US10201101B2
Disclosed is a display apparatus which does not use some elements of cases and set cover members necessary for producing the display apparatus and thus can minimize a thickness and enhance a sense of beauty with an innovative design. The display apparatus includes a display panel, a panel supporting member, an adhesive member, a guide frame, and a cover member. The panel supporting member is disposed to have a side inserting space, and supports a rear edge of the display panel. The adhesive member is disposed at the panel supporting member, and couples the display panel and the panel supporting member. The guide frame supports the panel supporting member. The cover member is inserted into the side inserting space of the panel supporting member, and surrounds a side surface of the guide frame, thereby enabling movement of the panel supporting member.
US10201100B2
An electronic sign having slotted frame cabinets whereby each slotted frame cabinet can conveniently be attached to one or more vertically or horizontally positioned adjacent slotted frame cabinets by using connecting components which are generally located around the periphery of one or more slotted frame cabinets. Connecting components, including splice bars, splice plates, and mounting clamps, are aligned in, positioned along and secured to backing bars which are co-located in backing bar slots in one or more of the slatted frame cabinets. Lift eyes can be variably located in one or more lift eye slots. The use of externally located connecting components, which do not extend through the cabinetry, minimize the entry of environmental elements into the interior of the electronic sign. Multiple slotted frame cabinets can be connected without the removal of LED display panels.
US10201099B1
A circuit board including an electronic device and a manufacturing method of the circuit board are provided. The manufacturing method includes: providing a stainless steel base material including a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other, at least one first cavity located at the first surface and at least one second cavity located at the second surface; respectively forming a first and a second metal layers on the stainless steel base material; respectively disposing at least one first and at least one second electronic devices in the first and the second cavities; respectively forming a first and a second insulating layers on the first and the second surfaces; respectively forming a first and a second circuit structures on the first and the second insulating layers, separating the stainless steel base material, the first and the second metal layers to form two separate circuit substrates including electronic devices.
US10201096B2
An electrical connector used for connecting an chip module to a printed circuit board includes an insulating housing, a number of terminals and a cover. The insulating housing includes a body portion. The terminals are insert molded in the body portion. The body portion includes an upper face and a lower face. Each of the terminals includes a first soldering portion extending upwardly beyond the upper face and a second soldering portion extending downwardly beyond the lower face. The cover covers the insulating housing. The electrical connector has a simple structure and a simple manufacturing process.
US10201091B2
The present invention includes compositions and methods of creating electrical isolation and ground plane structures, around electronic devices (inductors, antenna, resistors, capacitors, transmission lines and transformers) in photo definable glass ceramic substrates in order to prevent parasitic electronic signals, RF signals, differential voltage build up and floating grounds from disrupting and degrading the performance of isolated electronic devices by the fabrication of electrical isolation and ground plane structures on a photo-definable glass substrate.
US10201088B2
In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, a contact structure for an electronic device may include a printed circuit board (PCB) including at least one hole vertically formed through the PCB, a housing (e.g., a mechanical part) on which the PCB is seated, and a contact element, at least part of which is brought into contact with the housing disposed on a side of the hole of the PCB and below the same. The contact element may include a contact part soldered on a peripheral portion around the hole, and a protrusion passing through the hole and making contact with the housing disposed below the PCB.
US10201082B2
The invention relates to a transparent conductive layer comprising non-conductive areas and conductive areas, wherein the conductive areas comprise an interconnected network of electrically conductive nanoobjects and in the non-conductive areas the nanoobjects are converted into particles and wherein the thickness of the conductive areas and the non-conductive areas differs less than 10 nm. The invention further relates to a process for producing a patterned transparent conductive film, the film comprising a substrate and a transparent conductive layer, and to a process for producing the patterned transparent conductive film.
US10201081B2
A system comprises an article comprising one or more fabric layers, a plurality of electronic devices, each being incorporated into or onto one of the one or more fabric layers, and one or more communication links between two or more of the plurality of electronic devices. Each of the plurality of electronic devices can comprise a flexible substrate coupled to the fabric layer, one or more metallization layers deposited on the flexible substrate, and one or more electronic components electrically coupled to the one or more metallization layers.
US10201077B2
A suspension board and an inspection substrate are integrally supported by a support frame. In the suspension board, first and second insulating layers are laminated on a support substrate in this order. Part of a line is formed on the first insulating layer, and the remaining line is formed on the second insulating layer. A via connecting the part of the line to the remaining line is formed in the second insulating layer. In the inspection substrate, the first and second insulating layers are laminated on the support substrate in this order. A first inspection conductor layer is formed on the first insulating layer, and a second inspection conductor layer is formed on the second insulating layer. A via connecting the first inspection conductor layer to the second inspection conductor layer is formed in the second insulating layer.
US10201067B2
The present invention relates to a plasma-generating device, comprising an anode, a cathode and at least one intermediate electrode, said intermediate electrode being arranged at least partly between said anode and said cathode, and said intermediate electrode and said anode forming at least a part of a plasma channel which has an opening in said anode. Further, the plasma-generating device comprises at least one coolant channel which is arranged with at least one outlet opening which is positioned beyond, in the direction from the cathode to the anode, said at least one intermediate electrode, and the channel direction of said coolant channel at said outlet opening has a directional component which is the same as that of the channel direction of the plasma channel at the opening thereof. The invention also concerns a plasma surgical device and use of such a plasma surgical device.
US10201065B2
A radiographic image capturing apparatus has a radiation source device including a radiation source for outputting radiation, and a detector device including a radiation detector for detecting radiation that is transmitted through a subject when the subject is irradiated with radiation by the radiation source, and converting the detected radiation into a radiographic image. At least one of the radiation source device and the detector device has an electric power supply limiting unit for limiting supply of electric power, and the electric power supply limiting unit controls supply of electric power between the radiation source device and the detector device, depending on timing of an image capturing process.
US10201062B2
Infrastructure lighting is controlled from a vehicle. Wireless communication exists between the vehicle and at least one light source of the infrastructure lighting. At least one device of the vehicle is functionally linked to the infrastructure lighting. Switching on a light source of the infrastructure lighting is performed via wirelessly transmitting a first control command to the light source. Switching off the light source is performed via transmitting a second control command to the light source. A blinker is functionally linked to the light source such that activation of the blinker triggers the transmitting of the first control command to light source when vehicle headlights are switched on.
US10201061B2
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.
US10201059B1
The present invention describes a method for measuring and evaluating operating parameters in lighting technologies for smart switches. Said method is characterized in that from the acquisition and filtering of data the measurement of current consumption, determination of technology type, detection of the irregular behavior in the operation of the at least one lighting device and determination and selection of the dimming mode are obtained through different functions which comprise a number of steps which, when performed, obtain the different results corresponding to each function and which are used and sent to a central module.
US10201048B2
Disclosed is a lighting apparatus using an LED as a light source. The lighting apparatus may connect first and second lighting units in series or parallel according to a rectified voltage, change one or more of first and second driving currents corresponding to light emissions of the first and second lighting units, and have the universality for rectified voltages.
US10201042B1
A heater having a helical electrical resistance heating wire connected to and coiled around a current return wire. The heater is employed in thermal conduction heater wells used for removing contaminants from soil, groundwater or rock.
US10201041B2
An example heating apparatus comprises a light emitting diode (LED) array comprising at least one LED to heat a target object. The heating apparatus further comprises a heatsink thermally coupled to the LED array to dissipate heat from the LED array. The heatsink comprises a refrigerant path including an input to and an output from the refrigerant path to pass cooled refrigerant therethrough.
US10201036B2
Embodiments relate to concepts for providing information on a mobile terminal to a Radio Resource Management entity (210; 220; 320) of a wireless communication network. Thereby, it is provided, upon an establishment of a Radio Resource Control connection between the mobile terminal (310) and the wireless communication network, information (112; 212) indicative of an estimate of a radio resource utilization for the Radio Resource Control connection to be established.
US10201031B2
This disclosure relates to temporary suspension, and subsequent resumption, of radio resource aggregation in a wireless communication system. A wireless device may establish a communication link with a base station. The communication link with the base station may aggregate radio resources according to a first wireless communication technology and a second wireless communication technology. Use by the communication link of radio resources according to the second wireless communication technology may be suspended. Wireless communication activity according to the second wireless communication technology that is not associated with the communication link may be performed while use by the communication link of radio resources according to the second wireless communication technology is suspended. Use by the communication link of radio resources according to the second wireless communication technology may be resumed after performing the wireless communication activity according to the second wireless communication technology.
US10201026B1
Techniques for performing forward error correction of data to be transmitted over an optical communications channel. The techniques include: receiving data bits; organizing the data bits into an arrangement having a plurality of blocks organized into rows and columns and into a plurality of strands including a first strand of blocks that includes a back portion comprising a first row of the plurality of blocks, and a front portion comprising blocks from at least two different columns in at least two different rows other than the first row of blocks; and encoding at least some of the data bits in the arrangement using a first error correcting code at least in part by generating first parity bits by applying the first error correcting code to first data bits in the front portion of the first strands and second data bits in the back portion of the first strand.
US10201020B2
A system and method for performing multi-user random access procedures in a mobile telecommunications network between a base station and a user equipment (UE) having a plurality of antennas includes transmitting a random access signal set (RASS) message using one or more antennas of the plurality of UE antennas. In response to receiving the RASS message, the base station transmitting a random access response physical downlink control channel (RAR-PDCCH) message. In response to receiving the RAR-PDCCH message, transmitting a reciprocity reference signal set (RRSS) signal using the plurality of UE antennas.
US10201017B2
A first communication device generates a trigger frame to trigger a contention-based uplink orthogonal frequency multiple access (OFDMA) transmission by multiple second communication devices. The trigger frame may be configured to indicate a predetermined length of the contention-based uplink OFDMA transmission, where the predetermined length corresponds to contention-based uplink OFDMA transmissions. The first communication device transmits the trigger frame to the multiple second communication devices, receives the contention-based uplink OFDMA transmission. The contention-based uplink OFDMA transmission may be of the predetermined length.
US10201012B2
The present document relates to a wireless communication system and, more particularly, to a method for performing retransmission in a wireless LAN system to which transmission opportunity (TXOP) sharing is applied, and a device therefor. To this end, a station transmits an initial transmission frame including primary access category (AC) information and secondary access category (AC) information; and when there is no response to the secondary AC information of the initial transmission frame, reconfigures a back-off timer value for the secondary AC information and retransmits the secondary AC information according to the reconfigured back-off timer value.
US10201011B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, a device, and a communications system for performing data communication by using an unlicensed spectrum. In an embodiment, a base station determines to use an unlicensed spectrum to perform data communication, and sends mode request information to a terminal. The terminal receives the mode request message sent by the base station and determines, according to a preset configuration table, whether to use the unlicensed spectrum to perform data communication. When determining to use the unlicensed spectrum to perform data communication, the terminal sends a mode acknowledgement message to the base station. The base station receives the mode acknowledgement information sent by the terminal, and the terminal performs data communication in a first unlicensed frequency band with the base station.
US10201010B2
A wireless device receives message(s) comprising configuration parameters of one or more secondary cells. The wireless device receives an activation/deactivation media access control control element (A/D MAC CE). If the number of the one or more secondary cells is seven or less and the one or more secondary cells are each configured with a cell index having a value from one to seven, then the A/D MAC CE is of a fixed size of one octet and the A/D MAC CE is identified by a first subheader comprising a first logical channel identifier (LCID). Otherwise the A/D MAC CE is of a fixed size of four octets and the A/D MAC CE is identified by a second subheader comprising a second LCID different from the first LCID. At least one secondary cell of the one or more secondary cells is activating or deactivating according to the A/D MAC CE.
US10201009B1
A channel access timer at a communication device is set to a duration for which a shared communication medium is expected to be busy in a basic service set (BSS) heard by the communication device. The channel access timer is counted down. Before the channel access timer reaches zero, respective indications of respective contention free period durations in multiple basic service sets (BSSs) heard by the communication device are recorded in a BSS record maintained by the communication device. Recording the respective indications includes recording, for each particular BSS of the multiple BSSs, (i) an identifier of the particular BSS and (ii) an offset value corresponding to an offset of an end of a contention free period in the particular BSS from an end of a contention free period in the BSS based on which the channel access timer is currently set at the communication device.
US10201006B2
Control information associated with a transmission layer of a downlink transmission for a co-scheduled UE may be included in a companion DCI message. The companion DCI message may be sent to a first UE in addition to a self DCI message that communicates information associated with a transmission layer of the downlink transmission for the first UE. For example, a base station may transmit a self DCI message associated with a first transmission layer for a first UE and a companion DCI message associated with a second transmission layer for a co-scheduled UE in a control channel. The first UE may identify the self DCI message and the companion DCI message, and may then receive the downlink transmission based on the self and companion DCI messages. The UE may decode the downlink transmission based on the information included in both the self DCI message and the companion DCI message.
US10200994B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe a guard band signal for communication on a guard band between a first frequency band utilized by a first radio access technology having a first sub-carrier spacing and a second frequency band utilized by a second radio access technology having a second sub-carrier spacing that is a multiple of the first sub-carrier spacing. The guard band signal includes a symbol that is repeated a number of times equal to the multiple. The guard band signal may be generated and transmitted by a transmitting device. The guard band signal may be received and decoded by a receiving device. The guard band signal is interpretable according to a first numerology of the first radio access technology and according to a second numerology of the second radio access technology.
US10200993B2
Techniques are described for wireless communication at a wireless communication device. One method includes determining an availability of a sub-band of a shared radio frequency spectrum band during a first portion of a distributed channel availability check (CAC); receiving at least one indication that the sub-band is available during remaining portions of the distributed CAC; and communicating over the sub-band based at least in part on determining the sub-band is available during the first portion of the distributed CAC and the at least one indication that the sub-band is available during remaining portions of the distributed CAC.
US10200990B2
A method and apparatus may include performing, by a network node, a short Physical Downlink Shared Channel scheduling decision for a user equipment. The method can also include determining a short Physical Downlink Control Channel candidate for carrying a downlink assignment to the user equipment. The method can also include determining a short Physical Downlink Control Channel candidate set. The short Physical Downlink Control Channel candidate set is specific to the user equipment. The method can also include determining a plurality of logical signaling groups based on the determined candidate set. The method can also include determining which groups of the plurality of logical signaling groups that the network node will perform short Physical Downlink Shared Channel rate matching. The method can also include determining the short Physical Downlink Shared Channel resource mapping and creation of the short Physical Downlink Shared Channel. The method can also include transmitting Downlink Control Information on short Physical Downlink Control Channel and short Physical Downlink Shared Channel to the user equipment.
US10200980B2
A method, system and device are provided for avoiding in-device coexistence interference between different radio technologies deployed in adjacent bands on the same device by providing preferred frequency solutions for the in-device coexistence system.
US10200967B2
Techniques described herein provide ways in which a quantity of signaling may be limited between a user equipment (UE) and a location server (LS) for a location session and a positioning protocol such as LPP or LPP/LPPe. The positioning protocol may be enhanced to allow the LS to indicate to the UE a limit on the overall size of assistance data (AD) that the UE can request and/or a limit on the overall amount of location information (LI) that the UE can return. A recipient UE can then prioritize any request for AD such that more important AD should fit within the size limit. The recipient UE can also prioritize returned location measurements such that more useful measurements are included in a message to the LS that is compliant to the limit indicated by the LS.
US10200965B2
It is disclosed a method comprising one or more of the following: a first determining whether or not at least one characteristic that has been derived from a coverage map being representative of respective coverage areas of a plurality of beacons deployed in an area is affected at least by a count of the beacons deployed in the area and to their respective positions and affects an accuracy of a positioning of one or more terminals located in the area that is at least based on the coverage map and on respective fingerprints provided by the one or more terminals, is considered at least partially insufficient, and a providing, in case the first determining has come to an affirmative result, of first information on the at least one characteristic considered at least partially insufficient and/or on instances that at least contributed to the at least one characteristic being considered at least partially insufficient; a second determining, at least based on one or more fingerprints received from one or more terminals, whether or not an existing coverage map for an area can still be considered to be representative of respective coverage areas of a plurality of beacons deployed in the area, and a providing, in case the second determining has come to an affirmative result, of second information indicative of the result and/or indicative of why the existing coverage map is no longer considered to be representative of the respective coverage areas of the plurality of beacons deployed in the area; a third determining whether or not a status of a beacon on which information is transmitted by the beacon and received and provided by a terminal is considered improvable, and a providing, in case the third determining has come to an affirmative result, of third information on the beacon and/or on the status of the beacon; a deriving, from a coverage map that is representative of respective coverage areas of a plurality of beacons deployed in an area, of respective positions of one or more of the beacons, and a providing of fourth information representative of one or more of the derived respective positions of the one or more beacons.
US10200960B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a remote antenna unit (RAU) with multiple antenna assembly in a distributed antenna system (DAS). In this regard, an RAU(s) in a DAS includes a plurality of directional antennas, a power generation circuit, and a controller. The power generation circuit is configured to generate a power output having an aggregated power. The controller is configured to allocate the aggregated power to the directional antennas based on a power allocation scheme. By allocating the aggregated power between the directional antennas based on the power allocation scheme, it is possible to programmably control radiation patterns and transmission powers of the directional antennas in the RAU(s). As a result, it is possible to provide optimized radio frequency (RF) coverage throughout a coverage area(s) of the RAU(s) without preconfiguring the radiation patterns and transmission powers of the directional antennas.
US10200956B2
Systems and methods for throughput enhancement including asynchronous neighbor discovery among ultra-low power wireless network devices are provided. Specifically, techniques for discovering neighboring wireless devices within an energy-harvesting and/or energy constrained wireless communication network are provided such that the wireless devices are able to discover the greatest number of neighboring devices without exceeding the energy that they have accumulated by, for example, harvesting ambient sources or their allocated energy budget (e.g., battery/capacitor levels). Such devices are capable of transmitting and receiving data such as discovery messages and alternate between different operation states (e.g., listen, sleep, transmit) and are able to compute transitions rates in a centralized and/or distributed manner using either homogeneous or heterogeneous wireless devices.
US10200954B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for dynamically adjusting nodes in a mesh network embedded in objects. The nodes, which are individually capable of sensing and/or transmitting data, are paired together such that when one node is active, the other node is collecting energy via solar, wind, or other energy collecting means. When a node reaches a certain energy level, the nodes can switch status, such that the passive node becomes active and vice versa. Exemplary objects in which the systems can be embedded include benches, receptacles, and light fixtures.
US10200953B2
A UE 100 performs, in a connected mode, measurement and measurement reporting on a downlink reference signal, based on “Measurement Config” received from a eNB 200. When the UE 100 has not received the “Measurement Config” from the eNB 200, the UE 100 transmits a measurement configuration request for requesting transmission of the “Measurement Config” to the eNB 200. The UE 100 receives the “Measurement Config” transmitted from the eNB 200 in response to the measurement configuration request.
US10200951B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for processing (e.g., such as tasks for wireless communications and/or multimedia). According to certain aspects, a method for low power low latency data exchange generally includes providing timing information from a first processing entity to a second processing entity indicating when the second processing entity is to next process a message exchange between the first and second entities using a shared memory space, taking action to exit a low power state, based on the timing information, to access the shared memory space to process the message exchange, and entering the low power state after processing the message exchange.
US10200945B2
Communication network architectures, systems and methods for supporting a network of mobile nodes. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide communication network architectures, systems, and methods for supporting a dynamically configurable communication network comprising a complex array of both static and moving communication nodes that maintain connectivity support for mobility of end-user devices.
US10200942B2
A device including a measurement unit configured to perform measurement of each of one or more frequency bands that are a part of a plurality of frequency bands that are not used by a terminal device. The measurement unit does not perform measurement of each of the remaining frequency bands among the plurality of frequency bands or performs measurement of each of the remaining frequency bands at a frequency lower than a frequency of the measurements of each of the one or more frequency bands, which makes it possible to improve measurement performed by a terminal device.
US10200941B2
Network information may be discoverable without requiring a connection to that network. For example, Access Network Query Protocol (“ANQP”) may allow a device to discover information about a network prior to the device associating with that network. In other words, ANQP allows a network terminal to request additional network information prior to establishing network capability. The additional network information that may be discoverable includes network latency, cellular capabilities, hotspot capabilities, mobility capabilities, neighbor reports, station identification, and multiple hotspot session identification.
US10200932B2
Directing station roaming in a cloud-managed Wi-Fi network. Management messages are received from a controller that is located remotely from the Wi-Fi communication network by an access point. When an RSSI (received signal strength indication) value between the station and the access point falls below a threshold, the access point (i.e., controller access point) determines which neighboring access point would be a best fit for a hand-off, with limited real-time input form the cloud-based Wi-Fi controller. One of the two or more of the plurality of access points is selected for handing-off the station based on the RSSI values received from the interrogation. Responsive to the selection, a message is sent to the selected access point instructing the one of the at least one of the plurality of access points to respond to messages from the station.
US10200928B2
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for providing seamless service to a dual SIM enabled user equipment. The seamless service is provided by smoothening the broadcast services which is based on the dual SIM mobile devices with a single radio frequency chain that will require tune-away from one a one type of radio service to another type of radio service when checking for possible incoming calls. Due to the tune away user experience service lag in terms of lag in the video playback which is estimated by the present system and method to perform an appropriate smoothing operation for a disruption free user experience in ailing service.
US10200926B2
A method for changing a communication network for video communication is provided. The method includes performing, by a user equipment (UE), video communication through a mobile communication network; searching for whether there is a wireless local area network (WLAN) accessible by the UE; displaying, if a WLAN accessible by the UE is found, the accessible WLAN; and when the displayed WLAN is selected by a user, changing a communication network for the video communication to perform the video communication through the selected WLAN.
US10200925B2
Methods and systems are provided herein for selecting networks for a mobile communications device. Methods for selecting a network connection for a mobile communications device may include receiving signals that comprise location information of the mobile communications device and selecting a first network type or a second network type for the mobile communications device based upon a magnitude of movement of the mobile communications device determined from the location information, the first network type comprising a network that is capable of handing off active sessions for the mobile communications device, the second network type comprising a network that having a reduced capacity or no capacity to hand off active sessions for the mobile communications device.
US10200923B2
Embodiments of the present invention include a method for enhanced indication of network support of SRVCC and/or Voice-over-IMS for an User Equipment UE in an Evolved Packet System EPS network, said method comprising at least one step based on taking into account support of SRVCC and/or Voice-over-IMS by Radio Access Network RAN nodes and/or by Radio Access Technologies RATs available for SRVCC for said UE in said EPS network.
US10200920B2
A wireless network may provide system information by either a fixed periodic broadcast or broad-beam transmission or in response to a request by a user equipment (UE). The wireless network may broadcast (or broad-beam transmit) a signal that indicates to the UEs within a cell or zone coverage area that system information is to be transmitted on a fixed periodic schedule or in response to a request sent by one or more UEs.
US10200903B2
A communication apparatus connectable to a communication network notifies the presence of the communication apparatus using a communication channel assigned to the communication apparatus, then sets one communication channel different from the assigned communication channel of those available in the communication network, and searches for a communication partner apparatus which functions as a providing apparatus that provides communication parameters using the set communication channel. The communication apparatus repetitively executes the notification processing and the search processing, and changes a communication channel used in the search processing every time the repetition is executed one or a plurality of number of times.
US10200899B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described that are directed to estimating the bandwidth at a particular location in a wireless mesh network. In some embodiments, a performance determination apparatus includes a signal receiver module, a location module, a signal analysis module, a report module, and a placement module. In some embodiments, the signal analysis module collects received signal strength indicator (RSSI) on one or more receive chains of the receiver and analyzes various aspects of signal quality. In some embodiments, the signal analysis module estimates the bandwidth available at the location, estimates the latency at the location, or both. In some embodiments, the report module represents the quality of the signal graphically by overlaying a representation of the signal quality on a map of the area. In some embodiments, the placement module recommends where to place customer premises equipment (CPE) in order to maximize signal quality.
US10200884B2
The strengths of alternative self-organizing-network (SON) techniques can be leveraged by deriving a compromise result from alternative results generated by the respective SON techniques. In particular, the compromise result may be derived from the alternative results based on reputations assigned to alternative SON techniques used to generate the respective results. The compromise result may be calculated based on weighted averages of the alternative results (e.g., solutions, diagnoses, predicted values, etc.), or on weighted averages of parameters specified by the alternative results (e.g., parameter adjustments, underlying causes, KPI values, etc.). In such an embodiment, the weights applied to the alternative results may be based on the reputations of the corresponding SON techniques used to generate the respective alternative results.
US10200875B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for placement and scheduling of radio signal processing dataflow operations. An example method provides a primitive radio signal processing computational dataflow graph that comprises nodes representing operations and directed edges representing data flow. The nodes and directed edges of the primitive radio signal processing computational dataflow graph are partitioned to produce a set of software kernels that, when executed on processing units of a target hardware platform, achieve a specific optimization objective. Runtime resource scheduling, including data placement for individual software kernels in the set of software kernels to efficiently execute operations on the processing units of the target hardware platform. The resources of the processing units in the target hardware platform are then allocated according to the defined runtime resource scheduling.
US10200871B2
A radio resource allocation method and a radio network controller. The method includes obtaining transmission rate information of a plurality of links at time points t1, t2, . . . , and tn, overall traffic volume information of the plurality of links in time periods T1, T2, . . . , and Tm, and radio resource use information of each wireless transmission unit (WTU) in the plurality of WTUs, predicting a first transmission rate of a first link at a time point tn+1 in a time period Tm+1 according to the transmission rate information of the plurality of links at t1, t2, . . . , and tn and the overall traffic volume information of the plurality of links in T1, T2, . . . , and Tm, and determining a path that can satisfy a transmission rate requirement of the first link, and allocating a radio resource of the first link.
US10200870B2
A method is disclosed for blocking a cloned mobile device by a processor of a network. The processor receives a first registration from a first mobile device at a first location. The first registration includes a device identifier and a phone number. The processor then confirms that a second registration from a second mobile device at a second location includes the device identifier and the phone number and calculates a first fraud score for the first mobile device and a second fraud score for the second mobile device. The processor then determines that the second mobile device is the cloned mobile device, when the second fraud score exceeds the first score, and blocks the cloned mobile device from registering on the network.
US10200867B2
A method of securely supporting at least one application for use on a wireless device, including storing a plurality of locations, storing a plurality of public asymmetric keys for encryption of the plurality of locations, providing an interface for a virtual store, providing the location of a plurality of authorization files, displaying a list of applications available for the wireless device, presenting content associated with the list of applications available for the wireless device, receiving a customer selection of an application, creating an authorization file comprising the location of the application, storing the plurality of authorization files, providing an authorization file, authorizing one of the plurality of locations based on decryption of at least one of the plurality of public asymmetric keys, and installing on the wireless device the user selected application.
US10200853B2
Methods and apparatus for managing multiple user access control entities or clients. For example, in one embodiment, a “wallet” of electronic subscriber identity modules (eSIMs) may be stored and used at a user device and/or distributed to other devices for use thereon. In another embodiment, a networked server may store and distribute eSIM to a plurality of user devices in communication therewith. A database of available eSIM is maintained at the wallet entity and/or at the network which enables request for a particular eSIM to be processed and various rules for the distribution thereof to be implemented. Security precautions are implemented to protect both user and network carrier specific data as the data is transmitted between networked entities. Solutions for eSIM backup and restoration are also described.
US10200848B2
A communication control method is used in a mobile communication system that supports cellular communication in which a data path passes through a core network, and D2D communication that is direct device-to-device communication in which a data path does not pass through the core network. The communication control method comprises: a transmission step of transmitting, by a first user terminal that camps on a cell of a first base station, a discovery-use signal related to the discovery of a proximal terminal be capable of a communication partner of the D2D communication; and a notification step of notifying, by a communication device, the first base station of interference information related to the received discovery-use signal in response to the communication device receiving the discovery-use signal.
US10200847B2
A method for performing communication by a first communication device in a mobile communication system is provided. The method includes determining whether the first communication device is proximate to a nearby second communication device through a short-range communication link, enabling one of a first long-range communication link with a network or the short-range communication link with the second communication device based on the determination as to whether the first communication device is proximate to the second communication device, and receiving data from the network through the enabled one of the first long-range communication link with the network or the short-range communication link.
US10200843B1
In the subject system for Bluetooth audio role-based scheduling, an electronic device (e.g., a mobile phone), may receive streaming audio over a cellular connection, e.g. LTE, and may stream the audio to a head unit of a vehicle, e.g. via Bluetooth. The electronic device may also concurrently communicate with other electronic devices via, e.g., Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and/or BTLE. The electronic device may determine the Bluetooth/communication capabilities of the HU device, such as buffer size, and the electronic device may proactively configure Bluetooth settings/parameters for communicating with the HU device based on the capabilities of the HU device. The electronic device may also adaptively modify scheduling for communications with other electronic devices based on the determined capabilities of the HU device. In this manner, the electronic device can proactively mitigate and/or prevent the sub-optimal user experience caused by any differences in Bluetooth/communication capabilities of the HU device and the electronic device.
US10200836B2
An electronic terminal device can be configured using a device identifier that is input into the device. The terminal device sends the device identifier to a configuration server. The configuration server responds by sending configuration information to the terminal device based on the device identifier.
US10200829B2
A data pushing method and a related apparatus are provided. The data pushing method includes: obtaining, by a terminal, a target identifier of a target positioning base station; obtaining, by the terminal, a broadcast data stream delivered by an access device, where the broadcast data stream includes information data corresponding to identifiers of multiple positioning base stations; and extracting, by the terminal from the broadcast data stream, target information data corresponding to the target identifier. According to the present disclosure, spectrum resources are reduced, and server load is lightened.
US10200827B2
The present invention relates to a signal transmission method and apparatus. The signal transmission method provided in embodiments of the present invention includes: determining a modulation type of service data that needs to be transmitted, where the modulation type includes hierarchical modulation and non-hierarchical modulation; modulating, by means of the hierarchical modulation when it is determined that the modulation type is the hierarchical modulation, the service data that needs to be transmitted, and sending a modulated hierarchical modulation signal to UE; and sending modulation configuration information to the UE, where the modulation configuration information includes information used to indicate the modulation type. By using the embodiments of the present invention, the system spectrum utilization efficiency and the system throughput can be greatly improved.
US10200823B2
Various implementations described herein are directed to technologies for capturing marine electronics data. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory having a plurality of executable instructions that are executed by the processor. The processor receives a first request to capture data. The processor generates a command in response to the first request. The processor sends the command across a network to one or more devices capable of responding to the command. The command may include at least timestamp data and a second request for each of the one or more devices to collect data that each of the one or more devices is configured to collect.
US10200819B2
Systems and methods improve virtual reality and augmented reality functionality for mobile devices using radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted by a tracked device and received at four or more spatially separated antennae. These antennae are connected, wirelessly or through wired connections, to a base station. Through RF signal time of arrival information acquired at the antennae, the base station can continuously determine accurate position information of the tracked device, without lighting or line of sight limitations experienced by camera and other optical systems. As the position of the RF-transmitting tracked device is registered within a virtual environment produced by an interactive software program in communication with (or part of) the base station, the virtual viewpoint of the tracked device is controlled to reflect the relative position and orientation of the tracked device with respect to the virtual environment produced by the software program and displayed on a view screen.
US10200810B2
A method for identifying a suggested application on a mobile device is disclosed. The method includes detecting an event, determining a first location of the mobile device, identifying that the first location is within a first location region of a plurality of predetermined location regions, and then measuring one or more sensor values at one or more times. The measured sensor values may then be used to create a first-data point. In response to identifying the first location region, a plurality of clusters of data points may be retrieved. A first cluster of the plurality of clusters corresponding to the first data point may then be identified. The method may further include identifying a set of one or more applications, and then providing a message to the user based on the identified set of one or more applications.
US10200809B2
A positioning system that combines the use of real-time location system and a robotic total station into a single, transparent hybrid positioning system to locate one or multiple targets by one or multiple users.
US10200807B2
A method comprising: receiving audio input from multiple microphones; receiving position information for the multiple microphones; selecting in dependence upon positions of the microphones, at least a first microphone as a source of audio input forming a first output; selecting in dependence upon positions of the microphones, at least a second microphone as a source of audio input forming a second output; and enabling live rendering of audio by providing the first output for rendering via a left loudspeaker and the second output for rendering via a right loudspeaker.
US10200806B2
The method and apparatus described herein make use of multiple sets of head related transfer functions (HRTFs) that have been synthesized or measured at various distances from a reference head, spanning from the near-field to the boundary of the far-field. Additional synthetic or measured transfer functions maybe used to extend to the interior of the head, i.e., for distances closer than near-field. In addition, the relative distance-related gains of each set of HRTFs are normalized to the far-field HRTF gains.
US10200804B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to video content assisted audio object extraction. A method of audio object extraction from channel-based audio content is disclosed. The method comprises extracting at least one video object from video content associated with the channel-based audio content, and determining information about the at least one video object. The method further comprises extracting from the channel-based audio content an audio object to be rendered as an upmixed audio signal based on the determined information. Corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US10200798B2
A headpiece for use with a cochlear implant including a headpiece housing, a retention magnet within the headpiece housing that generates a retention magnetic field, the retention magnet including a bottom surface that faces the cochlear implant, a top surface opposite the bottom surface, and an outer radial surface between the top and bottom surfaces, an induction coil within the headpiece housing that transmits audio signals to the cochlear implant by generating a telemetry magnetic field, and a retention flux guide within the headpiece housing and adjacent to the top surface of the retention magnet.
US10200797B2
The disclosure relates to an inlet member for a microphone system in a hearing instrument, such as a hearing aid, wherein the inlet member has a main body portion having a first portion and a second portion, the second portion being provided with a first recess for accommodating a microphone comprising a snout for conducting sound energy into the interior of the microphone, wherein the first recess is provided with a sound channel formed for engagement with the snout of the microphone, where the sound channel at the end hereof facing away from the microphone is acoustically coupled to a third recess in the first portion, the third recess being defined by wall portions that provide a seal to corresponding inner surface portions of a hearing instrument, in which the inlet member is mounted.
US10200791B1
Embodiments of wireless audio systems and methods for operation mode switch of wireless headphones are disclosed herein. In one example, a wireless audio system includes a first wireless headphone and a second wireless headphone. The first wireless headphone is configured to establish a first short-range wireless link with an audio source; transmit, to a second wireless headphone, link information associated with the first short-range wireless link; and remove the first short-range wireless link with the audio source in response to the second wireless headphone successfully establishing a second short-range wireless link with the audio source based on the link information. The second wireless headphone is configured to receive, from the first wireless headphone, the link information associated with the first short-range wireless link; and establish the second short-range wireless link with the audio source based on the link information.
US10200786B1
One general aspect includes a method of remote volume adjustment through a telematics unit of a vehicle, the method including: establishing a short-range wireless connection (SRWC), via the telematics unit, with a wireless device present within the interior of the vehicle; receiving, via the telematics unit, one or more commands to set a maximum volume level for the wireless device; and limiting, via the telematics unit, the audio output directed to the wireless device to the maximum volume level.
US10200785B2
A wireless pocket transmitter having a rear side, a front side and a receiving compartment for a rechargeable battery. The receiving compartment has a rear wall which at least partially forms a part of the rear side, two side surfaces and a connecting portion with electrical contacts. The two side surfaces are each coupled with a first side to the rear wall and with a first end to the connecting portion. The second ends of the side surfaces each have a respective guide for the battery. The guides do not extend along the entire length of the side surface and the guide has two projections and a passage therebetween.
US10200777B2
A system for securing headphone transducers is provided. In one aspect of the present invention, the system comprises a first transducer device having a first mechanical housing, which has an outer surface and an inner surface. A first coupling device is affixed to the outer surface of the first mechanical housing of the first transducer device. A second transducer device has a second mechanical housing, which has an outer surface and an inner surface. A second coupling device is affixed to the outer surface of the second mechanical housing of the second transducer device. The first coupling device is coupled to the second coupling device when in close proximity to each other, such that the inner surfaces of the first and second mechanical devices are opposed to each other.
US10200773B2
A mobile communication device configured to be worn on an index finger of a user's hand. The device includes a case, a microphone, a switch, and a power source. The microphone and the switch are strategically located along a shape of the case so that as worn on the user's index finger and when the switch is activated by the thumb of the user's hand, the hand naturally cups about the microphone to form a barrier to ambient noise. Further, the microphone can readily be located near a corner of the user's mouth for optimal speech-receiving conditions and to provide more private audio input.
US10200759B1
Systems and methods for identifying and correlating an advertised object with a plurality of interconnected computing devices embedded in a living environment of the user. For example, a media guidance application implemented at a set-top box with a television may receive a signal from a printer indicating that cartridge ink is low. When the user is watching a television show and an advertisement relating to printer cartridges is being played, the media guidance application may identify that the advertised printer cartridges may be something that the user needs, and may then send a notification to a user of the advertisement. In this way, the media guidance application correlates advertisements from a media asset with a user's actual needs, which may improve the advertisement conversion rate for advertisers.
US10200756B2
Systems and methods for creating and employing software to handle the playback of media, especially video, in browsers that, in addition to or instead of playing the media in the browser, may use second display protocols to instruct a separate display device to play the media. The software can of any type that can transmit the content or specify a network location of the content item for subsequent playback to a content playback device. In one implementation, the software may be in the form of a web browser or other application that is configured to use for the playback of selected media types. The browser maintains a list of favorite and/or recently viewed services and content items and is configured to filter the list to include only those content items, or services with such content items, available for play back on the separate content playback device. In this way, favorite content items and services and/or recently viewed content items and services are made accessible using the second display on any content playback device registered with the user.
US10200742B2
A method includes receiving, at a computing device, input indicating a request to view a list. The list includes multiple elements, each of the elements corresponding to respective video content. The method also includes sending the list to a display device in response to the request, where the elements of the list are ordered based on a display order of the respective video content.
US10200733B1
Disclosed are techniques for minimizing user effort when controlling complex media systems such as home theater systems. When multiple devices are connected within such systems, it is necessary to ensure that content from the intended device is presented. In accordance with the disclosed principles, source selection is automatically performed by analyzing command signals and cross-referencing these signals with those expected for devices known to be within the system.
US10200729B2
Computer-implemented systems and methods provide for the autonomous broadcasting of video data, audio data, or video and audio data during an event, wherein the broadcasting can be schedule in advance and from a remote location (i.e., over a network).
US10200726B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media content processor having a controller adapted to detect an event associated with recorded media content derived from one among a plurality of media content sources, select a communication device of a subscriber of the media content processor, retrieve a portion of the recorded media content, generate a notice describing the event, and transmit the notice with the portion of the recorded media content to the communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10200710B2
Provided are a motion vector predicting method and an apparatus for encoding and decoding a video. The motion vector prediction method includes: determining, from neighboring blocks of the current block, a plurality of candidate blocks that are referred to so as to predict a motion vector of a current block; determining a candidate motion vector of a first candidate block among the determined plurality of candidate blocks, based on whether a reference image of the first candidate block and a reference image of the current block are long-term reference images; and determining the motion vector of the current block by using a candidate motion vector list including the determined candidate motion vector of the first candidate block and candidate motion vectors from remaining candidate blocks among the determined plurality of candidate blocks.
US10200709B2
In one example, a device includes a video coder configured to code a picture order count (POC) value for a first picture of video data, code a second-dimension picture identifier for the first picture, and code, in accordance with a base video coding specification or an extension to the base video coding specification, a second picture based at least in part on the POC value and the second-dimension picture identifier of the first picture. The video coder may comprise a video encoder or a video decoder. The second-dimension picture identifier may comprise, for example, a view identifier, a view order index, a layer identifier, or other such identifier. The video coder may code the POC value and the second-dimension picture identifier during coding of a motion vector for a block of the second picture, e.g., during advanced motion vector prediction or merge mode coding.
US10200707B2
Aspects extend to methods, systems, and computer program products for video bit stream decoding. Aspects include flexible definition and detection of surface alignment requirements for decoding hardware. Surface alignment requirements can be handled by render cropping (e.g., cropping at a video output device), through adjustment and modification of original syntax values in a video bit stream and relaxed media type negotiation in a software (host) decoder. Resolution changes can be hidden with the aligned surface allocation when applicable. Performance can be improved and power consumption reduced by using hidden resolution changes.
US10200706B2
Efficient decoding of video content that may involve intra block copy operations, such as copying pixel data from one region of a frame to another region of the same frame is described. For example, a method to decode the video content may involve identifying the video frame in which intra block copy operation is to be performed, prior to the intra block copy operation being initiated. A video decoder may prefetch the pixel data from the source region to a local buffer with low memory latency such that the source pixel data to be copied into the destination blocks in the video frame is readily available. Thus, costly, and time consuming memory access may be avoided, and in turn a video decoding pipeline may operate smoothly without any stalling.
US10200699B2
An apparatus for encoding a moving picture determines either an RGB format or a YUV format, in which intra prediction and inter prediction are executed based on a degree of deviation of information regarding each of R, G, and B components in moving picture data with the RGB format when a prediction selecting one component among three components in a color space format is designated in the input moving picture data with the RGB format, selects either color space format between the RGB format and the YUV format based on a determination result of the determination process, and executes orthogonal transform and quantization on the prediction error signal in the selected color space format and generating an encoded bit stream using a value subjected to the orthogonal transform and the quantization.
US10200675B1
The invention presents an omnidirectional system capable of collecting horizontal disparities in multiple angles. The user of the display system will be able to move its head, changing yaw and tilt. Another incarnation to the invention also allows for roll. The system is composed of a series of prisms and/or mirrors arranged in a circular pattern. The prisms or mirrors provide a 90 degree shift of the imagery collected, enabling a single camera to perform the image acquisition.
US10200674B2
An image processing apparatus processes an image obtained by an image capturing apparatus that includes a plurality of first photoelectric converters and a plurality of second photoelectric converters each forming a pair with each other. The second photoelectric converters providing a signal that has a parallax for a signal from the corresponding one of the first photoelectric converters, and a signal reading unit configured to read a first signal as an output signal from the first photoelectric converter and to read a second signal as a combination signal of the first signal and an output signal from a paired one of the second photoelectric converters in image capturing in which the first and second photoelectric converters receive light from an object. The image processing apparatus includes a defocus amount calculating unit configured to calculate a defocus amount using the first signal and the second signal.
US10200672B2
Customer wide angle lenses and methods and apparatus for using such lenses in individual cameras as well as pairs of cameras intended for stereoscopic image capture are described. The lenses are used in combination with sensors to capture different portions of an environment at different resolutions. In some embodiments ground is capture at a lower resolution than sky which is captured at a lower resolution than a horizontal area of interest. Various asymmetries in lenses and/or lens and sensor placement are described which are particularly well suited for stereoscopic camera pairs where the proximity of one camera to the adjacent camera may interfere with the field of view of the cameras.
US10200666B2
Methods and systems for enhancing motion estimation are disclosed for stereoscopic video sequences. The motion vector parameters and disparity values for consecutive frames may be calculated to estimate motion in a coherent manner between two channels, such as a left channel and a right channel in stereoscopic images. Occlusion handling is also applied to improve the estimation.
US10200662B2
In example implementations, an apparatus includes a camera, an image signal processor and a display processor. The camera measures metered values of an image projected onto a surface. The image signal processor is in communication with the camera to receive the metered values of the image on the surface. Display parameters are calculated by the image signal processor based on the metered values of the image on the surface that is measured. The display processor is in communication with the image signal processor and a projector. The display processor generates a color corrected image projected onto the surface by the projector. The color corrected image is generated based on the display parameters.
US10200660B2
An audio-video communication system comprises a wireless exterior module located proximate an entrance, a computerized controller running a software application, and a remote peripheral device. The wireless exterior module includes a proximity sensor for detecting a person at the entrance, a video camera for recording an image of the person at the entrance, a microphone for recording the person at the entrance, a speaker for playing audio to the person at the entrance, a transmitter for communicating sounds and images of the person at the entrance, and a receiver for receiving communications at the wireless exterior module. The computerized controller is disposed in wireless electronic communication with the wireless exterior module via the transmitter and the receiver of the wireless exterior module. The remote peripheral device is configured to electronically communicate with the computerized controller for viewing an image from the video camera communicated from the wireless exterior module.
US10200655B2
A multispectral bioluminescence optical tomography algorithm makes use of a partial differential equation (PDE) constrained approach. A sequential quadratic programming (SQP) method is demonstrated that allows for solving both forward and inverse problems at once by updating the forward and inverse variables simultaneously at each step of the optimization iterations. Light propagation in biological tissue is modeled by using the equation of radiative transfer (ERT) and performance of the ERT-based PDE-constrained approach is modeled through numerical and experimental studies.
US10200652B2
Techniques provided herein apply a precomputed graphical object to one or more images to generate a video that is modified with the precomputed graphical object. Various implementations characterize facial positions on a face in a first image and determine a respective facial position on the face to apply a precomputed graphical object at. One or more implementations modify the first image by applying the precomputed graphical object to the respective facial position in the first image. Some implementations modify one or more images that are captured after the first image by applying the precomputed graphical object to each respective location for the respective facial position in the one or more images. In turn, various implementations generate a video with images that are modified based on the precomputed graphical object.
US10200649B2
An image processing device comprising: a recording unit configured to record a previous frame image input before a target frame image that is to be a processing target or an output frame image from the previous frame image; an alignment unit configured to align the target frame image with the previous frame image or with the output frame image from the previous frame image; a correction unit configured to perform a temporal correction process to correct a pixel value of the target frame image by use of a pixel value of the previous frame image or a pixel value of the output frame image from the previous frame image that has been aligned by the alignment unit, with reference to the recording unit; and a generation unit configured to generate an output frame image from the target frame image by use of the target frame image corrected by the correction unit.
US10200647B2
An imaging device, including: a semiconductor substrate; a first pixel including a first photoelectric converter that converts incident light into first charges, a first charge detection circuit on the semiconductor substrate, the first charge detection circuit electrically connected to the first photoelectric converter and detecting the first charges, and a first capacitive element electrically connected to the first photoelectric converter, the first capacitive element storing at least a part of the first charges; and a second pixel comprising a second photoelectric converter that converts incident light into second charges, and a second charge detection circuit on the semiconductor substrate, the second charge detection circuit electrically connected to the second photoelectric converter and detecting the second charges, wherein the first capacitive element is at least partially located between the first photoelectric converter and the second photoelectric converter when viewed from a normal direction of the semiconductor substrate.
US10200640B2
An image sensor device includes a plurality of pixel cells arranged in a matrix in a pixel array, and a timing control circuit that controls read-out of pixel information from the plurality of pixel cells. Each of the plurality of pixel cells includes a photodiode, a transfer transistor provided between the photodiode and a floating diffusion, a node reset transistor provided between a power supply terminal and the floating diffusion, a read-out capacitor whose one end is connected to the power supply terminal, a capacitor reset transistor provided between another end of the read-out capacitor and the floating diffusion, an amplification transistor that amplifies a voltage generated based on electric charges accumulated in the floating diffusion, and a selection transistor provided between the amplification transistor and a read-out line.
US10200635B2
A system for providing active real-time characterization of an article under test is disclosed. An infrared light source, a first visible light source and a second visible light source each outputs and directs a beam of coherent light at a particular area on the article under test. A visible light camera and a visible light second harmonic generation camera, an infrared camera and an infrared second harmonic generation camera, a sum frequency camera and a third order camera are each configured to receive a respective predetermined return beam of light from the particular area on the article under test. A processor receives signals from the cameras and calculates in real time respective spectroscopic signals and compares each calculated signal with each other calculated signal and with a predetermined baseline signal to ensure that the article under test conforms to an expected value.
US10200627B2
A user interface to a virtual camera for a 3-D rendering application provides various features. A rendering engine can continuously refine the image being displayed through the virtual camera, and the user interface can contain an element for indicating capture of the image as currently displayed, which causes saving of the currently displayed image. Autofocus (AF) and autoexposure (AE) reticles can allow selection of objects in a 3-D scene, from which an image will be rendered, for each of AE and AF. A focal distance can be determined by identifying a 3-D object visible at a pixel overlapped by the AF reticle, and a current viewpoint. The AF reticle can be hidden in response to a depth of field selector being set to infinite depth of field. The AF and AE reticles can be linked and unlinked, allowing different 3-D objects for each of AF and AE.
US10200620B2
A zooming control apparatus comprises an object detection unit configured to detect an object from an image; a first acquisition unit configured to acquire information regarding a distance to the object; and a zooming control unit configured to perform zooming control for automatically changing a zoom magnification according to at least one of second information that includes information regarding a size of the object detected by the object detection unit and first information regarding the distance to the object acquired by the first acquisition unit, wherein a condition for automatically changing the zoom magnification in the zooming control differs according to a reliability of the first information.
US10200619B2
An electronic device generates, in accordance with an operation on an operation unit, a zoom control command for controlling a drive unit that mechanically drives a zoom position of a lens unit attached to an image capture apparatus from the outside of the lens unit, and transmits the zoom control command to the image capture apparatus via communication unit. The electronic apparatus obtains information related to the zoom position of the lens unit from the image capture apparatus, and displays, on a display apparatus, information indicating a current zoom position of the lens unit relative to a minimum zoom position and a maximum zoom position of the lens unit.
US10200611B2
An image capturing device includes a first controller operable to control image capturing; an operation section including a switch; a detector operable to detect a change to an image capturing mode and to send a signal representing the change; a second controller operable to monitor and process the sent signal, the second controller having a power consumption less than that of the first controller; and a power supply operable to supply power to the first controller, the second controller, and a functional section of the device. When the second controller receives the signal sent from the detecting section in a power saving state in which power is supplied from the power supply to the second controller, the power saving state is changed to a power supplying state capable of image capturing by supplying power from the power supply to portions of the device including the first controller.
US10200605B2
In an example embodiment, a motion capturing device includes a mask configured to rotate during capture of a scene by the motion capturing device and modulate the scene; and a motor coupled to the mask and configured to rotate the mask during the capturing of the scene.
US10200600B2
A digital image photographing apparatus and a method of controlling the same. The method includes: determining a focal area by a touch; if the touch continues for a first time period, performing a photographing operation to generate a first capture image; and if the touch continues for a second time period that is longer than the first time period, a successive capturing operation is performed until the touch is ended. Accordingly, auto-focusing may be performed by using a touching method, and a photographing may be performed while maintaining an auto-focusing result, and then successive capturing may be performed.
US10200594B2
A focus detection apparatus includes a first setting unit configured to set a first focus detection area and a second focus detection area, a first focus detection unit configured to perform focus detection of a phase difference detection method on each of the first and second focus detection areas by using the pair of parallax image signals, a reliability acquisition unit configured to obtain reliability of the focus detection of the first and second focus detection areas by the first focus detection unit, a second setting unit configured to determine a third focus detection area by using the reliability of the focus detection of the first and second focus detection areas, obtained by the reliability acquisition unit, and a second focus detection unit configured to perform focus detection by using the third focus detection area.
US10200591B2
An image processing apparatus includes a first phase difference detector configured to detect two phase differences in a range that contains a phase difference that provides the highest correlation between a pair of image signals, a comparator configured to compare a signal representative of a matching degree when the pair of image signals have a first phase difference among the two phase differences, and a signal representative of a matching degree when the pair of image signals have a second phase difference among the two phase differences, a signal separator configured to separate a pair of signal components relating to a specific object from the pair of image signals, based on a comparison result by the comparator, and a second phase difference detector configured to detect a phase difference that provides the highest correlation between the pair of signal components separated by the signal separator.
US10200583B2
A system which is used to obtain photographs and videos includes at least one mobile device and at least one detachable camera. The camera includes a body of flexible and magnetic polymeric material attached to a non-ferrous metal head which encapsulates the main components that interface with the main device.
US10200582B2
To provide a device, system, and program with which it is possible for photometric information or colorimetric information corresponding to an international industry standard to be accurately measured in a simple manner. In one embodiment, a measurement apparatus (1) includes: an imaging unit (11) that acquires image data of an image; converters (141, 142) that use image data shooting information to convert the image data into data including photometric information or colorimetric information; and an output unit (16) that outputs the photometric information or the colorimetric information obtained by the converters.
US10200579B2
An image capturing device is provided. The image capturing device includes a main body, an image capturing module and a rod. The image capturing module includes a lens and an image capturing unit. The main body includes a display module. The image capturing module is electrically connected to the main body. The rod is adjustably disposed between the image capturing module and the main body.
US10200574B2
The present disclosure provides a method for generating a video frame and a system thereof, including: receiving at least two frames of a video captured by an image capture unit through a network; calculating a first set of optical flow vectors of the at least two frames by a first algorithm; generating a set of modified vectors according to at least one parameter; combining the set of modified vectors and the first set of optical flow vectors to obtain a second set of optical flow vectors; and shifting one of the at least two frames according to the second set of optical flow vectors to generate a virtual image. Therefore, the present disclosure can reduce deviation caused by the latency of the network and improve user experience.
US10200572B1
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for detection motion in video data. An image processor may receive video data. A first frame and a second frame may describe a plurality of pixel locations. The second frame may be positioned after the first frame in the frame sequence. The image processor may determine that a first subset of pixel locations from the plurality of pixel locations differ by less than a threshold amount between frames for at least a threshold number of frames in the frame sequence prior to the first frame. The image processor may identify from the first subset of pixel locations, a second subset of pixel locations that differ by more than the threshold amount between the first frame and the second frame and determine that a number of pixel locations in the second subset of pixel locations is greater than a motion pixel threshold.
US10200566B2
An electronic apparatus is obtained that suppresses a decrease in convenience to a legitimate user while reducing the possibility of unauthorized login. In the electronic apparatus, a user-interface unit displays a user-authentication screen, and detects operation for confirming a character string that is inputted in an input field. The user-authentication unit, when this operation is detected, executes user authentication based on the character string that is inputted in the input field and a pre-registered password. The user-authentication unit considers user authentication as having failed at least one time even though the character string is a correct password. The user-interface unit, (a) when the character string is not a correct password and user authentication has failed, clears the character string that is inputted in the input field. Then the user-interface unit monitors whether or not user operation of an operation unit or re-input of a character string in the input field is detected. The user-interface unit, (b) when user authentication has failed even though the character string is a correct password, does not clear the character string that is inputted in the input field. Then, the user-interface unit monitors whether or not user operation of an operation unit or re-input of a character string in the input field is detected.
US10200556B2
In a case where an image forming apparatus is connected to an information processing apparatus, correction information is generated through comparison between time information obtained by the image forming apparatus and time information obtained by the information processing apparatus. The image forming apparatus transmits, to the information processing apparatus, time information indicating a time at which setting information is updated in the image forming apparatus. The information processing apparatus corrects the received time information with the correction information. The information processing apparatus determines whether to update setting information stored in the information processing apparatus with received setting information, based on the corrected time information.
US10200542B2
Systems and computing devices may be configured to intelligently and dynamically allocate quotas for the access and use of a telecommunications network by consumers that use a shared account balance. A server computing device may be configured to intelligently allocate quota by determining an allocation time interval for allocating quota from a shared account balance, receiving a quota request message from a metering and gating component that includes information requesting allocation of a first quota to a first consumer associated with a shared account balance, determining a validity period for the first quota based on the determined allocation time interval, and allocating the first quota to the first consumer from the updated shared account balance so as to eliminate or reduce conflicts and discrepancies between different instances of the shared account balance.
US10200538B2
A voicemail receptionist system includes a memory and a processor. The memory can store data relating to one or more users. An incoming communication can be handled by the voicemail receptionist system and provided with functionality based upon a user's preferences, for example. The data stored by the voicemail receptionist system can be updated at any time, or automatically updated upon updating of the data, or upon occurrence of a trigger event. Voicemail receptionist functionality can include standard voicemail system functionality as well as functionality relating to email, text messaging, MMS messaging, calendar features, schedule announcements, location data, as well as other features.
US10200537B1
Various embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems, and computer program products for routing a communication in a contact center. Specifically, a treatment is selected for a communication from a plurality of treatments supported by the contact center. Here, each treatment includes a set of sub-queues and is applicable to a reason and/or opportunity for conducting a communication with a party. Each sub-queue includes a value range and a plurality of agents assigned to handle communications placed in the sub-queue. Accordingly, in particular embodiments, a communication value is determined for the communication based on a computation specific to the selected treatment and a sub-queue is selected from the set of sub-queues based on the communication value falling within the value range for the sub-queue. The communication is then placed in the selected sub-queue so that it can be connected to an agent assigned to handle communications placed in the sub-queue.
US10200535B2
An interactive display response (IDR) system and a non-transitory computer readable medium. The IDR system includes an interactive display server (IDS), wherein the IDS is configured to: establish a data session with an interactive display application (IDA) installed on a mobile device, wherein the data session is established when a call is placed, via the mobile device, with a call center that is subscribed to provide IDR services; obtain, from the call center, a link to a data to be displayed via the IDA; and send, to the mobile device, the link to the data to be displayed on the mobile device; wherein the IDA is configured to determine whether the call center is subscribed to provide IDR services, wherein the IDA is further configured to send the results of the determination to the IDS.
US10200534B1
A dialer is configured to connect an agent to a call upon answer and present information to a computer workstation used by the agent as to whether the call was answered by a live person or an automatic call answering device (“ACAD”). An agent override timer is started allowing the agent to override the determination of whether a live person or ACAD answered the call. If an live person is reported to have answered the call and the agent does not provide an override indication or provides an override indication after the expiry of the agent override timer, then the call proceeds as normal. If an agent override indication is received prior to the expiry of the agent override timer, then the call may be terminated. This allows the agent to override an incorrect determination by the dialer as to an ACAD or live person answering the call.
US10200524B2
A hand-held tool system includes at least one mobile sensor device. The mobile sensor device has at least one base unit and at least one communication unit. The communication unit is configured to communicate with the hand-held power tool. The hand-held tool system further includes at least one function device configured to be detachably connected to the mobile sensor device such that a functionality of the mobile sensor device is expanded.
US10200523B2
A slave device provides a service to a master device via wireless communication, e.g. via wireless docking. The master device has a graphical user interface arranged for generating a system image (400) for showing node elements (310, 311, 320) graphically representing the devices and services, e.g. on a touch screen. The user may draw a line (410, 420) on the touch screen between selected node elements causing a line drawing input being detected. The slave device now initiates a setup operation between selected devices corresponding to the selected node elements. The setup operation is subsequently performed by establishing a wireless connection between the selected devices. Advantageously, the user intuitively commands a wireless connection to be set up for using a service via wireless communication.
US10200515B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of controlling data flow over a communication network. For example, an apparatus may include a communication unit to communicate between first and second devices a transfer response, the transfer response in response to a transfer request, the transfer response including a transfer pending status indicating data is pending to be received at the second device, the communication unit is to communicate the transfer response regardless of whether a retry indicator of the transfer request represents a first request for transfer or a retried request.
US10200509B1
A device may generate a frame including data to be provided to a client device. The data may be associated with a rate corresponding to the client device. The device may determine rate information, associated with a set of client devices, that identifies the rate and one or more other rates. The device may determine a relative frame transmission time (RFTT) associated with the frame. The device may determine a frame scheduling number (FSN), associated with the frame, based on the RFTT. The device may schedule the frame for provision to the client device based on the FSN. The device may provide the frame to the client device based on scheduling the FSN. The frame may be provided to cause relative airtime fairness between a first group of frames, corresponding to the rate, and a second group of frames, corresponding to the one or more other rates, to be achieved.
US10200504B2
A system and methods comprise a touchscreen at a premises. The touchscreen includes a processor coupled to a security system at the premises. User interfaces are presented via the touchscreen. The user interfaces include a security interface that provides control of functions of the security system and access to data collected by the security system, and a network interface that provides access to network devices. A camera at the premises is coupled to the touchscreen via a plurality of interfaces. A security server at a remote location is coupled to the touchscreen. The security server comprises a client interface through which remote client devices exchange data with the touchscreen and the security system.
US10200502B2
A method for software update management is described. The method comprises: comparing sub-files of a plurality of variants of a software program to generate difference information including a list of uncommon sub-files among the plurality of variants; generating one or more increment files based on the difference information and files of a target version of the software program; and transmitting the one or more increment files to a device, wherein the transmission enables the device to merge the one or more increment files with files of one of the plurality of variants to generate files of the target version of the software program.
US10200485B2
A system transmits selected news feed stories to a client device in advance of receiving a request for news feed stories. As a result, stories are immediately available for viewing when a user interacts with the system. The system selects news feed stories to push based on criteria such as a likelihood that a user will interact with a story and the sizes of pushed stories. For example, the system selects news feed stories such that a total size of stories selected does not exceed a threshold value based on local memory at the client device. The system may determine a scheduled time at which the stories are selected and pushed. The scheduled time is based on factors including patterns of network connection speed or past user interactions, for example, a time range of the day during which the user most frequently viewed pushed stories.
US10200484B2
Emails and other electronic messages are passed through a spam filter and classified as not spam. Thereafter, the electronic messages are sent and received at user computers. Reports may then be received specifying or informing that the electronic messages are missed spam by the spam filter. The electronic messages may then be reclassified as spam and the spam filter modified.
US10200483B2
According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for creating a social network service (SNS) community is provided. The method may include receiving a message from a user associated with an SNS. The method may also include determining a location of the received message based on a time and a position associated with the received message. The method may then include identifying at least one device from within a plurality of registered devices having the same location. The method may further include determining at least one device user based on the identified at least one device. The method may also include creating an SNS community based on the user and the determined at least one device user. The method may then include distributing messages between the user and the determined at least one device user.
US10200480B2
One aspect of the present invention is to provide a Connectivity Management (CM) function for use in networks such as a wireless network. The CM function can support both User Equipment (UE) and Machine Type Communication (MTC) devices in the network. In one embodiment of the first aspect, there is provided methods and systems for CM for a plurality of different types of devices that may evaluate tracking criteria to determine where and when wireless resources will need to be allocated to a wireless device. In some embodiments, these tracking criteria include location tracking and/or activity tracking. Another aspect provides for the instantiation of virtual CM functions established at appropriate physical nodes to provide device specific or service specific CM.
US10200471B2
A method and system for workload migration across a hybrid network is provided. The method and system are directed to migrating a workload to a cloud by transferring the workload computing processes to the cloud, streaming workload data as necessary to execute the workload processes in the cloud, transferring the remaining workload data in a background process to cloud storage, and then completing migration by switching the primary data source of the workload computing processes to the cloud storage. In another aspect, a method and system are directed to migrating on-premises storage associated with a virtual machine to the cloud to be stored and executed in association with containerized applications. Additionally, techniques for full detach and partial detach of containerized applications are provided.
US10200467B2
Stream-based data deduplication is provided in a multi-tenant shared infrastructure but without requiring “paired” endpoints having synchronized data dictionaries. Data objects processed by the dedupe functionality are treated as objects that can be fetched as needed. As such, a decoding peer does not need to maintain a symmetric library for the origin. Rather, if the peer does not have the chunks in cache that it needs, it follows a conventional content delivery network procedure to retrieve them. In this way, if dictionaries between pairs of sending and receiving peers are out-of-sync, relevant sections are then re-synchronized on-demand. The approach does not require that libraries maintained at a particular pair of sender and receiving peers are the same. Rather, the technique enables a peer, in effect, to “backfill” its dictionary on-the-fly. On-the-wire compression techniques are provided to reduce the amount of data transmitted between the peers.
US10200457B2
Machine-learned models are selectively distributed to a plurality of computer servers according to conditions associated with the computer servers. A server receives travel information from a travel coordination system. The travel information describes a plurality of conditions. The server identifies a hierarchy of one or more parent-child relationships based on the plurality of conditions. The server trains machine-learned models using the plurality of conditions described by the travel information. The server selects machine-learned models for the plurality of conditions responsive to the identified hierarchy. The server distributes machine-learned models to the plurality of computer servers responsive to the identified hierarchy.
US10200456B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for suggesting media content to a group of users. The method includes identifying more than one device at a location and pairing the devices. The method further includes receiving at least one media content preference from the users of the devices, and performing a search of the media content, based on the received preferences. A suggestion from the searched media content is provided to the users of the devices.
US10200455B2
An information processing system includes a reception part and a process control part. The reception part receives a processing request including process identification information identifying a process and user identification information from an apparatus. The process control part, when the received user identification information is stored in correlation with the received process identification information, executes the process according to the process identification information based on the result of applying change information stored in correlation with the received user identification information to setting information stored in correlation with apparatus identification information identifying the apparatus and with the received process identification information.
US10200449B2
When download operations get started in unison in conformity to RSS metafile delivery time-and-date information, the traffic is temporarily concentrated to a server, resulting in the risk of a system failure or else. In addition, it is inevitable to periodically check whether an RSS file on Web server is updated or not; so, users must delete update-unnecessary RSS files from those objects to be monitored. In view of this, the periodical update check timing of download control information is dispersed, thereby scattering download requests to the server. The download control information is provided with the information indicating whether such download control information is put under update management and/or expire time-and-date information in case the update management is to be done, whereby an information processing apparatus performs, based on the information, erase processing of the download control information when the download processing is completed.
US10200443B2
On a computing device, a notification of an event is received via a digital communication channel. The notification includes an individualized UI element identifier that distinguishes an instance of a UI element from every other instance of any UI element. The individualized UI element identifier includes a device identifier, an application identifier, a page index, and a UI element label. The instance of the UI element is identified based on the individualized UI element identifier included in the notification of the event. An operation associated with the instance of the UI element is performed in response to identifying the instance of the UI element.
US10200436B2
Techniques are disclosed for representing a user quality of experience (QoE) experienced by users of a streaming media service using a single QoE metric. The single QoE metric may be determined based on a set of empirical characteristics relating to the streaming video service such as startup latency, video quality, and the likelihood of interruptions in streaming playback. The empirical characteristics may be weighted according to how much one factor influences user quality of experience, relative to the others. Representing the QoE as a single metric may allow a streaming media service provider to improve key business measures such as subscriber retention and engagement.
US10200433B2
The present application relates to a client device, a method for receiving a streaming media data and a streaming media data transmission system. In the client device, a transceiver transmits a request for a segment to a server and receives the segment transmitted from the servers. If it is determined by a processor that the transceiver does not receive a first segment transmitted from the server within the preset threshold time from transmitting the request for the first segment to the server, the processor controls the transceiver to transmit a request for a second segment having the same media content and a lower transmission bit rate to the server.
US10200430B2
A network media device is described that pulls multimedia data from one or more sources (e.g., a multimedia website or a multimedia server computer) at a first time, stores it to long-term storage within the device and transmits the stored multimedia data to one or more designated multimedia playback devices at a second time.
US10200417B2
Systems and methods are provided for establishing a video conference session. The systems and methods may include receiving, from a first conference client device, a request to establish a conference session with a second conference client device; determining a first media router for forwarding, to the second conference client device, a media data stream with predetermined attributes of a plurality of first media data streams generated by the first conference client device; determining a second media router for forwarding, to the first conference client, a media data stream with predetermined media attributes of a plurality of second media data streams generated by the second conference client device; and transmitting, to the first conference client device, a first address associated with the first media router and a second address associated with the second media router.
US10200410B2
A round-robin network security system implemented by a number of peer devices included in a plurality of networked peer devices. The round-robin security system permits the rotation of the system security controller among at least a portion of the peer devices. Each of the peer devices uses a defined trust assessment ruleset to determine whether the system security controller is trusted/trustworthy. An untrusted system security controller peer device is replaced by another of the peer devices selected by the peer devices. The current system security controller peer device transfers system threat information and security risk information collected from the peer devices to the new system security controller elected by the peer devices.
US10200385B2
An enterprise computer network is monitored to detect and neutralize security breaches. In a first case failed login attempts to multiple target machines are noted and if they come from one machine or a small number of originating machines, a password spraying attack from the originating machines is indicated, resulting in the originating machines being segregated from the system. In another case, multiple indicators of compromise are used to determine whether an enterprise machine is infected with malware and only if multiple indicators are present is the machine segregated from the system.
US10200382B2
A system and method for detecting abnormal traffic behavior. The method comprises: applying a task to an input data set to create an un-normalized cluster of traffic features, wherein the task defines a plurality of traffic features; computing a center point of the cluster of traffic features; computing a distance between the computed center point and a new sample, wherein the new sample includes traffic features defined in the task; and determining, based on the computed distance, whether the received new sample demonstrates abnormal behavior.
US10200381B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer-readable media related to phishing and brand protection via copycat detection. In some embodiments, a temporary page profile associated with a webpage may be generated. The temporary page profile may include an image component, a geometry component, a style component, and a link component. One or more baseline page profiles may be retrieved. The temporary page profile and the one or more baseline page profiles may be compared. It may be determined that the temporary page profile does not match the one or more baseline page profiles. An alert may be generated to display to a user indicating that fraud has been detected for the webpage.
US10200368B2
A system and method that include receiving a service provider identity request through a federated authentication protocol; transmitting a proxy identity request to a configured identity provider; receiving an identity assertion; facilitating execution of a second layer of authentication; determining a proxy identity assertion based on the identity assertion and the second layer of authentication; and transmitting the proxy identity assertion to the service provider.
US10200361B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described is a system and method for integrating a transactional middleware platform with a centralized access manager to provide single sign-on authentication in an enterprise-level computing environment. The enterprise-level computing environment can include the transactional middleware platform and one or more SOA middleware platforms. Each middleware platform can include one or more access agents to access the centralized access manager configured to store user identity and security policy information for the enterprise-level computing environment. A request from a client for an application service in the transactional middleware platform can be intercepted by an access agent therein, which can communicate with a centralized access server of the centralized access manager to obtain a session token. The session token can be stored in an execution context of the client, for use in authorizing the client to access resources in each middleware platform in the enterprise-level computing environment.
US10200359B1
The disclosed method for creating credential vaults that use multi-factor authentication to automatically authenticate users to online services may include (1) detecting a user account for an online service that uses multi-factor authentication comprising a token that generates a cryptographic authentication code, (2) creating a virtual representation of the token that is capable of generating the cryptographic authentication code, (3) storing the virtual representation of the token and a set of credentials for the user account in a credential vault for a user, (4) sending a message to the online service that associates the virtual representation of the token with the user account, (5) authenticating the user to the credential vault, and (6) automating the multi-factor authentication process for the online service by providing the cryptographic authentication code and the set of credentials to the online service. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10200356B2
An information processing system performing highly secure broadcast authentication while reducing a delay until authentication, a communication amount, and a computation amount is provided. A server (100) generates authentication information for transmission data by combining a tag relating to the transmission data and a chain value associated in a chain with transmission order of the transmission data. The tag relating to the transmission data is generated by using a common key. The chain is generated by using a one-way function. A node (200) verifies whether a chain value associated with transmission order of data received in the past is generated or not by applying the one-way function to a chain value extracted by using a tag relating to the received data and authentication information for the received data. The tag relating to the received data is generated by using the common key.
US10200353B2
Mechanisms support machine-to-machine service layer sessions that can span multiple service layer hops where a machine-to-machine service layer hop is a direct machine-to-machine service layer communication session between two machine-to-machine service layer instances or between a machine-to-machine service layer instance and a machine-to-machine application. Mechanisms are also disclosed that illustrate machine-to-machine session establishment procedures for one M2M Session Management Service supporting multiple resources.
US10200351B2
The disclosure describes systems, methods and devices relating to a sign-on and management hub or service for users of multiple internal, external or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) software applications (Apps), with options for centralized management and sharing of accounts without needing to provide login credentials to individual users.
US10200342B2
Some embodiments provide a method for dynamically configuring multiple instances of applications that operate on clients in a network system. The method of some embodiments uses the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) to configure the multiple instances of each application to share a pool of resources specific to the application that are used for configuring the application on each of the clients. Some embodiments of the invention store an application ID in DHCP-formatted packets to differentiate the packets from DHCP packets and to distribute shared configuration resources between various instances of the application.
US10200341B2
Systems and methods for creating custom domain name links are provided. At least one server communicatively coupled to a network receives a request to create a custom domain name link to a third party service. The request identifies a custom domain name. The at least one server retrieves, from a third party service link database, an entry for the third party service specifying how to create the custom domain name link for the third party service and he at least one server creates the custom domain name link in accordance with the entry retrieved from the third party service link database.
US10200339B2
A device may receive, from multiple user devices associated with a shared identifier, registration information that includes a unique identifier for each user device of the multiple user devices, and capability information that identifies one or more capabilities of each user device. The device may store the registration information. The device may receive, from a service provider device, a query associated with providing a service, requiring a particular capability, to at least one of the user devices associated with the shared identifier. The query may include the shared identifier. The device may determine, based on the query and the stored registration information, a set of unique identifiers associated with the shared identifier, and may determine a set of capabilities corresponding to each unique identifier. The device may provide, to the service provider device, information that identifies the set of unique identifiers and the set of capabilities.
US10200330B2
Techniques for ephemeral message are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a delayed-action worker module operative to wake according to a wake timer; determine a current update object for a delayed-action cursor for a recipient update queue for a messaging system, the delayed-action cursor associated with an action delay for the recipient update queue; determine a delayed-action activity for the current update object; perform the delay-action activity for the current update object; determine a next update object for the delayed-action cursor for the recipient update queue; and determine a next wake timer for the delayed-action worker module based on the action delay and a creation time for the next update object. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10200324B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium for dynamically partitioning a directory list to limit recipients to an appropriate context. More specifically, in certain embodiments the dynamic partitioning includes a first component which describes a priori categories. In certain embodiments, the a priori categories could include “inner circle” or “trusted advisors” categories. Other categories could include “friends of the DL” who only want occasional but relevant messages. In certain embodiments, these categories are created by a DL owner. However, in certain embodiments, members (e.g., recipients) could also change their own category. For example, a DL could have categories: All, Required participants, FYI participants, Managers.
US10200323B2
A method of communicating between a sender and a recipient via a personalized message, including steps of: (a) identifying text, via the user interface of a communication device, of a desired lyric phrase from within a pre-existing audio recording; (b) selecting visual data, such as an image or video, to be paired with the desired lyric phrase; (c) extracting audio substantially associated with the desired lyric phrase from the pre-existing recording into a desired audio clip; (d) inputting personalized text via the user interface; (e) creating the personalized message with the sender identification, the personalized text and access to the desired audio clip; and (e) sending an electronic message to the electronic address of the recipient. Clips may be generated automatically based on a relevance score. The electronic message may be a text message, instant message, or email message; this message may alternatively have a link to the personalized message.
US10200316B2
Interactions based on Instant Messaging (IM) are provided, where an IM client of a user terminal device is configured with a microblog entrance related to IM tips, the IM client obtains IM tips data from an IM server, invokes the microblog entrance in response to an operation instruction of a user, obtains from a microblog server microblog data associated to the IM tips data, generates a microblog box and presents the microblog data on the microblog box. The methods can improve efficiencies of interactions.
US10200309B2
A switch includes a chassis, a drive bay including a plurality of downlink switch ports that are configured to be connected to a plurality of storage devices, a plurality of uplink switch ports, and an embedded circuit for providing signal switching between the plurality of uplink switch ports and the plurality of downlink switch ports. The drive bay is disposed on a first side of the chassis, and the plurality of uplink switch ports are disposed on a second side of the chassis that is opposite to the first side of the chassis. The plurality of downlink switch ports is embedded in the drive bay.
US10200308B2
System and method for supporting scalable representation of link stability and availability in a high performance computing environment. A method can provide at attribute at each node in a subnet, wherein the attribute provides a single location at each node for a subnet manager to query the stability and availability of each link connected to the queried node. The attribute can be populated and maintained by a subnet management agent residing at the node.
US10200306B2
Some embodiments provide a method that receives a request for information regarding a path between endpoints of a logical network. The method provides, for display, a visualization of the path including (i) a set of logical network components between the endpoints and (ii) a set of physical network components that implement the logical network components. The physical network components and the logical network components are aligned in the display. In some embodiments, the method receives data regarding a packet tracing operation between the endpoints. The method generates a display including (i) a visualization of the path between the endpoints of the logical network and (ii) a representation of the received data regarding the packet tracing operation, with the packet tracing operation data is visually linked to the components of the path.
US10200302B2
Techniques for allocating resources for communication in a communication network are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for allocating resources for communication in a communication network comprising receiving a request for a session associated with a mobile device from a mobility management device, wherein the request comprises a group identifier identifying a group of communication sessions in which the requested session is a member; receiving the service plan associated with the group of communication sessions; allocating shared resources to the group of communication sessions in accordance with the service plan; and sending a response to the mobility management device, indicating that the requested session has been established for the mobile device.
US10200301B1
A distributed system may implement logical control groups for distributed system resources. A request for a particular system resource may be received at a request routing tier for a distributed system that is implemented by multiple computing systems in different respective availability zones. One or more resource control nodes of a resource control tier for the distributed system that are members of a logical control group for the particular system resource may be discovered. A logical control group for the particular system resource may include at least one resource control node in a different availability zone than the availability zone that includes the particular system resource. The request may then be sent to one of the discovered resource control nodes in the logical control group in order to service the request for the particular system resource.
US10200300B2
A network device in a Named Data Networking (NDN) network receives an Interest from a consumer including a name and an Expected Data Size of data requested through the Interest. The network device forwards the Interest along a path to a producer of the data based on the name. As a result, the network device receives data that has traversed the path in reverse and satisfies the forwarded Interest. The network device determines an actual data size of the received data. The network device compares the actual data size to the Expected Data Size. If the actual data size is greater than the expected data size, and if a level of traffic congestion associated with forwarding the received data to the consumer is below a threshold, forwarding the received data to the consumer along a path based on the name of the data.
US10200295B1
Methods and systems for implementing client selection in a distributed strict queue are disclosed. A plurality of messages are distributed to a plurality of queue servers based on strict order parameters for the messages. Messages that share a value for the strict order parameter are distributed to the same queue server. The messages are enqueued at the queue servers. Messages that share a value for the strict order parameter are enqueued in a strict order based on the time of receipt at the queue server. One or more queue clients are selected to process the enqueued messages. The queue clients are selected based on their message processing capability along with the message processing throughput for values for the strict order parameter.
US10200293B2
Dynamically by-passing a service function instance on a service chain after the service function instance has processed the first few packets of a traffic flow may improve the overall processing efficiency of the service chain. When using a control plane mechanism, a service function instance communicates a by-pass indication to a control plane entity to prompt the control plane entity to re-route remaining portions of the traffic flow around the service function instance. When using a data plane mechanism, a service function instance includes a by-pass indication in a service chain header (SCH) of a packet in a traffic flow, and forwards the packet to a data plane entity. The by-pass indication will prompt the data plane entity to re-route remaining portions of the traffic flow around the service function instance.
US10200291B2
A packet analysis method includes acquiring a first acknowledge packet and a second acknowledge packet transmitted from the first device; acquiring a plurality of packets transmitted from the second device during a period from reception of the first acknowledge packet to reception of the second acknowledge packet; identifying a number of packets corresponds to data transmitted from the second device, by calculating a difference between a first identification number corresponding to the first acknowledge packet and a second identification number corresponding to the second acknowledge packet; calculating a plurality of bandwidth values, a number of the plurality of bandwidth values is identical to the number of packets, based on acquisition timings of the plurality of packets and an interval between the acquisition timings of two adjacent packets; and determining a bandwidth value that is to be removed from the plurality of bandwidth values by comparing the plurality of bandwidth values.
US10200280B2
A method implemented by a temporal tunnel service (TTS) controller, comprising computing a path in a network for a temporal label switched path (LSP), wherein the path satisfies a network constraint in a time interval comprising a predetermined start time and a predetermined end time, reserving, at a current time prior to the predetermined start time, a network resource along the path computed for the temporal LSP, wherein the network resource is reserved for the temporal LSP to carry traffic in the time interval, and creating the temporal LSP in the network by sending a route configuration instruction to each node along the path of the temporal LSP.
US10200261B2
Nodes of a computing cluster can be selected to run new computing jobs while providing acceptable performance of jobs running on the nodes. Respective performance metrics of respective workloads on respective computing nodes can be determined. Each workload can include a new computing job and the performance metrics can be determined based at least in part on respective measured performance data of the ones of the computing nodes and information of the new computing job. Candidate ones of the computing nodes can be determined based at least in part on the respective performance metrics. One of the candidate computing nodes can be selected based at least in part on the information of the new computing job. In some examples, identification of the new computing job can be transmitted to the selected node. In some examples, state data of the nodes can be updated based on the performance data.
US10200250B2
A system and method for bandwidth management for a Host Network Operator (HNO) is disclosed. The method including: providing shared beams shared by two or more of a plurality of Virtual Network Operators (VNOs), wherein each VNO has a subscription including a global bandwidth limit applicable for a flow control epoch for each VNO and a terminal subscription for each terminal associated with the respective VNO; aggregating, in the current flow control epoch, a demand and the terminal subscriptions of active terminals per shared beam per VNO; distributing, for each shared beam per VNO, the aggregated demand and active terminal subscriptions into a distribution bandwidth per shared beam per VNO, wherein the distribution bandwidth is based on the respective global bandwidth limit of the respective VNO; and proportionally balancing, for each shared beam, an oversubscription of the distribution bandwidths per shared beam per VNO based on the proportionalities of the global bandwidth limit of each VNO subscribing to the shared beam, to provide a proportional distribution bandwidth per shared beam per VNO.
US10200242B2
An information handling system includes a memory to store a configuration file, a provisioning server, and a server. The provisioning server detects a new server within the information handling system, and provides the configuration file new server. The server includes a controller to communication with the provisioning server, the controller to receive the configuration file from the provisioning server, to resolve a sticky attribute in the configuration file based on a type of the sticky attribute, to update the configuration file in response to resolving the sticky attribute, and to apply the updated configuration file to the server to configure components within the server.
US10200239B2
An apparatus obtains one or more management logical network properties. The apparatus determines one or more management logical network properties to be instantiated. The apparatus performs, in accordance with the determined properties, management logical network configuration.
US10200238B2
This invention relates to a method of dynamic line management (DLM) for a digital subscriber line. A quality of experience (QoE) measure is calculated for the digital subscriber line, and the QoE is recorded with the respective DLM line profile and also the line synchronization rate associated with the line profile. The QoE measure is preferably based on line parameters such as a count of the error rate on the line and loss of synchronizations on the line, averaged over a predetermined period of time. Other line parameters could be used in determining the QoE measure. When DLM exhausts all the available line profiles, the invention checks to see if the QoE associated with the line profile currently being applied is an improvement on the QoE of previously applied line profiles, and if it is an improvement, then the current line profile is maintained. However, if the new QoE is not an improvement to that associated with a previously applied line profile, then the invention reverts the line back to one of the earlier line profiles. The line profile selected to revert back to is one having the same QoE or better, and if there are multiple line profiles satisfying that condition, then the line profile that has the highest associated line synchronization rate is selected.
US10200237B1
Triggering of user interface notifications can be managed for a plurality of computer applications via a digital assistant, which can include a notification triggering engine. The managing can include selecting a time to trigger a user interface notification from a computer application of the plurality of computer applications. The selecting can use the data representing a current contextual user interface activity computer state. The current contextual user interface activity state can be a state other than a state of the digital assistant, the triggering engine, or a state of the computer application. The technique can further include, in response to the selecting of the time, triggering the notification in the computer system at the selected time via the digital assistant. Further, the technique can include responding to the triggering of the notification by presenting the notification on a user interface device in the computer system.
US10200229B2
The embodiments disclose a method in a base station for extracting a resource block at a frequency band from a signal received from a terminal device in a radio communication system employing OFDM. The method comprising: removing a CP portion corresponding to the resource block from the signal; for each of a predetermined number of successive symbols in the signal after the CP portion corresponding to the resource block has been removed, performing a FFT of the symbol, extracting a frequency domain signal corresponding to the frequency band from the FFT of the symbol, performing an IFFT on the extracted frequency domain signal to yield a time domain signal, and storing the time domain signal to form a time sequence by concatenation; performing a FFT of the stored time sequence; and extracting subcarriers corresponding to the resource block from the FFT of the stored time sequence.
US10200215B2
A disclosure of the present specification provides a method for receiving a sidelink synchronisation signal (SLSS) for proximity service (ProSe). The method may comprise the steps of: receiving an SLSS from a neighbouring ProSe UE; and measuring a reference signal received power (RSRP) of the SLSS during a pre-determined measurement period. The measurement step can be executed assuming that the SLSS transmission from the neighbouring ProSe UE during the measurement period is not abandoned more than once. The measurement period can be extended if the SLSS transmission from the neighbouring ProSe UE is abandoned more than once.
US10200194B2
Systems and methods are provided for adding security to client data by maintaining decryption keys at a server that provide access to encrypted keys that are maintained at a client system with encrypted client data. A specialized protocol is utilized for accessing the decryption keys from the server. Once obtained, the decryption key is used to decrypt the encrypted key at the client and then the newly decrypted decryption key is used to decrypt the encrypted data. A server can also perform policy checks or trigger additional authentication such as SMS, phone, or email notification before allowing access to the server decryption key. Furthermore, in some instances, the server can also prevent access to the server decryption keys in response to anomalies, such as decommissioning and other asset management events.
US10200184B2
Provided is a communication apparatus including: a switch unit configured to switch data communication to be performed with another communication apparatus on a transmission side or a reception side; and a communication unit configured to transmit transmission data to the other communication apparatus and receive a response when the data communication is performed on the transmission side, and receive reception data from the other communication apparatus and transmit a response when the data communication is performed on the reception side. The switch unit performs switching from the transmission side to the reception side when the response received by the communication unit includes a switching instruction.
US10200179B2
A control information feedback method (CIFM), a user equipment (UE) using the CIFM and a base station using the CIFM are disclosed. In an embodiment the method includes determining an uplink association index k′ according to an uplink reference configuration an uplink grant (UL Grant) in a subframe n−k′, wherein the UL Grant is used to indicate physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission in a subframe n, n being an integer and k′ being the uplink association index, determining a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) information according to a downlink reference configuration, wherein the downlink reference configuration is used to determine a downlink association set {k0, k1, . . . kMc−1} and transmitting the HARQ-ACK information by a PUSCH in the subframe n, wherein the terminal device is configured with a TDD uplink-downlink configuration, and wherein the uplink reference configuration is different from the downlink reference configuration.
US10200177B2
A plurality of cells comprise a primary cell with no configured scheduling request (SR) resources and a secondary cell with configured SR resources. A wireless device receives an activation command indicating activation of the secondary cell. The wireless device initiates a random access procedure when in a subframe: an SR process is pending; no uplink data channel resources are available for transmission; and a time alignment timer of an sTAG comprising the secondary cell is not running.
US10200176B2
A method of a first cell for supporting a downlink channel demodulation at a user equipment, the method includes transmitting, by the first cell to the user equipment via a higher layer signaling, information on a Cell-specific Reference Signal (CRS) of a second cell including Multicast/Broadcast over Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) subframe configuration information of the second cell; and transmitting, by the first cell to the user equipment, a downlink signal on the downlink channel, wherein the information on the CRS of the second cell is used by the user equipment to demodulate the downlink channel from the first cell.
US10200175B2
A method for transmitting data from a station (STA) device in a wireless LAN (WLAN) system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: generating a physical protocol data unit (PPDU) including a physical preamble and a data field; and transmitting the PPDU, wherein when the data field is transmitted by using a 106-tone resource unit including first to fourth pilot tones, the positions of the first to the fourth pilot tones may be identical to the positions of four pilot tones from among eight pilot tones included in four 26-tone resource units, which are present at a position corresponding to the 106-tone resource unit, or identical to the positions of four pilot tones from among eight pilot tones included in two 52-tone resource units, which are present at a position corresponding to the 106-tone resource unit.
US10200168B2
An embodiment method of network node operation includes indicating, by a first network node, to a first UE, a first number of REs in a first set of RBs for a first reference signal, transmitting, by the first network node, to the first UE, the first reference signal in accordance with the first number of REs and a first precoding in a first subframe, receiving, by the first network node, from the first UE, a report indicating a first MCS in accordance with a level of signal and interference measured by the first UE, wherein the measurement is restricted to the first reference signal, and transmitting, by the first network node, a first data with the indicated first MCS and the first precoding in a second subframe, the first data being transmitted on a second number of REs in the first set of RBs in the second subframe.
US10200164B2
A wireless device receives, in a first subframe, a media-access-control control element (MAC CE) comprising at least one parameter instructing the wireless device to activate at least one licensed cell and at least one LAA cell. The wireless device performs channel monitoring on the at least one LAA cell before a first maximum number of subframes after the first subframe. The wireless device performs channel monitoring on the at least one licensed cell before a second maximum number of subframes after the first subframe. The first maximum number of subframes and the second maximum number of subframes are different.
US10200160B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting multiplexed HARQ feedbacks in a carrier aggregation system, the method comprising: configuring a first Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) group and a second PUCCH group, wherein at least two cells are configured with PUCCH resources in each of the first PUCCH group and the second PUCCH group; generating a first Hybrid-ARQ (HARQ) feedback by multiplexing HARQ feedbacks of all HARQ processes of all cells belonging to the first PUCCH group; generating a second HARQ feedback by multiplexing HARQ feedbacks of all HARQ processes of all cells belonging to the second PUCCH group; selecting a first cell among the at least two cells with PUCCH resources in the first PUCCH group; selecting a second cell among the at least two cells with PUCCH resources in the second PUCCH group; and transmitting the first HARQ feedback on the first cell and the second HARQ feedback on the second cell.
US10200158B2
A method and a device are provided for use at one or more links of a communication network along which communications are exchanged under extremely low SNR conditions. The method comprises a step of transmitting an extended communication frame, which comprises a plurality of basic frames, wherein each of the plurality of basic frames included in the extended frame, comprises the same payload as all other basic frames included in the plurality of basic frames.
US10200156B2
A processing module of a computing device alternatingly sends a stream of data to a first or second processing device. When receiving the stream of data, the first processing device performs a first portion of a dispersed storage error encoding function on the received stream of data to produce a plurality of sets of a threshold number of slices and writes the plurality of sets of the threshold number of slices into first memory of a dispersed storage network (DSN). When not receiving the stream of data, the first processing device reads the plurality of sets of the threshold number of slices from the first memory, performs a second portion of the dispersed storage error encoding function using the plurality of sets of the threshold number of slices to produce a plurality of sets of redundancy slices, and writes the plurality of sets of redundancy slices into second DSN memory.
US10200153B2
There is provided a decoder for sequentially decoding a data signal received through a transmission channel in a communication system, said data signal carrying transmitted symbols, said decoder comprising a symbol estimation unit (301) configured to determine estimated symbols representative of the transmitted symbols carried by the received signal from information stored in a stack, said symbol estimation unit (301) being configured to iteratively fill the stack by expanding child nodes of a selected node of a decoding tree comprising a plurality of nodes, each node of the decoding tree corresponding to a candidate component of a symbol of said data signal and each node being assigned a metric, the stack being filled at each iteration with a set of expanded child nodes and being ordered by increasing values of the metrics assigned to the nodes, the selected node for each iteration corresponding to the node being assigned the lowest metric in the stack, the decoder comprising a metric determination unit (302) configured to determine an initial metric for each child node of said set of expanded child nodes, wherein the decoder further comprises a modified metric calculation unit (303) configured to calculate a modified metric for at least one of the expanded child nodes from the metric associated with said expanded child node and a weighting coefficient, said weighting coefficient being a function of the level of said node in the decoding tree, the decoder assigning said modified metric to said at least one of the expanded child nodes.
US10200151B1
A method of transmitting Ethernet data over multiple physical sub-channels is disclosed. The method includes determining one or more noisy sub-channels affected by alien crosstalk; selectively reducing a number of data bits per symbol for transmitted data symbols along the noisy sub-channels; transmitting data along the noisy sub-channels via sparser constellations; and transmitting data along non-noisy sub-channels via denser constellations.
US10200147B2
Apparatus, computer readable media, and methods are disclosed for sending feedback in a high efficiency service field. An apparatus is disclosed comprising processing circuitry configured to: decode a trigger frame from a second wireless device, wherein the trigger frame indicates a resource allocation for an uplink (UL) multi-user (MU) transmission for the first wireless device. The processing circuitry may be further configured to: determine feedback for a second wireless device based on the resource allocation. The processing circuitry may be further configured to: encode a physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) to include a high-efficiency (HE) service field comprising the feedback in a physical (PHY) portion of the PPDU. And, the processing circuitry may be further configured to: configure the first wireless device to transmit the PPDU in accordance with the resource allocation to the second wireless device.
US10200146B2
The present disclosure provides a data transmission method including: receiving a first-mode optical signal from a first port corresponding to a first port number; converting, according to a correspondence between the first port number and a first mode group number, the received first-mode optical signal into a second-mode optical signal carried in a first mode group identified by the first mode group number, where the second-mode optical signal carried in the first mode group identified by the first mode group number includes an optical signal in one or more modes; and outputting the second-mode optical signal obtained by means of conversion.
US10200144B1
A communication system that can be used, e.g., to provide high-speed access to the servers of a data center. In an example embodiment, the communication system transports data using WDM optical signals. The downlink WDM signals have some WDM components that are modulated with data and some WDM components that are not modulated with data. The uplink WDM signals are generated at the server end of the system by modulating with data the unmodulated WDM components received through the downlink. Appropriately connected wavelength multiplexers, wavelength demultiplexers, and/or optical filters can be used to properly apply the various modulated WDM components to the corresponding optical receivers and the unmodulated WDM components to the corresponding optical transmitters. The resulting system architecture advantageously enables, e.g., the use of a single, conveniently located multi-wavelength light source to provide carrier wavelengths for both uplink and downlink optical traffic.
US10200139B2
A method for and apparatus for performing interference coordination in a wireless communication system is provided. A wireless device may transmit measurement results on neighboring cells; receive information of grouping of the neighboring cells based on the measurement results; and receive a signal to be applied with a different sub-band, a subframe shift, or a Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol shift according to the information of grouping from each cell of the neighboring cells.
US10200138B2
The present invention provides a method and system for a processing multicarrier signal to create a spectral correlation across multiple antennas. The system includes at least one transmitter adapted to create a plurality of symbols, each symbol representing one or more bits from a plurality of bitstreams. The transmitter creates a plurality of repetition patterns, each pattern containing a copy of the symbols and each repetition pattern comprising a combination of symbols that varies in time, frequency and space. The repetition patterns are transmitted over and received by one or more separate antennas where a receiver demodulates the repetition patterns and linearly combines each repeated symbols across time, frequency and space to estimate said transmitted symbol.
US10200137B2
System and method embodiments are disclosed to provide mechanisms that allow adaptive transmission time interval (TTI) coexistence in Long Term Evolution (LTE) and fifth generation (5G) cellular systems. In accordance with an embodiment, a method for an adaptive TTI coexistence mechanism includes allocating, by a network controller, a LTE TTI at a first bandwidth. The first bandwidth is smaller than an available system bandwidth and is centered around a carrier frequency at a center of the available system bandwidth. The method further includes broadcasting the first bandwidth in LTE system information messages, allocating adaptive TTIs in the available system bandwidth outside the first bandwidth, and broadcasting adaptive TTI bandwidth partitioning information to adaptive TTI-capable terminals.
US10200125B2
A radio-over-fiber (RoF) transmission system includes at least one baseband unit (BBU) connected to a core network of a service provider that provides a mobile Internet service, an optical line terminal (OLT) configured to convert a radio signal received from the at least one BBU into an optical signal, an optical distribution network (ODN) comprising an optical fiber and an optical splitter, at least one optical network unit (ONU) configured to receive the optical signal from the OLT via the ODN and convert the optical signal into a radio signal, and at least one remote radio head (RRH) configured to receive the radio signal from the at least one ONU and output the radio signal via a plurality of antennas.
US10200121B2
Devices, computer-readable media and methods are disclosed for determining reachability for a wavelength connection in a telecommunication network. For example, a processor deployed in a telecommunication network may calculate a fiber loss on a link in the telecommunication network using optical power measurements and determine that a destination node of a wavelength connection is not reachable via a path that includes the link based upon the fiber loss of the link that is calculated. In one example, the determining is based upon a number of links in the path, an effective fiber loss for each link in the path, a penalty for nodes in the path, and an acceptable loss value. The processor may further perform a remedial action in response to determining that the destination node of the wavelength connection is not reachable via the path.
US10200118B2
A multimode launch system to be connected to an Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) for use in performing at least one OTDR measurement on a multi-fiber array Device Under Test (DUT), the multimode launch system comprising: an optical switch being connectable to the OTDR during use; a launch array device having an end being connectable to the optical switch and another end being connectable to the multi-fiber array DUT during use, the launch array device having a plurality of multimode launch optical fibers each having at least one first guidance parameter being smaller than a corresponding one of at least one second guidance parameter of at least one multimode optical fiber of the optical switch; and a multi-fiber mode conditioner along the launch array device for inducing a preferential attenuation of higher-order optical modes of test light propagated into the multi-fiber array DUT during use.
US10200116B2
A multilane transmission device that transmits data frames by using a plurality of lanes, comprising: a data frame allocating unit that allocates data frames based on a transmission destination; a flow group information sequence information adding unit that adds flow group information indicating a flow group corresponding to a transmission source and transmission destinations and sequence information indicating a sequence of the data frames to the data frames allocated based on each transmission destination by the data frame allocating unit; and a lane selecting/outputting unit that transmits the data frames having the respective flow group information and the respective sequence information added thereto by the flow group information sequence information adding unit to the transmission destinations by using one or more lanes corresponding to the respective flow group information.
US10200112B2
Selecting serving cells in air to ground communication systems efficiently and with maximum knowledge of forward and return link channel conditions allows maximum throughput available to a user at any point in time, particularly in the presence of high interference. Airborne based and ground based systems may collect forward and return link channel conditions and develop user capacity estimates to be used by aircraft and ground based transceivers. Such user capacity estimates may be shared among distributed air-to-ground networks to ensure the latest channel conditions are available for serving cell selection decisions.
US10200109B2
A communications system includes radio frequency equipment to generate a forward link configured for wireless transmissions of a base-to-user data stream from a plurality of airborne communications relay platforms to at least one user terminal, wherein the forward link includes a plurality of relay-to-user links, each one of the plurality of relay-to-user links includes a relay-to-user radio frequency signal encoded with a different base-to-user data sub-stream.
US10200103B2
A method of user equipment (UE) for channel state information (CSI) feedback in a wireless communication system. The method comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), CSI feedback configuration information for a pre-coding matrix indicator (PMI) feedback indicating a linear combination (LC) pre-coding matrix that corresponds to a linear combination of a plurality of L beams and a plurality of coefficients, determining the first PMI (i1) and the second PMI (i2), and transmitting, to the BS, the CSI feedback including the first PMI (i1) and the second PMI (i2) over an uplink channel.
US10200100B2
A method by which a base station receives feedback information on beamforming in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: transmitting an omni-directional beam formed uniformly in all directions, on the basis of a non-precoded first signal; transmitting a plurality of directional beams through a plurality of antenna ports on the basis of second signals precoded in different directions; and receiving feedback information from a terminal, wherein the feedback information includes a gain difference between a first directional beam among the plurality of directional beams and the omni-directional beam, and an index of a first antenna port used in transmitting the first directional beam among the plurality of antenna ports.
US10200095B2
Disclosed in the present invention are a data transmission method, an apparatus and an antenna array, in order to realize wide bandwidth data transmission of massive antenna array. The data transmission method comprises: baseband IQ data of multiple CA is grouped via IR data interface module to obtain baseband IQ data of each CA group; for baseband IQ data of each CA group: the baseband IQ data with enhanced data rate of the CA group is up-converted to digital intermediate frequency band by a digital up-conversion module; the digital intermediate frequency signals of the CA group are superposed by a combiner to form a multi-carrier digital intermediate frequency signal; in accordance with the amplitude and phase requirements of each antenna in a group of antenna sharing the multi-carrier digital intermediate frequency signal, the amplitude and phase of the multi-carrier digital intermediate frequency signal are respectively adjusted and transmitted to a digital to analog converter of a corresponding antenna channel; a multi-carrier analog intermediate frequency signal is generated by the digital to analog converter of each antenna channel, and then is transmitted to the corresponding antenna channel.
US10200091B2
A device for inductively coupled communications includes an NFC module for generating an electromagnetic carrier signal and modulating the carrier signal according to data to be transmitted, and an antenna circuit coupled to and driven by said NFC module with the modulated carrier signal. The device includes an RF front end coupled between said NFC module and said antenna circuit. The RF front end includes a balanced to unbalanced (Balun) transformer and a tuning capacitor. The Balun transformer has a first winding coupled to said NFC module via differential transmitter terminals of said NFC module and a second winding coupled to said tuning capacitor. A first terminal of said tuning capacitor is coupled to a receiving terminal of said NFC module. The Balun transformer and tuning capacitor provide a function of an electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) filter.
US10200089B2
A sensor system includes one or more rotor antennas on a shaft that moves within a stator bracket one or more of around an axis of the sensor system or along the axis of the sensor system, the one or more rotor antennas configured to communicate sensed data with one or more stator antennas on the stator bracket. Each rotor antenna has a rotor signal trace disposed on an outer rotor side of a dielectric substrate of the rotor antenna and a rotor return trace disposed on the outer rotor side of the dielectric substrate, wherein the rotor signal trace and the rotor return trace are not concentric with respect to each other. The one or more rotor antennas are configured to extend one or more of radially around an outer surface of the shaft of a sensor or along the outer surface of the shaft of the sensor.
US10200087B2
Techniques for wireless charging are described herein. For example, an apparatus includes a device formed in a loop. The apparatus may also include a receiving coil disposed around an entire length of the loop. Each turn of the wireless power receiving coil follows the entire length of the loop.
US10200086B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a device coupled to a transmission medium that obstructs a propagation of guided electromagnetic waves propagating on an outer surface of the transmission medium when the device is subjected to a liquid, and applying a material to a portion of the device to mitigate the obstruction. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10200054B1
In a general aspect, an apparatus can include a signal analyzer configured to analyze a signal associated with a processing pipeline, and a dynamic element matching (DEM) selection module configured to select a DEM algorithm from a plurality of DEM algorithms based on the analysis performed by the signal analyzer. The apparatus can include a set of circuit elements where each circuit element from the set of circuit elements has the same logical configuration, and a circuit element selection module configured to select a subset of the set of circuit elements based on the selected DEM algorithm.
US10200049B2
A multiloop PLL circuit comprising: a first PLL loop comprising a first VCO, a first phase detector having a first input receiving a reference frequency (Fref) and a second input receiving the output of a first programmable divider, which input receives the signal generated by the first VCO and a first loop filter connected between said first phase detector and said first VCO; at least one auxiliary PLL loop comprising a second VCO, a second phase detector, a second (R1) and a third (N1) programmable dividers, and a second loop filter a main loop for generating a desired output frequency Fout comprising a third VCO, a third phase detector, a fourth (Rn) and a fifth (Nn) programmable divider, a main loop filter and a mixer additional possible auxiliary PLL loop each comprising a forth VCO, a forth phase detector, a sixth (Ri) and a seventh (Ni) programmable divider, a third auxiliary loop filter and a mixer whereby the desired output frequency Fout is generated in accordance with the relation: Fout=(N1/R1+ . . . +Nn/Rn)*Fcro where N1 and R1 are the dividing values of the first auxiliary loop and Ni and Ri with i=2 . . . n−1 being the dividing ratios of any possible further auxiliary loop; and Fcro is the frequency generated by VCO, whereby the multiloop circuit is configured with dividing values which optimizes a cost function F.
US10200043B2
A level shifter including first and second MOS transistors placed in parallel between a first power supply voltage terminal and a reference voltage terminal, each transistor having a gate connected to a drain of the other transistor, third and fourth MOS transistors placed between the first and second MOS transistors and the reference voltage terminal and having gates respectively supplied with first and second control signals, and fifth and sixth MOS transistors placed between the third and fourth MOS transistors and the reference voltage terminal and having gates respectively supplied with third and fourth control signals, wherein the first to fourth control signals are used to control a conductive/nonconductive state between the first MOS transistor and the reference voltage terminal and a conductive/nonconductive state between the second MOS transistor and the reference voltage terminal.
US10200041B2
An analog multiplexer may be used for sampling an input voltage that is capable of having a higher voltage level than an upper supply voltage. The analog multiplexer includes a plurality of input switch circuits and a shorting switch circuit. The plurality of input switch circuits include n-type or p-type laterally diffused field effect transistors (NLDFETs or PLDFETs). At least one of the input switch circuits includes a level shifting switch circuit that is able to sample an input voltage that is greater than the upper supply voltage for the multiplexer. A shorting switch circuit, at an output of the multiplexer, includes a capacitively coupled gate drive circuit and is configured to short a first differential output to a second differential output after the input voltage is sampled.
US10200037B2
A field programmable gate array (FPGA) includes a temperature sensor array. The FPGA also includes a supply voltage modulation circuit. The supply voltage modulation circuit is coupled to the temperature sensor array.
US10200033B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus may include a first mesh of conductive material covering an area corresponding to at least a portion of the touch sensor. The first mesh includes a number of mesh cells. Each of the mesh cells has a number of vertices. Each of the vertices has a substantially randomized location within an inner portion of one of a number of polygons. The polygons collectively and contiguously covers the area corresponding to at least a portion of the touch sensor. One or more dimensions of the polygons is based at least in part on a pre-determined distance threshold between one or more pairs of opposing vertices. The apparatus also includes a computer-readable non-transitory storage medium coupled to the touch sensor and embodying logic that is configured when executed to control the touch sensor.
US10200027B1
A radio frequency (RF) switch apparatus includes a first series switch circuit including a first series switch disposed between a first terminal and a second terminal and operating in response to a first gate signal, and a first capacitor circuit and a second capacitor circuit connected across the first series switch; a first shunt-bias circuit disposed between a first connection node between the first terminal and the first series switch, and a ground, and providing a power voltage or a ground potential to the first connection node in response to a second gate signal; and a first shunt-impedance circuit connected between the first connection node and the first shunt-bias circuit and adjusting path impedance in response to a third gate signal. Each of the first capacitor circuit and the second capacitor circuit passes an alternating current (AC) signal or blocks a direct current (DC) voltage.
US10200020B2
A semiconductor device has a clock signal generation circuit that generates a clock signal, and a processing circuit that operates in accordance with the clock signal. The semiconductor device can also include an external terminal and a power source terminal that is coupled to the processing circuit. The clock signal generation circuit changes the frequency of the clock signal to be generated in accordance with the voltage value of a current consumption signal supplied to the external terminal. Further, the voltage value of the current consumption signal is changed in accordance with current consumption flowing in the power source terminal. The clock signal generation circuit can change the frequency of the clock signal to be generated in accordance with a value of an analog signal supplied to the external terminal.
US10200017B2
A self-setting/resetting latch circuit is disclosed that includes resistive loads for inverters used for setting and clearing the latch. In a first embodiment, the resistive loads cause the latch circuit to automatically set in response to a power supply voltage going low. In an alternate embodiment, the latch circuit is configured to be self-resetting or self-clearing when the power supply voltage goes low by reversing the set and clear terminals of the latch circuit and selecting a different node to be the output terminal of the latch circuit. The disclosed latch circuit is small and robust and draws zero power in the set state.
US10200016B2
A contactless readable programmable transponder to monitor chip join and method of use are disclosed. The method includes reading a frequency of an oscillator associated with a chip module. The method further includes correlating the frequency with a bond quality of the chip module.
US10200013B2
A compound acoustic wave filter device comprises a support substrate having an including two or more circuit connection pads. An acoustic wave filter includes a piezoelectric filter element and two or more electrodes. The acoustic wave filter is micro-transfer printed onto the support substrate. An electrical conductor electrically connects one or more of the circuit connection pads to one or more of the electrodes.
US10200009B2
A transformer-based balun circuit is disclosed herein. The balun can be implemented using a spiral transformer, where primary and secondary transformer windings can be inductively coupled and can be implemented on the same metal layer (or different metal layers, e.g. vertically adjacent metal layers). The balun can further include a compensation capacitor and a digital frequency tuning circuit. The compensation capacitor can be introduced at one of the differential terminals to reduce or suppress the amplitude and phase imbalance. The digital frequency tuning circuit can be a switchable bank of capacitors, which allows for tuning the frequency of operation of the transformer-based balun.
US10199998B2
Methods and systems for a pseudo-differential low-noise amplifier at Ku-band may comprise a low-noise amplifier (LNA) integrated on a semiconductor die, where the LNA includes first and second differential pair transistors with an embedded inductor tail integrated on the semiconductor die. The embedded inductor tail may include: a first inductor with a first terminal capacitively-coupled to a gate terminal of the first differential pair transistor and a second terminal of the first inductor coupled to second, third, and fourth inductors. The second inductor may be coupled to a source terminal of the first differential pair transistor, the fourth inductor may be coupled to a source terminal of the second differential pair transistor, and the third inductor may be capacitively-coupled to a gate terminal of the second differential pair transistor and also to ground. The second inductor may be embedded within the first inductor.
US10199986B2
Systems and methods are provided in which a voltage-controlled oscillator for a radio transmitter includes a LC tank circuit, and a muting circuit. The LC tank circuit includes an inductive element and a capacitive element; wherein the inductive element of the LC tank circuit includes the antenna of the transmitter. The muting circuit can include a variable resistor connected in parallel with the LC tank circuit.
US10199983B2
Disclosed herein is a roof attachment assembly for mounting a solar panel on a roof without the use of rails. The assembly includes a splice member includes grounding elements for electrically grounding the solar panel and is removably connected to the array skirt. Also disclosed is a method of using the assembly and an assembly kit.
US10199967B2
A motor controller that controls a motor in a first control method based on a first current command value and a second control method based on a second current command value. The motor controller includes an analog-to-digital converter to generate the second current command value based on a reference signal externally input to the motor controller and a current limit generator to generate an upper limit value of the first current command value based on the second current command value.
US10199964B2
A motor control apparatus applying a sinusoidal drive waveform to a motor and including a position detection unit outputting a signal according to a motor shaft's position; and a control unit: acquiring a phase value of the motor's drive waveform when a signal is output by the position detection unit, changing a cycle of the drive waveform by measuring time from a previously output signal to a presently output signal, comparing the phases of the drive waveform and the motor shaft, and controlling to change to a cycle at which a phase value of the drive waveform matches a target phase value when a travel time corresponding to a phase value for adjustment has elapsed from a present time when a phase value of the drive waveform presently acquired differs from a target phase value acquired when the motor's drive current and drive voltage are in a designated phase relationship.
US10199961B2
A control method brakes an electric motor connected to a voltage source. The method involves, in each cycle, the supply of current to the motor, with a delay tret, at an angle α. The method includes a sequence such that, for every n cycle, the following steps are executed: a) determining the value of a variation in the resistance of the motor during the preceding n cycles of the voltage, b) comparing the value of the variation in resistance with a threshold resistance value Rt, c) increasing in the delay tret if the value of the variation in resistance is lower than the threshold resistance value. The increase in the delay tret is executed in accordance with a gamma command, where the angle α lies between 50° and 80°.
US10199955B2
An electrical multi-phase converter and method for controlling an electrical multi-phase converter is disclosed. In one form a method provides for controlling the electrical multi-phase converter comprises: determining at least two supply voltages for the at least two converter cells of the at least two phase branches; determining a potential zone for each phase branch based on the at least one supply voltage of the at least one converter cell of the phase branch, the potential zone bounding a possible actual phase voltage producible by the phase branch; receiving a reference voltage for each phase branch; and, if the reference voltage for a phase branch is not within the potential zone of the phase branch, setting the reference voltage to a bound of the potential zone and shifting reference voltages of other phase branches, wherein the reference voltages are set and shifted such that a minimal common mode voltage between the output voltages of the multi-phase converter is generated.
US10199954B2
A voltage source converter includes DC terminals, a plurality of single-phase limbs, and a controller. Each single-phase limb includes a phase element and switching elements. Each limb is connected between the DC terminals and is controllable to generate an AC voltage at the AC side of the corresponding phase element so as to draw a respective phase current from a multi-phase AC electrical network. The controller is configured to selectively generate a modified AC voltage demand for at least one limb in response to an imbalance in the phase currents and/or a change in electrical rating of at least one limb. The controller is configured to selectively control, in accordance with the or the respective modified AC voltage demand, the or each corresponding limb independently of the or each other limb to modify the voltage at the AC side of its phase element and thereby modify the corresponding phase current.
US10199942B2
Power supplies together with related over voltage protection methods and apparatuses. A power supply has a transformer including a primary winding and an auxiliary winding. A power switch is coupled to the primary winding and a sensing resistor coupled between the power switch and a grounding line. A multi-function terminal of a controller is coupled to the sensing resistor. A diode and a first resistor is coupled between the auxiliary winding and the multi-function terminal.
US10199939B1
A multi-phase switching power converter includes a panic mode detector that triggers the activation of each phase in an open-loop mode of operation in which an open-loop duty cycle is used that is greater than a closed-loop duty cycle used during closed-loop operation for the active phases.
US10199937B1
Methods and apparatus to digitally control pulse frequency modulation pulses in power converters are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a low-side controller structured to, when an inductor current corresponds to a first current direction during a low-side control signal of a power converter, decrease a first duration of the low-side control after the first duration; and when the inductor current corresponds to a second current direction during the low-side control signal of the power converter, increase the first duration of the low-side control after the first duration; and a high-side controller structured to, when a sum of the first duration and a second duration corresponding to a high-side control of the power converter does not satisfy target pulse length, increase a third duration of the high-side control after the third duration; and when the sum of the first duration and the second duration satisfies the target pulse length, decrease the third duration of the subsequent high-side control.
US10199935B2
Various examples are provided for hybrid boosting converters (HBCs). In one example, a HBC includes an inductive switching core and a bipolar voltage multiplier (BVM) coupled to the inductive switching core. In another example, a HBC micro-inverter includes an inductive switching core coupled to an input voltage; a BVM comprising a positive branch and a negative branch coupled to the inductive switching core; and a switched bridge coupled across the positive and negative branches of the BVM. In another example, a 3D HBC includes a common axis comprising a series of capacitors; and a plurality of parallel wings coupled to the common axis. The parallel wings form a BVM when coupled to the common axis and include an inductive switching core that is coupled to an input voltage. The common axis can include a single input voltage or multiple input voltages can be coupled through the wings.
US10199928B1
Circuits and methods are provided for soft-starting a switched-capacitor converter (SCC), so as to limit inrush current at the start-up of the SCC. This is accomplished by using the first power switch of the SCC, i.e., the switch coupled to the input of the SCC, to reduce the voltage provided at the SCC input, such that the full input voltage is not directly applied to the SCC circuitry downstream from the first power switch during the SCC start-up. The reduced voltage provided to the SCC circuitry (other than the first power switch) serves to limit the current drawn by the remainder of the SCC circuit during the SCC start-up. This reduced voltage begins at zero and ramps to the voltage provided at the SCC input. Once the reduced voltage reaches the input voltage level, steady-state operation of the SCC may begin.
US10199926B2
A management or control of a power router is more appropriately performed when a power network system in which power cells are asynchronously connected with each other. A plurality of power conversion legs bi-directionally convert power, one ends thereof are connected with a direct current bus and the other ends thereof are connected with an external connection partner as an external connection terminal. A control unit controls operations of the plurality of power conversion legs. The control unit receives a control instruction including a designation of a stopping target leg. The control unit performs an adequacy determination of whether the stopping target leg can be stopped. The control unit stops the stopping target leg when the stopping target leg can be stopped.
US10199925B2
An overcurrent protection apparatus that protects, from overcurrent, a load drive system including a load circuit having an electric load and a semiconductor switch electrically connected to the load circuit so as to control a drive of the load circuit is provided. The overcurrent protection apparatus includes: an energization state acquisition part that is configured to acquire an energization state of load current flowing through the semiconductor switch and the load circuit when the semiconductor switch is ON; a change part that is configured to change an acquisition condition of the energization state at the energization state acquisition part in accordance with a driving state of the load circuit; and a protection operator that is configured to execute overcurrent protective operation of protecting the load drive system from the overcurrent based on the energization state acquired by the energization state acquisition part.
US10199919B2
A circuit and method for controlling a power converter having a high-side and a low-side switch are provided. The circuit may include a comparator configured to receive a reference voltage at a first input and a ramp voltage at a second output, and to output a delay signal based on a comparison of the reference voltage and the ramp voltage. The delay signal may be configured to turn on one or more of the high-side switch and the low-side switch. The circuit may increase or decrease the reference voltage based on a dead time, which equals an amount of time when the high-side switch and the low-side switch are turned off. The circuit may include a first switch that is controlled to lower the reference voltage if a dead time exceeds a first threshold, and a second switch that is controlled to raise the reference voltage if the dead time delay signal is below a second threshold.
US10199911B2
An orientation magnetization device includes plural orientation magnetization yokes and plural orientation magnetization magnets, and molds field magnets while a rotor core is disposed in a magnetic circuit that is formed by assembling the orientation magnetization yokes and the orientation magnetization magnets into an annular shape. When the rotor core is disposed in the magnetic circuit, protruding portions are disposed at portions of the respective orientation magnetization yokes facing the rotor core. Auxiliary magnets are disposed in gaps between the respective orientation magnetization magnets and the rotor core, on opposite sides of each protruding portion in a circumferential direction of the orientation magnetization device. Each protruding portion and each auxiliary magnet extend in an axial direction of the orientation magnetization device, and are skewed with respect to the axial direction of the orientation magnetization device.
US10199905B2
A cooling medium supply/discharge device includes a cylindrical rotary casing which is rotatable with a rotary shaft of the rotor; a cylindrical stationary casing fixed such that the stationary casing extends inward relative to the rotary casing and coaxially with the rotary casing, the stationary and rotary casings being relatively rotatable; a first stationary cylindrical body which is inserted into the stationary casing such that the first stationary cylindrical body is not rotatable; a first rotary cylindrical body which is inserted into the first stationary cylindrical body with a gap such that the first rotary cylindrical body is rotatable together with the rotary shaft; a second stationary cylindrical body which is inserted into the first stationary cylindrical body such that the second stationary cylindrical body is not rotatable; and a second rotary cylindrical body which is inserted into the first rotary cylindrical body and rotatable together with the rotary shaft.
US10199889B2
An electric machine including a rotor and an annularly-shaped first stator is provided. The rotor includes an annularly-shaped rotor body and permanent magnets positionally-fixed relative to the rotor body. The first stator includes circumferentially-spaced stator poles. The rotor and the first stator are concentric and axially-aligned relative to an axial centerline of the electric machine. Each of the permanent magnets creates a magnetic dipole. Each magnetic dipole extends along a dipole axis that passes through the respective permanent magnet. Each dipole axis extends in a first plane. The centerline of the electric machine extends in a second plane that is at least substantially perpendicular to the first plane. Each of the permanent magnets is positioned so that a magnet angle that is between 15° and 75° is defined between the respective dipole axis and a radial axis that extends between the respective permanent magnet and the centerline.
US10199888B2
A reluctance rotor of a dynamoelectric rotary machine has an even number of poles constructed of a material having structural magnetic anisotropy. The magnetic anisotropy of the material is characterized by a first magnetic resistance, a magnetic permeability of μr>20 and a saturation polarization of >1T in a first spatial direction, and by a second magnetic resistance which is greater than the first magnetic resistance with a magnetic permeability of μr<1.6 in spatial directions perpendicular to the first spatial direction.
US10199885B2
An implementation provides an apparatus for determining an alignment of a wireless power coupler of a vehicle with a wireless power transmitter. The apparatus comprises a sensing circuit configured to measure a current in a plurality of separate conductors of the wireless power coupler. The apparatus comprises a controller configured to determine information related to an alignment of the wireless power coupler with the wireless power transmitter based at least in part on the measured current in the plurality of separate conductors. The controller is configured to determine the information related to the alignment of the wireless power coupler with the wireless charging power transmitter based on a difference between the measured current in the plurality of separate conductors. The information comprises a direction and distance of offset between the wireless power coupler and the wireless power transmitter. The measured current is a short circuit current.
US10199872B2
An apparatus for wired and wireless charging of an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a display on a surface of the housing, a battery mounted in the housing, a circuit electrically connected with the battery, a conductive pattern positioned in the housing, electrically connected with the circuit, and configured to wirelessly transmit power to an external device, a connector on another surface of the housing and electrically connected with the circuit, a memory, and a processor electrically connected with the display, the battery, the circuit, the connector, and/or the memory. The circuit is configured to electrically connect the battery with the conductive pattern to wirelessly transmit power to the external device and electrically connect the battery with the connector to transmit power to the external device by wire, simultaneously or selectively, with wirelessly transmitting power to the external device.
US10199870B2
A home appliance is disclosed, including a motor, a drive unit configured to drive the motor, a first circuit unit including a main controller configured to control the drive unit, a display unit, and a second circuit unit including a display controller configured to control the display unit. The first circuit unit transmits wireless power to the second circuit unit, using a first frequency, and the second circuit unit transmits data to the first circuit unit, using a second frequency different from the first frequency. Thereby, wireless power transmission and bidirectional communication are performed between the first and second circuit units.
US10199866B2
A rectifier circuit is coupled to a reception coil, and generates a rectified voltage. A charger circuit receives the rectified voltage, and charges a secondary battery. A modulator coupled to the reception coil modulates a voltage or a current applied to the reception coil based on a control value, and transmits a control packet including the control value to a wireless power transmitter. A charging control unit controls a charging current supplied from the charger circuit to the secondary battery. A power control unit generates a control error value indicating a power transmission rate for the wireless power transmitter, based on the difference between the present rectified voltage and its target value, and outputs the control error value as the control value to the modulator. When the absolute value of the difference is smaller than a predetermined threshold value, the charging control unit changes the charging current.
US10199862B2
An emergency dimming apparatus. The emergency dimming apparatus includes an input, a charger, an energy storage device, a power conversion device, an emergency control output, and a controller. The input is configured to receive a line voltage. The charger is configured to receive the line voltage and generate a charging voltage. The energy storage device is configured to receive the charging voltage and selectively output a stored voltage. The power conversion device is configured to convert the stored voltage to an output voltage. The emergency control output is configured to output an emergency control signal. The controller includes a processor and a memory. The controller is configured to monitor the line voltage, determine if the line voltage has crossed a threshold, output the output voltage when the line voltage has crossed the threshold, and output an emergency control signal when the line voltage has crossed the threshold.
US10199859B2
An uninterruptable power supply system is disclosed with a precharge converter for connecting to a DC link of the uninterruptable power supply system to a DC power supply, whereby the DC link comprises a first and a second DC bus line, which are both coupled to a common reference point, whereby the common reference point can be an AC power supply neutral of the uninterruptable power supply system, comprising power connectors for connecting to the DC power supply, a first and second output connector for connecting to the first and the second DC bus line, respectively, a converter circuit for receiving DC power from the power connectors and providing DC power to the first and second output connector, and a control unit for controlling operation of the converter circuit.
US10199852B2
In one aspect of the invention, a method of charging a medical device includes receiving radiofrequency signals from a remote machine remote from the medical device via a receiver of the medical device. The method includes converting the radiofrequency signals into electrical energy via a generator of the medical device. The method includes storing the electrical energy in an energy cell of the medical device. The method also includes powering a power consumption component of the medical device by transmitting the energy from the energy cell to the power consumption component.
US10199848B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for enabling higher current charging of Universal Serial Bus (USB) Specification Revision 2.0 (USB 2.0) portable electronic devices from USB 3.x hosts are disclosed. In one aspect, a USB 2.0 controller is provided in a USB 2.0 portable device. A USB 3.x controller is provided in a USB 3.x host. The USB 2.0 controller is configured to draw a higher charging current than specified in USB 2.0 for the USB 2.0 portable device over a USB 2.0 cable. In order to draw the higher charging current without violating USB 2.0, the USB 2.0 controller is configured to use one or more reserved elements in an existing USB 2.0 descriptor(s) or bitmap(s) to indicate a higher charging current request from the USB 2.0 controller.
US10199840B2
A charging unit for charging a battery of a self-propelled electric vacuum cleaner which runs on a floor based on outputs of an infrared beam reflection-type floor detection sensor and an infrared beam detection sensor, includes an infrared beam-transmitting unit for emitting an infrared beam for indicating a return path and an infrared beam-absorbing part, in which the infrared beam-transmitting unit and the infrared beam-absorbing part are provided such that the infrared beam detected by the infrared beam detection sensor and the infrared beam absorbing part detected by the floor detection sensor allow the vacuum cleaner to return to the charging unit.
US10199831B2
In a circuit arrangement for in-line supply of voltage to an electrical or electronic apparatus located in the region of a DC line, a parallel circuit of two diodes oriented in anti-parallel is arranged in the line. When a direct current is flowing between terminals of the circuit arrangement, the anti-parallel diodes permit a small voltage drop between the terminals, irrespective of the direction of flow of the current, which voltage drop is limited to the forward voltage of the diode that is currently forward biased. The voltage drop across the anti-parallel diodes is tapped by a supply subcircuit. A semiconductor switch can be connected in parallel with the anti-parallel diodes, which switch is controlled by a voltage-reduction subcircuit to minimize the power dissipation of the circuit arrangement.
US10199822B2
A voltage balance control device and a voltage balance control method for a flying-capacitor multilevel converter are provided. A current direction forecasting unit acquires a voltage change amount of any selected flying capacitor of the flying-capacitor multilevel converter, and receives a feedback signal of two adjacent switch elements corresponding to the selected flying capacitor. A computing result is generated according to an average value or a cumulative value of the feedback signal in the adjusting period. After multiplication and/or division is performed on the voltage change amount and the computing result, the current direction can be forecasted according to the obtained sign. Consequently, the voltage balance of the flying capacitor of the flying-capacitor multilevel converter can be achieved.
US10199821B2
A control device for an electrical protection circuit for use in an alternating current system including a transformer is disclosed. An example system includes a first measurement probe, a second measurement probe configured to measure an electrical property within the electrical protection circuit, and a control module, including a processing device. The control module is configured to monitor a measurement from the first measurement probe and transmit a protection activation control signal to the switch assembly based on the measurement from the first measurement probe exceeding a first predetermined threshold. The control module is also configured to monitor a measurement from the second measurement probe and transmit a protection deactivation control signal to the switch assembly based on the measurement from the second measurement probe satisfying a second predetermined threshold.
US10199817B2
A variable diameter termination includes an elastomeric tubular housing having a first portion with a first inner diameter, a second portion with a second inner diameter, and a third portion disposed between the first portion and the second portion and with a transition inner diameter. The elastomeric tubular housing is disposed on a tubular core that includes a first portion with a third outer diameter, a second portion with a fourth outer diameter, and a third portion disposed between the first portion and the second portion and with a transition outer diameter. The first portion of the elastomeric tubular housing is disposed over the first portion of the tubular core, the second portion of the elastomeric tubular housing is disposed over the second portion of the tubular core, and the third portion of the elastomeric tubular housing is disposed over the third portion of the tubular core.
US10199807B2
A device for use in removing a conveyance member from a material includes a displacement element (12, 1012) and a self-propelling driving element. The displacement element (12, 1012) is for being placed at least partly around a conveyance member (16) and for displacing material as the displacement element (12, 1012) is advanced along a conveyance member (16). The driving element is coupled to and movable with the displacement element (12, 1012) to advance the displacement element along a conveyance member (16).
US10199792B2
An RJ-45 insertion and extraction tool is disclosed that allows a user to plug and unplug an RJ-45 connector from an RJ-45 socket in a quick and easy way that does not disturb other cables plugged into adjacent sockets.
US10199780B2
An electric shielding contact device in the form of a hollow cylinder that has a contact section and a crimping section. The contact section serves to electrically contact the electric shielding contact device with an electric counter contact. The crimping section serves to attach the electric shielding contact device to an electrical cable upon crimping of the crimping section and has a gaping opening shaped and sized to become a slit when the crimping section of is crimped and the electric shielding contact device attached to the electrical cable.
US10199777B2
An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a base and a tongue; an upper and lower rows of contacts mounted in the insulative housing and exposed to the tongue, the upper and lower rows of contacts including at least one power contact; a shielding shell (4) enclosing the insulative housing; and a shielding plate (3) mounted in the insulative housing and shielded between the upper row of contacts and the lower row of contacts; wherein the shielding plate has a center portion (33), a pair of opposite side portions (34) integrally connected with the center portion, and a pair of slits (321) between the center portion and the side portions; and the slit is aligned with the at least one power contact.
US10199772B2
A power distribution apparatus with a rotary-opening/closing type plug fixing device for a communication equipment rack is provided. The power distribution apparatus prevents poor connection resulting from accidentally touching other power plugs by fixing the power plug with the plug fixing device which rotates in one direction, and allows the separation of the plug fixing device with only one hand when separating the power plug, thereby enabling users to conveniently separate the power plug even in a narrow space.
US10199769B2
A plug connector assembly includes: a mating member including an insulative housing and a pair of latching members retained in the insulative housing; a cable; and an outer case, wherein the latching member includes a base portion, a fixing portion forwardly extending from the base portion, a connecting portion upwardly extending from the base portion, an elastic portion forwardly and rearwardly extending from an extremely end of the connecting portion, a locking portion disposed on a front side of the elastic portion and exposed to the insulative housing, and a pressing portion downwardly extending from a rear end of the elastic portion beyond the base portion; the outer case defines an operating portion for operating the latching member; the operating portion drives the pressing portion to disengage the latching with a mating connector; andthe operating direction of the operating portion is opposite to the movement direction of the locking portion.
US10199759B2
A socket has a housing, which is composed of an electrically insulating material and an elongate plug-receiving region. A contact spring is arranged in the plug-receiving region. A lever loads the contact spring in the open position of the lever such that a dimension of the contact spring transverse to the longitudinal direction of the plug-receiving region is reduced and relaxes the contact spring in the closed position of the lever. A plug is provided for such a socket.
US10199750B2
A press-fit terminal comprises a contact member making contact with an electrode of a through-hole via penetrating a circuit substrate. The contact member comprises multiple contact pieces making contact with the electrode of the through-hole via, a junction part supporting the multiple contact pieces together, and a fixing part fixed to a main piece of a pin part and supporting the junction part via a flexible part.
US10199737B2
Materials that exhibit magneto-dielectric effects with high local order in the form of distinct basic units with a defined geometry that provides orientation and spacing that prevents contact between conductive components of a basic unit are disclosed. Use of multiple basic units arranged, for example by embedment, in essentially random orientation relative to one another provides a composite material with magneto-dielectric effects that isotropic and homogeneous. Such basic units are readily manufacturable using conventional techniques.
US10199726B2
Systems and methods which provide local sensor and/or external information derived proactive aiming assistance with respect to wireless nodes for facilitating desired wireless links are shown. Embodiments provide an aiming assistance user interface providing guidance with respect to properly altering the orientation of the plurality of external antennas to provide a desired wireless link. To facilitate providing aiming assistance, embodiments of a plurality of sensors, placed at the plurality of external antennas respectively, operable to provide information useful in environmental analysis for determining proactive orientation guidance information.
US10199725B2
Systems and related methods for reducing passive intermodulation (PIM) include a combination of an antenna control unit (ACU) and a remote electrical tilt (RET) system. The ACU may be used to generate rotational motion of an output drive shaft in response to an input tilt control signal. The RET system couples to the output drive shaft of the ACU and may be used to convert the rotational motion into translational motion for modifying a phase shift of an antenna beam. PIM may be substantially eliminated by providing electrical isolation between the ACU and RET system in the form of a non-conductive connector that engages the draft shaft of the ACU.
US10199724B2
An in-vehicle antenna is disclosed. The in-vehicle antenna is configured to be installed with an installation counterpart having a ground surface. The in-vehicle antenna has an element part, a ground part integrally connected to the element part, and a clamping part configured to clamp the installation counterpart together with the ground part with elastic force.
US10199721B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an aerodynamic device for a vehicle, comprising one or more antenna elements arranged to extend from a surface of the aerodynamic device.
US10199717B2
A phased array antenna panel includes a first plurality of antennas, a first radio frequency (RF) front end chip, a second plurality of antennas, a second RF front end chip, and a combiner RF chip. The first and second RF front end chips receive respective first and second input signals from the first and second pluralities of antennas, and produce respective first and second output signals based on the respective first and second input signals. The combiner RF chip can receive the first and second output signals and produce a power combined output signal that is a combination of powers of the first and second output signals. Alternatively, a power combiner can receive the first and second output signals and produce a power combined output signal, and the combiner RF chip can receive the power combined output signal.
US10199706B2
Embodiments herein describe a high-speed communication channel in a PCB that includes a dielectric waveguide sandwiched between two ground layers. The dielectric waveguide includes a core and a cladding where the material of the core has a higher dielectric constant than the material of the cladding. Thus, electromagnetic signals propagating in the core are internally reflected at the interface between the core and cladding such that the electromagnetic signals are primary contained in the core.
US10199699B2
A battery assembly includes a plurality of battery cells and a support structure positioned about the plurality of battery cells. The support structure includes at least one sidewall and the at least one sidewall includes a first flange that extends adjacent a top surface of each of the plurality of battery cells and a second flange that extends beyond a bottom surface of each of the plurality of battery cells.
US10199698B2
A method for producing a cooling plate may include the steps of: providing a pressing tool including a die and a stamp, wherein the die and the stamp define a negative shaped profile of the cooling plate to be produced; arranging at least one of a fiber woven fabric and a fiber scrim in the die; at least one of applying and introducing a melt of a thermoplastic plastic on the at least one of the fiber woven fabric and the fiber scrim to form an organic sheet; and shaping the organic sheet into a cooling plate shaped part via pressing the stamp onto the organic sheet arranged in the die.
US10199694B2
A power storage system includes an AC/DC converter, a first control device, a power storage device, and a load. The first control device includes a measuring portion that measures the amount of power consumed by the load, a predicting portion that predicts the demand for power consumed by the load on the basis of the amount of power consumed by the load, and a planning portion that makes a charge and discharge plan of the power storage device on the basis of the demand for power predicted by the predicting portion. The power storage device includes a second control device, a DC/DC converter, a first battery cell group, and a second battery cell group. The power storage device is placed in an underfloor space surrounded by a base and a floor of a building.
US10199692B2
Proton-conducting gel electrolytes with acid immobilized within a covalently cross-linked polymer network and composites containing the gel electrolytes provide low ionic resistance, minimize acid stratification, and prevent dendrite growth. The gel electrolytes can be formed from monomers dissolved in concentrated sulfuric acid and subsequently covalently cross-linked between the battery electrodes, or the covalently cross-linked gel electrolytes can be formed in water and subsequently exchanged into sulfuric acid. The mechanical properties of these gels can often be enhanced with the addition of silica powder, silica fiber, or other additives. In some cases, the covalently cross-linked gel electrolytes are formed in the presence of a conventional silica-filled polyethylene separator or within a low density fiber mat to provide mechanical reinforcement and controlled spacing between the battery electrodes. The covalently cross-linked gel electrolytes provide low ionic resistance, and increased power capacity of the battery, because the polymer networks can be formed at low concentrations (<20% solids).
US10199688B2
A one-step method to prepare a magnesium electrolyte salt is provided. According to the method, the magnesium electrolyte is obtained by reacting a Grignard reagent and a fluorinated aryl borane. In addition, formation of monomeric or dimeric magnesium ion is determined by the choice of the Grignard reagent. The magnesium electrolyte may be non-chlorinated and non-corrosive. A magnesium battery containing the magnesium electrolyte is also provided.
US10199684B2
Disclosed herein are electrolyte compositions comprising: a non-fluorinated carbonate; a fluorinated solvent; a lithium glycolatoborate compound represented by Formula I or Formula II: a fluorinated carbonate; and an electrolyte salt. The electrolyte compositions are useful in electrochemical cells, such as lithium batteries.
US10199680B2
An electric device having a power generating element contains a positive electrode with a positive electrode active material formed on a surface of a positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode, and a separator containing an electrolyte. The positive electrode active material contains a lithium nickel-based composite oxide having a layered crystal structure capable of insertion and desorption of lithium ions, the composition represented by: [LiαNiβ]3a[NixMny-rMrCOz]3bO2, wherein M is at least one selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Nb, W, P, Al, Mg, V, Ca, Sr, Cr, Fe, B, Ga, In, Si, Mo, Y, Sn, V, Cu, Ag, and Zn, and x+y+z≤1, β≤0.032, 0.9≤α+β≤1.2, 0
US10199665B2
A composition for use in forming a fuel cell matrix includes a support material, an electrolyte material, and an additive material that includes a plurality of flakes having an average length in a range of 5 to 40 micrometers and an average thickness of less than 1 micrometer.
US10199659B2
A battery cell housing and control system enables the use of liquid battery power systems in various applications, including downhole environments. The cell housing includes a plurality of conductive terminals spaced there-around to provide conductivity between the electrochemical solution and the load. Sensors provide orientation data to the control system to thereby determine which terminals should be activated to provide power to a load.
US10199658B2
A thermal battery includes a first conductive layer containing an anode material separated from a second conductive layer containing a cathode material by a separator layer containing a separator material; and a flexible pyrotechnic heat source, wherein the first conductive layer, the separator layer, and the second conductive layer are rolled together to form the spiral wound configuration. A method of manufacturing a thermal spiral wound battery includes preparing three slurries, each containing one of an anode material, a cathode material, and a separator material, depositing each of the materials from the slurries onto conductive substrates to form three layers, stacking the layers, and winding the layers together into a spiral wound configuration.
US10199656B2
Battery grid (1) comprising a grid structure (4) containing grid arms (2, 2′) and bordering arms (3), a supporting element (5) and lugs (6), as well as lead paste (7) spread on the surface of the supporting element (5).The invention also relates to a battery cell (35) comprising the battery grids (1) with separator plates (38) placed between them. The invention further relates to a storage battery (42) comprising battery cells (35) filled with acid. The supporting element (5) comprises fiberglass based material onto which the grid structure (4) is secured through chemical bond formed between the lead and the fiberglass. The lead paste (7) is secured to the supporting element (5) through chemical bond and the grid structure (4) has more than one lug (6). The battery cell (35) is composed of the battery grids (1). The lugs (41, 42) are connected to a jointing element (8). The storage battery (42) comprises the battery cells (35).
US10199651B2
A binder composition for an electrode of an electric storage device is provided. The binder composition comprises (A) at least one polymer selected from the group consisting of polyamic acids and imidized polymers thereof having an imidization rate of 50% or less and (B) water. The ratio Ma/Mb of the content of the polymer (A), Ma (parts by mass), to the content of the water (B), Mb (parts by mass), ranges from 500 to 5,000. The binder composition for an electrode of the present invention provides an electric storage device having a large charge/discharge capacity and a low degree of capacity degradation due to repetition of a charge/discharge cycle.
US10199637B2
Provided is a lithium or sodium metal battery having an anode, a cathode, and a porous separator and/or an electrolyte, wherein the anode contains a graphene-metal hybrid foam composed of multiple pores, pore walls, and a lithium- or sodium-attracting metal residing in the pores; wherein the metal is selected from Au, Ag, Mg, Zn, Ti, Na (or Li), K, Al, Fe, Mn, Co, Ni, Sn, V, Cr, or an alloy thereof and is in an amount of 0.1% to 90% of the total hybrid foam weight or volume, and the pore walls contain single-layer or few-layer graphene sheets, wherein graphene sheets contain a pristine graphene or non-pristine graphene selected from graphene oxide, reduced graphene oxide, graphene fluoride, graphene chloride, graphene bromide, graphene iodide, hydrogenated graphene, nitrogenated graphene, doped graphene, chemically functionalized graphene, or a combination thereof.
US10199635B2
Provided herein is a method of drying electrode assembly of lithium-ion battery, comprising the steps of vacuum drying the electrode assembly in an oven at elevated temperature; filling the oven with hot, dry air or inert gas; repeating the steps of vacuum drying and gas filling 2 or more times. The method disclosed herein can provide the electrode assembly having a water content of less than 20 ppm.
US10199633B2
An electrode and a related method of manufacture are provided. The electrode includes a self-aligning active material having short fiber powders with a cylindrical morphology to increase the packing density from 0.74 to nearly 0.91. The short fiber powders self-align during a slurring coating process as a result of shear forces between a die and a foil. The resulting coating includes parallel short fibers in a closed packed arrangement, providing an increased volumetric capacity of at least approximately 17%.
US10199632B2
A method of protecting a battery pack in which first and second battery cells, each having a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an edge are aligned so that the positive electrodes of the first and second battery cells are adjacent. An electrically conductive busbar configured to be positioned on an edge of the first and second battery cells electrically connects the positive electrode of the first battery cell to a first protection device, the positive electrode of the second battery cell to a second protection device, the first protection device to the second protection device, and the negative electrode of the first battery cell to the negative electrode of the second battery cell. Also provided is a battery pack protection assembly.
US10199617B2
This assembled-battery stacker includes: a pair of end plates which is formed from a first steel sheet and is arranged at both ends of a battery block in the thickness direction; a connecting member which is formed from a second steel sheet and mutually connects the pair of the end plates; wherein the end plate includes: a bottom wall part that faces an end face of the battery block in the thickness direction; and a side wall part that extends from both sides of the bottom wall part to the thickness direction and covers a part of a lateral face of the battery block; and wherein the connecting member is arranged in order for the connecting member to overlap at least a part of the side wall part.
US10199607B2
An organic light-emitting display device including a substrate including a display area and a non-display area; a thin film transistor disposed on the substrate in the non-display area; an electroluminescent device disposed in the display area; and an overcoat layer disposed on the substrate and including two or more concave portions and two or more convex portions in the display area. Further, the two or more concave portions and the two or more convex portions form a linear pattern in a plan view. In addition, the electroluminescent device includes a first electrode disposed on the overcoat layer and connecting the electroluminescent device to the thin film transistor; an organic light-emitting layer disposed on the first electrode and configured to emit light; and a second electrode disposed on the organic light-emitting layer. Also, the linear pattern of the two or more concave portions and the two or more convex portions comprise one of a zigzag pattern, a streamlined pattern, and combinations thereof.
US10199606B2
A display unit of the present disclosure includes: a plurality of pixels that are disposed in a regular manner; a plurality of first openings that are provided in each of the plurality of pixels; and one or more second openings that are provided in at least a portion of a peripheral edge of each of the plurality of pixels that are disposed in a regular manner.
US10199600B2
A display device may include a display panel that includes a plurality of display elements. The display device may further include a protective member overlapping the display panel. The display device may further include an optical member disposed between the display panel and the protective member and configured to prevent light reflected by the display panel from reaching the protective member. The optical member may include a plurality of directional members. The plurality of directional members may have an optic axis.
US10199599B2
An organic light emitting diode device can have an enhanced thin film encapsulation layer for preventing moisture from permeating from the outside. The thin film encapsulation layer can have a multilayered structure in which one or more inorganic layers and one or more organic layers are alternately laminated. A barrier can be formed outside of a portion of the substrate on which the organic light emitting diode is formed. The organic layers of the thin film encapsulation layer can be formed inside an area defined by the barrier.
US10199591B2
An organic EL display device has a TFT formed on the substrate, and an organic EL layer formed on the TFT. A protective layer is formed on the organic EL layer, and a first barrier layer which contains AlOx is formed between the substrate and the TFT.
US10199589B2
A photoelectric conversion element, including a first electrode, a second electrode, and at least one organic layer being present between the first electrode and the second electrode, in which the organic layer contains at least two kinds of compounds having the same skeletons and different substituents in combination.
US10199586B2
A process for preparing a device and a device including a substrate; an interlayer disposed on the substrate, wherein the interlayer comprises a cured film formed from an interlayer composition, wherein the interlayer composition comprises: an epoxy compound; a polyvinyl phenol; a melamine resin; a solvent; an optional surfactant; and an optional catalyst; a source electrode and a drain electrode disposed on a surface of the interlayer; a semiconductor layer disposed on the interlayer, wherein the semiconductor layer is disposed into a gap between the source and drain electrode; a back channel interface comprising an interface between the semiconductor layer and the interlayer, wherein the interlayer serves as a back channel dielectric layer for the device; a dielectric layer disposed on the semiconductor layer; a gate electrode disposed on the dielectric layer. Also an interlayer composition and an organic thin film transistor comprising the interlayer composition.
US10199582B2
A compound comprising a ligand LA according to formula (I) as well as, a first device and a formulation including the same are disclosed. In the structure of formula (I): ring A is a 5- or 6-membered heteroaryl ring; X1 is C or N; RA is mono-, bi-, tri-, tetradentate, or unsubstituted; RA, R10, R11, R12, R13, R14, R15, R16, and R17 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, deuterium, halide, alkyl, cycloalkyl, heteroalkyl, arylalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, amino, silyl, alkenyl, cycloalkenyl, heteroalkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, heteroaryl, acyl, carbonyl, carboxylic acids, ester, nitrile, isonitrile, sulfanyl, sulfinyl, sulfonyl, phosphino, and combinations thereof, any adjacent substituents of RA, R10, R11, R12, R13, R14, R15, R16, and R17 are optionally joined to form a fused ring; the dashed lines represent bonds to a metal M; and metal M has an atomic number greater than 40.
US10199579B2
Organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite (OIHP) based photo-responsive devices include an OIHP active layer disposed between a cathode layer and an anode layer, and an electron extraction layer disposed between the cathode layer and the active layer. The electron extraction layer includes a layer of C60 directly disposed on the active layer. The active layer includes an organometal trihalide perovskite layer (e.g., CH3NH3PbI2X, where X includes at least one of Cl, Br, or I).
US10199574B2
A magnetoresistive element (e.g., a spin-torque magnetoresistive memory element) includes a fixed magnetic layer, a free magnetic layer, having a high-iron alloy interface region located along a surface of the free magnetic layer, wherein the high-iron alloy interface region has at least 50% iron by atomic composition, and a first dielectric, disposed between the fixed magnetic layer and the free magnetic layer. The magnetoresistive element further includes a second dielectric, having a first surface that is in contact with the surface of the free magnetic layer, and an electrode, disposed between the second dielectric and a conductor. The electrode includes: (i) a non-ferromagnetic portion having a surface that is in contact with a second surface of the second dielectric, and (ii) a second portion having at least one ferromagnetic material disposed between the non-ferromagnetic portion of the electrode and the conductor.
US10199572B2
Device and methods of forming a device are disclosed. The method includes providing a substrate defined with at least first and second regions. A first dielectric layer is provided over the first and second regions of the substrate. The first dielectric layer corresponds to pre-metal dielectric (PMD) or CA level which comprises a plurality of contact plugs in the first and second regions. A first interlevel dielectric (ILD) layer is provided over the first dielectric layer. The first ILD layer accommodates a plurality of metal lines in M1 metal level in the first and second regions and via contact in V0 via level in the first region. A magnetic random access memory (MRAM) cell is formed in the second region. The MRAM cell includes a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) element sandwiched between the M1 metal level and CA level.
US10199570B2
A magnetoresistance effect element has a first ferromagnetic metal layer, a second ferromagnetic metal layer, and a tunnel barrier layer that is sandwiched between the first and second ferromagnetic metal layers, and a tunnel barrier layer that is sandwiched between the first and second ferromagnetic metal layers, the tunnel barrier layer is expressed by a composition formula of AB2Ox (0
US10199569B2
A magnetic element is provided. The magnetic element includes a free magnetization layer having a surface area that is approximately 1,600 nm2 or less, the free magnetization layer including a magnetization state that is configured to be changed; an insulation layer coupled to the free magnetization layer, the insulation layer including a non-magnetic material; and a magnetization fixing layer coupled to the insulation layer opposite the free magnetization layer, the magnetization fixing layer including a fixed magnetization so as to be capable of serving as a reference of the free magnetization layer.
US10199554B2
A technique relates to a trilayer Josephson junction structure. A dielectric layer is on a base electrode layer that is on a substrate. A counter electrode layer is on the dielectric layer. First and second counter electrodes are formed from the counter electrode layer. First and second dielectric layers are formed from the dielectric layer. First and second base electrodes are formed from base electrode layer. The first counter electrode, first dielectric layer, and first base electrode form a first stack. The second counter electrode, second dielectric layer, and second base electrode form a second stack. A shunting capacitor is between first and second base electrodes. An ILD layer is deposited on the substrate, the first and second counter electrodes, and the first and second base electrodes. A contact bridge connects the first and second counter electrodes. An air gap is formed underneath the contact bridge by removing ILD.
US10199551B2
A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a light-emitting structure including a first semiconductor layer, an active layer and a second semiconductor layer sequentially stacked. A connection electrode is positioned above the light-emitting structure. The connection electrode includes a connection metal layer electrically connected to at least one of the first and second semiconductor layers. A UBM pattern is on the connection electrode. A connection terminal is on the UBM pattern. The connection metal layer includes a first metal element. A heat conductivity of the first metal element is higher than that of gold (Au). The connection terminal includes a second metal element. A first reactivity of the first metal element with the second metal element is lower than a second reactivity of gold (Au) with the second metal element.
US10199544B2
A light-emitting device comprises a semiconductor stack comprising a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and an active layer formed between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer; a first pad on the semiconductor stack; a second pad on the semiconductor stack, wherein the first pad and the second pad are separated from each other with a distance, which define a region between the first pad and the second pad on the semiconductor stack; and multiple vias penetrating the active layer to expose the first semiconductor layer, wherein the first pad and the second pad are formed on regions other than the multiple vias.
US10199539B2
A UV light emitting device is disclosed. The UV light emitting device includes: a substrate; an n-type semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate; an active layer disposed on then-type semiconductor layer; a hole injection layer disposed on the active layer and comprising Al; an Al-delta layer disposed on the hole injection layer and comprising Al; and a first p-type contact layer disposed on the Al-delta layer and having a higher doping concentration of p-type dopants than the hole injection layer, wherein the first p-type contact layer has a lower Al content than the hole injection layer, a band-gap of the first p-type contact layer is lower than or equal to energy of light emitted from the active layer, and the Al-delta layer has a higher Al content than the hole injection layer and allows holes to enter the active layer by tunneling therethrough.
US10199526B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming an amorphous semiconductor layer adjacent to a lightly doped region of a semiconductor wafer. The lightly doped region forms at least part of a back side of the semiconductor wafer, and the lightly doped region has a first conductivity type. The method further includes incorporating dopants into the amorphous semiconductor layer during or after forming the amorphous semiconductor layer. The method further includes annealing the amorphous semiconductor layer to transform at least a part of the amorphous semiconductor layer into a substantially monocrystalline semiconductor layer and to form a highly doped region in the monocrystalline semiconductor layer at the back side of the semiconductor wafer. The highly doped region has the first conductivity type.
US10199520B2
A photodetector structure having a barrier layer disposed between a pair of like-conductively doped semiconductor layers, the barriers layer having a surface area smaller than the surface area of the upper one of the pair of semiconductor layers. A fill material is disposed between outer peripheral edges of the barrier layer and a region between outer peripheral edges of the first and second layers.
US10199507B2
A thin film transistor and a method of manufacturing the same, and a display device and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed, in which the thin film transistor substrate comprises an active layer formed on a substrate; a gate electrode controlling electron transfer within the active layer; a source electrode connected with one end area of the active layer; a drain electrode connected with the other end area of the active layer; and a light-shielding layer formed under the active layer to shield light from entering the active layer.
US10199506B2
The embodiments of the present invention disclose a low temperature poly-silicon (LTPS) transistor array substrate and a method of fabricating the same, and a display device. The LTPS transistor array substrate comprises a substrate; a poly-silicon semiconductor active region provided on the substrate; a gate insulated from the poly-silicon semiconductor active region; and a dielectric spacer region provided on a side wall of the gate, wherein a portion of the poly-silicon semiconductor active region corresponding to the dielectric spacer region comprises a buffer region, and the dielectric spacer region surrounds the side wall of the gate and covers the buffer region.
US10199505B2
Metal quantum dots are incorporated into doped source and drain regions of a MOSFET array to assist in controlling transistor performance by altering the energy gap of the semiconductor crystal. In a first example, the quantum dots are incorporated into ion-doped source and drain regions. In a second example, the quantum dots are incorporated into epitaxially doped source and drain regions.
US10199491B2
A transistor is disclosed that includes a semiconductor body having a first horizontal surface. A drift region is arranged in the semiconductor body. A plurality of gate electrodes is arranged in trenches of the semiconductor body. The trenches have a longitudinal direction and extending parallel relative to each other. The longitudinal direction of the trenches extends in a first lateral direction of the semiconductor body. The body regions and the source regions are arranged between the trenches. The body regions are arranged between the drift region and the source regions in a vertical direction of the semiconductor body. In the first horizontal surface, the source regions and the body regions are arranged alternately in the first lateral direction. A source electrode is electrically connected to the source regions and the body regions in the first horizontal surface.
US10199477B2
An embodiment of a complementary GaN integrated circuit includes a GaN layer with a first bandgap. A second layer with a second bandgap is formed on the GaN layer, resulting in a 2DEG in a contact region between the GaN layer and the second layer. The second layer has a relatively thin portion and a relatively thick portion. A third layer is formed over the relatively thick portion of the second layer. The third layer has a third bandgap that is different from the second bandgap, resulting in a 2DHG in a contact region between the second layer and the third layer. A transistor of a first conductivity type includes the 2DHG, the relatively thick portion of the second layer, and the third layer, and a transistor of a second conductivity type includes the 2DEG and the relatively thin portion of the second layer.
US10199473B2
Provided is a semiconductor device that includes a drain electrode and a source electrode, a gate electrode, one or more gate-electrode extensions, and a link. The drain electrode and the source electrode have a planar shape of combs in mesh with each other. The gate electrode is provided between the drain electrode and the source electrode, and has a meandering planar shape. The one or more gate-electrode extensions are projected from the gate electrode. The link is confronted with one or both of the drain electrode and the source electrode, and couples the one or more gate-electrode extensions together.
US10199472B2
A neuromorphic device includes a row line extending in a first direction; a column line disposed over the row line, the column line extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; a plurality of gating lines disposed between the row line and the column line; and a synapse disposed between the row line and the column line, the synapse passing through the plurality of gating lines.
US10199469B2
A semiconductor device includes a silicon semiconductor layer including at least one region doped with a first conductive type dopant, a metal material layer electrically connected to the doped region, and a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) between the doped region and the metal material layer, the SAM forming a molecular dipole on an interface of the silicon semiconductor layer in a direction of reducing a Schottky barrier height (SBH).
US10199466B1
A semiconductor device of an embodiment includes a silicon carbide layer including a first plane and a second plane; a trench including a first side face, a second side face, and a bottom face; a first silicon carbide region of a first-conductivity type; a second silicon carbide region of a second-conductivity type; a third silicon carbide region of the second-conductivity type sandwiching the trench with the second silicon carbide region; a sixth silicon carbide region of the second-conductivity type being in contact with the second side face and the bottom face; a gate electrode; and an insulating layer between the gate electrode and the second silicon carbide region, in which a portion of the first side face being in contact with the first silicon carbide region includes a first, second, and third region, and inclination angle of the second region is shallower than those of the first and third regions.
US10199461B2
An integrated circuit is formed by forming an isolation trench through at least a portion of an interconnect region, at least 40 microns deep into a substrate of the integrated circuit, leaving at least 200 microns of substrate material under the isolation trench. Dielectric material is formed in the isolation trench at a substrate temperature no greater than 320° C. to form an isolation structure which separates an isolated region of the integrated circuit from at least a portion of the substrate. The isolated region contains an isolated component. The isolated region of the integrated circuit may be a region of the substrate, and/or a region of the interconnect region. The isolated region may be a first portion of the substrate which is laterally separated from a second portion of the substrate. The isolated region may be a portion of the interconnect region above the isolation structure.
US10199456B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device is provided. The device includes a semiconductor substrate having a main surface and a rear surface vertically spaced apart from the main surface, a first doped region, a second doped region and a third doped region. The third doped region is interposed between the first and second doped regions beneath the main surface. Field plate trenches having field plates vertically extend from the main surface to a bottom that is arranged in the first doped region. A gate trench having a gate electrode vertically extends from the main surface to the first doped region. A compensation zone vertically extends from the bottom of the gate trench deeper into the first doped region. The compensation zone is laterally aligned with the gate trench and is adjacent to the field plates along a cross-sectional plane of the device that is parallel to the main surface.
US10199450B2
A static electricity prevention circuit of a display device including: a driving circuit configured to drive a display unit that displays an image, at least one clock signal wire configured to transmit a clock signal to the driving circuit, at least one transistor electrically coupled to the clock signal wire, and at least one capacitor including a first electrode coupled to a source electrode and to a drain electrode of the transistor, and a second electrode configured to be maintained at a voltage.
US10199444B2
A display device includes a substrate including a display area and a non-display area, a plurality of pixels provided in the display area, lines respectively connected to the plurality of pixels, the lines applying a signal to the plurality of pixels, the lines each including a first metal layer including a first metal and a second metal layer that is provided on the first metal layer and includes a second metal, an insulating layer provided at a least one portion between the substrate and the lines, the insulating layer including an inorganic insulating layer and an organic insulating layer, and a barrier layer provided between the organic insulating layer and the first metal layer, the barrier layer including an oxide of the first metal.
US10199438B2
A top-emitting organic electroluminescent display panel, a manufacturing method, and a display device. The top-emitting organic electroluminescent display panel comprises: a substrate, a layer of white organic light emitting diodes and a thin film encapsulation layer arranged on the substrate in sequence. The thin film encapsulation layer comprises at least two inorganic thin film layers and at least one organic thin film layer. At least one organic thin film layer is a color filter layer, the color filter layer being arranged between the at least two inorganic thin film layers. Since one of the organic thin film layers in the thin film encapsulation layer is a color filter layer, the color filter layer does not have to be arranged above the thin film encapsulation layer separately, thus reducing the number of film layers, simplifying the film layer structure, reducing manufacturing costs, and improving the luminous efficiency and the display effect.
US10199429B2
Devices and methods of forming the devices are disclosed. The device includes a substrate and a color LED pixel disposed on the substrate. The color LED pixel includes a red LED, a green LED and a blue LED. Each of the color LED includes a specific color LED body disposed on the respective color region on the substrate, a specific color multiple quantum well (MQW) on the respective color LED body and a specific color top LED layer disposed over the respective color MQW. The MQWs of the red LED, green LED and blue LED includes at least an indium gallium nitride (InxGa1-xN) layer and a gallium nitride (GaN), where x is the atomic percentage of In in the InxGa1-xN layer, and the MQWs of the red LED, green LED and blue LED have different bandgaps by varying x of the InxGa1-xN layer in the red LED, the green LED and the blue LED.
US10199425B2
A mask includes a substrate, an effective pixel formation region and a reference pattern formation region. A pixel pattern for forming a pixel component that constitutes a pixel is arranged in the effective pixel formation region. A reference pattern for indicating a reference position where pixel pattern should be arranged in the effective pixel formation region is arranged in the reference pattern formation region. Pixel pattern is arranged to be displaced from the reference position toward a center side of the effective pixel formation region.
US10199422B2
A plurality of pixel regions are aligned in a matrix in a semiconductor substrate, and each of the plurality of pixel regions includes an active region, two photoelectric conversion elements, two floating capacitance regions, and a first transistor. Each of the plurality of pixel regions includes two transfer transistors each having each of the two photoelectric conversion elements and each of the two floating capacitance regions. The first transistor is arranged within the pixel region, between one floating capacitance region and the other floating capacitance region of the two floating capacitance regions with respect to a direction in which the one floating capacitance region and the other floating capacitance region are aligned.
US10199418B2
A plurality of semiconductor photodetecting elements have a planar shape having a pair of first sides opposed to each other in a first direction and a pair of second sides being shorter than the pair of first sides and opposed to each other in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and are disposed on a base so as to be adjacent to each other in juxtaposition. A plurality of bump electrodes each are disposed on sides where the pair of first sides lie in each semiconductor photodetecting element, to electrically and mechanically connect the base to each semiconductor photodetecting element. A plurality of dummy bumps are disposed so that at least one dummy bump is disposed on each of sides where the pair of second sides lie in each semiconductor photodetecting element, to mechanically connect the base to each semiconductor photodetecting element.
US10199415B2
The method is provided for fabricating an optical metasurface. The method may include depositing a conductive layer over a holographic region of a wafer and depositing a dielectric layer over the conducting layer. The method may also include patterning a hard mask on the dielectric layer. The method may further include etching the dielectric layer to form a plurality of dielectric pillars with a plurality of nano-scale gaps between the pillars.
US10199414B2
The present technology relates to a semiconductor device and electronic equipment in which a semiconductor device that suppresses the occurrence of noise by a leakage of light can be provided.A semiconductor device is configured which includes a light-receiving element 34, an active element for signal processing, and a light shielding structure 40 which is between the light-receiving element 34 and the active element to cover the active element and is formed of wirings 45 and 46. The semiconductor device further includes a first substrate on which the light-receiving element is formed, a second substrate on which the active element is formed, and a wiring layer which has a light shielding structure by the wirings which is formed on the second substrate, and in which the second substrate can be bonded to the first substrate through the wiring layer.
US10199412B2
Optoelectronic modules including an image sensor having regions optically separated from one another
This disclosure describes optoelectronic modules that include an image sensor having at least two regions separated optically from one another by a wall. The wall can include a bridge portion that extends over the image sensor and further can include a cured adhesive portion, part of which is disposed between a lower surface of the bridge portion and an upper surface of the image sensor. Various techniques are described for fabricating the modules so as to help prevent the adhesive from contaminating sensitive regions of the image sensor. The wall can be substantially light-tight so as to prevent undesired optical cross-talk, for example, between a light emitter located to one side of the wall and a light sensitive region of the image sensor located to the other side of the wall.
US10199404B2
An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are provided by the present disclosure. The manufacturing method includes: providing a base substrate; forming a plurality of pixel electrodes on the base substrate, in which the operation of forming the plurality of pixel electrodes includes: depositing a first transparent conductive film, and forming the plurality of pixel electrodes and a connection unit for connecting adjacent pixel electrodes by patterning the first transparent conductive film; forming a passivation layer on the plurality of pixel electrodes, and patterning the passivation layer to expose at least a portion of the connection unit; and processing the exposed portion of the connection unit, so that the plurality of interconnected pixel electrodes are electrically insulated.
US10199400B2
The present disclosure provides an array substrate, a display panel and a display device. The array substrate includes a first conductive pattern and a second conductive pattern forming a ground (GND) protection circuit. The first conductive pattern includes a plurality of first conductive segments spaced apart from each other, and adjacent first conductive segments are connected to each other by the second conductive pattern, an insulating layer is arranged between the first conductive segments and the second conductive pattern, and the first conductive segments are connected to the second conductive pattern through via holes penetrating through the insulating layer. In addition, the present disclosure provides a display panel including the above array substrate. Furthermore, the present disclosure provides a display device including the above array substrate.
US10199397B2
An electrical connection structure, an array substrate and a display device. The electrical connection structure includes a first electrical connection component, which includes: a conductive structure; an insulating layer covering the conductive structure, where at least one first via hole and at least one second via hole are disposed separately in the insulating layer, each first via hole and each second via hole expose a respective part of a surface of the conductive structure; and a conductive connection layer disposed on the insulating layer and covering the at least one first via hole and the at least one second via hole, where the conductive connection layer and the conductive structure are electrically connected with each other through the at least one first via hole and the at least one second via hole. The electrical connection structure can reduce undercut phenomena that occur at via holes in the insulating layer.
US10199384B2
The invention relates to a ferroelectric memory device comprising at least one layer comprising a ferroelectric polymer, and at least two electrodes either side thereof, the ferroelectric polymer being of general formula P(VDF-X-Y), wherein VDF is vinylidene fluoride motifs, X is trifluoroethylene or tetrafluoroethylene motifs, and Y is motifs from a third monomer, the molar proportion of Y motifs in the polymer being less than or equal to 6.5%.
US10199383B2
Semiconductor structures and fabrication methods thereof are provided. An exemplary fabrication method includes providing a base substrate having an N-type logic region including a first and a second N-type threshold voltage region, a P-type logic region including a first and a second P-type threshold voltage region, a pull-up transistor region and an adjacent pull-down transistor region; forming a gate dielectric layer; forming a first work function layer on the gate dielectric layer; removing portions of the first work function layer; forming a second work function layer on remaining first work function layer and exposed portions of the gate dielectric layer; removing a portion of the second work function layer; forming an N-type work function layer on remaining second work function layer and exposed portion of the gate dielectric layer in the second N-type threshold voltage region; and forming a gate electrode layer on the N-type work function layer.
US10199369B2
Apparatus and methods for transient overstress protection with false condition shutdown are provided herein. In certain configurations, a high-voltage tolerant actively-controlled protection circuit includes a transient overstress detection circuit, a clamp circuit electrically connected between a first node and a second node, a bias circuit that biases the clamp circuit, and a false condition shutdown circuit. The transient overstress detection circuit generates a detection signal indicating whether or not a transient overstress event is detected between the first and second nodes. Additionally, the false condition shutdown circuit generates a false condition shutdown signal based on low pass filtering a voltage difference between the first and second nodes, thereby determining independently whether or not power is present. The bias circuit controls operation of the clamp circuit in an on state or an off state based on the detection signal and the false condition shutdown signal.
US10199363B2
A semiconductor module includes a module substrate, a line pattern provided to the module substrate, first and second semiconductor chips on the module substrate and coupled to the line pattern, and a termination resister on the module substrate and coupled to the line pattern, the termination resistor being located between the first and second semiconductor chips.
US10199362B1
A microLED display panel includes a substrate being divided into a plurality of sub-regions for supporting microLEDs, and a plurality of drivers being correspondingly disposed on surfaces of the sub-regions respectively. In one embodiment, a top surface of the substrate has a recess for accommodating the driver.
US10199361B2
A stacked electronic structure comprises: a substrate and a magnetic device, wherein a plurality of electronic devices and a plurality of conductive pillars are disposed on and electrically connected to the substrate, wherein a molding body encapsulates the plurality of electronic devices, wherein the magnetic device is disposed over the top surface of the molding body and the plurality of conductive pillars, wherein a first terminal of the magnetic device is disposed over and electrically connected to a first conductive pillar and a second terminal of the magnetic device is disposed over and electrically connected to a second conductive pillar, without using any substrate.
US10199360B2
A wire-bond free semiconductor device with two electrodes both of which are accessible from the bottom side of the device. The device is fabricated with two electrodes that are electrically connected to the oppositely doped epitaxial layers, each of these electrodes having leads with bottom-side access points. This structure allows the device to be biased with an external voltage/current source, obviating the need for wire-bonds or other such connection mechanisms that must be formed at the packaging level. Thus, features that are traditionally added to the device at the packaging level (e.g., phosphor layers or encapsulants) may be included in the wafer level fabrication process. Additionally, the bottom-side electrodes are thick enough to provide primary structural support to the device, eliminating the need to leave the growth substrate as part of the finished device.
US10199356B2
Semiconductor device assemblies having stacked semiconductor dies and electrically functional heat transfer structures (HTSs) are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device assembly includes a first semiconductor die having a mounting surface with a base region and a peripheral region adjacent the base region. At least one second semiconductor die can be electrically coupled to the first semiconductor die at the base region. The device assembly can also include an HTS electrically coupled to the first semiconductor die at the peripheral region.
US10199353B2
A microelectronic interposer for a microelectronic package may be fabricated, wherein a first microelectronic device within the microelectronic package is in electronic communication with at least one second microelectronic device through the microelectronic interposer which positions the at least one second microelectronic device outside a periphery of the first microelectronic device. The microelectronic interposer may further include at least one recess for achieving a desired height and/or enabling various configurations for the microelectronic package.
US10199349B2
A mounting device includes a thermocompression bonding head, a pressure reduction mechanism, and a resin sheet feed mechanism. The thermocompression bonding head is configured to heat a semiconductor chip while holding the semiconductor chip and to bond the semiconductor chip to a joined piece by compression. The thermocompression bonding head has a suction hole in a face that holds the semiconductor chip. The pressure reduction mechanism communicates with the suction hole and is configured to reduce pressure inside the suction hole. The resin sheet feed mechanism is configured to supply a resin sheet between the thermocompression bonding head and the semiconductor chip. An electrode that protrudes from a top face of the semiconductor chip is bonded by thermocompression after being embedded in the resin sheet.
US10199346B2
Discussed generally herein are devices that include high density interconnects between dice and techniques for making and using those devices. In one or more embodiments a device can include a bumpless buildup layer (BBUL) substrate including a first die at least partially embedded in the BBUL substrate, the first die including a first plurality of high density interconnect pads. A second die can be at least partially embedded in the BBUL substrate, the second die including a second plurality of high density interconnect pads. A high density interconnect element can be embedded in the BBUL substrate, the high density interconnect element including a third plurality of high density interconnect pads electrically coupled to the first and second plurality of high density interconnect pads.
US10199343B2
An UBM electrode structure body for a radiation detector and a radiation detector arranged with the UBM electrode structure body are provided for suppressing peeling and having high electrode adhesion. In addition, a manufacturing method of an UBM electrode structure body for a radiation detector and a manufacturing method of a radiation detector using the UBM electrode structure body are provided in which peeling does not occur during UBM structure formation, a solder bonding process or bonding of a signal line to a Pt layer. The UBM electrode structure body for a radiation detector of the present invention is arranged with a CdTe substrate or CdZnTe substrate and a Pt electrode layer arranged on the CdTe substrate or CdZnTe substrate, adhesion of the Pt electrode layer with respect to the CdTe substrate or the CdZnTe substrate being 0.5 N/cm or more.
US10199342B2
A device and methods of forming the device are disclosed. A substrate with a circuits component and a dielectric layer with interconnects is provided. A pad level dielectric layer is formed over the dielectric layer. A primary passivation layer is formed over the pad level dielectric layer with pad interconnects. The substrate is subjected to an alloying process. During the alloying process, the primary passivation layer prevents or reduces formation of hillocks on surfaces of the pad interconnects to improve surface smoothness of the pad interconnects. Pad openings are formed in the pad level dielectric layer to expose top surfaces of the pad interconnects. A cap dielectric layer is formed on the substrate and lines the primary passivation layer as well as the exposed top surfaces of the pad interconnects. A final passivation layer is formed on the substrate and covers the cap dielectric layer. The final passivation layer is patterned to form final passivation openings corresponding to the pad openings.
US10199338B2
A semiconductor device includes plural electrode pads arranged in an active region of a semiconductor chip, and wiring layers provided below the plural electrode pads wherein occupation rates of wirings arranged within the regions of the electrode pads are, respectively, made uniform for every wiring layer. To this end, in a region where an occupation rate of wiring is smaller than those in other regions, a dummy wiring is provided. On the contrary, when the occupation rate of wiring is larger than in other regions, slits are formed in the wiring to control the wiring occupation rate. In the respective wirings layers, the shapes, sizes and intervals of wirings below the respective electrode pads are made similar or equal to one another.
US10199336B2
An antenna semiconductor package device includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, a first conductive element and a first directing element. The second conductive layer is over the first conductive layer and separated from the first conductive layer. The first conductive element connects the first conductive layer to the second conductive layer. The first directing element is adjacent to the first conductive layer and separated from the first conductive layer by a first gap. The first conductive element, the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer define a waveguide cavity and a radiation opening.
US10199335B2
An electronic device includes a first electronic component including a first signal line and a first ground conductor surface, a second electronic component that is placed above the first electronic component and includes a second signal line and a second ground conductor surface opposed to the first ground conductor surface, a waveguide including the first ground conductor surface, the second ground conductor surface, and a pair of first ground conductor walls that are opposed to each other and are placed between the first ground conductor surface and the second ground conductor surface, a first transducing part that transduces a signal between the first signal line and the waveguide, and a second transducing part that transduces a signal between the second signal line and the waveguide.
US10199315B2
An IC structure and related method are provided. The IC structure includes: a semiconductor substrate and a TSV disposed within the semiconductor substrate. A first interconnect layer includes a plurality of V0 vias disposed on the TSV, where the plurality of V0 vias are positioned laterally within an upper surface area of the TSV. At least one second interconnect layer disposed over the first interconnect layer includes a plurality of vias laterally positioned outside of a keep out zone positioned over the TSV. The method includes forming a first interconnect layer including a plurality of V0 vias disposed on a TSV, the V0 vias positioned laterally within an upper surface area of the TSV, and forming at least one second interconnect layer disposed over the first interconnect layer and including a plurality of vias laterally positioned outside of a keep out zone positioned over the TSV.
US10199314B2
A flange on first open end of a tubular contact member is soldered to a conductive plate of an insulating substrate. An external electrode terminal is fitted into a main body tube portion of the tubular contact member. The tubular contact member includes a protrusion that protrudes inwardly from an inner wall of the main body tube portion. The protrusion is disposed along the entire perimeter of inner wall toward the first open end. The protrusion has a thickness deformation of the protrusion by a load applied thereto when the external electrode terminal is pressed into the main body tube portion. The protrusion is disposed at a height that can block solder that climbs the inner wall of the main body tube portion, to form a gap between the protrusion and a lower end of the external electrode terminal inserted to a predetermined depth of the main body tube portion.
US10199306B2
An air-cooling heat dissipation device includes a guiding carrier and a gas pump. The guiding carrier includes a pump-receiving recess, a first guiding chamber, a second guiding chamber, a communication structure and at least one discharge groove. The first guiding chamber is concavely formed in the pump-receiving recess, and is in communication with the first guiding chamber. The communication structure is communicating between the first guiding chamber and the second guiding chamber, while the electronic component is disposed within the second guiding chamber. The gas pump is disposed within the pump-receiving recess. When the gas pump is enabled, an ambient gas is driven to sequentially flow through the first guiding chamber, the communication structure and the second guiding chamber to remove the heat from the electronic component. Since the discharge groove is communicating between the second guiding chamber and exterior surroundings, the heated gas is outputted from the discharge groove.
US10199303B1
Molded air cavity packages and methods for producing molded air cavity packages are disclosed. In one embodiment, the molded air cavity package includes a molded package body having an upper peripheral edge portion, an air cavity around which the upper peripheral edge portion extends, and a cover piece bonded to the upper peripheral edge portion to enclose the air cavity. The cover piece has a lower peripheral edge portion, which cooperates with the upper peripheral edge portion to define a cover-body interface. The cover-body interface includes an annular channel extending around the cover-body interface, as taken about the package centerline, and first and second hardstop features formed on the upper peripheral edge portion of the molded package body and on the lower peripheral edge portion of the cover piece, respectively. The hardstop features contact to determine a vertical height of the annular channel, as taken along the package centerline.
US10199291B2
A semiconductor arrangement is presented. The semiconductor arrangement comprises a semiconductor body, the semiconductor body including a semiconductor drift region, wherein the semiconductor drift region has dopants of a first conductivity type; a first semiconductor sense region and a second semiconductor sense region, wherein each of the first semiconductor sense region and the second semiconductor sense region is electrically connected to the semiconductor drift region and has dopants of a second conductivity type different from said first conductivity type; a first metal contact comprising a first metal material, the first metal contact being in contact with the first semiconductor sense region, wherein a transition between the first metal contact and the first semiconductor sense region forms a first metal-to-semiconductor transition; a second metal contact comprising a second metal material different from said first metal material, the second metal contact being separated from the first metal contact and in contact with the second semiconductor sense region, a transition between the second metal contact and the second semiconductor sense region forming a second metal-to-semiconductor transition different from said first metal-to-semiconductor transition; first electrical transmission means, the first electrical transmission means being arranged and configured for providing a first sense signal derived from an electrical parameter of the first metal contact to a first signal input of a sense signal processing unit; and second electrical transmission means separated from said first electrical transmission means, the second electrical transmission means being arranged and configured for providing a second sense signal derived from an electrical parameter of the second metal contact to a second signal input of said sense signal processing unit.
US10199286B1
A method for processing a semiconductor wafer uses non-contact electrical measurements indicative of at least one tip-to-side short or leakage, at least one chamfer short or leakage, and at least one corner short or leakage, where such measurements are obtained from non-contact pads associated with respective tip-to-side short, chamfer short, and corner short test areas.
US10199275B2
In interconnect fabrication (e.g. a damascene process), a conductive layer is formed over a substrate with holes, and is polished to provide interconnect features in the holes. To prevent erosion/dishing of the conductive layer at the holes, the conductive layer is covered by a sacrificial layer (possibly conformal) before polishing; then both layers are polished. Initially, before polishing, the conductive layer and the sacrificial layer are recessed over the holes, but the sacrificial layer is polished at a lower rate to result in a protrusion of the conductive layer at a location of each hole. The polishing can continue to remove the protrusions and provide a planar surface.
US10199274B2
A method is provided for producing at least one electrical via in a substrate, the method comprising: producing a protective layer over a component structure which has been produced or is present on a front side of the substrate; forming at least one contact hole which extends from a surface of a backside of the substrate to a contact surface of the component structure; forming a metal-containing and thus conductive lining in the at least one contact hole creating a hollow electrically conductive structure in the at least one contact hole; and applying a passivation layer over the backside of the substrate, the passivation layer spanning over the hollow electrically conductive structure for forming the at least one electrical via. Also provided is a micro-technical component comprising at least one electrical via.
US10199270B2
Interconnect structures and methods of fabricating an interconnect structure. First and second non-mandrel interconnects are formed in an interlayer dielectric layer. The first non-mandrel interconnect and the second non-mandrel interconnect have respective side surfaces that extend in a first direction. The connector interconnect extends in a second direction transverse to the first direction from the side surface of the first non-mandrel interconnect to the side surface of the second non-mandrel interconnect.
US10199269B2
A conductive structure includes a substrate including a first dielectric layer formed thereon, at least a first opening formed in the first dielectric layer, a low resistive layer formed in the opening, and a first metal bulk formed on the lower resistive layer in the opening. The first metal bulk directly contacts a surface of the first low resistive layer. The low resistive layer includes a carbonitride of a first metal material, and the first metal bulk includes the first metal material.
US10199265B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to variable space mandrel cut for self-aligned double patterning and methods of manufacture. The method includes: forming a plurality of mandrels on a substrate; forming spacers about the plurality of mandrels and exposed portions of the substrate; removing a portion of at least one of the plurality of mandrels to form an opening; and filling in the opening with material.
US10199263B2
A semiconductor device includes a first insulating interlayer on a first region of a substrate and a second insulating interlayer on a second region of the substrate, a plurality of first wiring structures on the first insulating interlayer, the first wiring structures being spaced apart from each other, a plurality of second wiring structures filling a plurality of trenches on the second insulating interlayer, respectively, an insulation capping structure selectively on a surface of the first insulating interlayer between the first wiring structures and on a sidewall and an upper surface of each of the first wiring structures, the insulation capping structure including an insulating material, a third insulating interlayer on the first and second wiring structures, and an air gap among the first wiring structures under the third insulating interlayer.
US10199255B2
According to various embodiments, a workpiece planarization arrangement may include: a chuck including at least one portion configured to support one or more workpieces; and a planarization tool configured to planarize the at least one portion of the chuck and to planarize one or more workpieces on the at least one portion of the chuck; wherein the at least one portion of the chuck includes at least one of particles, pores and/or a polymer.
US10199231B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes: a substrate holder to hold a substrate in a horizontal posture while rotating the substrate about a vertical rotary axis passing through the center of a plane of the substrate; a guard member having a shape extending along at least part of a surface peripheral area of the substrate, the guard member being placed in a position close to the surface peripheral area of the substrate held by the substrate holder in a noncontact manner; a cup being a tubular member with an open top end, the cup being provided so as to surround the substrate held by the substrate holder and the guard member together; and a nozzle from which a processing liquid is discharged to the surface peripheral area of the substrate held by the substrate holder. The nozzle is placed on a side opposite the cup with respect to at least part of the guard member.
US10199230B2
Methods for selectively depositing a metal silicide layer are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method of selectively depositing a metal silicide layer includes: (a) providing a substrate having a first layer to a process chamber, wherein the first layer comprises a first surface and a feature formed in the first surface comprising an opening defined by one or more sidewalls and a bottom surface wherein the sidewalls comprise one of silicon oxide or silicon nitride and wherein the bottom surface comprises at least one of silicon or germanium; (b) exposing the substrate to a precursor gas comprising a metal halide; (c) purging the precursor gas from the process chamber using an inert gas; (d) exposing the substrate to a silicon containing gas; (e) purging the silicon containing gas from the process chamber using an inert gas; (f) repeating (b)-(e) to selectively deposit a metal silicide along the bottom surface to a predetermined thickness; and (g) annealing the substrate after depositing the metal silicide layer.
US10199227B2
A method for fabricated a buried recessed access device comprising etching a plurality of gate trenches in a substrate, implanting and activating a source/drain region in the substrate, depositing a dummy gate in each of the plurality of gate trenches, filling the plurality of gate trenches with an oxide layer, removing each dummy gate and depositing a high-K dielectric in the plurality of gate trenches, depositing a metal gate on the high-K dielectric in each of the plurality of gate trenches, depositing a second oxide layer on the metal gate and forming a contact on the source/drain.
US10199226B2
There is provided a method for manufacturing a flexible electrode, the method comprising: cleaning a plastic substrate; forming a metal-oxide seed layer on the plastic substrate by sputtering a metal oxide on the plastic substrate; and forming a metal plating layer on the metal oxide seed layer using an electroless plating.
US10199213B2
In some aspects, methods of forming a metal sulfide thin film are provided. According to some methods, a metal sulfide thin film is deposited on a substrate in a reaction space in a cyclical process where at least one cycle includes alternately and sequentially contacting the substrate with a first vapor-phase metal reactant and a second vapor-phase sulfur reactant. In some aspects, methods of forming a three-dimensional architecture on a substrate surface are provided. In some embodiments, the method includes forming a metal sulfide thin film on the substrate surface and forming a capping layer over the metal sulfide thin film. The substrate surface may comprise a high-mobility channel.
US10199203B2
Methods for making a high purity (>99.99%) and low oxygen (<40 ppm) sputtering target containing Co, CoFe, CoNi, CoMn, CoFeX (X═B, C, Al), Fe, FeNi, or Ni alloys with a column microstructure framed by boron intermetallics are disclosed. The sputtering target is made by directional casting a molten mixture of the metal alloy, annealing to remove residual stresses, slicing, and optional annealing and finishing to obtain the sputtering target.
US10199202B2
Provided are a plasma irradiation apparatus and plasma irradiation method capable of converting a silica precursor to a high quality silica film in a short time without thermal effects on the object being processed. This plasma irradiation apparatus 1 is provided with a plasma-generating unit 12 and an irradiation unit 80 for irradiating the plasma generated by the plasma-generating unit 12 on an object to be processed, and is characterized in that irradiation unit 80 comprises a coating part 85 capable of coating a liquid on the object being processed.
US10199201B2
A plasma source is provided. The plasma source includes a chamber body, a supply passage, a vacuum connector, an antenna, a first insulator, a second insulator, and a conductor. The chamber body has an opening for emitting ions or electrons. The supply passage penetrates through a first peripheral wall of the chamber body. The vacuum connector is provided in a second peripheral wall of the chamber body at a position opposed to the opening. The antenna has a base end connected to the vacuum connector, and extends inside the chamber body toward the opening. The first insulator covers a first region of the antenna at a distal end of the antenna inside the chamber body. The second insulator covers a second region of the antenna at the base end of the antenna inside the chamber body. The conductor covers the second insulator.
US10199199B2
In one embodiment, a drawing data creation method includes inputting correction-map-including drawing data having a correction map to a converter, the correction map including dose amount information for each mesh area obtained by dividing a drawing area on a target drawn by a charged particle beam drawing apparatus, the drawing area being divided in a mesh shape, converting dose amount information in a second mesh area adjacent to a first mesh area to a representation based on dose amount information in the first mesh area to compress data of the dose amount information in the second mesh area, and outputting compressed-correction-map-including drawing data having a compressed correction map to a controller, the compressed correction map including dose amount information in which data in each of the plurality of mesh areas has been compressed.
US10199178B2
A flexible electrode comprises an activated cotton textile composite comprising activated carbon fibers, nickel sulfide nanoparticles and graphene and a process for making the flexible electrode. The process may comprise preparing a cotton textile containing Ni(NO3)2. Then, the cotton textile containing Ni(NO3)2 may be heated at a first temperature to produce an activated cotton textile composite comprising activated carbon fibers, nickel nanoparticles and graphene. The activated cotton textile composite may be then treated with sulfur to produce an activated cotton textile composite comprising activated carbon fibers, nickel sulfide nanoparticles and graphene. The nickel sulfide particles may be NiS2 nanoparticles in a form of nanobowls, and distributed on a surface and inside the activated carbon fibers. The activated carbon fibers and the nickel sulfide nanoparticles may be coated with graphene. Banana peels may be activated and treated with the similar processes to form electrodes for both supercapacitor and battery applications.
US10199177B2
The invention relates to a method for the synthesis of a nanocomposite compound comprising TiO2 nanoparticles bound to carbon nanostructures, characterized in that it comprises the following steps: a) mixing carbon nanostructures and at least one TiO2 precursor in a first liquid in order to form a stock suspension; b) nebulizing said stock suspension and transporting it into a reaction chamber by means of a gaseous flow; and c) carrying out laser pyrolysis of said stock suspension in said reaction chamber in order to simultaneously form TiO2 nanoparticles and graft them onto the nano structures.
US10199172B2
Methods and devices related to fabrication and utilization of multilayer capacitors presenting coaxially arranged electrode layers. The capacitors may be self-shielded against electromagnetic interference with neighboring components. The capacitors may have reduced losses from fringing effects when compared to conventional capacitors. The coaxial capacitors may be two-terminal multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCC). The design of the capacitors may facilitate an improved relationship between the electric and magnetic fields generated by the capacitor within the dielectric in some embodiments. In some embodiments, the placement of the terminals may lead to a cancelation of mutual inductances between the electrodes. Terminations that facilitate the coupling of the capacitor to a circuit board, as well as methods for fabrication of the capacitors are also discussed.
US10199154B2
A coil component and a method of manufacturing the coil component are provided. The coil component includes a coil part, a body, and an electrode. The coil part includes a support member, a first coil layer disposed on one surface of the support member, and a second coil layer disposed on the first coil layer. The body includes a magnetic material covering the coil part. The electrode is disposed on the body and is connected to the coil part. The first and second coil layers may each include an insulating layer having a pattern in a planar coil shape and a conductor layer disposed in the pattern and including a seed layer and a plating layer. Additionally, seed layers of the first and second coil layers may be disposed differently in the conductor layers of the first and second coil layers.
US10199152B2
An inductor can include a first substrate, a magnetic piece, and a conductor. The first substrate can be formed within a second substrate. The magnetic piece can be connected to a first side of the first substrate. The conductor can be formed within the second substrate, on the second substrate, or both. The conductor can have an input and an output. The conductor can be configured to surround the first substrate without being in contact with the first substrate and without being in contact with the magnetic piece.
US10199151B2
A transformer system includes a transformer and a transformer tank. The transformer tank houses the transformer in a bath of a dielectric fluid. The transformer system also includes a controller, and a fiber optic sensor communicatively coupled to the controller. The fiber optic sensor is disposed in the dielectric fluid and operative to provide an output that varies with the level of the dielectric fluid. The controller is operative to determine the level of the dielectric fluid based on the output of the fiber optic sensor.
US10199136B2
An insulating tape having a mica layer, a reinforcing layer having a filler and a fiber reinforcing material laminated on the mica layer, and a cellulose derivative layer laminated on the reinforcing layer is provided. One or more hydroxyl groups in the glucose units of the cellulose derivative are substituted with a functional group such as —CH2CH2OH or —(CH2CH2O)pH (where p is any repeating number up to 50). The weight per unit area of the mica ranges from 100 g/m2 to 200 g/m2. The filler has a maximum particle size of 100 μm or smaller and a weight per unit area ranging from 10 g/m2 to 50 g/m2. The insulating tape is useful to form a stator coil insulating layer with high thermal conductivity, with no outflow of a filler to the exterior during production of the stator coil, and with enhanced bonding strength.
US10199133B2
There is provided a conductive resin composition including epoxy resin, copper powder particles, and non-nitrogen-based hardeners.
US10199126B2
Embodiments of the invention include systems and methods for developing individualized health improvement plans including a system for data mining personal health data, structured health related information and unstructured medical narratives and storytelling to identify treatment plans and general techniques that individuals with chronic diseases/symptoms can use to improve their general health and well being.
US10199124B2
Techniques for documenting a clinical procedure involve transcribing audio data comprising audio of one or more clinical personnel speaking while performing the clinical procedure. Examples of applicable clinical procedures include sterile procedures such as surgical procedures, as well as non-sterile procedures such as those conventionally involving a core code reporter. The transcribed audio data may be analyzed to identify relevant information for documenting the clinical procedure, and a text report including the relevant information documenting the clinical procedure may be automatically generated.
US10199112B1
Numerous embodiments for an improved sense amplifier circuit for reading data in a flash memory cell are disclosed. The embodiments each compare current or voltage measurements from a data block with a reference block to determine the value stored in the selected memory cell in the data block. The use of one or more localized boost circuits allow the embodiments to utilize lower operating voltages than prior art sense amplifier circuits, resulting in reduced power consumption.
US10199111B1
Several embodiments of memory devices and systems with read level calibration are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a memory device includes a controller operably coupled to a main memory having at least one memory region and calibration circuitry. The calibration circuitry is operably coupled to the at least one memory region and is configured to determine a read level offset value corresponding to a read level signal of the at least one memory region. In some embodiments, the calibration circuitry is configured to obtain the read level offset value internal to the main memory. The calibration circuitry is further configured to output the read level offset value to the controller.
US10199103B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for implementing Boolean functionality to create AND, OR, NAND, NOR, or NOT logic gates using a single memristor. In an embodiment, a first voltage is applied to the memristor within a predetermined range of one of the prescribed Boolean functions to be performed by the memristor. A second voltage is then applied within the predetermined range of the prescribed Boolean function. The memristor then provides an output based on the Boolean function that has been prescribed. In an embodiment, the resistance value of the memristor is then reset by a reset pulse, wherein the reset pulse is another applied voltage.
US10199102B2
Delay overhead in a memory device is eliminated.A command accepting unit accepts a read command requesting data reading from the memory device. A control unit selects, in accordance with a state of the memory device, one of a first mode in which a read request, requesting data reading from a memory cell array of the memory device and output of the read data, is issued to the memory device after completion of a preceding request and a second mode in which a sense request requesting data reading from the memory cell array is issued and then a data-out request requesting output of the data read by the sense request is issued to the memory device after a lapse of predetermined time from completion of the preceding request. A request issuing unit issues a request to the memory device in accordance with the first or the second mode selected by the control unit.
US10199098B2
A memory device includes a plurality of resistive memory cells and a plurality of word lines. Each resistive memory cell includes a resistive memory element, a first switching element electrically coupled in series with the resistive memory element, and a second switching element electrically coupled in series with the first switching element. The first switching element and the second switching element in each resistive memory cell is coupled to different ones of the word lines.
US10199091B2
An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a semiconductor chip. The semiconductor chip includes a memory having multiple storage cells. The storage cells are to receive a supply voltage. The semiconductor chip includes supply voltage retention circuitry. The supply voltage retention circuitry is to determine a level of the supply voltage at which the storage cells are able to retain their respective data. The supply voltage retention circuitry is to receive the supply voltage during a stress mode of the supply voltage retention circuitry. The supply voltage retention circuitry is to more weakly retain its stored information than the storage cells during a measurement mode at which the level is determined.
US10199085B2
A semiconductor device capable of controlling a memory while preventing the functional deterioration of the memory and reducing the power consumption of the semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor chip (logic chip) and a second semiconductor chip (memory chip). The first semiconductor chip includes a plurality of temperature sensors disposed in mutually different places, and a memory controller that controls each of a plurality of memory areas provided in the second semiconductor chip based on output results of a respective one of the plurality of temperature sensors.
US10199081B1
Apparatuses and methods for providing bias signals in a semiconductor device are described. As example apparatus includes a power supply line configured to provide a supply voltage and further includes first and second nodes. An impedance element is coupled between the power supply line and the first node and a first transistor having a gate, a source coupled to the first node, and a drain coupled to the second node. A reference line is configured to provide a reference voltage. A second transistor has a gate, a source coupled to the reference line, and a drain. The gate and the drain of the second transistor are coupled to the gate of the first transistor.
US10199080B2
Apparatuses, methods and storage media associated with single-ended sensing array design are disclosed herein. In embodiments, a memory device may include bitcell arrays, clipper circuitry, read merge circuitry, and a set dominant latch (SDL). The clipper circuitry may be coupled to a read port node of a first bitcell array of the bitcell arrays and a local bitline (LBL) node, the clipper circuitry to provide a voltage drop between the read port node and the LBL node. The read merge circuitry coupled to the clipper circuitry at the LBL node, the read merge circuitry to drive a value of a global bitline (GBL) node based on a value of the LBL node. The SDL coupled to the GBL node to sense the value of the GBL node. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10199074B2
Techniques are disclosed for selecting frames for decode and display during different playback modes of a media player. Prediction dependencies may be estimated among frames from a sample table of a media item identifying dependency state among frames in the media item. Based on a playback rate of a media player, a collection of frames may be identified from the media item that have presentation times within a display refresh time of the player. A frame may be selected for decode and display during the display refresh time based on the estimated prediction dependencies. The selected frame may be decoded for display during the player display refresh time.
US10199064B2
A magnetic recording medium which is capable of effectively preventing a surface thereof from being contaminated, and is capable of preventing a contaminant thereon from adhering (being transferred) to a magnetic head, and a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus including the magnetic recording medium are provided,A carbon protective layer of the magnetic recording medium is nitrided, and as a lubricant a compound A expressed by the following General Formula (1) and a compound B expressed by the following General Formula (2) are mixed and used. R1—C6H4OCH2CH(OH)CH2OCH2—R2—CH2OCH2CH(OH)CH2OH (1) CH2(OH)CH(OH)CH2OCH2CF2CF2(OCF2CF2CF2)mOCF2CF2CH2OCH2CH(OH)CH2OH (2)
US10199051B2
A method for operating a voice trigger is provided. In some implementations, the method is performed at an electronic device including one or more processors and memory storing instructions for execution by the one or more processors. The method includes receiving a sound input. The sound input may correspond to a spoken word or phrase, or a portion thereof. The method includes determining whether at least a portion of the sound input corresponds to a predetermined type of sound, such as a human voice. The method includes, upon a determination that at least a portion of the sound input corresponds to the predetermined type, determining whether the sound input includes predetermined content, such as a predetermined trigger word or phrase. The method also includes, upon a determination that the sound input includes the predetermined content, initiating a speech-based service, such as a voice-based digital assistant.
US10199050B2
The present invention relates to a codec device and method for encoding/decoding voice and audio signals in a communication system, wherein: a fixed codebook excited signal is generated by using a pulse index for a voice signal; a first adaptive codebook excited signal is generated by using a pitch index for the voice signal; a fixed codebook signal is generated by multiplying the fixed codebook excited signal by a fixed codebook gain; a first adaptive codebook signal is generated by multiplying the first adaptive codebook excited signal by a first adaptive codebook gain; and a synthesized filter excited signal is generated by adding the fixed codebook signal and the first adaptive codebook signal.
US10199049B2
A method for spectrum recovery in spectral decoding of an audio signal, comprises obtaining of an initial set of spectral coefficients representing the audio signal, and determining a transition frequency. The transition frequency is adapted to a spectral content of the audio signal. Spectral holes in the initial set of spectral coefficients below the transition frequency are noise filled and the initial set of spectral coefficients are bandwidth extended above the transition frequency. Decoders and encoders being arranged for performing part of or the entire method are also illustrated.
US10199037B1
A reduced latency system for automatic speech recognition (ASR). The system can use certain feature values describing the state of ASR processing to estimate how far a lowest scoring node for an audio frame is from a potential node likely be part of the Viterbi path. The system can then adjust its beam width in a manner likely to encompass the node likely to be on the Viterbi path, thus pruning unnecessary nodes and reducing latency. The feature values and estimated distances may be based on a set of training data, where the system identifies specific nodes on the Viterbi path and determines what feature values correspond to what desired beam widths. Trained models or other data may be created at training and used at runtime to dynamically adjust the beam width, as well as other settings such as threshold number of active nodes.
US10199034B2
A system, method and computer-readable storage devices are for using a single set of normalization protocols and a single language lexica (or dictionary) for both TTS and ASR. The system receives input (which is either text to be converted to speech or ASR training text), then normalizes the input. The system produces, using the normalized input and a dictionary configured for both automatic speech recognition and text-to-speech processing, output which is either phonemes corresponding to the input or text corresponding to the input for training the ASR system. When the output is phonemes corresponding to the input, the system generates speech by performing prosody generation and unit selection synthesis using the phonemes. When the output is text corresponding to the input, the system trains both an acoustic model and a language model for use in future speech recognition.
US10199032B2
A signal processor for determining a plurality of drive signals for driving a plurality of loudspeakers to cancel a reverberation effect in a listening area, wherein the signal processor is configured to determine from one or more measured audio signals a plurality of measured physical coefficients in a basis of physical sound functions, such that a sum of the physical sound functions, weighted with the plurality of measured physical coefficients approximates the one or more measured audio signals, wherein at least half of the plurality of measured physical coefficients are zero, determine a residual error between the plurality of measured physical coefficients and a plurality of desired physical coefficients, estimate a transfer function describing a transformation from the plurality of desired physical coefficients to the plurality of measured physical coefficients, based on the determined residual error, and update the plurality of drive signals based on the estimated transfer function.
US10199031B2
An active awareness control system and method for a helmet with a rigid shell that spatially divides a shell interior from a shell ambiance includes receiving at least one playback-sound signal, generating in the shell interior from the at least one playback-sound signal playback sound, and receiving and processing at least one ambient-sound signal representative of sound occurring in the shell ambience to detect the at least one desired-sound signal. The generation of the at least one playback sound is put on hold when the at least one desired-sound pattern is detected.
US10199026B1
Real-time jamming is automatically assisted for musicians. A real-time audio signal is received of played music that is played by at least one person. Beat is tracked of the played music from the real-time audio signal and accordingly a time of a next beat is predicted. At least one of chords; notes; and drum sounds is recognized from the real-time audio signal and repetitions in the played music are accordingly detected. A next development is predicted in the played music, based on the detected repetitions, including at least one of chords; notes; and drum sounds that will be played next, and respective timing based on the predicted time of the next beat. A real-time output is produced based on the predicted next development in the played music.
US10199016B2
The present invention concerns modifications intended to improve the sound quality of stringed musical-instruments through modification of stiffness/flexibility, vibration/resonance-transmitting properties and weight-reduction of the fingerboard, neck, tailpiece, the upper- and lower block, sound post or sound pegs, bass bar or sound bars, and the upper and lower saddle rod using combined lightweight materials and specific construction principles.
US10199013B2
A method for digital image comparison includes, by a computer executing a single instance of an application program stored in a memory of the computer, receiving a first input from a user of the computer, identifying related portions of a first digital image and a second digital image. The method also includes receiving user interactions to view portions of the first digital image. The method also includes, responsive to the user interactions, changing a view of portions of the second digital image that are related to the first digital image.
US10199009B2
A display adjusting system and a display adjusting method thereof are provided. These technical solutions relate to the field of display technology, may reduce power consumption of a portable electronic device, and may improve endurance ability of the portable electronic device. The display adjusting system comprises: a distance measuring module configured to measure a viewing distance, the viewing distance being a vertical distance from a viewing point to a display screen; and a resolution adjusting unit connected with the distance measuring module, the resolution adjusting unit being configured to set a matching resolution based on the measured viewing distance and a resolution power of a human's eye under the measured viewing distance and to adjust a resolution of the display screen to the matching resolution. The display adjusting system may be used to adjust a resolution of a display screen.
US10199002B2
A first supply circuit outputs data signals to odd-numbered distribution circuits, and outputs selection signals to all of distribution circuits. A second supply circuit outputs data signals to even-numbered distribution circuits. The odd-numbered distribution circuits distribute the data signals to signal lines using the selection signals. The even-numbered distribution circuits distribute the data signals to signal lines using the selection signals. The first supply circuit outputs the data signals generated based on digital data signals which are basic signals of the data signals and an adjustment value, to the distribution circuits.
US10198996B2
An organic light emitting diode display device and a method for driving the same are provided. The organic light emitting diode display device includes an organic light emitting diode disposed on each of a plurality of pixels, and a pixel driving circuit configured to drive the organic light emitting diode.
US10198974B2
A display device includes a base substrate layer including a first base substrate and a second base substrate separated from the first base substrate in a first direction, a flexible film disposed on a first surface of the base substrate layer, and one or more light emitting elements disposed on a first surface of the flexible film. The flexible film includes a flat portion and a bent portion. The bent portion is inserted into a space between the first base substrate and the second base substrate.
US10198957B2
Embodiments of a system and method for generating a computer-based virtual training application are generally described herein. One embodiment for the method comprises generating input data, converting the input data to a predefined format for use by a virtual trainer framework, and generating the virtual training application comprising interactive displays, configured for use on a computer, in response to the virtual trainer framework rendering the input data in the predefined format.
US10198956B2
An automatic system to detect and avoid collisions between piloted aircraft operating at low altitudes and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). UAV's are typically remote controlled helicopters, quad-copters, airplanes and other airborne vehicles (e.g., Drones). Aircraft operating at low altitudes are subject to interference (accidental or purposefully) by those on the ground operating said UAV's, which is likely to cause great injury or death to the aircraft and its occupants.
US10198954B2
A method and apparatus are provided for positioning an unmanned robotic vehicle (URV). The URV captures a set of one or more of image and non-image information of an object while positioned at a first position, provides the set of image/non-image information to a server entity, in response to providing the set of image/non-image information, receives a three-dimensional (3D) model associated with the object, autonomously determines a second position based on the 3D model, and autonomously navigates to the second position. At the second position, the URV may capture further image and/or non-image information and, based on the further captured image/non-image information, autonomously determine, and navigate to, a third position. The steps of capturing further image and/or non-image information and, based on the captured image and/or non-image information, autonomously determining and navigating to further positions may be repeated indefinitely, or until otherwise instructed.
US10198926B2
A terminal apparatus and method therefor according to the present invention are an apparatus and method for receiving and displaying monitoring information in an object monitoring system for sensing and monitoring an object, have a plurality of operation modes including a condition check mode of checking a condition of the object until receiving an intention to actually perform an action on the object after receiving the monitoring information, and prohibit executing the condition check mode on the object when a condition of the object is being checked by other apparatus in the condition check mode. The present invention relates to an object monitoring system using the terminal apparatuses, and a central processing apparatus and central processing method therefor.
US10198925B2
A method for security and/or automation systems is described. In one embodiment, the method may include receiving occupancy data associated with a home. The method may further include automatically selectively broadcasting an audio stream to at least one of a plurality of speakers in the home based, at least in part, on the received occupancy data.
US10198924B1
A transaction terminal silent alarm system having processor(s) and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor(s), cause the system to perform a method is disclosed. Upon receiving, from a user device, an authentication request to complete a transaction at a transaction terminal, the system may determine whether a fingerprint scan matches a stored fingerprint. Responsive to the fingerprint scan matching a stored normal fingerprint and absent receiving another fingerprint that matches a stored cancellation fingerprint, the system may direct the transaction terminal to complete the transaction. Responsive to the fingerprint scan matching a stored under-duress fingerprint, the system may direct the transaction terminal to send a silent alert to law enforcement and direct the transaction terminal to delay the transaction. Responsive to the fingerprint scan not matching any stored fingerprints, the system may direct the user device to display a fingerprint rescan message.
US10198918B2
A pointing device (1) for generating light spots on a ware that is arranged in a showcase includes a part (3) that is arranged on the outside of the showcase panel (2), on which a light source (8) with an activating switch (11) is mounted. The device (1) also includes a part (4) that is arranged on the inside of the showcase panel (2) and has a hole (10) for the passage of the light beam (9), which is generated by the light source (8). The parts (3) and (4) of the device (1) are held together by magnetic forces and rest on the showcase panel (2) via sliding surfaces (6).
US10198916B2
In a checkout system, a registration apparatus is set to be capable of executing data communication with any one of a plurality of checkout apparatuses before data input of a commodity purchased by a customer at the registration apparatus is started or during a period from the start to the termination thereof. Details of the commodity of which the data is input in the registration apparatus capable of executing data communication with any one of the checkout apparatuses capable of executing the data communication are displayed on a display of the corresponding checkout apparatus before the data input of all commodities purchased by the customer is terminated. Settlement is executed based on input payment data at any one of the checkout apparatuses capable of executing the data communication if the data input of all the commodities purchased by the customer in the registration apparatus is terminated.
US10198912B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a gaming system and method providing a multi-hand poker game having a persistent moving modifier. Generally, when a modifier triggering event occurs in association with a play of the multi-hand poker game, the gaming system activates a corresponding modifier, associates the active modifier with one of the hands of the multi-hand poker game, and uses the active modifier to modify any award for that hand. In one embodiment, after completing that play, the gaming system moves the active modifier to another hand for the next play. In another embodiment, after completing that play, the gaming system enables the player to determine whether to move the active modifier to another hand for the next play. When the modifier expiration event occurs for an active modifier, the gaming system deactivates the modifier.
US10198911B2
The present invention provides a roulette game, including: a roulette wheel having a series of numbers, each number additionally having an assigned color characteristic; a betting layout having marked areas whereby one or more players may place a bet on a result of the roulette wheel, the betting layout further including first and second side bet areas for placing first and second side bets; spinning the roulette wheel to produce a game result comprising one of the roulette wheel numbers and its assigned color characteristic; a random number generator producing, for each spin of the roulette wheel, first and second random numbers selected from the same series of numbers with assigned color characteristics as represented on the roulette wheel; a display of first and second random numbers; settling roulette bets on the basis of the roulette wheel game result; settling the first side bets on the basis of the roulette wheel game result numerically matching one or both of the first and second random numbers; and settling the second side bets on the basis of the roulette wheel game result color characteristic matching both of the first and second random number color characteristics.
US10198905B2
Methods and apparatus for a gaming system are provided. The gaming system enables a player to engage in various types of gaming depending on the jurisdiction in which the player is located. For example, depending on the jurisdiction of a player's device, the gaming system may allow the player to wager using real world currency, or virtual currency. If the player's device is located in a jurisdiction that allows gambling using real world currency, the gaming system may allow the player to place wagers using real world currency. Alternatively, if the player's device is located in a jurisdiction that does not allow gambling using real world currency, the gaming system may limit the player to placing wagers using virtual currency.
US10198896B2
A game is provided that may include a plurality of reels, each of the reels comprising a plurality of symbol positions; a plurality of symbols, at least one of the plurality of symbols positioned in least one of the plurality of symbol positions; at least one processor for executing instructions stored in a memory to play a slot machine game comprising the steps: accepting a wager; receiving an instruction to initiate play of the game; determining a game outcome including a stopping point of the plurality of reels; displaying a portion of the plurality of reels in a play matrix; issuing a first award if the play matrix comprises a winning symbol combination; and accumulating a player element total based on gameplay, the player element total transferrable to a second game.
US10198895B2
In a gaming machine including a symbol region where reels having symbols are arranged in predetermined arrangement. The symbols are displayed in an arranged manner in longitudinal and transverse directions. A reel control unit that independently controls movement of the reels. A winning determination unit determines whether the symbols appearing on a valid line set to span the reels form a predetermined winning pattern. The symbol region includes layer. At least one reel is disposed in each layer. A symbol group is provided in at least one reel or in a specific layer in such a manner that symbols capable of forming at least portion of the winning pattern are arranged in the symbol group.
US10198891B2
A method and system for regulating fuel transactions is provided. Fuel consumption data may be received corresponding to a first and second vehicle location. The difference between the first and second fuel consumption is determined to obtain an overall or combined fuel consumption value. In some examples, the fuel consumption data is transferred from a vehicle data system to a carrier data system located remotely from the vehicle. The data is processed at the carrier data system and the overall fuel consumption is transmitted to a fueling point to limit the amount of fuel transferred to the vehicle. In some arrangements, the limit may be adjusted to include additional factors such as additional distance to travel to the fueling point, anticipated distance to be traveled in subsequent legs of the trip, etc.
US10198883B2
The present invention provides a system for compliance monitoring of vehicles and users of hydrocarbon wellsites and method of use. The system includes at least one portable access control station located in the monitored hydrocarbon wellsite and a system server at a monitoring center. The system server is configured to be in communication with the portable access control station via a network. The portable access control station includes a checkpoint monitor and an access control unit. The portable access control station is configured to monitor vehicle and personnel access related events in the hydrocarbon wellsite and send data related to the events to the system server.
US10198876B2
A method for projecting a 3D surface geometry onto a planar projection comprises: obtaining a 3D geometry of a chamber surface using an algorithm that generates angles and distances between points on the chamber surface that represent mapping information; applying a cutting curve to at least two points on the chamber surface; and at least partially unfolding at least a portion of the chamber surface along the cutting curve to form a planar projection that optimally preserves the angles and distances between points on the chamber surface.
US10198853B2
A processor receives sensor feedback indicating a focal point of an HMD user. The processor casts rays through an image volume based on the sensor feedback. Each of the rays is associated with a pixel of a rendered image. The rendered image has a first plurality of pixels associated with the rays and a second plurality of unassociated pixels. The rays comprise a first portion cast at or near the focal point and a second portion that is cast farther away from the focal point. A first spacing between rays of the first portion is less than a second spacing between rays of the second portion. The processor determines color values corresponding with each of the first plurality of pixels associated with the rays. The processor determines color values corresponding with each of the second plurality of unassociated pixels of the rendered image. The HMD displays the rendered image.
US10198851B2
A rendering system includes: a ray generator configured to generate a ray; a memory chip configured to store information about objects in three-dimensional (3D) space; an intersection tester embedded in the memory chip and configured to perform an intersection test between the ray and the objects by using the information about the objects and information about the ray; and a shader configured to perform pixel shading based on a result of the intersection test.
US10198847B2
The present disclosure relates generally to computer graphics applications, and more particularly to systems and methods for implementing two- and three-dimensional computer graphics modeling and animation of deformable objects in a simulated environment. More preferably, the present disclosure relates to computer or visual graphics applications using finite-element based and other physically based modeling or simulation methods.
US10198836B2
A non-transitory tangible computer readable medium containing instructions configured to cause one or more processors to execute a process. The process comprises analyzing a dataset to determine a number of variables and one or more types of variables associated with the dataset. One or more processors remove a number of predefined discrete grouping variables from the number of variables associated with the dataset and produces a set of remaining variables. The one or more processors select a chart type based on the number of variables and the one or more types of variables associated with the set of remaining variables and generate one or more charts depicting the dataset. The number of charts generated corresponds to the number of data points associated with the predefined discrete grouping variables.
US10198828B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a camera, a communication circuit configured to communicate with an external electronic device, and a processor. The processor is configured to obtain an image using the camera, verify location information of the image, obtain identification information of the external electronic device from the external electronic device if the location information of the image is not verified, and determine the location information of the image based on the identification information of the external electronic device.
US10198826B2
The present invention provides a method for accurately and simply measuring a blade width (W) of a blade tip section (1) of a grooving tool mounted on a machine tool. The blade tip section (1) is divided vertically or laterally and imaged so as to capture, one side at a time, a first-side corner section (2) formed on a first blade-width-direction side and a second-side corner section (4) formed on a second blade-width-direction side, of the corner sections formed at both ends of the blade tip section (1), the terminal end of each corner section of an imaged picture (3) of the first side of the blade tip section in which the first side of the blade tip section (1) is imaged and an imaged picture (5) of the second side of the blade tip section in which the second side is imaged is acquired, and, on the basis thereof, a blade width (W1) of the imaged picture of the first side of the blade tip section is measured from the imaged picture (3) of the first side of the blade tip section and a blade width (W2) of the imaged picture of the second side of the blade tip section is measured from the imaged picture (5) of the second side of the blade tip section to carry out computational processing on the basis of these values and determine the blade width (W).
US10198823B1
Devices and techniques are generally described for segmentation of object image data from background image data. In some examples, the segmentation of object image data may comprise capturing image data comprising color data and depth data. In some examples, the segmentation of object image data may further include separating the depth data into a plurality of clusters of image data, wherein each cluster is associated with a respective range of depth values. In various examples, the segmentation of object image data may comprise selecting a main cluster of image data as corresponding to an object of interest in the image data. In various other examples, the segmentation of object image data may comprise identifying pixels of the main cluster that correspond to the object of interest.
US10198818B2
In one example, a system for recognizing an object includes a processor to select from a plurality of image frames an image frame in which a view of the object is not blocked, and to estimate a location of the object in the selected image frame.
US10198817B2
A technology which enables identifying, via a computer, a vessel in a third image. The third image is obtained from a subtraction of a second image from a first image. The second image and the first image are aligned on an imaging space. The first image is post-contrast. The second image is pre-contrast. The technology enables determining, via the computer, a voxel intensity mean value of a segment of the vessel in the third image. The technology enables obtaining, via the computer, a fourth image from a division of the third image by the voxel intensity mean value. The technology enables applying, via the computer, a filter onto the fourth image. The technology enables generating, via the computer, a filter mask based on the fourth image.
US10198813B2
An image acquisition part acquires image data from an image sensor provided in a room. A storage stores information indicating a transition model of a human body posture and test information indicating a test area of the image data in each posture of the transition model. A posture estimator calculates a statistic in the test area of the image data by referring to the information indicating the transition model and the test information, and estimates a current human body posture from a human body posture before one point of time based on the statistic.
US10198796B2
According to the present invention, an information processing apparatus includes: an information acquiring unit which acquires data regarding a target; an information correction unit which corrects the data to generate corrected data to measure information regarding the target; and a recording control unit which records the data and the corrected data in association with each other.
US10198795B2
Systems and methods for compensating for visual distortion caused by surface features on a display are disclosed. For example, one disclosed system includes: a display including one ore more surface features; a processor configured to: receive a display signal including graphical data; determine a location of the surface feature; transform the display signal based at least in part on the location of the surface feature; and cause the transformed display signal to be displayed.
US10198782B1
Various image processing arrangements are detailed for detecting mis-marking of product packaging artwork with two conflicting steganographically-encoded product identifiers. Some embodiments concern detection in a pre-press or test-print quality assurance stage. Others concern detection post-press. All help serve to assure accurate product identification by point of sale scanners. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
US10198779B2
A method may include receiving data about a first person and a second person, the first person having a contagion. The method may include determining whether a first location is within a proximity distance to a second location. The method may include determining whether a first time is within a proximity time period with a second time. The method may include defining a proximity relationship for the second person relative to the first person. The defined proximity relationship may be positive when the first location is within the proximity distance and first time is within the proximity time period, or the defined proximity relationship may be negative when either the first location is not within the proximity distance or first time is not within the proximity time period. When the proximity relationship is positive, the second person may be labeled as being contaminated by the contagion.
US10198778B2
A method is provided for processing data to replicate lifecycle threads in the development of a structural product. The method includes defining a source lifecycle thread from process-related information for development of the structural product, and defining and matching a target lifecycle thread to the source lifecycle thread. The process, and source and target lifecycle thread are expressible as respectively a network and sub-networks of tasks described by a plurality of attributes. Defining and matching the target lifecycle thread includes selecting a plurality of candidate target tasks from the plurality of tasks; matching a candidate target task to a particular source task using a distance map for an attribute of the plurality of attributes, with the distance map including only unique values of the attribute and distances between the unique values; and back-chaining through the source lifecycle thread to match candidate target tasks with respective source tasks.
US10198775B2
A system and method for facilitating social interactions between different individuals. Information available about each of the individuals engaged in a social interaction is used to provide a “social accelerator” for an interaction between the individuals. Social interactions are improved or accelerated by aggregating available information about individuals participating in an information system. When an interaction event trigger is received, the context of context for possible social interaction between the users around the trigger event is determined. A social accelerator is selected from available interest information common to the participating user and the target user, and the social accelerator is provided to one of the individuals.
US10198769B2
Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media for enabling real-time competition based on commodities. An exemplary computer-implemented method executed by one or more computing devices for enabling real-time competition based on commodities includes receiving information from a first user including a selection of a commodity and a competitive position corresponding to a criteria associated with the commodity, determining, based at least in part on real-time information regarding the selected commodity, whether the competitive position regarding the criteria is consistent with the real-time information, transmitting information to the first user indicating an outcome that is favorable based at least in part of a determination that the competitive position regarding the criteria is consistent with the real-time information, and transmitting information to the first user indicating an outcome that is not favorable based at least in part of a determination that the competitive position regarding the criteria is not consistent with the real-time information.
US10198763B2
A method for matching consumers with service providers, including the initial step of receiving service provider profile data from one or more service providers. Additional steps include: receiving service request data from a consumer; comparing, based on a matching criteria, the service request data with the service provider profile data to obtain a primary set of service providers; presenting, to the consumer, at least a portion of the service provider profile data of each of the service providers included in the primary set; receiving a selection by the consumer to transact with a first service provide; presenting information a request to the first service provider to either accept or reject to transact with the consumer; and obtaining a secondary set of service providers from the one or more service providers and presenting the secondary set of service providers to the consumer.
US10198757B2
Embodiments include methods and devices for creating an electronic invoice file using a baseline electronic purchase order file. The methods and devices can receive data representing an electronic purchase order file, comprising a plurality of fields of information. The methods and devices can also confirm that the received electronic purchase order file, was received from a valid retail trading partner, the format of the received electronic purchase order file is consistent with the format of the baseline electronic purchase order file, and the fields of the received electronic purchase order file are consistent with the fields in the baseline electronic purchase order file, in a single step, by applying a hashing function to the data representing the baseline electronic purchase order file and received electronic purchase order file. The methods and devices can also create an electronic invoice file, using a plurality of fields from the electronic purchase order file.
US10198745B2
Implementations and techniques for associating ad results with purchases made via mobile devices are generally disclosed.
US10198738B2
A computer system constructs a robust recipient profile. The system receives data associated with recipient digital interactions from, e.g., streaming and/or batch sources. The recipient data may include digital transactional data, social media data, or other recipient-specific information. The system may employ heuristic data ingestion processing to derive further data based on the data inputs and attributization, and thereby may develop a robust recipient profile by aggregating the processed and derived data. The system may implement production rules to determine recipient-specific custom metadata based on the robust recipient profile to transmit to the recipient.
US10198734B2
A computer-implemented method includes generating an emulated view of an advertisement; determining, based on the emulated view, one or more elements associated with the advertisement; comparing the one or more elements to one or more criteria associated with an advertisement marketplace; and determining, based on comparing, whether the advertisement complies with the one or more criteria.
US10198720B2
A mobile device camera stand includes a flat, planar base comprising a platform for receiving a document, an adjustable shaft projecting from the base at a first end of the shaft, and a flat, planar cradle having a top surface and a bottom surface, the bottom surface connected to a second end of the shaft. The top surface of the cradle receives a mobile device having a camera, and the cradle includes a cutout such that the camera is placed on the cutout such that the cutout does not obstruct the camera, thereby enabling the camera to image the document.
US10198718B2
A system is disclosed for managing waste. The system may have a first portal configured to receive input indicative of a customer service opportunity, a second portal configured to receive input indicative of a vendor's acceptance of the customer service opportunity, and a central processing unit in electronic communication with the first and second portals. The central processing unit may be configured to determine, from a list of registered vendors stored in memory, a shorter list of vendors capable of accommodating the customer service opportunity. The central processing unit may also be configured to offer the customer service opportunity to at least one vendor on the shorter list of vendors via the second portal, to receive an acceptance from the at least one vendor via the second portal to accommodate the customer service opportunity, and to automatically generate at least one contract based on the acceptance.
US10198716B2
One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for providing awareness of user availability. A user may activate a device, and a request to manage an availability status can be sent from the device to a communication service. The communication service may resultantly set up monitoring of the user status, and the availability status of the user can be set to available. If an active status update is not received from the user device, the availability status of the user can be changed from available to away. If an active status update for the user continues not to be received (e.g., for a few hours) and/or device connectivity seems lost, the availability status of the user can be changed from away to offline. This can be done in a resource/power efficient manner by not requiring continual execution of an associated application and/or continual network connectivity of the device.
US10198691B2
Disclosed are various embodiments of memristive neural networks comprising neural nodes. Memristive nanofibers are used to form artificial synapses in the neural networks. Each memristive nanofiber may couple one or more neural nodes to one or more other neural nodes. In one case, a memristive neural network includes a first neural node, a second neural node, and a memristive fiber that couples the first neural node to the second neural node. The memristive fiber comprises a conductive core and a memristive shell, where the conductive core forms a communications path between the first neural node and the second neural node and the memristive shell forms a memristor synapse between the first neural node and the second neural node.
US10198685B2
A system for controlling an industrial vehicle comprises an information linking device, a badge communicator, an operator badge, and a controller. The controller controls the industrial vehicle operating state by identifying that an operator possessing the operator badge has approached the industrial vehicle, communicating with the server via the information linking device to authenticate the operator as authorized to operate the industrial vehicle, and pairing the operator badge with the industrial vehicle upon determining that the operator is authorized to operate the industrial vehicle. Moreover, the controller controls the industrial vehicle operating state by controlling the industrial vehicle based upon a location of the operator badge relative to the industrial vehicle.
US10198683B2
An electronic device randomly modifies a current profile of a logic circuit by using an auxiliary circuit. The logic circuit includes a first terminal coupled to a supply voltage terminal, a second terminal coupled to a reference voltage terminal and an output terminal configured to deliver a signal in a high state or a low state. The auxiliary circuit is coupled between the first terminal and the second terminal and is configured to randomly generate or not generate an additional current between the first terminal and the second terminal on each change of state of the signal on the output terminal.
US10198681B2
In order to provide a document of value or security document 1000 having an electronic circuit 1270 with increased mechanical stability, in particular to bending load, it is proposed to form the document of value or security document 1000 from at least two document layers 1100, 1200, 1300, 1400 arranged in a stack and connected to one another by means of a joining process, wherein the stack is formed by a supporting structure layer 1100 and a circuit carrier layer 1230 carrying the electronic circuit 1270. The supporting structure layer 1100 is formed from a fiber composite material.
US10198675B2
An image forming apparatus includes a display, and a scanner that reads one or more originals to obtain image data of the originals and a number of the originals. A memory device stores a set of instructions, and at least one processor executes the instructions to, among other things, display a first screen including an item for accepting a designation, by a user, of an insertion position of an insertion sheet. If a designation for insertion of the insertion sheet is made, the item includes an initial value of the insertion position that is determined based on the number of the originals that have been read by the reader. The at least one processor also executes the instructions to display a second screen including information related to the insertion sheet in accordance with receiving the designation by the user via the first screen.
US10198673B2
A camera system mounted on a vehicle includes a first substrate including an image sensor that generates image information by photoelectric conversion and a first communication unit, and a second substrate including a second communication unit for performing wireless communication with the first communication unit and a first information processing section at least capable of recognition processing for recognizing a situation outside the vehicle based on the image information acquired via the second communication unit.
US10198671B1
A dense captioning system and method is provided for processing an image to produce a feature map of the image, analyzing the feature map to generate proposed bounding boxes for a plurality of visual concepts within the image, analyzing the feature map to determine a plurality of region features of the image, and analyzing the feature map to determine a context feature for the image. For each region feature of the plurality of region features of the image, the dense captioning system further provides for analyzing the region feature to determine a detection score for the region feature, calculating a caption for a bounding box for a visual concept in the image using the region feature and the context feature, and localizing the visual concept by adjusting the bounding box around the visual concept based on the caption to generate an adjusted bounding box for the visual concept.
US10198662B2
A computer-implemented method for identifying features in an image. The method comprises fitting a plurality of second models to the image, the plurality of second models together modelling a region of interest, wherein each part of the region of interest is modelled by at least two of the plurality of second models; and identifying the features in the image based upon the fit of the plurality of second models.
US10198660B2
An apparatus and a method. The apparatus includes a dynamic vision sensor (DVS) configured to generate a stream of events, where an event includes a location and a binary value indicating a positive or a negative change in luminance; a sampling unit connected to the DVS and configured to sample the stream of events; and an image formation unit connected to the sampling unit and configured to form an image for each sample of the stream of events, wherein a manner of sampling by the sampling unit is adjusted to reduce variations between images formed by the image formation unit.
US10198652B2
An image processing method includes the following steps. An original image is read, and the original image includes a red channel layer, a green channel layer and a blue channel layer. A processing is performed on the red channel layer, the green channel layer and the blue channel layer, respectively, to get a derived red channel layer, a derived green channel layer and a derived blue channel layer. And the derived red channel layer, the derived green channel layer and the derived blue channel layer are combined to form a new image. The processing includes the following steps. Gradient-variations of a plurality of directions of a region are calculated. An average of the gradient-variations is calculated. A calculating procedure is provided to decide diffusion-coefficient equations of the directions, and each of the diffusion-coefficient equations is substituted into an anisotropic diffusion equation.
US10198650B2
An image capture apparatus is provided. The image capture apparatus includes a transparent cover, an image capture device, and a luminous flux adjusting device disposed therebetween. The image capture device includes a plurality of sensor regions, each of which has a maximum length in a first direction and a maximum width in a second direction. The luminous flux adjusting device includes a absorbing element having a transparent pattern including a plurality of repeatedly arranged basic patterns. Each of the basic patterns includes a plurality of transparent regions arranged according to a geometric shape. The geometric shape has a side parallel to the first direction, and a length of the side is less than or equal to the maximum length of the sensor region. The geometric shape has a height in the second direction less than or equal to the maximum width of the sensor region.
US10198648B1
The present disclosure relates to advanced image signal processing technology including: i) rapid localization for machine-readable indicia including, e.g., 1-D and 2-D barcodes; and ii) barcode reading and decoders. One claim recites: a method for constructing a symbol template for use by a 1-dimensional (1D) barcode decoder, the barcode decoder configured for processing image data suspected of including a 1D barcode, said method comprising: obtaining a first symbol pattern representing a first symbol, the first symbol pattern comprising a plurality of elements, with each element corresponding to a 1D barcode space or bar; obtaining prefix elements, the prefix elements comprising a subset of second symbol elements from a second symbol pattern which precedes the first symbol from within a scanline of image data; extending the first symbol pattern with the prefix to yield an overlapping symbol template; and providing the overlapping symbol template for use in correlation-based barcode decoding by the 1D barcode decoder. Of course other combinations and claims are provided too.
US10198641B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for determining a location of an object within an environment. An example method may include determining a three-dimensional (3D) location of a plurality of reference points in an environment, receiving a two-dimensional (2D) image of a portion of the environment that contains an object, selecting certain reference points from the plurality of reference points that form a polygon when projected into the 2D image that contains at least a portion of the object, determining an intersection point of a ray directed toward the object and a 3D polygon formed by the selected reference points, and based on the intersection point of the ray directed toward the object and the 3D polygon formed by the selected reference points, determining a 3D location of the object in the environment.
US10198632B2
The efficiency of the work for identifying reference points that are included in photographed images is improved. Targets are located and are photographed from short distances, and the positions of the targets are measured. A 3D reference point model is generated by using the measured positions of the targets as apexes. Then, the positions of the targets that are detected from images taken by a UAV from the air are calculated from a three-dimensional model that are generated by the principle of the stereoscopic three-dimensional measurement, whereby a 3D relative model constituted of a TIN is obtained. After a matching relationship between the 3D reference point model and the 3D relative model is identified, the positions of the targets in the 3D relative model are estimated based on the identified matching relationship, and the positions of the reference points in the images taken from the UAV are estimated.
US10198631B2
There is provided a pupil tracking device including an active light source, an image sensor and a processing unit. The active light source emits light toward an eyeball alternatively in a first brightness value and a second brightness value. The image sensor captures a first brightness image corresponding to the first brightness value and a second brightness image corresponding to the second brightness value. The processing unit identifies a brightest region at corresponding positions of the first brightness image and the second brightness image as an active light image.
US10198627B2
A method for gesture identification with natural images includes generating a series of variant images by using each two or more successive ones of the natural images, extracting an image feature from each of the variant images, and comparing the varying pattern of the image feature with a gesture definition to identify a gesture. The method is inherently insensitive to indistinctness of images, and supports the motion estimation in axes X, Y, and Z without requiring the detected object to maintain a fixed gesture.
US10198625B1
A method and system for associating a physically identifiable feature of a person with the unique identifier of a mobile device carried by the person as detected across repeat visits to a physical location or multiple locations. Specifically, associating the face of a repeat visitor with a unique identifier of a mobile device, such as the device's MAC address, by means of a repeat visit analysis without any explicit or voluntary participation of the person, for example, in a form of providing their information by participation in a survey. For each detection of a particular MAC address associated with a mobile device at a particular physical location, a set of candidate faces can be captured at that physical location. Revisiting faces can be identified and grouped together, and a probability that each group of faces is associated with a particular MAC address can then be calculated. After satisfying several constraints, a maximum probability can be determined, resulting in a match of a particular face to a particular MAC address.
US10198617B2
Provided is an image-acquisition apparatus that includes: a stage on which a specimen is mounted; an objective lens that collects light from the specimen mounted on the stage; a motor that drives the stage in the direction intersecting an optical axis of the objective lens; an imaging device that acquires images by capturing the light collected by the objective lens; and a processor comprising hardware, wherein the processor is configured to implement: a deterioration-level calculation unit configured to calculate deterioration levels contained in the acquired images; and an image generating unit configured to generate a pasted image by pasting the acquired images, wherein the image generating unit is configured to generate the pasted image by combining, for a common region of two images that are mutually pasted, an image with lower deterioration level calculated by the deterioration-level calculation unit at a higher combining ratio.
US10198615B2
A processor fingerprint enrollment method and apparatus is disclosed. A processor implemented fingerprint enrollment method includes performing a matching between a received input fingerprint image of a user and one or more enrolled fingerprint images, and selectively, based on a result of the matching identifying a matched enrolled fingerprint image from the one or more enrolled fingerprint image and based on a calculated degree of diversity in the fingerprint corresponding to an overlapping region between the input fingerprint image and the matched enrolled fingerprint image, storing the input fingerprint as another enrolled fingerprint image.
US10198609B1
Techniques are described for facilitating and/or optimizing a transaction, such as a purchase transaction, through the use of scanned data. In some implementations, a user may use a portable computing device to scan a vehicle tag (e.g., vehicle identification number) that is affixed to a vehicle and determine vehicle information. The user may also scan a user tag such as a driver's license to determine user data that identifies the user. The vehicle data and/or user data may be communicated to transaction service(s), which generate transaction data that may be specific to the particular user that provided the vehicle data and/or user data. The transaction data may include information regarding a price of the vehicle, terms of a loan that the user may take out to finance the purchase of the vehicle, information regarding an insurance policy for insuring the vehicle, and so forth.
US10198599B2
The present application discloses a privacy user interactive apparatus including a display panel configured to display a stereoscopic image of a user input interface in a three-dimensional display space; a three-dimensional positional sensor configured to detect a three-dimensional position of a user input object; and a processor coupled to the display panel and the three-dimensional positional sensor, configured to control the display panel to display the stereoscopic image of the user input interface in the three-dimensional display space, configured to receive an input control signal from the three-dimensional positional sensor, and configured to execute an operation in response to the input control signal. The display panel is configured to display a three-dimensional image of the user input interface in the three-dimensional display space and a two-dimensional image outside the three-dimensional display space.
US10198598B2
To improve the convenience of a user and further provide service comfortable and safe for the user. A PK storing PMD as personal related information of a user communicates with a service system. When first using the service system, the PK stores the service ID of the service system and a spoofing preventing method. When the PK communicates with the service system for a second time and thereafter, a spoofing preventing process is mutually performed, and then the PMD is provided to the service system. The service system reads or changes the PMD on the basis of access permission information set in advance by the user. The present disclosure is applicable to PDAs.
US10198597B2
One embodiment provides a method, the method including: utilizing at least one processor to execute computer code that performs the steps of: identifying one or more access permissions of an application associated with an electronic device; identifying, based on the access permissions, information accessible to the application; analyzing user information within with the accessible information; determining, based on the analyzing, at least one personal exposure risk; and providing to a user, based on the at least one information exposure risk, at least one proposed solution. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US10198593B2
A medical information server is provided. The medical information server includes a medical information unit configured to determine a diagnose authority to an information terminal thereby allowing a diagnosis by the information terminal to be identified by the diagnose authority. An information terminal and a diagnostic information processing system are also provided.
US10198578B2
The subject disclosure is directed towards using one or more of hardware, a hypervisor, and privileged mode code to prevent system mode code from accessing user mode data and/or running user mode code at the system privilege level, or vice-versa. Also described is (in systems with a hypervisor) preventing non-hypervisor code from running in hypervisor mode or accessing hypervisor-only data, or vice-versa. A register maintained by hardware, hypervisor, or system mode code contains data access and execution polices for different chunks of addressable space with respect to which requesting entities (hypervisor mode code, system mode code, user mode code) have access to or can execute code in a given chunk. When a request to execute code or access data with respect to an address is received, the request is processed to determine to which chunk the address corresponds. The policy for that chunk is evaluated to determine whether to allow or deny the request.
US10198571B2
Disclosed aspects relate to authentication management. A first valid authentication input may be established with respect to access enablement to a computing asset. A second valid authentication input may be established with respect to access enablement to the computing asset. A triggering event may be detected. The first valid authentication input may be deactivated based on the triggering event. The second valid authentication input may be activated based on the triggering event. The graphical user interface may be presented which may appear to prompt for the first valid authentication input. The second valid authentication input may be received via the graphical user interface. Access enablement with respect to the computing asset may be authenticated in response to receiving the second valid authentication input.
US10198565B2
This disclosure relates generally to screening candidate profile, and more particularly to system and method for screening candidate profile. In one embodiment, the method includes dividing a candidate profile into a plurality of subset-profiles having subset-profile information of attributes of the candidate profile. The subset-profile information is mapped with target-profile information of a plurality of targets to identify a set of targets capable of screening the subset-profile information. Queries are provisioned to the set of targets for performing screening, and responses to queries are received from therefrom. An aggregated weightage associated with the responses is computed based at least on an extent of matching of the responses and a confidence score associated with each target of the set of targets. The aggregated weightage is compared with a threshold value of weightage to identify the subset-profile information as one of a valid information and an invalid information.
US10198562B2
Examples of techniques for detecting and tracking virtual containers are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method includes detecting a virtual container. The method further includes collecting virtual container data for the virtual container. The method also includes associating, by a processing device, the virtual container to at least one of a plurality of images. Additionally, the method includes building, by the processing device, a container event database based on the virtual container data and the association of the virtual container to the at least one of the plurality of images, so as to enable tracking of software in the plurality of images and in live virtual containers.
US10198549B2
A three-dimensional mask model that provides a more realistic approximation of the three-dimensional effects of a photolithography mask with sub-wavelength features than a thin-mask model. In one embodiment, the three-dimensional mask model includes a set of filtering kernels in the spatial domain that are configured to be convolved with thin-mask transmission functions to produce a near-field image. In another embodiment, the three-dimensional mask model includes a set of correction factors in the frequency domain that are configured to be multiplied by the Fourier transform of thin-mask transmission functions to produce a near-field image.
US10198540B1
The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for electronic design simulation using a profiler. The method may include simulating, using a computing device, an electronic design associated with a programming language. The method may further include recording a first time corresponding to a first user-defined point in the simulation. The method may also include recording a second time corresponding to a second user-defined point in the simulation. The method may further include determining a difference in time between the first and second times and displaying a visualization including at least one of the first time, the second time, a value of a variable at the first time, a value of the variable at a second time, and the difference in time.
US10198537B2
Disclosed is a system, method, and computer program product for an improved approach to implement system diagrams. Diagrams are implemented having intelligent icons, where the icons correspond to objects that have metadata about the actual product being represented by the intelligent icon.
US10198531B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide information processing systems and methods for proliferating testing data based on sample testing data. In one embodiment, a difference is determined by comparing a desired query result to a query result acquired by executing a query statement on sample testing data. Sample testing data can then be proliferated based, at least in part, on the difference and data generation constraint conditions.
US10198530B2
Methods and systems for providing a search engine capability for large datasets are disclosed. These methods and systems employ a Partition-by-Query index containing key-values pairs corresponding to keys reflecting concept-ordered search phrases and values reflecting ordered lists of document references that are responsive to the concept-ordered search phrase in a corresponding key. A large Partition-by-Query index may be partitioned across multiple servers depending on the size of the index, or the size of the index may be reduced by compressing query-references pairs into clusters. The methods and systems described herein may to provide suggestions and spelling corrections to the user, thereby improving the user's search engine experience while meeting user expectations for search quality and responsiveness.
US10198517B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for pairing users for electronic communications over a network. In accordance with one implementation, a method is provided for pairing users that request a chat encounter or other form of electronic communication. The operations of the method include receiving a request from a first user and calculating a plurality of pairing scores, each pairing score based on a collaborative filtering score. The method further includes selecting a second user based on the plurality of pairing scores and pairing the first user with the second user to enable electronic communications.
US10198514B1
Techniques are described for dynamically generating filter controls that enable the filtering of content items presented in a user interface such as a web application. In response to a request for content, one or more content items may be provided. The content item(s) may be analyzed to determine one or more attributes that describe the content item(s). The filter control(s) may then be determined dynamically based on the attribute(s) of the content item(s). The filter control(s) may be presented in the same user interface with the content item(s) to enable filtering of the content item(s) based on the attribute(s). The filter control(s) may be determined based on user behavior data, user demographic data, social network data, historical sales information, or other information.
US10198499B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for facilitating mapping of semantically similar terms between and among two or more information systems. In particular, to facilitate automatic discovery, establishment, and/or statistical validation of linkages between a plurality of different nomenclatures employed by a plurality of information systems, such as multiple electronic health record systems. In embodiments, the imputation of latent synonymy in corpora comprised of samples of historical records from each system enables automated terminology mapping between disparate systems' records, thereby establishing reliable linkages that may subsequently be utilized for realtime decision support, data mining-based research, or other valuable purposes.
US10198498B2
Methods and systems for a media guidance application that can automatically, or with little human interaction, identify characteristics of media content (e.g., sub-genres, minor actors, etc.) and generate appropriate tags for that media content. The media guidance application can thus facilitate user searches based on specific and narrowly tailored search terms (e.g., sub-genres, minor actors, etc.).
US10198497B2
When conducting the same or similar search, different users can use different search terms and phrases, resulting in an increase in the quantity of unique search terms and phrases. The intent of the various search terms and phrases is determined based on clustering of the terms and phrases of the various users. User search terms bare clustered using semantic and syntactic distances. Thus, the search engine receives a search query from a user and computes a similarity between and among user search terms. The computation uses syntactic techniques to analyze lexical aspects of linguistic terms, and semantic techniques to consider activity of the user in the particular field of interest. A similarity metric is used to determine the similarity between two search terms by computing their syntactic and semantic distances. A clustering technique is then used to cluster search terms based on their pair-wise distance.
US10198494B2
There is provided a method of using a central computer system, which has a central relational database, systematically to refresh a distributed database that is distributed over a plurality of distributed computer systems and that includes distributed database fields that are for storing contingent values that are contingent on sporadic interactions between terminal computer systems and the distributed computer systems and that are affiliated with central database fields in the central relational database. The method includes recurrently, at receiving times, receiving contingent values of the distributed database fields from the distributed computer systems. The received contingent values are stored, in the central relational database, in succession with previously received and stored contingent values of the distributed database fields, so that, for each distributed computer system an associated series of successive contingent values is built. The method includes recurrently, at refreshing times and temporally independent of the receiving times, determining fresh initial distribution values for the distributed database fields, based on the successive contingent values for the distributed computer systems and based on required initial distribution conditions. The fresh initial distribution values are distributed to the distributed database fields of the distributed computer systems.
US10198481B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure set forth methods for selecting a preferred data set from distributed databases including a first database having a first probability attribute and a second database having a second probability attribute. One example method may include receiving a first data set from the first database and a second data set from the second database. The first data set includes a first monotonic attribute. The second data set includes a second monotonic attribute. It may further include selecting a candidate data set from one of the first data set and the second data set based on a comparison of the first monotonic attribute and the second monotonic attribute and determining whether the selected candidate data set is the preferred data set.
US10198475B2
A query that requests a filter attribute is received by a database server from a remote application server that is associated with a calculation scenario that defines a data flow model including one or more calculation nodes. Subsequently, the database server instantiates the calculation scenario. As part of the instantiation, the calculation scenario is optimized by (i) pushing down a filter attribute from a first node to a lowest available child node, (ii) removing the filter attribute from the first node, and (iii) removing non-required join-attributes from the instantiated calculation scenarios. Thereafter, the operations defined by the calculation nodes of the instantiated calculation scenario can be executed to result in a responsive data set. Next, the data set is provided to the application server by the database server.
US10198473B2
A computer-implemented method is used to determine a document flow of documents, data on the documents being stored in a documents database. The method involves assigning a hierarchical tree-like structure to the documents. The hierarchical tree-like structure includes one or more hierarchy levels beginning with a document assigned to a root node of the tree-like structure. Each hierarchy level is defined by the direct relations between the documents assigned to tree nodes in the hierarchy level. The method further includes assembling, for a pre-determined number of hierarchy levels, a tabular representation of the hierarchical tree-like structure assigned to the documents, and providing the tabular representation as the document flow.
US10198460B2
In system for analyzing large data sets, document/file format can be discovered by attempting to parse the file using several parsers to generate a schema, assigning a score to each parsing, and selecting a parser based on the assigned scores. Schema element attributes, such as statistical parameters, can be derived and used in identifying schema elements associated with other files. Attributes of identified schema elements can be used to substitute missing data values with values based on such attributes. Data values corresponding schema elements can be selected and highlighted, and schema elements and/or attributes thereof can be highlighted based on selected data values. From a cluster of files, a lineage relationship between file pairs, indicating whether one file is derived from another, can be determined for several files. In reducing/compacting data, utilization of all available reducers can be optimized according to current utilization of one or more reducers.
US10198446B2
A CAD file converting device for applying CAD files created in a CAD system for machines to a CAD system for ships maps modeling units that the CAD files created in the CAD system for machines and those applied in the CAD system for ships, and converts parameter values determining feature shapes in the mapped modeling units into parameter values proper to the CAD files of the CAD system for ship design. Accordingly, CAD files of a CAD system for machines can be accurately converted into CAD files of a CAD system for ships.
US10198444B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for displaying a plurality of presentation elements to a user. A progress bar is displayed. A length of the progress bar is representative of a duration of a multimedia presentation. A communication box is also displayed. The communication box comprises a marker and a communication composed by an originator in relation to a certain point or time period within the multimedia presentation. The progress bar and the communication box are displayed such that the marker is in alignment with a position along the length of the progress bar that corresponds to the point or time period in the multimedia presentation in relation to which the communication was composed. The marker may be moved relative to the progress bar.
US10198438B2
A system and method for translating data from a source language to a target language is provided wherein machine generated target translation of a source sentence is compared to a database of human generated target sentences. If a matching human generated target sentence is found, the human generated target sentence may be used instead of the machine generated sentence, since the human generated target sentence is more likely to be a well-formed sentence than the machine generated sentence. The system and method does not rely on a translation memory containing pairs of sentences in both source and target languages, and minimizes the reliance on a human translator to correct a translation generated by machine translation.
US10198437B2
The present invention relates to statistical machine translation, and provides a machine translation device and a machine translation method that acquire a creation probability for a target language from a single corpus while extracting respective conversion probabilities by extracting syntax conversion knowledge and word translation knowledge from a parallel corpus, model a weighted translation model by allowing each of the conversion knowledge and each of the probabilities to learn using a translation model learning device, and generate a target sentence through decoding processes of a syntax converter and a word translator by applying the translation model to a source sentence input in real time, thereby resolving disadvantages of the existing phrase-based SMT and syntax-based SMT and combining advantages thereof.
US10198435B2
Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for generating a translation model and an apparatus and method for automatic translation. A translation model generation apparatus and corresponding method include a learning data collector configured to collect an original text, an original text containing an error, and a translation of the original text as learning data, and a model generator that generates a translation model to simultaneously perform error correction and translation generation by enabling a neural network to learn based on the collected learning data.
US10198432B2
Systems and methods for aspect-based sentiment analysis using machine learning methods. An example method comprises: receiving, by a computer system, a custom dictionary comprising a list of lexemes referencing at least one of: a target entity or an aspect associated with the target entity; performing, using the custom dictionary, a syntactico-semantic analysis of at least part of a natural language text to produce a plurality of syntactico-semantic structures representing the part of the natural language text; evaluating, using one or more text characteristics produced by the syntactico-semantic analysis, a classifier function to determine polarities associated with one or more aspect terms; and generating a report comprising the aspect terms and polarities of aspects referenced by the aspect terms.
US10198431B2
For generating a word space, manual thresholding of word scores is used. Rather than requiring the user to select the threshold arbitrarily or review each word, the user is iteratively requested to indicate the relevance of a given word. Words with greater or lesser scores are labeled in the same way depending upon the response. For determining the relationship between named entities, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is performed on text associated with the name entities rather than on an entire document. LDA for relationship mining may include context information and/or supervised learning.
US10198430B2
A device may obtain a test script document. The device may process the test script document to perform term extraction using one or more term extraction techniques to identify a set of terms of the test script document. The one or more term extraction techniques may include a skip n-gram term extraction technique. One or more terms, of the set of terms, may be located within an n-gram of the test script document. The device may process the test script document to perform hierarchy formation for results of performing term extraction. A relationship between a set of terms, of the set of terms, may be identified using hierarchy formation. The device may generate a functional diagram of the test script document based on the results of performing term extraction and results of performing hierarchy formation. The device may provide information identifying the functional diagram.
US10198427B2
Methods and systems for keyword spotting, i.e., for identifying textual phrases of interest in input data. In the embodiments described herein, the input data comprises communication packets exchanged in a communication network. The disclosed keyword spotting techniques can be used, for example, in applications such as Data Leakage Prevention (DLP), Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) or Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), and spam e-mail detection. A keyword spotting system holds a dictionary of textual phrases for searching input data. In a communication analytics system, for example, the dictionary defines textual phrases to be located in communication packets—such as e-mail addresses or Uniform Resource Locators (URLs).
US10198416B2
Techniques are described herein for customizing a form (a.k.a. a dialog) in a model-based system. For instance, the form may be customized without the need to modify the form in persistent memory, such as read-only memory (ROM), a hard disk, a magnetic disk, an optical disk, etc. A representation of a customization (e.g., an extensible markup language file, a management pack, etc.) regarding the form is captured in memory, such as a random access memory (RAM), and stored in a file or a database. For instance, the representation of the customization may be stored separately from the form. The representation of the customization is retrieved from the file or the database and applied to a rendering of the form.
US10198415B2
A system for monitoring the performance of the webform comprising: a detection module, an archive module, a database, an analysis module and intervention module, a help module, and a reporting module. The detection module detects user interactions with the webform. The archive module stores details of the detected user interactions in the database. The analysis module compares detected user interactions with templates stored in the database. The analysis module determines a performance indication for the detected interactions. In response to a negative performance indication, the intervention module categorizes the performance indication by identifying a negative ratings value and activates the help module, which can activate additional functionality on the webform and/or provide a connection to additional data or devices. The reporting module generates reports based upon the data stored in the database.
US10198398B2
Mobile user auditing system and method for monitoring at least one available network accessible by a mobile user within a mobile communications environment. The mobile user auditing system includes an acquisition device to acquire, from the mobile user, data related to at least one of: service coverage for the mobile user in the at least one available network; service quality for the mobile user in the at least one available network; and service usage for the mobile user in the at least one available network, and a plotter to identify on an audit map locations within the at least one available network from which the acquired data was received.
US10198396B2
A commissioning method, a master control board, and a service board are provided. The method comprises: a master control board switching a transmission channel to a commissioning serial port and transmitting a commissioning enabling signal to a selected service board; and after the service board receives the commissioning enabling signal, the service board switching the transmission channel to a local commissioning serial port and performing commissioning processing with the master control board. The embodiments of the invention preserve the commissioning serial ports inside single boards (i.e., service boards) for commissioning single boards respectively as well as enable the serial ports of the master control board of a core switch system to perform serial communication conveniently with CPU of any single board of the core switch system.
US10198391B2
An active input/output connector includes a first printed circuit board and a second printed circuit board enclosed within a housing. A first plug is in electronic communication with the first printed circuit board. A second plug is in electronic communication with the second printed circuit board. The first and second printed circuit boards are connected for communication of sensor signals from the first plug to the second plug.
US10198381B2
A printed circuit board having reduced routing congestion and a method of connecting components on a printed circuit board is disclosed. In one embodiment, a printed circuit board includes a memory controller and memory device. Signal pins of the memory controller and the first memory device are organized into one or more buses based on common functionality, which may be address, data, or command, or any combination thereof. The printed circuit board further includes a plurality of traces connecting each of the signal pins of the memory controller to any one the signal pins of the first memory device belonging to the same bus. The memory controller is configured to associate each one of the signal pins of the memory controller with one of the signal pins of the first memory device that are connected by a plurality of traces.
US10198378B2
Two computing devices utilizing remote direct memory access to exchange digital data across a computer network can utilize existing registered memory and can transmit the digital data in slices, one after another while simultaneously registering a larger quantity of memory and, when complete, the rest of the digital data can be transmitted as a single block. Completion of the memory registration triggers a notification comprising a token, providing the sending computing device with direct access to the registered memory on the receiving computing device, and further a quantity of the digital data that has already been properly received via the slices. On the sending computing device, the registered memory is that from which the digital data is being sliced, and, on the receiving computing device, that into which the digital data is being reassembled from the slices.
US10198375B2
Disclosed are a synchronization processing unit etc. including a command determination unit that determines whether the memory access command is a command for synchronization processing; a completion determination unit that determines whether a memory access command is complete; an issuance unit configured to issue a memory access command determined not to be for the synchronization processing to the memory, and that suspends issuance of a memory access command determined to be for the synchronization processing until completion of a preceding memory access command received before the memory access command for the synchronization processing is determined and then issues the suspended memory access command; and a subsequent control unit that, during a period from the suspension of the memory access command to the issuance and then completion thereof, performs control so that a subsequent memory access command is not received from the external device and the processor in the device.
