US10306820B2
A packaging system of an electronic device, in which the electronic device is mounted on a circuit board, may comprise: a first jig having a groove configured to contain the electronic device, the first jig having a surface on which a plurality of aligning posts are prepared to protrude; a circuit board supporting member connected to the circuit board to support the circuit board, the circuit board supporting member including a plurality of first guide holes into which the aligning posts are inserted; and/or a second jig configured to apply pressure to the circuit board and including a plurality of second guide holes into which the aligning posts are inserted.
US10306814B2
A three-phase two-level power electronics assembly is disclosed in one form including a thermally conductive base plate, a heat dissipation unit, mounted on a first face of the base plate, connectors for three-phase AC output, chopper DC outputs, and two poles of a DC link, and a set of power electronics devices mounted on a second face of the base plate, whereby the power electronic devices are arranged within the three-phase two-level power electronics assembly in rows to provide a three phase AC output as well as chopper DC outputs and connected to the respective connectors, whereby the rows connected to the three-phase AC output and the rows connected to the chopper DC outputs are alternately arranged on the base plate. Also disclosed is a power converter, in particular a static power converter, having at least one three-phase two-level power electronics assembly as specified above.
US10306812B2
A hot/cold aisle containment system includes a frame structure, at least one electronic equipment enclosure installed at least partially within the frame structure, and a header panel assembly. The frame structure is adapted to be at least partially covered by one or more panels to define an interior space and includes a vertical member and a horizontal member. The header panel assembly is installed between a top of the at least one electronic equipment enclosure and the horizontal member of the frame structure to prevent circulation of air above the enclosure. The header panel assembly includes a main panel and at least one seal.
US10306805B2
A cooling mechanism of high mounting flexibility includes a heat sink including a heat sink body defining an accommodation portion and position-limit sliding grooves and stop blocks fastened to the heat sink body, heat pipes positioned in the position-limit sliding grooves and stopped against the stop blocks, each heat pipe having a hot interface accommodated in the accommodation portion and an opposing cold interface positioned in one position-limit sliding groove, heat transfer blocks each defining a recessed insertion passage for accommodating the hot interfaces of the heat pipes and an opposing planar contact surface for the contact of a heat source of an external circuit board, and an elastic member elastically positioned between the heat sink and the heat transfer blocks.
US10306801B2
Techniques that facilitate two-phase liquid cooling of an electronic device are provided. In one example, an apparatus, such as a cold plate device, comprises a first stackable layer and a second stackable layer. The first stackable layer comprises a first channel formed within the first stackable layer. The first channel comprises a first channel width and the first channel receives a coolant fluid via an inlet port of the apparatus. The second stackable layer comprises a second channel that provides a path for the coolant fluid to flow between the first channel and an outlet port of the apparatus. A width of the second channel increases along a flow direction of the coolant fluid that flows between the inlet port and the outlet port.
US10306800B2
The present invention discloses a cooling trough comprising an unflat surface, surrounding an opening of the cooling trough, configured with a height essentially decreasing inwardly. At least one supporting line, running around the opening of the cooling trough, is formed on the unflat surface. The at least one supporting line contacts a baseplate of a power module after the baseplate is attached to the unflat surface of the cooling trough. In addition, the present invention also discloses a cooler comprising the cooling trough and a power module assembly comprising the cooler.
US10306799B2
An electronic device, immersed in a coolant filled in a cooling apparatus, and directly cooled, is configured to be housed in housing parts of the cooling apparatus, and includes a metal board held with board retainers disposed in the housing part, and substrate groups attached to a first surface of the metal board and a second surface opposite the first surface. The substrate group includes first circuit boards, each including sockets for mounting processors and main memories on one surface of a substrate, and a component for interconnecting the processors, a second circuit board including a mother board component which includes a chipset for controlling the main memory, and a flow channel formed in a gap between a surface opposite the one surface of the first circuit boards, and one surface of the second circuit board, which faces the surface opposite the one surface of the first circuit boards.
US10306797B2
A data center power system includes an enclosure that defines an inner volume; a first direct current (DC) power bus mounted in the inner volume and extending externally to electrically couple to a source of main power; a second DC power bus mounted in the inner volume and extending externally to electrically couple to the source of main power; a plurality of transfer switches mounted in the inner volume, each transfer switch electrically coupled to one of the first DC power bus or the second DC power bus; and a plurality of DC power conductors that are electrically coupled to a pair of transfer switches that includes one transfer switch electrically coupled to the first DC power bus and one transfer switch electrically coupled to the second DC power bus; each DC power conductor configured to electrically couple to a data center rack that supports a plurality of electronic devices.
US10306796B2
An information handling system couples at a location with a rail clip that couples to a rail, such as with a DIN rail system. A sensor detects engagement of the rail clip at the rail and signals extending members that extend outward from the rail clip to press against the rail. At disengagement of the rail clip from the rail, the extending members retract to release the rail for removal of the information handling system. In one embodiment, the sensor and extending members are integrated in the information handling system to support extension and retraction with commands through the information handling system, such as by network communications.
US10306793B2
Aspects and techniques of the present disclosure relate to an enclosure (20) that can include first and second housing pieces (22, 24) that cooperate to define an enclosed interior (26) of the enclosure (20). The first and second housing pieces (22, 24) mate at an interface (28) that extends about a continuous sealing loop (30). The enclosure (20) may include a seal (44) that extends about the continuous sealing loop (30) of the enclosure (20) at the interface (28) between the first and second housing pieces (22, 24). The seal (44) can include a retention portion (46) positioned within a channel (36) of the first housing piece (22) and a sealing flap (48) connected to the retention portion (46). The second housing piece (24) may include an outer flange (50) that extends about the continuous sealing loop (30) of the enclosure (20). The sealing flap (48) of the seal (44) can be compressed between the outer flange (50) and a rim element (32) of the enclosure (20).
US10306790B2
A casing component according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a to-be-decorated area and a decoration portion. The to-be-decorated area includes a plurality of to-be-decorated surfaces to be decorated, the plurality of to-be-decorated surfaces being formed such that adjacent to-be-decorated surfaces have different heights. The decoration portion includes a metal layer formed in each of the plurality of to-be-decorated surfaces.
US10306782B2
This invention covers a display system which includes modular deployable display units, a stand, a power source, a data input device and a display support. Each unit includes a housing, a spool assembly, a flexible electronic display member, an electrical cable and a connecting system for connecting the units to the stand and for physically connecting the units to one another, in an end to end arrangement. The assembly is mounted within the housing and includes a spool having opposite ends, to which the spool is rotatably mounted. The flexible member includes LEDs for displaying a programmable message. The flexible member has an end coupled to the spool and is displaceable between a wound configuration where the member is wound onto the spool and an unwound configuration where the member is unwound from the spool. A free end of the member is coupled to the support for displaying the message.
US10306776B1
A substrate processing system includes a processing chamber, a pedestal arranged in the processing chamber, and an electrostatic chuck (ESC) arranged on the pedestal. The ESC contains a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) made up of a plurality of printed circuit board layers to mount circuitry that controls operation of the ESC. One or more of the printed circuit board layers includes a heater layer having one or more metal traces, which may be copper, to cover some or all of a surface of the heater layer sufficiently to provide heat to one or more of the remaining printed circuit board layers, to maintain the circuitry within a predetermined temperature range. The heat may be conducted directly among the various other printed circuit board layers, or may be conducted through vias in various ones of the printed circuit board layers.
US10306769B2
A wiring board includes an insulating layer made of an insulating resin containing inorganic insulating particles, a groove positioned in a surface of the insulating layer and including a wall surface being perpendicular to the surface of the insulating layer, and a wiring conductor filled in the groove, wherein a cross-section of the insulating resin and cross-sections of the inorganic insulating particles are exposed at the wall surface in flush with each other.
US10306768B2
A method for manufacturing traces of a printed circuit board (PCB) comprises an application of the periodic pulse reverse (PPR) pattern plating process. In the first stage, walls and bottoms in drilled holes of the PCB are modified with reduced graphene oxide (rGO) so that the vias can be formed by filling with copper and a very thin copper layer can be formed on the substrate through the electroplating process. In the second stage, a pattern of very fine traces with width/space less than 30/30 μm is formed on the thin copper layer and then the traces are formed through the PPR pattern plating process. After removing unwanted copper layer, the traces with even thicknesses and square profiles are achieved and thus conform to requirements of the high density interconnection (HDI) technology.
US10306757B2
A circuit board includes an insulation layer, a signal line formed over the insulation layer and extending in a direction X, and a conductor layer formed under the insulation layer. The insulation layer has periodic dielectric-constant distribution in a direction Y orthogonal to the direction X. The conductor layer includes a slit at a position corresponding to the signal line. The slit expands an electric field produced between the signal line and the conductor layer; causes less difference in dielectric constants of the insulation layer in the vicinity of the signal line (the difference is caused by the positional relationship between the signal line and the dielectric-constant distribution of the insulation layer); and reduces difference in signal transmission speeds caused by the positional relationship.
US10306751B2
An electronic module assembly has a memory module that includes a memory module and an electronic module. The memory module includes a first board having a first board first surface disposed opposite a first board second surface. The electronic module is operatively connected to the memory module. The electronic module includes a mounting plate having a mounting plate first surface that is disposed opposite a mounting plate second surface that faces towards the first board first surface. The mounting plate has a first post and a second post spaced apart from the first post.
US10306747B2
A method and device for controlling a linear accelerator as well as a linear accelerating system are provided according to examples of the present disclosure. In an example, a first component of the linear accelerator is controlled to move according to a motion instruction; when it is detected that the first component reaches a first position, the first component is controlled to pause moving, and a second component of the linear accelerator is controlled to move in a preset direction; when it is detected that the second component reaches a second position, the second component is controlled to stop moving, and the first component is controlled to continue to move according to the motion instruction.
US10306746B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose methods and systems for performing particle acceleration using a cyclotron RF resonator with an asymmetrical fixed tuner. A cyclotron RF resonator includes a single shorting plate tuner inside and a fixed short stem, and does not require top-bottom mirror symmetry. Small movements in relation to the wavelengths of the maximum acceleration voltage is bound by the capacitance of the accelerating surfaces. As such, the resonator may perform particle acceleration using asymmetrical tuning to reduce design complexity, cost of maintenance, fabrication and installation complexity, failure rate, and software complexity (e.g., control software), for example.
US10306740B1
Apparatus, systems, and methods for remotely dimming lights are disclosed. In one embodiment, a light-dimming apparatus for placement within a lighting enclosure of a lighting fixture is disclosed. The light-dimming apparatus can comprise an AC live input terminal, an AC neutral input terminal, an AC live output terminal, an AC neutral output terminal, a dimmer module, one or more motion sensing modules, and a microcontroller unit comprising a plurality of wireless communication modules, and one or more processor cores. The one or more processor cores can be programmed to execute instructions to receive a dimming command from another device via at least one of the plurality of wireless communication modules, receive zero-crossing signals from the dimmer module, and transmit switching signals to the dimmer module to modulate the power supplied to the lighting load to dim the brightness of the lighting load.
US10306737B2
A configuration system (100) for configuring a first device (130) in a lighting system is disclosed. The configuration system (100) comprises a memory (102) arranged for storing one or more light settings (110), which light settings (110) are defined by one or more light setting rules (112). The configuration system (100) further comprises a communication unit (104) arranged for communicating with the first device (130). The configuration system (100) further comprises a processor (106) arranged for identifying a device property (132) of the first device (130) based on information received from the first device (130) via the communication unit (104). The processor (106) is further arranged for accessing one or more light settings (110) stored in the memory (102), and for associating the device property (132) with at least one of the one or more light setting rules (112) of at least one of the one or more light settings (110) only if the device property (132) is compliant with the respective light setting rule (112), and for storing the association. This method allows a user to connect the first device (130) to the configuration system (100), whereupon the configuration system (100) determines the functionality of the first device (130) in the lighting system based on the light settings (110) stored in the memory (102).
US10306734B2
Presence of a working machine is noticed by those in the surroundings, and a worker is easily informed of a warning relating to an external environment. A working machine includes a detection unit including a sensor detecting an external environment of a machine body, and a control unit that controls a headlight that functions as an illumination unit based on the detected external environment.
US10306732B2
A bidirectional switch is switched so as to conduct and interrupt a bidirectional current between a pair of input terminals. A power supply is electrically connected between the pair of input terminals and produces control power by electric power from an AC power supply. A controller receives the control power from the power supply to be activated. The controller causes the bidirectional switch to be in an off-state from a start point of a half cycle of AC voltage to a first time point when first time elapses. The controller causes the bidirectional switch to be in an on-state from the first time point to a second time point when second time according to the dimming level elapses. The controller causes the bidirectional switch to be in an off-state from the second time point to an end point of the half cycle.
US10306730B1
The present disclosure provides a light state regulation controller, control system and control method. The controller comprises a peak current comparator, a PWM controller, a power switch, a state detector and a state machine. The peak current comparator produces a PWM turn-off signal according to a comparison result between a peak current sampling signal and a reference voltage. The PWM controller outputs a PWM control signal and the reference voltage under the control of the PWM turn-off signal and a state control signal, wherein the state control signal controls the state of the PWM control signal. The state detector detects a state change in the PWM control signal or an equivalent signal for the PWM control signal, and outputs a state input signal. The state machine produces a plurality of states according to the state input signal, and outputs the state control signal reflecting the plurality of states.
US10306722B2
An LED driving circuit configured to drive an LED lamp having first and second loads, can include: a power converter; a dimmer configured to control the power converter to output a driving current to the LED lamp; and a current distribution circuit configured to adjust a proportion of current from the driving current that flows through each of the first and second loads of the LED lamp, in order to adjust the color temperature or the brightness of the LED lamp.
US10306714B2
A semiconductor component including a Wheatstone bridge rectifying circuit and a transistor is provided, wherein the Wheatstone bridge rectifying circuit and the transistor are formed on a same growth substrate, and wherein the Wheatstone bridge rectifying circuit includes a first rectifying diode; a second rectifying diode electrically connected to the first rectifying diode; a third rectifying diode electrically connected to the second rectifying diode; and a fourth rectifying diode electrically connected to the third rectifying diode.
US10306713B2
An electrical circuit for a light fixture can include a power supply that provides primary power. The electrical circuit can also include a light module having at least one first light source coupled to the power supply, where the at least one light source illuminates when the light module receives the primary power. The electrical circuit can further include an energy storage unit having at least one energy storage device, where the at least one energy storage device charges using the primary power. The at least one first light source can receive reserve power from the energy storage unit when the power supply ceases providing the primary power.
US10306712B2
A frangible laminate includes first, second and third webs, and the second web is positioned between the first and third webs. The forming of the frangible laminate includes adhesively bonding a first plurality of sections of the second web to the first web, applying release material in order to inhibit at least some of any bonding between the first plurality of sections of the second web and the third web, and adhesively bonding a second plurality of sections of the second web to the third web. The frangible laminate is separated into a first laminate and a second laminate, so that the first laminate includes the first web and the first plurality of sections of the second web, and the second laminate includes the third web and the second plurality of sections of the second web.
US10306711B2
Novel microwave ovens and methods of using and manufacturing the same. Some microwave ovens include multiple doors and/or control keypads.
US10306698B2
A method is disclosed for establishing and operating a wireless network with a first communication unit, a second communication unit and a mobile communication unit. The first and second communication units are configured in each case as a server and the mobile communication unit is configured as a client. The mobile communication unit acquires connection set-up data of the first and second communication units. A wireless connection is established from the mobile communication unit to the first communication unit. The latter receives an instruction from the mobile communication unit via the wireless connection for configuration as a client of the second communication unit and the mobile communication unit transfers the connection set-up data of the second communication unit to the first communication unit. A wireless connection is then established from the mobile communication unit to the second communication unit.
US10306690B2
Embodiments include apparatuses, methods, and systems including a communication device having a first transceiver to communicate with a first device through a first communication link, and a second transceiver to communicate with a second device through a second communication link. In addition, there may be a third communication link between the first device and the second device. For the communication device, the second transceiver may consume less power for the second communication link than a power the first transceiver consumes to communicate through the first communication link. The communication device may communicate a traffic with the first device via the second device, through the second and third communication links, using the second transceiver. Other embodiments may also be described and claimed.
US10306685B2
The embodiments herein relate to a method in a CN node (303) for handling a GTP-U tunnel. When the GTP-U tunnel is to be set up, the CN node transmits a first message to a RAN gateway (305). The first message comprises a request for information identifying the RAN gateway (305). The CN node (303) receives a second message from the RAN gateway (305). The second message comprises the requested information identifying the RAN gateway (305). The CN node (303) determines a first endpoint node and a second endpoint node of the GTP-U tunnel. The first endpoint node is the RAN node (301) and the second endpoint node is the RAN gateway (305).
US10306673B2
A front-end unit that operates within a C-RAN architecture to perform the functions of cellular signal processing and resource selection between an RRU and the BBU pool network is described. The front-end unit supports flexible load migration and CoMP (coordinated multipoint) in the CRAN BBU while also reducing data transmission within the BBU pool network or between the BBU pool network and the RRU.
US10306668B2
A radio communication base station device can efficiently obtain a multiuser diversity gain from frequency scheduling while reducing the amount of a reference signal occupying an uplink. In the device, a grouping section divides a plurality of RBs (Resource Blocks) into a plurality of RB groups. An RB group control unit performs a control to change the correspondence relationship between the RBs and the RB groups with time. When the grouping section divides the RBs into the RB groups, the RB control unit performs a control to change a combination of the RBs included in each of the RB groups with time. A scheduling section performs a scheduling of allocating each of a plurality of mobile stations to each of the RBs in each of the RB groups according to the reception quality of the reference signal.
US10306666B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a data transmission method, a base station, and user equipment. The method in the embodiments of the present invention includes: receiving, by a base station, a first target sequence and uplink data that are sent by user equipment; determining, by the base station according to a first mapping relationship, a first target uplink sending parameter corresponding to the first target sequence, where the first mapping relationship is used to indicate a correspondence between an uplink sending parameter and a sequence; and demodulating and decoding, by the base station, the uplink data according to the first target uplink sending parameter.
US10306665B2
To facilitate increasing power and resource efficiency of a mobile device, in the mobile device, with regard to periodic or one-time data transfers, a communication management component can analyze information comprising data transfer parameter information, including jitter information, associated with each application of a subset of applications used by the device and can desirably schedule and/or bundle data transfers associated with the applications to reduce the number of separate data bursts to transfer that data to thereby reduce use of wireless resources and power consumption by the device. A push notification system can receive respective jitter information associated with each application from the mobile device, and the push notification system can desirably schedule and/or bundle push notifications to reduce the number of separate data bursts sent to the device to reduce use of wireless resources and power consumption by the device.
US10306658B2
A method and system are provided for scheduling data transmission in a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) system. The MIMO system may comprise at least one MIMO transmitter and at least one MIMO receiver. Feedback from one or more receivers may be used by a transmitter to improve quality, capacity, and scheduling in MIMO communication systems. The method may include generating or receiving information pertaining to a MIMO channel metric and information pertaining to a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) in respect of a transmitted signal; and sending a next transmission to a receiver using a MIMO mode selected in accordance with the information pertaining to the MIMO channel metric, and an adaptive coding and modulation selected in accordance with the information pertaining to the CQI.
US10306646B2
The present disclosure provides a method in a base station for resource configuration for Device-to-Device (D2D) Scheduling Assignment (SA) and/or D2D data transmissions for a User Equipment (UE) and a corresponding UE. The base station transmits resource configuration for the D2D SA and/or D2D data transmissions to the UE. Frequency hopping schemes for the D2D SA and/or D2D data transmissions within one subframe or between subframes are predefined at network side. The UE obtains schemes for D2D SA and/or D2D data transmissions in time domain based on the resource configuration for the D2D SA and/or D2D data transmissions transmitted from the base station. The UE obtains schemes for D2D SA and/or D2D data transmissions in time domain based on the frequency hopping schemes for the D2D SA and/or D2D data transmissions within one subframe or between subframes are predefined the at network side.
US10306642B2
A wireless telecommunications system in which downlink communications are made using a radio interface that spans a system frequency bandwidth (host carrier) and supports at least some communications from a base station to least some terminal devices within a plurality of restricted frequency bands (virtual carriers) which are narrower than and within the system frequency bandwidth. A terminal device conveys an indication of its identity, e.g. an IMSI, to the base station during an initial connection procedure as the terminal device seeks to access the radio interface. The terminal device and the base station both determine a selected restricted frequency band from among the plurality of restricted frequency bands based on the identity of the terminal device in the same way. Thus the terminal device and the base station select the same restricted frequency band and can accordingly configure their respective transceivers to allow for downlink communications between them within the selected restricted frequency band.
US10306639B2
A communication apparatus has a communication function that can concurrently perform first communication in which communication with a partner apparatus is performed via another apparatus that decides a wireless channel to be used in the wireless communication and second communication in which communication with the partner apparatus is performed not via another apparatus by the communication apparatus deciding the wireless channel. In a state in which the first communication and the second communication are concurrently performed, if a connection for the first communication is to be established while a connection for the second communication is established, a second wireless channel used for the second communication is set so as to match the second wireless channel with a first wireless channel to be used when the connection for the first communication is established.
US10306638B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a direct current component subcarrier configuration method and apparatus. The base station includes: a processing module, configured to: determine a first DC subcarrier on a carrier, where the first DC subcarrier is located, in a frequency domain, at a non-center frequency location on the carrier, and a center frequency of the first DC subcarrier is an integer multiple of 100 KHz; and determine a second DC subcarrier on the carrier, where the second DC subcarrier is located, in the frequency domain, at a center frequency location at which the base station transmits the carrier, and the first DC subcarrier does not overlap the second DC subcarrier.
US10306637B2
A radio base station according to an embodiment is a radio base station configured to use a specific frequency band which includes a plurality of component carriers having a predetermined bandwidth and which is allowed to be utilized by a plurality of network operators or a plurality of communication systems. The radio base station comprises: a controller configured to select, from among the plurality of component carriers, a target component carrier in which a reference signal used in the specific frequency band should be transmitted; and a transmitter configured to use the target component carrier to transmit the reference signal. The controller selects, as the target component carrier, a first component carrier that satisfies a first condition. The first condition is that an interference power amount falls below a predetermined threshold value.
US10306636B2
A frequency band basis for access of user equipment (UE) to a serving cell is determined. Configuration information for an inter-frequency neighbor cell, at a preset physical frequency point, of the frequency band basis for the access of the UE to the serving cell, and one or more carrier aggregation combinations supported by the UE are acquired. A target frequency band of a secondary carrier required to be configured by the UE is determined according to the configuration information for the inter-frequency neighbor cell and the one or more carrier aggregation combinations supported by the UE. A corresponding reconfiguration message is sent to the UE and an inter-frequency neighbor cell, at the preset physical frequency point, of the target frequency band is used as a secondary serving cell according to a carrier aggregation capability of the UE in the target frequency band.
US10306635B2
A hybrid band intelligent backhaul radio (HB-IBR) is disclosed that is a combination of two radios operating in different bands. Embodiments include a dual radio configuration wherein a first radio operates in a non-line of sight (NLOS) radio link configuration and a second ancillary radio operates in a near line of sight or line of sight configuration (n)LOS. For example, the HB-IBR may have an Intelligent Backhaul Radio (IBR) operating in the non-line of sight mode of operation within the 5.8 GHz unlicensed band, and have an ancillary radio link operating in the FCC part 101 E band of operation at 60 GHz. A common medium access control (MAC) block may be utilized between the dual radios.
US10306627B2
Various aspects described herein relate to receiving wireless communications from an access point, determining resources of the wireless communications associated with a search space for control information in the received wireless communications, and performing one or more of a set of blind decodes over the search space to decode at least low latency control information associated with a low latency communication technology, wherein the low latency communication technology utilizes a transmission time interval (TTI) having a duration that is less than a subframe of a legacy communication technology.
US10306625B2
According to an aspect, there is provided a method of operating a network node in a communication network. The method comprises determining (121) a preferred configuration for one or more flexible subframes in a frame, the frame comprising one or more subframes allocated to uplink transmissions, one or more subframes allocated to downlink transmissions and one or more flexible subframes that can each be dynamically allocated to either uplink transmissions or downlink transmissions; and transmitting (125) a message to a neighbouring network node in the communication network through an inter node interface, the message indicating the preferred configuration for the one or more flexible subframes.
US10306622B2
[Object] To enable a frequency band shared between wireless communication of a cellular system and wireless communication conforming to a wireless LAN standard to be more appropriately used in the cellular system.[Solution] There is provided a device including an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a terminal device which is a device candidate for performing wireless communication of a cellular system using a frequency band shared between the wireless communication of the cellular system and wireless communication conforming to a wireless local area network (LAN) standard, and a control unit configured to notify the terminal device that the terminal device is the device candidate.
US10306620B2
Methods of mapping, indicating, encoding and transmitting uplink (UL) grants and downlink (DL) assignments for wireless communications for carrier aggregation are disclosed. Methods to encode and transmit DL assignments and UL grants and map and indicate the DL assignments to DL component carriers and UL grants to UL component carriers are described. Methods include specifying the mapping rules for DL component carriers that transmit DL assignment and DL component carriers that receive physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), and mapping rules for DL component carriers that transmit UL grants and UL component carriers that transit physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) when using separate coding/separate transmission schemes.
US10306616B2
A controlling base station sends, to a wireless communication device, control data related to communication between a communication base station and the wireless communication device. The control data is transmitted in accordance with a communication specification and is transmitted to allow reception by the wireless communication device of the control data within a data channel having a frequency and time allocated by the communication specification for the wireless communication device to receive data transmissions from the communication base station.
US10306611B2
The present invention relates to a method for enabling a terminal to transmit and receive a signal in a wireless communications system and an apparatus therefor. More specifically, the method includes the steps of: receiving physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) data and reconfiguration downlink control information (DCI); and transmitting at least one of the information of ACK/NACK (acknowledgement/Negative Acknowledgement) for downlink data and the answer message corresponding to the reconfiguration downlink control information, characterized in that the answer message represents whether to succeed in receiving the reconfiguration downlink control information.
US10306609B2
Provided is a method and an apparatus for transmitting uplink control information by a terminal in wireless communication system. When a PUCCH resource used for transmitting only periodic CSI from a subframe, the resource is a first resource, and a resource indicated by ARI is a second resource, when a setting allows transmitting together ACK/NACK and the periodic CSI through a PUCCH from the same subframe, the first resource and the second resource are mutually exclusive, and the second resource that is used for transmitting together the ACK/NACK and the periodic CSI uses the resource indicated by the ARI from resources determined by an RRC.
US10306604B2
A System Frame Number (SFN) acquisition method is provided. The System Frame Number (SFN) acquisition method of a terminal according to the present invention includes receiving a first message for adding a secondary cell of a secondary base station from a primary cell of a primary base station, receiving a Master Information Block (MIB) broadcast in the secondary cell, and acquiring a SFN information for the secondary cell from the MIB, and applying the SFN information to at least one cell of the secondary base station.
US10306598B2
Provided are a device-to-device (D2D) related reporting method performed by a terminal in a wireless communications system, and a terminal using the same. The method comprises: entering, for a D2D operation, a radio resource control (RRC) connection state in relation to a network; performing the D2D operation with another terminal; and reporting, to the network, the D2D operation state periodically or when a specific event is satisfied.
US10306592B2
An apparatus comprising at least one processor, and at least one memory for storing instructions to be executed by the processor, wherein the at least one memory and the instructions are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least: to receive and process a data transmission related to a communication channel allocated to a device-to-device broadcast communication, to determine an occupation state related to the received data transmission, to prepare an occupation indication related to the determined occupation state, and to conduct a processing for transmitting the occupation indication.
US10306580B1
Systems and methods of enabling intersystem changes between 4G and 5G are described. The UE in single registration mode handles default EPS bearer contexts and PDU session contexts as if the N26 interface were supported before making the determination whether N26 interface is supported or not during an initial EPS Attach procedure. After determining that the N26 interface is unsupported, the UE maps active PDU session contexts to default EPS bearer contexts and modifies the PDU session context state from active to inactive before completing the intersystem change. The UE either acts as if the N26 interface were supported and loses all the PDN connections or PDU sessions during the intersystem change, or enters a modified single registration mode in which the states of the EPC and 5G system are partially isolated from each other during the intersystem change.
US10306579B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods to perform attachment of a wireless device to a next generation gateway via either a base station of a next generation radio access network (RAN) or a mobility management entity of a legacy RAN. An apparatus may be configured to receive an attachment request from a wireless device, determine authentication information via communication with a home subscriber server, determine, based at least in part on the authentication information, whether the wireless device is capable of communicating via the next generation RAT, and send, in response to determining the wireless device is capable, a connection request to a gateway of the next generation RAN. The authentication information may include subscription information associated with the wireless device.
US10306571B2
A first parameter that is used for configuration of a cyclic prefix for transmission of first information is configured, a second parameter that is used for configuration of a cyclic prefix for transmission of second information is configured, and one third parameter that is used for configuration of cyclic prefixes for transmission of a first synchronization signal, transmission of third information, transmission of a second synchronization signal, and transmission the fourth information, and that is common to the transmission of the first synchronization signal, the transmission of the third information, the transmission of the second synchronization signal, and the transmission of the fourth information is configured.
US10306566B2
A method includes determining a first transmission power for a first transmission from a user equipment and a second transmission power for a second transmission from the user equipment, the first and second transmission at least partially overlapping, the first and second transmission power being selected in dependence on at least one of which one or more channels are being transmitted and information on the at least one or more channels.
US10306551B2
The present invention provides a WLAN access method, which can save electric energy of a UE. The method includes: obtaining an access location of a UE; obtaining AP access information of the UE at the access location; selecting an AP according to the obtained AP access information to access a WLAN; and sending AP access information of the selected AP to the UE. The present invention further provides another WLAN access method and a corresponding apparatus.
US10306536B2
Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for facilitating informing a radio access network of the capabilities of a user equipment device with regard to switching and aggregation of streams received from master and secondary base station devices. Different user equipment device may have different capabilities with regard to aggregated and combining streams received from the base station devices (e.g., split bearer) or switching between the streams (fast switching). The embodiments described herein provide a way for the UE to inform the radio access network about the capabilities of the UE device. In an embodiment, in response to receiving a query from the radio access network, the UE can return via a UE resource capability information element, an indicator indicating the capabilities of the UE device. The indicator can be an integer bit that has different values depending on the capabilities of the UE device.
US10306529B2
A method and an apparatus for adjusting an amount of data to be assigned to a secondary base station in dual connectivity are provided. The method includes receiving, via an X2 interface between the first base station and a second base station from the second based station, first information on a buffer for an evolved universal terrestrial radio access network (E-UTRAN) radio access bearer (E-RAB), second information on a buffer for a terminal which is associated with the first base station and the second base station, and third information on packets lost in X2 transmission between the first base station and the second base station, and adjusting an amount of data to be assigned to the second base station based on the first information, the second information and the third information.
US10306527B2
A network for providing air-to-ground (ATG) wireless communication in various cells may include a receiver station disposed on an aircraft in flight, a plurality of base stations, each base station defining a corresponding radiation pattern such that the base stations are spaced apart from each other to define at least partially overlapping coverage areas, and a control module in communication with at least one of the base stations. The control module may be configured to receive information indicative of an altitude of the aircraft and select a frequency for communication between the at least one of the base stations and the receiver station based on the altitude.
US10306526B2
A method and apparatus is provided that controls the handover between distributed units (DUs) (inter-DU handover) in an eNB including a central unit (CU) and a distributed unit (DU). The method and system fuses 5G communication systems with IoT technology to transmission data at a high rate after 4G systems. The communication method and system is applied to intelligent services, based on 5G communication technology and IoT related technology, for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail business, security, safety-related services, etc. The method of performing communication in a communication node of a mobile communication system includes: transmitting, to a source node, a first message instructing handover; receiving, from the source node, a second message including information related to a PDU transmitted to a terminal; receiving, from a target node, a third message related to the reception of a random access preamble of the terminal; and transmitting, to the target node, downlink data, based on the second message, in response to the third message.
US10306523B2
A method (400) in a radio network node (220) of a wireless communication system (200) for selecting a MSG3 size for a User Equipment (UE) (230) that is performing handover from a serving network node (210) to a neighbor network node (220) is disclosed. The method (400) comprises receiving (S402) 5 measurement information related to the UE (230) from the serving network node (210). The method (400) comprises selecting (S404) the MSG3 size based on the measurement information. The method (400) further comprises transmitting (S406) the MSG3 size to the UE (230), based on which UE related information is transmitted to the neighbor network node (220).
US10306519B2
At least one application service is provided to a user equipment (10), utilizing an application service platform (150A) at an access node (110A) of a cellular network and a further application service platform (150A) at a further access node of the cellular network. A parameter is determined which is indicative of a delay associated with transfer of context data from the application service platform (150A) to the further application service platform (150B) in one or more handover messages controlling a handover of the user equipment (10) from the access node (110A) to the further access node (110B). The context data are associated with at least one user session of the at least one application service provided to the user equipment (10). Depending on the determined delay, migration of the user session from the application service platform (150A) to the further application service platform (150B) is controlled.
US10306514B2
The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system to be provided for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond 4G communication systems such as LTE. More specifically, a method for transmitting and receiving signals by a base station of a mobile communication system according to one embodiment of the present specification comprises: a step of determining whether to steer a traffic related to a terminal to a wireless LAN; a step for determining a traffic to be steered to the wireless LAN; a step for transmitting, to the terminal, a first message including information for an uplink transmission of the traffic to be steered; and a step for transmitting, to a gateway, a second message including information for a downlink transmission of the traffic to be steered. According to an embodiment of the present specification, in a network and a terminal using both a cellular and a wireless LAN, presented is a method for transferring, via an access network considering the signal strength between the terminal and each access network, a load condition of each access network, a policy of a provider etc., traffic which are sent and received by the terminal and the network.
US10306511B2
A method and apparatus for deciding a secondary eNB (SeNB) user equipment aggregate maximum bit rate (UE-AMBR) in a wireless communication system is provided. In one embodiment, a master evolved NodeB (MeNB) in dual connectivity receives assistant information, which includes at least one of a buffer size or load information of a SeNB, from the SeNB, and decides whether to change a SeNB UE-AMBR based on the assistant information. In another embodiment, the MeNB transmits an indication which requests change of a SeNB UE-AMBR to a SeNB, receives information related to a new SeNB UE-AMBR from the SeNB; and decides whether to change the SeNB UE-AMBR based on the information related to the new SeNB UE-AMBR.
US10306508B2
An apparatus may include a transmitter arranged to wirelessly transmit channel status reports for channels within a transmission band to a base station and a processor. The apparatus may further include a rank adaptation (RA) module operable on the processor to direct the transmitter to send a multiplicity of sub-band channel quality indicator (CQI) reports, each sub-band CQI report comprising a measurement of a respective sub-band of the transmission band and a multiplicity of rank indicator (RI) reports, where each sub-band CQI report is accompanied by an RI report. The apparatus may further include a digital display arranged to display information transmitted via the base station to the apparatus. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US10306506B2
A wireless device receives messages indicating CSI measurement resources of cells belonging to at least two base stations or belonging to at least two sectors of a base station. The wireless device measures CSI employing at least CSI measurement resources of the cells. The wireless device quantizes the measured CSI jointly across cells and encodes and transmits the jointly quantized CSI. The wireless device receives a resource assignment for data packet(s). The wireless device receives signals carrying the data packets from multiple cells.
US10306502B2
Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a radio network node (12) for configuring a wireless device (10), being served by the radio network node (12), for performing radio measurements. The radio network node (12) determines at least two groups, a first and a second group, of carriers out of a number of carriers, wherein the first group comprises at least one carrier to perform radio measurements on by the wireless device (10) when the wireless device (10) being configured with a DRX cycle above a threshold. The radio network node (12) furthermore transmits a message comprising an indication of the at least one carrier of the first group and informing the wireless device (10) which carrier or carriers to perform radio measurements on when the wireless device (10) is configured with the DRX cycle above the threshold.
US10306499B2
A method for channel measurement is provided when a mobile terminal is configured with a primary component carrier and a secondary component carrier. The mobile terminal receives configuration information for channel measurement in the secondary component carrier from a base station. The mobile terminal derives the channel measurement in the secondary component carrier based on a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) when the configuration information includes a first indicator indicating that CSI-RS is used for the channel measurement in the secondary component carrier, or deriving the channel measurement in the secondary component carrier based on a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) when the configuration information does not include the first indicator.
US10306487B1
A wireless access point (WAP) efficiently adjusts one or more operational parameters, such as transmission power, a data rate, a modulation scheme, and/or an encoding scheme, to provide some examples, to provide efficient communication with one or more communication devices. This efficient allocation of the one or more operational parameters can represent a per-station allocation of the one or more operational parameters, a dynamic allocation of the one or more operational parameters, and/or a combination of the per-station allocation and the dynamic allocation. In the per-station allocation, the WAP determines and uses one or more values for the operational parameters for each of the one or more communication devices. In the dynamic allocation, the WAP monitors one or more distances between the WAP and one or more of the one or more communication devices. The WAP can continuously monitor, periodically monitor, or monitor over a discrete period of time the one or more distances. Thereafter, the WAP determines and uses one or more values for the operational parameters for each of the one or more communication devices based upon the one or more distances.
US10306485B2
An antenna apparatus for use in a wireless network and method of operating such an antenna apparatus are provided. A wireless network controller provides a configuration of such an antenna apparatus, a method of operating such a wireless network controller, and a resulting wireless network. The antenna apparatus comprises a directional antenna and a uniform circular antenna array. The directional antenna can be rotatably positioned about an axis with respect to a fixed mounting portion of the apparatus in dependence on wireless signals received by the antenna array. The antenna array allows the antenna apparatus to receive wireless signals isotropically and thus to accurately monitor the wireless signal environment in which it finds itself. The antenna apparatus can thus monitor and characterize incoming signals, both from external interference sources and from other network nodes, and the directional antenna can then be positioned in rotation to improve the network throughput.
US10306477B2
A wireless communication system of the present disclosure includes a first wireless communication device that performs wireless communication in a first communication scheme, a terminal device that performs wireless communication in the first communication scheme with the first wireless communication device, and a plurality of second wireless communication devices that can perform wireless communication in a second communication scheme different from the first communication scheme, and function as access points.
US10306470B2
A communication method and a system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for internet of things (IoT) are provided. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A system and a method for validating authenticity of a base station and/or information received from the base station are provided. The method for determining authenticity of system information received from a base station and a cell operated by the base station includes receiving, from a base station, system information, receiving, from a base station, system information, receiving, from the base station, first authenticity information associated with the system information, determining whether the system information is authentic based on the first authenticity information, and determining that a cell operated by the base station is authentic if the system information is authentic.
US10306469B2
The disclosure is directed to a metadata delivery method and related apparatuses using the same method. According to one of the exemplary embodiments, the disclosure is directed to a metadata delivery method used by a ProSe Function. The method would include not limited to: receiving a first Authentication Response which includes not limited to a metadata indicator; creating a binding information between the metadata indicator and a RPAUID in response to receiving the first Authentication Response; receiving a Match Report comprising the RPAUID; transmitting a second Authentication Request message which includes not limited to the metadata indicator in response to determining the RPAUID matches the metadata indicator; receiving a second Authentication Response which includes not limited to a metadata corresponding to the metadata indicator; and transmitting a Match Report Acknowledgment which includes not limited to the metadata in response to receiving the second.
US10306457B2
The present invention discloses a mobility management method, a serving GPRS support node or mobility management entity (SGSN/MME), and a terminal to solve the problem of setting or dynamically modifying the mobility management frequency of a particular terminal among numerous terminals. The technical solution of the present invention includes: obtaining subscription data of a terminal, where the subscription data carries periodic update (RAU/TAU) setting information; obtaining a periodic update timer of the terminal according to the periodic update setting information; sending the periodic update timer of the terminal to the terminal; and setting a value that is a little longer than the periodic update timer of the terminal as a mobile reachable timer for monitoring the periodic update of the terminal. The embodiments of the present invention may be applied in low-mobility machine-type communication.
US10306454B2
Concepts and technologies are described herein for user equipment (“UE”) detection of interference-sensitive devices. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a mobile initiator device can utilize a near-field communications (“NFC”) hardware component to generate a radio frequency (“RF”) field that is used to activate a passive NFC component associated with an interference-sensitive device. The mobile initiator device can utilize the NFC hardware component to receive information about an interference sensitivity of the interference-sensitive device. The mobile initiator device can adjust one or more operational aspects of the mobile initiator device to accommodate the interference sensitivity information of the interference-sensitive device.
US10306453B2
Issues are addressed by providing a control method including executing first search processing for searching for a second apparatus by using a predetermined communication channel used for a first wireless connection and second search processing for searching for the second apparatus by using the predetermined communication channel in a succession of the first search processing in a state in which the first wireless connection is established and executing third search processing for searching for the second apparatus by using a first communication channel other than the predetermined communication channel and fourth search processing for searching for the second apparatus by using a second communication channel other than the predetermined communication channel in a succession of the third search processing in a state in which the first wireless connection is established in a case where the second apparatus is not discovered by the first search processing and the second search processing.
US10306450B2
The disclosure proposes a proximity request validating method, a UE using the same method, an identity request method, and a network entity using the same method. In one of the exemplary embodiments, a UE may receive a proximity request validation message of a D2D discovery using the transceiver module, wherein the proximity request validation message comprises an application layer user ID of a discoverer and a validating response indicator. The UE may then transmits a proximity request validation response message in response to the proximity request validation message using the transceiver module according to a validating operation in response to receiving the validating operation, and transmits the proximity request validation response message using the transceiver module according to the validating response indicator in response to the validating operation is not received.
US10306449B2
Systems, devices, and methods for emergency responses are provided. A client device can be provided with a response to an emergency via a networked system that can determine that the client device is located with a defined area of coverage, and can route a call session to a answering platform associated with answering station device that can facilitate a facilitate a safety service. Client devices located outside the coverage area can be directed to communicate via a call to 911.
US10306445B2
A communication apparatus selects to transmit a first signal indicating that the communication apparatus can execute a first function of transmitting data on which output processing is performed by an output unit to an external apparatus, a second signal indicating that the communication apparatus can execute a second function of receiving data on which output processing is performed by an external apparatus and performing output processing based on the received data, or a third signal indicating that the communication apparatus can execute both the first function and the second function, based on a function of a first external communication apparatus that is connecting to the communication apparatus, and connects to a second external communication apparatus that has responded to one of the selected and transmitted signals.
US10306441B2
Techniques are described for wireless communication. A method for wireless communication at a wireless device includes transmitting an indication of a capability to operate according to a plurality of modes for communicating with a network on at least one shared channel in a connected mode. The plurality of modes include a narrowband mode and at least one wider band mode. Each wider band mode is based at least in part on a shared channel bandwidth between a narrowband shared channel bandwidth associated with the narrowband mode and a wideband shared channel bandwidth associated with a wideband mode. The method also includes receiving a shared channel assignment associated with operation in the narrowband mode or one of the at least one wider band mode, and communicating on a shared channel, when in the connected mode, in accordance with the received shared channel assignment.
US10306440B2
The present invention discloses a communication method, including obtaining, by a base station, resource configuration information of a machine type communications MTC service, where the resource configuration information of the MTC service includes at least one of information about an uplink MTC resource or information about a downlink MTC resource; sending, by the base station, the resource configuration information of the MTC service to an MTC terminal; and performing, by the base station, MTC service transmission with the MTC terminal by using an MTC subframe in the uplink MTC resource and/or the downlink MTC resource. According to the method, delay requirements of the MTC service can be satisfied, and communication quality of the MTC service can be ensured.
US10306428B1
A method for identifying a type of a sensor includes obtaining a first input data stream from the unidentified sensor in a vehicle, wherein the input data stream includes an identifier representing the unidentified sensor and a first data pattern associated with the identifier, detecting a change in a vehicle parameter of the vehicle, obtaining a second input data stream from the unidentified sensor in the vehicle, wherein the second input data stream includes the identifier and a second data pattern associated with the identifier, the second data pattern being different from the first data pattern, associating the change in the vehicle parameter of the vehicle with a change from the first data pattern to the second data pattern, and identifying the type associated with the unidentified sensor based on detecting the change in the vehicle parameter.
US10306419B2
The disclosure provides examples of systems and methods for determining locations of a number of radio frequency-enabled devices such as mobile devices and radio frequency-equipped beacons/luminaires within an indoor location. The radio frequency-enabled devices may be part of an indoor positioning system and/or content delivery system. The examples describe obtaining an angle of arrival (AoA) of the signals received by the respective radio frequency-enabled devices. The AOA data is used to identify the relative positions of the radio frequency-enabled devices as the mobile device moves about the indoor location. Upon comparing AOA measurements of the collected data related to a map of the location, the system may generate a data structure that may be presented graphically as a map of positions of the devices at the location. The described examples may enable a rapid commissioning process with respect to the radio frequency-enabled devices in a network.
US10306418B2
A location of a target associated with a first system is determined at the first system at a first time. A signal is constructed at the first system where the data of the signal includes an identifier indicative of a collision avoidance nature of the signal. The signal is broadcast from the first system. the broadcasting causes a second system to receive the signal; compute a likelihood of a collision between the first system and the second system using the location from the signal, a velocity of the first system, a location of the second system at the first time, and a velocity of the second system at the first time; and send a notification from the second system about the likelihood of collision when the likelihood of collision exceeding a threshold likelihood.
US10306415B2
The embodiments of the present invention provide a method for positioning using wireless signal and a positioning server. The coverage area of wireless signal is divided into multiple grids. The method comprises: acquiring speed information of UE; and determining a grid, in which the UE is located, based at least upon the speed information of the UE and speed information of the grids. Accordingly, according to the embodiments of the present invention, when the UE is positioned by using the wireless signal, the grid in which the UE is located is determined by using the speed information of the UE and the speed information of the grids, so that pattern matching may be performed more accurately and the positioning precision is improved.
US10306414B2
A method and mobile device configured to display time zone information of a destination mobile device to which the mobile device connects based on time zone information of the mobile device and the destination mobile device.
US10306407B2
Apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to provide improved, automatic, and dynamic frequency selection for and/or by medical body area network apparatus are disclosed. Certain examples provide a medical body area network apparatus. The example apparatus includes a radio to receive a beacon signal and a processor to process the beacon signal to determine a location of the apparatus. The example processor is configured to at least: when the beacon signal indicates a first location, communicate via a first frequency band; and when the beacon signal indicates a second location, communicate via a second frequency band.
US10306397B2
A method for automatically connecting two devices with each other through short-range communication an apparatus for the same are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a short-range communication module configured to enable short-range communication with an external device; an interrupt detector configured to sense an interrupt signal for short-range communication connection, which is received from the external device through the short-range communication module in a sleep mode where a standby power is supplied; and a controller, the interrupt detector wakes up the controller if the interrupt signal is sensed in the sleep mode, and the woken-up controller releases the sleep mode and controls the short-range communication module to perform short-range communication connection with the external device.
US10306396B2
An improved methodology for binaural rendering of audio signals that are perceived by a user to originate from a real-world spatial location is disclosed. Embodiments enable personalized HRTF selection from among a data store containing a plurality of candidate HRTFs using an evaluation-based personalization strategy. One or more relational models personalize the selection. These relational models can relate candidate HRTFs to each other and a particular user to other users so that only a subset of the candidate HRTFs require evaluation. Candidate HRTFs can be evaluated according to one or more selection policies, and relational models can be updated based on actual responses from a user to virtual audio signals that are rendered by a candidate HRTF.
US10306394B1
A method of managing a plurality of devices is described. The method comprises receiving an image comprising the plurality of devices; determining, based on an analysis of the image, a spatial map for the plurality of devices, wherein the spatial map comprises, for each device of the plurality of devices, a position relative to another device of the plurality of devices; and adjusting a sensor of at least one of the plurality of devices to modify an acoustic field associated with the plurality of devices based on the spatial map. A system for providing information is also described.
US10306391B1
A transition between a stereophonic presentation and a monophonic presentation of a stereophonic input signal that includes a left channel signal and a right channel signal extracts content that is present at similar levels but not in-phase between the left and right channel signals to produce at least one of a left enhancement signal and a right enhancement signal. The left channel signal, the right channel signal, and only one of the left and right enhancement signals are combined to produce a monophonic signal for the monophonic presentation. Cross-fading between the left channel signal and the monophonic signal and between the right channel signal and the monophonic signal may be used to transition between the stereophonic presentation and the monophonic presentation. The stereophonic input signal may be up-mixed to produce enhancement signal. A similar transition between a multichannel presentation and a monophonic presentation of a multichannel signal is described.
US10306384B2
The present disclosure relates to detachable speaker units for hearing aid devices, and the hearing aid devices having detachable speaker units. The detachable speaker unit have at least an output transducer for providing a signal perceivable as sound to a user. The detachable speaker unit includes a memory unit storing information relating to characteristics of the output capabilities of the detachable speaker unit, such as transfer function of output transducer and/or transfer function of the entire, or parts of, assembly.
US10306383B2
A device includes a magnetic field source that generates a rotationally asymmetric magnetic field, a magnetic field sensor that generates a signal that is indicative of a position of the magnetic field sensor in the rotationally asymmetric magnetic field, and a processor coupled to the magnetic field sensor. The processor is configured to process the signal from the magnetic field sensor to control one or more operational settings of the medical device.
US10306381B2
Embodiments of the invention include a method of charging a rechargeable battery, the method comprising the steps of: detecting the presence of a rechargeable hearing aid in a hearing aid recharger; generating a unique random ID in the charger; transmitting the unique random ID to the hearing aid using an extremely low power protocol; demodulating the unique ID in the hearing aid; using the demodulated unique ID in a low power protocol to advertise the hearing aid on a network which includes the charger; associating the hearing aid to the charger when the charger which broadcast the unique ID receives that unique ID from a hearing aid using a wireless protocol; using the wireless protocol to communicate between the associated charging station and hearing aid; radiating power from the charger to the hearing aid; and ending the association when the hearing aid is removed from the charger.
US10306377B2
A method including operating an adaptive system of a hearing prosthesis, and determining one or more feedback path parameters of the hearing prosthesis based on the operation of the adaptive system of the hearing prosthesis, wherein the action of determining one or more feedback path parameters includes determining the one or more feedback path parameters based on data based on adaptive filter coefficients of adaptive filters of the adaptive system.
US10306375B2
A speech intelligibility system. Embodiments comprise a talker unit, a listener unit and an earpiece. The talker unit includes a microphone to receive audible speech content and to produce electrical signals representative of the speech content, and a transmitter coupled to the microphone to produce wireless transmissions containing the speech content. The listener unit includes a receiver to receive the wireless transmissions and to produce electrical signals representative of the speech content. At least one of the talker unit and the listener unit includes an amplifier to amplify spectral components of the speech content within a frequency range having a lower end between about 800 Hz and 1,700 Hz and an upper end between about 7,000 Hz and 11,000 Hz. The earpiece is coupled to the listener unit and includes a speaker to produce audible speech content having the amplified spectral components and a tube to direct the audible speech content from the speaker toward a user's ear canal.
US10306374B2
A method detects whether an ear mold of a listening device is correctly mounted in the ear of a user. An indication of whether or not a mold of a listening device is correctly mounted in an ear canal of a user is provided. The method comprises a) providing a long term estimate of the feedback path; b) providing an estimate of the current feedback path; c) comparing the long term feedback path estimate with the current feedback path estimate, and providing a measure of their difference, termed the feedback difference measure FBDM; and optionally d) providing an alarm indication, if the feedback difference measure exceeds a predefined threshold.
US10306372B2
The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a fully wafer-level-packaged MEMS microphone and a microphone manufactured with the same, the method comprises: separately manufacturing a first packaging wafer, an MEMS microphone wafer and a second packaging wafer; performing wafer-to-wafer bonding for the three wafers to form a plurality of fully wafer-level-packaged MEMS microphone units; singulating the fully wafer-level-packaged MEMS microphone units to form a plurality of fully wafer-level-packaged MEMS microphones, which are fully packaged at wafer level and do not need any further process after die singulation. The method can improve cost-effectiveness, performance consistency, manufacturability, quality, scaling capability of the packaged MEMS microphone.
US10306370B2
An electromagnetic transducer includes a diaphragm movable relative to a central axis, a magnetic assembly axially spaced from the diaphragm, and a magnetic gap annularly disposed about the central axis. A voice coil is coupled to the diaphragm and includes spaced first and second coil portions which are at least partially disposed in the magnetic gap. A housing includes a rear frame surrounding and supporting the magnetic assembly, the rear frame having an annular well portion in fluid communication with the magnetic gap. At least one channel is formed in the rear frame in fluid communication with the well portion and extends outwardly beyond the well portion in a radial direction. A vent is provided on an outer surface of the rear frame in fluid communication with the at least one channel, wherein air exits the transducer via the vent to transfer heat from the transducer to the ambient environment.
US10306363B2
A method for operating a distributed wireless audio system including several loudspeaker cabinets all of which can communicate with each other as part of a computer network. The method receives temperature data that is indicative of temperature of a first loudspeaker cabinet, which has a network master responsibility of obtaining an audio signal from an audio source and wirelessly transmitting some of the audio signal to a second loudspeaker cabinet of several loudspeaker cabinets, for playback by the second loudspeaker cabinet, while playing back some of the audio signal by the first loudspeaker cabinet. The method determines whether a thermal threshold of the first loudspeaker cabinet has been reached, based on the temperature data. The method, in response to the thermal threshold being reached, gives up the network master responsibility from the first loudspeaker cabinet to the second loudspeaker cabinet, where doing so reduces temperature in the first loudspeaker cabinet.
US10306362B1
A microphone positioning system includes a microphone coupler configured to hold a microphone and a microphone positioning mechanism having a low noise motor drive that moves the microphone coupler to different positions. A microphone cable connector is carried by the microphone positioning mechanism. A microphone preamp is also carried by the microphone positioning mechanism and is in signal communication with the microphone cable connector. A cable connector is carried by the microphone positioning mechanism and receives remote control signals that operate the low noise motor drive and move the microphone coupler.
US10306355B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided to indicate or automatically configure headphone channel orientation based on a physical orientation determination. An apparatus is provided that is configured to at least determine an orientation of the headphone device; analyze the determined orientation; and provide an indication of the determined orientation or adjust the output channel configuration of the apparatus for the headphone device. The apparatus may be further configured to determine the orientation of the headphone device based on at least one of: a head turn position; a direction of one or more audio signals; a direction of movement, wherein the movement is determined based on a determination of acceleration or trajectory of the headphone device; two or more compass data, wherein at least one compass is located in each of the apparatus and the headphone device; and a difference in characteristics of one or more audio signals.
US10306345B2
A headphone having a pair of housings including speaker units, an ear accommodating portion having a frame surrounding an ear and in contact with a head part and a connection portion connecting the frame and the housing, covering the ear, and providing ventilation to the ear, and an arm connecting the pair of housings to each other.
US10306341B2
An electronic processor is configured to determine sensor data reliability at an incident scene for real-time and post-incident processing. The electronic processor receives primary sensor data from a primary data source, retrieves secondary data associated with the primary sensor data, calculates a reliability index for the primary sensor data using the secondary data; compares the reliability index to a threshold and one of executes a particular action and applies a particular policy as a function of the comparison.
US10306338B2
The disclosure is related to a personalized user interface having at least one moving image produced based on a multimedia stream received in real time from a preferred streaming server. A service server for providing the personalized user interface may perform receiving multimedia streams transmitted in real time from preferred streaming servers selected based on user interface configuration information, obtaining personalized items based on the user interface configuration information, producing a single multimedia stream for the personalized user interface by combining the received multimedia streams and the obtained personalized items, and transmitting the produced single multimedia stream to the user device.
US10306331B2
A system for remotely controlling client recording and storage behavior schedules the recording, storing, and deleting of multimedia content on a client system storage device. The viewer may request that certain content be captured. Capture requests also allow the service to determine content to be recorded by the client system in the same manner that a viewer requests that certain content are recorded but are more powerful than what a viewer can request. Recording requests for a capture request can preempt viewer requests or be entered at the same or lower priority as a viewer request. Capture requests can adjust all aspects of a recording request and affect the capture request itself. Client system operational functionality are also manipulated by the service using capture requests.
US10306330B1
System, method, and computer program product embodiments are disclosed for integrated diagnosis and debugging of content distribution systems. A system includes a networking module that receives, from a central server, instructions for running network diagnostics on a cable headend. A diagnostics environment module is configured to perform diagnostic operations based on the received instructions. The networking module transmits results of the diagnostic operations to the central server.
US10306312B2
According to one embodiment, a data connection device includes a first log storage, a second log storage, and a hardware processor. The first log storage is configured to store a plurality of first logs indicating a first behavior of a first user. The second log storage is configured to store a plurality of second logs which are independent of the plurality of first logs and indicate a second behavior of a second user. The hardware processor is configured to acquire a set of first logs indicating a specific first behavior, from the plurality of first logs, acquire a set of second logs having a feature in common with the set of first logs, and connect the set of first logs with the set of second logs.
US10306307B2
Techniques are disclosed to select display settings for a display device. Device capabilities may be read from a display device and a determination made whether the device capabilities support other display formats than are read from the display, for example, a high dynamic range (HDR) format or a high resolution format. When the device capabilities do not include an format supported by a video source, video may be driven from the video source to the display device in the format and, if confirmation is received that the display device displays the driven video, settings may be stored for the display device identifying the format as a one supported by the display device. Additionally, interconnect may be tested by estimating noise levels generated by the interconnect to a network connection and/or by estimating network throughput both when video is driven over the interconnect and when it is not. Display formats may be selected for the device based on a maximum data rate of a network connection that can be maintained while the interconnect carries video.
US10306299B2
Methods, systems, and media for transferring playback of media content are provided. In some implementations, the method comprises: receiving a request to initiate a mirroring session in which a tabbed window including a page having a plurality of media content items is rendered on a computing device and transmitted as a video stream to a display device that is in communication with the computing device over a local area network; encoding the video stream including the tabbed window and the plurality of media content items; transmitting the encoded video stream to the display device via the local area network; determining that a user of the tabbed window on the display device intends to view a media content item from the plurality of media content items on the page; inhibiting presentation of the media content item on the computing device; causing the media content item to be decoded and presented on the display device; detecting an event associated with presentation of the media content item on the display device; and, in response to detecting the event associated with presentation of the media content item on the display device, causing the mirroring session to resume.
US10306297B2
A method of operating a transmitting apparatus in a multimedia system is provided. The method includes transmitting a data unit of a multimedia service including event information related to an event, wherein the event includes notification to an application, the notification indicating that an action is to be taken.
US10306287B2
In one embodiment, a method including receiving, by a server, an input video and extracting features of the input video to produce extracted features. The method also includes comparing the extracted features of the input video with metadata stored in a metadata database storage and incorporating the input video into a matched video corresponding to metadata that matches the extracted features of the input video upon determining that the extracted features of the input video match metadata in the metadata database storage.
US10306279B2
Apparatus and methods are provided to implement a technique for using a second display with a content playback device. In one implementation, this feature provides users a frequently-accessed service or asset list when browsing on a second display. Such systems and methods may be particularly advantageous when a user normally only visits a few services in an entire list of available services on a regular basis. The frequently-accessed list of services or assets may be populated by the user through the second display or may be populated by the server that is tracking service access by the user. The frequently-accessed service or asset list (or both) may be specific to the user account, a user profile within the user account, the second display, or the content playback device. In some implementations, the second display may be a smart phone that can often be found beside the user, a laptop or tablet PC, or the like.
US10306278B2
The present invention provides a method for transmitting a broadcast signal. The method for transmitting a broadcast signal according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a step for generating service guide information, including access information of a broadcast service, and content data, wherein the service guide information includes a service fragment indicating the information on the broadcast service, a content fragment indicating the information on the content data, and/or a component fragment indicating the information on components included in the broadcast service; a step for encoding the generated service guide information and the content data; and a step for transmitting the encoded service guide information and the content data.
US10306276B2
An information device is provided, including a communication part, communicating with an external device; and a controller, downloading video data from the external device via the communication part and executing an application. The application creates distribution data having the same format as the video data from the video data and reproduction list data, and to reproduce the distribution data. A local server in the application transmits the distribution data and the reproduction list data to a reproduction part. The controller puts transmission of the reproduction list data from the local server to the reproduction part on standby until the reproduction list data is updated based on the distribution data, or adding reproduction-continuation video data to update the reproduction list data until the reproduction list data is updated based on the distribution data.
US10306269B2
A device for processing a bitstream including video data, such as a demultiplexer, extracts a descriptor from the bitstream, wherein the bitstream includes layers of video data for operation points, separate from the descriptor, such that each operation point includes one or more of the layers of video data, and wherein the descriptor includes a set of profile, tier, and level (PTL) structures and data that associates each of the layers of each of the operation points with a corresponding one of the PTL structures, extracts video data for one of the operation points from the bitstream based at least in part on the PTL structures to which the layers of the one of the operation points correspond, and provides the extracted video data to a video decoder.
US10306266B2
A method, an apparatus and a decoder for decoding a block of a depth map are provided. An ordered list of decoding modes is obtained, wherein the ordered list of decoding modes comprises a plurality of decoding modes each of which is capable of being used for decoding of the block. A plurality of depth modeling modes (DMMs) each of which is capable of being used for decoding of the block are obtained. And whether a DMM of the plurality of DMMs is to be added into the ordered list of decoding modes in accordance with a decision condition is determined.
US10306255B2
A motion compensator includes a divider, a frame memory transfer controller, and a motion compensation processor. Based on information about a coding unit CU and prediction unit PU provided by a decoder, the divider determines whether or not to divide the PU. Next, based on a motion vector of the PU yet to be divided, reference image information, and information about divided blocks locations, the frame memory transfer controller determines the storage location of the reference image of a reference picture in a frame memory on the basis of each of the blocks divided, thereby obtaining reference image data. The motion compensation processor performs motion compensation operation on a motion compensation control block basis to generate a predicted image. Then, a reconstructor obtains a restored image based on a residual image generated by an inverse frequency transformer.
US10306248B2
A method and device for real-time generation of a multiresolution representation of a digital image for real-time generation are disclosed. A sequence of main representations of the digital image is stored at successive different main resolutions in a main memory. A part of a current main representation is loaded from the main memory into a local memory via a bus. A current main representation is processed by determining a corresponding part of an intermediate representation of the image having an intermediate resolution lying between the resolution of the current main representation and the resolution of the subsequent main representation. The loading and processing steps are repeated for other parts of the current main representation until all parts of the current main representation have been successively loaded and processed.
US10306242B2
A higher coding efficiency for coding a significance map indicating positions of significant transform coefficients within a transform coefficient block is achieved by the scan order by which the sequentially extracted syntax elements indicating, for associated positions within the transform coefficient block, as to whether at the respective position a significant or insignificant transform coefficient is situated, are sequentially associated to the positions of the transform coefficient block, among the positions of the transform coefficient block depends on the positions of the significant transform coefficients indicated by previously associated syntax elements. Alternatively, the first-type elements may be context-adaptively entropy decoded using contexts which are individually selected for each of the syntax elements dependent on a number of significant transform coefficients in a neighborhood of the respective syntax element, indicated as being significant by any of the preceding syntax elements.
US10306239B2
Methods, target device (120) and source device (110) for managing error in a decoded picture of a coded video sequence “CVS” as well as method and analyzer (130) for managing a feedback message for indication of the error are disclosed. The target device (120) receives (204) a first DPH and calculates (205) a second DPH and detects (206) the error by finding that the first DPH is different from the second DPH. The target device (120) sends (207) a feedback message to the source device (110) or fetches (211) pictures of a further CVS from the source device (110) in response to the detection of the error. The source device (110) receives (208) the error message and changes (210) configuration for encoding of pictures based on the error message. The analyzer (130) receives (214) the feedback message and classifies (216) a mismatch, identified by the feedback message, into a category based on the feedback message. The analyzer (130) sends (217) a mismatch message indicating the category. Computer programs and carriers are disclosed.
US10306235B2
Motion-vector deriving processing using inter-view shift prediction according to the related art makes processing for determining a reference position complicated. In a sequence parameter set, it is not possible to independently set an ON/OFF flag of a texture extension tool and an ON/OFF flag of a depth extension tool. Additionally, even in a case in which only one of an intra SDC wedge segmentation flag IntraSdcWedgeFlag and an intra contour segmentation flag IntraContourFlag is 1, depth_intra_mode_flag for selecting one of the wedge segmentation mode and the contour segmentation mode is unnecessarily decoded.A prediction-vector deriving device derives the coordinates of a reference block of an inter-view merge candidate IV from the sum of the top-left coordinates of a target block, half the size of the target block, and a disparity vector of the target block which is converted into the integer precision. In this case, the value of the sum is normalized to a multiple of 8 or a multiple of 16. The prediction-vector deriving device derives the coordinates of a reference block of an inter-view shift merge candidate IVShift from the sum of the top-left coordinates of a target block, the size of the target block, a predetermined constant of 0 to 4, and a disparity vector of the target block which is converted into the integer precision. In this case, the value of the sum is normalized to a multiple of 8 or a multiple of 16. Then, from the motion vectors positioned at the derived coordinates of the reference blocks, the prediction-vector deriving device derives a motion vector of the inter-view merge candidate IV and a motion vector of the inter-view shift merge candidate IVShift.
US10306225B2
A method of depth map coding for a three-dimensional video coding system incorporating consistent texture merging candidate is disclosed. According to the first embodiment, the current depth block will only inherit the motion information of the collocated texture block if one reference depth picture has the same POC (picture order count) and ViewId (view identifier) as the reference texture picture of the collocated texture block. In another embodiment, the encoder assigns the same total number of reference pictures for both the depth component and the collocated texture component for each reference list. Furthermore, the POC (picture order count) and the ViewId (view identifier) for both the depth image unit and the texture image unit are assigned to be the same for each reference list and for each reference picture.
US10306220B2
Embodiments disclose systems and methods for testing and determining outages of communication systems. A server can receive signal-reception-related information from set-top boxes (STBs) in a particular geographical region, where a STB: receives signals having a predefined pattern, generates a comparison of the predefined pattern to reference patterns stored on the STB, generates the signal-reception-related information based on the comparison, and sends the signal-reception-related information. The server can determine an outage status for the particular geographical region based on the signal-reception-related information. The server can generate an output based on the outage status. The output is configured to provide information related to the outage status of the particular geographical region and information for possible responses related to the outage status. The server can send the output.
US10306219B2
A display apparatus including: a display; a signal receiver configured to receive a video signal including a plurality of frames; and at least one processor configured to select a main area corresponding to a main color of a first frame among a plurality of divisional areas in the first frame of the video signal, determine whether the first frame is a reference frame based on the size of the selected main area as compared with the first frame, and control the display to display an image based on the video signal in accordance with the determined reference frame.
US10306218B2
An exemplary camera calibration apparatus includes a movable, e.g., rotatable, support structure which is controllably positioned to allow for image capture of different test patterns and image capture of the same pattern at different distances by a mounted camera. A first test pattern is mounted on a wall, e.g., a pyramid shaped 4 sided wall formed by panels surrounding the camera under calibration. The movable support structure has a first mirror attached to a first side and has a second test pattern attached to a second side. A second mirror mounted on an internal sidewall of the calibration apparatus housing facilities a different image path distance between the camera capturing the image of the first test pattern and the first test pattern. The exemplary camera calibration apparatus is well suited for efficiently calibrating camera devices including a plurality of camera modules, e.g., optical chains, in a relatively small area.
US10306215B2
Aspects of the technology described herein can insert a 2D object into a 3D environment utilizing a monoscopic view with controlled convergence. An exemplary computing device may use a depth regulator to determine a depth associated with a stereoscopic view. Moreover, a view converter in the exemplary computing device can transform the stereoscopic view into a monoscopic view with a controlled convergence distance. Further, a display configurator in the exemplary computing device can cause an external object to be displayed in the monoscopic view.
US10306203B1
Three-dimensional models of objects may be generated according to adaptive depth sensing techniques. An imaging device may include a projector that is configured to project light (e.g., infrared light) onto selected portions of a scene, and a depth imaging sensor configured to capture reflections of the projected light. The projector may be used to project points of light onto aspects of a scene having high degrees of variation of depth, color, texture, curvature or other attributes, where an increased number of depth values may be required to accurately depict a profile of an object within a scene, and to avoid projecting light onto aspects of the scene having low degrees of variation of depth, color, texture, curvature or such other attributes, where the profile of the object may be accurately represented by comparatively fewer depth values.
US10306194B2
The embodiments of the disclosure provide apparatus, method and system for location based touch, which can implement location based touch on the image of the projection display apparatus without the requirement of operation of the computing device by the user. A projection display apparatus comprises a projection screen and a plurality of optical sensors with two-dimension disperse layout in the back of the projection screen. The projection display apparatus further comprises an acquiring element configured to receive first light through first optical sensor of the plurality of optical sensors, wherein the first optical sensor is one or more of the plurality of optical sensors; a determining element configured to determine first coordinate information of the first optical sensor on the projection screen if the light intensity of the first light is within first light intensity range; and a sending element configured to send the first coordinate information to a computing device.
US10306187B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods relating to security system and automation monitoring are described. In one embodiment a method may include receiving motion detection data via an electrical signal, analyzing the motion detection data based at least in part on a first parameter, identifying a movement of an object based at least in part on the analyzing, and adjusting one or more light emitting diodes based at least in part on the identifying.
US10306185B2
Provided is a network security system including: a spatial information collector configured to acquire, from a manager input terminal, spatial information; a device position receiver configured to receive, from the manager terminal, at least one device installation position with respect to the spatial information and storing the at least one device installation position; a device recommender configured to provide a candidate device list corresponding to the at least one device installation position; a device determiner configured to receive a signal for selecting at least one device from the candidate device list, and determine a model of the at least one selected device to be installed at the at least one device installation position; and a device setter configured to set a setting of the at least one selected device.
US10306184B1
A method includes capturing a first image associated with a portion of a display screen being shared. The method further includes rendering the first image in a preview window of the display screen being shared to form a second image. The second image is captured so as to determine whether the first image is duplicated in the second image. The duplication of the first image in the second image is masked to form a third image. The third image is rendered in the preview window.
US10306180B2
In some implementations, a system is capable of reducing latencies associated with streaming virtual reality (VR) content over a virtualized computing environment. A first frame of VR content provided to a computing device is identified. A second frame of the VR content to be rendered for display on the computing device is also identified. Input data associated with the VR content streamed on the computing device is obtained. A collection of partial frames associated with the first frame is determined. One or more partial frames is selected from among the collection of partial frames that are associated with the first frame. An instruction for rendering the second frame is generated. The instruction includes at least, for each of the selected partial frames, a representation of the difference between a corresponding portion of the first frame and a particular partial frame. The instruction is provided to the computing device.
US10306171B2
An analog-digital converter may include: an analog-digital converter comprising: a ramp signal selection unit suitable for receiving ramp signals having different offsets, and sequentially selecting one of the ramp signals according to a preset order; a comparison unit suitable for comparing the magnitudes of the selected ramp signal with a pixel signal, and outputting a comparison signal according to the comparison result; and a counting unit suitable for counting the number of clocks of a clock signal until the comparison signal transitions, and outputting a count signal based on the count when the comparison signal transitions.
US10306164B2
An image pickup apparatus includes: an image pickup device that includes pixels in a predetermined color array and is configured to be able to acquire a plurality of color array images corresponding to the color array through pixel shift; a chromatic aberration correction processing section configured to receive the plurality of color array images and to perform chromatic aberration correction processing on each of the plurality of color array images; a pixel shift composition processing section configured to perform pixel shift composition processing on the plurality of color array images that are subjected to the chromatic aberration correction processing by the chromatic aberration correction processing section, to acquire a pixel shift high-resolution image; and a demosaicking processing section configured to perform demosaicking processing on the pixel shift high-resolution image.
US10306163B2
Provided is an image processing method for an electronic device having a camera module. The image processing method may include: acquiring a first image with a first exposure time by using a first pixel group; acquiring a second image with a second exposure time shorter than the first exposure time by using a second pixel group; determining whether the difference between the first exposure time and the second exposure time is greater than or equal to a preset threshold; acquiring, if the difference between the first exposure time and the second exposure time is greater than or equal to the preset threshold, a third image with a third exposure time by using the second pixel group; and generating a high dynamic range (HDR) image by combining the first to third images.
US10306159B2
The present disclosure relates to an image sensor that includes a pixel unit, a memory, a control unit, and a detection unit. The pixel unit has a plurality of reading modes and generates image data in accordance with incident light. The memory has a capacity capable of storing the image data equivalent to at least two or more frames. The control unit simultaneously performs processing for storing the image data input from the pixel unit in a different region in the memory for each frame, and processing for reading the image data from the region where previous storage has been performed. The detection unit detects a change in the reading mode in the pixel unit. The present disclosure can be applied to an electronic device having an image capturing function.
US10306157B2
A camera system includes memory, image sensors, illuminators, and a processor. The processor operates the illuminators and the image sensors in a first mode to capture a two-dimensional image of the scene using light transmitted by the illuminators and reflected from the scene. The processor operates in a second mode to capture a plurality of images of the scene, including capturing a first image of the scene while one or more of the illuminators are activated and capturing a second image of the scene is while none of the illuminators are activated. The images are transmitted to a remote cloud computing system. The remote system constructs a light intensity map for the scene using the first and second images, and identifies a first region in the light intensity map as a glass surface when the light intensity values for the first region are below a threshold value corresponding to glass.
US10306154B2
An image display device 12 includes a camera 20 for imaging a rear of a vehicle 10, a reference position detection section 80 for detecting a reference position indicating a relative position of eyes 104 of an operator 100 relative to a display part 50, and an image control section 82 for extracting a part of an imaged image of the camera 20 thereby to display it as a circumferential image on the display part 50 and changing an extraction range of the imaged image in accordance with the reference position. The image control section 82 increases or decreases a movement amount of the extraction range relative to a change amount of the reference position in comparison with the case of a normal mirror 120.
US10306153B2
The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus, an image sensor, and an image processor capable of reducing a load on an image processing unit related to image recognition processing.An imaging apparatus according to a first aspect of the present disclosure includes: an image sensor adapted to output image data including pixel signals generated in accordance with incident light by photoelectric conversion elements vertically and horizontally arranged on an imaging surface, adapted to divide the imaging surface into a plurality of areas, and adapted to generate image recognition support information for each of the areas on the basis of the pixel signals generated by the photoelectric conversion elements belonging to the area; and an image processing unit adapted to apply predetermined image processing to the image data output from image sensor by using the image processing support information output from the image sensor. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, a camera having a face detection function.
US10306152B1
An auto-exposure (AE) control system, includes a camera configured to capture an input image, a region of interest (ROI) determination circuit configured to determine a ROI of the input image, a depth decoder and an AE controller. The depth decoder is configured to generate a depth map of the input image and determine a decode rate value according to the depth map of the input image and the ROI of the input image. The AE controller includes an exposure adjustment circuit which is configured to receive a decode rate value and the detection result and sequentially adjust a plurality of the exposure parameters according to the variation of the decode rate value. A step size for adjusting the plurality of the exposure parameters is determined according to the variation of the decode rate value and the detection result.
US10306145B2
Cameras may monitor its operation and automatically switch between operation modes thereby to best capture users' experiences. Auxiliary sensor data collected by the one or more sensors and/or captured image data may be analyzed to determine when a camera should switch to a high-motion operation mode. The auxiliary sensor data include motion information of the camera and the content of the captured images include motion information of the captured objects. When a camera or objects captured by the camera are moving rapidly, the camera is switched to operate at the high-motion operation mode to ensure image quality and minimize artifacts to best capture users' experiences. Motion of the camera may be detected or predicted by analyzing the auxiliary sensor data and motion of the captured objects may be detected by analyzing the captured image data thereby to determine whether or not the camera should switch to the high-motion operation mode.
US10306137B2
An imaging apparatus including a control unit configured to perform control to present a first 2-area enlargement display of displaying live view images captured by two imaging regions that are separated in a width direction while arranging them on a display unit if an orientation of the imaging apparatus is a first orientation, and present a second 2-area enlargement display of displaying live view images captured by two imaging regions that are separated in a height direction while arranging them on the display unit if the orientation of the imaging apparatus is a second orientation. The control unit is configured to perform control to end the first 2-area enlargement display based on the orientation of the imaging apparatus changed from the first orientation in a manner satisfying a predetermined condition when the first 2-area enlargement display is presented.
US10306134B2
A method and system for controlling a setting of an equipment related to image capture comprises capturing position data and orientation data of a sensing device; determining position information of a region of interest (i.e. a node) to be treated by the equipment, relative to the position and orientation data of the sensing device; and outputting a control signal directed to the equipment, in order to control in real-time the setting of the equipment based on said position information of the region of interest.
US10306132B2
A distance calculation apparatus calculates distance information based on a first image, which is generated based on luminous flux that passed through a first pupil region, and a second image, which is generated based on luminous flux that passed through a second pupil region. The distance calculation apparatus includes a distance calculation unit to calculate the distance information by comparing a local region of the first image and a local region of the second image and a confidence calculation unit to calculate confidence of the distance information based on a contrast evaluation value, which is a value indicating a magnitude of a contrast change amount in the local region of the first image, in the local region of the second image, or in a local region of a composite image of the first image and the second image.
US10306127B2
Aspects of the present invention provide an approach for controlling an operation of a video capture device (e.g., in a cognitive robotic device). In an embodiment, a set of conditions is obtained using a cognitive computer system. Each of the obtained conditions includes a specific individual and a potential action that may be performed by the individual. The cognitive computer system analyzes video being captured by the video capture device to determine whether the video satisfies any of the set of conditions (e.g., the individual in the video is performing the action). If the cognitive computer system determines that one of the set of conditions has been satisfied, the operation of the video capture device (e.g., capture rate of the video) is modified to account for the satisfied condition.
US10306119B2
Disclosed is a centering-blocking apparatus (1) including: a frame (10); an ophthalmic lens holder (20); a blocking unit (30) suitable for receiving a blocking accessory (200) with a view to depositing it on the ophthalmic lens; and a centering unit (40) suitable for revealing a reference system of the ophthalmic lens. According to an embodiment, the blocking unit is fixedly mounted on the frame whereas the holder is movably mounted on the frame.
US10306118B2
An apparatus, method and computer program wherein the apparatus includes an optical arrangement configured to provide an incident light beam to an image sensor; a first actuator mechanism configured to move the optical arrangement relative to the image sensor in a direction perpendicular to the image sensor; a second actuator mechanism configured to move the optical arrangement relative to the image sensor in a direction parallel to the image sensor; and wherein the first and second actuator mechanisms are configured so that actuation of the second actuator mechanism does not cause movement of the first actuator mechanism.
US10306112B2
The embodiments describe an information processing device, which is connected to a plurality of imaging devices and a method for receiving images by the information processing device. The imaging devices have a first imaging device and a second imaging device. The method includes displaying a first image captured by the first imaging device and switching, at a time that the first image is not received by the information processing device, to a second image captured by the second imaging device.
US10306111B2
In some examples, a print cartridge includes a memory device comprising quantized coefficients derived from a lossy compression, at a selected step size, of a difference color table including a plurality of difference nodes in which each difference node represents a difference value that is a difference of a value of a node of a color table and a value of a corresponding node of a reference table, the quantized coefficients useable to produce a reconstructed difference color table including a first set of difference nodes each representing a difference value that is within an error threshold at the selected step size, and a second set of difference nodes each representing a difference value that is outside an error threshold at the selected step size. The memory device further comprises corrective information to correct the second set of difference nodes of the reconstructed difference color table.
US10306109B2
An image forming apparatus can reduce degradation of the line quality in an output image by a simple method while maintaining the stability of the density characteristics of the output image, and a control method therefor. To accomplish this, in accordance with the amount of change, from a reference density value, of a density value measured from a test pattern image formed on a photosensitive drum, the image forming apparatus according to the invention creates LUT_2 for correcting a laser output signal value corrected using γ correction LUT_1. The image forming apparatus performs γ correction using LUT_1 and LUT_2 for developing colors other than a predetermined low-brightness developing color, whereas for the predetermined low-brightness developing color, it performs γ correction using LUT_1 and laser light amount correction instead of γ correction using LUT_2.
US10306102B2
In a case where a communication apparatus receives an instruction for making a printing apparatus stop operation of a direct wireless communication mode, the communication apparatus determines whether to make the printing apparatus stop the operation of the direct wireless communication mode based on information acquired from the printing apparatus through Bluetooth® Low Energy communication.
US10306101B2
A control method including switching, in accordance with receipt of a print instruction, from a first state to a second state in which communication with an external apparatus based on a second communication method is possible and communication with the Internet based on a first communication method is not performed, while connection to the Internet based on the first communication method and connection to the external apparatus based on the second communication method are established and maintained in parallel.
US10306092B1
This disclosure provides a self-contained imaging device that takes digital photographs of portions of documents (such as photos or photo albums) instead of scanning those images. The imaging device uses a lens to zoom in on specific portions of the document that represent images that are to be digitized. Generally speaking, disclosed embodiments utilize a physical device having a housing, a location for retaining or holding an image to be imaged, such as a platen or image conveyance mechanism, a light source and the imaging system (which can be a digital camera). The disclosed device camera provides a low-cost mechanism that can at-once capture a high resolution image without the delays associated with most scanners.
US10306085B2
An area indicating a progress status of processing for all of the plurality of documents is divided into individual areas indicating a progress status of processing for each of the plurality of documents, and a progress status of processing for each corresponding document is displayed in the individual areas obtained by the division.
US10306084B2
A display unit displays a predetermined message, if at least part of setting information received from a server after a login is not reflected or is possibly not to be reflected in an information processing apparatus.
US10306082B2
A job management server, which is connected to a Web application server and a job processing apparatus via a network, comprises: a registration unit which registers, when a job received from the Web application server is added with information indicating that a request source of the job is the job processing apparatus, the job in a first job queue, and to register, when the job is not added with the information, the job in a second job queue having a lower priority than the first job queue; and a transmission unit which transmits the job registered in the first job queue in response to a request from the job processing apparatus while a user utilizes a Web application via the job processing apparatus.
US10306079B2
Provided is a device management apparatus that performs accurate billing processing. A billing-management unit, based on billing-counter information having cumulative data received from a device, updates registered information in a billing-management table that includes updated data that is updated based on the cumulative data; and a system-control unit, based on comparison results of comparing the cumulative data and the updated data, controls updating of registered information in the billing-management table by the billing-information-management unit. By comparing cumulative data received from a MFP and updated data registered in a billing-management table, a system-control unit can determine whether or not a problem has occurred in cumulative data received from a MFP. As a result, even when for some reason a problem occurs in cumulative data received from a MFP, updated data in which a problem has not occurred can be managed.
US10306069B2
A method for reducing backlog at a call center comprises receiving a request for an agent of a contact center from a device associated with a contact and determining a context for the request. Based on the context, the request may be published while restricting agents from servicing the request, and the duration of time that the request is published is monitored. If an interrupt that indicates that an opt-in user would like to handle the published request is received, then a device associated with the opt-in user is communicably coupled to the device associated with the contact. However, after the request is published for a publish time and an interrupt from a device associated with an opt-in user is not received the request is removed from being published and agents of the contact center are allowed to service the request.
US10306064B2
A system, method, and computer program product for customer contact management via voice, chat, e-mail and social network contacts includes a balanced service process (BSP) that includes a plurality of cause or response codes for maximizing first contact resolution (FCR) and CSAT. The BSP is incorporated within a contact center (single center, multiple centers and/or work at home), which receives voice calls, SMS messages, email, chat, or social media communications from customers. The BSP in real-time determines dispositions of such contacts, monitors and manages the performance of individual resolvers.
US10306063B2
In one embodiment described herein, an omnichannel supervision interface system and method includes a hardware processor, and a graphics engine executed by the processor for displaying a first portion to display, for one contact center agent among a plurality of contact center agents, a near-real time transcript of the contact center agent's conversation with one customer over a plurality of channels, and a second portion to display a first media category of a session of the contact center agent and the customer, wherein the omnichannel supervision interface is operative to display a plurality of channels for the plurality of contact center agents. Related methods, apparatus, and systems are also described.
US10306057B1
An automatic call blocking and routing system. The system includes input and output ports, a telephone line interface and an off-hook circuit in communication with the input port, an output port, a switch in communication with the input and output ports, memory, a user-operable control, and a microprocessor responsive to the user-operable control to store in the memory data indicative of blocked callers. The microprocessor is responsive to an incoming call to compare the stored data with caller ID data in the incoming call. If the caller ID data matches a blocked caller, the microprocessor blocks the call by causing the off-hook circuit to send an off-hook signal to the input port, waiting a predefined interval of time, and then causing the off-hook circuit to send an on-hook signal to the input port.
US10306053B1
Determining whether a user of a mobile computing device is designated as an operator of a vehicle and/or heavy machinery and restricting one or more functions of the device when the user is so designated. In an embodiment, a system restricts a display of visual information via an electronic visual display when the user claims an operator token and the speed of the device exceeds a predetermined threshold value.
US10306050B2
Methods and systems of controlling the actions of a mobile browser to accommodate situations where a mobile application corresponding to a selected link is installed, as well as not installed, on a mobile device are described. In some embodiments, a selectable link associated with a mobile application is displayed within a mobile resource on a mobile device. A user selection of the selectable link is received. Content associated with the selectable link is displayed on the mobile device in response to receiving the user selection. If the mobile application is installed on the mobile device, then mobile application content associated with the mobile application is caused to be displayed within the mobile application on the mobile device. If the mobile application is not installed on the mobile device, then mobile browser content associated with the mobile application is caused to be displayed within the mobile browser.
US10306042B2
Methods and systems of providing caller information are provided. Exemplary systems and methods provide location information for audio files including the caller information. The location information can be used to retrieve the audio information, which can be played on a call recipient's device, and/or a translation of the audio information, which can be displayed on the call recipient's device.
US10306040B2
A watch type terminal includes: a first communication unit configured to perform communication with an external server; a second communication unit configured to perform communication with an external device; and a control unit configured to provide control to perform communication with the external server through a communication unit of the external device when the watch type terminal interworks with the external device through the second communication unit, and to deactivate the first communication unit.
US10306037B2
Head-mounted display systems and methods of operation that allow users to couple and decouple a portable electronic device such as a handheld portable electronic device with a separate head-mounted device (e.g., temporarily integrates the separate devices into a single unit) are disclosed. The portable electronic may be physically coupled to the head-mounted device such that the portable electronic device can be worn on the user's head. The portable electronic device may be operatively coupled to the head-mounted device such that the portable electronic device and head mounted device can communicate and operate with one another. Each device may be allowed to extend its features and/or services to the other device for the purpose of enhancing, increasing and/or eliminating redundant functions between the head-mounted device and the portable electronic device.
US10306035B2
The disclosure herein provides a personal wireless media station including a base station and a wireless earbud. The personal wireless media station may detect that the wireless earbud is docked to the base station, play sound through a speaker of the base station while the wireless earbud is docked to the base station, detect that the wireless earbud is undocked from the base station, cease to play sound through the speaker of the base station in response to detecting that the wireless earbud is undocked from the base station, and cause sound to begin playing through the wireless earbud while the wireless earbud is undocked from the base station.
US10306022B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates the operation of a client/server application while a client is online or offline. The system operates by receiving a request from an application at a client to synchronize data with a server. In response to the request, the system places the data in a resource, wherein the resource can be a file. Next, the system sends an acknowledgement to the application. The system then determines a protocol for synchronizing the resource with the server. Finally, the system queues the resource for synchronization with the server, or optionally synchronizes the resource with the server immediately.
US10306021B1
Techniques for streaming content, such as a video game or whiteboard application, to multiple different clients are described herein. In some cases, differences may exist between characteristics of the different clients such as screen size, resolution, operating system, processors and memories and others. The different clients may be positioned in close proximity to one another or at remote locations with respect to one another. In some cases, different network conditions, such as available bandwidth, loss rates, latency, throughput and others, may exist for transmitting content to the different clients.
US10306018B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for providing and using a connection management service. A connection management service can receive a connection request that requests a connection between a requestor and a distributed network. The connection management service can identify a connector to provide the connection between the requestor and the distributed network. The connection management service can provide, to the requestor, an object corresponding to the connector. The requestor can invoke the object to connect to the distributed network.
US10306017B2
The present disclosure provides a wear system for providing a service. The wear system may comprise a wear device configured to detect authentication information regarding a user wearing the wear device in a first state, to transmit the authentication information to a server, and if authentication of the user is complete through the server, to detect user data of the wear device in a second state and to transmit the user data to the server and the server, upon detecting identification information regarding the user using the authentication information received from the wear device, to complete the authentication of the user, to generate a user profile based on the user data received from the wear device, to store the user profile corresponding to the identification information, and to provide service information related to the user to the wear device.
US10306015B2
A method is provided for the periodic detecting of measured values in a distributed real-time computer system, which comprises a plurality of intelligent sensors, node computers, and distribution units, wherein the intelligent sensors, the node computers, and the distribution units have access to a global time, wherein real-time data is transported in the real-time computer system by time-triggered real-time messages, wherein periodically recurring global observation instants are established or will be established in the real-time computer system at the beginning of a frame, wherein each node computer controlling a physical sensor outputs a trigger signal to the the physical sensor at a sensor-specific trigger instant of the sensor controlled by the node computer, which specific trigger instant is calculated from the difference between the global observation instant and a sensor-specific startup interval.
US10306014B2
A method for controlling quality of service, including receiving an application programming interface (API) call request that a user terminal is triggered to send when an application (APP) is being used, where the API call request carries a user identifier of the APP and an identifier of the APP, acquiring a quality of service control policy of the APP according to the identifier of the APP and the user identifier of the APP, and controlling, according to the quality of service control policy of the APP, quality of service of a user indicated by the user identifier. Hence, quality of service control can be provided for an APP that registers with an API management device, which improves the APP development efficiency.
US10306013B2
Customer churn risk scores are based on a multi-variable churn risk model relating customer and customer account characteristics to a risk of customer churn. A computer-implemented method of generating and presenting churn risk scores of customers of a telecommunication provider involves analyzing, on an in-memory database platform, customer call data records and customer records to calculate a churn likelihood value, an influence factor value, and an average spend value for each customer. The method assigns a churn risk score to each customer according to the model using the calculated churn likelihood value, the calculated influence factor value, and the calculated average spend value as input to the model. The churn risk scores for one or more customers are displayed visually on an interactive computer-user interface (UI).
US10306006B2
A bio-inspired algorithm based P2P content caching method and system for mesh networks is provided. The bio-inspired algorithm based P2P content caching method for mesh networks includes the steps of checking a request of a content of a user in a mesh router, and searching the content from the mesh router, which is requested for the content, based on a bio-inspired algorithm.
US10306002B2
The present invention provides a must-reply mobile questionnaire system and method. The system comprises a cloud composed of a database, a server, and a push gateway. The server generates a questionnaire issuing request and sends it as a push notification, via the push gateway and an external push server, to a specific mobile communication device. All executable functions on the mobile communication device enabled with an organization ID are locked until a questionnaire involved in the questionnaire issuing request is replied.
US10306001B2
A method is described of pre-processing real-time data to be processed by one or more real-time analytics services. The method includes: receiving, at a stateless ingress node, data from one or more client devices; transforming the data in real-time at the stateless ingress node; determining in real-time, at the stateless ingress node, a real-time analytics service for the transformed data; and forwarding in real-time the transformed data to the determined real-time analytics service for stateful processing.
US10305999B2
An information processing system formed by connecting an information processing apparatus with terminal apparatuses includes a delivery unit delivering information received from the terminal apparatus to the other terminal apparatus; a display unit displaying the information exchanged between the terminal apparatuses; a user detection unit detecting whether the user exists before the other terminal apparatus in a case where the information delivered from the terminal apparatus is displayed in the other terminal apparatus; a report unit sending a report indicating that the information delivered from the terminal apparatus is browsed from the other terminal apparatus, which detect that the user exists, to the terminal apparatus and not sending the report from the other terminal apparatuses, which does not detect that the user exists; and a display control unit of the terminal apparatus displaying a browsed state of the information in the other terminal apparatuses based on the report.
US10305997B2
QR codes or the like are used in hardlink applications, by which different users may receive different information in response to a user's interaction with a touchpoint. The content delivered to a particular user in response to a hardlink code or a presented hyperlink may be dependent on the time of the scan, the geographic location of the user, a weather condition at the geographical location, personal information associated with the user, a number of previous scans of the code by prior individuals, and any combination of the these or other variables, which may be determined by an originator of the QR code or other party. User devices may be re-directed to alternate content or network addresses based on one or more programmed conditions.
US10305989B2
A computing device includes an interface configured to interface and communicate with a dispersed storage network (DSN), a memory that stores operational instructions, and processing circuitry operably coupled to the interface and to the memory. The processing circuitry is configured to execute the operational instructions to perform various operations and functions. The computing device detects a potentially adverse storage issue with a memory device of a storage unit (SU) of set(s) of storage unit(s) (SU(s)). The computing device also determines whether to transfer at least one EDSs (associated with the memory device) to another memory device for temporary storage therein. Based on a determination not to transfer, the computing device identifies at least one alternate storage location and facilitates transfer of the at least one EDSs for temporary storage therein. When the potentially adverse storage issue has subsided, the computing device facilitates transfer of the at least one EDSs back.
US10305984B1
Methods and systems to perform methods comprising receiving, at a computer system from a first electronic device a first electronic media work; extracting one or more features therefrom; determining that at least a portion of the first electronic media work corresponds to a first reference media work based on a matching of the extracted features against a database of reference features; receiving, from a second electronic device, a query related to the first electronic media work; linking the query to action information in an action database based upon determining that at least a portion of the first electronic media work corresponds to the first reference media work; generating machine-readable instructions associated with the action to be performed based at least in part on the linking of the query to the action information; transmitting, to the second electronic device, the machine-readable instructions; and logging an event associated with the machine-readable instructions.
US10305978B2
According to an example, a cloud server receives an upload request transmitted by the first terminal, wherein the upload request comprises an account and webpage information of a webpage displayed on a first browser of the first terminal. The cloud server transmits the webpage information of the webpage to the second terminal according to the account, such that a second browser of the second terminal opens the webpage according to the webpage information.
US10305977B2
Technical solutions are described automatically filtering user images being uploaded to a social network. An example computer-implemented method includes detecting an image file, which contains an image of a user, being uploaded to the social network server. The method further includes determining compliance of the image file with a predetermined profile associated with the user. The method further includes, in response to the image failing to comply with the predetermined profile, modifying the image file to generate a modified image file, and uploading the modified image file to the social network server.
US10305973B2
A load-balancer instance is instantiated in a network virtualization edge (NVE) in a software defined network (SDN). A forwarding table in the NVE is modified to indicate that a next hop for a packet having a destination address of the load-balancer instance is to be resolved by the load-balancer instance. From a portion of the packet, and using the load-balancer instance, a value usable to select a singular next hop to a first real server in a pool of real servers managed by the load-balancer instance is determined. The packet is forwarded, using the modified forwarding table, the packet through an underlay of the SDN such that the packet tunnels from the NVE to a first NVE, the second NVE hosting the first real server.
US10305967B2
Techniques are described for providing a unified client to interact with a distributed processing platform such as a Hadoop cluster. The unified client may include multiple sub-clients each of which is configured to interface with a particular subsystem of the distributed processing platform, such as MapReduce, Hive, Spark, and so forth. The unified client may be included in an application to provide, for the application, a single interface for communications between the application and the distributed processing platform during a unified communication session.
US10305964B2
Disclosed are various examples for serving certain portions of a content file from a server and accessing other portions of the content file from a local storage on a client device. A content proxy can extract a manifest file from a content package, and determine that a content file is associated with the manifest file. Content fragments associated with the content file can be identified and stored in client device storage. Content fragments that are not stored on the client device can be requested from the server. The content proxy can provide a URL that references the content file through which the content file can be served.
US10305963B2
Embodiments of the present application disclose a file shared browsing method and system. The method comprises: a host device receiving a browsing mode switching operation of a user, and enabling or disabling a slave mode of the system according to the operation, wherein: global control permission on a target file browsing progress for a slave device is enabled in a state in which the slave mode of the system is ON; global control permission on the target file browsing progress for a slave device is disabled in a state in which the slave mode of the system is OFF. Compared to the prior art, the user of the slave device in the embodiments of the present application can, in addition to passively follow the browse, also temporarily become dominant for browsing according to actual needs. Thus, the solution of the present application can be flexibly adapted to application of different scenes, such as a solo speech and multi-person discussion and the like.
US10305962B1
In one example, a method for testing client operation includes transmitting an interface call, intercepting the interface call with a simulated service, and determining a correct response to a predicted network call. Next, the interface call is passed from the simulated service to an actual service that prepares a network request based on the interface call. The network request is correlated with an expected server response and the server interface response compared with the correct response to determine whether the client is operating properly.
US10305961B2
An information processing apparatus capable of requesting a server to execute an application on the server acquires user information, and determines whether execution of the application by a user corresponding to the user information is permitted. The information processing apparatus controls display of a screen for instructing execution of the application to, when it is determined that execution of the application is permitted, display the screen on a display unit, and when it is determined that execution of the application is inhibited, restrict an instruction to execute the application.
US10305956B2
A computing device includes a processor and a memory storing a media player. The media player is executable to cause the processor to, during playback of a media stream, receive an abstract syntax tree (AST) in the media stream, invoke a compiler to compile the AST to generate a platform-specific component, and execute the platform-specific component.
US10305954B1
An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a storage system configured to implement at least one scalable video server. The storage system comprises a software-defined storage pool, and the scalable video server comprises a plurality of file system storage nodes each including a corresponding portion of the software-defined storage pool and an associated file system server. A streaming bandwidth of the scalable video server for a given video stream is controlled by adjusting the number of file system storage nodes utilized for the given video stream in the scalable video server. The file system servers of the respective file system storage nodes are configured to interact with a file system client associated with the given video stream. The streaming bandwidth of the scalable video server for the given video stream may be dynamically adjusted by adding or deleting file system storage nodes to or from the scalable video server.
US10305949B2
Disclosed is a reception device configured to acquire second metadata including a flag, the flag indicating whether or not there is a component stream transmitted from a server via the Internet for a service. The reception device is also configured to acquire first metadata based on the second metadata, the first metadata including information related to a component stream for the service transmitted in a broadcast signal using an Internet Protocol (IP) transmission scheme. Finally, the reception device is configured to access the component stream transmitted in the broadcast signal based on the first metadata, and control reproduction of the component stream transmitted in the broadcast signal.
US10305939B2
A management system is provided that includes a memory storing a program and a processor configured to execute the program to implement processes of receiving a communication start request from a first terminal for starting communication with a second terminal corresponding to a communication counterpart of the first terminal, determining whether communication can be established between the first terminal and the second terminal based on information on a codec supported by the first terminal and information on a codec supported by the second terminal, and transmitting a determination result of the determination to the first terminal.
US10305937B2
This invention provides secure, policy-based separation of data and applications on computer, especially personal computers that operate in different environments, such as those including personal applications and corporate applications, so that both types of applications can run simultaneously while complying with all required policies. The invention enables employees to use their personal devices for work purposes, or work devices for personal purposes. The secure, policy-based separation is created by dividing the data processing device into two or more “domains,” each with its own policies. These policies may be configured by the device owner, an IT department, or other data or application owner.
US10305936B2
Security inspection of massive virtual hosts for immutable infrastructure and infrastructure as code
A method and system are provided for performing a security inspection of a set of virtual images. The method includes merging the virtual images into a tree structure having a root and a plurality of leaves such that child leaves and a parent leaf to the child leaves have common ones of the virtual images. The method further includes applying a bisection method against a path in the tree from the root to a given one of the plurality of leaves having a given one of the virtual images in which a security violation has been identified to find a particular one of the virtual images that is a root cause of the security violation. The method also includes performing a corrective action for any of the plurality of images having the security violation.
US10305929B2
According to one example, a system and method are disclosed for malware and grayware remediation. For example, the system is operable to identify applications that have some legitimate behavior but that also exhibit some undesirable behavior. A remediation engine is provided to detect malware behavior in otherwise useful applications, and allow the useful parts of the application to run while blocking the malware behavior. In an example method of “healing,” this may involve modifying the application binary to remove undesirable behavior. In an example method of “personalization,” this may involve inserting control hooks through the operating system to prevent certain subroutines from taking effect.
US10305927B2
Techniques for sinkholing bad network domains by registering the bad network domains on the Internet are provided. In some embodiments, sinkholing bad network domains by registering the bad network domains on the Internet includes determining a network domain is a bad network domain, in which the bad network domain is determined to be associated with an identified malware (e.g., malware that has been identified and has been determined to be associated with the bad domain), and the bad network domain is sinkholed by registering the bad network domain with a sinkholed IP address; and identifying a host that is infected with the identified malware based on an attempt by the host to connect to the sinkholed IP address.
US10305923B2
A method includes receiving, at a server, a first file attribute from a computing device, the first file attribute associated with a file. The method also includes determining, based on the first file attribute, that a classification for the file is unavailable. The method further includes determining the classification for the file based on a trained file classification model accessible to the server and sending the classification to the computing device. The method includes sending at least the classification to a base prediction cache associated with a second server.
US10305919B2
In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, systems and methods that protect an application from attacks are provided. In some embodiments of the present invention, input from an input source, such as traffic from a communication network, can be routed through a filtering proxy that includes one or more filters, classifiers, and/or detectors. In response to the input passing through the filtering proxy to the application, a supervision framework monitors the input for attacks (e.g., code injection attacks). The supervision framework can provide feedback to tune the components of the filtering proxy.
US10305916B2
A personal cloud device includes a housing, one or more processors disposed within the housing, a local area network interface to communicatively couple the processors to a local area network, at least one of: (i) internal persistent storage disposed within the housing, or (ii) an interface to removably attach the personal cloud device to a persistent storage device, to store a library of digital media files including photo and/or video content, and a memory disposed within the housing. The memory stores identifiers of users authorized to operate the personal cloud device, and instructions that cause the personal cloud device to detect a trigger condition related to a location of a user device associated with one of the authorized users, and, in response to detecting the trigger condition, automatically retrieve digital media files from the user device for storage in the internal persistent storage or the persistent storage device.
US10305915B2
A social network includes a relay server and two or more mobile Internet devices (“MIDs”) coupled to the relay server. Each of the MIDs includes a relay agent for interfacing with the relay server, a web server, an application for operating the web server, and a memory for storing social networking information comprising a contacts list, one or more access groups, one or more albums, and one or more associations between the one or more access groups and the one or more albums to specify which contacts can view which albums.
US10305912B2
Systems and methods for controlling access to electronic collaboration content data associated with a plurality of organizations. The system includes one or more databases storing the electronic collaboration content data. An identity aggregator receives a request for access to the electronic collaboration content data from an individual's client device and determines an internal user identifier of the individual, that represents an aggregate identity of the individual corresponding to at least one of organizational identities or external identities. A content access manager maps the internal user identifier to content permissions associated with the individual across each organization that is associated with the individual and the external content services associated with the individual. The content access manager permits access by the client device to at least a portion of the electronic data stored among the databases across each organization associated with the individual and based on the individual's content permissions.
US10305911B1
Provided are systems and methods for managing access to web content. An example method includes receiving a request to provide a user with access to web content, determining that the user could have one or more cognitive conditions, determining that the web content is not approved for access by the user, presenting an interactive challenge, determining that the user has successfully completed the interactive challenge, sending a web content access request comprising an indication of the user and the web content, receiving an indication that the web content is approved for access by the user, and providing the user with access to the web content.
US10305910B2
A method and apparatus of a host that accesses files from a portable storage device with a shared filesystem is described. In an exemplary method, the host transmits a request to access the shared filesystem, where the shared filesystem includes a security policy that disallows one application accessing a file in the shared filesystem corresponding to another application. The host further receives an indication of the result of the request.
US10305907B2
Web resources are accessible by a process on a computer device. Access to the web resources is controlled by a web proxy running in an address space of the process. The web proxy receives a web request for a web resource from the process. The web proxy examines the web request for the web resource and selectively allows or denies access to the web resource. If the web request for the web resource is allowed, the web proxy arranges access to the web resource, for example, directly via an operating system of the computer device or via a registered web proxy.
US10305901B2
A method at an authentication server for multi-factor authentication of an electronic device, the method including receiving at the authentication server a request for authentication of the electronic device; sending information to the electronic device; receiving a response based on the information sent to the electronic device, the response further including an authentication time limit; authenticating the response; and storing the response and time limit upon verification of the response.
US10305892B2
A device system that performs group authentication and an operating method thereof are provided. The device system includes multiple devices. The operating method of the device system includes performing a first authentication procedure with respect to a first device that is newly connected to the device system; and performing a second authentication procedure with respect to the first device via an authentication group including at least two devices selected from the devices. The second authentication procedure is a group-based authentication procedure. If the first and second authentication procedures are successful, the operating method includes approving connection of the first device to the device system.
US10305890B2
A server includes a key generator and an authenticator. The key generator is configured to receive a request for a first key from a worker device, to create the first key that is associated with a worker, and to transmit the first key to the worker device. The authenticator is in communication with the key generator, the authenticator is configured to receive a second key and identification details from a customer device, to transmit the identification details to the worker device, to receive acknowledgment of the identification details from the worker device, and to authenticate the second key and the identification details with the customer device.
US10305886B1
An Identity Exchange that communicates and processes data exchanged between Identity Providers (IdP) and Relying Partys (RP) remains blinded from the attribute values of the data flowing through it. To make this happen each IdP and RP are issued anonymous certificates by a Certificate Authority, using which they perform key exchange with each other to exchange session keys, which are used subsequently to encrypt/decrypt all attribute values they exchange via the Identity Exchange.
US10305880B2
A system and method for providing, as a service over a computer network (especially a packet-switched computer network) to a body of merchants connected to the computer network, verification of consumer identification based on data provided over the computer network by scanning devices attached to the computers operated by consumers.
US10305878B2
The present invention discloses a method and a device for authorizing and using a virtual device, wherein the method comprises: after receiving a request for generating a virtual device, a mobile terminal configures authority information of a first virtual device, generates the first virtual device, and interacts with a servers to send the configured authority information of the first virtual device and related authentication information to the server for authenticating. After passing the authentication, the server generates a second virtual device with the above-mentioned authority information. When in use, the mobile terminal generates authentication information and sends a current use status of the first virtual device to the server for authenticating and is returned to with a authentication result. The present invention improves the security by adding the authentication with respect to the authority information during the authorization of generating the virtual device and use of the virtual device.
US10305876B2
Various technologies described herein pertain to sharing Wi-Fi credentials based upon relationships in a computer-implemented social network. At least one server computing device of a Wi-Fi credential sharing service receives an identifier from a mobile device and credentials for a Wi-Fi network from the mobile device. The identifier identifies a user of the mobile device. Moreover, the credentials for the Wi-Fi network are desirably shared by the user. Further, contacts of the user are retrieved from the social network. The credentials for the Wi-Fi network are retained in respective accounts of the contacts of the user from the social network. Further, an account of a contact includes credentials for Wi-Fi networks shared with the contact.
US10305864B2
One embodiment provides a system that facilitates efficient content exchange in a CCN. During operation, the system receives, generates, by a client computing device, an interest with a name that includes a routable prefix and a first hash of one or more original name components, wherein the name is a hierarchically structured variable length identifier that includes contiguous name components ordered from a most general level to a most specific level. The system computes a key based on a second hash of the original name components and a randomly generated first nonce. The system encrypts a payload of the interest with the key, wherein the interest indicates the first nonce. In response to transmitting the interest, wherein the interest allows a receiving content producing device to compute the key and decrypt the payload, the system receives receiving a content object with a payload encrypted based on the key.
US10305858B2
Some embodiments of the invention introduce cloud template awareness in the service policy framework. Some embodiments provide one or more service rule processing engines that natively support (1) template-specific dynamic groups and template-specific rules, and (2) dynamic security tag concepts. A service rule processing engine of some embodiments natively supports template-specific dynamic groups and rules as it can directly process service rules that are defined in terms of dynamic component groups, template identifiers, template instance identifiers, and/or template match criteria. Examples of such services can include any kind of middlebox services, such as firewalls, load balancers, network address translators, intrusion detection systems, intrusion prevention systems, etc.
US10305852B2
A system includes: a first telephone; a relay that manages first accommodation position information of the first telephone; and an exchange that includes a management table that manages second telephone identification information, second accommodation position information of a second telephone connected to the relay, and an extension number of each of a plurality of the second telephones, receives first telephone identification information and the first accommodation position information, when the first telephone identification information does not match with any one of the second telephone identification information registered, and the first accommodation position information matches with one of the second accommodation position information in the management table, changes second telephone identification information corresponding to the matched second accommodation position information to the first telephone identification information, and uses an extension number corresponding to the matched second accommodation position information as an extension number of the first telephone.
US10305848B2
An online system receives data and processes the data in a data processing pipeline. To data loss in the data processing pipeline, the online system determines a time interval during which each item of data is received and associates a set of counters with each time interval. For each time interval, an input counter is incremented for each data item received during the time interval and an output counter is incremented for each data item received during the time interval that was processed by the data processing pipeline. The online system compares an input number from the input counter and an output number from the output counter for each time interval. Based on a difference between the input number and output number for a time interval, the online system determines if a loss of data received during the time interval occurred. Lost Data are identified and processed.
US10305821B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a switching system. The switching system includes a plurality of line cards, each of which includes one or more ports, a processor, one or more switch fabric cards for facilitating switching among the line cards, and a memory storing instructions for facilitating efficient hot-swapping. During operation, the switching system identifies a hot-swapping event of a first switch fabric card based on a data structure indicating the one or more switch fabric cards. The hot-swapping event indicates insertion or removal of the first switch fabric card while the switching system remains in an operational state. The switching system then determines an event type associated with the hot-swapping event and manages the first switch fabric card based on the determined event type.
US10305818B2
Various systems and methods for performing fast fail-over. For example, one method involves electing a first node as a designated forwarder node and electing a second node as a backup designated forwarder node, where the designated forwarder node is used to forward at least a first packet to a downstream node. The method further involves detecting a loss of connectivity between the designated forwarder node and a downstream receiver node, where the designated forwarder node and the backup designated forwarder node are both elected prior to the loss of connectivity occurring. Moreover, subsequent to detecting the loss of connectivity, the method uses the backup designated forwarder node to forward at least a second packet to the downstream receiver node.
US10305798B2
A method is implemented by a network device to dynamically optimize lookup speed in a packet processing table maintained at the network device while the network device is in operation. The method includes determining one or more runtime metrics of the packet processing table, selecting a lookup algorithm for the packet processing table from a set of lookup algorithms supported by the network device based on the one or more runtime metrics of the packet processing table, and configuring the network device to match incoming packets against rules in the packet processing table using the selected lookup algorithm for the packet processing table.
US10305791B2
Embodiments relate generally to systems and methods for transitioning a system from a tradition network to a Software Defined Network (SDN) enabled network. In some embodiments, the systems and methods may comprise the use of a Path Computation Element (PCE) as a central controller. Smooth transition between traditional network and the new SDN enabled network, especially from a cost impact assessment perspective, may be accomplished using the existing PCE components from the current network to function as the central controller of the SDN network is one choice, which not only achieves the goal of having a centralized controller to provide the functionalities needed for the central controller, but also leverages the existing PCE network components.
US10305790B2
A provider edge (PE) router and methods for establishing a pseudowire using open shortest path first (OSPF) link state advertisement (LSA) messages. The pseudowire links the PE router with a remote PE router through a packet switched network (PSN), and emulates other communications protocols to provide customer edge (CE) equipment connected to the PE routers the appearance of a dedicated private circuit.
US10305789B2
Embodiments of the present invention include methods, systems, and computer program products for packet forwarding. Aspects of the invention include receiving, from a source node, a first network queue in a set of network queues, wherein the first network queue includes one or more minimum network traffic performance requirements. A set of network paths is analyzed to determine a performance level for each network path and identify a first network path and a second network path with a performance level above the one or more minimum performance requirements of the first network queue. A determination is made that the first network path has a higher performance level than the second network path. Based at least in part on determining that the first network path has a higher performance level than the second network path, the first network queue is mapped to the first network path.
US10305785B2
At least one data-stream is re-routed and a network element is provided for re-routing at least one data-stream. A first part and a second part of a data-stream received at a first node and are transmitted to a second node via two different network paths, respectively. The first is transmitted from the first node to the second node via a first network path. A second network path is determined, and the difference between latencies of the first and second network paths is also determined. If the latency of the first network path is larger than the latency of the second network path, the at least one data-stream at the first node is re-routed from the first network path to the second network path provided that the time gap between data packets received by the first node exceeds said difference between latencies.
US10305780B1
The problem of excessive BGP updates to update the AIGP cost is systems with excessively changing IGP metrics is solved by (1) monitoring AIGP value changes over a given time period, (2) determining whether or not the AIGP value changes over the given period of time are excessive (e.g., are greater than a predetermined threshold), (3) responsive to a determination that the AIGP changes over the given period of time are not excessive, use the actual AIGP value in the AIGP protocol, but otherwise, responsive to a determination that the AIGP changes over the given period of time are excessive, (i) setting (e.g., locking) the AIGP value to a predetermined or derived value (and using the set or locked AIGP value in advertisements) for a second period of time (regardless of whether or not the actual AIGP value changes during the second period of time), and (ii) using the set (e.g., locked) AIGP value in the AIGP protocol.
US10305774B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatuses for dynamically enhancing a first network bandwidth with bandwidth available in one or more other networks based on user bandwidth needs and network bandwidth availability. A gateway apparatus is disclosed that may monitor the user desired bandwidth, determine that the desired bandwidth is greater than a first threshold bandwidth (e.g., a first network digital subscriber line (DSL) service bandwidth), activate a connection to a second network (e.g., a Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobility network), derive the second network available bandwidth, and use at least a portion of the second network available bandwidth with the first network bandwidth to provide at least a portion of the desired bandwidth (e.g., improve user Internet speed). Thus, the gateway apparatus may enhance the first network bandwidth only when needed and may avoid negatively impacting the second network by only using the second network connection to transfer data if the second network has bandwidth available.
US10305770B2
A uniform protocol can facilitate secure, authenticated communication between a controller device and an accessory device that is controlled by the controller. An accessory and a controller can establish a pairing, the existence of which can be verified at a later time and used to create a secure communication session. The accessory can provide an accessory definition record that defines the accessory as a collection of services, each service having one or more characteristics. Within a secure communication session, the controller can interrogate the characteristics to determine accessory state and/or modify the characteristics to instruct the accessory to change its state.
US10305764B1
Methods, systems, and computer readable mediums for monitoring and managing a computing system using resource chains are disclosed. In some examples, a method includes obtaining resource component data from each of a plurality of resource managers in a computing system and organizing the resource component data to establish logical relationships among resource components included in the computing system. The method further includes defining a resource configuration that identifies at least two of the resource components used to facilitate a communication path between a virtual resource in the computing system to a designated network element and displaying the resource configuration as a resource chain that defines a linking order among the at least two of the resource components that facilitate the communication path.
US10305754B2
An apparatus allocates a packet-identifier to each packet captured from a network, and stores the each packet in a buffer. The apparatus associates, with each of the packet-identifiers, a connection-identifier specifying a connection of a packet identified by the each packet-identifier, and detects a connection to which a primary abnormality is occurring by analyzing packets stored in the buffer. The apparatus stores, for each connection to which the primary abnormality has occurred, a primary-abnormality group of packets to which the packet-identifiers associated with the connection-identifier of the each connection are allocated, in a first storage-region, detects a connection to which a secondary abnormality is occurring, based on a statistical value related to results of analyses on packets captured in a sampling duration, and writes, in a second storage-region, packets related to connections to which the secondary abnormality has occurred, among the primary-abnormality groups stored in the first storage-region.
US10305750B1
Apparatus and methods described herein relate to an apparatus including a memory and a processor operatively coupled to the memory. The processor can receive a package associated with a network management device and management input. The processor can generate at least one management device schema based on the package, and can modify a controller schema based on the management input and the at least one management device schema. The processor can receive a configuration input signal that includes instructions to configure the network management device. The processor can determine a management device schema associated with the network management device based on the controller schema, and can convert the configuration input signal into a configuration signal based on the management device schema. The processor can also send the configuration signal to cause a modification to a configuration of the network management device based on the configuration signal.
US10305740B2
Systems and methods for performing mass renaming of a list of items at run-time with variable differentiation factors, which may be applied to a management device managing the list of items. The management device provides multiple predetermined dynamic keys for the list of items to be renamed, where each of the predetermined dynamic keys has a corresponding differentiating value for each item. For example, properties of the items may be used as the predetermined dynamic keys. Then, the management device may receive an instruction from a user for renaming the list of items. The instruction may include information for selecting at least one of the predetermined dynamic keys to be used in the renaming process. In response to the instruction, the management device may perform a renaming process at run-time to rename the items using the predetermined dynamic keys being selected.
US10305731B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for provisioning cloud services across heterogeneous computing environments. A plurality of provisioning instructions stored on a configuration management server can be partitioned into a plurality of ranges. A plurality of client nodes connected to the configuration management server can be configured into a plurality of groups, each group providing one or more computing environments on one or more virtual machines for hosting a cloud service. Each computing environment in a particular group can be associated with a provisioning instruction launcher that specifies a particular range of provisioning instructions. When a virtual machine in a particular group reboots, the computing environment on the virtual machine searches for the latest provisioning instruction in the range corresponding to the particular group.
US10305730B2
The invention relates to a control device for controlling a plurality of network nodes of a computer network, comprising a master computing means for controlling the network nodes in accordance with a program, which master computing means assigns at least one program to each network node, comprising a control logic which is configured to group the network nodes in accordance with the programs assigned to these network nodes in each case and to transmit the same program in parallel to those network nodes of the same group which have been assigned this same program by the master computing means. The invention further relates to a method for operating a computer network and to a computer network.
US10305728B2
A method and device for discovering, identifying, and configuring a particular one of a plurality of devices to be administered is described. The method and device facilitate these steps by eliminating the need for an administrator to know a specific MAC address or unique identifier for the device to be administered, and by eliminating the need to identify that specific MAC address or unique identifier in a list of MAC addresses or unique identifiers.
US10305724B2
A method, system, and computer readable medium for managing applications on an application execution system are disclosed. On an application server the number of instances of a first application type that are in a busy state is determined. This determination is performed at each respective time interval in a plurality of time intervals. Then, a first running average for the busy state of the first application type is computed based upon the number of instances of the first application type that are in a busy state, at the application server, at each respective time interval. A removal request is sent when the first running average for the busy state meets a first removal criterion. The removal request is a request to remove the application server from a data structure that specifies which of a plurality of application servers accept service requests for the first application type.
US10305723B1
A system receives managed resource data collected by an agent from a managed resource in a storage area network. The system evaluates conditions associated with the managed resource data to select a read mechanism based on the conditions, and applies the read mechanism to read managed object data from the managed object database. The managed object data corresponds to the managed resource data. After application of the read mechanism, the system synchronizes the managed object data from the managed object database with the managed resource data collected from the managed resource.
US10305720B1
A portable virtual reality gaming station that is configured to provide a plurality of tactile sensations during the course of playing a game thereon. The portable virtual reality gaming station includes an annular shaped platform having a central aperture with a fan disposed therein. A support frame extends upward from the platform and is configured to partially encircle the platform. A mounting post is provided and has operably secured thereto a user suspension assembly. The portable virtual reality gaming station includes a central processing unit configured to support operations thereof. A first dispenser and a second dispenser are provided wherein the first dispenser is configured to discharge a liquid and the second dispenser is configured to provide an olfactory sensation to a user. A second fan and third fan are provide to direct streams of air in alternate directions to a user. An external monitor is further included.
US10305719B2
The present invention is designed to improve spectral efficiency in a system that runs LTE/LTE-A by using a carrier in which LBT (Listen Before Talk) is configured. One aspect of the present invention provides a radio base station in a radio communication system where the radio base station and a user terminal communicate by using a carrier in which LBT is configured, and this radio base station has a measurement section that executes LBT in a predetermined carrier sensing duration and acquires an LBT result, and a transmission section that transmits a downlink signal based on the LBT result, and the predetermined carrier sensing duration includes a first carrier sensing duration and a second carrier sensing duration, which is shorter than the first carrier sensing duration.
US10305716B2
In a method of transmitting data between a transmitter and a receiver via two pairs of wires in a differential mode, the method comprises transmitting, from the transmitter to the receiver, related signals onto the two pairs of wires in respect of each tone in a first subset of tones and processing the received signals in dependence upon estimated channel transfer functions associated with both direct and crosstalk channels. The method further comprises transmitting, from the transmitter to the receiver, unrelated signals onto the two pairs of wires for each tone in a second subset of the tones, the unrelated signals being vector precoded before transmission and wherein a cut-off frequency and/or tone demarcates between the first and the second subsets of tones.
US10305709B2
A semiconductor device includes first and second buffers respectively outputting reception data and clock signals; a latch circuit latching the reception data signal in response to the reception clock signal; a delay circuitry delaying the reception clock signal by a set delay time; and a delay control circuitry which searches a first delay time while increasing the set delay time from an initial value; searches a second delay time while increasing the set delay time from the first delay time; searches a third delay time while decreasing the set delay time from the second delay time; and determines an optimum delay time from the first and third delay times. The first and third delay times are determined so that the reception data is stabilized to a first value and the second delay time is determined so that the reception data is stabilized to a second value.
US10305697B2
Travel-related-information messages (TRIMS) are received from one or more information sources, and information included in the messages is placed into a first (e.g. TPEG™) or second (e.g. TPEG+) group. A determination is made that a first TRIM reporting message including information from the first group will exceed a permissible size, so excess information is removed from the first group and added to the second group, thereby decreasing the size of the first TRIM reporting message to the permissible message size or less. Some or all of the excess information removed from the first group is added to the second group. First and second TRIM reporting messages are generated from information included in the first and second groups. The first and second TRIM reporting messages are transmitted to end-user devices using different service ports.
US10305694B2
A method for propagating configuration data using a blockchain includes: storing a blockchain comprised of a plurality of blocks, each being comprised of a block header having a timestamp and one or more configuration transactions; receiving one or more configuration data items; generating a new configuration transaction for each configuration data item; hashing a most recent block identified based on the timestamp included in the respective block header to generate a previous block hash value; hashing a combination of the new configuration transactions and/or data associated therewith to generate a current block hash value; generating a new block header, the new block header including a current timestamp, the previous block hash value, the current block hash value, and a digital signature; generating a new block comprised of the new block header and each new configuration transaction; and updating the blockchain by appending the new block.
US10305685B2
An identification information transmitter encrypts identification information for identifying a person or an object using an encryption key, transmits the encrypted identification information, and, after receiving another encryption key, switches the encryption key from the encryption key to the other encryption key. A server receives the encrypted identification information from the identification information transmitter, determines whether the encryption key is to be switched, and, if the encryption key is to be switched, generates the other encryption key. Another server authenticates the identification information that an identification information receiver receives from the identification information transmitter, and, if authentication is successful, acquires the other encryption key from the server, and transmits the other encryption key to the identification information receiver. The identification information receiver, when receiving the other encryption key from the second server, transmits the other encryption key to the identification information transmitter.
US10305680B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for processing and message padding an input message as well as processing an extended output message (EOM) in a manner that ensures that the input message and the padded message are processed only a single time, thus avoiding generation of an incorrect message digest. In addition, in those scenarios in which multiple padded message blocks are generated, the disclosed systems, methods, and computer-readable media ensure that all of the padded message blocks are processed.
US10305671B2
Synchronous, differential signaling may be performed over a communications path through a wired connection between a master device and a slave device to provide high-bandwidth and/or low-latency communications. Flexibility may be provided in the signaling protocol by providing for a configurable frame structure. Flexibility may be provided in mapping of data streams to bit slots in a frame, varying a number of downlink and uplink slots, configuring a number of turnarounds and locations of the turnarounds within a frame, configuring location and number of control word bit (CWB) slots in a frame, and/or adjusting a clock frequency of the communications link.
US10305654B2
In the present application, disclosed is a method for reporting channel state information in an unlicensed band to a base station by a terminal in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving, from the base station, information on a reference signal resource for interference measurement through an upper layer; calculating channel state information using the reference signal resource for the interference measurement; and reporting the channel state information to the base station, wherein the reference signal resource for the interference measurement is configured by two or more reference signal patterns, and the two or more reference signal patterns are mapped to different time resources, respectively.
US10305653B2
In one exemplary embodiment, a method includes: inserting an indication of a cyclic prefix length into a transmission; and sending the transmission. In another exemplary embodiment, a method includes: receiving a transmission; and processing the received transmission to obtain an indication of a cyclic prefix length.
US10305651B2
Systems, methods and instrumentalities are disclosed for superposed signaling for bandwidth efficiency in wireless communications. Homogeneous and heterogeneous signals may be superposed on the same channel. Superposed signals may comprise, for example, multi carrier, frequency division and code division signals, including multiple access, e.g., OFDMA and CDMA, signals. Data for various receivers may be dynamically selected for signal superpositioning, for example, based on radio access technology, communication rate (e.g. high and low rates), distance between transmitter and receiver (e.g. near and far signals). Communication rate and power may be allocated to superposed signals. Interference nulling may be applied, for example, by selecting or excluding spreading codes and/or subcarriers. Nulled locations may be used to transmit critical information. Interference shaping may be applied to modify interference, e.g., by transmitting interference symbols using reserved spreading codes. Support information, e.g., code indices, code length and/or subcarriers, may be signaled to support or optimize performance.
US10305650B2
A method for transmitting a discovery message in a wireless communication system supporting device-to-device (D2D) direct communication, the method performed by the device, includes: receiving discovery resource region information including multiple discovery resource partitions from a base station; determining one discovery resource partition among multiple discovery resource partitions by using discovery search information previously shared with specific D2D terminals; determining a discovery resource for transmitting a discovery message among discovery resources in the determined discovery resource partition through a predetermined resource selecting method; and transmitting the discovery message through the determined discovery resource.
US10305647B2
The present invention provides a new uplink PPDU frame format to support MU-MIMO and OFDMA, and methods, apparatuses, etc. therefor. In an aspect of the present invention, a method by a STA for transmitting an UL PPDU frame to an AP simultaneously with one or more other STAs in a WLAN may include receiving a frame including a parameter for the PPDU frame from the AP; and participating in UL MU PPDU frame transmission based on the parameter.
US10305642B2
A method, base station, and terminal for dynamic uplink configuration in a wireless communication system, the method including: determining reconfiguration information including a reconfiguration point of time, to employ first uplink and downlink subframe configuration in the first configuration period before the reconfiguration point of time, and to employ second uplink and downlink subframe configuration in a second configuration period after the reconfiguration point of time; and in the last transmission period before the reconfiguration point of time, employing an uplink scheduling timing sequence of a reference uplink and downlink subframe configuration according to an uplink data timing sequence, the reference uplink and downlink subframe configuration including the second uplink and downlink subframe configuration. The method, base station, and terminal efficiently achieve at least one of: ensuring resource utilization, addressing timing sequence conflicts, coordinating processes, ensuring user throughput, or reducing transmission delay during TDD uplink and downlink reconfiguration.
US10305636B1
In a multiuser (MU) multiple antenna system (MAS), a central processing unit is communicatively coupled to multiple distributed wireless terminals (WTs) via a network. The central processing unit processes channel measurements indicative of channel conditions between the multiple distributed WTs and a plurality of user devices and selects a plurality of WTs from the multiple distributed WTs to enhance channel space diversity within the MU-MAS. The central processing unit calculates (Multiple Input, Multiple Output) MIMO weights from the channel measurements for precoding a plurality of data streams that are transmitted concurrently from the plurality of WTs to the plurality of users, wherein the MIMO weights provide for a plurality of independent MIMO channels.
US10305635B2
A method for transmitting data in a multiple-input-multiple-output space-time coded communication using a mapping table mapping a plurality of symbols defining the communication to respective antennae from amongst a plurality of transmission antennae and to at least one other transmission resource. The mapping table may comprise Alamouti-coded primary segments and may also comprise secondary segments, comprising primary segments. The primary segments in the secondary segments may be defined in accordance to an Alamouti based code pattern applied at the segment level to define a segment-level Alamouti based code.
US10305632B2
A transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus are provided. The transmitting apparatus includes: an encoder configured to generate a low density parity check (LDPC) codeword by performing LDPC encoding; an interleaver configured to interleave the LDPC codeword; and a modulator configured to modulate the interleaved LDPC codeword according to a modulation method to generate a modulation symbol. The interleaver includes a block interleaver formed of a plurality of columns each comprising a plurality of rows, and the block interleaver is configured to divide the plurality of columns into at least two parts and interleave the LDPC codeword.
US10305623B2
Methods and apparatus are provided to define sub-bands within a downlink (DL) system bandwidth or within an uplink (UL) system bandwidth, to configure sub-bands for DL signaling or for UL signaling, and to transmit or receive DL signaling or UL signaling with repetitions in the configured sub-bands.
US10305613B2
The present application discloses a method and system for detecting image delay, the method comprises: for any one of image frames in an incoming data stream and a data packet of image delay detection for the image frame, displaying the image frame and analyzing the data packet; and obtaining a detected image delay Tdelay of the image frame according to a reference globe time T for collecting the image frame obtained by analyzing the data packet and current display time Tdisplay of the image frame. In the present application, delay detection data are identified in an image frame and the collection time is based on the time of a display device, which enables to provide an automatic and accurate method and system for accurately measuring camera delay without the need of manual operation.
US10305595B2
The disclosures provide a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving interface signals of a distributed base station. At least one channel of Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) signals of a distributed base station are encapsulated into optical transport unit x (OTUx) signals in a frame structure of OTUx by adopting Generic Mapping Procedure (GMP) mapping scheme, wherein the x represents a transmission capacity and wherein the OTUx is adopted for providing a bandwidth required by the at least one channel of CPRI signals, and then the OTUx signals that bear the at least one channel of CPRI signals are sent.
US10305582B2
Systems, methods, and software described herein provide enhancements for deploying applications in satellite systems. In one example, a satellite system comprises a communication interface configured to receive software payloads, and logistical control elements of the satellite system. The satellite system further comprises a virtualized execution system configured to execute ones of the software payloads deployed on the satellite system as associated virtual nodes that share resources of the satellite system.
US10305579B2
Disclosed is a satellite communication system that allocates bandwidth to maximize the capacity of the communication system while providing service to geographical areas having different demands. A smaller portion of the frequency spectrum can be allocated for subscriber beams that supply service to low demand areas. A larger portion of the frequency spectrum can be provided to subscriber beams that provide access to high demand areas. Allocation of bandwidth can be determined by the amount of demand in low demand areas versus the amount of demand in high demand areas. High demand gateways are physically located in low demand subscriber beams, while low demand gateways are physically located in high demand subscriber beams, which prevents interference.
US10305576B2
Autonomous vehicles such as UAVs or cars provide network access points. User devices connect to the network access points and network access is monitored. User location data is also monitored. A profile of the user is generated from the gathered data. Advertisements are selected based on a profile of the user and the current location of the user. The autonomous vehicles may be distributed geographically to provide a network access to a geographic area. In response to detecting that a user device is moving out of a coverage area of an autonomous vehicle, nearby autonomous vehicles are identified. If the user device is in the coverage area of a nearby autonomous vehicle, the network connection to the user device is transferred to that vehicle.
US10305573B2
Provided is control information related to polarizations of antennas for MISO communication. The control signal generator generates polarization information indicating whether antennas used for transmission by MISO have only a first polarization or have a second polarization as well as the first polarization. With this structure, the present invention allows for the use of combinations of SISO, MISO and MIMO, taking the polarization of antennas. Furthermore, the present invention enables the receiver to reduce the power consumption.
US10305569B2
Disclosed are a channel state information feedback and acquisition method and device. The application comprises: acquiring, by a terminal, a first-dimension downlink reference signal resource, S second-dimension downlink reference signal resources and a first corresponding relationship of the above configured by a network device; measuring, by the terminal and according to the first-dimension downlink reference signal resource, a first-dimension downlink reference signal, and selecting, by the terminal and according to the measured first-dimension PMI and the first corresponding relationship, a resource for measuring a second-dimension downlink reference signal, measuring, according to the resource, the second-dimension downlink reference signal, and feeding back channel state information, wherein the second-dimension reference signal is transmitted after forming a first-dimension beamforming weight. The present application enables acquisition of channel state information between a network device and a terminal, and adjustment of the first-dimension beamforming weight for forming the second-dimension reference signal according to the PMI fed back by the first-dimension.
US10305565B2
Some embodiments provide a method in a wireless device for reporting channel state information, CSI, for a CSI process. The CSI process corresponds to a reference signal resource and an interference measurement resource. According to the method, the wireless device obtains an adjustment value associated with the CSI process. The wireless device estimates an effective channel based on one or more reference signals received in the reference signal resource, and applies the adjustment value to the estimated effective channel, thereby obtaining an adjusted effective channel. Furthermore, the wireless device determines channel state information based on the adjusted effective channel, and on interference estimated based on the interference measurement resource. Finally, the channel state information is transmitted to a network node.
US10305564B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for transmitter channel calibration are provided. The method includes generating a plurality of calibration signals corresponding to a plurality of transmitter channels, respectively. The plurality of calibration signals are combined with a plurality of data signals, respectively, thereby generating a plurality of combined signals. The plurality of combined signals are propagated through at least portions of the plurality of transmitter channels, respectively. The plurality of calibration signals are extracted from the propagated plurality of combined signals, respectively. At least two signal characteristics of at least two of the extracted plurality of calibration signals are compared. At least one adjustment in gain, phase, or timing for at least one of the transmitter channels is identified based on a result of the comparing. Based on the identified adjustment, a data signal transmitted via the at least one of the plurality of transmitter channels is adjusted.
US10305557B2
Codebook for multiple-input multiple-output system and communication method and apparatus using same
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). Exemplary embodiment of the present invention provide a scheme for reducing feedback overhead when quantizing and feeding back channel state information in a MIMO system. A method for operating a receiver in a MIMO system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, includes the steps of: performing trellis coded quantization for channel information by using a codebook selected from a plurality of codebooks; and transmitting, to a transmitter, feedback information including the quantization result. The step of performing trellis-coded quantization for the channel information includes a step of truncating the channel information and codewords included in the selected codebook into multiple groups of channel vectors and multiple groups of codewords, respectively, and performing trellis-coded quantization for each of the groups of the channel vectors by using each of the groups of the codewords.
US10305552B2
Provided are a method and a device for transmitting a feedback frame in a wireless LAN system. Particularly, a first wireless station receives, from a second wireless station, a feedback request field including an LTF. The first wireless station configures feedback information on a wireless channel corresponding to a preset frequency band by using the feedback request field. The first wireless station transmits the feedback information to the second wireless station.
US10305550B2
A method and apparatus may be used in multi-AP and multi-wireless transmit/receive unit joint transmissions. The apparatus may be configured to transmit a joint transmission request on a first medium, and receive a joint transmission response on the first medium. In response, the apparatus my perform a joint transmission negotiation on a second medium and transmit data on the second medium based on the joint transmission negotiation. The apparatus may be configured to perform coordinated sectorized or beamformed transmissions through access point (AP)/PCP negotiations. The apparatus may provide an indication of support for joint transmission and coordinated sectorized or beamformed transmissions. The method and apparatus may also implement multi-AP/WTRU request-to-send (RTS)/clear-to-send (CTS) procedures. The apparatus may be configured to perform coordinated sectorized or beamforming grouping.
US10305536B2
A method for converting source data to a channel-modulated signal having a plurality of pairs of in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) data in a mobile station, wherein the mobile station uses at least one channel, includes the steps of: a) encoding the source data to generate at least one data part and a control part; b) generating at least one spreading code to be allocated to the channel, wherein each spreading code is selected on the basis of a data rate of the data part and the control part and spreading codes are selected so that two consecutive pairs of the I and Q data are correspondent to two points located on same point or symmetrical with respect to a zero point on a phase domain; and c) spreading the control part and the data part by using the spreading code, to thereby generate the channel-modulated signal.
US10305528B2
An inconspicuous system of cavities, sockets, or notches for coupling a support element such as a stylus, an independent arm, or plate, to smart phones and tablet computers at various angles and orientations in order to position these devices to various angles and orientations with respect to a resting surface or base.
US10305527B2
Method and apparatus are disclosed for communicatively coupling mobile devices to wireless local area networks of vehicles. An example vehicle includes a communication module for a wireless local area network including an internal antenna and an external antenna. The example vehicle also includes an antenna adjuster to communicatively couple, in response to determining a mobile device is inside a vehicle cabin, the internal antenna to the mobile device and to communicatively couple, in response to determining the mobile device is outside of the vehicle cabin, the external antenna to the mobile device.
US10305526B2
In order to improve accuracy in estimating a transmission line that includes a delay path having a long delay time, the present invention provides a wireless reception device that includes a transmission estimation unit including: a delay profile generation unit that estimates a transmission line from a reference signal portion by using a known reference signal replica, and that calculates a delay profile from a transmission line estimation result; a path detection unit that detects a position of a sample, which is included in the delay profile, as a path position; a delay profile division unit that divides the delay profile based on the path position; and a transmission line calculation unit that calculates a transmission line per path by carrying out averaging to the delay profile per path in the frequency domain, and that combines transmission line calculation results per path.
US10305506B2
A modulator including a delta-sigma modulation circuit having an order greater than 1, and configured to modulate an input signal into a Pulse Density Modulated (PDM) signal; and a Pad Asymmetric Compensation (PAC) circuit configured to linearize a relation between a magnitude of the input signal and a number of rise or fall transitions of the PDM signal by maximizing the number of rise or fall transitions of the PDM signal, and to output a modified PDM signal, wherein the linearized relation is for compensating for any offset in the PDM signal.
US10305502B2
An apparatus includes a preamplifier stage to receive a power supply voltage and generate an output based upon an input. In particular, the preamplifier stage includes a biasing device coupled between the output and a ground node to bias a DC voltage level of the output independently of the power supply voltage. The preamplifier stage also includes a complementary circuit to receive the input and generate the output. The complementary circuit reuses a current through the preamplifier stage to provide an increased transconductance of the preamplifier stage for a given current level.
US10305501B2
A method for improving a spurious free dynamic range and a signal-to-noise-and-distortion ratio of a capacitor-resistor combined successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter by capacitor re-configuration, the method including: 1) arranging 128 unit capacitors in a positive array and a negative array, respectively, dividing unit capacitors of symmetrical positions of the positive array and the negative array into groups to yield a total of 128 groups of capacitors; 2) acquiring 128 digital codes corresponding to 128 groups of capacitors; 3) sorting the 128 groups of capacitors from maximum to minimum according to the 128 digital codes obtained in 2), and recording the 128 groups of capacitors after sorting as C1-C128; and 4) selecting 64 groups of capacitors from C33 to C96, and reconfiguring the 64 groups of capacitors in capacitor arrays of the capacitor-resistor analog-to-digital converter.
US10305496B2
A circuit device includes: a time-to-digital conversion circuit to which a first clock signal with a first clock frequency and a second clock signal with a second clock frequency different from the first clock frequency are input and that converts a time difference in transition timings of first and second signals into a digital value; and a synchronization circuit that synchronizes phases of the first and second clock signals. The time-to-digital conversion circuit calculates the digital value corresponding to the time difference by transitioning a signal level of the first signal based on the first clock signal after a phase synchronization timing of the first and second clock signals and compares the phase of the second clock signal to a phase of the second signal having a signal level is transitioned to correspond to the first signal.
US10305495B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to adjusting a phase of a clock signal provided to a device based on a feedback signal from the device. The feedback signal can provide phase information associated with the device and/or other information associated with the device, such as temperature information. A feedback signal processor can compute a phase control signal based on the feedback signal. The phase control signal can be used to adjust the phase of the clock signal. By adjusting the phase of one or more clock signals, several devices, such as data converters, can be synchronized.
US10305493B2
A phase-locked loop according to the present disclosure includes a reference-phase generation circuit that sequentially generates a reference phase value, and an oscillating circuit that generates a first clock on a basis of a difference between the reference phase value and a feedback phase value. The phase-locked loop further includes a signal generation circuit that generates, on a basis of the first clock, a plurality of second clocks varying in phase, and generates a third clock by switching the plurality of second clocks a plurality of times in each of cycle periods each corresponding to one cycle of the reference clock. The phase-locked loop further includes a phase detection circuit that determines a phase value of the third clock and outputs the determined phase value as the feedback phase value.
US10305492B2
The frequency of a clock signal is compared to a predetermined range. If the measured frequency is outside the range, a system controller determines if a current operating state of the overall system allows for the internal clock to be adjusted back into compliance. If the controller determines that the current system state allows for the change, then a control signal to the internal clock signal source is changed by the smallest increment available, either to increase or decrease the frequency. If the internal clock signal is out of the desired range, and the system controller does not decide to modify the frequency, the controller may increase the size of the range by decreasing the lower bound and/or increasing the upper bound.
US10305488B2
A circuit device includes an oscillation signal generation circuit that generates an oscillation signal having an oscillation frequency set by the frequency control data by using a resonator, and a processor that is configured to perform a signal process on input frequency control data to output frequency control data. The processor is configured to obtain a pre-estimated value x^−(k) at a time step k by adding a post-estimated value x^(k−1) and a correction value D(k−1) at a time step k−1 together during a process of updating a pre-estimated value in a Kalman filter process, and perform aging correction on the frequency control data on the basis of a result of the Kalman filter process.
US10305478B1
Techniques to compensate non-radiation hardened components for changes in performance that result from exposure to radiation. The techniques of this disclosure apply a predetermined bias signal to a representative non-radiation hardened component while a system is in use. The system determines whether there is a performance change in characteristics, such as voltage response, frequency response, gain, or other characteristics. The system may determine a compensation factor that may restore the desired signal output from the component. The system may compensate a second identical component that is in use in the system with the compensation factor. The component receiving the predetermined bias signal acts as a characterization dosimeter of the component in use in the system. A number of radiation vulnerable components may be characterized simultaneously with exact representative parts. The system may compensate identical component in use in the system with the appropriate compensation factor for each.
US10305477B2
This disclosure relates to leakage current reduction in integrated circuits (ICs). In one aspect, an IC can include a digital logic circuit and a polarization circuit. The digital logic circuit can have a plurality of inputs and can include a plurality of logic gates. The polarization circuit can receive a standby signal and a digital input signal comprising a plurality of bits. When the standby signal is deactivated, the polarization circuit can control the plurality of inputs of the digital logic circuit based on the digital input signal. However, when the standby signal is activated the polarization circuit can control the plurality of inputs of the digital logic circuit to a low power state associated with a smaller leakage current of the plurality of logic gates relative to at least one other state of the digital logic circuit.
US10305475B2
A capacitance touch switch includes a touch electrode being flat and having a length longer in a first direction than a length in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, a touch detection circuit which determines whether a touch operation is performed to the touch electrode based on a change in capacitance of the touch electrode, and a guard electrode insulated from the touch electrode. The touch electrode includes at least one slit extending in a direction which is angled at a larger angle with respect to the first direction than an angle from the second direction. The touch electrode is partially separated by the at least one slit into a plurality of touch regions while the plurality of touch regions being connected to each other. The guard electrode is disposed within the slit.
US10305466B2
A semiconductor module including a semiconductor element, a controller, a cooler, and a temperature sensor are included. The controller is connected to the semiconductor module and controls switching operation of the semiconductor element. The temperature sensor measures a coolant temperature, which is a temperature of the coolant. The controller controls turn-off speed of the semiconductor element based on the coolant temperature. The controller increases the turn-off speed as the coolant temperature rises.
US10305462B1
A high speed internal hysteresis comparator is provided. Impedance supply units are disposed at control terminals of transistors of an active load of a differential amplifier of the high-speed hysteresis comparator, such that a gain when the transistors operate in an active region and a responding speed of the high-speed hysteresis comparator are increased.
US10305461B2
Disclosed is a method of comparing two or more signals which may include: for each of the two or more signals, charging to a fixed voltage a compensation capacitor associated with a sense path of the signal, discharging each of the charged capacitors to a threshold voltage of a transistor in its respective sense path and integrating a discharge current from each capacitor with the signal sensed on the respective sense path.
US10305458B1
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide an apparatus for noise cancellation. One example apparatus generally includes a first delay path and a second delay path, each providing signals generated by applying a different delay to an input signal, and a first comparator having a first input coupled to the first delay path and a second input coupled to the second delay path. The apparatus also includes a switching circuit having a control input coupled to an output of the first comparator, the switching circuit configured to selectively couple the first delay path or the second delay path to an output node of the switching circuit based on a signal at the control input. The apparatus also includes an attenuation circuit having a first input coupled to an input path for providing the input signal, and a second input coupled to the output node of the switching circuit.
US10305456B2
The present disclosure relates to a device for converting an optical pulse to an electronic pulse includes a photoresistor having first and second terminals and being capable of receiving a pulsed laser signal arising from a mode-locked laser source The first terminal is linked to a node for applying a reference potential via a resistive element and a capacitive element connected in parallel. The second terminal is connected to a node for applying a supply potential.
US10305453B2
An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry and control circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include an antenna with an inverted-F antenna resonating element formed from portions of a peripheral conductive electronic device housing structure and may have an antenna ground that is separated from the antenna resonating element by a gap. The antenna may include a first adjustable component coupled between the antenna resonating element arm and the antenna ground on a first side of the antenna feed and a second adjustable component coupled between the antenna resonating element arm and the antenna ground on a second side of the antenna feed. Control circuitry in the electronic device may adjust the first and second adjustable components between a first tuning mode, a second tuning mode, and a third tuning mode.
US10305452B2
A charge transfer digital-to-analog converter includes a differential reference voltage, a pair of capacitors, and switches including a shorting switch. The switches are configured to be switched in successive phases to generate a charge transfer through the capacitors to generate an output corresponding to a digital input. The specific switches activated and deactivated in each phase are selected according to the digital input. Each capacitor of the pair of capacitors is connected to a respective pin for the output. The shorting switch is configured to short the pair of capacitors to create a zero-differential charge on a first side of the capacitors. The shorting switch is implemented with a bootstrap circuit to maintain a constant common mode voltage of the first side of the capacitors while the shorting switch is activated.
US10305448B2
An acoustic wave element (100) according to certain examples includes a piezoelectric body (130), an interdigital transducer (IDT) electrode (140, 150) disposed above the piezoelectric body (130), and a connection electrode (160) disposed above the piezoelectric body (130) and connected to the IDT electrode (140, 150). A first insulation layer (172) covers the connection electrode (160), and a second insulation layer (174a, 174b) covers the IDT electrode (140, 150). The first insulation layer (172) disposed above the connection electrode (160) has a first thickness T in a direction perpendicular to an upper surface of the piezoelectric body (130) and the second insulation layer (174b) disposed above the IDT electrode (150) has a second thickness K in the direction perpendicular to the upper surface of the piezoelectric body (130). The first thickness T is less than the second thickness K based on FIG. 2C and the relevant description.
US10305444B2
A front-end circuit component includes a base-body elastic wave filter and a mounted electronic component. The base-body elastic wave filter includes a piezoelectric substrate and an IDT electrode on an upper surface of a piezoelectric substrate. The mounted electronic component is mounted above the piezoelectric substrate to define a sealed space in which the IDT electrode is disposed.
US10305435B1
In an example embodiment, a transceiver includes a plurality of amplifiers configured to amplify an analog transmit signal to generate a plurality of amplified transmit signals for further transmission, a combiner configured to combine a plurality of output signals to generate a combined signal, the plurality of output signals being based on the plurality of amplified transmit signals and at least one processor configured to execute computer-readable instructions to cause the transceiver to determine pre-distortion compensation coefficients based on the combined signal and generate a pre-distortion compensated transmit signal based on the pre-distortion compensation coefficients.
US10305433B2
Temperature compensation circuits and methods for adjusting one or more circuit parameters of a power amplifier (PA) to maintain approximately constant Gain versus time during pulsed operation sufficient to substantially offset self-heating of the PA. Some embodiments compensate for PA Gain “droop” due to self-heating using a Sample and Hold (S&H) circuit. The S&H circuit samples and holds an initial temperature of the PA at commencement of a pulse. Thereafter, the S&H circuit generates a continuous measurement that corresponds to the temperature of the PA during the remainder of the pulse. A Gain Control signal is generated that is a function of the difference between the initial temperature and the operating temperature of the PA as the PA self-heats for the duration of the pulse. The Gain Control signal is applied to one or more adjustable or tunable circuits within a PA to offset the Gain droop of the PA.
US10305432B1
A balanced amplifier can utilize a common mode choke to suppress even harmonics in the signals of the balanced amplifier. The common choke can be coupled between cascaded balanced amplifier pairs to receive the differential output signals from one of the balanced amplifier pairs and to provide conditioned signals to the other of the balanced amplifier pairs. The common mode choke can improve the amplitude and phase balance between the differential output signals by providing increased impedance to the passage of common mode signals such as even harmonics.
US10305429B2
A supply modulator for providing a first power supply voltage and a second power supply voltage to a first power amplifier and a second power amplifier, respectively, includes a first modulation circuit including a linear regulator and a switching regulator, the first modulation circuit being configured to generate a first modulation voltage in accordance with envelope tracking, and provide the first modulation voltage to the first power amplifier as the first power supply voltage; and a single inductor multiple output converter configured to generate a first output voltage and a second output voltage based on an input voltage having a fixed level, provide the first output voltage to the linear regulator of the first modulation circuit as a power supply voltage, and provide the second output voltage to the second power amplifier as the second power supply voltage.
US10305427B2
A digital modulating device includes an oscillator that generates an oscillation signal, and a frequency doubling modulator that includes: a single-ended to differential converter converting the oscillation signal into two periodic signals; two inductors respectively receiving the periodic signals and respectively providing two input signals; a switching circuit; and two amplifier circuits. When the switching circuit operates in a first state, the amplifier circuits respectively amplify the input signals to respectively generate two amplified signals that are combined into a combined signal at a common node thereof. When the switching circuit operates in a second state, the amplifier circuits do not perform amplification.
US10305423B2
The invention is related to a photovoltaic element evaluation method, comprising a time-controlled measurement of a current-voltage characteristic of a photovoltaic element, said photovoltaic element being arranged in a measuring circuit for measuring at least an electrical current and/or an electrical voltage of said current-voltage characteristic.The invention relates furthermore to a measuring system configuration for performing time-controlled measurements of current-voltage characteristics of replaceable photovoltaic elements.
US10305421B1
A solar cell system is formed with a dynamic surface relief grating. Movement members are actuated by a controller to produce a force on the reflective surface. The reflective surface deforms in response to the force creating a surface relief grating that can adapt to changing light conditions.
US10305417B1
A mounting system, method, and assembly apparatus is disclosed that is relatively easy and inexpensive to install for mounting various equipment to a roof, such as solar panel modules. In particular, the mounting assembly can allow the solar panel modules to be mounted to a thermoplastic polyolefin (TPO) type roof covering, thereby reducing installation costs and the total life cycle cost of a solar panel rooftop power system, among other advantages.
US10305408B2
A hybrid electrical machine containing surface mounted magnets which includes a magnetically permeable cylindrically shaped stator assembly having at least one stator winding formed about a plurality of stator teeth, a rotor assembly concentrically disposed within the stator assembly, including a magnetically permeable rotor backiron, a rotational drive mechanism coupled to the rotor backiron, and a plurality of protruding rotor poles, each including a magnetically permeable pole support assembly, a winding provided around the pole support assembly, and a radially magnetized permanent magnet assembly disposed about the pole support assembly.
US10305404B2
A technique for providing electric power to an electric power utility grid includes driving an electric power alternator coupled to the grid with a spark-ignited or direct injection internal combustion engine; detecting a change in electrical loading of the alternator; in response to the change, adjusting parameters of the engine and/or generator to adjust power provided by the engine. In one further forms of this technique, the adjusting of parameters for the engine includes retarding spark timing and/or interrupting the spark ignition; reducing or retarding direct injection timing or fuel amount and/or interrupting the direct injection; and/or the adjusting of parameters for the generator including increasing the field of the alternator or adding an electrical load.
US10305401B2
An electrical circuit for driving at least one electric motor, the at least one motor having at least one set of phases windings. The electrical circuit is arranged as at least one lane comprising a motor drive circuit that is operable in use to supply drive voltages to one of the sets of phase windings of the motor. A reverse battery protection circuit is provided for at least one lane and is located in either a feed to the motor drive circuit from a power supply or in a return path from the motor drive circuit to the power supply. The reverse battery protection circuit comprises a switch which is normally open when the battery is disconnected and which remains open in the event that the battery is connected in error with a reverse polarity to the drive circuit. The electrical circuit also includes a control means which is arranged to control the switch of the reverse battery protection circuit so as to close the switch in the event that the control means determines that the battery is connected with the correct polarity. The switch is also opened during operation of the motor in the event that that one or more additional conditions are met.
US10305395B2
Disclosed is a triboelectric energy harvester including an electrolyte solution comprising an electrolyte, and a friction material layer configured to contact the electrolyte solution, wherein the friction material layer is configured to be used as an electrode, and wherein frictional electricity is generated in response to the electrolytic solution contacting the friction material layer.
US10305394B2
The present invention relates to a power supply apparatus and, more particularly, to a power supply apparatus for sub-modules of a MMC (Modular Multilevel Converter), the apparatus stably supplying power to the sub-modules of the MMC connected to an HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current) system.
US10305387B2
A single active bridge converter is provided. The single active bridge converter includes a transformer including a primary winding and a secondary winding, a primary side circuit electrically coupled to the primary winding and including an H bridge circuit, and a secondary side circuit electrically coupled to the secondary winding, the secondary side circuit including a switch configured to selectively short the transformer secondary winding.
US10305384B2
A method is provided. A first reference voltage during an idle mode is selected, and the first reference voltage is applied to a switched-mode converter. A first output voltage is then generated by the switched-mode converter from a power supply, and a capacitor is overcharged with the first output voltage. The first output voltage is regulated to generate a second output voltage during the idle mode. Then, a second reference voltage during a quiet mode, where the second reference voltage to the buck converter. During the quiet mode, a third output voltage is generated from the switched-mode converter and from discharging the overcharged capacitor, and the third output voltage is regulated to generate the second output voltage.
US10305379B2
A control circuit for compensating output loss of a power converter includes a sampling voltage generator, a time-to-voltage converter, and a compensation signal generator. The sampling voltage generator generates a sampling voltage corresponding to a detection voltage according to a first reference current, a second reference current, and the detection voltage. The time-to-voltage converter generates a corresponding voltage according to a period of a gate control signal controlling a power switch of a primary side of the power converter and a discharge time of a secondary side of the power converter. The compensation signal generator generates a compensation signal compensating the output loss according to the sampling voltage and the corresponding voltage.
US10305373B2
A power factor correction (PFC) system includes a PFC circuit that receives an alternating current (AC) voltage and that, using a switch, generates a direct current (DC) voltage from the AC voltage. A zero crossing module determines a zero crossing of the AC voltage based on: a first voltage and a first time when the AC voltage transitioned from less than a first predetermined voltage to greater than the first predetermined voltage; and a second voltage and a second time when the AC voltage transitioned from less than a second predetermined voltage to greater than the second predetermined voltage. The first predetermined voltage is negative, and the second predetermined voltage is positive. A reference module, based on the zero crossing, generates a sinusoidal reference signal corresponding to the AC voltage in phase and frequency. A switching control module controls switching of the switch based on the sinusoidal reference signal.
US10305367B2
A power conversion circuit may include a first FET and a first diode connected in series between a second high potential wiring and a low potential wiring and a second FET and a second diode connected in series between the second high potential wiring and the low potential wiring. A main reactor may be connected to a first high potential wiring. A first sub-reactor may be connected between the main reactor and the first FET. A second sub-reactor may be connected between the main reactor and the second FET. First, second, third, and fourth periods repeatedly may appear in this order. In the third period, a first current flowing through the first sub-reactor decreases to zero after a timing at which the second FET is turned on, and the first FET is turned on after or on a timing at which the first current decreases to zero.
US10305365B2
A power module including first and second switching elements connected in a half-bridge configuration, an integrated circuit including high-side and low-side circuits that respectively drive the first and second switching elements, high-side and low-side programmable circuits that are respectively configured to implement first and second logic functions or parameters to be used by the high-side and low-side circuits. The integrated circuit includes a write port that receives data to be written to the high-side and low-side programmable circuits, internal wiring that connects the high-side and low-side programmable circuits in a daisy chain configuration, and a level shifter that is provided in the internal wiring connecting the low-side programmable circuit to the high-side programmable circuit, and that connects a low-side signal system and a high-side signal system.
US10305351B2
An AC generator for a vehicle includes a housing having an inlet and an outlet, a stator fixed to the housing, a rotor disposed inside of the stator, a cooling fan fixed to a rotor, one or more cooling fins disposed in an air flow passage of a cooling air, and a rectifying element for rectifying an AC voltage generated by a stator winding. A positive-side cooling fin has a plurality of tapered first and second cooling holes penetrating in a thickness direction and serves as the air flow passages of the cooling air. Tapering directions of tapered surfaces extending in the thickness direction of each cooling hole in at least one pair of adjacent first and second cooling holes are reversed in the thickness direction with respect to each other.
US10305345B2
A motor includes a rotating shaft, a rotor, a stator, a bracket, and a control device mounted on the bracket. The bracket includes a cylindrical bracket main body, and a stator frame which faces the bracket main body across a clearance and holds an outer surface of the stator on the radially inward side of the bracket main body. The control device is mounted on the bracket main body. The bracket is provided with a cooling passage, and an inflow port and an outflow port connected with the cooling passage. The cooling passage includes a control device cooling passage provided between the bracket main body and the control device, a stator cooling passage provided between the bracket main body and the stator frame, and a communication passage coupling the control device cooling passage and the stator cooling passage.
US10305340B2
An armature for a permanent magnet brushed motor includes a shaft, a number of silicon steel laminations circumferentially around the shaft, a commutator adjacent to an end of the shaft, and an enameled wire winding wound around the silicon steel laminations and the commutator. A plastic sleeve capable of withstanding high temperature is disposed between the commutator and the silicon steel laminations and adjacent to the commutator. A plastic member wraps around where the enameled wire winding winds the commutator, and fixedly attaching to the plastic sleeve. As such, the plastic member establishes a first point of attachment at where the enameled wire winding winds the commutator and a second point of attachment to the plastic sleeve. The problem of the enameled wire winding being loosed or broken due to the armature's high-speed rotation is prevented, thereby enhancing the motor's robustness and operational life.
US10305329B2
An inductive power supply system to identify remote devices using unique identification frequencies. The system includes an AIPS and a tank circuit capable of inductively providing power to a remote device at different frequencies, and a sensor for sensing the reflected impedance of the remote device at tank circuit. The system further includes a plurality of different remote devices, each having a unique resonance frequency. In operation, the AIPS is capable of identifying the type of remote device present in the inductive field by applying power to a remote device at a plurality of unique identification frequencies until the remote device establishes resonance in response to one of the identification frequencies. The AIPS includes a controller that recognizes when resonance has been established by evaluating sensor data, which is representative of the reflected impedance of the remote device. Once the identity of a remote device is determined, the AIPS may pull operating parameters for the remove device from memory to ensure efficient operation and to assist in recognizing fault conditions.
US10305327B2
A control method for a power transmitting device is provided, the power transmitting device including a power transmitting antenna, which transmits AC power wirelessly to the power receiving antenna of a power receiving device, and an oscillator. The method includes supplying pulse signals that control first and second switching element groups to the oscillator, and changing a phase shift amount between a first pulse signal and a second pulse signal. The method also includes causing the oscillator to change the voltage of the AC power output and to set an initial value of the phase shift amount. The method further includes causing the oscillator to output preliminary AC power of a voltage to reduce the phase shift amount from the initial value, fixing the phase shift amount, and causing the oscillator to output the AC power while maintaining the voltage corresponding to the fixed phase shift amount.
US10305322B2
When three phase AC voltages (Vi1 to Vi3) from a commercial AC power supply (51) become abnormal, a control circuit (6) of an uninterruptible power supply device provides an OFF command signal to first to third switches (1a to 1c), and causes first to third power converters (2a to 2c) to output first to third direct currents, respectively, and quickly extinguish arcs in the first to third switches (1a to 1c). On this occasion, polarities of the first to third direct currents are the same as polarities of currents (Is1 to Is3) flowing into the first to third switches (1a to 1c), respectively, and the sum of values of the first to third direct currents is 0.
US10305319B2
According to an aspect, an electronic device includes a switching converter configured to generate an output voltage with a first voltage level from a battery voltage in a run mode of the electronic device. The switching converter is configured to generate the output voltage with a second voltage level from the battery voltage in a sleep mode of the electronic device. The second voltage level is less than the first voltage level. The switching converter includes a clocked comparator, and a voltage comparator. The switching converter is configured to generate the output voltage with the first voltage level in the run mode using the clocked comparator. The switching converter is configured to generate the output voltage with the second voltage level in the sleep mode using the voltage comparator.
US10305316B2
Systems and methods may provide for wireless charging device of an electronic device powered by a rechargeable battery. The wireless charging device may include a charging station having a charging surface with a power transmitter and a contour that concentrically interfaces with a corresponding contour of an inner surface of the electronic device in a manner that facilitates an initiation of a power charging sequence at the charging surface when the charging station detects an operational coupling between the power transmitter and a power receiver of the electronic device.
US10305315B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for an improved wireless charging transceiver pad. An example method includes: (i) receiving, by a cordless transceiver, a first plurality of power waves transmitted from a wireless power transmitter that is distinct from the cordless transceiver; (ii) charging at least partially, using energy received by the cordless transceiver from the first plurality of power waves, a first battery of the cordless transceiver; and (iii) transmitting, by the cordless transceiver using the first battery, a second plurality of power waves to a receiver, where the receiver is configured to convert energy from the second plurality of power waves to charge a second battery of an electronic device that is coupled with the receiver. The cordless transceiver is distinct from the receiver and the electronic device, and the first plurality of power waves is distinct from the second plurality of power waves.
US10305313B2
According to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, an electronic device may include a housing having a first side facing a first direction, and a second side facing a second direction opposite to the first direction, a communication circuit disposed inside the housing, a display exposed through the first side of the housing, a conductive plate formed adjacent to the second side of the housing, a conductive coil formed inside the conductive plate when viewed from a top of the second side, and having a plurality of turns electrically connected to the communication circuit, a first non-conductive material formed inside the conductive plate when viewed from the top of the second side, and disposed at least partially between the conductive plate and the conductive coil and/or between the plurality of turns of the conductive coil, and a second non-conductive material for forming at least one part of the second side, and covering the conductive plate, the conductive coil, and the first non-conductive material. Various other exemplary embodiments are also possible.
US10305309B2
An electrical energy storage system includes a battery configured to store electrical energy and discharge the stored electrical energy to an external system, a switch electrically connected to the battery and operable to connect the battery to the external system and disconnect the battery from the external system, a sensor configured to measure an open circuit voltage of the battery while the battery is disconnected from the external system, and a controller. The controller is configured to predict usage of the battery at a plurality of future times, schedule a time to disconnect the battery from the external system based on the predicted usage of the battery at the plurality of future times, operate the switch to disconnect the battery at the scheduled time, and obtain a measurement of the open circuit voltage of the battery while the battery is disconnected.
US10305295B2
The present disclosure provides an energy storage cell comprising at least one capacitive energy storage device and a DC-voltage conversion device. The capacitive energy storage device comprises at least one meta-capacitor. The output voltage of the capacitive energy storage device is the input voltage of the DC-voltage conversion device. The present disclosure also provides a capacitive energy storage module and a capacitive energy storage system.
US10305294B2
A method and system are provided. The method includes monitoring power usage and predicting power requirements for the at least two mobile devices. The method further includes identifying a device charging order and a power threshold of each of the at least two devices to meet the predicted power requirements of each of the at least two devices. The method also includes notifying a user regarding the device charging order and the power threshold of each of the at least two devices. At least the monitoring, identifying, and notifying steps are performed by a processor-enabled charging manager.
US10305292B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture for a battery charging device are disclosed. Example battery charging devices include a temperature sensor to sense a skin temperature of an electronic device in which the battery is installed, and a current controller to control a magnitude of a charging current to be supplied to the battery. The current controller causes the magnitude of the charging current to oscillate between an upper level and a lower level and a current adjuster adjusts the upper level downwards and the lower level upwards based on the skin temperature sensed by the temperature sensor. In some examples, a memory device stores a thermal set point and a comparator compares the skin temperature to the thermal set point and transmits a control signal to the current adjuster based on the comparison of the thermal set point to the skin temperature.
US10305289B1
A phase converter for electrical signals is configured for obtaining a vector sum of phase signals or subdividing one signal into several phase signals, including transformers and configured for successive addition of signals received from secondary windings of the transformers and inversion of one or several of the signals, or for subdivision of the one signal into the several phase signals.
US10305288B2
A method and associated control device for synchronizing a turbine with an alternating current network having a network frequency, having the following steps: A) accelerating the turbine up to a frequency in the range of the network frequency; B) sensing an angle difference between the turbine and the alternating current network; C) sensing a speed difference between the turbine and the alternating current network; D) accelerating or decelerating the turbine such that the turbine follows a desired trajectory, wherein the desired trajectory is a trajectory calculated in advance that indicates, in dependence on the angle difference, a desired speed difference that should be present such that a target angular position between the turbine and the alternating current network suitable for synchronous feed-in is achieved when the speed of the turbine and the speed of the alternating current network correspond.
US10305287B2
A method for operating a photovoltaic system which includes solar panels, at least one DC-DC converter and an intermediate DC circuit, wherein the switching elements of the DC-DC converter are brought into a switching state which forms a permanent current path between the output of the solar panels and the intermediate circuit during a transition phase between an unloaded and loaded state of the solar panels.
US10305280B2
An energy store for a photovoltaic system has: a first capacity range which is provided for feeding into the power grid; a second capacity range which is provided for internal consumption and feeding into the power grid; and a third capacity range which is provided for feeding into the power grid.
US10305278B2
A voltage control system includes a first voltage converter, a second voltage converter and a voltage monitoring module. The first voltage converter is coupled to a first power source and configured to convert first electrical energy of the first power source into a first output voltage. The second voltage converter is coupled to a second power source and configured to convert second electrical energy of the second power source into a second output voltage. The voltage monitoring module is coupled to the first voltage converter and the second voltage converter. The voltage monitoring module is configured to regulate the first output voltage or the second output voltage by controlling the first voltage converter and the second voltage converter according to the first output voltage and the second output voltage.
US10305271B2
Techniques for enabling multi-pack and component connectivity detection are provided. In some configurations, individual PCMs can test the connectivity between components of a device without the need to operate the components. For example, PCMs configured in accordance with the present disclosure can test the connectivity between a motherboard, a display circuit, a camera, and a number of battery packs without the need to operate the motherboard, display circuit, camera, etc. In some configurations, conductors that are part of cables and connectors used to connect the components can be used to determine the state of one or more connections. When a signal that runs through the conductors meets one or more criteria, the PCMs of a device cause a predetermined delay prior to enabling one or more components. By testing the connectivity between components before each component transitions to an operational state, other problems caused by faulty connections can be mitigated.
US10305265B2
A sensor system for determining physical variables of a switchgear assembly having a sensor connection, which is designed for connection to the switchgear assembly, within which a humidity sensor and/or a pressure sensor and a light sensor for detecting light flashes are arranged. A switchgear assembly is provided that is filled, in particular, with a protective gas, comprising at least one such sensor system.
US10305262B2
An electrical enclosure where all functional compartments are accessible only from a front and the enclosure has a width that is no greater than twenty-four inches. Plenum chambers provide an exit path from releasing gas pressure and particulate matter generated during an arc flash event within the enclosure and prevent the gases and particulate matter from entering the other compartments. A vacuum circuit breaker compartment may include insulator bushings and current transformers that are each individually removable from a front of the enclosure. A removably connected roof panel permits selective front accessibility to the bus bar compartment through the plenum chamber and a flap movably connected to the bus bar compartment. A wall of the cable connection compartment includes an opening and a portion of a wall of the voltage transformer compartment is removably connected to facilitate access to the cable connection compartment from a front of the enclosure. An interlock assembly is selectively configurable to facilitate control over movement of the voltage transformer and the door by disconnected, test and service configurations.
US10305259B2
A car ignition device and an ignition accelerator are disclosed. The car ignition device includes a magnetic shielding conductive element, a spark plug and a magnetic element. The magnetic shielding conductive element has a first disposing portion and a second disposing portion. One end of the spark plug is disposed inside the first disposing portion and electrically connected with the magnetic shielding conductive element. The magnetic element is disposed at the second disposing portion, and has a north-seeking pole and a south-seeking pole. The north-seeking pole is located at one side of the magnetic element near the spark plug. The south-seeking pole is located at another side of the magnetic element away from the spark plug. The magnetic shielding conductive element shields a magnetic force of the magnetic element in a direction toward the spark plug. The invention has higher ignition efficiency.
US10305257B2
A semiconductor laser device includes an n-type nitride semiconductor layer; a first layer disposed above the n-type nitride semiconductor and composed of InaGa1-aN (0≤a<1); a second layer disposed above the first layer and composed of InbGa1-bN (0
US10305256B2
A laser-diode device includes a substrate; at least one first cladding layer placed on the substrate; an active layer placed on the first cladding layer and arranged to emit a radiation; at least one second cladding layer placed on the active layer, said cladding layers being adapted to form a heterojunction; a first terminal facet and a second terminal facet placed transversally relative to the cladding layers and to the active layer; a periodic structure, placed in proximity to the second terminal facet and within the second cladding layer, and belonging to an optical cavity, wherein the first terminal facet represents the output mirror from which the radiation generated by the active layer exits, and the second terminal facet, integrated by the periodic structure, represents a second mirror having high reflectivity, so that the radiation produced by the active layer exits almost totally through the first mirror.
US10305243B2
The laser cavity is positioned on a substrate and includes a cavity waveguide guiding a laser light signal between a gain medium and a partial return device. The partial return device receives the laser light signal from the cavity waveguide and returns a first portion of the laser light signal to the cavity waveguide. The partial return device transmits a second portion of the laser light signal to an output waveguide. The partial return device reflects different wavelengths of the laser light signal at different intensities. Additionally, the partial return device is configured such that when the most intense wavelength of the laser light signal reflected by the partial return device is the same as a wavelength of one of modes of the laser light signal, the mode with the next longest wavelength and the mode with the next shortest wavelength are each reflected by the partial return device at an intensity greater than 80% of the intensity of the most intensely reflected wavelength.
US10305236B2
A lighting track support structure comprises a base section and opposing side sections. These sections are rollable for transportation in a roll. This means the length of the structure (when unrolled) may be longer than would be able to be transported in a straight configuration. This reduces (or eliminates) the need for connectors between multiple sections. This therefore reduces the time and cost of installing the lighting track.
US10305234B2
A cable connector comprising a connector body, a compression member operably connected to a second end of the connector body, the compression member including a compression portion having a forward facing surface, wherein the compression portion protrudes from an inner surface of the compression member, wherein, when the compression member is slidably axially compressed within the connector body, the compression portion of the compression member compresses an inner sleeve into crimping engagement with a coaxial cable is provided. An associated method is also provided.
US10305229B2
An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a base and a tongue; two rows of contacts arranged in the insulative housing and exposed respectively to two opposite surfaces of the tongue, each row of contacts including an outermost ground contact and an adjacent power contact next to the ground contact; and a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing, wherein each of the ground contact and the power contact in at least one of the two rows has a contacting portion, plural tail portions, and an intermediate portion between the contacting portion and the plural tail portions.
US10305225B2
An electrical connector for use with coaxial cables includes a plunger urged to protrude from a case by a spring.
US10305223B2
A connector includes a housing having a sub-connector accommodation hole passing through in a forward and backward direction, and a sub-connector having a cavity passing through in the forward and backward direction and assembled by being inserted into the sub-connector accommodation hole of the housing from a backward direction while a terminal connected to a wire being inserted into the cavity. A lance with flexibility to be locked with the terminal is formed on an inner wall of the cavity and in a case of halfway insertion of the terminal into the cavity. The lance projects outward from the sub-connector to abut, at an angle, against an opening exterior edge of the sub-connector accommodation hole.
US10305222B2
A connector assembly (1) including a first connector unit (2) and a second connector unit (3) interconnectable with respect to each other. The first connector unit (2) includes at least one connector (5) arranged at least partially inside a plug housing (4). The at least one connector (5) is operatively connected to the plug housing (4) by a latching mechanism (7) which provides an engaged configuration in which the at least one connector (5) is latched with respect to the plug housing (4) and a disengaged configuration in which the at least one connector (5) is disengaged from the plug housing (4).
US10305214B2
A terminal fitting includes a case (20) provided with an opening (31) into which a mating contact (91) is inserted, and an electrical contact member (60) disposed in the case (20) to face the opening (31) and configured to retreat while rotating to compress a resilient member (40) by being biased toward the opening (31) and pressed against the mating contact (91) by the resilient member (40).
US10305208B2
An electronic device includes: a substrate; a housing which covers the substrate; a plurality of conductive pins which are mounted on one edge portion of the substrate and each of which includes: a projection portion projecting from the substrate along a plane of the substrate; and a soldering portion soldered to the substrate; and a resin molded portion which includes a connection portion connecting the plurality of conductive pins. The resin molded portion includes a first projection portion, and the housing includes a recess portion receiving the first projection portion.
US10305207B2
A surface mount connector includes a housing including inner surfaces surrounding a card edge region, and outer surfaces defining an exterior region. The connector also includes a recess in at least one of the outer surfaces, the recess sized to accept a removably engageable arm therein. The connector also defines a cross-sectional width that is smaller in the recess than at a position adjacent to the recess. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10305205B2
A socket includes a socket housing having substantially a rectangular shape, a socket-side signal terminal disposed in the socket housing, and a socket-side holder bracket disposed in the socket housing. The socket-side holder bracket includes a mounting terminal configured to be connected to a circuit pattern formed on a circuit board. The socket housing has a frame shape, the socket housing including a plurality of walls which form the frame shape. The mounting terminal includes a first mounting terminal and a second mounting terminal which are provided at the predetermined wall.
US10305204B2
A cable bypass assembly is disclosed for use in providing a high frequency transmission line that connect a chip package on a circuit board to connector spaced apart from the chip package. The bypass cable assembly has a structure that allows for low loss between the chip package and the connector. Multiple cables can be used to provide a number of differentially coupled channels.
US10305203B2
A bus bar including a main body having conductivity and an insulative body covering the main body. The insulative body includes a first member that allows transmission laser light having a predetermined wavelength, a second member that absorbs the laser light, and a welding portion. The first member and the second member are welded to each other at least at a part of a contact portion between the first member and the second member in the welding portion. The main body includes a contact point exposed from the insulative body.
US10305202B2
A shield terminal (12) includes inner conductors (14) having tabs (16) projecting forward from bodies (15), a dielectric (21) formed with conductor accommodation chambers (36) inside and configured to hold the inner conductors (14) with the bodies (15) accommodated in the conductor accommodation chambers (36), an outer conductor (37) for surrounding the dielectric (21) and the tabs (16), and walls (23, 31 and 32) constituting the conductor accommodation chambers (36) and formed with air chambers (43 to 50). Focusing on the fact that air has a lower dielectric constant than synthetic resin, the air chambers (43 to 50) are formed in the walls (23, 31 and 32) constituting the conductor accommodation chambers (36). This enables an impedance to be enhanced even if the dielectric (21) is made of a material having high rigidity.
US10305198B2
Wireless communication is facilitated via communication assembly apparatuses. A system includes: a wireless gateway device located within a housing and having electrical connection elements for power and network connectivity; and an antenna coupled to the housing and electrically coupled to the wireless gateway device. The housing is adapted to be masked on a surface of a support structure exposed to a defined environment, and is configured to serve a first function and the support structure is configured to serve a second function. The first function is distinct from the second function. In various embodiments, the antenna can be a resonant slot antenna, a horn antenna, a dipole antenna, a patch antenna or a custom antenna element. The wireless gateway device can include circuitry that facilitates multiple-input and multiple-output communication of the antenna, and is configured to be powered via power over Ethernet in some embodiments. In various embodiments, the support structure can include, but is not limited to, a hand rail, a stage scaffold, a lamp post and/or a trash can.
US10305197B2
In accordance with one or more embodiments, a communication device includes an antenna having a feed point and an aperture. A feedline is coupled to the feed point of the dielectric antenna. A multi-input multi-output (MIMO) transceiver is coupled to feedline, the MIMO transceiver facilitating a transmission of first electromagnetic waves to the feed point of the antenna, wherein the first electromagnetic waves are guided by the feedline, wherein the first electromagnetic waves propagate along the feedline via a plurality of guided wave modes without requiring an electrical return path, wherein the first electromagnetic waves convey first data in accordance with one or more MIMO techniques and wherein the first electromagnetic waves generate first free-space wireless signals at the aperture of the antenna in accordance with the one or more MIMO techniques.
US10305190B2
In accordance with one or more embodiments, a method includes receiving a first wireless signal via a feed point on an antenna body, wherein the antenna body includes a dielectric core having a first reflective surface and a second reflective surface that are spatially aligned in a reflecting telescope configuration; reflecting the first wireless signal via the first reflective surface and the second reflective surface to an aperture of the antenna body; and radiating the first wireless signal from the aperture.
US10305187B2
An antenna device includes: a plated magnetic body; a conductive wire that is wound around the magnetic body; and a substrate that relays the conductive wire and a connector.
US10305177B2
Provided is an on-board antenna waterproof structure that eliminates the need for assembling a waterproof structure by manual work, thus preventing an attachment error, and in which waterproof resin is strongly fused to a resin base. A waterproof structure applied in an on-board antenna installed on an antenna installment surface comprises a resin base (10) made of resin, and a flexible, antenna installed-side waterproof resin portion (20). The resin base (10) has one surface facing the antenna installment surface and the other surface being covered by an antenna cover (3) defining an outer shape of the on-board antenna. The antenna installed-side waterproof resin portion (20) abuts the antenna installment surface.
US10305175B2
A wearable wireless communication device comprises a transceiver positioned on a first side of the device, the transceiver comprising a first antenna configured to receive radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted toward the first side of the device. The device is wearable about an object that attenuates reception, by the first antenna, of RF signals transmitted toward a second side of the device. The device further comprises a waveguide electromagnetically coupled to the transceiver, the waveguide terminating in at least a second antenna positioned on the second side of the device. The second antenna is configured to receive the RF signals transmitted toward the second side of the device. The waveguide is shaped to direct received RF signals around the object to the transceiver. The object may in some embodiments be a piece of human anatomy.
US10305172B2
An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antennas and transceiver circuitry such as millimeter wave transceiver circuitry. The antennas may be formed from metal traces on a printed circuit. The printed circuit may be a stacked printed circuit including multiple stacked substrates. Metal traces may form an array of patch antennas, Yagi antennas, and other antennas. Antenna signals associated with the antennas may pass through an inactive area in a display and through a dielectric-filled slot in a metal housing for the electronic device. Waveguide structures may be used to guide antenna signals within interior portions of the electronic device.
US10305171B1
Electronic devices may be provided with antenna arrays and wireless circuitry for handling wireless communications in satellite communications bands and other frequency bands of interest. A portable electronic device may have a housing with a peripheral edge. An array of antennas in the portable device may extend along the peripheral edge and may be coupled (directly or indirectly) to wireless circuitry that transmits and receives satellite communications signals and/or other wireless communications signals. The antennas may include dipole antennas. The dipole antennas may include edge dipole antennas with straight arms that extend parallel to one or more peripheral housing edges. Additionally or alternatively, the dipole antennas may include corner dipole antennas at the corners of the housing. The corner dipole antennas may have arms with bent tips. A ground plane in the center of the electronic device may serve as a reflector for the peripheral dipole antennas.
US10305166B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing that includes a first face, a second face that is directed opposite to the first face, and a side face that at least partially enclose a space between the first face and the second face, a first metallic member, a second metallic member, and a third metallic member that form a side face, a sensor configured to detect whether an external object comes in contact with at least one of the first metallic member, the second metallic member, and the third metallic member, and to generate a signal, and a circuit configured to change an electric path between at least one of the first metallic member, the second metallic member, and the third metallic member, and the ground member, at least partially based on the generated signal.
US10305164B1
An enclosure for an antenna comprises a gang junction box configured to be flush mounted to a wall, the gang box including first and second sidewalls opposite to each other; a removable cover attached to the gang junction box, the cover being transparent to electromagnetic radiation; a base for supporting an antenna, the base being disposed inside the gang box; the base including an axis of rotation at an upper portion, the base is pivotably attached at the upper portion along the axis to the first and second sidewalls; and the base is lockable to the first and second sidewalls after the base is pivoted to a desired orientation.
US10305162B2
A broadband antenna system for a vehicle, comprising a ground plane circumscribed by a rectangle having major and minor sides, a dielectric substrate comprising a first portion area, a radiating element for operating at a frequency band and having at least three angles and three sides, a first side being substantially aligned with one side of the rectangle, and a first angle having an apex being the closest point of the radiating element to the ground plane, and a conductive element having at least a first portion extending between the radiating element and one side of the first portion area, wherein each major side has an electric length of at least 0.13λ, being λ the lowest frequency of the antenna system, and the first angle having an aperture lower than 156°.
US10305159B2
The invention provides an apparatus comprising a wide bandwidth resonating structure based on a primary split ring resonator having a plurality of additional split ring resonators bounded by the primary split ring resonator. The invention provides a method for optimizing the placement and size of the additional split ring resonators to achieve the desired bandwidth for the overall resonator structure.
US10305155B2
A bladder configured to support a phase change material in a heat transfer relationship with at least one battery cell including a wall defining a channel, the phase change material surrounding a portion of the channel.
US10305154B2
An apparatus for controlling a temperature of coolant in a water-cooled battery system, includes a heat exchange module including a passage body configured to receive and circulate the coolant from the circulation line, a heat sink disposed outside the passage body, and a thermoelectric element disposed between the heat sink and the passage body; a shaft part separably coupled to the heat exchange module to stack a plurality of heat exchange modules; a frame part separably coupled to the shaft part to close a front surface, a rear surface, an upper surface and a lower surface of the heat exchange module; and a cooling part coupled to one side of the frame part and configured to discharge external air toward the other opened side of the frame part through a gap of the heat sink by at least one cooling fan.
US10305131B2
Disclosed is an electrolyte membrane for a fuel cell including a polymer blend of a sulfonated polyethersulfone copolymer, hydroxyl group-containing polyethersulfone copolymer and a hydroxyl group-containing sulfonated polyethersulfone copolymer.
US10305127B2
Provided is a wet state control method for a fuel cell system in which cathode gas is supplied to a fuel cell while the cathode gas partially bypasses the fuel cell, the wet state control method being for controlling a wet state of the fuel cell by adjusting wet control parameters including a bypass valve opening degree, a cathode gas pressure, and a cathode gas flow rate. When the fuel cell is controlled to a wet side, at least either one of the cathode gas flow rate and the cathode gas pressure is adjusted in priority to adjustment of the bypass valve opening degree.
US10305126B2
A fuel cell system including: a fuel cell that generates electricity; a heat exchanger that exchanges heat between an exhaust gas from the fuel cell and water; a heat dissipator that dissipates heat from the water; a circulation path along which the water circulates between the heat exchanger and heat dissipator; a circulation pump that circulates the water; a first detector that detects the temperature of the water flowing into the heat exchanger; a second detector that detects the temperature of the water flowing out from the heat exchanger; and a controller configured to adjust the circulation pump such that the temperature detected by the second detector becomes a first temperature, and, when the temperature detected by the first detector is equal to or greater than a threshold, adjust the circulation pump such that the temperature detected by the second detector becomes a second temperature higher than the first temperature.
US10305120B2
A porous panel for a separator of a fuel cell includes a plate-shaped material and uneven lines repeatedly arranged on the porous panel in a direction crossing a gas flow direction. The porous panel is bent at the uneven lines such that upward and downward uneven portions are repeated, and through holes permitting passage of gas formed on opposite sides of each of the uneven lines have an uneven shape.
US10305117B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a carbon fiber nonwoven fabric which has excellent electrical conductivity and thermal conductivity as an electrode base material for a polymer electrolyte fuel cell and which is useful as a base material excellent in gas diffusibility and drainage performance. The present invention provides a carbon fiber nonwoven fabric on a surface of which a plurality of non-through pores each having an opening area larger than the average pore area of the carbon fiber nonwoven fabric are dispersively formed, the carbon fiber nonwoven fabric having no broken fibers observed on the peripheral edge portions of the non-through pores in plane view.
US10305116B2
The present invention relates to a protonic ceramic fuel cell and a method of making the same. More specifically, the method relates to a cost-effective route which utilizes a single moderate-temperature (less than or equal to about 1400° C.) sintering step to achieve the sandwich structure of a PCFC single cell (dense electrolyte, porous anode, and porous cathode bone). The PCFC layers are stably connected together by the intergrowth of proton conducting ceramic phases. The resulted PCFC single cell exhibits excellent performance (about 450 mW/cm2 at about 500° C.) and stability (greater than about 50 days) at intermediate temperatures (less than or equal to about 600° C.). The present invention also relates to a two step method for forming a PCFC, and the resulting PCFC.
US10305102B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided an active material. The active material includes a composite oxide. The composite oxide has a monoclinic crystal structure. The composite oxide is represented by a general formula of LiwNa4-xM1yTi6-zM2zO14+δ. In the general formula, the M1 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Rb, Cs, K and H; the M2 is at least one metallic element selected from the group consisting of Zr, Sn, V, Nb, Ta, Mo, W, Fe, Co, Mn and Al; w is within a range of 0≤w<12; x is within a range of 0
US10305093B2
Provided is a process for preparing an electrode comprising an iron active material. The process comprises first fabricating an electrode comprising an iron active material, and then treating the surface of the electrode with an oxidant solution to thereby create an oxidized surface. The resulting iron electrode is thereby preconditioned prior to any charge-discharge cycle to have the assessable surface of the iron active material in the same oxidation state as in discharged iron negative electrodes active material.
US10305084B2
An electrode body including a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate include a positive electrode tab portion at an end portion on a sealing plate side, a positive electrode collector electrically connected to the positive electrode plate include a collector body portion, a collector extension portion, a collector connection, and a collector connection portion. A pressure-sensitive current breaking mechanism includes a conductive member having an opening portion on an electrode body side, a deformation plate that seals the opening portion, and a collector body portion disposed on the electrode body side of the deformation plate and connected to the deformation plate. The collector extension portion is offset from the collector body portion and is disposed on the sealing plate side with respect to the collector body portion. Positive electrode tab portion is connected to the collector connection bent back at an end portion of the collector extension portion.
US10305078B1
Aspects of a modular clip for an electric battery, a battery module comprising multiple of such modular clips, and a battery pack comprising multiple battery modules are provided. The modular clip is configured to receive a plurality of battery cells and includes a base portion and a first and second wall extending from the base portion along a length of the modular clip. The plurality of battery cells may be received between the first wall and the second wall of the modular clip. A plurality of openings may be formed in the base portion of the modular clip, each opening being configured to extend around a bottom vent of a battery cell. Channels may also be formed in the base portion and/or base plate that are configured to enable heat or gas escaping from the bottom vent of the battery cell to vent away from an interior of the modular clip.
US10305075B2
A battery module for a system for the storage of electrical energy for an electric drive vehicle. The battery module has: a group of chemical batteries arranged parallel to and beside one another; at least two connection plates which rest against opposite ends of the group of chemical batteries so as to electrically connect the poles of the chemical batteries to one another; two support bodies coupled to opposite ends of the group of chemical batteries so as to provide the chemical batteries with a stable mechanical support; two lids, which are coupled to the support bodies so as to create respective collecting chambers having at least one draining opening; and at least two tie rods, which are arranged on opposite sides of the battery module and tie together the lids and the support bodies in a packed manner.
US10305061B2
An organic light emitting diode includes a support body, an anode electrode, a hole transport layer, an organic light emitting layer, an electron transport layer, and a cathode electrode stacked on each other in that order. The electron transport layer includes a polymer and a plurality of carbon nanotubes dispersed in the polymer, the polymer has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a length direction of the plurality of carbon nanotubes extends from the first surface to the second surface.
US10305052B2
The present invention pertains to: a Janus-type triptycene derivative which is capable of forming a self-assembled film which does not depend on the material quality of a substrate; a self-assembled film using said Janus-type triptycene derivative; a structure having said film on a surface thereof; a method for manufacturing said film; and an electronic device using said method.
US10305046B2
A heterocyclic compound and an organic light-emitting device including the same, the compound being represented by Formula 1: A1-(A2)a21,
US10305021B2
Disclosed is a piezoelectric material including stereocomplex crystals of poly(D-lactic acid) (PDLA) and poly(L-lactic acid) (PLLA), wherein poly(D-lactic acid) and poly(L-lactic acid) are crystallized into a stereocomplex, thus exhibiting superior heat resistance and piezoelectric properties. This piezoelectric material, which is obtained using poly(lactic acid), can be produced at very low cost compared to when using PVDF, and is configured to include stereocomplex crystals of PDLA and PLLA and can thus manifest high thermal stability and piezoelectric properties, compared to when using conventional PLLA alone. Such a piezoelectric material can be efficiently utilized in a variety of fields in which low production cost, high processing temperature in the manufacturing process, or high-temperature stability of piezoelectric material products is required.
US10305011B2
A light emitting apparatus includes a package having a long-length direction and a short-length direction perpendicular to the long-length direction as viewed in plan view. The package includes first and second leadframes and a resin portion. The first leadframe has a first leadframe main portion and a first leadframe extension portion which has narrower width than that of the first leadframe main portion. The second leadframe has a second leadframe main portion and a second leadframe extension portion which has narrower width than that of the second leadframe main portion. An inclined portion is formed between the first leadframe and the second leadframe as viewed in plan view. An upper end of the inclined portion is shifted from a lower end of the inclined portion.
US10305006B2
According to an embodiment, a light-emitting device is disclosed. The disclosed light-emitting device comprises: a substrate having a body and first and second lead electrodes on the body; a light-emitting chip arranged on the second lead electrode and electrically connected to the first and second lead electrodes; a phosphor film arranged on the light-emitting chip; a reflective member arranged on the outer peripheries of the light-emitting chip and the phosphor film, respectively; and an optical lens, which is arranged on the phosphor film and on the reflective member, and which has a lens portion that has an aspherical shape.
US10305005B2
A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a substrate, an LED chip mounted on the substrate, and a resin package covering the LED chip. The substrate includes a base and a wiring pattern formed on the base. The resin package includes a lens. The base includes an upper surface, a lower surface and a side surface extending between the upper surface and the lower surface. The LED chip is mounted on the upper surface of the base. The side surface of the base is oriented in a lateral direction. The wiring pattern includes a pair of first mount portions and a pair of second mount portions. The paired first mount portions are formed on the lower surface of the base. The paired second mount portions are oriented in the lateral direction and offset from the side surface of the base in the lateral direction.
US10305003B2
Provided is a light-emitting device including: a substrate; a light-emitting structure formed on the substrate; a first transmissive conductive layer on the light-emitting structure; a first dielectric pattern layer formed on the first transmissive conductive layer, the first dielectric pattern layer including a plurality of openings; a second transmissive conductive layer conformally formed on the first transmissive conductive layer exposed through the plurality of openings and on the first dielectric pattern layer; a second dielectric pattern layer filling the plurality of openings; and a reflective electrode layer formed on the second transmissive conductive layer and the second dielectric pattern layer.
US10304998B2
A light emitting diode (LED) chip can include: a first pattern region having one or more curved parts; and a second pattern region at least partially surrounding the first pattern region. The first pattern region can include a first conductive type nitride-based semiconductor layer, an active layer, a second conductive type nitride-based semiconductor layer, a top electrode layer, and a top bump layer stacked over a substrate, the second pattern region can include a first conductive type nitride-based semiconductor layer, a bottom electrode layer, and a bottom bump layer stacked over the substrate, and the first pattern region can include one or more protrusion patterns formed in the one or more curved part.
US10304997B2
A device includes a substrate (10) and a III-nitride structure (15) grown on the substrate, the III-nitride structure comprising a light emitting layer (16) disposed between an n-type region (14) and a p-type region (18). The substrate is a RA03 (MO)n where R is one of a trivalent cation: Sc, In, Y and a lanthanide; A is one of a trivalent cation: Fe (III), Ga and Al; M is one for a divalent cation: Mg, Mn, Fe (II), Co, Cu, Zn and Cd; and n is an integer≥1. The substrate has an inplane lattice constant asubstrate. At lease one III-nitride layer in the III-nitride structure has a bulk lattice constant alayer such that [(|asubstrate−alayer|)/asubstrate]*100% is no more than 1%.
US10304991B2
The present invention provides a chip mounting system and a method for mounting chips. The chip mounting system includes a first carrier device, a second carrier device, and a chip capturing device. The first carrier device includes a plurality of first carrier platforms for respectively carrying a plurality of semiconductor structures. Each semiconductor structure includes a base layer and a plurality of light emitting chips disposed on the base layer. The second carrier device includes a second carrier platform for carrying a circuit substrate. The chip capturing device is used for moving the light emitting chip from the base layer to the circuit substrate. The red, the green, and the blue light-emitting groups of the same sequence are disposed adjacent to each other, so that the red, the green, and the blue light-emitting chips of the same sequence are arranged adjacent to each other to form a pixel.
US10304986B2
A photovoltaic device and method include a substrate coupled to an emitter side structure on a first side of the substrate and a back side structure on a side opposite the first side of the substrate. The emitter side structure or the back side structure include layers alternating between wide band gap layers and narrow band gap layers to provide a multilayer contact with an effectively increased band offset with the substrate and/or an effectively higher doping level over a single material contact. An emitter contact is coupled to the emitter side structure on a light collecting end portion of the device. A back contact is coupled to the back side structure opposite the light collecting end portion.
US10304972B2
Solar cells with silicon oxynitride dielectric layers and methods of forming silicon oxynitride dielectric layers for solar cell fabrication are described. For example, an emitter region of a solar cell includes a portion of a substrate having a back surface opposite a light receiving surface. A silicon oxynitride (SiOxNy, 0
US10304971B2
Apparatus, methods and other embodiments associated with a high speed and high breakdown voltage Schottky rectifier are disclosed. In one embodiment, the Schottky rectifier has three layers of N-type semiconductor, a first layer of highly doped N-type substrate at the bottom, a second layer of lightly doped epitaxial N-type material above the first layer, and a third layer of very low doping concentration N-type material created by converting the top shallow portion of the second layer without turning into P-type. The Schottky device further includes an enclosed deep trench structure close to the bottom of the second layer and can sustain high reverse bias voltage up to 2,000 volt.
US10304970B2
In a first embodiment, an ultra-fast breakover diode has a turn on time TON that is less than 0.3 microseconds, where the forward breakover voltage is greater than +400 volts and varies less than one percent per ten degrees Celsius change. In a second embodiment, a breakover diode has a reverse breakdown voltage that is greater, in absolute magnitude, than the forward breakover voltage, where the forward breakover voltage is greater than +400 volts. In a third embodiment, a string of series-connected breakover diode dice is provided, along with a resistor string, in a packaged circuit. The packaged circuit acts like a single breakover diode having a large forward breakover voltage and a comparably large reverse breakdown voltage, even though the packaged circuit includes no discrete high voltage reverse breakdown diode. The packaged circuit is usable to supply a triggering current to a thyristor in a voltage protection circuit.
US10304965B2
A display panel includes a first substrate, and the first substrate includes a base plate; a first conductive line disposed on the base plate and extending along the first direction; a second conductive line and a third conductive line disposed on the base plate and extending along the second direction; a contact pad positioned between the second and third conductive lines; a semi-conductive layer connecting the contact pad and the second conductive line, and the semi-conductive layer having a thickness d; and a pixel electrode connecting the contact pad. The semi-conductive layer has a channel width W (μm) and a channel length L (μm) between the contact pad and the second conductive line, and a pixel distance Px (μm) between the second and third conductive lines along the first direction, wherein the channel width W is conformed to the following equation: ( 3.035 - 1.5 ) ≤ W - 0.008 × ( P x × L d ) ≤ ( 3.035 + 1.5 ) .
US10304963B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a polysilicon thin film transistor and manufacturing method thereof, an array substrate, and a display panel. The method for manufacturing a polysilicon thin film transistor comprises: forming, on a substrate, a gate, a source and a drain, and an active layer. Forming the active layer comprises: forming a polysilicon layer on the substrate, which comprises a channel region and extension regions; performing ion injection process in the extension regions to form lightly-doped regions close to the channel region and a source region and a drain region; prior to or following the formation of the lightly-doped regions, employing halo ion injection process to form halo regions at the positions of the channel region which are close to the lightly-doped regions.
US10304962B2
An object is to provide a semiconductor device of which a manufacturing process is not complicated and by which cost can be suppressed, by forming a thin film transistor using an oxide semiconductor film typified by zinc oxide, and a manufacturing method thereof. For the semiconductor device, a gate electrode is formed over a substrate; a gate insulating film is formed covering the gate electrode; an oxide semiconductor film is formed over the gate insulating film; and a first conductive film and a second conductive film are formed over the oxide semiconductor film. The oxide semiconductor film has at least a crystallized region in a channel region.
US10304960B2
An integrated circuit device includes a first wiring, a second wiring, a semiconductor member that is connected between the first and second wirings, an electrode, and an insulating film that is provided between the semiconductor member and the electrode. The semiconductor member includes a first semiconductor portion of a first conductivity type connected to the first wiring, a second semiconductor portion of the first conductivity type, a third semiconductor portion of the first conductivity type, a fourth semiconductor portion of the first conductivity type, a fifth semiconductor portion of a second conductivity type, and a sixth semiconductor portion of the first conductivity type in this order. A first edge of the electrode on a side of the first wiring overlaps the second, third, or fourth semiconductor portions.
US10304959B2
The present invention discloses an array substrate, a display device, and a method of manufacturing the same. Wherein, the array substrate comprises a substrate; a source electrode layer formed on the substrate; a support layer formed on the source electrode layer; a drain electrode layer formed on the support layer; a barrier layer covering the drain electrode layer; an active layer formed on the barrier layer; the barrier layer isolating the support layer and the active layer. By the above-mentioned structure, the fluorine atoms in the support layer can be prevented from entering the active layer, thereby improving the reliability of the array substrate.
US10304951B2
In a method of further enhancing the performance of a narrow active cell IE type trench gate IGBT having the width of active cells narrower than that of inactive cells, it is effective to shrink the cells so that the IE effects are enhanced. However, when the cells are shrunk simply, the switching speed is reduced due to increased gate capacitance. A cell formation area of the IE type trench gate IGBT is basically composed of first linear unit cell areas having linear active cell areas, second linear unit cell areas having linear hole collector areas and linear inactive cell areas disposed therebetween.
US10304949B2
A semiconductor device includes a trench-gate IGBT enabling the fine adjustment of a gate capacitance independent from cell performance. In a gate wiring lead-out region, a plurality of trenches is arranged spaced apart from each other in an X direction perpendicular to a Y direction. Each trench has a shape enclosed by a rectangular outer outline and a rectangular inner outline in plan view. A trench gate electrode is provided in each of the trenches so as to be electrically coupled to an extraction electrode. To obtain an adequate breakdown voltage between a collector and an emitter, the trenches are formed in a p-type floating region. An n−-type drift region is formed in a region located inside an inner outline of the trench in plan view, whereby a capacitance formed between the trench gate electrode and the n−-type drift region is used as the reverse transfer capacitance.
US10304947B1
A method of forming a III-V semiconductor vertical fin is provided. The method includes forming a fin mandrel on a substrate, forming a spacer layer on the substrate surrounding the fin mandrel, forming a wetting layer on each of the sidewalls of the fin mandrel, forming a fin layer on each of the wetting layers, removing the fin mandrel, removing the wetting layer on each of the fin layers, and forming a fin layer regrowth on each of the sidewalls of the fin layers exposed by removing the wetting layer from each of the fin layers.
US10304942B2
A semiconductor device and method for fabricating such a device are presented. The semiconductor device includes a first gate electrode of a transistor, a first sidewall spacer along a sidewall of the gate pattern, a first insulating layer in contact with the first sidewall spacer and having a planarized top surface, and a second sidewall spacer formed on the planarized top surface of the first insulating layer. The second sidewall spacer may be formed over the first sidewall spacer. A width of the second sidewall spacer is equal to or greater than a width of the first sidewall spacer.
US10304940B1
Embodiments of the disclosure are in the field of advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication and, in particular, 10 nanometer node and smaller integrated circuit structure fabrication and the resulting structures. In an example, a method includes forming a plurality of fins and forming a plurality of gate structures over the plurality of fins. A dielectric material structure is formed between adjacent ones of the plurality of gate structures. A portion of a first of the plurality of gate structures is removed to expose a first portion of each of the plurality of fins, and a portion of a second of the plurality of gate structures is removed to expose a second portion of each of the plurality of fins. The exposed first portion of each of the plurality of fins is removed, but the exposed second portion of each of the plurality of fins is not removed.
US10304927B2
Techniques are disclosed for forming transistor devices having reduced parasitic contact resistance relative to conventional devices. The techniques can be implemented, for example, using a standard contact stack such as a series of metals on, for example, silicon or silicon germanium (SiGe) source/drain regions. In accordance with one example such embodiment, an intermediate boron doped germanium layer is provided between the source/drain and contact metals to significantly reduce contact resistance. Numerous transistor configurations and suitable fabrication processes will be apparent in light of this disclosure, including both planar and non-planar transistor structures (e.g., FinFETs), as well as strained and unstrained channel structures. Graded buffering can be used to reduce misfit dislocation. The techniques are particularly well-suited for implementing p-type devices, but can be used for n-type devices if so desired.
US10304919B2
To provide a display device with a manufacturing yield and/or a display device with suppressed mixture of colors between adjacent pixels. The display device includes a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, and an adhesive layer. The first insulating layer includes a first opening. The second insulating layer includes a second opening. The first opening and the second opening are provided between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode. In a top view, a periphery of the second opening is positioned on an inner side than a periphery of the first opening. The adhesive layer has a region overlapping with the second insulating layer below the second insulating layer.
US10304909B2
A display device includes a substrate, first and second data lines, and first and second sub-pixel units. The first sub-pixel unit includes a first electrode and a first light emitting layer disposed on the first electrode. The first electrode has a first region with a first area overlapping the first data line. The second sub-pixel unit includes a second electrode and a second light emitting layer disposed on the second electrode. The second electrode has a second region with a second area overlapping the second data line, wherein the first area is greater than the second area. The luminescence color of the first light emitting layer and the luminescence color of are different, and the luminescence color of the first light emitting layer is blue.
US10304908B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for image processing, comprising: transforming RGB luminance input values of each of pixels in an image into coordinate values in a uniform color space; moving the coordinates of each of pixels in the uniform color space a setting distance based on luminous efficiencies of RGBW and a replacement ratio of W; the setting distance being set so as to satisfy that a color difference between RGB luminance values transformed from the moved coordinate values in the uniform color space and the respective RGB luminance input values of each of pixels is less than a preset value, in order to maintain image quality; and the setting distance being set so as to satisfy that the minimum of the transformed RGB luminance values is greater than the minimum of the RGB luminance input values. In this way, power consumption is reduced.
US10304902B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes a first magnetic member, a first magnetic layer, and a first nonmagnetic layer. The first magnetic member includes a first extension portion and a third portion. The first extension portion extends along a first direction and includes a first portion and a second portion. The third portion is connected to the second portion. A direction from the first portion toward the second portion is aligned with the first direction. At least a portion of the third portion is tilted with respect to the first direction. The first nonmagnetic layer is provided between the first magnetic layer and the at least a portion of the third portion. The first nonmagnetic layer is provided along the at least a portion of the third portion and is tilted with respect to the first direction.
US10304900B2
Techniques for fabricating a semiconductor chip having a curved surface include placing a substantially flat photonic sensor chip on a recessed surface of a mold such that an active region of the photonic sensor chip at least partially covers a concave central region of the mold and an inactive region of the photonic sensor chip at least partially covers a convex peripheral region of the mold. The mold has a radially varying curvature and the recessed surface includes the concave central region and the convex peripheral region concentrically surrounding the concave central region. Pressure may be applied on the photonic sensor chip to press and bend the photonic sensor chip into the mold.
US10304899B2
A solid-state imaging device includes: a first semiconductor substrate including a photoelectric conversion element; and a second semiconductor substrate including at least a part of a peripheral circuit arranged in a main face of the second semiconductor substrate, the peripheral circuit generating a signal based on the charge of the photoelectric conversion element, a main face of the first semiconductor substrate and the main face of the second semiconductor substrate being opposed to each other with sandwiching a wiring structure therebetween; a pad to be connected to an external terminal; and a protection circuit electrically connected to the pad and to the peripheral circuit, wherein the protection circuit is arranged in the main face of the second semiconductor substrate.
US10304898B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an image sensor device. The image sensor device includes an image sensing element disposed within a substrate. A plurality of protrusions are arranged along a first side of the substrate over the image sensing element. The plurality of protrusions respectively include a sidewall having a first segment oriented at a first angle and a second segment over the first segment. The second segment is oriented at a second angle that is larger than the first angle. One or more absorption enhancement layers are arranged over and between the plurality of protrusions. The first angle and the second angle are acute angles measured through the substrate with respect to a horizontal plane that is parallel to a second side of the substrate opposite the first side.
US10304893B2
A back-side illuminated image sensor includes memory regions formed in a semiconductor wafer. Each memory region is located between two opaque walls which extend into the semiconductor wafer. An opaque screen is arranged at the rear surface of the memory region and in electrical contact with the opaque walls.
US10304890B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure provide a semiconductor device, for example comprising a finger print sensor, and a method for manufacturing thereof. Various aspects of the present disclosure may, for example, provide an ultra-slim finger print sensor having a thickness of 500 μm or less that does not include a separate printed circuit board (PCB), and a method for manufacturing thereof.
US10304886B2
The present disclosure relates to a CMOS image sensor having a photodiode surrounded by a back-side deep trench isolation (BDTI) structure, and an associated method of formation. In some embodiments, a plurality of pixel regions is disposed within a substrate and respectively comprising a photodiode. A back-side deep trench isolation (BDTI) structure is disposed between adjacent pixel regions, extending from a back-side of the substrate to a position within the substrate. The BDTI structure comprises a doped layer lining a sidewall surface of a deep trench and a dielectric fill layer filling a remaining space of the deep trench. By forming the disclosed BDTI structure that functions as a doped well and an isolation structure, the implantation processes from a front-side of the substrate is simplified, and thus the exposure resolution, the full well capacity of the photodiode, and the pinned voltage is improved.
US10304881B1
A CMOS image sensor may include a semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type, and a superlattice on the semiconductor substrate including a plurality of stacked groups of layers. Each group of layers may include a plurality of stacked base semiconductor monolayers defining a base semiconductor portion, and a non-semiconductor monolayer(s) constrained within a crystal lattice of adjacent base semiconductor portions. The image sensor may further include a plurality of laterally adjacent photodiodes on the superlattice. Each photodiode may include a semiconductor layer on the superlattice and having a first conductivity type dopant and with a lower dopant concentration than the semiconductor substrate, a retrograde well extending downward into the semiconductor layer from a surface thereof and having a second conductivity type, a first well around a periphery of the retrograde well having the first conductivity type, and a second well within the retrograde well having the first conductivity type.
US10304880B2
A curved image sensor includes: a supporting substrate; an image sensor chip formed over the supporting substrate and including a curved light incidence surface; and a flare ghost preventive film formed over the curved light incidence surface and including a planar upper surface.
US10304876B2
This disclosure relates to the field of display technologies, and discloses a method for manufacturing an array substrate, an array substrate, a grayscale mask plate and a display device. The method includes forming a transparent conductive layer and a metal layer sequentially on a base substrate. A photoresist pattern is formed on the base: substrate on which the transparent conductive layer and the metal layer have been formed The transparent conductive layer and the metal layer corresponding to a photoresist-free region are removed. The photoresist in a second photoresist region is removed. The metal layer corresponding to the second photoresist region is removed to expose a pixel electrode. Additionally, the photoresist in a first photoresist region is removed to expose a first electrode, a second electrode and a first data line.
US10304875B2
The disclosure provides a display panel, an array substrate and a fabrication method thereof. The fabrication method of the array substrate includes forming a plurality of first thin film transistors and a plurality of second thin film transistors on the first substrate. The etch stopper layer of the second thin film transistor is different from an etch stopper layer of the first thin film transistor, and a threshold voltage of the second thin film transistor is higher than a threshold voltage of the first thin film transistor. By using the disclosed thin film transistors to form the gate driving circuit, the second thin film transistor with a high threshold voltage can be used as the driving signal outputting transistor. The abnormal multi-pulse of the gate driving circuit and the display panel caused by the low threshold voltage of the second thin film transistors may be therefore avoided.
US10304864B2
To provide a miniaturized semiconductor device with low power consumption. A method for manufacturing a wiring layer includes the following steps: forming a second insulator over a first insulator; forming a third insulator over the second insulator; forming an opening in the third insulator so that it reaches the second insulator; forming a first conductor over the third insulator and in the opening; forming a second conductor over the first conductor; and after forming the second conductor, performing polishing treatment to remove portions of the first and second conductors above a top surface of the third insulator. An end of the first conductor is at a level lower than or equal to the top level of the opening. The top surface of the second conductor is at a level lower than or equal to that of the end of the first conductor.
US10304861B2
The present disclosure provide an array substrate and a method of manufacturing the same, and a display panel. The array substrate includes: a base substrate; a first signal transmission layer comprising a common electrode line; a first insulating layer covering the first signal transmission layer and having a first through hole at a position corresponding to the common electrode line; a first electrode layer located on the first insulating layer, the first electrode layer comprising a connection electrode located at the position of the first through hole; a second insulating layer covering the first electrode layer and having a second through hole at a position corresponding to the connection electrode; and a second electrode layer comprising a common electrode that covers the second through hole; the connection electrode contacts the common electrode line and the common electrode respectively.
US10304860B2
An array substrate includes a substrate, a buffer layer, a first shielding pattern, a passivation layer, a first semiconductor pattern, a gate insulating layer, a first gate pattern, an interlayer insulating layer, and two first source/drain electrode patterns. A first through hole and a second through hole are arranged on the array substrate. One of the first source/drain electrode patterns is electrically connected to the first semiconductor pattern and the first shielding pattern through the first through hole. The other one of the first source/drain electrode patterns is electrically connected to the first semiconductor pattern through the second through hole and is insulated from the first shielding pattern. The present invention where the array substrate and the method of forming the array substrate are proposed is related to a top-gate design. The driving ability of the TFT driving circuit still improves without increasing the original processes and production costs.
US10304854B2
A three dimensional semiconductor device, comprising: a substrate including a plurality of circuits; a plurality of pads, each pad coupled to a circuit; and a memory array positioned above or below the substrate and coupled to a circuit to program the memory array.
US10304853B2
Some embodiments include a memory array which has a vertical stack of alternating insulative levels and wordline levels. The wordline levels have terminal ends corresponding to control gate regions. Charge-trapping material is along the control gate regions of the wordline levels and not along the insulative levels. The charge-trapping material is spaced from the control gate regions by charge-blocking material. Channel material extends vertically along the stack and is laterally spaced from the charge-trapping material by dielectric material. Some embodiments include methods of forming NAND memory arrays.
US10304839B2
A metal strap is formed in a middle-of-line (MOL) process for communication between an eDRAM and a FinFET. An oxide is deposited in a trench over the eDRAM to prevent development of an epitaxial film prior to formation of the metal strap. The result is an epiless eDRAM strap in a FinFET.
US10304838B2
A semiconductor device and method of manufacturing are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate; first and second structures spaced apart from each other on the substrate in a first direction, the first structure including a first lower electrode and the second structure including a second lower electrode; a first supporter pattern disposed on the substrate to support the first and second structures, and including a first region that exposes portions of sidewalls of the first and second structures, and a second region that covers a second portion of the sidewalls; and a second supporter pattern disposed on the first supporter pattern to support the first and second structures, the second supporter pattern including a third region, the third region configured to expose portions of the first sidewall and the second sidewall, and a fourth region that covers a portion of the first and second sidewalls.
US10304833B1
A device includes a first nano-sheet of a first semiconductor material. First source/drain regions are positioned adjacent ends of the first nano-sheet. A first dielectric material is positioned above the first source/drain regions. A second nano-sheet of a second semiconductor material is positioned above the first nano-sheet. Second source/drain regions are positioned adjacent ends of the second nano-sheet and above the first dielectric material. A gate structure has a first portion capacitively coupled to the first nano-sheet and a second portion capacitively coupled to the second nano-sheet. A first source/drain contact contacts a first portion of the second source/drain regions in a first region where the first and second source/drain regions do not vertically overlap. The first source/drain contact has a first depth that extends below a height of an upper surface of the first source/drain regions in a second region where the first and second source/drain regions vertically overlap.
US10304825B2
A standard cell having a NOR function. The cell including first and second p-channel transistors connected in series between an output node and a power supply node, and first and second n-channel transistors connected in parallel between the output node and a ground node. The first p-channel transistor includes n fin transistor(s), the n fin transistor(s) having a same gate length and a same gate width, the first p-channel transistor having its gate connected to a first input node, and the second p-channel transistor includes m fin transistors, the m fin transistors having the same gate length and the same gate width as the n fin transistor(s), the second p-channel transistor having its gate connected to a second input node, the first n-channel transistor having its gate connected to the first input node, and the second n-channel transistor having its gate connected to the second input node.
US10304824B2
A manufacturing method for an AlAs—Ge—AlAs structure based plasma p-i-n diode in a multilayered holographic antenna is provided. The manufacturing method includes: selecting a GeOI substrate and disposing an isolation region in the GeOI substrate; etching the GeOI substrate to form a P-type trench and an N-type trench; depositing AlAs materials in the P-type trench and the N-type trench and performing ion implantation into the AlAs materials in the P-type trench and N-type trench to form a P-type active region and an N-type active region; and forming leads on surfaces of the P-type active region and the N-type active region to obtain the AlAs—Ge—AlAs structure based plasma p-i-n diode. Therefore, a high-performance Ge based plasma p-i-n diode suitable for forming a solid plasma antenna can be provided by using a deep trench isolation technology and an ion implantation process.
US10304823B1
A method of forming a semiconductor inverter that includes forming a first conductivity type vertically orientated semiconductor device in a first region of a substrate, and a second conductivity type vertically orientated semiconductor device in a second region of the substrate. A common contact is formed electrically connecting an upper source and drain region for the first conductivity type vertically orientated semiconductor device to an upper source and drain region of the second conductivity type vertically orientated semiconductor device. The common electrical contact providing an output for the inverter. The method may further include forming a first electrical contact to a first gate structure to a first of the first and second conductivity type vertically orientated semiconductor device to provide an input for the inverter.
US10304821B2
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) circuit, an array substrate and a display device are provided. The ESD circuit including a first signal line, a second signal line and a first thin film transistor (TFT), wherein the first TFT includes a plurality of first sub-TFTs; each first sub-TFT includes a first source electrode and a first drain electrode; the first sub-TFTs are sequentially arranged; adjacent first sub-TFT share one first source electrode or first drain electrode; one of the first signal line and the second signal line is electrically connected with the first drain electrode of each first sub-TFT; and the other is electrically connected with the first source electrode of each first sub-TFT.
US10304815B2
Self-aligned three dimensional vertically stacked chip stacks and processes for forming the same generally include two or more vertically stacked chips supported by a scaffolding structure, the scaffolding structure defined by a first scaffolding trench and at least one additional scaffolding trench, the first scaffolding trench comprising a bottom surface having a width and a sidewall having a height extending from the bottom surface to define a lowermost trench in a scaffolding layer, the at least one additional scaffolding trench overlaying the first scaffolding trench having a sidewall having a height and a width, wherein the width of the at least one scaffolding trench is greater than the first scaffolding trench width to define a first stair between the first scaffolding trench and the at least one additional trench; a first chip secured to the first scaffolding trench having a height less than the first scaffolding trench sidewall height; and at least one additional chip secured to and supported by the first stair, wherein the at least one additional chip is vertically spaced apart from the first chip.
US10304807B2
A fan-out semiconductor package includes: a first interconnection member having a through-hole; a first semiconductor chip disposed in the through-hole and having an active surface having connection pads disposed thereon and an inactive surface; a first encapsulant encapsulating at least portions of the first interconnection member and the first semiconductor chip; a second interconnection member disposed on the first interconnection member and the first semiconductor chip; a second semiconductor chip disposed on the first encapsulant and having an active surface having connection pads disposed thereon; and a second encapsulant encapsulating at least portions of the second semiconductor chip. The first interconnection member and the second interconnection member include, respectively, redistribution layers electrically connected to the connection pads of the first semiconductor chip, and the connection pads of the second semiconductor chip are electrically connected to the redistribution layer of the first interconnection member by wires.
US10304805B2
Semiconductor devices including a dual-sided redistribution structure and having low-warpage across all temperatures and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor die electrically coupled to a first side of a redistribution structure and a second semiconductor die electrically coupled to a second side of the redistribution structure opposite the first side. The semiconductor device also includes a first molded material on the first side, a second molded material on the second side, and conductive columns electrically coupled to the first side and extending through the first molded material. The first and second molded materials can have the same volume and/or coefficients of thermal expansion to inhibit warpage of the semiconductor device.
US10304803B2
A microelectronic assembly including an insulating layer having a plurality of nanoscale conductors disposed in a nanoscale pitch array therein and a pair of microelectronic elements is provided. The nanoscale conductors can form electrical interconnections between contacts of the microelectronic elements while the insulating layer can mechanically couple the microelectronic elements together.
US10304800B2
A semiconductor structure includes a first substrate including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a first die disposed over the second surface of the first substrate; a plurality of first conductive bumps disposed between the first die and the first substrate; a molding disposed over the first substrate and surrounding the first die and the plurality of first conductive bumps; a second substrate disposed below the first surface of the first substrate; a plurality of second conductive bumps disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a second die disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate.
US10304797B2
An apparatus and method for soldering chips to a substrate. A substrate and two or more different chips having different heating properties are provided. A solder material is disposed between the chips and the substrate. A flash lamp generates a light pulse for heating the chips, wherein the solder material is at least partially melted by contact with the heated chips. A masking device is disposed between the flash lamp and the chips causing different light intensities in different areas of the light pulse passing the masking device thereby heating the chips with different light intensities. This may compensate the different heating properties to reduce a spread in temperature between the chips as a result of the heating by the light pulse.
US10304790B2
An integrated fan-out package including an insulating encapsulation, a radio frequency integrated circuit (RF-IC), an antenna, a ground conductor, and a redistribution circuit structure is provided. The integrated circuit includes a plurality of conductive terminals. The RF-IC, the antenna, and the ground conductor are embedded in the insulating encapsulation. The ground conductor is between the RF-IC and the antenna. The redistribution circuit structure is disposed on the insulating encapsulation, and the redistribution circuit structure is electrically connected to the conductive terminals, the antenna, and the ground conductor. A method of fabricating the integrated fan-out package is also provided.
US10304788B1
According to an aspect, a semiconductor power module includes a substrate, a semiconductor device coupled to the substrate, a bond wire coupled to the semiconductor device, and a first molding material layer disposed on the substrate. The first molding material layer encapsulates a first portion of the bond wire. The bond wire has a second portion disposed outside of the first molding material layer. The semiconductor power module includes a second molding material layer disposed on the first molding material layer. The second molding material layer encapsulates the second portion of the bond wire. The second molding material layer has a hardness less than a hardness of the second molding material layer.
US10304775B2
A connecting bar electrically connects separate circuit zones of an integrated circuit. The connecting bar is formed by a main portion that is a conductive strip extending above separate circuit zones to be interconnected. The conductive strip is separated from the integrated circuit by a dielectric except at the circuit zones to be interconnected. The connecting bar further includes secondary portions that are conductive pads passing through the dielectric in a vertical direction from the circuit zone to the conductive strip.
US10304766B2
A semiconductor package includes a circuit pattern extending in a horizontal direction. The circuit pattern is conductive. A first insulation layer is disposed on the circuit pattern. A semiconductor chip is disposed on the first installation layer. The first insulation layer includes first protrusions which protrude from a bottom surface of the first insulation layer, penetrate through at least a portion of the circuit pattern, and have a mesh structure. A second protrusion protrudes from the bottom surface of the first insulation layer and penetrates at least a portion of the circuit pattern. The second protrusion is spaced apart from the semiconductor chip in the horizontal direction. The second protrusion has a width in the horizontal direction wider than that of each of the first protrusions.
US10304765B2
A semiconductor device package includes a substrate, a first insulation layer, a support film and an interconnection structure. The substrate has a first sidewall, a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first insulation layer is on the first surface of the substrate and has a second sidewall. The first insulation layer has a first surface and a second surface adjacent to the substrate and opposite to the first surface of the first insulation layer. The support film is on the second surface of the substrate and has a third sidewall. The support film has a first surface adjacent to the substrate and a second surface opposite to the first surface of the support film. The interconnection structure extends from the first surface of the first insulation layer to the second surface of the support film via the first insulation layer and the support film. The interconnection structure covers the first, second and third sidewalls.
US10304750B2
A package structure is provided, which includes: a first polymer layer with a first surface; a second polymer layer with a second surface on the first polymer layer; a circuit device with opposing third and fourth surfaces, the circuit device disposed on the second polymer layer and with multiple metal pads on the fourth surface; a first high-filler dielectric layer enclosing the circuit device and the second polymer layer and covering the first polymer layer; a first conductive wiring formed on the first high-filler dielectric layer; a first conductive passage formed in the first high-filler dielectric layer and connecting the first conductive wiring to the metal pads; a second high-filler dielectric layer enclosing the first conductive wiring and covering the first high-filler dielectric layer; and a second conductive passage formed in the second high-filler dielectric layer and connecting the first conductive wiring to an external circuit.
US10304746B2
An electrical device that includes a p-type semiconductor device having a p-type work function gate structure including a first high-k gate dielectric, a first metal containing buffer layer, a first titanium nitride layer having a first thickness present on the metal containing buffer layer, and a first gate conductor contact. A mid gap semiconductor device having a mid gap gate structure including a second high-k gate dielectric, a second metal containing buffer layer, a second titanium nitride layer having a second thickness that is less than the first thickness present, and a second gate conductor contact. An n-type semiconductor device having an n-type work function gate structure including a third high-k gate dielectric present on a channel region of the n-type semiconductor device, a third metal containing buffer layer on the third high-k gate dielectric and a third gate conductor fill present atop the third metal containing buffer layer.
US10304743B2
A semiconductor device according to this embodiment includes a semiconductor layer, a plurality of diffusion layers in the semiconductor layer, a gate insulating film, a gate electrode, first contacts, and second contacts. The gate insulating film is on the semiconductor layer between the plurality of diffusion layers. The gate electrode is on the gate insulating film. The first contacts include silicide layers of the same material which are on the gate electrode and the diffusion layers respectively, and first metal layers on the silicide layers. The second contacts are on the first contacts.
US10304723B1
The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to a method of forming an SOI substrate. The method may be performed by epitaxially forming a silicon-germanium (SiGe) layer over a sacrificial substrate and epitaxially forming a first active layer on the SiGe layer. The first active layer has a composition different than the SiGe layer. The sacrificial substrate and is flipped and the first active layer is bonded to an upper surface of a dielectric layer formed over a first substrate. The sacrificial substrate and the SiGe layer are removed and the first active layer is etched to define outermost sidewalls and to expose an outside edge of an upper surface of the dielectric layer. A contiguous active layer is formed by epitaxially forming a second active layer on the first active layer. The first active layer and the second active layer have a substantially same composition.
US10304717B2
A cluster tool assembly includes a vacuum transfer module, a process module having a first side connected to the vacuum transfer module. An isolation valve having a first side and a second side, the first side of the isolation valve coupled to a second side of the process module. A replacement station is coupled to the second side of the isolation valve. The replacement station includes an exchange handler and a part buffer. The part buffer includes a plurality of compartments to hold new or used consumable parts. The process module includes a lift mechanism to enable placement of a consumable part installed in the process module to a raised position. The raised position provides access to the exchange handler to enable removal of the consumable part from the process module and store in a compartment of the part buffer. The exchange handler of the replacement station is configured to provide a replacement for the consumable part from the part buffer back to the process module. The lift mechanism is configured to receive the consumable part provided for replacement by the exchange handler and lower the consumable part to an installed position. The replacement by the exchange handler and the process module is conducted while the process module and the replacement station are maintained in a vacuum state.
US10304713B2
A substrate carrier adapted to use in a processing system includes an electrode assembly and a support base. The electrode assembly is configured to generate an electrostatic chucking force for securing a substrate to the substrate carrier. The support base has a heating/cooling reservoir formed therein. The electrode assembly and the support base form an unitary body configured for transport within a processing system. A quick disconnect is coupled to the body and configured to trap a heat regulating medium in the reservoir heating/cooling reservoir when the body is decoupled from a source of heat regulating medium.
US10304709B2
A method and apparatus for soldering a chip (1a) to a substrate (3). A chip carrier (8) is provided between a flash lamp (5) and the substrate (3). The chip (1a) is attached to the chip carrier (8) on a side of the chip carrier (8) facing the substrate (3). A solder material (2) is disposed between the chip (1a) and the substrate (3). The flash lamp (5) generates a light pulse (6) for heating the chip (1a). The heating of the chip (1a) causes the chip (1a) to be released from the chip carrier (8) towards the substrate (3). The solder material (2) is at least partially melted by contact with the heated chip (1a) for attaching the chip (1a) to the substrate (3).
US10304708B2
A test system includes a signal generator, a plurality of transmission/reception circuits and a voltage generator. The signal generator generates a test signal. The transmission/reception circuits are connected to a plurality of transmission lines. The transmission lines each include a main line and at least one branch line connected to the main line. The transmission/reception circuits provide the test signal to the transmission lines. The transmission/reception circuits detect a response signal corresponding to the test signal. The voltage generator supplies a first reference voltage and one of the second reference voltage greater than the first reference voltage and a third reference voltage between the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage to at least one of the transmission/reception circuits.
US10304705B2
A cleaning device for atomizing and spraying liquid in two-phase flow comprising a nozzle provided with multiple liquid bypass pipelines each having liquid guiding outlets inclined at a predetermined angle and an exhaust mesh plate having vertical gas guiding outlets, which makes the high speed liquid flow and high speed gas flow sprayed out therefrom collide against each other sufficiently to form ultra-micro atomized particles with uniform and adjustable size. The ultra-micro atomized particles are sprayed out downwardly to the wafer surface under the acceleration and vertical orientation effects of an atomized particle guiding outlet to perform a reciprocating cleaning for the wafer. Other components such as an ultrasonic or megasonic generation unit, a gas shielding unit, a self-cleaning unit or a rotating unit can also be provided to perform the multifunction of the nozzle.
US10304696B2
In a transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer, an oxide insulating layer is formed so as to be in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer. Then, oxygen is introduced (added) to the oxide semiconductor layer through the oxide insulating layer, and heat treatment is performed. Through these steps of oxygen introduction and heat treatment, impurities such as hydrogen, moisture, a hydroxyl group, or hydride are intentionally removed from the oxide semiconductor layer, so that the oxide semiconductor layer is highly purified.
US10304689B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor structure includes forming a plurality of mandrel structures. A plurality of first spacers is formed on sidewalls of the mandrel structures. A plurality of second spacers is formed on sidewalls of the first spacers. The plurality of first spacers is removed selective to the plurality of second spacers and mandrel structures. A cut mask is formed over a first set of second spacers of the plurality of second spacers and a first set of mandrel structures of the plurality of mandrel structures. A second set of second spacers of the plurality of spacers and a second set of mandrel structures of the plurality of mandrel structures remain exposed. One of the second set of mandrel structures and the second set of second spacers is removed selective to the second set of second spacers and the second set of mandrel structures, respectively.
US10304688B2
A method of etching is described. The method includes providing a substrate having a first material containing silicon nitride and a second material that is different from the first material, forming a first chemical mixture by plasma-excitation of a first process gas containing H and optionally a noble gas, and exposing the first material on the substrate to the first chemical mixture. Thereafter, the method includes forming a second chemical mixture by plasma-excitation of a second process gas containing N and F, and optionally a noble element, and exposing the first material on the substrate to the second plasma-excited process gas to selectively etch the first material relative to the second material.
US10304687B2
Disclosed is a substrate treating apparatus. The substrate treating apparatus includes a spin head configured to support the substrate, a cup surrounding an outer circumference of the spin head, a first ejection member having a first nozzle configured to discharge a first chemical to the substrate located in the spin head, and a second ejection member having a second nozzle configured to discharge a second chemical of the same chemical composition as that of the first chemical to the substrate located in the spin head.
US10304685B2
A manufacturing method of an integrated circuit includes following steps. A dummy gate with a first mask structure formed thereon and a semiconductor gate with a second mask structure formed thereon are formed on a substrate. A top surface of the semiconductor gate is lower than a top surface of the dummy gate. A first removing process is performed to remove the first mask structure and a part of the second mask structure. A dielectric layer is formed covering the dummy gate, the semiconductor gate, and the second mask structure. A second removing process is performed to remove the dielectric layer above the dummy gate. The dummy gate is removed for forming a trench. A metal gate structure is formed in the trench. The semiconductor gate is covered by the second mask structure during the second removing process and the step of removing the dummy gate.
US10304683B2
By decoupling the formation of a metal silicide in the gate electrode structure and the raised drain and source regions, superior flexibility in designing transistor elements and managing overall process flow may be achieved. To this end, the metal silicide in the gate electrode structures may be formed prior to actually patterning the gate electrode structures, while, also during this process sequence, a mask material may be applied for reliably covering any device regions in which a silicidation is not required. Consequently, superior gate conductivity may be accomplished, without increasing the risk of silicide penetration into the channel region of sophisticated fully depleted SOI transistors.
US10304665B2
A reactor for plasma-assisted chemical vapor deposition includes a plasma duct for containing one or more substrates to be coated by ions; an arc discharge generation system for generating a flow of electrons through the plasma duct from a proximal end toward a distal end of the plasma duct; a gas inlet coupled to the distal end for receiving a reactive gas; a gas outlet coupled to the proximal end for removing at least a portion of the reactive gas to generate a flow of the reactive gas through the plasma duct from the distal end toward the proximal end, to generate the ions from collisions between the electrons and the reactive gas; and a separating baffle positioned for restricting flow of the reactive gas out of the plasma duct to maintain a high pressure in the plasma duct to increase rate of deposition of the ions onto the substrates.
US10304653B2
To provide an ion gun of a penning discharge type capable of achieving a milling rate which is remarkably higher than that in the related art, an ion milling device including the same, and an ion milling method.An ion generation unit includes a cathode that emits electrons, an anode that is provided within the ion generation unit and has an inner diameter of 5.2 mm or less, and magnetic-field generation means using a permanent magnet of which a maximum energy product ranges from 110 kJ/m3 to 191 kJ/m3.
US10304650B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for ion traps are described herein. One apparatus includes a number of microwave (MW) rails and a number of radio frequency (RF) rails formed with substantially parallel longitudinal axes and with substantially coplanar upper surfaces. The apparatus includes two sequences of direct current (DC) electrodes with each sequence formed to extend substantially parallel to the substantially parallel longitudinal axes of the MW rails and the RF rails. The apparatus further includes a number of through-silicon vias (TSVs) formed through a substrate of the ion trap and a trench capacitor formed in the substrate around at least one TSV.
US10304649B2
In a switch unit which is equipped with a seesaw switch and a rotary switch, the seesaw switch and the rotary switch are arranged in a manner so that an axis of a swing fulcrum, i.e., swing shaft, of a knob, and an axis of a rotary shaft of a wheel intersect one another.
US10304643B1
A switch including a housing and an actuator configured to move axially within the housing. The actuator includes a guide wing on a first side and a cam wing on a second side, wherein the cam wing has a cam surface on one face. The switch also includes respective first and second contact terminals partially extending from the housing, as well as a movable contact element retained within the housing proximate the contact terminals. The movable contact element includes a fixed branch, a first elastically deformable conductive blade, and a second elastically deformable conductive blade. The cam surface on the actuator is configured to cooperate with the first elastically deformable conductive blade to deform or relax the first elastically deformable conductive blade so as to selectively contact the first contact terminal dependent upon the axial position of the cam wing within the housing.
US10304638B2
The invention relates to a medium voltage double power supply change-over switch using a permanent magnet mechanism. The invention is provided with a spring as the breaking force and closing buffer, a chassis and a plum blossom contact structure, a manual emergency breaking and manual closing function. Further, the invention is provided with an in-out auxiliary mechanism of a movable contact, a chassis closing and locking mechanism, and a hydraulic buffer mechanism. Advantages of the present invention include simple structure, stable performance, and long mechanical life. The pull-out structure is used, greatly improving the convenience of installation and maintenance. The capacitor is used as a permanent magnet drive power supply, completing the switching between the two medium voltage power supplies. The invention realizes comprehensive operation functions of the change-over switch, such as automatic operation switching, electrical operation switching, and manual switching.
US10304637B2
The present invention relates to: an electrode comprising a current collector and a film located on the current collector, wherein the film comprises an organic semiconductor material and one selected from a carbon material, a metal oxide and a conductive polymer; a method for manufacturing the electrode; and a supercapacitor comprising the electrode.
US10304635B2
A solid electrolytic capacitor that includes a structure including laminated capacitor elements, each of the capacitor elements including a valve metal base having a porous layer on a surface thereof, a dielectric layer on the porous layer, a solid electrolyte layer on the dielectric layer, and a cathode layer on the solid electrolyte layer. The cathode layers are directly bonded together on at least a portion of a surface of each of the cathode layers between the laminated capacitor elements.
US10304629B2
In an embodiment, a multilayer ceramic capacitor 10 has a first metal layer 14 having many holes 14a, and a second metal layer 15 having many holes 15a, with a clearance CL provided in between in the length direction, on the other height-direction side face of the capacitor body; the first metal layer 14 is partially covered by a third part 12c of a first external electrode 12, while the remainder is exposed; and the second metal layer 15 is partially covered by a third part 13c of a second external electrode 13, while the remainder is exposed. The multilayer ceramic capacitor can have excellent heat dissipation property.
US10304610B2
A coil component includes a coil portion, a core portion in which the coil portion is buried, and first and second outer electrodes connected respectively to one end and the other end of the coil portion at one or different end surfaces of the core portion. The core portion includes a metal magnetic substance—resin composite and a heat dissipative resin composite having a higher thermal conductivity than the metal magnetic substance—resin composite. The heat dissipative resin composite is arranged around an outer periphery of the coil portion to connect the outer periphery and the end surface of the core portion in at least parts thereof. The metal magnetic substance—resin composite is arranged in a core region and upper and lower regions with respect to the coil portion, and in a connecting region in at least one corner of the core portion.
US10304606B2
A coil assembly includes a coil unit in which a coil obtained by winding a winding wire is disposed around a magnetic core, a coil case that accommodates the coil unit, and a potting material with which an inside of the coil case is filled, and the coil case has an elastic fixing portion that is attachable to a resin member to which the coil case is to be fixed. The above-described configuration makes it possible to provide a coil assembly that is unlikely to crack and generate abnormal noises.
US10304598B1
A surge arrester includes an internal core assembly including a stack of a plurality of varistor elements, a first end core support assembly at a first end surface of the stack, a second end core support assembly at a second end surface of the stack, a plurality of rods disposed around a side surface of the stack, a first crimp fitting at a first end of each of the plurality of rods, and a retention feature on each of the first crimp fittings with each retention feature engaging the first end core support assembly to apply compression to the stack.
US10304595B2
Systems and methods for providing electrical bushings for maintaining a seal during severe incidents are provided. The bushings provide for relatively large gap formations and seal spacings by using one or more self-modulating seals. In certain configurations, the bushings provide for relatively large gap formations and seal spacings by using a wider or narrow top portion adjacent to a relatively narrower middle portion. The systems and methods can be also applied to other apparatus when deemed proper.
US10304590B2
A cable waterproof structure includes a plurality of insulated wires and a sheath covering the plurality of insulated wires collectively, a heat shrinkable tube with adhesive that includes adhesive inside, and is provided and shrunk so as to cover an end of the sheath and a circumference of the plurality of insulated wires extended from the end of the sheath, and a fixing heat shrinkable tube that includes no adhesive inside, and is provided and shrunk so as to cover a part of the heat shrinkable tube with adhesive that covers the sheath and a circumference of the sheath extended from the heat shrinkable tube with adhesive, wherein a shrinkage start temperature of the fixing heat shrinkable tube is higher than a shrinkage start temperature of the heat shrinkable tube with adhesive.
US10304587B2
The present invention provides an anisotropic electrically conductive film with a structure, in which electrically conductive particles are disposed at lattice points of a planar lattice pattern in an electrically insulating adhesive base layer. A proportion of the lattice points, at which no electrically conductive particle is disposed, with respect to all the lattice points of the planar lattice pattern assumed as a reference region, is less than 20%. A proportion of the lattice points, at which plural electrically conductive particles are disposed in an aggregated state, with respect to all the lattice points of the planar lattice pattern, is not greater than 15%. A sum of omission of the electrically conductive particle and an aggregation of the electrically conductive particles is less than 25%.
US10304584B2
A method comprising at least a step (1) of preparing a silane master batch by melt-kneading, all or part of a polyolefin resin, an organic peroxide, an inorganic filler containing a metal hydrate and a metal carbonate, and a silane coupling agent, at a temperature equal to or higher than the decomposition temperature of the organic peroxide, and a step (3) of mixing the silane master batch and a silanol condensation catalyst or a catalyst master batch; a heat-resistant silane crosslinked resin molded body and a heat-resistant silane crosslinkable resin composition prepared by the method, and a silane master batch and a heat-resistant product.
US10304583B2
To provide an insulating tape for covering, in which a polyimide film and a fluorinated resin film are laminated with excellent adhesion, and a method for producing a structure, which comprises covering a conductor with such an insulating tape for covering, followed by thermal treatment. The insulating tape for covering, comprises a polyimide film and a fluorinated resin film directly laminated on one or both surfaces of the polyimide film, wherein the fluorinated resin film contains a fluorinated copolymer (A) which has a melting point of from 220 to 320° C. and can be melt-molded and which has at least one type of functional groups selected from the group consisting of carbonyl group-containing groups, hydroxy groups, epoxy groups and isocyanate groups.
US10304577B2
A method of determining the bow and twist of a nuclear fuel assembly that utilizes fiber optic shape sensing technology enclosed within a flexible sheath that transmits strain on the interior walls of a control rod guide thimble within the fuel assembly to a fiber cable of the shape sensing technology enclosed within the sheath. The sheath conforms to the interior dimensions of the interior walls of the guide thimble.
US10304566B2
A control system, a control method, and a computer readable medium having stored thereon a computer executable program code for controlling a set of electromechanical medical devices records is disclosed herein. The method comprises: receiving by a control system an instruction to be executed by an electromechanical medical device of the set; translating the received instruction into a batch of commands parsable by an electronic controller of the electromechanical device; and sending the batch of commands from the control system to the electromechanical medical device.
US10304565B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for collecting a plurality of medical images. A method includes displaying a list that includes an indication corresponding to each image of a plurality of medical images of a workflow, wherein the indications are listed based on a sequence defined by the workflow. The method includes receiving a selection by a user indicating a specific image to be acquired from the plurality of medical images. The specific image is selected in an order different than defined in the sequence based on a position of an imaging target allowing for capture of the specific image. The method includes acquiring the specific image and displaying an updated list to omit an indication corresponding to the acquired specific image of the plurality of medical images.
US10304564B1
Methods and systems for displaying a medical image captured as part of a medical imaging procedure. One system includes an electronic processor configured to receive a plurality of images from an image database, the plurality of images included in a medical exam associated with the procedure. The electronic processor is also configured to automatically determine a classification for each of the plurality of images using a classification model analyzing content of each of the plurality of images, the classification including one of a textual image and an anatomical image. The electronic processor is also configured to determine a set of rules displaying the plurality of images and display a subset of the plurality of images based on the classification determined for each of the plurality of images and the set of rules.
US10304563B1
Medication management is facilitated at least by accessing at least a portion of data, the data may identify medication sets to be taken by a user according to a schedule including time periods. Each of the plurality of medication sets may be associated in the data with identification codes and at least one of the time periods. A medication message may be output identifying a particular medication set of the medication sets to be taken at a particular time period of the time periods. An input identification code may be received, and it may be determined whether the input identification code corresponds to the particular medication set. A warning message may be output in response to it being determined that the input identification code does not correspond to the particular medication set.
US10304555B2
To provide a semiconductor device having a high aperture ratio and including a capacitor with a high charge capacitance. To provide a semiconductor device with a narrow bezel. A transistor over a substrate; a first conductive film over a surface over which a gate electrode of the transistor is provided; a second conductive film over a surface over which a pair of electrodes of the transistor is provided; and a first light-transmitting conductive film electrically connected to the first conductive film and the second conductive film are included. The second conductive film overlaps the first conductive film with a gate insulating film of the transistor laid between the second conductive film and the first conductive film.
US10304550B1
A sense amplifier for a memory circuit that can sense into the deep negative voltage threshold region is described. A selected memory cell is sensed by discharging a source line through the memory cell into the bit line and sense amplifier. While discharging the source line through the memory cell into the sense amplifier, a voltage level on the discharge path is used to set the conductivity of a discharge transistor to a level corresponding to the conductivity of the selected memory cell. A sense node is then discharged through the discharge transistor. To reduce noise, a decoupling capacitor is connected to the control gate of the discharge transistor and an auxiliary keeper current is run through the discharge transistor.
US10304546B2
An external storage device and method of setting a reference frequency for the same are provided. The external storage device includes: a device manager configured to set a reference frequency using information about the reference frequency for a high-speed mode received in a low-speed mode after the external storage device starts initialization, and control the external storage device to operate at the reference frequency in the high-speed mode, wherein the external storage device is a removable device which is attachable to and detachable from a host and is configured to operate according to a reference clock signal with the reference frequency in the high-speed mode.
US10304544B2
A memory device includes a plurality of memory cells, bit lines connected to the plurality of memory cells, and page buffers coupled to the plurality of memory cells through the bit lines, and performing a read operation on the plurality of memory cells, wherein each of the page buffers comprises: a first latch controlling a bit line precharge operation during the read operation; and a second latch storing a result of a first sensing operation and a result of a second sensing operation performed after the first sensing operation, wherein a value stored in the second latch is inverted when the result of the first sensing operation and the result of second sensing operation are different from each other during the second sensing operation.
US10304542B2
A memory device includes a memory block including a plurality of stacked sub-memory blocks, peripheral circuits configured to perform program, read and erase operations on the memory block or on a block selected from among the sub-memory blocks, and a control logic configured to control the peripheral circuits so that, during a read operation on the memory block, if a block on which a partial erase operation has been performed is not present among the sub-memory blocks, voltages to be used for the read operation are set and so that, if a block on which the partial erase operation has been performed is present among the sub-memory blocks, the voltages to be used for the read operation are varied depending on a position of a sub-memory block that is a target of the read operation.
US10304536B2
A quantum memory system includes a doped polycrystalline ceramic, a magnetic field generation unit, and one or more pump lasers. The doped polycrystalline ceramic is positioned within a magnetic field of the magnetic field generation unit when the magnetic field generation unit generates the magnetic field, the one or more pump lasers are optically coupled to the doped polycrystalline ceramic, and the doped polycrystalline ceramic is doped with a rare-earth element dopant that is uniformly distributed within a crystal lattice of the doped polycrystalline ceramic.
US10304531B2
Memory programming methods and memory systems are described. One example memory programming method includes first applying a first signal to a memory cell to attempt to program the memory cell to a desired state, wherein the first signal corresponds to the desired state, after the first applying, determining that the memory cell failed to place in the desired state, after the determining, second applying a second signal to the memory cell, wherein the second signal corresponds to another state which is different than the desired state, and after the second applying, third applying a third signal to the memory cell to program the memory cell to the desired state, wherein the third signal corresponds to the desired state. Additional method and apparatus are described.
US10304513B2
Methods, systems, and devices for multiple plate line architecture for multideck memory arrays are described. A memory device may include two or more three-dimensional arrays of ferroelectric memory cells overlying a substrate layer that includes various components of support circuitry, such as decoders and sense amplifiers. Each memory cell of the array may have a ferroelectric container and a selector device. Multiple plate lines or other access lines may be routed through the various decks of the device to support access to memory cells within those decks. Plate lines or other access lines may be coupled between support circuitry and memory cells through on pitch via (OPV) structures. OPV structures may include selector devices to provide an additional degree of freedom in multideck selectivity. Various number of plate lines and access lines may be employed to accommodate different configurations and orientations of the ferroelectric containers.
US10304512B2
A selected ferroelectric memory cell of a ferroelectric memory is electrically connected to a first bit line, a second bit line, a first word line, a second word line and a plate line. The selected ferroelectric memory cell includes a first field effect transistor (“FET”), a second FET and a ferroelectric capacitor. A control terminal and a first access terminal of the first FET are electrically connected to the first word line and the first bit line, respectively. A control terminal and a first access terminal of the second FET are electrically connected to the second word line and the second bit line, respectively. A second access terminal of the first FET is electrically connected to a first capacitor electrode of the ferroelectric capacitor and a second terminal of the second FET. A second capacitor electrode of the ferroelectric capacitor is electrically connected to the plate line.
US10304507B2
A memory for providing a signal buffering scheme for array and periphery signals and the operating method of the same are provided. The memory includes a plurality of columns of memory cells, a control circuit, and a control logic unit. The plurality of columns of memory cells may be connected to a local array signal generator via local control lines, which are connected to a global array signal generator via global control lines for receiving array signals. The control circuit may be connected to the memory cells for providing periphery signals. The control logic unit may be connected to the memory cells through a hierarchical structure of the global control lines and the local control lines. The control logic unit may be configured to provide the array signals and periphery signals having the same polarity to the global control lines and the local control lines.
US10304505B2
Apparatuses and methods including an interface die that interfaces with dice through memory channels are described. An example apparatus includes a first die. The first die receives a first command including first command information and second command information provided after the first command information. The first die changes an order of providing the first command information and the second command information and provides a second command to a second die, the second command including the second command information and the first command information provided after the second command information in the changed order. The first command information is related to a command function and the second command information is related to a destination of the command function.
US10304503B2
Transmitting device using calibration circuit, semiconductor apparatus and system including the same
A transmitting device includes a calibration circuit and a transmission circuit. The calibration circuit generates calibration codes by performing a calibration operation. The calibration circuit also generates compensation calibration codes by increasing or decreasing values of the calibration codes according to whether a number of codes among the calibration codes having a predetermined level is greater than or equal to a threshold value. The transmission circuit drives a signal transmission line based on an input signal and the compensation calibration codes.
US10304500B2
An electronic device includes an internal supply rail; a plurality of first main header switches for coupling the internal supply rail to a first power supply; a plurality of second main header switches for coupling the internal supply rail to a second power supply; an auxiliary circuit including a first auxiliary header switch for coupling the internal supply rail to the first power supply and a second auxiliary header switch for coupling the internal supply rail to the second power supply; a feedback circuit, the feedback circuit tracking a status of the first and second main header switches; and a control circuit, the control circuit controlling the first main header switches, second main header switches and first and second auxiliary header switches responsive to the switch control signal and an output of the feedback circuit.
US10304490B2
Holographic sound is recorded and reproduced by way of a single monaural recording per left and right ear recorded. This is accomplished by determining the phase shift of frequencies recorded after dividing the sound into discrete frequencies in a recording device having resonators, each resonating at a different frequency, placed in a circular arrangement and divided into discrete channels by non-resonant material. The resonators are placed in a pseudo-randomized arrangement within the recording device and the circle of resonators is in front of a microphone which records the sound monaurally. Playback is then by way of arranging speakers or transducers into micro perforated sheets which amplify the sound, the arrangement of speakers/transducers around a central point. The sound is then played back directionally based on the position where the sound originally was recorded from and the position of the particular transducer around the central point.
US10304476B2
An apparatus and method for real-time audio processing employs a gaze detection sensor to detect a direction of a user's gaze and output a gaze signal corresponding to the detected direction of the user's gaze. A digital signal processing unit responds to a plurality of signals corresponding to a plurality of sounds received at the apparatus, and the determined direction of gaze to identify a signal of interest from the plurality of signals using the gaze signal. The signal of interest is processed for output to the user. In embodiments, a microphone array provides the plurality of signals. An imaging sensor may work with either the microphone array or the gaze detection sensor to identify the signal of interest.
US10304473B2
Certain example embodiments relate to speech privacy systems and/or associated methods. The techniques described herein disrupt the intelligibility of the perceived speech by, for example, superimposing onto an original speech signal a masking replica of the original speech signal in which portions of it are smeared by a time delay and/or amplitude adjustment, with the time delays and/or amplitude adjustments oscillating over time. In certain example embodiments, smearing of the original signal may be generated in frequency ranges corresponding to formants, consonant sounds, phonemes, and/or other related or non-related information-carrying building blocks of speech. Additionally, or in the alternative, annoying reverberations particular to a room or area in low frequency ranges may be “cut out” of the replica signal, without increasing or substantially increasing perceived loudness.
US10304466B2
The present technique relates to a decoding device, a decoding method, an encoding device, an encoding method, and a program which can obtain a high-quality realistic sound.The encoding device stores speaker arrangement information in a comment region in a PCE of an encoded bit stream and stores a synchronous word and identification information in the comment region such that other public comments and the speaker arrangement information stored in the comment region can be distinguished from each other. When an encoded bit stream is decoded, it is determined whether the speaker arrangement information is stored on the basis of the synchronous word and the identification information stored in the comment region. Audio data included in the encoded bit stream is output according to the arrangement of the speakers corresponding to the determination result. The present technique can be applied to an encoding device.
US10304464B2
The present invention relates to a method of providing voice recognition. The method comprises the steps of receiving a packetised voice data of a person to be identified over a packet-switched network, comparing the voice data with a stored voice data of a user and, based on the comparison, providing an indication of the likelihood that the person to be identified is the user, wherein the step of receiving the voice data comprises waiting for sufficient voice data to be received.
US10304460B2
According to an embodiment, a conference support system includes a recognizer, a classifier, a first caption controller, a second caption controller, and a display controller. The recognizer is configured to recognize text data corresponding speech from a speech section and configured to distinguish between the speech section and a non-speech section in speech data. The classifier is configured to classify the text data into first utterance data representing a principal utterance and second utterance data representing another utterance. The first caption controller is configured to generate first caption data for displaying the first utterance data without waiting for identification of the first utterance data to finish. The second caption controller is configured to generate second caption data for displaying the second utterance data after identification of the second utterance data finishes. The display controller is configured to control a display of the first caption data and the second caption data.
US10304459B2
A method may include establishing a communication session with a remote device over a network. After establishing the communication session with the remote device, the method may include obtaining remote audio from the remote device that is provided by the remote device as part of the communication session. The method may also include directing the remote audio received from the remote device to a local device participating in the communication session and to a remote transcription system and obtaining transcript data from the remote transcription system based on the remote audio. The transcript data may include a transcription of the remote audio. The method may further include directing the transcript data to a television for presentation of the transcription of the remote audio by the television such that the transcription of the remote audio is presented substantially aligned with presentation of the remote audio by the local device.
US10304456B2
A voice command input device includes a first voice input unit, a second voice input unit, and a voice command identifier. The first voice input unit converts a voice into first voice command information, and outputs first identification information and the first voice command information. The second voice input unit converts a voice into second voice command information, and outputs second identification information and the second voice command information. The voice command identifier refers to the first identification information and the second identification information, and generates a control signal for controlling an operation target appliance based on the result of referring, the first voice command information, and the second voice command information.
US10304452B2
A voice interactive device constituting an interaction system in which a plurality of voice interactive devices interact with a user, comprises a voice input unit that acquires voice uttered by a user; an information generating unit that generates user utterance information, the user utterance information being information for specifying a voice interactive device having been spoken to by the user; a transmitting/receiving unit that transmits the generated user utterance information to another voice interactive device and that receives, from the other voice interactive device, user utterance information; a determining unit that determines whether or not a response is to be made to the utterance by the user based on the generated and received user utterance information; and an interacting unit that performs interaction with the user on the basis of a result of the determination.
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Environmental conditions, along with other information, are used to adjust a response of a conversational dialog system. The environmental conditions may be used at different times within the conversational dialog system. For example, the environmental conditions can be used to adjust the dialog manager's output (e.g., the machine action). The dialog state information that is used by the dialog manager includes environmental conditions for the current turn in the dialog as well as environmental conditions for one or more past turns in the dialog. The environmental conditions can also be used after receiving the machine action to adjust the response that is provided to the user. For example, the environmental conditions may affect the machine action that is determined as well as how the action is provided to the user. The dialog manager and the response generation components in the conversational dialog system each use the available environmental conditions.
