US10271468B2
A shield cap for protecting an electronic component includes a cap member having a side wall portion and a ceiling portion, and a conductive film formed on the cap member such that the conductive film is formed to shield electromagnetic waves. The side wall and ceiling portions are forming accommodation space to accommodate electronic component, the ceiling portion has a first surface facing the space and a second surface on the opposite side, the side wall portion has a third surface facing the ceiling portion, a fourth surface on the opposite side, a fifth surface facing the space, and a sixth surface on the opposite side, and the side wall portion is formed such that the sixth surface has a first inclined portion increasing distance to the space from the third toward fourth surfaces and a second inclined portion increasing distance to the space from the fourth toward third surfaces.
US10271467B2
A method of performing active shielding of an electronic device from a magnetic field having a first flux, using a circuit; having the steps of: measuring, using a Hall effect sensor, a first magnitude and a first direction of the first flux; creating an output voltage equal to the first magnitude; feeding the output voltage to a differential amplifier; amplifying the output voltage to create an amplified output; comparing, using an error amplifier, the amplified output to a reference voltage to determine an error voltage; feeding the error voltage to an electric power switching circuit; generating a switching waveform based on the error voltage; feeding the switching waveform as an input to a driver module; creating, based on the input, a current having amplitude equaling the first magnitude and a second direction opposite of the first direction, such that a second flux is created to cancel the first flux.
US10271466B1
A portable electronic device includes a body and a display device connected to the body. The display device includes a display panel, an optical module, and a heat dissipation module including a vapor chamber and a light-emitting module. The vapor chamber has flow channels extending from a bottom side to a top side of the vapor chamber and working fluids capable of displacement therein. The light-emitting module is disposed at the bottom side. A rear frame element of the display device has a front bezel onto which the display panel is embedded and a rear receptacle. The front frame element is coveringly disposed at the rear frame element and presses against the display panel. First screwing elements screw the vapor chamber and the rear frame element together. Second screwing elements screw the vapor chamber, the front frame element, and the rear frame element together sequentially.
US10271456B2
An enclosure for an electronic system that is configured to act as a heat exchanger to remove heat from a cooling liquid that is circulated through the electronic system for cooling the electronic components thereof which are submerged in the cooling liquid in direct contact therewith. The enclosure uses an arrangement of a combination of external fins on one or more walls and fluid passages formed in one or more of the walls through which the cooling liquid is circulated for cooling. The fluid passages and the external fins are preferably formed on the same wall. The fins and the fluid passages can be formed on any number of walls of the enclosure.
US10271455B2
Systems and methods for airflow management in an Information Handling System (IHS) chassis are described. In some embodiments, an air shroud may include a frame configured to be coupled to a rear portion of a sled insertable into a chassis of an IHS, a first flapper coupled to the frame via a first spring. and a second flapper coupled to the frame via a second spring.
US10271446B2
The disclosure relates to a grounding component for electrically grounding an electronic component comprising an electrically conductive part. In some embodiments, the grounding component comprises: a first positioning element adapted to be positioned on an external face of the electronic component, the external face intended to be at least partially accessible from an outside of a device once the electronic component is installed in the device; a second positioning element adapted to be positioned on a face adjacent to the external face of the electronic component; a first contact element, which is electrically conductive and adapted to come into contact with the electrically conductive part of the electronic component; a second contact element, which is electrically conductive and adapted to come into contact with at least one electrically conductive part of another component of the device, when the electronic component is installed in the device; the first contact element and the second contact element being adapted to be in electrical contact, the grounding component being adapted to leave completely free access to the other faces of the electronic component which are adjacent to the external face.
US10271443B2
An anchoring structure for an annular member includes a housing including a first casing and a second casing, and the annular member. The annular member is partially interposed between the first casing and the second casing. The annular member includes an external member that protrudes to an outside of the housing, and an internal member connected to the external member and located on an inside of the housing. The first casing includes a first engagement portion into which a first end of the internal member is inserted, the first engagement portion limiting the first end from moving in a direction away from the first casing. The first casing includes a second engagement portion limiting a second end of the internal member from moving in the direction away from the first casing while the first end of the internal member is engaged with the first engagement portion.
US10271438B2
A light-emitting device can be folded in such a manner that a flexible light-emitting panel is supported by a plurality of housings which are provided spaced from each other and the light-emitting panel is bent so that surfaces of adjacent housings are in contact with each other. Furthermore, in the light-emitting device, in which part or the whole of the housings have magnetism, the two adjacent housings can be fixed to each other by a magnetic force when the light-emitting device is used in a folded state.
US10271419B2
A heat dissipating structure includes an integrated circuit; a bracket; a heat sink; a housing; a first fastening member that is inserted into a first fastening hole provided to the bracket, and is inserted into a fastening hole provided to the heat sink, and that assembles the integrated circuit to the bracket and the heat sink, while a surface of the integrated circuit contacts with the bracket, and another surface contacts with the heat sink; and a second fastening member that is inserted into a second fastening hole provided to the bracket, and into a fastening hole provided to the housing, and assembles the bracket to the housing. The heat sink includes one surface that contacts with the housing, the one surface being on a side opposite to a surface contact with the integrated circuit, and the one first fastening member is positioned spaced from the housing.
US10271416B2
A plasma processing apparatus may include a process chamber having an interior processing volume, first, second and third RF coils disposed proximate the process chamber to couple RF energy into the processing volume, wherein the second RF coil disposed coaxially with respect to the first RF coil, and wherein the third RF coil disposed coaxially with respect to the first and second RF coils, at least one ferrite shield disposed proximate to at least one of the first, second or third RF coils, wherein the ferrite shield is configured to locally guide a magnetic field produced by an RF current flow through the first, second or third RF coils toward the process chamber, wherein the plasma processing apparatus is configured to control a phase of each RF current flow through each of the of the first, second or third RF coils.
US10271411B2
A light failure detection system with pre-trip inspection for use in a vehicle having a plurality of light emitting diode lighting devices includes a plurality of voltage level monitoring circuits and plurality of current monitoring circuits for measuring the voltage and current draw of a plurality of lighting circuits. The system includes a pre-trip inspection mode for sequentially activating a plurality of lighting circuits and allowing inspection of the plurality of light emitting diode lighting devices.
US10271395B2
The present disclosure provides a smart LED lighting device, including an LED light-emitting unit, an LED power supply unit, a wireless unit configured to send and receive video data, a video processing and controller unit configured to transmit analyzed and processed video data to a projection unit, a projection unit configured to receive and transmit the video data to a lens unit, and a lens unit configured to project produced video data onto a screen. The present disclosure also provides a smart LED lighting system using the smart LED lighting device. The present disclosure provides lighting as well as projection functions, allowing full integration of lighting control and video projection. A wireless communication unit is used to facilitate networking so that online videos can be projected remotely. The disclosed lighting device can also act as a router to provide internet access to connected devices, enhancing user experience.
US10271394B1
Methods and circuits for controlling one or more LEDs are disclosed. In one embodiment, a light emitting diode (LED) driver for driving one or more serially connected LEDs includes a voltage regulator circuit configured to receive a rectified AC voltage, where the voltage regulator circuit includes a depletion device configured to generate an unregulated voltage using the rectified AC voltage, a band gap voltage reference circuit configured to generate one or more reference voltages using the unregulated voltage, and a current setting circuit configured to control the one or more serially connected LEDs using the one or more reference voltages, where the current setting circuit is connected to a circuit ground through a current setting resistor having a fixed resistance value.
US10271393B2
A single chip multi-voltage or multi-brightness LED lighting device having at least two LED circuits. Each of the at least two LED circuits having at least two LEDs connected together in series. Each of the at least two LED circuits are electrically unconnected to each other in a parallel relationship, have a forward operating drive voltage of at least six volts and are monolithically integrated on a single substrate. A method of manufacturing a single chip with two or more LED circuits configurable by means of connecting the circuits so as to provide optional operating voltage level and/or desired brightness level wherein the electrical connection may be achieved and/or completed at the LED packaging level when the single chips are integrated into the LED package. Alternatively, the LED package may have external electrical contacts that match the integrated chips within. Optionally allowable, the drive voltage level and/or the brightness level select-ability may be passed on through to the exterior of the LED package and may be selected by the LED package user, the PCB assembly facility, or the end product manufacturer.
US10271388B2
A microwave heating apparatus and a method of heating a load using microwaves is disclosed. The microwave heating apparatus comprises a cavity arranged to receive a load, a plurality of feeding ports for feeding microwaves from a plurality of microwave generators to the cavity, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to obtain a desired temperature pattern within the cavity based on information about a plurality of regions of the load. The control unit is also configured to determine a heating pattern comprising zones of different intensities corresponding to the desired temperature pattern, and control at least one of the plurality of microwave generators for providing the heating pattern within the cavity. The apparatus and method may provide heating of a load according to different desired temperatures in various parts of the load.
US10271376B2
Delay in IMS call establishment and other time critical data transfers may be reduced by seeking alternative transmission methods for time critical data, when a transmission cannot be completed or the Radio Access Technology is otherwise unavailable. A Critical Service Manager (“CSM”) receives and evaluates priority information about a given data transfer. By evaluating this priority information, the CSM can identify priority data, or latency intolerant data, such as IMS calls or emergency calls. Where network rejects a connection request and issues a wait timer, the CSM may lower the retransmission count to hasten a permanent transmission failure. Upon a permanent transmission failure, the CSM can determine an alternative protocol for transmission of the priority data, such as transmitting data through circuit switch fallback, via Wi-Fi, or through another legacy RAT.
US10271375B1
Systems and methods are described for reducing latency for a group call. A group call random access (RACH) preamble selected from a subset of predetermined random access preambles associated with a group call may be received at an access node from a first wireless device, wherein the group call random access preamble indicates to the access node that a group call is to be established. A RACH response may be transmitted to the first wireless device comprising an uplink resource grant associated with a group call setup, wherein the uplink resource grant is greater than uplink resource grant associated with a default RACH response. And the group call may be established by communicating with the first wireless device based on the uplink resource grant associated with group call setup, wherein the group call is established between at least the first wireless device and a second wireless device.
US10271370B2
A first off-network mission critical (ONMC) wireless device discovers ONMC wireless devices employing a proximity services discovery procedure. First media traffic is transmitted employing a first mission critical session to a third ONMC wireless device. A message comprising an organization field identifier and an organization identifier is received from a second ONMC wireless device. A call priority is determined, at least in part, based on the organization field identifier and the organization identifier. Transmission of the first media traffic terminates, based at least on the call priority. Transmission of second media traffic to the second ONMC wireless device employing a second mission critical session may be started.
US10271369B2
A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provide storing context information pertaining to an end device and previous attachments of the end device to the network; receiving an indication that the end device requests an attachment to the network subsequent to the storing and subsequent to previously occurring detachments of the end device; authenticating the end device using the context information during the attachment; and causing a creation of a bearer connection between the end device and the network using the context information and during the attachment.
US10271367B2
A data transmission method, device, and system relate to the field of communications technologies, and provide a more flexible network topology and reduce network overheads. The method includes sending, by a first wearable device, a first broadcast message to a second wearable device, determining whether the second wearable device supports processing of service data of the first wearable device when the first wearable device obtains by listening, a second broadcast message from the second wearable device, and when the first wearable device determines that the second wearable device supports processing of the service data, establishing a connection to the second wearable device, and sending the service data in an allocated receive or transmit timeslot to the second wearable device.
US10271363B2
A device discovery method, a user equipment and a network side device are disclosed, which relates to the field of wireless communication. The method disclosed in the embodiments of the present document includes: the user equipment acquiring device discovery configuration information, the device discovery configuration information at least including information used for indicating a time domain location of a device discovery radio resource; the user equipment determining a radio resource location for sending a D2D discovery signal according to the device discovery configuration information; and the user equipment sending the D2D discovery signal at the determined radio resource location; wherein, the device discovery radio resource indicated by the device discovery configuration information is a D2D dedicated resource, and has a specific configuration period in a time domain. The embodiments of the present document also disclose a user equipment and a network side device.
US10271356B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for initiating a random access procedure in a carrier aggregation system, the method comprising: receiving, from a network, a Radio Resource Control (RRC) signal which configures a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource for a Secondary Cell (SCell) in a Timing Advance Group (TAG); and initiating random access procedure on the SCell with the PUCCH resource to be configured by the RRC signal if there is no cell with PUCCH resource other than the SCell in the TAG.
US10271348B2
A user terminal according to a first aspect is used in a mobile communication system. The user terminal includes: a receiver configured to receive, from a base station, candidate timing information indicating candidate timings of uplink transmission in an unlicensed band channel, which is an unlicensed band frequency channel; a controller configured to determine a transmission timing to perform the uplink transmission to the base station from among the candidate timings indicated by the candidate timing information, by monitoring the unlicensed band channel; and a transmitter configured to transmit uplink data to the base station via the unlicensed band channel at the transmission timing.
US10271347B2
The invention relates to a method for requesting uplink resources by a user equipment in a communication system, wherein a DRX, Discontinued Reception, function is running at the user equipment. The transmission of a scheduling request for requesting uplink resources to a radio base station is triggered upon triggering of a buffer status report in the user equipment. However, the triggering of the scheduling request is delayed such that the scheduling request is triggered in one of the subframes—preferably the first subframe—of an On-Duration period of a DRX cycle according to the DRX function. Correspondingly, the triggered scheduling request is transmitted to the radio base station in the next possible scheduling request transmission occasion after the triggering of the scheduling request is delayed.
US10271346B2
A method for scheduling a terminal device comprises performing blind detection on N subframes by using at least one codebook and a pilot corresponding to the codebook, and determining, according to a blind detection result, a first pilot set corresponding to each codebook in each subframe, where correct terminal data cannot be obtained by performing blind detection by using a pilot in the first pilot set and a corresponding codebook. The method comprises determining, according to the first pilot set corresponding to each codebook, a second pilot set corresponding to each codebook, where a pilot in the second pilot set is a pilot that is in the first pilot set and that has already been sent by the terminal device, and determining a to-be-used transmission mode according to the second pilot set corresponding to each codebook in each subframe, where different transmission modes correspond to different spectrum multiplex rates.
US10271345B2
A method in a network node relating to a process of controlling a data transfer related to video data of a video streaming service from a server to a wireless device is provided. The network node and wireless device operates in a wireless communications network. The network node determines a scheduling weight value for the wireless device to be used in the data transfer based on a target rate scheduling weight value and a proportional fair rate scheduling weight value. The network node then determines a size of data segment to be used in the data transfer based on at least part of the scheduling weight value. The network node further determines a pending data volume for the transferring of the video data to a play back buffer of the wireless device based on at least part of the scheduling weight value.
US10271343B2
Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a first wireless network access point (12), for allocating uplink or downlink resources, to a mobile terminal (10) that is configured for dual connectivity wherein the mobile terminal (10) supports two or more contemporaneous links with two or more wireless network access points comprising the first wireless network access point (12) and a second wireless network access point (13). The first wireless network access point receives, from the second wireless network access point (13), resource allocation information for the mobile terminal (10) being in a dual connectivity mode. The first wireless network access point determines a resource allocation relating to the first wireless network access point (12) based on the received resource allocation information received from the second wireless network access point (13). The first wireless network access point sends, to the mobile terminal (10), a resource allocation message indicating the determined resource allocation relating to the first wireless network access point (12).
US10271339B2
Traffic history storage unit (130) stores, as traffic history, traffic results at base station cell radio units (200-1 to 200-n). Traffic database (140) stores traffic data learned on the basis of the traffic history. Traffic prediction unit (150) predicts, on the basis of the traffic data and the traffic history, traffic fluctuation that may occur after a predetermined time interval. Process resource control unit (160) controls, on the basis of the predicted traffic fluctuation, the allocation of process resources in signal processing cards (121-1 to 121-m) at every predetermined time intervals.
US10271333B2
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to service aware carrier aggregation. According to one aspect disclosed herein, an eNodeB (“eNB”) can learn, via a primary serving cell (“PSC”), that a user equipment (“UE”) has a capability to utilize a carrier aggregation feature. The eNB can receive policy information and service information, and can learn, via the PSC, a service requested by the UE. The eNB can determine, based at least in part upon the policy information, the service information, and the service, whether to implement the carrier aggregation feature to provide the service to the UE. When the eNB determines that the carrier aggregation feature is to be implemented, the eNB can inform the UE to reconfigure a radio resource control (“RRC”) configuration to include the PSC and a secondary serving cell (“SSC”). The eNB can allocate physical media resources for the service from the PSC and the SSC.
US10271331B2
In one embodiment, a method for adaptive transmission time intervals (TTIs) includes transmitting, by a communications controller to a user equipment (UE), a segment of a first TDD TTI configuration of a first TDD interval and a second TDD TTI configuration of the first TDD interval, where the first TDD TTI configuration has a first pattern, where the second TDD TTI configuration has a second pattern, where the first pattern is different than the second pattern, where the first TDD TTI configuration has a first uplink TTI segment and a first downlink TTI segment. The method also includes transmitting a first plurality of data on a first TTI in the first downlink TTI segment of the first TDD TTI configurations of the first TDD interval and receiving a second plurality of data on the first uplink segment of the first TDD TTI configuration of the first TDD interval.
US10271327B2
A wireless communication device according to an embodiment is one of a plurality of wireless communication devices in a multihop wireless communication system to transmit and receive information with each other. The wireless communication device has: a transmitter configured to transmit information in an m-th slot (m is an integer equal to or more than 1 and equal to or less than M, M is an integer equal to or more than 2) in a first slot group in N slot groups (N is an integer equal to or more than 2) in a frame, respective one of the slot groups including M slots, and a controller configured to control the transmitter to receive a connection request in an m-th slot in a second slot group in the N slot groups from a wireless communication device not included in the plurality of wireless communication devices.
US10271323B2
In a system and method of control channel transmission in the communications field, REs, except those used for transmitting a DMRS, are grouped in each physical resource block pair of L physical resource block pairs. The L physical resource block pairs are determined to be used to transmit a control channel into N eREGs. The number of valid REs are calculated except other overheads in each eREG of the N eREGs. Each of the eCCEs are mapped onto M eREGs according to the number of valid REs included in each eREG of the N eREGs of each physical resource block pair. The eCCE is sent in the REs included in the eREG.
US10271321B1
The 3GPP LTE wireless communication system employs dynamic scheduling and assignment of resources using the Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) to support low latency requirements for many applications. To keep the payload overhead low on the control messages, the dynamic scheduling and assignment messages over the PDCCH need to be decoded by the User Equipment (UE) by searching a number of possible PDCCH candidates in a given control region of the 3GPP LTE wireless communication system. This is often referred to as blind decoding of PDCCH. The high number of blind decoding attempts may lead to increased power consumption in a UE. A method and apparatus are disclosed that enable a UE to reduce the total number of decoding attempts without missing any PDCCH candidates that may be addressed to the UE which in turn may reduce the power consumption and may reduce the probability of false DCI detection.
US10271319B2
A user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The UE can identify a downlink control channel. The UE can determine when the downlink control channel is an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH). The UE can select an enhanced physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource allocation for a hybrid automatic retransmission re-quest-acknowledge (HARQ-ACK) transmission when the downlink control channel is the EPDCCH.
US10271315B2
In order to change PUCCH transmission cells appropriately, the present invention provides a user terminal that communicates with a plurality of cell groups each consisting of one or more cells using different frequency bands, the user terminal comprising: a reception section that receives a radio resource control (RRC) message; and a control section that selects at least one cell from cells that are configured for each of the cell groups and are allocatable with an uplink control signal, and controls the cell to be a cell for transmitting the uplink control signal, wherein when the RRC message includes a change instruction of the cell allocatable with the uplink control signal, the control section controls to transmit transmission acknowledgement information (HARQ-ACK) in response to the RRC message in the cell before change.
US10271305B2
A method and apparatus for identifying joint transmissions in unlicensed spectrum are described, including receiving, at a user equipment (UE), a frame from one or more network entities over a contention-based medium, wherein the frame includes a preamble. The method and apparatus further include determining whether the frame corresponds to a unicast transmission or a joint transmission based on the preamble. In another aspect, a method and apparatus include determining, at a network entity, whether a frame corresponds to a unicast transmission or a joint transmission. The method and apparatus include transmitting the frame with a preamble to a UE over a contention-based medium, the preamble being based on determining whether the frame corresponds to the unicast transmission or the joint transmission. For example, the type of scrambling applied to the preamble may be based on whether the frame corresponds to unicast transmission or joint transmission.
US10271297B2
The present invention relates to a method for operating a cellular radio network (100). According to the method, a predicted location information (203) relating to a user equipment (110) is determined. The predicted location information (203) comprises a predicted future location of the user equipment (110). Depending on the predicted location information (203) control information is determined. Based on the control information, a registering of the user equipment (110) at cells (101, 101A-101H) of the cellular radio network (100) is controlled.
US10271296B2
A method for changing schedule information in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention is performed by a first M2M device and may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a second M2M device, a request for registering schedule information on a particular application; checking whether the schedule information on the particular application is included in schedule information of the first M2M device; if the schedule information on the particular application is not included in the schedule information on the first M2M device, checking whether a policy related to the schedule information of the first M2M device exists; if the policy exists, determining whether the states of the first M2M device and the second M2M device satisfy the policy; and if the states of the first M2M device and the second M2M device satisfy the policy, updating the schedule information of the first M2M device.
US10271289B2
The present disclosure provides a power control method in device to device (D2D) communication and a user equipment for performing the power control method. The method includes computing a power value of device to device (D2D) transmission of a user equipment performing D2D communication in a subframe in a serving cell, based on a power control adjustment state of a Long Term Evolution (LTE) wide area network (WAN) uplink channel of the user equipment and an offset or a ratio indicated by a transmit power control (TPC) command indicated in D2D grant or downlink control information (DCI) format 3/3A.
US10271288B2
Methods and devices for offloading and/or aggregation of resources to coordinate uplink transmissions when interacting with different schedulers are disclosed herein. A method in a WTRU includes functionality for coordinating with a different scheduler for each eNB associated with the WTRU's configuration. Disclosed methods include autonomous WTRU grand selection and power scaling, and dynamic prioritization of transmission and power scaling priority.
US10271287B2
There is provided a method, performed by a network node, for enabling uplink power control in a wireless network. The method comprises assigning (S1) a transmit power for downlink transmission of a reference signal, wherein the reference signal is to be used for power control of at least one uplink transmission. The method further comprises determining (S2) a reference signal transmit power parameter providing a fictitious value for the transmit power of the reference signal that is different from the assigned transmit power. The method also comprises transmitting (S3) the reference signal transmit power parameter to at least one wireless device to enable the wireless device(s) to perform transmit power determination for the uplink transmission(s) at least partly based on the fictitious value for the transmit power of the reference signal.
US10271285B2
A wireless telecommunication system includes base stations for communicating with terminal devices. One or more base stations support a power boost operating mode in which a base station's available transmission power is concentrated in a subset of its available transmission resources to provide enhanced transmission powers as compared to transmission powers on these transmission resources when the base station is not operating in the power boost mode. A base station establishes an extent to which one or more base stations in the wireless telecommunications system supporting the power boost operating mode conveys an indication of this to a terminal device. The terminal device receives the indication and uses the corresponding information to control its acquisition of a base station of the wireless telecommunication system, for example by taking account of which base stations support power boosting and/or when power boosting is supported during a cell attach procedure.
US10271283B2
An apparatus, system and method for determining whether a battery alarm of a UE is asserted, reducing a transmission duty cycle of the UE to zero for a first predetermined time period when the battery alarm is asserted, determining whether the battery alarm has been de-asserted after the first predetermined time period and when the battery alarm has not been de-asserted, increasing the transmission duty cycle to a first threshold level for a second predetermined time period, wherein the first threshold level is less than a full transmission duty cycle of the UE. When the battery alarm has been de-asserted, increasing the transmission duty cycle to a second threshold level for a third predetermined time period, wherein the second threshold level is less than the full transmission duty cycle of the UE, and wherein the second threshold level is greater than the first threshold level.
US10271279B2
Technical solutions are described for conserving battery consumption in tracking devices when tracking a plurality of shipment items. An example method includes receiving, by a first tracking device that is associated with a first shipment item, a tracking information of a second shipment item, the tracking information being transmitted by a second tracking device. The method also includes transmitting, by the first tracking device, a tracking message that includes the tracking information of the second shipment item and a tracking information of the first shipment item.
US10271278B2
A wireless communication module is disclosed. The wireless communication module comprises a magnetic sensor configured to detect magnetic field data and a communication circuit. A controller is in communication with the magnetic sensor and the communication circuit. The controller is configured to monitor the magnetic field data and compare the magnetic field data to a first predetermined threshold. In response the magnetic field data exceeding the first threshold, the controller is configured to output an activation signal to the communication circuit. The communication circuit is configured to enter an active state in response to receiving the activation signal.
US10271271B2
A method for dynamically influencing the choice of a mobile network operator profile used by a user equipment connected to a telecommunications network includes: defining a plurality of trigger events and determining a switching probability for each trigger event, wherein the user equipment switches from the first mobile network operator profile to the second mobile network operator profile if the switching probability exceeds a predefined threshold. A switching related information is transmitted to the user equipment, the switching related information corresponding to information related to either a modification of the first mobile network operator profile, or to a modification of the second mobile network operator profile.
US10271265B2
Systems, methods, and devices for detecting the presence and location of a mobile communication device within a vehicle includes a monitoring device mounted within the vehicle, the monitoring device includes a primary antenna for detecting cellular data signals originating from within the vehicle. One or more external antenna components mounted at different locations within the vehicle further help to pinpoint the location of detected cellular data signals and correspondingly the location of the mobile device. The external antenna components further help to eliminate and distinguish cellular data signals coming from outside the vehicle and from other mobile communication devices that are not within the driver space of the vehicle.
US10271264B2
Example method includes: receiving, by a network device, a plurality of notifications from a plurality of access points in a wireless local area network (WLAN), each notification indicating detection of a particular radar event on a particular wireless communication channel; identifying, by the network device, at least one access point operating on the particular wireless communication channel beside the plurality of access points that fails to detect the particular radar event; and transmitting, by the network device, instructions to the at least one access point, wherein the instructions cause the at least one access point to switch to operate on a different wireless communication channel.
US10271262B2
Provided is a wireless communication method. At least an interfering link is selected from a plurality of wireless communication links. At least a first wireless communication helping device group of the at least interfering link is determined, wherein the at least first wireless communication helping device group includes at least a wireless communication helping device. Based on respective interfering improvements of the at least first wireless communication helping device group on the at least interfering link, at least a target interfering link is selected among the at least interfering link. The at least target interfering link is re-established.
US10271258B2
A method for moving between cells by a wireless device includes receiving instructions for the wireless device to measure and report a gradient change value to apply offsets based on a plurality of speed states; identifying a speed state in which a moving speed of the wireless device is included among the plurality of speed states; obtaining an offset mapped to the speed state; first filtering a received wireless signal at a physical layer and second filtering the received wireless signal at a radio resource control layer; calculating the gradient change value corresponding to the obtained offset. The gradient change value indicates a rate of change of received signal strength with a serving cell or a rate of received signal strength difference between a neighbor cell and the serving cell. A portion of the second filtering of the received wireless signal is determined based on the calculated gradient change value.
US10271256B2
A method and system for providing enhanced packet data services to user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The method disclosed comprises: switching to a first Radio Access Network (RAN) from a second RAN when the UE suffers loss of coverage in the second RAN during a mobility of the UE, and transmitting a request to the first RAN when the UE detects the coverage in the second RAN to redirect the UE to the second RAN.
US10271255B2
A base station according to a present embodiment includes: a controller configured to set first determination parameters used for a radio terminal to determine whether to switch a standby destination or a connection destination between the mobile communication network and a wireless LAN; a transmitter configured to transmit the first determination parameters to a radio terminal served by the base station; and a receiver configured to receive information notified from another base station. The controller is configured to set the first determination parameters in consideration of the information.
US10271254B2
Methods for performing WLAN connection handling when a terminal is in IDLE state in 3GPP are disclosed. An example method for handling connections to two radio access technologies, according to some of the embodiments disclosed herein, is implemented by a mobile terminal and comprises determining (710) that a trigger condition has been satisfied, while the mobile terminal is connected to a first radio access network and in an idle state with respect to a second radio access network. Responsive to this trigger condition, the mobile terminal then automatically establishes or re-establishes (720) a connection to the second radio access network. In some embodiments, the first radio access network is a wireless local area network and the second radio access network is a cellular telecommunications network. More particularly, the wireless local area network may be an IEEE 802.11 network, while the cellular telecommunications network may be a 3GPP network.
US10271251B2
A network device and UE determine that the UE is handed over from a first network device to a second network device, and in a handover process, the first network device or the second network device sends a feedback control message to the UE to query for a quantity of fountain codes that are needed to continue to send, and the second network device continues to perform encoding according to the quantity of fountain codes that are needed to continue to send, and sends encoded data to the UE. In an uplink process, the UE sends a feedback control to the second network device and obtains a quantity of data packets that are needed to continue to encode, and sends a first data packet to the second network device. A receive end performs decoding according to the received first data packet to obtain an original data packet.
US10271249B2
A network includes a first network participant connected via a first connection to a further network participant. The first network participant receives a data message containing information that a parameter must be set to a first value, via the first connection. The first network participant checks whether it is connected via a second connection to a still further network, and whether the parameter is not set to the first value in the second connection. In this case, the first network participant forwards the data message via the second connection, clearing down the second connection, and re-establishes the second connection, where the parameter for the second connection is set to the first value.
US10271245B2
Methods, electronic devices and systems for transferring hotspot session are provided. The methods include detecting an event to transfer a hot spot session of an electronic device which is a host access point in a network to a different electronic device, in response to detecting the event, determining at least one different electronic device from among the plurality of electronic devices as a target access point of the network, and sending a request for hotspot session transfer and client configuration details corresponding to a plurality of client devices which are coupled to be communicable with the electronic device to the at least one different electronic device, wherein, in response to the at least one different electronic device receiving the hotspot session transfer request through the communication interface, the at least one different device operates as a host access point providing a hotspot session in the network.
US10271239B2
A method and a system for reoptimizing unmanned aerial vehicle formation communication topology based on minimum cost arborescence are used for optimizing reconstructed UAV formation communication topology after a communication failure occurs on the UAVs in the formation. The method includes calculating a first communication cost of the reconstructed UAV formation communication topology; comparing the first communication cost with a target communication cost for the minimum cost arborescence of the formation communication diagram under a predetermined state; when the first communication cost is greater than the target communication cost for the minimum cost arborescence of the formation communication diagram under the predetermined state, optimizing the reconstructed UAV formation communication topology through a predetermined strategy.
US10271235B2
A performance indicator monitoring system (PIMS) receives a plurality of operational measurements (OMs) for each performance indicator (PI), which may be stored on a first storage. A rate of access by a monitoring system is determined for the PI. The rate may be determined, for example, related to a counter of the PI. An enriched dataset related to a subset of the plurality of OMs is generated, upon determination that the selected PI rate of use is higher than a primary threshold value. The generated enriched dataset may be stored in a second storage. In some embodiments, a component of the PIMS, such as a processing unit, is determined. A usage level of the component is then determined, and the enriched dataset is generated if the usage level of the component is below a secondary threshold.
US10271222B2
Described herein is an omni-directional transmission scheme allowing signals to transmit from a base station to multiple users in massive MIMO systems with reduced pilot overhead and system complexity. The transmission scheme uses a low-dimensional space-time coding scheme to generate a K-dimensional vector signal, and based on the K-dimensional vector signal, using an omni-directional precoding matrix W to generate an M-dimensional vector signal for transmission over a large number of transmitting antennas, wherein the matrix W comprises M rows and K columns, and K is much smaller than M.
US10271201B2
Provided is a network registration method and registration device for a terminal, and the terminal supports network standards of multiple operators. The network registration method includes: the identification code of a subscriber identity module is obtained after the subscriber identity module is installed on the terminal; the operator that the subscriber identity module belongs to is determined according to the identification code of the subscriber identity module; the subscriber identity module is led to register in the network of the operator that the subscriber identity module belongs to according to the operator that the subscriber identity module belongs to.
US10271194B2
An Incident-centric Mass Notification System (“Incident-centric MNS system”) for notifying a plurality of recipients of an Emergency Event is disclosed. The Incident-centric MNS system may include a Mass Notification System (“MNS”) Notification Engine, modality corridor (“MoCo”) dispatcher, and a plurality of modality corridors, wherein each modality corridor of the plurality of modality corridors establishes, for signal communication, a signal path from a plurality of signal paths, between the MNS Notification Engine and a recipient of the plurality of recipients. The MNS Notification Engine is configured to manage MNS Incidents and Notifications and the MoCo dispatcher is configured to select a first modality corridor from the plurality of modality corridors to establish a first signal path from the MNS Notification Engine.
US10271191B2
A cellular IoT (CIoT) device can comprise a coverage and/or processing constrained device e.g., devices operating primarily MTC or M2M (e.g., sensor devices, controller devices, etc.). These devices can have limited or no user interface, and can be used for machines or devices with little mobility. CIoT devices can be deployed in usage scenarios such as home automation (e.g., security, appliances, energy packages, etc.), industry automation, and smart cities with low-power devices (e.g., devices having a battery life of several years), and can be easily installed and operated in challenging coverage conditions, such as lower or basement levels of buildings. CIoT devices can be provisioned to connect to a cellular carrier network and an associated CSP. The CSP can execute end2end solutions (e.g., service portal, service sign-up, etc.) while the cellular carrier can provide the bulk data pipe to the CSP.
US10271182B2
A method, device and a computer program product operable in a communications network to provide enhanced public warning system (PWS+) messages to a communication device over the current PWS system is disclosed. The method includes generating, at a server or network device, at least one public warning system (PWS) message and at least one enhanced PWS (PWS+) message, and associating the PWS+ message with the at least one PWS message. The at least one PWS+ message and the PWS message are transmitted via a communications network to the communication device.
US10271176B2
A network system for managing an on-demand service can receive, from a user, a service request indicating a destination location. In addition to facilitating available service providers to fulfill the service request, the network system can create and manage a session for the user for an entity identified based on, for example, the destination location. The session for the user can be used to procure items and/or services provided by the entity. The network system can transmit, to terminal computing system(s) associated with the entity, session initiation data that includes user data such as identification information to identify the user. The transmission of the session initiation data can cause the terminal computing system(s) to automatically create the session for the user. In addition, the network system can receive, from the terminal computing system(s), session data upon termination of the session for the user.
US10271155B2
An audio playing system has a first channel output device, a first equalizer, and a controller. The first equalizer is configured to adjust a received first channel audio signal with a set of first parameters of frequency response and output the adjusted first channel audio signal to the first channel output device in a first mode, and to adjust the received first channel audio signal with the a of second parameters of frequency response and output the adjusted first channel audio signal to the first channel output device in a second mode. In a test mode, the controller is configured to send a set of test audio signals to the first channel output device and to adjust the set of first parameters of frequency response and the set of second parameters of frequency response based on a plurality of pieces of received first confirmation signal.
US10271148B2
A method of modelling a feedback path from a receiver to a microphone in a hearing device, includes: transmitting an electronic probe signal to the receiver; obtaining a microphone output signal that is associated with an output of the receiver; and determining at least one parameter of the feedback path based on the microphone output signal; wherein the electronic probe signal comprises a first signal level, followed by a second signal level that is less than the first signal level, the second signal level being greater than zero.
US10271142B2
A method performed by an audio decoder for reconstructing N audio channels from an audio signal containing M audio channels is disclosed. The method includes receiving a bitstream containing an encoded audio signal having M audio channels and a set of spatial parameters, the set of spatial parameters including an inter-channel intensity difference parameter and an inter-channel coherence parameter. The encoded audio bitstream is then decoded to obtain a decoded frequency domain representation of the M audio channels, and at least a portion of the frequency domain representation is decorrelated with an all-pass filter having a fractional delay. The all-pass filter is attenuated at locations of a transient. A matrixed version of the decorrelated signals are summed with a matrixed version of the decoded frequency domain representation to obtain N audio signals that collectively having N audio channels where M is less than N.
US10271141B2
A speaker assembly may include a first woofer speaker electronically coupled to a first electronic circuit including high-Q filter configured to provide first audio signals having frequencies between 200-2000 Hz to the first woofer speaker. The speaker assembly may further include at least one second woofer speaker electronically coupled to a second electronic circuit configured to provide second audio signals having frequencies between 20-200 Hz to the second woofer speaker, wherein the first woofer speaker is identical to the second woofer speaker and is configured to operate as a mid-range speaker.
US10271126B2
An earphone noise reduction method and apparatus, which are applicable to the technical field of wearable devices. The earphone noise reduction method can include collecting, using an earphone microphone, a noise signal of an environment where the earphone microphone is placed. The method can also include transmitting the noise signal to a connected terminal or transmitting a noise value corresponding to the noise signal to the connected terminal. The method can further include receiving a judgement result returned by the terminal, and enabling a noise reduction function or disabling the noise reduction function according to the judgement result. Embodiments of the present disclosure can be realized without keys or toggle switches for noise reduction adjustment on earphones. Embodiments of the present disclosure are capable of automatic noise reduction, thereby improving the integration degree of the earphones and also enhancing the battery life of the earphones.
US10271120B2
In a sound generating device, a connection terminal made of a metal plate material electrically connected to an external equipment has a groove portion in a portion protruding inward of a base. A terminal fitting made of a metal plate material and electrically connected to the sounding body includes a terminal fitting main body that is mechanically joined to the sounding body, and a protrusion plate portion that extends from the terminal fitting main body portion and is press-fitted to the groove portion. The protrusion plate portion press-fitted to the groove portion of the connection terminal is provided integrally with the terminal fitting.
US10271119B2
The present invention prevents a three-dimensional fabric arranged in front surfaces of speakers from flapping due to sound. In the respective front surface sides of, sound-emitting direction regulating members that include annular portions that project forward by a predetermined distance are arranged. A three-dimensional fabric is tensioned and arranged so as to cover the front surface sides of the sound-emitting direction regulating members. When the three-dimensional fabric is pressed against the annular portions configuring the sound-emitting direction regulating members, the annular portions bite into the three-dimensional fabric since the three-dimensional fabric has a predetermined thickness. The annular portions are provided so as to surround diaphragms of the speakers. Sound output from the speakers passes inside the annular portions. However, the periphery of a region of the three-dimensional fabric in which sound passes is supported by the biting of the annular portions, thereby preventing the three-dimensional fabric from flapping widely in response to the sound.
US10271103B2
In one embodiment, a method generates a plurality of sub-relevance tables including a first set of relevance values between media programs. Each table models relevance values for a single feature in a plurality of features. Labeling results are received that include a second set of relevance values between the media programs. The method combines the sub-relevance tables into a single relevance table that includes a third set of relevance values between the media programs for the plurality of features. The combining generates weights for each of the sub-relevance tables based on the second set of relevance values for the labeling results and the first set of relevance values of the sub-relevance tables that are used to generate the third set of relevance values. A recommendation is provided to a user using the third set of relevance values from the single relevance table and a characteristic of the user.
US10271101B2
A user device and method comprises a screen display and a user interface. A display control module defines a first display area with a first boundary therearound and displaying a first category indicator for a first category therein. The display control module defines a second display area with a second boundary and displays a second category indicator for a second category therein. A gesture control module receives a movement signal from the user interface for moving the first display area relative to the second display area using a user interface. The display control module defines a third boundary around a third display area representing the first category and the second category when the first boundary and the second boundary touch or overlap and displays the first category indicator and the second category indicator within the third boundary. When the third display area is selected, a function may be performed.
US10271097B2
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to dynamically determine and utilize an image resolution. An audio/video clip comprising two or more frames (with each frame comprising a source image having a source image resolution) is obtained. Proxy image(s) associated with each source image are computed. Each proxy image is a scaled version of the source image wherein the source image resolution has been scaled based on a proxy scale to obtain a proxy image resolution. A media player determines display capabilities for a display device and processes the clip. The player then dynamically determines the proxy scale for each frame in the clip, performs image processing for/on a respective proxy image, and displays the respective proxy image.
US10271094B2
A method for processing a content by a set-top box according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises the steps of: receiving a content including an audio stream; and performing bypassing to output the audio stream to a television (TV) through an output interface without performing a decoding operation for the audio stream, wherein the audio stream includes metadata regarding the content.
US10271092B2
This disclosure discloses a television channel switching method and a television. The method includes: determining that a first channel being played enters into a no-signal state; displaying a commonly-used channel list, wherein the commonly-used channel list is determined according to a preset rule; and switching from the first channel to a second channel in the commonly-used channel list, wherein the second channel and the first channel are different channels.
US10271083B2
The present disclosure discloses a pre-roll advertisement playing method, a terminal, and a video server, and relates to the field of multimedia technologies. The method includes: after detecting a play operation of an offline video, determining a current network connection status of a terminal; when the terminal is in a first connection state, determining, among multiple pre-roll advertisements obtained by the terminal, a specified pre-roll advertisement corresponding to the offline video; and playing the specified pre-roll advertisement in a process of playing the offline video. When playing an offline video in a non-WiFi connection state, the terminal may additionally play a pre-roll advertisement. Therefore, an audience range of the pre-roll advertisement is expanded, and an application range is relatively wide.
US10271070B2
There is provided an image processing system and an image processing method able to suppress block distortion in the case of decoding image data encoded in unit of blocks. A controlling unit selects a filtering content to be applied to the block image data based on the encoding types of the block image data to be filtered, and a filtering unit applies filtering to the block image data to be processed according to the filtering content selected by the controlling unit.
US10271064B2
In one example, a device for decoding video data includes a memory configured to store video data and a video decoder configured to determine that a motion prediction candidate for a current block of video data indicates that motion information is to be derived for sub-blocks of the current block, in response to the determination: partition the current block into the sub-blocks, for each of the sub-blocks, derive motion information using motion information for at least two neighboring blocks, and decode the sub-blocks using the respective derived motion information.
US10271059B2
A decoder includes a parser, an intra predictor, and an inter predictor. The parser parses a bit stream to extract header information and first through third data information, to determine a prediction mode for blocks in a current frame based on the header information, and to selectively output the first and second data information based on the prediction mode. The intra predictor generates a predicted value of a pixel of a current block based on a pixel value of a first reference block in the current frame based on the first data information. The inter predictor predicts a second reference block from a reference frame based on the second data information, converts a pixel value of the second reference block, and generates a predicted value of the pixel of the current block based on a converted pixel value.
US10271044B2
Disclosed is a method of measuring a video call quality of a mobile terminal, the method including establishing a video call between a transmitting terminal and a receiving terminal; modifying a video capture function provided from a terminal operating system (OS) and inserting a sequentially increasing index and timestamp into each video frame that is automatically acquired through a camera every time a video call application (app) of the transmitting terminal calls the video capture function; transmitting, by the transmitting terminal, the video frame to the receiving terminal; storing, by the receiving terminal, the video frame at a ratio higher than a frame per second (FPS) of the transmitting terminal; and extracting the index and the timestamp from the stored video frame through an optical character reader (OCR) text recognition and calculating a quality index.
US10271043B2
Systems and methods for displaying a three-dimensional (3D) workspace, including a 3D internet browser, in addition to a traditional two-dimensional (2D) workspace and for browsing the internet in a 3D/virtual reality workspace and transforming and/or upconverting objects and/or visual media from the 2D workspace and/or 2D webpages to the 3D workspace as 3D objects and/or stereoscopic output for display in the 3D workspace.
US10271042B2
Described herein is a method of calibrating a display in a head-mounted display system. The system includes a frame for maintaining the display in front of the user's eyes, and one or more lenses disposed between the display and the user's eyes. The method is configured to be performed by a computer processor associated with the head mounted display system and includes the steps of: a) generating a first image on the display based on predetermined parameters, the image including a two dimensional calibration structure identifiable by the user; b) receiving user input to generate a corrected image on the display; c) deriving calibration data based on the received user input and the predetermined parameters; and d) applying the calibration data to subsequent images generated on the display.
US10271038B2
An image capture device includes a lens that receives light. Further, the image capture device includes an optical beam splitter that receives the light from the lens. In addition, the image capture device includes an image sensor that receives a first portion of the light from the optical beam splitter. The image capture device also includes a plenoptic lens that receives a second portion of the light from the optical beam splitter.
US10271033B2
An exemplary depth data generation system (“system”) accesses a first depth map and a second depth map of surfaces of objects included in a real-world scene. The first and second depth maps are captured independently from one another. The system converges the first and second depth maps into a converged depth map of the surfaces of the objects included in the real-world scene. More specifically, the converging comprises assigning a first confidence value to a first depth data point in the first depth map, assigning a second confidence value to a second depth data point in the second depth map, and generating a third depth data point representing a same particular physical point as the first and second depth data points based on the first and second confidence values and on at least one of the first depth data point and the second depth data point.
US10271028B1
A device, system and method for subliminally projecting structured light patterns is provided. A computing device alters at least a portion of a plurality of content bitplanes to subtract a structured light bitplane therefrom, such that pixels of the structured light bitplane and the plurality of content bitplanes, when altered, sum to a same respective brightness as corresponding pixels of the plurality of content bitplanes before alteration. A a projector projects the structured light bitplane and the plurality of content bitplanes having the structured light bitplane subtracted therefrom. A camera captures images of the structured light bitplane as projected by the projector, for example to calibrate the projector.
US10271026B2
A projection apparatus includes a projection unit configured to display an image based on an input signal by a display element, to form an optical image from light provided from a light source passed or reflected by the display element, and to project the formed optical image on a projection target, a photographing unit configured to photograph a region including an image range which is projected by the projection unit, an image recognition unit configured to recognize a person from the image obtained by the photographing at the photographing unit, and a projection control unit configured to change and set an aspect of the image projected by the projection unit based on a result of the recognition at the image recognition unit.
US10271024B1
A four color separation prism includes a first color separation prism, a second color separation prism, a third color separation prism, and a fourth color separation prism, which respectively separate light incident from an affected area into a blue, red and green color components, and an infrared (IR) component. The first color separation prism, the second color separation prism, the third color separation prism, and the fourth color separation prism are sequentially disposed from an object side when receiving the light incident from the affected area.
US10271014B2
Disclosed aspects relate to dynamic video image management. A set of dynamic image quality factors may be collected with respect to a dynamic video image. A set of display parameter values may be determined based on the set of dynamic image quality factors. The set of display parameter values may be of a set of display parameter values for a set of computing assets. The set of display parameter values may be determined to benefit the set of dynamic image quality factors with respect to the dynamic video image. The set of computing assets may be configured using the set of display parameter values. The set of computing assets may be configured to benefit the set of dynamic image quality factors with respect to the dynamic video image.
US10271013B2
The present disclosure provides a display control method and apparatus. The method may include: establishing, by a first terminal, a video connection with a second terminal; obtaining, by the first terminal, a target identifier of a virtual article identified by a sender to be sent to the second terminal; obtaining, by the first terminal, operation information of an operation of the sender performed on the first terminal associated with the virtual article; encapsulating, by the first terminal, the target identifier and the operation information into electronic resource transmission information; and sending, by the first terminal, the electronic resource transmission information to the second terminal to trigger the second terminal to display, in a display manner corresponding to the operation information, a target virtual article identified by the target identifier.
US10270997B2
A CMOS image sensor with reducing interconnections is provided. The CMOS image sensor may include a first row of pixels that includes a first pixel. The first pixel may include a first plurality of photodiodes and a first plurality of transfer gates. Each of the first plurality of photodiodes may be associated with a corresponding one of the first plurality of transfer gates. The CMOS image sensor may include a second row of pixels that includes a second pixel. The second pixel may include a second plurality of photodiodes and a second plurality of transfer gates. Each of the second plurality of photodiodes may be associated with a corresponding one of the second plurality of transfer gates. A first one of the transfer gates of the first plurality of transfer gates may be coupled to a first one of the transfer gates of the second plurality of transfer gates.
US10270994B2
The present technology relates to an image sensor, an imaging method, and an electronic apparatus that are capable of improving the image quality. It includes a plurality of signal lines for reading signals from pixels including a photoelectric conversion element, each of the plurality of signal lines being provided for one column of pixels, and a fixing unit configured to fix the potential of the plurality of signal lines to a predetermined potential, is started. The fixing unit fixes the potential of the plurality of signal lines before an operation of resetting the pixel. It is possible to fix the potential of the signal line to a predetermined potential before reading of the signal from the pixel, and to prevent the image quality from degrading due to the discrepancy in the potential when reading is started.
US10270993B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a first chip including a plurality of pixels, each pixel including a light sensing unit generating a signal charge responsive to an amount of received light, and a plurality of MOS transistors reading the signal charge generated by the light sensing unit and outputting the read signal charge as a pixel signal, a second chip including a plurality of pixel drive circuits supplying desired drive pulses to pixels, the second chip being laminated beneath the first chip in a manner such that the pixel drive circuits are arranged beneath the pixels formed in the first chip to drive the pixels, and a connection unit for electrically connecting the pixels to the pixel drive circuits arranged beneath the pixels.
US10270988B2
The present disclosure provides a method for generating an HDR image. The method includes: providing an image sensor, in which the image sensor includes a pixel array and a filter array disposed on the pixel array, and each filter unit in the filter array covers a plurality of pixel units in the pixel array so as to constitute a pixel structure unit; and performing an exposure control to pixel units within each pixel structure unit respectively, in which a first part of the pixel units within each pixel structure unit are exposed for a first exposure time, a second part of the pixel units within the pixel structure unit are exposed for a second exposure time, and the first exposure time is greater than the second exposure time.
US10270987B2
A camera using a CMOS image sensor based on a shared pixel array technology avails both high definition (HD) and ultra-high definition (UHD) resolution mode formats. Dynamic pixel management allows for both sequential and binned timing formats of pixel signals using switched capacitor noise reduction techniques. When UHD resolution mode is selected, noise can be reduced using both digital double sampling (DDS) or differential digital double sampling (dDDS), and when HD resolution mode is selected noise can be reduced using DDS. Additionally, both rolling shutter and global shutter modes can be selected when HD resolution mode is selected.
US10270982B2
An imaging apparatus comprises: an imaging optical-system that includes a first optical-system and a second optical-system having imaging characteristics different from each other and being arranged concentrically; and an image sensor that has a plurality of pixels composed of photoelectric conversion elements two-dimensionally arranged, respectively pupil-divides light incident through the optical-systems, and selectively receives the light by the pixels. With the imaging apparatus, the light amount of the light incident on the image sensor through each of the optical-systems is adjusted, and interference is prevented. The imaging apparatus further comprises a stop including an annular light blocking section of which an inner diameter and an outer diameter can be increased or decreased, and adjusting a light amount of light passing through each of the optical-systems by increasing or decreasing the inner diameter and the outer diameter of the light blocking section at a boundary between pupil regions of the optical-systems.
US10270979B2
A camera using an automatically depth-of-field adjusting method includes a camera lens, a diaphragm, a light-sensing part, and a controller. The light-sensing part can receive visible light of a first wave band and invisible light of a second wave band. The controller performs an adjusting procedure, according to which the controller measures a first light intensity of ambient light of a scene relative to the first wave band and a second light intensity of the ambient light relative to the second wave band, and when the controller determines that a ratio of a difference between the first intensity and the second intensity to a sum of the first intensity and the second intensity is less than a predetermined value, controls the diaphragm to adjust an aperture of the diaphragm according to a current focal length of the camera lens.
US10270977B2
An imaging apparatus for tracking a subject is provided. The An imaging apparatus has an imaging unit which images a subject to obtain an image, an area detecting unit which detects in the image obtained by the imaging unit a light changing area, in which light changes in a time-series manner, a position detecting unit which detects a position of the light changing area detected by the area detecting unit in the image obtained by the imaging unit, a local area searching unit which searches for a local area within a prescribed region defined on the basis of the position of the light changing area detected by the position detecting unit, wherein the local area shows a large feature value in an image processing, and a tracking unit which tracks movement of the local area found by the local area searching unit.
US10270966B2
A computing device includes one or more camera systems, each camera system including software and/or hardware to provide various different camera-related capabilities. The camera system maintains one or more profiles, each profile identifying different capabilities of the camera system that the computing device is configured to use concurrently. The one or more profiles are provided to a program on the computing device, allowing the program to know which capabilities the computing device is configured to use concurrently. If a profile provided by the camera system indicates that the computing device is configured to use certain capabilities concurrently (e.g., capturing images and recording video at certain resolutions), then the program allows a user to select options for using those capabilities concurrently. However, if no such profile exists, the program does not allow a user to select options for using those capabilities concurrently.
US10270964B2
A camera includes a data acquisition unit, a photographing area control unit, a photographing unit and a communication unit. The data acquisition unit acquires, as photographing information, at least one of time information, information on a position of the sun, information on an angle between a sunlight and a ground, and projection information of an external projection device. The photographing condition calculation unit calculates a photographing condition based on the photographing information. The photographing area control unit controls a photographing area based on the photographing condition. The photographing unit generates an image data by photographing the photographing area. The communication unit transmits the image data to the external projection device.
US10270963B2
This application relates to an angle switching method and apparatus for an image captured in an electronic terminal. In one embodiment, an angle switching method for an image captured in an electronic terminal includes the following steps: receiving a triggering operation on a specified switching button; switching an angle on an image captured by a camera of the terminal within a specified angle range to an image area; and displaying the image captured by the camera of the current terminal at an angle after the switching.
US10270962B1
In certain embodiments, a camera or camera accessory device may read, via a sensor, a test image related to an environment of the device, and obtain, via a neural network, a feature vector of the test image that indicates a set of features representing the test image. The device may perform clustering of sets of camera settings based on the feature vector of the test image to determine clusters of camera settings sets, and select, from the clusters of camera settings sets, a cluster of camera settings sets based on scores related to the images similar to the test image. The device may determine environment-specific camera settings based on the cluster of camera settings sets, and cause a camera adjustment based on the environment-specific camera settings.
US10270956B2
An interchangeable lens includes: a mount unit on which a camera body can be mounted; a driven member; a drive unit that drives the driven member; a storage unit that stores lens data related to driving of the driven member by the drive unit; and a transmitter that sends lens-side judgment data, based on which whether the lens data is properly stored in the storage unit can be judged at the camera body, to the camera body.
US10270946B2
There is provided a solid state imaging device. A rib is arranged on a frame part to be joined to a board on which an image sensor is mounted, the rib abutting on the board at an abutting position next to a periphery of the image sensor.
US10270942B2
Source colors are mapped within a mapping segment starting at a preserved gamut boundary color (PC) and ending at a target gamut boundary color (IT-C) of the chromaticity plane, corresponding, in a linear 3D color space, to an intersection of the target color gamut (TCG) with a plane of constant luminance and with a mapping plane (MKO) comprising said source color (M), a black point (K) and a white point (O).
US10270939B2
An image is rendered on a display having a limited number of primary colors by (104) combining input data representing the color of a pixel to be rendered with error data to form modified input data, determining in a color space the simplex (208—typically a tetrahedron) enclosing the modified input data and the primary colors associated with the simplex, converting (210) the modified image data to barycentric coordinates based upon the primary colors associated with the simplex and (212) setting output data to the primary having the largest barycentric coordinate, calculating (214) the difference between the modified input data and the output data for the pixel, thus generating error data, applying (106) this error data to at least one later-rendered pixel, and applying the output data to the display and thus rendering the image on the display. Apparatus and computer-storage media for carrying out this process are also provided.
US10270938B2
Image-processing-based text separation method, text separation device, and image formation apparatus
A text separation method, a text separation device, and an image formation apparatus are provided. The text separation method includes obtaining a pixel value of each pixel in a to-be-processed image having a plurality of pixels; determining an edge intensity value of each pixel according to pixel values of each pixel and a preset number of pixels adjacent to each pixel; determining a binary map corresponding to the to-be-processed image according to the edge intensity value of each pixel; determining a text region determination value of each pixel according to the binary image and the pixel value of each pixel; and determining text-body regions and non-text-body regions in the to-be-processed image according to the text region determination value of each pixel.
US10270927B2
A function execution apparatus includes a controller configured to display a standby screen for selecting a specific function from among one or more functions, the one or more functions including a file processing function to use a file storage service provided by a service providing apparatus when data communication with the service providing apparatus is performed through a communication network, determine whether the file processing function is in an executable condition, in response to determining that the file processing function is in an unexecutable condition, display on the standby screen an error image representing that the file processing function is in the unexecutable condition, accept a selection of the specific function in a state where the standby screen is displayed, and execute the selected specific function.
US10270924B2
A setting is made such that an operation screen based on screen information transmitted to an external apparatus is not displayed on a display during a connection with the external apparatus for remote control.
US10270918B2
Techniques and apparatus for controlling the distribution of power (e.g., current) and the temperature to individually accessible compartments enclosing subsystems of a personal communication structure (PCS) is described. The PCS includes a power distribution and temperature controller subsystem, including thermal sensors adapted to generate and transmit temperature measurement data to the temperature controller, which controls fans/blowers. The power distribution subsystem senses and controls the current delivered to the individually accessible compartments.
US10270914B2
System and method to calculate expected waiting time of a caller to a calling center, the method including: monitoring, by a monitor circuit, a content of a present communication session; estimating a point of progress of the monitored communication session; comparing the point of progress to a historical statistic; calculating, by a processor, a projection of a duration of a remainder of the present communication session; and providing, by a communication circuit, an expected waiting time (EWT) based upon the projection of the duration of the remainder of the present communication session. Embodiments may include a speech search process to record call progress. The speech search process may inform, diagnose or monitor a call. The speech search process may inform a supervisor of progress, to take action if necessary. The speech search process may dynamically trigger other processes and construct profiles based upon historical data.
US10270895B2
A terminal housing includes an intermediate piece, two end pieces located at two opposite sides of the intermediate piece respectively, and two insulators each connected between the intermediate piece and one of the two end pieces. Each of the two end pieces has a mounting portion corresponding to the insulator and provided with an engagement structure. The engagement structure is engaged with the insulator and is uneven. A mobile terminal having the terminal housing is also provided.
US10270890B2
A wireless station of a wireless network generates a single layer-2 frame containing multiple layer-3 packets in its payload. Each of the multiple layer-3 packets is destined to a corresponding different destination. The wireless station transmits the layer-2 frame to an access point (AP) of the wireless network. The AP receives the layer-2 frame, disassembles the payload into individual layer-3 packets, and transmits each of the individual layer-3 packets separately towards the corresponding destinations. In an embodiment, the wireless network is according to IEEE 802.11 standards, each layer-3 packet is an IP packet, and the layer-2 frame is a MAC frame.
US10270885B2
Systems and techniques for deploying resources within a computing infrastructure are herein disclosed as comprising, in an implementation, executing a first deployment agent to perform a first deployment action, the first deployment agent configured to deploy a first resource to a first device; changing a deployment state of the first deployment agent responsive to performing the first deployment action; and executing a second deployment agent to perform a second deployment action, the second deployment agent configured to deploy a second resource to a second device. The second deployment agent performs the second deployment action in response to a change in a deployment state of an arbitrary deployment agent not explicitly identified within the second deployment agent. A deployment plan configured to cause the execution of the first and second deployment agents includes an identification of the first deployment agent as the arbitrary deployment agent.
US10270881B2
Techniques are disclosed for generating enhanced user profiles that include “off-line” activities omitted from conventional user profiles. In one embodiment, each of two or more Internet of Things (IoT) products records usage data descriptive of a user's interactions with the IoT product. This usage data is based on values of physical parameters measured by sensors embedded within the IoT products. In recording the usage data, an IoT product may transmit the usage and sensor data to a user profile storage device. In response to receiving the usage and sensor data from the IoT products, the user profile storage device stores the usage and sensor data and associates the usage and sensor data with the user. Additionally, the user profile storage device exposes an interface through which marketing personnel can analyze user profiles made up of the stored usage and sensor data.
US10270877B2
Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for enhanced storage clients. In some embodiments, an interface for using a storage service may be provided. The interface for each of a plurality of storage services may be implemented within a storage client. A cache may be integrated within the storage client for reducing a number of accesses to a storage service of the plurality of storage services. A compression method may be provided in the storage client to reduce a size of data objects. An encryption method may be provided in the storage client to preserve data privacy. An application may select at least one storage services of the plurality of storage services and using the at least one storage service via the storage client.
US10270871B2
A client application of a device receives presence information and other interaction information from other devices synchronized to a set of content items. The interaction information indicates interactions of at least one other device with respect to a synchronized content item. The client application displays a browser depicting the synchronized content items and permitting navigation among organizational elements. The browser also displays the interaction information associated with the content items received from the other devices. The browser displays the interaction information with respect to particular content items or for an organizational element. The browser may also include an activity feed displaying interaction information specific to a content item or relating to a synchronized folder or organizational element. This permits a user to view, at a browser, activity and interactions of other users with respect to content items using native applications on another device.
US10270867B2
Disclosed herein are a mobile apparatus which is configured for enabling multimedia content which is being output on the mobile apparatus to be output via a predetermined multimedia apparatus when the mobile apparatus is connected to a home network, a display apparatus, and a multimedia output method using the same. The multimedia content may include at least one of a picture, music, video, and text. The mobile apparatus includes: an output unit configured to output the multimedia content; and a controller configured to output, if the mobile apparatus enters a predetermined area, the multimedia content being output on the output unit via the predetermined external apparatus.
US10270863B1
One or more IoT devices are coupled to a gateway server. The gateway server preferably includes enhanced administrative features for restricting access to IoT devices, and for monitoring IoT device communications. In embodiments of the invention, communications between the gateway server and IoT devices are secured, in part, via IP address restriction, the use of transitory identifiers, and/or encryption.
US10270859B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for generating a system-wide event report for electrical power delivery systems. A monitoring device within the power system may generate a key message upon the occurrence of a predetermined condition. A master IED within the power system may generate and/or transmit a system-wide key message to a plurality of monitoring IEDs within the power system. Digital process bus data, continuously recorded by a plurality of monitoring IEDs within the power system, may be saved locally by each monitoring IED within the power system and retrieved by a master IED within the power system. Alternatively, digital process bus data may be transmitted to a master IED and saved locally. A software and/or hardware module may be used to merge the local reports into a system-wide event report.
US10270853B2
A platform-to-platform communication architecture for a process control messaging service in a process control system or other industrial setting allows stationary and portable industrial computing units to communicate with each other, in one-to-one and one-to-many communications, and across networks, including isolated networks inside the process control system or industrial setting and external networks. A requesting industrial computing device platform generates a message for a destination, or responding, industrial computing device in the communication protocol of the destination platform, and wraps the message in a communication protocol of the process control messaging service. The communication architecture decodes the wrapped message into the communication protocol of the destination industrial computing device and forwards the decoded wrapped message to the destination. The communication architecture allows for a variety of communication services, including, but not limited to, instant/real-time peer-to-peer messaging, time synchronization, automatic data transfer with an asset management system, communication with field devices via an asset management system and large data transfers.
US10270852B2
An information processing apparatus accepts migration of data from a migration source information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a processor to execute an operation for operation target data as a target of a processing request given from a client apparatus when the operation target data is migrated from the migration source information processing apparatus and the processing request is received from the migration source information processing apparatus, and to notify the client apparatus of a processing result of the operation, the result containing arrangement information of the operation target data.
US10270851B2
Technology related to activating a peer-to-peer communication channel is disclosed. In one example of the disclosed technology, a method can be used to initiate peer-to-peer communications between a transmitting device and a receiving device over an inactive first communication channel. The method can include determining an address associated with a second communication channel of the receiving device. A packet addressed to the receiving device can be transmitted over the second communication channel to cause the receiving device to begin a sequence to activate the first communication channel. Communication can be initiated over the first communication channel from the transmitting device to the receiving device at a different address associated with the first communication channel.
US10270841B1
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a trigger to deploy a particular container on cloud resources accessible thereto such that the cloud resources are provided by a plurality of cloud providers and such that the computer system and the plurality of cloud providers are configured to negotiate container deployment using an information exchange protocol. The information exchange protocol includes a preconfigured inquiry format and a preconfigured inquiry-response format. The method further includes generating a performance inquiry in relation to the particular container. In addition, the method includes transmitting the performance inquiry to the plurality of cloud providers. Moreover, the method includes receiving inquiry responses from at least some of the plurality of cloud providers. Additionally, the method includes causing the particular container to be deployed on resources of the particular cloud provider.
US10270824B2
A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system for providing a live stream of event content is provided. In an embodiment, a method may include defining an online collaborative space associated with an event. A plurality of event participants may be associated with the event. Content contributions may be received from one or more of the event participants. An event content update may be transmitted to a client event application based on the received content contributions to provide a live stream of event content.
US10270822B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may be an MBMS receiver device. The MBMS receiver device receives at least one packet associated with an MBMS service. A configuration for providing the at least one packet to a UE is determined. The configuration may be one of a plurality of different configurations. The plurality of configurations may include at least a first configuration and a second configuration. The MBMS receiver device processes the received at least one packet based on the configuration. The MBMS receiver device sends the processed at least one packet to the UE based on the configuration.
US10270820B2
Various systems and methods for streaming an impromptu community are described herein. In one example, a system for streaming impromptu communities includes a data storage device, a community analyzer, and a publisher. In an example, the data storage device can store a number of incoming data sets, wherein each data set identifies a time and location for the origin of the data, a media instance, and an identification of an origin device or origin user. In an example, the community analyzer can operate from the data storage device to use a processor in order to calculate an IC boundary and generate an impromptu community (IC) indicator based on the proximity and temporality of the number of incoming data sets. In an example, the processor can modify the number of data sets to include the IC indicator.
US10270816B1
A communication system capable of enabling one or more communication devices to remotely execute one or more applications includes one or more communication devices that are coupled to a data connection. At least one of the one or more communication devices is operable to communicate a request to establish a communication session over the data connection. The system also includes one or more application servers that are coupled to the data connection. At least one of the one or more application servers is adapted to execute an application to establish the requested communication session with the at least one communication device. The at least one application server resides at a location remote from the at least one communication device. The at least one application server communicates a request for processing service to the at least one communication device. The request for processing service is communicated to the at least one communication device over the data connection.
US10270815B1
A network-connected device service receives a request to establish a communications session with a network-connected device. In response to the request, the service transmits a set of electronic messages to the network-connected device through an access point of the network-connected device to establish the communications session. The network-connected device service receives a notification from the network-connected device indicating whether the communications session has been established. If so, the service provides an indication to a controlling device that the session has been established. This enables the controlling device to submit commands executable by the network-connected device to the service, which provides the commands to the network-connected device through the access point.
US10270807B2
A computer implemented method of detecting unauthorized access to a protected network by monitoring a dynamically updated deception environment, comprising launching, on one or more decoy endpoints, one or more decoy operating system (OS) managing one or more of a plurality of deception applications mapping a plurality of applications executed in a protected network, updating dynamically a usage indication for a plurality of deception data objects deployed in the protected network to emulate usage of the plurality of deception data objects for accessing the deception application(s) wherein the plurality of deception data objects are configured to trigger an interaction with the deception application(s) when used, detecting usage of data contained in the deception data object(s) by monitoring the interaction and identifying one or more potential unauthorized operations based on analysis of the detection.
US10270803B2
In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for detecting malware infection. One embodiment of a method for detecting a malware infection at a local host in a network, includes monitoring communications between the local host and one or more entities external to the network, generating a dialog warning if the communications include a transaction indicative of a malware infection, declaring a malware infection if, within a predefined period of time, the dialog warnings includes at least one dialog warning indicating a transaction initiated at the local host and at least one dialog warning indicating an additional transaction indicative of a malware infection, and outputting an infection profile for the local host.
US10270792B1
Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, security management apparatuses, and network traffic management systems that send a web page to a client device in response to a received request for a web resource. The web page comprises injected capability analysis client-side code that is configured to obtain and return capability data for a web browser identified in a user agent header of the request. A response comprising the returned capability data is received and the returned capability data is compared with expected capability data for the web browser identified in the user agent header of the request. A score is generated based at least in part on the comparison and a determination is made when the score exceeds an established threshold. The web resource is retrieved and provided to the client device, when the determining indicates that the score exceeds the established threshold.
US10270787B2
A method and system for administering an interactive computer network and more particularly to performing security in a network of interactive electronic components, such as a computer network using a currency-based transactional economy model where scarcity serves as a limiting factor to accessing and engaging in various activities within the system.
US10270784B1
Systems, devices, software, and methods of the present invention enable users and owners/operators, such as employers, vendors, and other administrators to restrict the accessibility and use of applications residing on mobile and portable user devices, when those user devices are near or within a controlled area, such as non-residential and residential properties, and/or access a controlled network, either locally or remotely. The device management system may impose restrictions on one or more user devices that may include, for example, one or more of disabling applications, preventing applications from being enabled, deleting applications, limiting or preventing applications from being downloaded, and/or performing application inventories on the user device. When the user device is no longer in, on, and/or around their facilities and/or networks, the device management system may remove or impose the restrictions on the user device.
US10270779B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for determining a phishing website. The method comprises: a server determining whether a target website accessed by a client is a gray website, the gray website being a website neither in a preset blacklist nor in a whitelist; the client acquiring the browsing information of the gray website in the local client, and determining whether the browsing information meets a preset condition; if yes, determining that the gray website is a non-phishing website; if not, the client acquiring the domain name feature information of the gray website, and when the domain name feature information conforms to a pre-configured rule, determining that the gray website is a phishing website.
US10270769B2
Systems and methods for analyzing applications on a mobile device for risk so as to maintain the privacy of the application user are provided. In the example method, the process receives a request from a mobile device. The request includes a cryptographic representation of application information for an application residing on a mobile device. The method includes comparing the cryptographic representation to an application information database that includes cryptographic representations of applications. The method also includes automatically remediating, e.g., quarantining and retiring, the application if the application matches an application that is a known risk in the database. Exemplary embodiments provide companies with controls to prevent specific applications—which have specific behaviors and are present on mobile devices being used by employees—from being used by employees, without the company having any visibility into what particular applications are being used by the employees on the mobile device.
US10270765B2
A method includes running an application on a mobile computing device, the mobile computing device accepting biometric input, and the mobile computing device enabling one or more function of the application only in response to the biometric input indicating that more than one person is present in the same location. Examples of suitable biometric input include a fingerprint, heartbeat, iris scan, facial recognition, and voice recognition. The biometric input may be provided directly to the mobile computing device from the more than one person present, or the biometric input may be provided by a first person to a first mobile computing device and by a second person to a second mobile computing device.
US10270762B2
Disclosed is a user authentication method including at least: (1) performing a primary conversion to generate a first common authentication key and performing a secondary conversion to provide an encrypted first common authentication key, and registering the encrypted first common authentication key; (2) generating a first server authentication key, and performing an OTP operation on the first server authentication key to generate first server authentication information; (3) performing a primary conversion to generate a second common authentication key, performing a secondary conversion to generate an encrypted second common authentication key, generating a first user authentication key, and performing an OTP operation on the first user authentication key to generate first user authentication information; and (4) performing a user authentication or an authentication of the authentication server for determining a genuineness of the authentication server, based on coincidence of the first server authentication information and the first user authentication information.
US10270760B2
Services from domainless machines are made available in a security domain under a virtual name. Each machine is not joined to the domain but can reach a security domain controller. The controller controls at least one security domain using an authentication protocol, such as a modified Kerberos protocol. One obtains a set of security domain credentials, generates a cluster name secret, gives the cluster a virtual name, and authenticates the machines to the domain controller using these items. In some cases, authentication uses a ticket-based protocol which accepts the cluster name secret in place of a proof of valid security domain membership. In some, the domain controller uses a directory service which is compatible with an active directory service; the cluster virtual name is provisioned as an account in the directory service. The cluster virtual name may concurrently serve clients on different security domains of the directory service.
US10270759B1
A system for a containerized application includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive an indication from a user to create a containerized application. The indication comprises a first user authentication information (e.g., an authentication token issued by an authentication server) and an application permission information. The processor is configured to determine whether the first user authentication information indicates that the user has permission to create a definition for the containerized application with the application permission information, and, if so, create the definition for the containerized application with the application permission information. The processor is configured to determine whether a second user authentication information indicates that the user has permission to execute the containerized application using the definition for the containerized application, and, if so, indicate to process a job using the containerized application.
US10270757B2
A method, system or computer usable program product for managing exchanges of sensitive data including utilizing a processor to request a service across a network from an application, the service requiring a disclosure of a first set of sensitive data by the application; providing a set of certified policy commitments regarding the first set of sensitive data to the application for a determination of acceptability; and upon a positive determination, receiving the service including the disclosure of the first set of sensitive data.
US10270746B2
Embodiments include one or more client devices accessible by users, an online system, and one or more partner systems such that the online system is able to identify a user of the online system across different devices and browsers based on the user activity that occurs external to the online system. A user performs user actions (e.g. purchase a product) on a web page of a partner system and may provide personally identifiable information (PII) to the partner system. The partner system provides the hashed PII and user actions performed by the user to the online system. The online system identifies a user profile on the online system by matching personal information in the user profile to the hashed PII. The online system generates a confidence score indicating a likelihood that the identified user of the online system is the individual that performed the external user action.
US10270741B2
A user of a system defines a limited use access token for an external user for that external user to access defined resources of the system based on the user's account with the system. An access control system validates the access token when the external user attempts to access the defined resources and grants the external principal access to the defined resources.
US10270702B2
A kind of transmission method based on the learnable power model, which conducts periodic record for the historical change trend of the network. This method conducts weighting smooth processing on the round trip time and judges the changing trend of congestion control window. Then, it establishes model for the relationship between network power and the congestion control widow. When a new ACK is received, it immediately updates the window of power model. Finally, it forecasts the size of the congestion control window of the next time period by combining the congestion window and the network power changing trend. For the network packet loss or time-out events, the retransmission mechanism of traditional TCP is used, and when the packet loss ends, the power model process is used again. This invention reduces the influence of the network random events of the estimation error of traditional algorithm.
US10270694B2
Systems and methods are provided for routing a message in a network. A bit length of an identifier field of a received message is identified. A lookup table is selected based on the bit length of the identifier field. The identifier field is used as a reference for the lookup table to identify a bus for the message, and the message is forwarded to the bus.
US10270687B2
The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for dynamic routing on an IP address shared by a cluster of nodes. In an implementation, a first node of a cluster of nodes can receive a unicast routing protocol packet from a peer router. The unicast routing protocol packet can be addressed to a shared IP address established across the cluster of nodes. The cluster of nodes can be intermediary to a plurality of clients and a plurality of servers. The first node can identify a second node identified as a routing leader. The first node can steer the packet to the second node in response to determining that the routing protocol packet is a unicast routing protocol packet. The second node can be configured to advertise virtual IP address routes to the network over the routing adjacency and maintain routing adjacencies.
US10270685B2
The following processing is executed by a communication apparatus capable of performing wireless communication in a first communication mode in which communication is performed via an access point and a second communication mode in which communication is performed with a communication partner apparatus in a peer-to-peer mode. If communicating with the communication partner apparatus in the second communication mode, it is determined whether to concurrently execute operations in the first communication mode and the second communication mode. If it is determined to concurrently execute the operations in the first communication mode and the second communication mode, it is controlled to operate as a service providing source which provides a service in the second communication mode.
US10270682B2
Somecast/anycast service may function at the service layer and include service nodes/groups selection and post-selection processing. Somecast/anycast information may be used for identifying different scenarios of anycast/somecast, facilitating service nodes selection, and handling retransmission.
US10270681B2
Various techniques for partitioning a computer network is disclosed herein. In certain embodiments, control plane functions (e.g., computation of network routes) and/or forwarding plane functions (e.g., routing, forwarding, switching) may be partitioned and performed individually on per domain basis based on (1) a network configuration of a particular domain (e.g., end points and/or lower-level domains in the particular domain); and (2) one or more higher-level domains connected to the particular domain in the hierarchy. Thus, a particular domain can manage various network operations of the domain without concerns regarding end points or network nodes in other domains of the hierarchy. Thus, network configuration and operation may be partitioned to reduce hardware costs and operational complexity even as the size of the overall computer networks increases.
US10270673B1
Methods and apparatus for determining a unique audience exposed to media while reducing memory resources of a computing device are disclosed herein. An example method includes receiving impression requests at a server from a plurality of client devices via a network; based on the impression requests, logging, with the server, a plurality of impressions corresponding to the media accessed at the client devices; obtaining a number of demographic impressions logged by a database proprietor; obtaining a number of registered users of the database proprietor exposed to the media; multiplying, by executing an instruction with a processor, a number of the plurality of impressions by a square of the number of the registered users to generate a product; dividing, by executing an instruction with the processor, the product by a number of the demographic impressions to generate a quotient; and determining, by executing an instruction with the processor, the unique audience based on a square root of the quotient.
US10270672B2
A first request is received at a central tracing component and from a first module in a complex computing system. The first request is received when the first module is called to execute. In response to the first request, input data of the first module is stored in the central tracing component. A second request is received from the first module when the first module has been successfully executed. In response to the second request, output data of the first module is stored in the central tracing component. A third request is received from a second module when the second module has failed execution. In response to the third request, the stored data in the central tracing component is sent to the second module.
US10270670B2
In an example embodiment, a method of redirecting responses from an application server in a cloud environment is provided. A request is received from an instance of an application operating on a client device. The request is forwarded to an application server corresponding to the application. A generic error message from the application server sent in response to the user request is intercepted and the generic error message is redirected to a special application server hosting a special account established for the application, the special account indicating one or more actions to take in response to receipt of a generic error message, the one or more actions causing generation of a special error message and sending of the special error message to the instance of the application operating on the client device.
US10270667B1
A technology for job processing using a public service network. A method may include identifying processing availability at a public service network for processing a job submitted to a private service network. Available network bandwidth may be determined between the private service network and the public service network used to communicate between the private service network and the public service network and to transfer the job to the public service network for processing. Rules for transferring the job to the public service network may be identified. A determination may then be made that the processing availability at the public service network, the available network bandwidth between the private service network and the public service network, and the rules for transferring the job to the public service network allow the job to be transferred to the public service network for processing.
US10270666B2
A network map of an individual's implicit and explicit people relationships across multiple workloads is provided. Relationships between people may be leveraged and ranking for people relationships may be performed based on activities across multiple workloads. People relationships may be displayed in the network map to provide a visual understanding of relationships and connections. Navigation to any person represented in the network map may be enabled, and commonalities in relationships between a navigating user and a given person navigated to in the network map may be exposed. Trending items and activity streams for a person or group of persons may be shown in the network map.
US10270665B2
The invention provides a set of mechanisms by which a wireless mobile mesh node equipped with a directional antenna may self form and self adapt its steady-state communications schedule. A link establishment handshake is carried out over an ongoing subtemplate-based discovery scan. During time not reserved for steady-state communications with previously discovered neighbors, nodes continue to search for an establish links with new neighbors. Initial and subsequent bandwidth allocation protocols may be utilized to allow peer nodes to coordinate communication opportunities between the peer nodes without impacting or having knowledge about reservations for communications with other peers. The link establishment and initial bandwidth allocation protocols may be piggy-backed for readily establishing an initial steady-state schedule with a peer upon link establishment without impact on previous steady state reservations by other nodes or on ongoing link establishment attempts elsewhere.
US10270650B2
A system for managing the operation of different components within a cloud system to accomplish various tasks, including the implementation of build features within the cloud system to achieve specific operational goals. The system may include a data defined infrastructure (DDI) tool installed within a data defined infrastructure (DDI) to manage certain features or tasks within the cloud system. The DDI may include an environment configuration database (ECDB), an orchestration engine, an automation engine, and/or other hardware and software components within the cloud system, such that the DDI tool installed on the DDI infrastructure may control operation of the ECDB, the orchestration engine, the automation engine, or other hardware and software components within the cloud system based on a set of data that fully describes the operational goal.
US10270641B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system, such as long-term evolution (LTE). An operation method of a transmitter in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes applying a filter to data, mapping the data to which the filter is applied to at least one subcarrier, and transmitting the mapped data to a receiver. The filter is determined based on based on the allocated resource.
US10270640B2
Various systems and methods are provided for channel estimation. These systems and methods (a) determine a coherence bandwidth for the channel, (b) adapt the channel estimation based on the coherence bandwidth, and (c) perform channel estimation by transmitting a channel estimation symbol over a channel. In some embodiments, the channel estimation is adapted based on the coherence bandwidth. This may include selecting a number of channel estimation symbols to transmit in a packet. Additionally, the number of channel estimation symbols transmitted in a packet can be selected by increasing the number of channel estimation symbols when the coherence bandwidth of the channel is high or decreasing the number of channel estimation symbols when the coherence bandwidth of the channel is low.
US10270638B2
A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The method for transmitting broadcast signals, the method comprises encoding service data, encoding signaling data, MIMO (Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output) precoding the encoded service data, building at least one signal frame including the MIMO precoded service data and the encoded signaling data, modulating data in the built at least one signal frame by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme and transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data.
US10270636B2
In some embodiments, a wireless communication apparatus may include, but is not limited to, a pilot inserter, a segment divider, a phase rotator, and a first adder. The pilot inserter inserts first and second pilot symbols into a symbol stream. The segment divider divides into a plurality of segments a plurality of subcarriers. Each of the subcarriers is allocated with a respective one of the symbols included in the symbol stream into which the first and second pilot symbols have been inserted. The phase rotator performs, for each segment, a phase rotation to all of the symbols, except for a predetermined one of the first and second pilot symbols, included in the symbol stream. The first adder adds together signals corresponding to the subcarriers included in the plurality of segments to which the phase rotation has been performed by the phase rotator to generate a transmission signal.
US10270623B1
The invention relates to the field of channel coding and modulation technique, more specifically, to a single-carrier channel estimation method, comprising: equalizing a carrier of an input current-frame signal and of a channel of the current-frame signal, to obtain a sequence code of the current-frame signal, decision value of transmission sequence of the current-frame signal and estimated value of signal-to-noise ratio of the current-frame signal; calculating the current-frame signal, the sequence code and the estimated value of signal-to-noise ratio to obtain a initial channel estimation; calculating the current-frame signal, the decision value of transmission sequence and the estimated value of signal-to-noise ratio to obtain a reference channel; obtaining a filtered channel value after filtering the reference channel; and obtaining the estimated channel of the next-frame signal after implementing adaptive filtering on the estimated value of initial channel and filtered channel value, by reference to the reference channel.
US10270616B2
A wireless communication system includes an access point, a master communication apparatus, and a slave communication apparatus, and the master communication apparatus and the slave communication apparatus perform wireless communication through the access point. The master communication apparatus stores setting information necessary for accessing the access point; performs wireless communication through the access point using the stored setting information; and performs near field communication with the slave communication apparatus to transmit the stored setting information to the slave communication apparatus in response to a setting information request received from the slave communication apparatus via near field communication. The slave communication apparatus performs near field communication with the master communication apparatus to transmit the setting information request to the master communication apparatus; receives the setting information from the master communication apparatus via near field communication; stores the setting information; and performs wireless communication through the access point using the setting information.
US10270615B2
A method of providing operating options of an electric appliance is applied in a wireless system, which includes a portable device, an electric appliance, and a relay apparatus. The portable device and the relay apparatus are connected to each other within either a near-end network or a far-end network. The electric appliance communicates with the relay apparatus, and has a plurality of operating options which can be selected to operate the electric appliance. If the portable device and the relay apparatus are connected within the near-end network, all of the operating options are displayed on the portable device for selection; if it's within the far-end network, a part of the operating options are disabled on the portable device for selection.
US10270613B2
Provided is a layout creation method for creating a layout of apparatuses disposed in a space (such as lighting devices, air conditioners, and switches). The layout creation method includes: obtaining reference coordinates through a portable terminal having a position sensing function; and for each of the apparatuses, obtaining position coordinates corresponding to the apparatus as coordinates relative to the reference coordinates through the portable terminal, and storing the position coordinates on the portable terminal in association with a type of the apparatus.
US10270608B2
A method for managing alerts relating to the detection of a local phenomenon in a communications network. The communications network includes at least one first residential gateway capable of transmitting alert messages in the network. The local phenomenon is likely to degrade the hardware and/or software resources of the residential gateway. The method includes: detection, by the first residential gateway, of a degradation linked to the local phenomenon; transmission of an alert message in the network by the first residential home gateway, in order for at least one second residential gateway able to receive the alert message, adjacent to the first residential gateway in the wide area network, to respond to the local phenomenon.
US10270606B2
In one embodiment, a device in a network sends a first multicast message to a plurality of destinations in the network. The first multicast message includes a first bitmap that identifies the destinations. The device receives one or more acknowledgements from a subset of the destinations. The device determines a retransmission bitmap that identifies those of the plurality of destinations that did not acknowledge the first multicast message, based on the received one or more acknowledgements. The device sends a retransmission multicast message to those of the plurality of destinations that did not acknowledge the first multicast message. The retransmission multicast message includes the retransmission bitmap.
US10270604B2
Techniques are described for grouping related flows using a flow attribute value indicated by a modified protocol independent multicast (PIM) join request. According to techniques of this disclosure, a network device is configured to receive, from a downstream network device, two or more first PIM join requests indicating two or more multicast groups. In response to determining that each first PIM join request of the two or more first PIM join requests indicates a common first flow attribute value, the network device is configured to select a common path. The network device is further configured to send two or more second PIM join requests indicating the two or more multicast groups to an upstream network device along the selected common path and toward the source. Each second PIM join request of the two or more second PIM join requests includes a common second flow attribute value.
US10270603B2
Systems, methods, and software can be used to process certificate validation warnings. In some aspect, a connection to a Virtual Private Network (VPN) server is initiated at an electronic device. The VPN server is associated with a VPN profile. In response to initiating the connection, a certificate associated with the VPN server is received at the electronic device. A validation warning associated with the certificate is received. A fingerprint of the certificate is generated. A validation action is selected based on the validation warning, the fingerprint, and the VPN profile. The selected validation action is executed.
US10270602B2
A method, system, and computer usable program product for verifying and enforcing certificate use are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A certificate is received from a sender. The certificate is validated before communicating a message associated with the certificate to a receiver. If the certificate is invalid, a policy is selected based on a type of invalidity of the certificate. An action is taken to enforce the policy for using the certificate. The certificate may be received from the sender at a proxy. The validating may further include verifying the validity of the certificate using a certificate from a certificate database accessible to the proxy over a network. the proxy may copy a part of the certificate database to a second certificate database local to the proxy. The validating may further include verifying the validity of the certificate using a certificate revocation list accessible to the proxy over a network.
US10270598B2
A processor of an aspect includes a decode unit to decode an elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) point-multiplication with obfuscated input information instruction. The ECC point-multiplication with obfuscated input information instruction is to indicate a plurality of source operands that are to store input information for an ECC point-multiplication operation. At least some of the input information that is to be stored in the plurality of source operands is to be obfuscated. An execution unit is coupled with the decode unit. The execution unit, in response to the ECC point-multiplication with obfuscated input information instruction, is to store an ECC point-multiplication result in a destination storage location that is to be indicated by the ECC point-multiplication with obfuscated input information instruction. Other processors, methods, systems, and instructions are disclosed.
US10270596B2
A method for generating a dump comprising data generated by a virtual system in a computing environment is depicted. The method comprises: initiating a dump process for dumping data generated by the virtual system and stored in guest memory; sending a dump request for the data from the virtual machine monitor to the trusted component; in response to receiving the dump request, generating a symmetric dump generating key; reading the data from the guest memory; encrypting the data with the symmetric dump generating key; encrypting the symmetric dump generating key with the public cryptographic key of the client system; providing the encrypted dump data and the encrypted symmetric dump generating key to the virtual machine monitor; generating a dump comprising the encrypted dump data and the encrypted symmetric dump generating key; and providing the dump to the client system.
US10270584B2
A phase lock loop (PLL) includes: a binary phase detector configured to generate a first and second polarity signals that respectively indicating whether an incoming data stream is leading a feedback signal, or whether the feedback signal is leading the incoming data stream, wherein a difference between the first and second polarity signals does not represent an amount of phase difference between the incoming data stream and the feedback signal; a digital filter configured to: generate filtered first polarity signal on a first path and a second path that are different; and generate filtered second polarity signal on a third path and a fourth path that are different; a charge pump coupled to the digital filter and configured to: integrate the filtered first polarity signal and the filtered second polarity signal; and an oscillator configured to generate the synthesized clock signal serving as the feedback signal.
US10270576B2
The present invention discloses an information transmission method, user equipment, and a base station. The method includes: receiving indication information sent by a base station, where the indication information is used to indicate a first downlink subframe in which a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) is transmitted; determining the first downlink subframe according to the indication information; and performing information transmission according to the first downlink subframe. According to the information transmission method, the user equipment, and the base station of embodiments of the present invention, indication information is used to indicate a downlink subframe in which a cell-specific reference signal is transmitted.
US10270572B2
A technique of operating a wireless communication device includes receiving an assigned starting point index and an assigned reference signal bandwidth for a reference signal. The reference signal is then transmitted multiple times, beginning at an initial resource block that is associated with the assigned starting point index and in accordance with the assigned reference signal bandwidth, across a shared channel.
US10270570B2
User Equipments (UEs) may be assigned a set of aggregated component carriers for downlink carrier aggregation and/or carrier selection. Some UEs may be incapable of transmitting uplink signals over all component carriers in their assigned set of aggregated component carriers. In such scenarios, a UE may need to perform SRS switching in order to transmit SRS symbols over all of the component carriers. Embodiments of this disclosure provide various techniques for facilitating SRS switching. For example, a radio resource control (RRC) message may be used to signal a periodic SRS configuration parameter. As another example, a downlink control indication (DCI) message may be used to signal an aperiodic SRS configuration parameter. Many other examples are also provided.
US10270568B2
Provided are a transmitter and a method for transmitting a data block in a wireless communication system. The method comprises the following steps: deciding the number of bits (s) and encoders (NES) to allocate to one axis of a signal constellation; encoding an information bit based on the s and the NES and generating a coded block; parsing the coded block based on the s and the NES and generating a plurality of frequency sub-blocks; and transmitting the plurality of frequency sub-blocks to a receiver.
US10270566B2
A wireless access point (AP) includes multiple transmit antennas and circuitry. The circuitry is configured to transmit multiple sounding frames to a receiver that includes one or more receive antennas, the sounding frames are transmitted via respective different partial subgroups of the transmit antennas, to receive from the receiver feedback information that specifies for each of the sounding frames a respective channel between the transmit antennas in the respective partial subgroup and the receive antennas, and, to determine a steering matrix based on the feedback information, and transmit to at least the receiver via at least some of the transmit antennas using the steering matrix.
US10270564B2
A system and method for transmitting data is provided. An embodiment comprises a dynamic determination of ARQ and HARQ protocols in order to achieve a wider range of Quality of Service guarantees. The ARQ and HARQ protocols can be selected base on Quality of Service requirements of packets and the capabilities of the piece of user equipment.
US10270554B2
A device and method for optical power measurement in an optical network supporting upstream and downstream signal propagation along an optical transmission path. The device includes an upstream wavelength analyzer receiving upstream light extracted from the optical transmission path and configured to determine an upstream spectral characteristic of the extracted upstream light. The device also includes a downstream filter assembly receiving downstream light extracted from the optical transmission path and configured to spectrally split the extracted downstream light into a plurality of downstream signals, one of which corresponding to a downstream signal of interest. The device further includes a processing unit configured to identify, based on the upstream spectral characteristic, the downstream signal of interest among the downstream filtered signals, and a downstream optical power meter assembly coupled to the downstream filter assembly and configured to measure an optical power parameter of the downstream signal of interest.
US10270553B2
A TDD (Time Division Duplex) switching control apparatus in a DAS (Distributed Antenna System) is provided. The present disclosure in some embodiments provides an apparatus, in a TDD switching control of a distributed antenna system, for transmitting a switching signal by using correlation property between a PSS (Primary Synchronization Signal) and an SSS (Secondary Synchronization Signal) and a property of a matched filter.
US10270549B2
Handover of broadcast audio/video content from a first/source device via an intermediate device to a second/destination device. The intermediate device is set up to receive by its own means the same broadcast audio/video content as received by the first/source device. If interruption of play out of the audio/video content by the first/source device is detected by the intermediate device, the intermediate device stores the received audio/video broadcast in timeshift memory. When a presence of the second/destination is detected, the intermediate device connects to the second/destination device and starts timeshifted streaming to the second/destination device.
US10270547B2
A system and method for detection of complex sinusoidal signals. The method can include obtaining a set of complex-valued samples of one or more signals, in the presence of unknown noise, using a plurality of sensors. The presence of κ candidate complex sinusoids can be assumed. Then, κ candidate complex sinusoids in the set of complex-valued samples can be estimated. The method can include comparing a measurement of the energy of the κ estimated candidate complex sinusoids with a threshold value. Based on the comparison, a determination can be made whether to assume a different number of candidate complex sinusoids and repeat the estimation and the comparison steps, or to specify the estimated κ candidate complex sinusoids as detected complex sinusoids. The threshold value can be determined using a penalty value which reduces the probability of overestimating the number of complex sinusoids.
US10270542B2
Methods and systems for fast convergence. One embodiment includes the following steps: extracting a digital representation of a common mode signal of a received differential signal sent by a transceiver, and generating, by a fast-adaptive mode-conversion canceller (FA-MCC), a compensation signal to mitigate differential interference; feeding the received differential signal to at least one of the following: a digital equalizer, and a digital canceller (DEDC); wherein the FA-MCC and the DEDC feed a slicer; responsive to receiving an indication that a serious differential interference has occurred, indicating the transceiver to transmit known data; and utilizing the received known data for improving the accuracy of the slicer's errors, which enables rapid adaptation of the FA-MCC to a level that mitigates the serious differential interference and enables requesting retransmission of erred packets fast enough to maintain a fixed rate of data transmission over a 2-millisecond window.
US10270539B2
The present invention provides a communications method of a modem, including: determining a current power supply mode; if it is determined that the current power supply mode is that a network device is used to supply power by using a copper twisted pair, switching a communications interface from a fiber interface to an electrical interface, where the electrical interface connects to the network device by using the copper twisted pair and the fiber interface connects to a passive optical network by using an optical fiber. The present invention further provides a modem, and a wireless charging method and device. According to the technical solutions provided in the present invention, it is implemented that a service can still be provided after an external power supply is powered off.
US10270526B2
A terminal status monitoring apparatus connected to a terminal at an optical subscriber side in an optical network is provided. A signal transferring unit transfers a downlink optical signal to the terminal and receives, as a reflected optical signal, the downlink optical signal which is reflected at the terminal. A signal receiving unit measures an intensity of the reflected optical signal. A signal processing unit determines a connection status of a terminal device at the terminal by comparing an intensity of the downlink optical signal with the intensity of the reflected optical signal. A signal output unit outputs the connection status.
US10270525B2
An information processing apparatus includes an optical transceiver configured to return an optical signal received by a first channel to a second channel at a time of immediate power disconnection of a casing accommodating nodes; a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor detects an occurrence of a failure in inter-node communications with an external node, when the occurrence of a failure is detected, the processor controls the optical transceiver in order to emit light to the first channel, makes a determination as to whether or not the second channel is enabled to receive the optical signal, and determines whether or not a power source of the external node is off based on the determination, and when the power source of the external node is off, the processor selects a failure notification to transmit to a failure management device.
US10270522B2
Systems and methods are provided for increasing or decreasing the transmission speed of a VSAT used in a satellite network. A VSAT may include an ASIC and an FPGA in a transmission block of the VSAT. The ASIC includes an ASIC transmit modulator configured to modulate an input information signal, and circuitry for bypassing at least a portion of the ASIC transmit modulator. The FPGA includes circuitry for receiving a signal bypassing at least a portion of the ASIC transmit modulator, and an FPGA transmit modulator configured to modulate the bypassed signal. In implementations, the system uses the ASIC to burst format an input information signal with a payload burst segment; bypasses a transmit modulator of the ASIC after burst formatting the input information signal with the ASIC; and uses an FPGA to insert additional burst segments into the ASIC burst-formatted signal.
US10270517B2
A method of selectively enabling one of a first and a second operating mode in a first network device is presented. The first network device has a wireless receiver and transmitter for providing bi-directional communication with a mobile station through a first wireless link, for providing access to a network. In the first operating mode the wireless transmitter is not continuously enabled, and in the second operating mode the wireless transmitter is continuously enabled. In the first operating mode the first network device, receives, from a second network device, status information about a second wireless link maintained between the second network device and the mobile station, and sends, at predetermined time intervals, probe requests to the mobile station. The wireless transmitter is enabled for sending the probe request and disabled thereafter. The first network device receives a response to the probe request from the mobile station and determines a spatial distance of the mobile station to the first network device and to the second network device. Depending on the determined distance the first network device switches to the second operating mode, allowing association of the mobile station with the first network device via the first wireless link.
US10270515B2
The present invention relates to a method and device for performing a connection to a distribution system (DS) through a station working as a non-access point (AP) in a wireless communication system. In particular, any station (referred to hereinafter as ‘a first STA’) works as an AP having DS connection performance in first frequency band wireless local area network (WLAN) communication when performing WLAN communication to connect to a distribution system (DS), wherein a direct link setting procedure is performed with a specific STA (referred to hereinafter as ‘a second STA’) working as a station that is not an AP in second frequency band WLAN communication, in the second frequency band WLAN communication; and a connection is made to the DS through the direct link in the second frequency band WLAN communication.
US10270512B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques that may help reduce sector sweep time. In some cases, the techniques involve generating frames for transmission during a sector sweep procedure, each frame including one or more address fields being determined based on at least one of a transmitter address of the apparatus or a receiver address of an intended recipient of the generated frames and having fewer bits than at least one of the transmitter address or the receiver address.
US10270510B1
A transmitter including radio-frequency (RF) chains. Each RF chain includes a power amplifier, a band-pass filter, and an antenna for transmitting an analog signal using a beamforming with an angle of departure (AOD) defined by phase shifts of the analog signals transmitted by the RF chains. A processor to determine digital signals for transmission from the RF chains. Wherein there is one-to-one correspondence between a digital signal and an RF chain. An encoder to encode the digital signals with binary codes to produce a set of encoded digital signals and to combine the encoded digital signals into a combined digital signal. A digital-to-analog converter to convert the combined digital signal into an analog domain to produce a combined analog signal. A decoder to decode, using the binary codes, the combined analog signal into a set of analog signals and to submit the analog signals into the corresponding RF chains.
US10270508B2
Methods and systems for communication between a network base station and a remote device are disclosed. Disclosed methods include providing, at a base station coupled to the network, a modulated signal to mixers in a retro-directive metamaterial antenna, and receiving an RF transmission beam from the remote device, at the retro-directive metamaterial antenna, and radiating from the antenna a modulated retro-directed beam, using mixer products, directed toward the remote device.
US10270507B2
A system substantially updates all the phase shifter values of a phased array antenna by using two “global writes” to update these parameters to all phased-array transformation circuits simultaneously via a serial bus. Antenna elements, each controlled by a phased-array transformation circuit, are individually configured to transform phase and gain according to a register array. The register array has a local register group and a central register group, the local registers physically placed close in proximity to RF chains which each correspond to an element of array antenna, whereby each set of local registers control an individual antenna element and a central register controlling overall beam steering function. Gain values are hierarchically distributed. The apparatus is configured to efficiently elaborate phase shift weights into a submodule of a phase array antenna system with low noise and bandwidth.
US10270506B2
A system and method for operating a communications or radar system wherein the system is a closed-loop coherent transmit array consisting of a plurality of antenna elements that may be widely-spaced, many wavelengths apart, an array control system, and a remote receiver that can feedback a measure of the transmit performance, and is a cooperative receiver, a bent-pipe, or a reflector. The method involves generation of weights which are applied to the array transmit signals based on feed-back data from a remote receiver compensating for at least one: circuit, propagation, and polarization phase errors. The method correlates feedback performance changes with transmit weight perturbations, enabling maximization of transmitted power delivered to the remote receiver. The method further involves an optimization control process that can be coordinated, with systematic weight perturbations and adjustment, or which can be operated asynchronously and autonomously, nevertheless achieving maximization of the received signal power.
US10270501B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, a mobile station, which carries out communication using a plurality of antenna ports, includes a receiving section configured to receive, from a radio base station, first-amount information that indicates a number of antenna ports in a first dimension, and second-amount information that indicates a number of antenna ports in a second dimension; and a transmitting section configured to transmit, to the radio base station, a precoding matrix codebook index that is obtained using the first-amount information and/or the second-amount information. Accordingly, a mobile station, a radio base station and a radio communication method can be provided in which a precoding matrix for a two-dimensional antenna array can be generated with flexibility.
US10270497B2
The present disclosure is directed to a modular and scalable front-end architecture for a massive MIMO communication device, such as a base station. The front-end architecture can allow for the number of antennas at the communication device to be increased or decreased in a simple and cost efficient manner. The front-end architecture can also allow for the number of data streams that can be transmitted and/or received by the communication device to be increased or decreased in a simple and cost efficient manner.
US10270479B2
A signal processing device capable of performing a process of reducing peak power without interfering with a transmission signal at a high speed is provided. A signal processing device includes a peak-reduced signal generating device and a band pass filter. The peak-reduced signal generating device divides an input signal having an information component into signal streams for every predetermined number of signals, and generates peak-reduced signal with peak canceling signals on the basis of the signal streams. The peak-reduced signal generating device combines the signal streams which the peak-reduced signals on the basis of an order in which the division into the signal streams has been performed. The band pass filter passes a frequency component corresponding to the information component and rejects a frequency component corresponding to the peak canceling signal with respect to a signal based on a signal from the peak-reduced signal generating device.
US10270475B1
Techniques and methods for generating and implementing multiple layers of redundancy coded data are disclosed. For example, a redundancy coding scheme may include data elements that include data that is unencoded relative to the input, yet may still fully participate in providing redundancy to any data element in a given set. In a layered scheme, the input may include a bundle or group of encoded (or unencoded) data elements, thereby nesting two or more layers of redundancy coding. The specific amount of redundancy generated by such a scheme may be adjusted and adapted to failure characteristics of the entity on which the data elements are stored.
US10270473B2
A turbo decoder decodes encoded data using a regenerated interleaver sequence. An addressable column index memory stores column indexes of the encoded data during an input phase of a turbo decode operation. An address generator generates the regenerated interleaver sequence based on the column indexes and computed data. In embodiments the address generator can read column indexes from the addressable column index memory, compute the computed data by permuting row indexes in a same row permuting order as an encoder that encoded the encoded data, combine the column indexes so read and the row indexes so permuted, use a row counter, and identify out of bounds addresses using the regenerated interleaver sequence.
US10270472B2
An apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving a Forward Error Correction (FEC) packet in a mobile communication system are provided. In the FEC packet transmission method, an FEC packet transmission apparatus transmits an FEC delivery block to an FEC packet reception apparatus. The FEC delivery block includes N payloads. Each of the N payloads includes a payload header. Each payload header included in each of C payloads among the N payloads includes packet oriented header information and an FEC delivery block oriented header information fragment. The packet oriented header information is applied to a related payload, and the FEC delivery block oriented header information fragment is generated by fragmenting FEC delivery block oriented header information applied to the N payloads.
US10270469B2
Certain embodiments described herein are generally directed to generating an updated version of an existing code block in response to a data update to an existing data block of a plurality of data blocks in a distributed multi-mirror erasure coding system. For example, in some embodiments, a first operation cost to generate the updated version of the existing code block by a first method based on the plurality of data blocks and the data update is determined. In certain embodiments, a second operation cost to generate the updated version of the existing code block by a second method based on the existing code block, the existing data block, and the data update is determined. In some embodiments, if the first operation cost is less than or equal to the second operation cost, the first method is used. Otherwise, the second method is used.
US10270467B2
Provided is a signal interleaving method which includes: interleaving parity bits by encoding input bits based on a low density parity check (LDPC) code according to a code rate of 6/15 and a code length of 64800; splitting a codeword comprising the input bits and the interleaved parity bits into a plurality of bit groups; interleaving the plurality of bit groups according to a specific permutation order to provide an interleaved codeword; de-multiplexing bits of the interleaved codeword to generate data cells; mapping the data cells onto constellation points for 1024-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM); and transmitting a signal based on the constellation points.
US10270466B2
Systems and methods are described for performing Layered Belief LDPC decoding on received Standard Belief LDPC encoded data bursts. In on implementation, a receiver: demodulates a signal, the demodulated signal including a noise corrupted signal derived from a codeword encoded using standard belief LDPC encoding; converts the noise corrupted signal derived from the standard belief LDPC encoded codeword to a noise corrupted signal derived from a layered belief LDPC encoded codeword; and decodes the noise corrupted signal derived from the layered belief LDPC encoded codeword using a layered belief LDPC decoder. In further implementations, systems are described for reducing collisions in Layered Belief LDPC decoders that occur when multiple parity checks need the same soft decision at the same time. In these implementations, elements in an original LBD decoder table are rearranged to increase the distance between elements specifying the same location in a RAM where soft decisions are stored.
US10270465B2
Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for data compression in storage clients. In some embodiments, a storage client for accessing a storage service from a computer program is provided. A compression method is provided in the storage client to reduce a size of data objects. A frequency of compressing data from the computer program or modifying a compression algorithm based on assessing costs and benefits of compressing the data is varied.
US10270464B1
An apparatus and method for performing efficient lossless compression. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: first compression circuitry to identify and replace one or more repeated bit strings from an input data stream with distances to the one or more repeated bit strings, the first compression circuitry to generate a first compressed data stream comprising literal-length data identifying a first instance of each repeated bit string and distance data comprising distances from the first instance to each repeated instance of the repeated bit string; second compression circuitry to perform sorting, tree generation, and length calculations for literal-length values and distance values of the first compressed data stream, the second compression circuitry comprising: variable length code mapping circuitry to map each literal-length value and distance value to a variable length code; header generation circuitry to generate a header for a final compressed bit stream using the length calculations; and a transcoder to substitute the variable length codes in place of the literal-length and distance values to generate a compressed bit stream body, wherein the transcoder operates in parallel with the header generation circuitry; and bit stream merge circuitry to combine the header with the compressed bit stream body to generate a final lossless compressed bitstream.
US10270453B2
Digital delay locked loop circuits, devices systems, and associated methods are provided and described. Such devices, systems, and methods utilize an open loop measurement for establishing a coarse delay lock.
US10270451B2
A low-leakage resistive random access memory cell includes a complementary pair of bit lines and a switch node. A first ReRAM device is connected to a first one of the bit lines. A p-channel transistor has a source connected to the ReRAM device, a drain connected to the switch node, and a gate connected to a bias potential. A second ReRAM device is connected to a second one of the bit lines. An n-channel transistor has a source connected to the ReRAM device a drain connected to the switch node, and a gate connected to a bias potential.
US10270448B1
A level shifter circuit is described herein for shifting a signal from a first voltage domain to a second voltage domain. The level shifter circuit includes two current paths between a supply terminal of the first voltage domain and a supply terminal of the second voltage domain. The first and second current paths each include a differential transistor that receives a signal from a pulse generator in a first voltage domain. The pulse generator provides pulses to the differential transistors based on an input signal to be translated to the second voltage domain. The level shifter includes a latch circuit in the second voltage domain that includes two inputs where each input is biased at a node of one of the current paths. Each current path includes a bias transistor whose control terminal receives a compensated biasing voltage for biasing the bias transistor. The compensated biasing voltage is compensated to account for drive strength variation of at least one transistor in each current path.
US10270446B2
A buffer circuit receives a working supply voltage which may vary within a voltage range. The buffer circuit has a high voltage constant current buffer circuit, and in this circuit, the source of the first NMOS transistor is grounded, and drains of the first NMOS transistor and the first PMOS transistor are connected. The source of the second PMOS transistor is connected to the supply voltage input of the buffer circuit, and the drain of the second PMOS transistor is connected to the source of the first PMOS transistor. The input end of the high voltage diode connected composite transistors is connected to the supply voltage input of the buffer circuit, and the output end of the diode connected transistors is connected to the gates of first and second PMOS transistors. The first PMOS and NMOS transistors are high-voltage transistors. The second PMOS transistor is a low-voltage transistor.
US10270445B2
A semiconductor device includes a clock divider that receives a clock signal and generates even and odd clock signals. The clock signal includes a first frequency, while the even and odd clock signals each includes a second frequency that is half the first frequency. The semiconductor device also includes even and odd command paths coupled to the clock divider each having a set of logic and a set of flip-flops. The even command path receives a command and the even clock signal and outputs an even output signal. The odd command path receives the command and the odd clock signal and outputs an odd output signal. The semiconductor device also includes combination circuitry coupled to the even and odd command paths that combines the even and odd output signals.
US10270444B1
According to examples, an apparatus may include a field effect transistor (FET), a driver to receive an input signal and to output a driver output signal, and a gate to receive the input signal. The apparatus may also include a delay element to receive the driver output signal and to output a delayed signal to the gate after a delay from receipt of the driver output signal, in which the gate is to output a gate output signal to the FET in response to receipt of the input signal and the delayed signal, and in which receipt of the gate output signal by the FET drives the FET to provide a boost to the driver output signal.
US10270438B2
A switch device includes a common node that is connected to end nodes, such as that of computer interface ports. The switch device includes several switch circuits that can be connected in series to form a switch path between the common node and an end node. A switch circuit can include a main switch, such as a transistor that can be configured to withstand a positive or negative voltage surge by automatically changing the connection of its bulk.
US10270436B2
Techniques are provided that pumping of deep traps in GaN electronic devices using photons from an on-chip photon source. In various embodiments, a method for optical pumping of deep traps in GaN HEMTs is provided using an on-chip integrated photon source that is configured to generate photons during operation of the HEMT. In an aspect, the on-chip photon source is a SoH-LED. In various additional embodiments, an integration scheme is provided that integrates the photon source into the drain electrode of a HEMT, thereby converting the conventional HEMT with an ohmic drain to a transistor with hybrid photonic-ohmic drain (POD), a POD transistor or PODFET for short.
US10270434B2
A method and apparatus for saving power in integrated circuits is disclosed. An IC includes functional circuit blocks which are not placed into a sleep mode when idle. A power management circuit may monitor the activity levels of the functional circuit blocks not placed into a sleep mode. When the power management circuit detects that an activity level of one of the non-sleep functional circuit blocks is less than a predefined threshold, it reduce the frequency of a clock signal provided thereto by scheduling only one pulse of a clock signal for every N pulses of the full frequency clock signal. The remaining N−1 pulses of the clock signal may be inhibited. If a high priority transaction inbound for the functional circuit block is detected, an inserted pulse of the clock signal may be provided to the functional unit irrespective of when a most recent regular pulse was provided.
US10270428B1
A filter with dynamic parameter generation may comprises an input to receive an unfiltered signal, an output to provide a filtered signal, a filtering circuit that filters the unfiltered signal to produce the filtered signal according to a transfer function having at least one dynamic parameter, and a dynamic parameter generator circuit. The dynamic parameter generator circuit comprises an input to receive the unfiltered signal, a signal processing circuit to estimate a level of dynamics of the unfiltered signal, a parameter generation circuit to generate the at least one dynamic parameter based on the estimated level of dynamics of the unfiltered signal, and an output to provide the at least one dynamic parameter.
US10270426B2
At least one of a transmission filter and a reception filter of a duplexer includes a piezoelectric substrate, an elastic wave filter electrode portion on the piezoelectric substrate and including ground terminals to be connected to a ground potential, a support layer provided on the piezoelectric substrate, a cover provided on the support layer to seal a cavity in the support layer, and via hole electrodes penetrating the support layer and the cover and including first and second ends. The ground terminals are commonly connected on the piezoelectric substrate, and the ground terminals are electrically connected to the respective first ends of the plurality of via hole electrodes. The second ends of the via hole electrodes are connected to the ground potential outside of the at least one of the transmission filter and the reception filter.
US10270423B2
Several embodiments are disclosed that provide for a frequency selective surface that can be placed like a radome on top of or under an existing radome or as a new radome on top of one or more radiating or receiving apertures or antennas to provide for a high-Q filter function to remove unwanted neighboring frequency interferences. The conformal structure comprises of an array of subwavelength electrically connected broken metallic rings and/or broken wires loaded with electromechanical resonators such as quartz or LiNbO3 crystal resonators, Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) resonators, and/or Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) resonators at said breaks. When excited by an incident electromagnetic wave this collection of loaded rings and/or wires behaves as a filter which is capable of rejecting and/or passing frequencies over a narrow bandwidth. This medium can be formed into conformal shapes which can be placed over antennas and apertures as a frequency selective material, to introduce these frequency characteristics into the radiation pattern of the antenna, thereby reducing the gain of the antenna very sharply near the outside edges of the intended operating band. By loading the elements of this FSS with capacitors and/or inductors, additional spectral features can be added to the frequency response of the material to introduce broad pass and reject bands, to enable additional design flexibility for shared apertures. These reject or pass bands are significantly more narrow than achievable with traditional LC loaded FSS structures.
US10270422B2
A piezoelectric thin film resonator includes: a substrate; a piezoelectric film that is located on the substrate; a lower electrode that is located on the substrate through an air gap, makes contact with the piezoelectric film, and includes a thin film part and a thick film part in which a distance from the air gap to a surface making contact with the piezoelectric film is greater than that of the thin film part in a region overlapping with the air gap in plan view; and an upper electrode that is located on an opposite surface of the piezoelectric film from a surface making contact with the lower electrode.
US10270416B2
Many kinds of filters are found in electronic circuits and provide a range of signal processing applications. Such filters can be passive, active, analog or digital and work across a range of frequencies. Present techniques provide an electronic filter circuit comprising resistive and capacitive elements, wherein a resistive element of the filter circuit is provided by a correlated electron material device.
US10270413B2
This disclosure relates to a method of fabrication of a surface acoustic wave device comprising the step (a) of providing a piezoelectric structure, the step (b) of providing a dielectric structure, wherein the step (b) comprises a step (b1) of metalizing the dielectric structure, and the method further comprising the step (c) of bonding the metalized dielectric structure to the piezoelectric structure.
US10270396B2
An amplification system includes a differential output circuit that provides an amplified output to drive a load. A main amplifier is coupled to a terminal of the differential output circuit via a main path, corresponding to a transmission line. A peak amplifier is coupled to another terminal of the differential output circuit via a peak path, corresponding to a transmission line. In a single-ended mode while the peak amplifier is deactivated for amplification purposes, the peak path performs an impedance inversion to effectively ground the other terminal of the differential output circuit. In a differential mode, each of the peak amplifier and the main amplifier operates to conduct current to respective terminals of the differential output circuit and each of the main path and the peak path provides a predetermined output impedance to the differential output circuit.
US10270395B2
An envelope tracking (ET) current bias circuit comprises an envelope detection circuit detecting an ET voltage from an input signal; a first voltage/current converting circuit converting a reference voltage into a direct current (DC) current and adjusting the DC current according to a first control signal; a second voltage/current converting circuit converting the ET voltage into an ET current, adjusting the ET current according to a second control signal, and removing a DC offset current from the ET current to provide an offset compensated ET current; and an arithmetic circuit calculating levels of the offset compensated ET current and the DC current to generate an ET bias current.
US10270391B2
A differential input amplification-stage circuit comprises a voltage unit, first and second bulk-driven transistors, first and second mirror current sources, and a differential amplifier unit. The first and the second bulk-driven transistors respectively receive first and second input voltages, and converts the first and the second input voltages into first and second output currents. The differential amplifier unit separately outputs first and second adjustment currents under an action of voltages output by the first to the third voltage output ends. The first and the second mirror current sources respectively output first and second predetermined currents according to the first output current and the first adjustment current, and the second output current and the second adjustment current, so as to maintain transconductance constancy of the differential input amplification-stage circuit. Therefore, output stability is improved.
US10270388B2
According to an embodiment, a voltage-controlled oscillator has a variable capacitive element with a capacitance that is changed by a voltage to be applied thereto. One electrode of the variable capacitive element is connected to a control input terminal where a control voltage that controls an oscillation frequency is applied thereto. It has a compensation voltage generation circuit that generates a voltage that changes with a temperature thereof. It has a resistive element with one end that is directly connected to another electrode of the variable capacitive element and another end that is supplied with an output voltage of the compensation voltage generation circuit.
US10270386B2
A remotely operated vehicle (ROV) compatible photovoltaic powered cathodic protection (CP) probe can measure voltage potential of subsea structures. In an embodiment, the CP's meter is integrated and able to send CP data topside. The CP meter's compact display module also houses the telemetry board to send CP readings, via an ROV serial, topside. The CP probe does not require a battery and can be used standalone or connected through an ROV to topside logging and display. Further, the CP probe can monitor a plurality of CP voltages and other conditions such as an electrical field gradient.
US10270381B2
The present invention discloses an intelligent power control system for driving UAV motors comprising: a motor temperature reading unit, a processing unit and a motor power output controlling unit. The motor-temperature reading unit may be configured for reading a temperature of at least one motor mounted in the UAV. The processing unit may be configured for comparing whether the read temperature exceeds a first particular temperature, and controlling the motor power output controlling unit to adjust dynamically allowed maximum output power of various motors according to a comparison result. The present invention is also related to an intelligent power control system for driving UAV motors, and a UAV utilizing the intelligent power control system for driving UAV motors.
US10270380B2
A power converting apparatus includes: an inverter converting a direct-current voltage supplied from a power supply unit into an alternating-current voltage and outputting the alternating-current voltage to a motor; and an inverter control unit outputting synchronous PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) signals for driving switching elements of the inverter. A frequency of the synchronous PWM signals is periodically varied when periodic pulsation occurs in a load connected to the motor.
US10270378B2
A method for monitoring a PSM machine having three phases including detecting whether one or more current sensors disposed on a phase of the machine has malfunctioned. If a malfunction is detected, a voltage indicator is calculated from a voltage amplitude and a voltage phase of an input voltage of the machine in a d, q-coordinate system by two different calculations. The first calculation includes calculating the input voltage based on a phase current, target currents, and an electrical angle of the machine. The second calculation includes calculating the input voltage based on target values of a reference voltage amplitude and a reference voltage phase. The method also includes determining the voltage amplitude and the voltage phase of the input voltage of the machine and comparing the values of the respective voltage amplitudes and voltage phases from the input voltage in the first and second calculations.
US10270375B2
A vehicle motor control apparatus may include a motor device, a detecting device configured to detect a ripple voltage of the motor device and a controller configured to control driving of the motor device according to the ripple voltage detected by the detecting device, wherein the controller is configured to analyze the detected ripple voltage, measures a time required for a value of the ripple voltage to be maintained within a reference range for a predetermined time after reaching the reference range, and determines a compensation value according to the measured time, when the motor device stops. The controller applies the determined compensation value to control driving of the motor device, when the motor device is driven again.
US10270372B2
A piezoelectric energy harvester system for collecting kinetic energy is provided, wherein the kinetic energy is converted into electrical energy, and wherein at least a portion of the converted electrical energy is utilized to operate a load. The system comprises an energy input portion and an energy harvesting portion. The energy input portion includes an input member configured to be actionable by an outside force. The energy harvesting portion includes a capture member, a sprocket portion, and a piezoelectric energy harvester. The capture member is adapted for receiving mechanical input from the input member. The sprocket portion is disposed for movement with the capture member. The sprocket portion includes at least one radially disposed sprocket actuator configured for making contact with and exciting the piezoelectric energy harvester. The piezoelectric energy harvester is excited by the contact to produce the kinetic energy.
US10270367B2
A filtering method and arrangement for a system comprising a regenerative frequency converter and a motor, which regenerative frequency converter has an intermediate DC circuit comprising positive and negative pole and which regenerative frequency converter is connected to a supplying 3-phase mains network via a line filter unit comprising in serial connection a first 3-phase inductor unit with mains side terminals and motor side terminals and a second 3-phase inductor unit, and a 3-phase capacitor unit which comprises phase-specific capacitors which are connected in star connection between the motor side terminals of the first 3-phase inductor unit and a star point, which star point is connected to ground via a fourth capacitor. The filtering arrangement further comprises a common mode inductor unit and a filtering capacitor unit. Filtering capacitor unit comprises two capacitors in serial connection between the poles of the intermediate DC circuit such that the common point of the capacitors is connected to the star point of the capacitor unit in the line filter unit. The filter arrangement is configured to determine the control pattern of the controllable power switches by using a 60° bus clamp modulation or a softened 60° bus clamp modulation.
US10270360B2
A switching power supply device includes: a plurality of power supply circuits which include a first power supply circuit and a second power supply circuit and respectively correspond to a plurality of phases of a multiphase AC power supply; a switching circuit; an inrush current prevention (ICP) circuit; and a control circuit. The control circuit causes the switching circuit to switch a phase to be connected to the second power supply circuit to a phase corresponding to the first power supply circuit, and causes the ICP circuit to function so that initial charge of electrolyte capacitors included in the respective power supply circuits is performed. After the initial charge is completed, the control circuit causes the switching circuit to switch the phase to be connected to the second power supply circuit to the phase corresponding to the second power supply circuit, and causes the ICP circuit to turn off.
US10270355B1
An AC-AC conversion circuit with AC-AC conversion control and AC voltage conversion including a voltage feedback circuit, a voltage detection circuit, a first drive circuit, a current detection circuit, a second drive circuit and a main control circuit. By using the main control circuit as the main control center, which has strong reliability and good circuit stability, the defects of complicated circuit structure and low reliability, and poor stability of the supply circuit in the existing AC-AC conversion circuit may be overcome. Also disclosed is an AC-AC conversion device which has good stability due to the highly reliable AC-AC conversion circuit thereof.
US10270348B2
A synchronous switching regulator circuit for supply regulation of a switching circuit includes a pass transistor to couple the switching circuit to a supply voltage. The synchronous switching regulator circuit further includes a switch that is operable to synchronously turn off a flow of a supply current through the pass transistor. The switching circuit can be controlled by a switching signal, and the switch can operate in synchronization with the switching circuit.
US10270339B2
A charger integrated circuit is provided which includes a DC-DC converter configured to receive an input voltage and generate an output voltage through a switching operation for charging a battery, and a charging controller configured to control the switching operation such that the output voltage is supplied to the battery through charging paths chargeable according to a level of the input voltage.
US10270336B2
A circuit includes a current sensor to sense a switching current flowing at input side of a switching DC-DC converter. An output capacitor filters an output voltage at an output side of the switching DC-DC converter. A feed-forward circuit passes a portion of the sensed switching current to a feedback path on the output side of the switching DC-DC converter simulating a changing effective series resistance (ESR) of the output capacitor to facilitate operating stability in the switching DC-DC converter.
US10270334B2
Systems and methods are provided for regulating a power converter. An example system controller includes: a driver configured to output a drive signal to a switch to affect a current flowing through an inductive winding of a power converter, the drive signal being associated with a switching period including an on-time period and an off-time period. The switch is closed in response to the drive signal during the on-time period. The switch is opened in response to the drive signal during the off-time period. A duty cycle is equal to a duration of the on-time period divided by a duration of the switching period. One minus the duty cycle is equal to a parameter. The system controller is configured to keep a multiplication product of the duty cycle, the parameter and the duration of the on-time period approximately constant.
US10270303B2
In a permanent magnet electric motor, a plurality of projections are formed at least partially along an axial direction in the magnet insertion openings, the projection positioning both edges of the permanent magnet in the circumferential direction so that vacant spaces are defined at each sides of the permanent magnet in the circumferential direction; a plurality of slits arranged along the circumferential direction are provided in regions, the region being positioned radially outward from the permanent magnet and being sandwiched at the edges of the permanent magnet in the circumferential direction by the projections; and the shortest distance between the slit and the magnet insertion opening is set to be greater than the shortest distance between the slit and an outer circumferential surface of the rotor core.
US10270296B2
A device for detecting the presence of a parasitic metal object on a reception surface of a device for recharging a user apparatus for an automotive vehicle, the device including an antenna of the emitting coil type and: at least two identical passive detection coils, situated between the emitting coil and the reception surface; a determiner for determining the quality factor across the terminals of the two coils, and of the emitting coil; a controller; a storage device for storing the quality factors at predetermined instances; a calculator for calculating ratios between the stored quality factors, or between values of the quality factors stored at different predetermined instances; a comparator for comparing between the ratios in order to detect the presence of an interfering metal object on the reception surface.
US10270291B2
A wireless power receiver can include a magnetic substrate and a coil configured to wirelessly receive power. The coil can be formed as a conductive layer on the magnetic substrate. A connecting unit can be disposed in a receiving space of the magnetic substrate and can be connected to the coil unit.
US10270289B2
The present invention provides a polyphase inductive power transfer (IPT) system comprising a primary power supply comprising a plurality of primary conductors, the primary conductors being individually selectively operable to provide or receive a magnetic field for inductive power transfer; and at least one pick-up comprising one or more pick-up conductors, the one or more pick-up conductors each being individually selectively operable to magnetically couple with a primary conductor to control power transfer between the primary power supply and a load coupled or coupleable with the respective pick-up. The polyphase primary power supply may be used to power a plurality of single-phase pick-ups, one or more polyphase pick-ups, or a combination thereof. Also disclosed are polyphase primary and secondary converters for use in such a system.
US10270287B2
A method for operating a plurality of wind energy installations configured for supplying electric power to an electrical supply system, that each have an aerodynamic rotor with rotor blades and an electrical generator and also operating equipment, is disclosed. The wind energy installations are operated while they are not connected to the electrical supply system, where at least one of the wind energy installations produces electric power and inputs the electric power into a local DC voltage system that connects the wind energy installations if the at least one of the wind energy installations currently produces more power than needed for supplying its own operating equipment. Additionally or alternatively, the operating equipment is supplied totally or in part with power from the local DC voltage system if the at least one of the wind energy installations currently produces less power than needed for supplying its operating equipment.
US10270285B2
Some embodiments of the inventive subject matter provide a system including a plurality of power supply units having AC inputs configured to be coupled to an AC power source and AC outputs coupled to respective first busses. Each of the power supply units includes an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) having an output configured to be coupled to the AC output of the power supply unit, a first switch configured to selectively couple the AC input to the AC output of the power supply unit, and a second switch configured to selectively couple the AC output of the power supply unit to a second bus. The system may further include at least one control circuit configured to control first and second ones of the power supply units to enable the first one of the power supply units to provide power to the first bus coupled to the second power supply unit from the first power supply unit via the second bus.
US10270282B2
A solar charger for charging a power battery is provided, comprising: a photo-sensitive unit configured to detect light intensity; a charging unit configured to receive a voltage transformed from solar energy and to boost the voltage for charging the power battery; a switch unit coupled between the charging unit and the power battery and configured to disconnect the charging unit from the power battery or connect the charging unit with the power battery; and a control unit coupled to each of the photo-sensitive unit, the switch unit, and the charging unit, and configured to switch on the charging unit and the switch unit when the light intensity is higher than a first predetermined value to charge the power battery.
US10270280B2
There is provided a contactless power system, power receiver and method of operating such, in which the power receiver of the system is configured to receive power transmitted by a power transmitter of the system via contactless electromagnetic coupling of respective receiving and transmitting coils. The power receiver further has circuitry for reflecting a unique magnetic signal to the transmitting coil of the power transmitter upon receipt of a power pulse by the receiver coil of the power receiver.
US10270274B1
A method for security and/or automation systems is described. In one embodiment, the method may include receiving, at a power adapter, power from a power supply, routing a first portion of the power received from the power supply to the doorbell unit, and routing a second portion of the power received from the power supply to both the device of the doorbell unit and the doorbell chime when the doorbell button is being actuated. In some cases, the power adapter is wired, via doorbell wiring, to at least one of a doorbell chime, a doorbell unit, and the power supply. In one example, the first portion of power is routed to power a device of the doorbell unit when a doorbell button of the doorbell unit is not being actuated.
US10270272B2
The charge drawn from a battery during each switching event (pulse) of a pulse frequency modulated DC-DC converter is determined during a calibration period. based on differences in pulse rate with different current loading. Another approach calibration approach determines charge drawn from the battery by measuring voltage across a sense resistor while measuring the total pulse rate and while adding sufficient load current to ensure that the voltage is much larger than the residual offset of the measurement system. During operation, the system counts number of pulses are counted and the total charge drawn from the battery is determined based, at least in part, on the charge transferred per pulse during calibration, the operational mode, the battery voltage during calibration and operationally and the output voltage. Based on the total charge drawn and temperature (for temperature dependent battery types), the battery state of charge is estimated.
US10270271B2
The apparatus includes an apparatus for harvesting energy. The apparatus includes a textile having an insulating substrate, a direct current (DC) power bus structure disposed in the insulating substrate, and multiple transducers. The DC power bus includes a positive conductor and a ground conductor. The transducers are secured to the insulating substrate and in electrical contact with the positive conductor and the ground conductor. Additionally, the DC bus remains conductively coupled to the transducers remaining in the textile after the textile is cut.
US10270269B2
A quick charging method, a power adapter, and a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes: transmitting, by the power adapter, clock signal to the mobile terminal via a first data line of the USB interface in a process of that the power adapter is coupled to the mobile terminal, in which the clock signal indicates a communication sequence between the power adapter and the mobile terminal; conducting, by the power adapter, a bidirectional communication with the mobile terminal via a second data line of the USB interface under control of the communication sequence, so as to determine to charge the mobile terminal in the quick charging mode; and adjusting, by the power adapter, a charging current of the power adapter to the charging current corresponding to the quick charging mode to charge the mobile terminal.
US10270266B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a battery energy storage system (BESS) that can be used to store energy that is produced by conventional sources (e.g., coal, gas, nuclear) as well as renewable sources (e.g., wind, solar), and provide the stored energy on-demand.
US10270256B2
A power control apparatus comprises a conversion unit which is capable of collectively converting DC power output by each of the plurality of power supply apparatuses to AC; and a communication unit which communicates with an external equipment control apparatus in accordance with a predetermined communication protocol. The communication unit notifies the equipment control apparatus of an equipment class of the power control apparatus in addition to notifying the equipment control apparatus of an equipment class of each of the plurality of power supply apparatuses.
US10270255B2
A system for providing power from a direct current (DC) source to the power grid. The system includes a first inverter with an input and an output. The input is adapted to connect to the DC source. A first switch disposed between the output and the power grid. A second inverter with a DC terminal and an AC terminal, the AC terminal is adapted to connect in parallel with the output of the first inverter. A battery adapted to connect to the DC terminal of the second inverter. A second switch connected between the DC terminal of the second inverter and the input of the first inverter. The second switch also operatively connects the DC source to the battery. The system may further include a charging circuit adapted to be disposed between the input and the DC terminal and a load adapted to connect to the output.
US10270252B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for receiving a first magnitude of AC-sourced current at an inverter/charger from an AC bus and receiving a second magnitude of DC-sourced current at the inverter/charger from a DC bus. Then, a third magnitude of current is delivered to a load coupled to the AC bus. Given the dual originating sources of possible current to supply power to the load, the method may determine if the third magnitude of current being delivered to the load is less than the second magnitude of DC-sourced current and then, in response, converting a portion of the first magnitude of AC-sourced current into DC current to charge a DC source. Similarly, the method may determine if the third magnitude of current being delivered to the load is greater than the second magnitude DC-sourced current, and then, in response, inverting the DC-sourced current into an AC current.
US10270247B2
A power switch module comprising a control component. Upon an indicated operating condition fulfilling a protection condition, the control component is arranged to transition the power switch module from an ON state to a latched-OFF state in which the control component is arranged to configure the switching device to be turned off to decouple the load node from the power supply node. Having transition to the latched-Off state, the control component is further arranged to determine whether a voltage level at the load node exceeds a threshold voltage level, and if it is determined that the voltage level at the load node exceeds the threshold voltage level, transition the power switch module from the latched-OFF state to a current-limited state in which the control component is arranged to control the switching device to limit current-flow there through.
US10270235B2
The present invention is directed to an electrical wiring system having a frame assembly that includes a frame opening at a central portion thereof. The frame opening provides access to the interior of the device wall box. At least one electrical wiring device is configured to snap into the frame opening such that the interior of the device wall box is completely enclosed by the frame assembly and the at least one electrical wiring device such that access to wiring disposed within the device wall box is substantially prevented. The at least one electrical wiring device includes at least one user-interface. An aesthetic overlay may be coupled to the frame assembly. The aesthetic overlay includes an overlay opening configured to accommodate the at least one user-interface such that the at least one user-interface is accessible to a user.
US10270229B2
A method of producing a spark plug comprises (a) a step of combining a metallic shell and an insulator; (b) a step of inserting a portion of the assembly on its forward end side into a pressure container; (c) a step of bringing an insulating member into contact with the outer circumferential surface of a base side portion of the insulator over the entire circumference thereof, and pressing the assembly so as to close the opening by the assembly; and (d) a step of pressurizing the interior of the pressure container and applying a predetermined voltage between the terminal electrode and the metallic shell, wherein the step (b) includes a step of inserting the portion of the assembly on the forward end side into the pressure container such that a gap formed between the outer surface of the insulator and the inner surface of the metallic shell on the forward end side of the assembly is disposed in the pressure container.
US10270228B2
A spark plug having a connection portion disposed in the axial hole and between a metal terminal and a center electrode. The connection portion includes: a magnetic substance formed from a Fe-containing oxide; a conductor helically disposed on an outer periphery of the magnetic substance and electrically connected to the metal terminal and the center electrode; and an intermediate member disposed between the magnetic substance and the conductor, and an inner peripheral surface of the insulator and having lower electrical conductivity than the conductor. The conductor includes a base and a conductive layer disposed on an outer periphery of the base and having higher electrical conductivity than the base, and the conductive layer has a thickness of larger than 0.1 μm and equal to or smaller than 25 μm.
US10270215B2
A connector assembly for a portable field device testing includes a two-wire communication line to provide communication between a handheld maintenance tool and a field device, a first two-prong plug to provide power and communication signals to the field device and a shunt plug to provide power to the field device using the two-wire communication line.
US10270201B2
The invention relates to a housing for a plug-in connection, comprising a lower shell element (100) and an upper shell element (200) that is identical to the lower shell element (100), each shell element (100, 200) containing a retaining element (2), by means of which a plug-in connector (1) can be secured to the housing. Each shell element (100, 200) contains a receptacle (3), in which a cable mount (9) can be received and each shell element (100, 200) has at least one detent element (11, 12, 13, 14) that cooperates with a mating detent element (21, 22, 23, 24) of the other shell element (200, 100). The detent elements (11, 12, 13, 14) and the mating detent elements (21, 22, 23, 24) have a multi-step design and the entire border regions between the shell elements (100, 200) forming the housing, with the exception of openings for the plug-in connector (1) and the cable mount (9), have a multi-step design.
US10270196B2
A high current connector and a socket connector of the high current connector are provided. The high current connector includes a first connector, a resilient electrical conductor and a second connector. The first connector includes an insertion slot. The resilient electrical conductor is received in the insertion slot and includes a resilient body, an insertion space formed inside the resilient body, and gaps arranged annularly on the resilient body. The second connector includes a conductive element inserted in the insertion space, the conductive element is electrically connected to the first connector through the resilient electrical conductor and is fixed in the insertion slot by means of stretchable configuration of the gaps. Accordingly, the resilient electrical conductor tightly fixes the conductive element to achieve reliable and safe connection and also improve contact quality.
US10270191B1
Provided is a plug and a connector assembly, which belong the technical field of connectors. The plug includes an insulating body, a cable and a circuit board. The insulating body includes a body part and a mating part which extends forwardly from the body part. The cable and the circuit board are electrically connected. The circuit board has an inserting part which protrudes forwardly out of the mating part. An outer side of the mating part is provided with a limiting groove and a guiding wall disposed within the limiting groove, and the guiding wall is adjacent to the inserting part and is capable of guiding insertion of the plug into a socket and preventing the plug from shaking in an up-down direction and/or in a left-right direction when the plug is inserted into the socket. The connector assembly includes the plug and the socket.
US10270190B2
A twist-on wire connector includes a connector cap and a tapered coil spring configured to be secured within the connector cap. The connector cap includes a peripheral wall extending between open and closed ends of the connector cap and defining a connector cap recess, top portion having the closed end, bottom portion having the open end, and asymmetrically opposed wings. The asymmetrically opposed wings are positioned to offset from a centerline of the connector cap to provide a comfortable grip while turning the twist-on wire connector during electrical wire installation.
US10270188B2
Bonding clamps used to assembly photovoltaic (PV) arrays and provide an electrical bond between PV module frames forming part of the PV arrays is provided. The bonding clamp includes an electrically conductive body, at least one electrical bonding member extending from the body, and at least one pressure member extending from the body. The bonding clamp may also include one or more spacers to provide a uniform spacing between PV module frames.
US10270185B2
A radio frequency (RF) antenna array that includes a first antenna unit that operates at a first frequency band and includes three antenna elements that are collocated on a reflector element, each of the three antenna elements having a different polarization direction than the other two antenna elements of the first antenna unit. A first switch is associated with the first antenna unit and a first conductive line for selectively connecting each one of the antenna elements of the first antenna unit to the first conductive line. A second antenna unit that operates at a second frequency band also includes three antenna elements that are collocated on the reflector element, each of the three antenna elements having a different polarization direction than the other two antenna elements of the second antenna unit. A second switch is associated with the second antenna unit and a second conductive line for selectively connecting each one of the antenna elements of the second antenna unit to the second conductive line.
US10270182B2
Provided is a metamaterial-based polarization converter in which a reception antenna and a transmission antenna are formed by using a metamaterial, to thus emit an incident non-polarized or polarized electromagnetic wave in an angle-converted polarization direction. The metamaterial-based electromagnetic wave polarization converter includes: a reception antenna made of a metamaterial and allowing incident electromagnetic waves to resonate at a surface of the reception antenna to generate a surface current; a transmission antenna at a rear side of the reception antenna, and made of an angle-converted metamaterial to thus allow the electromagnetic waves transferred from the reception antenna to resonate to then be emitted in a polarization direction; and a connector made of a conductive material that connects the reception antenna and the transmission antenna, to thereby transfer a surface current generated from the reception antenna to the transmission antenna.
US10270181B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a transmission device that includes a transmitter that generates a first electromagnetic wave to convey data. A coupler couples the first electromagnetic wave to a single wire transmission medium having an outer surface, to forming a second electromagnetic wave that is guided to propagate along the outer surface of the single wire transmission medium via at least one guided wave mode that includes an asymmetric or non-fundamental mode having a lower cutoff frequency. A carrier frequency of the second electromagnetic wave is selected to be within a limited range of the lower cutoff frequency, so that a majority of the electric field is concentrated within a distance from the outer surface that is less than half the largest cross sectional dimension of the single wire transmission medium, and/or to reduce propagation loss. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10270177B2
A broadband antenna of an antenna system comprises a conductive plate comprising four slots. The slots are arranged in a rotation symmetrical manner in the plate. Each slot extends from a circumference of the plate towards a center of the plate. Each slot has an associated feed point located at its associated slot. The feed points associated with a pair of oppositely arranged slots are arranged to be fed with radio frequency signals, such that that a main radiation propagation direction of the antenna is along the rotational symmetry axis of the plate. The antenna design enables the achievement of flexibility in terms of isolation between the two polarizations. The antenna design may further enable a reduced size and weight. The antenna design also enables an antenna unit and an antenna array.
US10270174B2
An electronic device may be provided with an antenna and transceiver circuitry such as millimeter wave transceiver circuitry. The antenna may include an antenna ground and a resonating element. The resonating element may include a cross-shaped patch having arms extending along different longitudinal axes, conductive landing pads interposed between the cross-shaped patch and the antenna ground, and vertical conductive legs extending between each of the arms and corresponding landing pads. The antenna may be fed using a first antenna feed coupled between a first of the landing pads and the antenna ground and a second antenna feed coupled between a second of the landing pads and the antenna ground. The landing pads, antenna ground, and cross-shaped patch may be formed from conductive traces on different layers of a dielectric substrate.
US10270173B2
A patch antenna includes a grounding portion and a radiating portion. The radiating portion includes a first feeding point, a first grounding point, a second feeding point, and a second grounding point. The first feeding point is electrically connected to a first signal source. The first grounding point is electrically connected to the grounding portion. The second feeding point is electrically connected to a second signal source. The second grounding point electrically connected to the grounding portion. The line formed by connecting the first feeding point and the first grounding point is substantially perpendicular to the line formed by connecting the second feeding point and the second grounding point.
US10270156B2
Coil conductors each including a coil opening, and a planar conductor are included in an antenna device. The coil conductors are disposed at edge portions of the planar conductor such that winding axes of the coil conductors extend in a normal direction of the planar conductor. The coil conductors are connected such that magnetic fluxes generated at the respective coil conductors are in opposite phase with each other. In a plan view, portions of the plurality of coil conductors overlap the planar conductor and portions of the coil openings do not overlap the planar conductor.
US10270147B2
A dielectric waveguide includes a dielectric of a rectangular parallelepiped in shape, an input/output electrode formed on a first face of the dielectric, and a conductor film formed on an outer face of the dielectric. The input/output electrode extends from a first end which is a vertex or a neighborhood of the vertex of a first face (bottom face) of the dielectric inward on the bottom face; and environs along both sides and the first end of the input/output electrode include a conductor-unformed section in which there is no conductor film.
US10270121B2
A secondary battery includes a battery electrode assembly in which positive electrode 1 and negative electrode 6 are stacked alternately with separator 20 interposed therebetween. Positive electrode 1 and negative electrode 6 each have current collector 3, 8 and active material 2, 7. Each surface of current collectors 3, 8 has a coated portion and an uncoated portion of active materials 2, 8. Active material 2, 7 has inclined portions 2a, 7a having decreasing thickness. Insulators 40 are arranged to cover boundaries 4a between the coated portion and the uncoated portion of positive electrode 1. One or both of insulators 40 on both surfaces of positive electrode current collector 3 have one end 40a which is located on inclined surface 2a and which is opposite to inclined portion 7a of one or both of active materials 7 on both surfaces of negative electrode current collector 3, and have other end 40b which is located on uncoated portion of positive electrode 1.
US10270117B2
The present invention provides an arrangement of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) in which the MFCs are in discontinuous flow communication, methods of operating such an arrangement, methods of hydrogen production and electrical production using such an arrangement, a digester for use in the arrangement and methods of increasing power output from the arrangement.
US10270106B2
There is provided a terminal plate comprising a plate stacked body including a first metal plate that is electrically conductive and has a current collecting terminal for power collection, and second metal plates that have higher corrosion resistance than the first metal plate and are placed across the first metal plate. A first gasket is mounted to the second metal plate and is provided to surround at least a gas flow hole used for supply of a gas on the second metal plate-side. A second gasket is mounted to the second metal plate and is provided to surround a cooling water flow area which communicates with a cooling water flow hole used for supply of cooling water on the second metal plate-side. The current collecting terminal is protruded from a plate outer circumferential end of the first metal plate in a direction from one flow hole of the gas flow hole and the cooling water flow hole toward the plate outer circumferential end of the first metal plate. This configuration enables the current collecting terminal to be cooled down from the second metal plate-side via the first metal plate.
US10270098B2
The present invention relates to a positive electrode active material for a lithium ion battery and, more specifically, to a positive electrode active material for a lithium ion battery, having improved initial capacitance and charging and discharging efficiency due to increased electrical conductivity or ion conductivity. The positive electrode active material for a lithium ion battery of the present invention contains lithium vanadium phosphate (Li3V2(PO4)3) and lithium zirconium phosphate (Li3Zr2(PO4)3) formed on an external surface of the lithium vanadium phosphate. The positive electrode active material for a lithium ion battery comprising lithium vanadium zirconium phosphate (Li3V2-xZrx(PO4)3) particles, which is prepared by a preparation method of the present invention, has excellent structural stability and ion conductivity as well as high capacitance.
US10270096B2
A positive active material for a rechargeable lithium battery includes a LiCoO2 particle. An interior of the particle has a layered structure and a surface of the particle has a spinel structure.
US10270095B2
A lithium battery including a cathode; an anode; and an electrolyte disposed between the cathode and the anode is disclosed. In the lithium battery, the cathode includes a nickel-based lithium transition metal oxide having primary particles having an average particle diameter of 2 μm or more, and the anode includes graphite and a silicon-based compound.
US10270093B2
An electrochemical cell includes an anode including a form of lithium metal, an OH− exchange membrane, a precipitate reservoir in fluid communication with the anode and the OH− exchange membrane, an O2 evolution electrode associated with the precipitate reservoir, and a fluid reservoir in fluid communication with the precipitate reservoir, wherein the fluid reservoir includes form of water when the electrochemical cell is fully charged.
US10270092B2
Provided is a negative electrode active material that can improve the discharge capacity per volume and charge-discharge cycle characteristics. The negative electrode active material according to the present embodiment contains an alloy phase. The alloy phase undergoes thermoelastic diffusionless transformation when releasing metal ions or occluding metal ions. The oxygen content of the negative electrode active material is not more than 5000 ppm in mass.
US10270086B2
A negative electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries which suppresses generation of gas and increases power characteristics, including a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode mixture layer placed on the negative electrode current collector. The negative electrode mixture layer is a mixture of a negative electrode active material, a binding agent, and a conductive agent. The negative electrode active material contains silicon. The binding agent includes a binding agent A made of a rubber polymeric compound. A through-thickness cross section of the negative electrode mixture layer halved into a current collector-side region and a surface-side region, has the amount of the binding agent A in the current collector-side region larger than the amount of the binding agent A in the surface-side region and the amount of the conductive agent in the surface-side region is larger than the amount of the conductive agent in the current collector-side region.
US10270080B2
A battery pack is disclosed. In one aspect, the battery pack includes a plurality of battery cells, a plurality of connection tabs electrically connected to the battery cells, and a circuit board having a plurality of connection holes respectively configured to receive the connection tabs. The connection holes include a plurality of first connection holes formed at first positions and each having a first width and a plurality of second connection holes formed at second positions and each having a second width greater than the first width.
US10270067B2
The present disclosure discloses an AMOLED display panel manufacturing method, apparatus and system. The method comprises: collecting size parameters of a substrate, constructing an AMOLED display panel model based on the size parameters, and determining spray data of respective organic vapor materials; controlling corresponding spraying devices to spray the respective organic vapor materials on the substrate successively according to the determined spray data of the respective organic vapor materials, to form an AMOLED display panel.
US10270058B2
Provided is a long-life organic electroluminescent illumination panel which is flexible and, even when a load is applied by bending, impact or vibration, can suppress the occurrence of defects in an electrode layer and an organic layer containing an organic electroluminescent material, and which can suppress the occurrence of dark spots due to short circuiting. This organic electroluminescent illumination panel includes: a pair of electrode layers, at least one of which is transparent, between a flexible film substrate and a flexible film sealing material, at least one of which is transparent; and an organic layer containing an organic electroluminescent material which is sandwiched between the pair of electrode layers. This organic electroluminescent illumination panel has multiple spacers which are disposed on an electrode layer laminated on the flexible film substrate so as to pass through the organic layer and another electrode layer.
US10270051B2
A light-emitting element is provided. The light-emitting element includes first and second electrodes and an EL layer therebetween. The EL layer includes a light-emitting layer containing first and second substances. The amount of the first substance is larger than that of the second substance. The second substance emits light. Average transition dipole moments of the second substance are divided into three components in x-, y-, and z-directions which are orthogonal to each other. Components parallel to the first or second electrode are assumed to be the components in the x- and y-directions, and a component perpendicular to the first or second electrode is assumed to be the component in the z-direction. The proportion of the component in the z-direction is represented by a, which is less than or equal to 0.2.
US10270042B2
A compound for an organic optoelectric device represented by Chemical Formula I, an organic optoelectric device including the same, and a display device are disclosed. Details of Chemical Formula I are defined in the specification.
US10270028B1
A method for manufacturing a memory device, the method includes forming an opening in a dielectric layer; overfilling the opening with a bottom electrode layer; removing a first portion of the bottom electrode layer outside the opening, while leaving a second portion of the bottom electrode layer in the opening to form a bottom electrode; and forming a stack over the bottom electrode, the stack comprising a resistance switching element in contact with the bottom electrode and a top electrode over the resistance switching element.
US10270019B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor chip, an optoelectronic semiconductor component and a method for producing an optoelectronic semiconductor chip are disclosed. In an embodiment the chip includes a main body including a carrier having a top, a bottom opposite the top and side faces connecting the bottom with the top and a semiconductor layer sequence arranged on the top of the carrier, wherein the semiconductor layer sequence is configured to emit or absorb electromagnetic radiation and two contact faces arranged on the semiconductor layer sequence. The chip further includes two contact elements contacting the contact faces, wherein the contact elements include conductor tracks which are guided from the contact faces over edges of the main body on the side faces of the carrier.
US10270018B2
Disclosed is a light emitting diode including a side reflection layer. The light emitting diode includes a substrate having a side surface and an upper surface; a semiconductor stack disposed under the substrate and including a first conductivity type semiconductor layer, a second conductivity type semiconductor layer, and an active layer interposed between the first conductivity type semiconductor layer and the second conductivity type semiconductor layer; an ohmic reflection layer electrically connected to the second conductivity type semiconductor layer; a first bump pad disposed under the ohmic reflection layer and electrically connected to the first conductivity type semiconductor layer; a second bump pad disposed under the ohmic reflection layer and electrically connected to the second conductivity type semiconductor layer; a side reflection layer covering the side surface of the substrate; and a capping layer covering the upper surface of the substrate and the side reflection layer.
US10270003B2
Methods and apparatus for forming a bond pad of a semiconductor device such as a backside illuminated (BSI) image sensor device are disclosed. The substrate of a device may have an opening at the backside, through the substrate reaching the first metal layer at the front side of the device. A buffer layer may be formed above the backside of the substrate and covering sidewalls of the substrate opening. A pad metal layer may be formed above the buffer layer and in contact with the first metal layer at the bottom of the substrate opening. A bond pad may be formed in contact with the pad metal layer. The bond pad is connected to the pad metal layer vertically above the substrate, and further connected to the first metal layer of the device at the opening of the substrate.
US10270002B2
The present disclosure relates to an integrated light emitting device. The integrated light emitting device comprises a substrate of semiconductor material, a light emitting unit integrated into the semiconductor material, and at least one cavity formed into the semiconductor material between the substrate and the light emitting unit. At least portions of the at least one cavity may be formed by Silicon-On-Nothing (SON) process steps.
US10270000B2
A multijunction solar cell and its method of manufacture including interconnected first and second discrete semiconductor regions disposed adjacent and parallel to each other in a single semiconductor body, including first top subcell, second (and possibly third) lattice matched middle subcells; a graded interlayer adjacent to the last middle solar subcell; and a bottom solar subcell adjacent to said graded interlayer being lattice mismatched with respect to the last middle solar subcell; wherein the interconnected regions form at least a four junction solar cell by a series connection being formed between the bottom solar subcell in the first semiconductor region and the bottom solar subcell in the second semiconductor region.
US10269999B2
A light converting optical system employing a planar light trapping optical structure. The light trapping optical structure includes a monochromatic light source, a light guiding layer, a lenticular lens array incorporating a plurality of linear cylindrical microlenses, a broad-area reflective surface, and a generally planar photoresponsive layer located between the lens array and the reflective surface. The photoresponsive layer is configured at a sufficiently low thickness to transmit at least a portion of incident light without absorption in a single pass. A portion of the unabsorbed light is trapped within the light trapping optical structure and redirected back to the photoresponsive layer.
US10269994B2
A method for forming a back contact on an absorber layer in a photovoltaic device includes forming a two dimensional material on a first substrate. An absorber layer including Cu—Zn—Sn—S(Se)(CZTSSe) is grown over the first substrate on the two dimensional material. A buffer layer is grown on the absorber layer on a side opposite the two dimensional material. The absorber layer is exfoliated from the two dimensional material to remove the first substrate from a backside of the absorber layer opposite the buffer layer. A back contact is deposited on the absorber layer.
US10269990B2
A semiconductor device is provided, which includes a substrate and at least one nanostructure. The substrate has sensing pixels, and each of the sensing pixels has a photo sensing region for absorbing incident light. The nanostructure is directly on the photo sensing region. The nanostructure of each of the sensing pixels has a projected portion on an upper surface of the substrate, and a circle equivalent diameter of the projected portion of the nanostructure of each of the sensing pixels is substantially within a wavelength range of 100 nm to 1900 nm of the incident light configured to enter the substrate through the nanostructure.
US10269962B2
A semiconductor device has a fin-type structure which extends in a first direction and includes a laminate of oxide and semiconductor patterns disposed one on another on a first region of a substrate, and a first gate electrode that extends longitudinally in a second direction different from the first direction on the fin-type structure. Each oxide pattern is an oxidized compound containing a first element.
US10269957B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same include forming a bottom source/drain region in a semiconductor substrate under a semiconductor fin. First charged spacers are formed on sidewalls of the semiconductor fin. A gate stack is formed on the fin, over the first charged spacers. Second charged spacers are formed on sidewalls of the fin above the gate stack. The fin is recessed to a height below a top level of the second charged spacers. A top source/drain region is grown from the recessed fin.
US10269946B2
A semiconductor device including an IGBT element having features of a low on-state voltage and a low turn-off loss is provided. The semiconductor device is comprised of a trench gate type IGBT element. The IGBT element includes: a plurality of gate trench electrodes to which gate potential is given; and a plurality of emitter trench electrodes to which emitter potential is given. Between adjacent trench electrodes, a contact to an emitter electrode layer is formed. In this regard, there is formed, in the semiconductor substrate, a P type floating region which is in contact with bottom portions of at least some of the emitter trench electrodes via an interlayer insulation layer.
US10269945B2
A power transistor device including a substrate structure, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and a third conductive layer is provided. The substrate structure has a base portion and fin portions. The fin portions protrude from a surface of the base portion. The first conductive layer is disposed across the fin portions and has a first side and a second side opposite to each other. The second conductive layer is disposed across the fin portions and is located at the first side of the first conductive layer. The third conductive layer is disposed across the fin portions and is located at the second side of the first conductive layer. The first conductive layer, the second conductive layer, the third conductive layer, and the fin portions are insulated from each other. An extending direction of the first, second, and third conductive layers intersects a length direction of the fin portions.
US10269934B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, at least one first semiconductor layer, and at least one second semiconductor layer. The at least one first semiconductor layer is disposed on the substrate, and the at least one second semiconductor layer is disposed on the at least one first semiconductor layer. The at least one first semiconductor layer includes a first doping portion, a second doping portion, a channel, and a semiconductor film. The second doping portion is adjacent to the first doping portion. The channel is disposed between the first doping portion and the second doping portion, and disposed with the substrate in parallel. The semiconductor film is disposed around the channel.
US10269932B1
One illustrative method disclosed herein includes, among other things, forming a first fin having first and second opposing sidewalls and forming a first sidewall spacer positioned adjacent the first sidewall and a second sidewall spacer positioned adjacent the second sidewall, wherein the first sidewall spacer has a greater height than the second sidewall spacer. In this example, the method further includes forming epitaxial semiconductor material on the fin and above the first and second sidewall spacers.
US10269930B2
Method for producing a semiconductor device, comprising: producing a stack including a first crystalline semiconductor portion intended to form a channel and arranged on at least one second portion which can be selectively etched vis-à-vis the first portion, producing a dummy gate and external spacers, etching the stack, a remaining part of the stack under the dummy gate and the external spacers being conserved, producing source/drain by epitaxy from the remaining part of the stack; removing the dummy gate and the second portion, oxidizing portions of the source/drain from the parts of the source/drain revealed by the removal of the second portion, forming internal spacers, producing a gate electrically insulated from the source/drain by the external and internal spacers.
US10269927B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor structure includes forming a plurality of first fin structures in a core region of a substrate and a plurality of second fin structures in a peripheral region of the substrate, forming a first dummy gate structure including a first dummy gate oxide layer and a first dummy gate electrode layer on each first fin structure and a second dummy gate structure including a second gate oxide layer and a second dummy gate electrode layer on each second fin structure. The method further includes removing each first dummy gate electrode layer, performing an ion implantation process to tune the threshold voltages of the first fin structures, and removing each first dummy gate oxide layer. The method also includes removing each second dummy gate electrode layer, and forming a gate dielectric layer and a metal layer on each first fin structure and each second fin structure.
US10269926B2
A method includes placing a wafer in a wafer holder, placing the wafer holder on a loadport of a deposition tool, connecting the wafer holder to a front-end interface unit of the deposition tool, purging the front-end interface unit with nitrogen, and depositing a metal layer on the wafer in the deposition tool.
US10269921B2
An embodiment fin field-effect-transistor (finFET) includes a semiconductor fin comprising a channel region and a gate oxide on a sidewall and a top surface of the channel region. The gate oxide includes a thinnest portion having a first thickness and a thickest portion having a second thickness different than the first thickness. A difference between the first thickness and the second thickness is less than a maximum thickness variation, and the maximum thickness variation is in accordance with an operating voltage of the finFET.
US10269919B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first device, and a second device. Each of the first and second devices includes a gate extending in a first direction, source/drain regions respectively formed on opposite first and second sides of the gate, dielectric spacers formed respectively on outer sidewalls of the gate on the first side and the second side, and conductive spacers serving contacts to the source/drain regions and formed respectively on outer sidewalls of the respective gate spacers. A second direction from the source/drain region on the first side to the source/drain region on the second side crosses the first direction.
US10269911B2
A semiconductor device of the present invention includes a gate electrode buried in a gate trench of a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer, a first conductivity-type source region, a second conductivity-type channel region, and a first conductivity-type drain region formed in the semiconductor layer, a second trench selectively formed in a source portion defined in a manner containing the source region in the surface of the semiconductor layer, a trench buried portion buried in the second trench, a second conductivity-type channel contact region selectively disposed at a position higher than that of a bottom portion of the second trench in the source portion, and electrically connected with the channel region, and a surface metal layer disposed on the source portion, and electrically connected to the source region and the channel contact region.
US10269906B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a source/drain feature, a gate structure, a contact, a gate spacer, and a contact spacer. The source/drain feature is at least partially disposed in the substrate. The gate structure is disposed on the substrate and adjacent to the source/drain feature. The contact is electrically connected to the source/drain feature. The gate spacer is disposed on a sidewall of the gate structure and between the gate structure and the contact. The contact spacer is disposed on the gate spacer and on a sidewall of the contact. An interface is formed between the gate spacer and the contact spacer, and a bottom surface of the contact spacer is in contact with the contact.
US10269905B2
A structure of a semiconductor device is described. A semiconductor device includes a transistor which further includes a gate structure, a source region and a drain region disposed on a first surface of a substrate. A wiring layer of conductive material is disposed over a second surface of the substrate. The second surface of the substrate is located opposite to the first surface of the substrate. A set of contact studs including a first contact stud which extends completely through the source region and through the substrate to a first respective portion of the wiring layer. The set of contact studs also includes a second contact stud which extends completely through the drain region and through the substrate to a second respective portion of the wiring layer.
US10269904B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a circuit region, a seal ring region and an assembly isolation region. The circuit region includes a first conductive layer. The seal ring region includes a second conductive layer. The assembly isolation region is between the circuit region and the seal ring region. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer respectively include a portion extending into the assembly isolation region thereby forming an electric component in the assembly isolation region.
US10269892B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus and a manufacturing method thereof. The organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a substrate, a display unit arranged on the substrate, a dam unit arranged at a periphery of the display unit and on the substrate and an encapsulating layer to encapsulate the display unit, wherein the encapsulating layer includes an organic film covering the display unit, and an inorganic film covering the organic film and the dam unit, and wherein a hardness of the dam unit is lower than that of the inorganic film. According to this, lateral moisture-proof characteristics of the organic light-emitting display apparatus are improved.
US10269889B2
An electronic device including a base structure, a first pattern having at least one projection disposed on the base structure, a first conductive layer including a first portion disposed on the base structure and a second portion disposed on the first pattern and connected to the first portion, an insulating layer disposed on the first conductive layer covering the first portion and exposing the second portion, and a second conductive layer provided on the insulating layer and overlapping the first conductive layer. The second conductive layer is spaced apart from the first portion and is in contact with the second portion. Methods of manufacturing an electronic device capable of reducing the number of process steps in the manufacturing process are also disclosed.
US10269883B2
The invention relates to: a light-emitting device which includes a first flexible substrate having a first electrode, a light-emitting layer over the first electrode, and a second electrode with a projecting portion over the light-emitting layer and a second flexible substrate having a semiconductor circuit and a third electrode electrically connected to the semiconductor circuit, in which the projecting portion of the second electrode and the third electrode are electrically connected to each other, a method for manufacturing the light-emitting device; and a cellular phone which includes a housing incorporating the light-emitting device and having a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction, in which the light-emitting device is disposed on a front side and in an upper portion in the longitudinal direction of the housing.
US10269879B2
A display device capable preventing or reducing luminance unevenness due to a voltage drop using an auxiliary electrode is provided. The display device may include a bank insulating layer that forms an under-cut region for connecting the auxiliary electrode to an upper electrode of a light-emitting structure. The bank insulating layer may include a first bank penetrating hole overlapping with the auxiliary electrode and a second bank penetrating hole spaced apart from the first bank penetrating hole. The second bank penetrating hole may overlap a lower penetrating hole of a lower passivation layer which is disposed between the auxiliary electrode and the bank insulating layer. The lower penetrating hole may overlap the auxiliary electrode.
US10269878B2
An organic EL display panel includes plural streaks of first partition walls 16 on the upper side of an underlying layer 13 in such a manner that each of the plural streaks of the first partition walls 16 extends along a first direction, plural streaks of second partition walls 14 that are on the upper side of the underlying layer 13 in such a manner that each of the plural streaks of the second partition walls 14 extends along a second direction intersecting the first direction, and each have an upper surface 14a at a position lower than upper surfaces 16a of the first partition walls 16, and a light emitting layer 17 formed along the first direction on the upper side of the underlying layer 13 and in gaps 20 between the first partition walls 16 adjacent to each other in such a manner as to get over the plural streaks of the second partition walls 14. An organic EL display panel in which luminance unevenness is suppressed is thereby obtained.
US10269875B2
An organic light-emitting display device is discussed in which an auxiliary hole transport layer is provided in contact with a hole injection layer in at least one sub-pixel, thereby preventing current leakage to an adjacent sub-pixel due to a common layer having high hole mobility and consequently preventing the adjacent sub-pixel from being unintentionally turned on.
US10269873B2
An electroluminescent display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first light emitting unit which is disposed on the anode and includes an emissive layer, a charge generation layer disposed on the first light emitting unit, a second light emitting unit which is disposed on the charge generation layer and includes a second emissive layer, and a cathode disposed on the second light emitting unit in which each of the first light emitting unit and the second light emitting unit includes a plurality of pixel emissive layers corresponding to a first pixel, a second pixel, a third pixel, and a fourth pixel, and the first pixel emits red light, the second pixel emits green light, the third pixel emits blue light, and the fourth pixel emits yellow-green light to lower the power consumption of the organic light emitting display device.
US10269869B1
A method is presented for integrating a resistive random access memory (ReRAM) device with vertical transistors on a single chip. The method includes forming a vertical field effect transistor (FET) including an epitaxial tip defining a drain terminal and forming the ReRAM device in direct contact with the epitaxial tip of the vertical FET such that a current conducting filament is formed at the epitaxial tip due to electric field enhancement.
US10269866B2
A magnetoresistive element includes: a first ferromagnetic layer; a second ferromagnetic layer; and a first nonmagnetic layer disposed between the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer, the first ferromagnetic layer including (MnxGay)100-zPtz, the (MnxGay)100-zPtz having a tetragonal crystal structure, where 45 atm %≤x≤75 atm %, 25 atm %≤y≤55 atm %, x+y=100 atm %, and 0 atm %
US10269858B2
Among other things, one or more image sensors and techniques for forming image sensors are provided. An image sensor comprises a photodiode array configured to detect light. The image sensor comprises an oxide grid comprising a first oxide grid portion and a second oxide grid portion. A metal grid is formed between the first oxide grid portion and the second oxide grid portion. The oxide grid and the metal grid define a filler grid. The filler grid comprises a filler grid portion, such as a color filter, that allows light to propagate through the filler grid portion to an underlying photodiode. The oxide grid and the metal grid confine or channel the light within the filler grid portion. The oxide grid and the metal grid are formed such that the filler grid provides a relatively shorter propagation path for the light, which improves light detection performance of the image sensor.
US10269856B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a first semiconductor substrate in which a part of an analog circuit is formed between the analog circuit and a digital circuit which subjects an analog output signal output from the analog circuit to digital conversion; a second semiconductor substrate in which the remaining part of the analog circuit and the digital circuit are formed; and a substrate connection portion which connects the first and second semiconductor substrates to each other. The substrate connection portion transmits an analog signal which is generated by a part of the analog circuit of the first semiconductor substrate to the second semiconductor substrate.
US10269851B2
Methods and apparatus for integrating a CMOS image sensor and an image signal processor (ISP) together using an interposer to form a system in package device module are disclosed. The device module may comprise an interposer with a substrate. An interposer contact is formed within the substrate. A sensor device may be bonded to a surface of the interposer, wherein a sensor contact is bonded to a first end of the interposer contact. An ISP may be connected to the interposer, by bonding an ISP contact in the ISP to a second end of the interposer contact. An underfill layer may fill a gap between the interposer and the ISP. A printed circuit board (PCB) may further be connected to the interposer by way of a solder ball connected to another interposer contact. A thermal interface material may be in contact with the ISP and the PCB.
US10269848B2
A system and method for image sensing is disclosed. An embodiment comprises a substrate with a pixel region and a logic region. A first resist protect oxide (RPO) is formed over the pixel region, but not over the logic region. Silicide contacts are formed on the top of active devices formed in the pixel region, but not on the surface of the substrate in the pixel region, and silicide contacts are formed both on the top of active devices and on the surface of the substrate in the logic region. A second RPO is formed over the pixel region and the logic region, and a contact etch stop layer is formed over the second RPO. These layers help to reflect light back to the image sensor when light impinges the sensor from the backside of the substrate, and also helps prevent damage that occurs from overetching.
US10269844B2
Structures and formation methods of a light sensing device are provided. The light sensing device includes a semiconductor substrate and a light sensing region in the semiconductor substrate. The light sensing device also includes a filter element over the semiconductor substrate and aligned with the light sensing region. The filter element has a first portion and a second portion, and the first portion is between the second portion and the light sensing region. The light sensing device further includes a light shielding element over the semiconductor substrate and beside the first portion of the filter element. In addition, the light sensing device includes a dielectric element over the light shielding element and beside the second portion of the filter element. A top width of the light shielding element is greater than a bottom width of the dielectric element.
US10269841B1
A sensor package includes a sensor, an encapsulation layer, a redistribution layer, a photo-imageable dielectric (PID) layer and via plugs. The encapsulation layer exposes the active surface of the sensor, and the top surface of the encapsulation layer is coplanar with the active surface of the sensor. The redistribution layer covers the top surface of the encapsulation layer and the active surface of the sensor. The PID layer covers the redistribution layer, the encapsulation layer and the active surface of the sensor. The via plugs are disposed around the sensor and through the encapsulation layer. The via plugs are electrically connected to the redistribution layer and the active surface of the sensor. The cross section of the via plug at the top surface of the encapsulation layer has a first hole diameter, and the cross section of the via plug at the bottom surface of the encapsulation layer has a second hole diameter. The first hole diameter is less than the second hole diameter.
US10269840B2
The image sensing device includes a pixel region in a pixel array area and a dummy pixel region in a periphery area. The pixel region includes a radiation region, a floating diffusion region, a transfer transistor, a source-follower transistor, a reset transistor and a select transistor. The dummy pixel region includes a radiation region and a floating diffusion region. A gate of one of the transfer transistor, the reset transistor and the select transistor in the pixel region is electrically connected to the radiation region or the floating diffusion region in the dummy pixel region.
US10269839B2
A detector having an array of pixels arranged in columns and rows. Each of the pixels has a photosensor and a switch device. The switch devices in each pair of row-adjacent pixels are connected to a common data line and a common bottom gate line. A pair of top gate lines are each connected to one of the pair of row-adjacent pixels.
US10269838B2
A method for fabricating an image sensor array having a first group of photodiodes for detecting light at visible wavelengths a second group of photodiodes for detecting light at infrared or near-infrared wavelengths, the method including forming a germanium-silicon layer for the second group of photodiodes on a first semiconductor donor wafer; defining a first interconnect layer on the germanium-silicon layer; defining integrated circuitry for controlling pixels of the image sensor array on a semiconductor carrier wafer; defining a second interconnect layer on the semiconductor carrier wafer; bonding the first interconnect layer with the second interconnect layer; defining the pixels of an image sensor array on a second semiconductor donor wafer; defining a third interconnect layer on the image sensor array; and bonding the third interconnect layer with the germanium-silicon layer.
US10269831B2
A semiconductor device includes, a plurality of oxide semiconductor TFTs including a first gate electrode, a first insulating layer in contact with the first gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor layer opposing the first gate electrode via the first insulating layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode which are connected with the oxide semiconductor layer, and an organic insulating layer covering only some of the plurality of oxide semiconductor TFTs, wherein the plurality of oxide semiconductor TFTs include a first TFT which is covered with the organic insulating layer and a second TFT which is not covered with the organic insulating layer, and the second TFT includes a second gate electrode opposing the oxide semiconductor layer via a second insulating layer, the second gate electrode being arranged to overlap with at least a portion of the first gate electrode with the oxide semiconductor layer interposed therebetween.
US10269827B2
A method for manufacturing an electronic device includes forming a first source layer including a trench, forming a first sacrificial layer in the trench, forming a first structure over the first source layer, wherein the first structure includes first material layers and second material layers which are alternately stacked over the each other, forming first openings passing through the first structure and extending to the first sacrificial layer, forming first channel layers in the first openings, forming a slit passing through the first structure and extending to the first sacrificial layer, forming a second opening by removing the first sacrificial layer through the slit, and forming a second source layer in the second opening, wherein the second source layer is coupled to the first channel layers.
US10269821B2
A semiconductor memory device includes first and second electrode films, an interlayer insulating film, a semiconductor pillar, and a first insulating film. The first electrode film extends in a first direction. The second electrode film is provided separately from the first electrode film in a second direction and extends in the first direction. The interlayer insulating film is provided between the first and the second electrode films. The first insulating film includes first and second insulating regions. A concentration of nitrogen in the first position of the second insulating region is higher than a concentration of nitrogen in the second position between the first position and the semiconductor pillar. A concentration of nitrogen in the first insulating region is lower than the concentration of the nitrogen in the first position.
US10269820B1
A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack having stepped surfaces and including insulating layers and electrically conductive layers, memory stack structures extending through each layer of the alternating stack in a memory array region, and support pillar structures extending through the stepped surfaces of the alternating stack. The support pillar structures include first-type support pillar structures vertically extending through at least two electrically conductive layers and including a respective first dummy pedestal channel portion having a respective first maximum lateral dimension along a first horizontal direction, and second-type support pillar structures vertically extending through no more than a single electrically conductive layer, and including a respective second dummy pedestal channel portion having a respective second maximum lateral dimension along the first horizontal direction that is greater than the first maximum lateral dimension.
US10269809B2
An SRAM includes two Si pillars on a substrate. In the Si pillars, inverter circuits are formed. The inverter circuits include drive N-channel SGTs each including first and second N+ layers functioning as a source and a drain, and load SGTs each including first and second P+ layers functioning as a source and a drain. Selection SGTs each including third and fourth N+ layers functioning as a source and a drain are formed above SiO2 layers disposed above the inverter circuits. The first N+ layer is connected to a ground wiring metal layer. The first P+ layers are connected to a power supply wiring metal layer through a NiSi layer. Gate TiN layers are connected to a word-line wiring metal layer through a NiSi layer. The third N+ layers are connected to an inverted bit-line wiring metal layer and a bit-line wiring metal layer.
US10269804B2
A method of forming an array of cross point memory cells comprises using two, and only two, masking steps to collectively pattern within the array spaced lower first lines, spaced upper second lines which cross the first lines, and individual programmable devices between the first lines and the second lines where such cross that have an upwardly open generally U-shape vertical cross-section of programmable material laterally between immediately adjacent of the first lines beneath individual of the upper second lines. Arrays of cross point memory cells independent of method of manufacture are disclosed.
US10269802B2
A semiconductor device includes first and second Fin FETs and a separation plug made of an insulating material and disposed between the first and second Fin FETs. The first Fin FET includes a first fin structure extending in a first direction, a first gate dielectric formed over the first fin structure and a first gate electrode formed over the first gate dielectric and extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The second Fin FET includes a second fin structure, a second gate dielectric formed over the second fin structure and a second gate electrode formed over the first gate dielectric and extending in the second direction. When viewed from above, an end shape the separation plug has a concave curved shape, while an end of the first gate electrode abutting the separation plug has a convex curved shape.
US10269800B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a well on the substrate and an FFT on the well. The FET includes a first source/drain, a vertical channel layer, a gate structure, a second source/drain and a body structure. The first source/drain is on the well. The vertical channel layer extends form the first source/drain. The first gate structure surrounds a first portion of sidewalls of the vertical channel layer. The second source/drain is on the vertical channel layer. The body structure is in physical contact with the vertical channel layer. The body structure and the vertical channel layer constitute a bipolar device.
US10269797B2
A semiconductor device includes a fin field effect transistor. The semiconductor device includes a first gate electrode, a first source/drain (S/D) region disposed adjacent to the first gate electrode, a first S/D contact disposed on the first S/D region, a first spacer layer disposed between the first gate electrode and the first S/D region, a first contact layer in contact with the first gate electrode and the first S/D contact, and a first wiring layer integrally formed with the first contact layer. There is no interface between the first contact layer and the first wiring layer in a cross sectional view, and the first contact layer has a smaller area than the first wiring layer in plan view.
US10269790B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a field effect transistor (FET) arranged on the substrate. The FET includes a gate positioned on the substrate. The gate includes a nanosheet extending through a channel region of the gate. The FET includes a pair of source/drains arranged on opposing sides of the gate. The semiconductor device further includes a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) arranged adjacent to the FET on the substrate. The BJT includes an emitter and a collector. The BJT includes a nanosheet including a semiconductor material extending from the emitter to the collector, with a doped semiconductor material arranged above and below the nanosheet.
US10269784B2
An integrated circuit includes at least one first active region, at least one second active region adjacent to the first active region, and a plurality of third active regions. The first active region and the second active region are staggered. The third active regions are present adjacent to the first active region, wherein the third active regions are substantially aligned with each other.
US10269782B2
Apparatuses and methods for forming die stacks are disclosed herein. An example method includes dispensing a temporary adhesive onto a substrate, placing a base die onto the temporary adhesive, curing the temporary adhesive, forming a die stack that includes the base die, activating a release layer disposed on the substrate, wherein the release layer is between the substrate and the temporary adhesive, removing the die stack from the substrate, and removing the temporary adhesive from the die stack.
US10269780B2
The invention relates to a device for image representation comprising a carrier body, on which are arranged individually driveable luminous bodies connected respectively to a drive unit, wherein the carrier body has a first electrically conductive layer facing the luminous bodies, a second electrically conductive layer facing away from the luminous bodies, and a light-guiding layer for guiding light signals, said light-guiding layer being arranged between the first electrically conductive layer and the second electrically conductive layer, wherein the drive units are connected to the light-guiding layer via light-detecting connections, wherein first electrical connections for connecting the drive units to the first electrically conductive layer and second electrical connections for connecting the drive units to the second electrically conductive layer are provided, wherein the drive units are designed for driving the luminous bodies depending on light signals fed into the light-guiding layer.
US10269774B2
In a semiconductor device, a first semiconductor chip having a main surface provided with a first terminal group including terminals, and a rear face mounted on a surface of a support. A second semiconductor chip has a main surface provided with a second terminal group including terminals, the main surface of the second semiconductor chip facing the main surface of the first semiconductor chip, and each of the terminals in the second terminal group being connected to a corresponding one of the terminals in the first terminal group of the first semiconductor chip. The first semiconductor chip is connected to an external terminal of the semiconductor device via a conductor containing a single metal.
US10269772B2
A three-dimensional integrated circuit has a plurality of layers disposed in a stacked relationship. Logic circuitry is embodied in a first layer of the three-dimensional integrated circuit. An input output circuit is electrically coupled to the logic circuitry and has a plurality of transistors embodied in at least two layers of the three-dimensional integrated circuit. The input output circuit has first and second input output circuitry, wherein the first input output circuitry operates faster than the second input output circuitry.
US10269768B2
A method includes bonding a first wafer to a second wafer, with a first plurality of dielectric layers in the first wafer and a second plurality of dielectric layers in the second wafer bonded between a first substrate of the first wafer and a second substrate in the second wafer. A first opening is formed in the first substrate, and the first plurality of dielectric layers and the second wafer are etched through the first opening to form a second opening. A metal pad in the second plurality of dielectric layers is exposed to the second opening. A conductive plug is formed extending into the first and the second openings.
US10269767B2
A package may include a first chip having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; a first redistribution line (RDL) coupled to the first surface of the first chip; a second chip having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, the first surface of the second chip facing the first chip; a second RDL disposed between the first chip and the second chip and coupled to the first surface of the second chip; a conductive via laterally adjacent to the second chip, the conductive via coupled to the second RDL; and a molding compound disposed between the second chip and the conductive via.
US10269765B2
A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device comprises a first die, a second die, and a redistribution structure. The first die and the second die are electrically connected to the redistribution structure. There are no solder bumps between the first die and the redistribution structure. There are no solder bumps between the second die and the redistribution structure. The first die and the second die have a shift with regard to each other from a top view.
US10269764B2
A package includes a first molding material, a lower-level device die in the first molding material, a dielectric layer over the lower-level device die and the first molding material, and a plurality of redistribution lines extending into the first dielectric layer to electrically couple to the lower-level device die. The package further includes an upper-level device die over the dielectric layer, and a second molding material molding the upper-level device die therein. A bottom surface of a portion of the second molding material contacts a top surface of the first molding material.
US10269762B2
A rework process includes attaching a first bond head to a first semiconductor package. The contact pads of the first semiconductor package are bonded to contact pads of a second semiconductor package by solder joints. The rework process further includes performing a first local heating process to melt the solder joints, removing the first semiconductor package using the first bond head, and removing at least a portion of solder from the contact pads of the second semiconductor package.
US10269761B2
A semiconductor device and method are provided which utilizes a single mask to form openings for both a through substrate via as well as for a through dielectric via. In an embodiment a contact etch stop layer is deposited over and between a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device. A dielectric material is deposited over the contact etch stop layer between the first semiconductor device and the second semiconductor device. The different materials of the contact etch stop layer and the dielectric material is utilized such that a single mask may be used to form a through substrate via through the first semiconductor device and also to form a through dielectric via through the dielectric material.
US10269754B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element having first and second main surfaces spaced apart in a thickness direction. The semiconductor element includes a metal underlying layer on the first main surface, a bonding pad on the metal underlying layer with a wire bonded to the pad, and an insulative protection layer formed on the first main surface and surrounding the bonding pad. The bonding pad includes first and second conductive layers. The first conductive layer covers the metal underlying layer and is made of a metal having a lower ionization tendency than the metal underlying layer. The second conductive layer covers the first conductive layer and is made of a metal having a lower ionization tendency than the first conductive layer. The first and second conductive layers have respective peripheries held in close contact with the protection layer and covering a part of the protection layer.
US10269748B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate provided with a through hole that extends therethrough from a first surface to a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface, a device layer provided at the first surface of the semiconductor substrate which includes an electrode, an insulating layer that covers the device layer, a first through electrode that extends through the insulating layer, an insulating layer that extends from the second surface of the semiconductor substrate to a bottom surface of the through hole through an inner surface of the through hole of the semiconductor substrate, and in which the portion thereof in contact with the bottom surface has a tapered shape, and a second through electrode electrically connected to the electrode in the device layer that is exposed to the bottom surface of the through hole.
US10269729B2
A device (e.g., a Doherty amplifier) housed in an air cavity package includes one or more isolation structures over a surface of a substrate and defining an active circuit area. The device also includes first and second adjacent circuits within the active circuit area, first and second leads coupled to the isolation structure(s) between opposite sides of the package and electrically coupled to the first circuit, third and fourth leads coupled to the isolation structure(s) between the opposite sides of the package and electrically coupled to the second circuit, a first terminal over the first side of the package between the first lead and the third lead, a second terminal over the second side of the package between the second lead and the fourth lead, and an electronic component coupled to the package and electrically coupled to the first terminal, the second terminal, or both the first and second terminals.
US10269728B2
A method includes embedding a die in a molding material; forming a first dielectric layer over the molding material and the die; forming a conductive line over an upper surface of the first dielectric layer facing away from the die; and forming a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer and the conductive line. The method further includes forming a first trench opening extending through the first dielectric layer or the second dielectric layer, where a longitudinal axis of the first trench is parallel with a longitudinal axis of the conductive line, and where no electrically conductive feature is exposed at a bottom of the first trench opening; and filling the first trench opening with an electrically conductive material to form a first ground trench.
US10269727B2
Disclosed herein is a composite magnetic sealing material includes a resin material and a filler blended in the resin material in a blend ratio of 50 vol. % or more and 85 vol. % or less. The filler includes a first magnetic filler containing Fe and 32 wt. % or more and 39 wt. % or less of a metal material composed mainly of Ni, the first magnetic filler having a first grain size distribution, and a second magnetic filler having a second grain size distribution different from the first grain size distribution.
US10269712B2
Methods of forming a semiconductor device are provided. A method of forming a semiconductor device may include forming a capping layer on a metal pattern and on an adjacent portion of an insulating layer, the capping layer comprising a first etch selectivity, with respect to the insulating layer, on the metal pattern and a second etch selectivity, with respect to the insulating layer, on the portion of the insulating layer. Moreover, the method may include forming a recess region adjacent the metal pattern by removing the capping layer from the portion of the insulating layer. At least a portion of the capping layer may remain on an uppermost surface of the metal pattern after removing the capping layer from the portion of the insulating layer. Related semiconductor devices are also provided.
US10269699B2
A method includes forming a transistor at a surface of a semiconductor substrate, wherein the step of forming the transistor comprises forming a gate electrode, and forming a source/drain region adjacent the gate electrode. First metal features are formed to include at least portions at a same level as the gate electrode. Second metal features are formed simultaneously, and are over and contacting the first metal features. A first one of the second metal features is removed and replaced with a third metal feature, wherein a second one of the second metal features is not removed. A fourth metal feature is formed directly over and contacting the gate electrode, wherein the third and the fourth metal features are formed using a same metal-filling process.
US10269696B2
Flexible circuits mountable in a standoff region between a chip carrier, e.g., a ball grid array (BGA) component, and a printed circuit board (PCB) of a surface-mount package are described. In an example, a flexible circuit includes holes to receive pins, e.g., solder balls, of the BGA component, and one or more conductive leads electrically connected to respective solder balls within the holes. The conductive leads may interconnect several solder balls within the standoff region, and may be electrically accessible through a test pad located laterally outward from the standoff region. Electrical signals may be monitored or driven through the test pad, and thus, the flexible circuit may be used as a debug tool for detecting and or correcting a design fault of the surface-mount package.
US10269692B1
A package structure that includes a first redistribution structure and a second redistribution structure is provided. The first redistribution structure includes a first dielectric layer, and a first redistribution circuit in the first dielectric layer. The second redistribution structure includes a first portion on the first redistribution structure and a second portion on the first portion, and each of the portions is electrically connected to the first redistribution structure and the first portion, respectively. The circuit density of the second portion is lower than that of the first portion. The first portion includes a second dielectric layer having a second redistribution circuit therein. The second portion includes a third dielectric layer having a third redistribution circuit therein. The third dielectric layer has a stiffener layer, which is separated from the third redistribution circuit by the third dielectric layer. A method of forming a package structure is also provided.
US10269682B2
Cooling devices, packaged semiconductor devices, and methods of packaging semiconductor devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a cooling device for a semiconductor device includes a reservoir having a first plate and a second plate coupled to the first plate. A cavity is between the first plate and the second plate. A phase change material (PCM) is in the cavity. The cooling device is adapted to dissipate heat from a packaged semiconductor device.
US10269681B2
A semiconductor device includes: a wiring board including an insulating board and a wiring layer, the insulating board having an element mounting surface, which is a first main surface, and a back surface, which is a second main surface on the opposite side of the element mounting surface, the wiring layer being formed on the back surface and including a wiring portion and a heat dissipation portion; a power element that is a semiconductor element, is mounted on the element mounting surface of the wiring board, and is connected to the wiring portion; a spacer that is interposed between the power element and the element mounting surface of the wiring board and is connected to the back-surface-side heat dissipation portion; and a heatsink that sandwiches, together with the spacer, the power element and is secured to the spacer.
US10269676B2
A method and structure for providing improved thermal management in multichip and package on package (PoP) applications. A first substrate attached to a second smaller substrate wherein the second substrate is encircled by a heat ring attached to the first substrate, the heat ring comprising heat conducting materials and efficient heat dissipating geometries. The first substrate comprises a heat generating chip and the second substrate comprises a heat sensitive chip. A method is presented providing the assembled structure with increased heat dissipation away from the heat sensitive chip.
US10269675B2
A system and method for providing a conductive line is provided. In an embodiment the conductive line is formed by forming two passivation layers, wherein each passivation layer is independently patterned. Once formed, a seed layer is deposited into the two passivation layers, and a conductive material is deposited to fill and overfill the patterns within the two passivation layers. A planarization process such as a chemical mechanical polish may then be utilized in order to remove excess conductive material and form the conductive lines within the two passivation layers.
US10269673B2
Packaged semiconductor devices and methods of packaging semiconductor devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a packaged semiconductor device includes an integrated circuit die, a molding compound disposed around the integrated circuit die, and an interconnect structure disposed over the integrated circuit die and the molding compound. The molding compound is thicker than the integrated circuit die.
US10269666B2
Disclosed herein is a method for forming a test key system for characterizing wafer processing states, the method comprising forming a plurality of shallow trench isolation structures (STIs) on a substrate of a wafer and in a scribe line of the wafer and forming a test key on the substrate of a wafer and in the scribe line of the wafer. Forming the test key comprises forming at least one test key group having a plurality of test key series, each of the plurality of test key series having a plurality of test pads, each one of the plurality of test key series having a first physical characteristic different from the first physical characteristic of other test key series the at least one first test key group.
US10269665B2
A semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the same are disclosed. A semiconductor device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a first type doped semiconductor substrate; a second type doped deep well configured such that one or more semiconductor device elements are formed therein; a first type doped first well formed inside a region surrounded by the deep well of the one surface of the semiconductor substrate, and separated from the semiconductor substrate by the deep well; a first electrical contact formed on a part of the one surface of the semiconductor substrate, and electrically connected to the first well; and a second electrical contact formed on another surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US10269662B2
A method of processing a reconstituted wafer that supports IC chips includes operably disposing the reconstituted wafer in a lithography tool that has a depth of focus and a focus plane and that defines exposure fields on the reconstituted wafer, wherein each exposure field includes at least one of the IC chips. The method also includes scanning the reconstituted wafer with a line scanner to measure a surface topography of the reconstituted wafer as defined by the IC chips. The method also includes, for each exposure field: i) adjusting a position and/or an orientation of the reconstituted wafer so that a photoresist layers of the IC chips within the given exposure field fall within the depth of focus; and ii) performing an exposure with the lithography tool to pattern the photoresist layers of the IC chips in the given exposure field.
US10269655B1
An embodiment is a device including a first fin extending from a substrate, a first gate stack over and along sidewalls of the first fin, a first gate spacer disposed along a sidewall of the first gate stack, and a first epitaxial source/drain region in the first fin and adjacent the first gate spacer. The first epitaxial source/drain region including a first epitaxial layer on the first fin, the first epitaxial layer including silicon and carbon, a second epitaxial layer on the first epitaxial layer, the second epitaxial layer having a different material composition than the first epitaxial layer, the first epitaxial layer separating the second epitaxial layer from the first fin, and a third epitaxial layer on the second epitaxial layer, the third epitaxial layer having a different material composition than the first epitaxial layer.
US10269653B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device including a diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor (DMOS) transistor, an n-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (NMOS) transistor, and a p-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (PMOS) transistor includes forming separation regions in a semiconductor substrate, forming a gate insulating film, forming a DMOS gate electrode on the gate insulating film, forming a first mask pattern on the semiconductor substrate, performing a first ion implantation process, forming a second mask pattern on the semiconductor substrate, performing a second ion implantation process, forming a third mask pattern on the semiconductor substrate and performing a third ion implantation process into the semiconductor substrate, and forming a fourth mask pattern on the semiconductor substrate and performing a fourth ion implantation process.
US10269650B2
Structures and formation methods of a semiconductor device structure are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a fin structure over a semiconductor substrate and a gate stack covering a portion of the fin structure. The gate stack includes a gate dielectric layer, a work function layer, and a conductive filling over the work function layer. The semiconductor device structure also includes a dielectric layer covering the fin structure. The dielectric layer is in direct contact with the conductive filling.
US10269642B2
Die are singulated from a wafer having a back layer by placing the wafer onto a first carrier substrate with the back layer adjacent the carrier substrate, forming singulation lines through the wafer to expose the back layer within the singulation lines, and using a plate structure to apply a pressure to the wafer to separate the back layer in the singulation lines. The pressure can be applied through the first carrier substrate proximate to the back layer, or can be applied through a second carrier substrate attached to a front side of the wafer opposite to the back layer.
US10269639B2
Disclosed herein is a method of manufacturing a packaged wafer including a step of forming grooves in a face side of a wafer along projected dicing lines to a depth larger than a finished thickness of the wafer, a step of forming a ring-shaped groove in and along a boundary between a device area and an outer peripheral excess area of the wafer to a depth larger than the depth of the grooves, and a step of placing a recess mold of a molding apparatus in engagement with the wafer so that a side wall of the recess mold is placed on a bottom of the ring-shaped groove and filling a space between the recess mold and the wafer with a molding resin.
US10269636B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a gate structure, a first spacer, a second spacer, and a first contact plug. The gate structure is disposed on the semiconductor substrate. The first spacer is disposed around the gate structure. The second spacer is disposed on the first spacer. The first contact plug lands on the second spacer and the gate structure.
US10269633B2
Methods for depositing a contact metal layer in contact structures of a semiconductor device are provided. In one embodiment, a method for depositing a contact metal layer for forming a contact structure in a semiconductor device is provided. The method comprises performing a cyclic metal deposition process to deposit a contact metal layer on a substrate and annealing the contact metal layer disposed on the substrate. The cyclic metal deposition process comprises exposing the substrate to a deposition precursor gas mixture to deposit a portion of the contact metal layer on the substrate, exposing the portion of the contact metal layer to a plasma treatment process, and repeating the exposing the substrate to a deposition precursor gas mixture and exposing the portion of the contact metal layer to a plasma treatment process until a predetermined thickness of the contact metal layer is achieved.
US10269632B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device is provided. Metallic interconnects are formed in a dielectric layer of the semiconductor device. A hard mask is used to avoid usual problems faced by manufacturers, such as possibility of bridging different conductive elements and via patterning problems when there are overlays between vias and trenches. The hard mask is etched multiple times to extend via landing windows, while keeping distance between the conductive elements to avoid the bridging problem.
US10269631B2
As a barrier metal film, a titanium film is formed by a sputtering process, and a titanium nitride film is formed to cover the titanium film by a CVD process. Next, the back surface of a semiconductor substrate is cleaned by spraying a cleaning chemical liquid toward the back surface thereof, and a portion of the barrier metal film located in the outer peripheral portion is removed by causing the cleaning chemical liquid to wrap around toward the surface side of the outer peripheral portion from the back surface side. Next, a tungsten film is formed to cover the barrier metal film by a CVD process.
US10269619B2
Presented herein is a WLCSP intermediate structure and method forming the same, the method comprising forming a first redistribution layer (RDL) on a carrier, the first RDL having mounting pads disposed on the first RDL, and mounting interposer dies on a second side of the first RDL. A second RDL is formed over a second side of the interposer dies, the second RDL having a first side adjacent to the interposer dies, one or more lands disposed on the second RDL, at least one of the one or more lands in electrical contact with at least one of the interposer dies or at least one of the mounting pads. A molding compound is formed around the interposer dies and over a portion of the first RDL prior to the forming the second RDL and the second RDL is formed over at least a portion of the molding compound.
US10269615B2
A device for processing wafer-shaped articles comprises a closed process chamber. The closed process chamber comprises a housing providing a gas-tight enclosure, a rotary chuck located within the closed process chamber and adapted to hold a wafer shaped article thereon, and an interior cover disposed within said closed process chamber. The interior cover is movable between a first position in which the rotary chuck communicates with an outer wall of the closed process chamber, and a second position in which the interior cover seals against an inner surface of the closed process chamber adjacent the rotary chuck to define a gas-tight inner process chamber.
US10269614B2
Implementations of the present disclosure generally relate to a susceptor for thermal processing of semiconductor substrates. In one implementation, the susceptor includes a first rim surrounding and coupled to an inner region, and a second rim disposed between the inner rim and the first rim. The second rim includes an angled support surface having a plurality of cut-outs formed therein, and the angled support surface is inclined with respect to a top surface of the inner region.
US10269611B1
A method and apparatus for bonding semiconductor devices are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method may include attaching a first die to a flip head of a flip module, flipping the first die with the flip module, removing the first die from the flip module after flipping the first die, inspecting the flip head of the flip module for contamination after removing the first die, cleaning the flip head with an in situ cleaning module after inspecting the flip head, and attaching a second die to the flip head after cleaning the flip head.
US10269609B2
Methods of manufacturing semiconductor packages. Implementations may include: providing a substrate with a first side, a second side, and a thickness; forming a plurality of pads on the first side of the substrate; and applying die attach material to the plurality of pads. The method may include bonding a wafer including a plurality of semiconductor die to the substrate at one or more die pads included in each die. The method may also include singulating the plurality of semiconductor die, overmolding the plurality of semiconductor die and the first side of the substrate with an overmold material, and removing the substrate to expose the plurality of pads and to form a plurality of semiconductor packages coupled together through the overmold material. The method also may include singulating the plurality of semiconductor packages to separate them.
US10269608B2
In one embodiment, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes an electrostatic chuck that includes a base and a first electrode provided on the base and is configured to electrostatically adsorb a wafer on the first electrode. The apparatus further includes a measurement module configured to measure potential of the wafer. The apparatus further includes a controller configured to adjust potential of the base based on the potential of the wafer and to adjust potential of the first electrode based on the potential of the wafer or the base, when the potential of the wafer measured by the measurement module changes.
US10269607B2
An electrostatic chucking method uses a substrate processing apparatus including an electrostatic chuck, a focus ring, a supply unit configured to supply a heat transfer medium to a space formed between the focus ring and the electrostatic chuck, and a plurality of electrodes provided at a region in the electrostatic chuck which corresponds to the focus ring. The electrostatic chucking method includes supplying by the supply unit the heat transfer medium to the space for a plasma processing period for which a plasma for processing the substrate is generated, and applying different voltages to the plurality of electrodes to attract and hold the focus ring on the electrostatic chuck for a period other than the plasma processing period.
US10269606B2
Providing a first movement including rotating a first arm about a rotational axis of a robot drive; rotating a second arm on the first arm, where the first and second arms form a robot arm, where the first and second arms are the only arms of the robot arm, where the robot arm has an end effector rotationally fixed to the second arm, and where the end effector is configured to support a substrate thereon for transporting the substrate by the robot arm; and controlling the rotating to provide a path of the end effector such that the end effector does not contact the substrate during the rotating. Providing a second movement including rotating the arms to provide an at least partially straight linear path of a center of the substrate relative to the rotational axis of the drive robot when the substrate is on the end effector.
US10269605B2
A processing system includes a setting unit and a selection control unit. The setting unit is configured to set as a recipe a sequence of processing a plurality of target objects, which is unloaded from a load port, through a same transfer route and returning processed target objects to the load port. The selection control unit is configured to select, when the processing includes a recursive processing in which a target object is loaded multiples times into at least one of a plurality of process modules, an unloading start timing of a next target object from the load port based on at least one of a processing state and a transfer state of a rate-limiting process module among the respective process modules.
US10269602B1
The present disclosure provides a system for wafer warpage inspection including a heatable susceptor configured to heat a wafer according to a predetermined temperature profile. The system for wafer warpage inspection further includes a confocal imager array over the heatable susceptor configured to capture one or more warpage parameters of the wafer. Each confocal imager of the confocal imager array covers a predetermined field of view (FOV). The system for wafer warpage inspection further includes a first actuator permitting the confocal imager array to move in a plurality of directions. The system for wafer warpage inspection further includes a processing unit connected to the confocal imager array. The processing unit is configured to dynamically process the one or more warpage parameters captured during the heating of the wafer according to the predetermined temperature profile. Present disclosure also provides a method for wafer warpage inspection described herein.
US10269597B2
Disclosed is a manufacturing apparatus of a light-emitting element. The manufacturing apparatus includes: a main transporting route including a first transfer device and a second transfer device connected to each other through a first transporting chamber; a sub-transporting route extending in a direction intersecting the main transporting route, the sub-transporting route including: a second transporting chamber connected to the first transfer device or the second transfer device; and a delivery chamber connected to the second transporting chamber; and a plurality of treatment chambers connected to the delivery chamber. A region to which the first transfer device, the second transfer device, the first transporting chamber, and the second transporting chamber are connected is under a continuous vacuum environment.
US10269594B2
A transparent plate and a substrate processing system including the same are disclosed. The substrate processing system may include a chamber, a lamp provided below the chamber, and a plate provided in the chamber to load a substrate. The plate may include a center region having a first transmittance value and an edge region having with a second transmittance value higher than the first transmittance value.
US10269581B2
A method of making a semiconductor structure, the method including forming a conductive layer over a substrate. The method further includes forming a first imaging layer over the conductive layer, where the first imaging layer comprises a plurality of layers. The method further includes forming openings in the first imaging layer to expose a first set of areas of the conductive layer. The method further includes implanting ions into each area of the first set of area. The method further includes forming a second imaging layer over the conductive layer. The method further includes forming openings in the second imaging layer to expose a second set of areas of the conductive layer, wherein the second set of areas is different from the first set of areas. The method further includes implanting ions into the each area of the second set of areas.
US10269566B2
Methods of and apparatuses for processing substrates having carbon-containing material using atomic layer deposition and selective deposition are provided. Methods involve exposing a carbon-containing material on a substrate to an oxidant and igniting a first plasma at a first bias power to modify a surface of the substrate and exposing the modified surface to an inert plasma at a second bias power to remove the modified surface. Methods also involve selectively depositing a second carbon-containing material onto the substrate. ALE and selective deposition may be performed without breaking vacuum.
US10269554B2
In order to reduce edge defects efficiently and sufficiently, a method for manufacturing a SiC epitaxial wafer according to the present invention is a method for manufacturing a SiC epitaxial wafer that forms a SiC epitaxial layer on top of a SiC single crystal substrate having an off angle, and includes a rough polishing step for subjecting an outer circumferential edge on a starting side of step-flow growth in the SiC single crystal substrate to rough polishing before forming the SiC epitaxial layer; and a final polishing step for further polishing for finish.
US10269552B2
The present invention relates to a device for the regulated temperature control of a gas discharge lamp, and a gas discharge lamp. The device according to the invention includes a transformer core of a transformer, the transformer core being designed for accommodating at least one discharge current-conducting connecting line of the gas discharge lamp as a primary winding. The transformer forms an energy source for heating a functional area of the gas discharge lamp that determines a function of the gas discharge lamp, and that is formed by an amalgam reservoir. The device also includes a secondary winding on the transformer core, and a means for temperature control that is used to regulate the energy that heats the amalgam reservoir. The means for temperature control is electrically connected to the secondary winding.
US10269547B2
A method of mass spectrometry is disclosed that includes transforming mass spectral data to produce frequency-domain mass spectral data, modifying the frequency-domain mass spectral data to produce modified frequency-domain mass spectral data by attenuating and/or removing one or more ranges of the frequency-domain mass spectral data that relate to noise associated with peaks of interest in the mass spectral data, and transforming the modified frequency-domain mass spectral data to produce modified mass spectral data.
US10269535B2
An information processing device includes a placement section that places a result display area within a display screen based on operation information, a setting section that sets at least one data processing method designated by the user to the result display area, and a data processing section that assigns measurement data to the result display area based on the operation information, performs data processing on the measurement data assigned to the result display area using the data processing method set to the result display area, and displays the data processing results within the result display area.
US10269533B2
In conventional structures, a space between a dual cooling tank is vacuum insulated, and a cooling part is cooled via a highly thermally conductive material connected to an inner container. Such structures are affected by heat infiltrating into the highly thermally conductive material and the cooling part. For instance, in cases when liquid nitrogen is used as a coolant, it takes approximately 30 minutes for the temperature to reach −120° C. Even in cases when a significant amount of time has been spent, the temperature only reaches approximately −150° C., and thus falls significantly short of the temperature of liquid nitrogen, namely −196° C. Accordingly, an anti-contamination trap and a vacuum application device according to the present invention are provided with a structure in which a device-internal cooling part in the vacuum application device is cooled, and are characterized by being provided with: a cooling tank filled with a coolant for cooling a cooling part; and a cooling pipe extending from the cooling tank to the vicinity of the cooling part. The anti-contamination trap and the vacuum application device are further characterized in that: the coolant is supplied to an end of the cooling part; and a tube for releasing air bubbles inside the cooling pipe is inserted so as to extend to the cooling part.
US10269532B2
A multi charged particle beams exposure method includes assigning, with respect to plural times of shots of multi-beams using a charged particle beam, each shot to one of plural groups, depending on a total current value of beams becoming in an ON condition in a shot concerned in the multi-beams, changing the order of the plural times of shots so that shots assigned to the same group may be continuously emitted for each of the plural groups, correcting, for each group, a focus position of the multi-beams to a focus correction position for a group concerned corresponding to the total current value, and performing the plural times of shots of the multi-beams such that the shots assigned to the same group are continuously emitted in a state where the focus position of the multi-beams has been corrected to the focus correction position for the group concerned.
US10269530B1
An apparatus includes an ionization chamber and an electron source device at least partially disposed inside the ionization chamber. The ionization chamber is configured to receive at least one chemical and provide plasma having ionized chemicals. The electron source device includes at least one filament configured to generate electrons, and a cathode configured to emit secondary electrons from the front surface when the electrons from the at least one filament hit the back surface of the cathode. The front surface of the cathode is shaped convex facing inside the ionization chamber.
US10269529B2
A method of designing an electron emitter can include: determining a desired cross-sectional profile of an electron emission from an electron emitter and inputting parameters of the electron emitter into a computer; determining a desired temperature profile for the electron emitter that emits the desired cross-sectional profile; and determining desired emitter dimensions for a defined electrical current through the electron emitter that produces the desired temperature profile with the computer based on the input parameters of the electron emitter. The emitter dimensions can include: each rung width dimension; each first gap segment dimension; each second gap segment dimension; and each web dimension. The emitter can include: a plurality of elongate rungs connected together in a planar pattern; a plurality of corners; a first gap between adjacent non-connected elongate rungs; a second gap between adjacent non-connected elongate rungs; and one or more cutouts between a corner apex and corner nadir.
US10269524B2
The present invention provides a multiple fuse device that is compatible with various ratings and reduces an increase in manufacturing cost. A multiple fuse device includes an input terminal, an external terminal, a bus bar that includes a circuit portion disposed between the input terminal and the external terminal, and a housing that covers the bus bar. The external terminal includes an integral external terminal integrated with the circuit portion with a fusible portion interposed between the integral external terminal and the circuit portion, and a fuse-side external terminal that pairs up with a fuse connection terminal connected to the circuit portion. The fuse connection terminal and the fuse-side external terminal provided in a pair hold a fuse exteriorly in a removable manner, the fuse having a fusible portion connected between the fuse connection terminal and the fuse-side external terminal.
US10269523B2
The present invention aims to achieve a Pb-free protection element by using a layered body including a high melting point metal layer and a low melting point metal layer. A protection element includes an insulating substrate, a heating body, an insulating member, two electrodes, a heating body extraction electrode, and a fusible conductor. Furthermore, the fusible conductor includes a layered body including at least a high melting point metal layer and a low melting point metal layer, and the low melting point metal layer is melted by a heat generated by the heating body, whereby, while eroding the high melting point metal layer, the low melting point metal layer is drawn close to the side of the two electrodes and the heating body extraction electrode, and fused, the two electrodes and the heating body extraction electrode each having high wettability for the low melting point metal layer.
US10269505B2
Provided are a multi-layered graphene film, a method of manufacturing the multi-layered graphene film, and an energy storage device using the multi-layered graphene film as an electrode. The multi-layered graphene film includes a first graphene layer, a spacer layer provided on the first graphene layer, and an upper graphene layer provided on the spacer layer. The spacer layer is provided to maintain a desired distance between the first graphene layer and the upper graphene layer. A plurality of layers with different layer configurations are further provided between the spacer layer and the upper graphene layer. The spacer layer may a graphene or a graphene oxide layer.
US10269504B2
A supercapacitor or electrochemical capacitor includes spaced apart electrodes which are separated from each other by a separator made of an electrically insulating material. Each electrode is formed of carbonaceous material and capable of being impregnated with a liquid electrolyte. Metal current collectors are provided on the sides of the electrodes opposite from the separator. The electrodes have holes or elongated orifices extending through the electrodes to reduce ionic impedance in order to produce faster charging and discharging of the device.
US10269501B2
Provided is a solid electrolytic capacitor including an anode body, a dielectric layer formed on the anode body, and a solid electrolyte layer that covers at least a part of the dielectric layer and includes a conductive polymer, the solid electrolyte layer including a first silicon-containing component and a second silicon-containing component, the first silicon-containing component being at least one selected from the group consisting of a first silane coupling agent and residues of the first silane coupling agent, the second silicon-containing component being at least one selected from the group consisting of a second silane coupling agent and residues of the second silane coupling agent, the first silane coupling agent including a first substituent that has a first functional group and is bonded with a silicon atom, and a hydrolytically condensable group, the second silane coupling agent including a second substituent that has a second functional group and is bonded with a silicon atom, and a hydrolytically condensable group, and the first substituent and the second substituent being different from each other.
US10269498B2
A multi-layer ceramic capacitor includes a body. The body includes a capacitance forming unit, a cover, and a side margin. The capacitance forming unit includes ceramic layers laminated in a first direction and internal electrodes disposed between the ceramic layers. The cover covers the capacitance forming unit from the first direction. The side margin covers the capacitance forming unit from a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The capacitance forming unit includes a surface layer portion adjacent to the cover. Ends of the internal electrodes in the second direction in the surface layer portion are curved toward the cover.
US10269491B2
A ceramic electronic component includes an electronic component body, an inner electrode, and an outer electrode. The outer electrode includes a fired electrode layer and first and second plated layers. The fired electrode layer is disposed on the electronic component body. The first plated layer is disposed on the fired electrode layer. The thickness of the first plated layer is about 3 μm to about 8 μm, for example. The first plated layer contains nickel. The second plated layer is disposed on the first plated layer. The thickness of the second plated layer is about 0.025 μm to about 1 μm, for example. The second plated layer contains lead.
US10269487B2
Provided is a contactless power supply antenna device that has raised power transmission efficiency while also enabling size-reduction for mounting on a wearable terminal or the like. The antenna device includes a power transmission antenna (2) and a power reception antenna (3). The power transmission antenna (2) includes: a magnetic core including two magnetic plates (21) that face each other, a magnetic material-containing connecting portion (22) that connects at least part of an end section of each of the two magnetic plates (21), and a space (23) between the two magnetic plates (21); and a power transmission coil (25) disposed on at least one of the two magnetic plates (21) at a side thereof that faces the space (23). The power reception antenna (3) includes a power reception coil (31) and is positionable in the space (23).
US10269480B2
Disclosed is a solenoid configured so that vibration and noise in energization can be reduced. The solenoid is configured to use magnetic action in energization of a coil to drive, in an axial direction, a core at least including a first magnetic resistor. The solenoid includes a shaft attached to the core, and bearings supporting both end portions of the core. The solenoid further includes a second magnetic resistor configured to generate force for moving at least the core in a radial direction by the magnetic action.
US10269469B2
A transmission line includes, in a stacked insulator in which insulator layers are stacked, a first transmission line portion including a first ground conductor pattern, a second ground conductor pattern, and a first signal conductor pattern, and a second transmission line portion including a third ground conductor pattern, a fourth ground conductor pattern, and a second signal conductor pattern. The first signal conductor pattern extends along the second signal conductor pattern. The first ground conductor pattern and the third ground conductor pattern are provided on different insulator layers and at least partially overlap each other in a plan view.
US10269464B2
A method of assisting with authenticating a workpiece is provided. In another aspect, ions are generated, accelerated in an accelerator, an isotope is created, and then the isotope is implanted within a workpiece to assist with authenticating of the workpiece. A further aspect includes a workpiece substrate, a visual marker and an isotope internally located within the substrate adjacent the visual marker.
US10269458B2
Methods, apparatuses, devices, and systems for producing and controlling and fusion activities of nuclei. Hydrogen atoms or other neutral species (neutrals) are induced to rotational motion in a confinement region as a result of ion-neutral coupling, in which ions are driven by electric and magnetic fields. The controlled fusion activities cover a spectrum of reactions including aneutronic reactions such as proton-boron-11 fusion reactions.
US10269449B2
Provided herein are various systems and methods for improved report interaction and generation. A computing system receives selection of an exam for display on a display device, either from a user or as automatically determined by a computing device. The computing system may then determine an exam characteristic associated with the exam, such as an exam type. A data structure storing associations between exam characteristics and respective report packages, each of the report packages comprising a parent report and one or more child reports, may be accessed in order to select a report package associated with the determined exam characteristic. The child reports of the selected report package, which are configured to receive input from a user of the computing system that is usable in automatically generating content of the parent report of the selected report package, may be selectively displayed on the one or more displays.
US10269446B2
A system and method for real time updating and displaying medical diagnostics data, wherein the information stored in databases comprising large amounts of sensitive data that is being updated frequently are provided herein. By using a batch table for data filtering and a snapshot table for data retrieval, the system's performance remains substantially predictable and stable regardless of the base tables' size.
US10269444B2
Techniques and memory devices are provided in which bit line short circuits are detected and groups of bit lines are masked off. A process tests groups of bit lines which are connected to a sense circuit. A masking latch is provided to store test results for each group of bit lines. Once the testing of a group is completed, the test result is communicated to a controller. Moreover, the same masking latch can store and communicate test results for multiple groups of bit lines which are connected to a sense circuit. In a user mode, a masking latch stores masking data for each group of bit lines. In response to a power on reset, the masking data is loaded into the masking latches and remains there over multiple write and read operation, until a next power on reset occurs.
US10269443B2
A memory test method is provided that includes the steps outlined below. The memory controller performs data-writing and data-reading on a memory module. When a quantity of read data is incorrect, a data-strobe enable signal is calibrated to perform data reading. When there is one of less than one piece of negative edge data reading content, a sampling unit is triggered. When the quantity of read data increases, the condition that the data-strobe signal is not received is determined. When the quantity does not increase, the memory controller is inspected. When there is more than one piece of read data, the burst mode setting of the memory module is inspected. When the quantity is correct and the content is not correct, a transmission circuit setting and the sampling unit are inspected. When the quantity and the content are correct, the test flow is terminated.
US10269440B2
A memory device that provides individual memory cell read, write and erase. In an array of memory cells arranged in rows and columns, each column of memory cells includes a column bit line, a first column control gate line for even row cells and a second column control gate line for odd row cells. Each row of memory cells includes a row source line. In another embodiment, each column of memory cells includes a column bit line and a column source line. Each row of memory cells includes a row control gate line. In yet another embodiment, each column of memory cells includes a column bit line and a column erase gate line. Each row of memory cells includes a row source line, a row control gate line, and a row select gate line.
US10269437B2
A non-volatile memory device including a first floating-gate element, a second floating-gate element, and a selection gate element. The first floating-gate element includes a gate electrode configured to generate a read current based on the read voltage, the control voltage, and the electrical state of the gate electrode. The second floating-gate element shares a gate electrode with the first floating-gate element and is configured to determine the electrical state of the gate electrode based on the write voltage and the control voltage. The selection gate element is electrically coupled to the first floating-gate element and the second floating-gate element and is configured to generate the control voltage according to the word driving voltage and the source driving voltage.
US10269434B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a semiconductor memory including a memory cell, and a controller configured to control the semiconductor memory and capable of creating second data based on first data read from the memory cell. Upon receiving a physical erase request for the first data held in the memory cell from an external device, the controller transmits one of an erase instruction and a write instruction for the second data to the semiconductor memory.
US10269431B2
Memory devices may include a first string of memory cells selectively electrically connected to a first data line and a second string of memory cells selectively electrically connected to a second data line, wherein the first data line and the second data line are selectively electrically connected with no intervening memory cells, thereby permitting connecting the first and second data lines in series before programming or sensing memory cells of the first and second strings of memory cells.
US10269430B2
Some embodiments include apparatus and methods having a string of memory cells, a conductive line and a bipolar junction transistor configured to selectively couple the string of memory cells to the conductive line. Other embodiments including additional apparatus and methods are described.
US10269425B2
A processing unit includes a circuit including a current mirror, and a capacitor providing a weight based on a charge level of the capacitor. The capacitor is charged or discharged by the current mirror.
US10269424B2
A semiconductor memory apparatus may be provided. The semiconductor memory apparatus may include a memory element. The semiconductor memory apparatus may include a first switching driving circuit coupled to the memory element. The semiconductor memory apparatus may include a second switching driving circuit coupled to the memory element.
US10269419B2
Described is an apparatus which comprises: a memory bit-cell; a local bit-line (LBL) coupled to the memory bit-cell via a read port device; a NAND gate circuitry coupled to the LBL; and a stack of keepers coupled to the LBL, wherein at least one transistor of the stack of keepers is controllable according to an output of the NAND gate circuitry, wherein the stack of keepers includes transistors with variable strength which are to be turned on overtime.
US10269411B2
Embodiments generally relate to a command protocol and/or related circuits and apparatus for communication between a memory device and a memory controller. In one embodiment, the memory controller includes an interface for transmitting commands to the memory device, wherein the memory device includes bitline multiplexers, and accessing of memory cells within the memory device is carried out by a command protocol sequence that includes a wordline selection, followed by bitline selections by the bitline multiplexers. In another embodiment, a memory device includes bitline multiplexers and further includes an interface for receiving a command protocol sequence that specifies a wordline selection followed by bitline selections by the bitline multiplexers.
US10269405B2
A memory device is configured to identify a set of bit cells to be changed from a first state to a second state. In some examples, the memory device may apply a first voltage to the set of bit cells to change a least a first portion of the set of bit cells to the second state. In some cases, the memory device may also identify a second portion of the bit cells that remained in the first state following the application of the first voltage. In these cases, the memory device may apply a second voltage having a greater magnitude, duration, or both to the second portion of the set of bit cells in order to set the second portion of bit cells to the second state.
US10269403B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a memory cell, a bit line connected to the memory cell, and a sense circuit connected to the bit line, wherein the sense circuit includes a first transistor with a first end connected to the bit line, a second transistor with a first end connected to a second end of the first transistor, a third transistor with a first end connected to the bit line, a fourth transistor with a first end connected to a second end of the third transistor, and an amplifier connected to a second end of the second transistor and to a second end of the fourth transistor.
US10269398B2
An electronic device may include a pulse delay circuit and a logic circuit. The pulse delay circuit generates an input control pulse based on a command pulse. The logic circuit may be configured to output some input signals from a plurality of input signals as transmitted input signals based on the input control pulse while the input signals maintain a certain logic level combination. The logic circuit may be configured to perform a predetermined logical operation of the transmitted input signals according to a remaining input signal from the plurality of input signals to generate an output signal.
US10269397B2
Apparatuses and methods for providing active an inactive clock signals are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an input clock buffer and a clock divider circuit. The input clock buffer includes a receiver circuit configured to receive first and second clock signals or first and second constant voltages. The receiver circuit is further configured to provide first and second output signals based on the complementary clock signals or the first and second constant voltages. The first and second clock signals are complementary and the second constant voltage is less than the first constant voltage. The clock divider circuit is configured to receive the first and second output signals and provide multiphase clock signals based on the first and second output signals from the input clock buffer.
US10269388B2
Methods and apparatus provide for an asset binder configured to select a media asset to be associated with a media segment that is represented in media seamline of a user interface at a client system, thereby creating a relationship between the media segment and the media asset. At the client system, in real-time, the media asset is layered upon the media segment in order to present the media asset in conjunction with playback of the media segment in the user interface. The relationship between the media segment and the media asset can be described as a parent-child relationship, such that media segment content and media asset content are not intermingled. The asset binder does not combine content of the media segment with content of the media asset within a rendered and compiled media file.
US10269387B2
Some embodiments provide an audio authoring method that provide a set authoring tools for specifying rules for combining sections of a first song to generate a second song. The set of authoring tools allow an array of cells to be arranged in first and second directions, and allow each body section to be associated with one set of cells that are arranged in the first direction and another set of cells that are arranged in the second direction. At each cell that belongs to one set of cells arranged in the first direction for a first body section and another set of cells arranged in the second direction for a second body section, the set of tools also allow the user to specify whether the second body section is allowed to follow the first body section. Some embodiments provide a method for compositing audio. The method receives (1) several song sections, and (2) for each particular song section, a priority value and a set of succession rules that identify a set of song sections that cannot follow the particular song section. Based on the priority values, the method adds the song sections to the first song until a desired first-song duration is reached without exceeding the duration or until all song sections have been examined for adding to the first song. The method then analyzes a sequence of song sections in the first song to remove any song section that violates a succession rule.
US10269381B1
An apparatus includes a first magnetic layer. A second magnetic layer overlies the first magnetic layer and is magnetically softer than the first magnetic layer. An exchange control layer is between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer. The exchange control layer is magnetic and increases vertical coupling between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer.
US10269377B2
A device includes a processor and a memory accessible to the processor and bearing instructions executable by the processor to process an audible input sequence provided by a user of the device, determine that a pause in providing the audible input sequence has occurred at least partially based on a first signal from at least one camera communicating with the device, cease to process the audible input sequence responsive to a determination that the pause has occurred, determine that providing the audible input sequence has resumed based at least partially based on a second signal from the camera, and resume processing of the audible input sequence responsive to a determination that providing the audible input sequence has resumed.
US10269372B1
A computer-implemented method for integrating sound data into a telecommunication system, said method comprising receiving, at a processor, one or more sound signals from a telecommunication device of a first user during a conversation with the first user, determining, in real time from the sound signals, one or more qualities of the sound signals for recognition of the sound signals, and displaying a visual representation of the sound signals to a second user. Qualities of the sound signal to be determined include, but are not limited to: a) the words that were spoken b) the intent expressed and their context and c) the sentiment of the speaker. Visual representation of the sound signal to the second user include, but are not limited to: a) specific words that were spoken by the first user b) high level intent expressed by the words and the first users context c) information related to or inferred from the spoken words (e.g. suggested actions to take, factors to consider, representation of the first users sentiment, etc.).
US10269368B2
An audio processing device comprises a) at least one input unit for providing time-frequency representation Y(k,n) of an electric input signal representing sound consisting of target speech and noise signal components, where k and n are frequency band and time frame indices, respectively, b) a noise detection and/or reduction system configured to b1) determine an a posteriori signal to noise ratio estimate γ(k,n) of said electric input signal, and to b2) determine an a priori target signal to noise signal ratio estimate ζ(k,n) of said electric input signal from said a posteriori signal to noise ratio estimate γ(k,n) based on a recursive decision directed algorithm. The application further relates to a method of of estimating an a priori signal to noise ratio. The invention may e.g. be used for the hearing aids, headsets, ear phones, active ear protection systems, handsfree telephone systems, mobile telephones, etc.
US10269362B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, a method for reconstructing an audio signal having a baseband portion and a highband portion is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a decoded baseband audio signal by decoding an encoded audio signal and obtaining a plurality of subband signals by filtering the decoded baseband audio signal. The method further includes generating a high-frequency reconstructed signal by copying a number of consecutive subband signals of the plurality of subband signals and obtaining an envelope adjusted high-frequency signal. The method further includes generating a noise component based on a noise parameter. Finally, the method includes adjusting a phase of the high-frequency reconstructed signal and obtaining a time-domain reconstructed audio signal by combining the decoded baseband audio signal and the combined high-frequency signal to obtain a time-domain reconstructed audio signal.
US10269356B2
There is provided a system comprising a microphone, configured to receive an input speech from an individual, an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter to convert the input speech to digital form and generate a digitized speech, a memory storing an executable code and an age estimation database, a hardware processor executing the executable code to receive the digitized speech, identify a plurality of boundaries in the digitized speech delineating a plurality of phonemes in the digitized speech, extract a plurality of formant-based feature vectors from each phoneme in the digitized speech based on at least one of a formant position, a formant bandwidth, and a formant dispersion, compare the plurality of formant-based feature vectors with age determinant formant-based feature vectors of the age estimation database, determine the age of the individual when the comparison finds a match in the age estimation database, and communicate an age-appropriate response to the individual.
US10269354B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for voice recognition. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving a voice input; determining a transcription for the voice input, wherein determining the transcription for the voice input includes, for a plurality of segments of the voice input: obtaining a first candidate transcription for a first segment of the voice input; determining one or more contexts associated with the first candidate transcription; adjusting a respective weight for each of the one or more contexts; and determining a second candidate transcription for a second segment of the voice input based in part on the adjusted weights; and providing the transcription of the plurality of segments of the voice input for output.
US10269350B1
One general aspect includes a system for responsive activation of a vehicle feature for a vehicle, the system includes: an audio system configured to announce information and the vehicle feature; a memory configured to include one or more executable instructions; a controller configured to execute the executable instructions, and where the executable instructions enable the controller to: receive speech inputs from a vehicle occupant located in the vehicle, the speech inputs regarding the vehicle feature; retrieve vehicle feature information from vehicle feature information databases, in response to the received speech inputs; provide audio description information for the vehicle feature information; determine whether at least one received speech input includes a feature activation request; provide vehicle feature activation information to the vehicle feature, in response to a positive determination that the at least one received speech input includes the feature activation request.
US10269348B2
A vehicle based system and method for receiving voice inputs and determining whether to perform a voice recognition analysis using in-vehicle resources or resources external to the vehicle.
US10269346B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for recognizing speech in an utterance. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of receiving an utterance and obtaining acoustic features from the utterance. Further actions include providing the acoustic features from the utterance to multiple speech locale-specific hotword classifiers. Each speech locale-specific hotword classifier (i) may be associated with a respective speech locale, and (ii) may be configured to classify audio features as corresponding to, or as not corresponding to, a respective predefined term. Additional actions may include selecting a speech locale for use in transcribing the utterance based on one or more results from the multiple speech locale-specific hotword classifiers in response to providing the acoustic features from the utterance to the multiple speech locale-specific hotword classifiers. Further actions may include selecting parameters for automated speech recognition based on the selected speech locale.
US10269339B2
Provided is a soundproofing structure including: a plate-like member which has a plurality of through-holes passing therethrough in a thickness direction, in which in a case where an average opening diameter of the through-holes is 0.1 μm or greater and less than 100 μm, and in a case where the average opening diameter of the through-holes is set as phi (μm) and a thickness of the plate-like member is set as t (μm), an average opening ratio rho of the through-holes is greater than 0 and less than 1 and falls in a range where a center is rho_center=(2+0.25×t)×phi−1.6, a lower limit is rho_center−(0.052×(phi/30)−2), and an upper limit is rho_center+(0.795×(phi/30)−2).
US10269335B1
An input device accepts user input and generates data indicative of notes, such as MIDI data. The input device includes a set of chord keys and a set of melody keys. A desired scale is selected, and the chord keys and melody keys are configured to utilize notes associated with that scale. The chord keys may be representative of all non-inverted chords associated with that scale. Inverted chords may be accessed using other keys or key combinations. Upon activation of an individual chord key, MIDI data representative of the notes in that chord is generated. Upon activation of an individual melody key, MIDI data representative of a single note from the scale is generated. Conflicts between notes associated with activated and released keys are resolved. Keys illuminated with a color associated with a particular note facilitate user recognition of that note in the chord keys and melody keys.
US10269332B1
A tuner for a stringed instrument, comprising: a housing mounted to the stringed instrument; a knob coupled to one end of the housing; a post coupled to the other end of the housing, the knob and the post positioned on a rotation axis, the post for receiving a string and the knob for causing rotation of the post; a gear assembly mounted in the housing between the knob and the post, the gear assembly having a first gear for rotating about the rotation axis and a second gear mounted on a gear body, the second gear having a center axis offset from the rotation axis, the first gear being meshed with the second gear, the gear body including a plurality of pins, being opposed to the second gear, for positioning in a respective plurality of cavities in the housing; wherein the second gear being coupled to the knob and the first gear being coupled to the post.
US10269330B2
Vehicle interior equipment that includes a structure having a window surrounded by an edge area, and an electronic display screen placed in the window. In a standby condition of the screen, the screen displays a decorative image coordinated with the decoration of the edge area so that at least the peripheral area of the screen and the edge area coincide visually.
US10269326B2
An apparatus and method for color buffer compression. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: specifying a palette of available colors within a color space to be used for quantizing color values of pixels within a tile; subdividing the color space into a plurality of axis-aligned bucket regions, each of the available colors falling within one of the bucket regions; and quantizing the color values based on both the palette of available colors and the axis-aligned bucket regions.
US10269320B1
In a GOA circuit and an embedded touch display panel of the present disclosure, by providing a suppression module in each of multiple levels of GOA units, when the embedded touch display panel enters a stage in which signal interruption occurs and touch scanning is performed, a second node control signal on a second node is pulled down to a constant-voltage low level. This relieves the insufficiency in retaining capability of the GOA circuit in the case of TP interruption and further decreases the risk of stage-shift failure so that this GOA circuit becomes more stable.
US10269313B2
In a display device, pixels each including first to fourth subpixels that respectively display first to third primary colors and fourth color are arranged on an image display panel. A lighting unit emits light to the panel from the rear thereof. A control unit calculates a required luminance value for each block of the display surface of the panel based on an input image signal, determines a light source lighting amount of the lighting unit based on luminance distribution information on the lighting unit so as to satisfy the required luminance value, generates luminance information on each pixel based on the luminance distribution information and light source lighting amount, generates an output image signal that drives the subpixels based on the luminance information and input image signal, controls the lighting unit by the light source lighting amount, and controls the panel by the output image signal.
US10269312B2
A display panel driving apparatus includes a data driving part and a gate driving part. The data driving part is configured to convert image data into a data signal and output the data signal to a data line of a display panel. The gate driving part is configured to output, to a gate line of the display panel, a gate signal having different gate on voltages during a first sub-frame period of a frame period and a second sub-frame period subsequent to the first sub-frame period. Thus, display quality of a display apparatus may be improved.
US10269304B2
Disclosed is a method and a device for driving a liquid crystal display panel. The method comprises the following steps. A first pixel signal of an image to be displayed is converted to a second pixel signal. An adjusted gray scale of each of sub-pixels and/or an adjusted backlight brightness of a backlight is acquired based on the second pixel signal and the first pixel signal. Each of the sub-pixels in the liquid crystal display panel is driven so that each of the sub-pixels can have a corresponding adjusted gray scale, and/or, the backlight is activated so that the backlight can have the adjusted backlight brightness. With the driving device and the driving method, it is able to ensure that when the RGBW liquid crystal display panel displays a solid colored image, the brightness of the image will not be reduced.
US10269294B2
Discussed is an OLED display device. The OLED display device includes a first transistor, a driving transistor, a first capacitor, a second transistor, an OLED, and a third transistor. The first transistor supplies a data voltage or a reference voltage to a first node according to a scan signal. A gate of the driving transistor is connected to the first node, a source of the driving transistor is connected to a second node, and a drain of the driving transistor is connected to a fourth node. The first capacitor is connected between the first and second nodes. The second transistor supplies a high-level source voltage to the second node. The OLED emits light with a difference voltage between voltages of the first and second nodes. The third transistor connects the fourth node to a fifth node according to a second emission control signal.
US10269293B2
A field-effect transistor includes a gate electrode to apply a gate voltage, a source electrode and a drain electrode to take electric current out, a semiconductor layer disposed adjacent to the source electrode and the drain electrode, and a gate insulating layer disposed between the gate electrode and the semiconductor layer, wherein the gate insulating layer includes an oxide including silicon and one or two or more alkaline earth metal elements.
US10269292B2
Methods of operating a display driver integrated circuit (IC) are provided. A method of operating a display driver IC may include generating a first clock signal, and calculating a frequency of the first clock signal using a second clock signal. Moreover, the method may include generating an adjustment signal using the frequency of the first clock signal and a target frequency, and adjusting the frequency of the first clock signal using the adjustment signal. Related display driver ICs and portable electronic devices are also provided.
US10269290B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a shift register unit, a driving method thereof, a gate driving circuit, and a display device. The shift register unit comprises an input circuit, a reset circuit, a plurality of output circuits, a plurality of pull-down circuits and a plurality of pull-down control circuits. During a first time period, all of signals output by the plurality of output circuits are valid. During a second time period, at least one of the signals output by the plurality of output circuits is invalid, wherein the second time period comprises a first sub-period and a second sub-period, and the state of at least one of the signals output by the plurality of output circuits during the first sub-period is opposite to the state thereof during the second sub-period. The shift register unit may enable transistors in a pixel circuit to switch between ON and OFF states, so as to extend lifetime of the transistors.
US10269289B2
A shift register includes a control circuit, a switching circuit, a driving circuit, and a pull-down circuit. The control circuit is configured to output a control signal having a high level during a pull-up period and a voltage-regulating period respectively. The switching circuit is configured to provide a control voltage according to the control signal and a front stage signal outputted by a front x-stage shift register during the pull-up period. The driving circuit is configured to generate a driving signal according to the control voltage provided by the switching circuit, and output a home stage scan signal based on the driving signal. The pull-down circuit is configured to pull down a voltage level of the driving signal according to a scan signal outputted by a rear y-stage shift register during a pull-down period. The switching circuit is configured to regulate the driving signal and the home stage scan signal.
US10269285B2
A display device includes: a display unit; a plurality of pixels disposed in the display unit, each pixel including first and second blue sub-pixels; and a driving mode controller configured to set a driving mode to one of a first driving mode in which both of the first and second blue sub-pixels emit light, and a second driving mode in which one of the first and second blue sub-pixels emits light, wherein the first blue sub-pixel emits light of a first frequency, and the second blue sub-pixel emits light of a second frequency different from the first frequency.
US10269278B2
Electronic displays, systems, and methods that perform display panel sensing are provided. An electronic device may include processing circuitry that generates image data based at least in part on display panel sensing feedback and an electronic display. The electronic display may display the image data on pixels coupled to one of several sense lines. There may be an odd number of sense lines with common electrical characteristics. The electronic display may obtain display panel sense feedback at least in part by differentially sensing each one of the sense lines with sense lines with common electrical characteristics with another one of the sense lines the common electrical characteristics.
US10269277B2
An organic light emitting display device can include data lines; scan lines; subpixels; a data driver; and a scan driver, in which each of the subpixels includes: an organic light emitting diode; a driving transistor connected to the organic light emitting diode; a first transistor controlled by a first scan signal applied to a first gate node and connected between the driving transistor and a data line; a second transistor controlled by a second scan signal applied to a second gate node and connected between the driving transistor and a reference voltage line; a third transistor controlled by a data voltage applied to a third gate node and connected between the second gate node of the second transistor and the second scan line; and a storage capacitor connected between the first node and the second node of the driving transistor.
US10269275B2
A method for inspecting a display panel in which pixels each including a drive transistor that passes a drive current when signal voltage is applied to the gate of the drive transistor, and a light-emitting element that emits light according to the flow of the drive current are arranged in rows and columns, includes: applying, across the gate and the source of the drive transistor, an initialization voltage less than or equal to the threshold voltage of the drive transistor; applying a power supply voltage to the drain of the drive transistor to which the initialization voltage is applied across the gate and the source; and determining, as a defective pixel with a current leak, a pixel having a light-emitting element that does not emit light when the power supply voltage is applied to the drain of the drive transistor and emits light after the elapse of a predetermined period.
US10269272B1
An input device, an optical coupler having a receiver, a processor, and one or more light emitting diodes, a light conductive material such as a bundle of optical fibers, and a connector connecting the optical coupler to the light conductive material such as a bundle of fiber optic fibers is provided. The receiver receives data from the input device that relates to lighting effects having predetermined routine or graphic patterns. The processor converts the data into instructions for the light emitting diodes to form the predetermined graphic patterns, color routines and intensities. The light emitting diodes produce light for transmission through the connector to the light conductive material such as a bundle of fiber optic fibers so that the bundle of fiber optic fibers can produce the predetermined light patterns, routines, intensities or graphic patterns.
US10269267B2
Disclosed is a cardiopulmonary resuscitation training apparatus. The cardiopulmonary resuscitation training apparatus comprises: a mannequin; a compression plate which is provided towards the chest area of the mannequin and generates a return force; and a display unit which displays the state of the mannequin and shows blood circulation movement in light-emitting lines, in accordance with the pressing of the compression plate. The display unit can be constituted in such a way that the blood circulation movement in the mannequin is displayed by means of LEDs, and the LED movement rate is varied or the LEDs emit light in different colours in accordance with the depth of pressing or the pressing rate of the compression plate. This gives the advantage that the user can implement cardiopulmonary resuscitation close to reality while being made aware of the compression depth and the compression rate.
US10269258B2
A system for using a smartpen as a tool for automatically assessing student learning that is simple and accurate. The system has a computer with at least one processor, a memory, a storage, and communications through a protocol, one or more than one smartpen in communication with the computer and a plurality of software modules having non-transitory instructions executable on the processor for at least a characterization module, for characterizing spatial and temporal organization of a student's work, and a machine learning module utilizing the spatial and temporal organization to assess student learning.
US10269255B2
Some embodiments provide a system to identify geographic zones into which unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are inhibited from flying. In some instances, the system detects, while the UAS is in flight and traveling along a flight path to a delivery location where the UAS is scheduled to deliver a package, a no fly zone (NFZ) into which the UAS is to avoid flying; obtains a revised flight path to the delivery location that includes a detour route around the no fly zone; directs the motor controller to control the motors to implement the revised flight path; and detects when the UAS is at a threshold distance from the delivery location and initiate delivery of the package.
US10269253B2
Systems and methods of refining trajectories for aircraft include a trajectory prediction module for predicting a set of four-dimensional trajectories for aircraft; and a constraint selector module for determining a set of constraints based on the set of four-dimensional trajectories. The trajectory can be refined by mapping values for a goal associated with the set of four-dimensional trajectories based on the determined set of constraints and estimating additional values for the goal based on the mapped values.
US10269247B2
A drive support apparatus includes: a reliability determiner determining a reliability of a map matching, an area definer defining a determination area to include a cross point between a self-vehicle predicted path and a nearby vehicle predicted path, an intersection node finder determining an intersection node in a travel direction of the self-vehicle based on a high map matching reliability, and a node determiner determining whether the intersection node is found in the determination area. When no intersection node is found in the determination area, a drive support level is suppressed, and when the reliability is low, drive support is provided depending on whether the cross point between the self-vehicle predicted path and the other vehicle predicted path is found. Thus, lack of the drive support in a support-required situation is prevented, while preventing a provision of an unnecessary drive support.
US10269242B2
Techniques pertaining to an autonomous police vehicle are described. A method may involve a processor associated with an autonomous vehicle obtaining an indication of violation of one or more traffic laws by a first vehicle. The method may also involve the processor maneuvering the autonomous vehicle to pursue the first vehicle. The method may further involve the processor remotely executing one or more actions with respect to the first vehicle.
US10269241B2
A method for geographic region detection of traffic infrastructure via a receiver disposed in the region of the traffic infrastructure for a detection region of the receive unit, wherein status data of vehicles is communicated by the vehicles several times to the receive unit via wireless communication during the period in which vehicles pass through the detection region of the receiver, the receiver, or a processor connected to the receive unit, computes a vector for each vehicle, where the vector extends from a first position of the vehicle to a second position of the vehicle, and the receiver or the processor determines directions of travel of the vehicles and the geographic location of roadways and/or lanes of the roadways of the traffic infrastructure in the detection region from the vectors of all the vehicles.
US10269233B2
A presence and absence prediction method includes: acquiring electric power data of a predetermined building at a first point in time; acquiring learning data obtained by learning, for each predetermined time period, a correspondence relationship between electric power data of the building at a point in time preceding the first point in time and information indicating whether the person was actually present in the building; predicting, on the basis of the electric power data of the building at the first point in time and the learning data, whether the person is present in the building; and generating presence and absence information that indicates a result of the prediction and outputting the presence and absence information to a predetermined terminal.
US10269221B2
A system controls access by under-age players to games, such as Lottery games, over communication devices, including wireless devices. A ticket comprising a substrate identifies a game and indicates that it is a lottery electronic access ticket (LEAT). The LEAT is purchased at a physical retail establishment. The LEAT is scanned at the retail location, ticket information is sent to a remote server. A participation number, typically obscured, is provided on the LEAT, and then communicated by typing or keying the number. Game play proceeds once the system verifies that the number is valid. If valid, and a monetary amount remains available to the player, game play is permitted to proceed. The player is then provided with an indication of whether they have won, and if so, the amount.
US10269213B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a gaming system and method providing a game having a sub-symbol award evaluation. Generally, in various embodiments, if an outcome of a play of the game includes a set of one or more displayed designated symbols that are each associated with a same one of a plurality of different characteristics and that are collectively associated with a quantity of sub-symbols that is at least a designated quantity, the gaming system determines an award based on that particular characteristic and that particular quantity of sub-symbols. Put differently, the determined award varies based on the particular characteristic associated with each of those displayed designated symbols and the particular quantity of sub-symbols collectively associated with those displayed designated symbols.
US10269212B2
Various embodiments of alerts on mobile devices are described. In some embodiments, information regarding a plurality of games may be stored, including a list of mobile devices registered to receive alerts associated with each game. Data comprising information related to the plurality of games may be received. Matches between information in the data and one or more of the games may be identified by searching the stored game information. For each identified match, at least one alert message may be generated for each mobile device registered to receive alerts associated with the game. The respective alert message may include a respective summary of information from the data regarding the game, which may include information about scheduling and/or potential outcomes of the game. Other embodiments are described.
US10269208B2
Methods and systems for incorporating captured live event data into one or more virtual environments are described. For instance, a system can include a plurality of digital video capturing devices configured to capture real-time events that occur during a plurality of live events in respective live environments to generate real-time multimedia data. A computing system can receive the real-time multimedia data, generate virtual multimedia data, and incorporate the real-time multimedia data and the virtual multimedia data to generate hybrid multimedia data for a plurality of hybrid events in respective hybrid environments such that the hybrid events occur substantially simultaneously with the real-time events. A user interface is displayed on a mobile electronic device which presents the hybrid environments.
US10269200B2
A paper-sheet-thickness detecting sensor of the present invention includes: an oscillator that outputs high-frequency signals with frequencies corresponding to positions in a horizontal direction that is orthogonal to a direction in which a paper sheet is transported; a signal electrode to which the high-frequency signals output by the oscillator are applied; a plurality of detection electrodes that face the signal electrode across a transportation path for the paper sheet and that individually detect detection signals that correspond to the positions; a plurality of resonance circuits that each have one end connected to one end of each of the plurality of detection electrodes and that have resonance frequencies equal to the frequencies allocated to the positions; and a broadband amplifier to which another end of each of the plurality of resonance circuits is connected and that outputs outputs of the plurality of resonance circuits as one piece of sensor output information.
US10269195B2
Physical access to secure areas is automatically performed based on presence or detection of a wireless device. When a wireless cellular device is detected by a network serving a secure building, a unique identifier of the wireless cellular device is obtained. The identifier of the wireless cellular device may be compared to electronic calendars. If a matching calendar entry is determined, then the wireless cellular device is calendared to meet an employee or tenant inside the building. Physical access may thus be automatically granted, based on possession of a recognized cellular device.
US10269191B2
An example method includes determining identifying information for a vehicle to be serviced. The method further includes receiving at least one symptom identifier for the vehicle. The method further includes sending a request over a communication network to a remote server for a PID filter list for the vehicle, the request comprising the identifying information for the vehicle and the at least one symptom identifier for the vehicle. The method additionally includes receiving a response to the request over the communication network from the remote server, the response comprising the PID filter list for the vehicle. The method further includes determining, based on the PID filter list for the vehicle, a symptom-based subset of PIDs for the vehicle from a set of available PIDs. The method additionally includes displaying, on a display interface, the symptom-based subset of PIDs for the vehicle.
US10269188B2
A monitoring system for a dual-stage, separated gas/fluid shock strut may comprise a controller and a tangible, non-transitory memory configured to communicate with the controller. The tangible, non-transitory memory may have instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by the controller, cause the controller to perform various operations. Said operations may include determining, by the controller, a shock strut stroke at which a secondary chamber of the shock strut is activated, calculating, by the controller, a volume of oil in an oil chamber of the shock strut, calculating, by the controller, a volume of gas in a primary chamber of the shock strut, and calculating, by the controller, a volume of oil leaked into the primary chamber of the shock strut.
US10269186B2
A communication region defining method is a method for defining a defined communication region in operation of a toll collection system having only an on-board unit present within the defined communication region as a communication target for toll collection and includes: a transmitter arrangement step of arranging reference transmitters capable of transmitting radio waves at a plurality of positions on a boundary line of a defined communication region; a position location step of locating a position of each of the plurality of reference transmitters on the basis of a position location signal obtained by receiving, through predetermined position location antennas, radio waves transmitted by the plurality of reference transmitters; and a determination condition setting step of setting conditions for determining whether to set an on-board unit as a communication target for toll collection on the basis of position location results with respect to the plurality of reference transmitters.
US10269185B2
An image forming apparatus includes a code number generator that generates, when an operation reception unit receives user's designation of a number of tickets to be issued, a code key, and an encryption method, an encrypted code number for each of the designated number of tickets, with respect to each ticket number sequentially allocated to the designated number of tickets, using the designated code key and encryption method, a distinction image generator that generates, for each tickets, a distinction image containing the code number generated for each of the ticket, and a controller that adds, in each of the designated number of tickets, the distinction image of each of the tickets generated by the distinction image generator, to image data of an original of the ticket read by a document reading unit, and causes a printing unit to print each of the designated number of tickets.
US10269180B2
Interaction between a virtual object and the real space is to be presented in a preferred manner.In accordance with a user's viewing or finding of an actual object 151, the virtual object 150 corresponding to the actual object 151 appears. The actual object 151 includes output devices that generate outputs such as vibration, electric pulse, heat or cooling air, wind, sound, light, a transfer, and a jump. The actual object 151 performs reaction to action performed on the actual object 151 by the virtual object 150. Where interaction is conducted between the virtual object 150 and the actual object 151 in synchronization, a stronger impression of reality can be given to the user.
US10269178B2
Some embodiments of the invention pertain to a method for visualizing surface data and panorama image data in a three-dimensional scene. In some embodiments, the method may include providing a map view mode and a panorama view mode to a user. In some embodiments, the map view mode and/or the panorama view mode may include a multitude of surface tiles representing features of the three-dimensional surface, and may be referenced relative to a coordinate reference system. In some embodiments, the panorama image data may be associated with at least one panorama image and may include panorama position data describing a position relative to the coordinate reference system. In some embodiments, the map view mode may include visualizing surface data of at least a part of the representation of the three-dimensional surface as perceived from a map viewpoint.
US10269174B2
An article of sports apparel being customized for a person is provided, and may be manufactured based on a digital model, the digital model built based on received sensor data, the received sensor data obtained by at least one sensor integrated into another article of sports apparel, and the sensor data is obtained while the other article of sports apparel is worn by the person during a sports activity.
US10269171B2
A control system and data acquisition system for an electrical capacitance tomography sensor comprised of a sensor having a plurality of electrodes, where each electrode is further comprised of a plurality of capacitance segments. Each of the capacitance segments of each electrode can be individually addressed to focus the electric field intensity or sensitivity to desired regions of the electrodes and the sensor.
US10269160B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for processing an image. The method includes: acquiring a first original image to be processed and creating a preset number copies of the first original image which the preset number copies and the first original image have a same image but different transparencies; offsetting content of each copy of the preset number copies of the first original image to obtain the preset number copies of first processed images; and overlaying the first original image and the preset number copies of the first processed images, and getting an overlaid first original image as a result of the first original image.
US10269149B2
A tomographic image generation device includes a projection image acquisition section configured to acquire plural projection images obtained by radiating radiation onto a breast in sequence from plural radiation angles and by performing imaging at each of the plural radiation angles; a mammary gland density acquisition section configured to acquire a mammary gland density of the breast; a derivation section configured to derive a slice thickness that decreases as the mammary gland density acquired by the mammary gland density acquisition section increases; and a generation section configured to generate a tomographic image at the slice thickness derived by the derivation section based on the plural projection images acquired by the projection image acquisition section.
US10269139B2
A method includes acquiring first and second images that are captured by imaging a first real marker with a camera when the camera is respectively at a first and second positions with respect to the first real marker, deriving a motion of an inertial sensor based on output of the inertial sensor when the camera moves from the first position to the second position, displaying a marker image corresponding to a second real marker on a display, acquiring a third image that is obtained by capturing the second real marker with the camera when a user perceives the marker image and the second real marker being aligned with each other, and deriving a first spatial relationship between the camera and the inertial sensor and a second spatial relationship between the camera and the display based at least on the first and second images, the motion, and the third image.
US10269132B2
[Object] To process an image captured by a camera mounted on a moving object device or a user to be suitable for display on an image display device fixed to the head or face of the user.[Solution] The image rendering processor 1042, in the beginning, corrects the user's head posture angle qh using the camera posture angle qc (F1421), and clips a display angle of view depending on the corrected user's head posture angle qh* from the captured image to render a free viewpoint image (F1422). Then, the image processing device 1040 transmits the free viewpoint image rendered by the image rendering processor 1042 to the display device 1020 via the communication unit 1041, and the image is displayed on the display device 1020 (F1430).
US10269126B2
Provided is an image processing apparatus (2000) including an index value calculation unit (2020) and a presentation unit (2040). The index value calculation unit (2020) acquires a plurality of images captured by a camera (3000) (captured images), and calculates an index value indicating the degree of change in the state of a monitoring target in the captured image, using the acquired captured image. The presentation unit (2040) presents an indication based on the index value calculated by the index value calculation unit (2020) on the captured image captured by the camera (3000).
US10269121B2
Techniques related to improved video frame segmentation based on color, motion, and texture are discussed. Such techniques may include segmenting a video frame of a video sequence based on only dominant color when the frame does not have a dominant motion nor a global motion in a high probability region of dominant color within the video frame.
US10269120B2
A character recognition method is provided, including the steps of: recognizing a character string, which includes one or more characters, in a region of interest (ROI) using a first convolutional neural network (CNN) model to generate a recognized character string; and comparing the recognized character string with a plurality of character strings in a character database to find a character string corresponding to the recognized character string, wherein each of the character strings includes one or more characters; wherein if the character string corresponding to the recognized character string is found, the recognized character string is used as a character recognition result, otherwise, using a second CNN model to correct the recognized string and generate a new recognized character string as the character recognition result.
US10269118B2
A method for assessing the presence and/or the severity of a lesion in an organ or tissue of a subject through automated analysis of at least one image of the organ or tissue is provided. In particular, the organ or tissue is a liver organ or liver tissue. The method includes the calculation of a score that combines descriptors of the image, and includes the steps of: a) measuring on the image at least two descriptors of the image, b) mathematically combining the descriptors in a score; and c) assessing the presence and/or the severity of a lesion in the organ or tissue based on the value of the score calculated at step b).
US10269114B2
Methods and systems for automatically scoring diagnoses associated with clinical images. One system includes a server including an electronic processor and an interface for communicating with at least one data source. The electronic processor is configured to receive a diagnosis associated with an image of a patient from the at least one data source over the interface. The diagnosis is for an anatomical structure represented in the image. The electronic processor is also configured to receive a pathology result for the patient for the anatomical structure generated after the diagnosis from the at least one pathology result source over the interface. The electronic processor is also configured to automatically generate a score based on a comparison of the diagnosis and the pathology result. The electronic processor is also configured to display the score within a graphical user interface.
US10269112B2
Through the measurement and interpretation of the pixels of grayscale digital thermographic images of abnormalities of the skin and its subcutaneous tissue, early intervention and treatment of abnormalities of the skin and its subcutaneous tissue are possible, thereby assisting clinicians in making significant impacts on prevention and treatment.
US10269110B2
Systems and methods for detecting the cracks in illuminated electronic device screens are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving an image of an electronic device screen and retrieving a plurality of kernels, each having values corresponding to a line region and a non-line region, with the orientation of the line region and the non-line region differing for each kernel. At least some of the kernels are applied to the image to obtain, at various locations of the image, values corresponding to the line regions and the non-line regions. Based on the values corresponding to the line regions and the non-line regions, cracks are automatically identified in the electronic device screen.
US10269106B2
There is provided a method for analyzing an image of rod-shaped particles, the method comprising: transforming a spatial domain image of rod-shaped particles having random orientations to a frequency domain image thereof using DFT (discrete Fourier transform); extracting connected components from the frequency domain image using a frequency domain filter, wherein the connected components have a predetermined orientation; and back-transforming the frequency domain image having the extracted connected components to a spatial domain image thereof using IDFT (inverse discrete Fourier transform).
US10269105B2
A mask inspection device and method thereof are provided. In the mask inspection device, an image capturing module is controlled to capture an image of the object to be inspected, and when the captured image does not match a predetermined correction image, a horizontal position of the bearing module which holds the object is adjusted; when the captured image matches the predetermined correction image, a light emission element projects a spot light towards the object, and the image capturing module captures an image in a mask region of the object, so as to produce a mask inspection image. The mask inspection information can be obtained from a two-dimensional image of the mask inspection image, and an abnormal image of the mask inspection image is inspected to generate mask abnormal information.
US10269099B2
An image-processing method of removing noise from an image includes: obtaining standard representative values for standard regions of a standard image and reference representative values for reference regions of a reference image, and obtaining a plurality of hierarchical images having different resolutions with respect to the standard image and the reference image based on the standard representative values and the reference representative values; obtaining the standard representative values for the standard regions of the standard image and the reference representative values for the reference regions of the reference image from the hierarchical images; determining a similarity between the standard regions and the reference regions from the standard representative values and the reference representative values; and removing noise by applying filtering to the standard image and the reference image depending on the determined similarity.
US10269095B2
An image processing pipeline may dynamically determine filtering strengths for noise filtering of image data. Statistics may be collected for an image at an image processing pipeline. The statistics may be accessed and evaluated to generate a filter strength model that maps respective filtering strengths to different portions of the image. A noise filter may determine a filtering strength for image data received at the noise filter according to the filter strength model. The noise filter may then apply a filtering technique according to the determined filtering strength.
US10269060B2
{Problems to be Solved}To provide support in the mail-order sales for a merchandise provider who has no shops by relaying the live camera video of the merchandise over the Internet and by voice inputting.{Means for Solving the Problem}On reception of an application for a mail-order purchase from a user computer terminal, a web server delivers, to the user computer terminal, a video taken by web camera, a voice input in microphone, and merchandise information converted from the voice input, and processes matters related to the mail-order received from the user computer terminal. An administrator computer terminal registers, in the web server, merchandise accommodated in a live box placed at a freely-chosen place as an object of mail order sales, provides, to the user computer terminal, omnidirectional video of the objective merchandise and voice in real time in accordance with the instruction given by the user computer terminal, and thereby, supports the mail-order operated by a merchandise provider with no literacy of computer.
US10269059B2
A computerized exchange network makes available on the Internet collected information of items under inspection, such as goods, real estate, or the like. In one aspect, the items and collected information, such as images and videos, are added to a virtual showroom or other virtual inspection site that presents an inventory of such goods, real estate, or the like available from multiple sellers and/or locations. In another aspect, detailed objective information about the items is provided. In another aspect, a data structure includes desired criteria for a desired item and provides an alert when an item of interest matches the desired criteria.
US10269057B2
A method and system for mobile commerce, communication, and transaction processing to real-world point of sale (POS), web, e-commerce, virtual terminal, mobile personal digital assistant, mobile phone, mobile device, or other computer based transactions involving either one or both financial and non-financial such as loyalty based transactions as a mobile payment system is described. A consumer mobile software application (CMA) may be utilized in accordance with the method and system to provide a visual representation of merchants that abstractly represents the relevance of the merchants to a consumer.
US10269053B2
Electronic commerce is enhanced for customer convenience. When an online order is received, a profile may be checked. A customer may her profile with items that are automatically added to the online order. Food and beverages, for example, may be items that are frequently consumed and thus automatically added to any online order. Electronic commerce may thus be enhanced to restock items that are frequently purchased.
US10269043B1
A computer-executable method, a computer system and a non-transitory computer-readable medium are provided for enabling download of a promotion application program provided by a promotion and marketing service. The method includes using a computer-executable tool on a first application program to initiate a determination of whether a promotion application program is installed on the mobile computing device. The method includes, upon determining that the promotion application program is not installed on the mobile computing device, using the first application program to indicate an impression of a promotion in association with a representation of the promotion application program. The representation of the promotion application program is configured to enable download of the promotion application program to the mobile computing device.
US10269025B2
Various embodiments enable network service providers to receive revenue from their user bases by providing network services to various distributed devices in exchange for the distributed devices agreeing to process workloads for customer paid projects. In at least one embodiment, a method of operating a distributed processing system may include identifying a first party with a first user base with several first distributed devices, and identifying a different party with a different user base with several second distributed devices. Processing workloads for a customer paid project using the first and second distributed devices. Then, sharing revenue from the customer project between the first party and the second party based in part on a size of a user base, a user base's processing capability, or a type of project processed by the user base.
US10269022B2
A system for verifying an item in a package using a database comprises a database and a verifier. A package producer provides the database with an identifier for one or more items each of a type, wherein the package producer produces a package, where the package includes the one or more items each of the type with an associated one or more selected tag identifiers that are placed in a location on an item of the one or more items. The verifier verifies the one or more items of the type using 1) the associated one or more selected tag identifiers as detected using a spectral signature or 2) a tag characteristic as detected using an imager, and 3) the identifier retrieved from the database.
