US10412869B2
A component mounting device performs measurement of a position of a reference section of a head and measurement of calibration data of the head, and the calibration data of the head and the position of the reference section are stored in association. The component mounting device controls operation of the head holding body in which the head is held based on the calibration data of the head and the position of the reference section. In a case where it is not necessary to generate the calibration data of the predetermined head, the component mounting device measures the position of the reference section, and controls operation of the head holding body in which the head is held based on the measured position of the reference section, the position of the reference section which is stored, and the calibration data of the head.
US10412867B2
The present invention discloses an electromagnetic shielding assembly including an electromagnetic interference shielding component including a plate body and a bending portion. An included angle is formed between the plate body and the bending portion, and the plate body and the bending portion cover an input socket of a power supply. The electromagnetic interference shielding component includes at least one grounding pin disposed on the plate body or/and the bending portion and configured to ground with and screw to a housing of the power supply, and a welding pin disposed on a side of the bending portion away from the plate body and electrically connected to an auxiliary circuit board. The electromagnetic interference shielding component provides functions of EMI shielding, lightning (current) discharging and fixture, which can simplify the structure, increase the discharging speed and time, and reduce the amount of disturbance of the large current instantaneous to the ground.
US10412864B2
A gasket assembly structure including a frame which includes a front half and a back half joined together with a plurality of interlocking tabs located around a perimeter of the frame, defining a window, and an electromagnetic gasket, constrained between the front half and the back half of the frame; where the electromagnetic gasket lines an interior perimeter of the window and partially extends from the frame into the window, and a passageway through the window of the frame with boarders defined by the constrained electromagnetic gasket. A housing structure including a receptacle recessed within an opening on a front side of the housing, the receptacle is rigidly attached to the housing, and a gasket assembly recessed within the opening and located between the front side of the housing and the receptacle, where the gasket assembly is directly secured to the housing.
US10412859B1
A storage device carrier system includes a linear array of mounting trays, wherein each mounting tray is configured to removeably receive a storage device. A velocity-increasing longitudinal cooling channel is configured to provide cooling air to the linear array of mounting trays.
US10412856B2
A fan detection method, a fan detection chip and a fan detection system using the same are disclosed. The fan detection method is applied to a fan detection chip including a first pin, a second pin, a third pin, a fourth pin, and the fan is electrically coupled to the first pin, the second pin and the third pin at least. The fan detection method includes following steps: controlling a switch to selectively conduct the first pin and the second pin; controlling a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal processing module to output a voltage pulse to the fourth pin; detecting, by the voltage detection module, a voltage level on the fourth pin; and determining the fan to be a PWM fan when the voltage level is changed, and determining the fan to be a DC fan when the voltage level is not changed.
US10412848B2
A power supply device 1 includes a main circuit board 20, a power component 22 connected to the main circuit board 20, a filter component 24 connected to the main circuit board 20, and a casing 10 which houses the main circuit board 20, the power component 22, and the filter component 24. The casing 10 includes a base plate 11 which includes a flat surface 11a in which a fin 14 for heat dissipation is provided on a bottom-surface side, and a protruding part 15 which protrudes from the flat surface toward the fin. The power component 22 and the main circuit board 20 are placed on the flat surface, and the filter component 24 is housed in the protruding part 15.
US10412846B1
An electronic device and a housing structure thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a transparent member; a metallic housing surrounding a boundary of the transparent member, and forming a lateral outer appearance of the electronic device; and a non-metallic absorption member arranged inside the metallic housing. The non-metallic absorption member is arranged to face a side surface of the transparent member. The metallic housing comprises a protection portion arranged adjacent to the boundary of the transparent member. An interlace between the non-metallic absorption member and the protection portion, which faces the transparent member, is disposed inward relative to a first virtual extension line virtually extending along an external surface of the transparent member. An inner surface of the protection portion facing the non-metallic absorption member includes a surface inclined at a preset angle with respect to a front or rear direction of the electronic device.
US10412834B2
A mounting structure includes a bonding material (106) that bonds second electrodes (104) of a circuit board (105) and bumps (103) of a semiconductor package (101), the bonding material (106) being surrounded by a first reinforcing resin (107). Moreover, a portion between the outer periphery of the semiconductor package (101) and the circuit board (105) is covered with a second reinforcing resin (108). Even if the bonding material (106) is a solder material having a lower melting point than a conventional bonding material, high drop resistance is obtained.
US10412832B2
According to one embodiment, the display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a connecting material. The first substrate includes a first basement and a first conductive layer. The second substrate includes a second basement including a first surface, a second surface and a first hole located in the non-display area, and a second conductive layer provided on the second surface. The connecting material electrically connects the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer to each other via the first hole. The connecting material covers at least partially a portion of an opening edge belonging to the second region but does not cover a portion belonging to the first region.
US10412823B2
The present disclosure discloses a circuit component and a method for manufacturing the same and a bonding device. The circuit component comprises a first circuit board and a second circuit board, wherein at least one of the first circuit board and the second circuit board comprises a bonding detection layer configured to be capable of detecting a bonding parameter between the first circuit board and the second circuit board; and emitting a detection signal when the bonding parameter reaches a preset value.
US10412815B2
A lighting system and a multi-mode lighting device thereof are provided. The multi-mode lighting device includes a wireless communication unit, a lighting unit, a projection unit, and a processing unit. The processing unit is coupled to the wireless communication unit, the lighting unit, and the projection unit. The processing unit is configured to selectively operate in one of multiple modes, wherein the multiple modes include a lighting mode and a projection mode. The processing unit is adapted to control the lighting unit to provide illumination light when the processing unit operates in the lighting mode. The processing unit is adapted to receive a video signal provided by an electronic device via the wireless communication unit and control the projection unit to project an image based on the video signal when the processing unit operates in the projection mode.
US10412809B2
Lighting devices and methods utilize multiple independently controllable groups of solid state light emitters of different dominant wavelengths, with operation of the emitter groups being automatically adjusted by processor(s) to provide desired illumination. Operation of the emitter groups may be further affected by sensors and/or user input commands (e.g., sound patterns, gesture patterns, or signal transmission). Operation may be adjusted to compensate for presence, absence, intensity, and/or color point of ambient or incident light. Presence of five or more groups of solid state light emitters provide desirable luminous flux, color point, correlated color temperature (CCT), color rendering index (CRI), CRI R9, and luminous efficacy characteristics of aggregate emissions over a wide range of CCT values, and may permit adjustment of vividness (e.g., relative gamut) and/or melatonin suppression characteristics for a selected color point or CCT.
US10412806B2
Various embodiments include a multi-color micro-LED array light source that enables well-overlapped light beams of different colors. The multi-color micro-LED array light source includes a thermally conductive substrate and multiple arrays of different color micro-LEDs integrated on the thermally conductive substrate. The micro-LEDs within each array are electrically connected so that they can all be driven in unison. The multi-color array light source also includes a controller that is electrically coupled to and that drives the arrays of micro-LEDs. The controller drives the micro-LEDs in a manner that produces an output light distribution with a spatial wavelength and angular distribution that is suitable for use as a light source.
US10412802B2
A method of setting luminance levels of a solid-state light sources of a luminaire with programmable light distribution is provided. The method includes obtaining a file describing a desired light beam distribution, converting the desired light beam distribution into luminance levels for the solid-state light sources, and applying the luminance levels to the solid-state light sources to cause the luminaire to output the desired light beam distribution.
US10412800B1
A system for lighted vehicle displays includes a power source, and an LED display assembly. The LED display assembly comprises a transparent flexible substrate reversibly attachable to a surface of a vehicle, and a set of LEDs disposed on a transparent substrate, wherein the one or more LEDs of the set of LEDs are electronically connected to the power source. The LED display assembly further comprising a controller communicatively coupled to the set of LEDs, wherein the controller includes one or more processors configured to execute a set of program instructions stored in memory, wherein the program instructions are configured to cause the one or more processors to control one or more LEDs of the set of LEDs to control output of the set of LEDs.
US10412793B2
A cooking appliance comprising a base member, an upper member and a cooking chamber defined between the base member and the upper member, wherein the upper member is displaceable between a closed position, in which the upper member is closed on the base member and access to the cooking chamber is prevented, and an open position, in which access to the cooking chamber is permitted. The cooking appliance comprises a locking device displaceable from a locking condition, in which it prevents the upper member from being displaced from the closed position to the open position, and an unlocking condition in which it allows the upper member to be displaced from the closed position to the open position. The cooking appliance comprises an automatic actuating device for automatically taking the locking device in the unlocking condition upon a predetermined condition is reached, and a further manual actuating device for manually taking the locking device in the unlocking condition.
US10412792B2
The microwavable heat stand is an apparatus that allows microwave energy to directly reach a food item along surfaces that normally rest on a plate, a bowl, or any other comparable dish. The apparatus includes a base plate, a plurality of dividers, and a plurality of waveguide channels. Each of the plurality of dividers includes a proximal end and a distal end. The plurality of dividers is distributed across the base plate. The proximal end of each of the plurality of dividers is connected adjacent to the base plate. Consequently, the distal end for each of the plurality of dividers provides a surface for which the food item may rest. Each of the waveguide channels is delineated by the base plate and a pair of adjacent dividers from the plurality of dividers, allowing microwave energy to flow from the outer edge of the base plate to the center of the base plate.
US10412791B2
An induction heating device and a method of controlling the induction heating device are provided. The induction heating device may include a working coil, a power supply to provide an induction voltage to operate the working coil, a temperature sensor to sense a temperature of a cooking utensil, a first lighting unit to emit visually perceivable light, a second lighting unit to emit visually perceivable light, and a controller for controlling the first lighting unit based on the sensed temperature of the cooking utensil transmitted from the temperature sensor.
US10412789B2
The invention relates to a method for regulating a cooking process using an item of cookware having inductive properties on a cooking area, wherein a coil is arranged as part of an LC resonant circuit in the region of the cooking area and the natural frequency of the LC resonant circuit is measured repeatedly or continuously. The invention also relates to a cooking apparatus having at least one cooking area, a temperature sensor, a power controller, an LC resonant circuit having a coil, which is arranged in, around or in the region of the cooking area, and a controller, which is connected to the temperature sensor and a unit for measuring the frequency of the LC resonant circuit and which is programmed to carry out method, wherein the controller has access to a memory for storing the mathematically determined parameter function or vector function.
US10412777B2
According to one embodiment, system includes a receiver and electronic circuitry. The electronic circuitry configured to determine whether the first user is present near a first apparatus of apparatuses, determine whether the first user is present near a second apparatus of the apparatuses, establish a first communication route with the first apparatus for the communication with the first user in response to the request, if it is determined that the first user is present near the first apparatus, and establish a second communication route with the second apparatus for the communication with the first user in response to the request, if it is determined that the first user is present near the second apparatus.
US10412776B2
A communication apparatus capable of communicating with another communication apparatus in a network conforming to NAN (Neighbor Awareness Networking), while joining a first NAN cluster included among a plurality of NAN clusters, detect an existence of a second NAN cluster included among the plurality of NAN clusters, compares an attribute value of the second NAN cluster with an attribute value of the first NAN cluster, and, when the attribute value of the second NAN cluster is lower than the attribute value of the first NAN cluster, transmits information indicating an existence of the first NAN cluster to the second NAN cluster.
US10412774B2
A communication method, a communication system, a wireless terminal, and a wireless control method are provided that make it possible to share information between terminals without forming a group. In a communication method in a wireless communication network including a plurality of terminals (N1 to N3), a first terminal (N1) and a second terminal(N2 or N3) that belong to different groups, or do not belong to a group, can embed arbitrary information in a control frame (101) that is sent and received to search for a terminal or another group in vicinity, and notification information (MSG) of one of the terminals is notified to the other terminal by using the control frame.
US10412767B2
A method for operating a user equipment (UE) in a millimeter wave (mmWave) communications system includes receiving a first wide beam beam-formed reference signal from a mmWave evolved NodeB (eNB) during an initial time interval, the first wide beam beam-formed reference signal carrying timing information, detecting a wide beam boundary between the first wide beam beam-formed reference signal and a second wide beam beam-formed reference signal during a subsequent time interval, wherein both the first wide beam beam-formed reference signal and the second wide beam beam-formed reference signal are rotated by a narrow beam beam-width during each intermediate time interval between the initial time interval and the subsequent time interval, and informing the mmWave eNB of an indication that the UE detected the wide beam boundary during the subsequent time interval, the indication being used to assign a narrow beam direction to the UE.
US10412760B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method for operating a mobile device including establishing a connection to a first base station designated as a PCell and establishing a connection to a second base station designated as a SCell. When the mobile device receives PDSCH from a TDD SCell in a subframe n, it transmits a HARQ ACK to an FDD PCell in subframe n+4. When the mobile device receives PDSCH in a downlink subframe from an FDD SCell, it transmits a HARQ ACK corresponding to the PDSCH to a TDD PCell in a selected uplink subframe. The selected uplink subframe may be the first valid uplink subframe following the downlink subframe. For example, where the downlink subframe carrying the PDSCH is subframe n, and the selected uplink subframe is subframe n+k, where k≥4.
US10412747B2
A wireless network device, for operation within a wireless network, the wireless network device comprising: a wireless interface operable on one or more wireless channels; a memory; and a processor configured to: scan at least one channel for a predetermined time duration; and make a channel quality assessment measurement during the predetermined time duration, wherein the processor is adapted to synchronize the predetermined time duration with other wireless network devices that are operable in the wireless network and that scan the at least one channel and make channel quality assessment measurements during substantially the same predetermined time duration, wherein the channel quality assessment measurement is compared with other channel quality assessment measurements from other network devices that are operable in the wireless network thereby to enable determination of an optimal channel for communication between the network devices and wherein the wireless network device is configured to operate on the optimal channel.
US10412738B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems relating to narrow beam communications and wireless networking are disclosed. Exemplary methods for wireless networking and communications may include identifying a geographic area, receiving topography data related to the geographic area, analyzing the topography data, identifying a first line of sight path related to a first access point location and one or more customer premises device locations based at least in part on the analyzing, and identifying a second line of sight path based at least in part on a predetermined amount.
US10412737B2
A method and apparatus are provided for determining a resource for an acknowledgement signal by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. Information is received for transmission of the acknowledgement signal in an operating bandwidth. A resource block (RB) is determined for transmission of the acknowledgement signal, based on the information. The acknowledge signal is transmitted on the determined RB.
US10412729B2
A method for allocating resources in a mobile communication system is provided. The resource allocation method includes determining whether a transmission time of response information indicating presence/absence of an error in received data overlaps a transmission time of channel state information; and when the transmission times overlap each other, allocating, to the response information, a resource block for the channel state information, cyclic shift values in a frequency domain, and orthogonal sequences having orthogonality in a time domain.
US10412728B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described for hierarchical communications within a wireless communications system. An eNB and/or a UE may be configured to operate within the wireless communications system which is at least partially defined through a first layer with first layer transmissions having a first subframe type and a second layer with second layer transmissions having a second subframe type. The first subframe type may have a first round trip time (RTT) between transmission and acknowledgment of receipt of the transmission, and the second layer may have a second RTT that is less than the first RTT. Subframes of the first subframe type may be multiplexed with subframes of the second subframe type, such as through time division multiplexing.
US10412727B2
The present invention provides a method and apparatus of handling in-device co-existence interference in a wireless communication environment. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting in-device co-existence interference between a LTE module and an ISM module in user equipment. The method further includes identifying subframes and corresponding HARQ processes in a set of subframes allocated to the LTE module which are affected by the ISM module operation. Additionally, the method includes reserving the remaining subframes and corresponding HARQ processes in the set of subframes for the LTE module operation. Furthermore, the method includes indicating to a base station that the remaining subframes and the corresponding HARQ processes are reserved for the LTE module operation to resolve the in-device co-existence interference. Moreover, the method includes receiving scheduling pattern indicating subframes and corresponding HARQ processes reserved for the LTE operation or derived DRX parameters from the base station based on the indication.
US10412704B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station may transmit a configuration for enhanced paging to a UE being served by a cell over a shared frequency band. The enhanced paging may include multiple paging intervals for each paging cycle. The UE may enable reception for a paging interval and determine whether the UE receives a downlink transmission. The UE may lengthen a paging interval or enable reception during a second paging interval based in part on determining whether the UE receives a downlink transmission. In some examples, the UE may receive a paging queue status indication indicating that paging information will be transmitted during a paging interval or a later interval, or indicating that no paging information is present at a serving cell.
US10412703B2
One or more location-based clients can be activated on a mobile device for providing location-based services. The location-based clients can be provided with information (e.g., presets, defaults) related to the current location and/or mode of the mobile device. The information can be obtained from one or more network resources. In some implementations, a number of location-based clients can run concurrently on the mobile device and share information.
US10412701B2
The invention provides an indoor positioning method and system based on a wireless receiver and a camera, belonging to the field of positioning technology. The method in the invention comprises the following steps: a wireless receiver detects a query WIFI signal transmitted by a target device and extracts a MAC address and CSI of the target device from a query WIFI signal; a server captures the MAC address and the CSI of the target device from the wireless receiver, calculates an incident angle of the target device and the wireless receiver and sends a photographing instruction to a camera which photographs an image and uploads the image to the server; the server obtains the distance between the wireless receiver and the target device through the image pixels, and calculates the position information of the target device according to the coordinates of the wireless receiver. The invention realizes the accurate positioning of the target device by using only a wireless receiver and a camera, so that the cost can be controlled and a real-time calculation can be ensured; the combination of the two beneficial effects can help achieve good positioning results.
US10412700B2
A portable-device real-time locating system (RTLS) having portable devices and in-room radio-transmitting beacons. To determine which room a portable device is in, beacons broadcast radio transmissions containing motion-status information about recent history of perceived motion in a room as determined from a motion sensor in the beacon. Portable devices calculate received signal strength indications (RSSI) from nearby beacons, motion-in-room status sensed and reported by those beacons, plus their own motion status based on a portable-device-based accelerometer. A series of portable-device steps estimates the room-location of the portable based on a combination of RSSI analysis, and a comparison of portable-device-motion history to the perceived and recorded motion-status in a room. The analysis of portable-device-motion history and motion-in-room status produces a better estimate of room-level location of the portable device than an RSSI estimate can produce alone.
US10412699B1
An improved technique for the estimation of the location of a wireless terminal. A disclosed location engine is capable of utilizing a service set identifier (SSID) or a media access control (MAC) address, or both, received from a reporting wireless terminal, in order to improve the estimate of the wireless terminal's location. The location engine generates a first hypothesis for the location of the wireless terminal based on evidence of the location of the wireless terminal, such signal strength measurements, wherein the evidence is independent of the SSID and MAC addresses. The location engine also generates a second hypothesis for the location based on the SSID or a third hypothesis for the location based on the MAC address, or both. An estimate of location of the wireless terminal is based on a combination of the first, second, and third hypotheses. The estimate can then be used in a location-based application.
US10412693B2
A telecommunications system communicating data to/from one or more terminals, including one or more transmitters to transmit first and second carriers over respective first and second frequency bandwidths. During a first time period the transmitters can transmit data receivable by first and second classes of terminal on the first and second carriers. During a second different time period, the transmitters can transmit data to the second class of terminal on the first and second carriers in combination. A data transmission format on the first carrier in the first time period is incompatible with a user data transmission format on the second carrier during the first time period. The transmitters can transmit control data on the first carrier in the first time period which is receivable by the second class of terminal to enable the second class of terminal to maintain synchronization with the first carrier during the first time period.
US10412692B2
A method for operating a D2D enabled node. The method includes controlling the D2D transmit power of the D2D enabled node. The controlling is performed based on one or more conditions or parameters.Related devices and methods are also provided.
US10412688B2
A method, a terminal, and a base station are provided. The method includes: obtaining parameter information of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), where the parameter information includes one or more of quantity information of a resource block (RB), quantity information of a Reed-Muller (RM) code, quantity information of an orthogonal cover code (OCC), coding format information, modulation format information, and value information of a scale factor (SF) of the PUCCH, or the parameter information includes at least one configuration parameter corresponding to one or more of quantity information of an RB, quantity information of an RM code, quantity information of an OCC, coding format information, modulation format information, and value information of an SF; calculating transmit power of the PUCCH according to the parameter information; and transmitting the PUCCH according to the calculated transmit power.
US10412683B2
An embodiment of the present invention discloses a power control method, including: obtaining, by a UE, configuration information, where the configuration information includes a configuration parameter of at least one Scell configured by a base station for the UE; setting, by the UE, an initial power adjustment value of the Scell according to the configuration parameter of the Scell in the configuration information; and controlling, by the UE, transmit power on the Scell according to the set initial power adjustment value of the Scell. Correspondingly, an embodiment of the present invention further discloses an activation management method, a UE, and a base station. By using the present invention, transmit power of a UE on an Scell can be accurately controlled, thereby ensuring accuracy of data transmission.
US10412681B2
A computer implemented method is provided including establishing a value corresponding to a particular user of a device, receiving an indication of a triggering condition of the particular user of the device, the triggering condition being enabled by the device or measurable by the device, and determining the triggering condition has been met by the user via the device. The method further includes modifying the value responsive to determining the triggering condition has been met, determining when the value crosses a particular threshold, and disabling an application or a functional component of the device responsive to the value crossing the particular threshold. A system for implementing the method is also provided.
US10412679B2
In some embodiments, an apparatus is configured to wirelessly communicate with a base station in a real-time internet protocol (IP) session using a first retransmission parameter in a first frame transmission scheme. In some embodiments, the apparatus is configured to determine a current performance metric and, based on the current performance metric, negotiate to use a second, different retransmission parameter in a second frame transmission scheme for communications via the real-time IP session. In some embodiments, the retransmission parameter is a number of retransmissions or a number of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes.
US10412662B2
A method and apparatus for defining access barring parameters in a communication network is provided. In a communication network that includes a base station in communication with multiple User Equipments, UEs. A number of UEs attempting to access the base station for a first time period is estimated. A barring factor is determined for a second time period based at least in part on the estimated number of UEs attempting to access the base station. The second time period is different than the first time period. A barring time is determined based at least in part on the determined barring factor for the second time period.
US10412661B2
A communication device may receive a predetermined signal from an external device in a situation where a specific wireless connection not via an access point is being established, determine whether a wireless communication via a first access point is executable with the external device, and supply a first disconnection instruction in a case where it is determined that the wireless communication via the first access point is executable with the external device. The communication device may execute the wireless communication with the external device using the first wireless connection in the case where it is determined that the wireless communication via the first access point is executable with the external device and execute a wireless communication with the external device using the specific wireless connection in the case where it is determined that the wireless communication via the first access point is not executable with the external device.
US10412653B2
A network core with a software defined networking (“SDN”) controller is provided to control routing of traffic within the network and between the network and the traffic destination. The SDN controller is merged with existing 3rd Generation Partnership Project (“3GPP”) network architecture to enable service deliveries via open application programming interfaces (“APIs”) and move the network core towards an all internet protocol (“IP”), cloud based, and software driven telecom network. The SDN controller can work with, or take the place of policy and charging rules function (“PCRF”) network elements, so that policies such as quality of service and traffic management and routing can be synchronized and managed end to end.
US10412645B2
Traffic associated with user equipment that are served by a first radio access network is steered to a second radio access network based on a cell user occupancy criterion. Cell user occupancy data that represents a maximum number of devices served by an access point is determined based on a type of the access point (e.g., macro access point, femto access point, WiFi access point, etc.). Further, based on the cell user occupancy data, a normalized index value is generated that is relative to different cell types/capacities. The cell user occupancy data is then transmitted to one or more neighboring access points that can utilize the cell user occupancy data to facilitate traffic steering, load balancing, and/or neighbor relationship management.
US10412644B1
A wireless communication network redirects User Equipment (UE) from a source frequency band to a target frequency band. An originating wireless repeater in a wireless repeater chain wirelessly receives wireless source signals including source overhead over the source frequency band and wirelessly receives wireless target signals including target overhead over the target frequency band. The originating wireless repeater wirelessly transmits the wireless source signals including the source overhead over the source frequency band and wirelessly transmits the wireless target signals including the target overhead over the target frequency band. A terminating wireless repeater in the wireless repeater chain wirelessly receives the wireless target signals including the target overhead over the target frequency band and wirelessly transmits the wireless target signals including the target overhead over the target frequency band. The terminating wireless repeater wirelessly transmits modified source overhead over the source frequency band indicating redirection to the target frequency band.
US10412631B2
An embodiment is a method for bearer offload from a RAN node referred to as Master RAN node such as Master eNB (MeNB) for E-UTRAN, to a RAN node referred to as Secondary RAN node such as Secondary eNB (SeNB) for E-UTRAN, in dual connectivity operation, wherein before the offload the bearer is or had been handled by the Master RAN node and involves a Local Gateway LGW collocated with the Master RAN node, the method including providing that after the offload the bearer is handled by the Secondary RAN node and involves the Local Gateway LGW collocated with the Master RAN node.
US10412628B2
Different Transmission Block Size/Modulation and Coding Scheme (TBS/MCS) mapping tables, especially different TBS/MCS mapping table sets, are used for Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications (URLLC) traffic and non-URLLC traffic. A TBS/MCS mapping table for URLLC is selected by a network node, upon determination of traffic type as URLLC, and informed to a UE. The informing can be a TBS/MCS mapping table index or a scaling factor. After receiving the information of TBS/MCS mapping table selection, the UE identifies the selected TBS/MCS mapping table from its TBS/MCS mapping table set for URLLC, or generates a new TBS/MCS mapping table based on the scaling factor and a corresponding TBS/MCS mapping table.
US10412621B2
Provided is a wireless communication terminal wirelessly communicating with a base wireless communication terminal. The wireless communication terminal comprises a transceiver and the processor. The processer receives, by using the transceiver, a wireless signal including a trigger frame from the base wireless communication terminal and transmits, by using the transceiver, buffer status information to the base wireless communication terminal based on the trigger frame. The buffer status information is included in a QoS control field which signals information on a QoS control of a MAC header.
US10412613B2
Disclosed are a channel state information measuring method and apparatus. The method includes: a base station informs a terminal to feed back a channel state information (CSI) measuring result of a carrier set, wherein the carrier set comprises an unlicensed carrier; and the base station receives the CSI measuring result, fed back by the terminal, of the carrier set.
US10412610B2
A wireless communication device that is receiving a frame may determine whether the frame is an Up-Link Multi-User (UL MU) frame, receive the frame by performing a first procedure when the frame is determined to be the UL MU frame, and receive the frame by performing a second procedure when the frame is not determined to be the UL MU frame. Performing the first procedure may include performing a comparison of contents of a Legacy Signal (L-SIG) field of the frame to expected contents of the L-SIG field, performing a comparison of contents of a Signal A (SIG-A) field of the frame to expected contents of the SIG-A field, or both. The SIG-A field may be a High Efficiency SIG-A (HE-SIG-A) field.
US10412607B2
An electronic device and method for the electronic device to process data are provided. The method includes retrieving information associated with at least one neighboring terminal, requesting, when the loss of data transmitted to a plurality of electronic devices is determined, transmission of the data of which a loss is determined, from the at least one neighboring terminal, based on the retrieved information associated with the at least one neighboring terminal and receiving the data of which the loss is determined, in response to the request.
US10412603B2
Systems and methods include a hypervisor for access points, edge nodes, and other network elements to facilitate use of and compatibility with shared access systems.
US10412592B2
Embodiments of an Evolved Node-B (eNB), Private Spectrum Access System (SAS) controller, and methods for communication in shared spectrum are generally described herein. In some cases, primary usage of the shared spectrum by incumbent devices may be prioritized over secondary usage of the shared spectrum. The eNB may receive, from the Private SAS controller, a configuration message that allocates, to the eNB, a first channel included in the shared spectrum for secondary usage by the eNB. The eNB may further receive, from the Private SAS controller, a request that the eNB determine an interference measurement and may send the interference measurement to the Private SAS controller. The measurement may be based on an output transmit power used for transmission by the eNB in the shared spectrum.
US10412583B2
A novel key management approach is provided for securing communication handoffs between a UE and two base stations. A UE establishes a secure communication session with a first base station based on a first master session key based on a master transient key. The UE obtains a second base station identifier associated with a second base station and sends a message associated with a handoff to either the first base station or the second base station. The UE generates a second master session key based on at least the master transient key and the second base station identifier. The second master session key is used for secure communications with the second base station in connection with an intra-authenticator handoff from the first base station to the second base station. The UE then moves the secure communication session to the second base station.
US10412577B2
A method for migration from a subscriber identity module (SIM) card to an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC), a device, and a system, where the method includes receiving a first migration instruction from a user, where the first migration instruction instructs to migrate from a SIM card to an eUICC, sending a first request to a server, where the first request includes a user identity corresponding to the SIM card and an identity of the eUICC such that the server generates or selects a profile for the eUICC according to the user identity, downloading the profile from the server to the eUICC, enabling the profile, accessing a mobile network using the profile, and disconnecting a session from the SIM card. The solution resolves a requirement that a user of a compatible terminal needs to implement migration from a SIM card to an eUICC during a transition period.
US10412567B1
Embodiments of wireless audio systems and methods for wirelessly communicating audio information are disclosed herein. In one example, a wireless audio system includes a first and a second wireless headphones and a charging case. The first wireless headphone is configured to establish, with an audio source, a first short-range wireless connection and transmit communication parameters associated with the first short-range wireless connection to the charging case. The charging case is configured to receive the communication parameters associated with the first short-range wireless connection and transmit the communication parameters associated with the first short-range wireless connection to the second wireless headphone. The second wireless headphone is configured to receive the communication parameters associated with the first short-range wireless connection and establish, with the audio source, a second short-range wireless connection based on the communication parameters associated with the first short-range wireless connection.
US10412560B2
Disclosed is a mobile device. The mobile device may be located proximate a mobile terminal and controlled by the mobile terminal. The mobile device may include a processor and a memory. The memory may store instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: determine a mode of operation of the mobile device, determine a thermal profile for the mode of operation of the mobile device, and implement a power profile to achieve the thermal profile.
US10412556B1
A device may receive location information that identifies a location of a user device associated with an individual. The location information may be received from the user device. The device may determine a distance between the location of the user device and each of a set of third party locations of a set of third parties using a digital map after receiving the location information. The device may provide a set of instructions to configure a user interface of an application associated with the user device to display messages of an electronic messaging account associated with the set of third parties after determining the distance between the location of the user device and each of the set of third party locations.
US10412552B2
In a mobile communication system, a mobile communication apparatus in a vehicle includes a selected resource antenna permitting communication using a selected resource, establishing wireless communication with a target communication apparatus. The mobile communication system includes a propagation path characteristic acquirer section and a resource selector section. The propagation path characteristics acquirer section acquires propagation path characteristics information in association with a future communication position, the propagation path characteristics information being about propagation path characteristics between (i) the target communication apparatus and (ii) a reference antenna equal to the selected resource antenna in antenna characteristics including an antenna format. The resource selector section, based on the propagation path characteristics information, selects a resource to be used in communication at the future communication position before the selected resource antenna of the mobile communication apparatus comes to be placed at the future communication position.
US10412551B2
Based on an idea that there is a correlation between the number of mobile terminals 300 detected inside a facility (that is, a detected terminal count) and visitors of the facility, the number of users using the facility (that is, a crowd condition of the facility) is estimated using a WiFi function provided in the mobile terminals 300. Consequently, the crowd condition of the facility can simply be estimated while costs are suppressed to be low, compared to conventional methods in which, e.g., infrared modules or Web cameras are provided at entrances/exits of a facility to estimate a crowd condition.
US10412542B2
Techniques and systems for determining locations of devices using location data sources are provided. For example, a network device, method, and computer-program product may be provided. In one example, a method may include receiving, on a computing device, a request to locate a device, wherein the request includes an identifier of the device. The method may further include receiving a communication from the device, wherein the communication includes the identifier of the device, and obtaining a location of the device. The method may further include transmitting the location of the device and the identifier of the device to a server, wherein the server is configured to use the location of the device and the identifier of the device to send a response to the requestor of the request.
US10412531B2
The present technology relates to an audio processing apparatus, a method, and a program that aim at enabling a sound to be reproduced more efficiently. A head-related transfer function synthesis section previously holds a matrix of a diagonalized head-related transfer function. The head-related transfer function synthesis section synthesizes an input signal in an annular harmonic domain for reproducing a sound and the previously held and diagonalized head-related transfer function. An annular harmonic inverse transformation section performs an annular harmonic inverse transformation on a signal obtained as a result of the synthesis by the head-related transfer function synthesis section on the basis of an annular harmonic function and thereby generates a headphone driving signal in a time frequency domain. The present technology is applicable to an audio processing apparatus.
US10412529B1
A virtual reality (VR) audio rendering system and method using pre-computed impulse responses (IRs) to generate audio frames in a VR setting for rendering. Based on a current position of a user or a VR object, a set of possible motions are predicted and a set of IRs are pre-computed by using a Geometric Acoustic (GA) model of a virtual scene. Once a position change is actually detected, one of the pre-computed IRs is selected and convolved with a set of audio frames to generate modified audio frames for rendering. As the modified audio frames are generated by using pre-computed IR without requiring intensive ray tracing computations, the audio latency can be significantly reduced.
US10412525B2
A multi-channel decoder for generating a binaural signal from a downmix signal using upmix rule information on an energy-error introducing upmix rule for calculating a gain factor based on the upmix rule information and characteristics of head related transfer function based filters corresponding to upmix channels. The one or more gain factors are used by a filter processor for filtering the downmix signal so that an energy corrected binaural signal having a left binaural channel and a right binaural channel is obtained.
US10412517B2
Techniques described herein may involve dynamically adjusting the equalization of multiple speakers in a playback device. An example implementation involves a playback device emitting, via a speaker, a first audio signal. While emitting the first audio signal, the playback device detects, via a microphone, data representing a second audio signal, the second audio signal comprising one or more reflections of the first audio signal as emitted by the speaker within a surrounding environment. The playback device determines a frequency response curve based on the second audio signal, the frequency response curve representing acoustic characteristics of a system comprising the playback device and the surrounding environment. The playback device determines filter coefficients based on a difference between the determined frequency response curve and a target frequency response curve, and applies the filter coefficients to one or more filters during playback of audio content by the playback device.
US10412516B2
Example techniques involve calibration of multiple playback devices. An example implementation receives, via a user interface of the network device, an input to initiate calibration of a group of playback devices comprising a first playback device and a second playback device configured to playback audio content in synchrony. After initiating the calibration of the group of playback devices, the implementation detects audio content rendered synchronously by the first playback device and the second playback device. Based on the detected audio content, the implementation determines a first equalization adjustment for the first playback device and a second equalization for the second playback device and causes the first playback device to apply the first equalization adjustment and the second playback device to apply the second equalization adjustment when the first playback device and the second playback device play audio content synchronously as part of the group of playback devices.
US10412515B2
The present invention relates to recipient fitting of a hearing device. An embodiment of the present invention determines the transmission loss for sound applied to the recipient by the hearing device. Separate gains are then determined for compensating for the determined transmission loss and the measured hearing loss of the recipient. For example, in an embodiment, the hearing device may compensate for transmission losses in a 1:1 manner (i.e., the transmission loss in 100% compensated for). The hearing device may apply a different gain to compensate for the hearing loss, such as a gain that is a fraction (e.g., 33-55%) of the measured hearing loss.
US10412512B2
Various methods and apparatus for processing audio signals are disclosed herein. The assembly may be attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a removable oral appliance to form a hearing aid assembly. Such an oral appliance may be a custom-made device which can enhance and/or optimize received audio signals for vibrational conduction to the user. Received audio signals may be processed to cancel acoustic echo such that undesired sounds received by one or more intra-buccal and/or extra-buccal microphones are eliminated or mitigated. Additionally, a multiband actuation system may be used where two or more transducers each deliver sounds within certain frequencies. Also, the assembly may also utilize the sensation of directionality via the conducted vibrations to emulate directional perception of audio signals received by the user. Another feature may include the ability to vibrationally conduct ancillary audio signals to the user along with primary audio signals.
US10412510B2
A bone conduction device includes split high-frequency and low-frequency actuators. The frequency response of the low-frequency actuator can be restricted to the lower range of hearing frequencies to improve performance. The high-frequency actuator can be implanted under tissue close to the cochlea to improve transmission efficiency, since high-frequency vibrations suffer greater attenuation.
US10412508B2
The application relates to a filter bank for an audio processing device, e.g. a hearing aid. The filter bank comprises an analysis filter bank comprising a plurality of M first filters hm(n), where m=0, 1, . . . , M−1 is a frequency band index, n being a time index, the first filters hm(n) having a first filter length of Lhm; a synthesis filter bank comprising a plurality of M second filters gm(n), m=0, 1, . . . , M−1, the second filters gm(n) having second filter lengths of Lgm; the plurality of first and second filters being arranged in pairs, each pair forming a frequency channel. the first filters hm(n) exhibiting a first filter delay τh, the second filters gm(n) exhibiting a second filter delay τg, each of the first filter lengths Lhm and the second filter lengths Lgm is uneven, and wherein the first filters are subject to the constraint that the sum of the first filters hm(n) of the analysis filter bank is a delta function δ(n−τh).
US10412505B2
The present invention relates to a sound transducer assembly with a MEMS sound transducer for generating and/or detecting sound waves in the audible wavelength spectrum. The MEMS sound transducer includes a first cavity, and the sound transducer assembly includes an ASIC electrically connected to the MEMS sound transducer. The ASIC is embedded in a first substrate, and the first MEMS sound transducer is arranged on a second substrate. The first substrate and the second substrate are electrically connected to one another, and the first cavity is at least partially formed in one of the first substrate and the second substrate.
US10412501B2
A capacitive transducer system has a capacitive transducer, and a controller. The capacitive transducer includes a first fixed electrode, a second fixed electrode, and a vibration electrode disposed between the first fixed electrode and the second fixed electrode so as to face the first and second fixed electrodes through gaps. A first capacitor is formed by the first fixed electrode and the vibration electrode. A second capacitor is formed by the second fixed electrode and the vibration electrode. The capacitive transducer is configured to convert transformation of the vibration electrode into changes in capacitance in the first capacitor and the second capacitor. The controller is configured to process voltages supplied to the first capacitor and the second capacitor and/or signals based on the changes in capacitance of the first capacitor and the second capacitor.
US10412500B2
Provided are an actuator fixing device and a panel vibration type sound-generating display device including the same. A display device includes: a display panel configured to display an image, a cover bottom configured to cover the display panel, and a plurality of sound-generating actuators supported by the cover bottom, the sound-generating actuators being configured to vibrate the display panel to generate sound, at least two of the sound-generating actuators being adjacent to each other.
US10412494B2
Embodiments of wireless audio systems and methods for operation mode switch of wireless headphones are disclosed herein. In one example, a wireless audio system includes a first wireless headphone and a second wireless headphone. The first wireless headphone is configured to establish a first short-range wireless link with an audio source; transmit, to a second wireless headphone, link information associated with the first short-range wireless link; and remove the first short-range wireless link with the audio source in response to the second wireless headphone successfully establishing a second short-range wireless link with the audio source based on the link information. The second wireless headphone is configured to receive, from the first wireless headphone, the link information associated with the first short-range wireless link; and establish the second short-range wireless link with the audio source based on the link information.
US10412483B2
A multi-element below-ceiling and shielded microphone that is combined with a mounting system is described. The microphone is used with an adaptor apparatus and system that allows the height of the microphone over a table and the rotational position of the mics to be easily adjusted and fixed, and such that a plenum may be established at the interface of the ceiling and the suspension cable if desired.
US10412481B1
Embodiments of wireless audio systems and methods for wirelessly communicating audio information are disclosed herein. In one example, a wireless audio system includes a first wireless headphone and a second wireless headphone. The first wireless headphone is configured to establish a first short-range wireless link with an audio source and a second short-range wireless link with a second wireless headphone; transmit, to the audio source over the first short-range wireless link, a first global acknowledgement (ACK) message indicative of whether the first wireless headphone and the second wireless headphone successfully receive audio information transmitted by the audio source; in response to a mode switch event, transmit, to the second wireless headphone over the second short-range wireless link, status information associated with the first short-range wireless link; in response to the second wireless headphone successfully receiving the status information, transmit, to the second wireless headphone over the second short-range wireless link, a switch start message to switch modes of the first and second wireless headphones; and after transmitting the switch start message, transmit, to the second wireless headphone over the second short-range wireless link, a first local ACK message indicative of whether the first wireless headphone successfully snoops the audio information. The second wireless headphone configured to establish a third short-range wireless link with the audio source based on link information associated with the first short-range wireless link for snooping the audio information transmitted over the first short-range wireless link; receive, from the first wireless headphone over the second short-range wireless link, the status information; receive, from the first wireless headphone over the second short-range wireless link, the switch start message; after receiving the switch start message, receive, from the first wireless headphone over the second short-range wireless link, the first local ACK message; and transmit, to the audio source over the third short-range wireless link based on the status information, a second global ACK message indicative of whether the first wireless headphone and the second wireless headphone successfully receive the audio information based on the first local ACK message.
US10412475B2
A light fixture comprises a fixture body, at least one lamp mounted to the fixture body for emitting a light beam, at least one speaker device and/or at least one sound detection device and/or at least one image capturing device integrally mounted to the fixture body. The speaker device provides for emitting sound. The sound detection device provides for detecting ambient sound. The Image capturing device provides for capturing an image. A controller is in operative communication with the at least one lamp, to the at least one speaker and/or to the at least one sound detection and/or at least one image capturing device for control thereof. A system for controlling the light emitted by these light fixtures comprises a master controller for receiving information from the controller and for transmitting control signals thereto.
US10412468B1
Achievements can be integrated into video playback. A video achievement system can include a server process and a client process that interact to allow an administrator to integrate achievements into the playback of a video and to present such achievements to a user during playback. In this way, the viewing of videos can be encouraged.
US10412466B2
Networks, systems and displays for providing derived data and predictive information for use in multivariable component systems and activities; and in particular for use in motor racing such as in NASCAR®, Indy Car, Grand-Am (sports car racing), and/or Formula 1® racing. More particularly, there are systems equipment and networks for the monitoring and collecting of raw data regarding races, both real time and historic. This raw data is then analyzed to provide derived data, predictive data, virtual data, and combinations and variations of this data, which depending upon the nature of this data may be packaged, distributed, displayed and used in various setting and applications.
US10412465B2
Various aspects of a system and method to control playback of digital content are disclosed herein. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes a first electronic device, which is configured to pair the first electronic device with a unique user account in a server. The pairing is performed by use of an application embedded in a physical storage medium. User viewing information, associated with a content item currently played through the physical storage medium, is communicated by the first electronic device to the server. The playback of the content item is resumed on login to the unique user account on a second electronic device from a last view state of the content item played through the physical storage medium by the first electronic device.
US10412459B2
The present invention provides a logically organized electronic program guide separated into categories. Each category has a theme. Inside each theme-based category there is a listing of television programming. In this way, the subscriber can locate a desired theme and then determine a desired program from the list in the category.
US10412458B2
A system and method for accessing past program guide data includes a program guide repository storing past program guide data and a controller receiving a request for past program guide data and communicating the past program guide data to a user device located separated from the controller.
US10412454B2
A method of setting controls on a digital communication device operated by an end user participant in a digital content event provided from a digital communication network includes operating a tracking control in the digital communication network to track activity of the digital communication device in a context of the digital content event, applying the activity to a content series detector, applying an output of the content series detector to a series gap detector, and applying the time-stamped set of ranking controls and content inputs from a digital content manager to operate a ranking control and digital filter to generate a control interface for the digital communication device, the control interface comprising a plurality of individually operable controls to configure the digital communication device with the control interface.
US10412444B2
A receiving apparatus is provided. The receiving apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive an input signal including a transmission frame which includes a bootstrap, a preamble, and a payload; a bootstrap detector configured to detect the bootstrap based on a correlation between the input signal and a reference signal which is pre-stored; and a signal processor configured to signal-process the preamble based on the detected bootstrap and signal-process the payload based on the signal-processed preamble, and the bootstrap detector is configured to determine the correlation by quantizing at least one of the input signal and the reference signal and then multiplexing the input signal and the reference signal at least one of which is quantized. Accordingly, an area occupied by hardware and cost can be reduced and loss of performance can be minimized.
US10412425B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a series of a series of audio-and-video segment pairs in a live video feed. The series of audio-and-video segment pairs is traversed, comparing the end-time of a current audio-and-video segment with the start-time of the next audio-and-video segment pair, in the sequence, and identifying any time gap between consecutive audio-and-video segment pairs. When a time gap is identified, the end-time of a current segment pair is subtracted from the start time of the next segment-pair to define an offset time, and subsequent start times of segment pairs in the sequence are adjusted based on this offset time. If after adjusting a start time of the next segment-pair by the offset time, a gap in the audio segment remains, then the gap is filled with an encoded silence sequence.
US10412423B2
A method for transmitting media data in a Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) Media Transport (MMT) system is provided. The method includes receiving a Media Processing Unit (MPU) fragmented into one or more Media Fragment Units (MFUs), generating one or more multimedia data packets each including a packet header and a payload, based on the MPU, and transmitting the one or more multimedia data packets to a terminal. A payload header included in the payload includes identification information indicating an MPU to which at least one MFU included in the payload belongs, and a counter indicating the number of the at least one MFU.
US10412422B2
The present invention suggests a method for transmitting a broadcasting signal. The method for transmitting a broadcasting signal, according to the present invention, suggests a system capable of supporting a next-generation broadcasting service in an environment which supports next-generation hybrid broadcasting, using a terrestrial broadcasting network and an Internet network. In addition, the present invention suggests an efficient signaling scheme which can cover both the terrestrial broadcasting network and the Internet network in an environment supporting next-generation hybrid broadcasting.
US10412417B2
The present technique relates to an image processing device and method capable of performing an encoding process or a decoding process on an image at high speed. Similarly, arithmetic coding parameters arranged together in the syntax are subjected to a variable length (fixed length) decoding process together. Similarly, arithmetic coding parameters arranged together in the syntax are subjected to an arithmetic decoding process together. Accordingly, since the alternations of firmware and hardware are performed together, it is possible to improve the processing efficiency of decoding. As a result, it is possible to perform the process at high speed. The present disclosure can be applied to image processing devices, for example.
US10412407B2
A method and apparatus for video coding utilizing a motion vector predictor (MVP) for a motion vector (MV) for a block are disclosed. According to an embodiment, a mean candidate is derived from at least two candidates in the current candidate list. The mean candidate includes two MVs for the bi-prediction or one MV for the uni-prediction, and at least one MV of the mean candidate is derived as a mean of the MVs of said at least two candidates in one of list 0 and list 1. The mean candidate is added to the current candidate list to form a modified candidate list, and one selected candidate is determined as a MVP or MVPs from the modified candidate list, for current MV or MVs of the current block. The current block is then encoded or decoded in Inter, Merge, or Skip mode utilizing the MVP or MVPs selected.
US10412398B2
Provided is an image processing device including a first rearrangement unit configured to rearrange first divided image data, which is image data corresponding to respective first divided regions obtained by dividing images to be processed represented by processing target image data in the horizontal direction and in the vertical direction, for each of second divided regions, obtained by dividing the images to be processed composed of a plurality of the first divided regions, in an order corresponding to the respective second divided regions, a compression processing unit configured to compress respective pieces of second divided image data, which are image data corresponding to the respective second divided regions, by performing a transform in a predetermined scheme, quantization, and variable length encoding on the data, and a second rearrangement unit configured to rearrange the compressed second divided image data in an order corresponding to all of the images to be processed.
US10412393B2
An intra-frame encoding method, an intra-frame decoding method, an encoder, and a decoder, where the intra-frame encoding method includes obtaining reference pixel values of a current picture block obtaining a predicted value of a first-type pixel in the current picture block according to the reference pixel values of the current picture block using an intra-frame prediction algorithm, obtaining residual values of the first-type pixel, obtaining transform coefficients according to the residual values of the first-type pixel, quantizing the transform coefficients, reconstructing the first-type pixel according to the quantized transform coefficients and the predicted value of the first-type pixel, and obtaining a reconstructed value of the second-type pixel according to the reconstructed value of the first-type pixel using an interpolation method. Hence, flexible encoding can be implemented, and encoding efficiency can be improved.
US10412392B2
According to at least some example embodiments of the inventive concepts, an apparatus for encoding video includes a quantizer configured to, based on a size of an initial quantization parameter of input data, generate output data by quantizing the input data to increase an objective evaluation value of encoded data generated from the output data, or generate the output data by quantizing the input data to increase a subjective evaluation value of the encoded data.
US10412383B2
Groups of video frames can be compressed using reversed ordering. For a group of a video sequence having a display order, a determination is made as to whether to arrange the group in a reversed display order before a prediction process of an encoder for the group. Responsive thereto, the group is arranged in the reversed display order as an input order to the prediction process. Otherwise, the group is provided to the prediction process in the display order as the input order. In performing the prediction process, the group, received in the input order, is arranged in a coding order using a group coding structure that defines at least one backward reference frame for inclusion within a set of candidate reference frames. Multiple backward reference frames may also be defined. The group is predicted in the coding order using the set of candidate reference frames.
US10412377B2
An augmented reality device used in a medical imaging laboratory housing a medical imaging device (10) includes a headset (30), cameras (32, 33) mounted in the medical imaging laboratory, and directional sensors (34, 35, 36, 37) mounted on the headset. The cameras generate a panorama image (54). Data collected by the directional sensors is processed to determine the viewing direction (60). The panorama image and the determined viewing direction are processed to generate an augmented patient view image (80) in which the medical imaging device is removed, replaced, or made partially transparent, the augmented image is presented on a display (40) of the headset. The directional sensors may include a headset camera (34) that provides a patient view image (50), which is augmented by removing or making partially transparent any portion of the medical imaging device in the patient view image by substituting corresponding portions of the panorama image.
US10412374B2
The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of changing an imaging method of an image by using a depth image in a pseudo manner. A pseudo image generation unit generates, as a pseudo image, a predicted value of a captured image of a subject captured by a predetermined imaging method from an image on the basis of a value of a parameter determined in accordance with a characteristic of the image, and a depth image indicating a position of the subject in the input image in a depth direction. The present disclosure is applicable to an image processing apparatus which generates a pseudo image corresponding to a predicted value of a captured image of a subject captured by a predetermined imaging method from an input image, for example.
US10412373B2
A light-field camera system such as a tiled camera array may be used to capture a light-field of an environment. The tiled camera array may be a tiered camera array with a first plurality of cameras and a second plurality of cameras that are arranged more densely, but have lower resolution, than those of the first plurality of cameras. The first plurality of cameras may be interspersed among the second plurality of cameras. The first and second pluralities may cooperate to capture the light-field. According to one method, a subview may be captured by each camera of the first and second pluralities. Estimated world properties of the environment may be computed for each subview. A confidence map may be generated to indicate a level of confidence in the estimated world properties for each subview. The confidence maps and subviews may be used to generate a virtual view of the environment.
US10412366B2
The present invention generally relates to sub-diffraction limit image resolution and other imaging techniques, including imaging in three dimensions. In one aspect, the invention is directed to determining and/or imaging light from two or more entities separated by a distance less than the diffraction limit of the incident light. For example, the entities may be separated by a distance of less than about 1000 nm, or less than about 300 nm for visible light. In some cases, the position of the entities can be determined in all three spatial dimensions (i.e., in the x, y, and z directions), and in certain cases, the positions in all three dimensions can be determined to an accuracy of less than about 1000 nm. In one set of embodiments, the entities may be selectively activatable, i.e., one entity can be activated to produce light, without activating other entities. A first entity may be activated and determined (e.g., by determining light emitted by the entity), then a second entity may be activated and determined. The emitted light may be used to determine the x and y positions of the first and second entities, for example, by determining the positions of the images of these entities, and in some cases, with sub-diffraction limit resolution. In some cases, the z positions may be determined using one of a variety of techniques that uses intensity information or focal information (e.g., a lack of focus) to determine the z position. Non-limiting examples of such techniques include astigmatism imaging, off-focus imaging, or multi-focal-plane imaging. Other aspects of the invention relate to systems for sub-diffraction limit image resolution, computer programs and techniques for sub-diffraction limit image resolution, methods for promoting sub-diffraction limit image resolution, and the like.
US10412365B2
A vision system having a telecentric lens. The vision system includes a projector having a non-telecentric pin-hole lens, a camera having a telecentric lens positioned a distance away from the projector, and a processor. The processor controls the camera and the projector and is configured to calibrate the camera and projector.
US10412361B1
The disclosure is directed to a method to generate a generated stereoscopic video image stream of a zenith or nadir view perspective of a scene utilizing a blending of stereoscopic and monoscopic view perspectives. In another aspect, a system is disclosed for generating a zenith or nadir view perspective utilizing a relative user view orientation. In another aspect, an apparatus is disclosed capable to generate a zenith or nadir view perspective utilizing a detected user view orientation, and display a generated stereoscopic video image stream of the view perspective.
US10412354B2
Provided are a projection type display device and a projection control method capable of accurately performing information presentation to an operator of a vehicle even in an image light shielded state where image light to be projected onto a projection surface is shielded by an object. An HUD 10 that is mounted in a construction machine 100 having a windshield 5 notifies, in a case where it is detected that image light to be projected onto the windshield 5 is in an image light shielded state where at least a part of the image light is shielded by an object, such as part of the body of an operator of a vehicle, the presence of the state.
US10412348B2
An intrinsically safe video inspection system intended for use in a Class I, Zone 0 area is capable of visually surveying hazardous area locations; where the potential for fire or explosion exists because of gases, dust, or easily ignitable fibers in the atmosphere. The intrinsically safe camera of the present invention has the distinct ability to be used all areas that require increased safety and works in various hazardous environments, allowing users the ability to remotely view and inspect various mines, silos, and storage tanks. The inspection system includes a low power, high 3.2 megapixel resolution camera with digital zoom capability that allows for the close inspection and examination and utilizes an LED fiber light pipe for illumination needs. The video inspection system of the present invention provides for the illumination in various cavity sizes, while reducing the risk of unintended accidents.
US10412345B2
Related to the field of security protection, a video surveillance method, apparatus, and system, which can implement local magnification of a moving object in a surveillance scene. The method includes obtaining, by a client, an intelligent analysis alarm and moving track information of at least one alarm triggering object, and adjusting a window layout of a user interface according to the intelligent analysis alarm, where the intelligent analysis alarm is triggered by the client, a surveillance platform, or a camera when determining that there is an intrusion object in a surveillance scene according to an intelligent analysis strategy; and performing, by the client, local magnification on the at least one alarm triggering object according to moving track information of the at least one alarm triggering object. The present disclosure is applicable to video surveillance of important places.
US10412331B2
A power consumption estimation method is applied to an image with N rows of pixels, and comprises a pixel estimation procedure comprising performing an estimation sub-procedure pixel by pixel for each of a plurality of pixels in one row of the N rows of pixels to obtain a plurality of pixel energy consumption values respectively corresponding to the plurality of pixels in said one row of the N rows, and obtaining a row power consumption value corresponding to said one row of the N rows according to the plurality of pixel energy consumption values. The estimation sub-procedure comprises obtaining pixel content information corresponding to one of the plurality of pixels, and determining the pixel energy consumption value according to the pixel content information. The pixel energy consumption value indicates pixel energy consumption generated by performing a predetermined image processing procedure for said one of the plurality of pixels.
US10412326B2
A global shutter imaging pixel may have a single source follower transistor. The source follower transistor may be coupled to a floating diffusion region and a charge storage region. In order to read out samples from the charge storage region without including a second source follower transistor in each pixel, the samples may be transferred to floating diffusion regions of adjacent pixels. Alternatively, a transistor may be configured to transfer charge from the charge storage region to the floating diffusion region of the same pixel, thus reusing a single source follower transistor. These types of pixels may be used for correlated double sampling, where a reset charge level and integration charge level are both sampled. These pixels may also operate in a global shutter mode where images are captured simultaneously by each pixel.
US10412325B2
Systems and methods for hyperspectral and multispectral imaging are disclosed. A system includes a lens and an imaging device having a plurality of pixel sensors. A focus corrector is located within the optical path to refract at least a portion of the incoming light and change the focusing distance of specific wavelengths of light to converge at a focal plane. The focal corrector is selected based upon the imaging system to reduce an overall measure of deviation between a focal length curve for the lens and a focus position curve for pixel sensors to produce focused imaging data for a broad spectrum of light, including beyond the visible range.
US10412322B2
A method of replacing graphical content in images of a scene recorded by a camera, wherein the graphical content to be replaced is an image of at least one feature in the scene whose color represents one or more primary colors. The graphical content to be replaced is replaced by replacing content in accordance with a gray scale mask in the image recorded by the camera.
US10412319B2
An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor, an optical system, a control circuit, and a signal processing circuit. The image sensor includes a light-shielding film in which light-transmitting regions and light-shielding regions are alternately arranged in at least a first direction within a plane, a photodetector disposed opposite the light-shielding film, and an optically-coupled layer disposed between the light-shielding film and the photodetector. The optically-coupled layer includes a grating which generates a propagating light that propagates in the first direction and a transmitting light that transmits the optically-coupled layer when light of a predetermined wavelength enters the light-transmitting regions. The signal processing circuit extracts two different frames from frames included in a moving image acquired by the image sensor.
US10412318B1
Systems and methods for processing video stream data during live video sharing may reduce network bandwidth consumption by streaming full and partial video frames. An image processing device receives information from an image capturing device including a first full video frame, an object of interest identifier, and a movement profile of the image capturing device. The image processing device extracts a background portion from the first full video frame, exclusive of the object of interest. Subsequently, the image processing device receives a partial second video frame including only an object of interest portion, applies a transformation to the extracted background portion based on the movement profile, and displays a representation of the second video frame including the object of interest portion of the second video frame and the transformed background portion. The image processing device performs fine tuning to compensate for small background or movement profile changes between partial frames.
US10412309B2
The present technology relates to an image capture device, a method of image capture, a signal processing device, a method of signal processing, and a program capable of capturing reliably a blinking image capture target. A predetermined image capture timing of an image capture unit is controlled so that image capture is performed N times during an exposure time in which at least a part of a turn-on period in which an image capture target is on overlaps with an exposure time of image capture of at least one time at a timing of dividing a blinking cycle in which the image capture target to be captured by the image capture unit configured to perform image capture at the image capture timing blinks into N equal parts where N represents more than one. The present technology is applicable to, in one example, a camera unit or the like used to capture an image.
US10412306B1
Disclosed are systems, devices, and methods for compensating for roll blur in an optical image stabilization (OIS) module. An OIS controller receives a selection for one or more areas of interest (AOI), each AOI associated with an image optimization point (IOP), and each IOP is associated with an X position (Xpos) and a Y position (Ypos). The OIS controller receives gyroscope data comprising X axis rotation data (Xgyro), Y axis rotation data (Ygyro) and Z axis rotation data (Zgyro). The OIS controller generates adjusted X axis rotation data (Xgyro_adj) and Y axis rotation data (Ygyro_adj), wherein Xgyro_adj and Ygyro_adj based on the Z axis rotation data and the one or more IOPs and adjusts lens shift gain on the basis of Xgyro_adj and Ygyro_adj and adjusts lens movement based at least in part on the lens shift gain.
US10412285B2
A lens driving mechanism is provided, including a lens holder, a circuit unit, a driving element, and an integrated circuit element. The lens holder is used for holding a lens. The circuit unit is disposed on a side of the lens holder. The driving element is used for driving the lens holder to move relative to the circuit unit. The integrated circuit element is electrically connected to the driving element and disposed on the circuit unit. The driving element is disposed between the lens holder and the integrated circuit element.
US10412279B2
Provided are a lens driving device, a camera module, and a camera-mounted device for which the miniaturization and weight reduction can be achieved and the reliability can also be improved. The lens driving device includes AF and shake-correcting driving parts utilizing a voice coil motor. An AF fixing part includes an AF control part controlling the energization current through an AF coil part. The AF driving part includes upper and lower elastic supporting parts, auto-focusing power-source lines connected to power-supplying suspension wires functioning as a shake-correcting supporting part, signal lines connected to signal suspension wires functioning as a shake-correcting supporting part, and coil power-supply lines electrically connecting the AF control part to the AF coil part. The upper elastic supporting part functions at least as the AF power-supply lines or the signal lines, and the lower elastic supporting part functions as the coil power-supply lines.
US10412269B2
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure a printer cartridge and memory device containing a representation of a compressed multi-dimensional color table is described. The color table includes at least one low dimensional portion of the multi-dimensional color table storing color transformation information at a first resolution and a number of remaining portions of the multi-dimensional color table storing color transformation information at a second resolution. In the color table, the first resolution is greater than the second resolution and the at least one compressed multi-dimensional color table is to generate a high resolution uncompressed multi-dimensional color table the high resolution being at least as great as the first resolution.
US10412267B2
Provided is a document management system for managing document data by applying access restrictions to each metadata acquired by character recognition of document data to be managed. The mage forming apparatus acquires document data to be managed. The image-processing server performs character recognition of document data and acquires metadata. The image forming apparatus specifies metadata to be concealed in document data. The image forming apparatus receives a security setting, correlates a metadata name to be concealed with the security setting, and transmits the security setting together with document data to the image-processing server. The document-management server, in the case where there is an access request from a user for document data, allows access to the document data based on the security setting by not masking metadata for which there is access authority, and masking metadata for which there is no access authority.
US10412263B2
An image reading device includes: a scanner having characteristics of causing a distortion of gradation including a sine wave being formed by its obtained image data and being represented as an array of gradation values arranged in a main scanning direction; a reference member to be scanned; a hardware processor that: obtains a gradation value at each main scanning position from shading reference data obtained from the reference member; determines a target range in the shading reference data based on the gradation value at the each main scanning position; generates a substitute part of data to be replaced for an original part of data in the target range; and replaces the original part of data with the substitute part of data while the gradation values at the start and end phase of the substitute part of data are adjusted to the same of the target range.
US10412262B2
A mechanism in which, even if a case in which an information processing apparatus has a plurality of methods for specifying an image forming apparatus to which to connect, a selection of the method and a selection of an alternative method for a case when specifying an image forming apparatus is not possible in a predetermined method are suitably executed is provided.To accomplish this, an information processing apparatus sets destination information, searches for peripheral devices by using wireless communication, and if devices can be found, transmits the destination information to a device that the user selects from among the results of the search, and if a device could not be found, makes a recommendation to the user to use a reading function for reading a QR code in order to specify a transmission destination for the destination information.
US10412256B2
An image reading device includes a first image reading portion, a cooling portion, a second image reading portion, and a notification processing portion. The first image reading portion reads an image of a document sheet at a first reading position. The cooling portion cools the document sheet at a cooling position downstream in a feeding direction of the document sheet with respect to the first reading position. The second image reading portion reads an image of the document sheet at a second reading position downstream in the feeding direction with respect to the cooling position. In a case where a difference image different from a first image read by the first image reading portion, the difference image being included in a second image read by the second image reading portion has been detected, the notification processing portion provides a notification that the difference image has been detected.
US10412255B2
To suppress unevenness in intensity distribution of output light in a longitudinal direction of a light guide body, a lighting apparatus includes a rod-shaped light guide body, and light source units provided in end faces of the body, where the light guide body includes first and second reflecting surfaces that perform diffuse reflection on light input from the light source, and a light output surface that outputs reflected light from both of the reflecting surfaces to the outside. The first reflecting surface includes a first diffuse reflection pattern having discontinuous pattern portions provided near the end faces in the longitudinal direction of the light guide body and a continuous pattern portion in the center portion, and the second reflecting surface includes a second diffuse reflection pattern to reduce a ripple in the longitudinal direction of a quantity of the light reflected from the first diffuse reflection pattern and output.
US10412251B2
An image processing apparatus includes a host controller that controls a hardware resource, a guest controller, an emulator that is provided between the host controller and the guest controller and allows the guest controller to control the hardware resource, and a changer that changes an HDL program, wherein the guest controller includes a guest driver, the emulator includes a device emulator that emulates the hardware resource by executing the changed HDL program, and a switcher that switches control to any one of a first control for controlling the host controller in accordance with control of the hardware resource by the guest driver and allowing the hardware resource to be controlled, and a second control for controlling the device emulator in accordance with the control of the hardware resource by the guest driver.
US10412246B2
An image-reading unit includes an original document conveyor that includes a first original document tray to hold an original document to be read, a first original document feeding port to feed the original document placed on the first original document tray, and an original document conveying path to convey the original document from the first original document feeding port to an original document discharging port. The original document conveyor further includes an openable second original document tray attached near an intermediate portion of the original document conveying path to hold an original document when opened, and a second original document feeding port to feed the original document on the second original document tray. The image-reading unit further includes an image reader to read an image of the original document being conveyed along the original document conveying path.
US10412241B2
In a document reading apparatus including a document reading unit that reads a document, an image generation unit that generates a preview image based on document read information acquired by the document reading unit, and a display unit that can display the preview image, the document reading unit has a function to read a plurality of documents by one time reading operation and acquires first document read information obtained by reading the document in a state where a document pressing member is opened and second document read information obtained by reading the document in a state where the document pressing member is closed for each document, and the image generation unit generates a preview image corresponding to each document based on the first document read information and the second document read information.
US10412239B1
An image forming apparatus includes a sensor, an operation section, a controller, and a communication section. The sensor detects a sensor target. The operation section receives an operation instruction. The controller adjusts a sensitivity level of the sensor. The communication section transmits an instruction signal and a reception signal to an external device and receives an adjustment instruction from the external device. The instruction signal indicates an instruction for sensitivity level adjustment for the sensor. The adjustment instruction is an instruction as to whether or not to adjust the sensitivity level based on the instruction signal and the reception signal. The reception signal includes first information indicating time of detection signal reception by the controller receives the detection signal within a specific time period and second information indicating whether the operation section receives the operation instruction. The controller adjusts the sensitivity level of the sensor according to the adjustment instruction.
US10412228B1
A device receives call data associated with a conference call between a plurality of users. The call data includes at least two of: data identifying each of the plurality of users, data identifying user activity associated with at least one user in the plurality of users, and conference call metadata associated with the conference call. The call muting platform receives voice data associated with the conference call. The voice data is associated with at least one vocal utterance associated with the plurality of users. The call muting platform provides the call data and the voice data to a second device, and receives mute data from the second device. The mute data indicates whether to mute or un-mute a particular user of the plurality of users.
US10412226B2
The disclosure relates to an audio signal processing apparatus for processing a plurality of audio signals defining a plurality of audio signal spectra, the audio signals to be transmitted to a listener in such a way that the listener perceives the audio signals to originate from virtual positions of a plurality of audio signal sources. The audio signal processing apparatus comprises a selector configured to select a spatial arrangement of the virtual positions of the audio signal sources relative to the listener from a plurality of possible spatial arrangements, and a filter configured to filter the plurality of audio signals on the basis of the selected spatial arrangement.
US10412225B2
A computing apparatus configured to perform natural language processing, e.g., by comparing the words in a communication transcript of a user to a list of keywords, to generate an input vector representing a pattern of text in the communication transcript. A predictive model is generated from correlating input vectors to user ranking scores, e.g., for retention. The input vector determined from a communication transcript is applied to the computation model to compute a predicted retention score of the user. The retention score can be used, for example, to select a personalized recommendation for a communication connection to an adviser and/or a targeted offer.
US10412218B2
Devices, computer-readable media and methods for delivering customer service content associated with a reason code are disclosed. Examples of the present disclosure may include a processor of a telecommunication network identifying a reason code associated with calls from customers to a customer call center and determining a set of shared traits among the customers. The shared traits may be based upon first network event data and first customer account data associated with the customers. The processor may further determine a customer with a propensity to call score that exceeds a threshold and with a customer profile that matches the set of shared traits. The customer profile may be based upon second network event data and second customer account data associated with the customer. The processor may further deliver a customer service content associated with the reason code to the customer via a communication modality that is determined for the customer.
US10412217B1
Techniques are disclosed for verifying a caller ID field of an outbound telephone call. A termination service provider call server receives a call request from a calling endpoint that includes a called endpoint telephone number, and a caller ID telephone number. The termination service provider call server determines a calling endpoint telephone number assigned to the calling endpoint and creates an “in use” message comprising the calling endpoint telephone number and a timestamp of when the call request was received. The “in use” message is forwarded to an active call database before forwarding the call request to an inbound carrier call server servicing the called endpoint telephone number. The inbound carrier call server receives the call request intended and sends a query to the active call database to determine whether the caller ID telephone number in the call request is currently in use. The active call database sets the status of telephone numbers contained in all received “in use” messages to in use. It then determines whether the caller ID telephone number received in the query from the inbound carrier call server corresponds to a telephone number that is currently in use. If the caller ID telephone number does not correspond to a telephone number that is currently in use, the active call database returns a fail message to the inbound carrier call server. If the caller ID telephone number does correspond to a telephone number that is currently in use but the timestamps for the call request and the query differ by more than a predetermined duration, it returns a fail message to the inbound carrier call server. If the timestamps for the call request and the query are within the predetermined duration, it returns a pass message to the inbound carrier call server. The inbound carrier call server either routes or does not route the call request to the called endpoint depending on the query results.
US10412194B1
A system includes a client device and a server in communication to a database. The server receives a request for service from a client device via an electronic message. The server then generates instructions to receive a characteristic of the client device, and to query for a record to identify whether the characteristic has a predetermined time period for priority service. The server determines whether a timestamp of the request is within the predetermined time period for the priority service. The server then increments a counter value associated with request having the characteristic having the timestamp within the predetermined time period for the priority service. When the counter value satisfies a threshold value, the server automatically adjust a record of each request having the characteristic to indicate the priority service regardless of a basis for the request.
US10412187B2
The described technology is generally directed towards batching two or more data requests into a batch request that is sent to a data-providing entity such as a client data access layer coupled to a data service. Described is maintaining a mapping of the requests to requesting entities so that the responses to a batched request, which may be separately streamed, may be assembled into a batch response to the requesting entity. Also described is multiplexing a plurality of requests for the same data item into a single request, which may be added to a batch request, and de-multiplexing the single response into separate responses to each requesting entity.
US10412183B2
An electronic device accesses a listening history of a user of a media-providing service, and for each characteristic of a set of characteristics describing tracks provided by the media-providing service, determines a measure of divergence with respect to listening contexts for the listening history of the user. The electronic device identifies a characteristic that has a respective measure of divergence that satisfies a threshold indicative of a lack of uniformity in the listening history with respect to the listening contexts. The electronic device determines a representative value of the identified characteristic for a listening context corresponding to a current listening context of the user. The electronic device provides personalized content to a client device of the user based on the current listening context and representative value of the identified characteristic.
US10412179B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving from a user of an online social network an identifier of a web site and content on the web site that the user desires to track, determining whether the content has been updated on the web site, and if the content has been updated, then communicating a notification to the user that the web site has been updated.
US10412176B2
In the website system of the application, when a client accesses a page of a website, a web server obtains an initial URL of a content file included in the to-be-accessed page and a version parameter of a current version of the website, generates a current URL of the content file, and adds the version parameter to a search part of the current URL of the content file, so that the client can obtain the content file from the web server according to the current URL. During version upgrade of the website, a developer does not need to change a path to a content file, does not need to manually change a URL of the content file, and does not need to update a name of the content file either. This improves website upgrading efficiency.
US10412173B2
Systems and methods for pairing a personal electronic device of a passenger with a passenger seat in a vehicle using a PWM light identification, and for allowing the personal electronic device to control passenger in-seat functions and features. The system comprises an on-board video system having an in-seat display system for installation in a vehicle. The on-board video system is configured to communication a PWM light identification from a monitor of the in-seat display system which is captured by an imaging device of the personal electronic device. The on-board video system receives pairing information from the personal electronic device corresponding to the captured light identification via a wireless communication link. The on-board video system then validates the pairing information and pairs the personal electronic device to the passenger seat and authorizes the personal electronic device to control passenger seat functions associated with the passenger seat.
US10412165B2
A method includes obtaining a set of encoded data slices for storage. The method further includes selecting, based factor(s) from a set of factors, one or more of a local vault, a regional vault, and a global vault for storing the set of encoded data slices. The method further includes determining, based on at least one factor from the set of factors, a number of copies of the set of encoded data slices for storing in each vault of the vault selection. The method further includes identifying “Z” number of sets of storage units for storing the number of copies of the set of encoded data slices, wherein “Z” is equal to a number of vaults times the number of copies. The method further includes sending the number of copies of the set of encoded data slices to the Z number of sets of storage units.
US10412161B2
In a method for gathering time-variable data from electronic slave devices in data communication through a data transmission channel with an electronic master device, the slave devices periodically measure and store a current value of at least one respective time-variable parameter (P1(t), . . . Pn(t)). The master device sends a freeze command to the slave devices. Upon receipt of the freeze command from the master device, the slave devices freeze the last measured value of the at least one time-variable parameter. During a data-gathering time interval following sending of the freeze command, the master device gathers the frozen values from the slave devices.
US10412159B1
Multipath load balancing methods and apparatus that may be implemented on or by load balancers in load balanced systems. The multipath load balancing method may leverage a multipath network protocol to establish multiple paths for at least some connections between client hosts and server hosts in load balanced systems, each connection corresponding to a particular data flow between a respective client host and server host. Using the multipath load balancing method, a load balancer may operate to establish a bi-directional connection directly between a client host and a server host after first establishing a connection between the client host and server host that passes through the load balancer. Most or all of the traffic that would move between the client host and the server host via the load balancer can then be diverted onto the second, more direct connection between the client host and the server host.
US10412158B2
Methods are disclosed for dynamic node allocation for a server system that can automatically heal on failure—minimizing the need for static configuration—dynamically adjusting server resources to match load, and minimize end user wait times. The disclosed methods dynamically allocate nodes to increase capacity for a platform that accepts data queries. Additionally disclosed is a system for rolling version update deployment: workers maintain org lists of org-task-queues that they service; org-affinities between the workers and the org-task-queues require the workers to have access to local copies of immutable data sets to service org-tasks from the org-task-queues of the orgs that they service. A leader running on a worker implements a healing and balancing service that maintains worker redundancy, manages the workers' org-affinities to accumulate orgs on their respective org-lists. The leader implements messaging to the workers to update to a new software version and monitors completion of updates.
US10412157B2
In an example, there is provided a network apparatus for providing native load balancing within a switch, including a first network interface operable to communicatively couple to a first network; a plurality of second network interfaces operable to communicatively couple to a second network, the second network comprising a service pool of service nodes; one or more logic elements providing a switching engine operable for providing network switching; and one or more logic elements comprising a load balancing engine operable for: load balancing incoming network traffic to the service pool via native hardware according to a load balancing configuration; detecting a new service node added to the service pool; and adjusting the load balancing configuration to account for the new service node; wherein the switching engine and load balancing engine are configured to be provided on the same hardware as each other and as the first network interface and plurality of second network interfaces.
US10412156B1
Systems and methods utilize network destination identifiers, such as IP addresses, that are simultaneously advertised from multiple locations. The network destination identifiers may be announced in multiple geographic regions. Network traffic routed to devices advertising the network destination identifiers may be routed to appropriate endpoints. When a device receives such traffic, it may send the traffic to an endpoint in a network served by the device. In some instances, such as when such an endpoint is not available, the network traffic may be sent to another network that is served by another device that advertises the network destination identifiers.
US10412154B2
An example method of providing a configuration for a multitier microservice architecture includes receiving a configuration request from a user for a configuration that satisfies a set of conditions in a cloud environment. The method also includes searching a configuration data store for the configuration that matches the set of conditions. The configuration specifies a first container and a second container, the first container sends a first communication to the second container, and the second container sends a second communication responsive to the first communication to the first container. The method further includes in response to finding the configuration that matches the set of conditions:, sending an allocation request to a cloud provider for allocation of the configuration in the cloud environment and providing a first identifier (ID) that identifies the first container and a second ID that identifies the second container to the user.
US10412145B2
The present invention relates to systems and methods for network labeling in order to enhance real time data transfers. A network for a real time data transfer is identified and predictive models for network performance are compared against to determine if the network is suitable for the data transfer. If so, then the real time data transfer may be completed as expected. However, if the network is predicted to be unsuitable for transmission an alternate means for connection may be suggested. The alternate suggestion may include delaying the data transfer until the network is expected to be in better conditions, connecting to another access point in the network, or switching to another network entirely. During the data transfer, the quality of the network is monitored in order to update the predictive models for the network's quality. Identifiers for the network may be utilized to keep track of the networks. Network signal strength, signal pollution and time may also be tracked in order to identify patterns in the network's performance.
US10412142B2
In one aspect, a method includes (i) accessing, by a computing system, a social media (SM) platform, (ii) selecting, by the computing system, a SM content item published on the SM platform, (iii) responsive to selecting the SM content item, the computing system receiving an account identifier and a timestamp each corresponding to the selected SM content item, (iv) using, by the computing system, the received account identifier and timestamp to retrieve the SM content item from the SM platform, and (v) integrating, by the computing system, the retrieved SM content item into a video program.
US10412139B2
In a communication event via a network between a requesting user, operating a first user device, and a responding user, operating a second user device, each of the user devices captures a stream of audio data, transmits the captured stream of audio data to the other user device via the network for receiving thereat, and outputs, to its user, the audio stream received from the other user device. A video exchange function is initially suppressed for the communication event for both of the user devices. The first user device transmits to the second user device a request to stop suppressing video. If the responding user does not accept the request, the video exchange function continues to be suppressed for both of the user devices. If the responding user accepts the request, the video exchange function stops being suppressed for both of the user devices.
US10412138B2
Systems, methods, and devices of the various embodiments enable HTTP servers, such as HTTP servers providing segments to DASH clients according to the various embodiments, to pass incomplete versions of segments in response to segment requests from the DASH clients. The various embodiments may enable clients, such as DASH clients, to parse incomplete versions of segments.
US10412136B2
There is provided a method of operating an IP Multimedia Subsystem Access Gateway (IMS-AGW) in order to support the transmission of media to and from an endpoint, using an IMS, wherein the endpoint implements an alternative media transport protocol other than Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP). The method comprises the IMS-AGW receiving instructions from an IMS Application Level Gateway (IMS-ALG) for an alternative media transport protocol connection with the endpoint and a RTP connection within the IMS, the instructions including more than one RTP payload type number and a dynamic binding of each of the more than one RTP payload type number to a statically defined codec identifier. The IMS-AGW stores the dynamic binding. Then, when translating between alternative media transport protocol packets and RTP packets, the IMS-AGW uses the stored binding to map between an RTP payload type number and a codec identifier used by the alternative media transport protocol.
US10412131B2
Described herein are various embodiments of systems, methods, and apparatus that allow a user to share data, such as one or more files from within an application with one or more other (not necessarily co-located) computing devices using a gesture-based sharing function. In a particular example, systems, methods, and apparatus described herein may be used to share graphical representations of chemical structures within a chemical structure rendering application between two or more user devices. By offering a user a quick and visually intuitive option for sharing a file with other user(s) without exiting a current application, the systems, methods, and apparatus described herein provide efficient and engaging tools for sharing work product in real time between two or more users.
US10412129B2
Systems and methods for recording full quality audio and/or video from a plurality of parties, while also facilitating a real-time conversation or other interaction over low-bandwidth network links are provided. A voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) conversation, or other type of session, is facilitated between two or more parties using methods that reduce sound or video quality to achieve a low-latency connection. During the VoIP conversation, or other type of session, the audio and/or video from each party is recorded directly onto a storage medium of their respective device and stored as one or more data files. These data files can be generally unmodified, or merely lightly modified or compressed, resulting in a higher quality recording of the audio and/or video as compared to the audio and/or video that was transmitted to the other party during the session. The data files are then merged to create a final merged high-quality composite recording of the session.
US10412119B2
A method for providing external access into a secured networked virtualization environment, includes performing a leadership election amongst nodes of the secured networked virtualization environment to elect a leader node, assigning a cluster virtual IP address to the leader node and generating a reverse tunnel, using a processor, by the leader node to allow for an external entity to communicate with the secured networked virtualization environment.
US10412113B2
A system and method that enables the configuration of computer security of a subject entity at a computer security platform includes collecting a corpus of security data relating to one or more security configurations of the network maintained by the subject entity, analyzing the corpus of security data to determine one or more vulnerability factors and one or more security behaviors relating to the subject entity, generating a security assessment for the subject entity based on the analysis of the corpus of security data, generating a computer security policy for the security environment based on the security assessment, and providing, to the subject entity, a security policy recommendation incorporating at least a subset of the generated computer security policy.
US10412112B2
Methods and systems for carrying out campaigns of penetration testing for discovering and reporting security vulnerabilities of a networked system. Penetration testing campaigns are carried out based on pre-defined penetration testing scenarios associated with respective time tags. A penetration testing scenario is selected by a user from a set of pre-defined test scenarios, the set containing only pre-defined test scenarios with time tags matching a scheduled starting time of a penetration testing campaign.
US10412107B2
A system to detect domain name server tunneling includes a processor and machine readable instructions stored on a tangible machine readable medium, which when executed by the processor, configure the processor to collect, during a predetermined time period, responses received from a domain name server to queries sent to the domain name server by a computing device, the responses including internet protocol (IP) addresses; collect IP addresses accessed by the computing device during the predetermined time period; compare the IP addresses received by the computing device in the responses from the domain name server to the IP addresses accessed by the computing device; and detect domain name server tunneling based on the comparison.
US10412105B2
A computer-implemented data processing method comprises: executing a recurrent neural network (RNN) comprising nodes each implemented as a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) cell and comprising links between nodes that represent outputs of LSTM cells and inputs to LSTM cells, wherein each LSTM cell implements an input layer, hidden layer and output layer of the RNN; receiving network traffic data associated with networked computers; extracting feature data representing features of the network traffic data and providing the feature data to the RNN; classifying individual Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) as malicious or legitimate using LSTM cells of the input layer, wherein inputs to the LSTM cells are individual characters of the URLs, and wherein the LSTM cells generate feature representation; based on the feature representation, generating signals to a firewall device specifying either admitting or denying the URLs.
US10412094B2
A system for providing privileged access to an internal vehicle communication network is provided. The system includes a presentation network bus configured to provide listen-only access to a subset of in-vehicle networks, a security system configured to enable access to the presentation network bus by verifying access credentials, and a diagnostic service system configured to control access to the presentation network bus. The diagnostic service system is configured to receive a diagnostic service request after the access credentials have been verified to enable the presentation network busses for listen-only access to the subset of the in-vehicle networks. The presentation network busses may be enabled for the listen-only access after credential verification by the security system and in response to receipt of a diagnostic service request from the diagnostic service system requesting that the presentation network busses be enabled.
US10412085B2
Systems and methods are provided for authenticating aircraft communications using detected difference of on board electronics. One embodiment is a method that includes detecting a request for an exchange of data between an aircraft and an off-board system, and selecting a Line Replaceable Unit (LRU) of the aircraft based on at least one parameter of the request. The method also includes issuing a challenge to a Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) connected with at least one electronic component of the LRU, and obtaining a hardware signature based on a response of the at least one electronic component of the LRU to the challenge. The PUF derives the hardware signature from a unique physical property of the at least one electronic component. The method further includes validating the hardware signature to authenticate the request and initiate the exchange of data between the aircraft and the off-board system.
US10412071B2
Systems and methods are described that use tag authentication and presence verification techniques in connection with a variety of transactions. In certain embodiments, an authentication device may verify the authenticity of a secure tag by determining whether the secure tag stores secret information provisioned by a trusted authority. In some embodiments, such an authentication process may be performed without exposing the secret information to the authentication device, thereby maintaining integrity of the secure tag. In other embodiments, insecure tags and/or tags that do not include secret information are used.
US10412067B2
A system to deliver an application, hosted by a private application provider, over a network to a user device comprising: an application delivery system that includes, a frontend network interface that includes at least one first traffic director (FTD) instance; a network security interface that includes a plurality of traffic processing server (TPS) instances; a backend network interface that includes at least one backend traffic director (BTD) instance; and at least one agent that is associated with the application and that is disposed within the private application provider system; wherein a federated TLS ticket is used to filter TLS connection requests received by an FTD instance; and wherein a TLS extension is used to filter TLS connection requests received by a BTD instance.
US10412065B2
Techniques involving migrating authenticated content on a network towards the consumer of the content. One representative technique includes a network node receiving an encrypted seed having at least a location of the user data at a network service that stores the user data, and a cryptographic key to access the user data. The seed is received in response to a user login attempt to the network service. The user data is requested from the location using at least the received cryptographic key. The method further includes receiving and storing the user data at the network node, where the network node is physically closer to a location of the user than is the location of the network service. If the user is successfully authenticated, user access is provided to the stored user data at the network node rather than from the network service.
US10412060B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods, apparatuses, computer readable media and systems for providing a token service environment that allows a token requesting party (e.g. token requestor) to specify parameters for token generation for controlling and customizing the token generation process. For example, the token requesting party may specify (e.g. select from a list or provide a list of) the accounts for tokenization. The accounts may be identified by account identifiers (e.g. account numbers) or bank identification numbers (BINs). The token requesting party may also specify encryption keys for the tokens to be generated. The token requesting party may also specify additional parameters such as notification thresholds indicating when notifications associated with the tokens are to be generated.
US10412055B2
It is presented a method performed in a proxy. The method comprises the steps of: establishing a first secure connection between the proxy and a content server; forwarding messages between a client and the content server to establish a second secure connection between the client and the content server; receiving security parameters from the content server over the first secure connection, the security parameters being associated with the second secure connection; obtaining the content; and transmitting the content to the client using an encryption key derived from the security parameters.
US10412053B2
A machine to machine (M2M) service layer can facilitate acquiring and providing location information for use by M2M devices. The service layer can also ensure that privacy controls are maintained and enforced for location information. A device can report its location and its privacy preferences to a service layer device. Other devices can receive this location information subject to qualifying to receive it based on the privacy preferences. Devices in an area may advertise services with the service layer acting as a filter and relay point ensuring that such advertisements satisfy the privacy policies of the devices involved.
US10412050B2
Systems and methods for protection against session stealing is described. In embodiments of the present solution, a device intermediary to the client and the server may identify first properties of the client and associate the first properties with the session key. When the device receives subsequent request comprising the session key, the device matches the associated first properties with second properties of the second device that is sending the subsequent request. If there is a match, the subsequent request transmitted to the server. Otherwise, the subsequent request is rejected.
US10412046B2
There is described a method of managing a flow of data packets in a multiple-processing entity system comprising a plurality of look-up tables adapted to store information associated to actions to be performed on packets received by the system. The method comprises storing, on a per entry basis, in a shadowed entry associated to any table entry being updated, the previous content of said table entry being updated, in association with a table entry version number, for use for managing packets received in the system prior to any update operation. It is thus possible to continue using look-up tables while updating process is being carried out for some or all of the table entries. The solution provides benefits for systems that are limited in space and cost, by use of minimal memory thanks to the storing of small shadowed data instead of full shadowed table.
US10412031B2
An information filtering method for use in a terminal, includes: calculating, based on application information received by the terminal, an information display characteristic of the application information, the information display characteristic representing a display feature of the application information; determining the application information as interfering information, if the information display characteristic meets an interference characteristic condition; and filtering out the application information.
US10412023B2
The present disclosure provides a resource allocation method of a heterogeneous network under intermediate processing constraints. The method includes: generating a preference list for each intermediate node; obtaining network topology information of the heterogeneous network, and calculating a transmission path length of the data stream passing through the intermediate node according to the network topology information; obtaining a quasi-service list of each intermediate node; obtaining a mapping relationship between the intermediate nodes and the data flows according to the quasi-service list of each intermediate node, and sequentially scheduling the data flows according to the mapping relationship and the preference list of each intermediate node. A device for resource allocation of a heterogeneous network under intermediate processing constraints and a non-transitory computer storage medium are also disclosed.
US10412021B2
Systems and methods are described for allocating resources in a cloud computing environment. The method includes receiving a computing request, the request for use of at least one virtual machine and a portion of memory. In response to the request, a plurality of hosts is identified and a cost function is formulated using at least a portion of those hosts. Based on the cost function, at least one host that is capable of hosting the virtual machine and memory is selected.
US10412019B2
A method implemented by a path computation element centralized controller (PCECC), the method comprises: receiving a service request to provision for a service from a first edge node and a second edge node in a network; computing a path for a label switched path (LSP) from the first edge node to the second edge node in response to the service request; reserving label information for forwarding traffic of the service on the LSP; and sending a label update message to a third node on the path to facilitate forwarding of the traffic of the service on the path, wherein the label update message comprises the label information.
US10412018B1
Some embodiments provide a method for scheduling a packet to be dequeued to a processing pipeline of a hardware forwarding element. The method selects a node representing one of multiple ports associated with the processing pipeline. For each of one or more layers of logical queues, the method (i) identifies a set of logical queue nodes associated with a previously selected node based on a configuration that maps multiple physical queues to the multiple ports via the one or more layers of logical queues and (ii) selects one of the identified logical queue nodes based on properties of the identified logical queue nodes. The method selects one of a set of physical queues associated with a selected logical queue node of the last layer of logical queues. The method dequeues a next packet from the selected physical queue for processing by the processing pipeline.
US10412002B1
A method for processing packet data in a service provider environment includes, by a network-enabled data processing device within a server computer of the service provider environment, receiving packet data comprising header information and payload information. The header information is separated from the payload information. The separated header information is forwarded to a processor of the server computer for processing, without forwarding at least a portion of the payload information. At least one address of a storage location is received from the processor. The at least one address is associated with a logical-to-physical address mapping based on the header information. The payload information is stored in the storage location based on the at least one address.
US10412000B2
A method of maintaining data packet forwarding information in a first network node of a wireless mesh communications network having a plurality of network nodes interconnected by wireless communications links is disclosed. The method includes receiving respective activity indicators for neighbour network nodes connected with the first network node by respective wireless communications links, and determining respective link indicators for the outgoing wireless communications links of the first network node, each such link indicator being indicative of a data packet transmission characteristic for the link concerned. The method further includes, for each of the outgoing communications links of the first network node, combining the link indicator associated with that outgoing wireless communications link with the activity indicator relating to the neighbour network node connected with the first network node via that outgoing wireless communications link, thereby to generate a routing value for the outgoing wireless communications link for the destination network node. A selected next communications link for the destination network node is determined from the generated routing values; and is then stored as forwarding information relating to the selected next communications link for the destination network node concerned.
US10411998B1
In various embodiments, an apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable media, and a method are provided, involving a capability to: receive an indication of a receipt of a first packet that is specified according to an Internet Protocol (IP) network protocol; identify, from a header of the first packet, network path information configured for use in identifying a plurality of path segment identifiers including a node scope-specific outside-scope identifier that: is in an identifier space specific to the current node, does not include a network interface identifier portion specified by the IP network protocol for identifying any network interface of any node, and identifies, for the current node, a first region of the network, where the network path, along which first data is transmitted, includes: a first path segment that communicatively couples the current node and the first region, and a second path segment in a second region; and cause transmission, based on the node scope-specific outside-scope identifier of the network path information, of first data, along with at least one of the plurality path segment identifiers, from the current node to a path node at least partially included in the first region.
US10411994B2
A multi-link convergence method include: receiving a first binding request sent by a client using a first link; sending a first LSID to the client using the first link; receiving a first authentication request sent by the client using the first link; performing authentication on the first link according to the first authentication request; if the first link is authenticated successfully, sending a BID to the client using the first link; receiving a second binding request sent by the client using a second link, where the second binding request carries the BID; sending a second LSID to the client using the second link; receiving a second authentication request sent the client by using the second link; performing authentication on the second link according to the second authentication request; and if the second link is authenticated successfully, sending a binding acknowledgement message to the client using the second link.
US10411993B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for a base station initiated control mechanism for supporting supplemental a link. In some aspects, control information associated with a directional, first radio access technology (RAT) for a user equipment (UE) may be identified at a first base station, the first base station configured to communicate with the UE using the directional, first RAT, and the control information associated with the directional, first RAT may be transmitted to a second base station to forward to the UE using a second RAT.
US10411992B2
Data is routed within a data network (8), for example a mobile ad hoc network (MANET), comprising at least one wireless network node (10), typically having a router (11). A processor (18) analyzes characteristics of a wireless link (12ab) between a pair of nodes (10a, 10b) within the network (8). Following such analysis, the processor (18) assigns a link class to the wireless link (12ab), the link class being chosen from a predefined set of link classes. A first link class represents that the link (for example link 12ab) is suitable for carrying one or more types of traffic (for example real-time audio and text), but not suitable for one or more other types of traffic (for example real-time video of a certain quality). A second link class represents that a link (for example link 12ac) is suitable for two or more types of traffic (for example real-time audio and real-time video) including at least one type of traffic (for example real-time video) not supported by the first link class. Data may then be routed across the network (8) while ensuring that only data of types consistent with the link classes assigned to respective links (12ab, 12ac, 12bd, etc) are transmitted via those links.
US10411990B2
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to routing stability in a hybrid software-defined networking (“SDN”) network in which control plane functionality is shared between a centralized SDN controller and a plurality of local routers. The controller can collect data plane messages from the plurality of local routers, extract information corresponding to source nodes and edges of a graph representative of the hybrid SDN network, and store the information as entries in a table. The controller can identify any outdated entries and remove any outdated entries from the table. The controller can obtain recovered information missing from the information collected from the data plane messages. The controller also can calculate an effective capacity of the edges. The controller can then generate a stable routing pattern based upon the recovered information and the effective capacity. The controller can deploy the stable routing pattern in the hybrid SDN network.
US10411982B1
Embodiments are directed to monitoring network traffic using a network computer. The network computer provides anomaly information associated with anomalies that may be associated with monitored network traffic. An inference engine may determine the users associated with the anomalies based on the monitored network traffic. A communication channel associated with the users may be determined based on the anomalies and the monitored network traffic such that the communication channel may be separate from the monitored network traffic. The communication channel may be employed to provide investigative agents to the users. Investigative information may be collected from the investigative agents over the communication channel. The inference engine may provide a risk value that is associated with the anomalies based on the investigative information.
US10411981B2
Provided are a method and a system for identifying an IP of a DDoS attack orderer by using a client route control server. A method for detecting a network problem-causing client by using a client route control server includes: forming an edge server IP allocation matrix; checking a network problem occurrence in an edge server; allocating an edge server IP according to the edge server IP allocation matrix when a network problem occurs in an edge server; and detecting user information or a client IP, which has no edge server IP to be allocated according to the edge server IP allocation matrix, as a network problem-causing client, wherein an edge server IP is allocated differently for each user information or client IP in the edge server IP allocation matrix, and the edge server IP allocation is performed by at least two-stage edge server IP for each user information or client IP.
US10411976B2
In one aspect, a computerized method useful for a detecting a data-center bot interacting with a web page includes the step of inserting a code within web page source. The computerized method includes the step of detecting that the web page is visited by a machine, wherein the machine is running a web browser to access the web page. The computerized method includes the step of rendering and loading the web page with the code in the web browser of the machine. The computerized method includes the step of, with the code, creating a hidden canvas element.
US10411969B2
Representative embodiments disclose mechanisms to calculate resource costs (e.g., processing, memory, storage and/or monetary costs) to provide an online service. The service is offered by a service provider that provides a plurality of different online services. To identify systems involved in providing a particular service, each request is associated with a unique identifier. The identifier is passed between systems and logged. Thus a trace of the unique identifier yields all systems involved in providing the service. A maximum operational load, calculated from operational data, is used to calculate a cost per request. A statistical sampling of the logged data is retrieved and the cost for each request in the sample is calculated based on a sum of the costs of the systems used to service the request. The cost of each system is the cost per request times the number of times the system is used to fill the request.
US10411961B2
A system and method for managing images in a cloud including providing a uniform image management interface for receiving from a user uniform image descriptions for building images in a cloud, and receiving a uniform image description for building an image from the user. The uniform image description is provided to an application to create a cloud-specific image description to provide to an image builder for building the image, and the uniform image description is stored in a local data store.
US10411954B2
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. There can be provided for example: obtaining user defined connectivity pattern information; and establishing commands for provisioning one or more network device for implementation of a network connection based on the user defined connectivity pattern information.
US10411940B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for receiving a downlink signal by a UE in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method may include receiving a synchronization signal block (SSB) including a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), and a physical broadcasting channel (PBCH), and obtaining an indicator indicating a subcarrier spacing for the downlink channel from the PBCH, and receiving the downlink signal on the basis of the subcarrier spacing. The indicator may indicate a different subcarrier spacing according to a frequency band in which the UE operates.
US10411939B2
Methods and apparatus for distributing content using a spectrum generation device. In one embodiment, digital content is received via a time-multiplexed network transport (such as Gigabit Ethernet), and converted to frequency channels suitable for transmission over a content distribution (e.g., Hybrid Fiber Coaxial (HFC)) network. In one variant, the conversion is performed using digital domain processing performed by a full spectrum generation device. Additionally, methods and apparatus for selectively adding, removing, and/or changing digital content from the full spectrum device are also disclosed. Various aspects of the present invention enable physical (infrastructure) consolidation, and software-implemented remote management of content distribution.
US10411933B2
An apparatus and method for generating a broadcast signal frame including preamble for signaling injection level information. An apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an injection level controller configured to generate a power reduced enhanced layer signal by reducing a power of an enhanced layer signal; a combiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal by combining a core layer signal and the power reduced enhanced layer signal; a power normalizer configured to reduce the power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performing interleaving that is applied to both the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal; and a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling injection level information corresponding to the injection level controller.
US10411931B2
Disclosed in the present invention are a method for transreceiving a physical protocol data unit (PPDU) in a wireless communication system and a device for same. More specifically, a method for transmitting a physical protocol data unit (PPDU) using a wireless communication device in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: generating a PPDU including a legacy preamble, an HE-preamble, and a data field; and transmitting the generated PPDU, wherein a minimum integer number of pilot patterns are defined, wherein the minimum integer number is larger than the value obtained by dividing the total number of subcarriers constituting the data field or a fast Fourier transform (FFT) size value used when generating the PPDU by the total number of pilots, wherein specific pilot patterns from among the pilot patterns are allocated to each symbol of the data field, and wherein the index of a subcarrier to which the pilot is mapped may be determined by the pilot patterns.
US10411916B1
Methods, systems, and devices for mitigating supply noise in single-ended current mode logic (CML) transmitters are described. A first current source may generate a first bias current for a first differential transistor pair included in a CML transmitter, and a second current source may generate a second bias current for a second differential transistor pair. The first differential transistor pair may route the first bias current through either leg of the first differential transistor pair based on a polarity of an input signal and the second differential transistor pair may route the second bias current through either leg of the second differential transistor pair based on the polarity of the input signal. Based on a first polarity, the second bias current may be routed to a ground reference, and based on a second polarity, the second bias current may be routed through the first differential transistor pair to modify a load current internal to the CML transmitter.
US10411909B2
A dual-mode controller may include a communication interface between a handheld electronic device and subsystems on a computing bus or network. The dual-mode controller may operate in a “master mode” when a user directly manipulates the dual-mode controller to communicate with any subsystem(s). In this mode, the dual-mode controller may serve as a master controller and accesses and controls various subsystems on the bus or network (such as audio/visual subsystems, temperature control subsystems, alarm subsystems, sensors and transducers) as a master controller. In a slave mode, the interface may act as an adapter or interface between the handheld device and the subsystems.
US10411896B2
A mixed checksum injection system includes a memory, at least one processor in communication with the memory, a data repository including content, and a server including a CRMS. The CRMS executes on the at least one processor to generate a plurality of checksum values for the content. The plurality of checksum values includes a first checksum value generated using a first checksum function and a second checksum value generated using a second checksum function. The CRMS receives a first request for the content for a first platform, and responsive to receiving the first request, renders first metadata. The CRMS injects the first checksum value and an identifier of the first checksum function into the first metadata. Then, the CRMS publishes the content and the associated first metadata including the injected first checksum value and the identifier of the first checksum function.
US10411895B2
A method, computing system and computer program product are provided. A first entity system that stores sensitive information associated with different entities applies a hash function a portion of the sensitive information to produce hash values. Transaction information pertaining to transactions performed on entity systems are stored within a blockchain database accessible to the entity systems. The transaction information includes hash values corresponding to associated entities from the entity systems. The hash values of the first entity system are compared to the hash values from others of the entity systems to determine entity systems containing information pertaining to same entities. The sensitive information for an entity of the first entity system is exchanged with the determined entity systems containing information for that entity.
US10411887B2
A computer based method of protecting sensitive documents is provided, the method comprising identifying a first document, generating a registration key associated with the first document, identifying a second document, generating a production key associated with the second document, and producing an alert if a segment of the production key is identical to a segment of the registration key. For example, the registration key may comprise a digital fingerprint and registration metadata and the production key may comprise a digital fingerprint and production metadata, and the method may produce an alert of the digital fingerprint of the production key matches the digital fingerprint of the registration key.
US10411886B1
Systems and processes are described for establishing and using a secure channel. A shared secret may be used for authentication of session initiation messages as well as for generation of a private/public key pair for the session. A number of ways of agreeing on the shared secret are described and include pre-sharing the keys, reliance on a key management system, or via a token mechanism that uses a third entity to manage authentication, for example. In some instances, the third party may also perform endpoint selection by providing a particular endpoint along with the token. The particular cipher suite applied in a particular implementation may be configurable. The process is applicable to either implicit key confirmation (e.g., handshake negotiation) or explicit key confirmation (e.g., full negotiation).
US10411882B2
The invention proposes a method comprising the evaluation of a function F obtained by applying to n sub-functions fi a first operation, the evaluation comprising: the application of a series of calculation steps in which a first unit assumes a role of a client and a second unit assumes a role of a server, and the repetition of the series of calculation steps in which the roles of client and of server are exchanged between the units, each series of steps comprising: a) randomly generating, by the server, first data, and a second datum, b) for each sub-function fi, generating by the server a set of elements formed by: a result of fi evaluated in the data of the client and of the server, masked by a first datum, by applying the first operation between the result and the first datum, and masked by the second datum, by applying between the masked result and the second datum of a second operation different from the first and distributed relatively to the latter, c) recovering by oblivious transfer, by the client, an intermediate datum corresponding to one of the elements generated by the server, d) generating, by the server, a first result portion, by: masking each first datum with the second datum, applying to all the first masked data of the first operation, and e) generating by the client, a second result portion, by applying all the intermediate data of the first operation.
US10411877B2
A data transmitter for transmitting a data packet to a data receiver via a communication channel includes a generator for generating the data packet and a transmitter for transmitting the data packet. The generator for generating the data packet is configured to generate a data packet having a first data block and a second data block and a predefined first reference sequence and second reference sequence for synchronizing the data receiver, wherein the first reference sequence is longer than the second reference sequence, and wherein in the data packet, the second data block is located between the first reference sequence and the second reference sequence, and the first reference sequence is located between the first data block and the second data block. The transmitter for transmitting the data packet is configured to transmit the data packet to the data receiver via the communication channel.
US10411874B2
Provided is a digital transmitting module included in a host device connectable to a client device. The digital transmitting module may include: a clock generator which provides the host device with a clock whose one cycle is composed of T1, T2, T3 and T4 connected sequentially; and a voltage encoder which receives the clock from the clock generator, receives a digital bit from the host device, generates a voltage pulse by encoding the digital bit based on the clock, and then transmits the voltage pulse to the client device. Provided is a digital receiving module included in a client device connectable to a host device. The digital receiving module may include: an inpulse extractor which receives a voltage pulse from the host device and generates an inpulse signal by referring to an inpulse component of the voltage pulse; a voltage decoder which decodes a digital bit by referring to the inpulse signal; and a clock synchronizer which generates a clock synchronized with a clock signal of the host device by referring to the inpulse component existing in each cycle of the inpulse signal.
US10411864B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource allocation. In certain aspects, a method for use by a user equipment (UE) for transmitting one or more uplink control information (UCI) bits in PUCCH includes determining resources allocated for providing one or more UCI bits based at least on a type of service associated with the UE and sending, to a base station, a PUCCH with the one or more UCI bits using the allocated resources.
US10411862B2
A method for inserting control data in a modulator comprising a plurality of frequency component inputs and a modulator output. The method is performed in the modulator and comprises receiving primary data subcarriers on respective frequency component inputs which are assigned for receiving primary data, receiving at least one control data subcarrier on a respective frequency component input which is not assigned to primary data, combining all frequency component inputs to one output signal, and providing the output signal on the output for transmission to a demodulator over a point-to-point medium.
US10411861B2
A method for reporting an aperiodic channel state in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention, the method being implemented by a terminal, comprises: a step for receiving an aperiodic channel state information (CSI) reporting request from a base station; and a step for calculating aperiodic CSI corresponding to the aperiodic CSI reporting request and transmitting the calculated aperiodic CSI to the base station via an uplink shared channel, wherein if the number of component carriers or CSI processes for the terminal exceeds a specific value, only uplink control information including the aperiodic CSI can be transmitted through the uplink shared channel under specific conditions.
US10411860B2
Embodiments provide an information transmission method, a base station, and user equipment, so as to properly use a spectrum. The method includes generating a first notification message, where the first notification message is used to instruct user equipment in a user equipment set to detect a common control channel of a first cell in the first cell, and sending the first notification message to the user equipment in the user equipment set by using a second cell. The method also includes sending the common control channel to the user equipment in the user equipment set by using the first cell.
US10411855B2
A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS) in a communication system. A method includes receiving an SRS configuration index among 10 SRS configuration indices for a 2 ms SRS periodicity of a time division duplex (TDD) system; identifying, based on the SRS configuration index, the 2 ms SRS periodicity, an uplink-downlink (UL-DL) subframe configuration that is applied in the TDD system, and at least one offset; and transmitting the SRS on at least one single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) symbol in a radio frame, based on the UL-DL subframe configuration and the at least one offset. The at least one offset indicates a location of the at least one SC-FDMA symbol on which the SRS is transmitted.
US10411854B2
There is provided mechanisms for transmitting payload in a subframe. A method is performed by a first network device. The method comprises obtaining a transport block size (TBS) value by accessing an array storing a plurality of TBS values. The TBS value is proportional to number of user data symbols in a subframe of a given subframe length. One and the same array is accessed regardless of the given subframe length. The method comprises transmitting a physical channel carrying payload in the subframe to a second network device. The amount of data in the payload is determined by the TBS value.
US10411846B1
The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to wireless local area network devices. A described technique include accessing a data stream intended for transmission to a single wireless communication device; multiplexing the data stream to two or more radio pathways to produce a data packet; generating, via the two or more radio pathways, two or more different portions of the data packet based on an aggregated capacity of two or more wireless channels that are associated with the two or more radio pathways, the two or more radio pathways being respectively configured to use two or more groups of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) subcarriers to generate the two or more different portions of the data packet; and transmitting the data packet to the single wireless communication device by concurrent transmissions of the two or more different portions via the two or more wireless channels.
US10411844B2
A wireless communication device (alternatively, device) includes a processor configured to support communications with other wireless communication device(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. In some examples, the device includes a communication interface and a processor, among other possible circuitries, components, elements, etc. to support communications with other device(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. A device generates and transmits a resource and association poll frame (ra-poll frame) to other device(s). The contents of ra-poll frame direct which of the other device(s) is authorized to respond to the device (e.g., authorized device(s)) and the manner in which they are authorized to respond. Authorized device(s) transmit responses that may include association request(s) and/or a resource request(s), among other types of communications. The device then generates and transmits acknowledgement(s) (ACK(s)) indicates successful receipt of any responses from the authorized device(s).
US10411842B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of wireless communication technology, and provides a data transmission method and a data transmission device, so as to solve the problem in the related art where, for 5G application scenarios, in the case that an uplink scheduling algorithm for a conventional 4G system continues to be used, a large number of control signaling overheads are required due to the meteoric growth in the number of UEs to be connected. In the present disclosure, a network side device determines non-orthogonal multiple access basic transmission units allocated to UEs, detects a pilot signal from each UE on the corresponding non-orthogonal multiple access basic transmission unit, and in the case that the pilot signal has been detected, performs data detection on the UE which has transmitted the pilot signal through the non-orthogonal multiple access basic transmission unit.
US10411839B2
In one example, user equipment (UE) maintains one or multiple serving beams, and uses a serving beam to perform an uplink (UL) transmission of data. The data is stored in an uplink hybrid automatic repeat request (UL HARQ) buffer. When there is a failure to track the one or multiple serving beams, a beam recovery procedure is initialized. After successful completion of the beam recovery procedure, the UE retransmits the data stored in the UL HARQ buffer. The UE prevents the data from being flushed from the UL HARQ buffer when the failure to track the one or multiple serving beams occurs, so that the data can be retransmitted.
US10411833B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A wireless device may initiate a successive decoding process for an encoded code block received at the wireless device, and generate, using a successive decoder, one or more candidate paths for a first portion of the code block, where the first portion of the code block includes a first data portion and a first data check portion. The wireless device may then perform a checking function on respective first data portions for the one or more candidate paths using respective first data check portions, and determine whether to terminate the successive decoding process prior to completing decoding of the encoded code block based at least in part on determining whether the checking function for each of the one or more candidate paths for the first data portion has failed the checking function.
US10411831B2
A wireless charging in-band communication system includes a channel encoding for message error correction and detection. A modulation module performs biphase modulation for DC balanced signals and impedance switching to change reflected impedance seen by the source. A synchronization module prepends the message with a synchronization sequence having Golay complementary codes. A receiver module receives the message from the transmitter module. A preamble detection block has a Golay complementary code correlator used for message detection, synchronization, and equalization coefficient estimation and selection. A decoding module that performs biphase demodulation with error correction with a DC offset being estimated as the average value of the signal over the length of the message before channel decoding. The decoding module performs equalization, error correction and detection channel decoding.
US10411817B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device comprises a display unit and a processing unit. The processing unit is electrically connected to the display unit and is configured to perform steps including: obtaining signal strength of connections between a plurality of nodes; and controlling the display unit to display the connections graphically according to the signal strength. An operation method adapted to an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium is also provided.
US10411809B2
Disclosed systems, methods, and computer program products enable high symbol-rate optical Nyquist signal generation with roll-off factors approaching zero by combining digital and all-optical methods. The combined digital and all-optical methods utilize all-optical sine-shaped pulse generation and orthogonal time-division multiplexing with quadrature amplitude modulation using digital Nyquist signals. Disclosed embodiments exhibit inter-channel-interference penalties that are less than 0.5-dB for both 75-GBaud and 125-GBaud optical Nyquist signals, in contrast to conventional signals generated using rectangular waveform driving signals that exhibit penalties greater than 2.5-dB and 1.5-dB for 75-GBaud and 125-GBaud signals, respectively. The disclosed embodiments, therefore, enable significant improvement over conventional systems by reducing inter-channel-interference penalties caused by excess modulation induced bandwidth.
US10411791B2
A transmitter for a dual-frequency satellite-to-earth downlink. The transmitter comprises a plurality of modulators, a first and a second plurality of amplifiers. In one embodiment, each of the modulators is configured to modulate respective input data onto a respective one of a first plurality of signals in a first frequency band and to modulate the respective one of the first plurality of signals onto a respective one of a second plurality of signals in a second frequency band. Each of the first plurality of amplifiers is configured to amplify one of the first plurality of signals to a first predetermined signal strength. Each of the second plurality of amplifiers is configured to amplify one of the second plurality of signals to a second predetermined signal strength. A number of the plurality of modulators is smaller than a sum of a number of the first and second pluralities of amplifiers.
US10411784B2
The disclosure relates to technology for identifying a user equipment beam index in a base station. The base station indicates one or more resources assigned to the user equipment within a beam failure random access channel (BRACH) resource, and transmits one or more synchronization signal block resources and one or more new beam identification reference signal resources to the user equipment. The base station then receives one of the resources from a group of the one or more resources within the BRACH resource assigned to the user equipment corresponding to the BRACH resource, and identifies a preferred beam index of the user equipment based on information in the BRACH resource and the received one of the resources.
US10411783B2
Methods and devices are provided for MIMO OFDM transmitter and receivers having odd and/even numbers of transmit antennas. Various methods for pre-coding information bits before space time coding (STC) are described for enabling transmission of information bits over all antennas. Methods of decoding received signals that have been pre-coded and STC coded are also provided by embodiments of the invention. Pilot patterns for downlink and uplink transmission between a base station and one or more wireless terminals for three transmit antenna transmitters are also provided. Variable rate codes are provided that combine various fixed rate codes in a manner that results in codes whose rates are dependent on all the various fixed rate codes that are combined.
US10411776B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to beamforming training using a multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) transmission scheme. Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide an apparatus that generally includes a processing system configured to generate a frame associated with beamforming training, the frame comprising an indication of whether the beamforming training is to be performed using a multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) transmission scheme. The apparatus may also include an interface configured to output the frame for transmission.
US10411774B2
Provided is a terminal device configured to transmit an RI for PDSCH transmission, to receive first information used for determining a first maximum number of layers being a first maximum number assumed for determining the bit width for the RI, to receive a transport block on the PDSCH, and to decode a code block of the transport block. Here, in a case that the decoding of the coded block fails, at least soft channel bits corresponding to a range of prescribed soft channel bits are stored, and the prescribed soft channel bits are based on the first information used for determining the aforementioned first maximum number of layers.
US10411772B1
A system, method and computer program product for line of sight (LOS) communications using multiple-input-output (MIMO) communications is disclosed. The system includes a first platform having at least one transmit antenna element and at least one receive antenna element forming a first antenna array. A second platform having at least one transmit antenna element and at least one receive antenna element forms a second antenna array in wireless communication with the first array. Corresponding angles for antenna elements in the first antenna array and antenna elements in the second antenna array relative to a 3-D Cartesian coordinate system are determined to achieve a maximum three-dimensional (3-D) MIMO capacity, and the plurality of antenna elements are adaptively adjusted to maintain the maximum 3-D MIMO capacity by minimizing a zenith angle between each of the transmit antenna elements and receive antenna elements relative to a plane defined by the coordinate system over a LOS link.
US10411765B2
A communication device includes a processor subsystem that is in communication with a communication module, which is communicatively coupled to a millimeter wave (mmWave) antenna array to transmit and receive signals. The processor subsystem executes a computer program product of a near-field detection application in memory to perform a method. The mmWave antenna array transmits an mmWave signal that is swept across a range of frequencies and receives any back-scattered signals in the range of frequencies. The processor subsystem determines whether a near-field obstruction exists based on magnitude and phase characteristics of the received back-scattered signals. In response to determining that a near-field obstruction exists, the processor subsystem perform a selected one of: (i) altering a transmission beam transmitted by the communication device; and (ii) triggering an application to execute on the communication device, the application intended to interact with a user of the communication device.
US10411763B2
A wireless power transmission device comprises a power transmitter and a power receiver. The power transmitter is adapted to convert an input DC power into an electromagnetic energy. The power transmitter includes a wave generating circuit adapted to generate a square wave control signal having a predetermined frequency and a predetermined duty cycle according to the input DC power, a switching control drive circuit configured to convert the input DC power into an alternating electrical signal according to the received square wave control signal, and a first coil coupling circuit configured to convert the alternating electrical signal from the switching control drive circuit into the electromagnetic energy and output the electromagnetic energy. The power receiver is electromagnetically coupled with the power transmitter and adapted to receive the electromagnetic energy from the power transmitter.
US10411760B2
Described herein are methods of making and using and apparatus for wirelessly communicating data and providing power, particularly from a location exterior to a body and to an implantable device disposed within a body with tissue. The described embodiments provide apparatus and methods for efficiently transfer data and power between an external transceiver and an (implanted) biomedical device. The method is to modulate power carrier, which wirelessly powers the device, using an asynchronous modulation scheme, such as amplitude shift keying (ASK) modulation, with minimal modulation depth in order to not disrupt the power flow. The digital data is encoded in the pulse width, eliminating the need for synchronization to the power carrier signal and further minimizing the power consumption necessary for data transfer. Additionally, a reverse backscatter method for obtaining data from the implant is described that has flexible, low power operation.
US10411756B2
A wave guide assembly for a control and diagnostic system for a machine, the wave guide assembly includes a housing defining an exterior surface and an internal cavity extending between distal ends. A wave guide is defined within the internal cavity. At least one open conduit is defined within the internal cavity providing a space for routing conductors through the housing. A fluid passage is defined within the internal cavity separate from the wave guide. A control and diagnostic system for a machine and a gas turbine engine are also disclosed.
US10411750B2
A smart device assembly and a protection case for a smart device are provided. The protection case includes a rear case and a cover plate. A membrane switch is placed in the cover plate, and an outer surface of the cover plate includes a key window arranged corresponding to a key portion in the membrane switch. An extension wire of a lower circuit layer of the membrane switch is extended out from the cover plate. A spring pogo pin connector is arranged on the extension wire of the lower circuit layer of the membrane switch. A slot is formed in the smart device. A pogo pin base connected to a GPIO pin of a processor of the smart device is disposed inside a body of the smart device. A contact point of the pogo pin base is exposed in the slot.
US10411746B2
An LED light and communication system includes Visible Light Communication Transceiver Glasses having at least one projector, lens(es), and optical transceiver, the optical transceiver including a light support and a processor. The light support has at least one light emitting diode and at least one photodetector attached. The processor is in communication with the at least one light emitting diode and the at least one photodetector. The processor is capable of illuminating the at least one light emitting diode to create at least one light signal which is not observable to the unaided eyes of an individual. The second light signal includes at least one data packet. The processor may generate a signal for the projector to display information on the lens(es).
US10411744B1
A method for transforming and reconstructing a signal includes receiving a plurality of samples of a waveform of the signal at different points in time. The waveform of the signal is transformed, for each sample, into an in-phase (I) component and a quadrature (Q) component. A derotational circuit applies a delayed complex conjugate multiple (DCM) to the signal to determine a constant product having an I component (Ic) and a Q component (Qc). A magnitude component is determined based on Ic and Qc. A delta phase component is determined based on Ic and Qc. The magnitude component is processed to create a processed magnitude component. The delta phase component is processed to create a processed delta phase component. An IQ waveform is created by reconstructing the waveform of the signal based on the processed magnitude component and the processed phase component.
US10411740B1
A soft decision analyzer system is operable to interconnect soft decision communication equipment and analyze the operation thereof to detect symbol wise alignment between a test data stream and a reference data stream in a variety of operating conditions.
US10411736B2
An encoding apparatus is provided. The encoding includes a low density parity check (LDPC) encoder which performs LDPC encoding on input bits based on a parity-check matrix to generate an LDPC codeword formed of 64,800 bits, in which the parity-check matrix includes an information word sub-matrix and a parity sub-matrix, the information word sub-matrix is formed of a group of a plurality of column blocks each including 360 columns, and the parity-check matrix and the information word sub-matrix are defined by various tables which represent positions of value one (1) present in every 360-th column.
US10411731B1
A processing device is provided which includes a plurality of encoders each configured to compress a portion of data using a different compression algorithm. The processing device also includes one or more processors configured to cause an encoder, of the plurality of encoders, to compress the portion of data when it is determined that the portion of data, which is compressed by another encoder configured to compress the portion of data prior to the encoder in an encoder hierarchy, is not successfully compressed according to a compression metric by the other encoder in the encoder hierarchy. The one or more processors are also configured to prevent the encoder from compressing the portion of data when it is determined that the portion of data is successfully compressed according to the compression metric by the other encoder in the encoder hierarchy.
US10411730B2
A data-compression system for compressing and storing sampled data from an electronic control unit (ECU) in an automated vehicle includes an input and a controller. The input receives and samples a signal during a time-interval to provide a frame of sampled-data. The controller is in communication with the input. The controller is configured to capture the frame of sampled-data; determine an average-value of the sampled-data in the frame, and convert the sampled-data to percentage-data using the average-value as the basis for the conversion.
US10411729B2
Technologies for allocating ephemeral data storage among managed nodes include an orchestrator server to receive ephemeral data storage availability information from the managed nodes, receive a request from a first managed node of the managed nodes to allocate an amount of ephemeral data storage as the first managed node executes one or more workloads, determine, as a function of the ephemeral data storage availability information, an availability of the requested amount of ephemeral data storage, and allocate, in response to a determination that the requested amount of ephemeral data storage is available from one or more other managed nodes, the requested amount of ephemeral data storage to the first managed node as the first managed node executes the one or more workloads. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US10411727B1
An apparatus includes a first memory interface circuit, a second memory interface circuit, and a compression circuit coupled between the first memory interface circuit and the second memory interface circuit. The compression circuit may be configured to receive a coding block of data via the first memory interface circuit, generate a reduced size representation of the coding block, and write the reduced size representation of the coding block to an external memory using the second memory interface circuit. The reduced size representation of said coding block generally comprises a first bit map, a second bit map, and zero or more non-zero values.
US10411712B2
An integrated circuit comprising a field programmable gate array including a plurality of logic tiles, wherein, during operation of the field programmable gate array, each logic tile is configurable to connect with at least one logic tile of the plurality of logic tiles, and wherein each logic tile of the plurality of logic tiles includes an interconnect network, including a plurality of multiplexers, and logic circuitry. The field programmable gate array, in a first operational mode, includes a first group of logic tiles that are programmed in a powered-up state wherein each logic tile of the first group of logic tiles consumes electrical power during operation, and a second group of logic tiles of the plurality of logic tiles are programmed in a powered-down state wherein each logic tile of the second group of logic tiles does not consume electrical power during operation.
US10411711B2
An integrated circuit comprising a physical array of logic tiles, wherein each logic tile includes a perimeter and a plurality of external I/O disposed in a layout on the perimeter of the logic tile wherein the layout of the external I/O of each logic tile is identical. The physical array includes a first virtual array of logic tiles, programmed to perform data processing operations, including a first plurality of logic tiles of the physical array. The physical array also includes a second virtual array of logic tiles, programmed to perform second operations, including a second plurality of logic tiles of the physical array. The logic tiles of the second plurality are different from the logic tiles of the first plurality. In one embodiment, performance of the data processing operations of the first virtual array is independent from performance of the second operations of the second virtual array.
US10411702B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a window, configured to form a 1st side of the electronic device, and a 2nd side of the electronic device directed in an opposite direction of the 1st side of the electronic device, a circuit board between the 1st side and the 2nd side of the electronic device, and including an input circuit configured to detect an input based on a change in a capacitance, a spacer between the window and the circuit board, and having at least one space formed on one side facing the circuit board, a contact electrically connected to the input circuit by being mounted to one side of the circuit board, and contained in the at least one space, and a conductive plate coupled to the spacer, and electrically connected to the contact through the at least one space.
US10411701B2
Methods, systems, and devices describe triaxial photoconductive switch modules that include a center conductor, an inner conductor, an outer conductor, a high voltage capacitor that is formed between the center conductor and the inner conductor, and a photoconductive switch that is formed between the center conductor and a section of the outer conductor. The disclosed triaxial photoconductive switch modules include low inductance current paths that lead to high current efficiencies. Furthermore, the disclosed triaxial photoconductive switch modules eliminate or reduce parasitic capacitance problems of existing systems.
US10411699B2
A power supply control device that includes a controller configured to switch on and off a first semiconductor switch and a plurality of second semiconductor switches whose current input terminals are connected to a current output terminal of the first semiconductor switch, the controller being configured to control supply of power via the plurality of second semiconductor switches by switching; a first parasitic diode connected between a current input terminal and the current output terminal of the first semiconductor switch; and a plurality of second parasitic diodes that are respectively connected between the current input terminals and current output terminals of the plurality of second semiconductor switches.
US10411696B2
A power supply control device includes a first semiconductor switch and a second semiconductor switch, which are switched on if the voltage at the gate is at least an ON-threshold, and they are switched off if the voltage at the gate is less than an OFF-threshold. A resistor is connected between the source and the gate of the first semiconductor switch. A diode is connected between gates of the first semiconductor switch and the second semiconductor switch. A driving unit adjusts the voltage at the gate of the second semiconductor switch, switches on and off the first semiconductor switch and the second semiconductor switch, and controls the supply of power via the second semiconductor switch.
US10411693B2
Thermo-migration induced stress in power devices can be mitigated by deactivating a subset of power device components (e.g., transistors, etc.) when the power device experiences a high stress condition. Deactivating the subset of power device components serves to bifurcate the active area of the power switching device into smaller active regions, which advantageously changes the temperature gradients in the active area/regions. In some embodiments, a control circuit dynamically deactivates different subsets of power device components to shift the thermo-migration induced stress points to different portions of the active region over the lifetime of the power switching device.
US10411692B2
A controller for driving a power switch incorporates a protection circuit to protect the power switch from fault conditions, such as over-voltage conditions or power surge events. The protection circuit includes a fault detection circuit and a protection gate drive circuit. The fault detection circuit is configured to monitor the voltage across the power switch and to generate a fault detection indicator signal and the protection gate drive circuit is configured to generate a gate drive signal to turn on the power switch in response to a detected fault condition. In particular, the protection gate drive circuit generates a gate drive signal that has a slow assertion transition and is clamped at a given gate voltage value. In this manner, the protection circuit implements active clamping of the gate terminal of the power switch and safe handling of the power switch during over-voltage events.
US10411678B2
A level-shifting circuit includes a first supply terminal configured to receive a first supply voltage, a second supply terminal configured to receive a second supply voltage different from the first supply voltage, an input terminal of the level-shifting circuit configured to receive a voltage having a first voltage level, and an output terminal of the level-shifting circuit. The level-shifting circuit can include a shifting circuit having electrical connections to the input terminal and the output terminal and configured to, in response to a first voltage at a first node, produce a second voltage at a second node. The level-shifting circuit can also include a feedback circuit and a clamping circuit configured to limit leakage current.
US10411677B2
A flip-flop includes an input interface, a first latch, a third inverter, and a second latch. The third inverter and the fifth inverter include first transistors of a first type formed between a first power contact and a second power contact supplied with a power supply voltage on first-type fins, and second transistors of a second type formed between a first ground contact and a second ground contact supplied with a ground voltage on second-type fins.
US10411676B2
A voltage comparator (1) has a high switching speed and simplicity of design. It minimizes pulse-width distortion of input digital signals when functioning as a digital input buffer in high speed communications applications. In addition it provides a simple hysteresis circuit (31) that is easily tuneable with a reference current. The hysteresis circuit (31) is dependent on a reference current. This current may be chosen to have a proportionality to temperature, supply, or another selectable parameter, and may be programmable, in order to create the desired hysteresis performance.
US10411668B2
The invention relates to methods and apparatus for adjusting a level of an audio signal. An audio signal is divided into a plurality of frequency bands. Modification parameters are obtained for at least one of the plurality of frequency band. Gain factors are derived for at least one of the plurality of frequency bands, the gain factors determined based on the amplitude scale factors. The gain factors are smoothed. A level of noise from noise compensation factors is determined. The gain factors are applied to at least one of the frequency bands to generate gain adjusted frequency bands. The level of noise is adjusted based on the gain adjusted frequency bands. At least one of the frequency bands is filtered with a filter generated with the filter coefficients. The plurality of frequency bands is synthesized to generate an output audio signal.
US10411661B1
An apparatus for power amplifier control is provided, applied to a multi-stage power amplifier. The apparatus controls an input voltage of an amplification triode in the first amplification stage, by using a detected current change at a base of an amplification triode in the last amplification stage, achieving control of output power and a maximum output current of the multi-stage power amplifier, greatly reducing an influence of current detection on maximum output power and maximum output efficiency of the power amplifier.
US10411660B1
A differential power amplifier is disclosed. The differential power amplifier includes an output transformer having a primary winding with a first primary terminal, a center-tap terminal, and a second primary terminal. The differential power amplifier further includes a positive amplifier having a first signal output terminal coupled to the first primary terminal and a negative amplifier having a second signal output terminal coupled to the second primary terminal. A harmonic tuning network is made up of a common-mode inductor coupled between the center-tap terminal and a tuning node and a first electronically tunable capacitor coupled between the tuning node and a fixed voltage node. A controller is configured to tune the electronically tunable capacitor to resonate with the common-mode inductor at a second harmonic frequency of a signal being amplified by the positive amplifier and the negative amplifier.
US10411658B2
An amplifier amplifies an input signal. A splitter branches an output signal of the amplifier into a first signal path and a second signal path and performs impedance conversion of the first and second signal paths. A first output terminal outputs the output signal of the amplifier or a signal obtained by branching the output signal of the amplifier into the first signal path by the splitter. A second output terminal outputs the output signal of the amplifier or a signal obtained by branching the output signal of the amplifier into the second signal path by the splitter. An output controller switches whether the output signal of the amplifier is output from the first output terminal, is output from the second output terminal, or is branched by the splitter to be output from both the first and second output terminals.
US10411655B2
A radio frequency (RF) front-end for a transmitter in a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) includes a mixer based core that itself includes first and second input signals; an amplifier that amplifies the first signal and transmits a corresponding amplified first signal; an up-conversion mixer that receives the amplified first signal and the second signal through transistors, and mixes the amplified first signal and second signal and generates a radio frequency (RF) signal; and an antenna that receives the RF signal and transmits the signal from the front-end.
US10411653B2
A power amplifier includes a distributor distributing an input first signal to a second signal and a third signal delayed by about 2ϕ degrees (45<ϕ<90) from the second signal, a first amplifier amplifying the second signal and outputting a fourth signal when a first-signal power level is not lower than a first level, a second amplifier amplifying the third signal and outputting a fifth signal when the first-signal power level is not lower than a second level that is greater than the first level, a first phase shifter receiving the fourth signal and outputting a sixth signal delayed by about ϕ degrees from the fourth signal, a second phase shifter receiving the fifth signal and outputting a seventh signal advanced by about ϕ degrees from the fifth signal, and a combiner combining the sixth and seventh signals and outputting an amplified signal of the first signal.
US10411647B2
A voltage controlled oscillator includes a resonator and an amplifier. The resonator includes a capacitive element and an inductive element. The inductive element has a plurality of conductive segments forming a physical loop. The inductive element has electrical connections on the physical loop to the plurality of conductive segments forming at least one electrical loop disposed within an interior space formed by the physical loop. The amplifier has an input and an output, the input coupled to a first conductive segment forming a first impedance and the output coupled to a second conductive segment forming a second impedance.
US10411645B1
Power control using photovoltaic module sourced power.
US10411639B2
Method for dissipating the elastically stored energy of a tool operated with an electric motor (20), comprising determining the rotational speed of the electric motor; determining a limit torque for the electric motor (20) using the rotational speed, at which limit torque the energy is converted at least predominantly into copper losses of the electric motor; and driving the electric motor (20) by means of a rotational speed regulation with a decreasing rotational speed, while complying with the limit torque as motor torque upper limit.
US10411638B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit according to an embodiment includes: an output circuit configured to cause a current to flow out from an output terminal to a control target or cause a current to flow in from the control target via the output terminal, based on a control signal; a current source portion provided for the output circuit and configured to be capable of switching a current suppliable to the output terminal; and an adjustment circuit configured to switch a current that the current source portion is caused to generate, based on the control signal.
US10411635B2
A rotating electric machine includes a rotor and a stator. The stator includes a stator core and a stator coil. The stator coil includes three first windings, three second windings and three switch units. The first windings are Δ-connected to define three nodes therebetween. The second windings are arranged so as to be respectively connectable between the nodes and three phase terminals of the stator coil. The switch units respectively switch the connections between the nodes and the phase terminals between a direct connection state and an indirect connection state. In the direct connection state, the nodes are respectively directly connected with the phase terminals. In the indirect connection state, the nodes are respectively connected with the phase terminals via the second windings. The first and second windings are mounted on the stator core so that the first windings are located closer than the second windings to the rotor.
US10411633B2
A control device for an AC rotating machine includes: a current detection unit; a command generation unit for generating a voltage command, using a moment of inertia J; a speed estimation unit for calculating an estimated speed ω0 on the basis of the voltage command and detected current; an output torque computing unit for calculating output torque on the basis of the detected current; and an inertia moment computing unit for calculating the moment of inertia J. The output torque computing unit gives a delay characteristic corresponding to an estimation delay of the estimated speed ω0, to the output torque, and the inertia moment computing unit calculates the moment of inertia J on the basis of the estimated speed ω0 and the output torque having the delay characteristic.
US10411630B2
The apparatus according to the present invention comprises a command voltage determination circuit section configured to determine a predetermined first compensation voltage as a command voltage upon initial startup and provide the command voltage to an inverter; a conversion circuit section configured to convert an output current of the inverter into a q-axis current on a synchronous reference frame; and a compensation voltage determination circuit section configured to determine a second compensation voltage based upon the q-axis current and to provide the second compensation voltage to the command voltage determination circuit section.
US10411620B2
To provide a power tool capable of suppressing torque ripple and reducing power consumption without demagnetizing the permanent magnets in the rotor. The power tool includes a brushless motor, converting means, voltage detecting, and means conduction switching means. The brushless motor includes: a stator including a plurality of windings; and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator. The converting means is configured to convert an AC voltage supplied from an AC power supply into a varying DC voltage. The voltage detecting means is configured to detect the varying DC voltage. The conduction switching means includes an output line for applying the varying DC voltage to the plurality of windings. The conduction switching means is configured to perform: sequentially switching at least one winding to be applied with the varying DC voltage among the plurality of windings to rotate the rotor; and changing number of conducting windings on the basis of the varying DC voltage, the number of conducting windings being number of the at least one winding to be applied with the varying DC voltage.
US10411619B2
An electric motor controller, an electric motor drive circuit, and methods for combined electric motor control are provided. The drive circuit is configured to drive a first electric motor and a second electric motor. The drive circuit includes a rectifier configured to convert an AC input voltage to a pulsed DC voltage, and a first DC link electrically coupled to the rectifier. The first DC-link includes a low-capacitance capacitor having a capacitance less than 10 μF. The drive circuit also includes a first inverter coupled to the first DC-link, the first inverter configured to generate a conditioned output voltage to drive the first electric motor, a second DC-link electrically coupled to the first DC-link, and a second inverter coupled to the second DC-link. The second inverter is configured to generate a conditioned output voltage to drive the second electric motor.
US10411614B2
The disclosure relates to a method and a circuit for the improved use of a capacitance in an intermediate circuit. According to the disclosure, a change in a voltage in an intermediate circuit is detected and electrical energy is actively provided depending on the change in the electrical variable in order to compensate the change. According to the disclosure, a capacitance used in the intermediate circuit can end up significantly smaller if the electrical energy fed in is used, in that the voltage of the capacitance is supported by a current fed into the capacitance on the earth side.
US10411606B2
The power supply apparatus includes a control unit to control an operation of a first switching element based on a feedback voltage and a voltage of an auxiliary winding of a transformer detected by a voltage detection unit. In a state where the voltage detected by the voltage detection unit is equal to or more than a first threshold voltage, the control unit shifts to a first state where the first switching element is controlled so that the output voltage is to be a first output voltage based on the feedback voltage. In a state where the voltage detected by the voltage detection unit is less than a second threshold voltage smaller than the first threshold voltage, the control unit shifts to a second state where the first switching element is controlled so that the output voltage is to be a second output voltage smaller than the first output voltage.
US10411599B1
A boost and LDO hybrid converter with dual-loop control is disclosed. In some implementations, a hybrid converter includes an inductor having a first terminal to receive an input voltage and a second terminal; an n-type metal oxide semiconductor device (nMOS) having a drain coupled to the second terminal of the inductor; a p-type metal oxide semiconductor device (pMOS) having a gate, a drain, and a source, the source coupled to the second terminal of the inductor; an output capacitor having a first terminal coupled to the drain of the first pMOS; and a controller having a switch driver and a buffer, wherein the controller is configured to use the switch driver to drive the gate of the first pMOS in a boost mode and to use the buffer to drive the gate of the first pMOS in a low drop out (LDO) mode.
US10411596B2
A power regulator comprises a first power switch configured to carry a pulsed current, an input capacitor between a positive terminal of an input voltage bus and a return point, an output capacitor between a positive terminal of an output voltage bus and the return point and a protection device coupled between the return point and a common return point of the input voltage bus and the output voltage bus, wherein the pulsed current is configured to flow through the protection device.
US10411594B1
A converter is provided for converting a DC input voltage (UE) into a DC output voltage (UA). The converter includes a regulator for regulating the DC output voltage (UA) to a target value (UAS), wherein the regulator comprises a parameter set that determines the regulation behavior thereof. The converter includes a measurement module for determining at least one characteristic value (K) of at least one characteristic parameter of the converter, and at least two interchangeable parameter sets for the regulator Each one of the parameter sets can be activated in the regulator, wherein a first one of the parameter sets has a slower regulation behavior with regard to the DC output voltage (UA) than a second of the parameter sets. The converter includes a control module for the exchange and activation of each of the parameter sets in the regulator depending on at least one of the characteristic parameters.
US10411592B2
A power factor correction circuit includes a power transistor, an inductor, and detection circuitry. The inductor is coupled to a drain terminal of the power transistor. The detection circuitry is coupled to the drain terminal of the power transistor. The detection circuitry is configured to determine an input voltage applied to the inductor based on resonant ringing of voltage at the drain terminal, and to detect a valley in the voltage at the drain terminal based on the input voltage applied to the inductor.
US10411589B2
A power conversion apparatus includes a main capacitor to store therein DC power, and an inverter circuit to convert the DC power stored in the main capacitor to AC power. The main capacitor and a power semiconductor element that constitutes the inverter circuit are connected to each other by a P-side common wire through which a switching current flows. A switching-current shunt component is connected in parallel to the P-side common wire.
US10411582B1
Apparatus and system for producing light using LED lighting with output within a predetermined desired color temperature range for commercial lighting uses. A preferred embodiment includes a first and second group of LEDs arranged in an alternating matrix configuration, each group of LEDs configured to produce light in a predetermined color temperature range. In a preferred embodiment, an LED light system includes a tubular LED lamp having substantially the same size and dimensions as a traditional fluorescent lamp tube and a control box for controlling power input and power gain to the first, second, or both groups of LEDs.
US10411579B2
The electric rotating machine includes a rotatable rotor including first magnetic field parts and second magnetic field parts formed in front and rear surfaces, respectively, by arranging permanent magnets in a circumferential direction; a first stator equipped with coils opposing the first magnetic field parts disposed, the coils forming first stator magnetic fields; a second stator equipped with coils opposing the second magnetic field parts disposed, the coils forming second stator magnetic fields; and a power feeder for driving the rotor to rotate by supplying power to the coils, and a power collector for extracting an induced current generated in the coils of the other stator resulting from rotation of the rotor. At least the coils disposed on the power supply side are formed by a superconducting material, a current supplied to the superconducting coils being made larger than an induced current generated in the other coils.
US10411576B2
A primary for a linear induction motor having a core, electrical winding coils and a cooling system. The core extends longitudinally and has slots extending laterally in a first face thereof. Electrical winding coils inserted in the slots have end turns that extend laterally beyond each side of the core. The electrical winding coils are aligned sequentially along a length of the core. The cooling system, which is adapted to receive a cooling fluid, includes a serpentine tubing assembly and two lateral tubes. The serpentine tubing assembly is at least partially in contact with the core so as to transfer heat from the core to the environment. Each one of the two lateral tubes extend longitudinally along a different side of the core and within a respective longitudinal alignment of the end turns of the electrical winding coils.
US10411575B2
A linear actuator may include a stator; a movable element; a spring member connected to the movable element and the stator and structured to support the movable element in such a way as to be movable with respect to the stator in a direction of an axis line; a magnetic drive mechanism structured to drive the movable element in the direction of the axis line; and a gel damper member placed at a position on a center line of the movable element or one of a group of positions surrounding the center line, between the stator and the movable element.
US10411570B2
Apparatuses and method for manufacturing coil members (230, 250) for insertion in slots of a core of an electric dynamo machine, wherein the coil members (230, 250) are formed by bending portions of an electric conductor (10). Portions of conductor of a predetermined length are fed through an aperture (80), where at least one engagement member (51) can move to engage and bend the conductor (10) so as to form the configuration of the coil member (230, 250).
US10411563B2
A system for cooling the teeth of an electric machine stator. The stator includes a stator core that may be formed of a plurality of laminations. Each lamination has a plurality of back iron apertures, a plurality of tooth tip apertures, and a plurality of elongated apertures. When the laminations are assembled to form the stator core, the back iron apertures align to form back iron inlet channels and back iron outlet channels, and the tooth tip apertures align to form tooth tip cooling channels. The elongated apertures are L-shaped and connect the back iron inlet channels and back iron outlet channels to the tooth tip channels. Cooling fluid may flow, for example, axially through a back iron inlet channel, azimuthally and radially inward through an elongated aperture to a tooth tip, axially along a tooth tip channel, and to a back iron outlet channel through another elongated aperture.
US10411555B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides an actuator module which can be equipped with a motor, a reduction gear and a control circuit, the actuator module comprising: a first housing which can have an active shaft, connected to a motor, pass through and be coupled thereto; and a second housing which is coupled to the first housing and has a passive idler horn, provided in a position in correspondence with the active shaft, pass through and be coupled thereto, wherein the idler horn has interposed a tube-shaped bearing, having a hollow portion formed in the center thereof, is coupled to a side of the second housing, and can have a cable connected into the second housing through the hollow portion of the tube-shaped bearing.
US10411551B2
In an AC generator, a protective cover includes a locking claw provided so as to extend outward in an axial direction from an open-side end surface of a peripheral wall portion. The locking claw includes an axial portion and a claw portion provided so as to project radially from an end portion of the axial portion. The locking claw is configured to be locked to a casing. The protective cover also includes a locking-claw restricting portion formed on an outer peripheral edge portion of a bottom portion.
US10411534B2
The rotor includes: a rotor core having a plurality of insertion holes penetrating in an axial direction at intervals in a circumferential direction; and magnets respectively provided in the insertion holes. A space is formed between a hole inner side peripheral surface of each insertion hole and a magnet inner side peripheral surface of each magnet. An adhesion layer portion is formed between a hole outer side peripheral surface of each insertion hole and a magnet outer side peripheral surface of each magnet, and the hole outer side peripheral surface of each insertion hole and the magnet outer side peripheral surface of each magnet with which the adhesion layer portion contacts are formed in a flat-surface shape. A width in a radial direction of the space is longer than a width in the radial direction of the adhesion layer portion.
US10411525B2
Systems and methods for setting an operating frequency for wireless charging systems. The wireless charging system comprises a transmitter circuit configured to generate a magnetic field in response to a current having an operating frequency and driving the transmitter circuit, and a receiver circuit configured to receive power via the magnetic field. The transmitter circuit and the receiver circuit are separated by an offset distance that contributes to a level of detuning between the transmitter and receiver circuits. To reduce a level of detuning, a level of coupling between the transmitter and receiver circuits is determined based upon a measured current or voltage value associated with the receiver circuit. From the determined level of coupling, the offset distance can be estimated. The offset distance may be used to determine a desired operating frequency for reducing the level of detuning between the transmitter circuit and the receiver circuit.
US10411521B2
A relay apparatus in a wireless power transmission system includes a relay power reception antenna that receives power transmission alternating current power from a power transmission power transmission antenna, a relay rectifier that converts the power transmission alternating current power into relay direct current power, a relay inverter circuit that converts the relay direct current power into relay alternating current power, and a relay power transmission antenna that wirelessly transmits the relay alternating current power. When transmitting data to the power transmission apparatus through amplitude modulation, the relay apparatus varies amplitude of voltage of the power transmission alternating current power received by the relay power reception antenna between a first amplitude and a second amplitude and performs control for eliminating a difference between a third amplitude of the relay alternating current power and a fourth amplitude of the relay alternating current power.
US10411519B2
A method for transmitting energy to a plurality of receiving nodes using a plurality of antennas includes: acquiring residual energy information of the receiving nodes and channel information between the antennas and the receiving nodes; determining a beamforming weight indicating a ratio between signals transmitted from the antennas and an awake ratio indicating a probability that the receiving nodes are in an active state to receive signals, based on the residual energy information and the channel information of each of the receiving nodes; generating beacon signals corresponding to the antennas based on either one or both of the beamforming weight and the awake ratio; and transmitting the beacon signals through the antennas.
US10411518B2
A non-contact transmission device for an electronic lock includes a housing. The housing has an accommodation trough to accommodate a retainer in a slidable manner. The retainer is provided with an RFID coil. An inner side of the housing is formed with a positioning trough. When the retainer is slid in the accommodation trough, the RFID coil is positioned in the positioning trough, such that the RFID coil is closer to the outer edge of the housing without lowering the strength of the housing. When two non-contact transmission devices are mounted to a door frame and a door panel respectively, the distance between the RFID coils of the two non-contact transmission devices can be shortened to improve the transmission efficiency between the RFID coils.
US10411515B2
A primary coil circuit of a ground assembly for wirelessly transferring power to a secondary coil includes: a primary coil magnetically coupled to the secondary coil and having a first terminal and a second terminal; a second capacitor having a first terminal and a second terminal connected to the first terminal of the primary coil; a first inductor having a first terminal coupled to a first input terminal of a power source and a second terminal coupled to the first terminal of the second capacitor; and a first capacitor having a first terminal coupled commonly to the second terminal of the first inductor and the first terminal of the second capacitor and a second terminal coupled commonly to the second terminal of the primary coil and a second input terminal of the power source.
US10411513B2
A wireless power transmitting apparatus wirelessly charging a wireless power receiving apparatus is provided. The wireless power transmitting apparatus includes a power providing unit configured to provide power, a gate driver configured to generate a differential signal formed of a first signal and a second signal from the power provided from the power providing unit, an amplifier configured to amplify the differential signal by a predetermined gain, a power transmitting unit configured to transmit the amplified differential signal to the wireless power receiving apparatus, and a differential signal correcting circuit that is disposed between the gate driver and the amplifier and is configured to correct the differential signal so that a predetermined phase difference between the first signal and the second signal is maintained.
US10411510B2
A surgical instrument system and method are disclosed. The surgical instrument system includes an instrument case and a charging plate that may be placed in a sterile surgical field. The charging plate is configured to receive electrical power from outside the sterile surgical field and transmit that electrical power to other devices within the sterile field.
US10411502B2
A UPS circuit, comprising a low frequency transformer (TX) and a battery (B), the low frequency transformer (TX) comprising a primary side winding, and a secondary side winding connected to the battery (B); the primary side winding is connected to a municipal power loop via a switching device (SW), and the switching device (SW) can operate in a chopping mode.
US10411500B2
A high power EV fast charging station with solar energy system (EVFCS-SES) having a HV DC bus, several EVFCS-SES cells connecting in parallel, and a storage battery is operated as either a solar energy generation system, or a solar energy generation plus a direct storage battery charger, or as a high power EV fast charger with solar energy/storage battery/AC grid power, or a PWM rectifier battery charger to perform EV battery charging and solar energy generation for AC grid power.
US10411499B2
A distributed charge controller that matches a charging and power profile of each individual battery cell within a bank of batteries with one or more strings of photovoltaic (PV) cells in order to maintain battery health and performance. The charge controller further optimizes the performance of a solar module by allowing active unshaded strings of cells to operate independently of other strings within the module that may be shaded. Strings of PV cells are selectively matched to one or more battery cells as required.
US10411489B2
A method is disclosed for controlling charging/discharging of a capacitor module. The capacitor module includes a plurality of branches connected in parallel, each of which includes a capacitor and a switch connected in series with the capacitor. The method includes measuring a first charge/discharge time for the capacitor module being charged/discharged from an initial voltage to an intermediate voltage, and To adjusting a second charge/discharge time for the capacitor module being further charged/discharged from the intermediate voltage to a target voltage by controlling on/off of at least one of the switches depending on the first charge/discharge time, the intermediate voltage being between the initial voltage and the target voltage. Also disclosed are an apparatus for controlling charging/discharging of a capacitor module and a display apparatus including the apparatus.
US10411461B2
Provided are a protection circuit for a brushless DC motor, and a control device. The protection circuit is applied to a control device for a brushless DC motor, the control device including a main control chip and a protection circuit for driving a brushless DC motor. The protection circuit includes a sampling signal input end (RNF), a first resistor (R1), a first capacitor (C1), a second capacitor (C2), a comparator (IC2) and a switching element (IC1), connected together in a preset structure.
US10411457B2
A power distribution system for connection to an AC voltage network, having a UPS power supply unit for uninterruptible power supply with a network-side input and with at least one output to which a number of loads are connected or can be connected in parallel load circuits, wherein a protective device having an electromechanical tripping device, in particular a thermal/magnetic tripping device, and having an evaluation and tripping unit is connected in the or each load circuit, which tripping unit trips the tripping device on the basis of an electronic overload and/or short-circuit characteristic curve and on the basis of the output voltage from the UPS power supply unit.
US10411446B2
A liquid-tight connector may include a riveting cap, a rotating connector, a threading unit, a sealing ring and a conduit locknut. In one embodiment, an O-ring may be disposed between the rotating connector and the threading unit to enhance the liquid-tight effect of the connector. It is important to note that the rotating connector is configured to engage with the riveting cap through a threaded section, while the rotating connector can freely rotate on the threading unit, so when one end of the conduit is secured to one terminal, the other end of the conduit can still be rotated with the liquid-tight connector until it is secured to the other terminal.
US10411440B1
A retrofittable panel board (8) for an electric apparatus is provided. A bracket assembly (10) is affixed to a backwall (1004) of an enclosure (1002) of the panel board. Bracket assembly (10) includes guide tracks (12) defining restraint locations (14) to provide an adjustable height. A mount assembly (50), providing mounting support to an interior assembly (13) and in turn to circuit breakers 18, is movable by way of the guide tracks with respect to the bracket assembly. An affixing element (16) is disposed in each guide track and connected to the mount assembly. When loosened, affixing element 16 may be arranged to travel connected with the mount assembly along the guide track to a desired restraint location. When tightened, affixing element 16 may be arranged to fixedly secure the mount assembly to the bracket assembly at the desired restraint location to provide a desired height position to the mount assembly with respect to the backwall of the enclosure.
US10411431B2
Laser systems are provided with a semiconductor laser having an emission face, a drive circuit adapted to supply electric energy to the semiconductor laser to cause the semiconductor laser to emit a beam; a user input system adapted to sense a user input action; a controller adapted to control the drive circuit based upon the sensed user input action; a housing within which the laser is positioned and having an opening with a window through which the semiconductor laser can emit the beam. The semiconductor laser is positioned to emit the beam through the window and the emission face of the semiconductor laser is sized to cause a divergence in the beam to create a patterned emission with a predetermined shape without passing the beam through beam shaping optics.
US10411427B2
The invention is a system for simultaneously, yet safely, suspending and powering objects through connectors on a wall. The system includes one or more connectors, preferably pins, mounted to a wall. Each connector has a groove and a lip that houses an electrical conductor, which may be a metal rod. One or more suspendable objects, which may be storage bins or electrical appliances, are designed to engage with the connectors. Each suspendable object has at least one horizontal track that guides the lip of each connector into one or more openings in the track. When the lip engages an opening, the object is suspended from the wall. Each opening also contains an electrical conductor that engages with the electrical conductor within the connector, thereby providing power to the suspendable object. The connectors may be attached to rails, and the system may be utilized within an automated storage and retrieval system.
US10411420B2
The present invention discloses a universal electrical installation system including a fixing frame having a top pert having provisions for fixation of an insert, a bottom part configured to be engaged with the top part wherein the bottom part comprises provisions for terminal blocks that are capable of being attached or removed at any desired location, the terminal blocks interface a load to the fixing frame, current carrying electrical rails housed within the fixing frame, termination points for connecting the current carrying electrical rails to a power source through pre-determined positions for live, neutral and earth connections, wherein the current carrying electrical rails are disposed along the entirety of the fixing frame in a manner that when the insert is engaged therein, one or more conductive elements of the insert is capable of interfacing with the said current carrying electrical rails in multiple positions.
US10411406B1
A self-aligning mechanism is described and may include a first coarse guide component connected to a first device and a second coarse guide component connected to a second device, the first coarse guide component configured to interact with the second coarse guide component to positionally align a connector pair, the coarse guide components configured to prevent a connector from being inserted into a connector receptacle until the connector and the connector receptacle are positionally aligned. The mechanism may also include a first fine guide component connected to the first device and a second fine guide component connected to the second device, the first fine guide component configured to interact with the second fine guide component to rotationally align the connector with the connector receptacle, the fine guide components configured to prevent the connector from being inserted into the connector receptacle until the connector and the connector receptacle are rotationally aligned.
US10411405B2
A connector comprising a housing and a lever. The connector is mateable with and removable from a mating connector along a first direction by operation of the lever. The housing has an inner portion, an outer portion, at least one coupling portion, a pivot, a first portion and a second portion. The housing has a lever accommodating portion between the outer portion and the inner portion in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The lever accommodating portion partially accommodates the lever. The pivot is positioned inside the lever accommodating portion. The pivot supports the lever so that the lever is rotatable. The at least one coupling portion has a bridge portion which is elastically deformable. The bridge portion is sandwiched between the first portion and the second portion in a plane perpendicular to the second direction.
US10411396B2
A connector-equipped wire includes a terminal, and a wire including a core and an insulation coating provided around the core. The terminal is connected to an end part and is formed with a bulge so that a part of an end part of the insulation coating protrudes radially out. Further, the connector-equipped wire includes a connector housing including a body formed with a cavity into which the wire is to be inserted, and formed with a step on an inner peripheral surface of the cavity of the body. The bulge comes into contact with the step, and a retainer to be locked to the connector housing with the bulge pressed toward the step.
US10411395B1
A connector module with a latch structure includes a base (10), a terminal block (20) and latch structures (30). The base (10) includes a housing (11) having an accommodating space (A), and the incommoding space (A) includes a positioning member (113). The terminal block (20) inserted into the accommodating space (A) includes an insertion main body (21) and conductive terminals (22). Each latch structure (30) is arranged between the housing (11) and the insertion main body (21), which includes a latch portion (31) formed on the insertion main body (21) and a locking member (32) rotatably connected to the housing (11) on one side of the positioning member (113). The locking member (32) includes a locking portion (322) for locking onto the latch portion (31) and locking slots (324) provided for the positioning member (113). Accordingly, the terminal block can be removed without the use of any tools.
US10411393B2
A connector is provided for attachment to a coaxial cable. The connector includes, in one embodiment, a connector body and a locking sleeve. The locking sleeve is configured to be moved between an attached and a detached state. In each such state, the locking sleeve is configured to receive the end of the cable. In one position, the locking sleeve is configured to lock the end of the cable to the connector body.
US10411390B2
An electrical connector assembly includes an electrical connector and a protective cap assemble thereon. The electrical connector includes an insulative housing forming receiving cavity, and a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing and extending into the receiving cavity. The protective cap includes a planar body, a first latching section linked with the planar body, and an operation section extending above the planar body. A securing seat surrounds the housing and includes a second latching section engaged with the first latching section. By applying fingers upon the operation section to rotate/twist the cap, the first latching section and the second latching section is disengaged from each other, and the cap can be easily upwardly withdrawn from the securing seat.
US10411378B2
A communication system includes first and second circuit card assemblies mated such that first and second PCBs move relative to each other along a board mating axis parallel to a slot in the first PCB with the first PCB oriented perpendicular to the second PCB and with first and second mating ends of first and second electrical connectors oriented parallel to the board mating axis. The first and second circuit card assemblies are mated such that the first electrical connector and the second electrical connector move relative to each other along a connector mating axis perpendicular to the board mating axis. First mating interfaces of first contacts are mated to second mating interfaces of second contacts in a contact mating direction non-parallel to the board mating axis and non-parallel to the connector mating axis.
US10411375B2
An electrical connector, including an insulating body; multiple first terminals, insert molded into the insulating body and having at least one grounding terminal, at least one power supply terminal and a pair of differential signal terminals located between the grounding terminal and the power supply terminal adjacent to each other; and a middle shielding sheet, insert molded into the insulating body, and located above or below the first terminals. The middle shielding sheet has, on at least one side of a central line of the middle shielding sheet, a notch and a first protruding portion away from the central line as compared to the notch. The central line extends in a front-rear direction. The notch is concavely provided backward from a front end edge of the middle shielding sheet, and vertically corresponds to the power supply terminal. The first protruding portion has a through-hole vertically corresponding to the grounding terminal.
US10411374B2
A cable connection structural body is used for connecting a multi-core cable having a plurality of signal lines to a substrate, and the cable connection structural body includes a substrate fixation portion that is fixed to the substrate, and a cable holding portion that forms a space passing the plurality of signal lines therethrough between the cable holding portion and a surface of the substrate when the substrate fixation portion is fixed to the substrate.
US10411362B2
Synchronization technology is implemented for a satellite communication system. Master clock information is accessed at a terrestrial location. A timing message based on the master clock information is transmitted from the terrestrial location to a satellite as the satellite is in orbit. The satellite is synchronized to the master clock based on the timing message. A beacon signal is transmitted from the satellite toward Earth. The beacon signal includes timing information. The beacon signal is received at a ground based gateway. The gateway is synchronized to the satellite based on the beacon signal. Communication is sent from the gateway to a terminal via the satellite. The communication includes timing data. The terminal is synchronized to the gateway based on the timing data.
US10411357B1
The ultra-wideband unipole antenna is a variant on a monocone antenna, including a plurality of electrically conductive rods that act as a parallel inductive-capacitive (L-C) network for improving the impedance match between the radiating element of the antenna and the antenna's feed. An electrically conductive conical surface having a vertex end and a base end acts as the radiating element. The vertex end is positioned adjacent to, and spaced apart from, a ground plane plate. Each electrically conductive rod has opposed first and second ends, the first end being secured to the electrically conductive conical surface, and the second end being secured to the ground plane plate. A coaxial cable feed line has a center conductor and an outer conductor. The center conductor is in electrical communication with the vertex end of the electrically conductive conical surface, and the outer conductor is in electrical communication with the ground plane plate.
US10411350B2
A feed network for a multi-beam antenna is provided, including a first beam port, a second beam port, a beam-forming network coupled to the beam ports, and a cancellation circuit. The cancellation circuit is coupled to the first beam port and the second beam port before the beam-forming network. The cancellation circuit extracts a portion of a RF signal on the first beam port, adds phase delay, and injects the extracted, delayed signal from the first beam port onto the second beam port, and extracts a portion of a RF signal on the second beam port, adds phase shift, and injects the extracted, delayed signal from the second beam port onto the first beam port. In one example of the invention, the cancellation circuit comprises a first directional coupler on a first beam input path, a transmission line, a second directional coupler on the second beam input path.
US10411343B2
Described embodiments include an electromagnetic beam steering apparatus. The apparatus includes a first planar component including a first artificially structured effective media having a first tangential refractive index gradient configured to deflect incident electromagnetic beams at a first deflection angle. The apparatus includes a second planar component includes a second artificially structured effective media having a second tangential refractive index gradient configured to deflect incident electromagnetic beams at a second deflection angle. The apparatus includes an electromagnetic beam steering structure configured to independently rotate the first planar component and the second planar component about a coaxial axis such that an electromagnetic beam incident on the first planar component exits the second planar component as a steered electromagnetic beam.
US10411339B2
An adjustor configured to position an antenna coupled to a mounting element includes an adjustor nut having a bore extending along a longitudinal axis of the adjustor nut. At least a portion of the bore has inner threads configured to engage corresponding threads on a first portion of the mounting element positioned within the bore. A tool interface is positioned near a proximal end region of the adjustor nut and an external fastening mechanism positioned near a distal end region of the adjustor nut. A preload nut configured to engage the external fastening mechanism and configured to apply a load onto a second portion of the mounting element is positioned between a portion of the adjustor nut and the preload nut. Rotation of the adjustor nut around the longitudinal axis causes movement of the first portion along the longitudinal axis while the load is applied onto the second portion.
US10411334B2
A transparent antenna is fabricated by combining a metal nanomesh structure and a graphene sheet. The nanomesh structure is formed on a surface, and the graphene sheet is placed over the nanomesh structure. The graphene sheet is adhered to the nanomesh structure to form a graphene nanomesh structure. The graphene nanomesh structure is shaped to form the transparent antenna that efficiently transmits and receives signals in a desired frequency range yet is optically transparent.
US10411333B1
An electronic device includes a dielectric substrate, a first radiation element, a second radiation element, a third radiation element, and a sensing pad. The first radiation element includes a first branch, a second branch, and a first connection element. The first connection element is coupled between the first branch and the second branch. The second branch is coupled to a ground voltage. The second radiation element has a feeding point. The third radiation element is coupled to the feeding point. An antenna structure is formed by the first radiation element, the second radiation element, and the third radiation element. The sensing pad includes a third branch, a fourth branch, and a second connection element. The second connection element is coupled between the third branch and the fourth branch. The second connection element has a meandering structure.
US10411324B2
A communications device includes a ground plane, a signal source, a filling material and an antenna. The signal source is electrically connected to the ground plane. The antenna has a predetermined metal pattern and is coupled to the signal source. The filling material is a non-conductive material and the filling material and the predetermined metal pattern are bonded heterogeneously via a surface-mount technology.
US10411314B2
An exemplary battery thermal management assembly includes a first structure having a first material composition, and a second structure having a different, second material composition. The second structure is configured to exchange thermal energy between a battery array and a fluid communicated through a fluid channel that is bounded by the first and second structures. An exemplary battery thermal management method includes securing a first structure of a first material composition relative to a second structure of a different, second material composition to provide a fluid channel. The method further includes using the second structure to pass thermal energy between a battery and a fluid within the fluid channel.
US10411311B2
A product may include a battery pack, and a housing may receive the battery pack. The housing may comprise a plastic containing an additive that is electrically insulating and that has a greater thermal conductivity than the plastic.
US10411310B2
Embodiments described herein relate generally to methods for the remediation of electrochemical cell electrodes. In some embodiments, a method includes obtaining an electrode material. At least a portion of the electrode material is rinsed to remove a residue therefrom. The electrode material is separated into constituents for reuse.
US10411306B2
A battery module for use with a controller includes a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) mounted to a plurality of battery cells. The PCBA includes a substrate, a radio frequency (RF) communications circuit, a cell sensing circuit, and a conductive interconnecting member. The cell sensing circuit is operable for measuring a respective cell voltage of each of the battery cells. The conductive interconnect member forms an electrical connection between the battery cells. The RF communications circuit is in wireless communication with the controller and is operable for wirelessly transmitting the measured cell voltages to the controller. A battery system includes a master battery controller and the battery pack. A vehicle includes an electric machine operable for generating output torque for propelling the vehicle, as well as the battery system noted above.
US10411304B2
An electrode assembly includes a plurality of unit cells, each including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed therebetween, and a single separation sheet disposed between the unit cells while surrounding side surfaces thereof. First and second stack parts of unit cells are wound with the separation sheet from each end of the separation sheet toward the middle of the separation sheet, a facing unit cell has one surface that contacts the first stack part with the separation sheet between the one surface of the facing unit cell and the first stack part and the other surface that contacts the second stack part with the separation sheet between the other surface of the facing unit cell and the second stack part, and the unit cells are stacked such that electrodes having opposite polarities are disposed in contact with each other with the separation sheet therebetween.
US10411303B2
A battery electrolyte comprises: a non-aqueous solvent including a perfluoropolyether that is functionalized at only one molecule end, the perfluoropolyether including perfluoroalkyl chains and oxygen atoms in such a manner that a perfluoroalkyl chain and an oxygen atom are alternately bound to each other; and a metal salt that is a magnesium salt, an alkaline earth metal salt, or an alkali metal salt, and that is dissolved in the non-aqueous solvent.
US10411302B2
A lithium secondary battery includes: a negative electrode, a positive electrode, and an electrolyte disposed between the negative electrode and the positive electrode, wherein the negative electrode includes a silicon composite including silicon, a silicon oxide of the formula SiOx wherein 0
US10411300B2
A secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution contains an electrolytic solution material together with a nonaqueous solvent and an electrolyte salt. The electrolytic solution material includes one or more of first unsaturated compounds and second unsaturated compounds represented, and one or more of phenol-type compounds, phosphorus-containing compounds, and sulfur-containing compounds.
US10411296B2
To provide a structural body having a new shape and including a garnet crystal structure.A structural body comprising LiaM1bM2cOd (5≤a≤8; 2.5≤b≤3.5; 1.5≤c≤2.5; 10≤d≤14; M1 is at least one element selected from Al, Y, La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Lu, Mg, Ca, Sr, or Ba; and M2 is at least one element selected from Zr, Hf, Nb, or Ta) including a garnet crystal structure, wherein in a scanning electron microscopic image obtained through observation of a fracture surface in a depth direction of the structural body, a striped pattern extending along the depth direction is shown, and/or in a scanning electron microscopic image obtained through observation of a cut surface in the depth direction of the structural body, a continuous body extending along the depth direction is shown.
US10411294B2
Disclosed is a method of manufacturing an all-solid state battery. The method includes coating a first slurry or composition having on a substrate to form a first electrolyte layer a predetermined thickness, coating a second slurry or composition on the first electrolyte layer to form a second electrolyte layer having a predetermined thickness, laminating an electrode layer on the second electrolyte layer, bonding the electrode layer to the second electrolyte layer through pressing, and removing the substrate from the first electrolyte layer. The first slurry or composition of the first electrolyte layer has content of a binder less than that of the second slurry or composition of the second electrolyte layer, and thus, the substrate may be easily removed from the first electrolyte layer.
US10411289B2
A lithium battery includes a positive electrode designed as a hollow cylinder and defines a cavity, a negative electrode arranged in the cavity, a separator, a liquid electrolyte, a first current collector for the negative electrode, a second current collector for the positive electrode, an at least two-part housing that encloses an interior space in which the positive electrode together with the negative electrode arranged in the cavity and the separator are arranged, wherein a pin is provided as a first current collector inside the housing, a part of the housing serves as a second current collector, the pin has a first, terminal section embedded in the negative electrode and in direct contact with the negative electrode, and the pin has a second section not in direct contact with the negative electrode, and an insulator element that protects the second section at least partially against direct contact with the electrolyte.
US10411288B2
A method of forming a solid, dense, hermetic lithium-ion electrolyte membrane comprises combing an amorphous, glassy, or low melting temperature solid reactant with a refractory oxide reactant to form a mixture, casting the mixture to form a green body, and sintering the green body to form a solid membrane. The resulting electrolyte membranes can be incorporated into lithium-ion batteries.
US10411271B2
A separator supporting structure includes a metal lug provided on a separator, a set of protrusions that protrude from an inner surface of a metal casing toward the separator to form a recess into which the lug is inserted, a first insulating portion covering the lug at least in the recess, and a second insulating portion extending from the first insulating portion and between the separator and each of the protrusions.
US10411256B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided an active material. The active material includes particles. Each of the particles includes a core phase and a shell phase surrounding at least a part of the core phase. The core phase includes a first monoclinic niobium-titanium composite oxide. The shell phase includes a second monoclinic niobium-titanium composite oxide. An oxidation number of titanium in the core phase is larger than an oxidation number of titanium in the shell phase, and/or an oxidation number of niobium in the core phase is larger than an oxidation number of niobium in the shell phase.
US10411254B2
The present disclosure relates to a negative electrode active material and a secondary battery including the same, and in particular, provides a negative electrode active material particle including a core including a carbon-based active material, and a shell surrounding the core and including a polymer, wherein silicon-based active material particles are embedded in the shell, and at least a part of the silicon-based active material particles is exposed to a surface of the shell.
US10411249B2
The present disclosure relates to a lithium secondary battery using lithium titanium oxide (LTO) as a negative electrode active material. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to a secondary battery having improved input and output characteristics through the optimization of the pore ratio of the LTO. The lithium secondary battery including the lithium titanium oxide negative electrode active material according to the present disclosure provides an effect of significantly improved output density through the maximization of reaction active sites with electrolyte due to a porous structure.
US10411243B2
A wound battery includes an electrode assembly in which a first electrode and a second electrode are wound together via a separator, the electrode assembly being accommodated in a battery case including a bottomed tube-shaped metallic can. The first electrode has a first uncoated region defined by an exposed portion of a first current collector sheet at an end of the first current collector sheet in the axial direction of winding. The first electrode includes a first current collector lead connected to the first uncoated region. The first uncoated region is disposed on the same side as the open end of the metallic can. The second electrode includes a second current collector lead connected thereto. The first and the second current collector leads extend toward the open end of the metallic can. At least a portion of the first uncoated region is covered with an insulating layer, and the insulating layer extends beyond an end face of the first uncoated region.
US10411233B2
A secondary battery cartridge includes: a battery storing box including a battery accommodation space in which a secondary battery is stored, and a flow channel partitioned from the battery accommodation space and having a hollow structure, and including, at opposite side parts thereof, respectively, a slot communicating with the battery accommodation space, and a venting hole communicating with the flow channel; a sensing unit including an electrically conductive material, mounted on at least one side part of the battery storing box, and electrically connected to an electrode lead of the secondary battery, the electrode lead extending to an inside and an outside of the battery storing box through the slot; and a cover unit provided in a box form having one open side, and mounted on the opposite side parts of the battery storing box in order to shield the slot, the venting hole, and the sensing unit of the battery storing box, wherein a gas outlet is provided to the cover unit mounted on at least one of the opposite side parts of the battery storing box.
US10411223B2
The electroluminescence device of the disclosure includes: a base material provided with a recessed portion; a light-emitting element including a reflective layer provided on the front surface of the recessed portion, a filling layer having optical transparency and filling an inside of the recessed portion with the reflective layer interposed therebetween, a first electrode having optical transparency provided on the filling layer, an organic layer including a light-emitting layer provided on the first electrode, and a second electrode having optical transparency provided on the organic layer, and an active element connected to the light-emitting element, wherein a display region includes a plurality of unit regions divided from one another, the unit regions include a plurality of the light-emitting elements and the active elements configured to control the light emission of the plurality of light-emitting elements, and the reflective layer of at least one of the light-emitting elements of the plurality of recessed portions functions as a contact portion with the active element.
US10411219B2
A display device and a method of manufacturing a display device are provided. A manufacturing method of a display apparatus includes forming a display module including a first area and including a display panel including lower and upper surfaces opposite each other, a first film under the lower surface of the display panel, a second film on the upper surface of the display panel, and an adhesive layer between the lower surface of the display panel and the first film; weakening an adhesive force of a first adhesive portion of the adhesive layer in the first area to be weaker than an adhesive force of a second adhesive portion of the adhesive layer outside the first area; cutting the first film and the adhesive layer; and removing a portion of the first film and the first adhesive portion from the first area.
US10411213B2
The present disclosure relates to a white light OLED and a display panel. The OLED includes a first electrode, a first hole injection layer, a first hole transport layer, a first luminous layer, a first electron transport layer, a charge generation layer, a second hole injection layer, a second hole transport layer, an electron blocking layer, a second luminous layer, a third luminous layer, a second electron transport layer, and a second electrode stacked in sequence. The first luminous layer is a blue luminous layer, the second luminous layer is a blue luminous layer, and the third luminous layer is a yellow luminous layer. With such configuration, the color shift and the power consumption issue caused by insufficient blue light may be effectively overcome.
US10411211B2
An organic EL element (10) includes a first light-emitting layer (33a) having the shortest emission peak wavelength of a light-emitting layer (33) and containing a host material and a TTF material or at least the TTF material, a second light-emitting layer (33b) containing at least a TADF material, a third light-emitting layer (33c) having the longest emission peak wavelength of the light-emitting layer (33) and containing at least fluorescent material. The excited triplet level of the TTF material is lower than the excited triplet level of the TADF material.
US10411206B2
A flexible array substrate includes a substrate, a gate electrode and a scan line disposed on the substrate, and a first insulation layer disposed on the gate electrode and the scan line. The array substrate further includes an electrically conductive channel disposed on the first insulation layer; a source electrode; a drain electrode; and a data line disposed on the electrically conductive channel; a second insulation layer disposed on the source electrode; the drain electrode; and the data line; and a pixel electrode disposed on the second insulation layer.
US10411203B2
Provided is an organic electroluminescent element containing an anode, a cathode, and an organic functional layer containing one or a plurality of light-emitting layers, the organic functional layer being interposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein at least one of the light-emitting layers contains a compound having two condensed aromatic rings bonded to each other with a linking group; and the condensed aromatic rings form a π-π stacking structure in the molecule.
US10411199B2
An organometallic complex represented by Chemical Formula 1: wherein M, CyN, CyC, X1, X2, R1 to R4, R′ and n are described in the specification.
US10411197B2
A metal complex of a metal from groups 13 to 16 uses a ligand of the structure (I), where R1 and R2 can independently be oxygen, sulfur, selenium, NH or NR4, where R4 an alkyl or aryl and can be connected to R3. R3 is an alkyl, long-chain alkyl, alkoxy, long-chain alkoxy, cycloalkyl, halogenalkyl, aryl, arylene, halogenaryl, heteroaryl, heteroarylene, heterocycloalkylene, heterocycloalkyl, halogenheteroaryl, alkenyl, halogenalkenyl, alkynyl, halogenalkynyl, ketoaryl, halogenketoaryl, ketoheteroaryl, ketoalkyl, halogenketoalkyl, ketoalkenyl, halogenketoalkenyl, where in suitable radicals, one or more non-adjacent CH2— groups can be substituted independently of one another by —O—, —S—, —NH—, —NRo—, —SiRoRoo—, —CO—, —COO—, —OCO—, —OCO—O—, —SO2—, —S—CO—, —CO—S—, —CY1=CY2 or —C═C—, specifically in such a way that O and/or S atoms are not connected directly to one another, are likewise optionally substituted with aryl- or heteroaryl preferably containing 1 to 30 C atoms, as a dopant for matrix materials in organic electronic components.
US10411195B2
An organic light-emitting diode including a condensed cyclic compound represented by Formula 1 and a condensed cyclic compound represented by Formula 2: wherein Ar1, L, X, R1 to R18, and A are defined as in the specification. An organic layer including the condensed cyclic compounds may emit blue light of high color purity, high efficiency, and long lifetime.
US10411193B2
A novel light-emitting element is provided. A light-emitting element with a long lifetime is provided. A light-emitting element with high emission efficiency is provided. A novel organic compound is provided. A novel organic compound having a hole-transport property is provided. A novel hole-transport material is provided. A hole-transport material including an organic compound having a substituted or unsubstituted benzonaphthofuran skeleton and a substituted or unsubstituted amine skeleton is provided. A light-emitting element using the hole-transport material is provided. An organic compound in which an amine skeleton including two aromatic hydrocarbon groups having 6 to 60 carbon atoms is bonded to the 6- or 8-position of the benzonaphthofuran skeleton is provided.
US10411189B2
The invention provides a display panel and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device, belongs to the field of display device manufacturing technology, which can solve the following problem in the existing display device: when light transmits the cathode layer which is thin, has high resistance and thus poor conductivity, the display effect is nonuniform. The display panel of the invention comprises a first substrate and a second substrate which are assembled, wherein the second substrate is provided with an organic electroluminescent device thereon, an anode layer of the organic electroluminescent device is away from the first substrate and an cathode layer thereof is close to the first substrate; and the cathode layer is electrically connected to an auxiliary electrode on a light entering surface of the first substrate through a plurality of conductive spacers spaced at certain intervals, wherein the cathode layer is a transparent electrode layer.
US10411181B2
Devices and methods described herein provide electrode pair access from a single side of a device by using one or more via holes through the device. The via hole can pass through or near the center of the device. By creating a conductive path through the via hole of the device, devices and methods of the present disclosure advantageously provide access to a pair of electrodes, each of which contacts a different side of a device layer, on a single side of the device while enabling a greater active device area than is possible using conventional techniques. In addition, the central location of the via hole provides favorable mechanical properties by avoiding radial constriction of the device layers in applications such as piezoelectric devices.
US10411179B2
A thermoelectric generation module has a cooling surface formed on one of a front side and a rear side and a heating surface formed on the other thereof. The thermoelectric generation module includes: a plurality of thermoelectric elements; a pair of flexible boards holding the thermoelectric elements therebetween and respectively defining the cooling surface and the heating surface; a plurality of interelement electrodes respectively provided on opposed surfaces of the flexible boards and configured to electrically connect the thermoelectric elements to each other; a lead wire configured to be electrically connected to an interelement electrode to which a terminal element located at an end of an electrical arrangement is connected; and a reinforcing pattern interposed between the flexible boards and being closer to the drawn-out lead wire with respect to the terminal element.
US10411178B2
A light emitting device includes a light emitting element and a resin package including a molded body, a first lead, and a second lead. Each of the first lead and the second lead has a groove overlapped with a front surface of the molded body in a height direction along a height of the light emitting device. The groove includes a first groove portion extending along a first lateral surface of the molded body and having a first groove length along the first lateral surface, and a second groove portion extending along a second lateral surface of the molded body and having a second groove length along the second lateral surface. The second lateral surface is opposite to the first lateral surface in a first lateral direction perpendicular to the height direction. The second groove length is shorter than the first groove length.
US10411177B2
A light-emitting device, comprising: a substrate; a semiconductor stacking layer comprising a first type semiconductor layer on the substrate, an active layer on the first semiconductor layer, and a second semiconductor layer on the active layer; and an electrode structure on the second semiconductor layer, wherein the electrode structure comprises a bonding layer, a conductive layer, and a first barrier layer between the bonding layer and the conductive layer; wherein the conductive layer has higher standard oxidation potential than that of the bonding layer.
US10411176B2
Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor light emitting device, the method including: providing a mask having a plurality of openings on a base; placing semiconductor light emitting chips on exposed portions of the base through the openings, respectively, by a device carrier which recognizes a shape of the mask and calibrates position for a semiconductor light emitting chip to be seated; and supplying an encapsulant to each of the openings, with the mask serving as a dam.
US10411172B2
Provided are a light source circuit unit that improves light extraction efficiency, as well as an illuminator and a display that include such a light source circuit unit. The light source circuit unit includes: a circuit substrate having a wiring pattern on a surface thereof, the wiring pattern having light reflectivity, a circular pedestal provided on the circuit substrate, a water-repelling region provided at least from a peripheral edge portion of the pedestal to a part of a side face of the pedestal, and one or two or more light-emitting device chips mounted on the pedestal, and driven by a current that flows through the wiring pattern.
US10411171B2
A Light Emitting Device (LED) that has increased reliability and efficiency. Specifically, the LED may be formed using Atomic Layer Deposition to improve the thermal conductivity between the ceramic plate and the LED, decrease the amount of organic contamination, and increase the efficiency of the optical output of the LED.
US10411168B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor component includes a semiconductor chip having a semiconductor layer sequence including an active region that generates radiation; a radiation exit surface running parallel to the active region; a mounting side surface that fixes the semiconductor component and runs obliquely or perpendicularly to the radiation exit surface and at which at least one contact area for external electrical contacting is accessible; a molded body molded onto the semiconductor chip in places and forming the mounting side surface at least in regions; and a contact track arranged on the molded body and electrically conductively connecting the semiconductor chip to the at least one contact area.
US10411166B2
A light emitting device includes a substrate; a light emitting structure disposed on the substrate and including a first conductivity type semiconductor layer, a second conductivity type semiconductor layer, and an active layer disposed between the first conductivity type semiconductor layer and the second conductivity type semiconductor layer; a first electrode electrically connected to the first conductivity type semiconductor layer; a second electrode electrically connected to the second conductivity type semiconductor layer; a first insulation layer disposed on the light emitting structure; a second insulation layer disposed on the first insulation layer; and a first pad and a second pad arranged over the second insulation layer.
US10411164B2
A light-emitting electrode having a ZnO transparent electrode and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. A light-emitting element according to an embodiment comprises: a light-emitting structure comprising a first conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductive semiconductor layer; and a ZnO transparent electrode, which is positioned on the second conductive semiconductor layer, which makes an Ohmic contact with the second conductive semiconductor layer, and which comprises monocrystalline ZnO, wherein the diffraction angle of a peak of the ZnO transparent electrode, which results from X-ray diffraction (XRD) omega 2theta (ω2θ) scan, is in the range of ±1% with regard to the diffraction angle of a peak of the second conductive semiconductor layer, which results from XRD ω2θ scan, and the FWHM of a main peak of the ZnO transparent electrode, which results from XRD omega (ω) scan, is equal to or less than 900 arc sec.
US10411161B2
A light-emitting device including a substrate at least partially doped with a first conductivity type and including a first surface and light-emitting diodes, each diode including at least one three-dimensional semiconductor element, which is or is not doped with the first conductivity type. The semiconductor elements rest on a continuous first portion of the first surface and at least one semiconductor region that forms a photodiode that is at least partially doped with a second conductivity type which is opposite the first conductivity type, and extends into the substrate from a second portion of the first surface that is separate from the first portion.
US10411159B2
A patterned substrate includes a main base and a plurality of patterned structures. The main base has at least one device-disposed region and a cutting region surrounding the device-disposed region. The patterned structures are integratedly formed with the main base, and only distributed in the cutting region of the main base. The patterned structures are separated from each other.
US10411157B2
An optoelectronic component includes an optoelectronic semiconductor chip including first and second electrical contacts, a first leadframe section including a first chip contact pad and a first soldering contact pad situated opposite the first chip contact pad, and a second leadframe section including a second chip contact pad and a second soldering contact pad situated opposite the second chip contact pad, wherein the first electrical contact electrically conductively connects to the first chip contact pad and the second electrical contact electrically conductively connects to the second chip contact pad, the first and second leadframe sections are embedded into a housing such that at least parts of the first and second soldering contact pads are accessible at an underside, and a solder stop element is arranged at the underside of the housing, the solder stop element extending between the first soldering contact pad and the second soldering contact pad.
US10411151B2
A stacked body is obtained by stacking a glass plate, a transparent resin sheet, a solar cell, a colored resin sheet, and a first resin sheet in the order. The stacked body is pressed under heat to fabricate the solar cell module. The module includes the glass plate, a transparent sealing layer placed between the glass plate and the solar cell and formed of the transparent resin sheet, a colored sealing layer placed between the first resin sheet and the solar cell and formed of the colored resin sheet, and the first resin sheet. One of the transparent resin sheet and the colored resin sheet has a tan δ of 1 or higher at a temperature of the pressing, and the other one of the transparent resin sheet and the colored resin sheet has a tan δ of less than 1 at the temperature of the pressing.
US10411149B2
A lateral Ge/Si APD constructed on a silicon-on-insulator wafer includes a silicon device layer having regions that are doped to provide a lateral electric field and an avalanche region. A region having a modest doping level is in contact with a germanium body. There are no metal contacts made to the germanium body. The electrical contacts to the germanium body are made by way of the doped regions in the silicon device layer.
US10411145B2
A method for producing a textured structure of a crystalline silicon solar cell is provided, including the following steps: (1) forming a porous layer structure on a surface of a silicon wafer; (2) then cleaning with a first alkaline chemical solution; (3) removing residual metal particles with a cleaning solution; (4) and then etching the surface with a first chemical etching solution to obtain the textured structure of the crystalline silicon solar cell. The method greatly prolongs the lifetime of the mixed solution of hydrofluoric acid and nitric acid and ensures the stability and uniformity of the textured structure.
US10411138B2
A flash memory structure, a memory array and a fabrication method thereof are disclosed. In the flash memory structure, an erase gate structure is formed between two floating gates, and a word line structure is formed on an outer side of each of the two floating gates, with an oxide layer formed between the word line structure and the substrate. The flash memory structure can be fabricated with a simple process. The memory array employing the flash memory structure is capable of erase operations by means of a voltage applied on erase gate lines and of read operations by means of a voltage applied on word lines. This enables read operations at a lower voltage with less power consumed by the memory array. In addition, the memory array is more efficient and more durable.
US10411134B2
A display device includes a gate electrode on a substrate of a semiconductor device, a gate insulating film over the gate electrode, an active layer comprising an oxide including indium, zinc and gallium on the gate insulating film, and overlapping the gate electrode, and a source electrode and a drain electrode that are spaced apart from each other, wherein the active layer is formed from a zinc-rich target material, and an atomic % ratio of indium, zinc and gallium in the active layer is different from an atomic % ratio of the zinc-rich target material.
US10411128B1
A semiconductor device is formed to include a fin structure, a first trench at a first lateral end of the fin, a second trench at a second lateral end of the fin, and a filler filled on a first traverse side of the fin and a second traverse side of the fin. The filler is contained between the first trench and the second trench, and oxidized in-place to cause a stress to be exerted on the first and second traverse sides of the fin, the stress causing the fin to exhibit a tensile strain in a lateral running direction of the fin.
US10411119B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming an active pattern protruding from a substrate, forming a liner layer on the active pattern, forming a sacrificial gate pattern on the liner layer and crossing the active pattern, forming source/drain regions on the active pattern and at both sides of the sacrificial gate pattern, forming an interlayer insulating layer to cover the source/drain regions, forming capping insulating patterns on the interlayer insulating layer to expose the sacrificial gate pattern, and removing the sacrificial gate pattern and the liner layer by an etching process using the capping insulating patterns as an etch mask to form a gap region exposing the active pattern. The active pattern includes a material having a lattice constant greater than a lattice constant of the substrate, and the capping insulating patterns include a material having an etch selectivity with respect to the liner layer.
US10411109B2
A bipolar junction transistor (BJT) containing sensor that includes a vertically oriented stack of an emitter overlying a supporting substrate, a base region present directly atop the emitter and a collector atop the base region. A first extrinsic base region is in contact with a first sidewall of a vertically oriented base region. The first extrinsic base region is electrically contacted to provide the bias current of the bipolar junction transistor during sensor operation. A second extrinsic base region is in contact with a second sidewall of the base region. The second extrinsic base region includes a sensing element. A sample trench is present adjacent to the BJT having a trench sidewall provided by the sensing element.
US10411106B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor transistor and the semiconductor transistor include a source region and a drain region within a substrate. The method includes forming a gate above the substrate, forming a source contact above the source region and a drain contact above the drain region, and forming air spacers within a dielectric between the gate and each of the source contact and the drain contact. Metal caps are formed on the source contact and the drain contact, and a gate cap is formed between the dielectric and at least a portion of a bottom surface of higher-level contacts, which are contacts formed above the source contact and the drain contact.
US10411105B2
A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes: a semiconductor layer including a first conductivity type semiconductor region and a second conductivity type semiconductor region joined to the first conductivity type semiconductor region; and a surface electrode connected to the second conductivity type region on one surface of the semiconductor layer, including a first Al-based electrode, a second Al-based electrode, an Al-based oxide film interposed between the first Al-based electrode and the second Al-based electrode, and a plated layer on the second Al-based electrode.
US10411097B2
Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide an optimized layer for a semiconductor component. In an example, a doped portion of a wafer, forming a substrate layer may be transferred from the wafer to an acceptor, or handle wafer. A component layer may be applied to the substrate layer. The acceptor wafer is detached from the substrate layer. In some examples, further processing may be executed with regard to the substrate and/or component layers.
US10411094B2
A method of a forming a plurality of semiconductor fin structures that includes forming a sacrificial gate structure on a hardmask overlying a channel region portion of the plurality of sacrificial fins of a first semiconductor material and forming source and drain regions on opposing sides of the channel region. The sacrificial gate structure and the sacrificial fin structure are removed. A second semiconductor material is formed in an opening provided by removing the sacrificial gate structure and the sacrificial fin structure. The second semiconductor material is etched selective to the hardmask to provide a plurality of second semiconductor material fin structures. A function gate structure is formed on the channel region.
US10411089B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a recess, the recess being positioned below an isolation region and having a side portion including a plurality of stepped portions, a plurality of gate electrodes spaced apart from each other on the substrate, and stacked in a direction perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate, a channel structure passing between a first set of the plurality of gate electrodes, and the isolation region passing between a second set of the plurality of gate electrodes, the isolation region extending from the upper surface of the substrate and having an inclined lateral surface.
US10411088B2
A semiconductor device including a substrate and a shallow trench isolation (STI) structure is provided. The substrate has a first voltage area and a second voltage area. A top surface of the substrate in the second voltage area is higher than a top surface of the substrate in the first voltage area, and a trench is defined in the substrate in between the first and second voltage area. The STI structure is located in the substrate within the trench, wherein a first portion of the STI structure is located in the first voltage area, a second portion of the STI structure is located in the second voltage area, and a step height difference exist in between a bottom surface of the first portion of the STI structure in the first voltage area and a bottom surface of the second portion of the STI structure in the second voltage area.
US10411083B2
A display device includes a substrate including a first display region, a second display region having an area smaller than that of the first display region, a third display region having an area smaller than that of the first display region, and a non-display region, a plurality of pixels provided in the first to third display regions, a power line which is connected to each of the plurality of pixels and applies a first power voltage to the plurality of pixels, and a fan-out line provided in the non-display region, the fan-out line applying a data signal to the plurality of pixels, where the power line includes an additional power line, a first power line, and disposed on the additional power line, and a second power line disposed on the first power line.
US10411071B2
A semiconductor storage device includes a global bit line extending in a horizontal direction, a select transistor provided on the global bit line and including a first terminal connected to the global bit line, a bit line provided on the select transistor, extending in a vertical direction, and connected to a second terminal of the select transistor, a plurality of word lines and insulating layers that are stacked alternately in a vertical direction, a first variable resistance layer between one of the plurality of word lines and a first side surface of the bit line, a plurality of dummy word lines and insulating layers that are stacked alternately in the vertical direction and disposed at the same level as the plurality of word lines, and a second variable resistance layer between the plurality of dummy word lines and a second side surface of the bit line.
US10411070B2
An electronic device having a semiconductor memory device is provided. The semiconductor memory device may include a lower interlayer insulating layer having a hole; an upper interlayer insulating layer disposed on the lower interlayer insulating layer; and a memory cell stack including a lower element and an upper element, the lower element being confined to the hole of the lower interlayer insulating layer, the upper element being surrounded by the upper interlayer insulating layer. The lower element may include a lower electrode and a selection element pattern disposed on the lower electrode. The upper element may include a memory pattern disposed on the selection element pattern and an upper electrode disposed on the memory pattern.
US10411065B2
A light-emitting device includes a substrate and a first light-emitting unit. The first light-emitting unit is disposed on the substrate, and includes a first semiconductor layer, a first light-emitting layer, and a second semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer is disposed on the substrate. The first light-emitting layer is disposed between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer is disposed on the first light-emitting layer. The first semiconductor layer has a first sidewall and a second sidewall. A first angle is between the substrate and the first sidewall. A second angle is between the substrate and the second sidewall. The first angle is smaller than the second angle.
US10411058B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes a silicon layer including first and second semiconductor regions; an insulator film, on the silicon layer, having first and second holes positioned on the first and second semiconductor regions; a first metal portion containing a first metal element in the first hole; a first conductor portion containing a second metal element between the first metal portion and the first semiconductor region; a first silicide region containing the second metal element between the first conductor portion and the first semiconductor region; a second metal portion containing the first metal element in the second hole; a second conductor portion containing the second metal element between the second metal portion and the second semiconductor region; and a second silicide region containing a third metal element between the second conductor portion and the second semiconductor region, wherein the first conductor portion thickness is greater than the second conductor portion thickness.
US10411057B2
A substrate has a first surface and a second surface facing each other. A photoelectric conversion region includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion devices provided in the substrate. An interlayered insulating layer is provided on the first surface of the substrate. A plurality of wires is provided on the interlayered insulating layer. An inter-wire insulating layer covers the plurality of wires. A plurality of micro lenses is provided on the second surface of the substrate. A grid pattern is provided in at least one of the interlayered insulating layer and the inter-wire insulating layer. The grid pattern, when viewed in a plan view, overlaps a region between two adjacent photoelectric conversion devices of the plurality of photoelectric conversion devices.
US10411056B2
There are provided a highly reliable semiconductor device capable of suppressing occurrence of cracks as well as securing flatness and a manufacturing method therefor. The semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; an element region; and a non-element region. The non-element region includes: a top-layer metal wiring in a top layer of metal wirings formed in the non-element region; a flattening film covering an upper surface of the top-layer metal wiring; and a protecting film formed over the flattening film. A removed part where the protecting film is removed is formed in at least part of the non-element region.
US10411047B2
This disclosure discloses an array substrate and a manufacturing method, and a display device, the array substrate including: a channel layer; a gate insulating layer including a first portion and a second portion connected side by side, arranged on the channel layer, and exposing a source and drain contact zone on the channel layer, the second portion of the gate insulating layer being located on both sides of the first portion of the gate insulating layer; a gate layer, disposed on the first portion of the gate insulating layer; and a source and a drain, correspondingly connected to the contact region of the source and drain of the channel layer respectively. The array substrate of this disclosure solves the array substrate leakage problem caused by conductorizing the channel layer due to performing ion implantation to the channel layer.
US10411034B2
An integrated circuit memory device includes a vertical stack structure containing an interlayer insulating layer and a gate electrode, on a substrate. A blocking dielectric region is provided on a sidewall of an opening in the stack structure. A lateral impurity region is provided, which extends between the blocking dielectric region and the interlayer insulating layer and between the blocking dielectric region and the gate electrode. A lower impurity region is also provided, which extends between the blocking dielectric region and the substrate.
US10411032B2
A three-dimensional semiconductor device is disclosed. The device may include an electrode structure that can include a plurality of electrodes that are stacked on a substrate and extend in a first direction. Vertical structures can penetrate the electrode structure to provide a plurality of columns spaced apart from each other in a second direction crossing the first direction. The plurality of columns can include first and second edge columns located adjacent to respective opposite edges of the electrode structure, and the plurality of columns can include a center column located between the first and second edge columns. Distances between adjacent ones of the plurality of columns can decrease in a direction from the first and second edge columns toward the center column.
US10411024B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system classifies nonvolatile memory dies connected to channels into die groups such that each of the nonvolatile memory dies belongs to only one die group. The memory system performs a data write/read operation for one die group of the die groups in accordance with an I/O command from a host designating one of regions including at least one region corresponding to each die group. When the memory system receives a command including a parameter designating a copy source die group and a copy destination die group from the host, the memory system performs an operation of copying valid data in the copy source die group to the copy destination die group.
US10411023B2
Semiconductor structures and fabrication methods thereof are provided. An exemplary fabrication method includes providing a base substrate having an N-type logic region including a first and a second N-type threshold voltage region, a P-type logic region including a first and a second P-type threshold voltage region, a pull-up transistor region and an adjacent pull-down transistor region; forming a gate dielectric layer; forming a first work function layer on the gate dielectric layer; removing portions of the first work function layer; forming a second work function layer on remaining first work function layer and exposed portions of the gate dielectric layer; removing a portion of the second work function layer; forming an N-type work function layer on remaining second work function layer and exposed portion of the gate dielectric layer in the second N-type threshold voltage region; and forming a gate electrode layer on the N-type work function layer.
US10411014B2
Disclosed are a semiconductor device capable of reducing parasitic capacitance between adjacent conductive structures and a method for fabricating the same. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of bit line structures each comprising a first contact plug formed over a substrate and a bit line formed over the first contact plug. A spacer structure having air gaps is formed on sidewalls of the first contact plug and on sidewalls of the bit line. An plug isolation layer is formed between the plurality of bit line structures. The isolation layer includes an opening. A second contact plug is formed in the opening and a memory element is formed over the second contact plug.
US10411007B2
Monolithic FETs including a channel region in a first semiconductor material disposed over a substrate. While a mask, such as a gate stack or sacrificial gate stack, is covering a channel region, a semiconductor spacer of a semiconductor material with a band offset relative to the channel material is grown, for example on at least a drain end of the channel region to introduce at least one charge carrier-blocking band offset between the channel semiconductor and a drain region of a third III-V semiconductor material. In some N-type transistor embodiments, the carrier-blocking band offset is a conduction band offset of at least 0.1 eV. A wider band gap and/or a blocking conduction band offset may contribute to reduced gate induced drain leakage (GIDL). Source/drain regions couple electrically to the channel region through the semiconductor spacer, which may be substantially undoped (i.e. intrinsic) or doped. In some embodiments, the semiconductor spacer growth is integrated into a gate-last, source/drain regrowth finFET fabrication process.
US10411001B2
Donut-shaped Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) includes a hole that fits around a processor, such that the DRAM and the processor are adjacent to one another on an Integrated Circuit (TC) package. In an embodiment, a heat spreader is mounted on top of the processor and covers a top of the DRAM without touching the DRAM.
US10410987B2
Display device for facilitating alignment of a pad of a display panel and an element mounted thereon
A display device including a display panel including a base layer, a circuit layer disposed on the base layer, and a pad part having a plurality of pads disposed on the base layer; and a driving chip disposed on the pad part and including a plurality of chip pads. The plurality of pads include a first pad having a smaller area than a corresponding chip pad among the plurality of chip pads and a second pad electrically connected to the circuit layer.
US10410973B2
A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a semiconductor device comprising one or more conductive shielding members and an EMI shielding layer, and a method of manufacturing thereof.
US10410965B2
A die includes one or more fins, a gate formed over a first portion of the one or more fins, and a first source/drain contact formed over a second portion of the one or more fins, wherein the first source/drain contact includes an extended portion that does not overlap the one or more fins. The die also includes first and second metal lines formed from a first metal layer, wherein the first and second metal lines are spaced apart. The die further includes a first via connecting the first source/drain contact to the first metal line, and a second via connecting the first source/drain contact to the second metal line, wherein the second via lies within the extended portion of the first source/drain contact.
US10410963B1
An electric device includes a first structure, a second structure, and a deformed layer. The deformed layer includes a dielectric matrix and electrically conductive elements formed therein. The deformed layer is arranged to electrically couple the first structure with the second structure.
US10410962B2
Encapsulated conformal electronic devices, encapsulated conformal integrated circuit (IC) sensor systems, and methods of making and using encapsulated conformal electronic devices are presented herein. A conformal integrated circuit device is disclosed which includes a flexible substrate with electronic circuitry attached to the flexible substrate. A flexible encapsulation layer is attached to the flexible substrate. The flexible encapsulation layer encases the electronic circuitry between the flexible substrate and the encapsulation layer. For some configurations, the encapsulation layer and flexible substrate arc fabricated from stretchable and bendable non-conductive polymers. The electronic circuitry may comprise an integrated circuit sensor system with multiple device islands that are electrically and physically connected via a plurality of stretchable electrical interconnects.
US10410961B2
A fan-out semiconductor package includes: a frame including insulating layers, wiring layers, and connection via layers, and having a recess portion and a stopper layer disposed on a bottom surface of the recess portion; a semiconductor chip disposed in the recess portion, and having connection pads, an active surface on which the connection pads are disposed, and an inactive surface opposing the active surface and disposed on the stopper layer; an encapsulant covering at least portions of the semiconductor chip and filling at least portions of the recess portion; and a connection member disposed on the frame and the active surface of the semiconductor chip and including a redistribution layer electrically connecting the plurality of wiring layers of the frame and the connection pads of the semiconductor chip to each other. The active surface of the semiconductor chip and an upper surface of the encapsulant have a step portion therebetween.
US10410959B2
Package deflection and mechanical stress of microelectronic packaging is minimized in a two step manufacturing process. In a first step, a ceramic insulator is high-temperature bonded between a wraparound lead layer and a buffer layer of a same material as the lead layer to provide a symmetrically balanced three-layer structure. In a second step, the three-layer structure is high temperature bonded, using a lower melt point braze, to a heat spreader. This package configuration minimizes package deflection, and thereby improves thermal dissipation and reliability of the package.
US10410958B2
A mechanically-stable and thermally-conductive interface device between a semiconductor die and a package for the die, and related method of fabrication, comprising: a semiconductor die; a package for the die; a surface area-enhancing pattern on the package and/or the die; and die attach materials between the die and the package, the die attach materials attaching the die to the package through an interface provided by the die attach materials; wherein: an effective bonding area between the die attach materials and the package and/or the die is greater with the pattern than without the pattern; and the increase of the effective bonding area simultaneously increases the surface area for thermal transport between the package and/or the die, and the die attach materials; and increases the surface area for stably attaching the at least one of the package and the die to the die attach materials.
US10410954B2
A cooling module used in conjunction with a heating element includes a vapor chamber and a plurality of cooling fins. The vapor chamber is in contact with one side of the heating element. The vapor chamber is disposed with a direct conduction area and a vacuum block disposed on two sides of the direct conduction area respectively. Each vacuum block forms a chamber. The cooling fins protrude from and are vertically disposed on the direct conduction area and each vacuum block, respectively. Thereby, the effects of fast vertical heat transfer to the fin and fast horizontal heat transfer to the distal cooling fins are achieved.
US10410947B2
A semiconductor package may include a first semiconductor chip, a second semiconductor chip, and a thermal redistribution pattern which are disposed on a package substrate. The thermal redistribution pattern may include a first end portion disposed in a high temperature region adjacent to the first semiconductor chip, a second end portion disposed in a low temperature region adjacent to the second semiconductor chip, and an extension portion connecting the first end portion to the second end portion.
US10410935B1
Methods and systems for determining band structure characteristics of high-k dielectric films deposited over a substrate based on spectral response data are presented. High throughput spectrometers are utilized to quickly measure semiconductor wafers early in the manufacturing process. Optical models of semiconductor structures capable of accurate characterization of defects in high-K dielectric layers and embedded nanostructures are presented. In one example, the optical dispersion model includes a continuous Cody-Lorentz model having continuous first derivatives that is sensitive to a band gap of a layer of the unfinished, multi-layer semiconductor wafer. These models quickly and accurately represent experimental results in a physically meaningful manner. The model parameter values can be subsequently used to gain insight and control over a manufacturing process.
US10410929B2
A method of manufacturing a vertical fin field effect transistor includes forming a first fin in a first device region of a substrate, forming a second fin in a second device region of the substrate, and forming a sacrificial gate having a first gate length adjacent to the first and second fins. After forming a block mask over the sacrificial gate within the first device region, a deposition step or an etching step is used to increase or decrease the gate length of the sacrificial gate within the second device region. Top source/drain junctions formed over the fins are self-aligned to the gate in each of the first and second device regions.
US10410926B2
The invention relates to a method comprising providing a substrate with a channel layer, forming a gate stack structure on the channel layer and forming a raised source and a raised drain on the channel layer. The method further comprises depositing in a non-conformal way an oxide layer above the gate stack structure, the raised source and the raised drain. A first void above the raised source and a second void above the raised drain gate are created adjacent to vertical edges of the gate stack structure. The method further comprises etching the oxide layer for a predefined etching time, thereby removing the oxide layer above the raised source and the raised drain, while keeping it at least partly on the channel layer. Contacts are formed to the raised source and the raised drain. The invention also concerns a corresponding computer program product.
US10410923B2
A method of processing a wafer includes forming a mask on portions of a face side of the wafer which correspond to devices; performing plasma etching on the face side of the wafer through the mask to etch areas of streets other than areas thereof corresponding to metal components, thereby forming grooves in the areas of the streets to a depth corresponding to a finished thickness of device chips; bonding a protective member for protecting the face side of the wafer, holding the face side of the wafer on a chuck table through the protective member and grinding a reverse side of the wafer until bottoms of the grooves are exposed, to fragmentize the wafer into the device chips; and picking up the device chips from the protective member, leaving remaining regions of the substrate which correspond to the metal components on the protective member.
US10410916B2
A semiconductor device includes an interlayer insulation layer on a semiconductor substrate, a via plug and a wiring line on the via plug, in the interlayer insulation layer, the via plug and the wiring line coupled with each other and forming a stepped structure. The semiconductor device includes a first air-gap region between the interlayer insulation layer and the via plug, and a second air-gap region between the interlayer insulation layer and the wiring line. The first air-gap region and the second air-gap region are not vertically overlapped with each other.
US10410906B2
A substrate supporting apparatus includes a rotatable chuck, a first mass flow controller, a second mass flow controller, a plurality of locating pins and guiding pillars, and a motor in which the rotatable chuck defines a plurality of first injecting ports and second injecting ports, the first injecting ports are connected with a first gas passage for supplying gas to the substrate and sucking the substrate by Bernoulli effect, the second injecting ports are connected with a second gas passage for supplying gas to the substrate and lifting the substrate, the first and the second mass flow controllers are respectively installed on the first and the second gas passages, the plurality of locating pins and guiding pillars are disposed at the top surface of the rotatable chuck and every guiding pillar protrudes to form a holding portion, and the motor is used for rotating the rotatable chuck.
US10410904B2
Disclosed is a method of peeling a protective member from a wafer, the protective member composed of a resin and a film, the film attached to one side of the wafer through the resin in a state in which a protruding portion is formed. The method includes: a step of holding the other side of the wafer, with the protective member on the lower side; an outer circumferential edge adhered resin peeling step of grasping the protruding portion of the protective member, and pulling the protruding portion to an outer side than an outer circumferential edge of the wafer, to peel the resin adhered to the outer circumferential edge of the wafer from the outer circumferential edge of the wafer; and a step of peeling, after the outer circumferential edge adhered resin peeling step, the whole body of the protective member from the wafer.
US10410901B2
An electrostatic chuck table includes a plate-shaped base portion capable of transmitting a laser beam to be applied to a workpiece and an electrostatic attraction electrode portion capable of transmitting the laser beam. The laser beam has a transmission wavelength to the workpiece. The base portion has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The electrode portion is formed on the first surface of the base portion. A method for using the electrostatic chuck table includes a workpiece holding step of applying a voltage to the electrode portion formed on the first surface to thereby electrostatically hold the workpiece on the second surface, and a modified layer forming step of applying the laser beam through the first surface to a predetermined position inside the workpiece held on the second surface to thereby form a modified layer inside the workpiece.
US10410900B2
Precision screen printing is described that is capable of sub-micron uniformity of the metallization materials that are printed on green sheet ceramic. In some examples, puck is formed with electrical traces by screen printing a paste that contains metal on a ceramic green sheet in a pattern of electrical traces and processing the printed green sheet to form a puck of a workpiece carrier. In some example, the printing includes applying a squeegee of a screen printer to the printed green sheet in a squeegeeing direction while the green sheet is on a printer bed of the screen printer. The method further includes mapping the printer bed at multiple locations along the squeegeeing direction, identifying non-uniformities in the printer bed mapping, and modifying a printer controller of the screen printer to compensate for mapped non-uniformities in the printer bed.
US10410899B2
Described herein are an electrostatic chuck and method for using the same. In one example, an electrostatic chuck is provided that includes a plurality of independently replaceable electrostatic chuck assemblies mounted in an array across a chuck body. The electrostatic chuck assemblies define a substrate support surface suitable for supporting a large area substrate. At least a first electrostatic chuck assembly of the plurality of electrostatic chuck assemblies is operable independent of an operation of a second electrostatic chuck assembly of the plurality of electrostatic chuck assemblies. In yet another example, a method for chucking a substrate is provided.
US10410894B2
A purge stocker includes a first supply unit including N first purge apparatuses, each having a first supply unit configured to support a storage container, a first supply pipe configured to supply the purge gas into the storage container supported by the first supporting unit, and a first flow rate adjusting unit configured to adjust the flow rate of the purge gas in the first supply pipe; and a second supply unit including M second purge apparatuses, each having a second supporting unit configured to support the storage container and a second supply pipe configured to supply the purge gas into the storage container supported by the second supporting unit. When the storage containers are supported by a certain number of second supporting units, the second supply unit supplies the storage containers with the purge gas through the respective second supply pipes.
US10410893B2
A transfer device for micro element with a test circuit can test the micro element during transfer. The transfer device for micro elements includes: a base substrate, having two surfaces opposite to each other; a pick-up head array, formed over the first surface of the base substrate for picking up or releasing the micro element; a test circuit set inside or/on the surface of the base substrate, which has a series of sub-test circuits, each sub-test circuit at least having two test electrodes for simultaneous test of photoelectric parameters of the micro element when the transfer device transfers the micro element.
US10410889B2
In some embodiments, a plasma processing apparatus includes a processing chamber to process a substrate; a mounting surface defined within the processing chamber to support a substrate disposed within the processing chamber; a showerhead disposed within the processing chamber and aligned so as to face the mounting surface, the showerhead defining a plurality of orifices to introduce a process gas into the processing chamber toward a substrate disposed within the processing chamber; and one or more magnets supported by the showerhead and arranged so that a radial component of a magnetic field applied by each of the one or more magnets has a higher flux density proximate a first region corresponding to an edge surface region of a substrate when disposed within the processing chamber than at a second region corresponding to an interior surface region of a substrate when disposed within the processing chamber.
US10410883B2
Methods of forming vias in substrates having at least one damage region extending from a first surface etching the at least one damage region of the substrate to form a via in the substrate, wherein the via extends through the thickness T of the substrate while the first surface of the substrate is masked. The mask is removed from the first surface of the substrate after etching and upon removal of the mask the first surface of the substrate has a surface roughness (Rq) of about less than 1.0 nm.
US10410879B2
Systems and methods for uniform back side exposure of through-silicon vias (TSVs) are disclosed. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device comprises a substrate having a front side with circuit elements formed thereon, and a back side opposite the front side. A TSV extends between the front side and the back side of the substrate, and a dummy feature is disposed over the back side of the substrate, the dummy feature laterally spaced apart from the TSV and substantially coplanar with the TSV. In another embodiment, a semiconductor device comprises a substrate having a TSV formed therethrough, with a control material disposed over the back side of the substrate, the TSV substantially coplanar with the control material.
US10410877B2
An etching method for etching a silicon oxide film is provided that includes generating a plasma from a gas including a hydrogen-containing gas and a fluorine-containing gas using a high frequency power for plasma generation, and etching the silicon oxide film using the generated plasma. The fluorine-containing gas includes a hydrofluorocarbon gas, and the sticking coefficient of radicals generated from the hydrofluorocarbon gas is higher than the sticking coefficient of radicals generated from carbon tetrafluoride (CF4).
US10410873B2
A method of etching a substrate is described. The method includes disposing a substrate having a surface exposing a first material and a second material in a processing space of a plasma processing system, and performing a modulated plasma etching process to selectively remove the first material at a rate greater than removing the second material. The modulated plasma etching process comprises a power modulation cycle having sequential power application steps that includes: applying a radio frequency (RF) signal to the plasma processing system at a first power level, applying the RF signal to the plasma processing system at a second power level, and applying the RF signal to the plasma processing system at a third power level. Thereafter, the power modulation cycle is repeated at least one more cycle, wherein each modulation cycle includes a modulation time period.
US10410870B2
A technique capable of controlling in-plane uniformity of a film formed on a substrate includes a step of forming a film on a substrate by performing a predetermined number of cycles in which a step of supplying a metal-containing gas to the substrate and a step of supplying a reducing gas containing an element that becomes a solid by itself to the substrate are performed in a time-division manner. The reducing gas has a property of changing a deposition rate of the film from an increasing rate to a decreasing rate in accordance with the exposure amount of the reducing gas with respect to the substrate. In the step of supplying the reducing gas, the exposure amount of the reducing gas with respect to the substrate is adjusted in accordance with the property of the reducing gas.
US10410861B2
Methods for void-free material filling of fine recessed features have been disclosed in various embodiments. According to one embodiment, the method includes a) providing a substrate containing a recessed feature having an opening, a sidewall and a bottom, the sidewall including an area of retrograde profile relative to a direction extending from a top of the recessed feature to the bottom of the recessed feature, b) depositing an amount of a material in the recessed feature, the material having a greater thickness at the bottom than on the sidewall of the recessed feature, c) stopping the depositing in step b) before the recessed feature is fully filled with the material, d) etching a portion of the material from the recessed feature, and e) depositing an additional amount of the material to fully fill the recessed feature with the material without any voids in the recessed feature.
US10410856B2
Methods of depositing boron and carbon containing films are provided. In some embodiments, methods of depositing B,C films with desirable properties, such as conformality and etch rate, are provided. One or more boron and/or carbon containing precursors can be decomposed on a substrate at a temperature of less than about 400° C. In some embodiments methods of depositing silicon nitride films comprising B and C are provided. A silicon nitride film can be deposited by a deposition process including an ALD cycle that forms SiN and a CVD cycle that contributes B and C to the growing film.
US10410851B2
A matrix-assisted laser desorption (MALDI) mass spectrometry in which a mixture comprising a polyethylene glycol derivative having a molecular weight of 40,000 or more and a matrix is irradiated with laser beam to vaporize the polyethylene glycol derivative together with the matrix, thereby measuring a molecular weight of the polyethylene glycol derivative, wherein as the matrix, a low polar matrix having a 1-octanol/water partition coefficient (logPow) of 4.1 to 4.8 is used. Also disclosed is a matrix for use in the matrix-assisted laser desorption (MALDI) mass spectrometry.
US10410849B2
Systems and methods described herein utilize an ion guide for use in mass spectrometer systems, which ion guide can receive ions from an ion source for transmission to downstream mass analyzers, while preventing debris (e.g., unsolvated droplets, neutral molecules, heavy charged clusters) from being transmitted into a high-vacuum chamber of the mass spectrometer system. In various aspects, systems and methods in accordance with the present teachings can increase throughput, improve the robustness of the system, and/or decrease the downtime typically required to disassemble/clean sensitive components within the high-vacuum portions of the mass spectrometer system.
US10410846B2
The present disclosure relates generally to methods and apparatus for determining components and associated conditions in a dermatological sample, and preparing personalized cosmetics or treatments. In particular, the present disclosure relates to the use of surface desorption ionization-mass spectrometry methods and apparatus to assay dermatological samples. The method and apparatus can allow real time analysis of sample molecules, such as in skin and hair, for molecular diagnostics in dermatology, dermatopathology and the preparation of personalized cosmetics.
US10410844B2
Provided herein are approaches for in-situ plasma cleaning of one or more components of an ion implantation system. In one approach, the component may include a beam-line component, such as an energy purity module, having a plurality of conductive beam optics contained therein. The system further includes a power supply system for supplying a voltage and a current to the beam-line component during a cleaning mode, wherein the power supply system may include a first power plug coupled to a first subset of the plurality of conductive beam optics and a second power plug coupled to a second subset of the plurality of conductive beam optics. During a cleaning mode, the voltage and current may be simultaneously supplied and split between each of the first and second power plugs.
US10410841B2
A gas injection system includes (a) a side gas plenum, (b) a plurality of N gas inlets coupled to said side gas plenum, (c) plural side gas outlets extending radially inwardly from said plenum, (d) an N-way gas flow ratio controller having N outputs coupled to said N gas inlets respectively, and (e) an M-way gas flow ratio controller having M outputs, respective ones of said M outputs coupled to said tunable gas nozzle and a gas input of said N-way gas flow ratio controller.
US10410840B2
A gas supplying method of supplying a process gas containing a gas of at least one gaseous species into a process space in a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes supplying the process gas by controlling a flow rate value of the gas to be a first value during a first period; supplying the process gas by controlling the flow rate value of the gas to be a second value smaller than the first value during a second period; supplying the process gas by controlling the flow rate value of the gas to be a third value greater than the first value during a third period; and supplying the process gas by controlling the flow rate value of the gas to be a fourth value smaller than the second value during a fourth period, wherein these steps are periodically repeated in a predetermined order.
US10410838B2
An apparatus (9) for plasma treating multiple containers. The apparatus includes a manifold (2) comprising at least a first chamber with multiple outlet openings and multiple hollow, electrically-conductive nozzles (10) for at least one of delivering or exhausting plasma-generating gas. The multiple hollow, electrically-conductive nozzles are connected to the multiple outlet openings and protrude from the manifold. A method of plasma treating multiple containers is also disclosed. The method includes providing a reactor system comprising an apparatus disclosed herein, inserting the multiple hollow, electrically-conductive nozzles into the multiple containers (30), evacuating the multiple containers, grounding the multiple hollow, electrically-conductive nozzles while applying radio frequency power to the multiple containers, providing a gas inside the containers, and generating a plasma. At least one of evacuating or providing the gas is carried out through the hollow, electrically-conductive nozzles.
US10410829B1
A method of preparing a sample of a semiconductor device that includes placing a wafer on a support surface, milling an initial lamella within the wafer using a focused ion beam, lifting the initial lamella out of the wafer, placing the initial lamella on an upper surface of the wafer on a lateral side of the initial lamella, milling a planar lamella out of a portion of the initial lamella and the wafer beneath the initial lamella, lifting the planar lamella out of the wafer; and placing the planar lamella on a carbon grid. A method further includes milling a window within an upper portion of the initial lamella exposing internal structures of the initial lamella; and based at least partially on the exposed internal structures of the initial lamella, aligning the initial lamella on the upper surface of the wafer.
US10410822B2
A double-tilt in-situ nanoindentation platform for TEM (transmission electron microscope) belongs to the field of in-situ characterization of the mechanical property-microstructure relationship of materials at the nano- and atomic scale. The platform is consisted of adhesive area, support beams, bearing beams, sample loading stage and mini indenter. The overall structure of the platform is prepared by semiconductor microfabrication technology. The in-situ nanoindentation experiment can be driven by bimetallic strip, V-shaped electro-thermal beam, piezoelectric ceramics, electrostatic comb or shape memory alloys et. al. The sample is obtained by focused ion beam cutting. The integrated platform can be placed in the narrow space on the front end of the TEM sample holder, giving rise to the condition of double-axis tilt. The driving device drives the mini indenter to carry out in-situ nanoindentation, in-situ compression and in-situ bending and the like of the materials in TEM. The deformation process of material can be in-situ observed in sub angstrom, atomic and nano scale to study the deformation mechanism of material, which can further reveal the relationship of microstructure-mechanical properties of the material.
US10410819B2
A system, method, and computer program product for optimizing the cooling of a UV bulb during a UV irradiation process is described. A power level in which to operate the UV bulb is received. In addition, a particular type of UV bulb being used in the UV irradiation process is received. Thereafter, at least one optimal UV cooling parameter that corresponds to the power level and the type of UV bulb is retrieved from a UV source parameters database. At least one control signal is then sent to a cooling device that is based on the retrieved optimal UV cooling parameter, and the control signal instructs the cooling device to cool the particular type of UV bulb according to the retrieved optimal UV cooling parameter during the UV irradiation process.
US10410816B2
In one example, a hybrid circuit interrupter may include a three-coil architecture, first coil circuitry, leakage detection circuitry, and a main processing circuit including a processor. The three-coil architecture may include a coil housing, three coils, and a plurality of coil assembly conductors. The coils may be disposed within the coil housing. The coil assembly conductors may be at least partially disposed within the coil housing. The first coil circuitry may be connected to the first coil and may generate first coil signals. The leakage detection circuitry may be connected to the other two coils and may generate a leakage signal. The processor may receive the first coil signals, receive the leakage signal, determine whether an arc fault exists based on the first coil signals, determine whether a ground fault exists based on the leakage signal, and generate a first trigger signal if a fault is determined to exist.
US10410814B2
A power electronics arrangement may comprise a power supply, a controller configured to receive a power from the power supply and generate an output signal, a waveguide, a receiver, filter, and converter (RFC) configured to receive the output signal via the waveguide, the RFC configured to generate a switching signal from the output signal, and a power switching device (PSD) configured to receive the switching signal from the RFC, wherein the controller transmits the output signal to the RFC through the waveguide via a transponder, the waveguide is coupled between the transponder and the RFC, and the PSD is galvanically isolated from the power supply.
US10410809B2
An electric switch for electrical devices that includes a circuit board immovably arranged in a switch housing, the circuit board includes on one of its surfaces the contact paths of a contact system as well as contact surfaces in the form of potentiometer tracks. The contact paths interact with sliding contacts of the contact system and the potentiometer tracks interact with additional sliding contacts in order to set the revolutions per minute or the torque of the electric motor, movement of the plunger causes the sliding contacts of the contact system to come into contact with the associated contact paths, and, in this position of the plunger, which is the on position of the switch, the sliding contacts used for changing the direction of rotation are in the same way already in contact with the associated potentiometer tracks on the circuit board.
US10410808B2
According to various embodiments, there is provided a key assembly including a housing including a sliding groove on an inner surface of the housing and further including a contact surface above the sliding groove; a plunger at least partially fitted into the housing, the plunger including a protrusion; a sound producing member provided at least partially in the sliding groove, the sound producing member configured to produce sound by impacting the contact surface; wherein the sound producing member includes a connecting portion obliquely extending to an abutting portion, the abutting portion arranged below the protrusion; wherein the plunger is displaceable downwards to deform the connecting portion using the protrusion, the deformed connecting portion being reboundable to cause impact the sound producing member to impact the contact surface.
US10410806B2
A key switch device includes: an operation member to be depressed; a switch disposed below the operation member; a reaction force generating member that is provided between the operation member and the switch, performs elastic buckling deformation by depression of the operation member, gives a reaction force according to the elastic buckling deformation to the operation member; and a depression member that is provided between the operation member and the switch, and depresses the switch; wherein the reaction force generating member includes a supporter that supports the depression member.
US10410790B2
A primary coil which includes a primary winding which is wound around a primary bobbin, and a secondary coil which includes a secondary winding which is separately wound around a secondary bobbin which includes a plurality of sections, are provided, and a winding portion of the secondary coil is configured in a state where a maximum winding height is set as 20% through 30% with respect to an axis length winding length.
US10410788B1
A system and method provide for wireless power and/or data transfer between devices, such as coils. A first device, operatively connected to an energy source, is positioned within a wireless transmission range of a second device, which may be operatively coupled to an unmanned vehicle. Power and/or data is wirelessly transferred to/from the energy source from/to the unmanned vehicle via the first device and the second device.
US10410780B2
An iron powder for dust cores has an apparent density is 3.8 g/cm3 or more, a mean particle size (D50) is 80 μm or more, 60% or more of powder with a powder particle size of 100 μm or more has a mean grain size of 80 μm or more inside the powder particle, an area ratio of inclusions to a matrix phase of the powder is 0.4% or less, and a micro Vickers hardness (testing force: 0.245 N) of a powder cross-section is 90 Hv or less. It is thus possible to obtain iron powder for dust cores in order to manufacture a dust core that has low hysteresis loss even after the iron powder is formed and subjected to strain relief annealing.
US10410778B2
A magnetic circuit component includes a magnetic core and a coil formed by winding a conductor around the magnetic core. The magnetic circuit component includes a magnetic material section that is formed from a soft magnetic material, and that covers a part of a surface of the coil or the entire surface of the coil and is disposed away from the magnetic core.
US10410767B2
Aspects of the present invention provide an improved cable having a reduced cross section while continuing to provide high voltage (noisy) power signals alongside low voltage (noise-susceptible) data signals. The improved cable can be used for power delivery and communications between a motor and a drive in an industrial control system. The reduced cross section advantageously improves handling. By providing separate groups between a group delivering the power signals and a group providing the data signals, thereby enforcing a physical separation, and by twisting together individual conductors of the group delivering the power signals with the group providing the data signals and the groups providing the separation, the reduced cross section can be achieved while continuing to minimize noise and interference onto the data signals due to the power signals.
US10410761B2
A technology that, even in the case where a sheet member employed as an exterior member has low flexibility, is able to make a portion where the sheet member is wrapped around an electrical wire easily bendable. The electrical wire includes a bending part arranged in a bent state. The exterior member includes a sheet main body part wrapped around a portion of the electrical wire that includes the bending part. A slit is formed in a portion of the main body part that is wrapped around the bending part, in a direction including a direction in which a wrapping start portion and a wrapping end portion of the main body part are joined together.
US10410758B2
The present invention relates to a method for patterning a metal nanowire-based transparent conductive film through surface treatment and, more particularly, to a method wherein the refractive index is adjusted by adding an optical functional layer prior to a patterning process, the surface of a metal nanowire transparent conductive film is oxidized using a surface treatment agent composition or a salt compound is generated, thereby changing the color and insulating the surface, and a film having excellent visibility is patterned.
US10410752B2
A method for generating electrical energy, comprising the steps of providing a fusion fuel (1), the fusion fuel (1) being held in a magnetic field within a cylindrical reaction chamber (2), initiating nuclear fusion in the fusion fuel (1), in which a fusion flame is produced by fusion laser pulses (4) having a pulse duration of less than 10 ps and a power of more than 1 petawatt, and converting the energy that is released during the nuclear fusion from the nuclei that are produced into power plant power, wherein the magnetic field has a field strength which is greater than or equal to 1 kilotesla and the nuclear fusion has an energy yield of more than 500 per laser energy of the fusion laser pulses (4) that produce the fusion flame. Also described is a nuclear fusion reactor which is configured for generating electrical energy.
US10410751B2
Systems and methods are provided for determining the placement of energy-delivery nodes of an energy-based therapeutic device. In one aspect, recommended placement locations are customized by analyzing an image or video of the user and may be superimposed on an image corresponding to an affected body part.
US10410732B1
Systems and methods are described for predicting potential failures in flash memory devices by probing for memory cells with marginal programming characteristics. A method includes receiving a write request. The method also includes applying a predetermined number of programming pulses to a plurality of memory cells within a block of a flash memory device. The method also includes applying a verify pulse to each respective one of the plurality of memory cells. The method also includes storing programming status of the plurality of memory cells into a set of latches. The method also includes determining, based on the stored programming status, a total number of memory cells within the block that fall outside of one or more predetermined expected ranges. The method also includes identifying the block as a block in risk when the total number of memory cells satisfies a predetermined risk threshold.
US10410731B2
In a semiconductor integrated circuit, an internal circuit is capable of executing a first operation and a second operation concurrently, and an output circuit outputs to the outside of the semiconductor integrated circuit information indicating whether or not the first operation is being executed and information indicating whether or not the second operation is executable.
US10410727B2
A non-volatile memory (NVM) includes at least one memory unit region, each including a memory array and having first memory cells in the odd columns and second memory cells in the even columns. Corresponding to each memory unit region, the NVM includes a multiplexer including first bit line decoders and second bit line decoders, a comparator circuit including a first input terminal and a second input terminal, and a bias generation circuit generating a bias voltage. When reading a data information from a first memory cell, a first output voltage of the first memory cell is sent to the first input terminal and the bias voltage is sent to the second input terminal. When reading a data information from a second memory cell, a second output voltage of the second memory cell is sent to the second input terminal and the bias voltage is sent to the first input terminal.
US10410725B2
A memory device includes a plurality of memory cell transistors, a word line electrically connected to gates of the memory cell transistors, and a control circuit configured to perform programming of the memory cell transistors to a plurality of different threshold voltage ranges in a plurality of loops, each loop including a program operation and a program verification. The different threshold voltage ranges include a first threshold voltage range and a second threshold voltage range that is at a higher voltage than the first threshold voltage range. Further, during the program operation, the control circuit applies a program voltage to the word line, the program voltage increasing for each subsequent loop, an amount of increase of the program voltage when programming to the second threshold voltage range being set in accordance with a number of loops required to complete programming to the first threshold voltage range.
US10410721B2
Methods, systems, and devices for a pulsed integrator and memory techniques are described. A first device may facilitate discharging a memory cell using at least one current pulse until a voltage associated with the memory cell reaches a reference voltage. The discharge time of the memory cell may be determined based at least in part on a duration of at least one current pulse. In some examples, a state of the memory cell may be determined based at least in part on a discharge time.
US10410715B2
In one embodiment, a static random access memory (SRAM) device is provided. The SRAM device comprises a plurality of memory cells, a bit line coupled to a first set of the plurality of memory cells at data nodes, and a first voltage supply line coupled to a second set of the plurality of memory cells. The SRAM device further comprises a first switch for selectively coupling the first voltage supply line to a first voltage source to charge the first voltage supply line to a first voltage level and a second switch for selectively coupling the first voltage supply line to the bit line for pre-charging the bit line to a bit line voltage level that is less than the first voltage level.
US10410713B1
Aspects of the disclosed technology relate to techniques for modeling content-addressable memory in emulation and prototyping. A model for content-addressable memory comprises memory circuitry configured to store match results for various search keys. The match results are stored in the second memory circuitry during write operations. The model for content-addressable memory may further comprise additional memory circuitry configured to operate as a standard computer memory, performing read operations alone and write operations along with the memory circuitry.
US10410710B2
Steering logic circuitry includes bit-flipping logic that determines a first neighboring redundant word line adjacent to a redundant word line of a memory bank, which also includes normal word lines. Redundant word lines include main word lines, each of which includes paired word lines. Each paired word line includes two redundant word lines. The steering logic circuitry also includes border determination logic that determines whether the redundant word line is on a border between the redundant word lines and an end of the memory bank or the normal word lines. The steering logic circuitry further includes main word line steering logic that determines a neighboring main word line that a second neighboring redundant word line adjacent to the redundant word line is disposed in, and paired word line steering logic that determines a neighboring paired word line that the second neighboring redundant word line is disposed in.
US10410709B2
Methods, systems, and devices for operating an electronic memory apparatus are described. A logic value stored in a ferroelectric random access memory (FeRAM) cell is read onto a first sensing node of a sense amplifier. The reading is performed through a digit line coupling the FeRAM cell to the first sensing node, while the sense amplifier is in an inactive state. A second sensing node of the sense amplifier is biased to a reference voltage provided by a reference voltage source. The biasing is performed while reading the logic value stored in the FeRAM cell onto the first sensing node. The digit line is isolated from the first sensing node after the reading. The sense amplifier is activated, after isolating the digit line from the first sensing node, to amplify and sense a voltage difference between the first sensing node and the second sensing node.
US10410703B2
A magnetoresistance effect element includes a recording layer containing a ferromagnetic body, and including a first fixed and second magnetization regions having magnetization components fixed substantially in a direction antiparallel to the in-plane direction to each other, and a free magnetization region disposed between the first and second fixed magnetization regions and having a magnetization component invertible in the in-plane direction, a domain wall disposed between the first fixed magnetization region and the free magnetization region, and being movable within the free magnetization region, and a magnetic nanowire having a width of 40 nm or less. The thickness of the recording layer is 40 nm or less and at least half but no more than twofold the width of the magnetic nanowire. The element further includes a barrier layer disposed on the recording layer, and a reference layer disposed on the barrier layer and containing a ferromagnetic body.
US10410682B2
A disk drive housing includes an accommodation unit in which a disk and a motor are accommodated, the disk rotating about a center axis extending vertically, the motor rotating the disk; and a non-piercing first screw hole including a die-cast metal in which an upper surface is opened, the non-piercing first screw hole extending from a first end surface toward a second end surface. The first screw hole includes a first region disposed at a leading end of an inner surface of the first screw hole, the first region including a first portion of the die-cast metal member covered with a chill layer; and a second region in which a screw is disposed on an inner circumferential surface of the first screw hole, the second region including a second portion of the die-cast metal member that is exposed.
US10410679B2
A computer-assisted method for producing a space time summary for one or more original videos includes automatically recognizing a key element in an original video, extracting pixels related to the key element from a series of video frames of the original video, producing a video bit comprising a series of video frames comprising the pixels and audio information extracted from the original video, wherein at least one video frame of the video bit is formed by a subset of pixels of the corresponding video frame in the original video, automatically displaying a plurality of video bits in a user interface, wherein the plurality of video bits are extracted from one or more original videos, and provide a space time summary for the one or more original videos, and allowing two of the plurality of video bits to be played simultaneously with audio and motion in the user interface.
US10410677B2
In a content management system, the still image extracting unit extracts a plurality of frames of still image data from the moving image data based on the motion of the person of interest. The scene determining unit determines a scene of the moving image including a still image corresponding to each of the plurality of frames of the still image data. The management marker registration unit registers, as a management marker, each of the plurality of frames of still image data or an image feature amount of each still image in association with a scene of a moving image corresponding to each still image. The management image generator generates management image data including at least two pieces of the still image data.
US10410674B2
An imaging apparatus comprises an imaging unit, a recording unit configured to record a piece of moving image data, a setting unit configured to set a frame rate of a piece of moving image data, a selection unit configured to select a piece of moving image data to be edited from among a plurality of pieces of moving image data, and a generation unit configured to generate a piece of moving image data having a first frame rate by combining pieces of moving image data, wherein the selection unit sets, as the first frame rate, a frame rate that has been set by the setting unit, and selects, as the piece of moving image data to be edited, a piece of moving image data having a second frame rate that is related to the first frame rate.
US10410672B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for applying multi-stage multiple input single output (MISO) circuits for fast adaptation. An apparatus may comprise a first reader and a second reader configured to simultaneously read from a single track of a data storage medium, a MISO circuit. The MISO circuit may include a first stage filter having a first number of taps and configured to filter signal samples received from the first reader and the second reader and produce first filtered samples. The MISO circuit may also include a second stage filter having a second number of taps greater than the first number, and be configured to receive the first filtered samples corresponding to the first reader and the second reader from the first filter stage, filter the first filtered samples to produce second filtered samples, and combine the second filtered samples to produce a combined sample output.
US10410666B2
The magnetic tape device includes a magnetic tape including a magnetic layer; and a TMR head (reproducing head), in which an intensity ratio of a peak intensity of a diffraction peak of a (110) plane with respect to a peak intensity of a diffraction peak of a (114) plane of a hexagonal ferrite crystal structure obtained by an X-ray diffraction analysis of the magnetic layer by using an In-Plane method is 0.5 to 4.0, a vertical direction squareness ratio of the magnetic tape is 0.65 to 1.00, Ra measured regarding a surface of the magnetic layer is equal to or smaller than 2.0 nm, and a C—H derived C concentration calculated from a C—H peak area ratio of C1s spectra obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic analysis performed on the surface of the magnetic layer at a photoelectron take-off angle of 10 degrees is 45 to 65 atom %.
US10410663B1
An apparatus comprises a slider configured for magnetic recording. The slider comprises an air bearing surface (ABS), a writer, a reader, and a plurality of electrical bond pads. A thermocouple is situated at the ABS proximate the reader and coupled to a pair of the electrical bond pads. The thermocouple is dimensioned to sense for a thermal asperity on a surface of a magnetic recording medium.
US10410659B2
A slider comprises an air bearing surface (ABS) and is configured to interact with a magnetic recording medium. A writer is provided on the slider and comprises a write coil having a media-facing surface situated at the ABS. Cooling arms project laterally from peripheral surfaces of the write coil and extend along the ABS. The media-facing surface of the write coil and the cooling arms are exposed to the ABS to facilitate increased cooling of the write coil at the ABS.
US10410654B2
Embodiments of active noise control (ANC) headphones and operating methods thereof are disclosed herein. In one example, a headphone for ANC includes a speaker, a microphone, an echo-cancel module, and an ANC module. The speaker is configured to play an audio based on a first audio source signal. The microphone is configured to obtain a mixed audio signal including a noise signal and a second audio source signal based on the audio played by the speaker. The echo-cancel module is configured to reduce the second audio source signal from the mixed audio signal based on the first audio source signal to generate an echo-cancel audio signal. The ANC module is operatively coupled to the echo-cancel module and configure to generate a noise-controlled audio source signal to be played by the speaker based on the echo-cancel audio signal and the first audio source signal.
US10410652B2
A method includes generating a high-band residual signal based on a high-band portion of an audio signal. The method also includes generating a harmonically extended signal at least partially based on a low-band portion of the audio signal. The method further includes determining a mixing factor based on the high-band residual signal, the harmonically extended signal, and modulated noise. The modulated noise is at least partially based on the harmonically extended signal and white noise.
US10410651B2
A de-reverberation control method and device of sound producing equipment are disclosed. The method includes that: when a piece of equipment performs audio playing, a voice signal from a user is collected in real time; a relative position of the user with respect to the equipment and acoustic parameters of a room environment in which the equipment is located, are acquired; according to one or more of the relative position and the acoustic parameters, a corresponding microphone in the equipment is selected, and a corresponding voice enhancement mode is called to perform de-reverberation; a voice command word from the user is acquired to control the equipment to perform a corresponding function, as a respond to the user. The present solution can improve the recognition accuracy of a voice command, and improve user interaction experience.
US10410638B2
A method of converting a feature vector includes extracting a feature sequence from an audio signal including utterance of a user; extracting a feature vector from the feature sequence; acquiring a conversion matrix for reducing a dimension of the feature vector, based on a probability value acquired based on different covariance values; and converting the feature vector by using the conversion matrix.
US10410634B2
An embodiment of the invention provides a wireless ear-borne audio device that may be configured in a variety of ways, including, but in no way limited to a device for recording audio information and storing the audio information for later replay, and/or forwarding the audio information to another device. The audio information may be analyzed to perform further functions. An embodiment of the invention also provides a method for compressing audio data and transmitting the audio information to the ear-borne audio device in a manner that reduces the power consumption of the ear-borne audio device in receiving data via a Bluetooth® connection.
US10410613B2
This invention relates to new designs of tubular body flutes both to facilitate more natural and more consistent placement and orientation of the flute player's hands and to enhance the flexibility of the player's lips so as to more perfectly play the flute by greatly increasing the stability of the flute in the player's hands by firmly connecting the flute to the player's finger (and/or thumb) by provision of a finger connecting part through which the flute player's left index finger is inserted, as like wearing a ring. It firmly fixes the flute to the player's left index finger (and/or thumb) so that the flute is stabilized without pressure on the player's mouth. Thus, it enhances the flexibility of the player's lips to more perfectly form the airstream sounding the flute while also more exactly and repeatedly locating the player's fingers on the flute by preventing inadvertent rotation of the flute. This is especially beneficial for the player's lower lip, which, under extant art, is forcibly pinned against the lower teeth and gums so as to stabilize the flute. This benefit is achieved by completely stabilizing the flute in the player's hands by firmly connecting the flute to the player's finger (and/or thumb) with a finger connecting means incorporating an opening in the invention through which the flute player's left index finger (and/or thumb) is inserted, as like wearing a ring.In the preferred embodiment the finger connecting means is a ring-like structure built onto the flute and for economy this additional device is hereafter referred to as a ring. The use of a ring provides a firm connection between the player's fingers and the flute permitting the left index finger and right thumb to completely stabilize the instrument with no pressure on the player's lips whatsoever, while completely preventing inadvertent rotation of the flute.A very substantial benefit of the instant invention over extant art is that it allows the flute to be safely played by growing children without disrupting the proper development of their gums and teeth. Many parents permit their children to start their music education only with a piano or a violin because wind instruments have a tendency to put severe stress and strain on the mouth, teeth and gums, which can distort their development. Because the instant invention permits, even encourages, the best use of the flute without strong, or even any, pressure on the teeth and gums, a flute so equipped can be used even by young children without orthodontial concerns.
US10410609B2
In one embodiment, a method for the enhanced display of the hands of a pianist playing a piano, including: (a) recording at least one video stream of at least one hand of a pianist playing a piano; and (b) while the pianist is playing the piano, using at least a portion of the piano as a display for displaying the video stream.
US10410608B2
An electronic device and a method for displaying an image transmitted by a robot and remotely controlling a movement of the robot are provided. The electronic device includes a communicator, an inputter, a display, and a controller. The communicator receives, from the robot, an image photographed by the robot and time information. The inputter receives a command to control the robot. The display displays a screen corresponding to the image. The controller calculates a time delay between the electronic device and the robot based on the time information, control the display to display a graphical object to be overlaid on the screen, and control the communicator to transmit the command to the robot. The graphical object represents a field of view of the robot at a current time. The field of view of the robot at the current time may be estimated based on the time delay information.
US10410607B2
An information display apparatus includes at least one processor programmed to cause the apparatus, among other things, to superpose, on an imaged image, information related to an object when an object of one or more objects is in a target area, and not to superpose, on the imaged image, the information related to an object when the object of the one or more objects is outside of the target area. In a case in which a percentage of the one or more objects existing in the imaged image does not exceed a threshold value, the whole imaged image is determined to be the target area without using a detected movement direction, the one or more objects recognizable in the imaged image are recognized, and the information related to the recognized one or more objects in the imaged image is superposed on the imaged image.
US10410606B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for. The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates execution of an application on an electronic device. During operation, the system obtains a font file comprising a set of scalable representations of graphical assets used in the application. Next, the system obtains a layout of a user interface of the application. The system then obtains, from the layout, a mapping of a user-interface element in the user interface to a scalable representation of a graphical asset in the font file. Finally, the system uses the mapping and the scalable representation to render the graphical asset in the user interface based on an attribute of a screen in the electronic device.
US10410604B2
Systems and techniques for aggregation, display, and sharing of data. Graphic items representing data objects identified by a data package may be displayed on timelines. Each timeline may be associated with a respective class of data, and each graphic item displayed on a respective timeline may represent one or more of the data objects in the class associated with the respective timeline. A prediction may be made regarding which data will be displayed in the near future. A pre-fetch request may be generated, and the predicted data may be retrieved from a remote server and stored in a local data cache before the user requests that the predicted data be displayed.
US10410602B2
Disclosed is a display device. A display area includes a first region and a second region having a boundary therebetween, with a boundary region defined around the boundary. Conversions of raw pixel data for respective regions having a format suitable for a second sub-pixel arrangement into converted pixel data having a format suitable for a first sub-pixel arrangement are based on the raw pixel data for the respective regions and additionally on the pixel data corresponding to the boundary region. Also disclosed is a method of driving a display panel.
US10410599B2
A source driver integrated circuit (IC) for driving a flat panel display is provided. The source driver IC includes a first control logic circuit configured to generate first output signals for driving first source lines arranged in a first region of the flat panel display and a second control logic circuit configured to generate second output signals for driving second source lines arranged in a second region of the flat panel display. A first output delay between two adjacent output signals among the first output signals is different from a second output delay between two adjacent output signals among the second output signals.
US10410596B2
A gate driving circuit including an input terminal, N delay units, a control signal bus, N buffer units and N output pads is disclosed. The input terminal receives a timing control signal including a total delay time. The N delay units are connected to the input terminal in order. Delay times of N delay units are adjustable and a sum of them is the total delay time. The control signal bus determines delay times of N delay units respectively according to the timing control signal. A first buffer unit of N buffer units is coupled between the input terminal and a first delay unit of N delay units; a second buffer unit, a third buffer unit . . . and an N-th buffer unit are coupled between two corresponding delay units respectively. The N output pads, correspondingly coupled to the N buffer units, output N gate driving signals respectively.
US10410591B1
An electronic display comprises a backlight unit and a liquid crystal (LC) layer, wherein the backlight combines and directs light from a plurality of light sources towards the LC layer, which controls an amount of light to be displayed. The light sources comprise at least two different types of light sources associated with different wavelength ranges, to provide improved spectrum intensity for a wider range of wavelengths. The intensity of the light sources may be adjusted based upon the input data for an image to be displayed. For example, the light sources may be dimmed based upon a determined amount of the received image data associated with a particular gray level.
US10410574B2
A display device includes: a determination unit that determines, on the basis of display information, a period of time during which a display unit displays the display information with a first display characteristic; and a controller that controls the display unit to display the display information with the first display characteristic and to display the display information with a second display characteristic when the period of time has elapsed since the display with the first display characteristic was started.
US10410573B2
The disclosure provides a method for display control, a display control device and a display control system. The method includes: dividing a single display screen into display regions which are arranged into an M×N array, where M is an integer larger than 1 and N is an integer larger than 1; and controlling respective display regions to display corresponding images, such that the images displayed by all the display regions are allowed to be spliced together to present a picture to be displayed by the display screen.
US10410572B2
A display device is provided. The display device may include pixels arranged in rows and columns, gate drivers connected to the rows of the pixels through gate lines, source drivers connected to the columns of the pixels through source lines, and a timing controller configured to control the gate drivers and the source drivers. The source driver associated with the specific pixel among the source drives may first supply an overdrive voltage corresponding to a final overdrive value to a source line connected to the specific pixel and then supply a source line voltage corresponding to a current value of the specific pixel to the source line. The overdrive controller may change weight values of at least two overdrive values based on a position of the specific pixel and interpolate the at least two overdrive values.
US10410570B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of LED display screens, and in particular, to an LED display device and a method for driving the same. The driving method includes: generating a grayscale data in accordance with an image to be displayed; generating a control signal in accordance with the grayscale data, wherein the control signal includes a plurality of subframe signals each having a duration corresponding to a respective subframe display time; and controlling the corresponding LED lamps to be turned on or off by use of the subframe signals in each subframe of the frame cycle. The frame cycle includes reset time periods separating the successive subframes from each other. The order of the plurality of subframes in the frame cycle can be adjusted by use of the grayscale data. The LED display device and the driving method for the LED display device according to the disclosure can divide each frame cycle into a plurality of subframes and adjust the subframe display time to eliminate parasitic effects between the LED display unit boards, so as to eliminate the color difference between the LED display unit boards.
US10410560B2
Embodiments are generally directed to display controller testing through a high speed communications switch. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a display controller including a first test machine; a high speed switch coupled with the display controller; and one or more physical layer (PHY) logic elements including a first PHY with a second test machine, the first test machine and second test machine being replicas of each other at least in part. The first test machine and the second test machine are operable to synchronously lock with each other, the first test machine to generate a data sequence and transmit the data sequence to the second test machine, the second test machine to generate an expected data sequence and compare the expected data sequence to a received data sequence from the first test machine.
US10410556B2
The present application is directed to systems and methods for an interactive label and closure for a container. Information may be printed on an interior portion of the closure and a base label. A portion of the base label may be visible through a transparent window in a top label having. Rotation of the top label may cause the transparent window to display label information of varying relevance to the closure information.
US10410554B1
A device for displaying advertising images in a parking lot having a plurality of parking spaces. A back unit is configured for placement at a predetermined position associated with one of the parking spaces in said parking lot. A cover is mounted to said back unit such that said back unit and said cover form an enclosed compartment. An electronic display is positioned within said enclosed compartment and is configured to display the advertising images. A controller is in electronic communication with the electronic display. A battery is electrically connected to said electronic display.
US10410550B2
A local light-emitting road sign board apparatus is disclosed. Local light-emitting panels, displaying road guides in the form of a character, numeral, symbol, or figure, are independently inserted and installed in openings for road sign units that are provided in a main substrate. A sub substrate and a retroreflective sheet are laminated and bonded on each local light-emitting panel so as to form a road sign unit. A retroreflective sheet is also bonded on the main substrate so as to form the background of a road sign unit. When one of road sign units fails, it is possible to simply separate, repair or replace, and reinstall only the failed road sign unit while leaving the others intact.
US10410548B2
Display module mounting apparatus and methods provide mounting features enabling ease of installation and service. The apparatus may have one or more releasable frame couplers and pivoting releasable frame couplers coupled to a display module having a display plane defined in relation to a substrate. One or more adjustable linkages may adjustably define a standoff distance between the display plane and a support frame to which the module may be mounted by the mounting apparatus. Concave and convex adjustments to the display plane may be made. Operation of pivoting action to tilt the display plane enables installation, removal, and serviceability of large displays constructed with a tiled plurality of display modules.
US10410547B2
A placard system for use in the transportation industry. The placard system includes a holder including a cavity and a placard fastener mounting hole. The cavity is configured to receive a placard. The placard fastener mounting hole is spaced from an opening of the cavity and defining an axis of rotation. The placard system further includes a placard fastener engaged with the holder and swingable about the axis of rotation between a closed position in which the placard fastener blocks a portion of the opening of the cavity and an open position in which the placard fastener is spaced from the opening of the cavity. The placard fastener includes a planar base portion including a mounting hole, an engagement portion configured to engage the holder or the placard, and an actuation portion.
US10410541B2
A patient simulation system for healthcare training is provided. The system includes one or more interchangeable shells comprising a physical anatomical model of at least a portion of a patient's body, the shell adapted to be illuminated from behind to provide one or more dynamic images viewable on the outer surface of the shells; a support system adapted to receive the shells via a mounting system, wherein the system comprises one or more image units adapted to render the one or more dynamic images viewable on the outer surface of the shells; one or more interface devices located about the patient shells to receive input and provide output; and one or more computing units in communication with the image units and interface devices, the computing units adapted to provide an interactive simulation for healthcare training.
US10410539B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and products for language learning that automatically extracts keywords from resources using various natural-language processing product features, which can be combined with custom-designed learning activities to offer a needs-based, adaptive learning methodology. The system may receive resources having text and then determine a text difficulty score that predicts how difficult the resource is for language learners based on any number of factors, including any number of semantic and syntactic features of the text. Training resources labeled with metadata may be used to train a statistical model for determining difficulty scores of newly received text. Resources may be grouped based on difficulty score, and groups of resources may correspond to language learners' proficiency levels.
US10410533B2
A Portal Assessment Design System includes a system for designing assessment models and assessments (e.g., standardized tests). In assessment design, specifications are organized around three basic elements: 1) what knowledge, skill or abilities are important to measure; 2) what is necessary evidence of that knowledge, skill or ability; 3) what performance situations are needed to elicit the required evidence from students and other assessment users. The system includes three modules (i.e., Domain Analysis, Domain Modeling, Conceptual Assessment Framework), each of which targets a specific phase of the design process, for designing an assessment in accordance with the three basic elements. The sequence of modules represents the structure of a design process that helps assessment developers work through successive stages or phases of assessment design, from the gathering of raw information to the creation of a complete set of specifications for an assessment product. Each module has its own set of objects for organizing information, such as knowledge skills and abilities of interest of the students being tested, evidence of these, and situations structured to elicit this evidence. The modules and objects of the system are implemented as a software application executing in a client-server environment.
US10410526B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to controlling autonomous vehicles to provide automated emergency response functions. A computing platform may receive vehicle data associated with a vehicle from an on-board vehicle monitoring system associated with the vehicle. Subsequently, the computing platform may detect an occurrence of an emergency at a location. Thereafter, the computing platform may select an autonomous vehicle to respond to the emergency at the location based on autonomous vehicle state information. Then, the computing platform may generate one or more dispatch commands directing the autonomous vehicle to move to the location and execute one or more emergency response functions. Subsequently, the computing platform may send, to an on-board autonomous vehicle control system associated with the autonomous vehicle, the one or more dispatch commands directing the autonomous vehicle to move to the location and execute the one or more emergency response functions.
US10410519B2
A method for providing information relevant to using a public transportation system (PTS), the PTS comprising a plurality of PTS vehicles, the method comprising: receiving, at a server, data relevant to the PTS responsive to a first user of a PTS vehicle via a first user's communication device while the first user is using the PTS vehicle, the received relevant data comprising data descriptive of socially relevant features of users of the PTS vehicle; providing, on a second user's communication device, data responsive to the received relevant data.
US10410518B2
The present disclosure discloses a road condition information transmission method and apparatus and a road condition information obtaining method. The road condition information transmission method comprises: receiving a road condition information request sent by a first client, the road condition information request being used to request road condition information; obtaining a current location of the first client; determining a target subsequent road segment from a plurality of candidate subsequent road segments of the current location, the target subsequent road segment being determined according to recorded road segment information; and transmitting road condition information of the target subsequent road segment to the first client.
US10410516B1
Systems and methods for allowing a remote third party to obtain data from and/or control one or more geofenced vehicles. In some implementations, a method for adjusting desired vehicle operation in a geofenced region may comprise receiving geofencing data from within a vehicle comprising a location tracking system and, upon determining that the vehicle has entered a geofenced region, transmitting a notification to an authority. Upon receiving a request from the authority, the vehicle may perform an action comprising at least one of adjusting an operational parameter of a system within the vehicle impacting movement of the vehicle, adjusting an environmental parameter of a system within the vehicle relating to sensing of the vehicle's surroundings, and transmitting vehicle environmental data to the authority comprising information regarding the vehicle's surroundings.
US10410512B1
The present invention provides a switch for outputting adjustment signal by interruption linear signal, comprising: a base; a moving element, one part of the moving element extending outside of the base; a gear set, which is rotated by moving the moving element and has an output gear; an interruption gear, rotated in a clockwise direction or an anticlockwise direction by driving the output gear, wherein the interruption gear has a plurality of interruption teeth distributed on periphery of the interruption gear; and at least one linear signal transceiver including an emission end and a reception end, wherein the emission end and reception end are respectively set two sides of the interruption teeth, when the interruption gear is rotated, signal delivery between the emission end and reception end is optionally interrupted by the interruption teeth, and a signal is emitted when the emission end and reception end are interrupted.
US10410504B2
A home security system includes interactive sensors and a controller in a controlled environment, such as a smart home environment. A central communication device is coupled, wired or wirelessly, directly or indirectly, to the interactive sensors and the controller. The interactive sensors include at least one heartbeat sensor to detect the presence of one or more human bodies and at least one emergency condition sensor to detect the presence of an emergency condition. In some implementations, the controller may determine the number of occupants based on the heartbeats of multiple human bodies detected by the heartbeat sensor. In some implementations, the number of occupants may be determined by the heartbeats detected by the heartbeat sensor in conjunction with one or more other types of sensors, such as a body heat sensor.
US10410502B2
A method and apparatus for providing environmental management in a monitored facility. In one embodiment, the method comprises obtaining at least one mathematical expression representing the behavior of at least one piece of equipment in a monitored equipment housing facility; and generating, for the at least one piece of equipment and using the at least one mathematical expression, a predicted impact of an operational state of the at least one piece of equipment.
US10410498B2
Determining a physical state of a person includes detecting positions of different portions of the person, transforming detected positions of the person into a point cloud having a density that varies according to movement of each of the portions, correlating movement and position data from the point cloud with known physical state positions and transitions between different states, and choosing a particular physical state by matching the data from the point cloud with the particular physical state. Positions of different portions of the person may be detected using a tracking device. The tracking device may be a non-contact tracking device. The tracking device may include at least one wide band radar. The tracking devices may communicate wirelessly with at least one server in a cloud computing system. The states may include walking, standing, sitting, laying down, turning in bed, falling, and/or departed.
US10410495B1
Computing device(s) are configured for managing the reunification of students with parents during an emergency or a drill for a simulated emergency. The reunification of students with guardians may be managed through the operations of various user interfaces (UIs) presented on the device(s). Different UIs may be configured to support different personnel performing different roles in the reunification process. The UIs may include one or more of a student supervisor UI, a location supervisor UI, a runner UI, a guardian greeter UI, a reunification officer UI, or an incident commander UI. The various UIs enable different personnel to track the location and status of individuals, such as students and guardians, during various stages of a reunification process, enable personnel to dynamically update a centralized database with current information regarding the location and status of individuals, and view real time information regarding the location and status of individuals.
US10410491B2
A method is provided that generates a sound illusion profile to replicate a quantity of resources arriving at an incident scene. A virtual partner or the like determines that an incident has escalated from a first severity level to a second severity level. The virtual partner determines a quantity of resources needed to deescalate the incident to the first severity level. A sound illusion profile is generated to replicate a sound associated with the quantity of resources. A signal is sent to one or more speaker devices in a region surrounding the location of the incident to generate an output sound based on the sound illusion profile.
US10410490B2
Techniques are described for replacing a keypad of an existing security system within a property with a communication-enabled keypad device with dual functioning capabilities as a communicator device and a keypad device. In some implementations, data is received from a security panel of a property. A keypad bus protocol of the security panel is determined based on the data received from the security panel. Sensor data is received from one or more sensors located within the property. A monitoring system command that is not specified within a keypad bus of the security panel is determined based on based on the obtained sensor data. The monitoring system command is converted to a panel command using the keypad bus protocol. The panel command is transmitted on the keypad bus of the security panel.
US10410484B2
Systems and methods are described for securing structures with moveable components. A structure may comprise a plurality of panes. A sensor device may be disposed on a pane of the structure. The sensor device may determine a position of the pane. A computing device in communication with the sensor device may receive, from the sensor device, an indication of the position or state of the pane. The computing device may determine, based on the position or state of the pane, a state of the structure.
US10410482B2
Audio level indicators are known which comprise moving needles, or an array of lights, or an illuminated bar. However, the way in which they provide information is fixed. A programmable audio level indicator for use with a mixing desk is provided which comprises a first light source arranged to emit a coloured light, in response to an audio signal received from a connected audio source, to indicate the audio level of that received signal, the indicator arranged to vary the colour and intensity of the light emitted as the audio level changes, wherein the indicator is configured such that the audio levels at which the colour changes are selectable, the indicator further configured such that the colour emitted to indicate an audio level, or range of audio levels, is also selectable.
US10410479B2
An automated transaction machine has a customer interface for operation of the machine and an opening in the customer interface through which notes may be deposited into or withdrawn from the machine via an articulated note acceptor-presenter located in an upper unit of the machine and operative to extend at least partially through the opening in the customer interface.
US10410478B2
A gaming system, device and method are disclosed herein. The system, in an embodiment, involves a plurality of dice that are visibly different from each other. The dice are configured to be rolled on a surface. The system includes a data storage device comprising a plurality of computer-readable instructions that are executable to cause an image generator to generate an animation. The animation includes an interaction between a plurality of characters or anthropomorphic elements. The interaction results in a winning one of the characters or elements and a losing one of the characters or elements.
US10410475B2
Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for detecting, storing, and retrieving information about the composition of present and past hands of cards in a casino table game. The method includes causing a card-handling device to substantially automatically generate a plurality of hands wherein each hand includes one or more cards. Card information is identified that includes a rank and a suit of each card as each card moves through the card-handling device. A play history is maintained of a card composition of more than one round wherein the card composition of each round includes the cards in each hand of each round. The card information of at least one hand from at least one round may be displayed.
US10410471B2
A gaming system for conducting a multi-player wagering game includes a multi-touch table surface that is touched by a handheld electronic wager input device (EWID) carried by a player for placing wagers on a wagering game displayed on the multi-touch table surface. Each EWID carried by a player has an associated unique identification code, which is linked to the respective player's account. Players indicate an amount to be wagered by touching the EWID to designated wager amount areas, then place the wager by touching the EWID to a designated wagering area. Because each EWID is uniquely associable with distinct player accounts, the gaming system can support any number of players placing wagers. The funds remain safe in the player account and no funds are stored on the EWID. Only the identification code is detected, which is compared with the associated player account before allowing that player to place wagers.
US10410468B1
Systems and methods are provided for providing patrons of gaming environments with cash advances. The cash advance can be initiated by the patron via a mobile communication device and finalized at any of a variety of fund retrieval devices, such as a self-service kiosk, an electronic table game, a gaming machine, or a casino cage. The patron's funds can be dispensed to the patron in any of a variety of formats, such as cash, a printed voucher, chips, or gameplay credits.
US10410465B2
A physical playing card gaming system includes a gaming table including at least one dealer position and at least one player position. The system includes a physical playing card handling device that is configured to read at least one of a card rank and card suit of physical playing cards. The system also includes at least one processor in communication with the physical playing card handling device and a video monitor. The at least one processor is programmed to determine the composition of at least one dealer hand and at least one player hand based on the at least one of card rank and card suit read. The at least one processor is programmed to cause game information based on the determined hands to be displayed in response to dealer input. Methods of operating such a physical playing card gaming system include displaying the game information upon dealer request.
US10410463B2
In accordance with some embodiments, an online game server provides a reel-type slot machine game interface that is modified over a course of a game and wherein the game includes a bonus feature that is triggered once a sufficient number of special symbols (e.g., scatter symbols) are accumulated by a player. In accordance with some embodiments, in order to qualify for the bonus feature, the special symbols need to be accumulated as a result of a single wager and original spin and any cascades that are triggered by an outcome of the original spin.
US10410459B2
A banknote handling machine includes: a distinguishing unit that distinguishes a given classifying condition covering the type according to which banknotes from multiple types of banknotes that are put in are classified; a plurality of depositories in corresponding ones of which the banknotes whose type is distinguished by the distinguishing unit are classified and housed according to the classifying condition before a transaction relating to the put-in banknotes is determined; a plurality of housing units in corresponding ones of which the banknotes that are sent from the corresponding depositories are classified and housed according to the classifying condition after the transaction is determined; and a controller that controls the depositories according to the classifying condition.
US10410456B1
There are disclosed devices, system and methods for automatic exchange of change for cash using a smart safe. The safe has a computing device for receiving a selection from a merchant to exchange cash for change having a total value, and an identification of the denominations of the coins and cash of the change desired. The safe has a secure chamber for receiving cash deposits from the merchant and a sensor for counting the secured cash. The computing device sends an exchange agent the selection from the merchant to exchange the cash with the change, and the identification of the denominations of the change desired. A courier is contacted, retrieves the cash deposited, and exchanges the change for the equal value of cash.
US10410451B1
A locking container access system includes (i) at least one processor and (ii) a memory storing instructions for execution on at least one processor. The instructions include establishing a connection to a locking container and obtaining an identifier from the locking container. The instructions include, in response to a user authenticating to the locking container access system, establishing a remote networking connection to an access control system, obtaining access parameters for the user from the access control system, and, in response to receiving an open instruction from the user for the locking container, performing additional operations. The additional operations include (i) requesting verification of the user based on biometric information, (ii) determining whether the identifier is included in the access parameters, and (iii) in response to the identifier being included in the access parameters and successful biometric verification of the user, transmitting an open command to the locking container.
US10410445B2
A parking system includes: electronic parking passes that can be virtual parking passes or physical parking devices within vehicles; a network of connected wireless communication hubs; computer servers, associated software, and driver information databases (collectively called the Cloud Backend); and registered parking applications on mobile devices of vehicle drivers. All system components are interconnected and able to communicate with one another, creating a “Driver Parking and Safety Net” that enables drivers to find parking, make secure payments for parking transactions, dynamically upgrade their parking authorization levels on a temporary basis, and monitor for safety of the drivers even while they are away from their vehicles.
US10410435B2
A computing device for dental impression scan merging includes a model manager configured to generate a first three-dimensional model and a second three-dimensional model, and a merge manager configured to merge the first model and the second model. Each model includes a respective plurality of geometric faces indicative of a respective dental impression of a dental arch of a user. Merging the first model and the second model includes aligning the first model and the second model, removing a geometric face of the first model, selecting a geometry of the second model corresponding with the removed geometric face of the first model, and generating a merged model that includes the selected geometry and the geometric faces corresponding to the selected geometry. The merged model is used to manufacture a dental aligner specific to the dental arch of the user and configured to reposition one or more teeth of the user.
