynitride film. Between the memory gate electrode and the semiconductor substrate, respective end portions of the fourth and fifth insulating films are located closer to a side surface of the memory gate electrode than an end portion of a lower surface of the memory gate electrode. Between the memory gate electrode and the semiconductor substrate, in a region where the second insulating film is not formed, another silicon dioxide film is embedded.
US10192878B1
Sacrificial memory opening fill structures are formed through an alternating stack of insulating layers and sacrificial material layers. A drain select level isolation trench extending through drain select level sacrificial material layers is formed employing a combination of a photoresist layer including a linear opening and a pair of rows of sacrificial memory opening fill structures as an etch mask. Sacrificial spacers are formed on sidewalls of the drain select level isolation trench. A drain select level isolation dielectric structure is formed in a remaining volume of the drain select level isolation trench. The sacrificial memory opening fill structures are replaced with memory stack structures. The sacrificial material layers and the sacrificial spacers are replaced with a conductive material to form electrically conductive layers and conductive connector spacers. The drain select level isolation dielectric structure is self-aligned to the memory stack structures and divides drain select level electrically conductive layers.
US10192872B2
A semiconductor memory cell includes a floating body region configured to be charged to a level indicative of a state of the memory cell selected from at least first and second states. A first region of the memory cell is in electrical contact with the floating body region. A second region of the memory cell is spaced apart from the first region and is also in electrical contact with the floating body region. A gate is positioned between the first and second regions. A back-bias region is configured to generate impact ionization when the memory cell is in one of the first and second states, and the back-bias region is configured so as not to generate impact ionization when the memory cell is in the other of the first and second states.
US10192870B2
An HVNMOS having a source follower configuration is disposed in an n− diffusion region that forms an HVJT. The lateral HVNMOS includes a p-type back gate region, source contact region, n+drain region, and gate electrode. The p-type back gate region and source contact region contact a p− isolation region and are separated from p+ common potential regions inside the p− isolation region. The source contact region is electrically connected to the COM electrode pad through a source follower resistor RSF. The p+ common potential regions are electrically connected to the p-type back gate region and source contact region of the HVNMOS through diffusion resistors provided between the p-type back gate region/source contact region of the HVNMOS and the p+ common potential region.
US10192863B2
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit (FIG. 2A) for an integrated circuit is disclosed. The circuit is formed on a substrate (P-EPI) having a first conductivity type. A buried layer (NBL 240) having a second conductivity type is formed below a face of the substrate. A first terminal (206) and a second terminal (204) are formed at a face of the substrate. A first ESD protection device (232) has a first current path between the first terminal and the buried layer. A second ESD protection device (216) has a second current path in series with the first current path and between the second terminal and the buried layer.
US10192860B2
An engineering change order (ECO) base cell and an integrated circuit (IC) including the ECO base cell are provided. The IC includes a plurality of standard cells and at least one engineering change order (ECO) base cell. The ECO base cell has a layout that is generated based on a layout of a functional cell corresponding to a first circuit including a plurality of logic gates.
US10192854B2
Light emitter components and related methods are provided. In some aspects, light emitter components and related methods include a ceramic submount having a reflective surface. Light emitter components and related methods can include light emitter chips disposed over the reflective surface. Each light emitter chip can include a sapphire substrate, an epi area disposed over the sapphire substrate, and first and second electrical contacts disposed over the epi area. The first and second electrical contacts may face the reflective surface. A ratio between a combined epi area of the plurality of light emitter chips and a surface area of the reflective surface may be at least 0.4 or more, and a ratio between a combined planar surface area of the plurality of light emitter chips and a planar surface area of the reflective surface may be at least approximately 0.25 or more.
US10192853B2
The present disclosure provides a method for preparing a semiconductor apparatus. The semiconductor apparatus includes a first semiconductor die and a second semiconductor die stacked onto the first semiconductor die in a horizontally shifted manner. The first semiconductor die includes a first chip selection terminal and a first lower terminal electrically connected to the first chip selection terminal. The second semiconductor die includes a second chip selection terminal electrically connected to a first upper terminal of the first semiconductor die via a second lower terminal of the second semiconductor die. The first upper terminal which is electrically connected to the second chip selection terminal is not electrically connected to the first lower terminal which is electrically connected to the first chip selection terminal.
US10192849B2
A method of manufacturing semiconductor modules includes providing a metal composite substrate including a metal foil attached to a metal layer, the metal foil being thinner than and comprising a different material than the metal layer, attaching a first surface of a plurality of semiconductor dies to the metal foil prior to structuring the metal foil, and encasing the semiconductor dies attached to the metal foil in an electrically insulating material. The metal layer and the metal foil are structured after the semiconductor dies are encased with the electrically insulating material so that surface regions of the electrically insulating material are devoid of the metal foil and the metal layer. The electrically insulating material is divided along the surface regions devoid of the metal foil and the metal layer to form individual modules.
US10192837B1
A wafer-level chip-scale package (WLCSP) includes an integrated circuit (IC) chip, and die bonding pads with a redistribution layer (RDL) having multiple via structures located directly below the footprint of a solder ball placed on the bonding pad. The via structures electrically connect the solder ball to a top metal layer of the IC chip. The RDL may extend beyond the solder ball's footprint and have additional vias that connect to the top metal layer, including vias located under and connected to other solder balls. The bonding pads have a low R-on resistance and are not susceptible to thermal-induced cracking.
US10192832B2
An alignment mark structure including a substrate, an alignment mark and at least one dummy pattern is provided. The alignment mark is disposed on the substrate. The at least one dummy pattern is disposed on the substrate and located adjacent to the alignment mark, wherein a size of the at least one dummy pattern is smaller than a size of the alignment mark.
US10192829B2
Low-temperature techniques for doping of Cu interconnects based on interfacially-assisted thermal diffusion are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming doped copper interconnects includes the steps of: patterning at least one trench in a dielectric material; forming a barrier layer lining the trench; forming a metal liner on the barrier layer; depositing a seed layer on the metal liner; plating a Cu fill into the trench to form Cu interconnects; removing a portion of a Cu overburden to access an interface between the metal liner and the Cu fill; depositing a dopant layer; and diffusing a dopant(s) from the dopant layer along the interface to form a Cu interconnect doping layer between the metal liner and the Cu fill. Alternatively, the overburden and the barrier layer/metal liner can be completely removed, and the dopant layer deposited selectively on the Cu fill. An interconnect structure is also provided.
US10192826B2
A layout structure including a conductive structure is provided. The layout structure includes a dielectric layer formed on a substrate and a conductive structure formed in the dielectric layer. And the conductive structure further includes a barrier layer, a metal layer formed within the barrier layer, and a high resistive layer sandwiched in between the barrier layer and the metal layer.
US10192823B2
In a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same a fuse structure may be formed during formation of first to third contact plugs connected to a transistor. The fuse structure may include first and second fuse contact plugs having the same height as the first and second contact plugs, and a connection pattern having the same height as the third contact plug. The connection pattern may be connected between the first and second fuse contact plugs.
US10192820B2
A first power supply terminal P is provided with an internal wiring connection portion 31A, an upright portion 31B which is joined to the internal wiring connection portion 31A, an inclined portion 31C which is joined to the upright portion 31B and an external wiring connection portion 31D which is joined to the inclined portion 31C. A second power supply terminal N is provided with an internal wiring connection portion 32A, an upright portion 32B which is joined to the internal wiring connection portion 32A, an inclined portion 32C which is joined to the upright portion 32B and an external wiring connection portion 32D which is joined to the inclined portion 32C. The upright portion 31B of the first power supply terminal P and the upright portion 32B of the second power supply terminal N are arranged so as to face each other, with a predetermined interval kept therebetween.
US10192818B2
An electronic part mounting heat-dissipating substrate which includes: a conductor plate which is formed on lead frames of wiring pattern shapes; and an insulating member which is provided between the lead frames of the wiring pattern shapes on the conductor plate; wherein a plate surface of a part arrangement surface of the conductor plate and a top surface of the insulating member at a side of the part arrangement surface form one continuous surface, wherein a plate surface of a back surface of the part arrangement surface of the conductor plate and a top surface of the insulating member at a side of the back surface at the part arrangement surface-side are formed in an identical plane, wherein the substrate is formed in a circular shape.
US10192815B2
A wiring board includes: a first insulating layer; a first wiring layer formed on a lower surface of the first insulating layer; a first through hole which penetrates the first insulating layer; a first via wiring including: a filling portion formed to fill the first through hole; and a protruding portion protruding upward from an upper surface of the first insulating layer; a second wiring layer including a land, wherein the land includes an outer circumferential portion and a central portion, a second insulating layer formed on the upper surface of the first insulating layer; a second through hole which penetrates the second insulating layer in the thickness direction; a second via wiring formed to fill the second through hole; and a third wiring layer formed on an upper surface of the second insulating layer.
US10192812B2
A semiconductor chip, a display device or an electronic device includes a substrate, one or more conductive pads disposed on the substrate, and one or more bumps electrically connected to the one or more conductive pads, in which the one or more bumps includes a metal core, a polymer layer disposed over a surface of the metal core, and a conductive coating layer disposed over a surface of the polymer layer and electrically connected to the one or more conductive pads.
US10192809B2
There are provided a semiconductor array and a method for producing a micro device, in which the semiconductor laminate used in the micro device can be readily separated from the substrate. The semiconductor array includes a substrate, a bridging portion bridged to the substrate, a plurality of semiconductor laminates arranged on the bridging portion, and first voids defined by the substrate and the bridging portion. The bridging portion has a plurality of through holes formed at least one of the leg portion and the top portion. The first void communicates with the outside of the semiconductor array via the through holes. Each of the semiconductor laminates is in direct contact with each of the top portions.
US10192804B2
A device comprises a first package component, and a first metal trace and a second metal trace on a top surface of the first package component. The device further includes a dielectric mask layer covering the top surface of the first package component, the first metal trace and the second metal trace, wherein the dielectric mask layer has an opening therein exposing the first metal trace. The device also includes a second package component and an interconnect formed on the second package component, the interconnect having a metal bump and a solder bump formed on the metal bump, wherein the solder bump contacts the first metal trace in the opening of the dielectric mask layer.
US10192802B2
Thin film based fan out wafer level packaging and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. Embodiments include a method including forming tapered via holes in a first surface of a polymer film; forming a conductive pillar on the first surface of a semiconductor device; bonding a solderable surface of the conductive copper pillars to metallization on the second side of the polymer film; bonding the semiconductor device to the first surface of the polymer film over the conductive pillars with an underfill material; and depositing an encapsulant material over the semiconductor device and polymer film.
US10192801B2
A semiconductor device is made with a conductive via formed through a top-side of the substrate. The conductive via extends vertically through less than a thickness of the substrate. An integrated passive device (IPD) is formed over the substrate. A plurality of first conductive pillars is formed over the first IPD. A first semiconductor die is mounted over the substrate. An encapsulant is formed around the first conductive pillars and first semiconductor die. A second IPD is formed over the encapsulant. An interconnect structure is formed over the second IPD. The interconnect structure operates as a heat sink. A portion of a back-side of the substrate is removed to expose the first conductive via. A second semiconductor die is mounted to the back-side of the substrate. The second semiconductor die is electrically connected to the first IPD and first semiconductor die through the conductive via.
US10192800B2
A semiconductor device comprises two electrodes with opposite faces; a semiconductor wafer sandwiched between the two electrodes; an outer insulating ring attached to the two electrodes and surrounding the semiconductor wafer; a middle insulating ring inside the outer insulating ring and surrounding the semiconductor wafer, whereby the middle insulating ring is made of a plastics material; and an inner insulating ring inside the middle insulating ring, whereby the inner insulating ring is made of ceramics and/or glass material. Either the middle insulating ring or the inner insulating ring has a tongue and the other thereof has a groove such that the tongue fits into the groove for their rotational alignment. The middle insulating ring and the inner insulating ring have a radial opening for receiving a gate connection of the semiconductor device.
US10192797B2
A purpose of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device that can restrain occurrence of partial discharge in evaluation of electric characteristics and can carry out failure analysis from the upper side of a measurement object. A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes: at least one electrode; a protective layer having at least one opening part provided such that a portion of the electrode is exposed at the opening part, and being formed to cover the other portion of the electrode excluding the portion of the electrode exposed at the opening part, the protective layer being insulative; and a conductive layer formed so as to cover the protective layer and the opening part and be directly connected to the electrode at the opening part.
US10192794B2
An embodiment comprises: a guide moving in the vertical direction or the horizontal direction; a transfer arm provided on the guide and loading spaced apart wafers; a laser emission unit disposed on the guide and emitting first laser beams at the spaced apart wafers loaded on the transfer arm; and a laser detection unit disposed below the transfer arm and collecting, from among the first laser beams, second laser beams having passed through gaps between the spaced apart wafers.
US10192791B1
A method of forming a robust low-k sidewall spacer by exposing an upper portion of the spacer to a thermal and plasma treatment prior to downstream processes and resulting device are provided. Embodiments include providing a pair of gates separated by a canyon trench over a substrate, an EPI layer in a bottom of the canyon trench, respectively, and a low-k spacer on each opposing sidewall of the pair; forming a masking layer in a bottom portion of the canyon trench, an upper portion of the low-k spacers exposed; and treating the upper portion of the low-k spacers with a thermal and plasma treatment.
US10192790B2
A method for fabricating an SRAM device includes providing a base substrate including a pull up transistor (PUT) region and a pull down transistor (PDT) region, forming a gate dielectric layer, forming a first work function (WF) layer using a P-type WF material, removing the first WF layer formed in the PDT region, forming a second WF layer using a P-type WF material on the first WF layer in the PUT region and on the gate dielectric layer in the PDT region, removing the second WF layer formed in the PDT region, forming a third WF layer using an N-type WF material on the top and the sidewall surfaces of the second WF layer in the PUT region, the sidewall surface of the first WF layer in the PUT region, and the gate dielectric layer in the PDT region, and forming a gate electrode layer on the third WF layer.
US10192788B1
A device having two transistors with dual thresholds, and a method of fabricating the device, including fabricating a silicide source, a conductive layer, and contacts to a plurality of layers of the device, is provided. The device has a core and a plurality of layers that surround the core in succession, including a first layer, a second layer, a third layer, and a fourth layer. The device further comprises a first input terminal coupled to the core, the first input terminal being configured to receive a first voltage and a second input terminal coupled to the fourth layer, the second input terminal being configured to receive a second voltage. The device comprises a common source terminal coupled to the core and the fourth layer. A memory device, such as an MTJ, may be coupled to the device.
US10192781B2
A dual damascene article of manufacture comprises a trench containing a conductive metal column where the trench and the conductive metal column extend down into and are contiguous with a via. The trench and the conductive metal column and the via have a common axis. These articles comprise interconnect structures incorporating air-gap spacers containing metal/insulator structures for Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) and Ultra Large Scale Integrated (ULSI) devices and packaging. The trench in this regard comprises a sidewall air-gap immediately adjacent the side walls of the trench and the conductive metal column, the sidewall air-gap extending down to the via to a depth below a line fixed by the bottom of the trench, and continues downward in the via for a distance of from about 1 Angstrom below the line to the full depth of the via. In another aspect, the article of manufacture comprises a capped dual damascene structure.
US10192780B1
Methods of self-aligned double patterning and improved interconnect structures formed by self-aligned double patterning. A mandrel line including an upper layer and a lower layer is formed over a hardmask. A non-mandrel cut block is formed over a portion of a non-mandrel line, after which the upper layer of the mandrel line is removed. An etch mask is formed over a first section of the lower layer of the mandrel line defining a mandrel cut block over a first portion of the hardmask. The first section of the lower layer is arranged between adjacent second sections of the lower layer. The second sections of the lower layer of the mandrel line are removed to expose respective second portions of the hardmask, and the second portions of the hardmask are removed to form a trench. The mandrel cut block masks the first portion of the hardmask during the etching process.
US10192771B2
A substrate holding/rotating device includes an urging unit, urging support portions of movable pins to either an open position or a hold position, first and second driving magnets, mounted in correspondence to respective movable pins of respective first and second movable pin groups and having mutually opposite magnetic pole directions, a first moving magnet, for urging the support portions of the first movable pin group to the other of either the open position or the hold position, and a second moving magnet, for urging the support portions of the second movable pin group to the other of either the open position or the hold position.
US10192754B2
A method for producing an epitaxial silicon wafer, including a preliminary thermal treatment step of subjecting a silicon wafer to thermal treatment for increasing a density of oxygen precipitates, the silicon wafer being one that has an oxygen concentration in a range of 9×1017 atoms/cm3 to 16×1017 atoms/cm3, contains no dislocation cluster and no COP, and contains an oxygen precipitation suppression region, and an epitaxial layer forming step of forming an epitaxial layer on a surface of the silicon wafer after the preliminary thermal treatment step. The production method further includes a thermal treatment condition determining step of determining a thermal treatment condition in the preliminary thermal treatment step, based on a ratio of the oxygen precipitation suppression region of the silicon wafer before the preliminary thermal treatment step is carried out.
US10192749B2
According to the present invention, a dry-etching method for performing plasma etching in a vertical profile while maintaining selectivity relative to a mask, includes: a first process of etching a film to be etched with use of reactive gas to cause an etching profile of the film to be etched to be formed in a footing profile; and a second process of, after the first process, causing the footing profile to be formed in a vertical profile by means of sputtering etching.
US10192732B2
A chemical solution cleaning process for removing backside contamination prior to metallization involves selective chemistries of a mixture containing NH4OH and H2O2 that may be diluted to specific concentrations depending upon the topside metal and passivation of a semiconductor wafer, which is applied after removing a topside protection material to protect the topside circuitry.
US10192723B2
One aspect of the disclosure provides a method of mass spectrometric analysis that includes producing either glow discharge within a noble gas between 3-100 mBar pressure, sampling and conditioning glow discharge products within a gas flow through a conductive channel, removing charged particles while transferring excited Ridberg atoms, and mixing conditioned discharge products with analyte flow within an enclosed chamber at elevated temperatures above 150° Celsius for producing a Penning reaction between analyte molecules and Ridberg atoms. The method further includes sampling, by a gas flow, said analyte ions for mass spectrometric analysis, and at least one of the following steps: (i) removing charge within said conditioning channel; (ii) coaxially mixing of analyte flow with the flow of conditioned plasma; and (iii) cooling of the mixed flow within a sonic or supersonic jet for reducing the region of Penning ionization to cold jet.
US10192717B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to methods for conditioning an interior wall surface of a remote plasma generator. In one embodiment, a method for processing a substrate is provided. The method includes exposing an interior wall surface of a remote plasma source to a conditioning gas that is in excited state to passivate the interior wall surface of the remote plasma source, wherein the remote plasma source is coupled through a conduit to a processing chamber in which a substrate is disposed, and the conditioning gas comprises an oxygen-containing gas, a nitrogen-containing gas, or a combination thereof. The method has been observed to be able to improve dissociation/recombination rate and plasma coupling efficiency in the processing chamber, and therefore provides repeatable and stable plasma source performance from wafer to wafer.
US10192713B2
In a side entry type sample holder, vibrations in the radial direction of the sample holder provoke a resolving power decrease in the measurement results. In the present invention, the side entry type sample holder has a stepped portion in the radial direction of an axial portion. The sample stage has a support part contacting the stepped portion in a cylindrical portion capable of moving as one body in the axis direction of the sample holder, and, through the contact between the stepped portion and the support part, a frictional force is generated, opposing the radial direction of the axial portion in the sample holder. In this manner, the vibrations in the radial direction of the sample holder are suppressed, and the resolving power decrease in the measurement results is suppressed.
US10192709B2
The present invention provides a relativistic magnetron including an anode with an entrant channel, the channel having an input end, an output end and a dimensional discontinuity between the ends. The channel is connected to the magnetron and has an anode defining an interaction space located between the dimensional discontinuity and output end. Also provided is a cathode, located upstream, a spaced distance away from the interaction space towards the input end, the cathode is adapted to send an electron beam into the interaction space where the electron beam forms a virtual cathode in the interaction space.
US10192700B2
An air circuit breaker includes two separable electrical contacts connected to electric current input and output terminals; and a chamber for quenching an electric arc, including a stack of splitter plates that are spaced apart from one another, and lateral walls placed on either side of the stack and including a thermosetting-resin impregnated polyamide woven and being devoid of glass fibres. The quenching chamber furthermore includes protective elements made of crosslinked polyamide, the elements being placed in junction zones between the lateral walls and holding plates, the protective elements covering corners of the splitter plates, which corners are adjacent to the lateral walls, so as to separate these corners of the splitter plates from the electrical contacts.
US10192694B2
An interlocking control device for a multiple-unit safety circuit is provided, which includes: a protective grounding switch control branch which includes: a pantograph rising pneumatic circuit cut-off valve, a protective grounding switch turn-off pneumatic circuit cut-off valve and a protective grounding switch turn-off solenoid valve which are connected in series. When high-voltage equipment of a multiple-unit train is under maintenance or is powered by an external power supply, a protective grounding switch is turned on, cocks of the pantograph rising pneumatic circuit cut-off valve and the protective grounding switch turn-off pneumatic circuit cut-off valve are rotated to open a cover of a key box, the protective grounding switch control branch is disconnected, the protective grounding switch turn-off solenoid valve connected in series in the protective grounding switch control branch is powered off to maintain the protective grounding switch in an on state.
US10192690B2
A titanium oxide-based supercapacitor electrode material and a method of manufacturing same. A reactive substance of the titanium oxide-based supercapacitor electrode material is a conductive titanium oxide. The conductive titanium oxide is a sub-stoichiometric titanium oxide, reduced titanium dioxide, or doped reduced titanium dioxide obtained by further doping an element in reduced titanium dioxide. The titanium oxide-based supercapacitor electrode material has a carrier concentration greater than 1018 cm−3, and the titanium oxide-based supercapacitor electrode material has a specific capacitance 20 F/g to 1,740 F/g at a charge/discharge current of 1 A/g.
US10192685B2
A multilayer capacitor includes a capacitor body including a plurality of first and second internal electrodes alternately disposed therein and a dielectric layer interposed therebetween, and having first to sixth surfaces, opposing each other, respectively; a plurality of external electrodes connected to the first and second internal electrodes; an insulating layer disposed on the first surface; first and second terminal electrodes spaced apart from each other in a direction in which the third and fourth surfaces are connected, on the insulating layer; and a connecting member electrically connecting the first and second terminal electrodes and the external electrodes.
US10192681B2
A cryogenic coil assembly including a coil substrate with a flat surface, and a number of radial channels cut into a region of the flat surface. The cryogenic coil assembly also includes a spiral coil covering the radial channels, and a chemical bonding agent for bonding the spiral coil to the coil substrate. The chemical bonding agent is present within the radial channels.
US10192680B2
Provided is an electrically insulated component for use in a planar transformer. The insulated component may include a planar transformer conductive component having a first surface, a second surface and a plurality of edges. The insulated component may also include a first layer including an oxidized metal coating, as well as a second layer including an electrophoretically deposited (EPD) insulating coating. The EDP coating may include a polymer and an inorganic material. The first layer and the second layer may cover at least the first surface and the plurality of edges of the conductive component and the first layer may be disposed between the conductive component and the second layer. Also provided is a method of manufacturing of the electrically insulated component.
US10192679B2
A method of manufacturing a rare earth magnet includes: preparing a powder by preparing a rapidly-solidified ribbon by liquid solidification, and by crushing the rapidly-solidified ribbon; manufacturing a sintered compact by press-forming the powder; and manufacturing a rare earth magnet by performing hot deformation processing on the sintered compact to impart anisotropy to the sintered compact. In this method, the rapidly-solidified ribbon is a plurality of fine crystal grains. The powder includes a RE-Fe—B main phase and a grain boundary phase of a RE-X alloy present around the main phase. RE represents at least one of Nd and Pr. X represents a metal element. A nitrogen content in the powder is adjusted to be at least 1,000 ppm and less than 3,000 ppm by performing at least one of the preparation of the powder and the manufacturing of the sintered compact in a nitrogen atmosphere.
US10192676B2
A noise filter includes a plurality of inductor elements connected with one another in series. The inductor element includes a ring-shaped magnetic core, a winding wound around the magnetic core, and a ground terminal disposed between the magnetic core and the winding, the ground terminal being connected to a ground. The ground terminal includes a conductive part that surrounds at least a part of an outer periphery of the magnetic core.
US10192675B2
A pulse transformer includes a drum core having a winding core, two flanges on end portions of the winding core and each having a notch formed in the upper portion, two terminal electrodes and a center tap disposed on one of the flanges, two further terminal electrodes and another center tap disposed on the other flange, a coil includes four wires wound around the winding core of the drum core and connected to the terminal electrodes and the center taps, two of the wires are wound in one direction, and the other wires are wound in another direction, two of the wires cross each other at the inner surface of one of the flanges, and the other wires cross each other at the inner surface of the other flange.
US10192665B2
A magnetic mounting system is provided. The system includes a device having a magnetic attachment feature and a magnetic device mount. The magnetic device mount has a mating magnetic attachment feature. The magnetic attachment feature and mating magnetic attachment feature allow specific angular, radial, and/or longitudinal alignment of the device relative to the mount without a mechanical interface. An electronic device holder and charging system with integrated charging and data transfer interface and a self-aligning, magnetic coupling and docking interface with on-demand decoupling feature are also disclosed.
US10192655B2
A wire harness including a number of wires, an outer sheath layer, and an anisotropic fabric positioned between the wires and outer sheath is provided. The anisotropic fabric is formed from combining a number of more rigid, monofilament fill strands and a number of less rigid multifilament warp strands. The fill strands may be formed from a single filament of at least five hundred fifty (550) denier while the warp strands may be formed from a series of polyester threads of at least two hundred (200) denier. The anisotropic layer permits limited rotation of the inner wires relative to the outer sheath when exposed to friction and pressure and is not subjected to significant creep during use.
US10192654B2
Provided are a flat cable and a manufacturing method thereof, and particularly, a flat cable including: a pod including pipe type insertion portions formed to be separated from each other by a predetermined distance at both side ends thereof and a central insertion portion of which both ends are integrally connected to the both pipe type insertion portions; a pair of left and right support members inserted into the pipe insertion portions; and multiple electric cables inserted into the central insertion portion and the central insertion portion of the pod is partitioned into multiple spaces separated from each other and multiple electric cables 30 are horizontally disposed in the separated spaces in one layer to minimize mutual entangling or friction of the electric cables.
US10192653B2
An electric cable includes at least one electric wire, and a plurality of string-shaped bodies each extending in a longitudinal direction of the electric cable and twisting with one another around the at least one electric wire being a core. The plurality of string-shaped bodies has connection parts twisting with one another excluding the at least one electric wire. The connection parts are connected to a frame of an underwater robot.
US10192648B2
The invention relates to systems, apparatus and methods for the removal of cesium and other radionuclides from liquid waste contained in a high level waste tank. The invention includes transporting a stream of the liquid waste from the high level waste tank to one or more ion-exchange column assemblies to remove the cesium therefrom using a sorbent, such as, crystalline silico-titanate. The ion-exchange column assemblies include an ion-exchange column and an integrated shield. The column is concentrically positioned within the shield and an air gap is present between the column and the shield to provide passive cooling.
US10192641B2
A method of generating a dynamic pathway map (DPM) is provided. The method includes accessing a model database that stores a probabilistic pathway model that comprises a plurality of pathway elements, a first number of the plurality of pathway elements are cross-correlated and assigned an influence level for at least one pathway on the basis of known attributes, a second number of the plurality of pathway elements are cross-correlated and assigned an influence level for at least one pathway on the basis of assumed attributes. The method includes measuring a patient sample to identify measured attributes of the patient sample and using a plurality of the measured attributes of the patient sample, via an analysis engine, to modify the probabilistic pathway model to obtain the DPM, wherein the DPM has reference pathway activity information for a particular pathway, the reference pathway indicating deviations from the probabilistic pathway model.
US10192639B2
The present teaching relates to medical suggestion searching. In one example, data related to a medication drug are obtained. One or more candidate prescription strings are identified from the obtained data. Each of the candidate prescription strings is associated with a plurality of attributes. Each of the one or more candidate prescription strings is automatically processed based on at least one model to generate one or more prescription strings each with an associated ranking. At least some of the generated one or more prescription strings and the associated rankings are stored for future use.
US10192637B2
This specimen analyzer includes: an analysis unit which analyzes a specimen collected from a subject; a print unit which prints on a print sheet; a display unit which displays an operation screen; and a controller which performs control of causing the print unit to print an analysis result of the analysis unit, and prohibiting the display unit from displaying the analysis result.
US10192635B1
A test methodologies for detecting both known and potentially unknown FinFET-specific faults by way of implementing an efficient and reliable base set of March elements in which multiple sequential March-type read operations are performed immediately after logic values (i.e., logic-0 or logic-1) are written into each FinFET cell of a memory array. For example, a March-type write-1 operation is performed, followed immediately by multiple sequentially-executed March-type read-1 operations, then a March-type write-0 operation is performed followed immediately by multiple sequentially-executed March-type read-0 operations. An optional additional March-type read-0 operation is performed before the March-type write-1 operation, and an optional additional March-type read-1 operation is performed before the March-type write-0 operation. The write-1-multiple-read-1 and write-0-multiple-read-0 sequences are performed using one or both of an increasing address order and a decreasing address order.
US10192634B2
A wire order testing method for testing pin connection relationships between a memory device and an electronic device is provided. The method includes the steps of: testing the memory device with at least one test pattern to obtain at least one first data; predicting at least one second data that is to be obtained from the testing of the memory device with the test pattern according to the mapping relationships between the test pattern and the pins of the memory device; determining the pin connection relationships between the memory device and the electronic device according to the first data and second data.
US10192633B2
A method and system for high speed on chip testing for quality assurance. A multi-core system on a chip has a plurality of processing cores. The cores act as transaction agents with an auto-response unit fabricated on the chip at a chip boundary, the auto-response unit to provide a deterministic return value based on a logical address of a received read request.
US10192630B1
The track-and-hold circuit includes a switching circuit and a plurality of storage devices. The switching circuit responsive to an input signal applies a representation of the input signal to the storage devices in a track mode and blocks a signal path between the input signal and the storage device in a hold mode such that a transition from the track mode to a hold mode causes the storage devices to store a time sample of the input signal. An acquisition glitch suppression circuit includes a replica amplifier coupled to the switching circuit that senses a differential voltage across the storage devices. A switched clamping circuit clamps inputs of the switching circuit to the sensed differential voltage in the hold mode such that the initial condition of switching transistors of the switching circuit are approximately identical prior to a hold-to-track transition to mitigate differential acquisition glitch.
US10192619B2
Methods for reading and programming one or more resistive change elements within a 1-R resistive change element array are disclosed. These methods include using measurement and storage elements to measure the electrical response of one or more selected cells within an array and then comparing that stored electrical response to the electrical response of a reference element within the array to determine the resistive state of the one or more selected cells. These methods also include programming methods wherein selectable current limiting elements are used to permit or inhibit programming currents from flowing through selected and unselected cells, respectively. These methods further include programming methods that use specific biasing of array lines to provide sufficient programming currents through only selected cells.
US10192618B2
An operating method of a nonvolatile memory device includes storing different data in first and second reference cells connected to a word line, checking whether the different data are abnormally stored in the first and second reference cells, and when it is determined that the different data are abnormally stored in the first and second reference cells, swapping the first and second reference cells.
US10192617B2
A circuit and an array circuit for implementing a shift operation are provided. The circuit for implementing a shift operation includes a resistive random-access memory and four switches. The circuit has a simple structure and can improve computational efficiency.
US10192612B2
The present invention provides a memory cell of a static random access memory based on resistance reinforcement, which includes a latch circuit and a bit selection circuit. The latch circuit consists of two PMOS transistors P1 and P2, two NMOS transistors N1 and N2, a first resistance-capacitance network and a second resistance-capacitance network. The bit selection circuit consists of NMOS transistors N5 and N6. The latch circuit form four storage nodes X1, X1B, X2, X2B. Compared to the conventional memory cell of a 6T structure, a resistance-capacitance network is added, so that without changing the original read operation circuit and without obviously increasing complexity, the memory cell is prevented from having single event upset at a cost of increasing a small amount of area, thus ensuring correctness of data.
US10192605B2
Methods of operating a ferroelectric memory cell. The method comprises applying one of a positive bias voltage and a negative bias voltage to a ferroelectric memory cell comprising a capacitor including a top electrode, a bottom electrode, a ferroelectric material between the top electrode and the bottom electrode, and an interfacial material between the ferroelectric material and one of the top electrode and the bottom electrode. The method further comprises applying another of the positive bias voltage and the negative bias voltage to the ferroelectric memory cell to switch a polarization of the ferroelectric memory cell, wherein an absolute value of the negative bias voltage is different from an absolute value of the positive bias voltage. Ferroelectric memory cells are also described.
US10192603B2
A method for controlling a semiconductor storage device includes causing a control circuit to supply first write data to a sub cell area which performs a first operation of supplying a first voltage to a selected sub cell area. The semiconductor storage device includes a cell array including a plurality of memory cells, a sense amplifier reading data of the memory cell, a write driver writing data to the memory cell, the sub cell area including the cell array, the sense amplifier, and the write driver, a memory area including a plurality of sub cell areas, and the control circuit controlling the sense amplifier and the write driver.
US10192602B2
A memory device for storing data is disclosed. The memory device comprises a memory bank comprising a plurality of addressable memory cells configured in a plurality of segments wherein each segment contains N rows per segment, wherein the memory bank comprises a total of B entries, and wherein the memory cells are characterized by having a prescribed word error rate, E. Further, the device comprises a pipeline comprising M pipestages and configured to process write operations of a plurality of data words addressed to a given segment of the memory bank. The device also comprises a cache memory comprising Y number of entries, the cache memory associated with the given segment of the memory bank, and wherein the Y number of entries is based on the M, the N and the prescribed word error rate, E, to prevent overflow of the cache memory.
US10192599B2
A semiconductor device may be provided. The semiconductor device may operate in a 2N mode as well as a normal mode.
US10192596B2
Apparatuses and methods including multiple read modes for reading data from a memory are described. An example apparatus includes a memory including a first read mode and a second read mode. The memory has a read operation for the first read mode including a first pre-access phase, an access phase, and a first post-access phase. The read operation for the second read mode includes a second pre-access phase, the access phase, and a second post-access phase. The read operation for either the first read mode or the second read mode is performed responsive to the memory receiving a read command. The second pre-access phase is different from the first pre-access phase, with the second pre-access phase having a shorter time than the first pre-access phase measured from receipt of the read command.
US10192592B2
Systems, methods and fabrication processes relating to dynamic random access memory (DRAM) devices involving data signals grouped into 10 bits are disclosed. According to one illustrative implementation a DRAM device may comprise a memory core, circuitry that receives a data bus inversion (DBI) bit associated with a data signal as input directly, without transmission through DBI logic associated with an input buffer, circuitry that stores the DBI bit into the memory core, reads the DBI bit from the memory core, and provides the DBI bit as output. In further implementations, DRAM devices herein may store and process the DBI bit on an internal data bus as a regular data bit.
US10192590B1
Differential voltage generators receive an initial target voltage, and provide the initial target voltage to a first offset element and a second offset element. The first offset element includes first transistors, and the second offset element includes second transistors. Each of the first transistors is capable of changing the initial target voltage by a different incremental amount to change the initial target voltage to an altered target voltage. The second transistors are capable of removing a current generated by the first transistors, thereby causing an opposite current and leaving the initial target voltage unaffected on a second output. Each of the first transistors has a corresponding second transistor that produces the same current. A first output is capable of outputting the altered target voltage, and the second output is capable of outputting the initial target voltage.
US10192587B2
An ad in a movie can be a static ad having a position in the movie that cannot be moved, or a dynamic ad having a position in the movie that can be changed. When a viewer wishes to skip a portion of the movie containing the ad, the playback system determines whether the ad is static or dynamic. If the ad is static, only the portion of the movie preceding the static ad can be skipped; the ad is unskippable. This technique is referred to as “bounceback” since the end of the skip bounces back to the start of the static ad. If the ad is dynamic, it is moved to after the end of the skip. This technique is referred to as “slip-ad” since the ad slips to later in the movie. When a movie has multiple ads, some can be static and some can be dynamic.
US10192582B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media directed to operations to facilitate generation of time-lapse videos. In accordance with embodiments described herein, frames of a photographic input are analyzed to detect activity occurring across frame pairs. The photographic input, such as video input, is input for which a time-lapse video is to be generated. Activity detected across frame pairs is used to automatically select a plurality of the frames for use in generating the time-lapse video. At least a portion of the frames selected in accordance with the activity detected across frame pairs is used to generate the time-lapse video.
US10192580B1
A sequence of symbols is generated to describe a set of write data, the symbols having a length of nT, where T is a channel clock rate and n is an integer over a predetermined range. Bi-directional write currents are applied to a write pole to record the sequence of symbols to a magnetic storage medium. The write pole has an effective footprint with a downtrack length of mT, where m is an integer. The write currents are switched between a first rail current and a second rail current for alternating symbols, the write currents further transitioning to an intermediate current value for at least one channel clock period for symbols longer than 1T. Write currents are applied to the write pole when recording symbols having a length longer than mT using the effective footprint of the write pole as an interval.
US10192577B1
An apparatus comprises a slider having a media-facing surface and that is configured for heat-assisted magnetic recording. The slider comprises a write pole, a heatsink layer, and a diffusing metal. The write pole includes two or more sides extending into the slider and a pole tip at the media-facing surface. The heatsink layer is proximate at least part of the two or more sides of the write pole, and a first portion of the heatsink layer is proximate the pole tip. The diffusing metal is disposed proximate the write pole.
US10192573B2
Devices having an air bearing surface (ABS), the devices include a write pole; a near field transducer (NFT) including a peg and a disc, wherein the peg is at the ABS of the device; an overcoat, the overcoat including a low surface energy layer.
US10192564B2
A sampler module may divide an audio signal into a series of sequential samples. A signal quality detector module may identify a consistent brick wall frequency of the audio signal spanning a plurality of the sequential samples at an outset of the audio signal and determine a signal treatment indication proportional to the brick wall frequency. A signal enhancer module may sequentially receive and analyze one or more sample components of the audio signal to identify lost parts of the audio signal in the one or more sample components of respective sequential samples, and generate, in accordance with the signal quality indication, a corresponding signal treatment for each of the one or more sample components of respective sequential samples having a corresponding identified lost part.
US10192559B2
A method for compressing a HOA signal being an input HOA representation with input time frames (C(k)) of HOA coefficient sequences comprises spatial HOA encoding of the input time frames and subsequent perceptual encoding and source encoding. Each input time frame is decomposed (802) into a frame of predominant sound signals (XPS(k−1)) and a frame of an ambient HOA component ({tilde over (C)}AMB(k−1)). The ambient HOA component ({tilde over (C)}AMB(k−1)) comprises, in a layered mode, first HOA coefficient sequences of the input HOA representation (cn(k−1)) in lower positions and second HOA coefficient sequences (cAMB,n(k−1)) in remaining higher positions. The second HOA coefficient sequences are part of an HOA representation of a residual between the input HOA representation and the HOA representation of the predominant sound signals.
US10192552B2
Systems and processes for detecting and/or providing a whispered speech response are provided. In one example process, speech is received from a user, and based on the speech input, determined that a whispered speech response is to be provided. Upon determining that a whispered speech response is to be provided, the whispered speech response is generated and provided to the user.
US10192544B2
Disclosed herein are various embodiments of methods and systems for constructing a first language model for use by a first Language Processing (LP) application of a plurality of LP applications. Each LP application of the plurality of LP applications receives one or more of a language based input, a derivative of the language based input, a response to the language based input and a derivative of the response. The method includes processing at least one input by a second LP application of the plurality of LP applications. Based on the processing of the second LP application, at least one output is generated. Subsequently, at least a portion of the first language model is constructed based on the at least one output.
US10192537B2
A noise cancelling headset includes first and second earpieces, each earpiece including a respective feedback microphone, a respective feed-forward microphone, and a respective output driver. A first feedback filter receives an input from at least the first feedback microphone and produces a first filtered feedback signal. A first feed-forward filter receives an input from at least the first feed-forward microphone and produces a first filtered feed-forward signal. A first summer combines the first filtered feedback signal and the first filtered feed-forward signal and produces a first output signal. An output interface provides the first output signal as an output from the headset.
US10192529B2
An electronic apparatus, FPS decision method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium thereof are provided. The electronic apparatus comprises a circuit. The circuit calculates a movement value according to a plurality of first data corresponding to a first frame for display and a plurality of second data corresponding to a second frame for display. The circuit further calculates a target FPS for displaying a plurality of third frames according to the movement value and a number of frame time between the first frame and the second frame.
US10192526B2
A system and system for location based display of pixel-history is described. The system presents a current screen including an element distinct from a previous element of a previous screen. The system receives a request that the previous element be presented within the current screen next to a current element of the current screen. The request is received from a device that displays the current screen. The request indicates a location of the current element. The system presents a contemporaneous view of the previous element next to the current element at the location of element within the current screen.
US10192513B2
The present disclosure provides a circuit for processing a voltage of a pixel electrode and a display apparatus. The circuit for processing a voltage of a pixel electrode comprises: a first input terminal configured to input an original voltage of the pixel electrode; a second input terminal configured to input a voltage of a common electrode; and an output terminal configured to output a processed voltage of the pixel electrode, wherein the circuit for processing a voltage of a pixel electrode is configured to superimpose the voltage of the common electrode on the original voltage of the pixel electrode, to acquire a voltage which is stable with respect to the voltage of the common electrode as the processed voltage of the pixel electrode.
US10192508B2
Provided is a display apparatus which generates an image signal having a scanning frequency twice as high as an input image signal without increasing the processing load on a signal driving unit and displays the image signal on a display panel. The display apparatus includes a timing controller for extracting a vertical synchronizing signal and a horizontal synchronizing signal from an input image signal, a display panel having a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of signal lines perpendicularly crossing the scan lines, a scan driving unit for sequentially applying a scanning voltage to each of the scan lines based on the extracted vertical synchronizing signal and horizontal synchronizing signal, and a signal driving unit for applying a signal voltage to each of the signal lines.
US10192496B2
The present application discloses a liquid crystal display device having an angle cutting modulating circuit, wherein the liquid crystal display device includes an angle cutting modulating circuit and a thin-film transistor, the angle cutting modulating circuit includes a first modulating circuit and a second modulating circuit, wherein the angle cutting modulating circuit is used to select to open one of the first modulating circuit or the second modulating circuit to realize the modulating of the resistance of the angle cutting resistor when switching modes of the liquid crystal display device to optimize the angle cutting of the gate voltages provided to the thin film transistor in different display modes by the angle cutting modulating circuit. The present application also discloses an angle cutting modulating circuit.
US10192492B2
An organic light emitting diode display including: a substrate including a pixel part for displaying an image and a peripheral part enclosing the pixel part; a plurality of scan lines formed on the substrate, each for transferring a scan signal; a plurality of data lines for transferring a data voltage, and a plurality of driving voltage lines intersecting the plurality of scan lines for transferring a driving voltage, respectively; a plurality of pixels connected to the plurality of scan lines and the plurality of data lines, respectively and formed in the pixel part; and at least one dummy pixel connected to the plurality of scan lines and the plurality of data lines and formed in the peripheral part.
US10192472B1
According to one implementation, an image display system includes a computing platform having at least one processor and a system memory storing a software code. In addition, the image display system includes a display screen having a front display face and a side display face, and a base including a motor coupled to a rotor for rotating the display screen. The at least one processor executes the software code to render a two-dimensional (2D) graphic on the front display face of the display screen, and to render a visual effect on the side display face of the display screen. The at least one processor further executes the software code to use the motor and the rotor to spin the display screen to cause appearances of the 2D graphic as a floating image and the visual effect as a volumetric enhancement to the floating image.
US10192469B1
A display device for a walker is disclosed which has a panel having a front side, a back side, a left side edge, a right side edge, a top side edge, and a bottom side edge, an interior pocket formed between the front side and the back side, a series of grommets positioned along the left side edge of the panel, a series of grommets positioned along the right side edge of the panel, and a closure device positioned along the top side edge.
US10192462B1
A bath trainer is provided defined by a bucket having sides forming an interior water-tight space for holding water, said sides being configured to fold to a closed position when the bucket is not in use and unfold to an open position for receiving water; and a mat configured to be removably attached to said bucket. While the bucket is closed, other elements may be stored therein, such as a mug for pouring water and rising, a stool, bathing toys, etc. At least some portion of the bucket is made of a thermochromatic material that changes color with temperature so that a user can determine whether the water within the bucket is at an appropriate temperature for a child to take a bath.
US10192455B2
A method of controlling a user terminal is provided. The method includes displaying a graphic user interface (GUI) which includes items showing a plurality of class courses which are taught based on a lesson content, and items showing a plurality of activities or materials; selecting one of the displayed items corresponding to the plurality of activities or materials in accordance with a user's input; designating the item of the selected activity or material to one of the items corresponding to the plurality of class courses; and generating the lesson content by storing the class course and lesson plan configuration information corresponding to the activity or material designated to the class course.
US10192453B2
Disclosed is an autopilot-coupled traffic alert and collision avoidance systems (AP TCAS). The AP TCAS includes a an AP/automatic flight control system (AFCS) that is configured to receive a vertical speed setting after the issuance of a preventive resolution advisory, wherein the aircraft vertical speed setting exceeds the maximum vertical speed allowed by the resolution advisory, the AP/AFCS being further configured to: (1) modify the aircraft vertical speed setting so as to be less than the maximum vertical speed, and relay the modified second aircraft vertical speed to an autopilot system of the aircraft to automatically cause the aircraft to fly at a vertical speed in accordance with the modified second vertical speed setting; and (2) relay a command to the autopilot system to initiate an automatic, corrective flight maneuver if a current vertical speed of the aircraft is within a predetermined amount of the maximum vertical speed.
US10192434B1
Systems and methods are provided for altering the default operation of traffic signals, e.g., static cycling of lights, based on one or more road conditions and/or operating characteristics of vehicles at or near an intersection at which the traffic signals are located. The timing of light changes in traffic signals can be altered based upon a desire to optimize fuel efficiency, prioritize passage of vehicles through the intersection, and/or exhibit favoritism to vehicles that are driven efficiently and/or by drivers contributing to a pay-to-pass system. Traffic signal controllers controlling traffic signals may, over time, learn traffic patterns based on gathered information regarding the operating characteristics of vehicles and/or road conditions.
US10192431B2
A sensor device (4) is designed to detect road users along a stretch of a roadway and comprises a transmission and/or reception unit for emitting and/or receiving a transmission radiation. Said sensor device (4) is characterized in that the same includes at least one ascertainment unit for ascertaining an actual position and/or an actual orientation of the sensor device (4).
US10192428B2
A codeset is described in a Public Codeset Communication Format (PCCF) as a format block including a plurality of fields having readily decipherable values, such as ASCII character values. One field is a mark/space information field that includes a sequence of mark time indicators and space time indicators for an operational signal of the codeset. A second field is a signal characteristic information field for the operational signal. Signal characteristic information may include carrier on/off information, repeat frame information, toggle control information, and last frame information. The PCCF is a codeset interchange format of general applicability.
US10192427B2
A community safety system with inter-organizational communication, allowing for members of a first organization to provide alerts when located within a security zone associated with a second organization. A notification management entity, responsible for managing the different safety systems associated with each organization, determines where a user is located and whether the user is associated with any of the organizations responsible for the security zone in which the user is located.
US10192425B2
An alert suggestion generator may automatically suggest alerts for a user based on user input. The user input may include natural language text and/or user actions that the suggestion generator can use to generate alerts that have a high likelihood of relevance, and therefore desirability, to the user. Each alert may have a trigger condition such as passage of time, measurement of a numeric metric, or other factors. Each alert may also have a notification setting defining how the user is to be notified. The alert suggestion generator may retrieve a user profile of the user to further determine what alerts would be most relevant to the user. The user may be queried to confirm the alerts, and the alerts may them be set. Partial alerts may be generated and then the user may be queried for the trigger condition and/or notification setting needed to complete the alerts.
US10192423B2
A fault detection device, adapted to an electronic device having a display screen, including a first warning unit, a second warning unit, a first sensor and a microprocessor. The first sensor is arranged in front of the display screen, and obtains and outputs a first current brightness value every first predetermined period of time. The microprocessor is coupled to the first warning unit, the second warning unit, and the first sensor, and compares the first current brightness value with a first previous brightness value. When the first current brightness value is equal to the first previous brightness value, the microprocessor enables the first warning unit to generate a first warning signal. When the first current brightness value is equal to the first previous brightness value for more than a second predetermined period of time, the microprocessor enables the second warning unit to generate a second warning signal.
US10192417B1
Systems, methods, and techniques for mitigating retail theft include securing items at a receptacle of a retailer via an electronic lock, and providing a transceiver that is proximate to the secured items and that transmits a beacon which may be detected by a personal electronic device (PED) of a customer. Based on a wireless transmission between the PED and the transceiver, a customer's identity may be determined and the customer's risk profile may be accessed. A risk score corresponding to the customer accessing the secured item may be determined based on the customer's risk profile and optionally based upon a profile of the secured item. If the risk score is indicative of an acceptable risk, a trigger to remotely unlock the electronic lock may be sent, thereby remotely and automatically allowing qualified customers to access secured items. An item's removal may be detected and tracked.
US10192416B2
Systems and methods are introduced for indoor positioning and tracking of devices and objects using a multi-band wireless networking system. In an embodiment, multiple wireless networking devices are interconnected via a dedicated wireless backhaul to collectively form a single multi-band wireless network providing broad coverage to a client device. The multiple wireless networking devices of the system are coordinated via the dedicated backhaul, for example to manage time synchronization of signals received from the wireless networking devices that are indicative of a position of a client device or object. By coordinating the wireless networking devices via the dedicated backhaul and applying positioning processes to the received signals, a position of the client device or object is determined.
US10192414B2
A system and method for overlap detection in a surveillance camera network is disclosed. An analytics system of the system receives image data captured from the cameras and detects motion within the image data. The analytics system then correlates detected motion among the image data from the different cameras and determines overlap of fields of view of the cameras. In a preferred embodiment, a mobile user device held by an installer is moved through a critical path at the premises while the cameras are capturing the image data, and the analytics system determines whether the user device/installer is included in the image data from at least two of the cameras. In another embodiment, the analytics system determines overlap by determining correlated motion detection events associated with motion occurring at substantially the same time in image data from two or more different surveillance cameras and inferring that the motion is related.
US10192412B2
An intercom system for emergency rescue has a user extension, an administration server and a management device. The user extension has a serial number and is capable of generating an alarm signal by operation. The administration server connects to the user extension and the management device to receive the alarm signal. A plot plan recording a location of the user extension is stored in the administration server. The administration server transmits the plot plan with the location of the user extension that outputs the alarm signal to the management device to display. Therefore, an administrator equipped with the management device communicates with the user extension via a video connection established by the administration server. With the help of the plot plan and the video connection, the administrator provides timely assistance to reduce casualties.
US10192398B2
A system is disclosed for providing access to first interactive content or second interactive content by a user of a portable computing device based upon a determined location of the portable computing device. The system includes a host server, a content server storing data representing the first interactive content and the second interactive content, and a communication network in communication with the host server and the content server. One or more WiFi communication beacons are in communication with the host server through the communication network. The communication network is configured to establish communication with the portable computing device. The host server is configured to determine a location of the portable computing device from the communication of the portable computing device with the communication network using a combination of WiFi signals and Bluetooth signals. The host server configured to control the content server and enable the portable computing device to display the first interactive content when the portable computing device is determined to be in a first location and to display the second interactive content when the portable computing device is determined to be in a second location.
US10192394B2
Systems in accordance with embodiments of the invention operate a controlled entity hybrid game. A controlled entity hybrid game includes a real world engine constructed to provide a randomly generated payout of real world credits from at least one wager in a gambling game, an entertainment software engine constructed to execute an entertainment game providing outcomes based upon a player's skillful execution of the entertainment game; and a game world engine constructed to manage the entertainment software engine and communicate, to the gambling game, a gameplay gambling event occurrence based upon a player's instruction of a controlled entity to consume an element of the entertainment game that triggers a wager in the gambling game, and change the element on the basis of the randomly generated payout and an entertainment game variable.
US10192383B2
An access control system is disclosed in which a user or guest's first entry or usage of an electronic key is reported. Reporting of the first entry or usage may include information particular to the initial transaction and may be delivered by a path that is substantially the same, but reversed, from an original key delivery path. In this way, non-networked or ‘offline’ locks/readers can report first entry or usage of an electronic key.
US10192372B2
It is presented an access control device for considering whether a portable key device is located inside or outside a barrier. The access control device comprises: a first antenna being configured to be directed towards the outside of the barrier with a first antenna lobe; a second antenna being configured to be directed towards the inside of the barrier with a second antenna lobe, a gain towards the outside by the second antenna is greater than a gain towards the inside by the first antenna, and the signal strength from the portable key device using the second antenna is greater than using the first antenna at all positions of the portable key device on the inside; and a determiner arranged to consider the portable key device to be located on the outside of the barrier only when a first signal strength of a radio signal from the portable key device received by the first antenna is greater than a second signal strength of a radio signal from the portable key device received by the second antenna.
US10192362B2
A content visualization system generates visual content for a visualization device based on visual content of a live event. The content visualization system collects visual content and source perspective data from visual content sources. The visualization device requests visual content from the content visualization system by providing device perspective data to the content visualization system. The content visualization system generates visual content for the visualization device based on the visual content from the visual content sources, the source perspective data, and the device perspective data. The content visualization system can determine visual content that is relevant to the device perspective by identifying source perspectives that overlap with the device perspective. The content visualization system generates visual content for the visualization device based on the identified visual content. The content visualization system can generate composited or non-composited visual content, based on the similarity of the source perspectives to the device perspective.
US10192360B2
By extracting figures of a play field and a display apparatus from a taken image, the positional coordinates of the play field and a screen in a world coordinate system are obtained. Next, a virtual world is built such that the ground of the virtual world is positioned continually flush with the surface of the play field in a real world, on the opposite side of the real world with the screen in between in a virtual space defined in the world coordinate system. Then, a virtual viewpoint is placed at a position corresponding to the viewpoint of a user in a real space so as to generate an image with the virtual world projected to the screen on the basis of this virtual viewpoint as a display image.
US10192346B2
This disclosure provides an approach for automatically generating UV maps for modified three-dimensional (3D) virtual geometry. In one embodiment, a UV generating application may receive original 3D geometry and associated UV panels, as well as modified 3D geometry created by deforming the original 3D geometry. The UV generating application then extracts principal stretches of a mapping between the original 3D geometry and the associated UV panels and transfers the principal stretches, or a function thereof, to a new UV mapping for the modified 3D geometry. Transferring the principal stretches or the function thereof may include iteratively performing the following steps: determining new UV points assuming a fixed affine transformation, determining principal stretches of a transformation between the modified 3D geometry and the determined UV points, and determining a correction of a transformation matrix for each triangle to make the matrix a root of a scoring function.
US10192338B2
A method, device and multipoint control unit device for adjusting and controlling a sub-picture in multiple pictures are provided. The method includes: acquiring the N original video images sent from a plurality of video terminals, adjusting the resolutions of the N original video images and correspondingly displaying the N resolution-adjusted video images in N regions on the display screen of the multipoint control unit, wherein N is a natural number equal to or greater than 1; performing a resolution increase adjustment processing on the video image in any one of the N regions to acquire a resolution-increased video image; and cutting, according to the information of the region where the resolution-increased video image is located, the resolution-increased video image to obtain an image which is located in the region where the resolution-increased video image is located after the cutting. According to the solutions provided herein, an image of interest can be increased in resolution and moved in the region where the image of interest is located on the premise of not affecting the video images in the other regions.
US10192332B2
A method of controlling display of object data includes calculating distances from a terminal to the positions of multiple items of the object data, determining, by a processor, an area based on the distribution of the calculated distances, and displaying object data associated with a position in the determined area on a screen.
US10192331B2
Methods, program products, and systems for analytical charting are described. A system implementing analytical charting techniques can receive a selection input from a data view displaying data retrieved from a database table. The system can determine a context of the selection input, a data environment in which the selection input is received, and characteristics of data being selected. Based on the context, the data environment, and the characteristics, the system can generate a chart data grouping that specifies a relationship between data in a chart. The system can automatically specify one or more data series for the chart based on the chart data grouping. The system can generate chart parameters automatically and transparently to the user. The system can provide the system-generated chart parameters for display and allow user modification to the system-generated chart parameters. The system can then generate a chart using the chart parameters.
US10192329B2
According to an embodiment, an electronic device includes a processor. The processor is configured to perform: formula input process of inputting a plurality of pieces of formula data in association with respective formula numbers through a user operation; a formula setting process of setting formula data in the pieces of formula data input by the formula input process as an output target by the user operation; cited formula extraction process of extracting another formula data in the pieces of formula data when the formula data set by the formula setting process cites a formula number of the another formula data; and a data output process of outputting the set formula data with the extracted another formula data.
US10192323B2
Disclosed is a method and system for processing images from an aerial imaging device. The method includes receiving a first image of a geographical area having a first resolution. The method transmits the first image to a machine learning model to identify an area of interest containing an object of interest. The method receives a second image of the geographical area having a second resolution higher than the first resolution. The method transmits the second image to the machine learning model to determine a likelihood that the area of interest contains the object of interest. The method trains the machine learning model to filter out features corresponding to the area of interest in images having the first resolution if the likelihood is below a threshold. The method transmits a visual representation of the object of interest to a user device if the likelihood exceeds the threshold.
US10192320B2
A patient's smile is improved by photoimaging the patient's smile and scanning the patient's anterior teeth and associated soft lip structure to obtain sets of data mapping the patient's anterior teeth and associated soft tissue structure. The photo image is used to create a desired smile image which is then used to amend the data map of anterior teeth to a substantially identical resultant image which is then used to mill temporary and permanent prosthesis.
US10192315B2
According to one embodiment, an object holding apparatus includes a holding part, a recognition device, and a controller. The holding part is able to hold at least one object. The recognition device recognizes a plurality of objects to generate a recognition result. The controller selects a first object from the objects, based on the recognition result. The controller sets a first direction to one side of the first object along which the number of objects aligned with the first object is smaller than the number of objects aligned with the first object along the other side of the first object. The controller selects a second object aligned with the first object along the first direction. The controller controls a driving of the holding part, based on a selection result of the first object and the second object.
US10192310B2
A method is disclosed for operating a computing device. One or more images of a scene captured by an image capturing device of the computing device is processed. The scene includes an object of interest that is in motion and that has a rounded shape. The one or more images are processed by detecting a rounded object that corresponds to the object of interest. Position information is determined based on a relative position of the rounded object in the one or more images. One or more processes are implemented that utilize the position information determined from the relative position of the rounded object.
US10192309B2
A camera calibration device that captures images of at least one marker with at least two cameras and calibrates installation states of the at least two cameras based upon the captured images by the at least two cameras, includes: an extracting unit that extracts a feature amount of the at least one marker based upon the captured images by the at least two cameras; a primary calibration unit that calculates a position of each of the at least two cameras in a marker coordinate system, based upon the feature amount; and a secondary calibration unit that preforms coordinate transformation of the position of each of the cameras in the marker coordinate system calculated by the primary calibration unit, into a position of each of the cameras in a vehicle coordinate system.
US10192307B2
What is disclosed is a system and method for processing a video to extract a periodic signal which was captured by the video imaging device. One embodiment involves the following. First, a video of a subject in a scene is received. The video is acquired by a video imaging device. There is an underlying motion signal in the scene corresponding to cardiac or respiratory function. A time-series signal is generated for each pixel or for each group of pixels in a temporal direction across a plurality of image frames. Time-series signals of interest are selected. The selected time-series signals of interest are then processed to obtain a periodic signal corresponding to cardiac or respiratory function. The present method has a low computational complexity, is robust in the presence of noise, and finds its uses in applications requiring real-time motion quantification of a signal in a video.
US10192303B2
Mixed-mode includes receiving inspection results including one or more images of a selected region of the wafer, the one or more images include one or more wafer die including a set of repeating blocks, the set of repeating blocks a set of repeating cells. In addition, mixed-mode inspection includes adjusting a pixel size of the one or more images to map each cell, block and die to an integer number of pixels. Further, mixed-mode inspection includes comparing a first wafer die to a second wafer die to identify an occurrence of one or more defects in the first or second wafer die, comparing a first block to a second block to identify an occurrence of one or more defects in the first or second blocks and comparing a first cell to a second cell to identify an occurrence of one or more defects in the first or second cells.
US10192301B1
Method and system for detecting line defects on surface of object are presented. An imaging device captures images of surface of object under ambient and dark field illumination conditions. The images are processed with a plurality of image operations to detect areas of potential defects based on predictable pattern consisting of bright and shadow regions. Areas of potential defect are cut from processed images to sub images. Sub images are stitched together to generate hypotheses of potential defects at locations on surface of object. The hypotheses are classified to determine whether the potential defects are true defects at the locations. Line defect is detected by refining line segments detected on the processed image based on criteria. The criteria include distance from the true defects to the line segments and slops between the true defects and the line segments are less than threshold values.
US10192298B2
A device for identifying an end of a fiber tape rolling over a composite structure is presented. The device includes a light source disposed proximate to the composite structure and configured to project a line of light at a first angle on the fiber tape rolling over the composite structure. Also, the device includes an image capturing unit disposed proximate to the composite structure and configured to capture an image of the line of light on the fiber tape at a second angle. Further, the device includes a controller coupled to the image capturing unit and configured to process the captured image to detect a discontinuity in the line of light on the fiber tape and identify the end of the fiber tape based on the detected discontinuity in the line of light on the fiber tape.
US10192293B2
In an example, a method and apparatus for obtaining an image mask is provided. After a magnitude image and a phase image of a to-be-processed image is obtained, magnitude coherent data of each pixel point in the magnitude image and phase coherent data of each pixel point in the phase image may be calculated. Then, a binarization threshold processing may be performed on the magnitude coherent data of each pixel point in the magnitude image to obtain a magnitude image mask. A binarization threshold processing may be performed on the phase coherent data of each pixel point in the phase image to obtain a phase image mask. In this way, an image mask of the to-be-processed image may be obtained by using the magnitude image mask and the phase image mask.
US10192285B2
An image processing apparatus includes an exaggeration unit configured to perform on an original image including a hand-drawn element an exaggeration process that expands the hand-drawn element to generate an exaggerated image; and a reduction unit configured to reduce the exaggerated image to generate a reduced image of a predetermined size smaller than a size of the original image.
US10192276B1
A computer controlled mail piece assembly and wrapping system discloses a process for culling candidate mail pieces from bulk mail pieces, a mail piece feeder, a mail piece reader coupled to the feeder that identifies suitable candidate mail pieces, a collator coupled to the feeder for collating multiple identified mail pieces, a buffer coupled to the collator for regulating the delivery rate of the multiple mail pieces exiting to a wrap inserter, a wrap inserter coupled to the buffer for wrapping mail pieces and selected inserts into a mailing container, a printer interfaced with the wrap inserter for printing information onto the mailing container; an outstacker coupled to the wrap inserter for transferring envelope wrapped mail pieces and selected inserts to a desired location, and a computer with suitable programming for operating the system.
US10192274B2
A method and device for providing dynamically determined gift creation and dissemination in an online environment, including: receiving a gifting request from a first user for dynamically creating and disseminating one or more gifts to one or more recipients in the online environment, wherein the gifting request includes one or more gifting constraints that un-deterministically specify at least one of (1) a respective identity for at least one recipient and (2) a respective gift value for at least one gift; and dynamically creating and disseminating at least one gift in accordance with the one or more gifting constraints, including at least one of: dynamically selecting a respective gift value for at least one gifts in accordance with the one or more gifting constraints; and dynamically determining a respective identity for at least one recipient for at least one gift in accordance with the one or more gifting constraints.
US10192272B2
A system, method, and apparatus for managing expense reports are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an aggregation interface configured to receive, from a financial entity, a defined account data subset of account data related to a financial transaction of a user and a defined transaction data subset of transaction data of the financial transaction. The example apparatus also includes a secure transaction engine configured to create an expense object that includes the defined account data subset and the defined transaction data subset and display information from the expense object within a first graphical user interface in conjunction with information from other expense objects related to the user. The secure transaction engine is also configured to create an expense report that includes an expense object selected by the user and selectively excludes the other expense objects to shield the other expense objects from being accessible or viewed by a third-party.
US10192263B2
A method and system for recommending a physical location at which to complete an electronic activity are disclosed. In some examples, initiation of the electronic activity by a user at a first physical location is detected, that the electronic activity is to be completed at a physical location different from the first physical location is determined, one or more portions of the electronic activity that remain incomplete are determined, a second physical location at which to complete the one or more incomplete portions of the electronic activity is identified, and information about the electronic activity is provided to the second physical location. In some examples, the identification of the second physical location is based on at least characteristics of the electronic activity, the user, and/or the second physical location.
US10192259B2
A computer-implemented system stores profiles for parties to the negotiation, each profile specifying values for one or more parameters negotiated, the values reflecting a desirable outcome of the negotiation for the associated party. A matching server accesses an offer from a first party containing values for one or more of the parameters negotiated and computes a distance between the offer values and the profile values of a second party. If the distance is acceptably small, the server causes the offer to be accepted by the second party to conclude the negotiation. If the distance is not acceptably small, the server automatically modifies one or more values in the offer such that the distances between the modified offer and the profiles of the first and second parties are acceptably small simultaneously and causes the modified offer to be accepted by the first and second parties to conclude the automatic negotiation.
US10192257B2
Systems and methods for ordering items from an electronic menu and servicing thereof, in a networked computing environment that communicably connects via at least one network at least a plurality of first handheld electronic devices (e.g., wait staff operated devices in a restaurant), a plurality of second handheld electronic devices (e.g., patron operated devices in a restaurant) configured to display the electronic menu, and a venue computer are described. Corresponding apparatuses are also described.
US10192254B2
A method to allocate memory, in response to application requests, for a compact data structure having location data and a trailer section is provided. The trailer section of the compact data structure is checked to determine an offset for listings and indices representing the location data. Upon determining the offset, the listings and indices are loaded into memory and responses to the application requests are generated by utilizing the listings and indices stored in the memory.
US10192252B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus including a database configured to store position data indicating a current position of at least one search target person, the position data being received from a communication apparatus of the at least one search target person, an information providing unit configured to provide the position data of the at least one search target person to a terminal apparatus of a searcher in response to an information request from the terminal apparatus of the searcher, and a communication mediation unit configured to receive, from the terminal apparatus, a communication request for requesting communication with a search target person who is selected by the searcher based on the provided position data, and to transmit a communication message to a communication apparatus of the selected search target person.
US10192246B2
Embodiments relate to systems and methods for generating multi-cloud incremental billing capture and administration. A set of aggregate usage history data can store patterns for a user in a set of host clouds recording consumption of processor, memory, storage, operating system, or other resources subscribed to by the across the host clouds. The user can be a corporation or other collective user. An entitlement engine can access a set of subscription parameters and analyze the set of aggregate usage history data based on deviation from consumption limits or other subscription parameters. When resource limits (e.g. operating system instances) are exceeded in a host cloud, the entitlement engine can determine which resource was exceeded, and in which host cloud it was exceeded. Incremental billing for those events can be generated by the entitlement engine, and transmitted to the user via the host cloud and/or resource provider for presentation, collection, and reconciliation.
US10192234B2
Methods and apparatus are described for enabling actionable content by embedding title materials corresponding to digital bearer instruments in digital media.
US10192229B2
A method for controlling access to data displayed by an information services portal on a user device is provided. The method includes receiving a candidate login input corresponding to a user. The method further includes comparing the candidate login input to a list of login entries stored in the memory, each of the stored login entries having a corresponding code segment, each code segment defining a bounding area defining a geographic area. The method further includes retrieving from the memory a selected code segment corresponding to the stored login entry matching the candidate login input, and applying a geographic restriction to the data set by processing the selected code segment. The method further includes transmitting a data subset of the data set to the user computing device for display, the data subset including data satisfying the geographic restriction.
US10192221B2
A transaction card construction and computer-implemented methods for a transaction card are described. The transaction card has vector formatted visible information lasered onto its surface. In some embodiments, systems and methods are disclosed for enabling the sourcing of visible information using a scalable vector format. The systems and methods may receive a request to add a first plurality of visible information to a transaction card and capture an image of the first plurality of visible information. The systems and methods may also map the image to a bounding box and convert the mapped image into vector format. In addition, the systems and methods may provide the converted image to a laser machine.
US10192220B2
Method, systems, and apparatus for integrated online and offline sales management. A system manages both offline and online transactions and inventory in an integrated environment. An offline transaction is a sale at a point of sale (POS) system, e.g., at a typical “brick and mortar shop” physical store. An online transaction is a sale using an online store, e.g., an online shopping cart and checkout system accessed by a web browser or other application. An online store can be converted to offline store, and vice versa. An inventory management system can receive an input from a merchant device of merchant designating an item carried by the merchant as an item to be sold at the physical store, at the online store, or both. The inventory management system can modify a record of the item to respond to the input.
US10192218B2
Methods and devices for online payments are disclosed. Prior to accepting payment account information from a user for the payment transaction, a client terminal sends an interface listing command to a transaction server, requesting the transaction server to identify one or more acceptable input interfaces for receiving the payment account information. The transaction server responds to the interface listing command by a payment input instruction. The client terminal uses the payment input instructions to generate a payment information interface to present the one or more acceptable input interfaces for user selection. The user can choose how to input the payment information that best conforms to the user's expectations for security and convenience. The current method, device and system provide additional flexibility, improve efficiency, and facilitate online payment.
US10192216B2
The CLOUD-BASED VIRTUAL WALLET NFC APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“EAE”) transform user enhanced security transaction initiation requests using EAE components into time-limited, session-specific transaction bounding tokens. In some implementations, the disclosure provides a processor-implemented method of transforming a transaction bounding token request into transaction bounded tokens and purchase authorizations.
US10192205B2
The method provides a graphical user interface for an electronic transaction. An input screen is displayed in the shape of an electronic transaction device and inputs in fields of the electronic transaction device are received. If each of the one or more fields has been completed, an indication to move to an additional display of the electronic transaction device is shown. Second inputs in additional fields of the additional display are received. If each of the additional fields has been completed, an additional indication to move to a confirmation display is displayed, and the confirmation display is shown.
US10192203B2
A maintenance support system includes an image forming apparatus, a management device, and an information processing terminal. The image forming apparatus generates data including terminal identification information identifying the terminal and sends it to the management device. The management device includes: an issuing processor that, upon receiving the data, issues receipt identification information and sends it to the image forming apparatus or terminal; a memory that stores the terminal identification information in the data and the receipt identification information; and a processor that, upon receiving the terminal identification information and receipt identification information from the terminal, compares the received terminal identification information and receipt identification information with the terminal identification information and receipt identification information stored in the memory, and outputs a result of the comparison. The terminal receives the receipt identification information, and sends the received receipt identification information and the terminal identification information.
US10192198B2
Use of a blockchain distributed ledger to manage tracking code and physical article lifecycle. A first peer generates a cryptographic key for each of a plurality of peers, each key enabling a peer to access the distributed ledger. The first peer also generates a plurality of tracking codes and inserts first block(s) onto the distributed ledger that initiate a lifecycle for each code and make each code visible to the peers. A second peer imprints each code onto a corresponding physical article, inserts second block(s) onto the distributed ledger recording this imprinting, and inserts third block(s) onto the distributed ledger indicating that custody of the tracking codes has been transferred to a third peer. The third peer inserts fourth block(s) onto the distributed ledger indicating that receipt of custody of the tracking codes and their corresponding physical articles from the second peer has been confirmed by the third peer.
US10192189B2
A mobile pickup location is provided that may be associated with a vehicle such as a public bus. A user may choose to have items delivered to a mobile pickup location on a public bus which the user takes every day travelling from the office to home, or which stops at a bus stop that is convenient for the user. Also, in regions where carriers for delivering items are rare or prohibitively expensive, a mobile pickup location may be utilized to deliver items, such as to a rural village. The coordinates of a mobile pickup location may be tracked, such as with GPS, and a user may be provided with a notification when a mobile pickup location with an ordered item is approaching, such as with a text message sent to a cell phone.
US10192183B2
A system and a method for calculating in real time, actual realized savings that a cooling system obtains from addition of a thermal storage capability to the cooling system, compared to a model of the system without the added thermal storage capability.
US10192182B2
Implementations are directed to surveying equipment and/or signals at well sites using an aerial drone. In some implementations, actions include receiving data provided from the aerial drone, the data including signal measurement data, location data, and one or more of image data and video data associated with a well-site, processing the data to provide one or more of a signal survey and a well-site survey associated with the well-site, the signal survey indicating a strength of a signal at multiple locations of the well-site, the well-site survey indicating one or more pieces of equipment located at the well-site, and providing the one or more of the signal survey and the well-site survey to provide an equipment schedule, the equipment schedule identifying equipment to be installed at the well-site and, for at least one piece of equipment, a location to install the at least one piece of equipment.
US10192169B2
Methods and systems for making effective use of system resources. A plurality of requests for access to a resource are received. Each request has an associated group of features. The group of features for each request is analyzed to collect observations about the plurality of requests. A function to predict an outcome of a subsequent request is generated based on the observations. Resources are allocated to service the subsequent request based on the function.
US10192168B2
In some aspects, a quantum computing system includes a control system and a quantum processor cell. The control system generates quantum processor control information for a group of devices housed in the quantum processor cell, and each device in the group has a distinct operating frequency. In some cases, a waveform generator generates a multiplexed control signal based on the quantum processor control information, and the multiplexed control signal is communicated an input signal processing system. In some cases, the input signal processing system includes an input channel configured to receive the multiplexed control signal, a de-multiplexer configured to separate device control signals from the multiplexed control signal, and output channels configured to communicate the respective device control signals into the quantum processor cell.
US10192162B2
A circuit for performing neural network computations for a neural network comprising a plurality of layers, the circuit comprising: activation circuitry configured to receive a vector of accumulated values and configured to apply a function to each accumulated value to generate a vector of activation values; and normalization circuitry coupled to the activation circuitry and configured to generate a respective normalized value from each activation value.
US10192160B2
A radio-frequency identification device of the non-contact type, suitable for fixing to an object to be identified that includes a module with at least one electronic chip and at least one electrical and/or magnetic so-called primary antenna used to supply signals to the at least one electronic chip, and an electrical and/or magnetic so-called secondary antenna. The secondary antenna is a conductive element that forms part of the object or is produced by modifying a constituent of the object, the secondary antenna being coupled to the primary antenna without an electrical connection.
US10192157B2
RFID driven display system components such as wireless displays (visual RFID tags) and multi-antenna wireless RFID readers that monitor/control the RFID driven displays in order to provide visual real-time information to display viewers and/or provide useful information to a central processing station that monitors the status of and/or updates the RFID driven displays, networks including one or more of the components, and methods for using the RFID driven display system components to monitor assets in applications such as inventory control and manufacturing.
US10192153B2
An apparatus including a communication unit configured to communicate with a communication device and be able to output data stored in a memory to the communication device even without power supplied from a power supply to the apparatus stores, in the memory, status information to specify the status of the apparatus in a state in which the power supply supplies the power to the apparatus.
US10192152B2
A data processing apparatus selects a processing scheme for target data from among candidates by using a degree of compression of the target data as an index, and performs data processing on the target data by using the selected processing scheme. The candidates include a processing scheme in which data which has been compressed is subjected to the data processing, and a processing scheme in which data is expanded and then subjected to the data processing.
US10192143B1
Systems and methods of distinguishing between feature depicted in an image are presented herein. Information defining an image may be obtained. The image may include visual content comprising an array of pixels. The array may include pixel rows. An identification of a pixel row in an image may be obtained. Distances of individual pixels and/or groups of pixels from the identified row of pixels may be determined. Parameter values for a set of pixel parameters of individual pixels of the image may be determined. Based on one or more of the distances from the identified row of pixels, parameter values of one or more pixel parameters, and/or other information, individual pixels and/or groups of pixels may be classified as one of a plurality of image features.
US10192139B2
The presently disclosed subject matter includes a tracking system and method which for tracking objects by a sensing unit operable to communicate over a communication link with a control center which enables to execute a command generated at the control center with respect to a selected object in an image captured by the sensing unit, notwithstanding a time-delay between a time when the sensing unit acquires the image with the selected object, to a time when the command is received at the sensing unit with respect to the selected object.
US10192137B2
In some implementations, a method includes: receiving, from the camera, a sample image that includes a fingerprint and a mensuration reference device, where the sample image is associated with a resolution; identifying (i) a plurality of edge candidate groups within the sample image, and (ii) a set of regularity characteristics associated with each of the plurality of edge candidate groups; determining that the associated set of regularity characteristics indicates the mensuration reference device; identifying a ruler candidate group, from each of the plurality of edge candidate groups, based at least on determining that the associated set of regularity characteristics indicates the mensuration reference device; computing a scale associated with the sample image based at least on extracting a set of ruler marks from the identified ruler candidate group; and generating, based at least on the scale associated with the sample image, a scaled image.
US10192135B2
A 3D image analyzer for the determination of a gaze direction or a line of sight (having a gaze direction vector and a location vector, which e.g. indicates the pupil midpoint and where the gaze direction vector starts) in a 3D room is configured to receive one first set of image data and a further set of image information, wherein the first image contains a pattern, which displays a three-dimensional object from a first perspective into a first image plane, and wherein the further set contains an image having a pattern, which displays the same three-dimensional object from a further perspective into a further image plane, or wherein the further set has an image information and/or a relation between at least two points in the first image and/or at least a position information. The 3D image analyzer has a position calculator and an alignment calculator and calculates therewith a gaze direction in a 3D room.
US10192130B2
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 estimated value for a vehicle corresponding to the vehicle license plate in response to the transmission.
US10192117B2
A method for graph-based spatiotemporal video segmentation and automatic target object extraction in high-dimensional feature space includes using a processor to automatically analyze an entire volumetric video sequence; using the processor to construct a high-dimensional feature space that includes color, motion, time, and location information so that pixels in the entire volumetric video sequence are reorganized according to their unique and distinguishable feature vectors; using the processor to create a graph model that fuses the appearance, spatial, and temporal information of all pixels of the video sequence in the high-dimensional feature space; and using the processor to group pixels in the graph model that are inherently similar and assign the same labels to them to form semantic spatiotemporal key segments.
US10192105B1
A sign language recognizer is configured to detect interest points in an extracted sign language feature, wherein the interest points are localized in space and time in each image acquired from a plurality of frames of a sign language video; apply a filter to determine one or more extrema of a central region of the interest points; associate features with each interest point using a neighboring pixel function; cluster a group of extracted sign language features from the images based on a similarity between the extracted sign language features; represent each image by a histogram of visual words corresponding to the respective image to generate a code book; train a classifier to classify each extracted sign language feature using the code book; detect a posture in each frame of the sign language video using the trained classifier; and construct a sign gesture based on the detected postures.
US10192102B2
In one embodiment, a computing device determines a Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA). The CAPTCHA includes a first static image that has image sections that are arranged in a first order. Each of the image sections corresponds to a unique identifier. The CAPTCHA further includes a second static image that includes each of the image sections of the first static image that are arranged in a second order. The computing device generates web-browser-executable code for converting the second static image to the first static image based on the first static image, the first order, and the unique identifiers. The computing device sends the second static image and the web-browser-executable code to a client device.
US10192101B2
A method, system, device, and/or a non-transitory computer readable medium to provide a customized application associated with a television experience based on the recognition of users located in front of a television display and in the field of view of a camera. The method may include performing an initializing operation, the initializing operation including enrolling a plurality of users in a database of a computer system, acquiring a wide image using the camera and scanning the wide image for biometric information; and performing an identification operation requested by the application including, acquiring a second wide image with the camera, extracting an active area from the second wide image, storing the extracted active area as a second fast scanning area image, and extracting the biometric data of a face appearing in the second fast scanning area image.
US10192100B2
A particle classifier system and a method of training the system are described. The particle classifier system is suitable for classification of particles in a liquid sample, said particle classifier system comprises an optical detection assembly comprising at least one image acquisition device with an optical axis, the image acquisition device is configured to acquire images of an image acquisition area perpendicular to said optical axis; a sample device comprising at least one sample container suitable for holding a sample in liquid form; a translating arrangement configured to translate said image acquisition area through at least a part of said sample container; a control system configured to controlling said optical detection assembly and said translating unit to acquire images of a plurality of image acquisition areas; an image analyzing processing system programmed to analyze said acquired images by a method comprising creating objects (sub-images) of individual particles captured by said acquired images, creating stacks of objects of each individual particle, identifying complete stacks of objects comprising at least one object wherein said particle is in-focus, and two objects wherein said particle is out-of-focus, and determining, for each of said complete stacks of objects, a set of values for a set of features of at least N features, wherein N is larger than or equal to 1, and wherein the determination of said values of said set of features involve data obtained from said at least one object wherein said particle is in-focus, and/or said at least two objects wherein said particle is out-of-focus; and an artificial intelligent processing system programmed to associate said set of values for said determined set of features for each individual particle to a particle classification.
US10192099B2
Systems and methods for detection, grading, scoring and tele-screening of cancerous lesions are described. A complete scheme for automated quantitative analysis and assessment of human and animal tissue images of several types of cancers is presented. Various aspects of the invention are directed to the detection, grading, prediction and staging of prostate cancer on serial sections/slides of prostate core images, or biopsy images. Accordingly, the invention includes a variety of sub-systems, which could be used separately or in conjunction to automatically grade cancerous regions. Each system utilizes a different approach with a different feature set. For instance, in the quantitative analysis, textural-based and morphology-based features may be extracted at image- and (or) object-levels from regions of interest.
US10192098B2
In some implementations, a method may be used for matching palm print images. A search template that identifies at least a plurality of distinctive search orientation blocks within a search orientation field may be initially generated for a search palm print image. A reference template may be obtained. A mated distinctive reference orientation block may be identified for each of the distinctive search orientation blocks. One or more regions of the search orientation field that include the distinctive search orientation blocks may be compared against one or more corresponding regions of the reference orientation field. An orientation similarity score between the search palm print image and the reference palm print image may be computed based on the comparison. A match may finally be determined if the computed orientation score satisfies a predetermined threshold value.
US10192092B2
A high-efficiency fingerprint identification device includes an electrode substrate, plural 1-to-N switch circuits formed on the electrode substrate, plural sensing electrodes and plural wires. Each 1-to-N switch circuit has one first end, N second ends and m control ends. The m control ends control connection between the N second ends and the first end. Each sensing electrode corresponds to a nearby 1-to-N switch circuit. The wires are divided into sensing and driving lines and control lines. The sensing electrodes in each column correspond to a sensing and driving line. The sensing and driving line is connected to one of the N second ends of the 1-to-N switch circuits in the column. The sensing electrodes in each row correspond to m control lines. Each control line is connected to ones of the m control ends of the 1-to-N switch circuits in the row.
US10192091B2
A fingerprint sensor apparatus including a sampling unit, an image analysing unit and a processor is provided. The sampling unit senses a fingerprint image. The image analysing unit analyses an image parameter of the fingerprint image to obtain an image data, and compares the image data to a reference data to obtain a comparison result. The comparison result includes that the image data corresponds to one of a plurality of stages. The stages are determined based on the image parameter, and the different stages correspond to different pressure regions. The processor controls an electronic device to execute a predetermined operation according to the stage corresponding to the image data. In addition, a method for controlling the fingerprint sensor apparatus is also provided.
